Remember, on this day, in 793 AD, a group of Norsemen selflessly rescued thr treasures of Lindisfarne from a great fire, after the monks all mysteriously and spontaneously died.
Vikings knew how to write though. They didn't use the same methods as the english though, but they had a fully functional writing system in their runestones.
Kassaapparat Yes, I know that. I was simply saying that they didn't write as often and as much as pretty much any other european culture of that time, which is the reason why we don't understand it completely.
Ah, the vikings. What a group. On one hand, they expanded the horizons of Europe and mingled cultures across the continent. On the other hand, they did so by raiding and conquering, with a side business in colonizing chilly North Atlantic islands.
+Todd Crane i live on the island group that extorted normandy from the french during that time, so much awesome history and its cool that they impacted the world in so different ways, some bad and some good.
I know what you mean... I wish i could find more on this topic somewhere... Hmm... I am sure there are no books on this topic or any other media covering it... Damn, lets hope EC does more, right?
Well, Lindisfarne was raided several times over the course of decades, though the ruins still are there. The island eventually became depopulated. Raids continued throughout the British Isles for at least half a century. Hitting mostly monasteries, where gold and other precious material could easily be obtained. Eventually, around the 840's-850's the Viking raiders started to set up permanent settlements. With these settlements in place Scandinavians began to migrate the the British Isles. Mostly from Norway and Denmark. Over the next few centuries there were a number of conflicts between Anglo Saxons and Scandinavians, with at times, Britain being ruled almost entirely by Scandinavians. The Scandinavians set up several kingdoms and are responsible for some of the British Isles major cities. York and Dublin are two key examples in which Scanadinavians hosted considerable influence, and built trading empires. A lesser known kingdom was formed on the Ilse of Mann under the Manx Kings. At its height the Manx Kings held several islands and coastal settlements around Ireland and Scotland.
Well, actually, there is a TV series by BBC called the "Last Kingdom" that covers the time period after the raids on Lindisfarne when Ubba and Ivar the Boneless seek to put England under Danish control. The TV series isn't wholly accurate, but it is fun to watch. The books the show is based on, written by Bernard Cornwell, is more accurate. But those are two fictionalized media sources, I don't know if you wanted documentaries or anything.
Pretty much the same for decades, rinse repeat, but escalating in distance and number of vikings until the rest of Europe noticed the Vikings had OCD and most of the time couldn't care enough to lay a proper siege, grabing what they could and killing all the straglers, so stronger walls were built all over Europe, preemptive bribes to vikings leaders were sent so they would pester the next town, so on and so forth.. By the way, Europe as a whole decided to fail very hard by excess of zeal, training WAY more soldiers than needed to defend their towns. later that would lead to an excessive number of trained soldiers with no other craft and no clear goal, which is NEVER a good idea. The violence piled up in France until the Church pulled off a major PR stunt and invented (or reinvented, depending on who you ask) the Chivalry Code, regulating "how a real Christian knight was suposed to behave". Tip: the theory involved being somewhat less of an a.hole. That was a campaign that became viral, specially after the nobility -in particular a few female nobles of southern France - understood how that code could be weaponized as a cool kids' club that would keep the armed men slightly under control and off the neck of the peasants who were suposed to be working the fields and not dying that much. Of course, codes are not magic, but enough soldiers got sucked into embracing the chivalry party to some extent or another for it to be an actual success at what it aimed for (reducing the occurrences random acts of violence of warriors who were bored and feeling a lack of purpose). With the centuries it turned into Hollywood "knights are good" folklore but, at the time, it was simply as pragmatic a solution as they managed. Some say that if it wasn't for all these bored soldiers walking around Europe, than being turned in somewhat professional knights, the Pope wouldn't have called for the Crusades, since, along with other reasons, he did so because, by that point, they just had to find something, anything to point all those restless swords to.
The omens were not enough: no one on Lindisfarne would ever have guessed they'd be the victims of the first Viking raid. Enjoy this one-off episode about the start of the Viking Age!
ahhhhh im so happy that you did this episode, for the viking age to me is very interesting and i hope that you get to do more episodes in the future and if you do than i hope that you´ll touch on both the trading and the pillaging and that some made homes so far east as canada :)
The great Saxon nobleman Walðpol tipped the Vikings off and got a share of the loot in return. He then returned all the religiously significant artifacts to other monasteries, earning their gratitude which he used to increase his status and political power. :D
Vikings did inhabit Normandy and eventually became the "Normans" who conquered England so technically it's Old Man Walpole's fault that monasteries were looted :P
I thought this was a great detail by Lil! When the actual Vikings are shown, they're wearing proper helms. Only when they're being described by Christian observers (and compared to demons) do their helms have horns. Really subtle of her. -Soraya
Would you ever consider doing a series on Alfred the Great? He's one of my favorite historical figures and played a big role in shaping the English nation.
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1. Right, right after you find strangers on your land , and all you needed to do to protect your house of gold and riches was to find an interpreter of the unknown language, you better do that in 15 minutes or the one carrying the axe is going to split your head and force himself on your wife. ... right, easy peasy.
+BornInPurple the similarities in language came after the occupation of now time york, by the danes, and the norman occupation. the languages were not the same or understandable to each other at the time of the sacking of lindisfarne. also the varangian guard was formed in the latter era of the viking age, when they slowly stopped as raiders and rather resorted to mercenaries in the east. ive reasearched this alot and most of my pretty believable sources claim this. just saying :) this happened over 1000 years ago so nobody knows for sure, and after the black death alot of information was lost, so rational descussion is always welcome if you think i made a mastake in my claim :)
+BornInPurple forgot to add, where i live in norway they also found roman equipment, i think this may be proof of romans leaving england to denmark and norway at the end of the western roman empire, but you can never be sure. also names like cato started getting populat around this time wich originated in the italian mainland ^^
Well, actual historical records being few and far between, Vikings is actually fairly accurate for a TV show, Ive seen documentaries that are less accurate.
