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Why the Vikings Disappeared
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- The Vikings were infamous in the Middle Ages for their raids against the coasts of Northern Europe. Their age however was quite brief in the span of time, only 300 years. What caused the end of the Vikings?
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In public I upload videos about vikings, but in private I think *deus vult*.
KnowledgeHub deus vult
KnowledgeHub Rollo did 9-11
AVE MARIAA
Shame!!!
deus vult hethan hosts
"Vikings of course didn't have horns"
Keeps depicting them with horns.
was about to comment the same thing
It was for a joke. J-o-k-e
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fus ro dah!!!!
The horns part is to demonize them. You know Devils have horns. Christians enjoys demonizing other religion and pagans.
the vikings dissapeared because everyone picked the knights and samurai and the people who picked the vikings were noobs
tru
TacticalLemon nuke you poor poor lost soul...
TacticalLemon nuke butt hurt much?😂😂😂
lol too many people getting triggered by this post 😂
TacticalLemon nuke For honour reference?
Fun fact: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are all derived from Viking gods. Tyr's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, and Frigg's day.
Wait really? Then what about Monday?
Moonday. But some sources say Monday comes from Old English “Mōnandæg,” named after Máni, the Norse personification of the moon
@@jackblevins1201 Dang so vikings invented the names for days, damn son! Source?
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.livescience.com/amp/45432-days-of-the-week.html&ved=2ahUKEwi8lOyxiePnAhWYFzQIHUCiAx0QFjACegQIDhAO&usg=AOvVaw0L73u6_Jhso1_KquST3yXj&cf=1
@Wick van Vreden that depends on your sourse. I've always heard that it is Frigg's day
Vikings didn't disappeared, they drive cars and watch tv like the rest of the world ;-) they are still here
@I dont know anymore I'm danish with swedish heritage, the only thing I raid is the convenience store after smoking weed XD
@username well some of us still do that but most of us isn't that bad
@username it was fun while it lasted tho.
@GrePop Yeah sometimes
I'm part Norwegian and I'm a student on summer break who's making CZcams videos to pass the time.
How the little piggies will grunt when they hear the old boar suffer
Davidson its piglets
ivar likes this
Davidson I was looking for this comment
Davidson 😇
Davidson Ragnar's last words
But KnowledgeHub, you forgot to mention how it was stolen Viking ships that the Aztecs reverse-engineered to invade Europe in the Sunset Invasion of 1337.
Wolv022 I actually tried googling that, because it just sounded so absurd.
congratulations you got me
Wolv022 i learned about that in school this week, still cant believe that actually happened
Space Face Yeah. The Sunset Invasion is one of those things in history that seems like fiction. But, after the Crusades against the Pagans, all the damage was undone and so little of that age is seen today.
Aztecs invading Europe? That seems like a...Paradox sir!
Never forget the immortal pope rival who has far too many children to be normal. Oh and how one half of India became Zoroastrian
RAGNAR LOTHBROK
The name itself gives goosebums
as an icelander it hold no reverence, it sounds silly, like a character in a childrens book
"ragnar shaggy boxers"
@Arkerion the historical floki is not similar to the one in the TV show, first of the real floki was not the one to discover iceland, he was however one of the first settlers and the one who gave iceland its name because he saw an iceberg in his fjord on a day he was departing to sail back to norway
i could see ragnar being a well known name in the viking age, but first off, he is semi mythical, we know that he must have existed to some degree, we dont know how much of his stories are true, the one about where he got his nickname is straight from a fairy tale story. way too many people claim decent from him, there are conflicting tales about who he was married to and the children these women had
he must have had some children, but its likely that his mythological nature as a legend spurred more people to claim they are children on granchildren of him
simply by nature of how far apart chronologically some claims come from means that at least one of them must be wrong or ragnar secretly lived past the snake pit and had children into old age
@@magnusorn7313 Lodbrog was a nickname brother
@@BenjiEnergy did i ever deny that?
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"Why the Vikings Disappeared"
0:00 "Dragons"
Ok, that's that mystery cleared up. Next video!
Or it could be the fuck all big Squids swimming off the Coast of Norway that did at times attack boats, but hey, what do i know, im Just a Norseman, still very Alive. Vikings as they are reffered werent the entire population as is suggested, viking was a name given to the Raiders, most of the "Vikings" were what we would today refer to as Northmen, farmers, fishermen. Mostly,
The comment is very misleading, Judging by the fact that you took the time to make a comment just to say that you only watched a few seconds, so you have time and the odds of you watching the video rather than just clicking away are way bigger than the comment itself, so we can say that you didnt just click away the first word you hear from this video like you claim in your comment
Nah. Vikings are gone because Christianity beat the shit out of them. Like. Really badly. Vikings gave up fighting and trying to conquer because they couldnt take on Jesus and Pals.
Bye felecia. Thanks for stopping by.
It would be an interesting topic for alternate history: What if the earliest Vikings invasion of America was successful and followed by massive immigration of Europeans to America.
The vikings didn't invade america. They established a settlement; there was never a norse army in america to do any conquering.
What seems to have happened is that a bunch of greenlanders decided to sail west, found a bunch of islands and eventually came to one with a lot of wood which they didn't have much of back on greenland and that they needed quite a lot of.
So, understandably, they stayed there a while, picked up some wood, came back and told others and eventually a settlement appeared primarily to trade wood (because the alternative involved importing wood from norway which would be even more expensive than from the new but nearer colony in the americas).
The sagas report some fights with the natives that we don't have any direct evidence of but, seeing as the settlement disappeared (with the norse population either being killed or assimilated by the locals), it seems plausible.
So yeah, it was a colony but never one backed with anywhere near enough force to call an invasion (it's unclear and not very likely that there were any dedicated warriors in the settlement at all).
There would be interbreeding and mixing of cultures between Viking settlers and Native Americans.
They would be affected by European diseases much earlier, but over time gain gradually immunity
So 90% of the Native Population would not die by disease (more like 35%)
As Christianity spread throughout Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, more Pagans would emigrate to North America
Viking Kings ruling Kingdoms in America
Horses would help uplift the Native Americans from their Tribal Societies into more Feudal Ones
Aztecs and Incas would be very terrifying since the technology field is now even with European Ones
Much better life for Native Americans
Rather than being a drug-fueled hellhole being fought over by Cartels, Mexico would be on the same level of prosperity as some of the greatest cities on Europe
Also, less Racism, Sexism and crazy Christians like the Westboro Nutjobs
KingExituS The thing is there never was a full viking invasion of the Americas and despite popular belief the vikings won every single battle fought there. It all came down to distance and lack of resources. America was discovered by the Icelandic commonwealth which not only was extremely decentralised but also only had a popukation of around 50 thousand so they didnt really have what it took to take that land for their own. and scandinavia was simply too far away for the technology at the time. maybe if Iceland was a kingdom then maybe they would gave been centralises enough to actually take some lands there but that is pretty far fetched.
tristan roberts Yes you are right, it wasn't really an invasion but much more an expolration. But couple of months ago i read in an article that Archaeologists have found some evidences such as Viking battle axes and swords in Canada which could be a hint of possible clashes between Viking settlers and natives.
However as far as i know we reallly don't know what really have happend there or how big the Vikings fleet was that explored the coasts of America, but imo if the settlers managed to contact their homeland, others would have followed them, and the history of America and the world would have changed tremendously.
