The Gruesome World Of Viking Weaponry | The Vikings | Chronicle
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- The Vikings owe much of their success to the skilled craftsmen and women who made their sophisticated weapons and lightning fast ships. In this episode, we take a closer look at the weaponry and craftsmanship that allowed them to travel and conquer all around the world. (Episode 2 of 5)
This five-part series follows the Vikings everywhere they went, revealing new discoveries that turn Viking history on its head. We tell their incredible story from eye-witness accounts and the foremost experts on Viking warfare and way of life.
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I remember as a kid living in Denmark visiting the Roskilde museum great experiences.
I saw the ships in Oslo and that wooden Stag Church. Really cool. Spent a lot of time in Norway when I was younger. 👍🏼👍🏼
That is definitely a place I'd like to see
You probably mean "stave churches". They are, as well as the viking ships on the museum on Bygdøy, marvels to behold.
@@elvenkind6072 And many stave churches are still standing where they were built in the 1300s.
They never captured Constantinople. The did reach it, and they eventually became employed by the Byzantine Emperors as Varangian guards, but they absolutely never *captured* the city.
What happened is a bit more complex, you see, they besieged Constantinople and instead of conquering it, made a deal, just a different deal than normal, they became the Emperors guard, and got first dibs on all loot in future wars for serving the Emperor.
They were pretty much, the wealthiest and most successful Viking raiders ever... for generations, they got first dibs on Internal conflict loot, and external conflict loot... every... single... time!
i always wonder if the stories of dragons started because of the viking ships
No... Sorry to say but there are some faults in this film. The first is when that Norwegian woman says that the sail originated in Norway despite the fact that the earliest sign of sails in Scandinavia was from rune stones in Gotland, Sweden.
Second, vikings never conquered Bysans/Constantinople.
just because a runestone mentions something, doesn't mean that is where it came from.
And, you should really read up on who the "Varangian Guard" were and how they came to be! :)
@@MrWeedWacky There are reasons to believe that rune stones were very local.
The Varangian guard didn't conquer Miklagård... They protected it.
@@gambanteinodal1246 and by protecting it, they got the right to loot the pirates they took out, loot the battlefields they fought on first, and they got to raid the previous emperors chamber...
They got more out of Miklagard than any other place in the world...
@@MrWeedWacky This is all true but it does not mean they actually conquered Miklagård - their presens was mutually beneficial.
Love history!!!!! So glad at least youtube i can get my fix for historic knowledge!!!! Keep up amazing videos!!
I grew up in the east bay area in the hills opposite San Francisco. My uncle owned a home built into a marina one of thos walk in from the street through the front door and exit through the back sliding glass door right down onto a dock where your boat is tied up. They built a lot of nice homes all of which were built with half the home built on pillars holding the house over the water. The point is I grew up sailing on my uncle's 36-foot sailboat named "Shadowfax" which was the father of all horses from Lord of the Rings. So the point I want to make is that NorCal is pretty bold and windy and cold which is great for sailing. It was so much fun when we'd be keeled over to one side maxing out 7-8 knots with the cold salt water spraying you in the face. Very invigorating.
So, with this in mind how do you think the Vikings behaved when out at sea. The bay is protected it's not the open ocean. I would imagine that the only way you could face a trip like that would be to laugh in the face of the intense fear of being in the North Sea in a boat like that. Very stable like a surfboard superlow profile. I would love to see how they reacted became being a warrior culture they surely dint coward in front of each other. Peer pressure is a birch. lol..
ME TO MY FRIEND. Very cool about the house and the beautiful area/ world beyond the back door. My back door was a beach in Duxbury Ma, sailing, sailing to adventure beyond our beaches you and I, Fair winds and a following sea to you. Cool name for the boat, I loved LORD OF THE RINGS at 15 now I am 65.
40:10 Nice to see Kai at work haha
Marit’s outfit is gorgeous! I love it. I wanted to comment on her looks but it just comes out sounding patronizing.
