What Viking Parties Were Like

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Ancient Norse seafaring Vikings were well-known as explorers, traders, and warriors. But when they got down, they weren't messing around. Sure, Norse Sagas tell of epic voyages, and etymological studies have granted insight into the lands to which they traveled and settled. Archeological evidence has revealed records of weapons and armor they fought with. But what our current perception of the Vikings sometimes overlooks, and shamefully so, is that, in addition to thrilling expeditions to far-flung lands, Vikings had some pretty wild festivities. Maybe you're wondering "What were Viking parties like?"
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  • @ronalddevine9587
    @ronalddevine9587 Жыл бұрын

    In spite of their ferocity, they were incredible mariners, explorers, as well as traders. Their shipbuilding skills were cutting edge for the time. Yes, more Viking content PLEASE.

  • @user-dk5vj2br1o

    @user-dk5vj2br1o

    Жыл бұрын

    Traders..yah if you wouldnt well theyd take what they wanted..thats y noone liked them!thieves invaders n not too brite!

  • @jvharbin8337

    @jvharbin8337

    Жыл бұрын

    How would them being good explorers, traders, and ship builders spite their ferocity?

  • @davidkomen5283

    @davidkomen5283

    Жыл бұрын

    And apparently created the first firearms in Europe.

  • @leslietarkin5705
    @leslietarkin5705 Жыл бұрын

    A 2 week Viking party sounds very similar to Spring Break.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 Жыл бұрын

    Those Viking parties were definitely the precursors to intense frat parties.🥳

  • @RandyVidz

    @RandyVidz

    Жыл бұрын

    If you let mankind run haywire that will cause us turn into wild animals.

  • @WinnieTheJew
    @WinnieTheJew Жыл бұрын

    More Viking content please! 💯❤️

  • @dabest_yeet
    @dabest_yeet Жыл бұрын

    My history class started using your videos

  • @oO0Xenos0Oo
    @oO0Xenos0Oo Жыл бұрын

    This sounds like a metal festival. Lasts for days and weeks. No chairs (destroyed on day 1), stupid games, drinking, growling, tales of epic quests, barbecue all day and beating each other up for fun in a moshpit.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    That structure at 2:41...they should build those for party halls today!

  • @heinedenmark
    @heinedenmark Жыл бұрын

    LOL.. Sitting here in Hobro(an old viking town), Denmark.. With hangover from 2 days of partying 🎉🍻

  • @Kim-the-Dane-1952
    @Kim-the-Dane-1952 Жыл бұрын

    As a Dane I am pretty happy to be descended from such valiant partiers. Not surprising when you consider that the Norse religion's vision of paradise chiefly included fighting and partying all day and featured an immortal pig that one could eat over and over again :-) 😆

  • @feldgeist2637

    @feldgeist2637

    Жыл бұрын

    you think that let's say Canute the Great expected to munch on pork for all eternity ? first church in Ribe was built during the reign of Horik II and ours in Hedeby even a few yrs earlier under his predecessor Horik den Gamle ....and his predecesor/co-ruler Harald Klak already converted in the 820s ......those silly fairytales of starving Icelanders about never ending pork supply n stuff.....

  • @futuristica1710

    @futuristica1710

    Жыл бұрын

    They were murderers and rapists.

  • @blacklabel3980
    @blacklabel3980 Жыл бұрын

    Weird History, and Weird History Food are some of my most favorite channels on YT

  • @calcaleb7041
    @calcaleb7041 Жыл бұрын

    5:47 Viking music is actually very good it’s not all throat singing and shouting. Harold Foss uses actual instruments from the time

  • @erikbudrow1255

    @erikbudrow1255

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you insinuating that throat singing and shouting in music is not good?

  • @calcaleb7041

    @calcaleb7041

    Жыл бұрын

    @@erikbudrow1255 “Viking music is actually very good” shouldn’t have repeat myself cause you can’t read

  • @munchiemac2895
    @munchiemac2895 Жыл бұрын

    I'd most definitely attend a 2 week viking party

  • @Matt.P.

    @Matt.P.

    Жыл бұрын

    Nobody cares.

  • @galloe8933
    @galloe8933 Жыл бұрын

    About 17 years ago, a Viking stealthily invaded our homestead in the guise of a small toe-headed warlord. The atrocities comment against chicken nuggies are vast, but that was what felt like a lifetime ago. Walked up the trail with him to consider taking up the grill for the summer. I still remember his first day in raiding school, never scared but also never quiet and now we are learning loot management. Vikings gotta sail.

