The Early Exploits Of The First Vikings 

History is so interesting to me. Idk how people think it’s boring. It literally feels like an entirely different world that these people used to love on but it’s the same ground we walk on today. It’s breathtaking when you think about it

This is probably the best documentary I've seen about the vikings. It answered many questions I had concerning social and economic typology prior to the "raids" . Very well done.

I would love to go back in time to get a glimpse of how these people lived and acted. In all eras... Amazing!

This was well made, great documentary. Thanks so much.

How do you make documentaries so quick? Your upload rate is so high, I mean your work is cinema quality

My 10 year old is learning about the Vikings at school, so this documentary will come in handy

Best documentary on the Vikings EVER . Thank you so much for sharing with us :)

In school I got an A* in history mock exam but after taking it as a option for gcse I was told I wasn’t going to be accepted as they thought It was too much work for a student like me (basically thought I wasn’t smart enough and was from a rough working class area) 8 years later I’m still amazed by all facets of history , great judgment by the teachers.

I did a dna test recently and found out im related to danish vikings so I have come to love this kind of content!

Beautiful! Something I would have in my home or office, for two reasons. One, the design is efficient and not bulky, yet shows plenty of strength to be used very comfortably. And two, it is handmade and not simply a piece of "production." It's more personal, and warm, both in the way it was constructed, and the very warmth of the wood itself! Awesome. Thank you!

Camera work during the interview segments is really great.

Thank you for sharing!😊 It's nice to learn about history around the world!😊👍🏾💯

I’m SO in love with this channel! I miss the “old” history channel on tv!

If Dan Snow introduces a programme. It's going to be very good! 👍🏻

This was an incredible documentary, filmed and produced at the highest standard. Well done and thank you! Also Vikings rule!!

You can tell that the BBC had nothing to do with this excellent documentary.

Thank You for sharing and posting.

Timeline taking advantage on the Valhalla hype 👍

This series is so well done. Thank you for having real historians who are not blinded by modern politics/society discuss this topic. They cite evidence and are nuanced when it comes to making absolute assertions. Refreshing.

This was on Amazon Prime too! Great show.

The emotional detachment from children in their early years would make sense. Graveyards from where I grew up and I have visited around the US, you find that until the early 20th century a lot of people didn't name their child until they reached 2 or 3 years old. Child mortality caused by influenza, typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria, and household accidents, was in some places as high as 60% for children 3 and under.

I am loving the fact that the documentary has English, French, and Norwegian (??? Or is it Icelandic??) featured in it.

love this stuff

Very well done documentary, really worth your time

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

I hope they upload the other episodes, they’re on Amazon prime but only available in the USA and I don’t want to get a VPN just for three episodes of vaguely factual docu-drama 😅😂 it’s so good though... I need the other episodes!

It would be interesting if you would explore the effect of the Holy Roman Empire massacre's of northern German and Scandinavian tribes. That might have caused the Viking raids on Europe.

I would do anything to have the ability to time travel and see the way people lived in all eras of humanity from 10’s of thousands of years ago to even just 75-100 years ago

Well this was awesome.

AT 2:42 Viking third from the front is the best Viking I've ever seen.

OK, I'll watch this soon. I hope to be enlightened further. I have read the Heimskringla (the the real one not the fake when they put on Wikki). I have read a lot of the research done by the BBC when Magnus Magnusson was still host of "Master Mind" too.

so much for their "honor" and "bravery"

Awesome 🤩 I love ❤️ history and this is an amazing documentary. I recommend it!

Great documentary.

Wonderful to hear a small reference to Sandby Borg at Oland Sweden. Excellent film

So why is no one mentioning the Saxon Wars?Started by Charlemagne to forcefully introduce Christianity to northern Europe. Refugee Saxons who shared a common religion with their Scandinavian cousins would relate tales of destruction of their way life. This surely left a bad taste in Scandinavian mouths about western Christian civilization and may have influenced some of their reactions to destroying Christian monestries in their raids in the following years.

Influenced by the latest AC game?

Awesome video. Is there another part ?

I’m becoming obsessed with Vikings. Don’t know.

guess you cant have vikings on ships without screaming. lel

I hope they talk about Charlemagne

The Viking age just proofs that the gangsters from one generation are the heroes of the next.

Not all the Norths were vikings, viking is the term of the action of some one who sails, pillages and plunders, or a pirate. But not all Nord were pirates.

One word ...Santorini . It was huge. Impacted most of Europe

As an American I always scratch my head when Brits, or Scandinavians talk about going to "Europe" as if it's a different continent.

