Top 10 HORRIFYING Facts About VIKINGS
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- Present day researchers don’t think the Vikings, who were groups of unorganized clans living in the Nordic area of Europe, were the bloodthirsty savage giants that they are often made out to be. In fact, they were clean, average size men. They were incredible seafarers and prolific traders.
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10. Magic Mushrooms
9. Viking Soup
8. Swords
7. Holmgang
6. Games
5. Infanticide
4. Sexual Slavery
3. Erik the Red Was Too Violent For the Vikings
2. Child Sacrifices
1. Blood Eagle
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Vikings: "Erik is too violent!"
Also vikings: "Blood Eagle!"
Jambi the blood eagle is a myth and propaganda made hundreds of years after the Viking age by the English
Jambi: Believes everything they've ever heard.
Lmfao
@@bigdaddy656 That's debated. Idk why everyone has to get their panties in a twist over a comment
the swords were only for the rich, axes were most common
spears were the most common
Not nessesarily true...that "fact" probably came the from viking raid victims in the early days, cause in the early days a viking might have just only had a wood hewing axe and went to raid...
Yes thats true cuz for a viking to forge a sword it took almost the whole family fortune cuz the swords were made so well.
Sanrin The Necromancer Actually most Norsemen away on a raid carried a shield, armor, a spear, a seax, axe possibly a war axe or sword.
A war axe lol
A 6 year old Nordic boy killed another boy with his axe for roughing him up, and these days everyone needs a safe space to cry.
Yeah, we should return to a time when 6 year olds killed each other.
@@johnobrien4785 not even what i said lol. but way to go being a year late.
@@StortebeckerSF A year late? Sorry I'm not following you around the internet calling out your ridiculous takes.
@@johnobrien4785 whatever makes you happy bro
Jeffrey The Cactus so what’s ur point?
“Hey did you see that blood eagle last thursendayen?”
“Hell yes I did thragnar! Quite a sight, maybe oden will make it rain now”
Yes. Because folding one's hands together, looking at the sky, hoping that an old guy with a beard will answer your prayers- is better, cross worshipper?
At least OUR Nordic religion did not have a strong taste for little boys.
I am a Viking scholar and know everything regarding their culture. My source: Vikings TV show.
Perpetual Student perfect representation of Vikings as we all know😂
I studied in the same school you did 2 times
I got PHD from same school with a major on Ivar the Boneless!!
You only know the culture that is present but not the one in the past. No one knows and will never know without being able to contact the dead.
Perpetual student, you like apple pie armor? Never seen that in the 3 centuries Vikings have been around
top 10 facts.... followed by rumors, theories and legends.
There are few facts about vikings because they didnt write much down like for example the romans
Tissue?
I mean seriously, how can they expect us to take it seriously when they call them vikings - vikings has only recently become a noun it was a verb meaning to travel and raid - the people were the Norse, Northmen, Danes, etc.
@Asa Ironside shut up there's ton of evidence
Asa Ironside what tf are you on about lol?
Spartans: TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!!!
Vikings: HOLD MY SHROOM...😬
A person receiving a blood eagle may be alive for the procedure but definitely wouldn't be conscious. A human can only withstand so much pain and/or trauma before going into shock and passing out.
They wouldn’t be alive. At least not after the initial blow separating the ribs from the spinal column. You would be severing major vascular tissue and the blood loss would be absolutely immense. The victim would very likely perish within seconds of exsanguination. Not a chance they would survive until the lungs were pulled out as “wings.” Not only this, but the lungs and abdominal cavity viscera would be punctured thus causing the lungs to deflate to a fraction of their normal size.
You mean, ten reasons why the Vikings were great.
Except for the sexual slavery
Eeeeyup.
I have been looking for your comment! Thank you for respecting my ancestors
***** my ancestors were traders, warriors and artisans. they perfected the longship and sailed all over europe and to america. i don't have any reason to shut up about them, and maybe they were assholes sometimes. but that's what you've got to expect from a scandinavian.
Marius Eriksen lol you make it sound like they were one of the great civilizations; they weren't. More than anything they were pests. Mediocre arts and trades won't redeem them. other civilizations were WAY better at those things.
