Viking Raiders vs. Native American Warriors : The First Fight

Northeastern Canada, around the year 1000 A.D. As they have done for centuries, a group of Viking raiders prepares to hit shore, and lay claim to these lands.
They are led by Thorvald Erickson, brother of Lief Erickson and son of Eric the Red. They have come to these new lands to reap their abundant bounties of timber and wild game.
But, as they are soon to discover, these lands are already inhabited. And, although they have long fought many enemies from Northern Europe to Africa, these Vikings are about to encounter a fighting force unlike anything they have seen before. The result, will shape world history for centuries to come.
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  • @Ben-xf7uy
    @Ben-xf7uy10 ай бұрын

    I wish i could remember it exactly, one of our wrestling coach was Native American and he had this saying, "Let my enemy be smart and brave so that i may feel pride in victory." Always had the best stories about Sitting Bull and what it means to be a war cheif, how its better to fight smart than strong. Man he was a good guy. Helped me get into college

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    God bless wrestling coaches. 🙏🏻

  • @shanghunter7697

    @shanghunter7697

    9 ай бұрын

    A youngster NEVER forgets their educators that cared !!!

  • @casegriffin2205
    @casegriffin220510 ай бұрын

    You are a GIFTED narrator my man. I can perfectly visualize scenario and setting you describe, and it’s made this channel easily one of my favorites. We all appreciate the work you do!

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Wow, thank you!

  • @trickydicky2908
    @trickydicky290810 ай бұрын

    Can you imagine how brave a missionary would have to be, to make a cold call, on the Vikings?

  • @sandy-quimsrus

    @sandy-quimsrus

    10 ай бұрын

    Brave or idiotic.

  • @ianmedford4855

    @ianmedford4855

    10 ай бұрын

    "If The Lord walks beside me, whom shall I fear?"

  • @sandy-quimsrus

    @sandy-quimsrus

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ianmedford4855 the ones that will brand you for your religion.

  • @ianmedford4855

    @ianmedford4855

    10 ай бұрын

    @@sandy-quimsrus nobody has seen a Viking for nearly a thousand years, but I drive by a dozen churches on the way to work. Results are results.

  • @tylerdurden4392

    @tylerdurden4392

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ianmedford4855 Scientology was powerful, too though...

  • @loladennler571
    @loladennler5719 ай бұрын

    The Vikings came with conquer on their minds. The natives said, "Oh no you're not!"

  • @justinshades6652
    @justinshades665210 ай бұрын

    Gorm is written on a stone. William Wallace is written on a stone. Calalus was found in Arizona. So much history. Thank You. Love it all. Medicine Gat Geoglyphs have a chiefs head and a viking head. Cyclopian walls in Montana. Etc. Etc.

  • @jamespoynor9511
    @jamespoynor951110 ай бұрын

    OH MAN! I have a long drive tomorrow and so looking forward to this!

  • @orlandofurioso7958
    @orlandofurioso795810 ай бұрын

    Poetic justice. Those Indians moved to present day Greenbay, Wisconsin, by the way. They still know what to do to Vikings there.

  • @2bullcrap

    @2bullcrap

    10 ай бұрын

    🤡

  • @timhouston2408

    @timhouston2408

    10 ай бұрын

    This wins comment of the entire thread...lol... very good and I needed a laugh

  • @JDoe-gf5oz

    @JDoe-gf5oz

    10 ай бұрын

    They did until they lost their greatest warrior. Now they're about to enter decades of darkness.

  • @orlandofurioso7958

    @orlandofurioso7958

    10 ай бұрын

    @@JDoe-gf5oz Couldn't agree with you more. Women, wine, beer and cheese--anything a Viking wants that isn't tied down on both ends--will be gone after the Vikings sack Greenbay. Otherwise, anything not tied down still left in Greenway are the leftovers: ugly women, corked wine, skunky beer, and Limberger.

  • @orlandofurioso7958

    @orlandofurioso7958

    10 ай бұрын

    @@JDoe-gf5ozNo one can bring to the Jets the magic, glint and glamor of Broadway Joe. Football was fun then. Good luck to Aaron Rodgers, however. I feel so sorry for today's sports fans and those who play professionally any sport. The wokesters, the cancel culture warriors, have taken the fun out of everything, and financially damaged the professionals now playing and those to come. Take this to the bank. Far more people used to enjoy various sports than drank Bud Light. Broadway Joe was a man's man. He would be described today as suffering from toxic masculinity, unacceptably virile, with excessive testosterone levels, things that with the right hormone therapy could make him sweeter, effeminate, softer. That's the way it is, IMHO. Oh, and stand up comedy also no longer is fun. Only Dave Chappelle is free. Others are chained.

  • @adamstephenson7518
    @adamstephenson751810 ай бұрын

    Been waiting for this. Love your videos

  • @antoninorex5857
    @antoninorex585710 ай бұрын

    Im enjoying these stories. Thank you.

  • @jamoo0
    @jamoo010 ай бұрын

    Another great video thanks again!

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @HarupertBeagleton-dz5gw
    @HarupertBeagleton-dz5gw10 ай бұрын

    The Harvard Classic Series has a book on American history that coverings early writings. It chronological so the first entries are the writings of the Vikings. They cover contact with natives and Freydís Eiríksdóttir betrayal of her expedition. Would be a great source for a future video.

