I just returned from a motorcycle tour of western Norway and now I’m addicted to learning all about the Vikings. The museum at Borg in the Lofoten Islands is magnificent!
Fun fact: during the Viking Age, being a viking was only a temporary occupation, not an ethnicity. While someone (the youngest sons, who didn't stand to inherit their parents' farm) were away on a viking voyage (mostly trade, but opportunistically also raids) they were a viking. But only for the duration of their trip.
Viking was an activity The 11th century Gårdstånga Rune Stone in Sweden for instance uses the phrase "Þeʀ drængaʀ waʀu wiða unesiʀ i wikingu" (These valiant men were widely renowned on viking raids) referring to the stone's dedicatees as Vikings.
Saturday is "lördag" in Swedish, it comes from "lögardag", "löga" meaning to wash and "dag" means day, so Saturday was the day you took a bath. Vikings were very diverse, in principle one can say that the Norwegians were the explorers, the Danes were the conquerors, and the Swedes were the traders (of course a simplification)
One thing i wish all the channels did was include a list of references. When i see what are effective history channels that dont have references linked drop multiple tiers of confidence for me
@@YeshuaKingMessiahlol drive like its not a primitive nature of men to cheat when there wife disagrees on something or not showing him attention. Stop blaming women for the primitive nature of men.
From Canada to Uzbekistan the vikings/Scandinavians travelled, conquered, traded, and explored for hundreds of years. True international commerce, while also ruling the lands of England, Ireland, Normandy, Kievan Rus’ (not what Putin likes to hear), Sicily, and more, while being the imperial bodyguard for the Roman emperor in Constantinople.
I dont know if Putin has a problem with kievan-rus a d vikings, didnt he say in the interview with Tucker that slavic people invited viking prince to establish the country Rus later known as kievan-rus.?
Kievan Rus was ancient Russia just because it is in Ukraine today does not make it Ukraine back then , Putin actually called it Kievan Rus so he has no problem with that fact, also the Rus Vikings didn't start in Kiev ithey first settled where Novogorod in Russia, the settlement was called Holmgard and they spread from there including to Kiev, lets not make a modern day conflict destroy history, Scandinavian historians agree that Rus Viking funded Russia, no historian ever say Vikings founded Ukraine
Just in case someone was wondering, 6% of teeth means in normal people talk the average of 1,92 if talking about 32. He meant to say that they lost just about 2 teeth on average.
0:30 - Chapter 1 - Women were unusually free 3:05 - Chapter 2 - The picture of health 6:15 - Chapter 3 - Only the strongest survived 8:00 - Chapter 4 - They profited from slave trade 9:55 - Chapter 5 - Their ancient sags aren't purely fiction
Feel like you should have included that the Vikings did not want to fight. They wanted to raid and steal. They used their fast and nimble longships to avoid enemy soldiers so they could attack undefended villages and monasteries which were much easier to loot than well defended locations.
All living together on those small longships for extended periods, makes much sense that hygiene would be kept and maintained at such a high standard. And of coarse if those people you intend to raid have women that find a clean hygienic man rather desirable like many saxon women did well that's just a very welcomed bonus.
Good to know because American grapes make notoriously bad wine, as anyone who has ever tried Manischewitz “specially sweetened” wine can tell you 🤢 13:08
Vin in swedish mean wine. Meadow in swedish is äng, danish and norwegian is eng. meadowlands does not make sense since us vikings were scandinavians - swedish/norwegians and danes.
@@eriandhor7779 That is true in modern swedish and norwegian (bokmål), but not in old norse. Lots of norwegian places with names ending in -vin (or derived from that). Prime place for settlement, but not wine. =D
@@eriandhor7779 Bjørgvin er eit gamalt namn på Bergen, med opphav i norrønt språk. Namnet tyder grøn eng (vin) mellom fjella (bjørg). Namnet er framleis nytta i visse omgrep, som Bjørgvin bispedøme. This is just an example of the use of the end vin in Norway.
What's fascinating to me is the fact, that the modern world would look very different without the Vikings/ Norsemen. Not only did the Danes conquer parts of England at times, but then there was of course William the Conquerer. Would the French king not have given land to the Normans, then they probably would not have conquered England in 1066. Besides the Normannic kingdom that ruled Sicily during the high medieval era.
We were taught extensive Canadian history in elementary school in the 80’s, which included full knowledge with evidence that Vikings were one of, if not the first Europeans to explore North America. And that Christopher Columbus simply took credit for being the first.
Vikings didn't leave records and at the time of the discovery whoever said the Earth was round was persecuted and that's why it was so hard for Columbus to raise money to prove his point. What is most important about Columbus discovery, and it was a discovery for Europeans and the Church is that after that, no one could keep with the theocentric view of the flat world and it was the starting gun which sent Europeans to colonize whatever they could get and other expeditions where made possible because greediness but also for knowledge and culture. The Dark Ages were left behind.
@@mariaeviljoen672 Something like "screamers" or "noise makers". It's probably indicative of the natives making their distinct calls/war cries even back then.
@@-RXB- Skråle (pron skrawleh) - shout/scream - is still a word in use in Norwegian today, at least in the northern part. We would say to the children "slutt å skråle/stop shouting" when they make a lot of noise inside.
Danish person here: The word "skrælling" is never used anymore, and I doubt young people here even know the word. I recognized it, but I had to look up where the meaning comes from (the etymology), and the dictionary explains it as "to weaken" or "wither" or "dry up and shrivel", so basically a weakling.
The well-known Norse gods Odin and Thor are members of a tribe of deities called the Aesir, who are a civilizing force who impose order on the chaos of the natural world and protect society. I favor theories that the Vanir deities of agriculture and fertility and the Jötnar deities of primal chaotic forces (e.g. storms, wolves, fire and ice) were the gods of pre-Indo-European tribes in Northern Europe, as suggested by the myth of the first war between the Aesir and the Vanir, and the fact that Odin and many of the Aesir are destined to die in battle with the Jötnar at Ragnarök as a natural consequence of Odin's participation in the murder of Ymir and many other Jötnar. This is mirrored by civilization's issues with climate change. So, things like taking slaves and sacrificing babies tends to accumulates heavy wyrd (fate-threads) that influence the fate of oneself and one's lineage in ways that might be difficult to weather in the long term.
@@l.scales7516 The light elves have Freyr as the king of their home realm/dimension and I've seen people theorize a tighter connection between the two in the past. Such as the term elf once possibly being used to mean both, but then it changed, possibly to make it clear who was being talked about. Can't remember where I read it though. The dark elves and black elves/dwarves(dark elves and black elves are possibly two terms for the same group) however have none of the gods and goddesses as their ruler. Though Idunn, who's known for her apples, is a goddess who's a black elf/dwarf and she's viewed as part of the æsir. So there is that. As for the jotunn part, the answer is yes and no. The no part is that they're not giants. That's a result of a mistranslation between... I think it was english and french. The name of their group means "Devourer" when translated accurately. Jotunn are for the most part the same size as the vanir and æsir, with those of unusual sizes being called out for being so, like Jormungandr, Nidhoggr and the jotunn that takes a giant eagle form and lives at the top of Yggdrassill.
Well as someone who has married a woman of Scandinavian ancestry, I'll say OF COURSE Viking women were more free than other European women of the time. Trust me, pissing them off is a bad idea.
😆Yes. I was gonna say a woman being a farmer or seamstress as well as a mom was common, but you especially don't wanna keep all that raw viking contained. There will be consequences!
