So there's been some conversations here about my use of the term 'Viking' and who it refers to. I think it's important to start off by saying that these videos aren't made for university-level history buffs or the like. They're designed for people trying to learn about historical periods they know little about or are revising for exams (A-Levels, GCSEs etc.). Since I base my videos (where applicable) on British teaching standards I think it's important to note that that the use of the term 'Viking' and 'Scandinavian' are allowed to be used interchangeably at this level. At the level of a Bachelor or Masters degree, absolutely not. That level of historical nuance isn't required here. Yes, the technicalities of historical analysis demand that certain terms be used only under specific circumstances. But not here. These videos aren't for in-depth historical analysis nor do they claim to be a definitive history of the Viking Age. The people commenting that 'Viking' was not used accurately are largely correct. However, in the context of who this video is for, it matters more that other information is included and those watching not be bogged down by technicalities. These videos are here to build a foundation from which people can research further. There are other channels if you'd like in-depth and dry discussions of terminology. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the video.

@Dave_Sisson

5 жыл бұрын

I suspect one of the other reasons he made this video was so he could use the term "Gormless Denmark" and get away with it. 6:01

@dimitrov8306

5 жыл бұрын

You just had to take the accident about the nordwegian ship that crashed on a shore and sunk... didnt u..

@Hundeputzmunter

5 жыл бұрын

The pitching of these videos is perfect for someone like me, which is why this is the only history channel I subscribe to

@michaelharrington8401

5 жыл бұрын

I think your videos accomplish exactly what they seek to -- helping people "learn about historical periods they know little about". I have used a number of them as jumping-off points for more in-depth research and I appreciate them very much. Good job!

@CounterToast

5 жыл бұрын

could you do a video about either witchcraft or the scientific revolution pls?

“Gorn, being old, died....” Hard hitting historical analysis. Love the channel!

@nebojsakmezic9763

5 жыл бұрын

Köld. I died there

@superbird4351

5 жыл бұрын

Gorm

@Bardockfan150

5 жыл бұрын

@@nebojsakmezic9763 So did Gorm.

@mirzaahmed6589

5 жыл бұрын

"The now Gormless Denmark..."

@LuxusHauserGroup

4 жыл бұрын

Speaks too fast. No need for that. What's the rush?

"Some Vikings complained the Baptism they were just given wasn't as nice as the last one" LMAO

@chalphon4907

3 жыл бұрын

That is pretty much still our nordic attitude towards Christianity...

@ohsweatbret

3 жыл бұрын

That made me literally lol, such a mercenary attitude

@z_ed

3 жыл бұрын

*one

@shindari

3 жыл бұрын

Christianity would have baptized far more converts, in history, if they simply allowed nude, beautiful women to do it, instead of fully-frocked, ugly old-dudes, who spoke a language (latin) hardly anybody understood. Nobody would have ever complained about the baptisms, either.

@chrisdominguez5097

3 жыл бұрын

@@shindari I would complain if they dont go touching my nethers during the procedure. Lmao

Oh boy I sure love being a Monk in Lindosfarne at 793

@FlymanMS

5 жыл бұрын

Monk: Ah, what a beautiful rich monastery we got! Nothing could go wrong. Danes: Hey there

@edwardcollier7218

5 жыл бұрын

Me, a viking: That's some nice treasure you got there. It be a shame if someone, stole it.

@t3hmaniac

5 жыл бұрын

*thud*

@graysonguinn1943

5 жыл бұрын

Vikings : hello there Monks : thane bloodtooth you are a barbaric one

@AndyRKuyt

5 жыл бұрын

"REVEREND, THERE'S LONGSHIPS APPROACHING, WE NEED TO RU- OH FUCK HE'S GOT AIRPODS ON HE CAN'T HEAR US"

"Was ruled by a man called Gorm the Old. Gorm being old, died in 958" had me laughing

@masterspark9880

Жыл бұрын

“This went pretty well… for his enemies because Hardrada got himself killed”

@yourbrainonegg159

Жыл бұрын

Gorma 958

@andregeorges8649

7 ай бұрын

How about "Greycloak did basically nothing except dying in 970" 😂

@KonradvonHotzendorf

3 ай бұрын

😂

When you go in one succession from a king called "Bloodaxe" to one called "The Good," you're either getting better or totally screwed.

