The Battle Of Stamford Bridge Animated like Never Before : 1066
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2024
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Step into the pages of history with this captivating animated video that brings the Battle of Stamford Bridge to life. As a solo creator, I've meticulously crafted each frame to transport you to the heart of this epic clash. Witness the raw intensity of the Viking Age as warriors clash swords, and experience the strategic brilliance that unfolded on that fateful day.
Uncover the untold stories and forgotten details of this historic battle through vivid animation and immersive storytelling. From the iconic single combat on the bridge to the sweeping tactical maneuvers that shaped the outcome, every moment is meticulously recreated to provide a visually stunning and historically accurate depiction.
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The Battle of Stamford Bridge (Old English: Gefeoht æt Stanfordbrycge) took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson. After a bloody battle, both Hardrada and Tostig, along with most of the Norwegians, were killed. Although Harold Godwinson repelled the Norwegian invaders, his army was defeated by the Normans at Hastings less than three weeks later. The battle has traditionally been presented as symbolising the end of the Viking Age, although major Scandinavian campaigns in Britain and Ireland occurred in the following decades, such as those of King Sweyn Estrithson of Denmark in 1069-1070 and King Magnus Barefoot of Norway in 1098 and 1102-1103.
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Each video is HAND made by a SINGLE creator (me)
1)This means that I create most of the models-textures
2) I create the battlefields and all of the maps
3) I made the animated system for the battles (Τhis is an ongoing process since I'm constantly trying to improve it)
4) And in this video I also made the Voice Over
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Really nice work 👍🏻 well done
@@burchyscfc5988 Thank you!
Is that Rome 2 or Atilla? Are your mods on steam workshop? Awesome!
@@slabbyfatback2272 It's neither!
Everything is made on a completely different engine.
The entire battle system was built from the ground up by me, I also made most of the models and almost all of the textures for the soldiers.
@@historybattles3D I didn't think it was Rome or Atilla or I would have heard of a mod that gorgeous!!!!Incredible!!! U have got to make & release/sell this somehow, some way. The detail just floors me!!! Blows TW away! Great stuff/vids-I'm hooked!
underrated channel, shame the algorithm doesn't promote it
I'm a big fan of your cinematics!
Really nice to see you here!
they don't produce enough content fast enough sadly, recommendations are much rarer, I've subscribed to this channel for a year but this is the first reco I've seen since the first one that made me sub
@@talamioros That's unfortunate indeed.
Well, there is not many things I can do unfortunately since I'm a single person.
But there are examples of channels that have a sparse uploading schedule yet they get tons of views.
Sadly, my channel isn't one of them.
@@historybattles3Dyour vids are great! keep it up and i’m sure the algorithm will pick it up soon
We’re not allowed to have history
Those were some rough dudes man. Hand to hand combat. Charging into a wall of enemies who are trying to kill you. Crazy.
Interestingly, the age of the Anglo-Saxons ended at hastings shortly after this battle. The normans brought bow and arrows and men mounted on horses which the Anglo-Saxons didn't have. The resulting french spoken rule moves us closer to the English we speak today. That and the west side eof france, through marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, not long after.
That gives us one of Frances greatest kings, Richard the lionheart. Both parents were French. He spoke French and he is buried in France. .
Don't stop! Soon the algorithm will grace this channel with views and subs!
Thank you!
Yes, I don't intend on giving up any time soon.
There were some great successes in the channel.
It's only lately that the algorithm hasn't been very "kind" to the channel... haha
@@historybattles3D...keep going...Kudos.....E....
The Algorithm brought me here and I watched the whole thing 👍
@@CB-ou4hi That's great to hear!
Welcome to our merry band!
Great works animating this! Lots of history channel use tabletop like animation to visualize a battle so its good to finally see how these battle actually unfold
Glad you think so!
Great work, as always!
Thank you !
0:19 Imagine having it in you to run towards THAT 🥶
Their looming defeat at Hastings is one of the greatest tragedies in history
Yes, that would have been quite scary.
