The Complicated History Of The Vikings Explained In 4 Hours | The Vikings 

This is great to fall asleep to.

I’m Danish/Norwegian All the men on my Dads side of the family have Harold as their middle name

I had NO IDEA that the VIKINGS were SO SUCCESSFUL in setting up settlements all over Europe & even Middle East!! And influencing such a WIDE range of cultures & countries!😮😮...WOW!🤔🤗🥸

I love that my conscience mind is full circling to the random videos that played while I was asleep Ive watched 56 mins on this video somehow and I’m just now researching this shit

Who's here for viking dreams while you sleep?

with my own Northern British Isles ancestry and also Swedish , I am fascinated by this series. My daughters partner family all come from Alvadnes on Karmoy. . On their farm, they found viking artefacts. proud to have so much Viking heritage.!!

As a descendant of Erik Bloodaxe and Witkindsdottor it is good to see a history of my Viking heritage. Thank you for this excellent series. 🥰🥰

Terrific video. I really enjoyed this. Thankyou

In the land of the blind, "One Eye is king"

Have to comment again, incredible documentary! Watching this for the second time, so many "aha!" moments that were kind of hard to connect and understand through history books. Thank you!

One cannot complain that the video is too short.

The gaming pieces! That's fascinating and they're so beautiful. 🎲 Thor and Odin...such an incredible story!

Im indian american living in antartica i found out im 56% Scandinavian! Momma must have been creepin while daddy was sleepin 😅

Very good work

A woderful tour. Your pride of home and it's history is amazing. Thank you for sharing.. Take care.

That last bog guy that the announcer spoke of died not just by strangling, but a cut throat and somethin g else I forget but it was 3 methods of the ceremonial sacrifice

Thank You for sharing! I love watching videos of my Ancestor's.

I like to listen to long form content at work 🙏🏼 🎉

Haha the second I saw Marit I knew they could handle themselves. Hearing she's a decent skipper didn't phase me, I'd also imagine she's proficient in bow, dagger, probably shortswort & buckler... etc.

Great video, just trying to help: at 27:27 - Odin is not Thor's brother, he is his father, the all father of the Aesir. Thank you for the beautiful video.

Great to fall asleep to, ty

dude this oldschool runescape type music lol

I love history since I was young

Getting so wrapped up in Q that you forget the R that heralds the return of the all-father seems to be an old pattern

We are all related in some way. Not so different Afterall. When we look at what was written down by historians, we need to keep in mind also what were the variables and the bias of the author. I have enjoyed this documentary thank you ❤.

Hey, you’ve got a nice sword. Huh?

Thank you 🙏

@22:13 i love this art and the weaving of the dragon. It requires detailed foresight of where to break, as to appear below the next layer. Kinda reminds me of the 3 norns/fate weavers, maybe they thought like that for their magic 🤷‍♂️

How do these videos not have more views? People just don't care about history?

Just found out I'm 40% norwegian, no one in my family has ever mentioned it, I look mostly native american, it was a pleasant suprise

As a History Major I found this so very interesting. A subject that is generally a footnote in world or even European history. So much history is still being discovered.

Have you learned yet what caused the Vikings to travel so much and to kill and pillage the lands they found on their travels? Were they starving? Was there some great societal upheaval that made them seek fortune elsewhere? Or were they just suddenly aware of riches elsewhere and they just wanted it? Or something else?

I found it pretty cool (given what I know now, not much of a surprise) that my family used to be Vikings that originated in Holland. It wasn't until a battle with Napoleon that our family name was given. Fascinating stuff.

Buried with great respect,yet their skulls sit in your lab setting....Got it ...

Appreciate this, Chanel. I love history since I was young.

Whats funny is that my one girl friend spotted you in passenger seat of vehicle around my parts ..lol

I love how RU-vid just inserts these two second advertisements right in the middle of people's sentences. Too many ads I can't even sleep to this crap

You are killing me! 😂

♪♫♥Very interesting - Thank you for sharing this knowledge !

We new good Viking restaurants 😅

Weird question: Can anyone tell me what book Juri Peets has open on his desk when he's talking about Viking Age swords at about 1:10:33 ?

I thought Thor was Odin's son, not brother.