@tastes-like-straberries

Жыл бұрын

I just love these names so much. Living in those periods would have been hell but now reading about them makes me laugh

@RJStockton

Жыл бұрын

@@tastes-like-straberries I left this comment three years ago. Never checked back in on it. Just now I glance over to it from my YT history, and the one and only comment is yours, from one hour ago today. I'm freaking out now.😳😳😳😳😳😳

@Chadius_Thundercock

11 ай бұрын

@@RJStockton Richard are you still live

@RJStockton

10 ай бұрын

@@Chadius_Thundercock Much to the chagrin of the Saxons, yes.

"The now Gormless Denmark". I laughed. A lot.

@jackingtonfoxpickle4861

5 жыл бұрын

How do we know that's where the original term of 'Gormless' came from? Without Gorm, the Vikings could have been doing some pretty irrational things by their own standards.

@OmmerSyssel

3 жыл бұрын

@transylvanian unbelievable which sort of baseless stupidity being shared on the Internet... Ever read a book? Try it, kiddy!

@darthrevan7562

3 жыл бұрын

Gorm was my ancestor, I should be a king by now.... sigh.

@-----Joker-----

2 жыл бұрын

I went to the comments and saw this post as soon as he said it...

If there's one thing to take away from the viking age it's that everyone had better nicknames.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

2 жыл бұрын

“Bloodaxe” is somebody you won’t want to mess with. “Greycloak” ... not so much. “Forkbeard” ... ? Was there really nothing else he was known for?

@christiansebastianlauritse2404

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 It is said that he would seperate his beard in two, so he didn't get food in it when he ate. I don't know if that really is why, but...

@60sspider-man29

2 жыл бұрын

@@christiansebastianlauritse2404 so menacing.

@manuj2868

2 жыл бұрын

Wait till you hear that Ragnar Lodbrok’s name meant ‘Leather Pants’

@miked6335

2 жыл бұрын

I'll pass. Mike the Bald doesn't do it for me.

"Harold did nothing except died in 970" you made my day

@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575

3 жыл бұрын

In Scandinavia we actually say "Harald" and not "Harold"

@John_Jim

3 жыл бұрын

@@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575 Nobody cares

@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575

3 жыл бұрын

@@John_Jim Scandinavians do.

@shashasivuyile

3 жыл бұрын

This made my day too lol.

@Starman062

3 жыл бұрын

@@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575 he may have said it as Harold cause A:he’s English and simply didn’t know. Or B: wanted to separate harold from Harland Hardrada who was pretty famous globally

"Your navy is weak! All too easy to raid." -Harald Hardrada

@carstengrooten3686

3 жыл бұрын

(Denounces you)

@KouNagai

3 жыл бұрын

Stupit AI

@evenmattias

2 жыл бұрын

No shit im landlocked!

@saerain

2 жыл бұрын

@vorschlaghammer9888

2 жыл бұрын

I see someone else played that Campaign in Age of Empires II

Q: How did the Vikings send secret messages? A: Norse code.

@azelfdaboi5265

5 жыл бұрын

*insert crickets here*

@flynn659

4 жыл бұрын

Heaven is now closed off to you.

@m.a.t.a.s

4 жыл бұрын

I thought they used Bluetooth...

@persimmon93

4 жыл бұрын

Why do you exist?

@oxcart4172

4 жыл бұрын

Cipher!😁

"Gorm the old, being old, died..." 😂😂😂 "This went pretty well...for his enemies" 😂😂😂

I love vikings, because they gave us Bluetooth

@NikkiM.

5 жыл бұрын

Same.

@Cjnw

4 жыл бұрын

And the Aryan race

@histguy101

4 жыл бұрын

@Anders ᛖᛚᛁᚨᛋᛖᚾ That's amazing

@lepangolin4080

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cjnw Aryan come from india.

@blacktemplar9499

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't Bluetooth invented by a Dutch guy

It is always interesting to see which names get translated, and which just gets anglicized. Harald Bluetooth fx is Harald Blåtand originally, but gets translated, while Harald Hardråde gets changed to Hardrada instead of translated to Harald "Hard ruler"

@devononair

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, it's pretty interesting.

