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I was born in Denmark and as far as I have been informed in Danish Schools in History Class, women had quite more equality than women in GB f.ex who had inherited laws from the Roman occupation and Christianity which came sooner to GB than Scandinavia. The Viking women could vote in council and also had right to inherit and owned the farms where they lived.

I often wonder about my ancestors from Sweden, Denmark and Scotland. The women in my family have always been head strong, independent with moxie and intelligence. I feel these traits are a gift from the many aunts, cousins and grandmothers before me,

My siblings and I keep a tiny dish of whiskey hidden for the little people to the right of the primary entrance to our homes, as did our parents, and grandparents. Mother said she wasn't sure if they drank it; the mailman smelled suspiciously like Jamison's. 🤣

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This show makes me swell with pride....coming from generations of Viking women, I now know where my courage and independence derives from

I loved listening and watching. I would have liked more! I heard of some artifacts being found years ago and was fascinated by what was shared with me. Strength and courage is something I admire and something that inspired me at a young age. It is never easy to be a woman, and I suppose, not easy to be a man. I did know of the sun stones.

Women have been underestimated over a period of time but women are the backbone of family life and will always wil be in my opinnion

Most excellent program! Thank you!

SO happy I stumbled onto this site. I love anything and everything to do with ancient history. I'm obsessed with knowing more about the lives and customs of ancient people, and they way they survived and flourished throughout the world.

Very informative 👏 I watched to learn, not critique.

Excellent documentary! Thank you for the pleasure of viewing the video!

I really enjoyed this, thank you for the upload!

What a great show. Thank you so much for sharing💙

Wow that was terrific! Thank you for posting.

I really enjoyed this! I also appreciate the effort that went into the research. Thank you!

Enjoyed this, thanks for posting.

Both among the Scythians and Cimmerians women were warriors and fought beside their men that is why Herodotus called then barbarians

Wow love this ancient history Women and men were courageous thanks for this documentary. Thanks to the strong women.

I think the Vikings should be remembered for the discovery of North America. We celebrated Columbus but he only went to the Caribbean Islands Central America and a couple times near Columbia

When my father died in 1966, USA, my mother had to move back to her home town area to be near her father. Without his co-signature she couldn't buy/own property or get credit. Luckily for us, he was a sweet, kind man, but a WW1 veteran.

ありがとう❤こんにちは❗️ I'm from Japan. I like viking history and culture. It's very nice TV channels. I like Denmark history.

The polarized light stone is pretty interesting. I’ve never heard of that. The voice overs are a some bad examples of over acting, but aside from that comical annoyance, this was very intriguing. I’ve read that there where no true “women Vikings” by technicality but as assuredly as there where Vikings at all, that means there where women giving birth to them and they had to be a force to be reckoned with. This is a Good video.

I was curious, and started watching. Five seconds in, the narrator says "In the sagas ... women too fight ... for a better life". Well, I am Norwegian and I have read all the sagas, and this is not true. Women do not fight in the sagas. They spur the men on (often by ridicule, like implying that someone is a coward if he does not seek vengeance for an injustice), but they do not fight themselves. I am not saying this because of some "agenda" other than truth. I would have loved it if women had been swinging axes and swords too, but they didn´t, at least not in the sagas, and I don´t like lying about history just for the sake of "lifting up women". That is feminism in a dishonest way. I also wonder why there is so much emphasis on our pre-christian religion in this documentary. There is a lot of superstition on the sagas (in particular "signs" of something coming, "omen", as we would call this today), but there is almost nothing about worshipping the Gods and sacrificing to them ("blot", as it was called). This was a really bad and amateurish documentary.

I am half Norwegian and half Icelandic, so i have read Viking saga`s since i was a child. And just to be clear, many times in different saga`s a person is referred to as a Viking. So a Viking was something you was, even if it also was something you could do. There is a difference between going viking and being a Viking, even if you could not be a Viking if you did not often go viking. And in this video they try to say Viking was just something you did. That is very wrong. And no, it was not normal that woman went on viking, actually i have never read about it in a single saga. But yes, as a wife of a Viking, i guess you could still call them a female Viking.. In the saga many Vikings even refer to a certain person as a famous Viking. By the way, i have never read about any shield maiden neither, but i have read about some female leaders, like for example the wife of Eirik The Bloodaxe that pretty much ruled Norway on behalf of her sons after Erik`s dead.