Imagine how it would be, a Medieval America.
Jose Larios III dont think so
Let me guess... your going to say "The Vikings didn't wear horns on their helmets"
Edit: FUCKING KNEW IT
Haha, the beard thingy tho.. Most likely they had beard.
But they did. The horned helmets have been found in the graves of several people from that time period, but they are never found where vikings died in combat. Most likely it's a ceremonial helmet, especially considering the horned helmet would be weaker in combat than without the horns
+Mira wheres your source for this? you got a link? cuz im pretty sure youre full of it
@Xiphos just google it. The evidence are few and far in between, but it shows there at least _existed_ horned helmets. But at the same time proves a point, I guess, that they were not common.
yes horned helmets existed, but thats not what is being discussed. there is no evidence that vikings used horned helmets, and ive never seen any in grave goods from the viking era either
Ragnar lothbrok
thx
legend
Ok
Ragnar sigurdsson of sweden
Joe G Ragnar died
4:05
And this is how you repay me. When everyone wanted you dead! I kept you alive! You hurt me, brother. And this is how you repay my love?
1000 years later Rollo gets mentioned in a youtube video but not Ragnar, he knew his betrayal is going to last long :p
Well Snowden did a great job playing Rollo. He's like one of the most favourite characters , alongside Athelstan and Eckbert
@@xXx77145 its because lothbrok was a nickname, and the only evidence we have is that ragnar appeared as a hunnic shaman. His real name is ragnar sigurdsson btw
@@ultimatestoryteller is ragnar not one of your favorites?
In Scandinavia, we still refer to christmas as "Jul", and a lot of our traditions are maintained into modernity. We would have to be complete psychos to go raiding and such, in the middle of the European Union and other modern countries. Nobody "disappeared", we're still here. We just kept up with everyone else.
This is kind of like when people think "the mayans" were some mythical long gone people (who also could tell when the world wound end), when in reality, Guatemala is chock full of Mayans right this very moment. They even speak Mayan languages (well over a million speakers), and Scandinavians speak Norse languages.
"Yeah but the mayans dont like sacrifice people n such", yeah and Norwegians and Swedes don't go viking raiding either, Swedes make furniture and Norwegians drill oil.
Again, we'd have to be some kind of ridiculous jackasses to not adapt and develop along with the rest of the world, that's what civilizations kind of have to do.
But, but, but, vikings had liek helmets n swords n such!
I have a helmet, when I bicycle.
zegh8578 you forgot Denmark...
You should try and get a grant for "historic research" and rebuild a longship and weapons for "reenactments". A Longship would be undetectable with modern equipment as it would have no engine signature, there would be complete radio silence and the frigid North Sea air would shadow you against thermal optics. Then you could raid Ipswich in the dead of night and raid their pizza ovens and women. No one would believe some drunken account of a viking raid in modern time from some pensioner along the docks. It's the perfect crime.
americans? pfft, they're just a myth.
I will bring my sword and bow and join you.
viking are savage in a awesome way
Skyrim belongs to the nords
Ulfric for High King.
mrwisegamer
LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE!!!
Dakota Nenninger Nah the empire will fall apart soon.
mrwisegamer
The empire will unite all
of tamreil, you will see.
Dakota Nenninger No the empire will fall, like all previous ones. The provinces have every right to be independent.
I am a swede and there are people who still practice the old religion and
Fighting styles (i know a few of them)
But most of them do not live in the towns but rather in isolated villages far from all other civilisation.
They are weird but some of the most amazing people i've seen.
By the way
The last viking pillage was made by a group of norwegian swedish danish vikings in year 1200
Wow, I had no idea, and I am Norwegian. Where and what are they!? You mean some "sami"?
“Rolo the Viking chief, was crowned king of Normandy on 9/11” what a sentence
Well that is a sense of irony 🤣
Why? Because of the USA 9/11? Wow. Ooo weee wow. Same date except it is separated by a few 100 years.
"Ye vikings bad" - Jimmy, 1992
Lonsdaleite Politics WAS WONDERING WHAT THAT SAID
Ze vikeingz are Ze vorst
"Off with his head" - Modern day viking, 2018.
"Vikings were Nords"Did they have a 50% resistance to frost?
You need to do a bit of research. In both Oblivion and Skyrim. Nords were 50% resistant to frost.
Skyrim Nord
en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Nord
Oblivion Nord
en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Nord
Gamers Jawlt 95% Actually
Biggsy DaBoss,
You need to do some research yourself,
they've downgraded their resistance in the game, because they were too OP irl.
Their actual frost resistance was somewhere in between 86-93%.
It is known!
Biggsy DaBoss
I do.
Biggsy DaBoss never mind it's -1500 resistance
Rollo of Normandy was a duke, not a king. The Norwegians by the time of Harald Hardrada had adopted Christianity. Also I believe there were a few Viking raids along the East coast of England after 1066.
True although Rollo had been a King in Norway (one of many) prior to settling in Normandy and although he was nominally sworn to the Frankish King he was in reality more or less independent.
@@bannedaccount540
True, all big frankish feudals at this time were indeed de facto independants (far away counties such as Brittany or Gascony were even more).
But Rollo never was king in Scandinavia (for what I remember), he wasn't even a jarl, only a very successful war leader.
This video has a ton of plot missing and does nothing for vikings. Anyone who uses this as research is dead
Banned Account yes. Duke of Normandy was a vassal of French king as it’s part of patchwork of french nobilities.
And his descendents still rule England +_+
Him: The viking age lasted just over 300 years
Me knowing that the vikings lived on Berk for a little over 400 years: *hold up what*
Noname Garofano So they existed for longer?
Noname Garofano Oh nice, thanks c:
@@dragonfury1565 We still exist we are just called Scandinavians.
It actually lasted about 180-200+ years
FoxWolf u still worship odin!?
Crusader: "Why aren't you on a holy crusade to drive the Saracens from the Holy Land?"
Child: "But Templar, I am only 6."
Crusader: *"DEUS VULT INFIDEL!"*
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Kabir Škrijelj that's fucked up that pretty much like isis
NOOO NOT MONOPOLY
DEUS VULT BROTHERS!
WE SHALL NOT STAND FOR THIS UNHOLY FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT!
to drive the "saraceans" out of europe was the main role of the crusade.
Rollo did 9/11
I see what you did there. ;-)
1066 was a inside job
Rakitha Peiriz xD
jet fuel can't melt viking ships.
Jason Martin you are technically correct.
Did you know that there is more proof of the existence of Odin than there is for the existence of Christ? Think about it. Odin came the Earth to rid us of Frost Giants, Jesus came the Earth to rid us of sin.
I don't see any Frost Giants. Do you?
Also, heaven is a vague invisible thing, at least we can see the rainbow, the road to Valhall
Christ didn't come to rid us of sins. He came to free us of its penalty.
@@thatiowan3581 He didn't come at all. Never even existed.
I respect your opinion, but there's so much evidence that he did exist that l can't see how you could say he's a myth.
What about Josephus? He was what we today would call an Orthodox Jew and had every reason to deny the existence of Christ, yet he fully acknowledge that he was a real person.
In my country Algeria which is situated in North Africa, we have a small village in the coast of The Mediterranean Sea lived by a group of people who are totally physically different from us and believed to be descendents from The Viking that once their ship sank and had no other place to go, so they settled in that village.