Amazing 🤗👍🙏💕

The very wealthy, it seems have always shown their greed and punished unreservedly those less fortunate than themselves. So as "modern" as we think we are today, have we changed so much❓Sadly, I don't think so❗️ A fascinating and very enjoyable informative video. Thanks.👍🏼

tried to watch the series, but it's not for those who have vision problems and can't read fast. They can take the time to translate into text so you have to pause to read . Would be much easier to to do voice over or just get english speakers

Excellent. Cheers.

really good :)

Interesting choice of narrator

So if I've followed the story/thesis correctly: the climate crisis starting in the mid-sixth century caused a severe population decline and freed-up land for the ruling classes to compete for. This lead to militarisation, culminating in the advent of Viking raiding - which was also helped by technological and societal advances allowing for production of sophisticated ships etc. This is interesting... it somewhat contrasts with the social changes thought to have followed a similar population decline after the Black Death in the 1300s (i.e. the weakening of the feudal system in England - brought about by the surviving peasants having greater bargaining power).

Not sure which came first, Charlemagne killing all non Christians, Frankia before he went on his quest to become ruler in Rome and proclaim himself "God on Earth" Pope or the raid on the church. I know he proclaimed 25th December 800 AD, and he thought he's killed anyone who wouldn't convert. Before getting into a way with the Lombards (who were also Christians) Anyway, few from either side survived and there was "Peace on Earth" that year, as most of the Christians had been killed in battle fighting each other leaving Frankia wide open. One thing is for sure, the Norse thought they would be next to be put to the sword if they didn't nip in in the bud. So, Frankia was made to pay. Bordeax, Perigueux, Lomiges, Angoulele, Toulouse, Angers, Tours and Orleans made deserts Rouen invaded, sacked and set on fire Paris (3 times), Beauvais and Meaux are taken the fortress of Melun laide waste, Chantres occupied, Evreux and Bayeux looted and every town invested (not sure what that means back then) Says Ermentarius of Noirmoutier (they took that and used it as their base of operations) Some of the names on this list no longer exist, as they were never rebuilt

[Q] What is the Worst place, in a hospital, to play Hide & go seek? [A] the Intensive care unit (ICU)

Key element, were their vercital, long boats . At home on rivers or the oceans.

"Large... tracts of land." 🤣😂🤣 11:59. You know you thought it, too. 😂👍

Prior to what we now call the Viking Age, Scandinavians raided along Scandinavian shores, so the practice was folded into the culture, long before they began to raid in Continental Europe, and later, far afield places such as in the Mediterranean, and interior areas of Eastern Europe.

Wheres the next episode? I need it

19:40 it's still like that today, especially in farmer families. Kids help on the field ect. since young age

I'm a proud half Norwegian anforth sheepish. my moms GPA came from Norway an her mom an fam still reside in minnosota. she was adopted. 4 a long x I was a mutt. didn't kno wat I was. peeps assumed and most rite an dam .im proud an luv to learn. so thanku sooo very much. I also did DNA an was confermed

I love that when discussing the data and research on the climate disaster that drove the peoples forth the guests say "they" or "them" when discussing the researcher(s). It was ONE MAN that discovered and did the initial research that discovered this HUUUUUGE and EXPANSIVE world disaster. Kudos to him.

My Family Was, and Is, These Survivors= Peopled The Earth! RESPECT!!

Man’s first great explorers

Yay! He's not sitting in his Lancaster Bomber... he's at Stonehenge.

Certain Native American tribes fought other tribes for what "goods" they could plunder as the spoils of war.

So because the Vikings came from a better organized social background, did their axes hurt any less in a monk's skull?

Are all the village and war clips from movies? Or are they made for the document? The detail of daily life is very fine and the clothing and dress is as real as it was happening. Where do these clips come from?

Enjoy aa I had Viking ancestors

There is archeology evidence that the Dani came out of South Sweden. They filled in the Jutland peninsula after the Saxons and Angles basically left. And that the Dani Wich is what the word Denmark denotes, land of the, Dani or Danes. And there are many things that have came to light to support this. Including evidence that the Viking age began in Denmark.

Now we have dad working a 40 hour work week, hopefully making a living wage, so mom can go shopping 2 or 3 times a week at Walmart or Costco for clothes and food items. Maybe take the kids to a water park in summer on wkends, or a ski event in winter. Things haven't changed much in all these centuries, except the human race has gotten softer.

6:17 Speak English! Damn it. I usually listen to this while working.