Love the format of this video, history brought to life. Just one point isn't the Bayeux Tapestry the Norman Conquest of 1066? not a history duff but I am sure that was what I was taught in school.

Thanks again Michael really like the closeups. Im from New Zealand and we have alot of silver still floating around in opp shops and flea markets and but not as much as we used to. It still amazes me how much British silver made the long journey with families and then ends up in opp shops we'll until I turn up.I found a nice pair of bright cut Exeter sugar tongs by Francis Parsons along with a few other silver goodies in a two dollar cutlery lot. So this episode caught my eye.Amywa thanks for another great video. Alway great to learn from your channel. Cheers Joe

Very interesting. It's not often we know the stories of women & less often they are portrayed in any detail. I'm okay with the over acting. LoL

My maternal DNA is 60% Viking, but I have no known Viking ancestors. My GGG maternal grandmother was born in Shropshire or near Wales ~ 1800 & she was a convict to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania/Australia) ~1820.😢

I really enjoyed this program. Thank you.

Wish there were more "viking" women stories

I have it on good authority that my ancestors in Wales were visited by the Danes and/or the Norse going a-viking over centuries. Some of them stayed in Wales, hence the Williams and Dawson's. I've no doubt the unmarried ladies were a probable reason. They're all intriguingly beguiling, you know. 😉 And by the time the Norse were kidnapping Padraigh and selling to an Irish family, Christian women who'd caught the eye of an Norseman inspired them to convert. Here's me nattering on, though. Cheers.

💚 I find this piece absolutely fascinating!! I'd love to learn more women vikings.❤

Even the bones or charred remnants hear and see through consciousness of those who descend from the ancient Nordic Vikings. I know. My Dad was a great mystic .

Uh, I think theres been a mistake, Odin is offered Mead not beer, unless that was mead? 6:30

Very cool documentary. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for some helpfull information in my research for our pre-christian history!

Thank you! Would it be possible to upload the series _Ancient Egypt: Chronicles of an Empire?_ I can’t find anything beyond episode 3 😫

Great info!

This was really good but it ended right in the middle of a scene. Is there a 2nd part???????

Viking women, like women of every generation throughout history have been motivated to stand up for themselves due to whatever circumstances they find themselves in that does not contribute to their happiness. They have been motivated and found strength to become Women of Courage by standing on FAITH. Our Founding Fathers of this country were compelled to put into writing that people in the United States of America come in the spirit of the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS and should be afforded that opportunity.

This was very interesting

I really like this show of explanning this about the women vikings and how m ancient ancestors survived at those times

You have some interesting points. Simulation is well documented though out history and it has a little different slant than you do, but all we can do is compare what history tells us and keep an open mind. Then act accordingly. Thanks for sharing your views.

Yay! Something nice to watch tonight 🇮🇸❤️🇮🇸

Brilliant watch thanks x

Iceland is now mostly dreary dark and cold. Some people find its fiords ice and hills spectacular. I went thru the Rakyavic airport many times. The architecture itself is stark and inside the airport are metal and hard wood benches and sitting areas. Wood floors. Nothing was padded. The service personnel were very unfriendly. The skies were always dark and clouded. I was always glad to leave. I never saw green so these videos must have been made during a short period of the year when there is some green.

Great movie I love it

Those were good, thank you

great one! thanks

I too, came from A long line of , Scottish, Swedish, Denmark, Norway, Viking Kings and Queens, also English, German, French, Irish and Hun Kings as well! How did The Viking era come to and End when Rolo went to Normandy and His Descendents Ruled England?

Its sad American schools dont teach much about the Vikings knowning that the Vikings were actually the first people to land on the american continent , I understand the relationship between the Vikings and the Native Americans was not really good.

Yes, yes, yes, I love my heritage. Stand up!

King Canute( Knut) of England was Danish

Scholars speak so much about what female Vikings did and did not do in their time. My issue with that is the FACT that we can only speculate as to what anyone did in that era because We haven’t enough firm evidence and the writings We have are sagas. No one can blankly state IF many women of that time fought with the men or not. It’s all speculation.

Awesome !

Sigrun! Amazing lady!