A couple of things to say, as always:
There's no actual link between those mushrooms and the Vikings, much less Viking warriors. The psilocybin mushrooms that produce that high don't grow in Scandanavia. There's no trace of them in pottery shards, or textiles, or human remains. And if they got some off of a friendly Frank, no Viking would go into battle impaired. That's just silly.
Anyone who's carried a sword knows that you don't carry it on your back if there's any chance at all that you might need it. Hang your scabbard on your belt or a baldric, where you can draw it without dislocating your shoulder. But not on your back.
And I can understand demonstrating your sword on an animal carcass, but a melon? You are aware that melons don't grow in Scandanavia either, aren't you? (Yeah, that's just a filming quibble and not textual, but still. Geez.)
About the Games- you might have mentioned that the 6 year old boy was one Egil Skallagrimson, who grew up to be not just a feared and mighty warrior, but was also one of the finest poets of his time.
Also, you don't get mitochondrial DNA from mother and father. It comes only from the mother.
And these 'horrible' people also had excellent hygiene and took particularly good care of their hair and teeth. They had the first representative governments in Europe. Their women were not treated as chattel, but had rights of their own, including liberal divorce laws. Vikings were literate, and had a rich poetic tradition. They had smelters and forges, they made fine jewelry and strong blades, they made glassware and decorated glass beads. Their textiles were fantastic. they carved ivory and bone. Their sailors crossed the Atlantic before Columbus was a gleam in his greatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandfather's eye. And they managed to keep the settlement in Greenland going for some 300 years, even though it was in the middle of the Little Ice Age.
They are much more than just 'Vikings'.
Not that I think +TopTenz is paying attention to comments at this point, but I did think others should have a chance to know...
Well, I disagree with a number of your sources, and that because the Early Middle Ages is my field, and I'm more than a little familiar with the Viking culture.
And I've been watching your videos for quite some time. Apparently I haven't read add of the comments. :-)
Hi. I just wanted to chime in to say that I live in Finland and I can guarantee you that Psilocybin mushrooms do grow here. Also fly agaric can be found easily. I've read that drug use in Vietnam war was very common among soldiers. Silly, yes, but I guess you might do pretty silly things in high pressure situations. If you top that with possible religious reasons, then the drug usage by vikings could be a possibility.
Yes. I live in Oslo and can verify this as well. There's literally a field full of them not too far away from my house. In fact, it is blooming season and I see hippies, junkies and fun-loving kids emerge from the woods daily on my way to work. Not to mention seeing loads of them being passed around at parties this time of year.
Fly agaric pops up just about everywhere in the woods too.
Did you personally test all Vikings for magic mushrooms? Also just so you will know for future reference; magic mushrooms can grow anywhere
The fact that someone even though up the blood eagle is terrifying, regardless if it was actually performed or not
Eating lower doses of mushrooms has been shown to give a heightened state of awareness such as better hearing and visual acuity aswell as pattern recognition, look into the stoned ape theory from Terrence McKenna. This would be useful for hunting and possibly even combat. There are also a number of instances of rage induced states from people consuming mushrooms and being placed in an uncomfortable positions were they feel they're being attacked , it can take several police officers to subdue a person in this state and in some cases they appear unaffected by tasers. Anyway I don't think its to farfetched to assume Vikings may have used mushrooms to enter a higher state however I do not think they were eating psilocybin, most research suggests it was amanita muscaria wich can be tricky to get any trip from at all but perhaps they had knowledge of best harvesting times or a special brew or cocktail of some sort who knows, its interesting to speculate.
uhhhh I've tried mushrooms and can definitely say that I've never once had the urge to butcher anyone. I was too busy dealing with ego death and seeing luminescent beings
You also probably didn't have someone screaming at you that you were invincible and that the enemy deserved to die... and sometimes allies.
I really don't see the problem here Francis. Sounds like a gay ol' time if I do say so myself
I love how people believe that psychedelics are all just merry time makers and that no one could sustain an angry/volatile state while on any of them. As a person who's done a lot of experimentation with LSD and Mushrooms and coached many people through trips I'd have to wonder if the people back in those days, being in the conditions they were in, never once took these things for violent reasons. I've seen a man on Acid very handly deal with multiple people while on Acid with no remorse or fear, while I've seen others too afraid or giggly to take anything seriously. The same can be said for mushrooms.
Actually it's more common that they were under the influence of Bog Myrtle, it has slight numbing effects and was popular for flavoring Ale at the time.
