He was nothing compared to Xiang Yu from Western Chu. In the battle of Pengcheng Xiang Yu with only 30,000 men defeated Liu Bang's army of 560,000 men managing to kill 200,000 enemies. I doubt that Harald Hardrada would have lasted 5 seconds against him.
@@oceanmasterproductions9939 that's pure fantasy lol I meant he needs a proper movie that's accurate for the most part unlike Vikings and Valhalla which have historical figures but is just pure entertainment with a light sprinkling of accuracy 😂 ... btw I do love both shows.
In those days accomplishing something was a lot easier. All you needed was bloodlust and a sword, perhaps in some cases it's better to be an underachiever....
@@AeneasGemini He was also a minor noblemen with a large number of men pledged to him. I am pretty sure that the Byzantines wouldn't have allowed any old joe with a blunt lumber axe into their imperial guard.
For many, Harold Hardrada is the one who failed at getting England. After watching this, I'd say he was the one who finally failed at something after failing to fail so many times before.
British history would be completely different. Instead of having a Francophile culture for generations we'd be Nordic. No hundred years war, which would change absolutely everything that followed. What's more there'd be a good chance that we'd have had a more Scandanavian flavour to Christianity
@@lawyeroutlaw No he wasn't, he was actually the least capable of the three. Harold Godwinson was the best administrator and the best battlefield commander. The only reason he lost was that his army was battle-weary from a forced march and therefore less disciplined. If Harold had had just a few extra days William would've lost handily.
For even an experienced veteran like Hadrada to feel comfortable in leaving armour and heavy equipment at camp when venturing to Stamford bridge, shows just how rapid Godwinson was at marching north. The lesson is no matter how chill things seem, always be prepared for a serious battle! Haha
For me the greatest of the Vikings will always be Erik the Red, its rather criminal how underrated and unknown the Vikings of Greenland are, which is a shame as they were the first true overseas colony(outside of Europe and the Mediterranean), going on from 980-1450AD(roughly, its unknown when the colonies truly ceased to exist, let alone where the people went), as well as being the first well recorded Europeans to actually set up shop in the New World(the Celts have a claim to be before them, but their history of such events is nearly nonexistent, being on roughly equal footing with the Carthaginians).
you aren't a viking ! not one single church you looted nor have you raided the coastlines of Europe, criminal farmer boy ! but props for expending the norse realm that far to the west ! was almost unheard of before
Erik the Red is mainly known for establishing the first colony in Greenland though it was already found by that time but never named and never settled because of the environment untill he did, it's also recorded he was banished for murder so nobody followed him untill finding a suitable area for a settlement then he lied about the island naming it Greenland to convince people to settle there lol. May be off about that one but I consider his son the more Interesting character foundling the first colony of Newfoundland!
In a few years when medieval history shows can be done the proper way again. A Harald Hardrada series would be epic if done correctly and with a bit of money!
Edward I show could be great. Be cool to see a part of Edwards story that get over shadowed because of his Scottish wars. 2nd Barons War and his Welsh Wars are more intriguing imo
this is for sure the best recounting of viking history that i've yet to absorb. from facts gathered to the narration itself it is by far the crowning glory of all the reflections of our distant past. the best for sure. thank you for your time and efforts.
At site of battle of stamford bridge they found sabers and armour from the east lots of the men that served with harold in varangian guard followd him till the end
Harald Hardrada was a true legend. I just started to watch the new Vikings in which he's portraited. Hopefully it's at least somewhat historical, although as cool as the show is, it's not very historically accurate. I also plan to make a documentary on him.
Harald Fairhair was born in 850, died in931 or 932 and was the first King of Norway. Harald Harderåde has never been called Fairhair. Harald Fairhair was his grand, grand, something. Sigurdson is the correct last name.
He was called Fairhair in his lifetime. Hardrada didn’t happen until after he died. It’s a nickname/honorific not a last name. Richards actual name was not LionHeart and Alfred wasn’t actually named The great.
@@danielboggan2479Maybe i am not sure what you meen. Harald Fairhairs name was Harald Halvdanson. Nothing to do with Harderåde, except for the grand, grand, grand part. Harald Halvdanson refused to cut his hair until Norway was one kingdom, there by the name Fairhair.
