Daily life in the Danelaw - Vikings DOCUMENTARY
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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series continues with a video on the Danelaw Vikings, as we talk about the daily life of the Danes, their lifestyles, societies, religious practices, families, and much more.
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8:05 I think we have seen this scene from another angle.
Ottoman battles!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I also live under Danelaw. If I don't bathe at least once a week, I will be disowned by my family
tough rules
Once a week seems fair depending on the climate.
@@JonatasAdoM if you live in a cold place, maybe. Here in Southern California, though? Nope, nope nope nope. Way too hot for that.
Expectation to this rule, fishermen in lakes as that dude pretty much bathes everyday. In the ocean they used to jump into the sea and swim but would wash the salt off when they got home.
😀
Danelaw is obviously named after the Danes, who were the largest group of settlers in that area. Yet everytime the "harsh" homeland of the vikings is shown, you see large mountains and fjords. Denmark, however, has absolutely no mountains at all. Not a single one. Their highest hill is 140 meters. What is being shown is Norway.
About the washing, Saturday is called "Laugardagr" - "washing day" - in Norse. Saturday is still called like this in the Scandinavian languages today.
Mind you, Denmark might not have had mountains but much of the farmland used today is old marshlands, swamps and other reclaimed lands. Most agriculture in Sweden is in the south as its the only place which really have enough sunlight and warmth to grow crops on any kind of reliable basis. Norway, well, Norway has always had a problem with agriculture, some smaller farming is possible but not in the scale of Sweden or Denmark.
@@LazyLifeIFreak That's true, I am not disputing the claim that the viking homelands were harsh compared to Britain. Just find it strange that the land of the vikings is always equated with the mountains and fjords of Norway. Even when talking about the "Danes". For visual purposes it is understandable, but for educational purposes less so.
@@Nikodhemus Agreed the trope of fjords and mountains seem too prevalent. Denmark is mostly a flat garbled mess of rocks, sand, soil and whatever else was left overs from when the glaciers receded.
The area where Denmark is now had the biggest population at the time, so it would make sense to say that most viking were "Danes".
Exactly! People always make it sound like Scandinavia is some frozen wasteland. Denmark is almost exclusively agricultural country, not much different from Holland or England. Also, how many people could there possibly have been in 9th century Scandinavia? I somehow have a hard time accepting the "over crowding" hypothesis
In Norway we still call it jul, it's pretty much regular christian christmas but still named jul.
Same here in Sweden 🇸🇪
@@invictidomini6846 ~~More like Swedistan~~
@@somberflight theres always that guy isnt there lmao
christians took jul or christmas from us and changed it.. Reindeer=sleipner ,santa=odinetc.
@@MrExade We Christians took Yule and made it better. Unlike atheists who took Christmas and made it a consumerist nightmare of expensive obligations. You have to buy a gift for coworkers, and every single family member and friend it seems these days.
Adults, don't buy gifts for everybody that they don't want or need. Get drunk and sing about Jesus or winter. You will enjoy yourself more.
Them damn Danes, with their bathing and combing of their hair, undermining the chastity of wives...
Anglo-Saxons are the OG incels, change my mind
@@PobortzaPl i think like it was a weird thing in the culture to not bathe for some reason
@Just Getting By I wish I hadn't ever found out what is an incel.
However I just can't understand how did you miss that Anglo-Saxons were complaining on their ladies choosing Vikings over them and NOT acknowledging cultural differences.
@Just Getting By Are you a time travelling Anglo-Saxon from Viking Era?
@Just Getting By So Anglo-Saxons are complaining about their wives being won over by well groomed Vikings and yet YOU feel compelled to prove to anybody that "hey, Anglo-Saxons DID bathe!".
Guess what - nobody cares, cared or will care out it. Not even Anglo-Saxons cared about that they had bathed. This thread was started by reminding Anglo-Saxons whining about their wives choosing Vikings over them.
No wonder Thor has such amazing hair, he spends his days grooming himself.
🤣🤣
Shit, not gonna lie, I'm copying this brushing/combing my hair and beard several times each day. It actually feels kinda nice
The quality and art is top tier.
Seems to me the Anglo-Saxon men were just jealous of Scandinavian haircare.
@Kroi Albanoi still jelly though
@Kroi Albanoi naaaah nothing beats Norse helmets
There's even a hair product line called Smooth Viking lol
They are both Germanic and cousins and share an ancestral land but the Anglo-Saxons intermarried with the remainder of the Romanized Celtic Britons who they ethnically cleansed. However, living apart for centuries gave way to slightly different cultural heritage.
