Only a slight correction: the vast majority of mail in the Viking period was made from a mix of solid and riveted rings. It was also usually lighter than butted mail, due to the strength of the rings coming from the rivets instead of the thickness of the ring. Great video guys!
An 8 foot long spear is fair for a one handed spear of the time, obviously it is based on preference but that is short for a spear of most other time periods.
True, the only whole intact spear find we have measures somewhere between 7 and 8 feet I believe. My point is that the two handed spear they present in the video is really closer to a one handed spear of the time. In fact that same spear has a removable pin we believe was used so you could throw it at the enemy and the shaft would bounce out on impact ao the enemy couldn't throw it back.
I mean kind of. It did bend just below the tip because below the head the shaft was of softer metal. It's still kind of up for debate whether that was because of design, a design flaw, or because of improper handling. I believe it was just cheaper to make them that way since it can use less pure metal and they figured if it did bend when thrown that's a quick repair so it's effective either way.
This video is beautiful! It especially shows the details of the anime saga of Vinland, where the characters just use the similar weapon described in the video. Thank you for it!
Great Demonstration👍👍👍👍👍 Irish Gallowglass mercenaries still dressed in similar types of chain mail up until the dawn of the 1600s, fighting skillfully & ferociously with axes, all while Scottish Highland clansmen were donning such chain mail & also wielding Norse styled axes until the 1650s, if not until the late 1680s in some cases. Great Stuff!! Odin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL Mace. Also your mail shirt isn't correct. The mail found from the Viking Age is round ring and alternates round ring riveted then round ring solid. There was no split ring or open ring mail, that's a modern thing. All round ring riveted mail came later and flat ring riveted mail was not introduced until after the Viking Age.
indeed, since most (almost all) period accurate mail was not only riveted, but they were also flat rings so it should be much lighter than modern round butted mail
Broken back was a Anglo Saxon knife more common to them than the Vikings, vikings had more drop point or straight across knives like a mora. From what I have found in weapon history
Correct, though Anglo Saxon style knives did see use enough for it to considered acceptable kit for a reenactment set. Remember that the Vikings were quite pragmatic, often looting any decent gear they find, and it's not unreasonable for them to pick up a knife in the field and see good use for it.
For anyone interested in the Viking sword, they should see 'The Viking Sword What It Was And Was Not' by Peter Johnsson which in its way is quite amazing. It is a MUST SEE. But don't forget to read the newest comments. Comments from which Peter Johnsson has Run Like A Frightened Rabbit For Over Two Years NOW.
Chain mail likely wasn't common among Vikings, it was almost certainly reserves for the far more wealthy among them. As best we can tell, the majority of Viking likely wore their every day clothes into battle, usually a few layers of thick cloth or fur lined clothing covered by some sort of gambeson like cloth garment; as it happens, the thick winter adornment was relatively effective against weapons.
First lets get that whole "Viking was an occupation not an ethnicity" blah blah thing out of the way, It is generally well known that when someone says Viking they are referring to Germanic raiding culture. What you must understand is that when you say Viking you encompass a very large group of people from a variety of nations and organizations. Early Viking raiders such as those as Lindisfarne in 793 probably did not all have chainmail but thick winter adornment as you have said correctly, although they might have discarded some of this due to the warmth of the southern lands. Those such as the Jomsvikings, who were an elite order of mercenary warriors, deeply devoted to the Norse gods Thor and Odin, during the 11th century most likely all had chainmail equipment as these were professional warriors who demanded large sums of payment for their service.
Recently I came across research regarding bowie knives duels. Seems like although the bowie knife is a good chopper, it was used mostly as a stabbing weapon. It being so similar to the seax makes me think that the seax might have been used in a similar fashion. Specially when they were wearing armour...
isnt that daneaxe a bit longer than the historical ones in order to keep up with reenactorisms? definitely seen even longer in my short time reenacting, so i gotta praise the restraint of the added length. think the real ones tended to be 30 cm or so shorter in the handle. maybe for close quarters swinging rather than formations like ive seen in reenactment?