He was called Hårfagre which means Fairhair in English because he swore he would never cut his beard and hair until Scandinavia was united under his banner
Just want to point out that Harald Fairhair (Harald Hårfagre) and Harald Hardrada (Harald Hardråde) was two DIFFERENT people, who lived in two different times during the viking era, with a gap of atleast 100 years between each other being alive, according to sources.
@@nikhilpendurkar9464 Not in this instance. These names aren't even ''their real names'', Fairhair, or ''Hårfagre'' means something along the lines of, ''beautiful hair/magnificent hair''. And Hardrada, or ''Hardråde?'', basicly translates to something along the lines of ''harsh ruler'', they were nicknames more so than ''birth names'', yes.. They were both named Harald and according to history they are infact RELATED. Harald Fairhair is assumingly the great great (great?) grandfather of Harald Hardrada. They are not the same people and were never in history assumed or considered mixed up with their names. It's just a mistake that this video (and assumingly other people) have made in recent times when presenting their viking content.
Harald Hardråde's birthname was Harald Sigurdson, after his father Sigurd Syr. His half brother (same mother) Olav the Holy's birthname was Olav Haraldson, after his father Harald Grenske. Both could trace their fatherline back to Harald Fairhair (Olav being the great-great grandson and Harald being the Great grandson). Thier mother Åsta must have had a keen eye for Yngling men. Olav was the older brother by some 15 years, don't remember exact. And Harald was in fact not named after Fairhair, but rather Olav's father, Harald Grenske. It is also said that the reason for Harlad's safety after Stiklestad being held of such importance was because of him being the last man of the Fairhair ætt (dynasty) capable of reclaiming and holding the throne, (Magnus just being a baby at the time), and that this had been specificly ordered by Olav to his closest Jarls before the battle. I also remember having read somewhere that his mother Åsta, apparently at some point said to him that he should not return home unless he returned as the King of Norway, but cant remember where i read it.
woow...with Alexander the Great!?!? W8 there is still Ceaser, Hannibal, Carl the Great, Gengis Khan... I mean Harald was an intersting person for sure...but nothing compared to this conquerors....he is just a cookie for them...
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 and so Alexander the Great and Memmon of Rhodes were not norse.....so what is your point???? Seriously how far s#####y can go is amazing.
@@obiwankenobi2083 I think you have a reading comprehension problem, my friend. If you'd taken a minute reading my original comment you wouldn't be so baffled.
its amazing how poems writen in old norse flow and rhyme perfectly in modern english, almost as if they where modern english poems, and infact not old norse poems.......
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most intensively studied traditions of alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of many Germanic languages. Alliterative verse, in various forms, is found widely in the literary traditions of the early Germanic languages. The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other Old English poetry, the Old High German Muspilli, the Old Saxon Heliand, and the Old Norse Poetic Edda all use alliterative verse.
Norwegian and English language have some striking similarities, more than I initially thought. This video explains: ua-cam.com/video/9ZV1BOcGiV0/v-deo.html
It’s so nice to see a video about vikings with this amount of details, admitting what may be just a story and what we know is facts! But most important, Not a single helmet with horns!!! 😄😄😁😁
What an amazing life. Even if not totally factually accurate, these viking sagas tell a great tale of one of the greatest Scandinavians to ever live. Served the Romans, injuring an emperor, king of Norway, sought to take over the north sea empire, and of course invaded England. What an adventure to say the least.
This is why Vikings is a true successor to the Norse sagas. The coffin ruse. Attributed to Ragnar Lothbrok was actually Harald Hadrada. All these stories are probably based on real events but they're put together and attributed to one person. Fictionalised history erasing all the bits and compiling all the amazing stories in one.
It seems to be more important to them to spread the word of the great deeds that Norsemen have accomplished rather than to attribute the actions to the right man. Almost like they're creating the story of an incredible hero, the perfect Viking, someone that they can look up to and try and emulate, and that potential enemies would fear. It's possible that the heroes in the sagas and these stories were less important to them than they are to us. After all, heroic storytelling is their way of recording history. Maybe these stories are simply a way to pass down their values to their children, and to reinforce the virtues they thought important.
