- Watch my latest history documentary here:- kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWd805iOkam3oc4.html Here's a surprise 28 minute tour around Viking Britain because my subscribers are awesome. Thanks for being great, guys! Pretty overwhelmed by how this crazy little project has grown over the past year! This episode is also available in podcast format over at the brilliant History of Vikings podcast. Be sure to check it out and subscribe for all things Vikings if you're a podcast person. Don't forget to like, subscribe and share if you like what you see here, and let me know if you'd like to see more tours of different epochs of history.

@chrisbovington9607

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! This was awesome!

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Happy you liked it!

@frazerward4827

6 жыл бұрын

Love it

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it mate!

@superhero7464

6 жыл бұрын

You never fail to captivate me, History Time! :) Keep 'em coming!

I love history youtubers. they don't get paid well or at all, but they still do amazing content. becuase they love it.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

We are a strange sort :)

@dickon728

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@JeroenJA

5 жыл бұрын

I love his historic art of vikings that contain no horn or other weird misconceptions from 19th-20th century thinking about vikings :D

@LS-hu1lm

5 жыл бұрын

It is good to see people building humanity up on youtube rather than tearing it down

@hahn-solo

5 жыл бұрын

He did nothing but cut from a documentary and upload. Taking credit from others work is shameful

The scene in The Last Kingdom with Ubba, Guthrum and King Edmund was an absolute riot. So funny. That show was so well written, the actors awesome and The Last Kingdom saved the Game of Thrones fans who were completely blown up by GOT D & D. Pete your Vking videos are so informative...again Thank you.

This explains a great deal of my English family history. My mom’s English ancestors come from Yorkshire and East Anglia. My Dad’s ancestors who aren’t Danish are from also from the north of England. We now know from looking at the last names on both sides of my family and tracing them back that they are Norse names. History like this is fascinating. Thanks for this wonderful video!

@mrdarren1045

2 жыл бұрын

If they are norse then they likely hail from the Lancashire area. I live in Lancashire and this was a norse area at that time.

My name is Utred, son of Utred, born a Saxon and adopted by a Dane.

@erichaugustusvonmellenthin6954

5 жыл бұрын

Best show on netflix. Cant wait for the season 3!

@erichaugustusvonmellenthin6954

5 жыл бұрын

The Last Kingdom

@martpuk5608

5 жыл бұрын

I was triggered by Bebbanburg haha

@snodrod420

5 жыл бұрын

The show is amazing but the book series is something else!

@user-vi6wf4gh9x

5 жыл бұрын

@@erichaugustusvonmellenthin6954 Read the books instead.

"How the little piggies will grunt, when they hear how the old boar suffered."

@martinmanky9015

3 жыл бұрын

No very. They all died and were driving back to their stoney shores. They & they culture doomed to extinction. A very heathen way to go.

@Kainis80

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinmanky9015 and yet every 20 years or so there is a resurgence in interest in their culture, especially among their descendants.

@hjaltecairo9763

3 жыл бұрын

gutrum he talks about there is hvitserk in the series

@tahabashir3779

3 жыл бұрын

@@hjaltecairo9763 hvitserk is guthrum

@hjaltecairo9763

3 жыл бұрын

@@tahabashir3779 yes

This almost made me cry for some reason. Even as a Dane. I admire the peoples and places of the past and sometimes you want to go back to do great deeds and hear the story of forgotten people's like the picts.

@vanefreja86

6 жыл бұрын

Fortune Finder exactly, wish we knew more about the picts!

@darthbricksempire3606

5 жыл бұрын

Fortune Finder Enig

@susanbedingfield4661

5 жыл бұрын

Why would you romanticize the past? It was nasty, bloody, and human rights were non existantant. Not a fun place to live.

@ianwoodall4523

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah yeah yeah. Keep crying ya big Norse ape. We took it back. By 960 we Saxons had taken York back. We had everyone drinking tea and complaining about the weather again in no time.

@thedanishgirl7683

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Paine Common Sense Time 😂😂😂

We watch videos like this (which is excellent btw) and we can only wonder what life must have been like a thousand years ago. In a thousand years in the future, people won't need these types of videos as our whole lives are being recorded. People are gonna be able to watch a video that's a thousand years old that might be about a relative of theirs. Imagine how cool it would be watching a video from the middle ages that showed you the daily life of your ancient ancestors, maybe even with an interview with them. Incredible.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I love your way of thinking. This channel actually began as a side project from my main gig which is writing sci-fi.