Their Dane Axe is consistent with typical finds, which ranged between 0.9 - 1.2m in the haft and 20 - 30cm in the arc of the cutting edge. These were field weapons, and indeed were used in formations frequently, particularly well documented by the Byzantines when describing the Varangian mercenaries.
Yes, it´s from the Vendel Period, but the borders between the Vendel Period and the Viking Age are pretty vague. Furthermore, good pieces of armour were extremely valuable and therefore passed on for generations. At least for the early Viking Age, the usage of helmets crafted during the Vendel Period is plausible.
Spears wasnt just common it was the warriors weapon easy to make easy to learn and very deadly in the hands of a skilled warrior. Most vikings including nobles mostly likely where armed with them with swords and axes being secondary incase it broke.
....always fun to see Mall Ninjas in action....or in this case, old pot bellied men playing at being vikings! What they said was accurate enough though...
do you have any written or archeological sources for adding the bones of their ancestors to the steel for swords? sounds interesting, but haven't found it in my research.
There is some speculation about this - sourced from Lotte Hedeager’s Iron Age Myth and Materiality (2011), in which she cites Gansum, Terje. ‘Role the bones - from iron to steel.’ Norwegian Archaeological Review 37 no. 1 (2004): 41-57. However, this is speculative rather than a proven act.
@@JORVIK-Viking-Centre We do know that they used bones, But as for using the ancestors bones I kinda think it's a nice story to tell the kids.Yet it's still believed by a lot of people.
Samurai never used shields, maybe, but japanese footsoldiers did for some time. Might have something to do with Samurai's primary weapon being a bow, tbh.
Butted / Split mail was *never* used as armor in history. The only archeological finds of such mail are : -some 16th century Japanese "armors" that were trying to immitate what they saw the portugese wearing after their first contact for fashion -on the neck of some extremely ornate ottoman helmets (so ornate and garnished with precious stones that we're pretty sure they weren't ment for combat) -some extremely rare and scarse fragments from the Iron age 450 B.-C. There were rumors of a roman find but they were dissmissed by the British Arms Museum who take care of the piece that was thought to be split mail and they confirmed it was riveted.
@@personifiedape5347 I do not think you are familiar with the Jorvik Group at all are you.... or even the word Tutorial... the purpose of the group is for education, non factual statements is not education it is mis information
@@jimpickens4067 considering I’ve lived in York since I was 5 I know very well the Jorvik Group. I think you are nitpicking considering the mace was used albeit not that popular with the Vikings. Trying to make out they are spreading misinformation is utter nonsense, simply because the head of the mace was not a Viking region design. Are you this pedantic about everything in life?
I love the scowls from the guy on the left! You should avoid fencing with saxes in that manner and thrusting the top of an axe-head into your opponent's chest will do practically nothing. People have been clubbing each other ever since the first stick was discovered lying on the floor, but there is no evidence of Vikings having maces. Nice video though. "The Dane-Axe-Man, not to be trifled with!" - so I'm going to go up against him right now...
I haven't seen any evidence of viking maces. Yes they did find a bronze mace in Sweden but it was dated too around 12 th 13 th century after the viking age. As there is no evidence of them in the sagas
Also they did use animal bones (not ancestors) to reinforce iron with carbon making primitive steel however it's not known whether or not they did it knowingly probable not as they were wising to enchant the weapon with the animals spirit
I'd say they deliberately made their steel, given the fact that the usage of bones is noted as extremely rare, but most of the steel found in their sites shows sign of good carburisation, as well as them using methods like pattern welding to get the most out of it. Perhaps the usage of bones cones from the animist cults, known to coexist in their society alongside the mainstream belief in the gods. As for maces, we have no real findings that suggest that they made them, and there was not a huge degree of need, given their more nimble style of combat and the fact that they weren't often facing heavily armoured opponents. Even the Varangian mercenaries employed by the Byzantines saw little need for things like maces, finding that their axes and spears were sufficient. Against most opponents, it would be a matter of not going for the head, and watching out for the ones who used maille, going more for known weak points and whatnot. Maces would become much more popular later, as plate started to emerge more frequent, and opponents were much more likely to at the very least be using gambesons and maille. When all oponents are heavily armoured, blunt force weapons become much more appealing, as those can deal directly with that sort of thing.
