Norsemen: The Complete History Of The Viking Age | Last Journey Of The Vikings | Chronicle 

When I was younger, I watched an actual viking dance on ancient RU-vid to techno on the streets of what's now call Germany . True story.

I legit thought the scenes were taken from the history channel’s Vikings. Production value on this documentary is impressive

Mastering the sea was truly a remarkable feat for the Viking raiders. Also, your suggestion for translated foreign commentary would make the content even more accessible. Thanks for enriching our understanding of history!

A constructive criticism id like to point out. There are few good sources of Norse history to this level of complete detail, which i am happy your program shares. However i struggle with vision and often listen to you tube more so than watch it. It would be awesome to have foreign commentary translated after its spoke natively for english speakers. Just a suggestion. Thank you still for this knowledge.

The only thing that really bothers me about this video is I can't watch it and do anything else at the same time, because I have to watch the the screen to get the subtitles. I miss the voice overs so that I could listen to the whole thing.

The fact that back then these Viking raiders were leaving home to far off foreign lands on the sea and always found their ways back home shows how much they mastered the sea during their time.

A superb documentary. Thank you everyone involved in this production.

I could listen to her narration all day.

New excavations in the Baltic has found a ship burial with Scandinavians buried in it from approx 650

I believe it is possible that trading and raiding were not exclusive...it is likely that trade was a type of fruitful reconnaissance for hearing about then finding isolated and vulnerable places to raid

Love, love, love viking history.

Thank you for the video and great detail into our history. The history told by experts from many sides adds so much more to it. :)

Our families ancestors goes back to 800 so this is knowledge for me

Thankyou . Tonight’s insomnia will be interesting at least !!!

so bad ass!!! please do one on the celts someday!

These are so fun to watch!

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Is no one gonna mention how the main Viking actor in the documentary stayed the exact same age for over a hundred years. Dude was about 30 and met Charlamagne then stayed 30 even after Charlamagnes grandson got old and died. Should of named it the immortal Viking

Well done, thank you, subscribed for more quality content :)

Thought i found the perfect video to listen to. I cant always have eyes on the screen. Wish they audio translated the different languages instead of captions .... Oh well.

This is beautiful

Some good points concerning the transition of the Vikings BUT....missed the point that there were two Danish Viking attacks on Norman England. The first was an invasion in 1069-1070 conducted in alliance with various English rebels which succeeded in taking first York and then Ely before the Danes finally accepted a bribe to leave the country. The second was a large-scale raid in 1075, intended to support the Revolt of the Earls, in which the Lincolnshire coast and York were both ravaged. A third attack was planned in 1085, and a large invasion fleet comprising Danish, Flemish and Norwegian vessels was gathered, but it never sailed. All three attacks were motivated by a claim on the English throne asserted originally by Cnut the Great's nephew Sweyn II, king of Denmark (r.1047-1076), and maintained by later Danish kings until as late as the 13th century. PLUS the Norman involvement in deciding the Popes in Rome, Sicily, south Italy, Eastern Roman Empire, Rus in Ukraine, Crusades, creation of Portugal and Spain.....and more

This was SO INTERESTING! I sure learned a lot and now I understand why my English ancestry has so much Scandinavian mixed in 😊

How is this not more popular!?!

Why is the most feared and brutal viking of them all Hagar the Horrible not mentioned.

100 years ago many of us where shitting in a hole in the ground!! why is it so hard to think

So no ones not gonna mention how that main Viking actor stayed the exact same age for two hundred years 😂

you are right, Vikings were a hell of successful diplomats, very successful diplomats, don't forget they have a hachet in hand all the time!!

The title is a bit misleading this is not a complete HISTORY this is just a brief history og early Vikings and then specifically their activity in Normandy and England. No mention of the fact they occupied most of tre Islands around Scotland (Alba), Icelandic migration, expeditions across Europe to the black sea, the fact they reached north America before any other Europeans... This is just a chapter in their history.

Should be called "History of the French Viking Age". No Iceland, Greenland, Vineland or the Kievan Rus.

I need the source for the soundtrack

I'm just learning about how much they actually got around. I think they got inland in the Americas alot further than one might think.i live in East Texas and I have some interesting rock art and rune stones with there names and dates carved all over them.The year was 1115 and by what is pictured on the rocks,they had a gruesome death by the hands of the local natives..It must have been the event of a lifetime.Heads rolled along wtth all their innards. They must brought plants and tree seedlings as trade because there are hundreds of different kinds not even from this hemisphere.Grapes have been growing wild here for centuries.I wonder if?? Naw!!

The Vikings lived a long era and were well established in Greenland, Iceland and fought wars with England!

Vikings were the coolest of all history to me. They took over Angles, took over Saxons , took it to Celtic Britain, then raided Anglo Saxon Britain (England). Then took over northern Francia, Normandy,... Then! Then the Normans ,(Vikings) took over England AGAIN! All while becoming the elite guard of Eastern Roman Constantinople, and stuck around when the Turks took it. ... And all while founding Russia ! The Vikings got some shit done, baby 😉👊

They never seem to talk about the fact that viking are not just Scandinavians. Norigians, Sweden, and Danish people all participated in all types of raids and migration on the northern Europe before the attacks on England ever took place.

