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- The Viking era is the last of the great periods of barbarian attacks. It left Europe transformed, ripe for the rise of the new nations that marked the middle ages. Norsemen, another word for Vikings, conquered a quarter of France, half of England and a third of Italy.
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The remnants of buildings at L' Anse aux Meadows (on the eastern coast of Canada) have features and characteristics strikingly similar to some of the Celtic/Pict stone architecture. I studied their metalwork, how and where iron was found or obtained, their smelting and forging methods, and have made a number of items to test ideas about their technology. It becomes clear quickly when studying the coastal Scandinavians of the Carolingian era that their greatest strength may have been the ease with which they recognized and adopted ideas they encountered elsewhere. The distances they could travel, and acumen for trade are nearly as great and allowed them to find such ideas, the "Damascus" furnace being one of the most important. It allowed them to produce steel weapons of a quality not seen again until the 17th century. Though not my area, it really looks like they were particularly attached to the type of construction seen around 8-9 minutes into this video. Anyone reading this in boredom please let me know if you're aware of a source on this
I can’t get enough of learning Viking history! Thanks for making these videos 👍🏻
@Constantine The Slavs are awesome too with a spectacular history. A really tough group of people and still are very tough to this day. It was the Kievan Rus that even sparked my interest in learning about Vikings/Central and Eastern Europe. Traveling the Ukraine is on my bucket list before I die.
@Constantine Vikings founded Kievan Rus around the 9th century, but nowhere in my comment did I claim Kievan Rus were anything. I just said they were the ones that sparked my interest in learning about Vikings / Central and Eastern Europe’s history.
@Constantine That is interesting. I never knew it was up for much debate. However I found this bit of information from a website called Britannica that states what I always thought to be true and says, “According to the traditional account presented in The Russian Primary Chronicle, it was founded by the Viking Oleg, ruler of Novgorod from about 879. In 882 he seized Smolensk and Kiev, and the latter city, owing to its strategic location on the Dnieper River, became the capital of Kievan Rus.” Does this information seem false to you? If so, what is your theory or collection of information that proves otherwise because I’d like to hear it. This history fascinates me.
I love listening to tales from another time.
I have always believed that my ancestors were out and about far earlier than was recorded, now we have proof. Thank you absolute History!
I try not to romanticize the Vikings, but I do find Scandinavian culture fascinating in general. Vikings included.
Romanticizing history is absurd. It’s history, it’s facts, or at best, it’s scattered theories from which gathered artifacts lead to.
@@TheCarelessAquarius I agree, that’s why I don’t do it. Some people do though.
Agreed 👍🏻
i hate the notion that europeans are supposed to be the "civilized" part of the world. no one says it out loud, but when speaking about vikings and similar peoples, there is always the factor of shock. when speaking about any other peoples from other lands who raid and kill as much as the vikings, its just accepted. i think the warish way of life should be treated as any other, viking raiding and native american raiding was just a way of life like a farmer or a hunter. yes they killed, raped, and pillaged which is terrible. im not denying the suffering inflicted, im just saying its annoying when people are shocked, like white people are supposed to be the civilized ones.
@@davechongle the vikings was civilized in many ways. Like having laws, rights and democracy. In many ways laying foundation for much of todays europe and america. War was a part of life, and it has been since dawn of day.
Love watching documentaries like this
I wish they would have given more information on the Norway area.
Viking Stories is a norwegian channel in english, check it out :)
Thank you for making this film. Very interesting to me. I share this to family members!
