History Summarized: Vikings 

in the words of a brilliant icelandic magazine: “viking was a seasonal, temporary occupation, not an ethnicity.”

5:43 King of France: Paris is a beautiful place and I hope it stays that way forever Vikings: *hello would you like to talk about our lord and savior Odin*

no mention of the Varangian Guard or my favorite ancient graffiti, the runes in the Hagia Sophia, that basically translate to "Halvdan Carved These Runes" or "Halvdan was here"

Fun Fact: The Vikings were a surprisingly hygienic people, bathing every Saturday and even bleaching there hair blonde to prevent the spread of lice while the rest of Medieval Europe bathed much less often.

Blue can sing too?? Would it be much to ask for a duet with Red someday?

So, Blue has awesome hair, is incredibly smart, does fencing for hobby AND can sing? #BlueForNextDisneyPrince

Blue: "Let's you and I pretend that none of this ever happened. K? Cool!" Me: "I don't think so, Bluevakin."

5:00 I love the Viking ships! I only realized how intense they really were when in the show Vikings, Aelle says something to the effect of 'They have ships that can both go across the ocean and up a river?' How cool is that! I bet other peoples didn't even think such a small kind of ship could cross an ocean. 7:31 ...Damn. He missed home by a mile, and then some.

"Stamford Bridge was the last huzzah of the Viking Age" Varangian Guard: *sad raiding noises*

Damn. The Vikings were badass. Smart AND savage! That's one hell of a combo. Also, I would KILL to have Blue sing some Skyrim songs.

Please upload a video where you you sing Dovahkiin

Who else wants blue to sing the full song? I love his singing voice. Both he and red are really good.

Even when Christianity tried to convert vikings, I would say the vikings got the last laugh out of it. In that sort of "Sure buddy, we'll totally be Christians" sort of way.

I love how both of you and Shad shouted each other out in a video lol the whole reason I discovered this channel was from a Shad video

Um.. actually about Rus - it was not a colony , but an east Slavic kingdom , well proto-kingdom . Scandinavians were a key part of noble society primarily because of trade roots . Also there's half-legendary story of "Summon of Varyags" (I don't know official English translation but in Russian it's called "Призвание варягов") summary of this story - In the time of turmoil the Slav people summoned a Scandinavian nobility to rule over them . We don't know very much about it , because we have only one historical manuscript that describes this period in the history of Rus ("The Tale of Past Years") . But it definitely wasn't a colony

Calling them 'vikings' is a bit like how muslims referred to Europeans as 'Crusaders'. ISIS still does this in their propaganda, decrying the western establishment as 'crusader culture.' If you imagine a world where European christianity declined whilst Islam rose as the dominant ideology of academia, then we might have referred to medieval Europe as 'Crusader civilisation' or the 'crusader age,' implicitly overlooking *everything else* going on in Europe apart from the crusades.

i love when i see people digging for facts and all that good stuff about scandinavia! as a swede and culture loving freak myself, i try to learn as much as i can about my own old culture and others so when i found this channel i was overwhelmed with joy! plus i would love if you could try to cover some of the meaning and history about our national holiday "Midsommar" (midsummer)

Swedish Pagans, Marching ashore! Forged in Vallhalla, by the hammer of Thor!

Omg, the Skyrim soundtack in the background! Blue I love you so much rn >.

But how could the Vikings sail around England when it's so small? After all, it's only a city.

Excuse me, did you just make Scania, Halland, and Blekinge part of Viking-age Sweden? My Danish pride is hurting. Well, more than usually.

Blue's singing voice is pretty nice :3

I was just smiling through this entire video because I'm from Denmark (which is the smallest Scandinavian country, and yet we OWNED all the other countries a few centuries after the Vikings), and we learn about this in school because of course, we do. But we mostly learn about the everyday life Vikings and the first kings of Denmark and such. It's fun to see something we grew up learning about, but from different sources and perspectives.

A viking (or vikingr) simply refereed to a sea traveller. It didn't mean "raider". The fact that they did raid places was beside the matter and due to their views of innangarðr and utangarðr. Innangarðr (literally meaning "inner enclosure/land/home/group/world"..it's a complicated word) consisting of everything they knew, respected, and thought to be civil. It's the "inner circle" while utangarðr was the "outer circle". It was the opposite, the "outside" of everything, and this made it right for the taking (to them) because they didn't view them as "civil", or in the favour of their deities(?)* The nordic people were very clean compared to hydrophobic European and had much more equal right when it came to the sexes, and even slaves, so I honestly can't blame them for finding Eurpoeans to be "uncivil" despite their polished appearances. Not to mention they made themselves needlessly uncomfortable x.x *though, as a pagan myself, believe "mythology" were merely abstract stories/explanations about life and the universe that evolved over time (through the warping of the original) until it was completely misunderstood later on - like with most mythologies. If interested, I do have some proof for this. And, yes, I know you make brief mention of this. As a lover of ancient languages and beliefs (and their connections to the modern) I felt I should give that distinction.