@@palawanczech Yeah, but the actual finished product would have burned most of the sugar during fermentation. Wine and beer doesn't have to display any sugar content, even though much is used in the making.
Vikings is more of a modern term. Back during their time. They would have been referred to as Ascomanni ("ashmen") by the Germans for the ash wood of their boats, Dubgail and Finngail ( "dark and fair foreigners") by the Irish, Lochlannaich ("people from the land of lakes") by the Gaels, Dene (Dane) by the Anglo-Saxons and Northmonn by the Frisians. 🌈
The term Viking. Started seeing use in the 18th century. Another little fun fact. They did not wear horned helmets. There is no archaeological evidence. To support that they did.
Dont forget explorers, military Genesis, and great poem writers and story tellers, I've proudly passed my families history to my child as it was told to me by my elders
The first European to be born on American soil was a Norseman. Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir was born on western Iceland and with her husband Thorfinn Karlsefni she led an expedition to Vinland, where she gave birth to their son Snorri Thorfinnsson.
We've even kept the old name for Saturday. In the Nordic speaking countries the day is called "lördag/lørdag ~ lögardag (washing day from germanic laugō = water) 😜
I think with the Vikings it all depends on which groups you're looking at and which eras in their history that can change the definition of "Violent or Progressive" since it would change based on the leader's guidance of the clan. Plus since the civil choices were follow or go into exile and form your own clan you'd have varied behaviour between groups (ie the Clan that the Sons of Ragnar controlled where considered too aggressive by their Norwegian counter parts. Hence their coming to England to self govern away from the territories of the Norse Viking leader(s) that were mostly interested in exploring and trading over raiding and pillaging.)
If you haven’t watched Northmen on Netflix, give it a shot for a dark comedy. Weirdly, start with season 3 because it’s the prequel, then S1 and S2. Each scene was shot in Norwegian/English back to back, so it’s actually a Norwegian send up of their cultural roots.
An interesting supplementary detail to the bit about how weak, sickly and handicapped children were often killed or left to die alone in the woods, is that the norsemen were fairly even-handed in this regard. It wasn't just kids, is what I mean - anyone who couldn't contribute, who couldn't carry their own weight, needed to go. Particularly in Norway and Sweden, where the winters were harsh and food often in short supply, it is said that in late autumn, elderly family-members - who, being unfit for hard physical labor, were often the ones who kept track of food-supplied and managed the preservation of same - would sometimes realize that there simply wasn't enough food to last them all through the winter. And respond by taking a walk up the nearest 'fjell' to jump off a cliff, making for one less mouth to feed and thus ensuring that their grandchildren wouldn't starve that winter. Of course, there's also stories that suggested that in cases where elderly relatives had grown a bit too physically or mentally infirm to make such a journey themselves, or recognize the need for it, younger relatives would have to... help them on their way. Cruel, perhaps, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to survive.
@@sawahtbesquimoux/ Inuit/piupik ?sp? etc. would sing their death song after they got far enough away to not disturb the littles & part of it was inviting the predators to come visit them & eat them up so they could be warm in their furs in their stomachs & see the world through their eyes & so the bear would be fed another day longer without preying on the dried fish & other preserved foods at the village & if such an animal did come there were different traditions, either to anger the beast for a quick death or to lure it close enough with curiosity to perhaps slit their throat & then they would sing out loudly for a villager to come & be taken back into the homes for at least as long as the meat lasted. while the book I read this in was fiction it was co written by a mixed race woman, 2 tribes, French & dark skinned, basque was what was thought. wish I could remember the name.
Ättestup, as it was called is generally considered to never have existed at all among researchers of norse history and myths. It's mentioned once, in a comedy saga about a family that killed itself. So lets make sure this "fact" is removed shall we? =)
@@YeshuaKingMessiah Yes, that was the obvious implication, congratulations on picking up on it... Maybe next, you can work on diction and sentence-structure!
You missed a big opportunity to say that Viking is just a profession, like butcher or tailor. Many people think everyone from the region were called vikings and that's not true.
Exactly. They were Nordic people, usually. It's not a thing that was restricted to Nordic people, either. People who had business dealings with Vikings sometimes joined their crews, married Nordic women or men, and adopted the culture they became part of. That said, to be a Viking was arduous and brutal. They were one of Europe's early elite forces.
Aye - a Viking is just someone who goes a-viking... that is, on expeditions to foreign lands to claim gold and glory, be it through trade, conquest, or raiding and pillaging. Though, calling it a 'profession' might give the wrong impression - it was more of a *hobby,* if anything - plenty of people who were otherwise farmers, fishermen or craftsmen would put down their tools and pick up an axe to join the summer raids, hoping to bring home a nice little supplement to the household economy. (Of course, there were also Jomsvikings - career soldiers who dedicated themselves *fully* to war and raiding, and had both the training and the gear to match. But that is another story...)
I mean, it is kind of like saying "Spartans weren't a culture, just a class of people" Vikings had a somewhat unique and homogenous collection of language, religion, politics, and a roughly consistent geographic expanse. It was less of a profession and more of a verb, you could go Viking on top of another occupation.
This is honestly a weird misconception created recently by Anglsophere "scholars". The only vikings that "went viking" as a profession were the Jomsvikings. Vikings usualy tended their farms, hunted and lived normal lives most of the year, then "went viking" at different times of the year, usualy from late spring to late summer/early fall(after seeding and before harvests). Not sure why some foreign people feel the need to kind of belittle the Viking Era, but likely there are contemporary political interests that want to downplay the actual uniqueness of our Nordic ancestors. As it goes hand in hand with the claims that Vikings came from many different places of the world, wich is blatantly false, and easily disproven by looking at the dna of modern day Scandinavians and some Baltic countries. There were certainly many other cultures and groups that practised raiding and piracy. But the Viking era is defined by a specific time, a specific region of the world, by specific groups of people, were most have lived in the Nordics since the Stone Age.
in Scandinavia we call all Scandinavians Vikinger from the old Norse Vikingr/Vikingar the truth is nobody know how they used the terms back then, some believe (mostly non Scandinavian historians) that it came from an earlier word iin other languages "Wicing" meaning pirate, however the same world is later used for warrior, and then a similar word is used for people who sail, in Scandinavia if you go to a Museum they will usually have written material stating it comes from the word "Vik" in old Norse (and modern Scandinavian language) meaning Bay/inland and there is a area in Norway called "Viken" so Vikingr/Vikingar (old orse is the people who lived in the Bays as Vikings did they also explored Bays and inland's all over ,anyway we don't use term as "Norse" in Scandinavia we either say Vikinger or Scandinavians during the Viking age
Maine has a viking rune stone monument. Maine actually has many rune stone sites along the coast. There is another rune stone monument on an island off the coast of Massachusetts.
If you mean the Kensington runestone it should be mentioned that it has been debunked based on the language alone. It uses not only insanely incorrect grammar but also loanwords that didnt enter swedish until the 1600s
Wait... you're saying that Shieldmaidens didn't fight by the hundreds (like in Vikings)??? Oh, man. I hate being lied to by a TV show. And here I always thought they told the absolute truth when it came to history...😁
We can’t really know because some graves have been mistaken for men’s graves. There’s at least one woman buried in a warrior grave in Norway who also died due to an axe wound to the head. At least one other such grave in Birka Sweden.
You mean incurable. My feelings on the matter are mixed. I sometimes think its beyond cruel to bring up obviously severely handicapped children into adulthood. Then you read about Sarah Biffin, born armless and with vestigial legs but became a famous artist, and poet.