The vikings were actually doing Amanita Muscaria. The red mushroom. It puts you in a very diffrent state than normal psilocybin mushrooms (Amanita gives a more psychotic/delirious state). Its also poisonous so you will die if you eat it raw, it has to be prepared/boiled to get rid of the toxic before you can ingest it. Not saying that Amanita muscaria will make you butcher people, but it puts you in a more of a drunken/foggy state than typical "Magic mushrooms".
Not all "Vikings" were beserkers. That was a very elite group. Not all Scandinavians were Vikings. That was a loose term for the guys who went raiding.
Normandy was a region ceded to the Norse by France and settled by Norse groups. William of Normandy a descendant of Rolo the first "Viking" king of Normandy, conquered Britian...meaning "Vikings" completely conquered Britain.
Normans also conquered Southern Italy and Sicily...establishing the Kingdom of Sicily.
Scandinavian 'Vikings" more accurately traders and merchants in this case. ( known as the Rus) also controlled a large portion of Slavic lands and helped establish the first Slavic Kingdoms. The word Russian is derived from the name for the Scandinavian Rus.
We don't even know for sure that there were ANY berserkers, since the only source of that information comes from a piece of literature that contains as much myth as fact.
Jørgen A True, very true. It's hard to sort through whats accurate and what isn't with so little evidence. but what we do have seems to indicate if they existe at al they were not your average warrior.
true
***** By others, yeah, not by themselves. It's basically like calling all Germans Bavarians.
Correct. Bravo.
In Iceland we still speak the old norse language. our language hasn't changed for 1000 years because of isolation. Norwegian, swedish and danish have been heavily influenced by latin, indo-french, , indo-german and also some Slavic words from eastern europe. Also all the accents are very effected by it. try watching icelandic movies, you will hear the true old norse with the old norse accent. notably only a few changes in the icelandic is the alphabet, the "Z" has been taken out and "S" used instead. some very old words are not used anymore but are still in the vocabulary. one notable change for example in the name that was "Sigurðr" is now "Sigurður"
That's very cool. Thank for sharing this.
Awesome video as usual and keep em coming!!!!
I should mention that women were considered of really high status.
Especially if they survived childbirth
Still good video
eew a furry
High status women would certainly be horrifying
+Aedam only to weak game clowns
and what if they didnt survive childbirth?
Mr. Badass
they were honored still. The dead play a big part in Viking culture.
Fact number 10 is wrong. There is no proof hinting towards the consumption of mushrooms before going to battle. If anything, being high and hallucinating during battle would most likely put you in a disadvantage.
yeah but i think its more of a steroid drug and not the weed type
We do cite our sources, which you can see in the description.
Simon Whistler Vlogs hey mate
Don't get me wrong ***** I really enjoy your videos. I was just sceptical about one fact. Thanks for responding and keep up the good work!
It's a rumour that got started by Esaias Tegner ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esaias_Tegn%C3%A9r ). It has no other source ... but it must appeal to people's imagination, because it's up there with the horned helmets (Wagner?) when it comes to common viking misconception.
Eirik Raude (Erik the Red) had a son named Leiv Eiriksson, and he discovered North America around year 1000, a few hundred years before Christopher Columbus. And did you know the viking ships didn't have dragon heads as they seem to have in movies and games? And the viking helmets didn't have horns like they always have in movies and drawings.
Perhaps some of the most sophisticated sailors of their time?
dude you have a perfect top 10 voice. It sounds informational with a funny part every once in a while.
This needs an update...there is no real proof of vikings taking drugs before a fight, and bezerker ment 'champion' rather then a crazy warrior.
Berserker means bare shirt.. Basically means they wore no heavy armour
Oh look at that, you’re wrong lol dude the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda by Snori talk about it. Tf you mean? 😂
I just have a question: have you guys ever made a list where at least one item was actually correct?
Not all the Norse were Berserkers (Ulfhednar) means the wearers of wolf pelts, they were elite troops that were used as shock and awe tactics. Jarl Eiríkr Hákonarson of Norway outlawed berserkers in 1015 as well as Grágás. By the 12th century they were no more.........
Oisin O Lochlainn not all berserkers were ulfhednar. Some wore bear pelts and didn't look to Fenrir for strength.