  • @lonewolfnergiganos4000
    @lonewolfnergiganos4000 Жыл бұрын

    Me when I'm in math class: I sleep Me in history class: *I woke*

  • @jeanne-marie8196
    @jeanne-marie8196 Жыл бұрын

    “wedding with an open bar”; you’re killin me!

  • @cyankirkpatrick5194
    @cyankirkpatrick5194 Жыл бұрын

    I just got through watching a guy who has a channel about the Vikings. You left out Finland, we come from the ice and snow land of the midnight sun and the hot springs flow.

  • @calcaleb7041

    @calcaleb7041

    Жыл бұрын

    Finnish mythology is very interesting too their gods and monsters are very fierce

  • @cyankirkpatrick5194

    @cyankirkpatrick5194

    Жыл бұрын

    @@calcaleb7041 thank you.

  • @Tshanholtz1991

    @Tshanholtz1991

    Жыл бұрын

    Zeppelin aye

  • @jaykatz9785

    @jaykatz9785

    Жыл бұрын

    The Finns were totally different from the Norse.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    A+ video! What a brilliant topic, images, commentary, and narration!

  • @calcaleb7041
    @calcaleb7041 Жыл бұрын

    When they said their gonna drink like gods they meant it 🍻

  • @zeroenna8554
    @zeroenna8554 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for that Animorphs joke. As someone who still has his collection of 54 main titles, Megamorphs, The Andalite Chronicles, the Hork Bajir Chronicles, Alternamorphs, and Visser... Where was I going with this? Oh well, I have to get back to organizing my bookshelf. 🤣

  • @timothybellerive8268

    @timothybellerive8268

    Жыл бұрын

    YO I HAVE THE FULL ANIMOPHS COLLECTION TOO YO THATS TO COOL IVE NEVER MET ANYONE ELSE WHO DOES

  • @Matt.P.

    @Matt.P.

    Жыл бұрын

    Nerds

  • @jimmyyu2184
    @jimmyyu2184 Жыл бұрын

    Apparently ABBA was the band performing that night. (Personally, I am a huge ABBA fan). 🤣

  • @karenrosenberger1321
    @karenrosenberger1321 Жыл бұрын

    More viking videos please!

  • @edhenn9934
    @edhenn9934 Жыл бұрын

    I’ve bee pan binge watching this channel for maybe almost a week now. And I am unable to get the very quote from this channel outta my head. That is the “Beer Flood!!!” Quote. Too funny. This channel is too much fun.

  • @conniesetter1430
    @conniesetter1430 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video and narration. A round of 👏 👏👏👏👏 for pronunciation too! 🏆 Thanks for the video! 🙂

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    Beowulf is such a great story. We read that for the literature section of one of our English classes in high school.

  • @steveOCalley

    @steveOCalley

    Жыл бұрын

    B.O. Wolf? PU, get some Axe body spray, you Geat!

  • @btetschner

    @btetschner

    Жыл бұрын

    @@steveOCalley Hahahaha!

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Жыл бұрын

    Ain't no party like a Viking party 'cause a Viking party comes after the Blót!

  • @healthsciencevideos9346
    @healthsciencevideos9346 Жыл бұрын

    So if the Vikings ended in the late 11th Century, then did they party like it was 1299?

  • @benisaten
    @benisaten Жыл бұрын

    WH, Awesome as always. Hope TIMELINE comes back. Cheers from 🇨🇦✌️

  • @viggycat8592
    @viggycat8592 Жыл бұрын

    YAAS! The Weird History guy! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @tommo101able
    @tommo101able Жыл бұрын

    i would love to go to one of their parties

  • @elizabethhughes5371
    @elizabethhughes5371 Жыл бұрын

    Good morning to ALL I hope everyone has a truly stellar day!!!! It's gorgeous outside a little chilly but the skies are clear sun is out birds singing and WEIRD HISTORY has new content my favorite Sunday indulgence 😊 !!!!!As beautiful as it is outside in Middle Tennessee right now I'm very grateful to even be alive the tornado that hit Tennessee on 4/1/23 destroyed a historic mill a little convience store I used to go to ALOT a lumber company and the roof of a very old and very small post office maybe 60 p.o boxes if that! Several homes were critically damaged alot of folks are homeless but grateful to be alive!!! I'm a little over 5 miles from where this occurred I was up & in my bathroom with my mom and animals with a mattress over the top of us to hopefully block anything that might happen!! So very thankful to be watching Weird History this morning!!!! #blessedtobehere This channel takes me away from stress I love the narration the topics keep me interested I just appreciate it that's all everyone have a fantastic day

  • @_SimpleJack_
    @_SimpleJack_ Жыл бұрын

    I'm Finnish, vikings tried invading us a few times... We let one of them live.