But... What if the Viking age never ended?
I see what you did there.
PVEntertainment tuuure
Today we call it Manifest Destiny.
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Imagine if a crusade was led against the Vikings in Scandinavia. That would have been so epic!
In Britain at least, there are some very simple things that made raiding unprofitable. One, the Vikings started to settle and rule the land. When you rule the land, you don't wanna raid it. Two, the burhs. The English kings started to build central forts that their peoples and valuables could retreat behind. The vikings did not have siege equipment, their ships were designed to land on the shore so their soldiers could raid unguarded towns and monestaries, that's why they started raiding the British area, because they had grown complacent, they were easy targets. Three, at this point, trading is more profitable. Four, trading is easier if you share the same god. The first converts probably didn't stop beleiving in Odin and Thor, but for people with many god, accepting another one called jehovah is not really that big a deal. Norse, or Germanic, mythology was very open to interpretation and varied on its own. The church was a proper institution in Britain and awareded benefits for those that shared their religion.
We see this trend everywhere the vikings went that was far outside Scandinavia. Britain, Normandy, Sicily and Russia, they all mingled with the local popultions and assimilated with them.
According to Abbo of Saint-Germaine. The vikings used catapults and ballistas during the Siege of Paris in 885. Just saying.
Hence why I mention i am talking about Britain in my comment buddy. There were two situations for vikings in Britain:
1) They are raiding. When a viking was on a raid the point was to go in, get the wealth and get out, finishing the raiding season by winter where they hopefully had found a place to stay over the winter. Either that would be a spot in Britain far away or in another country entirely. Most of the raiding vikings in Britain lived in south Norway, Denmark, Eastern Ireland or Frisia.
2) They are conquering. The conquering vikings in Britain almost always wanted to defeat and subjugate their enemy in the field. This was possible for a long time, since the Burhs were a reaction towards the vikings, before that point towns had at most a earthern rampart and that was usually only the ones where the lords and their households lived. Thus they developed no need for siege weapons.
As I understand it, Paris was even at the time a large city, walled and the vikings most likely knew this. Which is why they deliberatedly went into siege when their demand for tribute was denied. As I remember it all their attempts at a breakthrough failed and most of them left the siege to go pillage easier targets, so even when they did have siege weapons they failed at it. But I am not as familiar with viking affairs outside of Britain I am afraid.
Nikolaj11 did you und Read the Uthred saga by any chance? :D
Yes I did, it's not finished yet tho.
well said
The vikings didnt disappear. The "vikings" are not a people like Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Celts... "Vikings" were only a particular group of Norsemen who went "viking" (raiding). They stopped those activities, that's all. A viking = a norse pirate.
Yeah this too is a fact I was aware of I’m a bit disappointed this fact based video never said anything about this fact though the Viking age only lasted 300 years that’s funny because that means the eastern Roman Empire was around during the birth and fall of the Viking tradition
@@jedimastertitaniumdickmana2939 I'm glad you mentioned the eastern roman empire (that I love for many reasons!)
So much things to say about "Vikings", first would be that the word "vikings" refers to only one small aspect of the nordic society and people of these times. And of course that they didnt "disappear" but simply stopped their raiding activities and slowly converted to the palestinian god.
The "vikings" world is wider, and much more complex, than the georgraphical "Sweden, Norway, Denmark" area given too often. Northern Germany, Western and Southern Finland, could be easily added to this world (historical evidences exist). And defining more precisely that old 19th century romantic word "viking" could be a good start.
finally someone who knows something about vikings and tbh there are still modern vikings only they do a bit different activities but its preatty similar to what old nods vikings did so people found no other better name to give them and simply called them modern vikings. (nd ik the people that were called vikingyr but other people called this modern vikingyrs modern vikings not me and also from what I heard VIK means raid while wiking means rading but and vikingyr means raider but it might not be true)
Yes.
And the people raiding stopped raiding.
So basically the same thing
"Destiny is all"
-Uhtred Ragnarsson
Gun Troller
-Uhtred Of Bebenburg
-Uhtred The godless
-Uhtred Of Mercia
-Uhtred Son of Uhtred
@@mandarinmerle6993 Osbert
Gun Troller arseling
@@mandarinmerle6993 Baby monk
rippedsock 82 Literally the best Character
Now everyone is a viking expert since they've watched Vikings, skól!
Skeptical Eye one of most successful channels on youtube is owned by viking...
I know, a lot of people are bringing up Game Theory's video featuring For Honor, and in the video he claims Vikingar had no armour and ran around wearing leather. (Vikings poorly represented both the Vikingr and the Anglo-Saxons). It's funny when people try to get all smarty pants on you when they're taking arguments from Vikings.
Skeptical Eye The series is surprisingly accurate though.
Yes it actually is, surprisingly both entertaining and accurate
Well leather is armor as well, and its a bit logical since metalwork was expensive not only in viking time, I guess they're fond of axes so much because they dont need that much metal
So, the viking age starts and ends with raids on England. Sounds like a bias introduced by relying on English-language sources. Vikings went all over Europe, after all. No mention of the deep excursions into Russia.
Also, no mention of trade. Odd omission.
Not only _excursions_ into Russia, from what I've read, the historians in general believe that both Novogorod and Kiev were founded by Nordics / Norse people.
In the case of Kiev, it was probably the most long-lasting population in eastern Europe, under the multi-people "community" of Khazaria.
Also Scotland is more or less half Norwegian :p Ireland and Northumbria being heavily influenced as well. And the Netherlands.
Unfortunately, yes..
The later Tsardoms and the dynasties were pretty much watered out by then, though, and predominantly Slav by the time of the Duchy of Muscowy.
The Khazarians were a bit of a mix of more people, Nords, Tatars and Turk people I think, later contributing to a more distinct Ruthenian people/culture, if I got things right
The Ruthenians ended up mostly in Lithuania (The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) and later Ukraine.
Vikings also settled in today's Bulgaria, but from what I gather, these people were quickly (relatively speaking) assimilated.
Rurik, who brought his Rus people (a people of Varyags, Vikings, Norsemen) into Novgorod, at the same time was definitely a baltic slav, as the modern DNA research showed (they tested 11 living ascendants of him). So it's hard to distinguish between norse and slavic people of those days in Baltic region. They kinda look the same by DNA.
In the 700s the warring princes in Kiev "invited" the vikings to rule their country and they maintained polytheism for a few generations before officially converting to Christianity. They also had an empress, Olga, pre-900 which was pretty cool.
@Bender well yeah they assimilated with the local tribes over a quite short time span historically speaking.
DNA-groups are often represented over vast areas, it's more about the percentage of a local populace today compared with percentages of other haplogroups in the same populace.
But yea I see your point and agree I guess.
What? The Vikings disappeared
around 1066?
The last battle of the
Vikings in the UK was in 1263!
The Norman invasion of
England did not end the history of the Vikings. Remember, the
Normans were effectively Vikings who had settled in France but the Viking defeat at
Stamford Bridge didn't end Viking history.