Doubt anyone'll see this given the age of this video, but: Speaking of Russia and Vikings, have you considered an episode on Prince Rurik and the founding of the Kievan Rus, the civilization from which Russia spawned (And took its name)? Russian history is already pretty obscure, but pre-Peter the Great Russian History is all but completely unknown outside of Russia.
could you put the winter war(talvisota) as an option for patreons to vote on its the war between the soviet union and Finland were Finland kicked soviet unions ass
@Joseph Sosa yes and no. The Romans homogenized conquered territories while the mongols integrated territories into their empire, but not culture, like vassals.
If you ever do such a one episode again, could you consider doing one about the Frisians in the very early middle ages? These were the people that pretty much revived the trade routes in Europe after the fall of Rome. It's a unknown but very important part of European history.
A series on Alfred the great would be amazing, showing how he beat back the viking threat and how he established a kingdom that would one day become England
Please make a series out of this, I don't actually know what happened (as in actual events) I just know what generally happened (tons of pillaging and raiding).
+TheRezro Yes but Vikings, as much as I love the show, takes many historical liberties to make a good story. It's a great introduction into the time period to get one interested.
eh. The show gets a lot of things right, but it has a very limited timespan (I believe, if it follows the saga closely) only about 25 years after Lindisfarne. Also, Ragnar has no clear historical counterpart, though his sons certainly lived in the middle of the 9th century, and basically dominated all of England apart from Wessex. My recommendation, though pretty lame, is to get a hold of as many sagas as you can. They're entertaining (usually), and in many cases the historicity is fairly sound. Or, if you're ok with reading a list of events, the Anglo-saxon Chronicle, which was read at the start of the episode, is our most consistent source for English Viking raides. Some other monasteries in France (such as St. Bertin) also have accounts for what happened there. It's hardly the most exciting read, but it's hard to get better sources than the originals. In secondary texts, the only one I'd recommend is Anders Winroth's "Vikings".
Kind of. It's unclear what Ragnar's origins were, or if he lived, but by the mid-9th century, the name was associated with an incredibly mighty and famous warrior. So, everyone and their uncle tried to claim lineage to him, increasing their own prestige in the process. Also, his most famous "sons" expanded on his conquests, looting all of Northumbria, Mercia, and East Anglia as the Great Viking Army. In contrast, Alexander is a scrupulously attested historical figure, who captured, alled it a day, and left it to his aides and descendants to split up his brief empire. He's more comparable to Charlemagne and how Europe was split among his grandkids
HIS NAME IS UTHRED OF BEBBANBURH!! LET ALL THE VIKINGR RAIDERS KNOW THAT HE IS OUR LORD OF WAR AND THAT HE SHALL PROTECT THE LANDS OF WESSEX AND MERCIA AGAINST THE NORSE SCUM!! ALL PRAISE GOD!! ALL PRAISE LORD UTHRED!! ... I´ve read too much Bernard Cornwell... and it´s quite a ways away from 793... oh, whatever, Vikings forever! 3:
One-off, you can check their Patreon page. Protip for future episodes, they add (part 1) to any new multi-part series, so if it's not there, it's a one-off episode.
Nathan Brown So living for generations with someone's boot stamped firmly on your neck and constantly being discriminated and taken advantage of is ok as long as you're part of 'civilisation'. Afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Also churches and monasteries like that didn't spread knowledge they spread Christian propaganda and have an extremely long history of employing blackmail upon those who could least afford it; or have you never heard of a 'Tithe'? And that's not even going into the genocide, destruction and subjugation of cultures who disagreed with them.
can you do the Boer wars as an option for patreons to vote on it. It is between the British Empire and the "boers" The Orange Free State and the Transvaal.
Not at all, the events in Vikings are based on real events but display as much accurate history as Game of Thrones. Rollo of Normandy lived from 846-932 AD. The attack on Lindisfarne happened in 793 AD. Rollo couldn't have been at the raid of Lindisfarne. Ragnarr Loðbrók's existence isn't even widely accepted as fact as most of the sources that reference his actions attribute deeds of several different people to him. So we can't say for a fact that Ragnarr even was a real man. Vikings is more of a dramatisation of viking legends and sagas than it is a historical TV show.
For anyone interested, there's a TV series that covers these events and their fallout over the next century. It's called "The Last Kingdom", and it's on Netflix.
And of course there are the books the series is based on (the first book is also called "The Last Kingdom"). They are certainly among my favourite historical novels.
Extra Credits My experience was about the same, I watched the first three or four about a week ago, and haven't been gone back to it yet. I don't know if the series overall is good, but it definitely has a strong start!
Me, who clearly can’t hear: “Wait why is this like 50 years off? BLASPHEMY!!!” Me, after listening: “Oh that’s a 9 and not a 4 in 793. I be deaf and blind.”
part of the continent of North America, but not America. We tried to take Canada in 1812, but failed miserably. They painted the White House black with flames.
I would love, absolutely love, for you guys to make a series out of this. Exploring the viking era through they eyes of the norse people and the people of europe they interacted with would make an extremely interesting series!
It's so great to finally see a balanced approach to the topic. =) Sure the vikings weren't saints, but they're not *that* bad compared to some of that era and they had good reasons to fight in many cases.