Vikings knew the riddle of steel, that flesh is stronger, for what is a sword compared to the hand that wields it? And so, they culled the weak. Ivar the Boneless knew the riddle of flesh, that the mind is stronger, for what is the hand compared to the mind that commands it?
The idea that the name Greenland was chosen as some sort of attempt to lure people to move there is a myth. From circa year 900-1300 there was a warmth period on the northern hemisphere which made living on Greenland much different from today. When Leif Eriksson came to Greenland, the fjords on the south side of the island were actually forested and … green, with a micro climate that made it much different to the surrounding areas. There was good sources for food, wood for building ships and houses and for making fires. In relation to the surrounding areas with ice and snow it was indeed a green land. When this warmth period ended, the Scandinavian settlements were abandoned. The needed resources simply ran out. Then there was the aggressive Inuit expansion. The Inuits who came to Greenland from North America just after the Viking’s arrived had previously pushed out several other older Arctic cultures. There are indications that the Inuit and the Scandinavians didn’t live peacefully next to each other.. Scandinavian artefacts have been found in Inuit archeological sites from the time and in the sagas there are also descriptions of the vikings fighting what they called skrælings and of attacks on Vikings settlements.
And that was just the Norse Vikings from the west coast. The Rus Vikings on the east coast spent their time traveling overland to the east and south as far as Constantinople (maybe further) establishing trade agreements with the natives, by force if necessary.
Canada, in maps of Leif's era there were two other Viking settlements in Canada - 1 in Hudson Bay - unfortunately they are believed to now be on what is first nations land which complicates Indian land claims should they reveal it , our government in their wisdom gave up right to excavate artifacts dating before Columbus - all pre Columbus artifacts belongs to first nations so history is lost.
The vikings are my ancestors. I am not pagan, and i dont agree with all their practices. But yoy cannot deny the progessive culture. How amazing it would be to be a free woman and own a home and have a job in those times...the Gods favoured them, and lead them to many world changing discoveries. If they were a larger population, they wouldnt have had to give in to Christianity. Religion was the law at the time, and they also sacrificed people..just in different ways.
Sadly the video is very inaccurate. The notion that Christianity pushed women's liberties away is nonsense. For instance Birger Jarl in the 11:th cetury (Christian era) introduced a section of the law specifically upholding the status of women called ”kvinnofrid” whish translates to ”sanctity of women”. This legal term is still in use today. It was intended to stop various kinds of abuse women were subject to during the pagan era, such as kidnappings and r8pe. At the same time women were also included as heirs to property even when there were brothers alive. Going forward these laws were further developed to protect women during the centuries following, all during the Christian era.
Here's a crazy thought. If the Vikings were the first to discover North America then how was it that they ran into the native Indians? They say human life started in Africa and if that's true then I believe that would make the native Indians the first to discover North America.
The rights afforded to women in Viking societies are similar to those found in many warrior societies: they arose from practical considerations rather than from any inherent value placed on women by their partners. When men were away from their homes and families for extended periods, it was the women who had to manage the household, protect possessions, and maintain the farm. It was in the men’s interest that their wives had these rights to prevent other men from taking advantage, and the entire community understood that the warriors or raiders would return with significant benefits. The community recognized the importance of protecting this status from opportunists. Once social dynamics changed, as with the advent of Christianity and shifts in customs, there was no longer a need to maintain such surrogacy. Similar patterns are also observed in women whose men were not engaged in warfare but were instead working in distant or dangerous trades, such as fishing in remote locations or long-distance commerce.
The discovery of America as a continent must have taken place much, much earlier. After all, there were already people there who had lived for thousands of generations and had already developed advanced civilizations. It is now considered certain that the cradle of humanity lies in Africa. From there, humans populated the world. If someone who "discovered" America found people there, they must have come there at some point.
Reading Snorre there's a passage describing how a petty king treated his slaves. Now, this may not have been the norm since Snorre highlights these details specifically, but perhaps somewhat of an ideal. The petty king (it's actually the dude pointing in the picture at 8:30, Sigurd Syr) bought slaves and allotted them a piece of land. After mandatory labour was done for the day, they could pursue their own industrious inclinations on their lot and keep all the income generated. Typically this enabled the slave to buy free after 1-3 years depending. For this money Syr would buy new slaves. The freed ones could go where they wanted, but often stayed somewhere inside his kingdom, essentially becoming part of his manpower to tax and call upon in times of need, same as everyone else.
This video should show which references are used to describe the Nordic people. Still so much wrong with trying to tell who the "Vikings" were. Everyone should remember that most stories about the them are told by their enemies and by the "church people". Christianity did a lot of bad things back in the day... You could say that to be a "viking" was kind of a profession, mostly to explore and trade, only part of the year. Not so much to raid and conquer, but that's the only thing that has been highligthed for years. People were farmers, blacksmiths etc etc. Human sacrifies are not confirmed. Children died due to many reason during this time, and no elderer went to the forest to die. The latter was only in one roleplay much later, and it's not true, lol. But it is true that women were equal to men. In all aspects. The Catholic church thought that this was not a good thing. And it went "downhill" after the christianity was established in the Nordic countries... Very sad. The so called "slave trade" is not confirmed either. People joined the "vikings", many also married the Nordic people, and came back with them to the north. Both men and women. The old "religion" Asatron, is still practiced by a group of people. Based on the few survived "sagas". Everything else was erased by the church. This just to name a few things.
That voyage was recreated, duplicated, and memorialized in a book published in the 1970s (thereabouts) titled, “ The Brendan Voyage.” The recreators built leather “bull boats” that had sails but were rudderless and had to treated using a lost technology to prevent the boats from rotting in salt water. It might be out of print now, but if you can get your hands on a copy, I promise, you won’t be sorry!
If it is an authentic incident, the Irish must take responsibility for telling the story and possibly provide evidence that it is true. It was Norwegian archaeologists who made the discoveries that proved that Norwegians living in Iceland reached America.
Saturday is called Lördag in swedish. It comes from Lögardagen wich means washingday. Lög or Log means water. Our modern name for slaves are slavar and it is the same rootword as for what we call polish and other slavs today. Träl or thrall was the older name. Vinland is not only translated to wineland because the old norse name for friend is also vin. So if the land was friendly... aka very rich. I am proud to be a descendant of the brave vikings. I see that on lists and youtube ppl claim to be of norse origin by saying things like "my family is from norway fifteen generations ago" and the sorts. Good for you but we are still here lol. Loved the video btw.
I heard the vikings gave the native americans milk as a token of gratitude and goodwill, but being lactose intolerant the milk actually made them all very sick. Thinking the vikings had attempted to poison them, the forced the vikings to leave.
They found stones in the Canadian Atlantic Maritime Provinces with words in the ancient Hungarian language (Magyar). Another summer gone and I have not been able to travel to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia , my mother watched a PBS series had the name Anne of Greene Gables.Dik Browne mentioned the Hungarians in a Sunday Hagar the Horrible cartoon; about the alliance between the Vikings and Hungarians. They both converted to Roman Catholicism around 1000a.d, but the Scandinavians converted to Lutherism. Some scholars say my name means dumb German ( I had mixed brown and blond hair) Poles and Slavs say it means alien ( as from another world), I hope scientists discover Scandinavians have Greek and Arab ancestors ( the Nemesis) just like Charles and his sons Bill and Harry!!!
😅The Scandinavians couldn't have converted to Lutheran in 1000AD, it didn't exist until 1520. They became Catholic in 1000AD then converted to Lutheran much later.
You did not read my statement correctly. I wrote both the Hungarians and Vikings became Roman Catholic around 1000 a.d. Do you color your hair blond like maybe 50 percent women and some men in the USA? It s a big business.