Interesting video, although on the sword demo, you can’t slice a man open through mail. It’s almost impossible to slice open steel. Swords were for stabbing at the torso or slicing exposed area!
There are none. We have the sagas but that's, as Skallagrim would say, viking Hollywood. We also have paintings but they don't talk so it needs to be interpreted. Truly we can only guess on how they used their weapons. The closest we could have in historical manuals is the use of short sword and buckler, except the shield is way bigger. But it can give an idea.
"probably not thrown in battle" (tlking about the axe) the vikings: literally famous for charging in with 2 axes or 2 spears and chucking them at the enemy before forming a shield wall me: audible confusion
It definitely would have been the oddity in a battlefield, yet there's record of it being used by the Normans. It was also one of the first weapons on record of the proto-northmen as well as of most other northern european tribes. The Atgeir mentioned in one of the sagas, what did it look like? Was it a winged spear, or some type of Dane axe? So far no one knows for sure...
All of these are fine, but mace? I'm pretty sure vikings diden't use maces, they knew what they were and they did exist in there time but I'm pretty sure they just diden't use them. Maces are great against armor but the armor of the time like your showing just wasn't that great yet, not to say it wasn't highly protectif, but they diden't really need to resort to use blunt force to bypass armor they could still chop true it. Also I have yet to hear about a archilogical find of a macehead that would confurm that vikings used maces. Daneaxe cleaving a horse in 2 is not really true the blade doesn't have enough edge to actuely do that, but serieusly f*cking horse up or severing it's legs with one blow YES FOR SURE. 🤣 This is a really good video for people that know very little about vikings. Would have liked it if you also explained why the nazel helm has the nazel, cause that little piece of metal will look very strange for people that are less informed about the subject. All and all good job though! 👍
i understand that the Dane Axe was a formidable weapon, I agree. I don't think it could cleave a man, let alone a horse, in half, in one stroke. Sorry I call bullshit.
Actually that exact moment is my favorite part. Obviously these are supposed to be very verrrry simple introductions to the weapons themselves to people who don't really know but at 0:35 there's a split sloppy moment of both of them having jittery hands. That's actually real as hell. Without hand protection a knife fight is literally the scariest thing in the damned world to be in. So you see for a split second that 😬 moment in both of their movements towards each other till they realize their blunts and get into playful stage fighting. The short spear one got me pretty good though lol
Indeed. The fragments of mail found from the Viking Age were round ring riveted followed by a row of round ring solid then a row of round ring riveted etc. etc.
Oh my dear, did you really killed him with pulling the sword on the armor ? Real american movie.. lot of blood with one move on the mail armor xD xD xD xD xD Did you ever see European Knight Days ? Where they are cutting each other with swords, axes, spears and it just hurt them but cant go througth mail armor xD xD xD
Great video, but I have to say that you guys made a lot of mistakes in the armor. The films and series have already educated us a lot about this.Everyone knows that Vikings wore a lot of leather! Their armor was made of leather, it could have one or the other metal detail. And you have committed a sacrilege by not putting any protection on your forearms! How could you do that? Everyone knows that protecting the forearms is more important than protecting the head! Will you want to tell me that they only wear clothes for small objects like shoes, belts etc? Important Vikings did not wear helmets. And even if they did, they took it off when they needed to fight better. It was not as if they used helmets to demonstrate their position. Putting gold and silver details on them, as well as horsehair or feathers. P.S.Just to make it clear folks, what I wrote above was all a joke. It was me just trying to be sarcastic. We need more videos like that, showing what battle equipment from ancient times really looked like. For more and more people to learn and to demand more from the producers of series and films.