  • @matthewcampa3276

    @matthewcampa3276

    10 ай бұрын

    In close combat I’d say Viking held a greater than slender advantage, mostly because, as you note, their metal armour and arms was far superior to the stone weapons of the natives. On the other hand, the natives knew the land, had systems of subsistence already in place, and likely for more numbers. I agree it was a fair fight.

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    @@matthewcampa3276 Stone weapons lol Millions of Indigenous people are alive and well. No vikings left -COMANCHE NATION

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    Indigenous Nations ran the vikings off. -COMANCHE NATION

  • @matthewcampa3276

    @matthewcampa3276

    10 ай бұрын

    @@thechiefwildhorse4651 Yes, at the time Vikings first made contact, Native Americas utilized stone or antler/bone tipped weapons. Which is not to say such weapons were not deadly--simply not as effective as metal weapons, particularly in close combat. Now, in later centuries, native tribes, especially plains tribes like comanche, adopted European weapons and the horse and were some of the most potent mobile warriors the world has ever seen. Lastly, there is definitely descendants of Vikings across the world.

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    @@matthewcampa3276 Horses have been long before Caucasians were created from swine. Caucasians talk like they know all history and most of history literally does not include Caucasians lol -COMANCHE NATION

  • @thomasgumersell9607
    @thomasgumersell960710 ай бұрын

    Incredible to think how far the Vikings went in their open boats. Coming to North America hundreds of years before any other Europeans. I really enjoyed your short video. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    Indigenous Nations were always traveling the oceans Long before Caucasians were created -COMANCHE NATION

  • @alecfullmer2026

    @alecfullmer2026

    10 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@thechiefwildhorse4651true, but that doesn’t discredit the fact that the Scandinavians were the best Sea Faring people of their time, they crossed freezing oceans over long months to create new settlements and thrived for many years, and their naval force could take down great kingdoms such as England and France

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    @@alecfullmer2026 That's Your perspective. -COMANCHE NATION

  • @alecfullmer2026

    @alecfullmer2026

    10 ай бұрын

    @@thechiefwildhorse4651 you’re perspective seems to disregard all others history as less than yours which is very irresponsible

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    @@alecfullmer2026 You mean like Caucasians do??? -COMANCHE NATION

  • @senorsombrero1275
    @senorsombrero127510 ай бұрын

    And with these Norsemen and Proto-Inuit began a legacy of bloodshed that wouldn’t end until the last Bronco Apache was killed in the Sierra Madre Mountains in the 1920s.

  • @mohicanmachine99

    @mohicanmachine99

    10 ай бұрын

    Inuit ARE NOT native Americans. N Norse were not there to fight apache.

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    Millions of Indigenous people. Over 15,000 Tribal Nations. Europeans are still illegal -COMANCHE NATION

  • @bender5561
    @bender556110 ай бұрын

    Brilliant looking forward to more!!

  • @WyomingTraveler
    @WyomingTraveler10 ай бұрын

    You have presented an exciting narrative of Norse and indigenous people. How might history been different had the Norse been able to conquer and settle North American as they had much of Europe.

  • @robertovaldivia1573

    @robertovaldivia1573

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly. A slow but steady migration. Trading of knowledge and technology. Slower introduction of farm animals and European diseases. So mamy interesting what-ifs?

  • @acesnoopy

    @acesnoopy

    10 ай бұрын

    Would be more interesting to see the American Indians take over Europe with the things they learned from the vikings. AHO!

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you for watching! We are fans of yours and always appreciate your comments!

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    @@robertovaldivia1573 Indigenous Nations were already farming. Caucasians brought swine and disease -COMANCHE NATION

  • @oakmaiden2133

    @oakmaiden2133

    9 ай бұрын

    How might it be if people didn’t go around conquering and stealing other people’s land

  • @lokitus
    @lokitus10 ай бұрын

    Can't wait for more on this topic.

  • @DeepTexas
    @DeepTexas10 ай бұрын

    this channel is continuously excellent.

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @wolfgangkranek376
    @wolfgangkranek37610 ай бұрын

    As a side note: Many people are not aware, that during this time (about 800 - 1000 A.D.) Europe suffered equally from raiding Vikings (Scandinavians), Moors (Muslims) and Magyars (Hungarians). Though the Vikings as Normans and the sedentary Magyars as the Hungarian Kingdom later became defenders of Western Europe against continuing Muslim raids and conquest. The Hungarians (like the Poles) also in the end fending off the Mongols for good, after initial defeats.

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Great point.

  • @robinrobyn1714

    @robinrobyn1714

    10 ай бұрын

    The Moorish invasion of Spain, in 711 A.D./C.E. was a great thing for Spain.

  • @wolfgangkranek376

    @wolfgangkranek376

    10 ай бұрын

    @@robinrobyn1714 Indeed. Who doesn't like getting raided, enslaved, raped and occupied.

  • @robinrobyn1714

    @robinrobyn1714

    10 ай бұрын

    @@wolfgangkranek376 Indeed. Who doesn't like getting introduced to rare and exotic music, learning new scientific techniques and knowledge ( that would prove instrumental in the discovery of the Americas in 1492), rare and beautiful architectural forms and techniques,( some of which still stands today and are the pride of Spanish culture) rare, tasty new foods, enhancement of their native language with new words ,. concepts, etc etc?

  • @wolfgangkranek376

    @wolfgangkranek376

    10 ай бұрын

    @@robinrobyn1714 🤣 Besides that most of what you are saying is wrong. So you are a fan of Colonialism?!

