If you think the Vikings weren't as bad as the Crusades etc, laugh because this doco is wrong.
If you think the Vikings were really bad, nod wisely because they're right.
I don't think the Vikings were as bad as this makes out, and I'd like to rant about it, but I won't. Goodbye, I'm going to scroll up again to watch the video.
Damn savages, that's what they all were, damn disgusting savages. You don't oppose the word of God, you just don't. A bunch of ravaging heathens. Christians are guided by the word of God, that's why we're successful, their heathenous ways lead to their collapse.
@Patriotpride60 The vikings never collapsed. They just eased out of one way of living and into another, just like every one else has done in the last several hundred years.
@Patriotpride60 Muslims is in a majority in many places across Europe today and their numbers keep growing, Religion is a threat and should be destroyed.
My grand dad of a grand son couple`a century a go. His name was Tom Jefferson, a fine sailor as he was, he ventured up to the Norwegian coast. While fishing in the open sea, he saw a mighty ship on the horizon, a mighty fine ship indeed. The men on the ship boarded his boat and gang-raped him mercilessly. Needless to say i can`t blame poor Tom Jefferson for killing himself to this day.
Human sacrifice is an ancient ancient ancient form of honor to a god. They treat it like some sort of sick murder. People used to fight to be sacrificed, only the best people were sacrificed, you had to earn it. What the hell kind of archeologist is this woman??? Oxford must have a shit History department.
Finnish Kven kings gave birth to Norway, Sweden and Russia - but not only to them. The quite recent Rurikid DNA test fully supports what the Norse sagas and other medieval accounts reveal:
Based on medieval sources, the ruling families of England, France, Iceland, Ireland, Normandy, Norway, the Orkney Islands, Russia, Scotland and Sweden - among many others - descended from the Finnish kings of Kvenland and Finland.
@swissdeath13 And golly gee. The varangian guards being the Emperor's body-guard demonstrates how civilized they were. NO. Just the opposite. Case and point Harald Halrada. They weren't hired because they were good men. They were hired because they were strong muscle and the Byzantines knew that. And Vikingr ARE raiders. Norsemen =/= Vikings as Vikings are pirates, Norsemen are an ethnic group.
@swissdeath13 The Crusade weren't christianitys fault...there is no basis in it for such violence. It goes back to the greed of men. The men who started the crusades were politicians, greedy popes, and landless nobles wanting an excuse to take eastern lands and raise armies. That would have happened with OR without christianity. What would not have happened is men like this: "I do not believe that the same God that gave us reason and intellect would wish us to forgo their use." (Galileo)
@bayarearorbust because they murdered In the name of god silly they were " saving the holy land from heathens and sinners" it was gods will didn't u know?. They were pardoned of any sins like killing any Israelites adultery fornication with foreign women murder theft so long as it was in the name of the church.
I think that it is a little wrong to talk about Lindisfarne and then go to Sweden and look at the artifacts there :S the vikings that raided Lindisfarne were from Norway and Denmark..
@BayAreaOrBust I'm sure you can find a ton of videos about that topic but this is about viking raids. Two entirely different chapters in grizzly human history.
I am so sick of hearing that the Vikings were heathen brutes who killed and raped and thrived in bloodlust! As if Christianity and Islam hasn't brought mass-killings, suffering and war to the world for centuries? That's a bit hypocritical, isn't it? To blame the Vikings, their belief and their culture, I mean...
@LazarusGrimm To be fair, from what I've read, viking is a verb. To go viking means to go raiding, killing, or even exploring etc. Vikings were generally pirates. Not all Norse were vikings. Vikings technically are not a specific ethnic group. I've read stories of Irish vikings too, though usually with Scandinavian vikings.
Vikings did not sacrifice humans. The "Holmsburg Hall" theory which suggests this has been disproven; the men found in those graves had been executed, as explained in detail on a runestone found not far from the site.
@wrylie188 sorry you are wrong "The Heimskringla tells of Swedish King Aun who sacrificed nine of his sons in an effort to prolong his life until his subjects stopped him from killing his last son Egil. According to Adam of Bremen, the Swedish kings sacrificed males every ninth year during the Yule sacrifices at the Temple at Uppsala. "
@VikingEsquire what about Adam of Bremen then? not a reliable source either? He was the damn expert of scandinavia at the time and lived during the late viking age. I think he even visited sweden himself as a missionary but not quite sure.
@Ullbritt Remember that Adam was a (christian) missionary during the late 11th century; his studies are influenced by christian belief just as much as Sturlusons were. There are no studies of dark-ages Norse culture from outside of the culture itself (Horned helmets anyone?) that can be trusted because all common belief about the vikings almost completely contradicts the history available from the runestones.
@VikingEsquire Not a "Turkish" king, At the time Odin is said to have walked out of todays "Turkey" the people we today know as Turks didnt excist there.. They didnt arrive into Turkey until the 9th century.
@joonte1010 Ah, well my point still stands: He did not describe Odin as a god, but as a man; and therefore the rest of his works must also be examined critically.
Worlds like "barbaric" and "savagery" is overused in a very annoying way to describe the vikings here, as if the christians were some kind of innocents.
Sure. Because viking raids towards the English coastlike is an outrageous barbaric crime compared to say.. The Crusades.. Or the Spanish Inquisition.
@Andrekky No point....just remember to use events that had happened at that point if you wish to compare the two. Could have used things like the Franks using Catholicism as an excuse to conquer their neighbors or used the constant bloody power struggles of the early church. Thing is though no matter what idealogy it is, someone will find a way to misuse it intentionally or not. I am sure if Atheism ever had a country (Marxist Russia came close) then atheists would do the same thing.
@Andrekky Besides, even you must admit attacking unarmed monks, men who preserved knowledge and the classical heritage, was not only savage but tragic. Monks were the ones who concluded the world was round. Monks eventually learned rudimentary medicine. Monks saved the Illiad, the Odyssey, Plato, and Aristotle. Christianity was a beacon in the darkness of Europe even if people did misuse it. Bet we didn't inherit much from Viking religion...
Perhaps the reason we didn't inherit much from it was because the christians did all they could to wipe it out? Besides, you're wrong, Scandinavia inherited a lot from the old norse religion, since it shaped the mentality that has made that corner of Europe different from the rest.
"Christianity was a beacon of darkness of Europe"? Do you have any idea how many technological and scientific advances that were delayed and stopped because of the persecutions of the church?
Besides, I fail to see how killing a monk would be different from killing any other defenceless civilian, something that people did when they raided at the time, christians as much as anyone else.
Christianity does not have that much to brag with. Not in Europe, nor anywhere else. Do the vikings? Probably not, but then again, they never did bother to spread their beliefs around by the sword. At least they had that much respect for others.
@Andrekky A monk is a learned man. A hoarder of knowledge. Each one that dies, each monastary sacked, was another step away from the future and another back to ignorance. Thousands of book and hundreds of wise men were lost to raids. Imagine if the books that those monks translated had remained intact! Imagine the knowledge that could have gotten a step further on the road to the future. That is what is tragic. All lost for the greed of a jarl and his men.
@TheLueii Of course christianity is the future ever heard of the age of scientific repression? And these so called monks and theyre christian masters were in fact far more greedy (Indulgence letters, church taxes, faking holy artifacts to get more donations.) dont make christianity so much better at least the vikings fought and worked for their money.
@swissdeath13 At least they didn't drive axes into skulls and blood eagle people...and vikings NEVER earned their pay. Honest NORSEMEN did. The Vikings were greedy raiders. And I might point out that when the vikings raided Lindisfarne these practices were not praticed (in I'd say never were practiced by) the majority of monks.
