I love the history in England. Always miss not being there. As an American servicemen stationed with the British royal Air Force, it definitely was a unique experience, and a chance to See England for all of its beauty. If you are reading this and you are from England, go have some fish and chips and a pint for me. You truly are fortunate people. Keep these wonderful videos coming!
I'm from Newark upon Trent, on the Nottingham and Lincolnshire border. you may have stationed near by, at one point. I'll have Fish, chips and Pint, for you this weekend
@@grahamfisher5436 thanks lol... I was actually stationed down in Cornwall at RAF St Mawgan.. so beautiful down there, but I liked all of England. I did not know it at the time until I started doing genealogy of my own family, but one of my father's direct bloodline came from Devon County in the 1600s.
Dan Snow is so good at this. His excitement about history is palpable and he's so good at engaging with experts. History Hit really is the best, keep up the great work!
I live in the oldest town in Ireland. Vikings settled our town 1000 years ago. When you drive into out city centre you drive past the castle that's surrounds the town. Insane.
More likely Norse settlers as most of the settlement in Ireland was based upon Norwegian (Norse) migration around the top of Scotland to Iceland and down what is now the Irish Sea.
@@Norwegian733 The Kingdom of Dublin was once a Norwegian Ruled Kingdom. Unfortunately, its history has been heavily corrupted by the viking fetish so its hard to work out what really happened.
@@Norwegian733 Ingismund and his warband when they were expelled from Dublin were granted land by Aethelflaed lady of Mercia, on the wirral , to show their gratitude they attacked Chester, however being forewarned, the good people of Chester were ready, happily in the present day the Hiberno Norse names live on ..in particular...having the only English football club with a viking Hiberno Norse name...you hopefully will join our Norwegian fans...E
The Viking era is quite interesting! I recently found out that I live a few miles away from where a major battle occurred, which caused the fall of East Anglia at Tempsford
One must not fall into the trap of glorifying the Viking as they were evil murderous thieves at your door who would murder all of you family to rape daughters and get at your savings. They never went away they set up government who still take your savings today .
@@kevinjamesparr552 history is history. I never stated I was glorifying it, I said it was interesting. I like to learn about history and when it’s local, it peaks my interest and via DNA Ancestry, I’ve also learnt some of those Vikings are my ancestors.
It's absolutely fascinating that you can be so close to history and some people don't really know. I do a lot of wild camping and I often think walking through somewhere in the Scottish Highlands and Sterling and stuff. I wonder if I'm actually walking near where someone did thousands of years ago. It's amazing.
Yes you are walking where someone did a long time ago. Reminds one of the Dead poets Society where the Teacher Robin Williams says as if the people in the photo were speaking " remember us , seize the day! "
I think I was British in a past life because I’m soooo obsessed with the British history and the Vikings raiding and the anglo Saxon’s!! The scenery is just breathtaking! The old architect!!! Just amazing
Ditto.... I did and when I did, I knew places that I shouldn't have known about and things that I shouldn't have known about as an American, so yes I was at British citizen and a previous life.
Wow, this was incredible to watch! I’m an Aussie and I love our history, but as a country, our documented history is pretty short. I really wish I was able to go to Europe when I was younger and explore and learn more about history, there is so, so much that I don’t know about, but also played a major part in the world today.
Maybe check out some indigenous history, frankly it’s highly undervalued and it’s incredibly ancient, in fact it’s thought that aboriginal people settled Australia thousands and thousands of years before we even thought that people had invented boats. And the deep and continual racism against them is highly upsetting. Hope you appreciate where you live because I would LOVE to be able to learn more about the native Australians by traveling there
@@maddieb.4282 I’ve done a little research into indigenous history, specifically in the area we live, and a little more into artwork and it is quite interesting, however as my family heritage is European, I’ve always been very interested in researching my history, particularly my surname as there a group of people near Poland with the same name, and I’d like to see if I’m able to trace my lineage back to there.
So amusing…. when they were in the crypt and Dan Sow mentioned time travel.. he was walking in front of a door in the corner ….that looked suspiciously like Dr. Who’s Tardis!
We are so lucky to have all this amazing history surrounding us, I bet they never would of thought 100s of years down the line they would be acknowledged
Ahhhh my beautiful home village where my parents still live. I can still vividly remember "the dig" when we were growing up & being entranced by it - especially the viking giant with the sword down his leg & the double burial. I love Repton, it's my spiritual home.
@@raclark2730 Ivar. Ivar is also the father of the Ferguson clan in Scotland and his dna is seen all over the UK and Ireland mostly in Scotland and Ireland. All of these guys seem to be giants though in folklore.
You'll find in the midlands and up that a lot of villages are named after Viking settlers that once owned the land. I grew up in what was a small hamlet and a farm turned into a village due to coal mining generations later. There's an old underground river that used to be on the surface... I imagine it's what may have made people want to settle this area.
That is very true i live in the easy midlands near elvaston avalston and thulston and i cant remember the story but they are named after vikings also near me is a likely a place where vikings were buried but it is not uncovered and still underground
there's a whole viking graveyard a few miles down river, very spooky place, in a forest now, very gloomy with mounds and moss hanging from the low branches, and full of cries of birds. Quite an unsettling place at night.
Yeah! I have these fantasies too. A few miles up the road from me is a location referred to locally as The Danish Camp'. There is actually quite a nice cafe there and there is a couple of depressions which are said to be where the Danes hauled their boats out of the river to repair them. The assumption being that this was a Danish Trading Post on the river Ouse just within the Danish Borough of Bedford. Not more than a few miles from that is a village that just happens to have my surname and i often fantasize that my ancestors founded that settlement having alighted from a boat at The Danish Camp. But it is just a fantasy. In fact, the Danish Camp is on the wrong side of the river to actually be Danish and whilst its nice to imagine my ancestors founded a settlement in practice its more likely that the settlement and my surname just hare a common ancestry as both were apparently North European words that meant something like Forester or 'He who lives near the forest'. So the village may well have been founded by anyone from Northern Europe and named because it was close to a forest. Still I like to dream.
@@MrDidz Most people from mainland Britain hail from Denmark & Northern Germany due to the many many influxes of peoples from those areas. The U.K. also used to be connected by land to the northern parts of Europe via a now submerged area of land that went by the name Dogerland which is why the Gaels of Scotland and Ireland share the same blonde and red hair traits of Northern Europeans. This is also why Pre-Christian ruins of the whole of Great Britain contain many artefacts and talismans, pendants etc that are clearly Germanic in nature, the proto-germanic versions of Thor’s hammer being a very common archaeological find dating back way before the arrival of Christianity or even the Viking Era. Regardless, both of my father’s parents can trace their lineages back to Norman soldiers or Nordic families that came to the U.K. with William Duke of Normandy-a man who claimed descent from royal Viking blood.
@@grahamfisher5436 We’re all close family in Great Britain-on average every man and woman are roughly 13th/14th cousins. The natives anyway.. Not the modern population, obviously.
