Lol. It doesn't matter what your nationality is. Anyone can be interested in different era's and parts of the world

The democrats have convinced people that you can’t enjoy other cultures. But they are idiots, celebrate real history not the bs the left pushes.

In fact the technolgy was Roman

@@The1976spirit Norse/Viking is not Roman. The longships is more of a continuation of the Scandinavian rowed ships from the bronze and stone age with addition of sail. Roman ships look more like the other mediterian ships.

@@OrIoN1989 Romans connected planks with rivets for their task force river boats. Its a matter of knowledge, not of apparence.

@@The1976spirit First, what romans are you talkin about? Its almost synonym of sayin Europe. But the romans did not make or design longships.

@@user-fb1nd2cr7p Yes, yes yes. Many many civs had ships. Vikings is not that special in that way, but in Scandinavia blue water vessel was/is almost an requirement for life. To get the kettle to grassing. To go to war. To trade in Europe. The first ships in Scandinavia is found in the stone age and was a requirement for settlement along the shoreline since the inland was frozen.

I was impressed to see they were almost up to par with modern racing boats.

It’s a beautiful thing to behold. I was aboard the Draken when she made berth in Green Bay Wisconsin.

Yup they should be getting taught the true history of their ancestors and culture but unfortunately the teachers are teaching lies... And it's happening all over the world

Ja folk säger typ med stolt röst "visst du att vikingarna inte hade horn" ja det vet jag... Alla vet det.

What a shame

I learned about vikings in school. What are you talking about?

@@loveClowns8 You learned a very small part of the picture, I'm afraid. Or your teacher was exceptional!

Why climb Everest? "Because it's there."

why not look further back in history and see the relationship with other cultures having similar deities or traditions going back to Indo- European origin and spread even to south america ascended from ancient Sumeria as the shiny-ones and went further and ended up in Polynesia Newzealand .we are all related vikings are one of the youngest cultures not even understood their own origin.

The Vikings where the first people to basically say "Because Reasons!,".

why drink water? cuz ya need it

It's because of curiosity - it'slike asking something like "Why did you make curiosity sing happy birthday on Mars?" -Because we're human!?

uh cool?

YOUR PROBABLY A VIKING BTW

Vikings didn’t bury their dead. They burnt them on floating pyres. How else would they get to Valhalla?

Vonnette Bristow where did you get your archaeology degree?

magpiestarcatcher I’ve never heard of a different way. Digs bringing up things related to buriAl by ship or by pyre were being excavated last century. College degree in 1995 gave me tools to study subjects fascinating to me. I guess maybe I’ve not read everything 😊

Im not completely convinced of it being fact but they apparently established my hometown, Oldham, called it Aldehulme or something. That's the rumour anyway. But my family came from Gainsborough Lincolnshire through my great great grandad, so don't know if I'd have a link to the Vikings.

Thank you much 😊

Cause it was too damn cold it was advertised as being green but in reality it was cold just like today Greenland is home to many people but it’s cold af their

Thank you so much.

@@calcaleb7041 Who exactly are you talking to?

Inuits are actually native to Canada not Greenland , the migrated to Greenland about 7-800 years ago, 150-300 years after the Vikings settled there, it took a long time before they meet though , there were another people when the Vikings came known as Eskimos, they came and left, after the Inuits arrived they disappeared, in the Inuit folklore it is said they were afraid of the Inuits

There were battles there yes but that's not what the name means. It was originally Beamfleote - beam meant wooded and fleot meant creek. Keep in mind, they didn't speak the English we do today. In old English, "Burned Fleet" would've looked something like "fýðolle flothere", from which Benfleet would never have been derived.

At 28:00 he said some of the first in Iceland were Slavs.....Eastern Europeans. I had my DNA done. I am 15% central European, 34% England, Whales, Scottland, 12% Ireland and 32% Scandinavia

Your story reminds of one I know. a pitched battle againt COVID-19

Benfleet doesn't mean "Burned Fleet". Benfleet comes from the Anglo-Saxon name "Beamfleot", meaning "tree stream" in the Anglo-Saxon language 😉

@@user-du3vo5ld2j Apparantly that's what _some_ researchers theorize. But also I wonder if what they're actually suggesting is that some of the first settlers were Rus vikings. And the writers of this documentary misunderstood that? Then again you not having east european dna doesn't mean there could not have been any slavs there. Iceland is quite a fascinating place. Kinda crazy to think the island used to be covered by forests. The harsh nature isn't actually _nature_ but corrosion and destruction by humans.

You know so little about because they have only been to Newfoundland (canada) for just 3 months and then went back home. There's no north american viking history at all, nowhere, not a single prove. Vikings have never been to USA.

@@Cokeastur there are runes carved into stone in Oklahoma.