@gavinlaird85

6 жыл бұрын

History Time Well, this "side project" is absolutely fantastic. I have learned more about History from your videos than I have in school and many years of documentary binges combined. Keep up the good work.

@paull2815

6 жыл бұрын

There's always cave painting.

@ayesha36

6 жыл бұрын

Consider that the permanence of technology is a myth. What seems permanent to us may very well be outdated even in a few centuries or several decades. A small example would be floppy drives... sure, they didn't store tons of information due to their size constraints, but they stored information nonetheless that is inaccessible for most of us because we don't use that type of drive anymore. In that same way, as technology and methods of storing information improve on themselves, we will be more and more out of touch with older records and documents.

@alexbrennan9517

5 жыл бұрын

All they'll see are people doing baby shark videos.

This is one of the best history videos i have ever seen. Thank you for making this thorough and interesting video of a very confusing period.

Id just love it everything was actually recorded back then so many things we dont have a clue about

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Imagine what a smart phone could record back then..

@grae1987

6 жыл бұрын

Then theres all the history and events that were recorded throughout time but were lost or destroyed out of spite by foriegn enemies...

@t16205

5 жыл бұрын

There are 27 Epic Viking sagas for us to enjoy. No series or movies can compare, not even close. I dont understand why they dont make movies of them, they are practically movie scripts

@bogdanbogdanoff5164

5 жыл бұрын

@@t16205 Because they don't want white history on the TV. Vikings the show was mauled by revisionism badly enough

@t16205

5 жыл бұрын

@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 Hollywood certainly wont right now.. Vikings the tv/show got nothing to do with the real sagas except for some viking names

This is so interesting, thank you. I have DNA showing 51% Scandinavian, 29% Irish and some British, Iberian etc. We are in New Zealand, me being the 2nd generation to be born here, at the other side of the world, and dont get enough of this history from the homeland of our ancestors.

Awesome video, thank you. If it wasn't for the first Viking series or the Last Kingdom I wouldn't had shown interest in history tbh. It's like a whole new thing for me

Who's here after playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla and falling in love with Viking history!!

@postnutauthoritarian

3 жыл бұрын

Yessss

@martinmanky9015

3 жыл бұрын

'Made up Viking History' - They had no written history until their descendants on Iceland started to try and record things by carving. Would it blow you mind if I told you they were NEVER even called 'Vikings?'

@postnutauthoritarian

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinmanky9015 wow I bet your great at parties

@martinmanky9015

3 жыл бұрын

@@postnutauthoritarian I always bring the toot

@bowers84

Ай бұрын

Nope. But hope the pot noodle and wank after was good.

Yes a 28 minute History Time video life is good. Ideas for future epoch tours: Viking Norway or Denmark, Roman Empire, Ancient Greece etc.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you're liking it! Nice ideas man- How about a half hour tour of the Viking World at the turn of the millennium .. Baghdad to Newfoundland...

@theblackprince1346

6 жыл бұрын

History Time Yeah that sounds really good.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

The Black Prince Thanks for being here from the very start dude. Appreciate your support so much.

@theblackprince1346

6 жыл бұрын

History Time Woah wasn't expecting that lol. It's been an absolute pleasure.

@Eric-ng2ed

6 жыл бұрын

The Black Prince greece and rome have been done to death...

Simply outstanding. A great summary of the whole of Britain during a fascinating era. Liked and subscribed. 😎

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it :)

@m.susandenton1077

5 жыл бұрын

I certainly do agree.

I like how you put some information about the period from which the illustrations you use are from. People can often not realize the inherit anachronisms when seeing a historical depiction of a historical event or figure, that are actually centuries apart from each other. Of course amazing video overall.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's something I'm going to try and do as much as possible from now on. I always find it interesting in itself to see how people in the past viewed their own history.

@danielschaeffer1294

5 жыл бұрын

The TV show, "Vikings," is notorious for this. There's a KZreadr named "Metatron" who did a wonderful job trashing the show. Apparently there's a bit where the Knights Templar show up four centuries before they actually existed!