In my experience, viking helmets were made from the Scandinavian horned coconut. That's were the horns came from. Of course, early Christians didn't write this down in an attempt to discredit the pagan religion.
40 seconds in and this guys are already shanking each other, this is wild
Shepard.
after you cut his hand he never smiled again.
😂
I love the weapons and techniques, but my favorite part is definitely serious mustache man.
0:12
That's not a knife..THIS is a knife
5:54 Y’all didn’t mess around
This was so well done 👍🏼
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Jürgen_von_Schumacher Lol funny seeing you here!!!! 😂
@@masseyfurguson8871 Yeah, didn't expect to see you here either🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Jürgen_von_Schumacher A great Viking video have brought us together!
@@masseyfurguson8871 Hahahahaha! Yup! Heilir Víkingurinn!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fenomenal video, imagine if the warriors in Vikings TV show looked like this
Only a slight correction: the vast majority of mail in the Viking period was made from a mix of solid and riveted rings. It was also usually lighter than butted mail, due to the strength of the rings coming from the rivets instead of the thickness of the ring.
Great video guys!
An 8 foot long spear is fair for a one handed spear of the time, obviously it is based on preference but that is short for a spear of most other time periods.
True, the only whole intact spear find we have measures somewhere between 7 and 8 feet I believe. My point is that the two handed spear they present in the video is really closer to a one handed spear of the time. In fact that same spear has a removable pin we believe was used so you could throw it at the enemy and the shaft would bounce out on impact ao the enemy couldn't throw it back.
True, I suppose both could be true and I dont see why they wouldn't be depending on the shape of the pin or the spear shaft.
Yeah but the pilum is designed to bend on impact (I mean some dont but still) so it achieves a similar effect.
I mean kind of. It did bend just below the tip because below the head the shaft was of softer metal. It's still kind of up for debate whether that was because of design, a design flaw, or because of improper handling. I believe it was just cheaper to make them that way since it can use less pure metal and they figured if it did bend when thrown that's a quick repair so it's effective either way.
We train with 7ft spears as our one handed spears, using 7ft as a minimum length for one hander
This video is beautiful! It especially shows the details of the anime saga of Vinland, where the characters just use the similar weapon described in the video. Thank you for it!
Anime is degenerate. Read the sagas.
Underhållande och roligt!
Amazing video! Easily digestable and informative. Keep it up!
Yup
Thank you for the lesson in Viking history. I consider Viking history both fascinating & important.
Great video, really like it. Those Vikings' helmets are so cool. Thanks!
That was amazing. Thank you both so much I’m definitely subscribing. Iv a huge thirst to find out as much as possible.
"Cleave a horse and rider in two" lol yeah
It was a very tiny horse with a very small rider on top of it!......About four feet tall!
Great Demonstration👍👍👍👍👍 Irish Gallowglass mercenaries still dressed in similar types of chain mail up until the dawn of the 1600s, fighting skillfully & ferociously with axes, all while Scottish Highland clansmen were donning such chain mail & also wielding Norse styled axes until the 1650s, if not until the late 1680s in some cases. Great Stuff!! Odin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course, the highlanders were descended from the Celts, the original INVENTORS of this chainmail as well ;)
@@thegreenmage6956 . But weren't the Gallowglass and some Scots also descendants of vikings as well?
And we still to this day, wonder how the Vikings got so far. How could we not, with such technology? Honestly.
Awesome!