I think it is misleading to just assume that this was some bolt from a clear sky, in 782 the massacre of Verden had taken place and it was well known in the germanic world that christianity was basically a tool to colonize the north of Europe. It is pretty one-sided to just portray the monastery like a peacful place that had no idea of the larger conflict in which it played such a central role. Lindisfarne was the seat for a large amount of 'missionaries' going into Scandinavia. Lindisfarne was a part of a war strategy, and it was a brutal war that the Scandinavians were losing. They did not wake up one day to realize they could steal from defenseless monks across the water.
I think it's really cool that you're doing this subject in particular. Every year in my home town, the city throws a HUGE festival celebrating irish heritage and every year historians and storytellers come and recount to the public tales of the viking invaders who came to the shore of Ireland during these times. And your timing seems impeccable as the festival comes once again, next week. Great job!
I'd love to see more of this, episodes showing the buildup before Lindisfarne, and from both sides. the Viking age is a time I'm always happy to learn more about.
It's funny, really - I know the basic outline of what happened at Lindisfarne, as I learned it in school, I even still remember the year from those lessons. Yet, this is still far more informative and engaging. Thank you, guys! :D
Great job showing the other side of the coin. Contrary to popular belief, the vikings weren't uncivilized savages who enjoyed cutting down defenseless man "just 'cause". They were also traders, farmers and had one of the earliest forms of democracy, though I hesitate to call it that. All viking tribesmen could bring fourth their complaints to Tinget, where the chieftain and/or king would listen. Even women (Scandinavian women, not trells) had a lot of power in viking society. Women had complete control over the home, the money, and could have rapists killed, even just touching a woman without her consent was considered a major crime, and a lot of women could demand divorce if they didn't like their husband (like if he wasn't manly enough, or had a too large penis, no joke), which was seen as a great dishonor to the man
It really irks me the way that people get all political about this. Every time I look onto anything involving the Vikings, the arguments always go from "Christians deserved it, heck they deserve it today!" to "The Vikings were just raiding, mass-raping pirates." Presentism really is a plague, you know? This was a different time in a world that for all of our reading on the subject we probably wouldn't even recognize if we went there. It's in the past, it happened, if affected some things, done. Now can we just appreciate the interesting history without trying to pass judgement on people that are extremely different from us from the comfort of our armchairs?
I am from an old family in the northern lands, the daughter of a thane and also wife to one. I fought by my husband's side, his partner both in war and in peace. But my husband died of the plague, when I was still childless. My husband had decreed that I should inherit his lands, in the absence of an heir. My brother-in-law, cursed be his name, said that it was not our custom that women could inherit a thanedom. That was nonsense, but his gold bought the loyalties of enough of my husband's faithless servants for him to install himself in my hall. So I fled, something I was raised never to do, and something I hope never to do again.
Vikings just didn't really care to be honest. Norse morality was mainly centered around providing for your loved ones and viewed conflict with outsiders as natural rather than evil. Raiding was like rain, something to be expected and dealt with, which is why there was a strong warrior tradition in their society. For them not being militant and getting slaughtered would be like complaining about getting wet in the rain when you could've brought an umbrella.
ONTO THE O LORD I LIFT UP MY SOUL, O MY GOD, I TRUST IN THEE. LET ME NOT BE AFRAID, FOR THOU ART THE GOD OF MY SALVATION, NOW DO I WAIT , ALL THE DAY AND ALL THE NIGHT.AMEN.
I love this video. Not only because of my deep love for vikings but of how you show both sides of the conflict. I would love to see more of this in detail on the Viking Age
A bit more research on viking swords and shields would have helped a lot here. Not only is the sword wrong for this period (you want minimal straight sroccguard, different shape of pommel and rounded tip), but round shields were never made like what we see here. They were made of wood, yeah, but had the face covered with linen or rawhide, and rim covered with another layer of rawhide, very, very rarely metal. And they were painted more often than not. The axes also have a somewhat questionable head on it, but the inaccuracy there is very, very minor (part that covers the wooden haft is a bit too long). At least helmets have no horns, though I was expecting a joke in that direction...
CE? I mean, why? I never got that. Sure, religious connotations and forcing others, but I don't force people to convert by using AD, do I? Religion is interwoven with history, and this has been a standard for ages. Plus, what even is the common era? Nothing major makes the separation, except for birth of extremely important historical figure Jesus Christ. Maybe I'm missing something. Excellent video, by the way.
I think that when Viking Longships had their shields out to see it was a signal that they wanted to trade. When they shields were inside the ship it meant the vikings came to raid the area.
Vinland is hard to do because there's so much we don't know about it, historically speaking. We can do Erik, Iceland to Greenland, but Leif getting to North America is where things get tetchy. We know they did, that's not remotely under dispute anymore, but where they went (they obviously went to Newfoundland, but not even the Scandinavian sense of humour can turn The Rock into the Vinland, so where else did they go? See: what the Draken Harald is bumming around trying to prove), how long they stayed (did they actually stay, or did they just pop over every spring and trade and fish?), when they left for good... that's a lot more up in the air. So it's *really* hard to do a historical documentation of it of the kind Extra History does.
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Remember, on this day, in 793 AD, a group of Norsemen selflessly rescued thr treasures of Lindisfarne from a great fire, after the monks all mysteriously and spontaneously died.
Lol
🤣🤣🤣
How kind of them
And some of them mysteriously ended up in slavery.
The real heroes!
People say history is written by thoes who win. Though i may add to this statement. History is written by thoes who win or know how to write.
Although sometimes those who win burn the works of those who know how to write...
The vikings had a written language; we're just not sure how to read it nowadays.
Not to mention that it was only used extremely rarely compared to other cultures of the same time period.
Vikings knew how to write though. They didn't use the same methods as the english though, but they had a fully functional writing system in their runestones.
