Siege of Paris 845 AD 

James Tang yeah when i see it first i expect something bigger,i was like, thats paris? Thats it?

James Tang At the time it wasn't the capital yet.

Does anyone know how accurate the video is in this regard? Was Paris really that tiny in the 9th century?

Yeah, but Paris must be quite a young city.

nextpkfr All ancient cities had to be small as everything needed to be in walking distance of everything else. Medieval Europe especially so as the urban population had declined heavily since the Roman Era.

@Ageof Wolves Father of Rigmor...?

Robbie Kite You have cominted crimes against Skyrim and her people !!

My thought when I saw Ragnar with the red background around his portrait.

love your videos mate

You also very creative #knowledgia

As poor as your videos completely devoid of the powers in Rome and their maneuverings.

Cvetomir Georgiev maybe he wore a wig?

Maybe he hasil long hair but his center of the head ia bald

Hilmi Prabowo oof

Maybe its not his head they imply.

It's supposedly because he held no lands for a long time after his brothers were already kings.

Matthijs vW Still is....

Ah! EU4

That's why western and eastern francia quickly took the part above the Alps.

It's like being between France and Germany...

I'm amazed that Lothair agreed to that treaty. But maybe those days such distances couldn't be travelled fast, so the locals could defend them pretty easy, except againt the main army of a country. They seemed to realy heavily on local petty kings, so thay each protected their own territories, which were not shaped like that - they were likely in a necklace shape, and the whole empire was a collection of those countries.

As long as you dont take anything to be real history from the show Vikings then that is good. Names. times, places, facts, dates, is all mixed up and mangled together and used where it shouldnt. And then there is a bunch of hollywood fantasy ofc ( know the show isnt created from hollywood, its a saying) I do like the vikings, as the fantasy show it is.

@@mattijohansen3471 i just wish the characters weren't dressed as bikers :'( imagine how cool the show would've been if they used historically accurate equipment instead of leather obscenities

*stabs priest in the throat*

@@simohayho8622 yhrlagahhhh! We sail West.

@@pharaohsmagician8329 There is no land to the west just open sea.

We will get that frankish kingdom back!

@@Eric-bf7iy yeah that's not gonna happen.

@@husseinalsharaa202 yes it will

@@Eric-bf7iy It's probably gonna be called The Islamic Republic of Frankistan by then 😂😂😂😂

We never talk about people of Danmark

Among the english.

Fliyo MB You forgot DEUS VULT!!!

*Insert bike meme* "Fucking plague!"

Meme: Smelling bike seats for a prolonged time can be unhealthy

PERFECT! Just slap a picture of a skeleton in there and we're done! :D

Healthcare was, shall we say, of a different type. Something to think for the guys who dream on time travelling to that era, and think they would excel. The food might make them sick in a moment. No central heating, air conditioning: window opened. The clothes would be of such material, your skin might be rubbed sore. No super markets. And your phone wouldn't work.

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Joey Kevorkian you have my like!

Álvaro Martín Alén Fernández lol you dont have to spam

They are entertaining and gives us another "setpiece" than eurasia and africa (the areas baz has covered)

Álvaro Martín Alén Fernández Agree, why fiction battles? History > Fairytales

Ivar does.

*sticks sword in the dirt*

me

Damn no one recognised you lol

what do you mean kings and generals didn't release anything today? or you're a patreon maybe

Shahbaz M I’m looking forward to this

Ragnar! We want you back!!

XtraFalcon ...lies dead in the Nurthhumbrian dirt! :D

@Louise X Bjørn Jernside

@@joetheperformer his death comes without apology

You fucking spoilers

MelkorXMairon well yeah sure but those armies are small compared to the amount of men the romans could muster. Even during republican (when it was still just mostly italiy) times they could muster more men than the bigger kingdoms of medieval europe.

The initial great heathen army had around 2000

Actually the Umayyad/Abassid caliphates armies werefar larger in that century.

The Franks could muster much larger forces. But the point of MelkorXMairon is kinda valid. The force which attacked Paris was large for a Viking raid. Only a prominent Viking could have rallied such a force.

+Mayonnaise Honestly when I said 8,000 to 10,000 I was remembering wrongly and my mind had jumped to the more professional elements in Charlemagne's armies, so that was my bad for missremembering. +Krypto I was referring to Europe, but the Abbassids and Umayyads were actually becoming decentralized in that century, though well the abbassid caliphate may have had larger armies the Umayyads only had larger armies in technicality in reality they weren't nearly as strongly united as they appeared. +Taran Jones Initially though the great heathen army swelled in size rather quickly, some sources put their numbers much much higher. +Hazzmati That wasn't really my point and I'm well aware of that.

Rizahri And Rollo came two hundred years after Ragnar

hum bro, ragnar lodbrok is not a fictional charachter and is one of the greatest viking figures who ever lived xDDD idk what you're saying xD

Rizahri Wtf? Maybe read what Transylvanian says first. He's taking his information from actual research that was done, indeed telling us that Ragnar Lothbrok likely never existed, and was more of a mix of different vikings whose stories were woven into one person.

transylvanian Yeah indeed. It seems like you're quite the expert in Norsemen history, that's cool man!

The series actually has a very similar version of events to what happened here, where he faced two armies on opposite sides of the river, attacked one of them first and wiped them out, and then hanged the heads of the prisoners to intimidate the people on the other side. Except in the series he did it in Mercia, and didn't besiege a city afterwards.

oOkenzoOo The Siege of Paris Part 2 Frankish Boogaloo

Adam Roberts Viking 2 the return. They will be back !

Rolf the walker defended it against the vikings also, became Norman and fathered a child called William who later went over to English lands and conquered much of them.