I have waited so long for this video. My family is of Viking decent and I absolutely love learning about them.

a. why would we want to forget the intro ever happened? you sung it pretty well in my opinion! b. nice shout-out to shad. he did the same for you, so i guess this has just come full circle :)

Whoa. First time I am watching a new video so fast. I was on an overly sarcastic productions marathon

Yay!! Vikings!! *sings "We are here, to drink your beer..."*

Already watched all of shad's videos :P Gotta love it when your collection of favorite channels get more and more interconnected. One day all of my favorite yt channels might converge into some super channel to rule the world in an informed way and support a more creative world as well as the conquest of space while good music is playing in the background. #nice

My high school mascot was a viking so it was mandatory for all history teachers to teach at least one unit on them. At games the students would straddle the bleachers and sit while pretending to row oars in a line like they did. Our war cry was a long drawn out version of "OH--WAY--OH!" chants. If you can get a ton of people to do it it was the coolest thing ever.

The Denver museum had a Viking exhibit recently (could still be going). There was a Jade Buddha there and a plaque basically stating it was acquired through trade. They also had an actor taking questions about average life back then. It was cool.

There's no need to forget that singign part. Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin naal ok zin los vahriin wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal!

I went to the Viking exhibit at the museum over by my grandma's house! I'm so happy that this came today. I was very curious to learn more about it.

0:47 MOUNT AND BLADE YESSSS!!!!

I would love a video about the Sami as for some reason even though they were also Scandinavians they never joined the "main crowd" and to this day they're a nomadic group

my favourite thing about Blue is that he always tries to correct all the mistaken thoughts about specific empires, countries or just groups of people.

Okay, blue's operatic voice is too amazing. I now *need* Red and Blue to sing a duet in some form

Anyone here might like to know there is a Manga for this time period and area (to a certain degree). Its not entirely accurate, as fair warning. The name is Vinland Saga

Am I the only one who thinks that Blue should release an album? His voice is soothing and his pronunciation is pretty good

That Skyrim music at 0:47 hit me so hard in the feels 😭

Hey Blue, I know I'm late to the party but I just wanted to say that I appreciate whenever you take time out in your video to notate possible research holes and bias in your videos. It's a habit a LOT of people don't do and everytime you do it you help others in recognizing the limits of their own opinions and research as well. :)

But did they end their enemies rightly?!?

Blue: A culture based around raiding is unsustainable George RR Martin: *I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that*

Can Red do a video about Otrera and the Amazons or Cyrene

*I CAME AS FAST AS I COULD*

0:14 liked just because blue knows the actual words to the chorus

I love how you and Shad plug each other. I actually only found your channel because i saw a Shad video with you in it. Gotta say SUPER glad you guys have a fun and interactive relationship. Love the videos as well!

hey this is for Red um do a myth about fillipinos please

And having been to the archaeological site in Newfoundland (L'anse aux Meadows) where the Norse settlement was, coinciding with the 1000th Anniversary (give or take) voyage when one of Leif Erikson's descendants captained a replica voyage (in Longboats from Iceland by way of Greenland- they might've started in Norway...? I think Iceland, but its been a few decades). Its quite remarkable to see the relics of the first European settlement in the Americas (and to hear about their issues with the Skraelings)

I, a completely mentally stable person, can confirm i like to spend my time singing dovah-kin.

Blue can sing! Blue can sing! Hear his pleasant voice ring!

Anyone coming back here after the Assassin's Creed Valhalla trailer?

Just dropped off to say, I love your baritone there! Lovely voice, you should display it more often.

Comically, I was recommended one of your (Blue) videos while watching Shad. I then binge watched everything you and Red did starting about two weeks ago. I have no life but now I have a lot of historical knowledge. Two other channels that work well: Skallgrim and Metatron.

I first learned of this channel from Shadiversity, and now things have come full circle. It's so beautiful

Very very good video, and quite needed too. Could I take the occasion to kindly ask you considering doing a video of the Egla (the saga of Egill Skallagrimsson)? The guy is not only one of the biggest badass that ever was soguligr, but also one of Iceland's first settler, and travelled through the whole scandinavian world. He is also, incidentally, the most skilled poet of the Norse civilisation, and the saga is actually build as a setting to his best work. It can be a hard read, especially for one that is not especially proficient on the very special kind of storytelling used in sagas, but it is certainly worth reading. And I know you could do very good things out of, if you wanted to.