@Andrekky@Andrekky On the contrary. Christianity as a philosophy inspired the Scientific Revolution in Europe and was the force of preservation of knowledge in Europe for over a thousand years. It was afterall the venerable Bede of Lindisfarne that figured out once more the world was round. It was the desire to learn more about God through his creation that drove the monks to learn, and the assumption that the universe was made reasonably that eventually lead too "the Enlightenment."
VIKINGS RULE! (IN FOOTBALL AND IN REALITY) My ancestor was Olga of Kiev, she was a viking princess. she was regent of kiev for her son, svytoslav. Unfortunately, she converted to Christianity!
@TemplarSupport asatron wouldnt have survived until now anyway cause there are so much proof that its not real lol. the only thing thats keeping other religions like christianity and such alive is that there is proof that those people who wrote the book have excisted sorry my bad english im norwegian. anyway, i see my self as a rastafarian, because thats how i live and treat my self, and other people, i see rasta as a life style more than a religion, and yes i welcome muslims?
@TemplarSupport I think you're to stuck on nationalities.. it wasent just Norway went there, denmark went there and Sweden went there. In Sweden you can find runestones where it says swedish vikings went with norwegian expeditions and so on. During the viking age the people in scandinavia didnt really have any diffrences like we have today, and we even spoke thesame language in the whole scandinavia, exept for dialect diffrences ofcourse. And christianity -did- in fact ruin alot in scandinavia.
@filipsspil sorry to dissapoint you but we did, Denmark, Sweden and Norway basicly had thesame language as we all wrote and talked according to the 16 rune system during the viking age. Only diffrence were the dialects. With Scandinavia I mean just those three counties, as Finland is not included in Scandinavia.
Lol the vikings were pagans and so were always singled out as the bloodthirsty raiding scourge of Christian Europe. In reality during the 8th century everyone in Europe were raping and pillaging each other (the Franks for example)
@kattraev Actually Danish Vikings plundered Portland in 789 AD. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle informs us of it.
Granted that the entry also call them Normans, it specifically says "those were the first ships of Danish men which came to the land of the English".
That being said, the victims probably rarely stappoed to ask the attackers' nationality- especially as Nationstates did not exist yet and would not for another 700 or so years, and it is often hard to determine what raiders came from where.
Consider also that in the early 9th century S. Norway answered to Danish Kings, that Haakon Jarl ruled Norway for Harald Gormssen and fought for him against the Germans, and that many of Knud d. Store (Canute the Great)'s men were Swedes. While Slavs and Frisii paid taxes (and thus were subjects off) Danish Kings in early 9th century and that Thorkel the Tall (a Dane) switched his allegiances and possibly served two kings at once, and it gets pretty hard to define who were who.
So, to conclude, all that silly and childish national pride in who did what is simply misplaced. And when meeting it, it tells us more of the poster than of actual events in the past.
I advice to all, especially the flamers and trollers here (and Kattraev is not one- others seem to be though), to broaden their knowledge and read books, and THEN to debate in a meaningful way cause what I see many places on Youtube is disgraceful.
Actually, according to E.V Gordon and A.R Taylor, both Old Norse as well as the culture of the viking era - along with longboats and so on, came from Sweden. If you know of these two men, you'll know that they know what they're talking about.
But I can agree on one thing; The Norwegian Vikings went to the coolest of places. Vinland > Miklagård anyday. :)
@NordenHonor you're a dick, you know that....I told you five times to COMMENT ON MY VIDEO...and like a rude uptight difficult disrespectful schmuck, you keep commenting your silly bullshit on here. You couldn't even be cool, to discuss on my video like I asked you more than once. So I did not read anything you wrote here. I didn't even look at what you wrote here. Because you didn't respect what I said. So I don't care what you wrote...that's why I didn't even read it. Get lost...stupid whiner
@HistoryArchiver No im right, You do not like the facts, You cannot even comprehend the fucking truth you retarded monkey.
Stick too your own fucking Yankee history, But don´t you lay a finger on ours, You are not part of it, I do not care about your missbegotten ancestry nor about you as an individual.
The truth is this, Sweden had more "Vikings" then you could ever comprehend.
You fucking Anti-Swedish retard racist cunt, Piss off and die.
@NordenHonor lol... I'm NOT "anti-Sweden". I'm PRO Sweden. You're arguing against yourself. I LIKE Sweden. I said that Vikings came from Sweden too. I said that. But you got stupid and ignorant about the word "Germanic". The word "North Germanic" IS APPLIED TO DENMARK, NORWAY, ETC. That's just a fact, you can check on Wikipedia, Britannica, or anywhere else. I asked you NICELY in the beginning to go to my video and bring the discussion THERE. But you kept ignoring, and kept writing here.
@HistoryArchiver You stated several fucking times that the vikings only came from Norway and Denmark, Then you changed it into "Some vikings came from Sweden" etc, Define "Some" and please by all meens do define "Denmark Norway and Sweden" considering Denmark was the first Scandinavian nation to be unified and that took place at the end of the Vikings age, When the viking way was all but dying.
@NordenHonor you have me confused with someone else. I NEVER said...NOT ONE TIME...on this page that "Vikings only came from Norway and Denmark". I never said that! I did NOT say that on here. I never said "only". Where do you see that from me? Are you hallucinating? Maybe that's the problem. You think I'm that other guy or something. LOL..... I never said "only". In fact...my very first comment was "some came from Sweden too." That was my FIRST comment here !!!! You're confused.
@NordenHonor Actually Denmark was unified from 800 AD, probably much earlier; Ulf Näsman reckons as early as 600 AD.
The fertility of our soil and the easy and fast access to everywhere from sea sort of made it natural that we unified much earlier then both Norway and Sweden.
@HistoryArchiver 7. There are more than 1000more runestones located in Sweden, Most of whom can be found in Uppland/Sweden, The majority of these are Memorial stones to Warriors who died in the East.
8. One of the oldest still standing towns in Scandinavia is Sigtuna/Uppland, The largest town in Scandinavia was Birka until its fall.
9. The legend of Beowulf is a Swedish/Geatish/Danish legend, Beowulf himself was of Geatish birth and later became the king of the Ynglings.
@HistoryArchiver 4. Rurik Rus and his sons enters the Varangian gaurd, Byzantic sources tells the most varangian gaurdsmen were Rus, And most Slavic sources states that the Rus came from the Nordic lands accross the Baltic sea, Their home was Birka and they were a great sea fearing people ( Nestors chronicles ) For example.
5. The Bystine empire is attacked several times by Swedish and Geatish rus, ( Pre-Varangian )
@HistoryArchiver 1. Odin founded Sigtuna, The Rus of Birka was the sons of Freya, Snorri sturelsson´s Havamal describes the Geats and Swedes on Several occations.
2. The largest Asatru temple in Scandinavia was located in Uppsala Sweden where now the Uppsala Cathedral stands, The oldest Norse clan belived too be the Yngling clan was centered in Uppsala.
3. The Eastern trade routes were dominated by the Swedes and Geats, Rurik The Rus helped orginize the Eastern tribes.
@HistoryArchiver Mainly? In what way you fucking retard. Sweden have the most Vikings findings in the entire North, Most Runestones, Most Burrial sites scattered all over Sweden. As i said, Their main route was eastwards through the Rivers of todays Russia towards.
@HistoryArchiver Thats only a modern view of it, Scandinavians are called "north-Germanic" even thou most of us dont share the same origin as they. Scandinavians are of I1 origin and thus a different people as i claimed in my previous comments.
@HistoryArchiver The closest relatives to the I1 haplogroup is the ancient Greece genes J1 and even some of todays Greece people. This might come as a surprise to you im sure. But if you read the Norse sagas you might get some hints to why it is like this. Accourding to the Ynglingaätten saga Odin and hes people arrived to Scandinavia or more specific to Sweden (Todays Uppland/Uppsala) were he settled down. He came from Turkey and back then the turks didnt live there but probably Greece ppl.
