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@Telarius

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure 5'9 was considered pretty tall Like 6ft of today. Because there's accounts of people being surprised of spartan height being so large when they were only 5'7 5'8

@TheSteckel63

Жыл бұрын

Trash video with zero histrical knowledge

@thomassmith4826

Жыл бұрын

Thanks you I had no idea. I look for posts like this. You sir are a gem

@PRIMAL_HUNTER1988

Жыл бұрын

So you are telling me that the Viking Berserker in the battle of the Stamford bridge never existed you are full of bullshiet

@realLetsGoBrandon45

Жыл бұрын

Iceland disagrees

You forgot to mention just how strong they were. Always rowing and doing heavy lifting and manual labour

@ferdinand8994

Жыл бұрын

All the information here is just based on speculation, like who weighed them and took their height, how do you know they were farmers? they could have been hunters, since we all know farming wasn't really popular in Norway because their lands are dead, All this speculation promoted as fact is hilarious.

@6ft7guy

Жыл бұрын

​@@ferdinand8994read some actual books wrote by Vikings they were farmers. They farmed for their food

@ferdinand8994

Жыл бұрын

@@6ft7guy buddy you confuse Viking with Norseman, as i said i have read more then you do, but let me tell you reading isn't enough as long as you don't even understand the meaning of the words you read, so keep reading.

@cl5351

Жыл бұрын

​@@ferdinand8994 🤦‍♂️

@ferdinand8994

Жыл бұрын

@@cl5351 fool.

Bro just wanted to flex his watch 💀

@OpaqueGorilla

Жыл бұрын

Dude I was thinking the same thing. I was like, “why is he flexing a watch while talking about Vikings?”. It made no sense lmao

@Dina_Tolen

Жыл бұрын

@samyaroy I was thinking the same thing. When I read your comment I laughed so hard I spit out my water I was drinking 😂

@David-hj1lp

Жыл бұрын

@@Dina_Tolen shut up

@Dina_Tolen

Жыл бұрын

@@David-hj1lp 😂😂🤣

@calliisto

Жыл бұрын

the channel is watch manufacturer

"Most Vikings were 5'7 to 5'9" Thorkell being 7'7: 🗿

@killuaaaaaa139

8 ай бұрын

thorfinn being 5'1 💀

@MrBoomer42

8 ай бұрын

@@killuaaaaaa139 thorkell was a real dude

@MrBoomer42

7 ай бұрын

@Ajuxer you right

@InSearchOfN0thing

7 ай бұрын

waitttt. thorkell existed in real life?

@KHAL3D23

7 ай бұрын

@@InSearchOfN0thing he did lmfao. He was given the title "Thorkell the tall". And its not thorkell. Askeladd,Bjourn,Canute,Ragnar,Leif all existed irl. Search up on google yourself

5'7 and pillaging villages makes them even more terrifying.

being 5'9 in 900 ad was enormous

@Belisarius536

Жыл бұрын

I know the guy is crazy

@ScouserLegend

Жыл бұрын

The average Roman legionnaire a thousand years before the Viking era was 5’7 so I wouldn’t say enormous

@sarahblake5470

Жыл бұрын

@ScouserLegend in this case, you have to consider time period. the Roman empire had a very good standard of living. after the fall of the Roman empire, living standards dramatically declined. so yes, I'd still say to be 5'9 only 300 years after the fall of the Roman empire was pretty enormous

@mattparker1078

Жыл бұрын

​@ScouserLegend 5 foot to 5.5 ... 5.7 was rare af lol for Roman's. Average Roman's were 5 .3

@CtazyFreak13

Жыл бұрын

@@sarahblake5470 People in England around the year 1000 were about 5 foot 7 tall. The height difference is not that drastic. But I still think the channel misses the point about vikings. You can be 5 foot 7 and be built like a fucking bear and assuming they were farmers I think that might be the case for the norseman.

5’9 is actually really tall compared to the average height back then

@patriciospamer1995

Жыл бұрын

Yeah correct me if I’m wrong weren’t the average Romans like 5’7 or something

@johnnyboyy4218

Жыл бұрын

@@patriciospamer1995 5,5 romans, and the germanic tribes were around 5,9 or 5,10 .

@patriciospamer1995

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnyboyy4218 thx for the info mate

@goodfty

Жыл бұрын

That's the average for Germany today, but even still there is GERMANIC burials that are much ancient where the heights were over 6ft on average for some tribes. This video is bullshit.

@danwelterweight4137

Жыл бұрын

​@@goodfty I agree with you

"How you look like?" "I look like a real viking." (I am 5'8)

1) They wore helmets. 2) Many had long shanks (front and side hair long, but cut shorter in the back) so helmets fit better and hair didn't get caught. 3) Spears + shield wall were the primary weapons/strat in large fights. 4) And Bjorn Ironside didn't die by riding shieldless and helmet-less into arrow range of a large army and letting himself get feathered.

Fun fact: most human beings that ever existed were farmers

@ethan3246

Жыл бұрын

Wrong. Most humans that ever existed were hunter-gatherers. Farming is a relatively recent thing in human history.

@kylesadirtbag5937

Жыл бұрын

@@ethan3246 that’s false because of the population sizes. Hunter gatherers had relatively small populations sizes and often experienced inbreeding depressions. The larger sizes of civilizations accounts for more ppl. Sorry bud you’re wrong

@kylesadirtbag5937

Жыл бұрын

@@ethan3246 also you have to take into account that being a hunter gather was extremely dangerous. It is predicted that in many hunter gatherer groups 40% of males that reached maturity were killed in tribal conflict; either by others groups or internally. Also, many people didn’t reach adulthood. Birth was a difficult endeavor back then with many casualties. Also children could eat something poisonous, run into a predator, be killed while being taken over by another group, falling ect ect. So they didn’t have the time to mature and actually be gatherers or hunters. Even gathering was dangerous, from the examples I mentioned above. In a more Neolithic and agrarian organizations, their homesteads were more fortified and they were generally “safer”. Consequently, people survived at higher rates and due to the increased safety from farming instead of gathering, chores could be allocated to children, women, and men. Everyone could be a farmer at a much younger age. Also farming is coed, whereas hunting and gathering were get generally speaking sex specific.

@JohnWick-rl7vb

Жыл бұрын

All the butthurt wannabe norse kids are fuming right now because facts have ruined their perception of the norse as superhuman and unique...they werent, they were just like every other damned culture in those days.

@honorylealtad5596

Жыл бұрын

​@@kylesadirtbag5937 you really have low ℹ️Q

My grandfathers best buddy from WW2 was a farmer, guy had hands like granite and stamina for 16 hours of work. Working land makes you tough or dead.

@random5442

Жыл бұрын

Know an old rancher in his 60's and saw him working with COVID when i went over to the ranch to fix a tractor man is a beast

@peterott-tn6pf

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@rafaelcastor2089

Жыл бұрын

I've met quite a number of farmers and construction workers throught my life, their appearances were almost often misleading on the amount of strenght they actually have. Just giving them a handshake feels like you're giving it to a gorilla compared to the average person living in cities.

@bmtr11111

Жыл бұрын

💯. All the best martial artists in history were farmers.