  • @chrisa8799
    @chrisa879910 ай бұрын

    GREAT video

  • @555tdh
    @555tdh10 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Wow!! Thank you so much! God bless.

  • @555tdh

    @555tdh

    10 ай бұрын

    You are welcome--God's blessings to you as well@@historyattheokcorral

  • @JG-tt4sz
    @JG-tt4sz10 ай бұрын

    A Viking invasion of Baltimore would be quite exciting.

  • @truekaliban4674

    @truekaliban4674

    10 ай бұрын

    And healthy, presuming that they landed in large enough numbers and meant business.

  • @Corteggy

    @Corteggy

    10 ай бұрын

    Well... To bad it didn't happen. 😂😂😂 They wouodnt have lasted. They weren't dealing with unsuspecting farmers here

  • @jameshall1781

    @jameshall1781

    10 ай бұрын

    We already live I baltimore I'm viking and I live here lol

  • @frakismaximus3052
    @frakismaximus305210 ай бұрын

    Another winning episode of distant historical events! Thank you )

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Glad you like them!

  • @the5thmusketeer215

    @the5thmusketeer215

    10 ай бұрын

    @@historyattheokcorral ​​⁠ I have to say - in all honesty - that I DON’T like your episodes… ✋🤨 That’s because I LOVE THEM! ❤ 😊👍

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @disturbedK0
    @disturbedK010 ай бұрын

    more of these please great videos man

  • @TheMagicPat
    @TheMagicPat10 ай бұрын

    Great stuff

  • @awalk56
    @awalk569 ай бұрын

    Wonderful narrative.

  • @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek
    @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek10 ай бұрын

    Fascinating!!!

  • @patrickpatrick9132
    @patrickpatrick913210 ай бұрын

    Do you have a video of the Oatman massacre? In Arizona west of Gila Bend. The old Norman battalion trail. I think it was 1853. I’ve been there several times. The wagon ruts are work into the volcano rock.

  • @Jaymsie.
    @Jaymsie.10 ай бұрын

    I’m positive that the natives saw them as dangerous, perhaps after getting to know them a bit. Perhaps some natives tested them and found they were really good at fighting and killing. Afterwards, the natives likely panicked and resolved to oppose them wholly. So the natives gathered in strength and either killed all the settlers, or caused them to vacate. I honestly can’t imagine any other reason the natives would decide to be so hostile. If the Vinland Vikings were docile, peaceful, and harmless, I believe the natives would have accepted them.

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    Perhaps because vikings were trespassing? -COMANCHE NATION

  • @sarrumac

    @sarrumac

    6 ай бұрын

    People are territorial.

  • @judithcampbell1705
    @judithcampbell170510 ай бұрын

    Brave people who lived in the day. I would be terrified of going into battle with a Viking warrior. They were deadly and respected. Thank you 💛 so much for the history!!!

  • @serdownofhousebad1127

    @serdownofhousebad1127

    10 ай бұрын

    They were rapist, slavers and thieves who couldn't grow their own food if they tried, which is why they went around murdering villages for their stuff. When a chieftain died within a Norse settlement, the tribe would pass around their mistress to the chiefs friends before burning her alive after tricking her to believing it was honorable (most of these mistresses were slaves from other cultures mind you) so who could ever actually respect them or see them as cool?

  • @StuartAnderson-xl4bo

    @StuartAnderson-xl4bo

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@serdownofhousebad1127 lol that's 98% nonsense you have typed

  • @thechiefwildhorse4651

    @thechiefwildhorse4651

    10 ай бұрын

    @@StuartAnderson-xl4bo Obviously Indigenous PEOPLE were never scared to -COMANCHE NATION

  • @loke1555

    @loke1555

    10 ай бұрын

    @@serdownofhousebad1127😂😂😂

  • @tomevans4402
    @tomevans44029 ай бұрын

    Well done

  • @The_ZeroLine
    @The_ZeroLine10 ай бұрын

    _Only_ Rambo draws first blood.

  • @notbonsai671

    @notbonsai671

    10 ай бұрын

    ? He very specifically did not draw first blood

  • @notbonsai671

    @notbonsai671

    10 ай бұрын

    For Rambo's story, "first blood" represents the trigger that sets him off, more so than actual blood being spilled. He was a sleeping giant that was awoken the second he was provoked, with Teasle and his men drawing "first blood," which was more than enough for Rambo to begin his personal war against them

  • @The_ZeroLine

    @The_ZeroLine

    10 ай бұрын

    @@notbonsai671 It was a joke, bro.

  • @freshundies
    @freshundies10 ай бұрын

    if my boss was killed and asked me to take his body back to the place where he was killed, i might just throw him overboard. just saying.

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Same. 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @joejohnson4183

    @joejohnson4183

    10 ай бұрын

    That is why you are not a Norseman , man that have no concept of honor don't understand .

  • @freshundies

    @freshundies

    10 ай бұрын

    you would also be thrown overboard with your honor. history shows in the face of death the will to live surppases all forms of honor look at the trench fighting videos coming out of ukraine at the moment. both sides fight on the bodies of their fallen comrades.

  • @MusMasi

    @MusMasi

    10 ай бұрын

    @@joejohnson4183 honor? Is it honorable to murder sleeping people who had not done you any harm? I guess there is no such thing as honor.

