"If you want to hear more about Vikings don’t forget to subscribe to our new channel dedicated to recreating Primary Sources from history" What should I do if I Don't want to hear more about Vikings? :-)

BTW Good Stuff!

Subscribe for the other stuff on there. Thanks!

When we are done with the Viking age, and then the Norman Conquest, we should follow the Normans to Italy while interjecting stories about the in fighting in France and Frisia and Scandinavia, perhaps some on the formation of Germany, and then on to the Crusades. You should do a whole playlist covering everything, from the first call to arms and the people's crusade to the fateful Friday the 13th that saw the Templars axed. The politics of the Crusades on all sides (there are at least three Christian sides and three Muslim sides, and that is not even counting all the city states and their territories and varying allegiances), and the stories that sprang from then are so misunderstood. Would be great seeing it all on your maps and pictures.

​@@TheAllomar If this is how worked up you get about someone having a cold, I wonder how you get by in life. :)

@@D9Wx cringe as fuck bro

I don't believe they were any more ruthless than any of the other farm burning, slave taking people's of the time. Not all of them even went viking. They were just really, really good at it when they did, heh. Still a funny response from your buddy.

Tell him to get it back into their systems.

Steven K-Brooks - Living in such times seems glamorous.. but ask ordinary Mexicans what they think of warring warlords, drug lords, gangs, and the resulting chaos & violence.

They weren't ruthless it's in their culture and that's possible that they were clean u could get death cebtense by peeing in water

I'm just about to finish season 4 part 1,and I've also ordered a blu ray box set of season 1 to 5. One of the best shows I've ever seen.

That actor that tore down a cross with Jesus on it with an axe deserves a reward

Man yeah!!! He plays well that character...

And he deserves an award for that matter....

My sister did some makeup for the show

Chill guy that’s the tv version

@@Aych9 it's still ragnar 😶

@@chriswillis8069 it’s just Hollywood making shit up

@@chriswillis8069 but its still fckn made up ffs, the vid is about history

Now he's drinking ale from curved horns in Odin's hall my heart still broken over his death may he rest in peace hail king Ragnar

He was ragnar

Agreed, one of the best performances of all times

Idiots .

Alexander Ludwig's portrayal of Bjorn is very underrated- notice as Bjorn gets older, he gradually looks, acts, and talks more and more like Ragnar. It's most obvious in the cadence of his speech, he matched Travis Fimmel's inflections more and more as the series goes on, along with facial expressions and hand gestures- always with a little bit of Lagertha in there too. It truly makes them believable as a family unit, and not just actors pretending to be a family.

He has very expressive eyes

He also survived a dragon attack on Helgen

HAHAHAHA :-D

One time, he took an arrow to he’s knee .

Well, according to Saxo, Odin and his sons came from an area close to the Black Sea, subjugated the locals and established not only a religion but a thousand year old kingdom, perhaps still living in the current Frankish crown Prince HRM Frederik. What a man.

Nice name. Where do we come from - the "sons' and the "sens" ? (Zululand)

"I WELCOME THE VALKYRIES TO SUMMON ME HOME!"

Respect

Blood eagle

@@thewhitewolfs8001 j ii,uuu,uj hj uhjguhu yvg uu,xuij,uu uuu ydzhý u,

@@ainanimagi5729 wot?

The best of people.

What we do in life lived in eternity. . . Adesh Wodan

In the bible they called them men of renown they were Descendants of the fallen angels

Agree. I like how I grew up hearing mostly a negative view of Viking culture. Good thing I was born into Germanic culture of which the attitude is drastically different. Plus, it’s also hilarious that some highly ignorant internet historians assert that the Vikings didn’t have a sophisticated documented history. So, I’m all like, really? Okie dokey🙂

To be fair Ragnar is semi-historic and semi-mythological, all of these stories may be nonsense, few Christians believe Jesus' life is literal so why believe that Ragnar's saga is fact? This information interests me as my surname is Ladbrook which some say derives from one of Ragnar's daughters, of which personally I am not convinced.

This is why I say policing should be run like jury service. You should be dragged kicking & screaming into the police. Anyone who seeks power over their fellow man is obviously of completely the wrong psychological make up. Wanting to be a policeman should preclude you from doing so.

i agree . I personally want freedom over power any Day.

How the little piggies will grunt when they hear how the old boar has suffered

Who wants to be king

Its valhalla

Muhammad Talha Rashid what you think Valhalla is? It’s Odin halls.

But he still did not believe in fate

totally agree.