Naw Man, 1066, after the the death of Harald hardrarda, vikings raids stopped
Sorry but normans are not vikings. Rollo couldn’t take paris in 886 and Chartres in 911. so he settled down in normandy. His son William Long Sword quickly adopted french culture and language. And at the end of reign of Richard the fearless in 996 (rollo’s grandson), all viking settlers were essentially christians and frenchmen. This is not my imagination. This is concluded by a group of cambridge historians. They wrote a book called ‘cambridge medieval history’
@@nerdyguy1152 And thus the viking raids stopped
cardaroy i understand and agree with you. I wanted to reply to william bolton but don’t know why his name wasn’t displayed in my comment
and how did the Vikings disappear in 1066 when they were living in Greenland well into the 1400s?
The number of mistakes in this video is disturbing, specially for a "KnowledgeHub". But the ratio of thumbs up/down is just sad. This video doesn't deserve the praise it gets.
Could you point out some of the mistakes? I came here to learn about the Vikings but I don't want to be misinformed. Mind elaborating?
@@lindenlynx // If you don't want to be misinformed, I think I'd go for old-fashioned books than CZcams.
@@lindenlynx well I'd say most of this is wrong, it's only the raids that stopped in 1066, the English king, you know, the one who won that was also a viking, so basically they just stayed in power and blended into English society
"The vikings originated in Scandinavia" shows Finland and the Baltics...
viking is often a misunderstood term. In its purest, its people from modern day Norway, Denmark and Sweden, while raiding. Same people, while engaged in farming or trading, were NOT vikings.
In wider interpretation, it includes people by area, sometimes also from Oeselia and Curonia. They conducted similar raids and had similar cultures due to trade relations(but quite importantly not same religion). Its very likely that finnish tribes living by the sea also raided, although for latter there are no evidence afaik
But somebody was responsible for stealing the iron gates from the capital of Sweden at that time.
Finland was a part of Sweden at that time
There was no Sweden at that time and there was no Finland at that time. At that time there were Sweds, Geats and Gutes and a bunch of other smaller tribes where today is Sweden. Where there is Finland today, there were Soms, Finns, Tavastisans, Satakuntans to name a few. While there could be some sort of argument for Swedes, Geats and Gutes making up a kingdom, the tribes in Finland were a separate thing. Only thing which ties those areas to Sweden was that those Finnic tribes had to pay tribute to Swedes. In regards to everything else, they were completely independent.
@Angeló No :P Finland was _not_ part of Sweden at that time. In fact, only the southern half of Sweden were of Nordic culture. Same as Norway.
Edit: Finland and all the northern coast of European "Russia" all the way to the Urals were of a certain shamanistic culture, and a different people, speaking Finno-Ugric.
Obviously, though, Finland and Sweden - being neighbours and some common culture - as opposed to the slavs - have always had close ties.
In danish all days of the week except for Saturday are named after gods from norse myhology.
Måne = mandag (Monday)
Tyr = tirsdag (Tuesday)
Odin = onsdag (Wednesday)
Thor = torsdag (Thursday)
Frigg = fredag (Friday)
Sol = søndag (Sunday)
Sooo... exactly like in english? Norse people do have a habit of feeling special
Måne means "Moon", German also uses "Mond" in "Montag" or "Moonday", which is what we have "Mon Day".
"Wuotans" is just another name for Odinn, so that shit you wrote makes huge sense.
Louis Rasmussen and Saturday or lørdag in Norwegian is the old Norse word for cleaning day. Basically everyone where expected to do a full body wash that day.
"Lögardagen" was the swedish version I think.
Narrator: "No they don't have horn on their helmet and most of them dont have beard also we don't know how much they look like.
Me:Oh Ok
Yeah exactly my thought
most of the artefacts and evidence we do have show that the horns and beards stereotype is just that. Just because we aren't sure of how they looked doesn't mean we don't know what things aren't fact. Not only that but do have a pretty good idea based on the things we have found. There are no horned helmets, it's just a stereotype that got out of hand.
I recommend that y'all watch Vinland Saga, it's amazing.
ok
Yes m8. Best anime ever!
Do you have link please
khaled Dekar CZcams if you can read french x)
@@minhee7 ugh I hate french
Why don't you guyyyyyyyyyyys never mention viking-trading :c
Jacob Akselsen Sadly most people think of the vikinings as interesting for the records of their raids.
All the way to Baghdad
Don't forget that because of the exploration and reputation as fierce and fearless fighters, the byzantine emperor made vikings his personal bodyguards, a.k.a. Varangian Guards, and that basically, a viking leader got the power through election (i think) in the russian principalities, eventually creating the Kievan Rus.
because that´s not relevant
You guys says it not important or relevant, yet this make cultures prosper, allowed for Norse artefacts to be discovered as far as Asia and vice versa.
You're not entirely accurate.
Viking culture didn't fade out of existence, because there never was a viking culture, but there was, and still is, a Norse culture. And we know quite a lot about their daily lives, through archaeology and written sources in Nordic languages and in Latin, like Adam of Bremen's works.
It should also be noted that viking raids, both large and small scale, didn't stop after Harald Hårdråda/Hardruler died at the battle of Stamford Bridge. Although, it was the last time a large viking expedition set sail to raid a Christian country outside the Scandinavia and Baltic Sea area.
The most famous of the Nordic Crusades, the Norwegian Crusade,(1107-1110) only had one difference from earlier viking expeditions into France and England, aside from location, namely Papal sanction and approval.
There was a viking culture, same as there is a skinhead, a body-modification a biker culture etc. Once their homeland got raped by abrahamic religions it was no longer PC for them to raid and enslave their brothers of same faith. The profession of viking got destroyed.
I disagree with you, since the profession of raiding during the summer remained popular for, literally, hundreds of years in Scandinavia, and I brought up the most famous post ,,viking-age" expedition that followed all the characteristics of a large scale viking raid.
As for the culture related to the profession, that did not die out either, and is still continued, to this day, in Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and (Swedish speaking)Finnish coastal areas. Roslagen comes to mind.
As for the profession of viking, Adam of Bremen, as well as numerous runestones (like U 617) make it abundantly clear that viking was the medieval term of ,,pirate" in Scandinavia, a profession that continued to be practiced for centuries by Scandinavians, Wends, Estonians, and other people around the Baltic Sea.
With respect, I don't believe that you, or Cody, really know what you're talking about in this instance.
Rather they accomplished their goals in acquaring land and wealth. When you are content there is no need for raiding.
Harald Hårfagre* His surname is in Norwegian and there aint no good translation for it so i will try to describe it. Harald was a ginger, his surname is Hårfagre, hår means hair and fagre means like big and majestic and beautiful. He was known for his massive half curly mane. One of my favorite bed time stories from when I was a child was about Harald. It was said that Harald had so fine hair that even when Harald was killed in battle and burried, some years later they had to relocate his tomb and when they dug up his grave his hair was still glowing and his hair had never stop growing.
The Vikings did not fade away.
Their lands where later called The British Empire and The Russian Empire.
@4:55: Ironically, Harold himself was defeated and killed in battle by William of Normandy, a descendant of the same Rollo mentioned earlier in the video!
Harold was killed probably because his army was exhausted by having to move from one battle field to another?
Judy S. yes and his army -not him- falling for a fake retreat by William
@@JRobbySh they were mainly peasants too
The Vikings didn't disappeared, they are drinking ale with gods in Valhalla
Skol
Ale from curved horns* ;)
Actions speak louder than words!
-probably a Viking.