0:18 seconds in and a very incorrect statement, "Their tatics and weapons were the most advanced of their time" So you could argue their tatics were but it's well known viking steel was not as advanced as the rest of europe.
I know I'm nit picking but still incorrect
Awesome video that replica ship is amazing I wish I could be a part of something like that very interesting
"This woman was 80 years old. She had a deep voice."
These people are talking out of their asses.
Hermaphroditism is a real medical condition. sounds odd but it does exists … VERY rare
Very good work
Solid documentary.
I really enjoyed the runescape sound track. Really brought the whole piece together.
They had a lot more time on their hands, no TV no air conditioner no hobbies except farming and raiding! 🗡️
It is amazing how hard people will work for greed alone.
Imagine The Arms on those Vikings after Rowing for a few years. Killing Machines.
Yeah. Rowing, shipbuilding and fighting with heavy weapons. sheeez
There has never been found leather hide pices of armour or helmet in context of scandinavian archeology for early middle ages. Most common were steel helmets and riveted mail. And rare pices of steel of presumably lamellar armour.
Now if someone would only tell TV and movie producers that.
I agree but will go one further. The Vikings didn't even wear helmets or armor especially in the early Viking Age in the British Isles or even the Carolingian areas.
Genuinely curious here..
we know that textiles and leather don’t typically survive even in part..
if they haven’t found enough to make that conclusion in the ground.. is it possible that there’s reference to their possessions in written sources?
Or is it all extrapolation from other cultures and imagination?
I’m genuinely curious.. I eat up these documentaries daily.. but a lot of the time they don’t go in depth with what they actually dug up in certain contexts..
it’s one thing I really liked about time team, was seeing in context what the finds were..
just being ‘told’ that the subject culture “had this, this, and those” in general, is nice and all but it’s SO broad and frequently it’s told to you by someone talking on camera, and then they don’t SHOW what they’re talking about.. 🤷♀️
The Best description of the Vikings?
"Thug life!"
good
J’ai vu la Série sur Netflix
Was a bit difficult to hear Faust, that tattoo guy
What is your evidence that the ship in Estonia was there to raid? I have 4 ancestors that were on that ship, 4 Swedish brothers, and from what I've read the wares they were buried with did not indicate they were raiding, but rather possibly trading or there for a wedding party, so I'm curious.
33:03 gOdDAmmIT...< CUT!
Sorry to rain on your parade, but Norse weaponry was par for the course at the time, actually, Franks (French and Germans) generally made better swords, to the point that Frankish rulers had to pass edicts forbidding the sale of swordblades to Norse traders, just to avoid arming their own enemies. As for tactics, their basic scheme was lightning raids on ill defended targets... rather basic. If I believe my professor of Norse studies at uni, Viking forces never won a battle against anything smacking of regular troops...
The Vikings weren't "plundering" lindisfarne. The attack on it and others was a direct reaction to the fact that Charlemagne was a genocidal maniac.
I had never heard this before. Could you please explain how Charlemagne's actions had such a profound impact on peoples who did not live under his rule. Not challenging you, I am genuinely curious.
Hog snaut, yes thats it.
The attacks on monasteries as a reaction to Charlemagne's genocidal assaults on pagans could have been stressed a bit more to understand why they were so violent. Otherwise, a wonderful overview.
that is just one theory, and there is no scholarly consensus about it
@@EmilReiko There is not much scholarly on consensus on a lot of subjects. However, if you read The Vikings by Robert Ferguson, you will see that it is the consensus of some.
Germanic peoples were violent in general. We don't really know if it was Charlemagne who provoked viking age or was the original reason he went on rampage justified or not.
@@ReasonAboveEverything Other Germanic people were not waging genocide on pagans and destroying their holy groves and trees.
Doesn’t really add up. Many of the first attacks on monasteries were in places like Heptarchy England or Britanny, which were at best indirectly tied to Charles’s Frankish campaigns. And it is not like the Norse that did it did not know this, since they were active in trading throughout the region well before the Viking Age proper.