@MisterSpinalzo

5 жыл бұрын

in German literature his name is frequently translated into "Harald, der harte" (meaning Harald the hard (or tough or stern, depending on context))

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

"Harald Bluetooth fx is Harald Blåtand originally" Well, it wasn't that "originally" but something like "blatan" or "blátǫnn" according to Wikipedia (though probably should be written with runes and not Latin alphabet).

@emridatla3886

3 жыл бұрын

I now wish Pfizer had been like the bluetooth thing and named it Hardrade instead of Viagra.

@colossus4219

3 жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 translated to the latin alphabet with the Danish/Norwegian letters it becomes Blåtand. But with the runic alphabet it looks different

"Great Heathen Army" has to be the most epic name ever for an invading force

Actually, Iceland was inhabited. Before the vikings settled there, it had Irish monks, called Papar in the Sagas. In addition to the Icelandic sagas, recent archeology confirmed the monks' presence.

@someguy7723

3 жыл бұрын

yeah but they were just a bunch of dudes chilling there. You need ladies and stuff for it to be really inhabiteded

@wanitooo

3 жыл бұрын

@@someguy7723 "chilling" pun intended?

@someguy7723

3 жыл бұрын

@@wanitooo i choose to lie and say yes

@mokkaveli

3 жыл бұрын

Lmfao I had a save on CK3 as Harald Hardrada winning the English throne and Iceland in my game eventually became inherited by descendants of Irishmen. Funny that

@chalphon4907

3 жыл бұрын

Actually there has been no proof that they were settled there, the main theory is that they were just there for a short while and then left.

My favourite bit of Scandinavian history is that in the C12th the Swedes just made up about 15 kings in order to give the kings of the time more legitimacy. They started with Eric the IX (he was actually the first) and Charles/Karl the VII (again actually the first)

@TorIverWilhelmsen

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, a priest wanted to trace the Swedish kings back to Jesus. Which is just a little less crazy than the Swedish priest or monk who claimed that the Garden of Eden had been in Sweden.

@matthewmcneany

3 жыл бұрын

​@@TorIverWilhelmsen I've never come across that one, but they certainly weren't the only ones who claimed something like that though. The English had a 'theory' that Joseph of Arimathea visited England with a teenage Jesus. Japanese, Indian and Russian Christians have claimed similar visitations. To say nothing of the Mormons.

@nafnist

2 жыл бұрын

@@TorIverWilhelmsen Id believe that, if it wasn't for knotts 😂

@TorIverWilhelmsen

2 жыл бұрын

@@nafnist they are clearly what really drove Adam and Eve out.

@Fuckification

2 жыл бұрын

@@NotThatJojjo that would be 17th century Olof Rudbeck.

Your intros are always the best "Little bit on fire." xD

Yet another great video. The amount of information you pack in 9:59 blows my mind. Thank you.

@Matt-en4yg

5 жыл бұрын

James Baker you broke the early birds stratagem dammit

@james_baker

5 жыл бұрын

My apologies good sir. Think of it as a surprise Viking raid?

I didn't realise William was descended from Rollo. That was pretty interesting.

@ravioli3807

3 жыл бұрын

Given how long ago he lived, I won't be surprised if everyone in the British Isles is related to him.

@thegearknob7161

3 жыл бұрын

​@@ravioli3807 He is tracable up many family trees, including mine. If you trace birth certificates and the paper trail that is. However due to DNA we know that the official paper trail is wrong in my case, and went wrong as recently as the 1920s due to a bit of deception by my great grandmother. We've worked out what must have happened and corrected it, but it turns out the line linking us to the kings is one of the ones we lost. We would never have known this if it weren't for DNA. My mother had spent almost 40 years researching a line that it turns out we aren't actually decended from (even if officially we are), before discovering this, so it was a major blow to her. Who knows how many other times something like that happened in the near 1000 years between now and the Norman conquest, not just for me, but for everyone. Tracing your family tree back that far is technically possible sometimes, but it's likely to be wrong somewhere so you need to take it with a truckload of salt. On the topic of Vikings, we have noticed a few links with some very Swedish and Icelandic sounding names, but no idea where they fit in. It would have had to be centuries ago, but it seems a bit of a stretch to think it goes back as far as the Viking Age. DNA just threw up more questions than answers...