Skol
skol
Skaul would be closer
Dankuz M33mus Maximus nope... Skål...
Skål!
skål
There was this Viking dude named Saxo, who travelled around Scandinavia (though mainly Denmark) and collected stories of the Vikings and experienced some himself. He wrote comical version of these down. There are for an example these great stones...
Here is something you missed,
The vikings didn't spend 90% of their time raiding but rather trading.
If the trade was bad well then they raided to compensate.
And there are records but most of them are in one of the scandinavian languages and has never been transelated to English.
And Most accurate documentarys are in one of the scandinavian languages.
Yep, most norsemen didn't write, much less most Vikings. Things went by word of mouth or in rare cases in runes, which usually went for remembering the most notable warriors.
Don't forget the Runestones
The runestones became most popular right after the Vikings were Christened, so the vast majority of them are post Christianity. The ones before that are generally short and self-praising, saying things like: I am Gudrok, conqueror of Goths and Women, Yagagagagag!
Carewolf There are a couple that are pre-christian but their meaning has never been properly deciphered. Most are three word phrases that make no sense like "Force balance push" or stuff like that
@joshua glover LOL.
joshua glover FUS RO DAH
We went from very informative to a fever dream within 2 years... Oh how has this channel changed.
Thank you for making this video. It pains me that even tho the vikings weren't big on literacy people have such a warped view on the viking age.
This is the most accurate (info-video) i have seen on youtube
Points out early on that Vikings did not actually have horned helmets: Uses Dovahkin horned helmet to represent Vikings for the rest of the rest of the video.
It's because that's all pop culture can see when you talk about nords, is skyrim. Funny, i remember playing morrowind and picking a Nord just because they were an actual thing. What's worse: skyrim has been used to teach youth about scandinavian culture... up next, we teach youth about American culture using Duke Nukem as a learning tool. Just wait, it will happen.
DirtCrak
"Skyrim used to teach" If you even make a search that broad in a simple google search, you'll see articles that refer to Rice university and Texas university using the game to teach about Norse mythology. I don't know why people still cry "citation needed" with Google right there... It's not hard.
DirtCrak
Yes, because western fantasy culture is primarily influenced by Norse mythos, and the most notable additions to western fantasy culture (D&D and Lord of the Rings) are based primarily on Norse mythos to the point that Gandalf is an Odin allegory. Skyrim is being used as a tool to teach about Norse mythos, including the sagas and eddas. It is still being used as a teaching tool.
Even in my friends courses (he's studying to be an astrophysicist), one of his professors pulls up the game Elite Dangerous as a visual aid to help show the students how celestial bodies form around red dwarves as opposed to blue hypergiants. In this case, the game is being used to teach astrophysics.
For example: Jarls, Thanes, House carls and thralls are all properly represented social classes in skyrim. The architecture of the houses is very similar to what is known about Scandinavian architecture. Even when it comes to learning about mead, the game gives information regarding the subject, at least enough to serve as a teaching aid.
There is actually little in the game regarding accurate mythos, though, aside from the droughr and trolls. Dragons existed, but only to hoard gold in mythos. Giants are just big cavemen.
Then again, the article i read also referred to the witcher as the game used in reference to mythos and not skyrim.
Either way, i digress. Whether it's The Witcher, Skyrim, Dragon Age or even the older Neverwinter Nights, its use as a teaching tool means that the game is being used to teach a subject, even if just briefly.
No, western fantasy culture is not. I assume you're talking about more modern ones, since earlier ones you're talking about local regional fantasy, not an generalized "western" that did not exist back then. It is influenced largely by diversity and borrowing from multiple sources, befitting of the renaissance and explorer mentality of the colonization and imperialist eras (basically, from the contact with other cultures). Norse is one of those influences (often through their more generalized Germanic roots), not the primary one. LotR which you mention, for example, is primarily Christian (one actual god, several angelic like figures that men sometimes called gods, with hints from multiple other cultures in the presentation - basically Tolkien reconciliating Christianity and multiple religions, given that in LotR the world is supposed to be our own many many years ago). Gandalf is no Odin allegory, he only shares a few aspects (specially visually, even though the depictions he borrows from are not from the viking era but much later). DnD is a LotR copy on steroids, pulling even more influences from everywhere (it has Finnic gods, Slavic gods, Egyptian Gods, and Germanic gods, among so many others it hurts to be reduced to that).
Either way, being used as a tool to teach doesn't mean much - spit and chalk are teaching tools, anything can be a teaching tool as long as it can assist, somehow someway, your explanation. By itself, that aint relevant.
Louis Victor
D&D has its roots in Norse mythos and began appending other cultures as time went on. Many English legends like the dragon are derived from northern Germanic roots. Yes, They later expanded to encompass other old religions. This idea of one actual god and several angelic like beings that are sometimes referred to as gods... that's not a Christian allegory, that is the Norse pantheon of Odin and the "lesser" gods. Gandalf fell with the balrog and came back later ascended with the knowledge he gained. The time he spent was short but felt like an eternity (by his own words) and this is meant to represent Odins nine days hanging in the branches of yggdrassil to gain knowledge of the runes, a significant transformation in his saga.
As far as western mythos being influenced by Norse mythology, might i remind you that Yuletide used to be Juletide and Santa with his eight reindeer is largely taken from Odin and his eight legged horse, being able to see all through his hall of vallaskjalfr. Even santa clause has its origins as a Norse/Germanic god. Our cardinal directions are even named for the four dwarves that are said to hold up the sky. I'm sorry, But ancient Norse, Celtic and general Germanic practices permeate every facette of the western world because they are just as integral to its history as the greek, Roman and general Latin influence is.
The architectural influence is primarily gothic in lotr... because it's fantasy and gothic architecture works just as well as elves, dwarves, trolls, dragons, merfolk, runes, etc.
Google Fafnir and keep Smaug and the one ring in mind... tell me if anything starts to seem similar. Even the names of many of the characters resonate of the sagas and eddas.
Are you really going to sit there and brush all this off as a Christian reference? How much do you actually know about Norse mythos compared to Christian mythos?
skyrim belongs to the nords!
Milk-Drinker
DIE IMPERIAL!
Not a Pinecone LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE
no lollygagging
xFade26 imperial milk drinker!
And then came Ivar the Boneless ...
the chosen one
In the show = mommy's little boy
In real life = i don't know, i wasn't there at the time to meet him.
(Man, fuck this 21 century stuff unfortunately i can't "imma head out to the past" )
@@snake9098 you still have time to delete that comment
@@Andreas-um4bk Fuck it
I loved Ivar... But he went obsessed with power 😣
Thank you for pointing out the horn misconception. It came from a painting in the 1800's that portrayed Vikings with horned helmets
You never said anything about viking traders.
iwillbehappy because the term *viking* refers to someone going overseas *raiding*
Actually that is a misinterpretation by Christians. The words Viking is derived from was actually a reference to a traveler or explorer.
The original words where a noun and a verb, The noun "Vikingr" meant The person traveling for adventure, and "Viking" To travel or participate in one of these adventures. The literal translation of Vikingr is actually "man from vik" Vik is not known but likely meant either a bay, or a specific bay called Viken in south norway.
Birki gts Damn Christians.. btw , i think it would make more sence for it to be 'man from vik' as a broader term. Would be kinda wierd if all vikings were from viken..
