Who Was Leif Erikson? 

I'm Leif Eriksson and I approve of this video.

You're probably right in that Leif was in the whole "Ye, Jesus is cool and all, but we should probably not piss off the local elves" phase of nordic history.

Ok, historical Leif’s intro sounded like his dating profile.

Thorfinn the Skullsplitter was actually a pretty chill dude once you got to know him. Really easy to open up to him too.

that was actually a quite acceptable rendition of old norse at the start- well done :-)

Happy Leif Erikson day! Hinga dinga durgin!!

You get a thumbs up for both an awesome angry Viking pillager and a strangely adorable Leif Erikson.

Way better than Columbus...but oh my gawd is that butted chainmail?!?! I’m sOrRy but that impression is just fArB!

Regarding Vinland name: The Old Norse pretty much called any berry a "wine grape" or "Vín" (from the Latin word Vino). Those grapes? Wine grapes. That elderberry? Thats a wine grape. Them strange new world berries? We fermented them, so they were wine grapes.

I like that ending message on raising a glass to not only a bold explorer but a good man. I wish we talked more about Leif Erikson than Columbus, the guy was as awful as he was Italian.

Did anyone think of Leif Eirikson in such terms as a Viking raider? Even at a young age, I pictured him as an explorer, sailor and trader. There was definitely some kind of dichotomy to my imagining of vikings: between sea bandits and exploring tradesmen.

I'm pretty sure "Vinland" is either New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island. I've been to both and there are blueberry bushes EVERYWHERE near the sea.

"To boldly go where no one has gone before!" - Leif Erikson... probably

I love the dichotomy between the real Leif Erikson and the imposter!

Nice work, pal. I love that you can watch the clock and see that this whole video took you about 45 minutes to shoot, including costume changes! You practically live-streamed a history lesson.

I believe you meant hinga dinga durgen instead of skol, but it’s alright we all make mistakes

We all know Leif Erikson was a die hard Amon Amarth fan.

Easily one of my favorite channels. I feel like your content will blow up any day now.

Atun-Shei is probably the only person I can think of who can be dressed as a Norseman and wonder why he increasingly becomes covered in booze. XD

Newfoundlander here, L'Anse Aux Meadows is a really fascinating visit. In the summer, you can see the archeological site, and a great reconstruction of a viking outpost just north that's inhabited by viking reenactors. Highly recommended if you're into history.

A good argument for vin meaning grapes is it would have allowed them to make wine, vital for a Christian society. All the communion wine for Denmark, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland had to be imported from Germany at increasingly greater cost the further west it came, making wine alone could have made vinland colonies economically viable.

Dave the Canadian here. Another entertaining and informative video. Always liked the fact that the first European (that we know of) to set foot in N. America wasn't Columbus but an "uncivilized" Viking and he landed in Canada.

Newfoundland History Teacher here, thoroughly enjoyed this!

thank you for the shout out to Bjarni Herjólfsson , who got lost, and when he returned the other Vikings made fun of him because he didn't explore those lands he found

Pagans who were converted to christianity often remained partially pagan for a long time. It usually wasn't an abrupt change but a more gradual one. I believe Leif Erikson was likely such a half-pagan half-christian.

Who else just thinks about Spongebob and his love for all holidays ...

10 Maps That Made Canada is an excellent book that comes to the same conclusion, but with a great deal more detail. Also a really interesting read

I like how you can watch the mead take effect as his gestures become more and more expansive.

Who knows what cultures and nations would have arisen around St. Lawrence Bay is the Vikings maintained their sea-faring routes, and came to an understand with at least one native group?

Skol !! Happy Leif Erickson day ! always wanted to try mead , what's it taste like anyway? Great video as ALWAYS.

I don’t understand this channel has less subscribers and views. This is great work

I always wonder if Andy can actually speak these languages or if it's just improvised. Either way, I really like the immersion aspect it has

Skål! Cheers from Hammerfest, The northern most city in the world . Northern Norway.

Another excellent video. Your work is great. It is refreshing to hear someone who uses the best available sources to try to fill in the blank spaces in our historical gaps. I can only assume that Phil McCrackin has the same intentions. Thank you for adding a degree of levity in your work. It really sets your videos apart.

Recently found your channel, it is now one of my favourites!

cant get enough of the fun and informative videos you make. thanks for another great one!

your content and delivery is so fresh and well needed in the historical commentry community.

Pursuit of the Vikings at the end 🤘 Nice video.

Amon Amarth! This is honestly one of my favorite history channels now. Hands down!

Love the language segments, so well done.

You have a real talent for accents my man, I find myself impressed yet again.

You're the only youtuber who put a clock in shots that are stitched together, and I sort of love it

I’ve decided to go back through the videos of yours that I have watched and leave a comment in hopes to aid your algorithm… Very impressed, my friend… Keep up the good work and the fight… Our arms are forever wrapped around you here in Kennewick Washington, Washington state on the mighty Columbia River🤙👍🤙👍😍

Nice touch, with the medival acoustic version of In the Pursuit of Vikings, by Amon Amarth outro

I cite the "Greenlander Saga" as accurate for one important reason. It is funnier. Guy misses his destination, discovers a new continent.

Great video thank you for sharing!!

You make super great content, that intro Genius

It’s giving me anxiety whenever he spills his mead because I’ve bought that same bottle before and it’s VERY expensive

I know being aesthetically pleasing is not the primary purpose of your recreation of Eriksons clothes, but it does look damn good on you. Like seriously, maybe dont wear the cape in public day to day, but that shirt is very nice to you

Nailed it as usual! Good stuff :)

probably best film on this channel so far. bravo!!!!

