Social Classes in Viking Society

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  • @TheSaneHatter
    @TheSaneHatter 6 років тому +99

    I have a sinking feeling that, if I'd been born in the Viking Age, I'd have been born a slave. It would be just my luck.

    • @joshuatraffanstedt2695
      @joshuatraffanstedt2695 6 років тому +3

      Me too. But id have won my freedom by cutting off the head of king harold and becoming King. And id have bedded all the bitches.it would Have been an epic fuck fest.

    • @Eclipse-mf6hc
      @Eclipse-mf6hc 5 років тому +3

      I’d be a Jarl. Oh wait min farfar spent all my family’s money on his second wife... guess I’d be a Karl

    • @e.mailissimo2146
      @e.mailissimo2146 4 роки тому +3

      @hunter christensen Hmm... thats a good thing i assume, never heard of any mass school axeings in the viking age :D

    • @alfredospautzgranemannjuni5864
      @alfredospautzgranemannjuni5864 4 роки тому +3

      It’s still not impossible to move up. Guthred was a slave, and became a Northumbrian king.

    • @thesanfranciscoseahorse473
      @thesanfranciscoseahorse473 3 роки тому +1

      But there were a whole lot more murders that went unsolved due to knife crime. Trade one form of violence for another.

  • @slyaspie4934
    @slyaspie4934 2 роки тому +5

    Such a fantastic channel packed full of great informative videos, just like this one thanks for all your hard work

  • @Trailerglotzer
    @Trailerglotzer 6 років тому +7

    I'm happy that I found your channel. Keep up the good work :)

    • @Skjalden
      @Skjalden  6 років тому

      and I'm happy that you liked the videos :)

  • @GOLDRAINFEATHERS
    @GOLDRAINFEATHERS 6 років тому +19

    Educational and thought out. Unique topic.

  • @Greye13
    @Greye13 6 років тому +6

    Skjalden, what a wonderful achievement for you. Congratulations on receiving your Master's.

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 6 років тому +35

    The story of Rig gets a bit ambiguous as when he appears later because in that time he resembles Odinn. There is a line of thought that says that Odinn, disguised as Rig teaches men how to war so that he can collect and train warriors for Ragnarok. It is also thought that one of Odinn's ravens is used to suggest to man that instead of killing animals it is more beneficial for him to kill other men in order to possess their land and property, in other words campaign for war.

    • @Skjalden
      @Skjalden  6 років тому +6

      Its true there is a lot more to the saga of Rig, which is why I tried to summarize the most important parts for this video. To be honest, we do not know much about Heimdall, and the story of Rig is also incomplete with pages missing. It might have been as you said, probably Odin who interfered with what Heimdall was doing, by disguising himself as Rig and used one of his ravens to influence the jarls to campaign for war.

    • @stianberg5645
      @stianberg5645 6 років тому +6

      Damn Odin always pushing his agenda into other æsir's projects

    • @karamlevi
      @karamlevi 3 роки тому

      @@stianberg5645 it’s the long game to save all of life... that is his target 🎯... preparing for the trusts fight all (or decedents) will face in the future... it’s the ultimate in winter preparations so to speak.
      🗣 hail Odin 🤘🏿🌑 ⚔️🕯 🤘🏽
      Getting the job done-

    • @johngeddes4161
      @johngeddes4161 Рік тому

      bullshit not true odin and his family not as many wrote,men took themselves down.

  • @leeloxleigh1471
    @leeloxleigh1471 3 роки тому

    This i really liked. You described the four classes very well. I have now subscribed to your channel. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

  • @CAM-fq8lv
    @CAM-fq8lv 3 роки тому

    Thanks for another wonderful video. Good luck with your studies. Please continue to post.

  • @DouglassHoldings
    @DouglassHoldings 6 років тому +7

    Being of Norwegian decent on my mothers side I found video to be of great interest. Thank you.

  • @BrodieB762
    @BrodieB762 Рік тому

    As a “Veteran” of the Swedish Army Iv seen that slavery is prevalent in a lot of places that Iv seen. Sorry my English is not best
    Denna kanal är den bästa!
    Kommer att titta på den här kanalen hela dagen.
    Kärlek från Sverige 🇸🇪.