Jaimie Johnson Agreed!! I’ve taken an interest since watching the show. Glad it’s opened my eyes to interesting facts and fables, I did the ancestry t23 and me, and have ancestors from these areas. Enjoy history and these videos are so much more accurate than the what the history channel shows...

He should indeed

I haven't seen 'Vikings' but Travis is DEFINATELY a HUGELY underrated actor.

Cornelious Stradivarius plz see Vikings

I thought writers copied it from "Everything I do, I do it for you" song

viking don't write down their history...

💯

If you care; in real life he wasnt called Floki, it was actually Floke. Anglonizing is at fault.

I just wish he didn’t kill Athelstan... that hurt Ragnar’s soul. 😞

90% is made up

My daughter is aptly named Kyrja. A lone Valkyrie is called a Valkyrja. You are safe,

😉

Damn I read that in his voice and got fkin chills.

May we meet again...

Dean preston shut the fuck up you creepy fucker

David Blankenship he who forgets the past is destined to make the same mistakes again

How can you navigate without knowing where you’ve been. You’ll just go in circles.

History repeats itself. If you want to know the future look at past.

@@jonathanreyes2781 I heard it illustrated once that the past is like a rear view mirror you glance back but obviously staring at it for too long would be detrimental.

looking back helps to know where you come from and where you presently are... It may help to find the right direction to follow... If you rush forward, it's risky and often misleading....

When the Germans insisted that you’re one of their kids, because they already know your grandpa gave zero f*cks😎

Epic moment of the saga but Bjorn leading his army against the russ after being stabbed by ivar tops that

Ironically, I'm descended from Bjorn, Sigurd and King Aella. Also both Rollo and the Carolingian kings of Frankia whom he plagued, but not through his wife Gisela.

@@nikbarber6452 I really enjoyed the atmosphere and energy of the series, but it annoyed me that they conflated Ragnar and Rollo as brothers, when they were a century apart.

@@jturtle5318 damn! That's awesome tbh. It's mind-blowing how a single death in history of someone who had many kids would have resulted in a completely different humans today. If Bjorn died during childbirth millions of people won't exist today.

And burning the church...

And would be drunk that day so it's easier

Fan boys: There’s no recorded evidence that Vikings had horned helmets🧐 Loki: Yup😎

He was the first one to sail outside Scandinavia. floki the great. There were no relations between floki and ragnar as shown in vikings.

@@someone-en1gg Nothing in Vikings makes sense so...

@@someone-en1gg The first one to sail outside scandinavia.... What are you talking about? Lots of people sailed outside of scandinavia before the viking times. The viking series is just fantasy madeup with some myths.

@@TheBarser so who were they?

@@someone-en1gg Well the jutes and angles invaded the british islands a few 100 of years before that for a start. There was trade going on by ship from all over scnadinavia long before the viking age.

klaus carr I think about this all the time! 🤔💭

I always wonder how accurate these legends and stories are.

It would be a grounded experience i think.reality rarely lives up to the legend.

omg, so true. The lies so many that you can't tell the truth easily. Imagine that almost everything we have been taught is wrong

@@merazgamouhamed4844 I know it's terrible but at least we know that vikings were African Muslims

Plus rolo started Normandy good people who needed better land to enjoy prosperity 🙏 so they started to viking and the assimilated and became a huge part and influenced of the western society. Also Russian as well German Scotland they didn't disappear they became

Learned about him in school- in a crossover between lessons in History and Danish :) so interesting to see that the legend has become more widely known 😉😊

Oh there once was a viking named eric. Who had the world s tiniest. I forget the rest. It s my ode to eric

The only thing that I remember was "rolling head"

I swear, that bitch in my home is glitched out. When I tell her to leave, she stops halfway through telling me where I can find her again and immediately starts playing more music...its getting tiresome LOL

Making me want to start a new game on Skyrim. Since i focus on the Thieves Guild due to their perks and easy tasks i usually play as a shady Lizard or Cat character, lol, Argonians and umm... I forget the cat race. But everyone hates them 😅

420 jrzl 906 Khajiit. I actually named my cat after them 😂

Ok, but who gives a shit about golden globes anyway, Hollywood BS awards.

Inspired by a story to learn a bit of history... I to was inspired.

I assume you are lothbrok then?