@davehallett3128

5 жыл бұрын

@@danielschaeffer1294 television and movie producers have never shied away from twisting history any which way they believe will produce more revenue

@eh1702

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite. While Ireland and Brian Borun are being discussed, Scottish control of most of Cumbria and Northumbria isn’t shown. England didn’t have sovereignty up to the tweed until the agreements of the 12th century.

Me watching this to plan my conquest of England in the new Assassins creed game.

@bowers84

Ай бұрын

You need to find a girl mate

A very long, brutal and complex era. I pity the average peasant that had to survive through all this bloodbath driven by greed and vanity.

@donaldgrant9067

5 жыл бұрын

No it was fear of their wives back in Norway that drove them into strange lands.

@LD-qj2te

4 жыл бұрын

Ioannis Roussakis sounds like modern times.... makes u wonder

@jamieevans3666

4 жыл бұрын

don't worry that peasant was completely drunk

@nicosmind3

4 жыл бұрын

Dont forget survival and bitterness. I think it was Ceaser who said those men who fight for their very survival fight with the force of many men. Im sure there were people going to foreign lands to seek their fortunes, but probably plemty fleeing terror themselves. Thinking land can only support so many people. So they kill others so that they might live. And others will be killing out of revenge. A vicious circle of death

@bimosatriyo1743

4 жыл бұрын

Better than living in communist state though

My ancestors came from many places in Great Britain and Ireland; Irish, Cornish and Scottish on my mother's side and Anglo Saxon on my father's side. Gaelic was my great-grandmother's mother tongue. No doubt some of my ancestors experienced many of the upheavals portrayed in this video. It is all fascinating.

@TheLadyDiazepam

5 жыл бұрын

I had my DNA done, and apparently 92% of me comes from Great Britain. This was far more than I had expected based on my family tree.

@sandrojones8068

5 жыл бұрын

Nice! I'm half Welsh-English and half Italian. So I am a Romano Briton!? :)

@sandrojones8068

5 жыл бұрын

@Blood Eagle 88 Not true. Irish are Goidelic Celts. Welsh are the last 'True' Britons, they are Brythonic Celts.

@oran9519

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry to burst your bubble but 'Gaelic' isn't a language. Do you mean irish?

@pjmoseley243

4 жыл бұрын

@@oran9519 so whats Garlic then? you got to know your onions when your talking british history

Hey Pete I realize you made this awhile ago but I watch your videos ALL YEAR!! Thanks again for the most awesome content on history and my other love archaeology.