People back then were much hardier
Tragedy? Less so than Hardrada's defeat. That was the true tragedy. Godwinson was always gonna lose to William. Hardrada might not have
They had it coming to them, because Godwinson was an unholy usurper
Not for me , my ancestors fought for William . I might not exist if Harlold had won . 😅
@@pendragonU Only if you swallow the propaganda of the victors (Normans). Harold was elected king by the Witanegemot, a perfectly legal Saxon way of doing so. The Wessex line was represented by the young boy, Edgar Atheling, not old enough to lead the nation against the Normans, although he fought against William after Hastings and Harold's death, notably by holding London Bridge against the Normans, forcing them to circumnavigate the capital. And swearing on holy relics under duress, as Harold was, didn't count as valid in those times. William himself, on his deathbed, confessed he had "gained the kingdom wrongfully, with the effusion of much blood", and that he had "persecuted the native people mercilessly". William the B*stard in more ways than one.
Another spectacular history event, grand work by you.
P.S. Hair and facial detail is top notch. Way up there
Thank you so much 😀
@@historybattles3D....no barber shops there....😅😅😅😅😅
Great content. I hope this channel grows.
Thank you very much, I hope so!
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Awesome! Thank you!
Life Changing work! Well done! Great presentation of action and information.
Much appreciated!
Very intetesting content you've got there! Your animations help a lot at understanding these significant events more clearly and realistically. The algorithm and your efforts have gained you another sub my friend. Well done!
Thank you very much and welcome aboard!
How on earth wasn't I aware of this channel before? Very well done, very very well done. Subbed, if only not to miss any future videos
Welcome aboard and thank you!
I liked it and look forward to binging your catalog.
Hope you enjoy it!
Keep it up sir. Solid work you're putting out!
Thanks, will do!
Sharing this again to my group🎉love this channel and the content its very nostalgic for me because i grew up with the history channel using the total war engine to reenact battles from history🎉
Thank you very much!
Even though this is not Total War
@@historybattles3D definitely an upgrade for sure that doco used the first rome total war for its cut scenes and it aged like warm milk
Great video! Keep up the great medieval content plz!
Thank you!
I will!
Great 3d artwork! Seriously, this is wild. Such a fun ride.
Thanks a lot!
Always interested in this large window of history.From the fall of the roman empire to the era of William wallace how Kings Land and power changed hands so many times intense bloodshed looting and treachery to name but a few situations.very well narrated and shows how the uk was shaped.facinating documentary thanks for posting.
Love this ❤ wish you had a larger audience
Thank you!
I wish too...
This is like a work of art. Truly a job well done. I have gone and subscribed into your army.
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Excellent video. We yearn for more
Thank you!
A new video is just around the corner.
Maybe a couple of days away!
Great video!
Amazing channel and content! All your videos are amazing, sooner or later algorithm will favour you
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Another amazing video! thanks HB3D really worth the wait!
Thank you very much for sticking around KHK!
@@historybattles3Dyou are a true 🧙♂️of visuals my friend.
Keep these comming.
Greetings from Holland
amazing vid. crazy this channel has only 35k
Thank you kindly!
I hope it will soon be promoted by the algorithm.
Awesome homie, you need make a videogame with your skills!
The legend is back
URGENT MESSAGES!! "*trottles away* :D nice vid!
Hahaha!
Thanks !
It looked somewhat better in the camera angle!
8:27 that 3d shot looks gorgeous
You are a true 🧙♂️of visuals my friend.
Keep em comming.
greetings from Holland 😊
Thank you very much for your wonderful feedback!
Amazing work, can you do a couple of videos on "Balkan Wars" that would be amazing
Great video.
Thanks!
This is great
Much appreciated!
Nice video! I had an Enterprise D on Star Trek online named the Stamford Bridge. She lived up to her name
Wow. Can't believe how well designed this is
Thank you very much!
It’s actually a huge military blunder for the Vikings. They were relaxing essentially on campaign with no picket/scouts. Most were hung over and many were bathing. A large portion of the men were nearby on ships likely drunk… The army was split on each side of the river. If that was not bad enough they saw the army approaching but due to the glint of the sun they assumed it was another Viking army since one was near. They didn’t think Englishmen were even remotely close…When they realized it was not it was almost too late to properly dress in time to be battle ready.
The one bezerker on the bridge is either an embellishment or a minor event during the slaughter that happened that day.
It's ironic. They suffered a lightning attack out of nowhere, completely unsuspecting of it until they were swarmed by angry Saxons. Usually, this was the case whenever they carried out their own attacks.
Which programs do you use?
The saxon ffyrd also used long handled axes,
And it was reported that they could "cleve" a man in two.
To do a forced March north, at speed, fight a bloody battle, then, do a forced March south, at speed, to fight again within just a few days is testament to the saxons will to remain saxon.
