Vikings - A Battle Scene on the Beach
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- Опубліковано 27 гру 2013
- The Brits ambush the vikings on the sea shore and just watch what happens with them...
"Up onto the overturned keel
Clamber, with a heart of steel
Cold is the ocean's spray
And your death is on its way
With maidens you have had your way
Each must die some day!"
Floki killing everyone with just his axe is amazing lmao
Lmfao
3:04 Poor Wilhelm. What has he done to deserve this? He is trapped in all the worlds simulatenously and gets to die in every one of them...
I freaking loved this series. It was a roller coaster of violence, love, betrayal and redemption. Excellent writing, casting and directing.
0:42 Thanks to Netflix I have to hear this specific part every time I hover over Vikings.
Ancient nordic poem, as my great grand father Amon Peter Jacob Jessen used to recite in his hardtimes: Upp skal á kjöl klífa,
köld er sjávar drífa.
/ Kostaðu hug að herða, / hér skaltu lífið verða. /Skafl beygjattu skalli, / þótt skúr á þig falli. / Ást hafðir þú meyja,
eitt sinn skal hver deyja..
To fit the scene, it was addapted to : Up onto the overturned keel / Clamber, with a heart of steel
/ Cold is the ocean's spray / And your death is on its way / With maidens you have had your way / EACH MUST DIE SOME DAY!
Love it
What is the translation of the original?
Actually a better translation (and a more direct one) is something like this:
Let's climb upon the keel/ the ocean spray is cold/ there's a price to bravery(or "brace yourself" as the meaning)/ you will die here/ a snowy mound will cover your head(this part makea little to no sense)/ though a drissle will fall on you/ you recieved my love maiden/ every man has to die
Old Norse is awesome when you are Icelandic, since it is perfectly readable to us :)
0:52 that roar style tho
I love the scene, just annoyed that no one had the smarts to flank the vikings lol
But then they could just form a big circle with their shield, that of course if they were enough, but yeah they were dumb haha
I was more annoyed that they showed off such a nice formation only to charge without any formation at all for no reason.
Oh well, that's Hollywood for you.
At least the vikings showed them why staying in formation is actually not a bad idea at all.
I hate how saxons are portraited as idiots in this scene, they have the manpower but do not form an interlocked shield formation nor encircle the vikings, they might be lesser fighters than vikings but not that stupid lol, charging at a tight shield wall relentlessly almost make them more viking-ish than actual vikings
those cowards on the horses had extreme advantage to do so, but would never have the balls
@@brunoj8331 considering that they were the commanders and it would be an instant drop in morale if they died, I can understand why they hung back, but they still indeed are idiots for not flanking the tiny shield wall lol.
"Up unto the overturned keel,
Clamber with a heart of steel,
Cold is the ocean spray,
And your death is on its way,
With maidens you had your way,
Each must die someday!"
What you guys are also forgetting is the Viking culture only focused on a few things in their lives. Mainly the basics of survival; farming/hunting for food and clothing so they don’t freeze in the cold climate of the north, fighting for survival/raiding/conquest, carpentry for houses and boatbuilding (which at the time their longboats were better than any other cultures). They focused heavily on fighting even from a very early age because a lot of them were raiders and adventurers so they had to know how to defend themselves and to me I think they just love to fight. They were very smart and prioritize strategy when it came to warfare. A lot of people think they were just berserk savages but look at how they inventive and successful their shield wall was. They lived to fight to impress their gods. Yes they never really cared for reading or learning in the most common way like going to school or being taught. They really didn’t even have an alphabet and just had runes or what I call chicken scratch lol. That’s one of the reasons we don’t really know everything about their culture like most because a lot of the stuff they left behind we can’t read or decipher. They were also described as giants by many cultures as in they were very big in stature. They were hard laborers so they were also very muscular and fit for fighting. So a handful of Viking raiders could most likely take out a platoon of soldiers with no problem. That’s why the “Great Heathen Army” was so feared among all of England.
It’s 2022💋
That is the dumbest sh1t I have heard in a while. LOL. Please write something else like this. Made me laugh so much.
Feared ofcourse for many reasons. But the saxon culture was identical to that of the scandanavians. Only difference being in religion. If a viking army faced off against a Saxon army, there would have been very little difference in appearence.
There was never a place in the world the vikings had been defeated in battle more than england, for those wars were back and forth for almost a century. The likes of Alfred the Great, king Aethelstan, Edmund Ironside, Hereward the Wake etc . . . Give testamant to the warlike nature of (arguably the greatest foe to the vikings) the Saxons.