@Aldoz

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of royal families are related to Rollo too

@Hawkwinter01

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, go figure. William was fighting his own relatives. The Norse ancestors settling in France (William), going across the channel to fight the Norse ancestors that settled in England. A somewhat repetitive theme over the centuries.

@TheNinetySecond

2 жыл бұрын

Scandinavia was considered by some medieval historians to be a "cradle of civilization" due to the hugely successful bronze age here. With a climate similar to current day Mediterranean and ample sea routes, it had a thriving bronze age culture. Around the bronze age collapse, exacerbated by climate change, there was a major exodus from the region. A ton of Germanic peoples are descendants from the region. Then, in the first few centuries after the fall of the (western) Roman Empire, Saxons, Frisians and Jutes - all Germanic groups tied closely with Scandinavia (Jutes being from Jutland, Denmark) - settled the British Isles, edging out or ruling over the native Britons and the semi-native Celtic peoples there. At the same time, central European descendants of the Scandinavian bronze age peoples were overtaking much of the Roman Empire. In all, Scandinavian peoples have had a major cultural and ethnic impact on much of Europe, even before the Viking age.

6:47 i like that Bluetooth sign on the carving.

@manheap12

5 жыл бұрын

Ethan Republic Fun fact. It’s the initials of Harald Bluetooth in the Latin alphabet.

@sciencecompliance235

3 жыл бұрын

@@manheap12 Runic* alphabet

1:36 Nice reference to HNoMS Helge Ingstad (F313) XD (In case you didn't know, Helge Ingstad is a Norwegian frigate that collided with a tanker on November 8, 2018 and sank on November 13, 2018)

@havardnss3895

4 жыл бұрын

Sad story

Harald Hardrada was such a badass. Spending 15 years as a mercenary, then as a military commander in both Russia and Byzantium, only to then become King in his homeland. I sometimes wonder how history would have looked like if he and his army would not have been surprise-attacked at Stamford bridge. Maybe in an alternate universe he became King of Norway-England. Such a legend!

@cantdebunkthetruth

Жыл бұрын

It would have changed the entire landscape of European history to say the least. Centuries of English-French tensions would never have occurred, and who knows what path that could create.

@amun1040

8 ай бұрын

Yea playing chelsea was really hard back then. Jose Mourinho was a beast.

@reidparker1848

3 ай бұрын

​@@cantdebunkthetruth I disagree with that but of pop-history. Would have happened regardless.

5:31 "Harold died around 09:30" The level of historical detail we are able to glean today astounds me

@aaeve5676

3 жыл бұрын

Ik right? Someone immedietly looked at their watch when Harold died.

"Take that Columbus" Lol you made my day

@timyumichuck9262

2 жыл бұрын

Europeans were in North America 6500 years before this too. Before the NA indians.

@Grimmbros1214

2 жыл бұрын

@@timyumichuck9262 source?

Scandinavia 2019: Most developed and one of the happiest places on the planet, with the friendliest and most laid back people you can meet. Scandinavia ~870: Pillaging and raiding coastal villages and monasteries for fun and profit.

@historian252

4 жыл бұрын

doubt the first part.

@donquesewilliamswilliams3497

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh yes I sure do love being raped in Sweden what a friendly country

@ronanconcannon8612

4 жыл бұрын

@@donquesewilliamswilliams3497 The reason the rape rates are high in Sweden is because they expanded the definition of rape. E.g. in the some countries, a person who rapes 5 people is treated as 1 case, whereas in Sweden it is treated as 5 separate cases. Also in many countries there is still a stigma in reporting rape, so many instances of rape go unreported.

@vladescu3g

4 жыл бұрын

@@donquesewilliamswilliams3497 i'm sure if Trump was swedish he would had 10s of rape convictions.

@kckdude913

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyslokes2712 Only Trump can grab women by the pussy without their consent, right?