@HistoryArchiver Stop read from Wikipedia,Wikipedia isnt trustworthy, If you want some real facts buy a book. The Germanic blood type is R1b, In Scandinavia I1 is the most common haplogroup (Also known as the Nordic Genes or the Viking genes), Scandinavians might speak a language close related to the Western Europeans but we look different from them. We have our own unique look and our origin is different from theirs aswell (Germanics and Slavs).For more information look at Eupedia and Genetics
@joonte1010 (2nd) Wikipedia is not perfect, but it's trustworthy enough, and goes by sourced and verified citations, and neutral point of view as much as possible...and again I said LOOK AT THE REFERENCES AND SOURCES THAT ARE ON THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE. It's not just "Wikipedia", but this fact is known. That Scandinavia IS considered "Germanic", North Germanic, etc. That's just a fact. It seems that you didn't know this. Anyway, if you want to continue this discussion, go to my video....thanks
@HistoryArchiver Its not a fact, You are to ignorant about this. Did you even look at Eupedia(Genetics)? Scandinavia is I1, Not of the Germanic R1b haplogroup. Today however Scandinavia is considered as a North-Germanic place even thou we have litle to nothing to do with countries such as Germany,England,France e.t.c. They are a completely different people by origin (A people that originated from the Indo-Europeans just as the Slavs).
@HistoryArchiver Some in Sweden? Sweden have the biggest Viking findings in entire North, Eastern Europe was the Swedish Vikings route were they created a thousend mile trading network to Byzantium and Bagdad, They founded the Kievan Rus and Founded the Varangian Guard. They had rich slave trade in the East aswell, Something Arabic eyewittnesses wrote about. Sweden also have by far the most Runestones and Viking graves scattered all around Sweden. So you better educate yourself more.
Fun little video, but like most info on the norse, it ignores the fact that all of the groups of that time were pretty vicious and practiced slavery. And one execution as proof of human sacrifice? Come on, the Brits slaughtered fifty naked norsemen in one pit. The Norse used an early form of shock and awe. They also were not into wholesale slaughter. You can't sell a dead body for much now can you? The didn't need Sun-Tsu to teach them to fight.
They fought eachother fiercely at times, but most of the time they got along. Take Iceland, lot's of celtic blood still up there. A fine mix of Norse and Celtic.
Maybe that is why we Norwegians are so fond of the Irish even to this day.
OK I know this is not the Atlantis ep but WTF IT IS NOT NOT in fucking greece.if it was don't you think PLATO would have known?it's his fucking country GOddamnit!!!!
We are still alive, we are spreaded around many countries and mostly Scandinavia, of course, our land. We are still pure, strong and brave, just asleep but waiting to wake up from oblivion. I belive in a day, not far from today, when Vikings will wake up again, celebrate their roots, make a single kingdom in Scandinavia and be a unique nation as we deserve, with no racemixing and no hypocrites and spineless between us anymore.
Be proud my brothers: our blood is pure, our history is legend.
But proud of what?!? These ignorant, uncivilized, sub-animal monsters destroyed the great civilization built by the Romans and the Greeks in centuries. Thank God they were defeated in the end.
@salvyy Roman and greek? First of all get ur fucking facts straight you un-educated moron, The roman´s had allready fallen at the hands of the Goths, The goths who were abused by the romans in the first place, Second the greeks had nothing to do whit central and northen europe, The empire during that time was "The holy roman empire" wich was a German empire, And its king charlamagne murdered THOUSENDS of Germanic Pagans, So he can suit himself!
@SvitjodsWarrior Uneducated moron? Silly boy, what has your meaningless country given to this world? What have the horrendous, uncivilized, sub-animal Viking monsters done to make Europe progress? Nothing at all. The Vikings will always be remembered for their absurd violence and for having brought the great city of Rome to collapse. Nothing else.
@salvyy The Vikings never fought the Roman Empire. I don't think there were any Vikings (not as we know them today) at that time the Roman Empire ruled most of europe.I believe it was the tribes in the French and German area who brought the city of Rome to collapse. The Vikings lived far further north (Scandinavia). But, i agree with you. Rome was very civilized and i think it was a shame that it had to fall. It was like Europe fell back some hundred years.
@Cromag3 the social evolution came to an stop with the roman empire, they treated women like whores and thought that they could rule everything, even people, and do you belive the colloseum was civilized? at times they even trew civilians down to the animals and gladiators, and the gladiator sport made many animals extinct, i understand your comment, and someways they where a bit civilized but not before there time, so i must diagree with you on this point.
@salvyy Oh shut the hell up you italian dog, Your italy have done nothing to anyone, You even can´t fight a propper war whitout failing, And no you weren´t the Romans.
The vikings colonized Vinland,Iceland,Greenland, Set the foundations of modern day Russia and formed the Kievan Rus, We also created the first longterm tradelines between the far east and the far north.
You italians on the other hand, have made pizza and spagetti, Thats it.. Now piss of from a Video about the vikings.
@SvitjodsWarrior I am sorry, brother, I never waste my time arguing with ignorant people like you. Enjoy your ignorance: it really is a bliss.
P.S.: FYI, the modern Italians have colonized the world, permanently, with pizza & spaghetti, without having to wage wars. You find those things everywhere in the world. That's called cultural colonization. Where are you from? I am sure that people living far from Europe not even know that your country exists.
@salvyy Technically the vikings had a dish HIGHLY similiar to pizza that was invented HUNDREDS of year before modern pizza. All the italians did was steal the idea and call it theirs, much like the romans did with ALL of the weapons they found barbarically conquering areas that did not need to be conquered. You Italians, back when you were called "Romans", slaughtered people in a gigantic colleseum in front of thousands, yet you say people who raided a small number of towns "barbaric". Piss off!
@Slajjin "All the italians did was steal the idea and call it theirs, much like the romans did". You ignorant fuck, when my great Roman ancestors spread civilization all around the world, created water systems, roads, bridges, modern cities, invented the calendar and a legal system that we still use nowadays, your ancestors were fucking goats and eating shit in the mountains. You cannot compete with me, motherfucker. Your country was and is still worth less than 0. Go shove a pizza up your ass.
@salvyy Yes yes and Rome got smashed and destroyed by germanic warriors (Goths ) that originated from Scandinavia (How ironic!) Now go and eat a banana or something.
@joonte1010 Norway was, up until recently, extremely homogenous. Admittedly that guy is a fucking retard, but if any country is more "Viking" It's Iceland, then Norway, purely because of the homogenous populations.
Not that it means shit, Scandinavians today are nothing like their ancestors.
@Arnebananlolo Norway still have alot of I1 genes (38% of its population) Sweden have 42%, Denmark barly have any I1 genes at all, Mostly R1b. Yes all of the people in Iceland have ancestory back to the Viking age, But dont forget that they are all mixed aswell with the slaves they brought with them. Sweden and Norway have alot more I1 genes than the Icelanders today.
The reality is, the Vikings weren't that different to any other group around the world. Sure, they were effective in some of the things they did, but so were the Mongols, Chinese, Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans, etc. They weren't more brutal than anyone else - everyone raped, murdered and burnt down villages in those days. Civilised war didn't exist until recently.
And sheesh, who cares about "Viking blood"? Sharing genes with people who died centuries ago makes no difference to one's life...
Civilised war????? What do you mean? The Romans and the Greeks DID have rules when it came to battle conduct and diplomacy. That never prevented them or any other army in History from raping, murdering, plundering or burning down villages tows and cities. That's war. WWII and the Vietnam war have no reason to envy the Mongols or Vikings. Capito?