@alexlopez515

Жыл бұрын

@@random5442 wow my father does medal building roofing and he also would work even when he had the flu. 🇬🇹

Bro out here crushing dreams 😅

@say5070

15 күн бұрын

Lmao ppl are hurt badly in tbis comments section. 😊

never understood why ppl speak about farmers as is they are weak... its one of the most physical job out there... those fellas are strong trust me

Bro has never met a farmer. 90% of the farmers/farm hands I know are really strong

@kevinc.cucumber3697

Жыл бұрын

They didn’t look like bodybuilders like portrayed in movies. Thats what he’s saying

@devilinthedarkness4830

Жыл бұрын

I'm a farm hand in maine, most are fat and old ass men with bellies.

@finalcam1740

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinc.cucumber3697 i would say they are usually portrayed more like gym bros than body builders.

@jinpachichulo7561

Жыл бұрын

They're weak a$$ pu$$ies.

@calciferhimeros9911

Жыл бұрын

you completely missed the video

most farmers these days are really strong people, i cant imagine how stronger they where in that time with less tecnology and more manual labor.

@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei

Жыл бұрын

They had a worse diet than the nobles for example which made them rather small. The amount of nuntritions you get during childhood development plays a big role in your height as an adult. And farmwork is heavy labor, sure. But not really in a periodic way - you have certain times in the year to sow and others to reap, you don't get the same "exercise" every week - and it will also not make you super buff like regular gym training does. And to be fair, I know a lot of people who work heavy jobs with a lot of heavy lifting everyday who don't really look like they do.

@Mithirael

Жыл бұрын

​@Kuhmuhnistische Partei: Muht zur Kuhzunft! There weren't really nobles in the norse societies. And those who could be called nobles, or the closest thing to nobles, were not any richer than their underlings, as the way for a proper norse lord to gain the loyalty of his subjects was through gifts.

@pieterlindeque7798

Жыл бұрын

​@@Kuhmuhnistische_ParteiIf you're castrated as a boy you grow significantly taller because of lack of testosterone so growth plates don't close properly. Check out eunuchs and castrati. Even with peasant tier nutrition they grew tall and lanky because of little to no testosterone. It's super interesting how that works.

@theonehappyturtle

Жыл бұрын

He didn’t point out that the Vikings had a monster mentality like how we somewhat see them today. Just read their chronicles, full of war jokes and war poems

@LagartoChicloso

Жыл бұрын

​@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei You dont know how muscles work lol, if you train 1 time a week you will build more muscle, also, they didn't have cars you know so they actually were pretty good physically

Thorfinn's the most accurately drawn viking, considering his short lean stature

@Morgan-Madsen

10 ай бұрын

You are pointing to an anime? Anime's are for the short and weak to have their power fantasies. Thorfinn is what the Japanese want to see happen in a story so they can relate to the short character as they are a short people. The fans of anime are also short people.

@philosopherkingzant2037

10 ай бұрын

@@Morgan-Madsen I can 2 rep 12.50 LBS assisted chin ups. What's your best chin up?

@Morgan-Madsen

10 ай бұрын

@@philosopherkingzant2037 So you are bragging about needing assistance to complete 2 chin ups? Clowning on yourself. Even when I was fat I could do 5 un assisted.

@philosopherkingzant2037

10 ай бұрын

@@Morgan-Madsen Are you sad?

@No-ik5nj

9 ай бұрын

​@@Morgan-Madsenu sound mad pathetic ngl😂

The real Ivar the Boneless was said to fucking tall, thin like a whip, strong like a ox and yet crippled the disease he suffered. Olaf the Stout was a fat-ass but he and hisen did tear down a bridge in an ancient Rome city of London hence the nursery rhyme "London bridges fall down". There was a Viking that was present at the Siege of Paris. He was described to be "pale as bone, long hair black a night, his neck could turn like a owls, he tall like tower and he would speak with Ragnar on certain issues (sounds like that seer on Vikings). But why does this guy sounded like a fucking skinwalker or a lich? IDK.

@VLFBERHTwolf

2 ай бұрын

@Tyew-kp7zr Yep.

@relaxbuddy970

Ай бұрын

Wait London Bridge is falling down does not come from. Vikings or viking doing

@VLFBERHTwolf

Ай бұрын

@@relaxbuddy970 Alright, tell me where it came from and it better be based on something real an not because you just want to disagree with me.

@angryvaultguy

Ай бұрын

​@@relaxbuddy970 there was a Norse poem that read "London bridge has broken down" So it's very likely this was the origins of the nursery rhyme

@relaxbuddy970

Ай бұрын

@@angryvaultguy The song "London Bridge is Falling Down" is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game. Its exact origins are unclear, but the lyrics date back to at least the 17th century. The song refers to the various historical collapses and rebuilds of the London Bridge over the centuries. It has been passed down through generations as a children's song and game, often accompanied by hand-clapping or dancing actions.

There’s a preserved skeleton of a Norse raider in a Dublin museum that is 6’3”. That’s right. 6’3” over a thousand years ago is MASSIVE. So some really were giants. I’ve personally seen the skeleton and can only imagine gazing at him during his lifetime

@Mr_Green1017

Жыл бұрын

6’3 was probably rare to see back then

@dextersteinbeiss6748

Жыл бұрын

I read once that a few hundred years before the English came to America, vikings and Norsemen had come and the native Americans described them as giants with hair like fire and eyes like the ocean but they were kind to the natives and I believe they even traded goods. idk how true it is but interesting

@voidofthegodhand4549

Жыл бұрын

​@@Mr_Green1017 6'3" I rare to see today (well at least where I live). I'm 6'2" and most people go to Mt shoulder

@jkkennedy9280

Жыл бұрын

Their was also a couple Irish bodies dug up from a 1000 years ago and they were both 6,5 - 6,6

@TheToonpimp

Жыл бұрын

@@jkkennedy9280 Cope.

They had the ideal body type of their time. Balanced diet, lean but strong, and tall for their time. Alot better than simply being huge.

@exaltedalpha2610

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@rustomkanishka

Жыл бұрын

It's kinda weird how Saxon women found the Norse hot for their grooming habits too, it wasn't just "oh my god he's so tall". It includes shit like "'combed his hair and beard" and "clean shirt' Unfortunately saxons then acted like 'short kings' now. Complain about how all women are terrible, life is unfair, and that's just about it.

@niceguy1891

Жыл бұрын

@@rustomkanishka really? Interesting

@cvdirecto5008

Жыл бұрын

​@@axiomunbroken8495 this made me giggle cuz I'm a woman who is 5'9" and i can imagine myself looking down to see them 😆

@Dem0n225

Жыл бұрын

​@@exaltedalpha2610 shut up

Have you seen a danish or Nordic person? They are like 6 feet tall at the shortest. Not to mention, Vikings had a very varied diet from the huge feasts after raids containing many types of meat, plants, vegetables, breads, grains and fish.

@grimnir4197

5 ай бұрын

Most of the tombs found at that time show that they measure 5'9 feet. Which is tall for the time. The rest of europeans at that time were between 4'11 and 5'3, they weren't as tall as they are now. But yes, having a more varied diet and fewer amenities than other countries further south, it could be said that the Vikings were stronger and taller than the average European, probably a product of their regular consumption of meat, compared to a large part of the farmers who almost always ate one or two types of food daily.