Amazing work! You've outdone yourself with this video. As someone who is proud of both my Celtic & Viking blood, I'd welcome more of this well researched work.
The greatest adventurer ever. Man lived a 3-4 dnd campaigns worth of life and still died young. And how about that berserker at the stamford bridge. He is Thor protecting the faithful vikings against heathen christians, only to fell by the treacherous stab of the Loki's spear.
@@lexorogtheelder4753 The entire Norse host was Catholic. It makes a far better tale without paganism. It’s less about “muh semen-drinking gods” and more about the colliding ambitions of great men.
Ah yes, the inevitable petty bickering over which flavor of ice cream is best that absolutely must occur in every video comment section involving anything Nordic.
I can't wait to see this on the new Vikings show(which the first season is quite good btw. though of course they changed some things to make them line up historically). From what I hear the show will end after Stamford Bridge in 1066.
He has just been a descendant grandfather in my Danish family tree. I now know so much more about him. Really enjoyed watching this and bought my family tree to life.
Funny how that berseker's stand on the bridge resembles Zhang Fei's same feat in rotk. Seems like authors around the world enjoy the same types of hyperbole and exaggeration
With armour and proper equipment (unlike at Stamford bridge) probably Harold. William had a very hard time against an exhausted English army made mostly of peasants, so I believe Hadrada would be more likely to win! But in a battle anything can happen
So the story about the 4th castle seems to have been quite a popular one as the same story (playing dead in a coffin) has been told about Bjorn Ironside and Ragnar Lothbrok about other cities.
Well, someone had to have thought of it first and then maybe inspired someone else. Or they just thought it was a good idea separately. The first one with swallows though, that one I heard of that St Olga of Russia/ Kiev also did, and that would've been only last century to them, so he might've heard about that when he lived with the Rus. Genghis Khan also supposedly did that one.
the victorius write history...probably were long boring sieges, where the defenders surrended, and so Harald over-spiced the sieges too look cooler. Sadly there were no smartphone at that time to record such things..
@@obiwankenobi2083 Oh yeah they were definitely known to over exaggerate about their spoils, the Sagas are testament to that and it makes sense cause most of the sieges were like you said pretty long and boring ending in surrender or the attacker giving up, pitch battles or direct assaults least common because of the casualties on both sides, so most sieges were actually won by trickery, intrigue, bribing locals or spies opening the porticulus or setting fires on their supplies, posoning the food etc.. so I think it is very likely that the original story did ocur sometimes because almost every thing we know about any history is usually written 100-200 years later and after some time people like to reminiscence on the "good old days"
The problem with much of recorded history was written by people who were paid individuals to produce what were then very expensive documents written about or for persons that obviously wanted to put thier own spin on things to justify thier rule,worship thier heroes or denigrate the character of their enemies in a largely illiterate society, history is written by the victors or by those who had the funds for literary works and because we weren't alive to refute facts and a lot of evidence either way was ravaged by time our modern view of history is at best speculation or carefully constructed research and analysis so I am glad this channel puts such disclaimers in its videos,I love your videos.
Great episode! The only thing improvement would be to depict Denmark flat. From 24:00 Denmark is depicted as a country with mountains. Denmark is totally flat.
The ‘victory or Valhalla’ mindset isn’t always the best thing. If Harold swallowed his pride and retreated to his main camp he would’ve had a decent chance at winning the campaign. Either that or retreating was impossible as Godwinson was too close
What Sagas next? How about Erik the Red, his son Lief Eriksson, the Jarls of Hlader who fought the Battle of Hurongavargr, or even the Krakamarl, the story of Hrolf Kraki and his legendary court?
The nithing killing of Einar and Eindridi was in Harald's nithing blood that he inherited from the nithing forebears Olaf Tratalja and Ingjald Illruler; as well as the Dvergish (same as modern Chinese government) blood from Halfdan the Black. Nithing Songs' Playing List: ua-cam.com/video/2yPOl__CeXE/v-deo.html
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A complete 1 hour 9 minutes and 40 seconds of full saga, *WITHOUT ADDS?!* I'm living my history nerd dream today!
The ad was at the very beginning of the video lol
Same
Same, king William was my great great so on and so forth grandfather. It was super cool to hear him mentioned.
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I still had ads...