Kracatoa maybe

0:37 it starts

I would love if these kids would actually preface their statements with more, "This is speculation". I mean really this is poor docu drama. Horrendously so.

Time to get BAKED boys!

It was not JUST Scandinavians who raided from the sea. The Gaelic Celts launched raids across the Irish Sea into Scotland, England, and Wales. Although their coracles were perhaps not up to the standards of the sea-going Knarrs and Longships, they were sufficient to raid for treasure and slaves to import to Ireland. The most well known case, is the historical Paidric, ( Patrick ) who later became the bringer of Catholicism to pagan Ireland.

Godt klaret.

in some ways the mentality is still there, in some people, at some times

How much does history hit tv cost ?

Charlemagne dinasty also had its role in this.

is stonehenge no longer a public site and only Timeline has access to?

Would have liked to see a mongol vs viking

A good show, but wrong. Some of it may have contributing factors, but completely ignores the actual reason Vikings became raiders. The long boat was in use hundreds of years before Viking raids started. The Norsemen were peaceful traders and had a trade network that reached from western Europe and the British Isles to the rivers of Eastern Europe. What happened? Christianity. First you had the Butcher of Saxony (Charlemagne) conquered the land and forced the Saxons to convert or die, And die they did, in the thousands. But not only that, many Saxons fled to Denmark to the north. The story of Christian brutality to the south was notorious. The Danes even reinforced the Danevirke. A wall built originally to safeguard against Saxon raiders, but now reinforced to keep the Brutal Christians out. Charlemagne did much to make Christianity stronger in Europe, and it strengthened the Catholic church. One of the rulings of the Catholic church was the complete ban of trade with non-Christians in Catholic ports. Suddenly, peaceful Norse traders had no ports to trade in the Catholic world. What were they to do? The Viking age is basically the consequences of Christian brutality and laws. It is rarely mentioned in documentaries like this because historians have a tough time criticizing people like Charlemagne whom many people consider a great king who unified and Christianized a good deal of Europe, but don't forget how he did it. You don't get a nickname like the Butcher of Saxony for nothing. And look at the Vikings themselves. In the west, they raided in the East they traded. Sure there were some wars in the East like conquering Kiev. But they basically won that war and became the rulers of Kiev. The didn't butcher the local Slavic people who were allowed to live and trade peacefully with Vikings who settled there. In Constantinople they became mercenaries for the Byzantine emperors for hundreds of years. The Byzantines were Eastern orthodox and were not as violent and brutal as the Catholics, they had no laws restricting trade with non-Christians. So they had no reason to raid Orthodox cities. Here they were traders and mercenaries.

I see. So the Vikings were really nice people!

The constant interruptions with foreign language interviews ruined the experience of watching the documentary on mobile.

wasn't Charlemagnes crusade (782) against the north before the viking raids(792)?

21:25 Why? Because you should not throw dead children's carcasses away...THERE IS NO 'AWAY'.

Great Stone people's not all them were so called pirate's they were Nomads Nomadic if you think about it

There could be another Viking age of raiding yet to come.

I find it hilarious that so many ppl in comments are flexing their inability to follow the subtitles. Wow.

How tf did they stack those giant stones man

7:59 :)

Tess of durbervilles !

we are all children of ADAM peace upon him

Always wondered whether the Vikings were really only from Norway? Or were they made up of peoples who eventually mostly settled in Iceland, Norway, Finland, and Sweden.

En español

at the start got the dates wrong when they started raiding they were doing it n the 7th century and along france belguim, holland and russia back in the late 6th century ,due to a bad 90 years or more of very cold weather ,in sweden ,norway denmark ect ,and the romans never went up as far as the boaders of the franks,and less folks for the high lords the lower class had more power as they would be offered more from other lords as well,and women were held in high reguard even held power over the village or settlement in some places,and the word vikger was a bay dweeler ,and alot of the metals were mainly silver from england and the europeian coast lines,the different norseman fought against eachother as early as the 6th century and even from the same countries,the idea they didnt is a strange one also that the franks king charlimayne was a main reason for the attacks against his ideas of christians takeing over the pagan gods and the vikings were in a holy war was nonsense

Charlemagne? Rollo obtained Normandy a hundred or so later.

Could they not get permission to use clips from Vikings then. Pity😔

The term Viking means "raider" but the 'Vikings' or Norse were far more than raiders. Also, most Norse women had equal rights under law and as the "Viking" series thankfully accurately shows many women learned to fight and were buried with their weapons as numerous graves have shown. Viking women who were oracles or bards held more societal power than the male chieftains. Christianity saw the rights - and rites - of Norse women disappear.