New research is answering many of the unknown details of the whole Norse (-Dano) expansion from Scandinavia into the British (and Ireland) Isles. It is well known of the continental Norse expansion eastwards up the Baltic and up into Moscow, while another branch moves down into Northern Italy, and the western Neustria region of France becoming the southern branch of Normandy. Then one moves into the Shetlands, Orkneys, and intrusion (at the time of the Picts of Pictavia ... old Scotland) into northern Ross. It is the Anglo-Saxon named "Vikings" of 789 and their invasion of Lindisfarne Northumbria. Yet what is not said is that, while the continental Vikings, Norseman, Normans, were settling the western shorelines of Normandy, there has not been valid archaeology in knowing that the eastern shoreline of Pictavia was also being intruded upon, that lead to the further expansion down the coast into York/Northumbria, On the western front, the greater Hebrides, Isle of Man, and other intrusions and colonizations of the western shoreline of Pictavia, Argyll, Galloway-Carrick were happening as well as the documented "Scotti" of northern Ireland, Dublin, and northern Wales with the "Finngails" and "Dubhgails." The "Viking" name is the Anglo-Saxon designation for the eastern Norsemen, while the "Scotti" name is the Irish-Welsh designation for the western Norsemen, .. all being "explorer-adventurer-raiders." The various Vikings, Scotti, Finngails, and Dughgails were all the same, just different locales and different waves of Norsemen coming into Ireland, Pictavia, and England.
With intrusions into the Argyll and Galloway-Carrick area from the west, and meeting up with other western shoreline Pictavia Norse groups, there was an expanded push across the Border Counties between Pictavia and Anglo-Saxon(ia) as the (Norse) Great Army moving back and forth across from Galloway/Carrick to York/Northumbria. The lands of Argyll and SW Pictavia having become the homeland of the Dal Raida, eventually surrounded the entire Pictavia and Picts. Eventually, with such surrounding external pressures, Pictavia settled with a marriage and merger with the Norse overlords, succumbing and starting the new kingdom dynasty of the Kings of Alba, eventually turning into the Kingdom of Scotland of the western Norse Scotti "Scots."
With the increasing colonization, population, and mobilization from Ireland, northern Wales, western Scotland, the Border Counties of the Great Army, eastern Scotland, ... and the Norman invasion of 1066, the prior dynasty of the Danes and the Danelaw of those Irish and York regions were overcome, and the Normans came in and conquested Anglo-Saxon(ia).
Those who were once the ancient British, who were pushed out by the invasive Anglo-Saxons into Wales and Pictavia, remain of the original peoples of the land. The Picts of Pictavia succumbed to the Norse, while Anglo-Saxon(ia) was conquested.
There is further proofs of the Great Army of the Border Counties, and those Kings of York/Northumbria having intermarriage with the continental Normans. It is General Rognvald de Brussi of Normandy (forefather of the de Brus and Bruces of York/Northumbria and Annandale Scotland), who is said to be the son of a Norse marriage to a Russian Princess, daughter of Rognvald of Moscow. This appears to be invalid, at the most close, and most logical of all events, is that at this same time there is General Rognvald of the Great Army, and King of York/Northumbria, whose daughter is the one who was married. This brings further clarity in how the Normans and the 1066 invasion were assisted against King Harald of the Danes, ... and the post-1066 peaceful migration of Normans into Scotland, the Border Counties, and into Scotland. Such would be these Normandy to York/Northumbria to Annandale of the de Brus (Bruces) and many others peacefully settling with the rest of the prior waves of Norse in the area.
What happened is the western Scotti, Finngails, and Dubhgails were in the 400s-500s period of Pictavia, Ireland, northern Wales, ... while the Normans of continental Normandy (and points east) happened in the 900s-1100s. The Norse Great Army happened in the 500s-1066 period. The fall of Pictavia and the rise of the kingdom of Alba, turning into the kingdom of the Scots, happened in the 600s-1000s.
Such conjectures by historians that the "Scotti" were Irish or Norse-Irish coming from Ireland into SW Pictavia, creating the Dal Raida colony and kingdom is now non sequitor. The Scotti, Finngails, and Dubhgails were waves of Norse. The kingdoms of Dal Raida, Alba, and Scotland are Norse.
The Welsh remain of the ancient Brythonic language British, while the Scot remain with waves and waves of the ancient Norse VIkings, Scotti, Finngails, Dubhgails, and Normans with Pictavian Brythonic, Gaelic, and Celtic languages. The English have successive waves of languages from Brythonic British, Gaelic and Celtic language, Roman Latin, Anglo-Saxon Germanic Indo-Aryan language, and back to Norse Gaelic and Celtic language hodgepodged together in what we now call English.