@@HaloJumper7 ethnically cleansed is a bit extreme lol
Hey you stopped that vikings series 2 years ago like the battle of edington and I think you should continue that.
Shut up
@@kozak4998 no need to angery my man
@@kozak4998 HE STOPPED THE VIKING SERIES 2 YEARS AGO AND HE SHOULD CONTINUE THAT
Agreed heartily!
@@kozak4998 HE STOPPED THE VIKING SERIES 2 YEARS AGO AND SHOULD CONTINUE THAT
Living in East Yorkshire, full viking country, there's so many local words that are directly copied or derived from Norse, Norwegian and Danish. One that comes to mind is baine or bairne meaning child, which is awfully similar to the modern Norwegian word for child which is barn.
@@stc3145 I'm more referring to highly local words/idioms from areas that were historically Danelaw. You don't hear people call kids baines or bairnes outside of Yorkshire or Northumbria. But yeah lots of English words are nicked from languages that have invaded/traded with the UK.
A just put tha bairns ta beed, nee bull, just deed, hail from a Durham Lad.
@@victor9sur768 You also call it the Yorkshire dales - dal is valley in all three Scandinavian languages. Teem (to empty out) is tømme/tömma :)
Barn is child in Danish. Also norse is the same as old Danish Swedish and Norwegian.
@@Latro84 in Danish window = vindue
As much as the epic tales of historic daring-do and mad dictators brought me to this channel, I really appreciate the videos that delve deep into the real lives of everyday people. Thank you so much for this video. I would love to see more like it!
"the vast majority of them were simple farmers, fisherman and traders" sounds like something a viking would say...
says the people who:
1. colonize and force the French to give then a vast amount of land now known as Normandy,
2. conquers Ireland and Midland Britannia,
3. found Iceland and Greenland,
4. establish the Rurik dynasty of Rus
5. become the most deadly Roman Emperor Varangian Guard
Farmers and fishermans indeed
@@mynamejeb8743 Don't forget "managed to somehow end up in Sicily just below the pope and on the other side of the world."
@@JonatasAdoM ah yes a butthurt saxon?, the saxon doesn't like if their enemy are actually good and better than them, and i'm not suprise!
Well, the lesson is "never underestimate a farmer!"
Cf
Were their lawyers in the Danelaw who learned Dane law and practiced Dane law in the Danelaw
every dane knew the dane's law in the dane's danelaw that was the law
I hate all of you.
@@SuperPagt 😂
They only had judges, which comprised of the elderly, or wise, or people that could read. They would then collect the townspeople in what was known as The Thing (yes really "Tinget"), and vote. It was not impossible to have a representative, which could fill the role of a lawyer, I suppose.
This video could not have come at a better time, this is exactly what I’m writing about in school. Thank you!
Omg it's u
@@anonymous-nm4jx it’s me?
@@sjinnie_boy4988 Yeah, its you!
It's that one person!
Doctor: ground ships dont exist. They cant hurt you.
11:19 : *happens*
Me: AaAAaAaAaAa!!
Tell that to Mehmet the Conqueror.
Most of my friends don't really know what vikings are actually like let alone this topic so I'm glad this kind of things being covered. Might share this with my friends since they don't know about this stuff yet :'(
@@skyhappy I mean in the Vikings show Ubbe's mission is to settle down and live among the Anglo Saxons to the chagrin of Ivar.
Amazing video. Would love to see more of these from all over the medieval world, starting with Iberia and how the muslim and christian cultures and people mixed, cooperated and fought each other and what was the difference in their lifestyles.
Would love to see this.
The relationships in Spain.
Dear God! I know Odin had an eight legged horse but I have never seen a animation of it. That thing is pure nightmare fuel
Loki getting flashbacks and shudders.
Incredible video! Absolutely fascinating to hear about the impact that the Danes had on British culture. Please more videos like this in the future.
Recommendation: Videos exploring different Norse ethnicities, such as the Danes and the Geats. Plus, different Celtic and Germanic tribes and peoples.
Brilliant documentary. I learned a lot of new stuff about the vikings that I wouldn't have thought of. Keep up the good work!
Most of the customs you've described about family, weddings and stuff are the exact same in Slavic tribes. We can see how it was very easy for them to ally and cooperate.
9:00 And even with that Ibn Fadlan considered the Rus the filftiest people he met.
Persian standars of cleaniness where very high.
Most probably because muslims have to clean themselves before praying, particularly their feet.