All these really soft spoken museum personnel sitting in front of the remains of people viciously hacked to death by their ancestors. There’s a funny kind of dissonance there. I wonder what happened.

We rode the rivers of the Eastern trail Deep in the land of the Rus Following the wind in our sails And the rhythm of the oars No shelter in this hostile land Constantly on guard Ready to fight and defend Our ship 'til the bitter end. We came under attack I received a deadly wound A spear was forced into my back Still, I fought on... *_When I am dead_* *_Lay me in a mound_* *_Raise a stone for all to see_* *_Runes carved to my memory!_* Here I lie on the river bank A long, long way from home Life is pouring out of me Soon I will be gone I tilt my head to the side And think of those back home I see the river rushing by Like blood runs from my wound *_When I am dead_* *_Lay me in a mound_* *_Raise a stone for all to see_* *_Runes carved to my memory!_*

I am adopted with my 2 sisters with me. I will always be thankful that my adoptive parents insisted on not splitting us up. All 3, or not.

Spellcheck will not let me write Constantinopol correctly

IT SEEMS EVERY ONE WANTS TO PAINT THE VIKINGS AS nice guys, misunderstood? laugh.

Ultimately I cannot help but thoroughly enjoy all the ongoing historical discoveries. However, with that notion of aperture’s, I cannot help having a mindset of, not discouragement, not uninterest, not unenthusiastic, yet an unwavering conclusion there’s an obvious message of cohesive enlightenment of needing a further unexplored perspective of unified hopelessness only because we always conclude in a circular maze of illogical incomprehensibilities …

mutually hostile would be a good band name. in fact, this film is full of good ones.

I read Beowulf when I was 13..

1:16:30 omg why is he doing that voice lol

Sides is responding to jealous teammates who don't want to play second fiddle to a rookie..they've talked to the coach about it and sides responding with pitting the ball in other players hands to balance out possession

ne cannot complain that the video

So at what point does graverobbing become archeology

Very good very informative but not very well edited/compiled I’m afraid. It bounced from different topics only to come back to them and have the experts say the exact same thing in a different way or repeat their clip. Still, I appreciate the effort and I appreciate the amount of knowledge gained. I knew absolutely nothing of the Vikings before this.

I prefer to think of the Vikings as a bunch of marauding hellions...just kidding. Thanks for bringing nuance and greater understanding to the history and legend of this incredible civilization...of marauding hellions...JUST KIDDING!.

Bagaimana caranya mengubah logo yang ada disamping kiri ketikan saya ini yang huruf "F"? Buat langkah2 sejelas2nya! Thx.

I was bourn in westeros or västerås. All my family is from the vally of the maelar sea or Mälaren. My last name is one of lokies or lokes many names. One time when i was in germany a woman told me that i looked just like what a viking would look like. I dont belive i am anything else.

I am Norweigin & Scotts Irish on my mothers side. Just found out that my mothers side was mixed blood with more Norwegian than Irish. So I am more Norweigin & English also than was ever known before due to searching our ancestry thru DNA.

The narrators voice makes the program a success or a failure.... 😊 An older man firm voice is best....

Viking time-traveller: ”My comb!!?”.

Did anybody see the time traveling viking with the gopro??? 😅

How did the Vikings get those tiny little boats across the ocean? Oh my goodness! I thought they were bigger and deeper. How did they get the water out? How did they not freeze in storms? How did they not capsize in big waves? I have so many questions now…

This was very educatational however so sad

too many commercials

While watching this, I learned two of my mother’s Polish surnames are actually Viking! So cool!

1:37:54 the face- only a mother could love

Vikings means pirates (Oxford University)

These people are describing a family murder ‘We don’t know why these people had these sword wounds and these children toys’

Scandinavia must be a magical enchanting place if Norse Mythology took place there

as a norwegian who also know swedish its so annoying to listen to the dubbing 😂

Bruh I fell asleep and this is what was playing when I woke up, how did I get here?

Sure.

Norse people came to other countries way before the Viking age. That just shows you how much history was destroyed. Even Emperor Charlemagne spoke about the Norse men plaguing his rule and the Empires before him. And Charlemagne ruled during the dark age where history was lost in vast amounts.