Yeah, but that could just mean that the first vikings where from viken and the name stuck, but i agree, just vik makes more sense
You're completely right about that statement. Vikings, as all other raiders at that time, choose the attack the settlements that currently were undefended or easily beaten by brute force. If those requirements weren't met, the Vikings usually decided to try to trade with the indigenous population in that area, further expanding their reputation as a culture of free trade and businesses with other cultures. Swedish archaeologist have actually on Brika, the major trading place of the Vikings, discovered people who in fact had cut small furrows in their teeth. These markings are believed to be a mark of status and a sign that the person were highly influential in the trading sector of the Viking culture.
As all cultures at that time, Vikings liked their slaves and didn't shun from turning human trafficking into a profit. The city of Birka, long being believed to house only trade and warriors have been proven, by Swedish archaeologist to actually not be that idyllic prosperous society that the popular belief indicates that it was. Being a Viking was a job, not a cultural group such as Nords are. That's is why it's also important to further shed some light on the fact that the people living in Birka ranged from Vikings, to slaves and craftsmen from all across Europe, the northern parts of American and the Middle east.
(I know that I kinda went over board in this comment and would like to apologies for the fact that I use this as a excuse to procrastinate.)
The sudden increase in viking migration and travel outside of Scandinavia has been linked to the simultaneous increase in population in the region. This would've led to the centralization of many viking realms and general violent upheaval as the already sparse land in the area got crowded and heavily contested.
So the viking migratory period can be looked at as the search for new land to cultivate and live on outside of Scandinavia as well as the search for increased power and a better quality of life inside Scandinavia through accumulating wealth, either by raiding or trading.
hognigk96 dude scandivia is huge most of northern sweden and norway is almost uninhabitted.
Andreas Rasmussen.. Don't worry about that, the Islamic hordes that now roam the Scandinavian cities destroying the culture while raping the native women will soon force the native population to leave their once beautiful cities and relocate into the uninhabited areas.. The Viking spirit is well & truly dead.
So Christianity was your enemy but Islam has things to teach you... about Freedom & Liberty? Islam? "Caliphate" Islam? I mean yeah, they were at times pretty tolerant but that's about as far as you can push it.
@@romulus3345 Oh, be quiet with the propaganda
Gone but not forgotten! I live in yorkshire and 100's of towns, villages and surnames were named by vikings. Many english words came from vikings, especially in yorkshire dales (york from jorvik, dale means valley) and much of our dialect too.
This video can't be taken seriously, because Viking was a job description, not a people.
I like the new art style, but I feel like the old one was a bit better, as it was a bit sharper and rougher. Just my opinion, hope you'll take it into account
Abud Khaleel Kinda like how I liked the old Man City crest more than the new one.
FutbolVinotinto21 I think this ones better plus it's like our original badge
I miss the old style to, it made thinks look simple and more understandable
No I think the current ones better
Agreed. The old style is much simple and better
There are more days then just Thursday that the Vikings gave us:
- Sunday = suns day
- Monday = moons day
- Tuesday = tyre's day (Viking god)
- Wednesday = Odin's day (Viking god)
- Thursday = u alrdy know
- Friday = frigga's day (Viking goddess)
- Saturday = saturns day
So u see 4 out 7 day of the week is influenced by he Vikings at least in English
what is friggin god of? Frustration?
6 out of 7 actually. Sunday is named after Sunnr, norse god of the sun, Monday aftre munr, norse god of the moon.
Andy Han no
Sunday = Sun day
Monday = Moon day
Tuesday = Mars day
Wednesday = Mercury day
Thursday = Jupiter day
Friday = Venus day
Saturday = Saturn day
Except none of them are actuallynamed after latin gods except saturday for saturn. The rest are norse/germanic.
Huh?
Why mention Thursday if not Friday? Something against Freya?
not freya ,but frigg odins wife
@@kentnielsen8034 mine German teacher told me that Friday in German Freitag was named after the goddess Freya... 🤔 I need to Google it 😅
It is Frigg's day.
I have a Mjolnir necklace I like to wear. I like learning about Vikings and their mythology. Back when I was in college I was in the campus lounge and this guy said to me "I thought the Christians wipe all of you guys out". That was literally the first thing he said to me and I honestly was not sure how to respond.
Rollo* or Hrólfr* was never made 'King of Normandy'. He was in fact granted the title of Count of Rouen, not even a Duke! You should also have mentioned that the Normans themselves who had a huge impact on Europe (not just in France/England) were descended from the vikings and Rollo. Also much like the Normans who were descended from them, the Vikings did not 'vanish' per say, they adapted. While the Viking Age and their customs ended, their people remained.
Timeforheroes1985 rollo WAS a Duke. Making him a Duke was a the highest honor they could bestow on the defender of the realm. Maybe his lands were tiny (later expanded btw) but still, huge figure
In fact, it's more a problem of traduction... Rollon successor were Jarl, which is the origin of the word earl in english, which french translate to "comte", which is a title under the rank of duc (duke). Beside, the scandinavian equivalent of duke, herting, only appear at the XIII century. But, what is more confusing is when we look at the latin side, rollon was northmanni dux, which is a translation to duke of the men of the north...
People would know that if they just watched "Vikings"
Rollo had also declared allegiance to the French King, and this was a leading cause to the Hundred Years' War. The French King claimed that because the English King was defended from Rollo, the English King was thus a vassal of France. Likewise, the English King declared Normandy to belong to England because William the Conquer, descendant of Rollo, was the Duke when we invaded England in the Norman Conquest.
the hundred years war came centuries after rollo reign... the time was so long french managed to change of king dynasty, while Guillaume of Normandie (or William for englishspeaker) was taking the crown of england.
The hundred years war started because there it was already some bad blood about some vassal land of the king of england in France, which had already start some war between France and England. The war started when, after the death of Phillipp IV, a succession situation came, leading to a potential english king of France, which was totally illegal toward the sallic law, but didn't forbid the english king to try it anyway.
No Lollygagging
*Lollygagging*
Or regular gagging
*Regular Gagging*
I used to be an adventurer like you...
,but then I had kids and had to stop.
"how the little piggies will grunt when they hear of how the old boar suffered"
They got what they wanted: Their blood is everywhere on the world now. Their blood brought up some of the strongest leaders in history.
The Vikings wouldn't be proud of modern day Sweden.
They would since it's one of the richest countries on earth these days, the Swedish population back then were more focused on trading than on warfare.
Sweden is fairly rich with a declining economy. Sweden also hosts some of the most private loans in the world.
Daddy Sweden has some of the highest growth numbers in Europe and the rest of the industrialised world a Quick check on imf,world Banks,the european union statistik website and OECD will confirm this
I think you all are missing the point, he's not talking about the countries wealth, he's talking about how they are essentially being invaded and are letting the "refugees" take over and curb stomp everything the Swedish culture and people.
You do realize "vikings" were among the first euorpeans to trade with muslims and even on some accounts bring people from the middle east to scandinavia, beyond that they also abandoned their faith and costume for better trade deals so.....
The simplest answer is: Alduin killed all of them and Dovahkiin killed Alduin and he died because he was too old and got sick.
I don't know what I'm saying here.
Hitler, you're not very bright are you?
He is brighter than you'll ever be!