I personally think the people today closest to the Vikings are from Iceland. They are taller than ppl in Scandinavia (I have visited all the countries of the north (norden).And also they speak a language very close to the language of the Vikings and don't use family names like we in Europe but kept the Viking tradition of son of or daughter of. And their mentality is quite different.And they wrote the Sagas and Eddas where we have most information of the Viking mentality. Anyone also been there?
Hello from Normandy. I really dislike that many consider the Vikings as some brainless barbarians. This is because of propaganda from English and Frankish Monks. In Normandy we have endless of place names of Viking origins mostly danish but also norwegian.Towns like Dieppe and Orbec are of Scandinavian origins for example. My family name is of Scandinavian origins. As Anquetil is a derivation of Asketill. It is a very common family name in Normandy. This year is our birthday in Normandy 911-2011
Never forget where the gods came from... odin(oden) had been trapped byt vikings in scottland until he showed them what it takes to be a god- refence watch valhalla rising
@frozex1 Finland is geographically scandanavian but Finnish is not a scandanavian language, nor is it indo-european, linguistically and anthropologically they must have come in a migration from the central Russian steppes, beyond the Ural mountains. According to wikipedia, one of the first mentions of 'Finland' is on a Swedish runestone from the 11th century, well after the vikings had been active in northern europe. Nice use of the word 'heil' you fake neo-nazi, do your homework next time.
@horriehomepage Neo-nazi? w00t? where did i write i was a nazi haha? Was it cause i said "Heil"? I suggest you do your homework next time you write something like this. The word Heil didnt come from the nazis you moron ^^ Ever heared about fortune Rome? "heil cesar"?.. think again.
@frozex1 You forget your vikinger brothers who stayed in Britain. I just discovered that both sides of my family line trace back to the Norsemen :):) Im here to find my roots ;)
Finland isn't a viking land. If there was people with a viking herritage there. They will probobly have a connection to Scandinavia. Which Finland isn't part of either. Finnish people have more in common with Sami people. It wasn't before 1200+ that Sweden took over most part of Finland. And after that given to the Russian Empire.
@HASLUM well as you say Finland isn't a Viking "country" but there probebly were Finnish vikings. on wiki it says that Finns participated in commerce and plundering. And sami people came along on viking raids. And there was a king if i dont remember wrong who married a Sami girl. ;)
Guys. Just watch the video.
If you think the Vikings weren't as bad as the Crusades etc, laugh because this doco is wrong.
If you think the Vikings were really bad, nod wisely because they're right.
I don't think the Vikings were as bad as this makes out, and I'd like to rant about it, but I won't. Goodbye, I'm going to scroll up again to watch the video.
AmuletBunny 1 week ago
Damn savages, that's what they all were, damn disgusting savages. You don't oppose the word of God, you just don't. A bunch of ravaging heathens. Christians are guided by the word of God, that's why we're successful, their heathenous ways lead to their collapse.
Patriotpride60 1 week ago
@Patriotpride60 The vikings never collapsed. They just eased out of one way of living and into another, just like every one else has done in the last several hundred years.
cripplecog 1 week ago
@Patriotpride60
Your comment me lol, and I am thoroughly amused. Thanks alot! Be sure to inform me if you spout any more nonsense here, it's a funny read. :)
Btw, old classic; Your god was nailed to a cross, my god has a hammer. :)
Andrekky 5 days ago
@Andrekky You God doesn't exist.
Patriotpride60 5 days ago
@Patriotpride60 hmm, Does your god excist? I havent seen him or heard him? You Americans are so backward and primitive.. Fucking rednecks.
In Europe we were once like you.. 800 years ago.
joonte1010 3 days ago
@joonte1010 Most of Europe is religious.
Patriotpride60 2 days ago
@Patriotpride60 Not in the same lvl as trash like you - If you are reffering to all those Muslim scums here then you are correct.
joonte1010 2 days ago
@joonte1010 Muslims aren't even a fraction of Europe, I'm talking about Christianity.
Patriotpride60 1 day ago
@Patriotpride60 Muslims is in a majority in many places across Europe today and their numbers keep growing, Religion is a threat and should be destroyed.
joonte1010 23 hours ago
@joonte1010 Areas such as?
Patriotpride60 20 hours ago
@Patriotpride60 But these men were guided by the words of their gods, so the actions of the vikings were in fact justified.
danifreakadora 2 days ago
We are not finished yet.
We will destroy Islam.
scholion 1 week ago
fuck yeah kill those christian fucks.
shinobitech13 1 week ago
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My grand dad of a grand son couple`a century a go. His name was Tom Jefferson, a fine sailor as he was, he ventured up to the Norwegian coast. While fishing in the open sea, he saw a mighty ship on the horizon, a mighty fine ship indeed. The men on the ship boarded his boat and gang-raped him mercilessly. Needless to say i can`t blame poor Tom Jefferson for killing himself to this day.
sumala321 2 weeks ago
Human sacrifice is an ancient ancient ancient form of honor to a god. They treat it like some sort of sick murder. People used to fight to be sacrificed, only the best people were sacrificed, you had to earn it. What the hell kind of archeologist is this woman??? Oxford must have a shit History department.
tvand 2 weeks ago
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Finnish Kven kings gave birth to Norway, Sweden and Russia - but not only to them. The quite recent Rurikid DNA test fully supports what the Norse sagas and other medieval accounts reveal:
Based on medieval sources, the ruling families of England, France, Iceland, Ireland, Normandy, Norway, the Orkney Islands, Russia, Scotland and Sweden - among many others - descended from the Finnish kings of Kvenland and Finland.
kvenland.org
1010Gisele 2 weeks ago
WE'RE THE GUARDIANS OF ASGAARD!
AdamsTeinz 3 weeks ago
men whose names were made through savagery... eric the red.... well then...
NilDRox 3 weeks ago
@swissdeath13 And golly gee. The varangian guards being the Emperor's body-guard demonstrates how civilized they were. NO. Just the opposite. Case and point Harald Halrada. They weren't hired because they were good men. They were hired because they were strong muscle and the Byzantines knew that. And Vikingr ARE raiders. Norsemen =/= Vikings as Vikings are pirates, Norsemen are an ethnic group.
TheLueii 1 month ago
@swissdeath13 The Crusade weren't christianitys fault...there is no basis in it for such violence. It goes back to the greed of men. The men who started the crusades were politicians, greedy popes, and landless nobles wanting an excuse to take eastern lands and raise armies. That would have happened with OR without christianity. What would not have happened is men like this: "I do not believe that the same God that gave us reason and intellect would wish us to forgo their use." (Galileo)
TheLueii 1 month ago
@bayarearorbust because they murdered In the name of god silly they were " saving the holy land from heathens and sinners" it was gods will didn't u know?. They were pardoned of any sins like killing any Israelites adultery fornication with foreign women murder theft so long as it was in the name of the church.
theperv01 1 month ago
They were nice people :)
1GTX1 1 month ago
I think that it is a little wrong to talk about Lindisfarne and then go to Sweden and look at the artifacts there :S the vikings that raided Lindisfarne were from Norway and Denmark..
ghostmacks 1 month ago
Vikings and bloodshed? How about the blood shed that the Crusades and the Ottomans created?
BayAreaOrBust 1 month ago 5
@BayAreaOrBust I'm sure you can find a ton of videos about that topic but this is about viking raids. Two entirely different chapters in grizzly human history.
MsColdCanada 1 month ago
HROTHGAR!!!
MsEriktheViking 1 month ago
Christianity killed and raped more ppl then Asatro ever did.
abbe2shit 2 months ago
@abbe2shit
Sshh sshh. You hear that?
That's the sound of no one giving a shit.
TheAntiV 4 days ago
I am so sick of hearing that the Vikings were heathen brutes who killed and raped and thrived in bloodlust! As if Christianity and Islam hasn't brought mass-killings, suffering and war to the world for centuries? That's a bit hypocritical, isn't it? To blame the Vikings, their belief and their culture, I mean...