Harald Hardrada, a true Mount and Blade character.
Lmao
Sturgia Forever!!!!
He was nothing compared to Xiang Yu from Western Chu. In the battle of Pengcheng Xiang Yu with only 30,000 men defeated Liu Bang's army of 560,000 men managing to kill 200,000 enemies. I doubt that Harald Hardrada would have lasted 5 seconds against him.
@@darthvenator2487 dude, it's not a competition
I'm glad I'm not the only one who probably spent hundreds of hours asking the local town leader's what tasks need to be done lmfaooo
This dude was soo bad ass. What a life. They need to make a movie out of this legend story.
There's a tv show
@@oceanmasterproductions9939 is there? What's it called?
@@pcfekarlos Vikings valahala lol
@@oceanmasterproductions9939 that's pure fantasy lol I meant he needs a proper movie that's accurate for the most part unlike Vikings and Valhalla which have historical figures but is just pure entertainment with a light sprinkling of accuracy 😂 ... btw I do love both shows.
As long if they made it historically acurate. I would 100% get addicted to that series.
He was 18 when he went to Byzantium.. Jesus I need to do something with my life
In those days accomplishing something was a lot easier. All you needed was bloodlust and a sword, perhaps in some cases it's better to be an underachiever....
@@AeneasGemini He was also a minor noblemen with a large number of men pledged to him. I am pretty sure that the Byzantines wouldn't have allowed any old joe with a blunt lumber axe into their imperial guard.
Reclaim Byzantium. That's a good start.
He was a noble
Join a mercenary band and see how far you get
Vikings in the Middle East is the most fucking epic sounding thing ever
For many, Harold Hardrada is the one who failed at getting England. After watching this, I'd say he was the one who finally failed at something after failing to fail so many times before.
Yeah, his outstanding career outshines his ultimate loss.
Yeah Harald Hardrada was basically the ultimate Viking badass! Kind of like a real life God of War character which makes him even cooler
What an amazing life. His descendants might have even ruled England for a thousand years if he'd delayed his invasion for a month.
Nah, William The Bastard was always going to win that conquest.
@@lawyeroutlaw he was lucky
@@lawyeroutlaw He had spectacular timing.
British history would be completely different. Instead of having a Francophile culture for generations we'd be Nordic. No hundred years war, which would change absolutely everything that followed. What's more there'd be a good chance that we'd have had a more Scandanavian flavour to Christianity
@@lawyeroutlaw No he wasn't, he was actually the least capable of the three. Harold Godwinson was the best administrator and the best battlefield commander.
The only reason he lost was that his army was battle-weary from a forced march and therefore less disciplined.
If Harold had had just a few extra days William would've lost handily.
For even an experienced veteran like Hadrada to feel comfortable in leaving armour and heavy equipment at camp when venturing to Stamford bridge, shows just how rapid Godwinson was at marching north. The lesson is no matter how chill things seem, always be prepared for a serious battle! Haha
For me the greatest of the Vikings will always be Erik the Red, its rather criminal how underrated and unknown the Vikings of Greenland are, which is a shame as they were the first true overseas colony(outside of Europe and the Mediterranean), going on from 980-1450AD(roughly, its unknown when the colonies truly ceased to exist, let alone where the people went), as well as being the first well recorded Europeans to actually set up shop in the New World(the Celts have a claim to be before them, but their history of such events is nearly nonexistent, being on roughly equal footing with the Carthaginians).
you aren't a viking ! not one single church you looted nor have you raided the coastlines of Europe, criminal farmer boy !
but props for expending the norse realm that far to the west !
was almost unheard of before
Erik the Red is mainly known for establishing the first colony in Greenland though it was already found by that time but never named and never settled because of the environment untill he did, it's also recorded he was banished for murder so nobody followed him untill finding a suitable area for a settlement then he lied about the island naming it Greenland to convince people to settle there lol. May be off about that one but I consider his son the more Interesting character foundling the first colony of Newfoundland!
I agree both Erik the red and his son
He was a Norseman certainly, but it's somewhat of a misnomer to call him a viking if he never went on a viking
eh, he was actually well known bud, and not an actual Greenlander.
know the history of the person who you disrespect with your screen name
In a few years when medieval history shows can be done the proper way again. A Harald Hardrada series would be epic if done correctly and with a bit of money!