  • @jamesroche5937
    @jamesroche5937 5 років тому +21

    i would so love to hear you're message of knowledge , but i'm deaf! so i have to have someone tell me what is being said. i would love it if closed caption was on here.

  • @S-Walt3r
    @S-Walt3r 3 роки тому

    Love your videos they are so educative!

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 3 роки тому +1

    The class totem pole was very precise

  • @eduardoesteban9823
    @eduardoesteban9823 3 роки тому

    Great video

  • @Higgins8
    @Higgins8 6 років тому +1

    Good video. Very interesting.

  • @antoninaheath3671
    @antoninaheath3671 5 років тому +2

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have just one little issue to reconsider. English term "slave' comes from classic Latin and is a little older than the Viking Age. The etymology of that word might come from Slavic people living to the south at the Roman Empire borders. Who have been a source to the slaves but also were people who were running the slave market. There are actually a lot of historical primary sources supporting that. I wouldn't connect etymology of word slave with Viking Age because they were as you say using a different term 'thrall' for a slave and also a different term for Slavic people at that time: Wenden. All the best.

  • @ryanmcmahon3555
    @ryanmcmahon3555 5 місяців тому

    What where the first humans names? I have my volume at full & couldn't hear what he said they where called.

  • @jennifermcdonald5432
    @jennifermcdonald5432 2 роки тому +2

    I have always wondered at what stage in human development, did humans decide that people could be slaves. Also did it develop at different times in different cultures. I mean there must have been times when no one was a slave, surely.

    • @_gold_eye_2656
      @_gold_eye_2656 2 роки тому +1

      No. Everyone is a slave if you want to get all philosophical and you gotta realize we probably captured women by force as slaves. Slavery is likely as old as human consciousness in my opinion. If you ask when slavery first became a class than the answer would be soon after farming was invented and possibly before then as to build the first megalithic structures.

  • @shepglennon8760
    @shepglennon8760 5 років тому +2

    I love your work and the topics you choose! Do you believe that the story of the creation of the four classes might have started with elites in order to justify their hierarchy?

  • @SIG442
    @SIG442 3 роки тому +1

    Well, that explains a lot of why I have specific dreams and thoughts haha
    I have Viking ancestry, with the dreams, thoughts etc. I didn't figure out yet in what class my family falls, but I do know that the rumor of 'always have been farmers' is a common answer in my family. It just didn't state which side of the family that was and even in the family tree this shows to be not true. At least up to early 1700 which is not even close to the Viking era. This is however the time period my family came from Norway to Denmark. From the story you told, I personally have traits of all 4 groups in me. Specially the middle 2 seem to be most likely for me. I did hear 'Jarl' being thrown around in my family past and even a slight mention of royalty. Not sure yet about the details or whether they mean the same thing even.

  • @josecaballero7977
    @josecaballero7977 4 роки тому

    good work very interesting

  • @Tina06019
    @Tina06019 6 років тому +1

    Best of fortune in your studies. May you have good teachers & good health.

    • @Skjalden
      @Skjalden  6 років тому

      Thank you, Tina :)

  • @sleepless9994
    @sleepless9994 4 роки тому

    Helpful for history class. Thx

  • @libertycowboy2495
    @libertycowboy2495 3 роки тому

    What is your source saying the thralls had undyed clothing? If they had any free time, they could have dyed their clothes with local plants and urine. Also, wode, which makes blue grows wild.

  • @w0t3rdog
    @w0t3rdog 3 роки тому +1

    At 20:29, the island of Gotland seems to be counted as Götes. That is way wrong. If anything, they were Gutes, a seperate group, and they could possibly be referred to as Rus, as some sources indicated Svear and Gutes to have been the main groups to head east into todays russia, ukraine and turkey, and thus were called Rus. Depending on the time, they also voluntarily vassaled themselves under the svear kings.

  • @akatosh2795
    @akatosh2795 6 років тому +2

    You uploaded this last week, what is the different between that video and this week’s?

    • @Skjalden
      @Skjalden  6 років тому +4

      The changes are only minor, but they were big enough for me to want to change it. Next time it will be a completely new video.