Mitchell Birkhead Not exactly the same timeline. Some sources say Rolf leaded the siege of Paris in 885 and he was granted lands in the North of France near Rouen in 911 to stop his raids.

Viking history is difficult to lock down because there is a small amount of actual written works by them. It was past down mostly through story and song.

No it isn't ironic at all, if anything it's coincidental though more likely it's entirely intentional.

Mea culpa

All hail earl Ragnar

Flavius Belisarius Not your timeline Belisarius

You could just pause the video.

So pause the video?

Der Sheriff Pause the video my brother/sister.

wouldn't it be amazing if ALL RU-vid VIDEOS HAVE A FUNCTION TO PAUSE IT? amazing indeed...

I'm fully aware of this. I could keep each card on screen slightly longer, but after all it's just plain text and I don't really want to artificially make the video longer. If that's inconvenient, I'm sorry!

Denmark didnt really effectively unite until the rule of Harald Blátönn 958-986 and was before that two and sometimes three different kingdoms. It is difficult to say exactly when it united due to lack of sources from the period (we for an example know much more about the formations of Iceland and Norway than we do Denmark and Sweden mostly just due to most of the Sagas being written by Icelanders) But according to the sagas his father Gormr Gamli did rule as king of Denmark after having subjected his neighbour and the sagas claim that Denmark had been separated until that point, But the "Jelling Stones" contradict that claiming Harald Blátönn won all of Denmark. However the bottom line is that in 845 what was and wasn't a danish state wasn't so clear cut.

RU-vid Account which end up staring at the map for hours not knowing what to play.

+Nave Hke hahaaa exactly :D or modding without even playing the game xD

Wrong. He was given the title "Romanorum Imperator", which simply means "Emperor of the Romans". The "Holy" part wasn't added until the 13th century, true, but it's a nifty title that distinguishes them from the actual Roman Emperors which died out in the west in 476 and in the east in 1204 or 1453 depending on your point of view.

Asmoh why do you people keep repeated that same Voltair line every time the HRE is mentioned? Is it supposed to be some sort of statement? Do you think it makes you sound smart? Well what is it?

Óðinn it's just to make fun of the HRE. The HRE is seen as a failed project that just leeched off the success of the actual Roman Emperors. The it's not a empire relates to how in the 13th century central authority became extremely weak even for dark age standards and it basically became a whole bunch of tiny states. The it's not Roman relates to how it leeched off the glory of Rome partly because they had so little success of their own. Finally it's not holy used to talk about how it mostly became protestant but in modern day it's used to make fun of how evil they actually were while claiming to be holy. Of course most countries were what we call evil during the dark ages. For those reasons people like to make fun of the Holy Roman Empire.

"The it's not Roman relates to how it leeched off the glory of Rome partly because they had so little success of their own." it is mostly because most of the territory of the HRE was never romanized. the danube was the natural frontier of the roman empire. the vast majority of the HRE was north of it. claiming roman ancestry was silly.

@@islamisthetruth3402 "Holy" ---> due to the coronation by the Pope, "Roman" ---> Due to the same reasons as before ---> "Empire" Debatable during it's late stages, but it did indeed start out as an empire.

As a Dane I never thought i’d say this. But thank you Swede;) Ps. Giv os Skåne, Halland og Blekinge tilbage😤

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Sacking an un defended city, killing innocent people going about their daily lives trying to make the best of a bad situation. Nothing to be proud about here mate. I love learning about the medieval era, but doing so has made me realise that they were all a bunch of cunts... The only people i hear suffering in this day and age were women and kids.

Oars.

Some of the best ships built ever with a great crew of strong norsemen with oars, not really complicated

wow ,, you can't figure is out on your own... do you live in the desert ?

Alanna Baker yes

Have you ever heard of a row boat? Now scale that up and make it longer.... If that's something you have to wonder then perhaps you should go back to school.

This guy gets it ;)

How is it portrayed in Vikings?

Chance they gave credit to Ragnar Lothbrok but yeah seems about same

​@@niksarass In Vikings it is very over-dramatized. (SPOILER ALERT FROM HERE ON) The Siege of Paris was much longer in the show, and the vikings attempted to storm the castle twice, both times they were defeated by a very well manned garrison with high walls and very well prepared anti-siege weapons such as boiling oil until Ragnar came up with the plan of pretending to be dead and be buried inside, only to jump out and take the emperor's daughter hostage. In real life, the sack of Paris was pretty much just one single assault and it was over.

How? Boats were also on other side of the river.

The vikings used their longboats to maneuver around locations and to retreat before reinforcements could arrive. By destroying their boats, the vikings would have been stranded there and reinforcements could have been called in to overwhelm them. As for the river, it might be shallow enough to ford.

The Seine might be shallow enough to ford?

If they could've they would've

How do you suggest they simply destroy them? its a lot easier said then done. Soaking wet boats are not easy to put on fire imagine trying to do that with a pair of flint stones. Which is why Greek fire have been sought after. Trying to chop it to pieces with your most expensive item(your sword) would not be ideal. imagine the vikings turning around seeing a bunch of franks trying to chop them in to pieces. That would have given them a good laugh. And knights where not invented yet, so if they had destroyed them it would be highly unlikely that the franks would have cavalry(they probably had some, but far from the numbers required to chase and take down that army.

Constantine XI who the hell I you

Constantine Xl I'M THE TRUE HEIR TO THE BYZANTIUM THRONE YOU INFIDEL

LOL YOU GOT KILLED BY A MERE JANNISSERY

Ragnar the Fearless

A bit early mate.

James Tang NEVER TO EARLY FOR A CRUSADE

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