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@bobrashley5936
September 24, 2024 at 6:18 pm
You had me at vikings
@efretheim
September 24, 2024 at 6:21 pm
Do we really know runes were not used for other than carved inscriptions? The likeliest ‘paper’ in their region would have been birch bark and thin wood slats. If these weren’t preserved in some way, they would have been very short lived as note ‘paper’. It seems odd that a writing system would only exist for short inscriptions and never anything else. The opportunities for perpetuating literacy in this condition don’t seem very good.
@igrim4777
September 24, 2024 at 7:56 pm
No we don’t know that because we know they were used in manuscripts. Even regarding inscriptions we know that some were mundane things like business letters, like how cuneiform was famously used for business.
@riahray
September 24, 2024 at 6:23 pm
Stellar timing. I was just reading about Vikings yesterday & have been wanting to learn more 😊 Thank you wired!
@teamLewis44
September 24, 2024 at 6:23 pm
How they had so great teeth?? If the photos are real, its unbelievably straight
@mammasut8280
September 24, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Viking age starts in Denmark. Can’t even with this women 😅
@Piliana18
September 24, 2024 at 6:31 pm
humans are so cute, even the vikings had their trickers 😌
@ValentinKnudsen
September 24, 2024 at 6:37 pm
the reason why you find more skeletons in Norway that show signs of violence probably has something to do with the fact that there were fewer resources and much less arable land in Norway compared to Denmark, which inevitably will lead to more internecine fighting
@Supadrumma441
September 24, 2024 at 7:38 pm
These lack of resources is half the reason Vikings went on raids in the first place and no one is just going to hand over their resources without a fight. It always amazes me how surprised people are with how violent humans can be. We have always been a violent species and we still are, we just delude ourselves into thinking otherwise.
@robpolaris7272
September 24, 2024 at 6:48 pm
Have you seen the population of Iceland?
@briankady1456
September 24, 2024 at 6:53 pm
Q. Where dis the Vikings go? A. Minnesota. They play in Bank of America Stadium in Minneapolis.
@pirobot668beta
September 24, 2024 at 7:12 pm
Whenever melted fats dripped onto ashes in the fire, there has been soap.
Ashy fats plus a little water makes a decent soap.
@DeyvsonMoutinhoCaliman
September 24, 2024 at 7:22 pm
It’s quite telling that the Muslim found the Vikings dirty, but the Christians found them clean.
@abstract5249
September 24, 2024 at 7:48 pm
It’s because Muslims bathed everyday, so by their standards, the Vikings were dirty. But Christians bathed like, what? Once every few weeks? So by Christian standards, the Vikings were clean because they bathed once a week.
@GeroldGarthcia
September 24, 2024 at 7:31 pm
I’m gonna start calling my girlfriend ship-breast…and I’m single.
@Alienalloy
September 24, 2024 at 7:37 pm
Six foot blond bluey eyed northern Englishman here… I’m not American so couldn’t care less.
@Jmvars
September 24, 2024 at 7:39 pm
As a Sami, the way the Sami people were depicted in Vikings was horrific. For some reason, they spoke of a “Sami king” which never existed, the leader of each individual Sami group was the shaman. They couldn’t even make that simple change.
@foederatus
September 24, 2024 at 7:43 pm
“The Vikings shows aren’t accurate.”
*Goes on to explain pretty much everything in the shows and represent it as historical fact.
@vsznry
September 24, 2024 at 8:26 pm
I wanted Bjorn’s explorations of the Med to continue & see how that changes the Vikings.
We kinda got it in Valhalla. The Last Kingdom is also a great show.
The Grimfrost is a great Bespoke brand & community celebrating Viking-inspired products.
@AlveraVerheyen-s9w
September 24, 2024 at 8:33 pm
Lillian Rue
@eblake3617
September 24, 2024 at 8:53 pm
Canada and Newfoundland. How hard is that to say?
@zyxw2000
September 24, 2024 at 9:23 pm
She said they traveled to North America.
@akvavit0
September 24, 2024 at 8:53 pm
Best and most accurate viking show is called hem till midgård.
@zyxw2000
September 24, 2024 at 8:56 pm
PBS had a show about a female warrior buried surrounded by all her weapons, breaking the myth that only males fought.
@pb51-d8f
September 24, 2024 at 8:58 pm
Is there any indication that the Vikings were tattooed as they’re portrayed in the tv shows and movies.
@NancyTaylor-k5u
September 24, 2024 at 9:02 pm
Mariah Road
@crichards6489
September 24, 2024 at 9:08 pm
Fab
@VampireCrusader
September 24, 2024 at 9:13 pm
Your lookin at em.