I’m basically watching all your videos relating to Vikings and Rome to decide the Historical precedence for a How To Train Your Dragon OC who is Roman but was taken far from home by a dragon and found by the Vikings of Berk

"If you can't beat them, make them you." Well, that's one way to do it

"if you can't beat them, just make them you" I will live by this quote from now on

Shadiversity is actually the guy who showed me OSP. Now I'm subscribed to both.

The Vikings didn't die out as a culture, the Scandinavian influence lives on to this day.

Oh my sweet Einstein, Blue has such a nice singing voice

As a Greenlandic guy born in 1987, it's kinda awesome to see vikings having settled here around a millenia ago.

If you want to be part of a group of people that care a lot about and reenact the medieval/renaissance times you should check out the Society for Creative Anachronism (or the SCA). There are many kingdoms all over the world. It is also a great way to research the garb and lifestyles of period people.

No, I will NOT just forget that epic singing, thank you very much!

Yes ! Just Yes ! F-I-N-A-L-L-Y !! The Age of Vikings; suprisingly gender equal; has Come again ! :) Uploads from this Channel are the Best momments of the Day !

who ever animates these is amazing. i can almost see life in the still frames

fun fact: norway is ruled by a king who is danish in origin.

I have a hypothesis: the "Sea Peoples" that supposedly caused the Bronze Age Collapse of the 1170s BC could have been the Bronze Age equivilent of Vikings; they could have been a sea faring people with the tendency to reuse what they pillaged more than they built their own things, hence why we have so few artifacts and thus know so little about them.

"Christianity always gets the last laugh" Oh you have no idea

Being part Viking and wanting to study basically a bunch of its mythos and its history this was so informational! Thanks!

Credit to the Polynesians, who were sailing farther and earlier then the Vikings and Columbus. Props to the true masters of sailing.

0:49 Mount and Blade Warband 😍😍😍

I like that the skyrim OST was used throughout the video.

0:30 OMG! That opening was perfect Blue!!!!!!! XD

Shad introduced me to your chanel

0:24 DON'T STOP,you're a good singer 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😎 PURE ART

Fun fact: Vikings are the second most badass group of people. Second only to Scots.

I LOVE THE MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND MUSIC

"diet trireme" lmao

Yes! A shoutout to Shad! Love your videos just as much. Between the two channels, I could spend hours being happy.

Dat singing doe

as someone who's managed to learn the entire song of the dragonborn in english and dovahzul, you did a good job at the first verse.

My Mom found out we had viking heritage, but till she saw that history channel show, she thought they were just explorers because her knowledge of Vikings was apparently relegated to that time they stumbled upon America after getting lost. I had to tell her that they were basically the original pirates and brutal raiders.

Blue you and Red always make my day. but also Skyrim yeeesssss. I am happy that you're a fan too~

Ahhh now I want to play Skyrim again.... Great video! It was super informative. :)

more Vikings please😸

Shad actually made me find your guys channel and now it has come full circle XD.

So, who else is watching this again after seeing the Assassins Creed Valhalla trailer?

Now I can't get the image of a bunch of Vikings rowing an entire landmass to invade England. That's so metal my brain hurts.

My ancestors we're vikings apparently. (I might mispell stuff here k, im swedish) alot of useless stuff has been passed down in my family for a long loong loooong time, like there's this weird sword my grandpa has and a few weird stones with weird text on it, yeah you get it. Also, my last name is nord, wich literally means 'north' or 'norse' or whatever it it :') my family always says its like a really old name or yeah someting like that. Anyways, the reason i typed all of this is bcz i like apple pies from mcdonalds. Yeah

That intro was special considering that I’ve been on a Skyrim rampage lately.

Yay Skyrim!!!!

7:06 No, no air quotes. Just because someone else discovers something first, doesn't mean you didn't also discover it. I don't know why so many people think "discover" implies "first", because it doesn't.

shad sent me here and you send me back to him... sweet

3:51 by far my favorite Blue pose

I'm Pagan and that Christin Pagan comparison is way too true!! XD

The norse invented the triangle sail. Not all had square sails. There were a bunch of different boat styles.

I'm actually a descendant of Viking so this is pretty neat.

I love how Blue uses the main menu screen picture from mount and blade warband to represent vikings.