Oisin O Lochlainn thank you some one else who knows there history
Berserker wasn't someone or a tittle for them it was simply the name of the state they were in, it's not like some Vikings was berserkers and some were not. The term berserker is simply the name of that state of mind they were in.
Mad Hatter wrong. Berserk(i)r, wore the pelts of bears and credited great strength to the ceremonial act, there was also people that did the same with wolfs and boars, the names escape me though, apologies for that. But just thought id let you know.
Berserkir is debated whether it means bear or bare shirt, so if they wore bear skins or no shirt, Old Norse and english are very closely linked and there is no proper definition as of yet, Ulfhedinnr however we do know means wolf shirt so I lean towards the side of bear shirt for Berserkr
I don't know if all of ya'll realise this but most of these facts are decidedly untrue.
I know...
Yep,
there were no human sacrifice even that book that talks about berserkgang say they MAY have taken mushrooms, and suddenly stopped. first of all beserkgang was a trance like state brought trough a deep psychotic rage. they did not differentiate friend or foe, and became illegal by decree of harrald hairfair. anything the followers of hvitekrist say is obviously false being as they believed the norse to be wild savages... this is coming from a norseman.
Sources? What facts?
tysej4 yup
where are the 10 facts?
Great video thanks!
This video was amazing! I love anything about Vikings so this video was pure gold to me. Also, can you leave the link to the video picture?
YOu seem to ignore that "Vikings"are not one group of people. We have the Norse from Norway that went to the West, sometimes together with the Danes from current Denmakr however we in the East of Sweden from the settlement Birka went East, formed Russie and traded with current Istanbul. Arabic scollors called the Vikings "Russ" or the people that row. Also, they were also hired as high guards by the sultan and was also named the "painted men" since they had tattoo's over the whole upper body. Also little known is that many women also took part in fighting. We know these from both Viking graves and Viking rune stones. Even down in Constantinople was at least one women high guard, described by the Arabic writer..
No, Norse is from the Dutch _Noorsch_ , meaning Norwegian. 'Norse' may be used more loosely where you're from, but johanacquris isn't wrong.
I think it's also worth knowing that Old English _Norþman_ also meant Norwegian, whilst the Danes were _Deniscan_ ; so, in English as it is spoken in England, the Northmen were always the Norwegians.
***** No, you're mistaken. Scandinavian speech in the Viking Age, and for a few hundred years afterwards, was known as the _dönsk tunga_ - the Danish tongue. 'Old Norse', in English, is a newfangled catch-all name for those tongues.
And in English (as spoken in England) we still use Norse for Norwegians, Danish for Danes. The Danelaw in England is, after all, not called the Norselaw. But like I said, the word 'Norse' has likely been given other meanings where you are.
In Greece (Byzantine Empire back then) we called the Vikings by another name, Varangians, they were known as amazing warriors and they were hired as bodyguards for the Emperors. I actually think the Greeks respected the Vikings a lot and they were allowed to stay along with their families. I am not sure if they came from Scandinavia though, they probably came only from the Rus states. Runes were found in the port of Athens and other places in Greece, the translates indicate that they made those Runes in memory of their deceased family members and big Viking warriors that served in the Varangian Guard and died in Greece.
Remember that there was no defined Norway and Sweden at that time. The borders (if there was any) was very dynamic, and very little of the inland are was populated. There was smaller villages and tribes whom had alliances and foes. Norse seem to me like to me a way to describe people from the north though.
Ye Kate, it happened a lot when the vikings spread at the end of their times.
nope backscabbards are stupid you can't draw you sword quickly from the back most swords were drawn from the hip
The only practical reason for a back scabbard is that it's a good way to distribute weight when you have heavy things to carry and need your hips for that. You'd never want to do that in a time or place where you might be in combat quickly. Nice comment.
Even then most people with a sword would have a horse that they could strap the sword to if they needed to.
urbanmyths95 what about in a shield wall when you physically can't get your hand to your hip because everyone is pressed together
Carwyn Weller
still doesn't solve the problem of being either impossible or very difficult to draw and you would only draw your sword or other side arm when charging your opponent or being charged yourself when a shorter weapon is needed and there can be some space in a shieldwall because if you're too pressed together you can't fight that well
Just like its hard to draw a rifle on your back. Remember they was not fighting big battles or having holmgang every day. Its stupid when you are going to fight, but remember that most vikings was fishermen, farmers, hunters, traders. They would draw swords if they had to occasionally.
dude so much misconceptions... im triggered
n tht boy had anger issues his name was egíll skallagrimsson he had issues
and the first vikings or raiding scandinavians were danish
No, swedish raiden well before the viking age, pretty sure we were the first
Sources?