The runes on the shield spell Jórvík as in the Danish kingdom of York in the Danskerret (Danelaw) that was conquered by the Danes
You guys are so funny, thank you!!!
thank you that helped with my work
ye same with me
How many meters
LOL Mace. Also your mail shirt isn't correct. The mail found from the Viking Age is round ring and alternates round ring riveted then round ring solid. There was no split ring or open ring mail, that's a modern thing. All round ring riveted mail came later and flat ring riveted mail was not introduced until after the Viking Age.
6:30 I believe that the sword could also be bent and buried with a warrior..
Sometimes, but if they had kids, they would’ve probably passed them down (unless their kids had their own sword already)
Thank you for sharing! I Have a Combat School in my country, and one day I want to meet you!
thanks this was usfull for school work
Recreating....the..good..ol....days.
Brilliant.
Rivited mail is heavier the butted? My rivited mail is half the weight of any butted I have seen
indeed, since most (almost all) period accurate mail was not only riveted, but they were also flat rings so it should be much lighter than modern round butted mail
Broken back was a Anglo Saxon knife more common to them than the Vikings, vikings had more drop point or straight across knives like a mora. From what I have found in weapon history
Correct, though Anglo Saxon style knives did see use enough for it to considered acceptable kit for a reenactment set. Remember that the Vikings were quite pragmatic, often looting any decent gear they find, and it's not unreasonable for them to pick up a knife in the field and see good use for it.
Definitely some broke back Viking between shield brothers lol
Where do you get all your gear from?
Sounds just like an early army recruitment video!
Excellent guys. Thanks.
For anyone interested in the Viking sword, they should see 'The Viking Sword What It Was And Was Not' by Peter Johnsson which in its way is quite amazing. It is a MUST SEE. But don't forget to read the newest comments. Comments from which Peter Johnsson has Run Like A Frightened Rabbit For Over Two Years NOW.
I like this video a lot but I would be very impressed indeed if you could chop a horse in half with that Dane axe
Hail to the gods for find you!!!!
Chain mail likely wasn't common among Vikings, it was almost certainly reserves for the far more wealthy among them. As best we can tell, the majority of Viking likely wore their every day clothes into battle, usually a few layers of thick cloth or fur lined clothing covered by some sort of gambeson like cloth garment; as it happens, the thick winter adornment was relatively effective against weapons.
i dont know if you watched all of it but in the chainmail segment they kinda say that chainmail was very hard to acquire
First lets get that whole "Viking was an occupation not an ethnicity" blah blah thing out of the way, It is generally well known that when someone says Viking they are referring to Germanic raiding culture.
What you must understand is that when you say Viking you encompass a very large group of people from a variety of nations and organizations. Early Viking raiders such as those as Lindisfarne in 793 probably did not all have chainmail but thick winter adornment as you have said correctly, although they might have discarded some of this due to the warmth of the southern lands.
Those such as the Jomsvikings, who were an elite order of mercenary warriors, deeply devoted to the Norse gods Thor and Odin, during the 11th century most likely all had chainmail equipment as these were professional warriors who demanded large sums of payment for their service.
Recently I came across research regarding bowie knives duels. Seems like although the bowie knife is a good chopper, it was used mostly as a stabbing weapon. It being so similar to the seax makes me think that the seax might have been used in a similar fashion. Specially when they were wearing armour...
this is historical accurate wow j love this
isnt that daneaxe a bit longer than the historical ones in order to keep up with reenactorisms? definitely seen even longer in my short time reenacting, so i gotta praise the restraint of the added length. think the real ones tended to be 30 cm or so shorter in the handle. maybe for close quarters swinging rather than formations like ive seen in reenactment?
Their Dane Axe is consistent with typical finds, which ranged between 0.9 - 1.2m in the haft and 20 - 30cm in the arc of the cutting edge. These were field weapons, and indeed were used in formations frequently, particularly well documented by the Byzantines when describing the Varangian mercenaries.
Where did you get your seax knives? I can see their blunt for reenactment, trying to find one myself.