@mischa8623

5 ай бұрын

I thought they were giants

@15ecstasy

5 ай бұрын

That is accurate, people forget they're talking about 1000 of years ago, people's average heights vary every so often in each country.

@Perkunas_1

4 ай бұрын

Lmao, that's danish and nordic people now, not then. Your height is massively determined by the quality of your diet during puberty - danes 1200 years ago weren't eating as well during puberty. Those great feasts are known by several archaeologist to have been reserved (in Denmark at least) largely for returning warriors. And on the occasions in which their teen children were allowed to join in the primary feast, it wouldn't have been enough to impact their height. I'm ofc not saying that Norsemen were malnourished, they ate better than the average East german then, just that they didnt have the super optimised diet we give our kids today, and so didn't grow over 6 feet nearly ever.

@45killazum

3 ай бұрын

Mb forgot they was like 4’9 everywhere else

Well you really forgot to mention the legendary Berserker who was seen as MUCH MUCH bigger than the average Dane, Northmen, or skalde

You know that 5‘9 was really tall back then?

@dinarusso3320

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, Norsemen were a few inches taller than other Europeans!

@jessebradley414

Жыл бұрын

It was really tall back then

@jessebradley414

Жыл бұрын

Don't believe everything u see

@ineedgunslotsofguns

Жыл бұрын

5'9 master race

@Ideadlift1234plates

Жыл бұрын

@@ineedgunslotsofguns Representing 😎💪

"They're just some weak farmers, what could they possibly do?" - Famous last words.

@thejackedbaker9823

11 ай бұрын

Last words of unarmed peasants and priests 😂😂😂 most of the times the Vikings would get f4cked fighting against organized military like the Christian warriors in Britian and the Moorish army in Andalusia

@viadric6771

11 ай бұрын

@@thejackedbaker9823 They also sieged Paris the heart of Francia. The fact that they were able to that as "farmers" is considered one of the most impressive battles in medieval history.

@Shakinthecut

10 ай бұрын

the french have been pussy throughout history, that is NOT impressive lol@@viadric6771

@Morgan-Madsen

10 ай бұрын

-Infamous words of people trying to destroy the history of another people.

@Morgan-Madsen

10 ай бұрын

@@thejackedbaker9823 The Great Danish army roamed Britain for centuries and were given tribute by Britain kings to not sack their kingdoms. It took the women of the Britain island leaving their men to go fuck the Danes centuries of time to reincorporate their genes till King Alfred was able to win one battle and convert many of the Vikings. Funny thing is, this is "Britain" after the Aangles, the saxons, and the Jutes had already conquered the island in the 5th century. It was the native Danes roaming the Expat Danes territory. Took a Viking raiding party a day to sack Seville and a full muslim army with indecisive fights before the vikings left with all the pillaged treasure of the city. In the end it wasn't Britain or Christian armies, nor the armies of the muslims that defeated the Vikings; it was the Christian religion. You are woefully uneducated on history.

Bro you forgot a viking who's 5'1 with blonde hair with no enemies

"Being small and mean doesn't make you less of a barbarian"

@pixl41

Жыл бұрын

"Why did you put this in quotes?" - Me 2023

@collesque5045

Жыл бұрын

@@pixl41 right, he didn't even say mean he said lean LOL

@suryapanditi3161

Жыл бұрын

@@pixl41 lmao this is hilarious

@MineCreed

Жыл бұрын

​@@pixl41"good one lmao" - random user

@utr2684

Жыл бұрын

It actually makes you more of a barbarian.

Average height in those days was about 5'2" so a viking at 5'7" is quite large

@atharvavadak5681

Жыл бұрын

No all early people had pretty good height and muscle bro I think this KZreadr needs to learn more

@user-mt5zl4rp5h

Жыл бұрын

Imagine real vikings back then seeing Thor Bjornson "the mountain" pull up on them😂theyd shit there pants seeing a 6'9ft descendant of theirs

@BattlerEvil

Жыл бұрын

Yea no, most men back then were taller than 5'2 for sure

@fernandocorona5411

Жыл бұрын

5’2!?!? That is not true at all man.

@tywedekind2807

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this is completely false. Vikings were laborers with a lot of rowing, fishing, hunting, and traveling so they were very muscular. Also being in the north they relied on meats as opposed to grains because their crop seasons were much shorter. Also heights are relative. A guy that was 5’8 back then was large…

You forgot to mention that they did also have bezerkers who of which were absolute monsters and would only be in battle if deemed necessary because vikings genuinely didn't want war.

After seeig the video I had to go straight to the comments and boy was I not disappointed 😂😂 “they were tall for their age at the time” “ they were farmers so they had super human strength” 😂😂

"They weren't jacked. They were just farmers." Uhhhhhh

@mattman233

Жыл бұрын

Fr farmers may not be looking like body builders but they are muscular for all the work they do

@chapinsito67

Жыл бұрын

Right !? Ahha

@mysteryuser7062

Жыл бұрын

Vikings probably were pretty jacked. Farming, manual labor, rowing, and sword/axe swinging can make you pretty strong

@ShigureBlaze

Жыл бұрын

It's also funny because the guy he's showing from the show WAS a Farmer that took up being a Viking 🤣

@epicmatrix2208

Жыл бұрын

@@mattman233 Dude most body builders are on steroids and have heart problems. They may be stronger but are not fitter and definitely not good in a fight

Everyone knows a farm boy who never lifted a weight in his life yet is stronger than everyone in the gym. VIKINGS

@terrancejfry497

Жыл бұрын

How do you know he's strong if he's never lifted a weight in his life?

@AlvaroHiguainGustavo666

Жыл бұрын

​@@terrancejfry497Farmers lift things a lot heavier than weights

@Henok22

Жыл бұрын

But he was viking before going to farm.

@Mythic0196

Жыл бұрын

Facts, most farm work would be the equivalent of strength training in the gym. Strength thraining is better for gaining strength, hypertrophy training is better for gaining actual size. So you get farm boys who dont look jacked but are actually strong as shit

@bvici22

Жыл бұрын

@@terrancejfry497 never seen a farmer flip 800lb steer?

Bro sneaked his watch flex into Vikings

Not disappointed at all, studied them for my master degree theses and they are more amazing than shows would make them. So, human and relatable 😊

“They reached from about 5’ 7 to 5’ 9.” Maybe I’m a Viking…

@KingCrimson82

10 ай бұрын

No the point was maybe you "go" Viking(hunting for goods over seas).

@Mere-Lachaiselongue

9 ай бұрын

They were really big for living 1000 years ago (I'm Swedish and I got taught this in school).

@eoomm9102

8 ай бұрын

Average male height then was 5’5

@ricardoandresvaldesmanriqu5807

7 ай бұрын

​@@Mere-Lachaiselongue Not really, but ok

@Mere-Lachaiselongue

7 ай бұрын

@@ricardoandresvaldesmanriqu5807 "not really" -Man that disputed fact

I'm saying that I'm built like a viking next time a girl is asking me about my physique.

