Animated Battle of Edington 878 AD will BLOW YOUR MIND!
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- Travel back in time to witness the medieval warfare tactics of the Battle of Edington on May 6th, 878 AD, where King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon forces clashed against the invading Danish Vikings led by Guthrum. In my 3D animated video, you'll experience the intensity of the battle, from the tactical maneuvers to the weaponry and overall brutality of the front lines. I've even included meticulous attention to detail, from the terrain to the soldiers' attire, to bring you an accurate representation of the time. If you're a history buff or simply love to see medieval warfare tactics in action, hit that play button and watch the Battle of Edington come to life like never before. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe to stay up to date with all of my latest content!
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At the Battle of Edington, an army of the kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by the Dane Guthrum on a date between 6 and 12 May 878, resulting in the Treaty of Wedmore later the same year. Primary sources locate the battle at "Eðandun". Until a scholarly consensus linked the battle site with the present-day village of Edington in Wiltshire, it was known as the Battle of Ethandun. This name continues to be used.
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I wanted to take a moment and ask for your opinion on how I present the information. Do you prefer a more personal and character-focused story approach, or a neutral presentation that just gives the facts without any fluff?
I love hearing your thoughts and ideas and I want to make sure I'm creating videos that you enjoy and find interesting. So please leave a comment and let me know what you think! Looking forward to reading your feedback.
Narration and storytelling, though sometimes causing bias, often leaves the audience more engaged and impressed in my opinion!
Definitely more character focused storytelling!
I think it's possible to make it engaging and interesting without being character-focused. The mood of different peoples and populations can be conveyed without zoning in too much on specific characters.
I am more into battle tactics
Definitely a balance of the two; both factual information and storytelling can compliment one another and lead to a more engaging and satisfying video.
12:20 that spearman in the middle of the carnage is so done with war. He just stands and watches the chaos around him, nonchalantly kicking the dirt, indifferent to it all.
He's carrying the flag. He would be like a mobile rallying point.
@@adamdavis9838 It's called a joke, sonny.
@@truepatriot6969 I admit I did laugh. But thought no computer simulation would do this. Also wondered why only one dude was carrying a spear and no one else was?
He just gets shy at parties is all
You failed to tell about Alfred being a sickly king, but when he fought he became a great warrior. That is paramount to his being a great king. He also used his own wealth to have his people educated to read and write. A great man is not only a warrior, but also a leader of all of his people.
The stuff about Alfred being sickly but then a great warrior comes from one source and is therefore quite debateable. Being a great King and one for the benefit of his people isn't so much though. The first king to insist on the bible being translated from Latin to the common tongue so not just priests could understand it
You have a very rosy view of history
@@aceholepictures He wanted public education 900 years before that became a thing. Not many kings can claim to have even tried.
@@scottnunnemaker5209 Imagine you had to be King? All political decisions and legislation, Security, Diplomacy, Taxes etc. On his shoulders.
@@aceholepictures Wasn't it Asser his biographer who gave the detailed description of his illness?
The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon.
We need it now, more than ever.
Good old Alfie. What a king. 🇬🇧👍
Great old alfie
Very well made! These videos deserve a lot more credit... I can see the amount of effort put into them!
Thanks a ton!
The Vikings' great strength was in surprise raids on lightly defended targets. In open battle they were only human, just like their opponents.
The Germans have some great words and one of them is schwerpunkt or hammer point where you hit the opponents at one place with overwhelming force. In those days it would have taken days to raise an army strong enough to defend an area by which time the raiders would have disappeared.
@@alexbowman7582 The Germans. everyone is German.
@@mirekbns apart from us Irish Scots and Welsh....and Cornish,and Bretons, not forgetting the Galicians..
@@eamonnclabby7067 I knew that would get a response! You're absolutely right.
Leaders like this sorely lacking today.
We don’t fight for our leaders today, the twats are traitors and turncoats.
Great stuff! Really appreciate the time and effort that goes into creating a video like this.
