After a trip to Ireland, I learned that not just Dublin, but many of Ireland’s biggest cities started as Viking trading posts.

@xotan

6 жыл бұрын

This is so: Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Wexford.

@steveanderson8727

6 жыл бұрын

Ford is Fjord, is fjörður... so yeah... you're welcome :)

@joshuataylor3550

Жыл бұрын

@@steveanderson8727 Ford is just river crossing in English, not related to fjord.

Awesome video mate, and thanks for the mention, you're more than welcome ^_^

haha, the Irish monks not getting on too well with the Norse settlers is a bit of an understatement :D

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

I mean the Sagas say "they voluntarily left" - but the Norse had an interesting definition of "voluntary" hahaha xD

@daithimcbuan5235

6 жыл бұрын

hehe yeah, it's like HIGHLY understated humour :D

@asbjrnpoulsen9205

6 жыл бұрын

maybe it was noth maybe they left in pease fore the first settler in faroe islands was half norse half celtic named grímur norse kamban celtic and the women in faroe islands have 84 % celtic dna

@asbjrnpoulsen9205

6 жыл бұрын

way are ther menny place names in iceland and faroe island with celtic names ???

@daithipol

2 жыл бұрын

We "got rid" of the Vikings in 1014 only to have the place infested by priests, maybe if we kept the Vikings it would have been a better place earlier. 😉

Floki found it.

@gregorymacdonnell7914

6 жыл бұрын

+ Shaden0040,That is sooo fuckin cool!.Just shows how well Michael Hirst had the show Vikings so well researched!!! Love it man! Great video.I learned quite a bit from it.

@JohnnyBoj89

6 жыл бұрын

Ehm no Leikur Eirikson found it...would be cool though.

@Shaden0040

6 жыл бұрын

Not according to Vikings.

@JohnnyBoj89

6 жыл бұрын

Shaden0040 vikings is also not historically accurate ;)

@Shaden0040

6 жыл бұрын

Wow could have fooled me. ;P

Love the format! Very interesting as always!

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Thought I would point out that today, Reykjavík's coat of arms depicts Ingólfr's two pillars floating in the sea.

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks - that's a really interesting fact actually! Doesn't it have a an ox on there as well?

@Gondaldin

6 жыл бұрын

No, Reykjavík's coat of arms only has the floating pillars. Iceland's main coat of arms however has a bull which is one of Iceland's four land wights.

Always a good idea with a video on Vikings!

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

I thought it's something nice and uncontroversial given my recent detours into the realms of Sinterklaas and Zwarte PIet ;) This is very up your street though!

@Phrenotopia

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! As it so happens, I will also briefly mention the Varangian Rus, like you do here, in an upcoming video.

I am so grateful you made a video about Iceland. It so often forgotten or glossed over, even though it might be one of the more important aspects of viking history and culture. I would love if you would make a video about the Icelanders’ Sagas. They are not the best historical source, due to people exaggerating events and characters, but they give such a detailed insight into Norse culture, values, laws and traditions. Your Norse accent is great, much better than how many others do it. You have clearly done your research on the language and included bits like what the name Hrafna-Floki means and origin of Vikingr from Vik, which is something most wouldn’t bother with going into. One slight error, it’s Reykjavik, not Rekjavik. The spelling has changed somewhat between Norse and Icelandic but I am pretty sure it is Reykjavík in both. Keep doing this good work. I’m sure you’ll be one of the biggest educational channels on KZread!

@mikkitoro8933

4 жыл бұрын

I can agree that parts of Icelandic history may or may not be true. But one reason for that is because Icelanders did not begin to write the history of Iceland until much later with Snorri Sturluson one of the first.

Brilliant

Wow as far as I can tell your Icelandic/Norse pronounciation is really good! I'm Norwegian though but I have heard quite a bit Icelandic, and your pronounciation is definately better than most attempts I've heard.

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, I do try!

@morriskaller3549

6 жыл бұрын

TheInfidel666i But he pronounced v as an f while it should be pronounced as just a v

BJORK BJORK BJORK.

@MickeyD2012

6 жыл бұрын

She means a lot of things, when she sings.

@Son_Daughter_of_Slaanesh

6 жыл бұрын

Her Name is spelld Björk by the way and it rhymes with jerk

@asbjrnpoulsen9205

6 жыл бұрын

its a tree

@Son_Daughter_of_Slaanesh

6 жыл бұрын

The birch to be precise

@asbjrnpoulsen9205

6 жыл бұрын

ther was an army in norvay named birkibeinar leade of king sverre king sverre came from faroe island he made norvay to one kingdom

Regarding the poll: I love your videos and would love to see you do videos on all of those topics whenever you can. You make informative quality content!