The first attack on England in Lindisfarne was Danish and also parts of England was under Dane law for a bit and Eng Land means meadow land if translated from Danish.

My parents and I recently did our ancestry dna. I found out both of them are part Norwegian, and my dad is part Danish and Swedish. My grandfather's family(my mom's father) is Frisian. I never knew any of this. Never heard of the Frisii in my life, I don't know if they go back that far. But I know that they go back to Redbod in that region. My dad's side has an ancestor Sigurd Eysteinsson, his line for sure. Other lines from Gorm "The Old", Harald "Fairhair", Sigurd "Snake in the Eye" and Bjorn "Ironside". Had no idea!! Very cool for me!! I'm more interested in the real history, not the christian version of Viking history.

What makes this slaughter and invasion any different than that of the Nazis? Many people focus on the "good things" that Hitler achieved too. Bear in mind it was financed mainly on the fact that so many were murdered and their wealth seized. The sharing of trade routes and culture doesn't need to be achieved that way. People also admire Mayan culture, where beating hearts were cut out of living victims. The list goes on....

The last barbarians🫦

It looks like you're using clips from a Scandinavian documentary (possibly Swedish, but several languages there). Where can I find this?

Kai Uwe Faust of Heilung! 1:24:15

Legend or history: judge for yourself. During the Norse wars, the ''berjast við úlfa''the order or warrior faternity an elite in the service of the highest bidder an order of warriors were a warrior elite, similar to the berserkir, but more refined and religious, followers of the old Norse gods and a new creed imported the Móðir- Jörð, these Vikings could be the image we have of the Vikings helmet with horns, as some used them as a symbol of the male-goat, an allusion to his manhood. When times of peace came, the rulers wanted to dissolve them, as they were Christian kings, they hated Christianity, they plundered and killed them, as they had no resources, they dedicated themselves to banditry, and the Scandinavian kings hunted them down and cornered them, Seeing their extinction, they fled to Iceland with 26 ships. In Iceland they were not allowed to disembark, so they went west in search of a new land and discovered a land they called TULAND, today East Greenland. As newcomers they were forced by the dotrine of Móðir-Jörð to be polite to the natives and learned from the INUIT natives, and became experts in -hundasleða-les gustava. But they kept bothering the Scandinavians, plundering their ships and coasts for firewood, food, silver and women, and the Scandinavian kings were fed up with them and searched hard for them and finally found them in Tuland (East-Greenland), killing them.After 70 years of living on those coasts they died out, they gave orders to ban the sagas ''tales'' about the warriors of Tuland under penalty of death. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

What's mean kjokken moddinger? Please answer it! Thx.

Dont forget murderers rapist and crooks

Ok, so the viking boats are real cool! I love them. Thanks for great show. But the boats are wide open to the elements of nature, the waves and the rain, the snow and the ice, the baking sun and/or freezing temperatures. Not to mention that I don't see much room for supplies storage. Hum Mostly I wonder, since they are wide open to the weather, how did they keep afloat? How did the boats keep from sinking from huge waves and rain during storms? How did the boats keep from freezing up in frigid temperatures? Even though the boats are way cool, man is not above nature. There must be more to these viking boats, than what we found to observe.

650 AD was before the age of raiding the continent. But they raided Estonia for generations before that.

id like to visit norway

Lone Ramger

Apa sisi kanan Adam dan Hawa? Share disini ya, thx.

Hi brother!!! Just by what you said in this video, I already appreciate you. Rory and the boys know you and I appreciate you, so that is a double down. Let me make it clear but not disrespectful my friend, brother quit apologize and do what you do apologizing and appreciate watching it man !!! All the best brother and looking forward to seeing your work. Cheers.

Way too many commercials based on the value of the content.

el señor vikingo un like

So did anyone else catch the Swastika on the Tattoo Artist's arm? 😂

Thor was Odin's son, not his brother.😉

They did not capture Constantinople!!!

39:58 casino boat?

Who was Eric the red

Cool, cool, now there are bots on RU-vid. Sigh

This is a life-affirming piece. A book with comparable insights became a pillar in my life. "Temporal Echoes: Amelia's Odyssey Through Ancestral Shadows" by Vivian Rosewood

Brah, thats not really a compliment. I dont think they made this video to put ppl asleep. 😂

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