@colbycharles52

Жыл бұрын

Actually 5’9” was huge for 900AD. There are many historical writers from various countries that mention how big the northmen were.

@MakamaFEET

Жыл бұрын

People forget that food was hard for many so to be ripped or fat was hard. You would need to be rich or get tons of food somehow.

@brunoactis1104

Жыл бұрын

I'll say i'm better built than vikings lmao. It's technically true.

@PutYoRhymeOn

Жыл бұрын

This was a witty comment tho ngl

@djinnxx7050

Жыл бұрын

Built like a Viking, except below the waist when I turn African. Because I just shat myself.

Actually they were big and many were over 5'7 that's why many foreign empires used them as mercenaries and bodyguards. They were intimidating and ferocious... Vikings were even bodyguards for the byzantine empire. One Viking even killed the byzantine emperor Michael and slit his throat because he humiliated and banished a woman he loved and respected the former emperor that he served.

"Kona the Barbarian"

Never trust a bro who gets his history lessons off TikTok

@amritakaushik2168

Жыл бұрын

Still better than getting lessons from fictional web series . Found the disappointed guy

@Mr.OrganStealer

Жыл бұрын

This is literally true though wtf you on about bro

@Oliver_El_Timido

Жыл бұрын

@@Mr.OrganStealerno its not at all😂, u want true research go to a viking museum in scandinavia

@Mr.OrganStealer

Жыл бұрын

@@Oliver_El_Timido Who?

@vergil8833

Жыл бұрын

@@amritakaushik2168 What do you mean? Most of the actors in the vikings tv show are short compared to scandinavians... Rollo for example is described as being too tall to ride a horse. Think the actor is that tall?

Just so we're clear, 5'7 and 5'9 were considered GIANTS back in the day. Especially for hungry nomadic men

@andreydoronin6995

Жыл бұрын

Nomadic people weren't really starving. Unlike agricultural societies pretty much everyone could afford meat on a regular basis, not just nobility. They don't have high density population and they can move places when things don't look promising

@dave7825

Жыл бұрын

No, to be considered giants you'd have to be 6'1+. The average male height wasn't 5'3, it was around 5'8(173.4 cm) in the early middle ages but later decreased to about 5'6-5'7 in the 17th and 18th century. So the vikings would have been considered average or maybe slightly taller.

@chiarosuburekeni9325

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t say giant lol. Your legendary “vikang warriorz” were pretty mid lol. Admit it. Literally the only reason they’re talked about as these terrifying massive badasses is because of how the English reported on them 🙄

@x2poles

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

@Juan-tq9fe

Жыл бұрын

facts

Most viking are tall you can still see the descendants of vikings in norway,sweden they are tall

Farmer strength transitioning to warriors creates super warriors

“There’s one myth, the raiders were mostly the only ones that were big” ah yes, the soldiers were built like soldiers. Thank you for correcting no one.

@TankManHeavy

Жыл бұрын

They weren't soldiers.

@LoS_Lust4Blood

Жыл бұрын

@@TankManHeavy They were warriors nonetheless. Warriors in a large group is an army. Warrior is another word for soldier, the fighting is just done differently. Therefore, they are indeed soldiers that invaded and raided. “Vikings” were farmers turned into soldiers. Original commenter is correct; Vikings/Raiders were the soldiers of their people.

@thegodofthegods1084

Жыл бұрын

He was correcting Hollywood which always fucks up on historical details because it’s Hollywood.

@LoS_Lust4Blood

Жыл бұрын

@@thegodofthegods1084 Hollywood does it on purpose to sell stories and dramatizations to the masses.

@jones9309

Жыл бұрын

​@@TankManHeavy Agree although very similar technically they are not the same.

Romans literally prefered to recruit farmers as they were stronger and accustomed to hardships

@AK47HEAVYMETAL83

Жыл бұрын

This is true 😂😂😂 we grew up on farms and plantations back in the islands. Hard labor was a daily thing and whenever we fought people from downtown, it was ridiculously easy to win, they were weak as hell 🤣🤣

@RandyJM21

Жыл бұрын

At 47 being into fitness and strength I read an article that doing organic non mechanized farming was the most physically demanding job possible . For fun and to see I took a job ( REALLY low pay ) to work an organic goat farm where 127 people had washed out In the first day and some quitting within the 1 st hour or 2 before me . This is a job Mexican Folk refuse to do and nearly impossible to find anybody to actually do the work as required and the washouts were basically what kept it going along with a few people who WERE ACTUAL FARMERS including some women who were scary strong BUT ALSO their bodies were destroyed joint wise and could no longer do it at full pace and would oversee all the people who would attempt work to fill in the physical gaps and just had a constant ad out and people wanted to learn something about organic farming and NOT LIKE ME who saw it like attempting a marathon or something. FUCKING BRUTAL . I can do 100 clean push ups in row and would do 1000 a day sometimes . Did a lot of hiking on steeps , chin ups etc etc and am 5 8 190 - 215 pounds at different times and accused of steroid use despite never even seeing them and not a gym rat although when younger I would use 100 pound dumbells for reps for curls . Lots of uphill and distance mountain biking , doing stuff like shoveling heavy wet snow for 7 hours without stopping to clear a driveway long enough to go 0_60 and back to 0 on in a stock 02 corvette ( so long and NOT A DRIVEWAY ANYBODY WOULD THINK OF SHOVELING withe 18 inches of wet snow , something i did to see if even possible that my neighbor who is younger then me and a iron man competitor ultra marathon fella and when he came over to offer to plow my driveway and i said , no its cool i just want to see if it's possible to shovel ( I also did the parking area for 5- 10 cars if you went 2 deep ) , his jaw dropped and said that kis the coolest thing I ever heard/ seen as I COMPLETED IT . Point being I was somewhat obsessed with strength but in someways muscle stamina was my interest and I would do stuff like sets of 1000 with 10 lb dumbells for stuff . Like I never tried to bench more then 315 lbs which I did when I was 30 . I lasted like 6 -7 weeks and it was by far the most difficult thing i ever attempted and just BRUTAL . Part of it was being in a tiny room with one tiny exhaust fan and door needing to be closed in summer so like 140 degrees or something NUTS And where you would milk 5 goats at a time with suckers ( the only mechanized aspect) , they didn't even have like fences to walk the hundreds of goats you had to milk from their different areas on the property so if they wanted to be a cunt or get away while you were kinda walking them into the sweat box you would have to chase them in goat shit muck up to your knee until you you were gonna puke or have a heart attack , I would drink GALLONS AN GALLONS OF WATER , constantly chugging insane amounts of water and not pee ONCE despite normally a piss monster, it would just pour out of your skin In that box, I think it might have been even higher like 160 plus . I have been in 120 plus outdoor daytime heat outwest and this was way hotter and 1000s of Flys I this " room " . I could go on about the insanity that went on and one women who was like 40 but looked older but was buff ( weird ) who just munched advil and worked In the air conditioned cheese rooms basically told me that I was probably the Last person to do this job this way In the country and that current humans could NOT do this work anymore and anybody that could would cost too much money for the farm to work and it would close soon or need a bunch of investment for mechanization and other issues to even exist as a money maker of any sort as NOBODY would do this work . I know some other people who have done REAL WORK of something similar but for a long time and I can say that despite looking like nothing special and a bit overweight but stocky and not tall . And when they put their hands on you it IS INSANE how it feels or watch them pick up full beer kegs and other stuff . If you put me next to this friend Hick ( yep that's his name) who is now a bar owner you would think 10000% I was stronger and it's NOT EVEN MARGINALLY CLOSE . That Farmer strength thing is SO REAL , he also worked on big boats and pulling up real heavy chains , just crazy as NOT AT ALL BUFF looking and sorta looks like a homeless guy at times . Super nice great guy!!! I never heard about him fighting or heard him tell fight stories and for all I know never been punched or punched anybody and maybe doesn't punch hard , but I would NOT WANT TO FIND OUT and would not to have him grab me if angry , he put his arms around me once and lifted me really high and put a just a little squeeze and I'm very wide shouldered and muscled and I felt like a toy . Real Shit . People were hard when life was hard . Modern people in general are properly soft and weak , INCLUDING MYSELF .