LazarusGrimm 2 months ago
@LazarusGrimm To be fair, from what I've read, viking is a verb. To go viking means to go raiding, killing, or even exploring etc. Vikings were generally pirates. Not all Norse were vikings. Vikings technically are not a specific ethnic group. I've read stories of Irish vikings too, though usually with Scandinavian vikings.
Swidhelm 1 month ago
The vikings invented skiing. They even had ski gods :).
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fuck yea im a viking :D from denmark!
filipsspil 2 months ago
Vikings did not sacrifice humans. The "Holmsburg Hall" theory which suggests this has been disproven; the men found in those graves had been executed, as explained in detail on a runestone found not far from the site.
wrylie188 3 months ago
@wrylie188 sorry you are wrong "The Heimskringla tells of Swedish King Aun who sacrificed nine of his sons in an effort to prolong his life until his subjects stopped him from killing his last son Egil. According to Adam of Bremen, the Swedish kings sacrificed males every ninth year during the Yule sacrifices at the Temple at Uppsala. "
Ullbritt 3 weeks ago
@Ullbritt I Would hardly call the Heimskringla a 100% reliable source, seeing as the same man who wrote it thought that Odin was a Turkish King.
VikingEsquire 2 weeks ago
@VikingEsquire what about Adam of Bremen then? not a reliable source either? He was the damn expert of scandinavia at the time and lived during the late viking age. I think he even visited sweden himself as a missionary but not quite sure.
Ullbritt 2 weeks ago
@Ullbritt Remember that Adam was a (christian) missionary during the late 11th century; his studies are influenced by christian belief just as much as Sturlusons were. There are no studies of dark-ages Norse culture from outside of the culture itself (Horned helmets anyone?) that can be trusted because all common belief about the vikings almost completely contradicts the history available from the runestones.
VikingEsquire 2 weeks ago
@VikingEsquire Not a "Turkish" king, At the time Odin is said to have walked out of todays "Turkey" the people we today know as Turks didnt excist there.. They didnt arrive into Turkey until the 9th century.
joonte1010 2 weeks ago
@joonte1010 Ah, well my point still stands: He did not describe Odin as a god, but as a man; and therefore the rest of his works must also be examined critically.
VikingEsquire 2 weeks ago
Worlds like "barbaric" and "savagery" is overused in a very annoying way to describe the vikings here, as if the christians were some kind of innocents.
Sure. Because viking raids towards the English coastlike is an outrageous barbaric crime compared to say.. The Crusades.. Or the Spanish Inquisition.
As if.
Andrekky 3 months ago 30
@Andrekky or the muslims that commit clirtorectomy to this very day.
082076 1 month ago
@Andrekky Which hadn't happened yet..
TheLueii 1 month ago
@TheLueii
Yeah, I'm sure they were saints before that. Or your point being..?
Andrekky 1 month ago
@Andrekky No point....just remember to use events that had happened at that point if you wish to compare the two. Could have used things like the Franks using Catholicism as an excuse to conquer their neighbors or used the constant bloody power struggles of the early church. Thing is though no matter what idealogy it is, someone will find a way to misuse it intentionally or not. I am sure if Atheism ever had a country (Marxist Russia came close) then atheists would do the same thing.
TheLueii 1 month ago
@Andrekky Besides, even you must admit attacking unarmed monks, men who preserved knowledge and the classical heritage, was not only savage but tragic. Monks were the ones who concluded the world was round. Monks eventually learned rudimentary medicine. Monks saved the Illiad, the Odyssey, Plato, and Aristotle. Christianity was a beacon in the darkness of Europe even if people did misuse it. Bet we didn't inherit much from Viking religion...
TheLueii 1 month ago
@TheLueii
Perhaps the reason we didn't inherit much from it was because the christians did all they could to wipe it out? Besides, you're wrong, Scandinavia inherited a lot from the old norse religion, since it shaped the mentality that has made that corner of Europe different from the rest.
"Christianity was a beacon of darkness of Europe"? Do you have any idea how many technological and scientific advances that were delayed and stopped because of the persecutions of the church?
Andrekky 1 month ago
@Andrekky
Besides, I fail to see how killing a monk would be different from killing any other defenceless civilian, something that people did when they raided at the time, christians as much as anyone else.
Christianity does not have that much to brag with. Not in Europe, nor anywhere else. Do the vikings? Probably not, but then again, they never did bother to spread their beliefs around by the sword. At least they had that much respect for others.
Andrekky 1 month ago
@Andrekky A monk is a learned man. A hoarder of knowledge. Each one that dies, each monastary sacked, was another step away from the future and another back to ignorance. Thousands of book and hundreds of wise men were lost to raids. Imagine if the books that those monks translated had remained intact! Imagine the knowledge that could have gotten a step further on the road to the future. That is what is tragic. All lost for the greed of a jarl and his men.
TheLueii 1 month ago
@TheLueii Of course christianity is the future ever heard of the age of scientific repression? And these so called monks and theyre christian masters were in fact far more greedy (Indulgence letters, church taxes, faking holy artifacts to get more donations.) dont make christianity so much better at least the vikings fought and worked for their money.
swissdeath13 1 month ago
@swissdeath13 At least they didn't drive axes into skulls and blood eagle people...and vikings NEVER earned their pay. Honest NORSEMEN did. The Vikings were greedy raiders. And I might point out that when the vikings raided Lindisfarne these practices were not praticed (in I'd say never were practiced by) the majority of monks.
TheLueii 1 month ago
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swissdeath13 1 month ago
@swissdeath13 And ever heard of the scientific revolution?
TheLueii 1 month ago
@Andrekky @Andrekky On the contrary. Christianity as a philosophy inspired the Scientific Revolution in Europe and was the force of preservation of knowledge in Europe for over a thousand years. It was afterall the venerable Bede of Lindisfarne that figured out once more the world was round. It was the desire to learn more about God through his creation that drove the monks to learn, and the assumption that the universe was made reasonably that eventually lead too "the Enlightenment."
TheLueii 1 month ago
VIKINGS RULE! (IN FOOTBALL AND IN REALITY) My ancestor was Olga of Kiev, she was a viking princess. she was regent of kiev for her son, svytoslav. Unfortunately, she converted to Christianity!
norwegianforestcat11 3 months ago
christianity fucked scandinavia up
yahmanization 3 months ago
@yahmanization finally, an intelligent lifeform
GustavAdolfDenStore 3 months ago
@GustavAdolfDenStore finally the quest for yahmanization comment begins
ixcreme 3 months ago
@yahmanization Wrong! Marxist muslims lover like you fucked scandinavia up
TemplarSupport 3 months ago
@TemplarSupport asatron wouldnt have survived until now anyway cause there are so much proof that its not real lol. the only thing thats keeping other religions like christianity and such alive is that there is proof that those people who wrote the book have excisted sorry my bad english im norwegian. anyway, i see my self as a rastafarian, because thats how i live and treat my self, and other people, i see rasta as a life style more than a religion, and yes i welcome muslims?
yahmanization 3 months ago
@TemplarSupport i only say, christianity fucked scandinavia up at that time.
yahmanization 3 months ago
@yahmanization in year 1000ac Norway could rule europe alone because of our vikings!
all thanks to christianity!
TemplarSupport 3 months ago
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@TemplarSupport lol you make no sence.
yahmanization 3 months ago
@TemplarSupport I think you're to stuck on nationalities.. it wasent just Norway went there, denmark went there and Sweden went there. In Sweden you can find runestones where it says swedish vikings went with norwegian expeditions and so on. During the viking age the people in scandinavia didnt really have any diffrences like we have today, and we even spoke thesame language in the whole scandinavia, exept for dialect diffrences ofcourse. And christianity -did- in fact ruin alot in scandinavia.