Armour Class make them. Scottish sword maker
Armour Class, Heron Armouries and Wieland Forge would be a good starting point, also Black Raven Crafts from Ireland👍
@@rickbolt1308 cheers man, very helpful
Looking well brother. 😉
and when is the age of every part originally?
Elder Futhark runes on a viking age shield?
Wrong Runes for the Viking Age.
Cool!
Isnt one of those helmets from the vendal period which predates the viking age?
Yes, it´s from the Vendel Period, but the borders between the Vendel Period and the Viking Age are pretty vague. Furthermore, good pieces of armour were extremely valuable and therefore passed on for generations. At least for the early Viking Age, the usage of helmets crafted during the Vendel Period is plausible.
knew of shield maidens but not shield brothers. fucking sick
Sheild Maiden is just the name for female Vikings it does not mean they only use sheilds
Is Wunjo also used as a V? Not just a W
Aren't those sword hilts too long?
i read somewhere that the Saxons got their name from the Seaxe that they carried
Great work.my friends. I am i interesting in knowing more about the mace. How common was that weapon? And who wielded it?
Spears wasnt just common it was the warriors weapon easy to make easy to learn and very deadly in the hands of a skilled warrior. Most vikings including nobles mostly likely where armed with them with swords and axes being secondary incase it broke.
such a cool and funny video !
....always fun to see Mall Ninjas in action....or in this case, old pot bellied men playing at being vikings! What they said was accurate enough though...
When you get older, you get to live all of your childhood fantasies! ......Mom can't tell you not to spend your money on toys!
I never heard that Vikings used Maces, what is the source for that?
do you have any written or archeological sources for adding the bones of their ancestors to the steel for swords? sounds interesting, but haven't found it in my research.
There is some speculation about this - sourced from Lotte Hedeager’s Iron Age Myth and Materiality (2011), in which she cites Gansum, Terje. ‘Role the bones - from iron to steel.’ Norwegian Archaeological Review 37 no. 1 (2004): 41-57. However, this is speculative rather than a proven act.
@@JORVIK-Viking-Centre will look into it for a bit, thank you.
@@JORVIK-Viking-Centre We do know that they used bones, But as for using the ancestors bones I kinda think it's a nice story to tell the kids.Yet it's still believed by a lot of people.
Awesome content sirs, gratitude! Where can I find some riveted Mail shirts like his?
Start digging in York... That's what they did 🤪
Hah!
this was very fascinating to watch,Thanks for the video.
I do hand carved handle for the seax
Thank you for explaining the weapons of Vikings. FYI, the Samurai warriors never used shields. So there is a way for Viking spearman to fight alone.
Well they are Across the globe, so they would probably never fight
Samurai never used shields, maybe, but japanese footsoldiers did for some time. Might have something to do with Samurai's primary weapon being a bow, tbh.
Butted / Split mail was *never* used as armor in history. The only archeological finds of such mail are :
-some 16th century Japanese "armors" that were trying to immitate what they saw the portugese wearing after their first contact for fashion
-on the neck of some extremely ornate ottoman helmets (so ornate and garnished with precious stones that we're pretty sure they weren't ment for combat)
-some extremely rare and scarse fragments from the Iron age 450 B.-C.
There were rumors of a roman find but they were dissmissed by the British Arms Museum who take care of the piece that was thought to be split mail and they confirmed it was riveted.
Is that an armour class sword?
7:14 these are not to be trifled with
*proceeds to trifle with*
pause at exactly 3:47, this looks badass
At 4:33 I was actually a little worried he was going to cut him as a demonstration.
Next video they're demonstrating the bloodeagle
I watched this at scolle
these guys are great 🤣
This was great information. Thank you 😊
Do not mess around with Viking weapons they are dangerous 😬😮
You guys should do Aztec weapons
The Aztec population of Jorvik was legendary
my lord
@The JORVIK Group what is with the Norman mace?