Τhank you very much for taking notice and leaving a wonderful comment!
as a histoy fan, I think you guys have great potential. keep up the great work.
Fantastic per usual! Extremely difficult to find this type of content on for some reason, but you do a great job of presenting. Looking forward to the next one. Cheers.
That's so encouraging to hear!
I'll do what I can in order to have a video made every month - at least.
Thank you very much!
We need our own King Alfred to stop the invading Californianheathens settling in our Great State.
Well done for producing such an excellent animation and bringing this important battle to life, which both my paternal and maternal ancestors fought in on opposite sides.
Come back Alfred - we need you now!!!
It's insane how one guy is only working on it. Great videos! Edit: I suggest doing a video about the Napoleonic Wars
Thank you very much for the wonderful feedback!
I really, REALLY want to make Napoleonic era videos. But, being a single person working on the videos, this is going to be a time consuming process to convert my current system for Gunpowder warfare.
If I feel that a Napoleonic video is going to be popular I'll certainly try to move to this era as soon as possible.
great CGI , the best I have seen, subbed, your description is very well done, great job
Thank you very much and welcome aboard!
I'll try to constantly improve with each release.
Absolutely love your videos, very well made!
Thank you very much and welcome!
12:19 "Chill man, I'm just a flag bearer!"
Keep up the great work. Can't wait to see what you do in the future!
Thanks, will do!
@@historybattles3D Bernard Cornwell and David P Gregg might be worth a look for the Viking era, Professor Harding of Nottingham University ( and fellow Tranmere Rovers fan..the only English football club with a Hiberno Norse name..) ...currently examining the remains of a Viking longship underneath the Railway pub here on the Wirral...
Excellent. Getting better all the time! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Just came across your channel! So much effort, they're amazing!
Should be used in classrooms! Amazing stuff 👏
*double amazing because I was so hyped haha
Wow, thank you!
Yep! another masterpiece worth the wait!
I can’t watch now, but I’m looking forward to it. Can’t wait to see more!
Ah another animated battle this is what I've been waiting for
This was my first encounter with your videos and I think they are excellent , thank you
Glad you like them!
As a history fan these videos a VERY good. Well done. Keep them coming. The Anglo-saxon age was a very fascinating time to be alive.
Thank you, sir!
HOLY SHIT this channel is insane there are a lot of battle-explaining channels but i really like your style of presenting this topic
That's so very nice to hear!
I'll try to improve with each release. There are many more things to come in this channel.
If it turns out to be successful, I'll soon be able to make mini-movies.
Neutral! Thank you for an excellent portrayal of our English history. Education is everything.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video was AMAZING. Detailing in animation, lightning, scenery, and faces of the historical characters are SUPERB!. Your narration is excellent both in clearness and diction. You earned a suscriptor (and deserve thousands more!)
Well, what can I say to such praise!
Thank you so much and welcome onboard!
I really hope that I'll be able to live up to such amazing feedback.
Well done. The presentation flowed well and was easy to follow.
Thank you very much.
This is pretty much what I was aiming for, so I'm glad to hear that it worked out!
Great work! I enjoy your style very much.
Subscribed. :)
Welcome aboard!
This is amazing, I truly enjoyed watching this.
Thank you so much!
Well presented, and I am also interested in people's material lives in this era.
Great video!
I felt like I was right there on the battlefield with King Alfred.
Thank you.
Wow, thanks!
So glad to hear that you found the video so immersive.
It is really what I was trying to achieve.
Please also cover Hannibal Invasion of Rome, Greco-Roman Wars, Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander's Conquest of Achaemenid empire, and many more. Thanks 👍✌
They already covered the Greco-Persian wars if I remember correctly
Great presentation. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic video!
The accent of the "Voice over" is excellent! As well as the graphics!! Very 'atmospheric'!!! Thank you.
Wow, thank you!
Congrats On The 10K Subs Milestone
Thank you very much!
Still hoping that the second zero isn't very far... haha
Great film!
bro wtf this is amazing man.
Thank you very much and welcome!