  • @joejohnson4183

    @joejohnson4183

    10 ай бұрын

    @@MusMasi Which sleeping people are you referring to ?

  • @trukeesey8715
    @trukeesey871510 ай бұрын

    Greenland was green before the mini-ice-age, which began shortly after our arrival. Listen to Prem Rawat!

  • @danielcurtis1434
    @danielcurtis143410 ай бұрын

    The channel should be called the abandoned lot adjacent to the OK corral!!!

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    It's sure bet you're a blast at cocktail parties.

  • @555tdh
    @555tdh10 ай бұрын

    What "casegriffin2205" said--great narration sparks the imagination--like the radio stories of old

  • @5h0rgunn45
    @5h0rgunn4510 ай бұрын

    You have encountered some random strangers napping. Do you: A. pass them by B. say hello C. murder the bastards in their sleep, then go to sleep heedless of a possible counterattack Viking logic chooses C.

  • @tylerdurden4392

    @tylerdurden4392

    10 ай бұрын

    Viking logic also discovered America :P

  • @JohnWayne-qx3je

    @JohnWayne-qx3je

    9 ай бұрын

    @@tylerdurden4392People we’re already there, thorvald learned.

  • @tylerdurden4392

    @tylerdurden4392

    9 ай бұрын

    @@JohnWayne-qx3je Yeah, but they didn't find America, they wandered aimlessly into it while chasing a mastodon.

  • @JohnWayne-qx3je

    @JohnWayne-qx3je

    9 ай бұрын

    @@tylerdurden4392 you mean like the Europeans wandered into Europe or the Asians wandered into Asia or the rest of the frigging world wandered around discovering wherever it was they decided to settle. By that logic no land belongs to anyone and what I conquer I can take, including what’s “yours”. Such white peoples logic. We’re Scandinavians always in Scandinavia.

  • @n.l.1276
    @n.l.127610 ай бұрын

    @historyattheokcorral Regarding some of the poems the narrator recites, are the sources only written in Old (Shakespearean Era) English? Perhaps a (Greenland Norse) Germanic/Latin dialect accent would be more befitting...? But please don't try and sound like Arnold Sw...😉

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    You're probably right but everything we tried legit sounded like Arnold 😭

  • @n.l.1276

    @n.l.1276

    10 ай бұрын

    @@historyattheokcorral 🤣 Well, back to practicing Old English. Cheers, keep up the good work!

  • @paulbird1342
    @paulbird134210 ай бұрын

    Never will understand why these raiding parties were never countered with destruction of their ships during their raids.

  • @StockyDude

    @StockyDude

    10 ай бұрын

    Ships were typically guarded. You would have a watch or two on the ship and another watch or two on the pier. Also, if you were an attacker from the land, you usually were only able to attempt to damage the side that was closest to the pier or land, all the while the crew was shooting arrows at you as they attempted to cast the lines and get away.

  • @foxnwolf6863

    @foxnwolf6863

    10 ай бұрын

    Or the fact that its a raid and your most likely caught off guard not to mention probably lack of weapons and training for them since most of the time they target small villages easy soft targets with a good route for fast in and out transportation. I remember reading about their raiding pattern how they would ride around the cost hit what didn't look defended and leave before a counter could come.

  • @steakeater4557

    @steakeater4557

    10 ай бұрын

    Hassle. Not worth it to cause loss of life by fighting worthless people intent on mimicking the rat, can just chase it back to it's hole.

  • @LeifSonOfRogaland
    @LeifSonOfRogaland10 ай бұрын

    However history may view the Norsemen, faults & all, you cannot doubt their bravery to continually voyage into the unknown & with regards to north America, being hopelessly outnumbered.

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @user-wl1go3xc9f
    @user-wl1go3xc9f4 ай бұрын

    Us imaginative people are a dying breed... Keep em coming OK!!

  • @knifelore1647
    @knifelore164710 ай бұрын

    I can't wait for the day when channels get the true recognition you deserve! Your channel for sure will walk the red carpet sir!

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Wow, thank you!

  • @Sionnach1601
    @Sionnach160110 ай бұрын

    My understanding of that period of history and geographic area, was that it was American Indians whom the Vikings did meet, not the Thule at this point. They were too far South for Thule. I could be wrong due to recollection, but would be inclined between that it was American Indians (who also fiercely battled with the Thule). Also the Norsemen didn't have the heretofore massive military advantage over other folks, as coming from Greenland, they were far poorer supplied and equipped. They had a massive iron shortage especially in later years which is why they were so delighted with their find of thick forestry in Vinland. They desperately needed huge quantities of timber which gave them the essential charcoal. You need a LOT of timber though to produce charcoal, and the initial forays into Greenland and Iceland were tragic in that they quickly eradicated the trees which were growing there. Little did they know that Iceland and Greenland had THE most vulnerable and thinnest soils in the World, Iceland being the worst. The eradication of trees for farming led to terrible wind erosion of the soil, leading to Iceland's infamous "Lunar landscape". Regeneration would be centuries or millenia in the making and they still have legacy problems there to this day. And just as we're on the topic, the ending of Norse life in Greenland was due to far more complex factors than just the simple line which is glibly bandied about "It got too cold due to the Little Ice Age and they all does." Anyway, the Norse discovery of Vinland, Greenland and Iceland is EXCEPTIONALLY well-documented in Jared Diamond's novel "Collapse" of anyone is interested. I find their history fascinating for some reason.