Edward I show could be great. Be cool to see a part of Edwards story that get over shadowed because of his Scottish wars. 2nd Barons War and his Welsh Wars are more intriguing imo
"gazing with disgust to the cleopatra docu"
this is for sure the best recounting of viking history that i've yet to absorb. from facts gathered to the narration itself it is by far the crowning glory of all the reflections of our distant past. the best for sure. thank you for your time and efforts.
Too bad its not historically accurate. See the discussion about the mix up of two different Haralds who lived hundreds of years apart.
At site of battle of stamford bridge they found sabers and armour from the east lots of the men that served with harold in varangian guard followd him till the end
So much effort and time Invicta and his team puts into these videos. I truly appreciate this! Love watching and learning from your content.
"The wishes of the dead matter little to the bold" that's a nice quote
Harald Hardrada was a true legend. I just started to watch the new Vikings in which he's portraited. Hopefully it's at least somewhat historical, although as cool as the show is, it's not very historically accurate. I also plan to make a documentary on him.
Your videos are one of the best ones I've watched, can't wait for your channel to develop and become one of the big ones 😍
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed my videos! More are coming!
Víkings Valhalla? I heard it's "diverse and inclusive" if you know what I mean.
@@HistoryOdyssey You got me as a new subscriber.
That Vikings series is anything but historical.
Harald Fairhair was born in 850, died in931 or 932 and was the first King of Norway. Harald Harderåde has never been called Fairhair. Harald Fairhair was his grand, grand, something. Sigurdson is the correct last name.
his great grandfather yeah
He was called Fairhair in his lifetime. Hardrada didn’t happen until after he died. It’s a nickname/honorific not a last name.
Richards actual name was not LionHeart and Alfred wasn’t actually named The great.
@@danielboggan2479Maybe i am not sure what you meen. Harald Fairhairs name was Harald Halvdanson. Nothing to do with Harderåde, except for the grand, grand, grand part. Harald Halvdanson refused to cut his hair until Norway was one kingdom, there by the name Fairhair.
He was called Hårfagre which means Fairhair in English because he swore he would never cut his beard and hair until Scandinavia was united under his banner
@@donteros You're right about that, except that it was Norway under a banner, not Scandinavia.
Brought tears to my eyes after hearing this saga…. Bravo Invicta bravo
one of the greatest vikings to ever live
Just want to point out that Harald Fairhair (Harald Hårfagre) and Harald Hardrada (Harald Hardråde) was two DIFFERENT people, who lived in two different times during the viking era, with a gap of atleast 100 years between each other being alive, according to sources.
Can't they be called the same?
@@julchien9901 What do you mean? They are two different people... Harald Fairhair and Harald Hardrada are two different individuals.
@@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 Yeah but 2 different people can have the same name
@@nikhilpendurkar9464 Not in this instance. These names aren't even ''their real names'', Fairhair, or ''Hårfagre'' means something along the lines of, ''beautiful hair/magnificent hair''. And Hardrada, or ''Hardråde?'', basicly translates to something along the lines of ''harsh ruler'', they were nicknames more so than ''birth names'', yes.. They were both named Harald and according to history they are infact RELATED. Harald Fairhair is assumingly the great great (great?) grandfather of Harald Hardrada. They are not the same people and were never in history assumed or considered mixed up with their names. It's just a mistake that this video (and assumingly other people) have made in recent times when presenting their viking content.
Harald Hardråde's birthname was Harald Sigurdson, after his father Sigurd Syr. His half brother (same mother) Olav the Holy's birthname was Olav Haraldson, after his father Harald Grenske. Both could trace their fatherline back to Harald Fairhair (Olav being the great-great grandson and Harald being the Great grandson). Thier mother Åsta must have had a keen eye for Yngling men. Olav was the older brother by some 15 years, don't remember exact. And Harald was in fact not named after Fairhair, but rather Olav's father, Harald Grenske. It is also said that the reason for Harlad's safety after Stiklestad being held of such importance was because of him being the last man of the Fairhair ætt (dynasty) capable of reclaiming and holding the throne, (Magnus just being a baby at the time), and that this had been specificly ordered by Olav to his closest Jarls before the battle. I also remember having read somewhere that his mother Åsta, apparently at some point said to him that he should not return home unless he returned as the King of Norway, but cant remember where i read it.