  • @calcaleb7041

    @calcaleb7041

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m Norse , I admire your people and gods

  • @ivareskesner2019

    @ivareskesner2019

    Жыл бұрын

    The Samí did that only because he had a good recipe for mead which they hoped they could incorporate into their own recipes. It's always been about mead, people.

  • @tilopahylott3486

    @tilopahylott3486

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ivareskesner2019 meat people?

  • @ivareskesner2019

    @ivareskesner2019

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tilopahylott3486 Yes, mate. Meat people. It's always about that crispy leg.

  • @sethsmith8638

    @sethsmith8638

    Жыл бұрын

    They were...., "Finnished?!" Hahahahhahahhahahahhahabab

  • @DjAboo1
    @DjAboo1 Жыл бұрын

    Hell yes I’d attend a two week long Viking party! Who wouldn’t?

  • @jazcc

    @jazcc

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m down.

  • @MrRezRising
    @MrRezRising Жыл бұрын

    Your narration has a real viking swagger today! That's good voice.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    Simon Whistler's sister loves the Animorphs series, he talked about that on one of his videos.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    It's great to be an early supporter of this channel! We're like the cool kids that have the first pairs of Air Jordans!

  • @zackwhite639
    @zackwhite639 Жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see a WV history or something like that

  • @AnnaNotAna
    @AnnaNotAna Жыл бұрын

    You should do a video about druids.

  • @calcaleb7041

    @calcaleb7041

    Жыл бұрын

    I can give you link for a video if you want it’s 2 hrs but give a history of all the accounts of the druids

  • @ellipirelli4007

    @ellipirelli4007

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@calcaleb7041 i would love a link 😍👍🏻

  • @fionaautumn

    @fionaautumn

    Жыл бұрын

    Yesss omg 😍

  • @calcaleb7041

    @calcaleb7041

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ellipirelli4007 kzread.info/dash/bejne/an52uY-YqtSaqLA.html here you go 😁

  • @seallisonAGD

    @seallisonAGD

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ellipirelli4007 I believe this is what he is referring to m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/an52uY-YqtSaqLA.html. Enjoy!

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this! 🗡 #WeirdHistory #Party #Vikings #VikingParties

  • @davidgerow
    @davidgerow Жыл бұрын

    A two week party, awesome!🍺🍺🍺

  • @jovanweismiller7114
    @jovanweismiller7114 Жыл бұрын

    I regularly went to parties in the 1970s that lasted for days. No blot sacrifices tho'!

  • @jazcc

    @jazcc

    Жыл бұрын

    I was born a tote too late

  • @dupes6248
    @dupes6248 Жыл бұрын

    They definitely should have used the mosh pit, or slam dancing at an acacia strain or carnifex show for the party shot!

  • @bigjerm6
    @bigjerm6 Жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see a video about life on a long ship on a long voyage

  • @lukemn29
    @lukemn29 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine actual Vikings watching a Minnesota Vikings game.

  • @calcaleb7041

    @calcaleb7041

    Жыл бұрын

    They would be in discus in what they saw especially the qb play 😂

  • @VaginasIayer

    @VaginasIayer

    Жыл бұрын

    @@calcaleb7041 🤣

  • @garycarpenter2980

    @garycarpenter2980

    Жыл бұрын

    They wouldn't understand football 🏈🦶

  • @bigcheese185

    @bigcheese185

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine Giants watching the New York Giants

  • @ss_whole
    @ss_whole Жыл бұрын

    I picture a lot of people at a Viking party going "ARRGGGGG"

  • @user-us7it5jb7i
    @user-us7it5jb7i Жыл бұрын

    awesome

  • @feresmourali5783
    @feresmourali5783 Жыл бұрын

    Please make a video about Emma Goldman! Well, there's a reason for the lenght of the party and that is that a hangover is best cured by just continuing drinking haha!

  • @TheBLGL

    @TheBLGL

    Жыл бұрын

    Second the Emma Goldman suggestion. And Alex Berkman for that matter. And Kropotkin, Bakunin, pretty much any anarchist would make a great video. And Mother Jones as well.

  • @dimplesd8931
    @dimplesd8931 Жыл бұрын

    “Ain’t no party like a Viking party….cause a Viking party don’t stop!”……for two weeks

  • @OldieBugger
    @OldieBugger Жыл бұрын

    Would I attend a 2-week Viking party? Hell YEAH! I would attend, just as my forefathers did.