SwedishViking1988 2 months ago
no we didnt speak the same language in all of scandinavia.
filipsspil 2 months ago
@filipsspil sorry to dissapoint you but we did, Denmark, Sweden and Norway basicly had thesame language as we all wrote and talked according to the 16 rune system during the viking age. Only diffrence were the dialects. With Scandinavia I mean just those three counties, as Finland is not included in Scandinavia.
SwedishViking1988 2 months ago
@filipsspil old norse... google it
Ullbritt 3 weeks ago
@TemplarSupport
Foolish nonsense. Europe proper was way too powerful for some puny Vikings. They regularly got mangled and hacked to pieces when they set foot here.
levlobotomy 2 months ago
@levlobotomy wrong
FlintKnappinFool 2 months ago
Lol the vikings were pagans and so were always singled out as the bloodthirsty raiding scourge of Christian Europe. In reality during the 8th century everyone in Europe were raping and pillaging each other (the Franks for example)
MikeyXVengeance 3 months ago
Vikings kick ass.
HoundofOdin 3 months ago 2
first vikings came from norway!
kattraev 4 months ago
@kattraev Actually Danish Vikings plundered Portland in 789 AD. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle informs us of it.
Granted that the entry also call them Normans, it specifically says "those were the first ships of Danish men which came to the land of the English".
That being said, the victims probably rarely stappoed to ask the attackers' nationality- especially as Nationstates did not exist yet and would not for another 700 or so years, and it is often hard to determine what raiders came from where.
PalleRasmussen 4 months ago
Consider also that in the early 9th century S. Norway answered to Danish Kings, that Haakon Jarl ruled Norway for Harald Gormssen and fought for him against the Germans, and that many of Knud d. Store (Canute the Great)'s men were Swedes. While Slavs and Frisii paid taxes (and thus were subjects off) Danish Kings in early 9th century and that Thorkel the Tall (a Dane) switched his allegiances and possibly served two kings at once, and it gets pretty hard to define who were who.
PalleRasmussen 4 months ago
Oh and Magnus the Good of Norway ruled both Norway and Denmark with Sven Estridsson (later king of Denmark) as a Jarl till he rebelled.
See... it gets all mixed up.
PalleRasmussen 4 months ago
So, to conclude, all that silly and childish national pride in who did what is simply misplaced. And when meeting it, it tells us more of the poster than of actual events in the past.
I advice to all, especially the flamers and trollers here (and Kattraev is not one- others seem to be though), to broaden their knowledge and read books, and THEN to debate in a meaningful way cause what I see many places on Youtube is disgraceful.
Enjoy it.
PalleRasmussen 4 months ago
@kattraev lol learn ur history
TheDaniiboy 4 months ago
@kattraev
Actually, according to E.V Gordon and A.R Taylor, both Old Norse as well as the culture of the viking era - along with longboats and so on, came from Sweden. If you know of these two men, you'll know that they know what they're talking about.
But I can agree on one thing; The Norwegian Vikings went to the coolest of places. Vinland > Miklagård anyday. :)
Andrekky 3 months ago
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HistoryArchiver 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver Oh and and a re-statement on my part, considering nr 7, Sweden has over 1000 more runestones then Norway and Denmark.
NordenHonor 4 months ago
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HistoryArchiver 4 months ago
@NordenHonor you're a dick, you know that....I told you five times to COMMENT ON MY VIDEO...and like a rude uptight difficult disrespectful schmuck, you keep commenting your silly bullshit on here. You couldn't even be cool, to discuss on my video like I asked you more than once. So I did not read anything you wrote here. I didn't even look at what you wrote here. Because you didn't respect what I said. So I don't care what you wrote...that's why I didn't even read it. Get lost...stupid whiner
HistoryArchiver 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver No im right, You do not like the facts, You cannot even comprehend the fucking truth you retarded monkey.
Stick too your own fucking Yankee history, But don´t you lay a finger on ours, You are not part of it, I do not care about your missbegotten ancestry nor about you as an individual.
The truth is this, Sweden had more "Vikings" then you could ever comprehend.
You fucking Anti-Swedish retard racist cunt, Piss off and die.
NordenHonor 4 months ago
@NordenHonor lol... I'm NOT "anti-Sweden". I'm PRO Sweden. You're arguing against yourself. I LIKE Sweden. I said that Vikings came from Sweden too. I said that. But you got stupid and ignorant about the word "Germanic". The word "North Germanic" IS APPLIED TO DENMARK, NORWAY, ETC. That's just a fact, you can check on Wikipedia, Britannica, or anywhere else. I asked you NICELY in the beginning to go to my video and bring the discussion THERE. But you kept ignoring, and kept writing here.
HistoryArchiver 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver You stated several fucking times that the vikings only came from Norway and Denmark, Then you changed it into "Some vikings came from Sweden" etc, Define "Some" and please by all meens do define "Denmark Norway and Sweden" considering Denmark was the first Scandinavian nation to be unified and that took place at the end of the Vikings age, When the viking way was all but dying.
NordenHonor 4 months ago
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HistoryArchiver 4 months ago
@NordenHonor you have me confused with someone else. I NEVER said...NOT ONE TIME...on this page that "Vikings only came from Norway and Denmark". I never said that! I did NOT say that on here. I never said "only". Where do you see that from me? Are you hallucinating? Maybe that's the problem. You think I'm that other guy or something. LOL..... I never said "only". In fact...my very first comment was "some came from Sweden too." That was my FIRST comment here !!!! You're confused.
HistoryArchiver 4 months ago
@NordenHonor Actually Denmark was unified from 800 AD, probably much earlier; Ulf Näsman reckons as early as 600 AD.
The fertility of our soil and the easy and fast access to everywhere from sea sort of made it natural that we unified much earlier then both Norway and Sweden.
PalleRasmussen 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver 7. There are more than 1000more runestones located in Sweden, Most of whom can be found in Uppland/Sweden, The majority of these are Memorial stones to Warriors who died in the East.
8. One of the oldest still standing towns in Scandinavia is Sigtuna/Uppland, The largest town in Scandinavia was Birka until its fall.
9. The legend of Beowulf is a Swedish/Geatish/Danish legend, Beowulf himself was of Geatish birth and later became the king of the Ynglings.
NordenHonor 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver 4. Rurik Rus and his sons enters the Varangian gaurd, Byzantic sources tells the most varangian gaurdsmen were Rus, And most Slavic sources states that the Rus came from the Nordic lands accross the Baltic sea, Their home was Birka and they were a great sea fearing people ( Nestors chronicles ) For example.
5. The Bystine empire is attacked several times by Swedish and Geatish rus, ( Pre-Varangian )
6. The sons of Rurik formes the Kievan Rus.
NordenHonor 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver 1. Odin founded Sigtuna, The Rus of Birka was the sons of Freya, Snorri sturelsson´s Havamal describes the Geats and Swedes on Several occations.
2. The largest Asatru temple in Scandinavia was located in Uppsala Sweden where now the Uppsala Cathedral stands, The oldest Norse clan belived too be the Yngling clan was centered in Uppsala.