The vikings were free for free women, but not so different from their neighbors more south. In the countries in the "Holy Roman Empire" widows (I don't speak for other regions) had full legal capacity and inherited (depending on the region) a significant portion of the goods or everything. Women could become full member of guilds and therefore have their own business and the wife of the house was the legal deputy of her husband (had "the key rights"). They could not become priest, but they could lead a convent or a beguinage. They could write poetry like Hrotsvit of Gandersheim or becoming like Hildegard von Bingen a famous healer and conselour of the emperor. Cleaning, bathing and shaving was normal in the middle ages even when the towns were dirtier than the same towns today, but not really dirty. Given the normal footwear in middle ages, it would have been tricky to go in muddy streets and nearly everything was recycled, including excrements of animals. The subsequent periods starting with the renaissance reduced the rights of woman, started big religous wars and the towns became dirtier.
Fun fact: In Norway Saturday is called “lørdag” from Norse “laugardagr” meaning wash day. Btw. Not sure why the English wanted to hail a Roman god when we all celebrate the Norse gods on most week days!
Like in many other cultures, the idea of keeping the estates and property for only the first born sent the remaining siblings far and away to make their fortunes by pillage and violence. I think that's what sent so many disinherited people to invade others territory like it happens after the discovery of America. Children sacrifices were common practice in many other cultures in Europe and middle East as well as South, Central and part of North America with the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs. In Middle East, Baal and other deities were offered human sacrifices and the New Testament was about forbidding these common evil practices. Nowadays, we have family scapegoating as the vestige of older times practice of sacrificing a family member for the good fortune of the family unit and which is the same wicked practice but more covered and prolonged in time.
When the settlements in Greenland began the area was warmer..so quite a few successful farms existed for a long time(about 400+ years)..then it got colder (The Little Ice Age) and they died off.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_settlements_in_Greenland
No, they were not stupid. But they were still a Stone Age culture. Hence, no metal work. Bronze is made from copper and tin. Metals. I can go on, if you want...
Still love the sagas from Island - Unn the Deep-minded and Sigrid. Forget who tricked her husband into wearing a woman's blouse and then immediately divorced him for cross-dressing but kudos for her creativity. Child birth - I was born back in the early 80s in Denmark, had asthma and was in hospital before my first Christmas - I was then left out in the snow overnight to sort my lungs out. Dad had no issue with saying it was kill or cure. Granted we're a bit of old fashioned family.. To say my English mother freaked dafuq out is likely an understatement but I went on to be a distance runner through most of my youth.
I'll forgive the usage of the term Vikingr, but as an enthusiastic amateur historian and reenactor of the period, I think this vid is well researched, and rather good 😀
Beautiful teeth = *No refined sugar in the diet.* As well as a diet high in dairy, in addition to good oral hygiene. Archeologists can tell the difference between most of the German and Soviet soldiers of WW2. Most of the Soviet soldiers having strong bones and teeth. The German soldiers having signs of childhood malnutrition (due to WW1 & Weimar Republic shortages)
You can not say women from around the world because in the Americas and Africa, there were "tribes" (cultures or nations) where women ruled and had a matriarchal society. There are many "tribes" that are well known and documented that were and are matriarchal. They also fought alongside the men if they chose to. The viking women had the most freedoms in the known eastren world.
@@anna9072 I know, but it's stupid. If this was a tabloid channel that covers the debile offspring of so called aristocrats I would understand it. But here ...?
One child in the well would likely be accidental, numerous children in a well along with other adult skeletons points directly at intentional deposition into the well.
I just returned from a motorcycle tour of western Norway and now I’m addicted to learning all about the Vikings. The museum at Borg in the Lofoten Islands is magnificent!
So you were assimilated by the Borg?😂
@@merlebarney Heh. 😂
Well next year will the vikingship museum in Oslo open again after building a new museum building. The ships are fantastic and a must to see
Fun fact: during the Viking Age, being a viking was only a temporary occupation, not an ethnicity. While someone (the youngest sons, who didn't stand to inherit their parents' farm) were away on a viking voyage (mostly trade, but opportunistically also raids) they were a viking. But only for the duration of their trip.
Viking was an activity
The 11th century Gårdstånga Rune Stone in Sweden for instance uses the phrase "Þeʀ drængaʀ waʀu wiða unesiʀ i wikingu" (These valiant men were widely renowned on viking raids) referring to the stone's dedicatees as Vikings.
And then my great grandfather to long Island to farm..but why didn't I get Swedish teeth???
Saturday is "lördag" in Swedish, it comes from "lögardag", "löga" meaning to wash and "dag" means day, so Saturday was the day you took a bath.
Vikings were very diverse, in principle one can say that the Norwegians were the explorers, the Danes were the conquerors, and the Swedes were the traders (of course a simplification)
In Norwegian the word would be "laugardag".
One thing i wish all the channels did was include a list of references. When i see what are effective history channels that dont have references linked drop multiple tiers of confidence for me
The Vikings dental hygiene was better than modern day England today…
Clearly they weren't vegans🤣
@@flyingdutchman7585 Almost every developed country has better dental hygiene than England.
@1:04 It was also seen as shameful for a man's wife to initiate divorce, since it meant he had been a bad-enough husband to drive her away
It is also said, if he was not good enough in the bed, she could divorce him also, haha.
Perhaps a thing against less manly males though.
It’s still that way for women
U drove u husband into his mistress’ arms!
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@@YeshuaKingMessiahlol drive like its not a primitive nature of men to cheat when there wife disagrees on something or not showing him attention. Stop blaming women for the primitive nature of men.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah sometimes this is true. If you don’t take care of your man then he will start to stray. Also true vise versa
@@Andy-1234 no
A MAN keeps his vows, no excuse
BOYS stray
What about if his wife is incapacitated? Or gets early dementia?
From Canada to Uzbekistan the vikings/Scandinavians travelled, conquered, traded, and explored for hundreds of years. True international commerce, while also ruling the lands of England, Ireland, Normandy, Kievan Rus’ (not what Putin likes to hear), Sicily, and more, while being the imperial bodyguard for the Roman emperor in Constantinople.
@perstaunstrup3451 Sounds like they got around more than your mom! Surprising.Tell her hi for me ;)
damn you now I want chicken kiev!
@@l.scales7516 Delicious when made correctly.
I dont know if Putin has a problem with kievan-rus a d vikings, didnt he say in the interview with Tucker that slavic people invited viking prince to establish the country Rus later known as kievan-rus.?
Kievan Rus was ancient Russia just because it is in Ukraine today does not make it Ukraine back then , Putin actually called it Kievan Rus so he has no problem with that fact, also the Rus Vikings didn't start in Kiev ithey first settled where Novogorod in Russia, the settlement was called Holmgard and they spread from there including to Kiev, lets not make a modern day conflict destroy history, Scandinavian historians agree that Rus Viking funded Russia, no historian ever say Vikings founded Ukraine
Just in case someone was wondering, 6% of teeth means in normal people talk the average of 1,92 if talking about 32. He meant to say that they lost just about 2 teeth on average.
I was trying, and failing, to work that out!
0:30 - Chapter 1 - Women were unusually free
3:05 - Chapter 2 - The picture of health
6:15 - Chapter 3 - Only the strongest survived
8:00 - Chapter 4 - They profited from slave trade
9:55 - Chapter 5 - Their ancient sags aren't purely fiction
Feel like you should have included that the Vikings did not want to fight. They wanted to raid and steal. They used their fast and nimble longships to avoid enemy soldiers so they could attack undefended villages and monasteries which were much easier to loot than well defended locations.