Yeah but what is up with that thumbnail?? Persian swedes? Or Danes? Lol.. ridiculous.

@@Cokeastur I can tell you dont know your history.

Minnesota Vikings

There is a vikings episode of Ducktales lol. You should check it out.

Janie baker You are just as evil as the Vikings you seems to be one i would like to see ur nose must have been big and long same way ppl like you uncomfortable kissing

@@startrek9637 huh?

@@startrek9637 So you hate your fathers more than you mothers then? Or is it your husband you hate?

The Rus...no...the Rus were not Vikings.

Ach arme jij... Je zou toch NAAST een Viking museum wonen.... Dan wil je er in! Of je gaat heel abstract praten, natuurlijk. Raak je nou de grond van je ethni-city elke dag even aan, of zo?

@@voornaam3191 ja, met wat ik heb meegemaakt tijdens de pandemie, nu meer dan ooit.

Delicious Netherlands. We have a lot of history in common. The oak on which Amsterdam stands comes from the area I live in here in Norway. My sister is married to a Frisian and it is interesting how many words we have in common. When I read a Dutch newspaper I understand a lot. The Netherlands is a beautiful country with beautiful people. Merry Christmas from Norway.

@@voornaam3191 ek kon die lees.Ek is verskriklik verbaas

@@maidsua4208 not as many as Afrikaans🤭

Greetings from a Northern Norway .... I love Ireland

My family always thought we were Irish turns out we are Norse

@@jasonparks8595 i got relatives in Ireland.. Dba test my heritage

That's old news

@@dougraddi908 very old news indeed, news from about 600 years before Colombus

If the Vikings were a chapter in my ancestry, I'd tear it out.

@@yankee2666 Gene Envy

My childrens father is Half Norwegian and half Maori from NZ, my children want to know more about their Norweigian ancestors but haven't made much headway with fathers mothers side as most of them have passed on and didn't get meet my children, i feel for them cos they feel a part of them is missing, even with their fathers Maori side, they know the bare minimum of his roots too.

Who cares ?

@@pap7794 You, obviously. Sad.

Cool! Very interesting!

afro- eurasian?

@@alanbstard4 People of Africa and Eurasia.

@@DustinHawke yes I know what it means but I don't see the connection with those people here

@@alanbstard4 we are all connected a lot closer than most believe...its a small world.

Valborg is a sacred pre christian celebration still being celebrated today aswell!

Anglo-Saxon is viking as well. The Angles and the Saxons. Both seafaring raiders who raided England before the Norse. They came from Denmark and North Germany.

And you born in 1060?

So your mom won the argument lol

Anglo saxon pansy

That is hilarious!!

The fate of every pre-literate civilization is to be demonized by the dominant literate civilization until they submit. Then they are condescended to as being noble savages, when they become impotent and irrelevant. The vikings were militarily equal to most of Europe, but the pen is mightier than the sword.

Where are you from?

moonya Snow - Be proud!

In 4:37 the narrator said that the term "viking" isn't related to any ethnicity . In fact, there were Irish Vikings, Slavic Vikings , etc .

@@eduardogutierrez4698 plenty of Swedish ones too.

@@eduardogutierrez4698 Why do the Irish still recall the prayer “O God, Save us from the Wrath of The Norsemen” if there were Irish Vikings? Europe was certainly more exiting place to live in during The Viking ages than in EU times!

@@eduardogutierrez4698 Never mind the narrator. The vikings from Scandinavia settled in Ireland very early and founded the biggest cities. Let google be your friend.

How so?

Why wouldn't it be?

Brave were the only few guys who discovered them and took the trouble of setting up places to live. The rest just did what they usually did.

The women frequently joined the men in battle!

its not like there werent natives...

@@greenwave819 Not as frequently as a lot of people think

There were womenwarriors too …valkyrians…

@Marry Christmas nothing wrong with a little admiration

And We still have😉

@Marry Christmas Do you realize that vikings influenced and revolutionized european civilization? Without vikings we would have been conquered by Islam thousand years ago. And btw. Mongols is the asian equivalent to vikings, just a little less successful.

@@DarkPsy How did we stop europe from beeing conquered by Islam..?