And do you think that all others were not that much???? Perhaps even more, you surely know human history or dont you know!!!!!!!
Who cares. Men today don't know a thing about valor or brotherhood. They are all either stuck on Pornhub or trying to become women
Good old days
I love them as a couple they’d die for each other
These early season scenes make me wanna rewatch
So turn off pornhub and rewatch it.
Speed & technique = Ragnar
Strength & Power = Rollo
What a combo of a Brother
And one uh..ship to reign them all..
It's funny how none of them thought to go behind them
Wait.. why is the longboat that far off-shore? Those boats were designed to be dragged onto the beach.
Probably the same reason the saxons weren't wearing the right armour, wielding the wrong shields and not fighting in shieldwall aswell. The producers didn't think it through ;)
See the two dead guys on the beach, infront of the Anglo/Saxon army. They were left behind to protect the boats, but were killed. Probably, the enemy pushed the boats out in the open sea so Vikings had no chance to escape
Nice scene, but in real history we know that the anglo-saxons weren't pushovers as they were cousins to the Vikings. The Vikings had the advantage of surprise (coming from the sea), and therefore local advantage in numbers, but they had to get in and out before locals gathered their forces. So it's not at all a sure thing that those few vikings put up against that many armored soldiers would have ever left that beach alive.
At least Vendel Helmets should be used by the Vikings.
I think this is the only time Rollo had a shield lol
its a good scene but as a total war player and a strategist all i would have done is keep firing with archers making them stay in formation and then simply walk round and out flank them if they broke formation they would simply get filled with arrows.
But they couldn’t go near the vikings without their archers having to stop firing or they would have killed their own men
Fire over your own men forcing them to keep formation as you move to the flanks they will be forced to move or break formation archers can shoot the lot of them as far as I'm concerned once formation is broken dead men don't need paying
Not enough archers
The lack of archers is actually accurate. Back this time, archers weren’t highly respected. Soldiers would start as archers, but would basically be promoted to swordsmen or spearmen once they had enough experience.
@@addisonwelsh still had enough of them to keep them in the shield wall
The Norsemen sacked my village throughout history. However in 1065 there was payback. Three great Viking Kings again invaded North Yorkshire & the battle of Stamford Bridge was joined. The Vikings were thoroughly thrashed & their Kings slain. Never again to menace our folk. In reality I admire the people of Scandinavia & their magnificent achievements. Mariners of renown & warriors of repute. Just don't mess with us YorkshireLadz
Im convinced Ragnar is the multiple time great grandfather of Jax Teller.
seriously these are the worst battles no tactics at all who would charge a shield wall doomed to fail.
The Vikings were smart like the Romans, forming a shield wall to let their opponents expend themselves on it, and whittling them down. Unlike the Romans, having a berserker or two as a wild card helps make the enemy freak out. Next time the invaders come on a beach, they should just settle for a game of vollyball, or throwing a frisbee. Slightly less bloodshed that way.
Why didn't the archers just wait for the Viking attack rather than shoot the shield wall. Why didn't the English go round the wall and fight from behind it?
It's just fiction.
Why didn’t they just run around
You think it's easy? 😂
@@RobM00 perhaps on horseback but those 3 were cowards, so insta loss. imagine biship headmund breaking that shield wall, thats 1 skilled horseman.
Rollo is a fucking beast.
Idk why but these people never try and out flanking the Viking with archer or horse
Rollo did
hello. go around them. LOL
0:09 is that adre got bars where sukisuki girl
Fight scenes in the show seemed a lil cheap
Battle poetry is very profound. 😂
So many inaccuracies in this scene. Its comical.
Yeah. Im sure people care.
why did the soldiers just run at the shield wall like idiots? Run around the side and hit them from the back. Duh.
For the same reason they went over the top in WWI and got mowed down by the Germans, over and over. British command.
its a mostly dumb unrealistic show #pulpfiction
All Vikings without helmets and still alive. Funny
No flanking archers? No one trying to push their lines around towards the water?
This show was just season after season of making these scumbag thieves look like invincible superheroes.
That's what vikings were or what they believed
This is what happens when your generals are hereditary. They should have ambushed the Vikings in that lane.
Placing their archers above the lane and dividing them in small pockets.
A quien le mando le seño a qué lo vea
Shame the archers didn’t take out the men on horses.
This is what LARPers think they look like lol
Just go around them!