Well the Normans are Viking descendants. Just later 😆
@@personifiedape5347 How does that justify the use of a post Viking era weapon being used to demonstrate what weapons Vikings used?
@@jimpickens4067 my god. It’s called a tutorial. Chill out!
@@personifiedape5347 I do not think you are familiar with the Jorvik Group at all are you.... or even the word Tutorial... the purpose of the group is for education, non factual statements is not education it is mis information
@@jimpickens4067 considering I’ve lived in York since I was 5 I know very well the Jorvik Group. I think you are nitpicking considering the mace was used albeit not that popular with the Vikings. Trying to make out they are spreading misinformation is utter nonsense, simply because the head of the mace was not a Viking region design. Are you this pedantic about everything in life?
Nice video 🤙❤
I love the scowls from the guy on the left!
You should avoid fencing with saxes in that manner and thrusting the top of an axe-head into your opponent's chest will do practically nothing. People have been clubbing each other ever since the first stick was discovered lying on the floor, but there is no evidence of Vikings having maces. Nice video though.
"The Dane-Axe-Man, not to be trifled with!" - so I'm going to go up against him right now...
I haven't seen any evidence of viking maces. Yes they did find a bronze mace in Sweden but it was dated too around 12 th 13 th century after the viking age.
As there is no evidence of them in the sagas
Also they did use animal bones (not ancestors) to reinforce iron with carbon making primitive steel however it's not known whether or not they did it knowingly probable not as they were wising to enchant the weapon with the animals spirit
I'd say they deliberately made their steel, given the fact that the usage of bones is noted as extremely rare, but most of the steel found in their sites shows sign of good carburisation, as well as them using methods like pattern welding to get the most out of it.
Perhaps the usage of bones cones from the animist cults, known to coexist in their society alongside the mainstream belief in the gods.
As for maces, we have no real findings that suggest that they made them, and there was not a huge degree of need, given their more nimble style of combat and the fact that they weren't often facing heavily armoured opponents. Even the Varangian mercenaries employed by the Byzantines saw little need for things like maces, finding that their axes and spears were sufficient. Against most opponents, it would be a matter of not going for the head, and watching out for the ones who used maille, going more for known weak points and whatnot.
Maces would become much more popular later, as plate started to emerge more frequent, and opponents were much more likely to at the very least be using gambesons and maille. When all oponents are heavily armoured, blunt force weapons become much more appealing, as those can deal directly with that sort of thing.
They may be referencing the Kievan Rus and Varangians who used knobbed bronze/copper alloy maces late in the Viking era.
usshh oaorrr uss aaaaah XD
Interesting video, although on the sword demo, you can’t slice a man open through mail. It’s almost impossible to slice open steel. Swords were for stabbing at the torso or slicing exposed area!
You have spotted a flaw in this pantomime!
Where’s your biker gear 😂😂😂
And have a vikings bows and arrows?
Yes. Vikings did also use bows for hunting as well as battle.
Wiliam walace is a viking wow
Where did you get that?
@@nathandebue9209 you hear the accent ? This dude thinks he a viking
@@p.s.5135 oh yeah haha right.
Bow and Arrow? Slingshot? Crossbow?
A bit like the East End of Glasgow in the 70s.......
Stab city lol
What is the source material for your combat?
There are none. We have the sagas but that's, as Skallagrim would say, viking Hollywood. We also have paintings but they don't talk so it needs to be interpreted.
Truly we can only guess on how they used their weapons. The closest we could have in historical manuals is the use of short sword and buckler, except the shield is way bigger. But it can give an idea.
@@nathandebue9209 they wouldn't be clanging there swords like in the demonstration lmao like stupid Hollywood movies
@@Daylon91 oh yeah definitely. I'm aware of that don't worry haha
"probably not thrown in battle" (tlking about the axe)
the vikings: literally famous for charging in with 2 axes or 2 spears and chucking them at the enemy before forming a shield wall
me: audible confusion
Its called longaxe 👍
Is it no longer called a Dane axe? Damn and I was already getting used to the name....!