The swedish KÖLD

@Eclipse-mf6hc

4 жыл бұрын

The Danish KOLD

@lucasbeck1391

4 жыл бұрын

@@Eclipse-mf6hc i wish it got proper cold here

@alleking5433

3 жыл бұрын

Kallt som fan

@FuckGoogle2

3 жыл бұрын

Someone had to teach the english to english.

@gaygekko

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno if it's just me, but seeing that "Køld" thing kinda bothered me. I see it all the time, companies, groups, brands, etc. just like to use "ø" or even "ö" simply because it looks cool. Examples include Mønster Energy Drink, RØDE and Twenty Øne Piløts. It actually really bothers me, and I do think it's a mild form of cultural appropriation. It is so incredibly ignorant of them imho.

9:35 “Oh Rollo,” says the old monster, “If you truly knew what the gods had in store for you, you would go down and dance naked on the beach.”

@jessevernonwheeler887

3 жыл бұрын

Myyyyyyyy mother told me

@tahabashir3779

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessevernonwheeler887 someday i would buy....

Got to love the blue tooth logo on the stone at 6:49

@greatgodpan5001

4 жыл бұрын

TKDMIKEP thats his initials

@TorIverWilhelmsen

3 жыл бұрын

Well, the Bluetooth logo is the runic script B.

@chalphon4907

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the bluetooth logo is actually the rune from that particular viking king.

@NotASummoner

2 жыл бұрын

@@TorIverWilhelmsen No, it's a combination of H and B which was not used before Bluetooth made their logo.

Another fun thing about 1066 and Willy's invasion from "Northman" aka Normandy, (an example of Vikings gone native). The British Isles were basically considered part of the Scandinavian world until that little bastard got lucky with a bow shot. As recorded on a French blanket.

@XXXTENTAClON227

Жыл бұрын

“Quick, we need to record history” The guy using a blanket to keep warm: “Oh no…”

@reidparker1848

3 ай бұрын

That's quite a "fun" opinion you have there!

Love the oh so subtle sinking of the modern warship when talking about Norway (1:45 ish)

Fun Fact: Bluetooth was named after Harold Bluetooth becuase I believe when Bluetooth was fired made it was originally used to connect all of the internet I think Estonia and the creator named it after Harold Bluetooth cause he brought together all of the danish kingdoms under his control, also the Bluetooth logo is a mixture of Harold Bluetooths initials in runic. Also *HINGA DINGA DURGEN*

@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575

3 жыл бұрын

Harald Bluetooth*

@johnsmith361

3 жыл бұрын

@@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575 Haraldr Blåtand

@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575

3 жыл бұрын

Haraldr blátönn*

@kimh9337

3 жыл бұрын

And technology was invended in Sweden, Hence the Scandinavian reference :) I should find a mocking commend about them Swedeners, but I'd feel bad about it, now they used a Danish king for the name.

@TorIverWilhelmsen

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimh9337 Well, there is always Gustaf Volvo. (I kid!)

How was this not sponsored by Vikings the app?

@HistoryMatters

5 жыл бұрын

Don't do sponsorships, for what it's worth.

@Solon1581

5 жыл бұрын

He has integrity

@totalwartimelapses6359

5 жыл бұрын

Wait why is it shameful to do sponserships?

@totalwartimelapses6359

5 жыл бұрын

@Mbathroom1 Ah ok, cause everyone said it is bad but no one said why so I was curious to see what everyone thinks of it

@df5687

5 жыл бұрын

plus maintaining creative control over YOUR channel over sponsorship money is something everyone can appreciate.

5:07 Never forgetti

I knew almost all of this, but the dry humor and witty way of bringing history is a short video is really brilliant and entertaining!

The drawing of Odin with one eye! Subtle, but absolutely brilliant!

It drives me crazy knowing there are such gaps in history in certain areas of the world that we may never have a clear, certain picture of. Still though, this vid is great, as usual!

When you're a monk at Lindesfarne in 793 and you see some ships from Scandinavia heading to you.

@Sir_Kotsos

5 жыл бұрын

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@edwardcollier7218

5 жыл бұрын

Κωνσταντινος Σαρδανης nah, it's more of that one black midget guy that looks concerned.

@azelfdaboi5265

5 жыл бұрын

*chuckles* I'm in danger

@davesy6969

3 жыл бұрын

"Ooh look- visitors, I'd better put the kettle on."

@PugnaciousProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardcollier7218 you.. you mean the black child?

My Swedish grandmother was baptized at her parish church in the early 1880's. The back door of her church was recycled from earlier religious bldg. It had a dragon motif.

Poor Harald Greycloak! I'm sure he did lots of important things but no one wrote them down

KNM Helge Ingstad cameo at 1:36 gave me a good chuckle

Interesting, thanks! Also mention that the attack on Constantinople & Mediterranean raiding, the Rus of Russia were from Roslagen in Sweden, the Greenland settlement active until the 1400s and how the Vikings discovered and settled the Azores.

I love this channel. The subject matter is great. It’s very informative. But it’s the delivery that makes it so entertaining. Keep doing what you’re doing.

So nicely done, simple and informative story/maps, well done!

1:20 "No one will believe you" 😂

You completely forgot the Middle Eastern primary sources on the norse, which are often far more netural and sometimes even positively in favor of the norse as compared to western European primary sources of this time. Arab and Persian traders had extensive trading ties with the Swedish vikings and Ahmed Ibm Fadlan is perhaps the most well known Middle Easterner to have lived amongst the norse (he was portrayed by Antonio Banderas in the 13th warrior).

@johan8503

4 жыл бұрын

He did not live amongs the norse, but the encountered them when they were there to trade. They were described as "Tall as dade trees, with blonde/red hair and with a perfect body"

@seannieminen1369

3 жыл бұрын

@@johan8503 is that why immigrants come to Sweden?

@Fantasia-em5rs

3 жыл бұрын

@@seannieminen1369 What?

@tommyakesson8858

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fantasia-em5rs its a thing online. Mention sweden and someone us bound to bring up immigrants.

@chandy3859

3 жыл бұрын

@Franz Styles it should be 1 in 4. I wonder why you make that kind of mistake. Bias perhaps? Or you are just stupid? Or something else?

I went to Birka, near Stockholm last year. I was told that they find more ancient Persian coins in Scandinavia than in actual Persia itself!

@darnoc7460

3 жыл бұрын

The swedish vikings were very effective in their rading in the east and west, so it's actually not that surprising that foregin objects are a common thing in sweden.

@omologo95

3 жыл бұрын

@@darnoc7460 It was mostly garnered through trade, but you're right in that too

@darnoc7460

3 жыл бұрын

@@omologo95 yeah of course. But since most people refer the vikings as raiders, i thought it would make more sense to describe them as raiders. But yeah trading was also an important source of income. Together with raiding, vikings that returned to sweden came home rich with foreign luxuries

@lmaozedong2259

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it's true, a consequence of Scandinavia not having a monetary economy at the time otherwise the coins would have been melted down like in the middle east.

@TorIverWilhelmsen

3 жыл бұрын

The Scandinavian mercenaries hired by the Byzantines - the Varangian Guard - were well paid, and had first rights to loot when they fought - e.g. against the Persians.

Just found this channel and I love the animation and commentary! You did a great job of making it informative and funny. Thanks for all your hard work!

good channel, definitely up in the top ranks for history channels, along with oversimplified and extra credits' history vids

They raided England and Scotland so hard that they ended up in Ireland. Absolute madlads.

Another masterpiece from Ten Minute History. Wonder what's next.

@HistoryMatters

5 жыл бұрын

It's Mussolini next.

8:15 That death scene tho

I know I'm late to the party here, but there is also a thing where the Swedish vikings were the founders of the kingdom of Kievan Rus, that was a historically significant thing in eastern Europe which became a large power of its time and later inspired the founding of Russia.

I love how every time something happens in Iceland and the scene is about to cut a volcano goes off in the background 3:50. Your little details are wonderful!

6:07 didn't know they had Bluetooth back in the day

@andrewclayton7289

10 ай бұрын

Lol

When finishing one of your videos, I always feel ever-so-slightly smarter. Greatest compliment on your work, guys.

your videos are amazing, probably the best on youtube for learning history. I'd like to suggest perhaps covering the Mexican Revolution.