"In Constantinople the Vikings were acknowledged for their strength - so much so that the Varangian guard of the Byzantine emperors in the 11th century was made up entirely of Swedish Vikings." I'm not here to play teacher, so convince yourself that I'm right, or wrong.
Witnessed the Blood Eagle in Vikings TV series. Wish I had seen this video before, would have known when to fast forward or look away, that sh*t still haunts me up till now.
I thought the fact we haven't ever won a super bowl in 4 visits was worthy of mention.
Hmmm. Mushrooms and weapons. Probably not good for sportsmanship.
I seen what you did there.....lol
Im a Packer Fan and i approve this message!
+Gaspar Gutierrez Perez Avena Lions fan here but championships aren't in our vocabulary ... Lol
Lol! never know what the season holds! so maybe...
I don't know why d-line isn't number 1
A lot of these aren't "facts" so much as "misconceptions."
Blood eagles, swords being common everywhere, etc, etc.
Not exactly am accurate list, and I'm far from educated on the subject
Blame It On The Die I heard that swords were the most expensive weapon in Viking age
I mean technically if he is correcting myths then it is facts just stating what was false and what was fact from it
Damn, so many professional historians here! 🙄
This whole thing is full of wrong without info
11. they haven't won a super bowl
Hey, that's uncalled for :(
so true. funniest comment on here. lol
Lol
Nice
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i love this channel!
8. "they would carry their swords with them at all times, usually on their back" whoever told you that is probably a Hollywood director
Your sass is noted yet not appreciated.
I guess people don't do there research before making these videos...
***** First of all they where called danes... And I read the description. The internet tends to have a lot of false facts.
***** Explain...
***** I can point out many things that are in fact non-factual in this video. Like back scabbards, calling the Danes 'vikings', also, berserkers don't exist, berserk translates to bear shirt. Meaning well, he is wearing a bear skin shirt.
you guys just got owned HAHAHAHA
The word berserk came into English in the early 19th century, as a noun used to describe an ancient Norse warrior who fought with uncontrolled ferocity (also known as a berserker). The English word derives from the Old Norse berserkr (noun), itself probably from combining bjorn (bear) and serkr (coat).
My dad was half Northern Norwegian and half Russian. He was very proud of his Viking ancestry and was a very strong man as were his brothers. He along with our family always will worship the Viking Gods of Valhalla.
Vikings ate shrooms and become unstoppable war machines. I eat shrooms and wrap myself in a blanket and lay in bed because my tummy hurt
Your really good, you seriously deserve to be bigger
+TopTenz Indeed...
vikings are badass
Well, even the Vikings knew that even the Roman Empire could not conquered them too at least in Britain until the very end.
At least they were smart, it would be like invading a cold country during the winter...
That's because the Celts were more badass. Doesn't make the Vikings not badass though.
my ancestors are vikings
Vikings were the toughest people ever.
3:36 Just like little Ivar swung a axe at another kids head.
Vikings didn't carry swords on their backs nor did they have longswords. Where on earth did your writers get their sources?
Oh... dude... we had REALLY huge swords sometimes. We Frisians stand about 1.90 - 2.15 meters tall. The biggest warrior proven to have existed, Grutte Pier (Pier Gerlofs Donia) had a sword that was só big-it could easily split whoever was in front of him. The swords STILL EXISTS.
COme see it in Frisia; part of the Netherlands.
@@furorfrisii7679 but thats 400 years after the viking age, vikings only had one handed swords, no longswords.
mushrooms for battle? That's not horrifying, that's awesome.
Ahh....the good ol' days....
I PRAY TO NO ONE...NOR WILL I BE PRAYED TOO!
The, "I read this on Wikipedia" shallow video over Norsemen and Vikings.
So, that's why Ulfric Stormcloak killed the Emperor and it wasn't a crime...
8 minutes and 34 seconds later and I'm still listening for a fact...
Making it to the superbowl 4 times and never winning is pretty horrifying to me
True. Although I suppose it beats not making it to the superbowl, at all.
Once again I get recommendations for the weirdest videos while I'm stuck at home.