Harald Hardrada has always been my favorite Norse figure in history, up there with Alexander the Great and Memnon of Rhodes for the Classical world. ❤
What is him compared to the legendary hero Guan Yu?
woow...with Alexander the Great!?!? W8 there is still Ceaser, Hannibal, Carl the Great, Gengis Khan... I mean Harald was an intersting person for sure...but nothing compared to this conquerors....he is just a cookie for them...
@@obiwankenobi2083 Caesar's Roman, Hannibal was Carthaginian, Chinggis was Mongol. None of those are Norse.
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 and so Alexander the Great and Memmon of Rhodes were not norse.....so what is your point???? Seriously how far s#####y can go is amazing.
@@obiwankenobi2083 I think you have a reading comprehension problem, my friend. If you'd taken a minute reading my original comment you wouldn't be so baffled.
In Yorkshire where i live (which was the heart of Danelaw) many of our places have Scandanavian names. Even our accent is due to the Viking influence.
its amazing how poems writen in old norse flow and rhyme perfectly in modern english, almost as if they where modern english poems, and infact not old norse poems.......
They are made to do so. They don't rhyme originally.
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
The most intensively studied traditions of alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of many Germanic languages. Alliterative verse, in various forms, is found widely in the literary traditions of the early Germanic languages. The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other Old English poetry, the Old High German Muspilli, the Old Saxon Heliand, and the Old Norse Poetic Edda all use alliterative verse.
Norwegian and English language have some striking similarities, more than I initially thought. This video explains:
ua-cam.com/video/9ZV1BOcGiV0/v-deo.html
Brilliant insights & coverage of historical figures n their quest! 💯🤗
Done and achieved more in his first 20 years ,than most of us could honestly hope to do in 50 hahaha..what an absolute legend.!!
Thank you. What an awesome story teller you are. I love the fact you read from the Sagas
It’s so nice to see a video about vikings with this amount of details, admitting what may be just a story and what we know is facts! But most important, Not a single helmet with horns!!! 😄😄😁😁
that was a great Video looking forward to the next video Thanks for the info
What an amazing life. Even if not totally factually accurate, these viking sagas tell a great tale of one of the greatest Scandinavians to ever live. Served the Romans, injuring an emperor, king of Norway, sought to take over the north sea empire, and of course invaded England. What an adventure to say the least.
And married a Rus, even held 2 wives whom he made himself deserved to by his actions. Legendary.
So sick I am binge watching all you're stuff amazing work mate very well done please keep smashing it as you are big love UK 🇬🇧
thank you for explaining that in full to me ! may God bless you.
Would be great videos like that for El Cid, Lionheart or Alexander Nevsky.
Thank you so much for such a beautiful piece of work!
This is why Vikings is a true successor to the Norse sagas. The coffin ruse. Attributed to Ragnar Lothbrok was actually Harald Hadrada. All these stories are probably based on real events but they're put together and attributed to one person.
Fictionalised history erasing all the bits and compiling all the amazing stories in one.
was not Ragnar Lothbrok...but Iron Bjornside and Hasestein in Italy...
It seems to be more important to them to spread the word of the great deeds that Norsemen have accomplished rather than to attribute the actions to the right man. Almost like they're creating the story of an incredible hero, the perfect Viking, someone that they can look up to and try and emulate, and that potential enemies would fear. It's possible that the heroes in the sagas and these stories were less important to them than they are to us. After all, heroic storytelling is their way of recording history. Maybe these stories are simply a way to pass down their values to their children, and to reinforce the virtues they thought important.
Hearing Jarl Haakons story during the fight pisses me off so much more when thinking about Netflix and how they did his character.
What an absolute unit
This is excellent, thanks so much
Amazing work! You've outdone yourself with this video. As someone who is proud of both my Celtic & Viking blood, I'd welcome more of this well researched work.
If you make more Documentary like this El Cid would be a intersting historicl figuer to cover.
Both Harald and El Cid were like Mount and Blade protagonists in real life.