Simple lol
Why weren't they in shielwall aswell? Considering thats exactly how Saxons fought for centurys.
then they just turn lmao XD
Hurr you could flank them so easy.
yea except people are talking like a shield wall has to face one way, and that they couldnt just like turn to the side and reform the shield wall. or split forces and form two shield walls, which with the enemy platoon split on either side of you would allow vikings a clear line to 1 their boat 2 the english lords.
English were banking on superior numbers to crush them and wanted to make a show of "Hah we killed your boat guards and stand in between you and your boats with greater numbers we are obviously superior".
If the show didn't have a blatent biased opinion on the saxons, and if they bothered to actually research them then thats exactly what a saxon force awaiting vikings would have done.
After burning their unguarded ships they would have met them in shieldwall. But the show wanted to make vikings look badass as possible, so badly they even twisted historical facts and events.
@@joshuaperry7199 The show was never meant to be historically accurate. There isn’t any concrete evidence that Ragnar existed, and even if he he does things in this show that he didn’t do in history/mythology.
He didn’t discover England, the Scandinavians had been trading with them for centuries.
His sons didn’t kill each other off, they all died in completely separate occasions.
About the only things the show gets right about him are that he was a King, sacked Paris, and died when King Aela threw him onto a pit of snakes.
you are absolutely right @@joshuaperry7199
Yeah. The English had superior numbers.
Which is exactly what would make flanking easy. The vikings can't turn to the side or split forces if their entire shield wall is engaged with 2x the enemy while another enemy force of their number goes around. Perhaps if the terrain was favorable, but this was a flat beach.
They were not called Brits then they were separate Saxon Kingdoms
LARP TV situation...
Early Vikings season battles were so dumb
1:17
That scene was a partial ripoff off the beach scene from the movie Troy.
omg that scene is a joke
I see people asking why the English didn't outflank the Vikings.
First of all, the Vikings are in a shield wall, straight in the middle, bending backwards from the sides, which makes flanking difficult.
Secondly, they were being slaughtered too quickly to go around.
Third, a few fighters, like Floki were behind the shield wall, so anyone who tried to go behind, would be killed too.
Lastly, the heat of battle is too much to maneuver, and too little people.
Well, then the question is: why didn't vikings try to shoot the leaders and just let them go? They could get them down any moment since the battle started
@@markgertssdraft3326 well, what would that have achieved?
The English king would have found out anyway, but atleast this way the leaders would have created a fear story about the vikings.
Bruh, the saxons could have just enveloped the vikings. They had far greater numbers than the vikings too, so a pincer move would be perfect! Divide the force in two and send one half to attack the left flank and the other half to attack the right flank. Only have them divide once they’ve gotten close to the enemy formation. Have the saxons maintain a tight formation and lock their shields. Get the archers to hang back and shoot the vikings in their unguarded sides as they attempt to defend their flanks. This would also likely divide the viking army in two. With arrows in their asses and their comrades being cut down left and right, the remaining vikings will now begin to waver against the numerically superior and more disciplined saxons. In this show the vikings also just decided to not wear armor, so I’d say the saxons would win not only this battle, but most battles.
What you guys are also forgetting is the Viking culture only focused on a few things in their lives. Mainly the basics of survival; farming/hunting for food and clothing so they don’t freeze in the cold climate of the north, fighting for survival/raiding/conquest, carpentry for houses and boatbuilding (which at the time their longboats were better than any other cultures). They focused heavily on fighting even from a very early age because a lot of them were raiders and adventurers so they had to know how to defend themselves and to me I think they just love to fight. They were very smart and prioritize strategy when it came to warfare. A lot of people think they were just berserk savages but look at how they inventive and successful their shield wall was. They lived to fight to impress their gods. Yes they never really cared for reading or learning in the most common way like going to school or being taught. They really didn’t even have an alphabet and just had runes or what I call chicken scratch lol. That’s one of the reasons we don’t really know everything about their culture like most because a lot of the stuff they left behind we can’t read or decipher. They were also described as giants by many cultures as in they were very big in stature. They were hard laborers so they were also very muscular and fit for fighting. So a handful of Viking raiders could most likely take out a platoon of soldiers with no problem. That’s why the “Great Heathen Army” was so feared among all of England.
@@epineda1124 Saxons were around the same height though. Not only that, but they were very muscular as well. People forget that the saxons consisted of groups of warrior peoples. They may have been even better nourished and muscular than the norsemen themselves. Vikings weren’t overpowered and unstoppable like the show portrays them, and they probably couldn’t take out a platoon of trained men-at-arms unless they themselves were well trained men at arms. They were mostly reavers and would flee when any actual resistance shows up. They were only successful because of this combined with their exploration and trading. Vikings traded a lot btw.