I really really appreciate the efforts 🌟
My pleasure 😊
I live 4 miles from Chippenham I'm amazed there is no monument to Alfred there.
Epic! Thanks for the great history lesson
Glad you enjoyed it!
Those Vikings were great at fighting, sailing, building, exploring but none of them could act.
FANTASTIC ANIMATION.
It was well done!
Very good, thank you. You forgot Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
There is even an Uhtred placename outside Abersytwth and an officer of the same name in the SAS in WW2 Italy
This is a very great video. GREAT WORK 🎉!!!! Your on your way up and soon you’ll be up there with epic history, and king’s and generals.
Thanks so much!!
Excellent video, your subs should be far higher..
Thank you very much!
I'll try to increase my rate of making videos which might help with the subs.
Thanks!
Thank you for watching!
Amazing King!
Just think about the impeccable achievement the Anglo Saxons had accomplished here. They were going up against the best infantry in the western world bar none.
The Byzantines who were a highly militarized and martial empire first started deploying the Varangian Guard made out of Viking Rus who were Swedish Vikings that settled in Ukraine/Russia (Kievan Rus) in 874 AD, 4 years prior to Edington.
Knowing the might of the Varangian guard to be the creme de la creme of fighters in the 9th century AD. These Danish Vikings were just as vicious, just as physically imposing and just as skilled as the Varangians.
Alfred had relied on the very last few thousand Fyrdmen in all of Anglo Saxon England to do the final battle of their lives, for their way of life, for their families, for their loved ones and friends and for their God.
The Anglo Saxons knew they were a head shorter than the average 1.8m Viking warrior, but they were cornered and desperate. They knew that if they did not sacrifice everything on the line, they would be eternally subjugated. Therefore the ferocity and the dedication of the Anglo Saxons to defend everything they had probably were more willing to die for the cause than the extremely brave and fearless Vikings.
I mean Vikings were willing to die in battle to go to Valhalla, willingly, at least for quite a bunch of them. But the Anglo Saxons at Edington were even more fanatic and even more charged up and willing to gamble everything. By using the sheer will and sacrifice, they pushed the Viking shield wall apart and that broke the Vikings because their shield wall formation was the reason for their immense success. Without it, they were easy pickings for the skilled Anglo Saxon warrior.
Mind you, these Anglo Saxons were Fyrdmen and they were peasant and the common folk willing to give it all for their families and loved ones
these videos are stunning
Τhank you!
Great video, I live about 4 miles from Edington, and often wonder where the battle was fought. We know Alfred came from Southleigh Woods near Warminster, so would have travelled to Edington more than likely across Salisbury plain, so going into Edington would have the high ground. It is possible that the Vikings were camped at Bratton camp, and the battle took place on the high escarpment, but most historians seem to believe the battle was on the lower ground at the foot of Bratton hill fort, which doesn't make much sense to me, when you see the layout of the land.
Yes, it would seem to make sense that one of the armies would have made use of the earthworks as a defensive feature.
My parents used to live in Bratton and I've never been satisfied with the idea of either army being camped at Bratton Camp. It's exposed and windy and you have to travel down a steep hill to find water at the spring line (where the villages are located) or lower down in the valley. Early Medieval armies had many horses and so water was important. We know that the Viking army wasn't expecting to encounter an English army and was probably camped at Edington. Alfred's army would have advanced from Warminster along the route of the current road and caught them by surprise. They would have organised a defensive line to the west of Eddington (there are fields there flanked by streams and woods to this day. The theories about using the escarpment of Salisbury Plain for military advantage seem unlikely to me. The ground is simply too steep for the manouvre of large bodies of men. Having said that, there is little information and the battle could have been somewhere else entirely.
@@peterwallace8441 I cant believe the armies of metal detectors haven't found anything there yet. Unless its a protected area and cant be searched unless permitted.
@m j indeed, though the surveys at Bosworth and Towton show that considerable work is required to find even more recent battlefields.