It was a calculated gamble, that so very nearly paid off, the Norman's at semlac hill
Panicked and fled, the saxons poured down the hill from their positions, but we're cut down by Norman cavalry. Seeing this William ordered several similar attacks, and each time the saxons fell for it.
At Stamford bridge a lucky arrow caused the vikings to crumble,
At Hastings, a lucky arrow caused the saxons to crumble.
Williams win, pushed Britain away from ancient serfdom,
Adopting a more Latin based romanesque set of laws.
Probably a good thing.
Beserk is a bloodlust that manifested itself in men in battle, the lone berserker, the giant,
Did not enter this bloodlust, rather he knew his position protected him, and the saxons could only attack one at a time,
That shows an extreme level of discipline.
excellent
Many many thanks
Harold Hadrada messed up badly. He and his army had no armor that day so a retreat back to the ships that day was the move
He was so arrogant he thought he win easily. There were more vikings on the way but he didn't want to wait. What would have been if he had?
His back would have been to the sea with not even a little ground to give. No flanking maneuver could be initiated without being observed. They damn well should have brought their armor !! lol. Amazing how one little thing like that could sway the outcome of a battle but in this case a war. 😞😮💨😩😵
This is amazing work and looks you have put lot of time on it. May i know what kind of Skills are required to create such videos ?
Thank you very much!
Well, animating, 3D modeling, coding, video editing, motion graphics, you name it!
It's quite a lot of work for a single person.
Great video, but I got a question.
Is it possible to mod your combat so that charges don't run straight past the first 3 lines of formations? Something like more realistic/longer battles?
To be honest, I can make the formations stop at the first line but I just thought that it would be visually more pleasing.
Probably sacrificed realism for visual which could be a bad idea, I'm not sure.
I can certainly fix that in future videos though.
Thank you very much for the useful feedback
Cool video.
Thanks!
I’m sure this has been asked before but what do you use to make these videos? A video game?
what a great battle!
Top notch, funnily enough was near Stamford bridge the other day...just like here on the wirral, ( the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD ) ..York and it's environs is awash with history....Clifford's Tower in York makes me shudder given the massacre that occurred there, keep up with the great work that you do, best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme....E....😊😊😊😊
Thank you very much!
All the best from eastern Europe!
@historybattles3D...always welcome....😊😊😊
Id love to have been there to see those huge armies on the march. The sounds and sights and smells. Yeah dude!
I want a Strategy game with these graphics.
manorlord
@@goblinkruxx9207 That's true, but with Cossack's armies size.
What game was used?
last time I was this early, it was 1066
This is a battle we studied in tactics class in the Army, Harrold made two horrible mistakes. One had no scouts out and allowed his enemy to come upon him unaware. Second at that time Stanford bridge was wide enough for a single wagon to pass on, why would you ever allow your enemy to put his entire army across without attacking. A smart man would have waited until he has about a third of his force across then attacked pushing them back into the river and clogging the bridge.
They actually did a decent job of portraying this in the series "Vikings".
That serie is a joke
@@niklassvensson860 more like a feminist SOAP, a drag on the rag of the Lagerta's.
Men, Norse men, acting like insecure women and even crying. Women fighting in armors like girls and leading men in reverse gender roles. LGBTQ dramas and betrays for straight. Not even equality but a modernist utopian vision catapulted into pagans' brutal days, where women are given more than a fair chance but handouts
great video bro. can u take a video about battle of nicopolis ? your videos are awesome !
Thank you very much!
When you say Nicopolis, you mean the crusade?
Is the narrator Scandinavian or from Northumbria? I'm hearing Geordie in there but every so often it slips into something else lol. Love your videos!
Well, the narrator is actually me, and I'm neither Scandinavian nor from Northumbria! Haha. But I'm glad that I could create doubts for native speakers because I'm trying my best to optimize my accent. I'm actually from Eastern Europe.
Thank you very much for your wonderful feedback!
What game you used?
What game is this?
bitter they'll find there
the bite of our spear points,
hard-fighting northmen,
too proud to die old.
we'll grant him six feet,
plus as much as he's taller,
of land that the sons of the saxons will hold.
What a pity King Harold couldn't have persuaded the surviving Norsemen to join him (both cultures had a lot in common) and then face the Normans together... What a shock Duke William would have had... Though I feel that the outcome would still have been the same 🤦🏽♂️
Harold Godwinson and his Huscarls almost certainly rode horses to Stamford Bridge and dismounted for the battle as was the custom. The Normans had learned from continental warfare cavalry tactics which gave them the advantage at Hastings.