Nope, scattered. Some guy said he saw the head in a teacher’s classroom though as well as some other guy saying the bones were kept in his father’s chest. Either way it’s lost now
I’ve been reading the book, “River Kings” by Cat Jarman. Part of the book deals exactly with the content of this UA-cam presentation. After reading about the excavation in the Repton church yard it was quite interesting to see this visual presentation. I highly recommend the book. It is quite readable. Thank you for the presentation.
I héard the book puts modern ideas into the medieval world, which is always a huge mistake, and this has stopped me buying it. Does it promulgate women fighting? If it does then its ideology not history
No, outside of women who may have been rulers/leaders of some sort it is not heavy on the idea of women warriors. It reports the archeological evidence that has been found to date and states the difficulty of coming to an accurate conclusion from what has been found. The real theme of the book is, “those ole boys sure got around”. I certainly enjoy reading this book.
The Danes would have been the descendents of the Saxon Jutes who invaded England four hundred years earlier. In 1002 on St. Brice's Day, King Ehelraed the Unready ordered the killing of Danes. Even those who had lived in England for 100 years. The numbers killed are unknown but it seems many were massacred.
Your aware their main source of income was slavery? They soon learnt that money could be made by selling captives to arab slave traders keen to acquire fair skinned people. I'm not blaming the Vikings it's just funny in todays cancel culture world that the slavery aspect of the norsemen has been forgotten.
Just love Jan Molby, s scouser accent ex Liverpool midfielder, Lobscouse brought to Merseyside by the Norwegian Whalers in the 19th century ...we have quite a few Scandinavian fans who come to Merseyside for all the Merseyside football clubs..
@@markhirstwood4190 Hi Mark, there is a monument to the Royal Canadian navy here on the Pier head in Liverpool for the pivotal role they played in the battle of the Atlantic..
A skeleton 9 ft. tall... in this mound! A true giant! But she glosses over this as if it's not all that important. Maybe she's been instructed that they do not acknowledge such finds. Giant skeletons always mysteriously go missing once academic authorities get involved. They just reburied this giant and forgot about it! Unbelievable...
So in the1700s some workman finds this jumble of bones ,some 300 in all. and decides there is a 9 foot skeleton among them... Have you seen that jumble? Instead of starting complot theories better start using your brain...
There is even a Hiberno Norse place name here on the wirral...Frankby ..self explanatory..alongside Irby..place of.. you get the drift...a Frankish influence alongside the Irish ,Angles and Welsh ( Wallasey) ,quite a hybrid place our Peninsula...
Very interesting! My family comes from Worksop, Mansfield-Woodhouse, Nottingham and some from Repton. My ancestors left England around 1845 and showed up in Missouri in the USA on the 1850 Census. The last names were Wilkinson's, Stubbins, Cooke, Clarke and several more. From DNA we know we have a large percentage of Scandinavian in us, but no one from Scandinavia. It would be interesting to know more of if they stayed long enough to have families. I guess I will do some reading up on the history of the area! I enjoy the history and the views of the area!
When DNA first became a 'thing' 20 odd years ago, there was a program looking for 'Blood of the Vikings'. They couldn't find any DNA that was specifically 'Viking' because the DNA of the Viking settlement regions was virtually identical to modern day Danes. (Apart from locality markers.) So from the Thames Estuary up to Yorkshire. Liverpool, Dublin and Glasgow were Viking trading hubs.
@@mukhumor A 20 year DNA study published in 2015 found little impact on the genetic makeup of the British from the Romans, Viking Danes or Normans. They may have conquered but there were comparatively few of them compared to the existing population. The Anglo Saxons, however, were the only conquering force to contribute substantially to the genetic makeup.
My wife is from Missouri and her dna had 40% Scandinavian which i thought was incredibly high. The surename I thought it came from was Johnston. And they were said to have immigrated from Wales. I thought it was odd that the percentage would be so high and the family have no knowledge of it.
We have nothing in America remotely that old. My dream is to spend a couple of years in the UK, but at 62 it probably won’t happen. Thanks for letting me live vicariously.
Denise, Why would you make such an uninformed statement? I know you have heard, "couldn't see the forest for trees"? Explore your country and see the world.
What about the Pueblo villages in the South West? They're about the same age. And Cahokia near St. Louis? I would love to see them, but I'm 73 and don't think I will now. The USA has fascinating Native American sites and history.
I live 1 hr from one off the darkest city's in Europe, called York. The roman settled there and the old A1 is still used to this day as a dual carriageway. the road is straight as a die
Uh, a 9' skeleton surrounded by 100's others? How do we just brush over a 9' skeleton? That is wild! Did they find the 9' skeleton in the 1980's digs? That would be interesting DNA studies.
I looked around and found a BBC article mentioning it. Seems it stems from a report from an earlier excavation in 1686 , which claimed to have found a 'humane body nine foot long.' Can't really expand on much in that case if they don't have it. www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/dig_reports_01.shtml
No, it was only found in Repton-the remains of part of the Great Heathen Army. Some say it was the bones of Ivar the Boneless. It’s not complete speculation either, the chronologies line up and historians support the hypothesis. No reason to doubt the accounts either, it was possible Ivar was just a freakishly big dude. Perhaps he even died due to complications related to his size. It’s notable that none of the graves at Repton displayed fatal combat wounds. Yikes, just did some research. If the bones really were 9 feet long, that warrior would have been the tallest recorded man to have ever lived…not very likely. Chances are it was just a measurement error, the grave was basically plundered after all
@@EternalShadow1667 if Ivar was that big it could help add to the name boneless cause people over 6ft usually have issues with their knees popping out so perhaps he had a big issue with that and people used it for his name I’ve always doubt the theory of it being ED because I feel he would have kept that very hidden
Britain...the land of the unknown. Romans, anglo saxons, celts....vikings. so much history on this tiny island. Not to mention it was the world's biggest empire.
I live in Pennsylvania, in the US. I grew up around burial mounds, believed to be from the ancient Adena peoples and the Fort Ancient culture. I find it interesting that ancient Native Americans utilized burial mounds much like the vikings. There are mounds all over the US but there are many here and into Ohio. I often wonder if vikings were here much earlier and Native Americans copied that or vice versa. There have been giant skeletons found in the US as well.
The Vikings only made it to l'anse Aux Meadows. There's no archaeological evidence to support any other settlements anywhere else in America. Maybe they had a small settlement on the coast of Canada. Think that's about it in my opinion.