Need a follow up on the Vikings in SE Europe and Rus. Great video again

Good info, and huge volume of it in 10 minutes. Well done 👍

I do like watching and rewatching your episodes. They're educationally entertaining.

I love this channel and was thinking of a possible episode featuring the Kalmarunion perhaps focused on Margareth I of Denmark

@erikblue7842

3 жыл бұрын

Kalmer Union: 3 guys playing all the time when one got too edgy and left. Then one always commanded the tallest one around until he said hah no

Great video! We actually just tackled Viking history last week from a viewer request. Popular culture has definitely skewed the perception of what a Viking is.

@GuyMaleMan

Жыл бұрын

yup theyre the worst

I love the writing on this channel. This episode is one of the best.

As usual, well done! Good series.

5:24 LMFAO that's so funny. "i don't take christianity seriously, but i don't like that my baptism wasn't as nice as the other guy's"

“This went pretty well...for his enemies” 😂 Nifty video as always guys. Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊

1:03 'And over here, we see the very first empire in existence... it was a work in progress.'

Great stuff as always

A video about Vikings? *_Thor is typing..._*

@Newbmann

5 жыл бұрын

ROMANS TYPING WE BEAT YOU TO AMERICA SUCK IT GERMANIC TRIBES ... EMPIRE.EXE has stopped working

@Elenrai

5 жыл бұрын

@@Newbmann Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! .....actually you are too far away...*raids sweden*

@Cjnw

3 жыл бұрын

Normie

@winchesterchua7600

3 жыл бұрын

Pewds is typing.

"And things went pretty well. For his enemies, which is why he died."

Great job as always.

Seeing the maps really helps clear up some of the other “Viking” history content I’ve seen . Thanks

Love that you wrote "köld" haha :D /from a swedish viewer

"Where is your beard and where is your axe"

@AgentTasmania

4 жыл бұрын

Upon my face and in the shed

I really love your content. Greetings from Brazil

I spy a sneaky sinking norwegian frigate... You cheeky bugger you.

1:36 Frigate Helge Ingstad reference. Sad, but true...

@Jamo_7811

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

"Destiny is All"....I see what you did there.

My favourite part of any of your videos is when a character runs through a field of daisies. Brilliant.

This is very helpful regarding the Viking Age, and it helps to rewatch annually to better understand each sentence you say. It is crazy what you pick up in the video the more you look into it all. By any chance, do you have any videos on the immigration patterns of pre-Christianized Saxon tribes and the rise and all of all that?

You should do the seven years war next

@trevorm1876

5 жыл бұрын

Daddy Stalin more like the French and Indian war 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

@superbird4351

5 жыл бұрын

T M There were multiple theaters of the war. French & Indian is more relevant for the U.S. but not as much for all the European nations involved.

Your humour is lit 🔥

1:36 love the Norwegian frigate sinking reference.

Amazing!!!!!! Thank-you

Damn they really made Vinland Saga a real thing

after leif Eriksen returned from north america, Thorfinn Karselfni settled northern Newfoundland after 50 or so years, not half a millenia

Thank you for this video.

Awesome vid! Keep it up!

There was actually some monks on Iceland but thought they'd best be off, iirc

@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221

5 жыл бұрын

They didn't want to live alongside dirty pagans and left the island.

@yibithehispanic

4 жыл бұрын

After what they were doing with the monasteries in the British islands it was a wise move to move out

I would like to see you cover some Far East history such as the Romance Of Three Kingdoms , Sengoku Jedia etc

Great content!

"Greycloack did basically nothing except die in 917". 8:44 "this went pretty well...for his enemies since Hardrada got himzelf killed".

7:57 "Hinga Danga Durgin!"

"Bloodaxe" is so metal

6:16 I’m pretty sure the biggest reason he’s famous is that his nickname (Bluetooth) was used as the name for a wireless technology, which is meant to unify devices the same way he unified Denmark.

@ridgeracer7136

8 ай бұрын

R/woosh

Poor HNoMS Helge Ingstad (F313)... had to Google that one. I love your multi-layered info.

This is when Vinland starts 7:49

The Varangian Guard would be a great follow up to this one

Loved the Bluetooth rune on the jelling stones. Nice touch haha

4:48 Love the reference to The Last Kingdom