101 Facts About The Vikings 

The Vikings may have been only 5’6’’ but other people in the world were even shorter than that at the time

Fact 102: Viking metal is a thing.

Don’t mind me.....just doing my homework before AC Valhalla.

I've visiting the Jorvik museum in York. It was a wonderful experience.

Long live “Ivar the boneless” and “King Ragnar”.

Dagmål literally means "day meal" and Nattmål means "Night meal".

I came here after re-watching the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Fact 102: A Norse runestone unearthed in Scotland warned that the locals were insane and violent. That's right. The Scottish scared the Vikings. However, some clans do claim to have Viking descent.

Hey! Danish history teacher here, and I approve of this video! Quite a bit more nuanced than so many other descriptions!

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Nuns: “Ha! We cut off our noses, try raping us now!” Vikings: “BBQ it is than.”

You did Vikings now do Norway

I grew up right next to (400m or so) the Rimol farm, where the thrall Tormod Kark killed his master Hákon jarl after King Olav Tryggvason issued a wanted dead warrant on the earl. The chieftain Einar Tambarskjelve (lit.: 'Shaking belly' 😂) also had a farm just down the road from where we lived. I used to walk past the site on my way to school. :) Einar Tambarskjelve was a master archer, and slagged off the king when he broke his bow 'cause it was too weak. A kneeling Tambarskjelve, as he's just fired an arrow, is on the coat of arms of the municipality of Melhus. :)

AHHH MY FAMILY!! ♥ i love my heritage so much!

Fact 103: Norsemen were only called viking when raiding.

"By" is still Danish for town/city. :)

you didnt mention a few things so i will: The Norwegian Vikings mostly raided the British isles, The Danish raided the French and eastern Europe while the Swedish traveled through Russian rivers to the Byzantine Empire aswell as Italy (wich the Danes also raided). The name for Vikings in what is now Russia was actually "Rus" wich is where they got their name, so yes Swedish Vikings gave Russia their Name. The First Viking raid (that we have evidence of) actually occured in Finland by Swedish Vikings, this was a few years before Lindisfarne. The myth of Vikings putting their dead on ships and then pushed them into the water and set fire to the boats is well, a myth. Something similar happened tho, They often buried people in stone formations resembling boats and for some high ranking individuals they were buried in actual ships with their belongings such as slaves, horses or jewelry. Thats most of what i know that isnt mentioned in this video, i was incredibly happy when i saw this in my notifications. Great job as always

After BREXIT it would make sense, if we started doing these "shopping trips" to England again.

Very interesting and informative, and also so entertaining. Great way to learn history!

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Columbus never set foot on American soil

Bet those Vikings were outside that church saying " Can you smell burning?" Laughing their arses off

Fact 102: Early Again... Fact 103: I love this Channel Fact 104: Sam deserves millions of subscribers

Fact 102, in the year 900, daenerys targaryan was wedded of by her brother to a great viking king, which eventually led her to hatch three dragon eggs on his funeral pire when he was later wounded in battle when in an disagreement with his men. She would later use these dragons to take back England and claim her crown as the last living targaryan

Fact 103: Vikings is indeed used only to discribe Norse raiders. Not the people as a whole. So the farmers are not Vikings but just Danes or Norwedians. Or Norse if you will.

I have Viking ancestors, so that's cool!!

I would like to go Exploring and Pillaging, all though hunting for food sounds good too! Imagine the gratitude you'd get for feeding a whole village!

Viking was an occupation, not a people. It's like calling all Victorian-era Englishmen "Pirates"

To be fair, the word "Ting", at least later on, means "thing" as well. Might be a case of double loan words :D

"Byzantine Empire based in Turkey"(which is true) Greece: Am I a joke to you?

In my home town, Borg in Lofoten, there is a longhouse called Lofotr where one can meet and see how vikings lived. One can also ride in a longship

Well, your first 'fact'" is wrong. Viking is not a people, it's an action, ie raiding.

Leif Erickson is one of my heroes. Christopher Columbus was a real bastard, and he never even made it to North America.

A Viking Dane was here!