@@unpopularopinion2827 what is your good reason to believe that

Prove it

Bring back the blood eagle for communists

He is uthred ragnarson 😂

“oh how the pigs will grunt when they hear how the old boar suffered”

lol ikr:P

At least he is remembered

Big F 😂

My teacher ain't bald 😓

He actually wasn't even bald it was a ironic joke from friends because he was so hairy and it just stuck because they all thought it was funny, himself included

Mentioning Ragnar and Leif in the same sentence doesn’t really make sense though. It’s like saying “Yes, in school we learned about Abraham Lincoln and also the Easter Bunny. We have documented these two historical figures well”

You’re very lucky .born in Iceland.

What an amazing thing to be able to say. Bless

Regnar is Danish not Swedish. Swedes need to give back Skåne, Blekinge, and Halland to Denmark.

@@kristofferbjrnknudsen9220 Jepp. And Denmark, Norway Finland and etc back to Sweden Ragnar was born in Sweden /Uppsala ä. Sorry little brother

@@kristofferbjrnknudsen9220 wrong go back to school kid

Rangar is half Swedish half Danish and born and buried in Uppsala, Sweden.@@kristofferbjrnknudsen9220

@@sthlmsdivisionen3409 Ragnar was Danish, everybody knows that.

Glad you like it! Much more on the way

@@HistoryTime That makes me very happy. : ). If only you knew how much I appreciate the videos.

Because you are a real Viking. Greetings from Serbia

April Kolakovich -Osen / Do you ever read the Viking Sagas in www.gutenberg.com?

Its wild when you think of Viking as a people. The lineages during the rise of Christianity and the time of the glorified viking warrior like we remember today, we weren't a people of Scandinavia alone. Our bloodlines were mixed with cultures from all over Europe. If your civilization was raided by Vikings, guaranteed children were bore. I'm sure many of the warrior clans were the same, such as the Polynesians and Romans.

Thanks so much! That is high praise indeed.

Agreed! Love the long, highly detailed videos.

Even though not at all based on science at all... and ask urself how he can make it detailed when real scientists can not

You can’t win an Oscar for a television show. It’s movies only.

@@WinedandDined27 It would be an Emmy Award

@@lynnecarriemurphy3448 correct

Me

I am King

Same here. We're born to soon

A woollen fabric exists called loden and it is a felt-like, not spun and woven or knitted, textile. Brok means trousers. My question is if the lod or loth in Lodbrok actually refers to this woollen fabric, not the hide/leather mentioned. Your insight?

@@jpdj2715 i think it does. in the national museum in iceland they have some viking age clothes made that way. "loða" mean to tie or hang something on to, and the way this garment was made was that extra strands of wool were tied onto a normal loomed fabric. also iḿ not aware of leather being used for pants or shirts in scandinavia. i'd have to do more research into the topic though

nailed it

So his real name is fuzzy pants lol

@@billsmith3042 Ragnar Fuzzypants sounds terrifying! Lol

If Ivar the Giant was his real son. Im here standing up.

Till the meds kick in at least

And cut someone in half so we know it s you

I didn't know I was famous .

That was an Eminem reference...Am I right?

we don't know who Ragnar really was he is thought to be a Danish King nobody know where he was born he may have been the son of Sigurd Ring who was Swedish that is correct , and maybe that is why his son was called Halvdan ? half a Dane

Lol a great TV show all 6 seasons. .Thanks for what you think may or not be true but who cares. Read true history well the history books speak of one ragnar

Don't you mean pompous cigarette?

because you r...

History has not been kind to the early carolingian kings. Charles the bald, Louis the stutterer, Charles II the fat, Charles III the simpleton, Louis V the lazy.... I very much doubt any of them was called those names to his face.

@@nilesbutler8638 By which nickname will people remember Charles, the current prince of Wales?

@@c.norbertneumann4986 I´d guess he will be forgotten quickly by everybody save some few british monarchists.

"Its Charles the Bold, come on guys stop"

Please, a plural does not have an an apostrophe: streets.

Skål!!

Skål!

Paganism is my secret religion.

SKOL! As we say here in Minnesota

Skål i väntan på ragnarök.

Actually a buff since Legendary in this case refers to being not real

@@Bellabong smart cookie

@@Bellabong Legendary also means Larger than Life so.... 🤷‍♀️

bad kda ratio

Thanks for watching!