I "love" it when historians declare "blood eagle may have just been a metaphor" but have ZERO EVIDENCE that it was just a metaphor
WTF Do you mean with "bad conditions" Scandinavia is one of the richest parts of the world
Rune Thyselius very true
Scandinavia might be rich now, but that doesn't mean that we have very good conditions. In western norway, where I'm from, it's often not more than 15 celsius in summer and it's almost impossible to farm because of all the stone and mountains. The climate is quite harsh. We have fish and oil (that was discovered in the 1960s) and that's about it.
Are you kidding...? How well insulated do you think the houses were over a 1000 years ago...? How much oil did they drill back then...?
yes but at that time it was very cold annd hard to farm and live in
Vikings lived through the Medival Warm Period though.
They religion "norse" made them strong in wars, it made them believe if they died in a fight they would get to odins place.
Yeah, while christianity taught people to fear death, because you'd probably end up in hell, cowardice was basically the greatest sin for the norsemen that would send them to the norse version of hell, and dying bravely was the only sure way to know you'd end up in valhalla, or 'heaven'.
+Jørgen A I'm a Christian and I don't fear death. God said he didn't send us a spirit of fear or envy. Get your facts straight
C. J. Bailey Well, you're probably not a truly old-school catholic then, since I'm obviously talking about the viking age here, or the 'Dark Ages'. Dark Age catholicism was a far cry from today's varieties of christianity.
Jørgen A Interesting, you are right. Remember a lot couldn't read back then, and the people (priest) who did well... they abused their power in a corrupt way.
Toonga Today the religion is commonly referred to as Asatru (the belief in the æsir) or Odinism.
Real or not, the “Blood Eagle” still puts shivered down my spine any and every time I hear it described.
I'm sure it sent shivers down the victims spines to
They recently found damscus steel swords from Finland. Pretty cool since the only ones matching the time period are from Japan. So it was also maybe about the technical advantage. Sword is called Janakkalas sword, around the year 1000.
This is how women are "Powerful"
not this "strong powerful woman" of today who gets offended by every single thing.
Top 10 HORRIFYING Facts About CANADIANS
+Lina B. milk in plastic bags, that's two
All the people at LinusTechTips.
Their Monopoly Money they call "Dollars"
they still sell asbestos even though its fatal and illegal
+Napoleon IV no bags of milk
Although the "blood eagle" may have been an actual form of execution, it is not possible that the victim would have survived to the end (no matter how badass they were). At the moment the the first rib was cut, the diaphragm muscle would no longer be able to draw air into the lungs because it would no longer be able to create a suction due to the large hole in the cavity where the lungs were situated. It would have been the same as a "sucking chest wound", which will cause suffocation if the breach is not sealed.
nice interesting educational video
as a Dane I feel allowed to mention that the fact about infanticide is, at best, untrustworthy.
Scandinavians were not all vikings, and cripples and deformed children were _not_ killed off. Hel, we even had a _king_ who could't walk.
Michael VPS Ivar the boneless
Are you telling me there are magic mushrooms in my town
yeah they're called hallucinogens, and they aren't always in the form of mushrooms..
martin eike There are many hallucinagens all over the US, but most will make you not ever want to do them again such as Jimson Weed. The magic mushrooms are fairly common too, or at least I find them for pictures often here in central MN, but most will tell you they are deadly toxic, which can be true depending on time of the year picked, amount consumed, and how they are processed...I do not trust them, the research out there, or myself enough to even try. liver failure is a 3 day painful bitch that medical science can do nothing about but watch you die.
Not Sharing My name eyyyyy let's get crazy hahaha
Viking warriors worked themselves up into a frenzy, it wasn't due to mushrooms. Also the word "Berserker" comes from "Bärsärk" which describes a man wearing the skin of a bear which was usually reserved for the Jarl's / King's personal guard.
How tf do you know that? Literally no one can say if they consumed mushrooms or not. There is just no way of knowing. Haha everyone in the comments just all the sudden became Viking experts
If you ever ate hallucinating mushrooms you'll know that fighting on mushrooms is a worse idea than driving with alcohol.
I don't find anything horrifying about Holmgang. It should be a real thing today too!
Trump vs Hillary would be nice
it fils good to be from Norway
Indeed
No Iceland
Rowsdower so you got lucky with oil like arabians, that's all you got tho, like arabians.
