Sweyn Forkbeard | The Last Pagan Viking King

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  • @joecollins6456
    @joecollins6456 2 місяці тому +21

    currently sat in hospital awaiting surgery, thank you for making it a little less boring and nerve raking with this awesome video

    • @LegendaryDevil69
      @LegendaryDevil69 2 місяці тому +5

      Best of luck bro

    • @Mma-basement-215
      @Mma-basement-215 2 місяці тому +5

      Best of luck with whatever is going on Brother

    • @nightowl7261
      @nightowl7261 2 місяці тому +4

      Did you yell at the doctor and nurses:
      WE WUZ VIKANGZ N SHIEET!!!
      ?

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +1

      Best of luck! I hope you are okay and this video entertained you! Prayers with you!

    • @georgeyramone1720
      @georgeyramone1720 2 місяці тому +1

      Speedy recovery

  • @SteveW67
    @SteveW67 Місяць тому +2

    Currently reading The Sea Wolves, just read of Sweyn then watched this. Bought a lot of the book to life. Thanks very much fror your time and efforts. 👍

  • @matildewosnjuk7508
    @matildewosnjuk7508 2 місяці тому +3

    Thank you. I am obsessed with everything Viking and my trip to Ireland was the first one of my Vikings History Tour

  • @tjfraire6952
    @tjfraire6952 2 місяці тому +3

    Thank u so much for all the hard work that goes into making these videos. I def think I was Viking & English in past lives cuz I really just can’t get enough of this stuff!!! Thanks again & gods bless every1.

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you so much for watching!! I hope you enjoyed the video and same here haha!!

  • @ELKE-
    @ELKE- 2 місяці тому +5

    Great Sunday! History Profiles just drop an amazing video! Thank you so much

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +1

      @@ELKE- thank you!! I hope you enjoy Elke!

    • @ELKE-
      @ELKE- 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@historyprofiles
      Always Ollie, always! Thank you
      Btw, the music is beautiful!

  • @thewolf1630
    @thewolf1630 2 місяці тому +2

    As always much appreciated and keep bringing the great content brother 🤙🏾✊🏾

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you so much for your continued support brother!

  • @newgabe09
    @newgabe09 2 місяці тому +1

    That was a wonderful - may I say epic' - description of the sea battle. Riveting. Thanks!

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  Місяць тому

      Thank you so much!! I hope you enjoyed the video!!

  • @jaredtindall2447
    @jaredtindall2447 2 місяці тому +4

    Awesome video! Sweyn's son and father are more well known so I think people don't realize his many accomplishments. Forkbeard was probably as 'great' as his son Canute and deserves recognition because he laid the foundation! He was a warrior-King who had the ability to get things done and was diplomatic when needed like his father Bluetooth. The temporary alliance between Sweden and Jarls of Norway paid off brilliantly as did his gamble to take England by force. It was a shame that he died so early into his reign of England, and also that Vikings:Valhalla portrayed him as being strangled by his grandson Harold Harefoot!

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому

      If he would have lived on, who knows what would have happened! How strange fate is!! Yeah his grandson Harefoot would have been an infant or not even born when he died I believe

    • @veronicajensen7690
      @veronicajensen7690 2 місяці тому

      he is very well known in Denmark he became King of Denmark in 987 and died in 1014 , he is buried in Lund Southern Sweden, it was part of Denmark until about 350 years ago , his name in old Norse was Sveinn , in modern Danish it's Svend and until about 50 years ago it was a very popular name because of Sweyn Forkbeard

  • @marlenaAKAmarz
    @marlenaAKAmarz 2 місяці тому +1

    Loving the art as well as the history CHERRS MATE

  • @Andy_Babb
    @Andy_Babb 2 місяці тому +2

    Thank you! So much fantastic content!!!

    • @muhamedvaljevac4506
      @muhamedvaljevac4506 2 місяці тому +1

      Exactly
      It’s so perfect especially the music

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +1

      You're very welcome! Thank you so much for watching!!

  • @felixsologinkin5134
    @felixsologinkin5134 2 місяці тому

    Thanks for the video mate it was as enjoyable as i thought it would be
    Honestly Sweyn forkbeard deserves more recognition then he is given,he was the only viking who dared challenged the power of the holy roman emperor and the first dannish/norwegian king to standardise the minting of coins aswell

  • @frenzyclimax7940
    @frenzyclimax7940 2 місяці тому +5

    Love the videos mate, good to see an English boy like me making amazing vids on things they’re passionate about and getting good recognition for it! Hope to do the same, big you up

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you so much!! It means a lot! Hope you enjoyed the videos and thank you for the support!!