For those who actually like being told real history. The posting of the above small documentary, is a decisive step onward the direction of some of the real ancient History of the U.K., being finally posted. Furthermore, here I share some proper archeological facts about the above posted documentary: At 1:55 of the video, it shows a spacious well built crypt, that was used originally as a granary and was built for medium scale farm produce storage such as barley or wheat; at about 1800 B.c. While at 5:56 of of the video, is displayed a photography of a former Prussian native woman skeleton, resting in its own peace, at the ancient graveyard of 'Repton', an original mid-eastern U.K. village from 1775 B.c. That was built by a small community of pioneers of the farming industry of the U.K. a couple of years before that Prussian native woman died. Then to summarize: the above revealed story, goes a bit like these: A small group of the Angolares, that came all the way from the ancient nation of the Angolares, that was situated and administrated from the extensive territory comprehended between nowadays: Libreville, Gabon and Durban, R.S.A.. Them decided to start up the farming industry at the Island of "Nova Scotia", ( that is the original name of the U.K.). And for that, they recruited a group of Prussians, from nowadays Prussia along side with a group of Syrians, from nowadays Syria. To whom they gave the opportunity & task for them to start up: a seasonal cultivation of Barley and wheat at the mid-eastern planes of the "Nova Scotia" island. In conclusion: To this day, that same pioneered region from many generations ago, of the nowadays U.K.; is still a valuable farming territory for Barley and wheat in the U.K. To note that the mentioned above Prussian woman photographed skeleton: had no cutting marks to it. Meaning that: the Angolares were quite serious about being against: any type of cannibalism, including two millennia ago in "Nova Scotia". Even thought a few of the other found skeletons, did had about one or two extended cutting marks... Whitch was yet, a very good "non-cannibal standard" for that Northern region of ancient Europe. Meaning that: that medium ancient community formed by mostly pioneering Northern Europe land farmers, was achieving a decent level of success: at their farm & food stock safe enterprise; that many hundreds of years ago. Like the Boney M, song called Rasputin, mentions at its end: "Haa those Prussians.!."
@@debbylou5729 If one acknowledges that the way of addressing the normal staying alive, social daily common effort; hasn't change much for about 2K years; and just beyond the mark of about 51 years ago. Then to write & state that the referred in the above video, proper north-farming pioneers, whom previously settled somewhere at the middle Eastern lands of the nowadays U.K.: have locally left there own historical mark there; from about 1800 years ago; is just a summoning of a good time reference for the referred above, specific quite important archeological site. Being that it could be from about 1800 years ago, or it might be from 5K years ago. Since because the ancient Angolares, started building permanent settlements in the nowadays land of the nowadays U.K., about 11K years ago.
What are they going to do? Go find an Asatru pagan priestess? I don’t see them putting up a giant Mjolnir in a church yard. Lol. Tho that would be kinda funny
Excellent site. Ive been to similiar sites in Denmark, norway and sweden but this in england has been one of the most impressive for finds and evidence of various kinds. Im north in east anglia at the moment and the countryside, bays and landscape, i can definitely see why our people would wish to drop by and settle here.
At last the wonderful church at Escomb gets a mention. I've been there twice as I've got relatives in County Durham. Tucked away in a little valley near Bishop Auckland. If you like Anglo-Saxon history it's a must see.
Would love for you to do a video about St Kenelms spring in Romsey. The actual spring is under the church & a rill was built( it is the headwater of the river Stour.) unfortunately it has collapsed so now the holy water flows either side of & not into the well! Kenelm was an interesting story especially why his spring is here plus the journey back to his resting place.
In Britain lot of Christian monasteries and churches were built over the top of springs. In pre-Christian times these springs had sacred connections. Building over these springs announced Christianity as the new dominant religion whilst still keep the ancient connection with springs and underground streams. This explains why churches were often built in obscure locations. A lot of ancient wells that are named after various Saints have pre-Christian origins too.
Not for them it wasn't. For them it was just normal life. And that is a very important point. Probably the greatest insight of the human equation that history gives us: what we regard today as normal, will be regarded as amazing and exotic in the future. Its an excellent basis on which to question our way of life and what we take for granted.
Interesting the Viking and old England television series on Netflix, don’t delve into Mercia beyond being a kingdom that doesn’t play well with other Kings, but doesn’t delve into its importance
We've all got some type of ancestral DNA from the past in us. Take my family for example, we just found out that we are directly related to King Harald Hadrada. He is my 33rd great grandfather. Apparently according to swiss officials, we are the first in ldirect line and there's a big family of us here in Aus. I find it very humbling and not a big deal really seeing as there's so many people finding out who their ancestors were. Overall, it's fascinating to me. 😁
Hmm I like Viking history but I have a question... how long does a body have to be buried before its considered archeology rather then graverobbing when you pull stuff out?
no skeleton 9 foot tall was ever actually recovered, it was just reported by the guy who had originally dug up the mound in the late 1600's. or rather, the supposed remaind were lost st some point, so it's not verifable. the mound was most likely the burial place of Ivar the Boneless, whose name translated from Old Norse could mean Ivar legless. so he may not have had legs, or could have had little to no movement in his legs, so he was disabled. some Old Norse stories about him do describe him without legs, others as having "weak bones", or legs with cartilage where bone should be, thus the theory he had little to no mobility in them and his name. it could also mean he was impotent, there's a passage in the Tale of Ragnar's Sons that apparently says this. i did read somewhere the name could have meant he was "long legged" so that would mean tall though probably not 9 feet, but i only read that in the one place and his name seems to suggest he was actually short as lacking legs could allude to lacking height. the point to all that is there was more than likely never any 9 foot skeleton in the mound lol.
@@deathcabforcutie3889 if you never research things that havent been discovered they never will be. Albeit I do agree its a myth. But no reason to not be inqusitive and shut yourself off to ideas
Yes, and I really appreciated the fact that she presented as an average person - no tatooed face, no pink hair or extravagent hand actions, no look-at-me behaviour, just great knowledge and enthusiasm.
@@msjessies1 seconded...even got my daughter, s attention...mind you all us Tranmere Rovers fans are very Viking obsessed...something to do with our name....Hiberno Norse...
Good stuff,best wishes from the wirral, site of the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD,Wirral,namechecked albeit in Welsh in the medieval poem of sir Gawain and the green knight
@@deathcabforcutie3889 Calm down...I certainly won,t be bringing God into it...best wishes from present day Wirral ...mentioned...as home of the only English football club with a viking Hiberno Norse name.
@@eamonnclabby7067 Well if you are proud of Wirral as being the only English football club, then extend that to the English language. Cut out the Americanisms - for God's sake!
@@deathcabforcutie3889 if its good enough for Macca and Elvis Costello aka Declan McManus ,a fellow Birkonian then Americana is good enough for me ,we are carrying on a cultural phenomenon that goes back to the days of the Cunard scousers who brought loads of Blues music and American comics to Merseyside...some older Mariners reckon that process goes back beyond WW2....I wonder what accent God has...it might even be as good as Martin Freeman's in The Responder, as a fellow Irishman ,Dave Allen was wont to say...may your God go with you....E
First time I saw the crypt was in Michael Wood's documentary BBC series, _In Search of the Dark Ages,_ where he covers figures beginning from Boudica all the way to William the Conqueror.