Sweden
How's your thunder god Thor treating you?
GREAT VIDEO..................
Axes was easy to produce and great tools for building houses, ships, firewood, ornaments and war. The spear was THE war weapon of the day, even Odin wore it for a reason, as the wisest of gods. Swords was more of a personal defence weapon and a symbol of power, heritage and wealth. Then you have the shield, chainmail, helmets etc, but these was more items for the wealthy or elite soldiers.
I was wondering though why you were using a Roman Gladius short sword as reference to Viking swords..
azteca ddress romans invaded the British isles before hand, possibly the fact that Roman swords gave inspiration to Viking swords
Maybe, but the Vikings originated from Scandinavia which is far away from the British Isles but the fact that you say that Roman swords gave inspiration to Viking Swords could have been possible considering that the Romans managed win battles in the middle of Germany which is a neighbor to Denmark(Scandinavian country too)
azteca ddress maybe, but I'm not sure lol, I'm no expert Im just guessing xD
I also don't think that Roman Swords inspire viking swords becuse they already have swords of their own.
azteca ddress so... you agree with me but then say that you don't think Roman swords inspired Viking swords...? Erm, okay
when I took mushrooms. I felt like hulk. wanted to run threw walls. would have certainly been great in war.
Maga Kid u must of ate more stems of the mushroom instead of the caps / mushroom head. Same I was running around like superman
The attack on lindisfarn were not by vikings from Norway, but Danish Vikings. England was mainly attacked by the Danish Vikings
You guys are awesome like I said in the last video I watched the views I found out just a week ago I am from Norway descent and I am so proud if my ancestors were Vikings I hope they were
Nice way to start off with nonfactual information, i haven't even gotten past the first "fact" yet and it's BOGUS. Well not entirely bogus, but the mushroom used during that time, the only hallucinogenic mushroom that grows in Scandinavia, was the Amanita Muscaria mushroom. Also known as fly agaric, or the "fairy-tale mushroom" these were the ones used to induce these effects. Provide annotations to correct this please?
not in amanita muscaria, the psychoactive ingredient in muscaria is muscimol. There is no psilocybin in these types of mushrooms and at that time in history psilocybin mushrooms never grew around that part of Europe, the only mushroom around was the one the op mentioned, he is right.
He didn't state it as fact, mearly a theory being included to describe how they might become so entranced and blood lusted.
What, you don't get liberty caps in Scandinavia? Though to be honest I had a huge problem with the idea that psilocybin shrooms could do anything other than make the vikings piss themselves laughing.
how can you fight after eating muscaria ......puking your guts out everywhere
From my research the vikings may have used the wild Amanita Muscaria, wild Liberty cap (called fleinsopp in Norway), or even cannabis that was found in a ritual site in Sweeden if recall correctly.
My ancestors were Vikings
Ronan Jensen same here and Knights are in my blood as well😊
Same!
Who cares?
TheGhostofSparta97 you do😃
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The Unknown Nord Killing 40+ English Mens on Stamford Bridge was a Legend
Berserkers actually were like a special group of Norsemen (while not living as such, but most of the time as lone settlers), as far as we can tell by the few authentic documents they´d live under a certain animal sign and also try to live like those animals, so a Bear for example would raid smaller villages, and settlements from time to time. Also for the most parts they werent useing mushrooms but most likely meskalin from Nuts.
Can you rename this “Top ten horrifying MYTHS about Vikings” please? Thanks. You’re spreading gross misinformation with some of these.
Who else is here because of vinland saga?
I'm here.
The only reason vikings were powerful was because of the fact axe deals more damage than sword
Something interesting about Blood Eagle. It was used for executions and if the victim gave out any sound of pain, he would not go to Valhalla.
The infanticide thing was "justified" by claiming the children were Changlings- replaced at birth by trolls or other such folks.
Which of course is ridiculous. Infanticide is just murder.
Or that in the harsh climate they had no need for WEAKLINGS!
*****
I agree
About infants with deformities or other things: it was actually quite reasonable to let them die.
It's a mouth more to feed and the kid will *always* need help even if it actually manages to survive (if they would've cared for it). As times were rather rough to that time it is therefore not that horrifying (as you so nicely mentioned in the title) to let such infants die.
It's (as before) only reasonable.