3. The Eastern trade routes were dominated by the Swedes and Geats, Rurik The Rus helped orginize the Eastern tribes.
NordenHonor 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver Mainly? In what way you fucking retard. Sweden have the most Vikings findings in the entire North, Most Runestones, Most Burrial sites scattered all over Sweden. As i said, Their main route was eastwards through the Rivers of todays Russia towards.
joonte1010 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver Thats only a modern view of it, Scandinavians are called "north-Germanic" even thou most of us dont share the same origin as they. Scandinavians are of I1 origin and thus a different people as i claimed in my previous comments.
joonte1010 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver The closest relatives to the I1 haplogroup is the ancient Greece genes J1 and even some of todays Greece people. This might come as a surprise to you im sure. But if you read the Norse sagas you might get some hints to why it is like this. Accourding to the Ynglingaätten saga Odin and hes people arrived to Scandinavia or more specific to Sweden (Todays Uppland/Uppsala) were he settled down. He came from Turkey and back then the turks didnt live there but probably Greece ppl.
joonte1010 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver Stop read from Wikipedia,Wikipedia isnt trustworthy, If you want some real facts buy a book. The Germanic blood type is R1b, In Scandinavia I1 is the most common haplogroup (Also known as the Nordic Genes or the Viking genes), Scandinavians might speak a language close related to the Western Europeans but we look different from them. We have our own unique look and our origin is different from theirs aswell (Germanics and Slavs).For more information look at Eupedia and Genetics
joonte1010 4 months ago
@joonte1010 (2nd) Wikipedia is not perfect, but it's trustworthy enough, and goes by sourced and verified citations, and neutral point of view as much as possible...and again I said LOOK AT THE REFERENCES AND SOURCES THAT ARE ON THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE. It's not just "Wikipedia", but this fact is known. That Scandinavia IS considered "Germanic", North Germanic, etc. That's just a fact. It seems that you didn't know this. Anyway, if you want to continue this discussion, go to my video....thanks
HistoryArchiver 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver Its not a fact, You are to ignorant about this. Did you even look at Eupedia(Genetics)? Scandinavia is I1, Not of the Germanic R1b haplogroup. Today however Scandinavia is considered as a North-Germanic place even thou we have litle to nothing to do with countries such as Germany,England,France e.t.c. They are a completely different people by origin (A people that originated from the Indo-Europeans just as the Slavs).
joonte1010 4 months ago
just because the vikings conquered some lands doesn't make them the best warriors, the Mongols could have kicked their asses
brothachiken023 4 months ago
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brothachiken023 4 months ago
@HistoryArchiver Some in Sweden? Sweden have the biggest Viking findings in entire North, Eastern Europe was the Swedish Vikings route were they created a thousend mile trading network to Byzantium and Bagdad, They founded the Kievan Rus and Founded the Varangian Guard. They had rich slave trade in the East aswell, Something Arabic eyewittnesses wrote about. Sweden also have by far the most Runestones and Viking graves scattered all around Sweden. So you better educate yourself more.
joonte1010 4 months ago
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HistoryArchiver 4 months ago
a true viking would never use an umbrella.
teafourtao 4 months ago
Embrace the Power of the Norse Gods, or Embrace your own Destruction.
cuzgandalfgothigh99 4 months ago
i'm proud to say thier blood runs in my veins
59Hellfire 5 months ago
8:39 Why do they assume these people were sacrificed? How do they know they were not criminals being executed? (genuine question)
This documentary looks very interesting, but it feels somewhat biased to me.
evildeathmonkey1 5 months ago
Eric the Red, Harold Bluetooth, and Johan Hegg.
vincentjurg 5 months ago 19
@vincentjurg My favourite is Leif Ericsson ! Amazing Explorer!
TheRahan100 3 months ago
@vincentjurg
im surprised so many people understood that.
ibanezxiphos700 1 month ago
Fun little video, but like most info on the norse, it ignores the fact that all of the groups of that time were pretty vicious and practiced slavery. And one execution as proof of human sacrifice? Come on, the Brits slaughtered fifty naked norsemen in one pit. The Norse used an early form of shock and awe. They also were not into wholesale slaughter. You can't sell a dead body for much now can you? The didn't need Sun-Tsu to teach them to fight.
robchilders 5 months ago
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zeuslilfucker2000 5 months ago
@IrishJuggaloNinja
They fought eachother fiercely at times, but most of the time they got along. Take Iceland, lot's of celtic blood still up there. A fine mix of Norse and Celtic.
Maybe that is why we Norwegians are so fond of the Irish even to this day.
sespela 5 months ago
@IrishJuggaloNinja Well, They liked their women.
joonte1010 5 months ago
@HASLUM hahaha agreed - more like an ugly sister or something :D
Draggis92 5 months ago
So this is how the rest of europe sees us. Flattering..
RavenHatterWriting 6 months ago 3
A feat of technology that set Vikings apart from each other force, yah doh, they had Bluetooth .....
RzzRBladez 6 months ago 30
OK I know this is not the Atlantis ep but WTF IT IS NOT NOT in fucking greece.if it was don't you think PLATO would have known?it's his fucking country GOddamnit!!!!
fjdoreza69 6 months ago
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TheCossackmate 7 months ago
im a viking f*** yeah
daonlyspud 7 months ago
We are still alive, we are spreaded around many countries and mostly Scandinavia, of course, our land. We are still pure, strong and brave, just asleep but waiting to wake up from oblivion. I belive in a day, not far from today, when Vikings will wake up again, celebrate their roots, make a single kingdom in Scandinavia and be a unique nation as we deserve, with no racemixing and no hypocrites and spineless between us anymore.
Be proud my brothers: our blood is pure, our history is legend.
KingOfUppsala 7 months ago
another shit american documentary
wigarmy 7 months ago
swe <3 :)
graffitidave88 7 months ago
But proud of what?!? These ignorant, uncivilized, sub-animal monsters destroyed the great civilization built by the Romans and the Greeks in centuries. Thank God they were defeated in the end.
salvyy 7 months ago
@salvyy Roman and greek? First of all get ur fucking facts straight you un-educated moron, The roman´s had allready fallen at the hands of the Goths, The goths who were abused by the romans in the first place, Second the greeks had nothing to do whit central and northen europe, The empire during that time was "The holy roman empire" wich was a German empire, And its king charlamagne murdered THOUSENDS of Germanic Pagans, So he can suit himself!
Eat viking steel.
SvitjodsWarrior 7 months ago
@SvitjodsWarrior Uneducated moron? Silly boy, what has your meaningless country given to this world? What have the horrendous, uncivilized, sub-animal Viking monsters done to make Europe progress? Nothing at all. The Vikings will always be remembered for their absurd violence and for having brought the great city of Rome to collapse. Nothing else.
salvyy 7 months ago
@salvyy The Vikings never fought the Roman Empire. I don't think there were any Vikings (not as we know them today) at that time the Roman Empire ruled most of europe.I believe it was the tribes in the French and German area who brought the city of Rome to collapse. The Vikings lived far further north (Scandinavia). But, i agree with you. Rome was very civilized and i think it was a shame that it had to fall. It was like Europe fell back some hundred years.
Anyway, greetings from Norway! :)
Cromag3 7 months ago
@Cromag3 Greetings to you! All the best.
salvyy 7 months ago
@Cromag3 the social evolution came to an stop with the roman empire, they treated women like whores and thought that they could rule everything, even people, and do you belive the colloseum was civilized? at times they even trew civilians down to the animals and gladiators, and the gladiator sport made many animals extinct, i understand your comment, and someways they where a bit civilized but not before there time, so i must diagree with you on this point.
thoraxe79 6 months ago
@salvyy Oh shut the hell up you italian dog, Your italy have done nothing to anyone, You even can´t fight a propper war whitout failing, And no you weren´t the Romans.
The vikings colonized Vinland,Iceland,Greenland, Set the foundations of modern day Russia and formed the Kievan Rus, We also created the first longterm tradelines between the far east and the far north.
You italians on the other hand, have made pizza and spagetti, Thats it.. Now piss of from a Video about the vikings.
SvitjodsWarrior 7 months ago
@SvitjodsWarrior I am sorry, brother, I never waste my time arguing with ignorant people like you. Enjoy your ignorance: it really is a bliss.