@adolfryan1930

Жыл бұрын

All armies prefer farmers bro

@prot07ype87

Жыл бұрын

*"literally"* 🤣

@RralRonaldo

Жыл бұрын

​@@AK47HEAVYMETAL83 You were NOT there

I am a Turk. They are trying to make our oldest historical leaders look very tall. But they were horse archers and they were very short. The same can be said about the Vikings. It would not have been easy for people living in mountainous areas to survive with big bodies. I think the Vikings were a short and strong people. Respect to Norsemen.

Never take short internet videos with no sources as a history lesson.

@thatonecousin

9 ай бұрын

They were about 5 9 only thing he got right

@CryingGhost512

9 ай бұрын

thank you someones pionts out the flaws

@Mere-Lachaiselongue

9 ай бұрын

@@thatonecousin Which was absolutely massive 1000 years ago. Also they weren't lean because they were doing intensive heavy labor every day while consuming loads of food. I'm Swedish and I got taught this in school.

@ragingpagan9565

9 ай бұрын

Exactly this guy is a idiot.

@ragingpagan9565

9 ай бұрын

@@thatonecousinno they really weren’t and if you think that your very ignorant lol 😂 and I can provide several several actual factual historical sources that will prove to you they were on average 6’0 and up.

Forgot to mention that they were taller than the average man at that height at that time.

@dude2410

Жыл бұрын

by about 2 inches, which really doesn't make that big of a difference, my personal opinion is that vikings were described as big because of their ferocity in battle, like when you see mike tyson fighting, he fought giants but was so ferocious he looked bigger then them all.

@johannesmattsson9900

Жыл бұрын

@@dude2410 The ones that actually went on raids were also probably larger on average than most norsemen and therefore the rest of the world since they were the tallest on average.

@LS2258

Жыл бұрын

@@dude2410 by 2 inches? That’s completely false.

@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei

Жыл бұрын

@@johannesmattsson9900 There was no size rule for viking raiders, so why should they be the tallest. Most vikings were not some sort of professional warriors, more opportunists, often third-born (or worse) sons who didn't inherit anything to make a living. So they raided and many of them mostly wanted to find some place outside Scandinavia to settle down and get the land they couldn't get at home, so they could become farmers again. They were basically economic migrants who used violence to get a livelihood.

@johannesmattsson9900

Жыл бұрын

@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei obviously there were short norse raiders but who do you think is more likely to risk their life for wealth, a weak man or a strong man?

You even forgot about the berserker rage that Odin still gifts to his children of viking ancestors

I’ve seen the Gokstad Viking’s bones in person. His femurs were massive, as he was likely 6ft tall. Scandinavians were a large, pastoral people that lived in harsh environments. They certainly weren’t small.

exactly bro when i was playing mount and blade warband i see nord empire which war controled by viking every viking were medium size and they dont use leather armour but mostly chain armour but vaegir empire was the one that actually look like hollywood viking

Most English were around 5’3” so a 5’9” Dane looked pretty big to them

@oakland_510

6 ай бұрын

Lol.

@rickycoverrubias6176

2 ай бұрын

And lots of natives were tall

@ricklopez4703

2 ай бұрын

Lies

@Beachedwhale_

Ай бұрын

Most English were 5'6" during that time. If you saw a group of warriors who were all clearly taller than you, that would be pretty intimidating.

@russellboone6759

Ай бұрын

Those who populate the Netherlands (mostly descendants of viking invaders) are the tallest people on earth, on average.

Me 5’9 with lots of body hair and no six pack staring at myself in the mirror:“So this is what Vikings looked like?”

@goblinxshredzmtg5392

Жыл бұрын

😂

@andrewsharpe7630

Жыл бұрын

he's just like me fr fr

@iSeeCorpses

Жыл бұрын

*No* -the mirror

@CHAOTICGORE666

Жыл бұрын

From what I understand girls nowadays hate short hairy chubby guys 😅 I’m sorry brother I’m 6’5clean-shaven, and I have a flock that follows me

@iSeeCorpses

Жыл бұрын

@@CHAOTICGORE666 Same but not a 6'5 My always to go haircut is Mid fade or crew cut. Fits me perfectly and its also clean

Small but incredible stamina helped them do things long periods of time

In lore, the most powerful tribe of vikings were the jomsvikings

Farmers are strong, tough, patient, and don't mind getting their hands dirty or bloody. I can see why hungry Norse farmers would make scary raiders.

@RandyLeftHandy

Жыл бұрын

I mean, the places they raided were full of farmers too.

@eho6380

Жыл бұрын

Literally everyone was a farmer, did you expect them to invade Gen-Z or something

@dingleberry4234

Жыл бұрын

I mean most people were farmers tho. And they didn’t all fight like vikings

@majungasaurusaaaa

Жыл бұрын

Farmers were the most docile types back then. Steppe nomads would regularly raid and even come in and rule over them. In places like Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia and China many dynasties were just steppe nomads replacing each other while the docile aggrarian native population watched and endured. The norse were good raiders because they were good seamen, not because they were farmers LOL. They sailed fast, hit and ran before the cops arrived. When forced to fight on even terms with the Franks, they'd lose.

@stsk1061

11 ай бұрын

What kind of argument is that? You think the people in Britain that were raided by Vikings were not farmers?

About 50 of them 5’9” dudes on a boat taking your land by storm

@ataurusqueenofzion916

Жыл бұрын

And your women, get over it mate 👍🏽 👌 🤣

I spent my entire childhood near the former Viking port of Jomsborg in the south of the Baltic Sea, so I was always surprised by the image of Vikings in films and games. Every year in August, people come here on fucking Viking boats and recreate the historical life of the Vikings.

Fun fact vikings stood at a height between 5'5" -5'7" tall.

So “Erik the Viking” was actually the most historically accurate Viking movie made.

@radvin1417

Жыл бұрын

Hiccup in how to train your dragon

@vulkar9754

Жыл бұрын

​@@radvin1417 ah yes

@elijahcantdunk

Жыл бұрын

@@radvin1417 and tbf they didn’t pillage either they only fought dragons in the first movie and other than that they farm and eat chicken I guess I don’t remember every detail

@thesampledhq4706

Жыл бұрын

This is a lie .

