The Secrets Of Iceland's Dark Age Epic | The Viking Sagas | Chronicle
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Dr Janina Ramirez travels across Iceland to find out about one of the most compelling of the great Viking stories - the Laxdaela Saga. These 13th century sagas are not just great works of art, they are also priceless historical documents which bring the mysterious world of the Vikings to life.
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"multi-cultural meltingpot" is perhaps stretching it a bit.
lol, well said
@@foxyinflats stretching it, twisting it and turning it inside out.
Multi-cultural melting pot......of Northern Europeans.
I'm invigorated by this material. A similar book I encountered fostered an invigorating change in my life. "Temporal Echoes: Amelia's Odyssey Through Ancestral Shadows" by Vivian Rosewood
Great documentary, interesting and very enlightening!!
I as a swede has always wanted to come to Iceland as it feels like the island where the viking culture is preserved, and i love it, it really feels like home.
How does it feel like home if you’ve never been?
@@jb2532 or "viking culture is preserved" - how do conserve something that never existed? he have the wrong idea of Iceland and the society at that time- probably watched too many bad tv series 😂
@@Iceguide What do you mean by it never existing?
I enjoyed this one so much and learned a lot!
I'm so glad I found this channel!😄
JMJ+ I needed some translation of the Nordic language in order to stay interested and learning something. Will try again earlier in the regular daytime.............
Great documentary... but revenge doesn't mean "killing" always, it can take many forms...I think the old stories, show that if you don't seek justice, you cannot count on it to be served... which is still very true today.
This is a pretty badass channel man.
Edit: you should put up Michael Woods "In Search Of The Dark Ages" series if you can get around to it. It's on RUclips on a couple more obscure channels, but it isn't terribly hard to find.
It's good stuff. Its a 6 part series. He does half hour biographies on Athelstan, Erik Bloodaxe, King Offa, William The Conqueror, Alfred The Great, and a someone else. (I think it was King Arthur, but I'm not 100% sure. He did an hour show on Beowulf too)
Or... people could start making their own content again...
I prefer Michael Wood, even though the history of the Dark Ages, as every aspect of culture collapsing after the Romans left and the Saxons making a cruel conquest have been completely debunked. It’s not Wood’s fault, and the personalities he brings to life are what I really enjoy about his work. Also, he doesn’t dwell on it too much.
That series is pretty good, I've seen some episodes on yt but they were in terrible quality. Would be great if someone remastered it somehow
Loved this! Thank you for highlighting the creativity and culture that is sometimes downplayed or even lost entirely. Even though others have been quick to criticize and argue semantics, I want to thank you for your hard work and dedication to this film 💜
Ok but Iceland, Greenland and Denmark are all *different* places? Like separate islands? 58:22
@@sailormoon2937 Google is your friend. Greenland is bigger than South America and just as Iceland an island. Denmark is not
@@LiquidShivaz *BUT* there's so much "misinformation" out there 🙄
Thanks doll 😘
Yea these people are usually called barbarian savages but in reality it's much different we come from a morale people.
You should check out the oera linda book it's interesting as well. It also shows how we adored,loved and respected our women way more than most other places did or do still to this day.
0:53 "...there was an explosion of creativity, which remains pretty much unparalleled in history" really?
There are a few egregious overstatements in this program.
It's the into, a little later it shows she refering to the amount of family sagas. But yeah, a bit dramatic.
Multi-cultural or slavers?
Thank you.
The breadth of this content is incredible. A book with comparable insights was a beacon in my personal growth. "Temporal Echoes: Amelia's Odyssey Through Ancestral Shadows" by Vivian Rosewood
Everyone knows Iceland was settled by Floki, as shown in the historical recreation TV show Vikings. Not sure what you're still looking for?
So we're the women Britton's, Anglo-Saxon, pict ?
Exct .
it's funny how looking at the bones and seeing that the males were from scandavia and 60% of the women were from britain, she describes viking iceland as some multicultural utopia. vikings killed the men and raided the women and goods from other lands. it's what they did.