Kassaapparat Yes, I know that. I was simply saying that they didn't write as often and as much as pretty much any other european culture of that time, which is the reason why we don't understand it completely.
Viking helmets without horns? Great Scott, it's accurate!
The real ones look cooler anyway.
Of course. So long as it's not a flag, they're pretty good about such things.
I was just about to make that comment when I noticed this. Nice to see some folks are aware of this.
This comment gets somewhat funny when you realise one of the artists for the episodes is named Scott
actually Most Viking helmets wasnt made of metal. like almost none.
Sigh..... *boots up Crusader Kings 2*
haha. it's great, isn't it
I was thinking the same thing even though all the new patches ruined it for me
yes! so much yes! indian jew named mohammed in faraoe islands will rule them all!
+Nicholas Roberts at least the new patch looks pretty cool
RISE THROUGH THE STORM
VIKING GODS!!!
"It is better to stand and fight. If you run, you'll only die tired."
Viking Saying
Source?
@@samrevlej9331 He's probably scandanavian.
Viking Halo on Legendary difficulty
Can't believe ancient vikings spoke perfect English!
@@ericdillingham6858 idk if you’re joking, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt…
Ah, the vikings. What a group. On one hand, they expanded the horizons of Europe and mingled cultures across the continent. On the other hand, they did so by raiding and conquering, with a side business in colonizing chilly North Atlantic islands.
Complicated legacies are my favorite kind!
Mine too, german here! :D
+Extra Credits I love the extra History Can you please make a series of this concept
Plus their descendants would be the fucking Normans
+Todd Crane i live on the island group that extorted normandy from the french during that time, so much awesome history and its cool that they impacted the world in so different ways, some bad and some good.
"Then, everything changed when the Viking raiders attacked"
Don't think I don't see you, you sneaky reference!
Wyatt Eells
northumbria
Wessex
Mercia
East anglia
Kent
And probebly few more kingdoms
Lived in peace but everything changed when vikings attacked!
What référence ??
@@matthiaskonold6976 They're talking about the cartoon Avatar.
@@RocaDeearCenjar ok thanks yu
Avatar refrence
A shame this is just one episode, it really leaves me wanting to know what happens next
watch the last kingdom lol
I know what you mean... I wish i could find more on this topic somewhere... Hmm... I am sure there are no books on this topic or any other media covering it... Damn, lets hope EC does more, right?
Well, Lindisfarne was raided several times over the course of decades, though the ruins still are there. The island eventually became depopulated. Raids continued throughout the British Isles for at least half a century. Hitting mostly monasteries, where gold and other precious material could easily be obtained. Eventually, around the 840's-850's the Viking raiders started to set up permanent settlements. With these settlements in place Scandinavians began to migrate the the British Isles. Mostly from Norway and Denmark.
Over the next few centuries there were a number of conflicts between Anglo Saxons and Scandinavians, with at times, Britain being ruled almost entirely by Scandinavians. The Scandinavians set up several kingdoms and are responsible for some of the British Isles major cities. York and Dublin are two key examples in which Scanadinavians hosted considerable influence, and built trading empires. A lesser known kingdom was formed on the Ilse of Mann under the Manx Kings. At its height the Manx Kings held several islands and coastal settlements around Ireland and Scotland.
Well, actually, there is a TV series by BBC called the "Last Kingdom" that covers the time period after the raids on Lindisfarne when Ubba and Ivar the Boneless seek to put England under Danish control. The TV series isn't wholly accurate, but it is fun to watch. The books the show is based on, written by Bernard Cornwell, is more accurate. But those are two fictionalized media sources, I don't know if you wanted documentaries or anything.
Pretty much the same for decades, rinse repeat, but escalating in distance and number of vikings until the rest of Europe noticed the Vikings had OCD and most of the time couldn't care enough to lay a proper siege, grabing what they could and killing all the straglers, so stronger walls were built all over Europe, preemptive bribes to vikings leaders were sent so they would pester the next town, so on and so forth..
By the way, Europe as a whole decided to fail very hard by excess of zeal, training WAY more soldiers than needed to defend their towns. later that would lead to an excessive number of trained soldiers with no other craft and no clear goal, which is NEVER a good idea. The violence piled up in France until the Church pulled off a major PR stunt and invented (or reinvented, depending on who you ask) the Chivalry Code, regulating "how a real Christian knight was suposed to behave". Tip: the theory involved being somewhat less of an a.hole. That was a campaign that became viral, specially after the nobility -in particular a few female nobles of southern France - understood how that code could be weaponized as a cool kids' club that would keep the armed men slightly under control and off the neck of the peasants who were suposed to be working the fields and not dying that much.
Of course, codes are not magic, but enough soldiers got sucked into embracing the chivalry party to some extent or another for it to be an actual success at what it aimed for (reducing the occurrences random acts of violence of warriors who were bored and feeling a lack of purpose). With the centuries it turned into Hollywood "knights are good" folklore but, at the time, it was simply as pragmatic a solution as they managed.
Some say that if it wasn't for all these bored soldiers walking around Europe, than being turned in somewhat professional knights, the Pope wouldn't have called for the Crusades, since, along with other reasons, he did so because, by that point, they just had to find something, anything to point all those restless swords to.
The omens were not enough: no one on Lindisfarne would ever have guessed they'd be the victims of the first Viking raid.
Enjoy this one-off episode about the start of the Viking Age!
no please do more episodes on the viking age
I live in Northumberlnd. I've been to holy island on several occasions. I didn't notice Lindisfarne was in the title until I was watching the video.
ahhhhh im so happy that you did this episode, for the viking age to me is very interesting and i hope that you get to do more episodes in the future and if you do than i hope that you´ll touch on both the trading and the pillaging and that some made homes so far east as canada :)
and how you think that they went berserk as they are so famous for doing
It would be cool if you did a video on the other kingdoms in Britain at this, especially Alfred of Wessex
And then, a little over a millennium later, the Vikings would then spend their loot on various things via CapitalOne.