I feel that I resonate with the same time line period. I feel as I am watching this video that... I have gone through this very true life experience Don't know what makes me have such gut feelings 😢😢😢😢

How ridiculous- all they're missing is someone saying, "like, that's awesome, dude!" Stick with the history and don't try to modernize it into a mess like this.

This was very entertaining. 👍

(YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO) as he takes his plate of pizza rolls to the basement to play video games 😂😂😂😂😅

As a Norwegian the ignorance in this comment section is so cringe🤡 You can’t claim “viking ancestry” because the Vikings wasn’t a set group of people or an ethnic group, but a “profession”, aka piracy. The majority of which was farmers most of the year, then occasional raiding, pillaging, looting, rape and murder and explore new lands as a bonus… and you can’t claim to be something that died out as a cultural movement X years ago with the Christening of Norway. You gonna be so embarrassed if you come to Norway proclaiming to be “99% viking”🤣🤣🤣 Everyone will be like sure👀🫣🫠 To go into Viking was something you did not who you were. Get educated before uttering nonsense. Also no actual proof the Vikings had tattoos or did tattooing in general. Nor were they blonde. This is a stereotype rooted in debunked racist ideology. History the Norsemen from Norway who were the ones who raided and settled Scotland and Ireland was dark. Blonde hair didn’t even origin in Europe, but Siberia Asia and was brought to northern Norway by the Proto Finns during the Last Ice eAge.

The Bayeux tapestry depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066 by William,Duke of Normandy.. better research is needed..

I, too, have 1% Viking blood. But I was born in South America, the land of the greatest empire on Earth, *THE INCA EMPIRE,* the most sophisticated Civilization on the planet which extended from Colombia to Chile. They appeared in the year 1000 AD. If they had appeared in the year 700 BC as the Roman did, they would have conquered North America, Europe, the Vikings, China, India, Africa, Russia and Japan. Fortunately for them, the Incas came too late.

Very interesting

Quite an interesting story. it seems that in many ways the adoption of Christianity set things back rather than advancing them.

Sigrun. What a heroine.

Reading the New Testament, it is very obvious that St. Paul had a very low opinion of what a woman's place should be, and far too many men were most happy to adopt this attitude. The Christian religion was definitely not favorable to women for centuries.

I feel my female Viking heritage in my bones and in everything I am

The women of the viking age were not the women we see in the movies. The women of Germany during the Romen expansion were more feared than the men because in most cases they were larger in size. And most Scandinavian women would be of similar size. So don't think of the pretty women of the movie when thinking of viking women.

Bayeux tapestry depicts normandy conquest .

Addendum: a Congregation of Crows arrived at the wake for the Fabulous Ms. Bianca (yes, a winter white cat). There were at least 30 of them, with an occasional fly-by from one trying to see in the window. A more disrespectful bunch I never did see - but before 5 minutes elapsed after her last breath, the crows decided I was not providing a buffet and all but one left. Crows are as weird as humans, sometimes.

There is archeological evidence of shield maidens, yes? Not myth.

half norweigian w a fourth sweed .moms gfather immigrated from bergin.friggin proud

Who is model In thumbnail?

Sygryda Storråda Sygrida Storråd, identified by some historians with Gunhilda, known in Polish historiography under the reconstructed title Świętosława - queen of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and England, wife of Sweyn Forkbeard and Eric the Victorious, and mother of kings Harald Svensson and Canute the Great

In the here & now, the wirld is troubled again. Thats the past. Hope youre as strong as you were then. On a Global scale, there are Only two sides. No country can sit on their Hands this Time round. Today, by God Bring youre "A GAME"...

What is her last name!!!! I want to find her out!!!

would it have been the khzars that raided the viking trading post. wasnt it at this time the pharisees were allowed back into england by cromwel possibly

I have never seen those sun stone navigation devices before, how clever that is. I have always found it hard to believe in women warriors but there is no doubt that women must have had some ability to fight even if it were just with simple knives. Women can use bows very effectively for example but the problem would always be to get their hands on weapons long enough to practice. If you are enslaved that is going to be very difficult indeed.

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I'm gonna need a historyectomy after all of the history I've consumed lately 😖🤦

Christianity also btought men to their knees when it came to treatment of women. That they are ro die for them. To love them as they love themselves. To put their potection over them. They humanized them.