Hrolf or Rollo was the son Of a man called Rögnvald earl of mœri. (NORWEGIAN )

They do not claim the show to be facts although they scrambled alot of the real facts in it

@@leathers970 yea I went into it thinking they were going to be accurate as possible but the more interested I got the more research I did I realized they crammed 300 years or so into a generation

@@Barney_rubble983 they also portray Viking culture, clothing, fighting style and fighting gear, as well as international relations in a completely fictional and made up way. They portray Norse politics to be autocratic, chaotic and brutal, with the killer of a king becoming king himself, which is utter nonsense. Norse politics were bound by law and there were clear laws of succession, as well as a complex government structure with a council of elders, popular council, king's companions and court magistrates all contributing to decision making and being able to limit the king's powers and enforce the law with the king's absence or death thereof. Norse religion is portrayed very inaccurately. The Norse were not jealous for their gods and religion and had no bad thoughts or prejudice for Christians or Christianity. They were not hostile to new religious ideas from Christianity and were not hostile to Christians because of the latter's faith. In fact, the Norse were eager and willing to syncretise Christianity with Norse paganism very early on. They had no problem accepting Christian ideas and the concept of Christ and the trinity, they only had a problem giving up on their old gods and rites. The seer is made up completely and has nothing to do with Norse culture. There was such a thing as seers but they were just regular people who could be farmers, warriors, blacksmiths or whatever, who just had additional community duties as ritual performers or omen interpreters based on oral traditions and devination based on properties of physical objects rather than some kind of supernatural prophetic vision. Seers were also mostly women, they were the only people who were literate as they were supposed to be able to write down runes for blessings and curses. All rituals were perfomed in open air without any special buildings designated as temples. Human sacrifices are unknown in Germanic folk religion. Their clothing is portrayed all wrong. They all wore linen or wool shirts or tunics coloured in bright vivid colours with complex and intricate textures and patterns, a belt, linen trousers and shoes. Tatoos were unknown to the Norse and they did no shave their hair or kept it short. They certainly did not look like goth teens, metalheads or bikers. They fought with helmets and chainmail armour, always used a shield and spear and used a slashing knife or axe as a sidearm only. Swords were very rarely used and they were mostly wielded by policing militia forces at home rather than on the battlefield, and by the king's companions as ceremonial gear and a status symbol. They also did not fight in a shieldwall line, but in smaller disorderly formation groups scattered over a large area, since the Norse preferred individual fighting rather than a large group effort in battle. They would draw enemy warriors by using shock tactics into single battle. Shieldmaidens were not warriors but only accompanied the warriors in their journeys. They were responsible for logistics and caring for the wounded. There are no sources that claim shieldmaidens fought alongside men. Fighting was most likely solely done by men. International relations are all wrong. The Norse had a network of relations throughout Europe even before raiding began, and they had trade posts throughout the continent and the British Isles centuries before the first raid on Lindisfarne. They used to negotiate as much as they used to fight if not even more so, and they tried to excert tribute before any fighting even occured as a warning, and not after.

Luis DeVaulo 🤣🤣 halt who goes there!

@@leanablaze1550 who is skyrim

@@offensivegamer4113 *SKYRIM DEEZ NUTS*

What did he say in his defense?

I think Skyrim's a pretty cool guy. Eh kills Elves and doesn't afraid of anything.

When your German stepmom refused to buy you a sword because she wanted you to learn how worthy you are of wielding a spear.

Let's not forget they marauding pirates that invaded defenceless people for their profit, I wouldn't glamorise them that much.

@@iggyblitz8739 yeah but they were fearess fighters fighting for there life in any case let's enjoy history

@@farmtechd126 Fascinating history no doubt.

It is said that Ragnar reforged the Galdur Amulet.

Yep.

the "cucks" are people influenced by PC(political correctness) culture.. the rest of us just have very, very good patience. and that patience is running out

@@SilverforceX It is not true. You shouldn't believe the media. You are just to ignorant.

What happened

@@SilverforceX so is the entire west tbh. Greco-Roman civilisation finally got to us.

Yup, binge-watched the first season last night... Normally I don't watch tv that often, but this got me good.

Indeed, it is a great serie, yet I would rate Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos easily above it. Those series contain way more depth imo.

Nah. After ragnar lothbrok, no one could really carry the show. They stopped being historically accurate. Just seemed like the writers were making shit up just to keep the show going. And da fuq is up with lagertha? Why doesnt she age? At all!

@JayoJay its because it was based off on a series of books and the author has not finished it yet. They ran out of source material and made up things

@@leonard9624 I'm sure every GoT fans knows that. Show would have been better if Martin stopped being lazy and finished those books. GoT was hands down the best show if you only counted the first 4 seasons, maybe 5. Then it went to complete crap. Sucks that's GoT will be remembered as probably the worst Season Finale ever.

Hail!

Klovn

Skål!

SKÅL!!

Rollo was the duke of Normandy. People say that the royal family are direct descendants of Rollo. And world war was fought on Normandy beach. Normandy meaning land of north men.