"vikings are not what you think" Proceeds to describe the average Norsemen excluding vikings

@alphatrash6236

Жыл бұрын

According to this guy, you cannot describe a 'viking' as 'vikings' do not exist. Norsemen committed an action known as 'viking'. Viking describes an action, not a person.

@cheesecake5859

Жыл бұрын

@@alphatrash6236 allow me to rephrase then. *proceeds to describe the average norsemen excluding those who partake in viking*

@someonejustsomeone1469

Жыл бұрын

How would Vikingyr look different, then? Most of them were simply traders and sailors. Only a handful fought if needed. Even the muscular oar rowers would probably be as burly as the English archers.

@cheesecake5859

Жыл бұрын

@Someone, just someone there is a difference between those who viked and the average norsemen. it may be fair to say many norsemen were just sailors or traders but you couldn't be scrawny and have a single successful viking voyage. The records of vikings across Europe all happen to be similar descriptions of beastly men and all of today's world's strongest men happen to be of Norse lineage. Europeans literally had to plan around them.

@Z130U

Жыл бұрын

​@@cheesecake5859 well said

This is so accurate! Great job! People have a firm belief in vikings cuz of theyre storys, but they are more like an ancient sparten in peoples mind

The Norse and Danes that would go raiding had a warrior title known as VIKINGR (VIK just like PICK) ( VIK-ING-R). They would go A Viking, which would translate into raiding, and a Vikingr is a raider

"they were quite small" damn bro how small? "only 5'9 :(" edit: In Indian mythology, there was a time period called 'satyayug', which said that the people were 10 ft or sm, and not just that every Indian mythology, literary, and historical sources point out that people used to be 10 ft + lmao edit 2 : I am a 15 year old Indian of Bengali descent, the average height of such people is 5'7-8 , I am however aiming to be 6'0+ (I'm in my growing age) however, after reading the replies I am not sure how people of 6'3 are feeling insecure and short, no cuz what you wannabe? robert pershing wadlow ? a BFG?

@brooklyn.21

Жыл бұрын

i got offended cuz im 5'9 😭 jk

@ReiseLukas

Жыл бұрын

I'm 5' 9". And I'm Half Swedish.....checks out

@MatumboBigOunceWilliams

Жыл бұрын

It’s ok my short Viking King, we shall all dine in Valhalla

@eggmin8967

Жыл бұрын

Im 5'8☠️

@johncanes5686

Жыл бұрын

@@MatumboBigOunceWilliams nah in heaven with Jesus Christ, the one true God

Vikings were, in fact, giant and muscular by the standards of that day. Most medieval knights, for example, were 5’3” or close to it. These were the finest examples of “manliness” in their countries. Far larger and stronger than the average local citizen. Then, Vikings started showing up. They were 5’9” or more (many Viking skeletons have been dug up that were taller, I read the average height of a Viking was closer to 5’10”) and they were much stronger and more muscular than the knights (given their lifestyle, genetics, rowing their boats on water and actually carrying them over land, etc). This is why nearly any writings from that time that describe the invading Vikings describe them as being “giant”… because compared to everyone else, they were…

@Johnny1angry1Johnny

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Also, notice the caster calls them "farmers" twice. I don't know if y'all have ever met some farm boys but round here Farm Boys are monsters with the strength of 5 men.

@KikaKunt

Жыл бұрын

All about strength when it come to manliness. I done the ancestory deal. My name originates from possibly the greatest warrior of any viking. Orm. My last name is Ormsby. I am a descendant. Orm had like 12 sons. Some went by Ormsbee and Ormsbey and Ormsby. But if you ever want a great read. Read about the viking named Orm.

@ChrisPtoes27

Жыл бұрын

@@KikaKunt that is actually kinda sick

@zachary_smith1

Жыл бұрын

Yep. I came to say this too

@KikaKunt

Жыл бұрын

@ChrisPtoes27 Right. Pretty crazy. The Ormsby Family Crest is a picture of an arm (Representing Orm's) holding a severed leg. Which is his own. The king of the vikings of his region said that whoever is the first to set foot on the land that they was raiding would basically inherit or own it. Orm lost his leg near the border and legend has it he tossed his severed leg to the other side and was the first to step foot on the land to own it. To this day there is a Ormsbee village in Europe somewhere I think which are descendants of Orm as I am. Pretty wild.

They found many Nordic skeletons from that time over 6ft, one famous skeleton was 6’10 and he had a woman on each side of him, a real top g.

Also, everyone, the average Viking carried his wooden spear, shield, and axe into battle. Spears and axes were good for hunting and farming, and swords were very expensive. Not many Vikings had them, and they weren’t made by many either.

So Thorfin is probably the most accurate representation of a viking

@noobersgaming6672

Жыл бұрын

No askeladd is the most

@gucciusmaximusi5099

Жыл бұрын

Askaladd was very plausible but Thors and Thorkell were extreme exceptions .

@IonizedComa

Жыл бұрын

@@noobersgaming6672 Thorfin is also a farmer with farmer strength, and shorter than Askellad

@banqkaiqai5567

Жыл бұрын

I knew you all waiting for thorfin to fight again 😂

@donaldganss7650

Жыл бұрын

Thorfin, nice

Majority of them didn’t exactly look like bodybuilders, but many were still hella strong and absurdly muscular. A true force to be reckoned with.

@Thedudeofdudes810

Жыл бұрын

They weren't any more muscular then any other warriors since the ideal body would be a lean and flexible one.

@3goats1coat

Жыл бұрын

​@@Thedudeofdudes810 that's why every single breastplate that was left to us has a beergut, eh? Gtfo with that borderline starvation propaganda. A warrior had to have torque behind his movements or would simply bounce off, and had to have reserves for days where eating is the least of your worries without it affecting his performance.

@Thedudeofdudes810

Жыл бұрын

@@3goats1coat armor has rounded shapes to help deflect attacks.

@3goats1coat

Жыл бұрын

@@Thedudeofdudes810 deflecting into your groin and neck? How stupid are you to justify your starvation propaganda?

@Thedudeofdudes810

Жыл бұрын

@@3goats1coat yeah no that's not how that worked. Armor was rounded to help deflect blows that's a 100% fact that you cannot refute. Also lean and flexible isn't starved by any stretch not sure where you got that from.

Vikings ranged from 5'5 to 6'4 the average ones in in the 5foot range Viking means adventurer it was a job besides farming and they had piss grenades

Also forgot to mention the average height then was 5'2" so 5'7" was a giant then

This sounds like something an englishman would cook up

@3goats1coat

Жыл бұрын

It's cope for their inferior genes

@simpslayer9284

Жыл бұрын

It’s true tho

@AthelstansSuccessor

Жыл бұрын

Tf you mean Englishman. Do you not hear his accent

@ceruleanblue2161

Жыл бұрын

​@@simpslayer9284 I've heard other KZreadrs share the exact opposite opinion of every opinion he just shared. Even about the meaning of the word viking

@jahitrotter4734

Жыл бұрын

@@ceruleanblue2161 hence why KZread shorts can’t replace actual education.