    • @colinp2238
      @colinp2238 6 років тому +1

      Thank god for that. I thought I had experienced a Mandela moment!

  • @RenanL.S.
    @RenanL.S. 4 роки тому

    What about the housecarls, were they farmers or jarls?

    • @menotyou717
      @menotyou717 4 роки тому +1

      They were Karls. Housecarl translates to hus-karl or house-farmer/man.

  • @huymammin5915
    @huymammin5915 9 місяців тому

    and i have suspecioses that word "jarl" is connected to russian "viking kind of" yarilo, means "sun". kind of a bright knyaz. yarilo, yarl. same roots

  • @dillonrogers7496
    @dillonrogers7496 6 років тому +2

    hallo can u please Research the name Rogers it has been said that it comes from Denmark during the Norman french invasion

  • @historie123
    @historie123 2 роки тому

    Du er dansk tipper jeg 😁 ❤🤍
    God video ! 👌

  • @thesanfranciscoseahorse473
    @thesanfranciscoseahorse473 3 роки тому +2

    There are actually "more" slaves today, in 2021, that there ever where back then. Unfortunately. Do some research on human trafficking and the sex trade. Millions currently in captivity against their will. Somehow this goes largely unnoticed. It's one of thr biggest crimes against humanity on earth today.

  • @vladtimofte6511
    @vladtimofte6511 3 роки тому

    3:25 Sounds like the Scotsman from Samurai Jack throwing insults at Jack

  • @shepglennon8760
    @shepglennon8760 5 років тому

    I would love to hear more about revolts against kings. Do you have any sources I can refer to?

  • @metalman7825
    @metalman7825 4 роки тому +2

    That part towards the end there about kings being expected to be generous and give gifts to their supporters reminds me of what Dr. Jordan Peterson has said about primate group leaders, sure the strongest most violent ape can take control but if he is brutal or tyrannical he will inevitably be taken out by the 2nd or 3rd etc... strongest apes who team up. Where as the ape that is generous and shares food and things with the others, who protects AND provides for them will last much longer in the leadership position.

  • @methatswho300
    @methatswho300 4 роки тому +3

    the kids’ names though😂😂😂...if only😂

  • @sheltowee8079
    @sheltowee8079 2 роки тому

    What??? According to the United Nations humans rights council on slavery there are more people in some form of physical slavery than any other period in time.

  • @Eclipse-mf6hc
    @Eclipse-mf6hc 5 років тому

    1:31 hold the phone! Du er dansk også? I feel so stupid, I am horrible with accents. I knew u were Scandinavian, just didn’t realise u were also Danish (I’m half)....

  • @DDd-vg9gt
    @DDd-vg9gt 3 роки тому

    plz! Add subtitles!

  • @johngeddes4161
    @johngeddes4161 Рік тому

    this comes direct from odin and his valkerie

  • @prince-electorsnoo2540
    @prince-electorsnoo2540 4 роки тому +2

    I feel as if portraying this hierarchy as a pyramid is sort of misleading, as I think the majority of people would have been Karls, not slaves

    • @fyrivikingcombat
      @fyrivikingcombat 4 роки тому

      The pyramid represents hierarchy, not the amount of people within those classes. He mentions that the majority of people would have Karls.

  • @Mountainsarecool1
    @Mountainsarecool1 6 років тому

    Thanks

  • @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin
    @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin 6 років тому

    No thanes?

    • @rigo-mma
      @rigo-mma Рік тому +1

      Thane is an Anglo-Saxon class, it doesn’t really have an equivalent in Norse culture. Thanes would be above karls and below jarls

  • @matthewhenderson6821
    @matthewhenderson6821 2 роки тому

    I was told my ancestors last name means son of sven so they must've been rolalty and then warrior

  • @martinan22
    @martinan22 6 років тому +2

    In any society where a majority of people die from starvationrelated illness, slavery is unavoidable.

    • @shepglennon8760
      @shepglennon8760 5 років тому

      I find that very interesting! You mean that people would feel forced to sell themselves into slavery? Do you have any resources on this?