The greatest adventurer ever. Man lived a 3-4 dnd campaigns worth of life and still died young. And how about that berserker at the stamford bridge. He is Thor protecting the faithful vikings against heathen christians, only to fell by the treacherous stab of the Loki's spear.
The Viking age ended when that berserker died on the bridge
Harald Hardrada was a Christian 😂
@@bridgerschock5695 well that's a shame, would have been a far better tale if he believed in the old gods
@@lexorogtheelder4753 The entire Norse host was Catholic. It makes a far better tale without paganism. It’s less about “muh semen-drinking gods” and more about the colliding ambitions of great men.
Ah yes, the inevitable petty bickering over which flavor of ice cream is best that absolutely must occur in every video comment section involving anything Nordic.
A strong navy… that’s a beautiful sight.
This was a great video series, any thoughts on covering the history of France or Frankia starting at the Battle of Tours 🤔
Olaf also took refuge with the rusk, the leader new of harold from his brother olaf and the jarl treated him as a friend because of that.
He pulled a rowie,so to speak. Ingenious. And cool AF.
Dear Invicta, I love your videos and have done so from the beginning!
Will you tell the story of Gunnar Hámundarson from Njáls saga?
Great stuff. Thank you much, Sir.
Excellent history, thanks.
I can't wait to see this on the new Vikings show(which the first season is quite good btw. though of course they changed some things to make them line up historically). From what I hear the show will end after Stamford Bridge in 1066.
Awww, I hope they at least show Hastings in an epilogue
This was epic :D,thank you!!!
Swedish folk metal band Hulkoff does a song about him called Hardrádi
Where is this soundtrack from??? It's great! I literally got goosebumps during the Constantinople escape section.
He has just been a descendant grandfather in my Danish family tree. I now know so much more about him. Really enjoyed watching this and bought my family tree to life.
Harald Hardrada was a true Warrior indeed
Funny how that berseker's stand on the bridge resembles Zhang Fei's same feat in rotk. Seems like authors around the world enjoy the same types of hyperbole and exaggeration
Rotk has that in about every chapter lol
Yeah Zhang Fei so called turned away 1 million enemies on a bridge. Lol That sounds made up but what do I know.
There is one about Rome too
It isn't that hard to hold a bridge by yourself if you aren't showered with projectiles
I really hope Vikings Valhalla will do him justice even if I have massive doubts about that.
This is so epic 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌,Harold is a legend and the background music 👌
That background music is so cool i am searching for it for a while but can not find it 😢
I heard Finland instead of Vinland and was very confused for a moment as to how the Norwegians had not yet discovered Finland.
wow good work
A really good video 👍🏻
Galu sent me. Glad I found the channel. This is good stuff.
Harald Hardrada: Gigachadicus Maximus!
Harald Hardrada vs William of Normandy
Who would win?
With armour and proper equipment (unlike at Stamford bridge) probably Harold. William had a very hard time against an exhausted English army made mostly of peasants, so I believe Hadrada would be more likely to win! But in a battle anything can happen
Love this thank you so much for all your time and research much respect!
Holy shit I’m glad I found this channel
So the story about the 4th castle seems to have been quite a popular one as the same story (playing dead in a coffin) has been told about Bjorn Ironside and Ragnar Lothbrok about other cities.
Well, someone had to have thought of it first and then maybe inspired someone else. Or they just thought it was a good idea separately.
The first one with swallows though, that one I heard of that St Olga of Russia/ Kiev also did, and that would've been only last century to them, so he might've heard about that when he lived with the Rus. Genghis Khan also supposedly did that one.
the victorius write history...probably were long boring sieges, where the defenders surrended, and so Harald over-spiced the sieges too look cooler. Sadly there were no smartphone at that time to record such things..
@@obiwankenobi2083 Oh yeah they were definitely known to over exaggerate about their spoils, the Sagas are testament to that and it makes sense cause most of the sieges were like you said pretty long and boring ending in surrender or the attacker giving up, pitch battles or direct assaults least common because of the casualties on both sides, so most sieges were actually won by trickery, intrigue, bribing locals or spies opening the porticulus or setting fires on their supplies, posoning the food etc.. so I think it is very likely that the original story did ocur sometimes because almost every thing we know about any history is usually written 100-200 years later and after some time people like to reminiscence on the "good old days"
The problem with much of recorded history was written by people who were paid individuals to produce what were then very expensive documents written about or for persons that obviously wanted to put thier own spin on things to justify thier rule,worship thier heroes or denigrate the character of their enemies in a largely illiterate society, history is written by the victors or by those who had the funds for literary works and because we weren't alive to refute facts and a lot of evidence either way was ravaged by time our modern view of history is at best speculation or carefully constructed research and analysis so I am glad this channel puts such disclaimers in its videos,I love your videos.