Please do 101 Facts about: 1. Stephen King 2. Sailor Moon 3. Ballet 4. King Arthur 5. Lucifer (TV series)

Another interesting note; The English word Tuesday is derived from Old English Tiwesdæg and Middle English Tewesday, meaning "Tīw's Day", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, and law and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio germanica, and the name of the day is a translation of Latin dies Martis.

I love the Vikings

Because of your fact about the comedy series norsemen i have found a series to love thanks man :)

You're a Raider, Legendary!

7:37. That's the swiss flag, not the danish.

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Remember kids...its Pillage first....then Burn!

I doubt you planned this, but immediately after you spoke about how the Vikings never wore helmets despite people believing otherwise, at around the 12:55 mark, a commercial for Raid Shadow Legends played where a gigantic north man looking brute smashes thru a wall and begins to intimate a guy all while wearing a horned helmet.... Pretty awesome timing for such a specific commercial. Well done in any event, LMFAO!

The vikings where actually taller then the average European with skeletons being found of vikings being around 172 cm to 178 cm

If you're Norse, you're from Scandinavia of the ethnic blood (Although there are also the Sami, which are another people living in northern Sweden/Norway). The "vikings" are simply norse people going on a viking aka. norse people going on a raid (or more for that matter).

This was so interesting, thank you

I knew most of them with just having watched the series Vikings.

Hey Sam big fan of your videos I love how much effort you put into them

Norsemen traded alot more than they raided and fought you know

There are several misconceptions about VIkings/Norse Myth that still exists today and just can't die. Viking and horns. Jotnar being called Giant. The Nine realm being seperate dimensions. Is just some of the most well known.

Can we all give some credit to Sam for his annunciation? I've heard you brutalise much simpler words man. 😂😂

Vikings bathe once a week, I don’t even bathe once a week.

Can you do 101facts about ICELAND?

THANK YOU

If rumors are right, i`m a decendent of the danish king Gorm the Elder. Awesome.

Vikings were not only skilled hunters and warriors but caried a lucky charm with them when going into battle and plundering, yes, hidden in a pocket was a gerbil or hamster they would pet for good luck. If the warrior fell in battle the ruffled hamster would scurry away and hide from the 'hamster collector' on the battlefield denoting a Viking's luck has run out.

Where did the music come from. Pretty nice.

The danish vikings were badass

“Mainly” Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, England, Scotland and France. You mean... six different countries. 😂 Seriously tho, Vikings were so impressive. Great video, Sam!

Who made that guy's sword? It broke on impact with a shield made of wood or leather.

SO JARLS ARE REAL i played skyrim and heard the word jarl and leaned that it was a real thing and in my history class we were learning about the middle ages and we were talking about different classes of people and one of the classes was 1st class and like kings and queens were up there and the teacher was asking for more examples of 1st class people in the middle ages and i said a jarl and the teacher was like what the fuck are talking about like what i said was an imaginary thing but jarls are real and my teacher doesn't know shit about history

20:57 what are those ornate decorations carved into?

@101Facts Love you bro :D

I was born over 1000 years too late... Thanks a lot God.

That was fun. Subbed.

Saturday is actualy durrived from old Norse, roughly translating to ' the day of cleaning'

Very informative. Your cadence put me off at first, but your content was very enjoyable.

15:24 Vikings didn't eat meat every day. You can't afford to kill of your farm animals for every meal, the fish and wild life need to be given time to multiply. They mostly ate bread, greens and anything they could find in the forest.

Anyone else here because of the new AC:Ragnorak trailer?

7:36 bruhh wtf thats a swiss flag

So Viking lands of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Faroe Islands (or would they go under Denmark?)