*Coveres self with petrol and lights himself up with match*
Will see about that Rudolph. But then again, nothings brighter then that red nose of yours.
Dragonborn? that's creepy what's so special about that? From what it sounds like it's the most nerdiest kind of beastiality a man can undertake.
Have you ever heard of Skyrim?
I heard they’re playing football up in Minnesota
A lot of Slavs were Vikings. North of modern day Poland had tribes which were Vikings for a long time and helped raid England.
Skyrim belongs to the Nords!
I used to be a viking like you but I took an arrow to the knee
Vikings never used to place horns on their helmets. It is complete fictional, shame.
It would be very inpractical in combat
Harry.. He said that..
No shet Sherlock
But i can Imagine Viking Kings having horned helmets. Probably Not for fighting, just to scare Everyone Encounter him
Wagner's operas in 1800s & subsequent artwork started the horns thing.
Vikings Be Like: It's Sad, I'm Sad, *I wanna be Something.*
Damn I’m watching this anime call Vinland saga and holy shit this history of Viking is too damn close to the anime
weren't the vikings moslty traders though?
Yes but that would contradict the biased opinion of KnowledgeHub wouldn't it? ;)
as far as I understand vikings were first and fore most opportunists. When trading made money they traded, When raiding made money they traded.
The big problem is as said in video, that actually very little is known of viking culture. As in viking culture in nordics etc. All the raids etc. are recorded since the other side remembered them. However that is like writing some nations history only based on the wars they fought.
and there weren't any "vikings" really. Vikings weren't some separate race or ethnicity or group. As such vikings newer disappeared. "vikings" were Nords and Nords still live in Scandinavia. They never disappeared. they just stopped the activity of "viking", which it is more: to be "viking" was an activity done by Nords, not a separate group or person.
You deserve a like. I hate it when people think the word viking refers to the entire people.
ok
Do you get triggered?
You forgot that a viking was a title for a job
No it wasn't. Viking was an activity.
+Amici Nybråten vike - to raid
Viking - act of raiding
No wtf that makes no sense they were called Viking after the Swedish word vike (idk what to call it in English) because they drove with boats to other countries in their vikar (plural for vike) and they traded mostly , Raided only when they was desperate for it.
Viking = pirates,traders,raiders,settlers, explorers
Vik/Vika= man/cove/bay/gold, Vike is not a word
learn to to take 2 secs to google instead making shit up
Angeló Szücs "only" when they were desperate. I guess they were desperate a lot.
Of course I get this when I just started watching The Vikings on Netflix. OF COURSE
me too
4:25 the eye wholes on that viking mask are shaped like the headlights on a Lamborghini Aventador Lp 740-4
If you want to stop misinforming people, stop calling them Vikings - they are Norse. Calling them "Vikings" is like calling Italians "Bankers" because a portion (a rather small one, I might add) of them happened to be of a certain craft. And, uh, you kind of forget that most víkings (their trips) were for trade and exploration - raiding was a smaller part of it, but everybody remembers it because it's a form of conflict.
Thursday is Thor's day because you had the same gods in Anglo-Saxon mythology. You know, shared roots and stuff. More days are named after a Germanic god or goddess - Tuesday is Tīw's (Týr) day, Wednesday is Woden's (Óðinn), Friday is Frigg's (Freyja and Frigg).
A very, very disappointing video. Do better research next time.
well said
the name of the days are different in Scandinavia so we get the norse names. Tuesday and thursday stay the same tysdag (tyr's dag) thorsdag Thor's dag) but you have onsdag-wednesday (odin's dag) fredag-friday (Frey's dag).
also the norse that went raiding where first called norsmen or danes, depending if you where danis or norwegian, but later they got the common name vikings. probably because when they went raiding they called it to go viking. in other words viking was raiding, but the raiders eventually got called vikings.
The Norse words víking and víkingr were separate from the start, however.
point too you
Another important thing is that you technically had Finnic, Baltic and even Slavic "Vikings" so to speak (especially from Saremaa, Livonia and Pomerania), which just furthers the point that "Viking" marks more of a profession than an ethnicity.
So the Vikings got Wololo-ed? #AOE2
There is no WOLOLO in AOE2 except as a chat command
They literally kinda did. They weren't Automatically allies of the Christian kingdoms but they did become a part of the christian world. A threat to individuals, but no longer to the society/Civilization as a whole.
Don't forget Minecraft.
Rogan?
Saxons vs Vikings in AOE2
Saxon send 1000 Monks to battle
"big mega WOOOLOLOLOLOEE"
WOW makes sense! Thursday is Thor's day! Thanks for sharing! Can't wait to put this on the bulletin board at work! Happy Thor's Day!!
Sea-raids are allot more in line with Germanic Paganism than Christianity. The Norse converted and subsequently stopped raiding.
christianity taking the fun out of everything since always
well not really
vikings aren't 'fun', just because you had it in a video today
imagine getting raided by one, your wife raped, your family killed, your wealth gone in a second
fun huh?
Fun? Lmfao Look at this fierce fucking warrior who would shit himself if he found a pitbull passing by him
@@j-ststst7986 damn are u that blinded by hatred for Christians that u don't consider any of his points which are all right but instead be a dick
Satan brings it back.
I am related to the famus Ragnar Loderbrok
I think that the reason the Viking age ended had more to do with the formation of the Scandinavian kingdoms.
Before the first kings, Scandinavia was pretty local and tribal. There was no central government or organised religion which connected people living in the countries together. People living in Sweden could have quite different cultures while at the same time there wasn't a big difference between the people in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Christianity plays a big role, but remember that simply being Christian didn't mean that they wouldn't stop raiding you. Many Vikings would continue to raid villages, churches, monasteries and continue to conquer other people's land even though they had converted. This might seem strange to us in the modern day, why would you attack monasteries, churches and villages if you're a Christian, but back then it was pretty common for Christians to attack villages, monasteries and churches during war. The difference was that raiding wasn't an open declaration of war, but something you did perhaps every summer, which wasn't something the Christian kingdoms in Europe practised. Also many converts didn't realise the implication behind their baptism.
In my view, the emergence of kingdoms is the main reason the Viking Age ended. The start of more centralised governments and opposed to local tribes, the emergence of literature, organised religion and religious figure is what laid the foundation for the modern nation states of Scandinavia. The reason people feel Norwegian, Swedish and Danish as opposed to Swedes, Geats, Jyllanders, etc. is because of the more centralisation and stability of the kingdoms that came out of the Viking Age.
Christianity goes hand in hand with this process, but it isn't simply "They became Christian" and then they stopped being Vikings. It is more of them becoming a kingdom which then becomes Christian which then integrates them into Christian Europe, and you don't want to piss off your new friends so you stop raiding them.
Scandinavia had kingdoms before recorded information given and preserved by Christians. In reality the Norse got converted by force. First Norse king of East Anglia was the first baptized Norse king when Wessex defeated him, than it was Harald Bluetooth when Otto invaded Jutland, than Hakon of Norway because he got raised by Chrisitans as a part of peace treaty and Sweden started to Christianize with Olof Eriksson.
What you can gather from this is that the first "non-legendary" king of all of these kingdoms was either a first Christian king of a father of the first Christian king
DEN: Gorm (P) heir Harald (C)
NOR: Harald (P) heir Hakon (C)
SWE: Eric (P) heir Olof (C)
it seems that Christians want the narrative of "Christianity helps nations form and rulers rule".