Wow I had no idea that they traded millstones..little known fact

She was a smart woman who walked away from an abusive partnership. Good partners are prosperous by sharing equally the responsibilities of said partnership.

You can find an ancient hearth doesn't tell you who cooked the meal.

The Thing as the Icelanders practiced it is the first true democracy of all free men as landholders since the Athenian Greeks of Attica in their early days when a true democracy could work due to small population. Solon the first Federalist introduced the world's first written constitution to replace the chaos of democracy. Democracy is perfect for small communities but fails and is easily corruptable the larger a population becomes. Solons reforms were the basis of Romes turn to a Republic after the deposing of the last tyrant or king of Rome. A lower and upper assembly were introduced by Solon to lessen the power of the Archons of the aristocracy. It went far to build the first Republic but not far enough to reduce the chaos of democracy which the athenians favored. When Franklin, Hamilton and Madison met with the Iroquois Confederation, they found the key to the separation of powers necessary to strengthen Solons idea of Republic which came up short in both Greece and Rome. We Americans mixed Greek democracy at the local level with Roman Republicanism at the national level but found the confederation too weak to survive the challenge of the European monarchies. By instituting Iroquois Federalism it perfected the Federalist Republic that had been tried so often yet failed. By mixing all three we built a Great Republic that to this day is the heart of The Anglo Saxon five eyes alliance. Iceland however is small enough where the pure democratic thing would work much as it did in the early days of the Athenians of Attica. If ever they become large in population, they will need a more powerful Federal Constitution to strengthen the state. As it stands they are protected by the military of Nato which is controlled by the five eyes. So while Iceland can depend on the Anglo Saxon armed forces to protect them, they can also depend on the love of freedom amongst the five eyes people to allow them to govern themselves in a loose way as they choose. Iceland under Natos protection is an example of democracy as it can only work...with a small population and the protection of greater powers who have no need or want to conquer them. President Trump offered to buy Iceland which would have made them a protectorate of The United States like Guam or Samoa. That they rejected the offer did not lead us to conquer them or recind our protection. Much as Puerto Ricans are a free nation yet dependent on The United States and are a protectorate with rights of citizenship. The Icelanders have the same right to our protection but reject the right of American Citizenship. In short Trump offered them nothing they didn't already have but citizenship. That they reject citizenship doesn't mean that we reject our responsibility to protect them. It serves our vanity to allow a true ancient style democracy to live under our protection. Would we like to have them join the Republic and become citizens? Some of us would but we take pride in the fact that we force no one to join us while any may apply. Few would have their applications approved though. Iceland I think is one of the very few we would accept if they applied.

They didn't have a writing system?. you've just made this stuff up

My name is torkelson! I am a female and it means Thor’s helmet! 💪🏻😊✊🏻👊🏻 🪖

Being a viking is not a good thing, but some had no choice.

Thank you most people want to show the bad side of our ancestry it had and bad

In all the Viking series - The Vikings, Viking Vallhala, etc. - women were equal to men, they weren't their husband's property & some were warriors! Like Lagartha & Freya & others. Much like other non-Christian, cultures like the Celts, women were equal & many were capable fighters. Which the Romans found out when they took away the lands of a Iceni King & whipped his Queen & Roman soldiers raped the 2 princesses, Queen Boudica recruited other Celtic tribes to revolt against the Romans. With Queen Boudica leading this army in a chariot, they defeated 2 Roman legions, the most ruthless & well-trained troops in the world! Their 2nd battle against the Roman legion at Londinium (London, 60 D) resulted in them burning it to the ground. Unfortunately Queen Boudica & her daughters were killed in their 3 battle. Just FYI & wondering if those viking sagas were fiction about women warriors. Perhaps white-washing their history by later Christian historians?

can i just watch the show of her life and then watch the historical part of her burial site and so forth? it looks good just breaks up the story imo

Maori women...❤ they outweigh these survival skills

No mention of Freya or any other female deities? That was very disappointing.

The british women like the viking men more than their own men due to the vikings were cleaner lol

Thankful for all of this. I have DNA

I had always heard that Iceland was the land of greenery and Greenland was the land of ice. Was I wrong?

How does "untold stories" fit with "legendary"?

Read The Vikings Secret Yoga. Back in the 10th century.... the poet-warriors encrypted their Lore.

Have women not always been struggling to live in a man's world.