I'm from Sweden, where one of the last speakers of Old Norse lives. And no, Icelandic is not Old Norse. The thing i'm talking about is, at least here in Sweden, known as Ulum Dalska. Sorry, i don't know the English name for that language, but it's an dialect of Old Norse. One of the last ever, might even be the last known dialects of Old Norse. It's Old Norse mind you, as i've seen the oh so heads high Icelandic people getting annoyed and pissed off every time they hear about it. And Let's not forget that Leif Ericson was a Norweigan and his entire family too was Norweigan. And one of Ragnar Lodbroks sons went to Sweden, so i might share some of his dna. And also, the vikings did actually have sex with their female thralls, or slaves. They had sex with their slaves quite often and that's why people here in Scandinavia have genes from all over the world. Something i don't care about is that the vikings often had sex with female slaves when a jarl or king died, and that female slave often agreed to get so drunk of mead, that the men who wanted to show respect to their jarl or king, raped her, or at least had very, very rough sex with her. It was basically group sex they had with one single female slave. And i find the vikings way of execution quite amusing. Yeah, i have quite dark humor. I like the blood eagle, which is a way of execution, it was at least mentioned by the vikings when they were raiding and pillaging in England

101? Dude, you're seriously ahead in the listicle-game!

I’m from the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴 We still have many Viking traditions

One of my favorite movies front cover for a split second at 0:05

"So, in mid-November One-Hundred-and-Two" I think you mean "One Thousand and Two" there. You're talking about the 11th century, not the 2nd century.

pretty sure the icelandic sagas are wrong, Eric the red settled in Iceland after his own father was exiled from Norway for murder.

14:29 KARLS not CARLS

Fact 105:My school mascot is a viking

I watched this to do my homework😁

The nickname "unready" actually meant well advised, as he was young and had many advisors.

“..or alternatively raid the Gaff” 😂😂😂

Which translates to "Waldo was here 😂😂😂. Funny my Uncle and I were talking about this just last week. Ancestry from King Cnuts or in America Knuths. Just had to check it out!

The ladies would only want the rich men not the poor so they can get loads of jewellery,treasure,gold,and so on.

24:08 I live in selby and it's a shitty town... Pints are cheap though so it's not all bad

@0:56 This is a mirror image of part of Quebec as seen from space.

it just said actual viking footage! I'm in tears haha lol it also had horns I'm not that dum!

Seeing Scandinavians now, hard for me to believe they were once ruthless warriors

Wow no mention of the berserker of Stamford bridge. Granted it may have been exaggerated

I did not know that they used grass on top of their house to keep the inside warm.

To he Kensington stone shows Vikings were in the centre of North America. We know they enslaved the Irish who lived in Iceland. Their trading with Indian, for Ulfberht Sward, crucibal steel was part of the, then, lake covered, areas north of the Himalayas. Russia gained it's name from Vikings who traded in its rivers, and the Black sea. Their invasion of North Africa had them converting and receiving the south of Italy and Sicily, from the pope, even though the Arabs believed it was theirs. The Caspian sea helped their trade too. You missed much more. They were traders.

How about a 101 on New Orleans La. in the U.S. please Sam

Ok so nobody have mentioned the descent of Knut (Cnut) look it up . It might surprise you...ok you probably won't so I'll tell you. His grandmother was polish princess - daughter of first know (non legendary) polish Prince Mieszko I WHO is said to establish Poland as a country by announcing country's baptism and make it Christina ( of course there were people there before that ) and other fact is about the burial because there are ancient burial grounds said to be Slavic ( and or Celtic and Nordic) where they berried people and put up a little mount and put stones on them and arrange smaller stones around them but some nobles where berried on the ships and burnt with all there belongings and that include a wife aswell ( burnt alive ) . I think that shows that people migrated and mingled around Europe all the bloody time. After all it is said we all come from Africa right?

An entire culture based completely on the game Skyrim? Cool.

Where is Ivar the boneless??

*Do pirates next.* Make it a sequel, Sam!!!

Surprised this video wasn't sponsored by Vikings: War of Clans

23:14 love it

People saying viking children should Think twice, vikings Were the raiders not the people, the people Were nords, danes, swedes and norse

I'm descended from a long line of Germanic farmers. The sciences, of course, intrigue me, but my greatest journeys are taken directly from the agricultural cultivation of a very popular and much-loved crop. My soul can more easily transcend the universe WITHOUT the bloodied corpses of my slain holding my mind ahaunt. So you can bet what kind of Norseman I would have been