These visuals are crazy CZcams's about to get really cool
I've been binge-watching "The Last Kngdom", so this makes more sense to me. The series starts with King Alfred.
Same
EXCELLENT!
Many thanks!
Let the fyrd flow like a mountain spring!
Amazing how facing total defeat Alfred turned it around and created England!
The thing about Ethandun/Edington is that it's on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain - i.e. it's a steep ridge line (with ancient forts all along it). Any infantryman looks at it and knows the place to fight is off the top of the ridge, where you can look down at your enemy exhausting himself climbing, while you have the advantage with missiles and easily conceal yourself.
The animation doesn't take the likely ground into account - it's not flat. It's heavily raised to the south, overlooking the northern approaches. What's portrayed is more of a bowl, like Roundway Down, north of Devizes (a major ECW battle; plus Devizes was once the RHQ of the Wessex Regiment).
Also no mention of the preparations made by Alfred, to ensure that no supplies would be available when the Vikings retreated, to increase the scale of the capitulation. 🙂
BUT - despite my criticism above - a great video, on a subject that truly deserves much more awareness. Well done!
Thanks!
Well, you are right about your remarks.
This is due to the format of the video.
Unlike a podcast where you can talk for hours, this is a 15 minutes video which takes more than a month of daily work to produce.
So, unfortunately you have to come up with a condescend narrative which covers as much useful information as possible.
In order to refer to an incident, I usually have to somehow show it on screen.
This fact alone will dictate what I'm going to actually mention into my condensed narrative and what I'm going to omit.
Having said that, now I'm still a single person working on these videos BUT if this performance continues I will probably soon be able to recruit some helping hands and then we can expand the scope of the endeavor.
@@historybattles3D A model of clarity and brevity, from the dark ages...well done...
12:18 Damn, that's the coolest dude ever in the history of warfare!
"These Vikings are so primitive, they won't see me if I don't move".
This video is a stark reminder that we will never see any good historical total war games ever again.
RIP.
great video btw
Every time I see an ad for Viking Cruise Lines I shudder in the irony.
Your voice makes this 5X better.
Other channels may have slightly better graphics but this channel if far superior in discussing the backstory & tactics & battlefield maneuvers...this definitely the best historical battle channel on CZcams imo & will be among CZcams's very best if the graphics quality ever catches up with the other aspects
Thank you very much!
Which channels do you think have better graphics?
That's interesting to hear because I believe that the strongest aspect of my videos is the graphics and the visual presentation.
I'm really curious to know in order to set my self an example for improvement.
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That accent seems as realistic and natural as the face movements on Arthur waiting for the battle to start
I wish I could do a better accent.
I'm not a native English speaker neither do I live in an English speaking country
Great video and channel, will you do a video on the second siege of Vienna with the Winged Hussars?
Thanks!
I'll probably make this video eventually. Of course the fact that this is a siege overcomplicates the presentation in technical terms.
But I reckon that I'll eventually be capable of making something that will be visually pleasing.
One previous invader fighting an other.
7:47 Why did Alfred let Guthrum's men leave after they broke that truce and murdered their people? Does anyone have any ideas? Also excellent videos, I've always loved learning more about this era
Thank you very much!
Actually, there is a follow up after the battle which I didn't mention in the video.
Alfred besieged the retreating Vikings until they surrendered.
He decided to Christianize him instead and allow him to set up Danelaw in the expectation that he would dissuade any further incursions from the North seas.
@@andrewhart6377 Making Laws through the Church has always been a bad idear.
Just take Sodomy for instance. Still illegal in many US states. Sodomy is anything other than Penis/Vaginal sex!
WHAAAAT?!?!?!?!?
the saxon army took great losses i imagine and would be in no state to finish off the vikings.. guthrum would have converted to christianity as his army would have been much reduced.
and by setting up as a kingdom protect what he held ( vickings were farmers ) vickings only followed a succesfull leader. so giving his followers land would have kept him as the leader of his people .
if you want to find vicking treasure with a metal detecter go to norfolk..they always buried there coins/gold before going of to fight a battle to collect when they came back.