  • @Idrinklight44
    @Idrinklight4410 ай бұрын

    Maybe a video on De Soto and his journey in N America.

  • @elvenkind6072
    @elvenkind607210 ай бұрын

    Nice, I was hoping you would made this into a history.

  • @chrisc9611
    @chrisc961110 ай бұрын

    Fun historical narrative, but how is all this known? What are the source documents?

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Sources in description smart boi.

  • @Red-lo7ob
    @Red-lo7ob10 ай бұрын

    vinland saga reference

  • @Sionnach1601
    @Sionnach160110 ай бұрын

    "Indignant and rightfully infuriated native inhabitants" - would today be called waycists, just wanting to preserve their homeland, people and way of life from being overrun and obliterated.

  • @conorhughes3568
    @conorhughes356810 ай бұрын

    Yo about time for the Glanton Gang...

  • @racspartan1
    @racspartan110 ай бұрын

    Heck Yea 👍

  • @trukeesey8715
    @trukeesey871510 ай бұрын

    Monasteries were also prisons. In the minds of Norsemen, they were the hubs from which forced conversions were done, whereby whole nations had been overcome and the menfolk killed or deported and replaced by romans and now-mixed Franks. Therefore the Viking Age was mainly a pre-emptive war of self-defense. Perhaps read The Franks by Franz Los if you can find a translation. Listen to Prem Rawat!

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    False

  • @trukeesey8715

    @trukeesey8715

    10 ай бұрын

    @@historyattheokcorral Certainly the monasteries had prisons, and were hubs for forced conversion; the rest of the claims are implicit in those two. Therefore YOU are false. Listen to Prem Rawat!

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Prem Rawat is nonsense.

  • @trukeesey8715

    @trukeesey8715

    10 ай бұрын

    @@historyattheokcorral Sure, if you love mind more than soul. Listen to Prem Rawat!

  • @rendawtherockstar
    @rendawtherockstar10 ай бұрын

    Greenland: Possibly the first, and most egregious, case of false advertising ever documented!

  • @sirseegull
    @sirseegull10 ай бұрын

    you have mentioned the porcupine reference in too many videos now. but in reality it was probably like 50-100 projectiles that landed. not like there was a army of natives that came, maybe 50? to their dozen?

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    We've never referenced porcupine before so dk what to tell ya bud.

  • @kjm2199

    @kjm2199

    10 ай бұрын

    I even doubt a bone or stone arrow tip could even embed itself in the wood of a shield or ship.

  • @sirseegull

    @sirseegull

    10 ай бұрын

    @@kjm2199 that is a true point, these stories must be met with a level of skepticism as this story is far older. in my opinion it doesn’t even make sense to attack the natives as they knew nothing about where they were or enemies or even if they met any up close. i would like to think they merely saw they were being observed from a distance, as was the case very often in history. i feel like they probably got there and were unfamiliar/ under climatized with foraging and hunting in the terrain during the uncomfortable summer hot and wet period and this was their story of why they left when they probably were running out of food or something. we will never know

  • @eugenemurray2708

    @eugenemurray2708

    10 ай бұрын

    @@sirseegull Sounds to me like this is a retelling of the movie Pathfinders more than it is a historical record

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    It's from the Viking sagas.

  • @ottodidakt3069
    @ottodidakt30698 ай бұрын

    Yes not all Scandinavians where Vikings, and not all Vikings where Scandinavians ... Frisians for exemple. A Viking is basically a pirate or raider, not all Scandinavian invasions where Viking led !

  • @TrainerRed519

    @TrainerRed519

    Ай бұрын

    "One is not necessarily a viking as much as one took part in the task of viking"

  • @AEM-le7uy
    @AEM-le7uy6 ай бұрын

    HUH? one native from under the boats got killed. AND also got away? 7:50 WTF

  • @carolclark5776
    @carolclark577610 ай бұрын

    Viking vs comanche eh

  • @glennross85

    @glennross85

    10 ай бұрын

    Vikings vs Eskimos at the North Pole is a thing too, sounds like one hell of a Christmas movie!

  • @wontforgetme123
    @wontforgetme12310 ай бұрын

    The Vikings, particularly the Norse. Were clearly a formidable people. But what is little told is how they scurried back to their longboats when attempting to raid the people of wales. Many small islands around the coast of wales have Viking names. Flatholm, steepholm etc but not one town nor city was touched by them. Unlike the rest of the British isles which have norse and danish place names far and wide. The welshmen of that time were clearly the most fierce warriors of the age, having been hardened by centuries of conflict with their much larger neighbour.

  • @jozz2248

    @jozz2248

    10 ай бұрын

    Certainly famed for the best archers in the isles for a very long time.