Idk about that mace guys. Are you sure thats historical? What about the atgeir? The viking halberd?
It definitely would have been the oddity in a battlefield, yet there's record of it being used by the Normans. It was also one of the first weapons on record of the proto-northmen as well as of most other northern european tribes.
The Atgeir mentioned in one of the sagas, what did it look like? Was it a winged spear, or some type of Dane axe? So far no one knows for sure...
All of these are fine, but mace? I'm pretty sure vikings diden't use maces, they knew what they were and they did exist in there time but I'm pretty sure they just diden't use them. Maces are great against armor but the armor of the time like your showing just wasn't that great yet, not to say it wasn't highly protectif, but they diden't really need to resort to use blunt force to bypass armor they could still chop true it. Also I have yet to hear about a archilogical find of a macehead that would confurm that vikings used maces. Daneaxe cleaving a horse in 2 is not really true the blade doesn't have enough edge to actuely do that, but serieusly f*cking horse up or severing it's legs with one blow YES FOR SURE. 🤣 This is a really good video for people that know very little about vikings. Would have liked it if you also explained why the nazel helm has the nazel, cause that little piece of metal will look very strange for people that are less informed about the subject. All and all good job though! 👍
you are in battle without a comforter ?!
That's a nice head you have on your shoulders.
i understand that the Dane Axe was a formidable weapon, I agree. I don't think it could cleave a man, let alone a horse, in half, in one stroke. Sorry I call bullshit.
0:35 wa is dat 😂
Actually that exact moment is my favorite part. Obviously these are supposed to be very verrrry simple introductions to the weapons themselves to people who don't really know but at 0:35 there's a split sloppy moment of both of them having jittery hands. That's actually real as hell. Without hand protection a knife fight is literally the scariest thing in the damned world to be in. So you see for a split second that 😬 moment in both of their movements towards each other till they realize their blunts and get into playful stage fighting. The short spear one got me pretty good though lol
@@-OokySpooky- that’s why I wear mechanix ruggedized gloves 🧤
Its called longaxe
The guy that's saying nothing looks trouble
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So funny 🤣
there were no unriveted chainmail in general because its fucking useless ! its a modern cosplay thing
Indeed. The fragments of mail found from the Viking Age were round ring riveted followed by a row of round ring solid then a row of round ring riveted etc. etc.
you are so funny
So many 'know it alls' in the comments lol
Oh my dear, did you really killed him with pulling the sword on the armor ? Real american movie.. lot of blood with one move on the mail armor xD xD xD xD xD Did you ever see European Knight Days ? Where they are cutting each other with swords, axes, spears and it just hurt them but cant go througth mail armor xD xD xD
Less talking more raiding!!
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Great video, but I have to say that you guys made a lot of mistakes in the armor. The films and series have already educated us a lot about this.Everyone knows that Vikings wore a lot of leather! Their armor was made of leather, it could have one or the other metal detail.
And you have committed a sacrilege by not putting any protection on your forearms! How could you do that? Everyone knows that protecting the forearms is more important than protecting the head! Will you want to tell me that they only wear clothes for small objects like shoes, belts etc?
Important Vikings did not wear helmets. And even if they did, they took it off when they needed to fight better. It was not as if they used helmets to demonstrate their position. Putting gold and silver details on them, as well as horsehair or feathers.
P.S.Just to make it clear folks, what I wrote above was all a joke. It was me just trying to be sarcastic. We need more videos like that, showing what battle equipment from ancient times really looked like. For more and more people to learn and to demand more from the producers of series and films.
Holly shit you almost got me 😂
In my experience, viking helmets were made from the Scandinavian horned coconut. That's were the horns came from. Of course, early Christians didn't write this down in an attempt to discredit the pagan religion.