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Hollywood ..😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe trying to out flank would have been better.
Yes, not as manly; but why charge right into their tight formation?
The Vikings didn’t use the testudo formation which was used by the Romans and Greeks. The Viking shield was too short and small for this kind of combat, the Roman shield was specifically designed to cover the entire body in this formation… in this scene their legs are completely vulnerable… still cool though
Really bad scene, this show is such utter trash I can't believe people can actually seriously watch this.
ps.: also a wilson scream at 3:04 lmao they aren't even takign themselves seriously...
Okay, make a better show & show us how it's supposed to be done, so we the ignorant scum can learn something from thy high understanding))
@@NightWhiteFantasy Wait so unless I make my own show I‘m not allowed to critisize something? That is pretty ignorant...
@@REALdavidmiscarriage U know, we have a song here, which says: it's easy to criticise, it's hard to create. So, before you criticise, show us how it's done. And who are you, if I might ask? It's such a pity that such highly intelligent minds like urself cannot grasp the idea that this show was made mainly for entertainment and not so much to educate u historically. But since you know everything, I guess you can't find fun in anything that contradicts ur high knowledge, which we the ordinary people are not endowed with :)
@@NightWhiteFantasy The historical accuracy is not even the biggest issue here, the fights are extremely unbelievable and unrealistic. the trajectory of the arrows on those bows are incredibly inaccurate, to the point of utter ridiculousness. They are firing arrows at targets which are 30 maybe 40 meters away still they choose to lob them like they are making a 200 meter + shot. the guy holding the camera always manages to film the most uninteresting parts and keeps wobbling the camera like a geriatric 70 year old with spastic seizures and the acting is incredibly stupid, this one guy gets stabbed in the stomach and immediately drops dead from it.
These people are getting paid ridiculous amounts of money for bringing you substandard entertainment. And yes if they had given me just 0.01% of what the guy who directs these fight scenes earned with this show I would have done a way better job at making it look both more historically accurate, realistic and interesting.
Nice saying but it's called critical thinking and you oughta try it from time to time. Makes for a more nuanced worldview and overall better life experience, if you don't just swallow every last piece of bullshit you are served. But Oh no, God Forbid someone has his own opinion!
@@REALdavidmiscarriage Ah, you're a physicist, not a historian, I see. Well, the common citizens like myself cannot care less about the trajectory of the arrows, sorry. Excuse me, but to so heavily criticise & mock the entire show only because of these things, is just absurd. If you don't enjoy the show because of the details, then I think you're missing the forest for the trees. But that's your choice. Critical thinking is my 2nd nature tbh, but I don't criticise something that's 90% good because it's not 100% perfect. If the show was simply bad, I would understand. But it's actually so f*cking good, and you make it sound like it's a total crap & disaster. That's why I told you, make a better one then ;)
this is y this is one of dumbest shows
This is the trailer shown on Netflix. Is the entire series this… bad? It looked promising until I saw the trailer. They could easily flank them, like, without effort. They did not need to charge straight ahead like that. I thought it was like an exercise but then people actually died.
It looks like sn awful series based on this only, like a budget Game of Thrones (season 8 included)
I mean if you watch the show and even by this scene alone it's pretty clear that the charging force is much bigger and expected to win easily but struggled against the far more experienced vikings, which is then backed up by quotes. I don't know how you can say it looks promising and then brand it awful based on one small skirmish, maybe watch a few episodes and decide yourself. Personally I think the first few seasons are among the best I've ever seen of any show but it quickly tails off for a few very obvious reasons which I won't spoil
@@us2Jack I thought it looked interessting but then Netflix decided to show this as a preview. If they had been a more circular formation or stood at a place where flanking would have been more difficult it could be justified. This just make the enemies look like idiots which does not make for a good show for me. I might take a look at it, based on what other's have complimented the show on, but this scene is straight up bad.
@@fredrikbermhed2529 If I was you I'd watch a few episodes. It's one of those shows that is fully carried by a few characters who are really really good, I will say that there are many battles in this show and many of them feature flanking manouvers and as realistic combat and as little plot armour as you can get from a tv show
@@us2Jack Alright, I'll give it a try when I'm done watching my current shows. Thanks! :)
@@fredrikbermhed2529 You're welcome! Hope you enjoy !