The True Story of Thorfinn Karlsefni | Vinland Saga 

If you've only seen the anime, just know there's actual manga spoilers in this video due to the similarities with the real life Thorfinn.

I think the author of Vinland Saga kind of fused a lot of characters into his story's version of Thorfinn. Which is admittedly hard to craft. A pregnant woman wielding a sword seems scary, though!

Amazing. Thorfinn sailed into the unknown to escape war and bloodshed and when he found them both in the new world he turned around and went home to try for a life free of war and bloodshed. Legendary.

The first thing I see on youtube is The Real Thorfinn Karlsefni, just as it should be. Excellent story and narration. Thanks once again, Ollie!

Vinland Saga is good story. It is incredible.

I have read some texts that speculate that in addition to the oxen breaking loose and frightening the indigenous peoples of Vinland, some scholars think that the dairy products Thorfinn’s people traded to the indigenous peoples may have given the latter severe lactose-intolerance symptoms, and potentially caused the indigenous people to suspect the settlers had been trying to poison them. Does that also come from the Icelandic Sagas or does that argument by scholars/historians come from a different source?

【Light Heads Finland】 I commend this Vinland Saga / Real counterpart series you have very much ! I knew that Thorfinn was based on a real person but had no idea about Thorkel The Tall, it's so nice to learn new interesting things about history while waiting for new episodes of Vinland Saga to pump up the historical facts / characters / life in general that's in the past

This video was so good, I did not know any if this, brilliant story and so interesting too

A perfect video thank you so much!

Thanks for making a video about my 27th great grandfather

I loved this video, and many others you presented to us. Your narration is spotless! Hope your channel continues to grow each day! Thank you History Profiles

Looking forward to viewing this on the tv screen. Edit:Finally enjoying the video. Adventurous. Amazing and entertaining. Another true historical tale. Pssst. I have gone back to your other videos and enjoying them on the big screen. ❤️🥰😘

Great video!

This was amazing

Glad your including this anime m8 good read and watch

Its crazy how the show Vikings: Valhalla connects with the Vinland Saga. Love it.

Amazing video , this one picture looks kind of anime but whatever , the channel is great !

No! Karlsefni is ‘karls-evne’ meaning 'a skilled mans ability’. He got the byname as a boy, because he already could do a mans work then…

I think when depicting the natives, it would be better to not use Aztec imagery considering they're 6000km+ apart

i hope this doesnt actually spoil the ending of vinland saga

you're telling me when the natives surrounded her, she took a sword off of a dead body, undid her shirt to show she was big and pregnant, then slapped the sword against her bare breast? Yeah no one would fight that in their right mind.

Land-nama book, not landama… It means Land Taking Book and is a record of who settled where and claimed what piece of land.

I like your video and I love Vinland Saga, profiling the Vinland Saga character as I learn more about the real character behind the series.. how about Askelad or Lucius Artorius Castus is he a real person or just fictional character?

The whole thing with the natives is currently happening in the manga for vinland saga

I’m sonpissedd Vinland saga is finally getting recognition! This is one of the best anime to come out in years!!!

Getting spoiled by actual history now.

It upset me that it takes Japanese to get these stories out

Crazy how Thorfinn is related to bjorn ironside

The real story is way more amazing than the anime

Thorfinn to the natives: "I have no enemies"... probably

you should cover Drifters anime.

So this makes it look like thorfinn in the manga will leave the lnu tribe alone and the future of miste pwique will be settled thanks to him and Einard.

#SPOILERS gaawsch! In all seriousness, what a channel. Keep it up sir, love it!

Hey uh at around 5:27 you use pictures of Aztec warriors from Central America. Incredibly different weapons and clothing!! Also a bull did not chase off Thorfinn's company. Its debated whether someone reached for an ax or not, but Thorfinn and his company killed 8 out of the 9 men the found in the canoes. Freydis was also scolded for being "unwomanly."