  • @JustAskYourQuestionAlready
    @JustAskYourQuestionAlready 2 місяці тому

    You're voice with the music is a magical combination not to mention the information you present is alright too just kidding on the part all parts are equally great. Appreciate all the hard work you do to not only give us historically accurate videos but make the information easy to digest. it's really refreshing with all this AI stuff going around 👍👍👍

  • @ArtBlade
    @ArtBlade 2 місяці тому +2

    Wow that's cool - thank you so much, Ollie :)

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +1

      @@ArtBlade thank you so much for watching! I hope you enjoy !

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 2 місяці тому +1

    Thanks For all your hardwork 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @andreatrenka5689
    @andreatrenka5689 2 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for the great vids. Im more than happy for finding your channel. Wishing you good health for making more vids. Just how selfish i am, right? 😃

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому

      Thank you so much! Really means a lot! Wishing you good health too!!! Have a great day!

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for the good video I knew some basic knowledge on him

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you for watching! Hope you learned a little more!

    • @-RONNIE
      @-RONNIE 2 місяці тому

      @@historyprofiles Like I said before I always like learning new things. Keep up the good work 👍🏻

  • @muhamedvaljevac4506
    @muhamedvaljevac4506 2 місяці тому

    Music so especially ❤️😍🙏

  • @timmysvensson4902
    @timmysvensson4902 2 місяці тому

    Spending last weeks alive watching yt, what a time to be alive - imagine just staring at a hospital wall

    • @simonasp4606
      @simonasp4606 2 місяці тому

      I hope you are at peace. Happy sailing on the other side of the horizon. Love and peace to you

  • @hjalmarolethorchristensen9761
    @hjalmarolethorchristensen9761 2 місяці тому +4

    Ahhh yes our old King ⚔️ greetings from Skandinavia Danmark 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому

      Greetings!! Thank you so much for watching!

    • @hjalmarolethorchristensen9761
      @hjalmarolethorchristensen9761 2 місяці тому

      @@historyprofiles thank you, it was a pleasure,...👍

    • @donomar8517
      @donomar8517 2 місяці тому +1

      You guys are the true owners of angeland

    • @hjalmarolethorchristensen9761
      @hjalmarolethorchristensen9761 2 місяці тому +1

      @@donomar8517 true, thank you brother😁 hope you have a great day, and remember ☝️.. Hostióz Helpu Ufar fatai jaga iz wóðnas weraz 🦌🦌👃

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 2 місяці тому

    Love your videos ! Keep it up! Please cover henry v! Hearth please ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @seth1396
    @seth1396 2 місяці тому

    Excellent work first and foremost! Side note, The little text beside the time stamp, under video spells First incorrectly

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому

      Thank you for watching! And thank you fixed the spelling issue!

  • @sc2320
    @sc2320 2 місяці тому

    like it my son just finished vikings Valhalla season 3 aswel Yemann 🤛🏻🔥💯💪🏻

  • @lauravillanueva2175
    @lauravillanueva2175 2 місяці тому

    Gratitudes and Encouragements are in Order.
    Brilliant Exhibition.”
    : LEv

  • @carrioncrow7687
    @carrioncrow7687 2 місяці тому

    While Sweyn ruled England very brief, he ruled Denmark much longer, and saw plenty of action before and during his reign

  • @roach_is_online
    @roach_is_online 2 місяці тому

    Are u redoing all or just some of your old videos?

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому

      Just some of them that I had a lot of knowledge on

  • @mrvinyl-mrchili9583
    @mrvinyl-mrchili9583 Місяць тому

    Yaaass 💪🇩🇰

  • @Abbale
    @Abbale 2 місяці тому +2

    How did Canute become such a devout Christian?

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +4

      He wanted power!! And the Christian world was becoming so powerful and rich Canute needed a part of that to maintain his empire, trade with the rest of Europe etc, the pope wouldn’t have trusted a pagan to rule 3 nations! It was a transformative era where the old gods were fading!

  • @JokerLokison
    @JokerLokison Місяць тому

    This was fantastic, but did you say "unbrindled savagery" at 47:15? Is that some Britannic term, or did you mean "unbridled"? Sorry to be Oberfuerher Grammarstein, but it just hit me funny... I had to look up "unbrindled" to be certain I wasn't lacking in my vocabulary. Cheers though for an awesome documentary on this last king devout to Odin and the Aesir gods, even though it appears he was a bit of a bloodthirsty jerk with daddy issues.

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  Місяць тому +1

      I may have mis pronounced it! Good spot! Thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed the video! Yes he definitely listened deeply on the tales of his ancestors! Had to be a bloodthirsty warmonger to become the king of Norway! Take the kingdom of Denmark from his father! And take England!

    • @JokerLokison
      @JokerLokison Місяць тому

      @@historyprofiles Oh, yeah! The video was absolutely killer! I suppose you are right, too.. You'd have to be a savage to accomplish what he had in his life. Truly a mighty Norsk Viking usurper. Hail!