It just seems that winners who wrote history neatly managed to screw up what came before first Christian king and his immediate family.
Odo of France (Eudes de France) succeeded in resisting Viking attacks (Rollo included) and saving Paris from 885 to 886. This more or less influenced Rollo’s decision to settle in Normandy.
Great video well done
an additional pressure on the Norse culture (viking is a verb roughly meaning to raid), was a drop in temperature toward the end of their era causing many of their crop lands to become unusable. a good example is greenland which was green when they found it (or at least the southern part) and it was important farmland because no one else could get their to raid it. the warm period during which they thrived and expanded ended around 1000-1050.
Haha, they just did whatever the fuck they wanted lmao
No sh*t Sherlock.
The quick play video on the thumbnail for this video on the homepage of YT was just a loop of a Viking hitting a civilian. Nothing else.
Watching this video feels like blowing the dust off an old book and flipping to a random page.
The history channel show Vikings is great entertainment. Some truth, some lore, the rest.... Pure entertainment. :P
Classymaru Nara
It seems like literally everything is liberal sjw propaganda to you nutjobs. Take a break from alex jones for a while. You'll live a more happier life.
Lol one guy calls it fascist propaganda another calls it liberal propaganda. Makes me think they hit the nail on the head.
Ragnar Lothbrok is a wonderful fable though. I wish we knew more about vikings from first hand accounts unfortunately they never left any.
Damn right its a great show!
The characters and the taking over of Britain and them turning on each other is true though :)
I miss the days when the history channel actually told about history
The majority of Vikings where farmers
You can't farm in norther Norway
Most vikings were in southern Norway, near Denmark. Or in Denmark ofcourse
viking was a profession just like a farmer,merchant
NO. They were not😂 as vikings were the raiders and the ones exploring, trading and looting land. The farmers in norway was... well guess what FARMERS
@@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel4638 How do you know they didn't return from raids to harvest their crops.I don't remember them having specific classes of warriors and farmers.Everybody fought for their clan and everybody worked to get their food
I would love you to make a video about my ancestors religion! I read a ton of books on Norse Mythology and they truly are epic! I'd go with Odin as my god any day!
sincerly, a proud Swede❤
my understanding of Vikings has ruined my life
I and my younger brother were watching "how to train a dragon" and one of the lines was "Woah don't lose your guns there!"
I promptly pointed out that guns were made in 1320 and Vikings lived in 793 to 1066 so there would be no way for the character to know what guns are unless she time traveled 300-600 years later and discovered what it is and what its called
Although you addressed the idea that misconceptions around Vikings exists, you didn't really fix the fundamental misconception, which is that The Vikings were a warrior-raider society. Being a Viking was a job title. You raid and travel, but your home village probably has a smith, farmers, traders etc. and not everyone from that region was a full time Viking.
Yes!!
Wish he had touched on this important misconception. Thanks for saying something.
Vikings didnt really disappear, we evolved. Its like religion; christianity now has nearly nothing to do with christianity a 1000 years ago. Concepts and ideas just evolve into what can survive. But I guess "viking" as the term for actions a people from a specific region did ended.
Øystein A. >we
Øystein A. True
Bryndleson oy vey
Well, im Norwegian. Viking is a (less then awesome) part of my nations history, so I tend to say "we".
VIkings are awesome
I remember when this channel did educational stuff
The Vikings are just like other human. They only did what they do because they have to. They're not always violent conqueror and explorer, once they find what they need, they went back to normal.
Not very accurate or in-depth. Right off the bat, "viking" isn't a culture or a people. It meant explorer in *Norse*, which was the culture of the Scandinavian peoples (or at least very generally). Calling them Nords is also not accurate, since nobody called them that including themselves. The Norse were originally farmers, and only begun spreading due to overpopulation and the want of better farming lands. As someone else said, the "Viking Age" starting and ending in England is not true, and stems from a bias towards English writing (due to us speaking English of course, but still unfair). Many Scandinavians did grow and groom their beards, and saying that "not all Vikings had beards" actually makes it sound like not many did. You also didn't mention the method they used to navigate, which I quote from Royal Museums Greenwich: "They looked at the colour of the sea, the way the waves were moving and the way the wind was blowing. They looked out for birds and could smell if they were near land. It's very unlikely that they had a compass, although some Vikings may have used an instrument called a sun-shadow board to help them navigate." Rolo as you called him, (which is spelt wrong by the way, it should be Rollo) was actually known as Göngu-Hrólfr in the old Norse language, which meant Hrólfr the Walker. It wasn't "Totsig Godwinson" either, it was Tostig Godwineson. It was Harald Harðráði as well, not Harold Hardrada. Harðráði roughly translates to stern or hard ruler in English. Finally, and again, saying the Viking Age begun and ended in England is biased towards English language speaking sources. It arguably ended before or up to a couple hundred more years after 1066.
Basically, if you are going to be telling people about the "Vikings", maybe get your facts straight first.
Alphrederick Appleby Well then I will be thrilled to see the video that you upload concerning the matter. Since this video is so far from the truth and what not.
Or, you know Krista, it is entirely legitimate criticism by Appleby which anyone who has read a book on the matter would recognize as valid, and criticism places no obligation upon the critic to make a video to correct the object of criticism, when a simple friendly comment will do! It is clear that the uploader spent much more time doing the animations than he did properly exploring the subject. This video is in fact replete with *minor* factual errors, and *major* omissions. That should be pointed out and thank you Appleby for doing so.
Krista Smith
"Look at this house I built" - "That's a badly constructed house, the roof already caved in!" - "I will be thrilled to see the house you can build, since this one isn't good enough"
"Taste this food I made" - "No thanks, the first two people who tasted it died from poisoning" - "I will be thrilled to taste the food you can cook if you don't like this food"
"Hear, I can speak Latin! Ælæaf gsa gakjhna!" - "That's not real Latin!" - "I will be thrilled to hear you speak real Latin..." You get the point.
And Rollo was not King of Normandy but Duke of Normandy
Also there are loads of texts dating back to the viking ages in old icelandic. Don't know where that guy got his facts
Vikings may have been historically a handful, but consider this one fact, they have yet to win a Super Bowl.
Ruiqi Mao And they don't even use native Scandinavian players! Black people standing in a Viking wall? Blasphemy!
Scandinavia at one point actually developed some sort of skull measuring tool to find out who was a "Lesser Race" not so that they can kill them. But to help them thrive.
Kinda ironic considering the fact that the Nazis used this to determine who was a "Lesser Race" and did the exact thing they weren't going to use it for.
Vikings never disappeared.
They just got adapted.
You completely have no idea what the topic of the video is. No one seriously calls themselves a viking anymore. The way of life, culture, and religion has faded into mythology and legend. Therefore, the vikings disappeared.
To the many people in the comments section who got this wrong. Yes, the term "going viking" was originally a verb, but it did NOT only refer to the norse raiders, but every norseman who went exploring/adventuring/seafairing.
A lot of comments stating that "viking traders" wouldn't have been vikings, but simply "norse traders". This is blatantly false. Again, the term viking includes all kinds of travelling/adventuring by norse people, and the vast majority of the vikings were traders, not raiders.
In modern day Norway, the vikings are most known for their extensive trading, not their pillaging and raiding.