That's probably true. It will also explain extremely fast pace of marching from London to York.
damn wel done , whats the game engine used ? atillaa + mods?
Thank you!
No, it's not Total War. This is animation made in a completely different engine.
I made most of the models and almost all of the textures. I made the maps and the battlefield and also the system for animated battles.
@@historybattles3D wauw thats so pretty 😍
@@Andre_vyentThank you very much!
as i said for a previous video of yours the graphic's used in your videos puts creative assembly's total war to absolute shame great video dude keep em coming
Well that's exceptionally high praise.
Thank you kindly!
Ojalá algún día pongas comentarios en español para una mejor experiencia pero en sí tienes un buen canal con buenos vídeos😉
what game is this
Normans were Viking descendants. All the wars against France after William, for hundreds of years, involved Englishmen being used by French aristocrats to fight their relatives.
imagine you swing the large battle axe like the one at 0:20 in middle...in a close formation...
you forgot the thanns that he had with him my family were there ..back in the day saxon losses were around 3000 men
William owes his entire success to Hadrada
If this was a game I'd pay £50 for it! Creative Assembly have dropped the ball immensely with the Total War series. I was disppointed when I realized these were fixed animations, but still amazing.
Thank you very much!
Well, unfortunately it's just animation.
Even though I do my best to optimize, it wouldn't be playable! haha
Hahaha i was playing the first the dirst medieval total war many years ago and i had 3 vikings guarding a bridge and their actuons were so heroic i still remember it to this day
Awesome . My ancestors were awarded lands in Yorkshire after the next battle from William . Poor old Godwinson , talk about bad luck and timing .
What game
The depiction of the church is anachronistic, albeit very evocative. 1:50 .
Also, the map at 4:14 is very unrealistic!
Very interesting video btw thumbs up.
How can a map be unrealistic ?
@@historybattles3D Well London has a sign over it and one can see the individual trees on the island, they must be about 40 km tall. Very interesting video btw thumbs up.
Excellent spectacle. The sheer exhausting physical exertion of medieval shield wall battle must have been unimaginable for us. I think at this period though I'd call the home side the English rather than the Anglo Saxons, Harold the English king not the Saxon king etc. That's no criticism though, this is a great film.
You are right about that indeed.
Calling him an English King is quite appropriate but I thought of focusing on the Saxon aspect due to Harold being the last Anglo-Saxon king.
Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback!
I believe the Norse accounts of 'Anglo Saxon' cavalry(Norman knights brought to England by Edward previously) more than modern historians that discount it based on nothing or trying to claim the reports of Stamford Bridge got confused with the Battle Hastings. How the few norse that did make it back knew anything about the battle of hastings I have never heard them satisfactorily explain.
Tosti and Harald hardrada met at Tynemouth and the joint fleet sailed to the Humber
Was this made in the Total War Game Engine?
No, it is animation made by me.
I describe it in more detail in the pinned comment
I'm curious why you selected a bridge of that width. I would assume that it would have been much narrower, perhaps little wider than a cart of the era, say a couple of meters.
That's an interesting observation.
In fact there is a very specific reason for its width. Due to the way that my soldiers are pathfinding it was easier for me to make them cross the bridge that was not 2 meters wide.
So, I had two choices, either to not show in real time the army crossing the river and use a narrow bridge, or show the army crossing in real time but widen the bridge.
I chose the latter because I thought it would look better.
@@historybattles3D Thank you for the response, and to be clear, it wasn't a nit-pick. I assumed there were graphic or animation reasons for going with that, but wasn't sure..
If anyone's interested for assistance in the top historical expertise available on the Art of War and especially from a PhD in Medieval history specialized in tactics I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. He can help a lot with the actual battle mechanics as he works exactly on that for a living
Schwerpunkt is the master of the history of war!
Bro y’all seen the little dance move hardrada did after he took the arrow to the throat but before he died😂
literally just been stud on that bridge 1 hour ago
"SKOLL~VIKINGS"
wow.. why cant we have a video game like this ! lol
its crazy that they had essentially the same name and both would die in battle within days of each other supposedly from arrows to the eye and/or neck
Harald III Sigurdsson Hardrada was my 24th great-grandfather. He made a couple of bad decisions that fateful day. I often wonder what the Saxons did with all those captured ships. They should have used them too "sail" south instead of marching all that way back.