So glad I subbed...cheers...E..
Welcome!
There's no mention of Uhtred of Bebbanburg though? (Don't worry I'm joking) These videos are amazing, keep up the good work.
After watching the History channel “The Vikings”, I know this part of history well now
Brilliant
Thanks you !
His grandson fought the most important battle of English history and it never gets mentioned.
Because the location is disputed. Michael Wood has Brunaburgh in South Yorkshire.
@@Bastillian And the Wirral plus Somerset and Durham
Given that the Norse first took York, and presumably the Scots joined them in Northumberland, the obvious thing would be for them to unite with the Wirrel norse and Irish.
Presumably, they did so as there was only one battle, not two, and Athelstan moved very slowly in his advance to meet them.
If they moved south, then the great North road makes sense.
But if the saxon army moved to stop them unifying but failed and was compelled to fight, then many sites are plausible.
It's a mystery and interesting to think about, but we will probably never know.
In Germany there is a country named Ost Anglien, means East Anglia witch I found very fascinating. Scentists found out that every second DNA in GB is German, greetings from Germany,
Hi Michael, it is a bit more nuanced, the Angles and Saxons certainly intermarried with the locals, the DNA map of the British Isles indicates this... try Cambrian Chronicles and Scottish history Tours on YT...The King in the North by Max Adam's,vividly described the British Isles of 400 to 700 AD....Tolkein based Aragorn on saint/King Oswald who is still revered here..his slayer ,Penda, the last pagan King of Mercia was half Welsh/Angle,interesting his grand daughter Saint Werburgh, became a venerated saint too...best wishes from the Hiberno Norse peninsula of the wirral....
@@eamonnclabby7067 Hi, thank you for replying. I expressed myself wrongly, I wanted to say that they are Friesian genes, but thats not my opinion, I red this somewhere. But its still interessting, even if im wrong 😇
Well just to set the cat among the pigeons then , I read recently that the greatest contributor to “English” DNA is from the Beaker folk who came here at the start of the Bronze Age , The Anglo Saxon DNA makes a smaller contribution . I can only guess that they were a military elite who in a piecemeal way took over the country imposing their culture upon the natives . Then a few centuries later the Normans came here and did pretty much the same again but venturing also into Wales and o Ireland
Engaland did not exist in 878AD it was at that time a thought in Alfred's Mind it actually began to coalesce from 930 under Aethelstan and was fully in existence by 970AD.
Damn fine way to learn History
All the details needed to claim being knowledgeable without having studied the Subject….👍
Since this is exactly what I was trying to achieve, it is very nice to hear that it worked!
Thank you Josh and welcome!
Maybe when you can, you can make a couple of videos on Rome under Sulla and his wars and/or the Mithridatic wars from beginning to end. I haven’t seen any videos in complete detail about them. Do you have a patreon?
I'll have a patreon page soon.
I think tomorrow on the day after I''ll have the page set-up.
I would love to see the battle of the boyne
12:19 One has to admire calmness midst battle. But this guy with the spear is ridiculous!
Hahaha
Yes, this is an earlier version of my "battle system".
I was trying to figure out what to do with standard bearers during battle so that the banners would still be visible during the battle and not shaking like crazy due to fighting.
I now improved upon it immensely, added extra code for different states and animations according to what is happening on the battlefield
@@historybattles3D Keep up your amazing work!!
Would like to see the battle of Maldon (Essex), 991; where Byrhtnoth and his men put up a great fight against the Vikings, along side the river Blackwater; have you made a 3D video? I live there.
A little heavy on the purple prose? It looked like neither side had any tactics, no flanking? No wedges? No archers? No horses?
Excellent...up next..maybe the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD,Wirral,namechecked albeit in Welsh in the medieval poem of sir Gawain and the green knight...David P Gregg ( local author) and Bernard Cornwell would like that...me too...best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E
12:19 "I'm just gonna stand here and hope no one notices me...when's that darn bus arriving?" 😂
Perhaps the threat of the Scandinavians gave the people’s of England’s various provinces a common enemy and so created a national unity resulting in a unified England.