The Scotti were Celtic Irish, not Germanic Norse. They gave Scotland its version of Gaelic, aka a dialect of Irish.
Rarely have I seen a thread packed more tightly with bullshit. No wonder, either, when OP pretends to be an expert on Norse culture, but believes that Harald Hardrade, king of Norway, was a Dane... I'd love to tear all of this nonsense to shreds, but I'm afraid there's too much of it. I just don't have the time.
"When the Team from Tallin applied modern dating techniques to the skeleton, they were shocked by what they found. Skeletons actually prefer to stay single." 3:44
😂😂
It's a battle ground out there
good work
15:00 when they found resitance in France. The vikings turned to England.
Are you telling me that the vikings kinda sparked the original French vs English hatred?
The vikings..who today concists of denmark,norway and sweden.
Denmark and Sweden has the Guiness world record for the most wars fought between two countries.
Yes, even more than France and England..
and so again. The vikings, basically, sparked the fuse between France and England! I mean...I thought the guiness world record was kinda big..but daaaaaaamn! Everyone knows about the english-french feud. No one knows about the danish-swedish feud outside of scandinavia. And yet, it was the scandinavians who started it it all.
Mind...Blown.
Well , not really . The first people of Britain were Picts , then celts invaded from southern France , then the anglo Saxons from northern France , then Normans from central France . Then England invaded France two or three , or more times . The Vikings just kind of stirred the pot right in the middle of it all
@@outinthesticks1035 the Saxons came from Scandinavia
@@loke1555
Yes, they came from the area of Sachsen, Germany.
Nice footage from world viking tournament wollin!
It's really aggravating to find that the docu I'm watching is the same docu different title as I watched on another channel.
The good old days !
I love learning about what my ancestors were actually like. Fascinating stuff.
Why is the sound always so completely terrible in all of these videos?! I can’t even watch most of them for more than like 5 mins before it drives me insane having to continuously change my volume every 10 seconds
I find this so interesting!
I am half english and half scandinavian by dna❤
Interesting! 👀👍
Hello
"Absolute History.. Thank you for beautiful accuracy. I would be even better if the murdering line in first sentence clarified they were retaliating from hundreds of years of forced and brutally imposed Christianity.. Of course we know Snorri downplayed the history."~Pdq
I don't know why I always try to watch the history of Vikings while eating. As soon as we get to the more graphic details I loose my appetite. :/
wonder what she meant by there were dragons in the skys?
@4:08 doesn't a high level of marine protein from shellfish cause carbon dating to be 100 years earlier than the actual age of the bones being dated?
If you're aware of that dont you think the experts are aware of that?
With ads every five minutes this will be one of my blocked channels.
Something that bothers me is that on film all Vikings wear iron helmets and chain mail. In fact, of all the thousands of graves excavated, only a few helmets has been found. Therefore, it is most likely that the vast majority of Vikings did not wear an iron helmet or chain mail. These were luxury goods imported from the continent only by very rich chiefs and kings, not by the ordinary Viking.
depends what age we talking bro... and who, the Swedes and Danes was for sure better armed compared to the Norwegian and Icelandic.
a lot of the clashes the vikings had in England with the Brits from the 700's, they wore similar armor and helmets and shields. We know this from different visible tapestry's and written history.
We see on some tapestry's that most vikings even had kite shields and those longer oval ones, the round shield just been hyped up in movies cus the vikings started with it, but don't respect vikings ability to adjust and steal technology from other cultures they cam across. Also the amount of quality swords the vikings got from South-Europe, Arabs and North Africa, maybe even parts of Asia.