Rollo is a very distant great grampa.

How about Novgorod, Kiev-rus, Constantinople? A rather narrow description in this video!

Powerful land owners used the climate crisis to seize more land. Remind me of what is going on today in the Netherlands, using climate change as an excuse to seize 3000 farms categorized as “gross polluters”. 9:51

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The first 13 minutes is definitive evidence that the human cannot change its selfishness. Even after a catastrophe 😔🤦‍♂️

Good historical coverage made up for the low budget production. However, an hour + could have been cut for the excessive redundancies of explanations; can’t rate for that.

Expert - "It was a relatively small raid" Doco - 35 ships (ie over 1000 men) sailing away. Lololol.

n we just have this in English please

When I was young, 1100 years ago I rode a dragon across the sea because the climate crisis was way too bad.

I want to learn norse .. please assist me what i need to learn.. i want to learn old north pegan.. i am from india

Thank you for not assuming all your viewers are ignorant monolinguists. That stereotype really bugs me, especially when channels use it as an excuse to dumb down what the experts they interview say. They start off with the expert speaking before the translator speaks over the expert for the rest of that segment, and the little bit of the original audio that was audible is just enough to tell that the "translation" is a gross oversimplification. If I wanted that, I'd watch the History Channel.

Final conclusion is that might is right as proved by natural selection principle, thy survival of the fittest. We can not get rid of this harsh principle of life. Life is cruel as people kill fellow people for their own greedy survival.

Norsemen got very far from such humble beginnings; to today where their descendants sit on nearly every throne still in existence. To them that far exceeded an afterlife in Valhalla, right down to the blood of their literal immortality in the form of Crowns. They weren't ignorant people.

Well now that explains a lot about the war mongering, the mass shootings, serial killings, etc

This would've been great if it was all in English. I listen to documentaries not watch them, so I am not going to sit for 3 hrs to mostly read subtitles - may as well read a damned book on the subject.

The French woman says Anglo Saxon and the translation said British. Anglo Saxons weren't British. They were germanic tribes. The British were basically French until the Anglo Saxons came.

Why didnt you change the actor in this documentary. Dude met a young Charlamagne then got baptised in the 900s 😂

I'm thinking of getting a sleeve tattoo but I want it to show the full viking history beginning till end if anyone has more insight in the history please let me know I would appreciate it.

Not a viking, a Sanatani Hindu from India but I do feel a deep connection with Norsemen maybe who knows in past life I might have prayed to the old gods.. 😉 . I hope Norse People start praying and accept old gods again. 🙏

Hm! This explains the laser raptors!

Paternal Lineage Your haplogroup is: I Born between 35 and 25 thousand years ago, haplogroup I represents one of the first peoples of Europe, having several descendant lineages that spread throughout the European territory during the last Ice Age, having its maximum frequency in the Balkans. It is one of the most numerous haplogroups among European males, being the second largest paternal lineage found on the continent (second only to the R lineage). Its I1 branch is related to Nordic Europe, ancestor of Germanic tribes and Vikings, while I2 is strongly related to Neolithic cultures. Y-chromosomal Adam 160 to 120 thousand years A: Africa 140 to 90 thousand years BT: Africa 85 to 60 thousand years CT: Africa 80 to 60 thousand years CF: Leaving Africa 75 to 60 thousand years F: Leaving Africa 62 to 57 thousand years IJ: Haplogroup parent of I and J 45 to 30 thousand years I: Eastern Eurasia 35 to 25 thousand years

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Ads every 5 min... Watching on an iPad... Greedy

With all respect Dr Panetta but you do not live in my body

the catholic church wiped out the vikings as a civilization

Why was that same viking actor not aging ? Change the actor.

Mr John WTF are you talking about?

I was very disapointed that the whole video needed to be read. I wanted to watch a video and not read a book.

Seriously they can't afford to die the foreign experts? It's so annoying, tired of subtitles

I enjoyed the documentary. Let's not play with words. Pirates are thieves who use boats. It is impossible to live on a boat with a group of people. For her to use that statement to define a pirate is very strange. Anyone who has studied pirate operations throughout history knows they are not lawless between themselves. There are strict laws they must obey on land and on ships. They may spend time on the water, but a vast majority of pirates' lives are on land. Even in the 16th-18th centuries. You need food, water, and sanity. All things land provides. Do you think Islamic pirates who kept Europe in the dark were lawless savages who didn't know anything? The Islamic world was vastly superior to Europe during this time. Our knowledge and technology weren't far behind, but very noticeable. A Norse individual who is sailing to take plunder and slaves is a viking. The people from Scandinavia in the 7th - 11th century should not be referred to as vikings. The word should never be capitalized unless it's the Minnesota Vikings or the Viking Era. It has to be a name, not a type of pirate.