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I think I will to be honest - such an interesting topic!

That shad shoutout will help a lot I imagine, i remember I subscribed after that Lindy video so shoutout/acknowledgment from bigger history KZreadrs helps a lot. Keep up the good work Hilbert

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Yes it was very kind of him! Really, my first video responding to Lindybeige's critique of the Last Kingdom?

@mrmarmellow563

6 жыл бұрын

mathias neergaard Me too!! Remember he loves his FIRE ARROW's YA YA!

@mathiasneergaard6992

6 жыл бұрын

Yea, i remember in the beginning you got some hate from Lindy fans but when Metatron and others started giving positive comments it turned around. Loving these kinds of odd videos, reminds me of Jabzy. Also i am Norwegian and we were thought that we explored a uninhabitat land so i would love to learn more about those Monks

Good video as always Hilbert. Now thanks to shad more people shall know of your greatness!

Dear Hilbert. This is well done and historically correct. I am an old Icelander and have studied our history. Keep on my friend.

I hope you make a video about the Norsemen who went east. Maybe even one about the Varangian guard?

I'm new to viking history, and these videos are super helpful!

Dude I’m so glad your channel has come so far! I feel so proud of you dude

I'm glad Shad brought me to your channel, you make amazing videos

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much - and welcome to the community!

@Game...007

5 жыл бұрын

I watched shad's video just today and subscribed now. Better late than never.

I didn't know anything about this before. Thank you very much for this fascinating video! And about the poll: your animation style is one of my favorites on KZread!

No wonder the Vikings used ravens to symbolize wisdom. They knew the intelligence of that animal.

Its amazing how the vikings could travel across oceans without any form of cartography. In some cases they literally observed the colour of the water to determine their location.

This is such an awesome video! I will be showing it in class on Monday, as we are currently learning about the History of Iceland! I am taking my students there in two weeks!

I've been fascinated by the vikings for years, so I'm glad that someone who has a good understanding of them is making videos to help people learn about and understand the vikings and who they really were and what they were really like

Nice video. I really appreciate you actually trying to pronounce the old norse/Icelandic, it sounds really good

Im new to this channel and im very impressed. Amazing and detailed, enjoyed it very much. Brilliantly done..

Listening to people try to pronounce icelandic / norse words is always a wild ride of enjoyment. Looks like an interesting channel with good content so I might stick around

Saw you on the recommended tab, very glad I clicked. Greetings from the Faroe Islands :D

Thanks for the video! It was very entertaning and interesting

Amazing video, shad knows who we have to watch

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you - I really appreciate your support :)

I came from the shout out. Shad's a good bloke

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Top notch fella

Whoo! I love Icelandic history

5 жыл бұрын

Because it's short

You make a video about Iceland (Smowland) it's actually snowing right now in the Netherlands. That's my weather update

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Oh lekker, hier nog niet, het is alleen wal stervens koud :P

@youcanthandlethetruth8873

6 жыл бұрын

+History With Hilbert Stervens? Vreemde verwoording heb je daar.

@Infected_Apple

6 жыл бұрын

Judiska Ekonomen yep, it's pretty snow covered for most of the country right now

@Infected_Apple

6 жыл бұрын

You can't handle the truth stervenskoud is vrij gebruikelijk in mijn omgeving

@youcanthandlethetruth8873

6 жыл бұрын

+Infected Apple waat woon jij dan. Ik heb er nog nooit van gehoord. Mischien omdat ik een Belg ben. Kweetnie.

That was actually a great video. Please do more about Nordic exploration!

Great Vid.!!! Sounds like you have the history down firmly. I always wondered exactly where the Faroe Isles were.

As a history lover I find this channel fantastic and the animation is enjoyable 👍

please dont hold back.. this was good.. informative.. and for once quite accurate according to the knowledge we have.. thumbs up

Love Floki on the thumbnail. Great video man

Here is an update for you. Starting in 2015 archaeologist Bjarni F. Einarsson and team have been working on a dig at Stöð in Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland. What they have uncover so far is that there is a 44m longhouse there from ca. 800 ce. and on top of it is a slightly smaller 36m longhouse, built before 871 ce. In the area around the longhouses are other buildings or houses that wait to be been excavated. The working thesis is that the older longhouse from ca. 800 ce. was an outpost from Norway, where a chieftain sent a crew to work the resources during the summers to bring back to Norway. What contradicts that is how big the longhouse is. The younger longhouse, on top, was definitely a permanent dwelling of a wealthy household and in it they have found among other things a lot of glass beads and silver.