@@grimmace9081, Great to hear. Go down that Michael Wood rabbit hole, and enjoy. _In Search of the Trojan War; In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great; Conquistadors; In Search of Shakespeare; In Search of Beowulf._ Awesome stuff.
@@fuferito just finished watching all the "in search of" video's I could find on YT, they were excellent, I especially liked the series on TROY. thanks for mentioning this show.
7th and 8th Century is 600-700 A.D. To be able to touch something that old is WOW!. I Visited Delphi in Greece while in the Navy and I sat on some stone bleachers that spectators sat in to watch Olympic competitors compete over 2000 years ago. My exact thought at that time and I was only 20 yrs old and am now 60 yrs. old is who sat in this same spot I was sitting in. Who were they, what were their lives like?
Here is an idea, I think we should archeologicaly dig up the entire UK. Send pretty much all of the people currently living there to Canada 🇨🇦 for about 10-15 years so we can just dig it all up, towns and all, even London. Just imagine all the neat history stuff we would find!
So they removed the bodies, didn’t be respectful by leaving them be, nor leave markers acknowledging their burial, just wiped them from the area. It’s also called a Mjolnir
@@Meevious The god Thor? Never heard of the god of thunder? He had a hammer he could threw and it always hit its target and it always came back to his hand. Odin had a horse with 8 legs, a fast one! That was called Sleipner. Lppk it up, they are great stories.
Hi 70s tunes. Thanks for the compliments of my wonderful country. I hope that you saw a lot while in England. I don't live there any more I moved many moons ago. But I still visit now and then. and she will be in my heart no matter where I live. From UK 🇬🇧👍👍 b Safe take care where ever you are. PEACE ☮️ an old cockney gal. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all. 🎄🍷🍾🎁🍺⛄❄️🦃🕊️
I find learning about Vikings really cool , still haven’t finished watching the series Vikings . But I do know lost about them their traditions , where they battled etc . Most of the video games I played are history games and my top fav are assassins creed Valhalla and god of war which includes history .
All you know is what the TV show and a game tells you is what it says to me and GOW isn't a viking related game I'm not trying to be mean or anything just saying
@@SittingWolfParanormal420 Nothing wrong with l that, it’s peaked his interest so now he can learn more. People need to realise that learning somthing from a game isn’t a bad thing, it only increases curiosity
As an American I am fascinated with English history, especially Saxon and Viking history. I would love to just metal detect some of that historic land.
I love the history in England. Always miss not being there. As an American servicemen stationed with the British royal Air Force, it definitely was a unique experience, and a chance to See England for all of its beauty. If you are reading this and you are from England, go have some fish and chips and a pint for me. You truly are fortunate people. Keep these wonderful videos coming!
Come back soon!
Don't come back the country has fallen
Will is right , unfortunately.
I'm from Newark upon Trent, on the Nottingham and Lincolnshire border.
you may have stationed near by, at one point.
I'll have Fish, chips and Pint, for you this weekend
@@grahamfisher5436 thanks lol... I was actually stationed down in Cornwall at RAF St Mawgan.. so beautiful down there, but I liked all of England. I did not know it at the time until I started doing genealogy of my own family, but one of my father's direct bloodline came from Devon County in the 1600s.
Dan Snow is so good at this. His excitement about history is palpable and he's so good at engaging with experts. History Hit really is the best, keep up the great work!
I live in the oldest town in Ireland. Vikings settled our town 1000 years ago. When you drive into out city centre you drive past the castle that's surrounds the town. Insane.
More likely Norse settlers as most of the settlement in Ireland was based upon Norwegian (Norse) migration around the top of Scotland to Iceland and down what is now the Irish Sea.
What town is that?
Would like to visit these places one day.
@@Norwegian733 The Kingdom of Dublin was once a Norwegian Ruled Kingdom. Unfortunately, its history has been heavily corrupted by the viking fetish so its hard to work out what really happened.
@@MrDidz Thanks.
@@Norwegian733 Ingismund and his warband when they were expelled from Dublin were granted land by Aethelflaed lady of Mercia, on the wirral , to show their gratitude they attacked Chester, however being forewarned, the good people of Chester were ready, happily in the present day the Hiberno Norse names live on ..in particular...having the only English football club with a viking Hiberno Norse name...you hopefully will join our Norwegian fans...E
Thanks for this fascinating piece of ancient history.
The Viking era is quite interesting! I recently found out that I live a few miles away from where a major battle occurred, which caused the fall of East Anglia at Tempsford
One must not fall into the trap of glorifying the Viking as they were evil murderous thieves at your door who would murder all of you family to rape daughters and get at your savings. They never went away they set up government who still take your savings today .
@@kevinjamesparr552 history is history. I never stated I was glorifying it, I said it was interesting. I like to learn about history and when it’s local, it peaks my interest and via DNA Ancestry, I’ve also learnt some of those Vikings are my ancestors.
Amazing to think of Vikings standing in that very space. Brilliant.
It's absolutely fascinating that you can be so close to history and some people don't really know. I do a lot of wild camping and I often think walking through somewhere in the Scottish Highlands and Sterling and stuff. I wonder if I'm actually walking near where someone did thousands of years ago. It's amazing.
Yes you are walking where someone did a long time ago. Reminds one of the Dead poets Society where the Teacher Robin Williams says as if the people in the photo were speaking " remember us , seize the day! "
@@lastfirst78 it's awesome. Need to watch that one. What is the name of it?
I live in Warsop close to Sherwood Forest and there is a Viking burial mound close by called Thynghowe, one of the best preserved ones in UK
Another quality upload.
I think I was British in a past life because I’m soooo obsessed with the British history and the Vikings raiding and the anglo Saxon’s!! The scenery is just breathtaking! The old architect!!! Just amazing
If you get a chance, go visit England. But not just the cities. Get out and drive around that country.
700’s up the 1000 or a little higher that’s why I want to go!! I want to stand where the wars where!!! All of that amazing historyi
It’s fookin boring
@@Wonderkid44 love history of it all
Ditto.... I did and when I did, I knew places that I shouldn't have known about and things that I shouldn't have known about as an American, so yes I was at British citizen and a previous life.
Incredible history of Viking burials in England. I'm originally from England. I love the history of the place of my birth. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨
Awesome and interesting, I too love to touch castles and ancient buildings etc. and think about those in history who've touched the same thing.
River Kings by Cat Jarman is such a great book, it discusses Repton, I highly recommend it!!
Wow, this was incredible to watch! I’m an Aussie and I love our history, but as a country, our documented history is pretty short. I really wish I was able to go to Europe when I was younger and explore and learn more about history, there is so, so much that I don’t know about, but also played a major part in the world today.