@@anders1621 Crusades, Northern Crusades At some point Europe united against threats from outside. Germanic people rebuilt the Roman Empire and the viking raids were like fuel for that. The new Romans civilized the north and the east. Without the north and the east we would have been conquered by islamists who raided EUrope constantly and even besieged Vienna at some point. Sure, not only vikings, but germanic people in general were the new Romans, but without the vikings it wouldn't be possible, You should look up the history of Northern Europe between 600 AD and 1000 AD and you will realize what I mean. Then look up the history up to moment where the islamists tried to conquer Vienna and who came for help. Without the viking culture, the sailing, Europe would have been too weak. Also look up the Hanseatic League and its roots. Also look up the islamic conquest attempts from the south. (Iberian Peninsula) For example Ar-Rahman from the Umayyad Caliphate crossed the Pyrenees and invaded the Frankish Kingdom and conquered a part of it until he was defeated in Tours in the year 732 AD by Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne. (Battle of Tours)

+Gods Skypig1 Or that 'viking style' longships existed as early as 300 AD, and that the saxons were raiding all the way to spain (hispania) with them. The docus treat the viking longships as special. I will concede though that it's likely the norse built more longships than the saxons. Norse only stand out for their conquests, paganism (which a lot of other germanic tribes had too; similar gods and everything), the norman connection, and the sagas that survived. I can only imagine all the pagan and early christian gothic and saxon writings that didn't survive (assuming they were written down). It's possible that the norse were more peaceful than goths or saxons. Their raiding only became extreme after Charlemagne executed 4000 saxons (can't remember where, but it happened just prior to the viking age). As for the Normans - the normans had lost their seafaring tradition and had become christian by the time they did all of their thing in Sicily, North Africa and Britain. Calling the normans 'vikings' would be like calling me a victorian gentleman, because I have some english ancestry - I'm 120 years removed from that identity, and so were the normans of 1066 (quite a bit different from the normans of 946, who were themselves 2 generations removed from Rollo). The normans also likely had mixed ancestry with plenty of the normandy natives who lived there prior to their occupation of that place - right up to the nobility. After all, who made them christian? Likely, they had christian wives who lived in what used to be called 'Neustria'. Reaching america was something no other germanic culture had done though, so good on the norse for that. Except that I believe some Irish monks did it before them.

...thought that was the Mongols.

@@christianandal6303 Mongols didn't conquer scandinavia. Goths lived 'as far as caspian sea' until the huns came along.

ok;) ...part of history i dont know so much of ;) @@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin

my swedish ancestry goes directly back to the goths. many people with the same genes can be found there in gotland. southern sweden is also populated by communities founded by finns during the finnish migration, just before the turn of the first century. they were rejected initially by the svear and sent south, they briefly had a small kingdom there. they proved themselves in battle, often volunteering to fight for danish royals. so if you visit sweden, don't expect tall fair haired people in the south of the country, you'd probably find more people like me: olive skinned, black haired and green eyed. in the early 70's, the title of "king of the goths" was finally dropped by the king of sweden, leaving just "king of swedes" or the svear.

Lol

😂

Be patient warrior. Soon they shall return!

It never was a secret Columbus was not first.

You rely too much on the globalist's mass media narrative. And the vikings were not the first Europeans in America either. Just google "blue eyes statues" and click on pictures and research what you have seen there. There is much more real history hidden from you than you could digest right now.

@@DarkPsy blue eyes mean nothing but that bloggers get to make theories

@@PowersOfDarkness I have no blue eyes.

You are right it was lafe Erickson in October about 500 years earlier

And the polinesians?

Actually, there were settlers from Scandinavia in Greenland (which is part of North America) for hundreds of years. Archeology suggests that a longterm climate deterioration in the middle Middle Ages made agriculture their untenable. But it may not have been the real reason they gave up. They had come to Greenland as they had come to Iceland to try to get rich, by hunting walrus for their ivory teeth which got a good price all through Europe and south and east of the Med. African elephant ivory became more easily available in the middle Middle Ages and the value of walrus and narwhal ivory dropped. The struggle to survive a climate deterioration can't have seemed worth it any more when there wasn't something valuable to send back to Europe with which to buy all the things Greenland couldn't produce for itself.

So learn

Same here

Fascinating analysis! Thank you.

Agreed let’s go back lmao

Lmao, people still do it. We call them thiefs, murderers and rapists.

@@ReasonAboveEverything You are correct. My posting was not seriously intended. I regret it now intensely when I see what’s going on in Ukraine. Russia has sunk to ages far earlier than Viking ages!

Vikings were just thieves, rappers and , children kidnapers, they did it to ask for money... and blackmail. Thye ddint domiant anyhting, they were just thieves and terrorists, and coward poeple , they attacked and runned away... yes i know you miss the looser and criminal life.your in the north of europe trying to impose your babrian uncivilized idiotic view, good luck your nordic viwe wiht europe union , is destroying all the europe. loosers.Sorry for the truth

@@economicojonhy2465 I bet they spit out great rhymes

I've been to that rune stone a couple times. It's a few hours from where I live in Louisiana. So far as I know it is still unclear who made the markings in the stone. And Vikings haven't been ruled out. You would think there would be more interest in determining when Europeans first visited the interior of Continental North America rather than sticking with the post-1492 narrative.

Very True.......TIL VALHAL, TIL VALHAL. TIL VALHAL..........