5'9" was the average height of a Dane a thousand years ago, which is pretty tall compared to the continental average of 5'5". And they may not have been body builders, but farm boys are usually pretty stout.

the thing about vikings was not size, true most of them were farmers but, combat ready, fast and strong, bloodthirsty, hungry with perfect ambiental adaptation n above all they were fearless because they truly belived, that the higher the honor in battle, the closer was the viking to paradise (valhalla)

They would still be substantially stronger than the average person today

@philcassidy3823

Жыл бұрын

That sadly doesn't mean very much Based name btw

@User-79916_ue

Жыл бұрын

Yeah of course, they ate less, did more work, ate healthier

@berkaysevinc5386

Жыл бұрын

not stronger than me tho

@Brutalcel-lm5if

Жыл бұрын

@@berkaysevinc5386 Archeologists found remains of medieveil knight who lived 800 years ago, They reconstructed his physical appearance and found out that he was as strong as NFL or Rugby player. And it was English knight. Vikings were much bigger and stronger

@VYDEOS2

Жыл бұрын

And that don't mean shit

I remember a story of a farmer who lived on the side of a cliff, working an extremely small piece of land. The only way to get to his farm was from a rope ladder. When the tax man comes, he just pulls up the ladder.

@josephehlers2007

Жыл бұрын

That man is a man after my own heart, to bad I couldn’t get away with this stunt today

They where called berzerkers, because of thier actions

" Yoo you *Aladdin* wants his trousers back "

You were only allowed to ”go viking” (meaning to sail to distant lands to trade or pillage) if you could lift a certain kind of very heavy stone, aswell as master a few other skills. The result is that the vikings were the tallest, strongest, most skilled, and most genetically blessed of the norsemen. This explains why they had and still have a reputation for statute, beauty, and excellence. They also brought Europe’s most beautiful women to Scandinavia, which is why Scandinavians are so beautiful.

@mikeywilliams4136

Жыл бұрын

Really?🤓 They recruited Stronger, MORE Talented individuals for the more important tasks?? NEVER would have guessed

@kari548

Жыл бұрын

"scandinavians so beautiful" based on what and who's standards? 🤨

@Victor_Macrev

Жыл бұрын

@@kari548 based on proportions, simple as that

@hughjanus700

Жыл бұрын

​@@kari548 found the Mediterranean

@ryneagheilim9782

Жыл бұрын

If Viking is a verb, then its noun must be Vike.

i just found out yesterday I’m the direct descendant of Rollo de Normandie

Funny enough the Christmas movie violent night got norse stuff right. Where it portrayed Santa Claus as a norseman, fat here and there, and had red hair, but he was big. Also the fact that he's Immortal due to Christmas magic. It's implied that he's like that to atone for past sins.

They're known for their strength and expertise in combat, maybe that lead to the idea of them been Tall and Full of Muscles

@jmcrapo32

Жыл бұрын

Only the ripped fighting norsemen went a Viking.

@nicholascecil6733

Жыл бұрын

That and all the firsthand accounts that we have giving literal descriptions. This video is whack

@ftdfijturidtunyjhuif

Жыл бұрын

5'9 was tall back then up until like the 1700 or 1800 where food became much more available average heights were between 5'2 and 5'5 for adult men so they'd be the equilivant of a 6'3 man in today's time

@rustomkanishka

Жыл бұрын

Again, slightly taller than the English. Also, when you're going to occupy space on a bench you bring your best young men, not old farts. So they're basically bringing a much better fighting force who has been rowing together and working together as a team. Advantage invaders.

@safs3098

Жыл бұрын

they were tall relative to the average of the time and places they visited. they were also very muscular because the people who travelled and were written about rowed and lifted heavy stuff everyday for decades with a meat rich diet. so yeah, the Vikings were actually tall and buff

I also read at one point that the christian scholars/monks described them as "often as tall as giants" and definitely larger than average. Also, Scandinavians were among the last Europeans to leave the hunter-gatherer lifestyle in favor of agricultural lifestyle, and hunter-gatherers were known to be much taller on average due to a more balanced and varied diet. Therefore it makes sense that vikings in 900 ad were taller than more southern Europeans who had been used to the agricultural lifestyle for a longer time.

@TasmaniaIsAHole

Жыл бұрын

Diets high in meat and dairy have been shown historically to contribute to larger stature.

@jos1613

Жыл бұрын

​@Nick Austin do you even know what hunter-gatherer means?

@kingol4801

Жыл бұрын

What a joke. Giants should be as tall as high buildings, not some puny humans. And we are not even talking about Leviathans and Titans.

@Augrills

Жыл бұрын

Hunter gatherers were smaller because they didn’t have steady carbohydrates in their diet.

@TheMrCoDS

Жыл бұрын

​@@Augrills nope, they were definitely taller. Average height went back to hunter-gatherers levels only recently thanks to the industrial revolution that allowed people access to a more varied diet. But since the adoption of agricolture people's diet basically consisted almost exclusively of whatever crop they were growing, poor diet that caused the drop in average height.

They may not be considered talk by modern standards, but they absolutely were tall by medieval standards. You can see descriptions of them from some of the arabic travelers as an outside unbiased view

5‘7 to 5‘9 is very tall for that timeline

Baldur in GOW is the example of "smol lean Viking"

@aidansumner8364

Жыл бұрын

What an insult to the gods that game was. If Kratos managed to kill the portrayed as lean, fat, stupid etc gods off, his own brain and lifeforce would cease to function. He'd effectively destroy everything's soul.

@w花b

Жыл бұрын

​@@aidansumner8364 aww :(

@TakeDown2175

Жыл бұрын

@@aidansumner8364 that game was completely inaccurate and stupid way to depict Ragnarok. And as you said an insult to the Gods

@jacobgonzalez2002

Жыл бұрын

@@TakeDown2175 Who pissed in your cereal?

@serdusrex7274

Жыл бұрын

​@@aidansumner8364 who tf normal cares

The reason they are portrayed that way is because at those times the only way to really tell what a viking truly resembled was by how someone else describes them from their experience/feelings when seeing one. Most people were shorter back then so a viking looked taller to them and therefore slightly intimidating. But he real reason why they are portrayed that way may lie in something else. Vikings practiced their religion which in a sense was a philosophy of life as a man/warrior on the battlefield in the name of odin and the gods. They believed in many gods but their religion essentially preached that you must go into battle fearless and fight to your last breath in order to be accepted in the halls of Odin with respect. So when they went to battle they were quite confident that they will fight with all their might and fearless as they don't really die but rather go to the halls of Odin and feast every night with the gods. That confidence that their life will be vastly better if they show courage and bravery on the battlefield is what made people have the impression that they represent a savage and fearless warrior.

@penelopepitstop7748

Жыл бұрын

You guys... 🙄 Not one source just a sweet little version of Hollywood history... The Vikings were black as was everyone at the time. Albinism isn’t a racial group - it’s a group condition. No group of sick ppl ever discovered anything...

@samdixon3719

Жыл бұрын

it's ok to lie cuz i can't describe how they were 🤡

@JiyuTomo

Жыл бұрын

So their religion sums up as killing others in war to be in good grace of Odin 🙂. I pitty them.