    • @raiffelsdad
      @raiffelsdad 4 роки тому +2

      @@shepglennon8760 Look at institutions such as workhouses in Victorian Britain. Slavery under a different name and after Britain has abolished slavery.

  • @huymammin5915
    @huymammin5915 9 місяців тому

    what you think jarl means? or knyaz in russland etc. its a member of a kings familia, or very rare "equal" to a kings children, respectful leader of another family, that will be marryed to a jarls daughter anyway and become a member of a one family 😂 its all a one sucessfull familia

  • @amandahugankiss4110
    @amandahugankiss4110 Рік тому

    Love the slave kids names!
    Great new nicknames for the cousins. :)

  • @thorunns.craftstudio
    @thorunns.craftstudio 4 роки тому +1

    congratulations on your masters!

  • @rampantmutt9119
    @rampantmutt9119 3 роки тому

    God video.

  • @dennisw.truman3325
    @dennisw.truman3325 Рік тому

    Farmer, hunter, gatherer, and fisherman. Go a Viking in the summer months.

  • @dolmenkollen2786
    @dolmenkollen2786 2 роки тому

    Good video, but swords was not really that rare during the viking age, thats a myth.

  • @rechasmiths4736
    @rechasmiths4736 5 років тому

    The song remains largely the same. Be well.

  • @garretjenkins8720
    @garretjenkins8720 3 роки тому +2

    Could Vikings marry there slaves???

    • @Skjalden
      @Skjalden  3 роки тому +4

      Technically, yes.

  • @johngeddes4161
    @johngeddes4161 Рік тому

    men took themselves down due to greed and why would he have to collect any warriors from earth,when his true ones are out there all over the galaxys and unverses,he does not need earthlings and you were supposed to be the guardians of earth but you let yourselves be taken down.

  • @shawnerickstad129
    @shawnerickstad129 4 роки тому +2

    Unfortunately slavery is still alive and thriving in Africa today

    • @toriwori6308
      @toriwori6308 3 роки тому

      Not just Africa, it’s world wide…

  • @Angie2343
    @Angie2343 8 місяців тому

    Any fans of How to Train Your Dragon here?

  • @e.mailissimo2146
    @e.mailissimo2146 4 роки тому +1

    What was that building project in southern denmark called? Is it still a thing, if yes, where is it? We are in southern (more mid-western) denmark later this year, would love to visit new things.

    • @CatsAndRandomStuff
      @CatsAndRandomStuff 4 роки тому +1

      Dannevirke ? da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannevirke use google translate if u can't read danish :)

  • @danjohansen1002
    @danjohansen1002 5 років тому

    Træls i Jylland !

  • @anthonyfox585
    @anthonyfox585 6 років тому +3

    blonde hair pale skin I guess I must have been royalty lol

  • @cannett8966
    @cannett8966 5 років тому +1

    I so enjoy studying Scandinavian history and culture. My qustion is :how are people of colour and the gay community are treated now? C from the little haunted cottage in Ireland 🍀🍀🍀👻👻👻

  • @TristanMtBHS
    @TristanMtBHS Рік тому

    HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

  • @huymammin5915
    @huymammin5915 9 місяців тому

    bullsht. it was a mafia of brothers and sisters familyes. oldest "father" was a king. and rest are not from family, some are good fighters or workers familyes too that lived nearby kings familia. some bad workers, some are for dirtyest work or to sell to other family of some viking as a slaves 😴 its a family, wealthy prospareing one family members

  • @j3tztbassman123
    @j3tztbassman123 6 років тому +3

    Good luck at University

  • @johngeddes4161
    @johngeddes4161 Рік тому

    disgusting done to dishonour wrote by enemys of vikings,insulting family not on.

  • @tommycattap
    @tommycattap 3 роки тому

    I am a descendant of King Grom The Old and his son King Harold Bluetooth.

  • @creatifetudes8553
    @creatifetudes8553 5 років тому +1

    Slave word do not come from slavic people. Do your research that's ignorance.

  • @johngeddes4161
    @johngeddes4161 Рік тому

    odin is not a god,no such thing as gods no religeon,just ancient advanced technology star beings.

  • @Orion-of9oq
    @Orion-of9oq 3 роки тому

    White is by far the most beautiful skin tone