This guy is a good documentarian, he knows how to wrap up the military strategy, archeological, and political stories into one very entertaining narrative. Also shows great mix of modern information and recreations to add watchability.

18:22 I REALLY thought he was going to say "The most interesting part of Edward's life is that he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign, but only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it" (Monty Python "Oliver Cromwell")

I live in Oslo, Norway, and recently visited the viking ships at display here. I am proud of our strong heritage. The Vikings were as much travelers, explorers and merchants, as they were warriors.

I like the way Dr Cat doesn't get carried away with hyperbole comments like," We think so, "Maybe, possibly, as far as we can tell, etc.

If you like watching History documentaries of all kinds, then History Hit is worth it.

That is funny, you see them really struggling to get up on the old motte and then you see stairs on the other side hahaha

I am half Norwegian (born and raised) and half English. I love both countries and their shared history. Thanks for an interesting documentary!

I am from Norfolk and discovered that i am 50.9% Scandinavian which i find amazing, plenty of place name evidence for settled vikings in my part of Norfolk. Always been interested in the viking. Love this documentary.

This documentary is fasicinating . History hit tv is actually the netflix of history . Your huge fan from sri lanka . ❤️❤️

As a Chinese, I love the history of Britain. Thank you for an interesting documentary!

Being lucky enough to live in York I have seen first hand what the Vikings were capable of, but this has taught me so much more. Thankyou guys 🫡

Absolutely enthralled by this account of the Great Viking Army. Ties in nicely with Bernard Cornwells Viking TV seies,i wish Cat Jarman had been my history teacher she really brings history alive.Also i love Dan Snows school boyish enthusiasm.👍

Really love listening to Cat Jarman talk about Vikings. Missing her on the Gone Medieval podcast.

Great documentary. Dan Snow and Dr Cat Jarman are amazing presenters.

GREAT documentary and Cat Jarman is AMAZING....needs her own show....

What a compelling documentary, Dan Snow brings the subject to life with passionate history experts.

My family comes from southern Sweden (Småland I believe) but a forefather of mine moved to Finland right after the 30-year war. It is interesting to hear about my ancestors.

Never heard of Cat before but she's a fantastic presenter.

As an American listening to the history of the Vikings conquests & travels is fascinating! From their forays into the British Isles and the continent.all the way to Constantinople & even the middle east & America itself! Whats interesting is their political & religious transformation ultimately to become Christian Kings, like Harald Hardrada & William the Conqueror.

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HIstory Hit has really become one of my favorite channels over the past few weeks. I have seen videos with both of these people and both are great personalities and very entertaining historians to watch, I mean if i was a teacher I would probably show this to my history class one day.

Epic documentary! Thank you everyone who worked on this, tremendous job well done.

As an avid HH podcast listener, I have two big takeaways - 1. Dan Snow is a giant 2. Dr Jarman is just as lovely as her mellifluous voice

A fantastic watch! Great work History Hit team!

So much history of them missing...loved watching this, thankyou both.

This was great! As a Dane I love to hear and learn about Vikings. :)

I'm now very interested in visiting Repton someday. Fascinating.

Used to live in York (still missing it). Loved the Viking Festival.

loved this bit of history dan ,and cat giving us the diary of the events was brilliant

Great discussion; informative and helpful.

Just to let everyone know that he had a daughter named Alof banger ragnarsdotter and she was born to lagertha Alof banger ragnarsdotter is my 37th great grandma

I love your work together she's amazing and beautiful and Dan your awesome well done love it

9:09 That really cracked me up. Bonafide Philomena Cunk moment.

Informative and enjoyable introduction

This was incredibly interesting!

love this as with all the History Hit docs;

What a brilliant programme, thanks.

Another superb documentary! Thank you both very much indeed. So sad that this island was fought over so brutally and for so long, to end up as it is today.

THanks.

That LIDAR really is amazing.

Fantastic documentary

2 big thumbs up for this great gem of a video

Very well put together video

Another excellent episode from HH

Pumped this is on here bc it’s easier to have on a playlist lol

i love these kinds of docs.

Hey Cat , do lidar surveys around saxon/viking battle sites , especially where viking were the victors . There should be a plethora of viking of burial"as every battlecane with heavy casualties regardlessof the outcome " on such locations . Where Saxons were the victors there would be little to no Viking like burials !

Them gaming counters was the first things we found at Torksey in 1986 we found 3 during the morning.I thought it was a musket shot of some sort until my mate showed me two he had found the same day. A Arabic coin was found and a small piece of hacked silver the same morning. Over the next 4 years we had tons of artifacts off the 2 almost pure sand fields.

The real Vikings of East Anglia. Their mocktail parties were legendary and BBQ a specialty.

This was awesome

Such a different world but only a second ago .