Maybe check out some indigenous history, frankly it’s highly undervalued and it’s incredibly ancient, in fact it’s thought that aboriginal people settled Australia thousands and thousands of years before we even thought that people had invented boats. And the deep and continual racism against them is highly upsetting. Hope you appreciate where you live because I would LOVE to be able to learn more about the native Australians by traveling there
@@maddieb.4282 I’ve done a little research into indigenous history, specifically in the area we live, and a little more into artwork and it is quite interesting, however as my family heritage is European, I’ve always been very interested in researching my history, particularly my surname as there a group of people near Poland with the same name, and I’d like to see if I’m able to trace my lineage back to there.
You could drop the U.K. in Australia and lose it, and yet it's just packed with so many historical wonders.
Love it. I'd also love for you to do a collaboration with Modern History, Tod's workshop and Tobias Capwell.
So amusing…. when they were in the crypt and Dan Sow mentioned time travel.. he was walking in front of a door in the corner ….that looked suspiciously like Dr. Who’s Tardis!
LOL good spotting.
Yes, I noticed that as well
YT algo knows me so well!...thanks Dan & Cat....liked, subbed, shared and ....DING!
We are so lucky to have all this amazing history surrounding us, I bet they never would of thought 100s of years down the line they would be acknowledged
i think they knew.
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Ahhhh my beautiful home village where my parents still live. I can still vividly remember "the dig" when we were growing up & being entranced by it - especially the viking giant with the sword down his leg & the double burial. I love Repton, it's my spiritual home.
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King Pybba was my 40th great grandfather. You and I are, perhaps, cousins.
Was there really a nine foot skeleton !!??
As always,wonderful and informative. Thank you.
That last bone deposit seems like a Viking tomb of the unknowns !:-)
Did she say one of the buried Vikings was 9 feet tall?
Ivan the boneless was said to be 9 feet tall in some folk law accounts. But shhh your not allowed to talk about that kind of thing.😉
@@raclark2730 Ivar. Ivar is also the father of the Ferguson clan in Scotland and his dna is seen all over the UK and Ireland mostly in Scotland and Ireland. All of these guys seem to be giants though in folklore.
@Clappy No hes my great grandads great great great great great more greats cousin on his sister Fionas side. I read about it on IrishDNA.truth. bruh.
@Clappy Dats dee one to be sure.
@Clappy You could say it was a bit of a stretch.
You'll find in the midlands and up that a lot of villages are named after Viking settlers that once owned the land.
I grew up in what was a small hamlet and a farm turned into a village due to coal mining generations later.
There's an old underground river that used to be on the surface... I imagine it's what may have made people want to settle this area.
That is very true i live in the easy midlands near elvaston avalston and thulston and i cant remember the story but they are named after vikings also near me is a likely a place where vikings were buried but it is not uncovered and still underground
So sad to think about them being buried in a communion burial site.... bless those souls.
I love history!
there's a whole viking graveyard a few miles down river, very spooky place, in a forest now, very gloomy with mounds and moss hanging from the low branches, and full of cries of birds. Quite an unsettling place at night.
I’ll have to visit and pay my respects to my ancestors and the AllFather during a visit sometime in the near future.
Yeah! I have these fantasies too.
A few miles up the road from me is a location referred to locally as The Danish Camp'. There is actually quite a nice cafe there and there is a couple of depressions which are said to be where the Danes hauled their boats out of the river to repair them.
The assumption being that this was a Danish Trading Post on the river Ouse just within the Danish Borough of Bedford.
Not more than a few miles from that is a village that just happens to have my surname and i often fantasize that my ancestors founded that settlement having alighted from a boat at The Danish Camp.
But it is just a fantasy. In fact, the Danish Camp is on the wrong side of the river to actually be Danish and whilst its nice to imagine my ancestors founded a settlement in practice its more likely that the settlement and my surname just hare a common ancestry as both were apparently North European words that meant something like Forester or 'He who lives near the forest'. So the village may well have been founded by anyone from Northern Europe and named because it was close to a forest.
Still I like to dream.
@@MrDidz Most people from mainland Britain hail from Denmark & Northern Germany due to the many many influxes of peoples from those areas. The U.K. also used to be connected by land to the northern parts of Europe via a now submerged area of land that went by the name Dogerland which is why the Gaels of Scotland and Ireland share the same blonde and red hair traits of Northern Europeans. This is also why Pre-Christian ruins of the whole of Great Britain contain many artefacts and talismans, pendants etc that are clearly Germanic in nature, the proto-germanic versions of Thor’s hammer being a very common archaeological find dating back way before the arrival of Christianity or even the Viking Era. Regardless, both of my father’s parents can trace their lineages back to Norman soldiers or Nordic families that came to the U.K. with William Duke of Normandy-a man who claimed descent from royal Viking blood.
@@dragonofhatefulretribution9041 my Surname, goes back to North Germany
@@grahamfisher5436 We’re all close family in Great Britain-on average every man and woman are roughly 13th/14th cousins. The natives anyway.. Not the modern population, obviously.
What about the 9 foot tall skeleton? Was it painstakingly preserved somewhere?
Right? Can’t believe they just glossed over that.
Nope, scattered. Some guy said he saw the head in a teacher’s classroom though as well as some other guy saying the bones were kept in his father’s chest. Either way it’s lost now
@@EternalShadow1667 Typical :( Ah well, thanks for the updated info.
Look up the mound people buried all their remains in massive mounds around the world all to be 7-15 feet tall
@@Badboyteddybear Yep! Exactly!
Good show, thanks guys !
I’ve been reading the book, “River Kings” by Cat Jarman. Part of the book deals exactly with the content of this UA-cam presentation. After reading about the excavation in the Repton church yard it was quite interesting to see this visual presentation.
I highly recommend the book. It is quite readable. Thank you for the presentation.
I héard the book puts modern ideas into the medieval world, which is always a huge mistake, and this has stopped me buying it. Does it promulgate women fighting? If it does then its ideology not history
No, outside of women who may have been rulers/leaders of some sort it is not heavy on the idea of women warriors. It reports the archeological evidence that has been found to date and states the difficulty of coming to an accurate conclusion from what has been found.
The real theme of the book is, “those ole boys sure got around”. I certainly enjoy reading this book.
Sea wolves is good too
Oh i love the old time back to My old Danish Vikings times, proud to be a Dane... Thx for super vid...
The Danes would have been the descendents of the Saxon Jutes who invaded England four hundred years earlier.
In 1002 on St. Brice's Day, King Ehelraed the Unready ordered the killing of Danes. Even those who had lived in England for 100 years. The numbers killed are unknown but it seems many were massacred.
Nice and I'm proud to be R-L48 (though Canadian) with Danish in my mix way back.
Your aware their main source of income was slavery? They soon learnt that money could be made by selling captives to arab slave traders keen to acquire fair skinned people.
I'm not blaming the Vikings it's just funny in todays cancel culture world that the slavery aspect of the norsemen has been forgotten.
Just love Jan Molby, s scouser accent ex Liverpool midfielder, Lobscouse brought to Merseyside by the Norwegian Whalers in the 19th century ...we have quite a few Scandinavian fans who come to Merseyside for all the Merseyside football clubs..