@MrLuckyMuffin

Жыл бұрын

@@JiyuTomo no that’s what you summed it up to be in your deluded ignorance and narcissism. It’s a deeper religion than anything you’ve ever comprehended or thought about. And that’s an insult towards you not a compliment to them

@lildragon6415

Жыл бұрын

Halls of Valhalla

As someone descended from them, I will confirm, WE STAYED SHORT-

@srensen3081

Ай бұрын

we did not, denmark sweden and norway are quite tall compared to most other countries

@Valkyria00

20 күн бұрын

@@srensen3081correct

It probably comes a lot from the berserker at Stamford bridge. He was said to be very large, even more than their leader who was said to be 6' tall or a slight more.

As a swede I can confirm that with the history that I know, during the Viking era, Vikings were described as tall and imposing figures by poets, academics and religious figures from the Byzantine Empire (amongst many others) - those Vikings were in fact 5’8-5’10 when most men in Europe were 5’5 - 5’7. So imagine if most men were 5’6 and they see s lot of men at 5’10 and strong 😅

@alexcarter2461

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In that case I'd look like a giant back then, I'm 6'2. My cousin always said if you could fight in any way what would it be, I'd always say WW1 as I'd be hauling the Lewis gun around on my lonesome

@pata6129

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​@@alexcarter2461 you die for being the bigger target during a charge..

@princevegeta1963

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@@pata6129 wars are won through the speed and sharpness of swords not height and muscles

@pata6129

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@@princevegeta1963 are you an imbecile? Like seriously are you?

@Vincentdeoliveira

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@@alexcarter2461 I’d be tall too I guess since I’m almost 6ft tall

The goths are thought to originate from the Scandinavian peninsula, there’s a pretty famous one named Valaris who fought for Totila at the Battle of Faventia. I’m willing to bet that there were Vikings who were bigger than 5’9”, there have always been tall men and short men, with diet in the youth of a man playing a big role in how big he could get by maturity, especially back then when there was more malnutrition.

The viking raiders tended to be taller than average vs. their central European opposition by a couple of inches. Anyone familiar with standard distributions knows that this would make the number of significantly taller vikings far greater. The countries with the most Nordic genetics is surprisingly Holland. It also has the tallest people in Europe.

Which is weird because a huge percentage of bodybuilders and power lifters come from Iceland and they're all giants.

They actually weren’t just lean, they rowed for hours and they’re lives revolved around manual labor and fighting. The physique form the main character in the Northman was actually accurate, not giant biceps like a bodybuilder, but still built like a tank, especially in the back and shoulders. And not with the same height and mass as well. Just the fact that they would indeed have muscle mass, with most of it being around the back and shoulders. Unless you were starving and didn’t have enough food

@SheepAmongG.O.A.T

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Oh the f they were lol, and that movie was dumb as f'.

@dilbertbraphog2886

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@@SheepAmongG.O.A.T So True!!!! People also fail to realize that Egyptians weren’t black either!!! History is so “F’ed up” lies

@lilbananaman

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@@SheepAmongG.O.A.T you gonna give any reason as to why they wouldn’t be a little built?

@Dre.Tv815

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🧢

@mzzsoldier25yearsago65

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@@Dre.Tv815 you obviously a hater mad becuase your physique is chit 💩

Dont forget the average height for anyone else during that era was 5'4-5'6, so yes, they would still be terrifying to anyone who saw them

Man, there wasn't enough nutrition in Scandinavia for a regular warrior to be built like that, this was a time period where losing large chunks of your population to a brutal winter was normal.

“I have never seen bodies as nearly perfect as theirs. As tall as palm trees, fair and reddish, they wear neither tunics nor kaftans. Every man wears a cloak with which he covers half of his body, so that one arm is uncovered. They carry axes, swords, daggers and always have them to hand. They use Frankish swords with broad, ridged blades.” - Ahmad Ibn Fadlan I might take that guys word more serious considering it's from 1k years ago.

@francoisdecharette9844

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I mean… similar descriptions exist for most races in history records

@Horrible_Deplorable

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@@francoisdecharette9844 let's see some

@francoisdecharette9844

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4th-century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote that the Gauls were tall, light-skinned, light-haired, and light-eyed: Almost all Gauls are tall and fair-skinned, with reddish hair. Their savage eyes make them fearful objects; they are eager to quarrel and excessively truculent. When, in the course of a dispute, any of them calls in his wife, a creature with gleaming eyes much stronger than her husband, they are more than a match for a whole group of foreigners; especially when the woman, with swollen neck and gnashing teeth, swings her great white arms and begins to deliver a rain of punches mixed with kicks, like missiles launched by the twisted strings of a catapult 1st-century BC Greek historian Diodorus Siculus described them as tall, generally heavily built, very light-skinned, and light-haired, with long hair and mustaches: The Gauls are tall of body, with rippling muscles, and white of skin, and their hair is blond, and not only naturally so, but they make it their practice to increase the distinguishing color by which nature has given it. For they are always washing their hair in limewater, and they pull it back from their forehead to the top of the head and back to the nape of the neck... Some of them shave their beards, but others let it grow a little; and the nobles shave their cheeks, but they let the mustache grow until it covers the mouth.[15]

@Horrible_Deplorable

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@@francoisdecharette9844 ok, but where are Gauls compared to palm trees?

@francoisdecharette9844

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@@Horrible_Deplorable Both Diodorus Siculus and Ammianus Marcellinus describe Gauls as tall people. I do not think that those writers not comparing them to Palm trees change anything

Its a fact that the vikings were taller then the english people

@undertio

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Its not a fact, vikings were kinda small and lean 💯

@Matt_Alaric

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Show me your evidence for this fact.

Most the time when we think of Vikings we are really thinking about Berserkers were the biggest strongest and most aggressive

True, but they were all incredibly strong. Through the evolution of living amongst the harshest tundras and the coldest mountains, they gained the strength far above the ordinary man. They revered gods who revelled in blooodshed and pillaging. Each warrior growing with each battle as they fight their way to the undying battlefield. This is what made Vikings a truly terrifying and awe inspiring race.

Im not sayin everyone was live at the gym jacked, but scandinavian countries have some of the largest humans, and they were full time farmers so they would be in shape

@ronimausanti9625

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Most Scandinavian farmers (except Danish) are part time farmers and were always as such since agriculture started historically

@LS2258

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@@ronimausanti9625 Danes were full time farmers or close to it, due to a much better inhabitable land and better living conditions.

A farmer stamina is like 2x of an athlete

@brzeczyszczykiewicz3629

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I bet you have never met athlete

@stanleystove

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What kind of athlete? Runner? No. Bodybuilder? Maybe. Boxer? Maybe. Depends

@eliashouston8588

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@@stanleystove a farmer has more stamina than a boxer??😭😂😂😂 you’re mad

@terrancejfry497

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Farm bois always trying to hype themselves.

@taejoonpark9613

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​@@stanleystoveboxer absolutely not bixers are practicaly in the same league as Olympic lvl runners

Between 5'7 and 5'9 was quite large for that time period. The average frenchman was 5'4 for reference. They maybe werent large men by today's standards but for the standard of the time they were big men. So the stereotype still effectively makes sense. You still see a lot strength in nordic bloodlines today.