Even early Muslims of Arabia, Persian and Chinese had better cleanliness practices
Up until this day, many Europeans or people of European descent don't use bidets to wash their asses and just smear faeces all over them with toilet paper as if they are in the wild and can't find water.
Persians bath daily
@@HaloJumper7 The smearing feces depends highly on how haired the a$s is. Europeans are mostly less or non haired people, so it is easier to clean the as$ without water for them. Middle-easterners are mostly more haired so water is needed.
This channel offers some of the best content, thank you for doing what you do!
Wow can believe it just 9 minutes difference in my region. Great and very informative video KINGS AND GENERALS. bless you sir. Because of you guys my interest in history increased very much.
As always, love your videos! Keep them coming
I just got an assignment where i chose the Danelaw and its internal build up, great timing for this to come out!
I've been binge watching all the videos on this channel. Glad to have found this channel! Always watch it at work
this has been one of your best so far, very well done!
Man I would love to see a similar video about the hungarians after the conquest of carpathian basin. but before the conversion. Great vid as always.
Quality as always, looking forward to a series on north american exploration by vikings hopefully?
Hah! Never knew they cared so much for Hygiene. That's pretty cool ^.^
The funny thing is that ibn Fadlan quoted in that part still considered them 'filthy'. The full version of that fragment of his relation is him being horrified that the other men used the same bowl with the same water to wash themselves after their leader was finished. The Norse standards of hygiene were seemingly still lower than the Arab ones at this time.
@@Artur_M.
Yeah, Persians and Arabs had very high standards of hygiene.
They actually were considered one of early medieval period's most good looking people. By the standards of the rest of medieval Europe that is. Hilariously there are Anglo-Saxon chronicles who bemoan the fact that tons of Anglo-Saxon noble and common women left their families, spouses or fiancés to become either wives or lovers to the Viking men.
When bathing once a week is considered a good standard. Says a lot about other people's at the time.
@@arulanslave2957 Why would they be the case with modern shampoo?
I've been expecting someone to talk about for so long.... thank tou
A wonderful video, keep the viking stuff coming!
As I learned more about the Danelaw from this than any other source,thanks & keep it up.
Amazing video as always 👍🏻 love your Viking content
Thank you for the video
So much that haven't changed the past 1500 years 😊🦉
You give us videos that we need but didn't know that we needed it
Great video as always, love to see more about the daily lives of people from the past, which is constantly overlooked in favor of political and military matters.
Excellent 👍 thanks guys!
Amazing video. So interesting !
This is fascinating! Thank you! :D
I really like that you are delving more into cultural videos and the discussion of things that are not "great man history". If you have the space to I would love to see more videos on the lives of marginalized groups in history, especially women.
Amazing. I enjoy every episode which you guys are making. Keep the good work, you have my support on a 100% 👌🍺🍺🍺🍻
Great video!!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I really enjoyed it!!
Thanks for this excellent background context for my Assassin's Creed Valhalla playthrough.
It's even more impressive that the Norse were big on hygiene than it was for the Romans. Living in the Mediterranean, hopping into the water was a nice way to clear off, but in the north baths had to be carefully planned and the water actually heated so it won't kill you.
Fantastic video!
I just watched Extra Credits on their cover on the Danelaw. This is so well timed.
Yessir!! K&G to start the day!!
These videos are better than war history videos, please we want more videos like these.
Very well done video, thumbs up.
Like number 205! Love this channel & this subject matter particularly. Thanks.
11:15 OMG A BOAT ON WHEELS...such astounding innovations.
Fascinating
Great video, like all your videos. Good stuff...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🐿.
Good video! But the Travis Fimmel-like undercut is not an authentic hairstyle. It is modern and it is currently shown too often. So people think it was actully a Viking hairstyle. Oh, and the house at 10:00 is an obsolete reconstruction with this arcade. The posts were inclined to support the wall. And please, at 11:33: CENTER-GRIP-SHIELD! The shield boss ain`t there for nothing. For the rest: Thumbs up! 👍
So did norse peoples and the danes just grow their hair long? If so are there sources that state this? Just curious.
@Drakon590 😂 That`s true!
Lance's/Spears were also used more commonly than swords or axes.
@@morva4498 That`s right! Ask Lindybeige! 😂
@@morva4498 agree... practically with spears you just need a bit of metal on a long wooden stick. Swords are more expensive and time-consuming to make, reserved for higher social status warriors.
💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I can't wait on other episodes about Caesar's Civil War.
i love ur channel man
It may be fair to say that the existence of the Danelaw (along with the Harrying of the North in 1069) is partly at the root of the economic and cultural tensions that still exist between the Southern and Northern parts of England.
southern and northern england? no one remembers the poor Mercians in the center anymore, guys lost their kingdom and became a footnote even in modern tensions lol
@@vonbalt4891 I lived in Coventry for 4 years whilst at Uni. You are correct that nobody cares about the midlands. 😜
idk about that. The Danelaw stretched as far south as South End, which I would hardly consider Northern. Also the harrying of the North was done under William the Conquerer a foreign invader, so I fail to see how that would cause cultural tension between Northerners and Southerners. At this time the tension was mainly between Northumbria and Mercia, as you can see with Bede's passive aggressive tone when talking about the region.
Also, the Harrying was so far back that it doesn't have an economic impact on today. The economic divide is much more recent, coming from industry being more concentrated in the North (look at a map of iron and coal deposits), meaining it was hit way harder than the South during deindustrialisation (also why opinion of Thatcher is geographically split). That and proximity to the capital are the primary causes for differences between the North and South of England.
Shield grip in 13:47 is anachronistic, they used centre gripped shields.
Thanks
Good video!
Very good video, and gives a view of life then that is so often overlooked, the 'normal' side of things, everyday matters, farming, trading, settling, not just raiding.
Really well done
I believe my county Northamptonshire was on the very edges of the Danelaw. So excited to see how its represented in ACV.
rocking to the left,
rocking to the right
WE ARE ROCKING
dam' that sea
I really like this video.
The Music.... It was from CK2 :)
I really LOVED that opening music. Great job, KnG! :D
This video was really good.
Sounds like a much richer life than the ones watching this screen.
This
but at least we have.... umm... naa u win
You didn’t have to say that to me hunched over in a chair
I too would like to live in the glorious age of 9th century europe where there was feudalism and practically no health care, children died young, even nobles rarely died on their beds, villages were constantly plundered, farmers were so piss poor they had to go across the fucking channel to screw other farmers and the slave trade was booming. What a rich life!
Excellent video - the North remembers!
Good video👍🏻
Love your channel you guys are the best! Please make a video about the Ancient History of Yemen which is considered the cradle of Arab Civilization. Would love to see videos about the Sabean and Himyarite Kindoms
whats supposed to surprising that people mostly wrote of battle rather than what farmers did?
It's not surprising really just unfortunate because knowing what farmers did was more important in learning about the everyday life of people from that era. It helps shape their culture and allows us to better understand why they behaved the way they did. Writings about battle helps us know about the battle but writings about farming helps us understand why the battle happened in the first place.
But do we write about factories and washing machines?
Yup there are websites,magazines,technical manuals and the such
I mean, in many cases sang of then wrote about later
@@hamdaanchalky7724 If you do, I'll start reading it!
The Danelaw and al-Andalus, existed no longer. They do. But lasting impacts, both of them have left behind.
*cries in achaemanid*
English please
Are you trying to speak like Yoda?
11:14 Damn son, you just offroaded that boat, does it fly or something? I guess it is the power of Odin that allows them to fly and turn into the Wild Hunt.
Rivers, dude, rivers
Please do a daily life in Baghdad as well.
Ibn Fadlan's full quote:
"Every day they must wash their faces and heads and this they do in the dirtiest and filthiest fashion possible: to wit, every morning a girl servant brings a great basin of water; she offers this to her master and he washes his hands and face and his hair -- he washes it and combs it out with a comb in the water; then he blows his nose and spits into the basin. When he has finished, the servant carries the basin to the next person, who does likewise. She carries the basin thus to all the household in turn, and each blows his nose, spits, and washes his face and hair in it."
He was actually insulting them for being so dirty, not praising them for being clean
Hmm... sounds like Ibn Fadlan is biased to be honest. I doubt anyone would do that of spitting and blowing the snot out of their noses in the basin, because that just sounds disgusting, considering it's unhygienic.
@@Torag55 Nah, he is from the Golden Age of Abbasid Caliphate. So sounds about right. Just how Rome thought about the Barbarians
@@syedazam2568 Of course they would think that way. Anyone who isn't of their culture and acts very differently to them would make disparaging remarks and lies to make their own culture feel great compared to the foreigners'. Though it is one of the sources we have on Norse lifestyle, but one we must look at with a hint of salt and caution because of the bias clearly shown from that quote.