Can't go pillaging and raiding if you're not clean 😅🤷🏻♀️
Remember, there's no second chance at a first impression.
Or you are sick from bad hygiene
I would argue the berserkers weren't always that 'clean'...
All living together on those small longships for extended periods, makes much sense that hygiene would be kept and maintained at such a high standard. And of coarse if those people you intend to raid have women that find a clean hygienic man rather desirable like many saxon women did well that's just a very welcomed bonus.
Vinland has nothing to do with wine.. -vin means 'meadow', and used in many place names in Norway. The city Bergen was 'Bjørgvin' 1000 years ago.
Good to know because American grapes make notoriously bad wine, as anyone who has ever tried Manischewitz “specially sweetened” wine can tell you 🤢 13:08
Vin in swedish mean wine. Meadow in swedish is äng, danish and norwegian is eng. meadowlands does not make sense since us vikings were scandinavians - swedish/norwegians and danes.
@@eriandhor7779 That is true in modern swedish and norwegian (bokmål), but not in old norse. Lots of norwegian places with names ending in -vin (or derived from that). Prime place for settlement, but not wine. =D
@@eriandhor7779 Bjørgvin er eit gamalt namn på Bergen, med opphav i norrønt språk. Namnet tyder grøn eng (vin) mellom fjella (bjørg).
Namnet er framleis nytta i visse omgrep, som Bjørgvin bispedøme. This is just an example of the use of the end vin in Norway.
What's fascinating to me is the fact, that the modern world would look very different without the Vikings/ Norsemen. Not only did the Danes conquer parts of England at times, but then there was of course William the Conquerer. Would the French king not have given land to the Normans, then they probably would not have conquered England in 1066.
Besides the Normannic kingdom that ruled Sicily during the high medieval era.
Scotland and Ireland were held by Norwegians.
We were taught extensive Canadian history in elementary school in the 80’s, which included full knowledge with evidence that Vikings were one of, if not the first Europeans to explore North America. And that Christopher Columbus simply took credit for being the first.
A Nordic-type spinning stone and bronze needle are the most certain pieces of evidence found at L'Anse aux Meadows.
Vikings didn't leave records and at the time of the discovery whoever said the Earth was round was persecuted and that's why it was so hard for Columbus to raise money to prove his point.
What is most important about Columbus discovery, and it was a discovery for Europeans and the Church is that after that, no one could keep with the theocentric view of the flat world and it was the starting gun which sent Europeans to colonize whatever they could get and other expeditions where made possible because greediness but also for knowledge and culture.
The Dark Ages were left behind.
And Columbus made it "worldwide" known ( take the "worldwide" part with a pinch of salt ). I bet the Vikings were not the only ones around there.
Lørdag/Lördag which is still the word for Saturday in the Nordic languages, means soap day or washing day.
Right. "Laugardag" would be closer to the origins of the word in Norwegian.
I remember reading that the Vikings called the natives of Vinland "Skraelings".
Yes, same as in Greenland
What does it mean? 🏵
@@mariaeviljoen672 Something like "screamers" or "noise makers". It's probably indicative of the natives making their distinct calls/war cries even back then.
@@-RXB- Skråle (pron skrawleh) - shout/scream - is still a word in use in Norwegian today, at least in the northern part. We would say to the children "slutt å skråle/stop shouting" when they make a lot of noise inside.
Danish person here: The word "skrælling" is never used anymore, and I doubt young people here even know the word. I recognized it, but I had to look up where the meaning comes from (the etymology), and the dictionary explains it as "to weaken" or "wither" or "dry up and shrivel", so basically a weakling.
The well-known Norse gods Odin and Thor are members of a tribe of deities called the Aesir, who are a civilizing force who impose order on the chaos of the natural world and protect society. I favor theories that the Vanir deities of agriculture and fertility and the Jötnar deities of primal chaotic forces (e.g. storms, wolves, fire and ice) were the gods of pre-Indo-European tribes in Northern Europe, as suggested by the myth of the first war between the Aesir and the Vanir, and the fact that Odin and many of the Aesir are destined to die in battle with the Jötnar at Ragnarök as a natural consequence of Odin's participation in the murder of Ymir and many other Jötnar. This is mirrored by civilization's issues with climate change. So, things like taking slaves and sacrificing babies tends to accumulates heavy wyrd (fate-threads) that influence the fate of oneself and one's lineage in ways that might be difficult to weather in the long term.
weren't the vanir elven & the jotnar giants,frost giants?
@@l.scales7516 The light elves have Freyr as the king of their home realm/dimension and I've seen people theorize a tighter connection between the two in the past. Such as the term elf once possibly being used to mean both, but then it changed, possibly to make it clear who was being talked about. Can't remember where I read it though. The dark elves and black elves/dwarves(dark elves and black elves are possibly two terms for the same group) however have none of the gods and goddesses as their ruler. Though Idunn, who's known for her apples, is a goddess who's a black elf/dwarf and she's viewed as part of the æsir. So there is that.
As for the jotunn part, the answer is yes and no. The no part is that they're not giants. That's a result of a mistranslation between... I think it was english and french. The name of their group means "Devourer" when translated accurately. Jotunn are for the most part the same size as the vanir and æsir, with those of unusual sizes being called out for being so, like Jormungandr, Nidhoggr and the jotunn that takes a giant eagle form and lives at the top of Yggdrassill.
I really love the vibe of today's video, it's really calm and peaceful ❤️❤️❤️
Well as someone who has married a woman of Scandinavian ancestry, I'll say OF COURSE Viking women were more free than other European women of the time. Trust me, pissing them off is a bad idea.
😆Yes.
I was gonna say a woman being a farmer or seamstress as well as a mom was common, but you especially don't wanna keep all that raw viking contained. There will be consequences!
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Yep, be careful with them or there will be hiccups on the road to a happy marriage.
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😂 Greetinbgs from Norway
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No sugar and chewed on meat from an early age , it’s no great surprise they had nice teeth
No sugar isn't true, I'm sure they had honey or fruits, but obviously they wouldn't have consumed nearly as much as modern humans do
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And good bones.
I think they used honey a lot, mead was quite sweet and they drank a lot of it
@@palawanczech Yeah, but the actual finished product would have burned most of the sugar during fermentation. Wine and beer doesn't have to display any sugar content, even though much is used in the making.
Vikings is more of a modern term. Back during their time. They would have been referred to as Ascomanni ("ashmen") by the Germans for the ash wood of their boats, Dubgail and Finngail ( "dark and fair foreigners") by the Irish, Lochlannaich ("people from the land of lakes") by the Gaels, Dene (Dane) by the Anglo-Saxons and Northmonn by the Frisians. 🌈
The term Viking. Started seeing use in the 18th century. Another little fun fact. They did not wear horned helmets. There is no archaeological evidence. To support that they did.
When the Irish call you fair, you fair.😁
And now they are just gay
Fun fact! This is the modern times! Hence the modern language lol What a tool!
Dont forget explorers, military Genesis, and great poem writers and story tellers, I've proudly passed my families history to my child as it was told to me by my elders
03:05 - Siggy viking had a brush!
Loved that story book character! 😅
My dog is named Saga, but she’s very much known as Siggy or Sigurd. 😂
Jorvik viking centre in York, UK is a great museum of viking artifacts which show loads of the stuff mentioned in this
9:50 Vinland Saga 🗣🔥
The first European to be born on American soil was a Norseman. Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir was born on western Iceland and with her husband Thorfinn Karlsefni she led an expedition to Vinland, where she gave birth to their son Snorri Thorfinnsson.