I hear I can claim descent from Rollo the Viking ancestor of William the Conqueror

Amazing, fascinating stuff

My ancestors are Angles and later they were called Vikings, -so I don't know which side to choose in that dispute as they are same family

Video titled after The Darkness’ song “Barbarian”? I hope it’s no coincidence!

quality 💯💪

3 Seconds in and I'm won over, I'm like dang me and the boys need a boat like that! 😎

Oh, there once was a hero named Ragnar the Red, Who came riding to Whiterun from old [[Rorikstead]] (pause) And the braggart did swagger and brandish his blade, As he told of bold battles and gold he had made. (longer pause) But then he went quiet, did Ragnar the Red, When he met the shield-maiden Matilda, who said; (shorter pause) "Oh, you talk and you lie and you drink all our mead, Now I think it's high time that you lie down and bleed!" (pause) And so then came clashing and slashing of steel, As the brave lass Matilda charged in, full of zeal. (pause) And the braggart named Ragnar was boastful no more- When his ugly red head rolled around on the floor!

The Dr. Jarman giving you the eye.

Why did the vikings use horses from East Anglia to first invade York, when the River Ouse runs right up to it. Weren't their ships a big element of their surprise attacks, as they could infiltrate far up rivers, due to their shallow draught?

She constantly remind me of our dutch painting: The girl with a pearl earring.

Vikings were so much more than raiders , i wish films etc would show the real vikings , so much more interesting and exciting than the raiders they always show .

I would recommend Cat's book River Kings. Also, she's very nice looking!

I absolutely love history between 500 ad till about 1500 the true history is way more interesting than anything you see on TV although the shows about this age are still really good you just get a little annoyed about dates and people

I wonder if anything is buried in that first huge hill! (Mound)

Corneliun Bay near Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast is named after Carneliun which is occasionaly washed up here.

Time Team could help confirm several of those sites.. Nudge nudge.. :D

The chair, wasn't that made by the Time Team? They also found a cemmetry.

29:00 in Mercia? The coconuts' tropical!

The burials discovered at Repton, 34:00 why are they not marked so people know they're there?

Thanks!

Fantastic documentary, love dans style of presenting and passion for history 👍

RANT MODE: ON There was no viking invasion. Instead there was a return of pagan kinsman into lands which had always shared the same culture prior to the Roman occupation of Southern Britain. The culture of Fresia and East Anglia for example, being one and the same. When Rome left, the only traces of Roman culture which survived was in the early Christian churches. The initial Angles, Danes, Jutes, Fresians, Gaels and Saxons who reestablished trading routes with their British tribal brothers, where all pagan. Over the years numerous British tribal chiefs sought trade with Christiandom as the Roman Empire had become. The trade was tentative until those tribal chiefs converted to Christianity. It is this conversion to Christianity which separates what we now call the Anglo-Saxons from the remaining pagan tribes. As Christianity spread in southern Britain an inevitable conflict arose between pagan communities and the expanding influence of Roman Christianity. It is this conflict and the subsequent biased Christian written history of the AS Chronicles, which gives us the notion of "Vikings" raping and pillaging and the later Great Heathen Army. I am of the opinion that the Great Heathen Army and the earlier raiding parties were attacks against "invading" Christian settlements in pagan lands, carried out with the support of the local pagan communities. This interpretation being supported for example by the initial response of Edmund to the "army's" arrival in East Anglia. Edmund being at the time pagan. His later death after he had converted to Christianity, his fleeing the battlefield, quite likely due to his pagan people rejecting him as king, and his inability therefore to raise a force to defend his kingdom. The clear distinction between place names that still exists between the Anglo-Saxon Christian lands and those of Danelaw, the shear number and the later records resulting in the pagan Canute's conquest of all the tribes, clearly shows that the Norse/pagan influence was not the result of thousands of invading Scandinavians, but in reality the preservation of existing indigenous pagan culture protected by a new Norse aristocracy that had arrived from the pagan lands of Northern Europe never conquered by the Romans. There is little difference between pagan Odin and pagan Wodin, oft spelt woaden in the OE, from where we get woad, wood. Point to note... woad was a sacred plant to those tribesmen we now call Brythonic (Ancient Britons). It is also of note that even today, those living in old Danelaw lands (the North and East), are routinely characterised as uneducated, uncivilised, unintelligent thugs. The North-South divide of the intelligentsia of the M4 corridor. Personally, I've always been of the opinion that the word viking is OE in origin. Not Norse. And refers to a person of one of the pagan six kingdoms of northern Europe of that time ie Dane, Jute, Fresian, Angle, Saxon, Gaels, and should be viewed in the context of the migration period after the fall of the Roman Empire. The word "viking" to me being a conjugate of the Roman numerals used in Britain at the time VI (6) and King (OE "cynn" leader of the people). A viking therefore being a settler from one of the pagan six kingdoms. We have to view all written texts as biased Christian documents in which indigenous pagan culture supported by pagan settlers from the mainland, is denegrated and demonised. No Christian scholar would ever write an account in which the pagan people are portrayed as virtuous and noble. The fact that no battlefields of the time have ever been found, including the later battle of Stamford Bridge between Christian Anglo-Saxons and pagan descendents of Canute, shows that Christian Alfred's treaty with the Heathen Army which split the land between Christian Anglo-Saxon and Pagan Danelaw was a recognition that Christiandom could not spread into the staunchly pagan indigenous lands of the east and north of England. It also suggests that far from some great Anglo-Saxon "crusade" against the satanic forces of Heathen lands... with great battles... in reality there was little resistance except for some small skirmishes. Even today this Christian propaganda of English history continues, with reputable sources citing battles between "the English" and the Great Heathen Army. As if the people of Danelaw lands were not English. Whilst those Christian "Anglo-Saxons" with the same racial heritage were. Look at the map of place names again. Then consider how many Scandinavian "invaders" it would take to occupy a territory greater in size than that of the Anglo-Saxon lands. This was no invading conquest. This was the pagan people welcoming new pagan overlords in preference to the Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon chiefs who shared the same racial heritage. This was never a war between Anglo-Saxon "English" and Scandinavian "Vikings". This was a war between Roman Christianity and Paganism which Christianity lost until the death of Canute in 1035 and the subsequent Norman invasion of 1066. In short, the timeline Brythonic, Romano Britons, Anglo-Saxon English... is Christianised fabricated nonsense. Northern European Tribes, Partial Roman Occupation, Northern European Tribes, Christianised Anglo-Saxons & Northern European Tribes, "England" of Christian AS Overlords & oppressed indigenous pagans, "England" of Christian Norman & AS Overlords & oppressed indigenous pagans... through to the present day is far more accurate. Written today. Thors Day. RANT MODE: OFF