  • @jfarcmmmtmjf
    @jfarcmmmtmjf6 ай бұрын

    The Tool, today's descendants called the Inuet, could have migrated to Utah? A town called Tooele, Utah is the reason behind the question, usually named after the Village tribe in the area, historical notes. The U. S. Army did this quite frequently. As time "marches on" renaming does happen, only to damage the structure of many areas of significance tied to the threads of time. (Reference: an indirect reference in my observation is when a Wedded wife takes her husband's name legally, and does not keep her name, middle name and maiden name, other names, in her wedded marriage, in the U.S.A. Although I can't see a reason why not, as the children born to her are tied to her by her maiden name mostly, and her married name, too, legally in the USA.) The Tool vs. the Viking, Pathfinder Movie reminiscences, so then Pathfinder the movie, has a "based on true life" resound. And, The Norseman movie, does too have this resound of "based on true life" since fighting battles to death was the way of their battle. Documentaries "resound" history. History is "resounded" in history. History is yesterday. Today, many Native Americans and Scandinavian (Viking) people, can guarantee in many claims and believe in many claims, they together have descendants who claim both these peoples as ancestors and each other as family and potential Wedded spouses. Since many descendants of both the Viking (Scandinavian) and Tool (Inuet; Native American), including today, do have an opposing voice of hatred against the hatred of the assuming, the assuming of wrong guesswork repeated deformed "talk", the Wedded Bliss is experienced between most all who love including if both are from a "blended culture", and, now the warful inner biology of both Warrior sides are only met in today's society against the women and men who are against the truth of love and life, especially of our own family history. As many encounters between the two cultures have proved to be expressively "fun".

  • @vintagecapgunsatyourmomshouse
    @vintagecapgunsatyourmomshouse6 ай бұрын

    In Jamie Fox's voice "Tor-vald. The 'h' is silent"

  • @davy1458
    @davy145810 ай бұрын

    Id bet the vikings attacked first....after 1000 years of blood shed and raiding, i doubt they arrived in thenew world and were like: "you know what...lets stop doing things the easy way and work our butts off farming instead"

  • @robertpeterson3945
    @robertpeterson39459 ай бұрын

    I bought one of these a few years ago. Lasted about two years. With new battries in it it refused to open and my gun was locked inside. I had to destroy it to get it open.

  • @Zehnuss
    @Zehnuss9 ай бұрын

    It's rumored they actually came as far as Martha's Vineyard and that is actually vinland

  • @MacGiollaCostigan
    @MacGiollaCostigan10 ай бұрын

    These men did what they did out of necessity to survive... They didn't do it for fun... They were just fighting to survive and build a way of life for their children

  • @amdelux1

    @amdelux1

    9 ай бұрын

    As all people would

  • @jamesking1495
    @jamesking149510 ай бұрын

    Vikings did of course, like they always did.

  • @MrTrenttness
    @MrTrenttness10 ай бұрын

    🔥♥️🔥

  • @generalnguyenngocloan1700
    @generalnguyenngocloan170010 ай бұрын

    Skraelings!

  • @brianlash154
    @brianlash15410 ай бұрын

    Reminds me of an island uhhh I don't know where, it was on KZread not sure if it still is, anyway the island has been deemed a nogo on every single map, the nearest government swore off any additional attempts to reach the island because there are lunatic tribal people there who shoot arrows and hurl rocks at any boat or ship that comes close. Could the military of the nearest country just wipe them out? Absolutely, but they instead agreed to just leave them alone --- for now

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Sentinal Island off the coast of India.

  • @cz75shadow2
    @cz75shadow23 ай бұрын

    In Norwegian history or talk to generation to generation or some sagas we heard that they first tryed to trade and was freinds but another tribe stole some axes and the viking s then atackt back but the tribe said it was not stealing so i guess we Will never know what really happened Greetings CZ 75 Shadow 🇧🇻🇨🇴

  • @sathura4251
    @sathura425110 ай бұрын

    Asian are the first civilization and also Native americans.and .Native Australian..came from Rama.. Sukriva ..and Anjaney origins lived inthis continent and ruled this entire..world...

  • @readhistory2023
    @readhistory202310 ай бұрын

    It wasn't just that we was trying to entice people to move to Greenland, Greenland was greener and warmer back then. This was pre mini ice age and Europe was quite a bit warmer back then. Hence the grapes growning in Newfoundland which until GMOs became a thing hasn't been possible because it's still too cold in the area.

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Fair point! We debated on how far to go into this, but now that you mention it we will cover this fact on our next episode on the Vikings. Thanks for your input! You clearly know your stuff and we appreciate you watching! 👍🏻

  • @SacredDreamer
    @SacredDreamer10 ай бұрын

    Please , pardon my correction. Norse were/are Heathen. Pagan is Buddhist (B.C - 500 years before Christianity.

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor546210 ай бұрын

    1:50 This isn't true, Greenland does not refer to the color, "Green" in this contest means "new" just as aged cheeses are called "green cheese" before it is aged.

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    K

  • @satchitus7200
    @satchitus720010 ай бұрын

    While I like this kind of stuff, who documented things and kept those documents for modern day people to talk about?

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Greenland Sagas

  • @Texan590
    @Texan59010 ай бұрын

    👀

  • @ludwigderzanker9767
    @ludwigderzanker976710 ай бұрын

    I thank you as always for this daily peace. Thorwald Erikson was a coward in compare to his brothers. I guess you take the mixing of two seperate sources because the killings took place down southwards and the Groenlanders had all similar names..You cant hide under a up side down Kajak what the Inuit still used at this time but under a canoe and this means early Indians instead . They keep the noseless(there name for the Eskimos = raw meat eater ) way north. The Groenlander wo killed the sleeping Natives was Thorhall the huntsman. I love your channel anyway. Best regards from Northern Germany Ludwig.

  • @johnkilmartin5101

    @johnkilmartin5101

    10 ай бұрын

    The Inuit have two types of traditional boat the kayak a single seat enclosed boat and the umiak which is open boat closer in design to an Irish curragh. The boat described sounds like an umiak to me.