Rise up Stormcloaks! We shall enherit both heaven and America!!
We've even kept the old name for Saturday. In the Nordic speaking countries the day is called "lördag/lørdag ~ lögardag (washing day from germanic laugō = water) 😜
I think with the Vikings it all depends on which groups you're looking at and which eras in their history that can change the definition of "Violent or Progressive" since it would change based on the leader's guidance of the clan. Plus since the civil choices were follow or go into exile and form your own clan you'd have varied behaviour between groups (ie the Clan that the Sons of Ragnar controlled where considered too aggressive by their Norwegian counter parts. Hence their coming to England to self govern away from the territories of the Norse Viking leader(s) that were mostly interested in exploring and trading over raiding and pillaging.)
If you haven’t watched Northmen on Netflix, give it a shot for a dark comedy. Weirdly, start with season 3 because it’s the prequel, then S1 and S2. Each scene was shot in Norwegian/English back to back, so it’s actually a Norwegian send up of their cultural roots.
I adore Northmen
@@Pomshka I laughed so hard at the shitting log scene I was crying
Best part is, it's way more accurate than Vikings!
@@Kraakesolv I liked the first couple of seasons of that...and then not so much.
Is it gory or gross?
An interesting supplementary detail to the bit about how weak, sickly and handicapped children were often killed or left to die alone in the woods, is that the norsemen were fairly even-handed in this regard. It wasn't just kids, is what I mean - anyone who couldn't contribute, who couldn't carry their own weight, needed to go. Particularly in Norway and Sweden, where the winters were harsh and food often in short supply, it is said that in late autumn, elderly family-members - who, being unfit for hard physical labor, were often the ones who kept track of food-supplied and managed the preservation of same - would sometimes realize that there simply wasn't enough food to last them all through the winter. And respond by taking a walk up the nearest 'fjell' to jump off a cliff, making for one less mouth to feed and thus ensuring that their grandchildren wouldn't starve that winter.
Of course, there's also stories that suggested that in cases where elderly relatives had grown a bit too physically or mentally infirm to make such a journey themselves, or recognize the need for it, younger relatives would have to... help them on their way. Cruel, perhaps, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to survive.
I think native Americans had similar practices, and perhaps more cultures than we think about did it too, but maybe quietly.
@@sawahtbesquimoux/ Inuit/piupik ?sp? etc. would sing their death song after they got far enough away to not disturb the littles & part of it was inviting the predators to come visit them & eat them up so they could be warm in their furs in their stomachs & see the world through their eyes & so the bear would be fed another day longer without preying on the dried fish & other preserved foods at the village & if such an animal did come there were different traditions, either to anger the beast for a quick death or to lure it close enough with curiosity to perhaps slit their throat & then they would sing out loudly for a villager to come & be taken back into the homes for at least as long as the meat lasted. while the book I read this in was fiction it was co written by a mixed race woman, 2 tribes, French & dark skinned, basque was what was thought. wish I could remember the name.
Ättestup, as it was called is generally considered to never have existed at all among researchers of norse history and myths. It's mentioned once, in a comedy saga about a family that killed itself. So lets make sure this "fact" is removed shall we? =)
Sick to “help” someone “along”
It’s called kill
@@YeshuaKingMessiah Yes, that was the obvious implication, congratulations on picking up on it...
Maybe next, you can work on diction and sentence-structure!
You missed a big opportunity to say that Viking is just a profession, like butcher or tailor.
Many people think everyone from the region were called vikings and that's not true.
Exactly. They were Nordic people, usually. It's not a thing that was restricted to Nordic people, either. People who had business dealings with Vikings sometimes joined their crews, married Nordic women or men, and adopted the culture they became part of. That said, to be a Viking was arduous and brutal. They were one of Europe's early elite forces.
Aye - a Viking is just someone who goes a-viking... that is, on expeditions to foreign lands to claim gold and glory, be it through trade, conquest, or raiding and pillaging. Though, calling it a 'profession' might give the wrong impression - it was more of a *hobby,* if anything - plenty of people who were otherwise farmers, fishermen or craftsmen would put down their tools and pick up an axe to join the summer raids, hoping to bring home a nice little supplement to the household economy. (Of course, there were also Jomsvikings - career soldiers who dedicated themselves *fully* to war and raiding, and had both the training and the gear to match. But that is another story...)
I mean, it is kind of like saying "Spartans weren't a culture, just a class of people"
Vikings had a somewhat unique and homogenous collection of language, religion, politics, and a roughly consistent geographic expanse.
It was less of a profession and more of a verb, you could go Viking on top of another occupation.
This is honestly a weird misconception created recently by Anglsophere "scholars". The only vikings that "went viking" as a profession were the Jomsvikings. Vikings usualy tended their farms, hunted and lived normal lives most of the year, then "went viking" at different times of the year, usualy from late spring to late summer/early fall(after seeding and before harvests).
Not sure why some foreign people feel the need to kind of belittle the Viking Era, but likely there are contemporary political interests that want to downplay the actual uniqueness of our Nordic ancestors. As it goes hand in hand with the claims that Vikings came from many different places of the world, wich is blatantly false, and easily disproven by looking at the dna of modern day Scandinavians and some Baltic countries.
There were certainly many other cultures and groups that practised raiding and piracy. But the Viking era is defined by a specific time, a specific region of the world, by specific groups of people, were most have lived in the Nordics since the Stone Age.
in Scandinavia we call all Scandinavians Vikinger from the old Norse Vikingr/Vikingar the truth is nobody know how they used the terms back then, some believe (mostly non Scandinavian historians) that it came from an earlier word iin other languages "Wicing" meaning pirate, however the same world is later used for warrior, and then a similar word is used for people who sail, in Scandinavia if you go to a Museum they will usually have written material stating it comes from the word "Vik" in old Norse (and modern Scandinavian language) meaning Bay/inland and there is a area in Norway called "Viken" so Vikingr/Vikingar (old orse is the people who lived in the Bays as Vikings did they also explored Bays and inland's all over ,anyway we don't use term as "Norse" in Scandinavia we either say Vikinger or Scandinavians during the Viking age
06:10 *stares at the Coppergate Woman*
Also there is a 2nd Norse settelment located in "Vineland" recently
Now thats the Volume yall need to run across your channels. It was becoming impossible to hear him. Thank you for listening
Maine has a viking rune stone monument. Maine actually has many rune stone sites along the coast. There is another rune stone monument on an island off the coast of Massachusetts.
They ever find one that wasn't fake?
I saw an Expedition Unknown that featured and debunked those monuments.
If you mean the Kensington runestone it should be mentioned that it has been debunked based on the language alone. It uses not only insanely incorrect grammar but also loanwords that didnt enter swedish until the 1600s
Wait... you're saying that Shieldmaidens didn't fight by the hundreds (like in Vikings)??? Oh, man. I hate being lied to by a TV show. And here I always thought they told the absolute truth when it came to history...😁
We can’t really know because some graves have been mistaken for men’s graves. There’s at least one woman buried in a warrior grave in Norway who also died due to an axe wound to the head. At least one other such grave in Birka Sweden.
I see a video about my people, I click 🇸🇪
Same! 🇩🇰 Nice to see some popular myths dispelled.