Just us English instead of subtitles! Damn you

WE NORSEMEN WE SHALL SALLY AND NEVER TO HANG A LEG XXX SOSOS

ONE PRESENTER SPEAKING ONE LANGUAGE WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH... VERY DIFFICULT TO MULTI-TASK THE VISUAL SUBTITLES. I MISSED MOST OF WHAT IS BEING EXPLAINED. SO IT DEFEATS THE OBJECT OF LEARNING SOMETHING IMPORTANT...

read a book

How much work was done by their slaves

Rip to those innocent saxon villagers who were slaughtered by the barbaric primitive vikings

Not very accurate 😕 why are there no horned helmets

I wish there was not so much french, i try to listen to sleep and can not understand most of it.

Uncredentialed opinions between scenes of re-enactor's shouting. Neither "complete", nor "history". More like Scandinavian tourism promo. Sea-born, opportunistic raiding and theft has been a fact of life all around the world since boat-building was invented.

I was expecting a bunch of afro-bisexual vikings in the documentary. so far so good

I'm latina, it said my great great grand father came from norway, i look very native but i may have a little viking inside me? Lol

please translate all into Portuguese Brazil is very important because we Brazilians are the most missigenated people in the world.. I have 9 European nations. German. Dutch. French. Irish. Scottish. Welsh. Italian .Ukrainian. Portuguese. Nigerian.Kenya.West Africa. mbuti congo. mandé .seneganbia .is Mesoamerican Andean Central and South America

Damn it, if only Christianity didn’t win out! So many lives would have been saved and we would be living in a far more peaceful world.

The vikings are gog and magog and when jesus returns they will all die in in night, due to jesus supplication

Seems like there not sure about anything

Krakatoa.

You expect me to believe you can determine whether a tree grew for 2 specific years from 1500 years ago? Seriously? Ok

Imagine how depraved they were to think plundering, stealing, and killing were normal. I agree with the comment below, here is the academic sanitization of horrible people. They themselves went through cold, famine, and misfortune, yet brought destruction upon others. No awe from me.

Ah yes, the climate crises. Must have been all those viking cars and burning of fossil fuels causing the climate crises. Of, was it perhaps just weather?

The Vikings WERE brutal monsters.

I don't know about you all - but too me swedish sounds like someone speaking German with a cue-ball in their mouth! Just saying!

Why y’all gotta make the Viking women look so miserable. 😂😂😂😂

STOP MAKING E READ

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really lie this it brings a human aspect to Vikings

Yeah. You lost me with the overemphasis on the importance of women. We all knew that they contributed but it was so on the nose it made me roll my eyes. Instead of appreciating what they did, all I kept thinking was without the men to keep them from you know, dying, they wouldn't have any farms to tend or clothes to make.

Monsters, yes, and barbarians. We’re known by our actions. If I slaughtered a totally defenseless population and stole its possessions only to promptly leave the country, would my actions also warrant the typical academic sanitization as one fellow is giving here.

Wow! That nose, though.

Hope you like subtitles! Hire an interpreter ffs

How is Mr Ponytail even a professor?

How F* annoying is that you have to read subtitles of non English speakers!!!

Come on what is with the woman who's speaking so much of this in French or is that an old Dutch German? So much of it that I can't do something else while learning because nobody is outloud interpreting what she has to say into the English language and saying what she has to say out loud in english, the French language has nothing significant to do with Viking History. Unless the French are proud of the fact that many Vikings ended up either owning or employing French citizens who learned the Norse language to interpret for the Vikings, as I understand it the Vikings often did so when they'd already learned French in order to do things like get the French to reveal to much information, catch them trying to double cross them, or trying to lie when working out contracts and or a ransom. Those negotiations often included that Viking or a Viking Leader and his men converting to the Catholic Religion particularly when a marriage contract to a King or some high ranking Noble's Daughter was involved that usually included a large Dowry that included at least a large house with workable land, tenants, and if it's really good it would also have some wooded hectares for hunting and resources. When the Vikings were still one of the world's great trading powers French was probably one of the top 5 languages used in the world but not now. Why would you make a little over 1/3 of this in French with subtitles? What if somebody is blind, has a reading disability like dyslexia, just has failing eyesight because these words are teeny tiny, or would just like to be able to listen and learn some history while driving, working a repetitive job, or as an enjoyable distraction while to sick to focus on subtitles. If that's not difficult enough you had to make 1/16th to 1/8th of it a third language? I'm sorry but in today's world French doesn't even make the top 8 business languages of the world on the majority of lists just ask Google. I just wanted to be able to watch the documentary and it looks so well made but I can't handle reading the tiny print and I have other things to do so I can't stare at the screen constantly for translation. OK my dad says that both of the women not speaking English are speaking and dialect of Dutch German and that's also something nobody knows and way too much reading. Is it too much to ask that if I look up a documentary in English, I expect to be able to listen to it in English? I tried I really did but I'm having like 3 of the problems I mentioned above does anyone know how to make this work for someone who's vision impaired or blind?

If they existed today they would be no different to isis or any other terrorist group. They would be hunted down and destroyed, it's a shame they never met their demise sooner and then many cultural holy places and relics would still be here today.

Subtitle nightmare so incredibly smarmy and repetitious

Climate lol no