  • @scottnotpilgrim
    @scottnotpilgrim Жыл бұрын

    I did wonder what happened to my Animorphs books I had as a kid..

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 Жыл бұрын

    Well, this was something. Wild. Almost like a frat party.

  • @johnking6252
    @johnking6252 Жыл бұрын

    Vikings! Gotta luv em!

  • @erikbudrow1255
    @erikbudrow1255 Жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a typical Saturday night with the boys at the farm...

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    There is a party game called Viking Master (or Viking Warrior?). I have seen it once before and it looked fun, but never played it myself.

  • @hughmungus5686
    @hughmungus5686 Жыл бұрын

    Do one on Roman parties, aka bacchanalia

  • @ivareskesner2019
    @ivareskesner2019 Жыл бұрын

    As a Vikinger, when you partied, you drank enough mead to leave Loki catatonic. You lay with enough women to leave Freyr with an inferiority complex. And you got into enough unnecessary fights to make Odin feel like maybe he should just chill for a bit...

  • @ElisaFob

    @ElisaFob

    Жыл бұрын

    Vikinger?

  • @zerker08

    @zerker08

    Жыл бұрын

    Fat copium

  • @ivareskesner2019

    @ivareskesner2019

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ElisaFob I figured that was the most appropriate way to refer to the Scandinavian raiders of the Viking age. _'Viking'_ meaning something like _'a voyage of raiding and exploration'._ Which was more of a thing you did than a thing you were. So a person going on a Viking would, I guess be a Vikinger.

  • @ElisaFob

    @ElisaFob

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ivareskesner2019 Ah okay x)

  • @annamorgan6765
    @annamorgan6765 Жыл бұрын

    hell yeah i would attend!!! i got some viking blood in me💙✨

  • @tombruner9634
    @tombruner9634 Жыл бұрын

    The neighbors were not angry about the Vikings' raiding and pillaging; everyone did that. They were jealous of the Vikings long, flowing, flaxen mullets.

  • @user-ob8en1ef4s
    @user-ob8en1ef4s Жыл бұрын

    If only somebody had introduced them to the game Twister

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    I would attempt a two week celebration like that, but I would not drink that much. I am not a fan of drinking for the sake of getting drunk. Minus the dangerous parts and the sacrifices, that party is a winner. If the entire thing is hosted by people from Sweden, it would be a phenomena! Making it as authentic as possible would be the key, it would need to be like living those moments in history.

  • @JustJulyo
    @JustJulyo Жыл бұрын

    Party like it's 999

  • @joaonipo
    @joaonipo Жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @calcaleb7041
    @calcaleb7041 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine if Scandinavia resisted Christianity pass the 1000s, would we be talking about the Scandinavian crusades of the 12 and 13 centuries. Lithuania could have kept their beliefs up to the 15th century or longer. Tho eventually force would have been used as always as history has shown

  • @cassieoz1702
    @cassieoz1702 Жыл бұрын

    So why the thumbnail of the winged helmet?

  • @Staffo1972
    @Staffo1972 Жыл бұрын

    Amon Amarth with their long boats on stage 🤘📯🤘

  • @RedPanda79
    @RedPanda79 Жыл бұрын

    One hour is enough partying for me

  • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
    @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Жыл бұрын

    How did I know this was gonna attract the kind of viewers who like Odal Rune and Sonnenrad tattoos

  • @mbashasyed
    @mbashasyed6 ай бұрын

    That deepmaw priest looks sus af even for a sketch, I just don't even want to imagine his original face

  • @tastefullynerdy1161
    @tastefullynerdy1161 Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact, my third given name is Beowulf 😂

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    You should totally do a video about Bert Keischer AKA "The Machine"! In 1997, Rolling Stone did an article about him where he was named "the top partyer at the Number One Party School in the country." The film Van Wilder is based on him!

  • @s.durbar1294
    @s.durbar1294 Жыл бұрын

    the music might've been throat singing

  • @goatsurgeon
    @goatsurgeon Жыл бұрын

    Are you guys going to get more content on your graveyard shift channel? I want more sleepless nights hahaha

  • @joesantos2455
    @joesantos2455 Жыл бұрын

    SIGMUND SAYS: "LONG ship...SHORT sword!!"

  • @davidthomerson751
    @davidthomerson751 Жыл бұрын

    The first keg stand was done by Hrethelfrod the Great.

  • @moonpig1599
    @moonpig1599 Жыл бұрын

    My very first first comment. Wooo!!!