Can we really trust these sagas 100%
A lot of the details can be questioned but the overall story is likely true.
Many scribes (historians) of the time wrote about it.
more than the lies about modern history
na because it's mostly vikaboos vergins who think hurting people was good
Nah, I'd reckon about 50%, he still undoubtedly made an impact tho
Can I trust you?
Brilliant!
I can't wait to see how the showrunners for Vikings Vahllah display Harald's shenanigans in Constantinople.
Amazing !
I just found out about Harald Hardrada from Hulkoff with their song Hardrádi
This could make for a good video game. All the quests done for Yaroslav? Move south and upgrade gear before new quests. Grand theft longboat
Truly the last great Viking in history
The original Most Interesting Man In The World
All the stories of how Harald took the 4 fortresses looks like it came from Genghis Khan and Ragnar lodhbrok's story
Harold sigardson and Harold fairhair were 2 different people from a 100 years apart
Great episode! The only thing improvement would be to depict Denmark flat. From 24:00 Denmark is depicted as a country with mountains. Denmark is totally flat.
Where's the music sourced from? I recognize tracks from M&B Viking Conquest
interesting If I am correct Lloyd (Lindybeige) has told some of the England campaign stories as well but out of the eyes of the other factions.
“King Harald, we literally have no armor and almost no shields. We should just retreat and re equip and regroup! It’s no big deal.”
Harald: No ❤️🥲
The ‘victory or Valhalla’ mindset isn’t always the best thing. If Harold swallowed his pride and retreated to his main camp he would’ve had a decent chance at winning the campaign. Either that or retreating was impossible as Godwinson was too close
I recognize the M&B Viking Conquest music at the start
thank you
Can you tell us about ancient Portugal history next on your videos
Could u cover Egel"s Saga ? Haven't heard it, in awhile. Good camp-fhre story.
Just finished watching Vikings: Valhalla.
Well done !!
Harold Hardrada was not harold fairhair?big mistake?
Very well made video
Nice job with the video
What Sagas next?
How about Erik the Red, his son Lief Eriksson, the Jarls of Hlader who fought the Battle of Hurongavargr, or even the Krakamarl, the story of Hrolf Kraki and his legendary court?
Harald Fairhair and Harald Hardrada are two different persons, living aprox. 100 years appart.
Wasn't the story of capturing the last fort the same as the one they showed in the Vikings series about raiding Paris by Ragnar ?
Vikings compressed 200 years of history into Ragnars life
@@navox933 Yeah man they completely butchered historical accuracy. But it's still entertaining to watch.
Was that an actual poem at 19:05? I would be super surprised that English was already similar enough to rhyme
Hard-Ra-da. I am one of his descendants and his life story was amazing, Hardrada meant hard redes, or hard consul.
A great story. The only things that rile me are that Sven becomes Spain and the poems have rhymes in the end of the stanzas.
The nithing killing of Einar and Eindridi was in Harald's nithing blood that he inherited from the nithing forebears Olaf Tratalja and Ingjald Illruler; as well as the Dvergish (same as modern Chinese government) blood from Halfdan the Black.
Nithing Songs' Playing List: ua-cam.com/video/2yPOl__CeXE/v-deo.html
The part with Harald and the coffin did not happen. It was BJORN IRONSIDE and it happened 150 or so yrs earlier and in Italy. Luna, Italy to be exact.
This was a Superior man
Not that superior, considering that he lost, there's always a bigger fish
Awesome video, love your work.
Would you consider a cross-over shout out for our fans?
I just found out I'm related directly to Harald Hardrada
through Olafsdottir of the Isle of Man
well. one thing is certain. Harald is having a fucking blast in Valhalla alongside that Berserker that held the bridge!!