Fantastic stuff, many thanks.

And now it all makes a bit more sense....META TARO BLURAY ....but the mystery of...OH MAJINAI! APOLLO....still persists even with a virtual Joakim Broden and the vest of Mary-Serker in supporting role duty ....Over to Dan for a three little girls a far way from home touched by the ..War beat special

Absolutely.

Women were often parts of armies. In Europe, as far as we know most did not participate in the battle but there are accounts of them going out, ending the lives any injured enemy still alive and collecting valuables from the dead.

Visited this place whilst training in the RAF not knowing what it was

This is great and I'm really enjoying it BUT please stop saying "Absolutely!" when "Yes" will suffice.

I frequent bury st edmunds as I live one town over had I known Dan snow was going to be there I would have run the 20 miles just to say hello

Are we gonna just sit here and not talk about how Dan Snow has to be one of the tallest Englishmen ever? The guy is a giant.

Love it

Somerset Edington

I have been interested with the Viking life I had to visit a Viking museum in Norway in fact my daughter is called Ingrid (Goddess of fertility)

I really f**king love the norse music in thiwms h, even though it most likely has absolutely nothing to do with actual early medieval norse music except for 2 or 3 instruments

Dr Cat 😍

Why not have a contemporary map? The map shown is modern, with massive areas of the fens showing as land, whereas it was marsh, if the original map was shown, the military philosophy would be more readily observable.

My question is how long is the period of time between when it’s grave robbing and when it’s archeological?

The song that plays in the chapter “Viking Burial Mounds” what is it please?

I looked at the Viking script and thought I could read ‘ibuprofen’…. Vikings almost certainly suffered from migraines..

I am now very intrigued by the Vikings having beads potentially from India!

When is history hit going to do a doco of the latest invasion .!en of fighting age..in rubber boats ??

Has Dan had his wisdom teeth out before he did the narration 😅

As I understood it, and acc. to Guerber's The Norsemen, the first mention of Norse invaders in the AC Chronicle goes something like this: "In the year of Our Lord 865, to The Great River, armed and in longships, from Heretheland came Danes, and killed the King's reeve".. Now if this is the case, then they must've known exactly what they were after, since the Kings reeve would've been #1 on the hitlist for destabilising the establishment.. This would corroborate the perceived link established by the discovery of far Eastern trading matter etc between the raiders and a much more organised 'grand scheme'.. If the name 'Heretheland' was common parlance (meaning 'where vikings come from') this would argue some precognition of what may be about to happen.. Heretheland, interestingly, could be a concatenation of 'here', 'the' (or 'they') and 'land'.. Nice one Dan and team. 🌟👍

Great stuff. Brain food for sure

This was an army and would change the world forever would be more accurate.

wow Cat Jarman is my kind of woman

The fact they didn’t ask more about the 9 foot tall giant found in Wrexham puzzles me …. Almost asif historians don’t like TALKING ABOUT GIANTS

Very modern 1300 lol. Anyway I would like to know why some of them were inhumated and some were burned on a pyre. The pyre was only for important people? And sorry I don't understand if you find the tomb of a man buried with weapons you think he's a warrior if you find the tomb of a woman buried with weapons you don't know? by the way it's so strange to find these names and places and battles in a game (Assassin Creed Valhalla).

I said this already but I think she is so beautiful 😍 ok imma watch again I loved this