P.S.: FYI, the modern Italians have colonized the world, permanently, with pizza & spaghetti, without having to wage wars. You find those things everywhere in the world. That's called cultural colonization. Where are you from? I am sure that people living far from Europe not even know that your country exists.
salvyy 7 months ago
@salvyy Technically the vikings had a dish HIGHLY similiar to pizza that was invented HUNDREDS of year before modern pizza. All the italians did was steal the idea and call it theirs, much like the romans did with ALL of the weapons they found barbarically conquering areas that did not need to be conquered. You Italians, back when you were called "Romans", slaughtered people in a gigantic colleseum in front of thousands, yet you say people who raided a small number of towns "barbaric". Piss off!
Slajjin 7 months ago
@Slajjin Ahahahahahhhh!!! The pizza was invented by the VIKINGS! Ahahahahahaahhhh!!!!!
salvyy 7 months ago
@salvyy I never said they INVENTED pizza, I said they had a dish highly similiar. So die.
Slajjin 7 months ago
@Slajjin "All the italians did was steal the idea and call it theirs, much like the romans did". You ignorant fuck, when my great Roman ancestors spread civilization all around the world, created water systems, roads, bridges, modern cities, invented the calendar and a legal system that we still use nowadays, your ancestors were fucking goats and eating shit in the mountains. You cannot compete with me, motherfucker. Your country was and is still worth less than 0. Go shove a pizza up your ass.
salvyy 7 months ago
@salvyy Yes yes and Rome got smashed and destroyed by germanic warriors (Goths ) that originated from Scandinavia (How ironic!) Now go and eat a banana or something.
joonte1010 7 months ago
@joonte1010 "Now go and eat a banana". I'll have a "Viking" pizza with extra mozzarella, instead :-)
salvyy 7 months ago
@salvyy Actually we were slaughtering gaots untouched by your murderous rages. Your people crucified Jesus. Now tell me who is bad.
Slajjin 7 months ago
this is silly- the Vikings' cutlure did not "die out".
Varangian1915 7 months ago
Greetings from Stronde, from a 100% western norwegian:) the south and bergen has grown soft, fucking urban morons
grisabonden777 7 months ago
This pleases Techno Viking.
Viskproductions 8 months ago
norway 100 % viking. Swedes 50% , Danes 50% Finland NADA VIKING and Iceland are vikings because of their norwegian decent
idarux 8 months ago
@idarux Norway 100% Viking? Sweden and Denmark only 50%? You know that Sweden have the biggest amount of I1 genes among its people right?
joonte1010 8 months ago
@joonte1010 Norway was, up until recently, extremely homogenous. Admittedly that guy is a fucking retard, but if any country is more "Viking" It's Iceland, then Norway, purely because of the homogenous populations.
Not that it means shit, Scandinavians today are nothing like their ancestors.
Arnebananlolo 8 months ago
@Arnebananlolo Norway still have alot of I1 genes (38% of its population) Sweden have 42%, Denmark barly have any I1 genes at all, Mostly R1b. Yes all of the people in Iceland have ancestory back to the Viking age, But dont forget that they are all mixed aswell with the slaves they brought with them. Sweden and Norway have alot more I1 genes than the Icelanders today.
joonte1010 8 months ago
now...why does it have to be sacrifice? why couldnt someone of just really gotten pissed and chopped someones head off?
shirokun002 8 months ago
The reality is, the Vikings weren't that different to any other group around the world. Sure, they were effective in some of the things they did, but so were the Mongols, Chinese, Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans, etc. They weren't more brutal than anyone else - everyone raped, murdered and burnt down villages in those days. Civilised war didn't exist until recently.
And sheesh, who cares about "Viking blood"? Sharing genes with people who died centuries ago makes no difference to one's life...
turduck1000 8 months ago 5
@turduck1000
Civilised war????? What do you mean? The Romans and the Greeks DID have rules when it came to battle conduct and diplomacy. That never prevented them or any other army in History from raping, murdering, plundering or burning down villages tows and cities. That's war. WWII and the Vietnam war have no reason to envy the Mongols or Vikings. Capito?
zakynthea 4 months ago
Im related to vikings......we invented hardcore rape..ftw
toxicblitzTV 9 months ago
@toxicblitzTV You shouldn't be alive.
AnnieNo2 9 months ago
I personally think the people today closest to the Vikings are from Iceland. They are taller than ppl in Scandinavia (I have visited all the countries of the north (norden).And also they speak a language very close to the language of the Vikings and don't use family names like we in Europe but kept the Viking tradition of son of or daughter of. And their mentality is quite different.And they wrote the Sagas and Eddas where we have most information of the Viking mentality. Anyone also been there?
Anquetil79 9 months ago
@Anquetil79 fareao islands to (fail spelling)
bratwurst080808 8 months ago
Hello from Normandy. I really dislike that many consider the Vikings as some brainless barbarians. This is because of propaganda from English and Frankish Monks. In Normandy we have endless of place names of Viking origins mostly danish but also norwegian.Towns like Dieppe and Orbec are of Scandinavian origins for example. My family name is of Scandinavian origins. As Anquetil is a derivation of Asketill. It is a very common family name in Normandy. This year is our birthday in Normandy 911-2011
Anquetil79 9 months ago
finland is slavic,, denmark,sweden,norway are germanic
TheDaniiboy 9 months ago
Never forget where the gods came from... odin(oden) had been trapped byt vikings in scottland until he showed them what it takes to be a god- refence watch valhalla rising
maggotdownwitdaclown 9 months ago
I miss the old history channel 3:
tes4o 10 months ago
@tes4o me too, i wish history channel would still teach history instead of showing stupid shows about loggers and truckers..
williamhad 9 months ago
Hm, shouldn't the Swedes return the loot from Lindisfarme to the Norwegians?
Stealing someone's stolen property is just immoral.
Arnebananlolo 10 months ago
they should put rapist on that list as well.
FightsRightsAlways 10 months ago
even back then we were fighting the N.W.O.
glasseay 11 months ago
Uhtred of babbenburg, the guy who owned the loacal castle was set to protect lindisfarme, im almost positive
PaulkyArcher 11 months ago
Vikings still exist! thay never die out. I'm proud to be swedish! and heil our brother countries Norway Denmark and Finland!
frozex1 11 months ago 55
@frozex1 Finland is geographically scandanavian but Finnish is not a scandanavian language, nor is it indo-european, linguistically and anthropologically they must have come in a migration from the central Russian steppes, beyond the Ural mountains. According to wikipedia, one of the first mentions of 'Finland' is on a Swedish runestone from the 11th century, well after the vikings had been active in northern europe. Nice use of the word 'heil' you fake neo-nazi, do your homework next time.
horriehomepage 11 months ago
@horriehomepage Neo-nazi? w00t? where did i write i was a nazi haha? Was it cause i said "Heil"? I suggest you do your homework next time you write something like this. The word Heil didnt come from the nazis you moron ^^ Ever heared about fortune Rome? "heil cesar"?.. think again.
frozex1 10 months ago
@frozex1 You forget your vikinger brothers who stayed in Britain. I just discovered that both sides of my family line trace back to the Norsemen :):) Im here to find my roots ;)
2manynegativewaves 10 months ago 3
@frozex1
Finland isn't a viking land. If there was people with a viking herritage there. They will probobly have a connection to Scandinavia. Which Finland isn't part of either. Finnish people have more in common with Sami people. It wasn't before 1200+ that Sweden took over most part of Finland. And after that given to the Russian Empire.
So Finland isn't much of a brother really :)
HASLUM 10 months ago 26
@HASLUM well as you say Finland isn't a Viking "country" but there probebly were Finnish vikings. on wiki it says that Finns participated in commerce and plundering. And sami people came along on viking raids. And there was a king if i dont remember wrong who married a Sami girl. ;)
IcyViking 9 months ago
@IcyViking mate its wikipedia everyone can write there and no the swedish viking juse finland to get to russia and down to constantinoble
TheDaniiboy 9 months ago