Wonderful and surprisingly balanced work. I would like to bring to attention that the Norwegian Håkon, called the Good King, was fostered by Æthelstand the First King of all English. At least his other cognomen 'Aðalsteinsfóstri' strongly indicates it. His cognomen the Good King suggests the fact he was the first Roman Catholic king of Norway, a second son to the first feudal king of Norway, Harald King Fairhair, and brother of Eirik King Bloodaxe. Another detail, mentioning Ivar Earl Boneless, he is one of seven sons of Ragnar King Lodbrok of Hringriki, a mostly forgotten notion. His grandfather, Ivar King Widefathom, got his cognomen because of the vast amount of kings and rulers far eastwards and westwards who payed him tribute, in times when tribes and clans were far less settled than after the emergence of feudalist and capitalist statehood. Their lands were spawning old great Sweden from the Black Sea to the North Sea, encompassing the North Isles, the isles of Bretland (Britain), Bretland itself, Ireland and even Valland (Vallonia, modern France) perhaps. At least in the mindset of these loosing pre-feudalist vikings, we may talk of all of Enea, an alternative name for Europe among vikings (according to Snorre Sturlason. They are in their own eyes, I believe, the sons, grandsons of the ultimate hero of all legends, Sigurd the Dragonslayer (confer The Ring-cycle of Wagner). Apparantly these guys, this dynasty, has lost much of their power to Harald King Wartooth of Gardariki in the east, and later on Harald King Fairhair in Norway. I believe we should attempt to read the history of the Vikings as chronicle to the Gothic Wars. These vikings remain strong in the Northern Isles, and spurs the Icelandic golden age, it seems they mingle with the Scottish and Irish kingdoms and clanhoods, and are most probably the anchestors of Earl Rollo and William the Conquerer. Although now, at this time, the anti-feudalist sentiment that spurred these multi-ethnic vikings has long gone. Too often the Vikings are seen in a way that brings in the ideological underpinnings of the noble savage, in stead of analyzing the stratas, the historical developments of statehood, degrees of alienation of the semi-sedentary and articulate demonization of the nomadic. In the legend of the Northern Lands, taken care of by the Icelandic and Orkneyingar, the origin of the Norse are Finnic, Kvæn and Joð (Samí) merging wih the Danish Scylding. The Ynglings, of which the Hairfair dynasty have sprung, are here looked upon with great contempt. This internal divide and strife between peoples of the northern lands are much neglected in general, I think. I have hopes that History Time dares to scrutinize the great resources the Sagas present; although the translations of them are not necessarily better off in representing the subtleties than is translations of the Hebrew and Greek corpus, the biblical material. Sagas in particular, and legends in general may be decodified by solving specific enigmas within their immanent structures. There are keys in the poetry, by kennings we may learn to scale up to unseen contexts, realising the power of metonyms in puns; the skaldic art is quite advanced. By uncovering the horizon of each skald, or storyteller-tradtion in general, we will find without reduction, in lesser and greater degrees, temporal maps. By comparing, without erasing or devaluing the vague for the clear (i.e. "our" dating, calendar era, versus the hidden temporal matrixes of sagas and legends, deriving as plots, here, liturgical rather than merely dramaturgical), instead we may be investigating how sagas and legends appears in the merger-zone between history and myth. Myth, in my hermeneutic, is distinguished by being astronomical, with calendric, cyclic features. I believe the stars from as early as stargazing has been the prime mnemonic device for storytellers. It seems obvious to me that we didn't fix one constellation to one figure, as we tend to do in our times of electric lightenment. For instant a sage may use what is commonly referred to as Orion and Eridanus as a mnemonic of Thor carrying Aurwendil (Orion) over the great river of stars, Elívagr. This doesn't obstruct the sage from using the Orion constellation in combination with the Taurus and the Pleiades as mnemonic for a scene where Frigg is at her spinning wheel. The Pleiades are here called Frigg's hens. Both these myths are in turn foundational as a well of legends mapping historic awareness in relation to the ũberbau of what is contemporary real for the sage. My point is not at all a matter of advocating belief in any form of metaphysical reality, except acknowledging that different ways of timekeeping is a most great gateway to understand the metaphysical underpinnings of the particular matrix favoured by whatever calendar-/priests/ideologist. Prophethood was not merely superstition. Thus we can unveil the mythic matrix to find traces of particular historic events. It requires that one are able to detect what exactly is the mythic element in the legend; thus extract history. If this method is applied on the whole spectrum of legends and sagas, which we then can compare and map, we will be able to make alchemical gold. It is important to regard the ornamental and obscure as of primary interest; I believe that what we're looking for is to unravel these mysteries. It is easy to forget that when the sages looked into the night sky, he looked directly at time. For the most part of history, I believe of all peoples, the Moon has been the Watch. When you saw whatever constellation along the ecliptic, which you knew as well as the clock of the present, you knew at what time of the year the Moon is full in that place. You know by looking at the Virgin, that this is Spring. Probably you would learn, as most astrological peoples have been doing, that when the Moon is full in proximity to Spica, the Sun is in proximity with the stars called the first signals, the Ram's horns, although this is not obvious, visible; as is a solar calendar matrix alienating the temporal from the spatial.

Absolutely outstanding documentary. I'm particularly impressed by the coverage of the ancient kingdom of Dal Riata, which is not often mentioned in similar documentaries.

@wodenravens

4 жыл бұрын

The Germanic tribes are always focused on for the post-Roman invasion of Britain but no one ever mentions the Irish invading Pictland, Wales and Cornwall! Also, the Picts invading south into the former Roman province. The Irish and Pict incursions contributed greatly to the migration of Britons to Brittany. It was a time of flux and I think the fact we view history too much through the prism of nation-states (which didn't exist) means we have a very distorted view.

This video was brilliant! Thanks so much for inveting your time and effort to make it. I've learned a lot from this video about the cultures I love, so that was definitely worth it!

Wow! KZread is becoming better than TV to watch with people like you doing so many mega interesting videos! KZread is becoming a gold mine of great videos worth watching!

@elbat5946

5 жыл бұрын

Jesusandbible - indeed!