So from the looks, looks like a lot of vikings raided the enemy's supply of weapon and armor first, then used that to fight the enemy, with time integrate and assimilate into that culture. They still call it Normady in France to this day, iron helmets and chain mail? you mean full plate armor on horses? 🤣🤣
@@savagegtalks5912 If it is Bayeux tapestry you are referring to, it is a bad source for how Vikings in Scandinavia were dressed. It is believed that it was ordered by Wilhelm the Conqueror's half-brother Odo of Bayeux and that the manufacturers were probably nuns in a convent in Normandy. It is not at all certain that these nuns had ever seen a real Viking but instead used their Norman soldiers as models. It is not known and therefore this tapestry is very uncertain as a source.
One simply has to go on what facts archeology tells. Many remains of arrows, swords, spears, shields, axes, etc. have been found, but not a single helmet. This can only mean that no helmets were used except possibly by individual chiefs as exclusive attributes imported down from the continent. If it had been common for the ordinary Scandinavian Viking to use helmets, it would have appeared in the ground, but it does not.
@@LasseEklof Matt Easton talks about it... in England it's visible from both tapestry and written form from the Monks. 2 sources to back up 1 claim. Make it more legit, not 100%. But a lot more then some dude looking in the ground at the wrong places.
With Scandinavia rising up from the sea while the rest of the world seem to be sinking. As our plate rises, shit buried gets moved around, maybe even destroyed, pushed to the surface and corroded away years ago, good lucking finding whatever was buried there^^
Nothing is more Swedish then being self hating and self degrading 🤣🤣 keep it up, Sweden almost gone^^
@@savagegtalks5912 Which English tapestry and which monks are you referring to? These are sources I did not know about and would like to study further.
As for the archaeological finds, there are thousands of untouched complete tombs where nothing has been moved around, neither by the earth's continental plates nor by anything else. These have contained complete skeletons (lying in the order that when the body was once laid in the grave), remnants of all kinds of weapons, food offerings, etc. but no singel helmets.
It's ok, I do not belong to the category of Swedes who are self-hating. :)
@@LasseEklof I said: Matt Easton talks about it... I don't remember which. Go search for yourself expert^^
Where's Rollo? I must have blinked. Could have used bit of closed captioning.
Dam, you forgot or left out the 2 greatest "Viking" warriors. William the Conqueror and Gustavus Adolphus
Im swedish and im related to the Birka warrior woman found in Birka (old viking town), Sweden. Genetically though im more norwegian than swedish. What a crazy world we live in.
Thats really cool how did you find out you were related to her
people in this world are very mixed
I would like to appreciate pronunciation of polish archeologist's surname Jagodziński. Good lector :) Russian names sound also ok, but I am not native, so hard to tell for sure
Anyone notice the swastika on the shield at around 4:50? I thought that was just a Hitler thing. Idk I just find the vikings life style fascinating 🤔
The swastika is at least 3000 years old and comes from India.
I believe they held a blood bath executed with extreme violence. Foaming at the mouth high on drugs maybe even, Vikings had unusual habits like loutenfish just very peculiar.
Lutefisk?
What's with the winged helmet? A Wagnerian opera?
At 10:50 " the last pagans of Europe". This is unhistorical , there were others in for example East Europe that were pagans even much later
No relation
In 800 this era they got sails
The sagas are from 1200 this era
What this documentary says about why the Vikings attacked is BS. The reason why they attacked the other Europeans is because someone told them these other Europeans were talking junk about them.
Lol, kinda. Some Danes were upset on Charlemagne's campaign against heathens that certainly included talking smack about them so they decided to burn a cloister to show they were upset.
They might have picked Lindisfarne since it had a connection to Charlemagne's advisor or they might just have heard about it some other way and picked it at random.
However, they were probably shocked of how much gold and silver they found and when they came home, rich as trolls and likely bragging they inspired the other viking raids.
The reason for almost all viking activity were getting rich and famous. They had ideas that what people said about you after your death was important, some vikings hired skalds to make up some cool last words for dead relatives and friends. And of course getting rich have always been nice.
Translated by me from the Edda (poorly): "Cattle die and kin die but I know one thing that never dies: the judgement of a dead man".