In Scotland it was the Battle of Largs.
The great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD,Wirral,namechecked albeit in Welsh in the medieval poem of sir Gawain and the green knight....😊😊😊
I'm surprised the Saxon archers didn't just nail the giant Norseman blocking the bridge. instead of letting him kill a reported 40 Saxons with his axe...
I would love it if you added some Asian battles (China/Korea/Japan).
I'll probably cover some battles from Japan in the future.
I think you have to take the chronicler of the battle of Stamford bridge with a pinch of salt. Firstly Snorri was writing years after the event. Secondly Haralrd Hardråde was an extremely experienced army commander; the question has to be asked, " why would such an experienced commander leave the safety of Yorks walls and let his men remove armer and sun themselves on the river bank knowing full well a Saxon army must be marching against him and secondly as an experienced commander he must have had scouts out scouting for enemies. So sorrry, I don't believe this is how the battle took place.
Not bad
For those irritated by the use of Napoleons measurement system, 298 km is 185 miles.
When ever the Anglo saxons beat the vikings and it happened alot more them you here the viking commentators always have an excuse to why the vikings lost like oh they wasnt ready or they left the body armour on the ships or the case of the lone viking on the bridge isnt true you do relise any one of the Anglo saxons could off just shot him with a bow and arrow why would they stand there being held up by one man when it would taken literally a second to shoot him with an arrow king Harold was a batyle hardened warrior king as if hed not gonna sat for crying out loud shoot with an arrow lol
What, to my eyes, almost legitimizes the story about the lone Viking warrior is that the story is commemorated by his enemies. It is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
@historybattles3D it dont make sense thou why didnt they just shoot him with a bow and arrow lol And he did hold the Anglo saxons up couldnt the vikings of gone back to there ship and get there armour
@@historybattles3D...true...same goes with the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD, and the Scots day out on the Wirral....😅😅😅....also featured in Egil,a Saga, and the Anals of Ulster as well as the Anglo Saxon Chronicles....Olav was back in York in 2 years....
Hmm "the shield walls clash?"... when one of the groups was using 2 handed axes but no shields?
Well done Harold, you defeated the Danes at last. One small thing though, seems William the B*stard is about to rock up in Hastings so you and your knackered army better hot foot it down South quick sharp. Don't forget to wear your safety goggles, with all those arrows flying around someone could lose an eye!
That might have been the end of Vikings in England. It didn’t end in Scotland until the Battle of Largs in 1266, exactly 200years later. Up until then all the Hebridean Islands, ie the Western Islands, were ruled by the King of Norway. Later, under a betrothal of the Princess of Norway to the Crown Prince of Scotland the islands of Orkney and Shetland were given to Scotland as a dowry of the King of Norway. Sadly, the Princess was lost in a shipwreck on these islands on her way to her wedding. She was known as The Maid of Norway. If the wedding had taken place Scotland would have united with Norway, not England.
There are many place names in the Hebrides. For example, Island of Skye is Norse for island of clouds. Glen Forsa on Mull is Norse for glen of waterfalls.
I am Scot, so I thought, but my dna says I am 50% scandinavian, ie viking. Personally, I discovered a spiritual love for everything Norwegian. That must be the reason.
why didn't you use any Total War battle map?! Like from Total War Britannia?
Because there are hundreds of channels already doing exactly that.
I thought that making my own graphics will make the channel stand out a bit.
@@historybattles3D its ok, but ...a lot of work for one man show .thumbs up. ps the stamford bridge was very thin... so only the one big guy has defended it.
@@tomjones3283 Yes it is indeed alot of work, but I can make whatever I want.
The problem is the amount of time I need to make each video, it keeps me down.
I made the bridge wider so that my army could cross it easier. It was a technical choice because I wanted to show on screen the army crossing it.
Otherwise I would have just cut to the army already crossed.
The lone berserker at bridge 🎉🎉
What I don’t understand is why they did not wait for the Anglo Saxon directly at the bridge therefore removing their numerical advantage or at the very least stall the battle until the reinforcements came.
My only guess here is that there were other fords nearby by apart from the bridge it self.
Our Creator our Almighty Father deemed it be the Duke of Normandy and his scions who should rule England.
When did I say that? Can't remember. It's been a while.