@@markhirstwood4190 Hi Mark, there is a monument to the Royal Canadian navy here on the Pier head in Liverpool for the pivotal role they played in the battle of the Atlantic..
A skeleton 9 ft. tall... in this mound! A true giant! But she glosses over this as if it's not all that important. Maybe she's been instructed that they do not acknowledge such finds. Giant skeletons always mysteriously go missing once academic authorities get involved. They just reburied this giant and forgot about it! Unbelievable...
Yes ,it is exactly that . Unbelievable.
So in the1700s some workman finds this jumble of bones ,some 300 in all.
and decides there is a 9 foot skeleton among them...
Have you seen that jumble? Instead of starting complot theories better
start using your brain...
gossip plus time equals legend
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Sorry I didn't realize you were unaware of the facts of history.
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You've never read where complete skeletons of giants were discovered individually?? Really?
The History of England and the british isles is fascinating, particularly during this period of intense rival powers. All the best from France!
There is even a Hiberno Norse place name here on the wirral...Frankby ..self explanatory..alongside Irby..place of.. you get the drift...a Frankish influence alongside the Irish ,Angles and Welsh ( Wallasey) ,quite a hybrid place our Peninsula...
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Very interesting! My family comes from Worksop, Mansfield-Woodhouse, Nottingham and some from Repton. My ancestors left England around 1845 and showed up in Missouri in the USA on the 1850 Census. The last names were Wilkinson's, Stubbins, Cooke, Clarke and several more. From DNA we know we have a large percentage of Scandinavian in us, but no one from Scandinavia. It would be interesting to know more of if they stayed long enough to have families. I guess I will do some reading up on the history of the area! I enjoy the history and the views of the area!
When DNA first became a 'thing' 20 odd years ago, there was a program looking for 'Blood of the Vikings'. They couldn't find any DNA that was specifically 'Viking' because the DNA of the Viking settlement regions was virtually identical to modern day Danes. (Apart from locality markers.) So from the Thames Estuary up to Yorkshire. Liverpool, Dublin and Glasgow were Viking trading hubs.
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A 20 year DNA study published in 2015 found little impact on the genetic makeup of the British from the Romans, Viking Danes or Normans. They may have conquered but there were comparatively few of them compared to the existing population. The Anglo Saxons, however, were the only conquering force to contribute substantially to the genetic makeup.
@@Wotsitorlabart Anglo Saxon DNA is predominantly R1a haplogroup. Britain is still R1b haplogroup dominant.
@@mukhumor Within Britain, the most common is l1. Associated with the Anglo-Saxon and the Vikings.
My wife is from Missouri and her dna had 40% Scandinavian which i thought was incredibly high. The surename I thought it came from was Johnston. And they were said to have immigrated from Wales. I thought it was odd that the percentage would be so high and the family have no knowledge of it.
9 feet tall? And you don't ask a follow-up question? What a great interview..
@Clappy could you atleast spell ivar correctly
Sheesh, the father and son's burial tugged at the heart strings. I'm due for a good cry soon, I suppose. It's been awhile. 6:44
Cat really knows her stuff. I love these videos. Och aye the noooooooo.
She certainly does...making history interesting...
I live in Suffolk and apparently my surname "Self" is derived from Seawulf going back to the Viking invaders and settlers of East Anglia
I live in Suffolk as well, I'm a direct descendant of Norse kings including Rolo and Viking's.
My surname is pre-7th century Old English/Germanic and translates to Wolf Bold or Wolf Daring. Wulfnoth is one spelling but it does differ.
Fantastic video
Did we just gloss over that one of the skeletons was 9ft tall?
No. None of the skeletons were. It's a myth.
Sounds like a tall tale to me...ouch..
We have nothing in America remotely that old. My dream is to spend a couple of years in the UK, but at 62 it probably won’t happen. Thanks for letting me live vicariously.
Denise, Why would you make such an uninformed statement? I know you have heard, "couldn't see the forest for trees"? Explore your country and see the world.
What about the Pueblo villages in the South West? They're about the same age. And Cahokia near St. Louis? I would love to see them, but I'm 73 and don't think I will now. The USA has fascinating Native American sites and history.
I live 1 hr from one off the darkest city's in Europe, called York. The roman settled there and the old A1 is still used to this day as a dual carriageway. the road is straight as a die
I'm fine with archeologists taking stuff they find for a museum but to take items from a burial site I don't think is right.
Uh, a 9' skeleton surrounded by 100's others? How do we just brush over a 9' skeleton? That is wild! Did they find the 9' skeleton in the 1980's digs? That would be interesting DNA studies.
I looked around and found a BBC article mentioning it. Seems it stems from a report from an earlier excavation in 1686 , which claimed to have found a 'humane body nine foot long.' Can't really expand on much in that case if they don't have it.
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/dig_reports_01.shtml
No, it was only found in Repton-the remains of part of the Great Heathen Army. Some say it was the bones of Ivar the Boneless. It’s not complete speculation either, the chronologies line up and historians support the hypothesis. No reason to doubt the accounts either, it was possible Ivar was just a freakishly big dude. Perhaps he even died due to complications related to his size. It’s notable that none of the graves at Repton displayed fatal combat wounds. Yikes, just did some research. If the bones really were 9 feet long, that warrior would have been the tallest recorded man to have ever lived…not very likely. Chances are it was just a measurement error, the grave was basically plundered after all
Look up the mound people buried all their remains in massive mounds around the world all to be 7-15 feet tall
@@EternalShadow1667 if Ivar was that big it could help add to the name boneless cause people over 6ft usually have issues with their knees popping out so perhaps he had a big issue with that and people used it for his name I’ve always doubt the theory of it being ED because I feel he would have kept that very hidden
@@Badboyteddybear mounds in nb canada, government sent bones to museums and they said they lost them lol
Strange me and Freinds visited Denmark's main Viking cemetery in Roskilde ,but we haven't visited this one in our country .
"almost extremely important".... so just 'important' then?
Brilliant again Dan
Britain...the land of the unknown. Romans, anglo saxons, celts....vikings. so much history on this tiny island. Not to mention it was the world's biggest empire.
Excellent! Fascinating history. Thank you for sharing this.
Really informative Documentary I love it
They used to call them grave robbers and killed them. Now they're archaeologists and they're celebrated.
And without the work of archaeologists much of the past would still be a virtual blank slate.
Great! Really appreciate this excellent work. 👍
Really good one!
it's my goal in life to one day take my dad there on vacation to see all these ancient sites
Dan Snow makes history interesting just like his father does…🇨🇦👍🏻
Yes! I just wish he'd make more effort to get it right.
5:43 The guy in black makes sure to stand on every inch of the grave
Excellent...thank you, a wee tale I knew sod all about...great!
I also think the large unmarked burial site near Dorset of the beheaded Jomsvikings is up there as well.
LOL you say "Time travel" 1:48 as you pass the Tardis 😅😂🤔
Thank you. That was amazing!!