Firstly I looooove your videos and enjoy them (regardless of format tbh, everything you make is great). Secondly are you going to collaborate with Leornende Eald Englisc again maybe in another livestream like you did months ago? I watched the 2 hour stream you guys had together after it was posted and I enjoyed it sooo much. All the things you two talked about together excited me and I was hoping there'd be another livestream like this in the future so I could participate and ask questions live in the way a livestream format allows (as you two discovered with awe hahaha). Anyways thank you so much for making all this content and reading this if you did. 💛It brightens my life💛

This was really fascinating

really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work :)

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, glad you're enjoying them!

Interesting content. Wondering where you got your information. Thanks !

Worth also discussing the climate at the time being more benign than nowadays. That would be no small factor in the ultimate settlement. Thanks for making!

Thank you for this very interesting video ~ It makes me want to visit Iceland, too!

Quite like your videos. So mesmerising to watch.

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This video was recommended on my youtube feed. I think because my cookies must have shown an interest in Iceland hahahah. I went to Iceland in 2013 but knew next to nothing about the history. Thank you for this video!! I will check out the test of your channel~

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, hope you like it!

@antseanbheanbocht4993

6 жыл бұрын

History With Hilbert Very enjoyable Hilbert, perhaps you could do one on the much disputed and less well known Irish Island of Rockall 😜, I don't think you'll get thirteen minutes out of it though.

awesome video man, keep it up!

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

great video! very interesting as always

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Nice to see mention of the Hebrides, I lived there for some while.

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Ah nice one!

Cudos to your pronunciations. Very well done.

Excellent video!

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Very interesting. Really want to know more about the Vikings in America!

Congrats on the shoutout! You totally deserved it! =]

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

interesting and informative. great video well presented .

I remember egils saga it seems like everyone would upset the king have a son and then make a farm on Iceland after they stop raiding

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

It explains why everyone in the sagas is a massive radgy xD

I'm Icelandic, thank you for this video

Loving the videos Huw. Any chances of some references to go with them? Books and stuff rather than just youtube vids?

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

For this one I mostly used Jesse Byock's "Viking Age Iceland." I'd highly recommend it if you're interested. I hardly put sources because, without wanting to sound big-headed, this is the stuff I'm interested in so a lot of it I know without remembering particularly where I read it or who told me about it.

I just spent 6 hours reading the exact same thing you wrapped up in 13 minutes.... I thank you

I found this channel without Shad, though I am subscribed to Shad, but I just wanted to say: Shad, seems like a really nice guy. Well, as far as I can tell without knowing him, just being a subscriber of his.

Great video. I'd love to see more Icelandic (and maybe some Greenlandic) content in the near future! Such a remote and unique place, with so much interesting history! A question however: Where do you get all this information? Are there specific websites for such information? Especially in this video, the content that you shared with us sounds considerably difficult to dig up, even in the age of the internet. It would be great to know where you get your sources.

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I plan to make some more :) I've read rather a few of the sagas and Jesse Byock's " Viking Age Iceland" covers this and loads more in a lot more detail if you're interested in finding out about this place and period :)

If you could talk about the settlement of Iceland (Around 874 - 930). There were also quite influential people up after the age of settlement in Iceland, you could also talk about them and Alþingi (Goðinn and Alþingi.)

I can't get enough hilbert. your passion for history with yourself is magical. i feel like a child again. except i hated history in school. i wish I'd taken notice, or had teachers that didn't fill us with propaganda lol.

You sound almost exactly like ZeroEmpires, the Age of Empires personality. Also, great video!

Nice North Shields to Ijmuiden reference

I liked the music you put on at 5:00.

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Same here, I thought it fit well with what I was talking about :)

@johnfritz4052

6 жыл бұрын

and i like the weed you put on at 4:20

Hilbert... did you put this together in a day? I should note that I don't mean this as an insult, it's just you said you did this video because of Shad's video yesterday

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

I did actually - I felt I had to live up to the shoutout ;)

@Thebluebridgetroll

6 жыл бұрын

History With Hilbert I'm quite impressed! Visuals especially

Very very good video

I love these videos

Your pronunciation is brilliant!

Great video

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Nice job! You could do one about Greenland! Would be nice.