There was a great deal of trade between Britain and the nordic countries. And migration. Not as fun to talk about as raping and pillaging, but truer.
@@birdnerd6651 that’s preposterous revisionism. The Vikings were warrior tribes that made war across Europe and Russia, and continually Britain. Russia is called Russia bc the Rus (vikings) conquered it (ie devastated the original inhabitants and took their land). The word Norman comes from Northman, which are vikings and descendants of vikings who lived on land they took all over Europe, as opposed to that which they just pillaged. The also took payoffs not to raid from those who could raise the funds (such as the Byzantines). I know in todays pc culture we want to pretend mongols and Vikings were hippie farmers and traders. That’s not the case.
It's what EVERY culture did.
@@bartonbella3131 different cultures have conquered at various points in their history. This doesn’t change the fact that groups such as the Vikings were warrior tribes that pillaged Europe, and were very viscous and successful at it. And the reason there were the bones of foreign women with native men isn’t bc Vikings were these suave traders seducing women to leave their homes and families. They were warriors who took the women from lands they raided.
@@asielnorton345 and you're extremely naive if you think every other cultures wasn't trading people, taking prisoners, raping women and Killing children ALL over the world at the time. Egyptians, Roman's, Mayan, Aztec, Britain, Chinese, Iranian, all of Africa. They were all vicious and NO, NOT ONE, Zero, Zilch , Nada is there a land who does not have the viking way in their past. It might not have been called viking to the other cultures but it was stil rape, plunder and murder ALL across the world.
"Multicultural melting pot"
interesting way of phrasing "Viking plundered women and brought them along."
They did buy a lot of slaves in Ireland's and england's slave markets. Yorvik had big slave markets.
"when the Vikings came to Iceland", who are those "Vikings"?
Vikings are not a homogeneous mass, the majority of our first immigrants were Farmers and people who wanted to live in peace far away from the King and his taxes, Vikings were very few... that would be like naming all english ppl. "accountants" after their profession.
Lindybeige?
@@sanguiniusi8187 not just him, this topic has been discussed within icelandic society for decades.
The "Vikings" amongst Norse society were more akin to Hells Angels and other outlaw biker gangs in our modern age. The vast majority of Norse were traders, fishermen, farmers and artisans. But many Nordic young men did go "a viking" for a limited number of seasons, but few made it a long-term career. The common pattern was to raid and plunder just long enough to acquire the financial resources to buy land and/or invest in some other type of commercial enterprise that did not require such risk and was sustainable year after year.
everyone knows the american west was founded by gunslinging cowboys
Why is none of this on History Hit?
Groa (Gróa Þorsteinsdóttir) Thorsteinsdottir, of Caithness is my 27th Paternal GGM. Her/My Grandmother was Aud the Deep-Minded (Ketilsdóttir). ( Strong women.) My female ancestor founded Iceland.
They defy the oceans to FOUND a brave new world ehh?😳🤯
4:55 isn’t it estimated that 25-40% of icelands coasts were covered in birch forests when people first got there? This always seems to be neglected when people talk about how “alien” Iceland looks. It might’ve not looked so moon like on the coasts when people first got there.
21:45 ...a bit like Australia...?
Not a surprise when you realise all the first women where irish. Funny history forgets?
READ THE SAGAS!!!......LEAN LAS SAGAS!!!!!
Túry took ewrything,mans life,freedom womans,child..gold,silver,caw....that in tíme is the law
Iceland NEVER went through a dark age.....they were light years ahead of the rest of Europe.....
Why 'Dark Age'????
anything to do with iceland must be associated with bjork.
Whamen smart
4:50
Dr. Ramirez...
Why would a Wooly Mammoth be lumbering through a wasteland of ice and rock, void of vegetation?
One would think a Mammoth would require several thousand calories a day to just wander around a bleak, desolate tundra.
Disney's "ICE AGE" wasn't a documentary, you know?
It was a descriptive comment offered to describe the primeval/majestic nature of the Icelandic landscape. Grow up.
So far this is nothing but a bunch of non substantiated theories. Good grief.