I live in Pennsylvania, in the US. I grew up around burial mounds, believed to be from the ancient Adena peoples and the Fort Ancient culture. I find it interesting that ancient Native Americans utilized burial mounds much like the vikings. There are mounds all over the US but there are many here and into Ohio. I often wonder if vikings were here much earlier and Native Americans copied that or vice versa. There have been giant skeletons found in the US as well.
The Vikings only made it to l'anse Aux Meadows. There's no archaeological evidence to support any other settlements anywhere else in America. Maybe they had a small settlement on the coast of Canada. Think that's about it in my opinion.
My family is from Ireland and still have family in Waterford from what I'm told . My family history goes back to Scandinavia.
9:30 9ft tall so yous show the bone deposit but where is the photo evidence of the 9ft tall man/woman giant ?
For those who actually like being told real history. The posting of the above small documentary, is a decisive step onward the direction of some of the real ancient History of the U.K., being finally posted.
Furthermore, here I share some proper archeological facts about the above posted documentary:
At 1:55 of the video, it shows a spacious well built crypt, that was used originally as a granary and was built for medium scale farm produce storage such as barley or wheat; at about 1800 B.c.
While at 5:56 of of the video, is displayed a photography of a former Prussian native woman skeleton, resting in its own peace, at the ancient graveyard of 'Repton', an original mid-eastern U.K. village from 1775 B.c. That was built by a small community of pioneers of the farming industry of the U.K. a couple of years before that Prussian native woman died.
Then to summarize: the above revealed story, goes a bit like these:
A small group of the Angolares, that came all the way from the ancient nation of the Angolares, that was situated and administrated from the extensive territory comprehended between nowadays: Libreville, Gabon and Durban, R.S.A.. Them decided to start up the farming industry at the Island of "Nova Scotia", ( that is the original name of the U.K.). And for that, they recruited a group of Prussians, from nowadays Prussia along side with a group of Syrians, from nowadays Syria. To whom they gave the opportunity & task for them to start up: a seasonal cultivation of Barley and wheat at the mid-eastern planes of the "Nova Scotia" island.
In conclusion: To this day, that same pioneered region from many generations ago, of the nowadays U.K.; is still a valuable farming territory for Barley and wheat in the U.K.
To note that the mentioned above Prussian woman photographed skeleton: had no cutting marks to it. Meaning that: the Angolares were quite serious about being against: any type of cannibalism, including two millennia ago in "Nova Scotia". Even thought a few of the other found skeletons, did had about one or two extended cutting marks... Whitch was yet, a very good "non-cannibal standard" for that Northern region of ancient Europe.
Meaning that: that medium ancient community formed by mostly pioneering Northern Europe land farmers, was achieving a decent level of success: at their farm & food stock safe enterprise; that many hundreds of years ago.
Like the Boney M, song called Rasputin, mentions at its end: "Haa those Prussians.!."
You're citing years BC. Was this a mistake or do you actually think these things happened over 3,000 years ago?
@@debbylou5729 If one acknowledges that the way of addressing the normal staying alive, social daily common effort; hasn't change much for about 2K years; and just beyond the mark of about 51 years ago.
Then to write & state that the referred in the above video, proper north-farming pioneers, whom previously settled somewhere at the middle Eastern lands of the nowadays U.K.: have locally left there own historical mark there; from about 1800 years ago; is just a summoning of a good time reference for the referred above, specific quite important archeological site. Being that it could be from about 1800 years ago, or it might be from 5K years ago. Since because the ancient Angolares, started building permanent settlements in the nowadays land of the nowadays U.K., about 11K years ago.
@@aberdeenkiko thank you for that word salad. I'll be having a burger now
fun channel and cool topics
Why not pay respect to the decease viking and actually place some markings of the Graves instead of covering it back up?
What are they going to do? Go find an Asatru pagan priestess? I don’t see them putting up a giant Mjolnir in a church yard. Lol. Tho that would be kinda funny
@@kelvyquayo He means ANYTHING, even a Plaque or something to pay respects to the Great Vikings rather than just covering them up.
Probably the same reason the Russians don’t mark the great German graves
Excellent site. Ive been to similiar sites in Denmark, norway and sweden but this in england has been one of the most impressive for finds and evidence of various kinds. Im north in east anglia at the moment and the countryside, bays and landscape, i can definitely see why our people would wish to drop by and settle here.
There's always Escomb church in County Durham which is C 600 AD, that's quite old!
At last the wonderful church at Escomb gets a mention. I've been there twice as I've got relatives in County Durham. Tucked away in a little valley near Bishop Auckland. If you like Anglo-Saxon history it's a must see.
I'm from Newark upon Trent.
Surrounded by it all.
Would love for you to do a video about St Kenelms spring in Romsey. The actual spring is under the church & a rill was built( it is the headwater of the river Stour.) unfortunately it has collapsed so now the holy water flows either side of & not into the well! Kenelm was an interesting story especially why his spring is here plus the journey back to his resting place.
In Britain lot of Christian monasteries and churches were built over the top of springs. In pre-Christian times these springs had sacred connections. Building over these springs announced Christianity as the new dominant religion whilst still keep the ancient connection with springs and underground streams. This explains why churches were often built in obscure locations. A lot of ancient wells that are named after various Saints have pre-Christian origins too.
So crazy they once walked our earth long ago absolutely amazing
Not for them it wasn't. For them it was just normal life. And that is a very important point. Probably the greatest insight of the human equation that history gives us: what we regard today as normal, will be regarded as amazing and exotic in the future. Its an excellent basis on which to question our way of life and what we take for granted.
Interesting the Viking and old England television series on Netflix, don’t delve into Mercia beyond being a kingdom that doesn’t play well with other Kings, but doesn’t delve into its importance
We've all got some type of ancestral DNA from the past in us. Take my family for example, we just found out that we are directly related to King Harald Hadrada. He is my 33rd great grandfather. Apparently according to swiss officials, we are the first in ldirect line and there's a big family of us here in Aus. I find it very humbling and not a big deal really seeing as there's so many people finding out who their ancestors were. Overall, it's fascinating to me. 😁
you do look like him to be honest, your facial features are similar
What has Switzerland to do with King Harald?
One hell of bragging point. Harald was an absolute legend. Hold your head up proudly and make sure your children know their past!
Holy shit you have a small claim on Norway and England then.
But not Sweden 😜
@@twinsonic As far as I know, I don't know much about it but I'm learning as I go along......
What show is this from?
Hmm I like Viking history but I have a question... how long does a body have to be buried before its considered archeology rather then graverobbing when you pull stuff out?
Go dig one up & you'll find out.