Great video sir👏 @HistoryBattles3D
What software are you using for making the 3D? if i may ask
I live about 3 miles from Edington. Wish I could get a metal detecting permission near there!
It's very well made, you've done a lot of good work!
However I do need to point out something that's kind of ticked me off at 4:15, a Wessex warrior from the 9th century holding an 11th century Kite shield.
That was a silly mistake.
Initially I thought to my self "well I should keep the kite shields to differentiate between the armies".
But then, by the time I realized the anachronism it was already too late.
The amount of work is such that I don't have the luxury to double check or triple check or re-render bad parts.
I already spend more than a month working around the clock on a single video.
At least not many of the Saxons were holding the shields, thankfully...
Howe the heck did you get so good at animations?
Amazing video. Very well narrated and researched. Only one minor criticism, there was no England at that time only Anglo-Saxon Britain. Subscribed 👍
Τhanks for the wonderful feesback!
"Only Anglo-Saxon Britain"......really where were the Celts ? 🙈
@@garymoore2535 mostly in what would later become Wales and Cornwall
@@garymoore2535 the celts mixed in with the anglo saxons by the 8th century, many britons stayed with the germanic tribes that invaded in the late 4th centry and married into saxon families, by the late 8th century that would be 3 centuries of mixing anyway, they called them selves english.
@@historybattles3D That's not really true. While there was no country called England, Alfred's main aim was to create a unified England, and the therm 'Englalond' (Angle land) was in common use for the area inhabited by the Anmglo-Saxons, who called their language 'Englisc'. You are not wrong therefore, to use the term England to cover the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Now we are defeated from within.
Great graphics with your channel!
Much appreciated!
@@historybattles3D Cambrian Chronicles CZcams ,worth a look as well as Scotland's History Tours..
It was his grandson as king of Mercia that established one kingdom of England . Before the Danes took it ,and then less than two centuries later the Normans . Ending English Rule in England . Not until the mid 14th century with the reign of Edward III can be said to be ruled by people who considered themselves as such. Meh..
The original English, the Britons, here when the Romans invaded according to genetics, have mostly disappeared apart from the Welsh and some in Cornwall, England’s population is genetically Dutch/Danish/German and they arrived after the Romans left. Similarly the Picts in Scotland mostly disappeared. The name English comes from the Angles a north German tribe who invaded along with Saxons and Jutes.
Many of those Germanic tribes were here already by 400 AD . Through Roman Slave imports into Britain. If you look at ladder systems of what went on , the Anglo Saxon invasion was not the massive upheaval that is shown by Roman ,Dane and Norman conquests. Bede's History was used as a political weapon by Alfred, not a factual one.
@@alexbowman7582 maybe try the King in the North by Max Adam's,vividly described the British Isles of 400 to 700 AD...the DNA map shows the DNA cluster of the Brigantes in West Yorkshire and Cumbria, the Britons as a people were mentioned in a land grant of King Ecfrith of Northumbria to the church in Cartmel in Cumbria...
The great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD, site is still intact, with literally hundreds of items being retrieved by the Wirral archeologists..who presented Bernard Cornwell with a dagger retrieved...
@@eamonnclabby7067 I don't know about the Wirral Archelogy , but from recent times there has been consensus that the Battle may well have taken place there. It will be interesting should the site be 100% identified as an important site to the forming of the Nation of England.
England needs him again now , before it’s too late .
Any chance of digging him up..? We need him right about now.
In the time of Alfred, the smells of battle were blood and shit
Monty python and the Holy Grail springs to mind...5
brill!
Did he say "Army of Heathens under Ragnar Lothrok" ?? There are at least TWO really good Deathmetal band names in that single utterance.
you have worked hard for our benefit and thank you please keep up the good work. ps the facts without any fluff if you will . thank you..
Here in the UK we say it as ''Thet fud'' and '' Re ding'' ! hehe.