HAHA! Glad someone remembers that commercial.
What's in your wallet?
williamhowe1 Damn. Beat me to it.
ITS MY MONEY *AND I NEED IT NOW!!!!!!*
Wrong commercial, sorry carry on
But the big question remains... Was Walpole behind all this...?
Walpole is probably descended from the Normans which means this is behind Walpole.
The great Saxon nobleman Walðpol tipped the Vikings off and got a share of the loot in return. He then returned all the religiously significant artifacts to other monasteries, earning their gratitude which he used to increase his status and political power. :D
Vikings did inhabit Normandy and eventually became the "Normans" who conquered England so technically it's Old Man Walpole's fault that monasteries were looted :P
Good question....
Brandon Ottinger That's actually really cool, I'm not gonna lie
What's with this properly portrayed Viking helms? Where are the massively believed, horn ornamented helms?
3:35, if you're interested.
I thought this was a great detail by Lil! When the actual Vikings are shown, they're wearing proper helms. Only when they're being described by Christian observers (and compared to demons) do their helms have horns. Really subtle of her. -Soraya
It wasn't flags ; )
-JP
well they probably mostly wore hard leather helmets as we've found like..... one metal helmet
"It wasn't flags" I died XD
Would you ever consider doing a series on Alfred the Great? He's one of my favorite historical figures and played a big role in shaping the English nation.
Same, and king Harold
"A small indulgence in the sin of Pride" *Massive smug smirk*
God: "I'm about to end this man's whole career."
@@TheUnholyHandGrenadeDon’t you mean Odin?
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A new extra history video AND it's on one of my favourite periods! Highlight of the week! Man I'm a history nerd.
1. Right, right after you find strangers on your land , and all you needed to do to protect your house of gold and riches was to find an interpreter of the unknown language, you better do that in 15 minutes or the one carrying the axe is going to split your head and force himself on your wife. ... right, easy peasy.
+BornInPurple the similarities in language came after the occupation of now time york, by the danes, and the norman occupation. the languages were not the same or understandable to each other at the time of the sacking of lindisfarne.
also the varangian guard was formed in the latter era of the viking age, when they slowly stopped as raiders and rather resorted to mercenaries in the east. ive reasearched this alot and most of my pretty believable sources claim this.
just saying :)
this happened over 1000 years ago so nobody knows for sure, and after the black death alot of information was lost, so rational descussion is always welcome if you think i made a mastake in my claim :)
+BornInPurple forgot to add, where i live in norway they also found roman equipment, i think this may be proof of romans leaving england to denmark and norway at the end of the western roman empire, but you can never be sure. also names like cato started getting populat around this time wich originated in the italian mainland ^^
Nice odin you snuck in there
Don't waste your time looking back, you are not going that way. - Ragnar Lothbrok
i wish the tought us more about vikings
dont believe a shit the tv series vikings claim its not historical at all, a good show but not at all accurate
Well, actual historical records being few and far between, Vikings is actually fairly accurate for a TV show, Ive seen documentaries that are less accurate.
"Not historical at all" is a strong word. While, yes, it does have inacuracies for the sake of entertainment, it's based on historical facts.
Loosely based om historical facts.
do a Charlemagne seriers
*series
you know you can edit your comments instead of replying to them with a correction. Just letting you know for the future.
+History of Everything and Anything You can't on mobile
Chodark, King of Seagulls Ahh I see now.
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Doubt anyone'll see this given the age of this video, but:
Speaking of Russia and Vikings, have you considered an episode on Prince Rurik and the founding of the Kievan Rus, the civilization from which Russia spawned (And took its name)? Russian history is already pretty obscure, but pre-Peter the Great Russian History is all but completely unknown outside of Russia.
yo. I saw this comment
I recognize “kieven-rus” from “history of the entire world i guess”!
I see this comment, and you have piqued my western curiosity
Ah, the Kievan Rus, Norse warriors who settled in modern day Russia and forged a great empire, it's one of my favorite stories, really.
Who unfortunately got destroyed by the golden hord
The 8th Century: "The Danes are coming!"
The 21st Century: "Vikings are coming!"
Historians: "Some Scandinavians are going viking."
could you put the winter war(talvisota) as an option for patreons to vote on its the war between the soviet union and Finland were Finland kicked soviet unions ass
Do not mess with the Finnish, because they'll finish you!
Mercure250 badumts
great idea
pc master race (But it's accurate considering the Winter War ^^)
Mercure250 yeah i know
If I had a dollar for every time I heard ""Northumbria"" in 2016 alone, I could afford to buy a car. What gives?
We're just awesome?
heh, too awesome, northerners, heh
I'm having the Baader-meinhoff phenomenon about the Baader-meinhoff phenomenon right about now. Baader-meinhoff-ception.
Well, it's been some time since the world was reminded that we kicked Northumbrian asses... Can't have that, can we. ^_^
I don't know why, but I love the name of that region. It sounds really badass. Nor-thum-bria. Northumbria. Northumbria.
Me playing CK2: STOP RAIDING MY SHIT!!!
heh, I'm from near Lindisfarne, Holy Island is incredibly eerie when the fog descends.
Charlemagne actually forbade the building for castles and forts (which nobles could hide behind), which made France vulnerable to Viking raids.
I WILL DRINK FROM YOUR SKULL
That's a nice head you have on your shoulders
TODAY THE GODS WILL DECIDE YOUR FATE!