@davehallett3128

5 жыл бұрын

As long as you realize that the facts may be wrong through ignorance omission or twisting. Only believe what you see or read from many DIFFERENT sources. Not just youtube. There seems to be little editing of bullshit. Present company excepted

@iOnline72

5 жыл бұрын

Has been for years already. History Channel and Discovery have become a joke.

@Bjowolf2

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, why on earth watch Discovery, History Channel or National Geographic these days with their endless, contentless reality TV shows about grumpy crab fishermen, grumpy tuna fishermen, grumpy gold diggers, really annoying gold diggers under the water, idiotic people buying old junk cars and persuading other naive people into buying them after a few superficial repairs, weird pawn shop owners buying old junk while cheating people constantly, hostile storage room auctions with grumpy idiots, naked people surviving in the wild while hating each others, famous people "barely" surviving in the wild, UFOs and pyramids with mysterious powers , ...., when you can have these great and educational videos with really interesting and deep content instead 😂

What a history ! No wonder the British empire was good at invasion and occupation, it was flogged into them for more than a thousand years.

@Buildbeautiful

4 жыл бұрын

But the british empire was one of the shortist empires in history

@HubertofLiege

4 жыл бұрын

At least they’ll go down in history.....as an empire😀🎤

@jaybadayatherockmerchant9832

4 жыл бұрын

@@Buildbeautiful but one of the greatest

@wolger

4 жыл бұрын

It was a pay back time by the heaven to let them conquer the world. Poor Britons got invaded so many times, gaelics, romans, anglo-saxon-jutes-frisians, vikings norsemen danes, normans, english - nearly got wiped out. Facisnating part of history..

@G0DKING

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony Redmond It lasted nearly for 400 years (early 1600s-1997) which is bigger than some other big empires such as the mongol empire.

I'm trying to learn more about my European heritage. These videos are great! Thanks for your work! ❤️

What a great vid, just awoke after a night-shift and drinking coffee and listening to this. What a treat, well done chap.

loving the shots of the inside of Jorvik when describing Eoferwich(York)

Stunning amount of research! I thank you from my heart for sharing your knowledge. X

@tomwilliams3941

3 жыл бұрын

Wreocansaete

Interesting overview. The Pictish stones at 25:37 depicts the Pictish victory over the Angles of Northumbria in 685, well before the Viking invasions.

Possibly one of the very very best documentaries on Viking Age Britain I have ever watched. What would be really cool is if you took each section and boiled it down into a new documentary. I really enjoyed this very much. Many of the historical figures you mention are in my family tree, and it's nice to hear about them and their lives.

This is one of my favourite vids on KZread of all time (and I’ve watched a lot of KZread) Really well done.

Superb ! Love the old world art. Narration is excellent !

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it :)

Really appreciate at least a little bit of attention being given to Wales:) big up u my g

@veronicaroach3667

Жыл бұрын

The ORIGINAL remaining Brittons along with Cornwall - be proud ! I'm a Londoner but I adore Wales - just because it's beautiful & is a wonderful place, so I naturally gravitate to anything that 'ups' the knowledge on that subject too !

Well told and very interesting. Really appreciate you taking the time to do this thank you

i love the way you present this, especially the way you describe those places.

A Viking Tour of Britain...and it looks like you've given us a tour of Ireland and France too!

Top quality overview of the era. watch a lot of history on youtube this is one of the best channels.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Glad you liked it. It was a pleasure to make it.

@ThatGeordieGAMER

6 жыл бұрын

Keep it up son i'm proud hahaha!

@fancysfolly554

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. It’s very interesting

Only just discovered this channel, I’m in love. Keep this up, I’ll be binging on your videos this week. A proud Mercian here.

@HistoryTime

5 жыл бұрын

Good to have another fellow Mercian on board! Glad you like the channel my friend!

You are amazing- I am so happy to have found your site, please keep up the amazing documentaries!

Watling street goes through the city I live in , StAlbans was called verulamium in Roman & early Saxon times. Watling street was the dividing line between Saxon and Viking territory. Originally a Celtic trackway which the Romans turned into a proper Roman built main road, via watling street. StAlbans is one of the oldest continually habited city's in Britain, it is also the place where the first pagan convert to christianity died a martyrs death because he wouldn't renounce his new faith or tell them where the priest was thst he hid from the soldiers. Albans shrine was covered in gold and silver as well as jewels of every kind. Built on the hillside where he was executed, nobody knows exactly when the chapel was built, but there was one in king offa's time mid 8th century. Yet the Vikings living literally a few metres across the other side of watling street, yet they never robbed or even attempted to rob the shrine of Albani . Britain's oldest Christian martyr. Strange very strange,

@thomasf1531

Жыл бұрын

I live there too - great place for history!