@@SanguisAFX Right?! Much appreciated video :)
Same 🇸🇪
It’s turning into a family reunion in here 😂
It's too bad you guys are now the ones getting raided and taken over
Intolerance of curable weakness is a thing we need to bring back
You mean incurable. My feelings on the matter are mixed. I sometimes think its beyond cruel to bring up obviously severely handicapped children into adulthood. Then you read about Sarah Biffin, born armless and with vestigial legs but became a famous artist, and poet.
I suspect there are agencies working to that end.
OK Hitler
Awesome as always thanks ❤
Vikings knew the riddle of steel, that flesh is stronger, for what is a sword compared to the hand that wields it? And so, they culled the weak. Ivar the Boneless knew the riddle of flesh, that the mind is stronger, for what is the hand compared to the mind that commands it?
Hands can write too.
Straight from Conan 1984
This explains so much about the Vinland Saga Manga!
The idea that the name Greenland was chosen as some sort of attempt to lure people to move there is a myth. From circa year 900-1300 there was a warmth period on the northern hemisphere which made living on Greenland much different from today. When Leif Eriksson came to Greenland, the fjords on the south side of the island were actually forested and … green, with a micro climate that made it much different to the surrounding areas. There was good sources for food, wood for building ships and houses and for making fires. In relation to the surrounding areas with ice and snow it was indeed a green land. When this warmth period ended, the Scandinavian settlements were abandoned. The needed resources simply ran out. Then there was the aggressive Inuit expansion. The Inuits who came to Greenland from North America just after the Viking’s arrived had previously pushed out several other older Arctic cultures. There are indications that the Inuit and the Scandinavians didn’t live peacefully next to each other.. Scandinavian artefacts have been found in Inuit archeological sites from the time and in the sagas there are also descriptions of the vikings fighting what they called skrælings and of attacks on Vikings settlements.
If you pause right at 0:00 Simon has a perfect face for a thumbnail editors, just saying. Sure you could find a use for it.
The European Christian culture meant a large set back.
And that was just the Norse Vikings from the west coast. The Rus Vikings on the east coast spent their time traveling overland to the east and south as far as Constantinople (maybe further) establishing trade agreements with the natives, by force if necessary.
Greetings from Skandinavia Danmark 🇩🇰 the lands of the gods....
Canada, in maps of Leif's era there were two other Viking settlements in Canada - 1 in Hudson Bay - unfortunately they are believed to now be on what is first nations land which complicates Indian land claims should they reveal it , our government in their wisdom gave up right to excavate artifacts dating before Columbus - all pre Columbus artifacts belongs to first nations so history is lost.
The vikings are my ancestors. I am not pagan, and i dont agree with all their practices. But yoy cannot deny the progessive culture. How amazing it would be to be a free woman and own a home and have a job in those times...the Gods favoured them, and lead them to many world changing discoveries. If they were a larger population, they wouldnt have had to give in to Christianity. Religion was the law at the time, and they also sacrificed people..just in different ways.
Well said.
Sadly the video is very inaccurate. The notion that Christianity pushed women's liberties away is nonsense. For instance Birger Jarl in the 11:th cetury (Christian era) introduced a section of the law specifically upholding the status of women called ”kvinnofrid” whish translates to ”sanctity of women”. This legal term is still in use today. It was intended to stop various kinds of abuse women were subject to during the pagan era, such as kidnappings and r8pe. At the same time women were also included as heirs to property even when there were brothers alive. Going forward these laws were further developed to protect women during the centuries following, all during the Christian era.
Hard to think of the Vikings as dentists!!! 🤣
As a Swede I would say that I miss the good old days......
i kinda knew that vikings are kinda cool. but dam, i didn't know they where THAT COOL!
Here's a crazy thought. If the Vikings were the first to discover North America then how was it that they ran into the native Indians? They say human life started in Africa and if that's true then I believe that would make the native Indians the first to discover North America.
Yeah its a silly way to phrase it, to put it kindly. It'd be more accurate to say they were the first europeans to become aware of north america.
He said the first Europeans to discover America. Are you claiming that native Americans are European?
@@fotter9567they were far eastern European, actually.
@@loravipperman3061 Europe ends at the Ural mountain range. It is located far west of the Bering Strait.
So you’re telling me Vikings had long flowing hair with no lice, bathed at least once a week AND had beautiful teeth?!
Not all long hair - a bowl cut was also popular.
4:55 Ah the Vinland Saga, a story about vikings, made by japanese LOL
“Were vikings brutal or progressive?”
Well, its possible to be two things… 😂
Great comment section! Interesting reads. Great grammar.
The rights afforded to women in Viking societies are similar to those found in many warrior societies: they arose from practical considerations rather than from any inherent value placed on women by their partners. When men were away from their homes and families for extended periods, it was the women who had to manage the household, protect possessions, and maintain the farm. It was in the men’s interest that their wives had these rights to prevent other men from taking advantage, and the entire community understood that the warriors or raiders would return with significant benefits. The community recognized the importance of protecting this status from opportunists.
Once social dynamics changed, as with the advent of Christianity and shifts in customs, there was no longer a need to maintain such surrogacy. Similar patterns are also observed in women whose men were not engaged in warfare but were instead working in distant or dangerous trades, such as fishing in remote locations or long-distance commerce.
The discovery of America as a continent must have taken place much, much earlier. After all, there were already people there who had lived for thousands of generations and had already developed advanced civilizations.
It is now considered certain that the cradle of humanity lies in Africa. From there, humans populated the world. If someone who "discovered" America found people there, they must have come there at some point.
Reading Snorre there's a passage describing how a petty king treated his slaves. Now, this may not have been the norm since Snorre highlights these details specifically, but perhaps somewhat of an ideal.
The petty king (it's actually the dude pointing in the picture at 8:30, Sigurd Syr) bought slaves and allotted them a piece of land. After mandatory labour was done for the day, they could pursue their own industrious inclinations on their lot and keep all the income generated. Typically this enabled the slave to buy free after 1-3 years depending. For this money Syr would buy new slaves. The freed ones could go where they wanted, but often stayed somewhere inside his kingdom, essentially becoming part of his manpower to tax and call upon in times of need, same as everyone else.
Føroyar! 🇫🇴
This video should show which references are used to describe the Nordic people.
Still so much wrong with trying to tell who the "Vikings" were.
Everyone should remember that most stories about the them are told by their enemies and by the "church people". Christianity did a lot of bad things back in the day...
You could say that to be a "viking" was kind of a profession, mostly to explore and trade, only part of the year. Not so much to raid and conquer, but that's the only thing that has been highligthed for years. People were farmers, blacksmiths etc etc.
Human sacrifies are not confirmed. Children died due to many reason during this time, and no elderer went to the forest to die. The latter was only in one roleplay much later, and it's not true, lol.
But it is true that women were equal to men. In all aspects. The Catholic church thought that this was not a good thing. And it went "downhill" after the christianity was established in the Nordic countries... Very sad.
The so called "slave trade" is not confirmed either. People joined the "vikings", many also married the Nordic people, and came back with them to the north. Both men and women.
The old "religion" Asatron, is still practiced by a group of people. Based on the few survived "sagas". Everything else was erased by the church.
This just to name a few things.
The "Vampire Thrall" title in skyrim has a whole new meaning to me now
id say we are still cleaner and better taken care of in the northern europe to this day
Just finished Vikings Valhalla on Netflix, this is perfect timing
Nice work on building those guns, sir
Excellent
People never talk about saint Brendan the navigator the irish monk who sailed west before the vikings and qas actually there inspiration
That voyage was recreated, duplicated, and memorialized in a book published in the 1970s (thereabouts) titled, “ The Brendan Voyage.” The recreators built leather “bull boats” that had sails but were rudderless and had to treated using a lost technology to prevent the boats from rotting in salt water.