  • @timothybellerive8268

    @timothybellerive8268

    Жыл бұрын

    Welcome

  • @williamromine5715
    @williamromine5715 Жыл бұрын

    You said they enjoyed live music. As opposed to what other music back then?

  • @navret1707
    @navret1707 Жыл бұрын

    I’ve “partied” several times with Norwegians. Definite combat parties. That is one thing I miss after retiring.

  • @sethkaicer319
    @sethkaicer319 Жыл бұрын

    Weird history introduced the Minnesota Vikings to the one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eaters

  • @lala_miffy2698
    @lala_miffy2698 Жыл бұрын

    Doy you actually HAVE an entire Animorphs collection?

  • @just_a_stump
    @just_a_stump Жыл бұрын

    Ngl, I read 'pirates' instead of 'parties,' and now I'm a little disappointed 😅

  • @PaiviProject
    @PaiviProject Жыл бұрын

    Oh heck yeah I would party with vikings. I'm from Lapland, Finland, and been wondering few times if I have some viking blood in me 🤣👋

  • @emilyparks4530
    @emilyparks4530 Жыл бұрын

    I learned a lot of this information from playing Assassins Creed Valhalla

  • @freddysandoval4252
    @freddysandoval4252 Жыл бұрын

    The Mongols next?

  • @phaines9
    @phaines93 ай бұрын

    Upsalla was definitely a real thing. Know as the so clever named "all thing"

  • @vladtheimpalerofficial
    @vladtheimpalerofficial Жыл бұрын

    More life as content Like Life as a medieval pope Life as a crusader/templar during the cruaades Life in a medieval city Life as a civilian in germany during ww2 Life as a civilian in france/italy during world war 2 Life as a jew during ww2 accross a variety of countries Life in fuedal japan Life as a emperor of japan Life as a yakuza in modern day japan Life as a president of the us Life of the king of england/queen Life as the emperor of japan (modern times) Life as a roman soldier during the african war Life as a peasant/soldier/noble in the roman empire/byzantine empire And so fourth

  • @timothybellerive8268

    @timothybellerive8268

    Жыл бұрын

    They've done half of those bro do ur researxh damn

  • @donskeezy4042
    @donskeezy4042 Жыл бұрын

    Ain't no party like a Viking party cuz a Viking party don't stop. Play some Lil Jon...

  • @feldgeist2637
    @feldgeist2637 Жыл бұрын

    "until latin was introduced to Scandinavia, along with Christianity, in the late 11th century" Harald Klak looking down from heaven in shame

  • @joshuabradshaw9120
    @joshuabradshaw9120 Жыл бұрын

    What were 17th century pirate parties like?

  • @jticklemaker1265
    @jticklemaker1265 Жыл бұрын

    Seeing how alcohol is restricted in Sweden because of a long history of abuses, I cannot imagine an open bar party without any casualties

  • @Vee_of_the_Weald
    @Vee_of_the_Weald Жыл бұрын

    Isn’t Iceland part of the Viking countries/people/aplo group?

  • @catholicactionbibleonlyist1813
    @catholicactionbibleonlyist1813 Жыл бұрын

    Vikings FTW

  • @seventieshaze4314
    @seventieshaze4314 Жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @timothybellerive8268

    @timothybellerive8268

    Жыл бұрын

    Ur first

  • @kennethpeterson4068
    @kennethpeterson40689 ай бұрын

    So it was like living in New Orleans..Mardi Gras..Jazz Fest..French Qtr. Fest..etc...

  • @lindawoodard1330
    @lindawoodard13304 ай бұрын

    What is the history of making toasts while drinking alcoholic beverages?

  • @brookewoodside6123
    @brookewoodside6123 Жыл бұрын

    I want to know how the ancient Egyptians partied

  • @adlothegnome
    @adlothegnome10 ай бұрын

    Can you do or direct me to something about how ancient mesoamerican folk got turnt?

  • @NASCARFAN93100
    @NASCARFAN93100 Жыл бұрын

    No Wonder why Vikings are badass

  • @HabrenOdinsdottir
    @HabrenOdinsdottir Жыл бұрын

    I worship my Lord Óðin and would do anything for Him.

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan Жыл бұрын

    I think I heard someone say 3,2,1 no one else can come.

  • @postmillennial1177
    @postmillennial1177 Жыл бұрын

    If I went back in time with an ounce would they let me slide 👀

  • @apexstrength3797
    @apexstrength3797 Жыл бұрын

    Vikings were the original metalheads

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