  • @ludwigderzanker9767

    @ludwigderzanker9767

    10 ай бұрын

    @@johnkilmartin5101 I know that but a umiak is not driven by one Inuit.

  • @johnkilmartin5101

    @johnkilmartin5101

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ludwigderzanker9767 since there were three boats and nine men I would consider it likely none of the boats had just a single occupant.

  • @michaelcandido2824
    @michaelcandido282410 ай бұрын

    both natives and scandinavians share the same paternal lineage.

  • @standingbear998
    @standingbear99810 ай бұрын

    maybe the first fight

  • @uberkloden
    @uberkloden10 ай бұрын

    Inuits didn’t use bow and arrows

  • @earlycox5366
    @earlycox536610 ай бұрын

    summing up the Norsemen as "bellicose businessmen" and the aboriginal Siberians (aka native americans. a joke if there ever was one) as proud warriors is a bit of a cheap shot, tbh. however, I'll choose to disregard that particular summation and focus on the story itself. what I'll take from the story instead is the tale of a single viking ship and accompanying crew losing but a single shipmate to what amounted to an ammo dump by an extremely larger, opposing force. not only that, they were able to sail back home and report on their mission. sounds as if one were to be inclined to take pride in such an accomplishment, this situation would definitely qualify as one of those situations . . . that said, all in all this was a great story. it just gets exhausting hearing how Europeans and Europeans alone were somehow in the wrong and future generations should be shamed into believing such nonsense. we played the same game of life that they were playing and we came out on top. that doesn't make us the bad guys, that makes us the better man in the match. all told, if we were the evil genocidal mad men we've been accused of being we would've treated any survivors as our opponents would, and that would have been complete annihilation. yet we were the ones to continue to sue for peace and to work towards coexistence (and more as far as reparations made after the fact are concerned) so no, we've nothing to be ashamed of and everything to be proud of. . . and i know, a good many folks will take issue with my take here which is fine they have the right. however, i invite them to go visit a so-called native tribe, any tribe they choose, and see how far any of that kumbiya we are the world bull butter gets em.

  • @Ijusthopeitsquick

    @Ijusthopeitsquick

    10 ай бұрын

    You make a fair point. I would also say that the whole story is strange, from the massacre of sleeping natives to the curious "revenge" attack that consists, as you say, of a mag dump with no apparent victims (at least as far as the natives could tell), followed by a prompt tactical withdrawal, for no apparent reason, leaving the "murderers" to escape Scot-free.

  • @willywonka7812

    @willywonka7812

    10 ай бұрын

    What you're programmed to abhor as woke Marxist revisionism, is actually economic and sociological reality, explaining the class system and our enslavement by capitalism

  • @bc2578

    @bc2578

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah, this version is just more White Man Bad propaganda...

  • @thurmondthomas5243

    @thurmondthomas5243

    10 ай бұрын

    No native Americans got any stories coming from Siberia. If they were im sure they would have some very unique stories about the crossover. They do however have stories of killing wooly mammoths 🦣

  • @earlycox5366

    @earlycox5366

    10 ай бұрын

    @@thurmondthomas5243 I don't care at all about what their stories say, genetics don't lie. period

  • @meenos3
    @meenos310 ай бұрын

    The Vikings never ever had horns on their helmets. That is a fallacy.

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    It's just a painting bro. We gotta work with what we got.

  • @meenos3

    @meenos3

    10 ай бұрын

    @@historyattheokcorral yeh l know mate. The Vikings invaded my country in its early history. We have so much information on these peoples l know who they were here

  • @meenos3

    @meenos3

    10 ай бұрын

    Enjoyed you video

  • @NONANTI

    @NONANTI

    6 ай бұрын

    I think you mean, That's a phallusy.

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards71429 ай бұрын

    I keep saying Viking is a verb not a noun.

  • @shawnj1966
    @shawnj196610 ай бұрын

    The Horse was not a part of native American culture until after the European conquest began. Why is there a depiction of natives with horses during this period?

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Its the only available painting smart boi.

  • @shakostarsun
    @shakostarsun10 ай бұрын

    Aren't there Native American groups present to current times in Greenland?

  • @mikearchibald744
    @mikearchibald74410 ай бұрын

    The teaching company has a great series on the vikings including north america, although its been awhile so I don't remember this story. The one I heard was when they set up their first village, and apparantly they began trading with first nations, and the story goes they gave them some milk, which made the natives violently ill. HOwever, before the natives could attack, the vikings had been involved in one of their infamous inter family feuds. THe wife of the leader apparantly was more viking than her husband, she had been killing the other women, while the men were fighting, so as the first nations showed up to attack, they must have been confused by the battle that was already waging between the vikings, so they just left. THe remaining vikings then went back to scandinavia, having been vanquished not by the sea, the new world, or the natives, but themselves. Iceland did much better, setting up europes first parliament. For those who don't know, apparantly greenland was named by an enterprising viking to try to encourage people, while iceland was so named to discourage them, since their terrain was opposite to their names.

  • @liambyrne5285
    @liambyrne528510 ай бұрын

    The Indian village had horses in it ,how accurate is this

  • @historyattheokcorral

    @historyattheokcorral

    10 ай бұрын

    Its the only available pic

  • @robinrobyn1714
    @robinrobyn171410 ай бұрын

    The Vikings. They drew first blood.