History with Hilbert does a good job bringing this up. The revisionist version (and I do not mean that in the bad way) that emphasizes the influence of Charles le mange’s Franks and their expansion on the Norse cast a valuable light on a part of the story that’s not often covered and explains a lot of things like the Dannevirke, but it isn’t like these were United expeditions or the like. So it shouldn’t be taken too far. The Norse on say Jutland would have viewed Widukknd’s Saxons as perhaps a kindred or at least neighboring group they had history with for boat good and bad, but it’s hard to see how much influence that’s have had further afield.
So .The question is , Who was the young soldier ?
So if the vikings brought “women and CHILDREN” to battle, then who took care of the home/farms when they went on long journeys/raids/conquests? And who were the next generation of soldiers, since surely the children would die rather fast fighting adult professional soldiers, and who would give birth to more soldiers if the women were killed in war? Just wondering.
Then who took care of the home/farms when they went on long journeys/raids/conquests? Other vikings brought “women and CHILDREN” and took over the empty homes.😄
Thank you. Anything that broadens our knowledge (even with a few errors) of my beloved Vikings is a gift to us all.
Christians believe that God's hand is what protects them, and i agree. But, when he removes that hedge of protection, it's because he has tried everything and sends the heathen to humble them. The church back then was very political and corrupt. That said when God sent the heathen, he sent them to the church first. Always stay humble and abide in the laws, he will keep and protect you from the heathen. When the vikings became Christin, there were a number of reason, but the most prevalent reason is because they wanted to trade with the Christians. Christians back then refused to trade with pagan. Hence all the baptisms. plus, there were those who wanted to go to valhalla (heaven) but knew they would never die on the battlefield. This was an open welcoming door.
"Their tactics and weaponry were the most advanced of their time" 30 seconds in and there already is a false claim
How is it false?
Yeah how so?
Vikings plundering in America is a bit of a stretch more likely stole a boat but not plundering.
Ya, it's not like the natives had anything that the vikings were really looking for unless they were hungry and stole some dried fish, pemmican or something but other than that there's not a lot they would want. IIRC they left because they were being harassed by the "Scralings" as the Vikings called them.
Wow. Both of you. There are maps from the 1500s that show cathedrals and castles all over America, some still there and using similar names to modern ones. There was a large viking settlement in Nova Scotia that was excavated the 60s or 70s. If you're so ignorant if history, why are you watching these films? This dry stuff is for learning. Go find an infographics about the things you're interested in.
@@TheHaughtyOsprey Your ingnorate there wasn't any viking settlements in America if there was it was more like fishing grounds then anything and of course there was structures in America by the of 1500s the Spanish an Portuguese and Basques built structures around Nova Scotia cause they use them for fishing grounds . So u go learn more history.
@@parisfrance6483 first result in google. 8f you can't even double check your retorts before posting, there's no reason for me to go on.
@@parisfrance6483 just Google "viking settlement in Canada". Go back to your cartoons.
can somebody explain me how cutting the wood for a ship using axes (which are wood cutting tools first, and weapons second) is a consequence of the builders not being sword fighters? If a mainland knight had wanted to cut a tree or hew part of it into a specific shape and size, he'd never have used a sword for that either.
The axes used to make planks were shaped with a broad head and flattened side against the wood, they were not used for war.
By the way, there is a part of Scandinavia that is connected to mainland Europe ;0)
@@jesperrasksuldrup1541 Jutland or Southern Denmark IIRC
@@Svartalf14Yes Jutland of course🙂
Irf there is just ONE HELMET EVER DISCOVERED, HOW COMEPEOPLE ARE SO CERTQAIN THEY DIN'T WEAR HORNS ?
ahh damn caplock again
Vikings often did not have any better or more weapons than anywhere else they raided. It was tactics, surprise and ferocity that ruled the day. When you are still a society with Heathen ideals and a love for battle and you attacks any people who have become a bit soft, then yes, it won't go well for them until they get back to manly mindset.