I T S A L M O S T H A R V E S T I N G S E A S O N
Norse pagan mythology is much more fascinating and entertaining, than christian lore, therefore I am on the viking team.
Who could have been behind these raids? Who could have-It was Walpole.
That's just begging to become a meme
It is a meme.
Can you do Frederick The Great next?
They've already go the next topic chosen.
What is it?
+InMaTeofDeath The Graachi Brothers.
Goddammit it's my favourite historical figure, I hope they'll talk about him some day.
That flute bustin' Prussian?
OLD FRITZ, OLD FRITZ, OLD FRITZ, OLD FRITZ, OLD FRITZ!!
so Vikings are the Mongols of Europe or the Mongols are the Vikings are of Asia
Not really, Mongols actually knew how to fight.
Victor Swamp .
Well, they both practiced gender equality, and had female warriors, so...
@Joseph Sosa yes and no. The Romans homogenized conquered territories while the mongols integrated territories into their empire, but not culture, like vassals.
I must say... I love that you show the monks as missionaries to Odin himself. :)
VIKINGS VIKINGS VIKINGS!!!
This was great - but one episode is not enough! More vikings. Please.
“It’s a clear day.”
*notices clouds in the background*
You sit on a throne of lies.
good detail with Odin with missionary
Woden gets around.
apart from the fact none
of the British pagans worshipped Odin.
4:19 YOL-TOOR-SHUL!
The Saxons worshipped Woden, who was basically Odin. That is, until they became Christian.
If you ever do such a one episode again, could you consider doing one about the Frisians in the very early middle ages? These were the people that pretty much revived the trade routes in Europe after the fall of Rome. It's a unknown but very important part of European history.
A series on Alfred the great would be amazing, showing how he beat back the viking threat and how he established a kingdom that would one day become England
Please to a video about the northen crusades.
600 views, no dislikes. 6 minutes since posting. YES.
You just had to jinx it
Aaww
+Thor P.N Kr did thy smoochum it?
Badum Tss.
The power of Vikings.
Dude this is way too ahead of its time
I like the Avatar: The Last Airbender reference in the description.
please do a series on vikings
This has reminded me that an EC series on Alfred the Great would be awesome.
Please make a series out of this, I don't actually know what happened (as in actual events) I just know what generally happened (tons of pillaging and raiding).
+TheRezro Yes but Vikings, as much as I love the show, takes many historical liberties to make a good story. It's a great introduction into the time period to get one interested.
eh. The show gets a lot of things right, but it has a very limited timespan (I believe, if it follows the saga closely) only about 25 years after Lindisfarne. Also, Ragnar has no clear historical counterpart, though his sons certainly lived in the middle of the 9th century, and basically dominated all of England apart from Wessex.
My recommendation, though pretty lame, is to get a hold of as many sagas as you can. They're entertaining (usually), and in many cases the historicity is fairly sound.
Or, if you're ok with reading a list of events, the Anglo-saxon Chronicle, which was read at the start of the episode, is our most consistent source for English Viking raides. Some other monasteries in France (such as St. Bertin) also have accounts for what happened there. It's hardly the most exciting read, but it's hard to get better sources than the originals.
In secondary texts, the only one I'd recommend is Anders Winroth's "Vikings".
+asd asd Also, Ragnarr is ruling from a small town called "Kattegat". Kattegat in reality is a sea :S
Kind of. It's unclear what Ragnar's origins were, or if he lived, but by the mid-9th century, the name was associated with an incredibly mighty and famous warrior. So, everyone and their uncle tried to claim lineage to him, increasing their own prestige in the process. Also, his most famous "sons" expanded on his conquests, looting all of Northumbria, Mercia, and East Anglia as the Great Viking Army.
In contrast, Alexander is a scrupulously attested historical figure, who captured, alled it a day, and left it to his aides and descendants to split up his brief empire. He's more comparable to Charlemagne and how Europe was split among his grandkids
you can read Vinland Saga
I hate to admit this, but I had no idea that St. Cuthbert was a real guy. I just thought he was a construct of D&D.
@@davidvasey5065 aswell as Bede. No one's heard of him either even though he's one of the most important saints in Christian history.
No different to what Charlemagne did in Saxony a decade before......
The virgin pagan landlords vs the chad Charlemagne
@@soysquid4312 who fought to the death to defend their beliefs and home lands
HIS NAME IS UTHRED OF BEBBANBURH!! LET ALL THE VIKINGR RAIDERS KNOW THAT HE IS OUR LORD OF WAR AND THAT HE SHALL PROTECT THE LANDS OF WESSEX AND MERCIA AGAINST THE NORSE SCUM!! ALL PRAISE GOD!! ALL PRAISE LORD UTHRED!!
... I´ve read too much Bernard Cornwell... and it´s quite a ways away from 793... oh, whatever, Vikings forever! 3:
Uthred is the man.
meh, i swear fielty to ivar the boneless or harald bluetooth any day but i bend knee to no king of the angles
Vikings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vikings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+The Suckiest Gamer yes that is my show
So is this a one-off, or something of a prologue to another series?
One-off, you can check their Patreon page. Protip for future episodes, they add (part 1) to any new multi-part series, so if it's not there, it's a one-off episode.
Yeah, epic and pretty depressing...as usual XD
+Erulasse Aranel "Ideals are pretty, history is violent."
darn. I just rediscovered my love for the Vikings with this episode
Nathan Brown So living for generations with someone's boot stamped firmly on your neck and constantly being discriminated and taken advantage of is ok as long as you're part of 'civilisation'. Afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you there.