@kevwhufc8640

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasf1531 your right about StAlbans being rich in its history. 👍 As you know Its been continuous from the Celts onwards .

Fascinating seldom-spoken of, history. thank you.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Lesley Anderson Glad you liked it :)

Thanks for adding in the Scottish history with vikings. It's not often documentaries do it. The battle of largs is worth a documentary of its own

@sweynskarilsen9105

5 жыл бұрын

I believe there was a documentary about the Vikings and Orkney island. It tries to prove the theory of how red hair spread from Norway to Scotland and into Ireland, at least that's what I remember anyway. Either way it talked a lot about the history between the two.

This video is so good, I bookedmarked it as I didn't have time to watch it in one swoop, but just had to make sure I could find it again and continue watching later. Never done that with a video before, that's how good it is.

I love history time! I get off work n get some food chill in my car n say" history time!"

Thank you! Great history lesson! subscribed ♥

Thanks for a fascinating video! I've watched it three times to absorb all the details.

really appreciate all the work that went into this, subbed to your channel.

What springs to my mind about this time period, is how there’s no such thing as “one hereditary royal family” The King was whoever invaded his neighbours and killed them in battle. Until he was victim to the same fate. In one evolving power struggle, invasion after invasion.

the history of europe is a rich one , rome-greece-britain-scandinavia all have great stories , the arthurian legends are some of the greatest ones , i Wonder how much of it is true

This is by far the most understandable documentary I've heard

this video was super interesting. Thank you so much!! Hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and a safe 2020.

Nice video would make a video on the viking Rus

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Something in the works very soon. :)

@ingnavar

6 жыл бұрын

They were Called Varangians I think

@WarDogMadness

6 жыл бұрын

Frosan Petrov that was the Greek name for them yes

@t16205

5 жыл бұрын

@@ingnavar The Varangian guard was a elite scandinavian mercenary force

@arpthirteen6713

4 жыл бұрын

Facts.

such a great video , good work my friend

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend! Really glad you like it!

Great video - Well done! Thanks for taking the time to make this fantastic content!

Quite a fascinating time and place in history - thanks for bringing it to us!

Just finished watching Vikings and now playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. History is so brutal yet so beautiful.

@jason-gf8dg

3 жыл бұрын

Watch the last kingdom

Thankful for this video.. Great job.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it

This was an excellent production, well done!

thankyou so much for including links and credits to the music. It's the right thing to do

Britain and Ireland, how hard is basic geography?

@ciaranmck4469

3 жыл бұрын

is ireland not in the British isles? even before the Roman's came to england ireland was considered british

@Dentipres

3 жыл бұрын

The term "British Isles" has been vaguely defined since most of the Island of Ireland became independent. As it stands neither the EU,UK or Irish goverments use the term in political discourse. Even in official law in the UK the term British Islands encompasses the territory of the UK and channel islands. The term itself, while it was used before the Romans arrived in Ireland in the form of "Pretani" Islands or a variety thereof, was adopted by English writers and authorities around the early 17th century to cement the act of Union, as such it has post colonial undertones in that it is used to suggest territorial claims by Britain or more specifically England over the Island of Ireland. The term is falling out of use as it continues to blur the distinction between the UK and Britain or Britain and Ireland as is evident by the title of this video.

@ciaranmck4469

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dentipres officially ireland is apart of the isles(geographically) 🤷🏼‍♂️ I dont make the rules mate and besides Britain isnt Britain without Ireland that's why the flag of saint Patrick is in the union jack the uk has nothing to do with early medieval Britain so what's the point in bringing it up fucking spaz

Good Job! Go ahead! Good Luck!

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Well done and superbly written. Thank you very much!

I clicked on this video to learn more about the norse that came to these lands. I was not expecting you to go into detail about my homeland and ancestor Rhodri the Great. Thank you.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Rhodri should be a much more well known figure.