Isn’t there an anime about Vinland? Or am I trippin with memory. Nvm the OP included it at the end 😛

God can't wait to see Freydís Eiríksdóttir in Vinland Saga 😝

What is more real human lore accurate Vinland saga or the live action show Vikings?

Did this guy already made a video of the real musashi from vagabond?

I think we know now what's going to happened in the manga. (prediction).

Vinland is Newfoundland ?

Wait so how did britian not know about america if these people discovered it and we have their stories (mainly thinking about columbus)

Columbus left the chat! :D

can you do a real Askeladd?

I gotta watch this anime, huh?

do you think he had any enemies

Immortalized in the anime?... I'm pretty sure the historical Viking sagas immortalized him. The anime is just a modern nod to that immortalized character.

When they feed us with crap at school like Christopher Columbus first discovered America, but Vinland fans know the truth.

I feel like the natives felt bad for them seeing a pregnant topless woman defending thorfinn and co so they just left them alone out of pity

Some people forget that Vinland were set too in Quebec, Maine and Maritine. During the second exploration, they were more careful with the natives and ended in neutral term with them. but where the Saga is complicate is some return to Iceland and some have stay in Vinland. Same they think some Vinnic have try to colonizing Texas and they called the Texas "land of Orange" lol

So he's not a short guy with 2 shortsword and fighting an 8 foot guy

WTH man! 1 minute in and I'm pretty sure you already spoiled the second season!!

Hoooly crap Freydis was a psycho! LOOOL

Dang Manga spoilers right here for the upcoming chapters

So hild going to die ?

Can you make a video about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?

🙂

Fuh-Jord, Jord?

If i have son i will name thorfinn

Yet they will tell u christifer columbus discovered the new world 😂 after watching this can u see how far off darwin was ?

The real king Ecgbert?

My Kin. We weren't born to fight, we were Hell raised to. The Northmen - I grew up in the Vineland surrounded by the pine barrens (barren womb/earth) where the Jersey Devil haunts the blood soaked lands of Free-dom (to escape service/the Kingdom). People here like to play with Stranger Things, dark things, worship devils and demons, and they cried vengeance, and vengeance came - for them - be careful when you call for justice because justice will come for you - the scales must be balanced. We grow a mean Devil's Fruit in the Vineland, tomatoes, because the ground is so salty and swampy from the past, and people love to smother their bread that Pan bakes for them in an oven with it and all their other wicked delights - consumers - those that demand service rather than serving - the Free-dom lovers. They think violence is cute now, lazy dogs who never even touched a blade much less had it plunged into them, and fall for this myth that Valhalla is where my kin want to return - we do not - we want Freya to bring us Fólkvangr where we can rest and be with our loved ones again - but we have wicked delights from the battles and we would be restless there because of it - this endless war - you dogs - you arrogant dogs doing it all over again, screaming God is dead and Science is king as you raise Hell around this place again, so you will see them all re-emerge if you haven't already, those you despised even though they brought you what you want, breakers of chains - the ones you left dead and buried, but the Winter snow can only cover so much after the Fall and only wash away the blood on the surface in Spring, the bones remain, the truth remains - what we are, what this place is, and eventually the past will rise up to haunt us when we forget to learn our lessons of history. Rainbow - the Pride symbol - why it arches up and goes back on the earth - because sin will not enter heaven. Pride: violet, Envy: green, Wrath: red, Greed: yellow, Lust: blue, Sloth: indigo, and Gluttony: orange (passion fruit). We are dog/god reversed - canine - carnivore - consumers of delight/flesh. We are a union of our crimes: Wrath (Mars/War/red) and Lust (Venus/Sex/blue) - in the mother of sin - mother nature - consuming the womb with a view. Rather than sitting around contemplating this world, why not bend a knee and serve and know what this lie system, this World Wide Web will ever teach you. They're dancing to Blackpink (pink=innocence) and handing out black pills. Now's the time. Matthew 6.

Thorfinn wasn't very creative at naming stuff lol

Amazing that some japanese dude took the history of my ancestors and butchered it at his own discretion.

Wonder how history could’ve been different if more Vikings settled in America.