Also churches and monasteries like that didn't spread knowledge they spread Christian propaganda and have an extremely long history of employing blackmail upon those who could least afford it; or have you never heard of a 'Tithe'? And that's not even going into the genocide, destruction and subjugation of cultures who disagreed with them.
can you do the Boer wars as an option for patreons to vote on it. It is between the British Empire and the "boers" The Orange Free State and the Transvaal.
this is the beginning of Vikings, the tv show, right?
Ya, it's weird to see them do an extra history based in fiction. I'm glad to see them branch out though.
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I believe so, but the Vikings TV Show is not historical.
Not at all, the events in Vikings are based on real events but display as much accurate history as Game of Thrones. Rollo of Normandy lived from 846-932 AD. The attack on Lindisfarne happened in 793 AD.
Rollo couldn't have been at the raid of Lindisfarne.
Ragnarr Loðbrók's existence isn't even widely accepted as fact as most of the sources that reference his actions attribute deeds of several different people to him. So we can't say for a fact that Ragnarr even was a real man.
Vikings is more of a dramatisation of viking legends and sagas than it is a historical TV show.
Ragnar's existance is heavily debated.
Could you make a video on the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Thank you for not having the vikings have the horns. The misconception always bugs me.
MegaZeroX7 i dont know if it really counts as a misconception if no one really believes it
I always wondered why they killed the defenseless. I'm mean, take the gold and gems, understandable. But the swordless monks, why?
Cause of the social injustice experienced by the poor Vikings at the hands of Christian Europe ofcourse.
For anyone interested, there's a TV series that covers these events and their fallout over the next century. It's called "The Last Kingdom", and it's on Netflix.
And of course there are the books the series is based on (the first book is also called "The Last Kingdom"). They are certainly among my favourite historical novels.
I only got a few episodes in before I got distracted (as I do), but I am really loving that series. From what I've seen so far, do recommend. -Soraya
Extra Credits My experience was about the same, I watched the first three or four about a week ago, and haven't been gone back to it yet. I don't know if the series overall is good, but it definitely has a strong start!
tried it, i didn't like it that much.
Angus Rhodes Of course it is. It's a drama, not a documentary.
Hmm, perhaps I should have said "set in" rather than "covers"
Me, who clearly can’t hear: “Wait why is this like 50 years off? BLASPHEMY!!!”
Me, after listening: “Oh that’s a 9 and not a 4 in 793. I be deaf and blind.”
Vinland Saga anyone?
Hey!!!!
i just wish they'd mention the thing where King Canute orders the sea to stop moving. that was epic both in the history books and the manga.
that happened in south England in 950 a.d. this story was in north England 793 --altho England didn't exist till 100 years later.
2:45 Odd that trabslate to “Unleasw well” The “H” is another type of Rune.
But in short they say “Unleash Hell”
Greatest age ever. Totally not biased.
......
Totally.
*laughs in the battle of Stamford bridge*
Bishop Higbald at 2:16: "What's that sound?"
(Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" Slowly growing louder.)
Bishop Higbald: "Uh-oh"
Swedish Pagans marching ashore.
Forged in Valhalla by the hammer of Thor
i would love to watch more videos of the viking conquest, maybe a video on how "we" (i'm from Norway) discovered America long before Columbus.
Vinland.
Canada not America. Or just say the new world. Columbus discovered the West Indies.
Good point biggamer500
Canada is a part of America.
part of the continent of North America, but not America. We tried to take Canada in 1812, but failed miserably. They painted the White House black with flames.
Finally... Vikings without horned helmets..
I would love, absolutely love, for you guys to make a series out of this. Exploring the viking era through they eyes of the norse people and the people of europe they interacted with would make an extremely interesting series!
We're Vikings - what do you know, the terrors of the sea.
♫ We're Vikings, where ever we go, pillaging happily
Vikings do not sow.
...Except for when they return home and have to feed their families.
+Infernal460 thrall* much better treated than their slave cousins
oh god, it's been a while since I've heard that.
Anyone else looking at Viking history to fact check assassins creed Valhalla
I would not necessarily say they "knew nothing of the faith" whatsoever given the aggressive christiandom.
Well, now I feel the need to play a 20-or-more hour campaign of Norse world conquest in CKII...
It's so great to finally see a balanced approach to the topic. =)
Sure the vikings weren't saints, but they're not *that* bad compared to some of that era and they had good reasons to fight in many cases.
I actually got to visit this place a few times
It’s so cool how they had a small islands like ingland
Hey
"So you think fire is your ally? I was borne in it..." - Ragnar Lodbrok
I think it is misleading to just assume that this was some bolt from a clear sky, in 782 the massacre of Verden had taken place and it was well known in the germanic world that christianity was basically a tool to colonize the north of Europe. It is pretty one-sided to just portray the monastery like a peacful place that had no idea of the larger conflict in which it played such a central role. Lindisfarne was the seat for a large amount of 'missionaries' going into Scandinavia. Lindisfarne was a part of a war strategy, and it was a brutal war that the Scandinavians were losing. They did not wake up one day to realize they could steal from defenseless monks across the water.
I think it's really cool that you're doing this subject in particular. Every year in my home town, the city throws a HUGE festival celebrating irish heritage and every year historians and storytellers come and recount to the public tales of the viking invaders who came to the shore of Ireland during these times. And your timing seems impeccable as the festival comes once again, next week. Great job!
Well, those scandinavian wellfare states has got to be payed by someone, right?
And I just learned how Vikings got their horns, they were seen as demons.
The monks have defence from god not the power of life
*sniff* They grow up so fast. Already raiding, burning, and pillaging villages! I'm so proud!
and here I just thought of Lindisfarne as a place which sells good mead.
I'd love to see more of this, episodes showing the buildup before Lindisfarne, and from both sides. the Viking age is a time I'm always happy to learn more about.