  • @brentonhorton6845
    @brentonhorton684510 ай бұрын

    Hagoth '

  • @awolpeace1781
    @awolpeace178110 ай бұрын

    Hostile Enemy Aliens (HEA)

  • @JDoe-gf5oz
    @JDoe-gf5oz10 ай бұрын

    THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD

  • @wolfgangkranek376

    @wolfgangkranek376

    10 ай бұрын

    Come on, it's just flesh wound.

  • @painisvergina3693
    @painisvergina36934 ай бұрын

    Natives beat the Vikings? Hell yea

  • @charlespittsjr604
    @charlespittsjr60410 ай бұрын

    They wouldn't have had horses would they . Until the Spanish and English started dropping them off there werent any horses .

  • @ants7279
    @ants727910 ай бұрын

    Knowing the Vikings it was probably them,he'll first time they landed one of the vikings killed like 2 natives and a 3rd got away and brought back up and then the Vikings left,but to be fair it could have been both of them I'm only saying Vikings cause ewe know more about them.

  • @VaxtorT
    @VaxtorT10 ай бұрын

    I'm sure the vikings drew first blood.....they were just that way not knowing any better.

  • @RoadTraveler
    @RoadTraveler10 ай бұрын

    Algorithm

  • @jamessmith8903
    @jamessmith890310 ай бұрын

    Should’ve tried peace first

  • @Astuga

    @Astuga

    10 ай бұрын

    A weird concept during this time; and for everyone. Peace was something people only went for if everything else failed. And young men of every culture saw it is their birthright and a neccessity to went raiding neighbors. How else to make a name and a fortune?

  • @outdoorloser4340
    @outdoorloser434010 ай бұрын

    Obviously the vikings win 🏆

  • @TheThedisliker

    @TheThedisliker

    10 ай бұрын

    If you consider surviving your withdrawal a victory then yes. But if you Ask any military expert They would disagree, because the natives got what they wanted.

  • @MusMasi

    @MusMasi

    10 ай бұрын

    their settlements on greenland were wiped out I don't know what they *won* but if it makes you feel better like you have some personal investment in what happened almost a thousand years ago believe what you want.

  • @outdoorloser4340

    @outdoorloser4340

    10 ай бұрын

    @@MusMasi They weren't wiped out by war dude, C'mon.

  • @outdoorloser4340

    @outdoorloser4340

    10 ай бұрын

    @@TheThedisliker The fact that a tiny exploratory ship of vikings could land and stay over the winter on an entirely different continent says allot.

  • @TheThedisliker

    @TheThedisliker

    10 ай бұрын

    it does@@outdoorloser4340

  • @foxnwolf6863
    @foxnwolf686310 ай бұрын

    People tend to romanticize Vikings as Warriors a little too much in my opinion😅. Fighting conscripted peasants, farmers and very poor broken up armies is pretty much what they did that is considered Warrior like, i like to think of them more as adventurers that knew how to make a buck.

  • @loke1555

    @loke1555

    10 ай бұрын

    then you don't know anything about the vikings so what you think is irrelevant

  • @foxnwolf6863

    @foxnwolf6863

    10 ай бұрын

    @@loke1555 judging by your name and reply your taking this as a insult 🙄well what about it is wrong ? in your defense i do concede that in their culture the act of going forth and taking loot was considered Warrior like. But to me I don't agree at all I see them as traders and sailors who took opportunities to prey on the defenseless for money in fact some historians will tell you that "Vikings" refer to Nordic Sailors who engaged in trade. when you compare them to actual Warriors who train to fight other Warriors for the most part taking place in large scale combat where tactics and equipment matter and make there living in such away its a different story. You cant compare a sometimes raider to a professional solder. Thus why in my opinion as soon as England started to organize themselves lots of so called Vikings started converting and switching sides or just flat out leaving. I am aware of viking heroic story's and combat feats but in no way do I think it was Universal across all Vikings. It's my opinion that pop culture romanticizes them too much just how they tend to demonize Crusades and church the counter culture what im saying is that people see them Vikings in such a way because they're depicted in such a way through movies and animations, for example you might picture a Viking raiding a town killing all the well-armed and trained guards then setting houses a flame and leaving with food and gold. But most likely no one saw them coming they killed a few peasants and farmers rounded up slaves mostly women and children since they won't fight back and gathered what they could and took off before any offensive came their way its the smart thing to do raid and keep moving so you wont be caught.

  • @fhfhddhdhd5003

    @fhfhddhdhd5003

    10 ай бұрын

    Can you travel the Atlantic Ocean on a open wooden boat? Better yet can you romanticize it?

  • @foxnwolf6863

    @foxnwolf6863

    10 ай бұрын

    @@fhfhddhdhd5003 what are you talking about this conversation has nothing to do with them crossing the ocean nor am I saying in anyway that they weren't good at it how about you read the comments.

  • @davidchase9424
    @davidchase942410 ай бұрын

    It wasn't Rambo

  • @BronxBastard730
    @BronxBastard73010 ай бұрын

    Vineland was cape cod ... theres stones here with engravings signed by Leif Erikson

  • @martinan22
    @martinan2210 ай бұрын

    It is unlikely many Greenlanders would have chainmail.

  • @MrToddlivingstone
    @MrToddlivingstone10 ай бұрын

    I would like to point out the Native American DNA found in Iceland So it appear they could kiss just as well as they could kill Just saying as a Native American Viking hybrid myself