“In the first ages, however, Christianity produced among the people, as was the case in other countries besides England, a sort of degeneracy and weakness. Instead of the din of battle of the heathens there were now heard songs and prayers, which, joined with the constantly-increasing refinement, made the people dull and effeminate, so that they willingly bent under the yoke of their masters, both spiritual and temporal. In the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries the Anglo-Saxons had greatly degenerated from their forefathers. Relatives sold one another into thraldom; lewdness and ungodliness were become habitual; and cowardice had increased to such a degree, that, according to the old chroniclers, one Dane would often put ten Anglo-Saxons to flight. Before such a people could be conducted to true freedom and greatness it was necessary that an entirely new vigour should be infused into the decayed stock. This vigour was derived from the Scandinavian north, where neither Romans nor any other conquerors had domineered over the people, and where heathenism with all its roughness, and all its love of freedom and bravery, still held absolute sway.”- Danish Historian Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
Getmanate with the so-called Cossacks existed and fought in all directions until the 17th century, until was destroyed by the efforts of the Russian, Polish and Ottoman empires.
The question that comes to my mind - how did the makers learn first this particular way of expert ship building?
@MelloWattz Yep - that is what I found absolutely amazing- what good human mind is capable of - proven again 👍
First ✌🏼
“Vikings we’re covered in tattoos from head to toe”? A lot of bullish!t in this documentary…
It would be nice if some studied the sagas and knew a bit about heathenism....its a religion and the battle of 1066 should have gone into greater detail....the vikings are fascinating and their beliefs too...it is said they had no religion but they had God's and goddesses who where about battle but also Odin was a traveler so they gained vast knowledge in there travels as wisdom was a thing too....building the ships of oak and ash is also a thing as in burials....the first woman and man were found in trees ash and embla....so many coincidences...and then when the Christians turned them at the edge of a sword...well...that influence is strong today....I really wish they spoke more about heathenry as a religion and not demonize it as always the case when speaking of these great travelers and warriors...I believe the culture to be more vast then spoken in documentaries ...I believe vikings had traveled the world and were influenced by many many cultures....
Kind of sad Viking went from being the fiercest warriors in the world, to a bunch of skinny jeans wearing pansy's that get mad when their cell phones only have 3 bars..
This is what happens when real men stop drinking from the skulls of their enemies.
What you describe accounts for the men in most of the developed world now, not just Scandinavia.
@@andrewmcneil6668 Duh
Just try going out into the countryside in Norway, meeting big guys that are drinking, and try to beat them in hand to hand combat, and you'll see who's the pansy.
@@elvenkind6072 Paddle faster, I hear Banjo's
They never defeated the West Saxons…
VIKING IS A VERB NOT A NOUN!
PEOPLE WENT VIKING, THEY WERE NOT VIKINGS.
28 min before they discuss weapons. 😴
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Vikings came to Ireland and got the Ass kicking and they ran away for 400 years. I guess the Irish ☘️ are the only people to defeat Rome and Great Danes!
Nope. The vikings definetly left you a heritage. Cork, Dublin, Waterford, Wexford and Limerick were viking settlements that grew into cities. The vikings eventually became good irishmen, only to be invaded by french viking settlers, the normans. :D
Talk about being delusional. Your capital is literally founded by Vikings. 😂
Kvenland will rise again from the Torne river to the city of Kyiv💥🤛
really bad portrayal of non-existent armor and helmets. Come on people. The Viking series was bad enough. Stop it. And bringing their families along to raid is BS... many of them were farmers and someone had to take care of the homestead. Good grief.
Yes and the Irish celts beat and broke the vikings ,there's your history lesson .
Nonsense There is no evidence that the Northern people tattooed their bodies, the only story comes from an Arab merchant who was with the Eastern Vikings who at that time had contact with the Turks who just tattooed their bodies.
Not a single tattooist's set has been found in a Nordic grave