Plot twist: vikings used christianity to crusade

@@canadianmmaguy7511 🤣

@@jugjames6835 2 of the original 9 knights templar still had gothic names And the other 7 were grandchildren of Vikings

Good! The Vikings were Barbarians

I have the vibe that whale oil is just everywhere in manufactures, like treating leathers and polishing and lubricating metal implements, besides burning nicely.

Its a hype that was built up in more recent history with an increasing awareness of antiquity. People want to claim credit for things they didnt do so it reflects nicely on themselves. Its all ego thing. These same people downplay the crimes of their ancestors.

Well, for norsemen it's one and the same. Every man was a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter, a hunter, a warrior, a sailor, and if he was really cool, a poet too. You were expected to be able to do most everything at least adequately.

+Gaius Baltar How do you know this expectation existed, or was particularly special in norse culture compared to other cultures? You have no evidence that literally every norse man was a viking. Were all englishmen of the 17th century pirates?

I'm the descendant of generations of town drunks, but I hate drinking.

It's a bit endemic of the times, but standing armies and professional soldiers weren't really a thing at the time. Maybe a small band of city watch or royal guard, but nothing like you see in the later Medieval age or further on. So an Old Norse man might be a sheep farmer when he's home, but when the call went out to go Viking he'd probably grab a shield and ax (sword and chainmail if he was wealthy) and hop in a longboat. Not unlike English levies, though they'd probably not have as much choice as a Northman in the matter when the local lord came calling.

Ha ha..... I think, you would learn more.. . If you would open a book ... 😂

Wow!!!!!!!!!

There is nowhere in Norway called Vikisland.

Pretty good for a movie-ever seen 13th Warrior? Check it out why don’t you 😊

And what do you expect to go with 'so much ceremony' in the Holy Land of Denmark? !! ... There is no Arab, Muslim or Asian left without going there (with letters without them) and you measure and wait for it gone at least once to the country of origin of your ancestors, while you MUST be completely different. In fact the best in this desolate World of ours would be that "Everyone In His House"! 😕😒😆😩😧😦😢

@@filokteti9385 dude, do you even read what you post? Wtf.

@@ReasonAboveEverything my head hurts from trying to read his comment LOL

I hope you get the chance to go! Myself, I'm planning my trip to Stockholm and Uppsala.

I doubt it, the vikings are germanic tribes who liked hierarchies. They would annihilate large groups of people who opposed their way of life and territioral expansion of colonization. such was the fate of native americans , and many black khoisan in south africa, and namibia.

Some theories that part of PI's culture followed the Kumera from South America. If native Mexicans/Columbians learnt from Vikings then maybe? But the bulk of PI DNA (not Fiji PNG or Tories strait), came from Melanesia, which is the part of the world that Java man and other pre-humans made it out past the oceans and onto islands in large enough numbers to settle. It seems logical that Waka or rafts were in Melanesia before humans even arrived.

@@jeremyadrian233 Wondering if crossing the Pacific Ocean was a deterrent. Viking sailing routes seemed to follow coastlines or channels between land masses. No giant land masses in the middle of the Pacific ocean where my ancestors established their homelands. Ocean currents and winds quite different from what they wd have been used to. Perhaps some attempted to cross but failed. We do have stories of ghosts and demons with red hair in our mythology. Perhaps just as well iron age did not meet with stone age, we were spared the plagues, diseases and plundering and pillaging for a few more centuries at least.

Massive cultural differences, both followed mythical gods. In reality there cannot be such a thing as "gods" (in the plural sense), there is a god, but not "gods".

I don't know about Polynesia itself but they are peoples in Japan on certain islands that share a lot of DNA with the Norwegians. And of course Japanese DNA in Norway. So maybe they were around the Pacific.

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Yah.

That is so interesting and somewhat mysterious! Here in the United States ancient relics can only be found in specific areas of our country. America is so young as a country compared to your country and many others in your region of the world. The ancient relic areas of America are also highly guarded and regulated by the US government but the most coveted of buried American treasure are probably from the American Civil war, The Revolutionary war and Wild West pioneers as well as the hundreds of shipwrecks from the 1600’s and 1700’s that are discovered along the United States East coast. It is called “The Graveyard of the Atlantic” because of the vast amount of ships that wrecked along this coast line. A

@@odinskugga7383 det förklarar ju hur en idiot som du kan ha tryckts fram.

Being from New England myself I've enjoyed meanwhile blueberries every summer. They have a naturally high sugar. Which of course makes them awesome for eating but even better for making alcoholic beverages. They grow everywhere

They didn’t pillage and destroy everything in their path. There are much more to these people than Viking raids, which yes were brutal but given the context of the time most of the world was equally brutal. There is also a level of respect for adventurous and brave peoples and the vikings were that if nothing else