@@sentimentalbloke185 LOL 😆
The amount of stories I hear about un-usually large skeletons is starting to become too common
Just a myth. Don't get carried away.
no skeleton 9 foot tall was ever actually recovered, it was just reported by the guy who had originally dug up the mound in the late 1600's. or rather, the supposed remaind were lost st some point, so it's not verifable.
the mound was most likely the burial place of Ivar the Boneless, whose name translated from Old Norse could mean Ivar legless. so he may not have had legs, or could have had little to no movement in his legs, so he was disabled. some Old Norse stories about him do describe him without legs, others as having "weak bones", or legs with cartilage where bone should be, thus the theory he had little to no mobility in them and his name. it could also mean he was impotent, there's a passage in the Tale of Ragnar's Sons that apparently says this. i did read somewhere the name could have meant he was "long legged" so that would mean tall though probably not 9 feet, but i only read that in the one place and his name seems to suggest he was actually short as lacking legs could allude to lacking height.
the point to all that is there was more than likely never any 9 foot skeleton in the mound lol.
@@deathcabforcutie3889 if you never research things that havent been discovered they never will be. Albeit I do agree its a myth. But no reason to not be inqusitive and shut yourself off to ideas
@@fullmetalfunk never said there was! Cool info tho, thank you for sharing
@@CodingWithUnity Until unusually large skeletons are discovered then I'll take notice; but specualtion is not fact.
She loves her job - brilliant 😍
Yes, and I really appreciated the fact that she presented as an average person - no tatooed face, no pink hair or extravagent hand actions, no look-at-me behaviour, just great knowledge and enthusiasm.
@@msjessies1 seconded...even got my daughter, s attention...mind you all us Tranmere Rovers fans are very Viking obsessed...something to do with our name....Hiberno Norse...
Absolutely fascinating.
Towards the end - she says a NINE FOOT skeleton was discovered - and Dan Snow didn’t even blink or question that !?
I wanna know more!!!
Is it bothering anyone else that they didn't say what could have possibly been a cause of death for the second guy?
No, not bothered at all. There is always some detail that some people wish had been brought up.
UA-cam is becoming more like the old analog TV stations... an ad every few minutes. Just stop.
That was fascinating…. And so subscribed 👍🏻
I find it incredibly offensive that you would desicrate these graves.
I remember from history class that the first viking thing was found by a child they were just running around when a sworf washed up on the river
Good stuff,best wishes from the wirral, site of the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD,Wirral,namechecked albeit in Welsh in the medieval poem of sir Gawain and the green knight
It wasn't "name checked" it was "mentioned", for God's sake!
@@deathcabforcutie3889 Calm down...I certainly won,t be bringing God into it...best wishes from present day Wirral ...mentioned...as home of the only English football club with a viking Hiberno Norse name.
@@eamonnclabby7067 Well if you are proud of Wirral as being the only English football club, then extend that to the English language. Cut out the Americanisms - for God's sake!
@@deathcabforcutie3889 if its good enough for Macca and Elvis Costello aka Declan McManus ,a fellow Birkonian then Americana is good enough for me ,we are carrying on a cultural phenomenon that goes back to the days of the Cunard scousers who brought loads of Blues music and American comics to Merseyside...some older Mariners reckon that process goes back beyond WW2....I wonder what accent God has...it might even be as good as Martin Freeman's in The Responder, as a fellow Irishman ,Dave Allen was wont to say...may your God go with you....E
First time I saw the crypt was in Michael Wood's documentary BBC series, _In Search of the Dark Ages,_ where he covers figures beginning from Boudica all the way to William the Conqueror.
thank you, was looking for something too watch after this video that I hadnt seen before.
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I hope you enjoyed it. It's from quite a few years back, but it's just so well done.
@@fuferito I did very much, have quite a few more video's to watch from that series, hadnt seen or heard of it before
@@grimmace9081,
Great to hear.
Go down that Michael Wood rabbit hole, and enjoy.
_In Search of the Trojan War; In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great; Conquistadors; In Search of Shakespeare; In Search of Beowulf._
Awesome stuff.
@@fuferito just finished watching all the "in search of" video's I could find on YT, they were excellent, I especially liked the series on TROY. thanks for mentioning this show.
What about the 9 foot skeleton?
7th and 8th Century is 600-700 A.D. To be able to touch something that old is WOW!. I Visited Delphi in Greece while in the Navy and I sat on some stone bleachers that spectators sat in to watch Olympic competitors compete over 2000 years ago. My exact thought at that time and I was only 20 yrs old and am now 60 yrs. old is who sat in this same spot I was sitting in. Who were they, what were their lives like?
Absolutely fantastic ty. OMG did she say 9 ft. .
Dan, Don't forget it was a much more important site to the Anglo Saxons! That's why the Vikings buried their dead there.
My family was in Northumbria, Sweden and northern Scotland near the marshes.
Here is an idea, I think we should archeologicaly dig up the entire UK. Send pretty much all of the people currently living there to Canada 🇨🇦 for about 10-15 years so we can just dig it all up, towns and all, even London. Just imagine all the neat history stuff we would find!
So they removed the bodies, didn’t be respectful by leaving them be, nor leave markers acknowledging their burial, just wiped them from the area. It’s also called a Mjolnir
Mjølner is the name given to Thors hammer.
@@Meevious The god Thor? Never heard of the god of thunder? He had a hammer he could threw and it always hit its target and it always came back to his hand.
Odin had a horse with 8 legs, a fast one! That was called Sleipner.
Lppk it up, they are great stories.
A 9 foot Viking warrior?! Sounds like something out of Game of Thrones!
What are good history books about this interesting period?
Hi 70s tunes. Thanks for the compliments of my wonderful country. I hope that you saw a lot while in England. I don't live there any more I moved many moons ago. But I still visit now and then. and she will be in my heart no matter where I live. From UK 🇬🇧👍👍 b Safe take care where ever you are. PEACE ☮️ an old cockney gal. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all. 🎄🍷🍾🎁🍺⛄❄️🦃🕊️
To quote Monty Python, "Bloody Vikings!"
"Spam! Spam!! Spam!!!"
when i die i wouldnt want to be digged up after 300 years
I find learning about Vikings really cool , still haven’t finished watching the series Vikings . But I do know lost about them their traditions , where they battled etc . Most of the video games I played are history games and my top fav are assassins creed Valhalla and god of war which includes history .
All you know is what the TV show and a game tells you is what it says to me and GOW isn't a viking related game I'm not trying to be mean or anything just saying
@@SittingWolfParanormal420 Nothing wrong with l that, it’s peaked his interest so now he can learn more. People need to realise that learning somthing from a game isn’t a bad thing, it only increases curiosity
It’s a starting point but the tv show barely stretches the surface of Bikings.
I went to school in repton and never knew this
As an American I am fascinated with English history, especially Saxon and Viking history. I would love to just metal detect some of that historic land.
You need landowner permission and sites like this would be protected. Nighhawking is illegal.
@@marieascot that is everywhere, and common sense lol.
@@JohnnyButtons Have you seen the comedy The Detectorists?
@@marieascot yes I have lol.
There's no reason why you couldn't. Just hook up with U.K. metal detectorists next time you come across the pond.