@James td You're correct to a degree that modern standards don't always apply perfectly to people in older eras; but considering that spitting on or at someone was most likely considered insulting to a Viking just as it would to someone of modern sensibility it would be reasonable to assume Ibn Fadlan's account is slightly warped in a backhanded manner to maintain a sense of superiority
Hey, I've seen this in the movie called The 13th Warrior, with Antonio Banderas as Ibn Fadlan.
But can we soon stop this, if we are trying to be historically correct. The danelaw consisted of danes. Denmark is as flat as pancake, with meadows and mild forrest. There are no mountains or northern lights in Denmark. Its also safe to assume that most if not all viking history in England was done by the danes, while the norwegians had influence on Ireland and the northern isles. It's almost as if the first thing we think about when we think of vikings is large mountains, its just not accurate.
8:42 I think you skipped over the part when Ibn Fadlan mentions that the chieftain would also spit and sneeze into the bowl, only for the the bowl and comb to pass to the next person just below him in rank; who would also wash their hair and face, then sneeze and spit into the bowl and pass it the next one just below his rank. This would continue until every man, woman and child had washed themselves with the same bowl, the same comb and yes, the same water, no matter how filthy it got near the end.
@@ex0duzz Yeah that part doesn't make much sense. It's like Fadlan wanted to remark on their self-care, but had to include a little dig at how filthy they were in comparison to his people.
For us muslims they where very filthy but for christian who bathed once or twice in there life they are very clean 😂😂😂😂
@Drakon590 history did 😁
No one's perfect.
@@zakariaalami1491 The "bathed once or twice in their life" thing is a common misconception. Even in the dark ages, Europeans understood the benefits of being clean. How often they bathed we cannot say, but it was certainly more than twice in their lifetimes.
11:14 wait, this ship... that's illegal.
Sometimes I can be very critical; it's a fault of mine. But I must tell you sir, I find your work to be immaculate. There's another Channel on UA-cam called ' Real Crusades History.' On which obviously the Crusades are covered and other middle age and medieval topics. Not to hate on the guys Channel but so much of what he puts out is not well researched, which can be verified pretty easily these days. I appreciate your work ethic. Your animations are amazing! You are without a doubt my favorite UA-cam History Channel. Although the Channel History Time is also very good. But when you consider everything from accuracy, to presentation and quality, You are my favorite and quite possibly the best on UA-cam! Thank you for your hard work!
Nice, Civ 6 music. That game's soundtrack is great.
Erm I thought it was Crusader Kings soundtrack
@@GenJouh At about 12:50 the Civ 6 medieval Norway theme starts playing.
You've got an unusual map of the Danelaw. Most maps showing the Danelaw show the Northern boundary as the River Tees, with the lands north of there being the Anglo-Saxon Earldom of Northumbria.
I like how 2 of the figures in the thumbnail looks like Ragnar & Rolo on the right side 😃
such a peacefull and loving videos after so much bloodshed in other videos of this channel
14:48 Gentlemen, don't neglect leg day.
thank yew
5:40 King Egbert's sound
Could you do something on the Frisian Freedom? It's a great bit of history to tell, pretty well documented, but almost completely buried...
Let's Go!
hey, I love your videos, you do a fantastic job doing them. I have a request for either a video, or even just a reply lol. History of Rhodes? I was curious the other day and went lookin for rulers/politicians of Rhodes, and I could barely find _anything_ regarding anyone in charge, except for a few admirals, Memnon, and mention of a General "Ares" who supposedly headed the defense of Rhodes in 305-304 BCE, but absolutely nothing else about the guy, so that's even dubious.
The content of your videos is enormous. I recommend you to include Turkish subtitles.
Can we have more videos like this? I like culture and society.
More in the works!
@@KingsandGenerals You guys rule!
Riga was established only in 1201, during the Viking era, there were other trade points on the Baltic Eastern coast. And in addition to the Baltic tribes, there were also several Finno-Ugrian ones.
The Viking age had ended with the death of Harold Hardrade, who died at Fulford Bridge in 1066 against Harold Godwinson, who would go on to lose against the Duke of Normandy William the Bastard (later Conqueror)
Been watching K&G since you guys were small enough to be commenting on MY channel! The early Rome 2 days. Good shit! Next up, 2m subs!
Narrator: “They comb their hair daily and take a bath weekly.... by which means they undermine the chastity of wives.”
Neckbeard: “Now that’s what I’m talking about!”
16:16 You made a mistake here. In Medieval Scandinavian culture people were considered adults once they reached the age of 16, not 12.
Yeah I think that is actually a Christian tradition originally from Jews - Bar Mitzvah and he said they were not Christianised?