As An Icelander and as a long-standing Crusader Kings 2 player, im excited to hear the historical recounting of the Viking Age
Well now I've got to read Bernard Cornwell again
An episode about the transition of Scandinavians from vikings to christian knights taking part in the Northern Crusades would be quite interesting.
I could have more episodes of this period.
Its an interesting one.
It's funny, really - I know the basic outline of what happened at Lindisfarne, as I learned it in school, I even still remember the year from those lessons. Yet, this is still far more informative and engaging. Thank you, guys! :D
Great job showing the other side of the coin. Contrary to popular belief, the vikings weren't uncivilized savages who enjoyed cutting down defenseless man "just 'cause". They were also traders, farmers and had one of the earliest forms of democracy, though I hesitate to call it that. All viking tribesmen could bring fourth their complaints to Tinget, where the chieftain and/or king would listen. Even women (Scandinavian women, not trells) had a lot of power in viking society. Women had complete control over the home, the money, and could have rapists killed, even just touching a woman without her consent was considered a major crime, and a lot of women could demand divorce if they didn't like their husband (like if he wasn't manly enough, or had a too large penis, no joke), which was seen as a great dishonor to the man
It really irks me the way that people get all political about this. Every time I look onto anything involving the Vikings, the arguments always go from "Christians deserved it, heck they deserve it today!" to "The Vikings were just raiding, mass-raping pirates."
Presentism really is a plague, you know? This was a different time in a world that for all of our reading on the subject we probably wouldn't even recognize if we went there. It's in the past, it happened, if affected some things, done.
Now can we just appreciate the interesting history without trying to pass judgement on people that are extremely different from us from the comfort of our armchairs?
I am from an old family in the northern lands, the daughter of a thane and also wife to one. I fought by my husband's side, his partner both in war and in peace. But my husband died of the plague, when I was still childless. My husband had decreed that I should inherit his lands, in the absence of an heir. My brother-in-law, cursed be his name, said that it was not our custom that women could inherit a thanedom. That was nonsense, but his gold bought the loyalties of enough of my husband's faithless servants for him to install himself in my hall. So I fled, something I was raised never to do, and something I hope never to do again.
Homini Lupus Wtf
When I have enough gold to raise an army I shall go back and take what is mine.
>tfw when you get aMount and Blade: Warband reference
To be fair medieval priests weren't much different from thieves and murderers so maybe vikings saw through the hypocrisy??
Vikings just didn't really care to be honest. Norse morality was mainly centered around providing for your loved ones and viewed conflict with outsiders as natural rather than evil. Raiding was like rain, something to be expected and dealt with, which is why there was a strong warrior tradition in their society. For them not being militant and getting slaughtered would be like complaining about getting wet in the rain when you could've brought an umbrella.
You guys need to do a follow up on the Great Heathen Horde.
Hey can you make a video about the Carolingian empire and a war against games
No Ragnar references?
No, he didn't exist
Ragnar was a child during the raid on Lindesfarne, even if the show makes us belive that he lead the raid
ONTO THE O LORD I LIFT UP MY SOUL, O MY GOD, I TRUST IN THEE. LET ME NOT BE AFRAID, FOR THOU ART THE GOD OF MY SALVATION, NOW DO I WAIT , ALL THE DAY AND ALL THE NIGHT.AMEN.
Can we get more Viking history please
Am I the only one who read the description and saw the avatar reference 😂
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Skyrim belongs to the Nords!
Ei millään jaksais...
Förena er!
MoronicAcid1
De är close enough :D
Blanda upp! i.imgur.com/dnbk7Fx.png
I love this video. Not only because of my deep love for vikings but of how you show both sides of the conflict. I would love to see more of this in detail on the Viking Age
A bit more research on viking swords and shields would have helped a lot here. Not only is the sword wrong for this period (you want minimal straight sroccguard, different shape of pommel and rounded tip), but round shields were never made like what we see here. They were made of wood, yeah, but had the face covered with linen or rawhide, and rim covered with another layer of rawhide, very, very rarely metal. And they were painted more often than not.
The axes also have a somewhat questionable head on it, but the inaccuracy there is very, very minor (part that covers the wooden haft is a bit too long).
At least helmets have no horns, though I was expecting a joke in that direction...
CE? I mean, why? I never got that. Sure, religious connotations and forcing others, but I don't force people to convert by using AD, do I? Religion is interwoven with history, and this has been a standard for ages. Plus, what even is the common era? Nothing major makes the separation, except for birth of extremely important historical figure Jesus Christ. Maybe I'm missing something. Excellent video, by the way.
HELL YES VIKINGS!
A one-off episode? nooo :(
I'd love more!
i know. scandinavia and vikings are underrated and nobody ever talks about them. :C
Extra mythology
I think that when Viking Longships had their shields out to see it was a signal that they wanted to trade. When they shields were inside the ship it meant the vikings came to raid the area.
The only thing i'm going to say is vinland saga.
why
search it up.
ToastierCarp
i know what it is, i'm wondering what it's relevence is
It looks cool.
Vinland is hard to do because there's so much we don't know about it, historically speaking.
We can do Erik, Iceland to Greenland, but Leif getting to North America is where things get tetchy. We know they did, that's not remotely under dispute anymore, but where they went (they obviously went to Newfoundland, but not even the Scandinavian sense of humour can turn The Rock into the Vinland, so where else did they go? See: what the Draken Harald is bumming around trying to prove), how long they stayed (did they actually stay, or did they just pop over every spring and trade and fish?), when they left for good... that's a lot more up in the air. So it's *really* hard to do a historical documentation of it of the kind Extra History does.
this sort of thing is why you respect other cultures beliefs, cause if you don't thats how you get Vikings
Hail Odin! The raid was just!