Amazing to think London was once a Viking town! Towns with thwaite, toft, keld, by, Kirk in their names all have Viking links

I'm very proud of my English heritage English heritage in the USA 🤫💪

@donnysandley6977

4 жыл бұрын

Oops 😬

@LarsPallesen

4 жыл бұрын

@@bennym1326 Only after the Normannic invasion in 1066. That's when they became brutal and arrogant. The Britons and the Anglo-Saxons were alright.

@bennym1326

4 жыл бұрын

Lars Pallesen you are right, it is believed that the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Britons all coexisted in peace after the romans. Pre Norman and danish invasion is a completely different story..

@eirin099

4 жыл бұрын

anglo saxons lowkey pushed all the other peoples out of their land and to the far ends; not much written about it, but they didn't seem to want to coexist as much as the romans before them

@bennym1326

4 жыл бұрын

Bacon yeah it is debatable. Some historians claim there was interbreeding and others say they were pushed out.

Really great. Great narrative. Great voice. Fantastic slide show. Subscribed.

Yes Ældorman, greetings from Birmingham, Mercia, and thank u for all of yr video's sir! I have enjoyed them so much and have learnt so much aswell, proper grateful for yr work and effort there man, big respect!

Thanks for another great video. You make some of the best content among similar channels.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it!

Very good, not many people know that Cornwall has never actually been subjugated by England, and that the celts in Cornwall fought alongside the Viking’s against the Saxon invaders

@mrdarren1045

Жыл бұрын

The term of celtic for all the ancient ppl of Britain and Ireland was dreamed up in the 1800s. Before this time nobody in ancient Britain ever called themselves celtic. Its highly misleading.

Outstanding work here! Excellent doco.. well done.

An awesome video! I was born in South Africa and have British roots. Now I live in Sweden..since 1986..and have Swedish/English grandkids!

This would make for great TV series! Just if someone thought of producing it!🥊

@hamzadesidragonsarwar

2 жыл бұрын

The last kingdom on Netflix

I'm up to 55% Scottish/Irish on ancestry dna now and loving this :)

One of the best videos I have watched.

Wow. An in-depth presentation done in a way rarely seen on You Tube.

7:27 Cornwall, a proud land full of celtic history to this day.

@jasonsweet1868

3 жыл бұрын

Are they proud of cutting the throats of ship wreck survivors after they lured them to death on the rocks

@Ponakalaranjit456

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Ponakalaranjit456

2 жыл бұрын

Aye Mate

@ruary3243

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonsweet1868 name a society that didn't have bad eggs. Go!

@jasonsweet1868

2 жыл бұрын

@@ruary3243 oh so they are the same as everyone else then what they got to be proud of

The Vikings are known for assimilating into the lands they conquered, not "stamping out" existing cultures and replacing them with their own. They assimilated so well they simply disappeared.

@sandrojones8068

5 жыл бұрын

I'd like a few modern day 'invaders' to disappear as well.

@Shelmerdine745

5 жыл бұрын

morningatsea It went both ways, nobody disappeared.

@morningatsea

5 жыл бұрын

@@Shelmerdine745 By "disappeared" I mean "assimilated" well into countries they invaded until they were no more.

@morningatsea

5 жыл бұрын

@@Potatoman1578 - The Welch retained their language... looks like there was a choice? In any case "the new Germanic language of Vikings" is spoken where?

@Potatoman1578

5 жыл бұрын

@@morningatsea my bad, nevermind :D

Thank you so much 🙏🏼 such a fab thing to do and very much appreciated ❤️

You have such a wonderful channel, your storytelling fashion is quite captivating and not at all boring in fact this particular video piqued my interest whereas others like it on a similar subject would have had my brain spinning in pain. Thank you for sharing and producing videos on diverse historical events. Quite interesting is how you portray the historical figures and people as more human than mere names in history. More power to you sir.

Some of my blood traces back to these ancient lands. Great video and historical account, learned a lot! --Thanks from a Yank.

“A tour of Viking Britain ( and Ireland ) “

@joshjackson5867

3 жыл бұрын

Ireland is part of the 'British' Isles

@joshjackson5867

3 жыл бұрын

@Asmoth Hermelin ...

@joshjackson5867

3 жыл бұрын

@Bres well that's just not true is it

@joshjackson5867

3 жыл бұрын

@Bres I fail to see your point

@adamender9092

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshjackson5867 there is a difference between the British isles and Britain. The term isn't even used anymore

This really has illuminated an era that I've been trying to picture more fully. Thanks! :)

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

This is a quality piece - excellent job, earned a subscriber here!