It might be out of print now, but if you can get your hands on a copy, I promise, you won’t be sorry!
If it is an authentic incident, the Irish must take responsibility for telling the story and possibly provide evidence that it is true. It was Norwegian archaeologists who made the discoveries that proved that Norwegians living in Iceland reached America.
Saturday is called Lördag in swedish. It comes from Lögardagen wich means washingday. Lög or Log means water. Our modern name for slaves are slavar and it is the same rootword as for what we call polish and other slavs today. Träl or thrall was the older name. Vinland is not only translated to wineland because the old norse name for friend is also vin. So if the land was friendly... aka very rich. I am proud to be a descendant of the brave vikings. I see that on lists and youtube ppl claim to be of norse origin by saying things like "my family is from norway fifteen generations ago" and the sorts. Good for you but we are still here lol. Loved the video btw.
Laurdag and lørdag in the two written norwegian dialects. Particularly laurdag sounds like the original Norse word.
I heard the vikings gave the native americans milk as a token of gratitude and goodwill, but being lactose intolerant the milk actually made them all very sick. Thinking the vikings had attempted to poison them, the forced the vikings to leave.
They found stones in the Canadian Atlantic Maritime Provinces with words in the ancient Hungarian language (Magyar). Another summer gone and I have not been able to travel to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia , my mother watched a PBS series had the name Anne of Greene Gables.Dik Browne mentioned the Hungarians in a Sunday Hagar the Horrible cartoon; about the alliance between the Vikings and Hungarians. They both converted to Roman Catholicism around 1000a.d, but the Scandinavians converted to Lutherism. Some scholars say my name means dumb German ( I had mixed brown and blond hair) Poles and Slavs say it means alien ( as from another world), I hope scientists discover Scandinavians have Greek and Arab ancestors ( the Nemesis) just like Charles and his sons Bill and Harry!!!
😅The Scandinavians couldn't have converted to Lutheran in 1000AD, it didn't exist until 1520. They became Catholic in 1000AD then converted to Lutheran much later.
You did not read my statement correctly. I wrote both the Hungarians and Vikings became Roman Catholic around 1000 a.d. Do you color your hair blond like maybe 50 percent women and some men in the USA? It s a big business.
6:37 Obviously, this situation did not apply to the case of Ivar the Boneless.😂
Leif Erikson? Hinga Dinga Durgan
Simon isn’t in the basement?
Is he at home or is that a background?
The vikings were free for free women, but not so different from their neighbors more south.
In the countries in the "Holy Roman Empire" widows (I don't speak for other regions) had full legal capacity and inherited (depending on the region) a significant portion of the goods or everything. Women could become full member of guilds and therefore have their own business and the wife of the house was the legal deputy of her husband (had "the key rights"). They could not become priest, but they could lead a convent or a beguinage. They could write poetry like Hrotsvit of Gandersheim or becoming like Hildegard von Bingen a famous healer and conselour of the emperor.
Cleaning, bathing and shaving was normal in the middle ages even when the towns were dirtier than the same towns today, but not really dirty. Given the normal footwear in middle ages, it would have been tricky to go in muddy streets and nearly everything was recycled, including excrements of animals.
The subsequent periods starting with the renaissance reduced the rights of woman, started big religous wars and the towns became dirtier.
Religion has alot to answer for 😢
Fun fact: In Norway Saturday is called “lørdag” from Norse “laugardagr” meaning wash day.
Btw. Not sure why the English wanted to hail a Roman god when we all celebrate the Norse gods on most week days!
Maybe they hated doing Laundry?
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Honorary mention to the fact that also play football in Minnesota.
Like in many other cultures, the idea of keeping the estates and property for only the first born sent the remaining siblings far and away to make their fortunes by pillage and violence. I think that's what sent so many disinherited people to invade others territory like it happens after the discovery of America.
Children sacrifices were common practice in many other cultures in Europe and middle East as well as South, Central and part of North America with the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs.
In Middle East, Baal and other deities were offered human sacrifices and the New Testament was about forbidding these common evil practices.
Nowadays, we have family scapegoating as the vestige of older times practice of sacrificing a family member for the good fortune of the family unit and which is the same wicked practice but more covered and prolonged in time.
When the settlements in Greenland began the area was warmer..so quite a few successful farms existed for a long time(about 400+ years)..then it got colder (The Little Ice Age) and they died off..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_settlements_in_Greenland
Why is it so hard to believe that Native Canadians could make bronze rings, stone oil lamps, and slag? They weren't dumb.
No, they were not stupid. But they were still a Stone Age culture. Hence, no metal work. Bronze is made from copper and tin. Metals. I can go on, if you want...
Let me guess... They *really* didn't like Monestaries? 🤔
They loved the poorly guarded gold and jewels.
And the monks thought god would protect them.
They liked their gold and jewled goods
Still love the sagas from Island - Unn the Deep-minded and Sigrid. Forget who tricked her husband into wearing a woman's blouse and then immediately divorced him for cross-dressing but kudos for her creativity.
Child birth - I was born back in the early 80s in Denmark, had asthma and was in hospital before my first Christmas - I was then left out in the snow overnight to sort my lungs out. Dad had no issue with saying it was kill or cure. Granted we're a bit of old fashioned family.. To say my English mother freaked dafuq out is likely an understatement but I went on to be a distance runner through most of my youth.
I'll forgive the usage of the term Vikingr, but as an enthusiastic amateur historian and reenactor of the period, I think this vid is well researched, and rather good 😀
Beautiful teeth = *No refined sugar in the diet.* As well as a diet high in dairy, in addition to good oral hygiene.
Archeologists can tell the difference between most of the German and Soviet soldiers of WW2. Most of the Soviet soldiers having
strong bones and teeth. The German soldiers having signs of childhood malnutrition (due to WW1 & Weimar Republic shortages)
You can not say women from around the world because in the Americas and Africa, there were "tribes" (cultures or nations) where women ruled and had a matriarchal society. There are many "tribes" that are well known and documented that were and are matriarchal. They also fought alongside the men if they chose to. The viking women had the most freedoms in the known eastren world.
Imagine viking women with more independence and rights than the RNC want women to have today. And the same maternal mortality risks Smdh
Yup
When I see vikings I click
BEAUTIFUL TEATK
You know when the Britons slipped on a financial peel we had no coastal monasteries to raid, it was a difficult time for everyone!.
Child of 80s and we were taught about Greenland and Newfoundland
Do you mean "shocking" or rather "surprising"? English is not my native language, but I'm convinced that the word "shocking" is wrong in this context.
Yes, but “shocking” will generally get you more clicks.
@@anna9072 I know, but it's stupid. If this was a tabloid channel that covers the debile offspring of so called aristocrats I would understand it. But here ...?
In this case, 'shocking' and 'surprising' would be considered synonyms.
Don’t see how that would really change anything..
So, were these Vikings more advanced in their dentistry OR are we a little barbaric in ours? 🤔 🙄
How do they know the children didn't fall into the well while unsupervised (perhaps sneaking off from chores)?
One child in the well would likely be accidental, numerous children in a well along with other adult skeletons points directly at intentional deposition into the well.
Tooth decay is a silent killer
❤😂❤😂 Love the complaints about their elegance & hygiene. LOL
i like my Scandinavian blood
So do i
Vinland saga!
Why is Simon not in the studio? Lol
Hail the gods
Cleaning and cooking duties vs must fight in war duty...
Hmmmm.
Did he just say that slavery was worse than child sacrifice?