  • @Ignat449
    @Ignat449 Місяць тому

    King Svend Otto Haraldsen was babtised and a christian. The name Otto was given to please the german emperor Otto 2. a christian emperor.
    Svend fired the german bishops in Denmark and got some new bishops from England. Thats why he got a reputation for being pagan.
    His father Harald Blåtand was not the first christian king of Denmark, that was king Harald Klak.

  • @mikehipps1015
    @mikehipps1015 2 місяці тому

    A viking was something we did, not a name we were called.
    You can't speak our fathers' name because our gods reject you.

    • @veronicajensen7690
      @veronicajensen7690 2 місяці тому +1

      well there have been found a Rune stone in Scandinavia from the Viking age where it says about a person "he was a great Viking"a lot of people like you have read or heard somewhere that in the Icelandic Sagas it say "going Viking" but that is only 1 in many ways the term was used in the Sagas Vikingr/Vikingar (plural) have been used about people although we don't believe they in general called themselves such, there are also a Rune stone where the text is locals complaining about Vikings from another Scandinavian country, I don't know why you use terms as "we" as you aren't a Viking and I'm pretty convinced you aren't Scandinavian, because in Scandinavia we call all the Scandinavians living during the Viking age "Vikinger" we don't have a term like Old Norse, or actually we have old Nordisk=old Nordic , but we never use it about people only items , also old items that have nothing to do with the Viking age , people who worship the old pagan Gods we call Asatro
      anyway I don't see it as your business to tell the person making the Video what to call Scandinavians from the Viking age

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому

      Couldn’t have put it better. Thank you so much for that explanation, and thank you for watching the video! I hope you enjoyed it!

  • @Nicholas-mi2vt
    @Nicholas-mi2vt 2 місяці тому +3

    Sweyn was a Christian he just was extremely tolerant

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  2 місяці тому +7

      @@Nicholas-mi2vt different works say different things, can interpret his as a Christian or a pagan, although all agree in his early life he was a pagan, the truth of his heart however has been lost to time

    • @jamellfoster6029
      @jamellfoster6029 2 місяці тому

      ​@@historyprofilestrue.

    • @POLITICUS-DANICUS
      @POLITICUS-DANICUS Місяць тому +2

      He literary rebelled his own father because his father was baptised

    • @jamellfoster6029
      @jamellfoster6029 Місяць тому

      @@POLITICUS-DANICUS True.

  • @corytucker6668
    @corytucker6668 2 місяці тому

    Was this last pagan king denmark? Forkbeard definitely wasnt the last pagan ruler in Scandinavia.

    • @veronicajensen7690
      @veronicajensen7690 2 місяці тому

      yes the last pagan King of Denmark, but you are correct Denmark became Christian first

  • @nightowl7261
    @nightowl7261 2 місяці тому

    He got suffocated in his sleep by a pretty boy.

  • @tommydeamon7657
    @tommydeamon7657 2 місяці тому

    Common narrator guy you know viking is a occupation not a race of people in them days we were scandanavians / Danes/ sweeds / Norwegian,s youre not born viking you go a viking

  • @ronniaj
    @ronniaj 12 днів тому +1

    I’m from Denmark and svein fought for religious freedom not to get rid off cristians

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  12 днів тому

      That’s awesome! I need to visit one day! What a man Sweyn must have been! One of the most fortunate kings in his time!

    • @ronniaj
      @ronniaj 11 днів тому +1

      @@historyprofiles him and his son especially with the North Sea Empire. Knut was a power house not just military but also allied wise, best friends with the Pope and his Enormous wealth he vas one of the richest rulers at the time

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  11 днів тому

      @@ronniaj indeed, it’s a shame knuts empire died with him, as his sons couldn’t fill his shoes and he was the only one brilliant enough to command the North Sea empire

    • @ronniaj
      @ronniaj 11 днів тому +1

      @@historyprofiles my fantasy, that Knut sent a large fleet to vindlan with settlers from all of Scandinavia and England. What a world would look like is anyone’s guess.

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  11 днів тому

      @@ronniaj he was definately powerful and rich enough to do that. Either way Englands wealth and the danish and Norwegian ships I’m sure he could have commissioned that! Yes the world would be very different today if he had!

  • @billybobwombat2231
    @billybobwombat2231 2 місяці тому

    Nothing says the "love of jesus" by torturing and burning those that decide they don't want to love him 🙄🙄🙄

  • @arngrimandersen5690
    @arngrimandersen5690 Місяць тому +1

    this stories are see from kristian eys ! , Adam of Bremen , talk like Sven Tveskæg are the Devil , german probaganda , we know who he was , a Danis Hero of all time

    • @historyprofiles
      @historyprofiles  Місяць тому

      @@arngrimandersen5690 it was an age of heroes! So many poems and songs! What a time to be alive! I hope you enjoyed the video!!

    • @arngrimandersen5690
      @arngrimandersen5690 Місяць тому

      @@historyprofiles yes great stories ther was real , thanks , and have a nice day