The acoustic Pusuit of Vikings at the beginning was a nice touch

Fab video! However, his name is not pronounced "leaf", but like "layf" (the same vocal sound as in "way").

Nice Crawford nod....as if I couldn't already love this enough!!!!

COOL COSTUME! Hope you wear it out on the town tonight

Really do love your videos they're informative and funny. I especially love the lost cause works as a Southern Boy who is admittedly a former Lost Cause believer they very well put together and will researched. It had only been from my late twenties to now that I admit how wrong I was and can honestly join much of the RU-vid history community I'm shouting Wiiiiiilsooooooon! Removing him from my greatest president's list to wondering what the country would have been like under another term of Theodore Roosevelt and the strides to a better world he may have made and how different thev world would be because of his involvement after World War I questioning if there would even have been a World War II. Keep up the fun and interesting work and much hope to your future film projects.

Great stuff. Informative

Dude that acoustic Amon Amarth bit at the end was cool.

Very excellent! Please make more videos about the Viking Age!

New favorite channel.

So his portrayal in Vinland Saga is actually pretty accurate.

nice content. Vikings are always interesting

Ha! I love the acoustic Amon Amarth cover at the end.

Pursuit of Vikings by Amon Amarth at the beginning. Nice touch.

You do look rather fetching in that Norseman garb...Very good video, too!

Informational and I dig getting loose 🤪 with some wine ..not to dull

My thoughts during the latter portion of this video: "Yes! Viking Blod Mead! Very tasty. I heartily approve!" "....Holy s*** buddy! Haven't you read the alcohol percentage on that bottle?!? You're going to be on your a** before you're finished recording at this rate!" rofl

Leif Erickson adores his mother? That's more metal than all the sagas combined.

Great channel

I'm so glad to hear the Leif Eriksson was probably a pretty decent guy

Funny thing about Norse heroes - Skarphéđinn Njállsson (hope I spelled it right) is described as having an "ugly mouth" almost having tusk-like teeth from what I remember, deathly pale skin, and (possibly) wore blue a lot.

Great video! I intend to go all out celebrating Leif Erikson Day this year. Even though the pandemic has cancelled public events, I thought about going out in my mail hauberk, complete with my Viking sword and axe, while drinking Carlsberg lager or mead from my new drinking horn that I’ve purchased. Though, I’d recommend going for the Nasal helmet/Norman helmet, for a more authentic look. Spectacled helmets were certainly used initially, but they quickly went out of fashion because of blows coming down on the head would hit the eye. Also, I have to ask, how did you get the aventail onto the helmet?

You said that the Magnus Magnusson translation was the only one you had on hand, but I can definitely see a copy of "Sagas of the Icelanders" on the bookshelf behind you.

Danks mjod, the best Mead out there. Good choice

I have that same mead! ...Now I'm sad that it's out of production.

Hey! Jackson Crawford callout! Educational RU-vid is dope

Shout out from Newfoundland!

Love the acoustic Amon Amarth at the end lmao

In Danish, we call him ‘Leif den Lykkelige’, which means ‘Leif the Happy’. I don’t speak Old Norse, and Danish and Old Norse is 1000 years apart, so I can’t say, if it a more accurate translation than ‘Lucky’.

Beautiful language he used in this!

Amon Amarth outro music is well appreciated.

On the one hand, its unlikely that the Norse had a good idea of what grapes were, and probably the words for berries and grapes were interchangeable, but at the same time there are grape species native to North America that can live much farther north than European wine grapes and actually do well in colder and wetter climates, so it's still not entirely unlikely that some of those berries early Viking visitors came across were grapes.

I once played Leif when we had to pick an explorer to present on in history class. I still have my outfit.

Is nobody going to talk about the fact that he had Amon Amarth playing in the beginning

I like the acoustic version of the end of pursuit of the vikings by amon amarth you added.

Awesome video! If you don't already, watch some of Dr Jackson Crawford's videos. You'd likely find the one on drengskapr or the norse ideas of manliness really relatable to this video.

I didn’t know this until 2 years ago but Leif Erickson is actually one of my ancestors, if that’s the correct term. I found it out from a family history book with the names of every person born into my family dating back hundreds of years

Fantastic impressions. Ahaaaahaaa!

I freaking love this dude ❤️

This video makes me happier to be a part of Erik the reds bloodline, hearing that Leif was a good guy for his times.

I notice that your _Cleopatra_ book is to the right of your _Caesar_ book. Is your bookshelf sorted chronologically? Still to be resolved though is the matter of the THGttG anthology book and the _LotR_ disc box set on the top shelf... Also, the matter of a muzzle-loading musket, a medieval period _greatsword,_ and of course the Viking era _Carolingian sword_ (that looks nicer than any such sword _ever_ did)... Choose a period! *:-)*

That description of that our narrator says sounds like Labrador but it also sounds like Prince Edward Island, which is a possibility as well.

How can I appreciate the history lesson or your amazing costume when you keep SPILLING THE DAMNED MEAD?! Steady your hand, I say!

8:55 Egil Skallagrimson would like a word

Þetta er virkilega gott og fróðlegt myndband og þakka þér fyrir. Eina athugasemdin mín er að íslenskan þín er skemmtileg að hlusta á, en hljómar frekar eins og þú sért að tala Klingon.

So beautiful.

3:35 I always have an issue with this reasoning. There probably wasn't any regulations back then, and wood and turf seem to be easier to work with than stone, why wouldn't someone just make it out of wood and turf?

I caught the Amon Amarth cover at the end

How did I miss this until now? I binged the Civil War stuff... but I’m actually descended of Leif and my son has his name as a consequence.

Right, now the MOST important question: whats the font used in the captions in the video? Seen that many times and never found it.