Please never stop rumbling! This is the only reason why we watch your video! :)

Very good presentation! Nice to hear the correct pronunciation of the names, by a non-Scandinavian aswell. Always funny when people in other Viking videos pronounce the name Leif Eriksson, like ''Leaf'', when it's actually ''Layf''. If you do ''modern'' history aswell, it would be interesting if you could make a video about the only Swedish colony in America, called ''Nya Sverige'', in 1638. A piece of history that isn't that well known.

You just got a subscriber!

Icelandic History sure is epic!

Very interesting .. would love to visit but I am right at the other end of the globe. Thank you.

Nice sneaky Dizee Rascal reference, mate

Great video from a dane who has also family in iceland

Very good video so I SUBSCRIBEd

Great video! Where is the Netherlands clip though?

Excellent

Very interesting so now I know thanks 😎👍

Thanks mate! Now that my time machine is working (mostly working... a few power relay problems left to work out) I can check your work and verify the names and places. If you don't hear back it means that I dunna whoopsie...

Saint Brendan was there first but there is little record, just a few times mentioned in a few monks chronicles.

You should do about the Icelandic civil war

Vikings technically landed on America when they set up their first city on the Island. The western part of the Island is in the North American plate. While the Eastern part of the Island is on the European plate. But I do have a question. How was it that the Norwegians were able to settle Iceland that had minimal resources but fail on the North American main land (modern Canada)?

One falacy in the video is that a lot of Swedes went west to plunder, not any famous Swedes but a lot of rune stones mentions sons and fathers who died on travels to the west

@lok3kobold

6 жыл бұрын

As compensation for sounding negative i give you Vigmunds runestone (a humble man) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland_Runic_Inscription_1011

omg am crying right now. sooo floki settled in ICELAND . the vikings serie just englightened me , i am 25 years old and i had no idea about how European countries were formed n, or in other meaning the history of Scandinavia wowwwwwwwwwww am so thrilled right now

Love the channel dude, I enjoy your bit of slyly added humour here and there. The Pog mo thoin(kiss me arse) note left by the Irish slaves gave me a chuckle. Yeh nice one ✌

I too, found this channel cuz of Shad when he did the shoutout in a video.

Just discovered your channel, great work man :) Could you make your opinion on second season of The Last Kingdoms ? Any predictions ? :)

Cool video......i visited iceland beautiful country

I am just thoroughly fascinated by the Norseman/Scandinavian and their complex and rich history. I have Danish blood ...born Canadian...I would do anything to move there ! 🤣🤗 Ps I love your voice.

Great! thank you!

And btw, the word "Vikingur" can be easily understood if you know norwegian or any language using the word VIK, and spend half a minute studying the usage of words. Vik = Inlet/cove ingur = someone who is a practitioner of said thing Vikingur = someone who is commonly found in the coves/inlets. If you study the geography of scandinavia - and certainly NORWAY you understand why the term became used. Or more widely accepted Vikings = Seafarers.

Could you do a video on the Swedish travels of Eastern Europe and Russia

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

It's on my list :)

@VikingsRBloodyAwsome

6 жыл бұрын

History With Hilbert Hope you make it, would be interesting. May I ask why you differentiate between Norsemen and Swedes ? Norsemen generally refers to all Nordic people; Swedes, Danes and Norwegians. Could also mention that there are equal amounts of Runestones in Sweden that tell of Western and Eastern journeys, so it's kind of a myth that Swedes only went East. Maybe you can mention that if/when you make the video about the Swedes in the East :)

@g.m.s2559

6 жыл бұрын

Agree, Norsemen means Norwegians, Danes and Swedes (and later Faroese and Icelandic people as well), and in Scandinavia we use this term. And none of these 'groups' went only one way, there were certainly Swedes who went west and Danes and Norwegians who went east - are so tired of these divisions. There are also some who think 'Danes' only mean people from Denmark when we talk about those who settled in the Danelaw. 'Danes' was the Anglo-Saxon term for all Norsemen. Historians agree that the Danelaw consisted of a good number of Norwegians and certainly Swedes as well, although the Danes were in the majority. We can put it this way: - Most Norsemen who went east were Swedes, but there was obviously some Norwegians and Danes with them (perhaps more Danes than Norwegians?) - Most Norsemen who settled in England were Danes, but there was a fair amount of Norwegians and certainly many Swedes too. - Most Norsemen who settled in Scotland and Ireland were Norwegians, but quite a few were Danish and certainly some were Swedes too.

Very nice video! Reykjavík is misspelled though just pointing it out ;)

Very cool 👍

Will you ever do a video on the age of Sturlungs