I too am here thanks to the Viking incursion. According to my DNA, my ancestors migrated from Norway, settled in Orkney and gradually spread into the Hebrides and now many centuries later, here I am living in New Zealand.

@steven5341

6 жыл бұрын

We may have a similar history. My family is from Scotland/England but I have no info beyond 4 generations ( Wilsons and Turnbulls) - they emigrated to NZ mid 19th Century. How do you know about the DNA? Did you pay to have it done?

@davewilson4058

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I paid acompany called Britain's DNA

@simonscott1876

5 жыл бұрын

Dave it is now time for the invasion of Mars .lol.....

@davewilson4058

5 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid I'm too old and past any possibility of procreating on or terraforming anywhere else. Earth will have to do for me.

@simonscott1876

5 жыл бұрын

Dave I've not heard of a pub called earth.

Just as soon as I installed Thrones of Brittannia this comes out hahaha gonna watch

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

How are you finding the game?

@Tommy-dz3do

6 жыл бұрын

Pretty average tbh but I was expecting it to be somewhat worse so😀

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Tommy It's pretty much a dream come true for me because it's basically free publicity for my favourite period in history... even though the game seems to be wildly historically inaccurate but oh well...

Great job. Thanks! It would be helpful if we could apply these history lessons to our current events.

Love your videos bro. Thank you for the hard work.

My family came from Wales to Australia my Dna is Nordic.

@fancysfolly554

3 жыл бұрын

We have similar story tho came to US. Our DNA is Irish and Scandinavian.

Ac Valhalla is what brought me here.

@Tanson11

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. Although as a Brit from the North east of England, I knew a bit about the viking invasion, I've learned loads more, and it's been great to learn about people you meet in the game.

I wish more people would take more of an interest in history as people like you put a lot of hard work and effort into their videos

Love this channel. History is important. We all need to remember where we come from 🙏✨❤💚

The Dal Riata were Scots in precisely the same way that the Norse were Vikings: it was a title that indicated their way of life, not their ethnicity. A Gaelic people who originated in northern Ireland, the language of the Highlands continued to be Gaelic into the 1700s. By the 1800s it had mostly been replaced, as had the population, by English. Lowland Scots were always English and spoke english. The modern dialect often erroneously labeled "Scots" is just an old form of english very similar to what Shakespeare spoke.

@wolfthequarrelsome504

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It already made me laugh to hear or read of people trying to classify "Scots" English as a dialect or even a separate language.

@blairrobert3438

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. It's a shame we'll never hear the tongue of the Picts due to the migrations from Ireland and the Anglo lands. I take it you are having a dig at Northern Ireland Unionists? If so please stop this demented attack.

Very well done, m8.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Glad you like it!

@hamarbiljungskile8953

6 жыл бұрын

It's a good standalone, but in combo with all the other videos you have on this era, it's great. So, kudos one more time.

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

Hamarbi Ljungskile Thanks brotha!. So much more on the way

Awesome job, you have a natural talent for this.

Wonderful, well done, thorough and interesting.

What are your thoughts on the new game by Creative Assembly, Thrones of Britannia Saga?

@HistoryTime

6 жыл бұрын

I haven't played it yet. I love that it's getting people interested in this period of history though. I'm a big fan of the older total war games. Medieval 2 in particular.

@dafyddpowell5966

6 жыл бұрын

History Time This time period is very interesting and it’s definitely made more people interested in this time period. It’s worth picking it up, perhaps you could look into any historical inaccuracies? I’m very grateful that you cover Welsh history for this time period. I find it difficult to find some as there aren’t many reliable sources. I’d be very grateful if you could send a link to some of your sources.

He made a few distinctions between Norsemen and Danes, but Danes are also Norsemen.

@jaxparra8168

5 жыл бұрын

@Henke Ria Yes, Danes are Norse/Nordic, spoke old Norse. Ergo, Norsemen

@Hirdsmand

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe he didnt know what to call the Norwegians. Norwegian..

@patrickmurphy9266

4 жыл бұрын

Danes were called black vikings and norwegians fair vikings in gaelig ireland .... Fionngall and dubhgall .

So glad I found this channel 👌🏻💯

So good I had to watch it twice. Thank you. 👏☺️