Nice vid love from the viking land Norway
the thumbnail is misleading
he's wearing a horned helmet
when is the new season of Vikings coming out
dude idk I wish I knew
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Magic mushrooms gave us Santa.The Vikings when stoned on mushrooms would see what they thought was Odin on a flying sleigh being driven by reindeers ,bringing blessings on his people,The harmonising of pagan and Christianity,Odin evolved into Santa,thus you have Father Christmas flying around on a sleigh leaving presents for children....p.s..Don’t tell the kids these facts,some still think Santa is Real,when in fact he is a product of Norse and Greek myth..Father Christmas is in fact Odin..
SAnta is real, Odin is not.
Vikings used Spears quite often as well. The spear, long axe, and bow were the most common weapons used. Swords were hard to make, expensive, and didn’t fit well with the Viking fighting style
What a load of bull. They played Geometry Dash and listened to Darude Sandstorm...
So many of these are wrong. Everything you said about beserkers was wrong. Awful
Feels he just say bad things about them
Sven Wold overall just a pretty bad video
Feels yeah he says vikings are killing vikings. Wrong
What? Why are you defending things you just now learned and aren't even true?
because in the discussion you need to cite sources if you claim someone is wrong :)
"watch the lungs take their last breaths" Someone slept through how pressure gradients and how inspiration works....
Viking raids started in response to the Massacre of Verden - when Charlemagne ordered the deaths of 4500 non-Christian men, women and children.
"The Vikings where the most dominant fighting force in Europe between the late 8th century and the mid 11 th century".
This is doubtful.
The Arabs, Franks, Eastern-Roman-Empire and anglos-saxon Kingdoms have beaten the Vikings many times. The success of Vikings is not to be searched in their military-power but ind the savaging of unprotected settlement with help of their boats.
It is doubtful if the Vikings would have big impact if they had gone in open battle against frankish armys or arab armys. I would say the vikings where in the championsleague of fighting but not the absolute dominant team to say so.
The "facts" of this video are doubtful, specially because the vikings were divided bt regions, and each region could have diferent cultures and ways of battle. They only became that strong when joined forces to face the egnglish empire.
As a Frisian-I beg to differ. On numerous accounts my ancestors fought them all. We chased the Romans out of what is now known as The Netherlands. We held off the Franks hundreds of years-but were nearly driven to exticntion by the evil of the cross worshippers (we are STILL here-growing-and WILL get back what is ours- the religion of the cross is as European as islam. Not-at-all). We even fought with the cross worshipper as allies-until the betrayal from them. In the 5th and 7th crusade we Frisians made such a name against these muslim, they still have stories about us. We got to what is now known as 'America'- at LEAST a millenium before Columbus discovered some Islands he called 'America' (only difference= we landen on the ACTUAL CONTINENT-he never did).
And about our Northern millitary might- we were a LOT of different Northern states and countries. We were NEVER 'feodal'.
But IF we CHOSE to fight together- we'd do things LIKE CONQUER ENGLAND and make it what it is today, for example. Just take a huge part of the Frankish kingdom- interbreed with their women-and NAME IT NORMANDY.
And so on.
We were here LONG before the first man called himself 'Jew'in the Middle East.
We were thus here LONG before 'christianity' split from 'Judaism' as a sect-not even a religion.
We were here MILLENIA before even after that- the islam was invented by a warlord .
All 3 in the Middle East.
Vikings did attack paris tho and other france villages by the coast
What are your sources
So where are the sources? why don't you just write them down here, got anything to hide heh? :D :D
sry had to make that joke.
Its facinating to see someone on youtube you publishes his opinion and findings with the support of quite a few sources. really enjoiable to watch
Some Norwegian Viking era swords were single edged, however most swords of the time, throughout Europe, were double edged.
they didn't eat psilocybin mushrooms. they ate fly agarics. amanita muscaria which is considered a deliriant. Not a hallucinogen. If they ate psilocybin, they would possibly not even want to battle.
I'm simple man, i see horns i dislike
So basically northern spartans of the middle ages
Holmgang was only one of two possible challenges. Spänna bälte(beltwrapping) was another where 2 people got stuck together naked in a single belt, armed with knives until one was dead.
Also, vikings did not run around with swords all the time. They locked them up when not in raids. This was in practice as early as roman times(noted in Tacitus Germania).
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