And yeah, talking smack about a viking was a sure way to get a spear poking into you when you least expected it. You could certainly argue that it was the original motivation of the viking raids (even if you were joking), but the main motivation were same thing as drives most people today: money.
@@loke6664 Wow! Great response!
Runes are greek Roman letters
I'm obsessed with Germanic culture and stuff.
The Germanic people were not viking they were Barbarians and fought the Romans
@@mozziert vikings are nordics, nordics are germanic
@@eduardoesteban9823 no ..nordic vikings are Scandinavian, sweden,norway , denmark...germanic are a sub-tribe with a totally different dialect, hence they are not viking..look it up Ed
@@mozziert do some research
@@eduardoesteban9823 I did...
The first in eastern were greeks.
They found the dna and in scandinavia
The Vikings were not the last pagans of Europe. It was the Baltic tribes.
They stole the crown
They were the employees of merovingians
Pipin Martell
They couldn't write
So different now.
Charlemagne was not the merovingian
Anglosaxons are from gallia germanics
Old english
Frigians
In 500 Scandinavians were stealing in rivers
The normen were also called the russ
The vikings weren't the last pagans of Europe. The Baltic and Prussian tribes were. Long after the viking rulers converted to Christianity.
Don’t underestimate my beard.
Okay hold up I wonder who the absolute mad lad is who was fighting in nothing but pants and a hat wielding a wooden stick against fully armoured and equipped opponents 🤣😂
well the Scottish for one, look at the history of Edward Longshanks and how he made any and all weapons illegal for the Scotts. If ya gotta fight you'll find a way
Ahhh now I understand why the biker gang called themselves The Norseman's
Though I highly respect the Vikings as warriors, they almost always met their death destiny in Eastern Europe
Not really
Picts and scots are from another period
They are viking dna all
LISTEN, THERE'S NO FUCKING VIKINGS HERE.
tv and movies are changing the looks of vikings with stupid hair cuts tattoos
you see the winged helmet for the ad for this...they didnt have horns or wing on helmets
The Vikings were kinda the badies
Compare Norway 1200-1000 yrs back under Vikings and what it is today. Poles apart.
Dragons in the sky? Come on now.. lay off the mushrooms
last pagans in europe were the balts, the samogitians.
I researched my family name , discovered that I came from the Vikings! I wish I could find some of my great great great great great grand daddy's loot ! Until then please send yours to my address so I dont have to hunt you down and take it ! 😁
41:45 - Mistake
Vikings lost the battle at Sasireti in 1042 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sasireti
captured Vikings was sent back home humiliated
Umm... not sure this guy has Looked at a Map before but ... They came to Canada, North American Continent . Settled in New Found Land , there has been ZERO "Viking" Settlements found in the United States that i am aware of ? If there are im sure someone might enlighten me/us . Hearing them say Vikings bothers me .. it was not a name of a group its a Verb ,, To Go Viking.
If taken literally, the name Vinland itself is evidence of voyages farther south, to where grapes grew. If instead the name were applied to berries, then Newfoundland could have been called Vinland.
In any case, it's reasonable to assume that the Norse visitors would have mounted expeditions farther south on the coast and up the St. Lawrence, until the indigenous population became large enough to bar their way. However no definite Norse artefact has yet been found in the US.
The Greenland Norse travelled far and wide, to include north and west in the High Arctic, where they encountered the Inuit headed east and south.
How about google it? www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/160331-viking-discovery-north-america-canada-archaeology
Point Rosse.
@@katarinaklingberg7843 Oh lordy ... Thats Canada .. I said United States . I know about Newfoundlands Settlement . How about read first link later . It was mentioned in the video and i corrected it .
@@fetus2280 there have been no viking artifacts found in the states , but they did find remains of plants and nuts that are only found farther south ( as far south as Virginia) , in the settlement in newfoundland . The climate could have changed in that those might have been growing farther north at that time , but it's much more possible that they were going south to harvest them and returning to where the native people were less of a threat