@Zack16611
September 25, 2024 at 11:13 am
Why is the lighting so weird in this interview? It feels dark in the room or something
@andreasericsson6989
September 25, 2024 at 11:13 am
For contraception, vikings did what most people did 1000 or so years ago. Induced miscarriage by eating poisonous mushrooms and herbs.
@Phi1618033
September 25, 2024 at 11:19 am
Were Vikings especially good at writing disco music?
@newstatusvideo4618
September 25, 2024 at 11:49 am
Amber Lodge
@Amanda-yh7sk
September 25, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Wired didn’t have any Viking ish decoration to put on the desk like they always do? 😭
@asyvin0951096
September 25, 2024 at 12:27 pm
Saying that if there were more shield maidens there would be more evidence but weren’t most Viking funerals a pyre burning?
@mjhout
September 25, 2024 at 12:30 pm
How does she feel about the culture minister in Sweden destroying viking artifacts?
@DeafMatch
September 25, 2024 at 1:15 pm
ship breast….!!!
@Ikkeligeglad
September 25, 2024 at 1:40 pm
According to what you show, it is only Norwegians who traveled out into the world and conquered land, what about the Swedes and Danes, didn’t they go Viking?
As far as I know, it was the Swedes who founded Kievian Rus and that it was the Danes who subjugated most of England (Danelaw)
Regarding hygiene, Lørdag (Saturday) means washing day
@Wut3225
September 25, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Not quite that simple with the Danelaw. Saxons would often use Dane to refer to even scandinavians of norwegian origin.
@Zombot012
September 25, 2024 at 1:50 pm
Why would you include that commie terrorist’s question at 17:31, wtf is wrong with you? Maybe allow a swastika next time, wtf, seriously?! Hey WIRED, do you know how offensive the hammer and sickle is to people who were under communist regime?! And how sh*t that stupid terrorist flag is?
@Naheed_Ahmed1917
September 25, 2024 at 1:57 pm
17:29 black red guard lmfao
@blackstone163
September 25, 2024 at 1:59 pm
Man this is amazing content, love the Viking information!!
@blackwolf085
September 25, 2024 at 2:18 pm
I disagree with what she said that your dna isn’t being compared to individual viking communities. My True Ancestry works with Nat Geo and other archeological sites to compare people’s DNA to the DNA found in archeological sites, and even labels them so you can research about the site elsewhere. The areas where I had the longest matching DNA segments was in viking Iceland, particularly at a gravesite of a Danish person in northern Iceland and another grave near the west coast of iceland where a noble woman was buried with a boat. So while DNA ancestry sites like Ancestry and 23&me generally don’t compare individual DNA, there are other sites that do.
@AvianSavara
September 25, 2024 at 2:21 pm
Here for the sudden BRG appearance.
@corydorastube
September 25, 2024 at 2:51 pm
I can assure you that the Normans of Normandy are very proud of their Viking heritage.
@dieubermensch
September 25, 2024 at 2:57 pm
Dodged that question in the end
@crudelissimus
September 25, 2024 at 3:30 pm
There should be a correction @ 11:00 and onwards, as this is clearly something she isn’t actually familiar with. Viking is NOT a verb, and never has been. This can be checked by anyone looking up a good old norse dictionary like Cleasby & Vigfússon or Fritzner’s. “Viking” exists as two nouns, one of which is also used as a name at times. We have:
víkingr. m.(noun): a pirate, raider, robber, etc. this is often used as a name as well.
and
víking. f.(noun): a journey, a raid, etc.
this last one is what’s often misunderstood by people – and in this surprising case – an archeologist. This is often due to the dative use of “víking”; “víkingu”, found on runestones like Vg 61 and DR 334: “… í víkingu”, where it may appear to say something like “go a viking”, as if viking is a verb, but its really just to “on a viking(expedition)”.
@Schmorgus
September 25, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Really, super religious Spain traveler said Nordic people threw babies in the sea, and you think there’s ANY credibility to that source? 🤣
@geelebee63
September 25, 2024 at 5:38 pm
I know how they avoided pregnancy…I read this in some history book when I was a kid. They would soak a small sponge in vinegar and place it up inside the lady bits, right at the top. This would dissolve the sp**m 😮
@sharonkaczorowski8690
September 25, 2024 at 6:46 pm
I discovered and fell in love with the sagas as an undergraduate many decades ago…still love them.
@101shadeira
September 25, 2024 at 6:54 pm
Vikings were amazing boat builders
@GalbraithLewis-b3s
September 25, 2024 at 7:37 pm
Green Court
@TomiTapio
September 25, 2024 at 8:38 pm
Bath every Saturday = LÖRdag. — moon day, Tiw’s day, Wodins day, Thors day Freyas day Friday, then bath day and sun day
@GrantNault-l8i
September 25, 2024 at 8:53 pm
Ernser Roads
@hyperluke1034
September 25, 2024 at 9:13 pm
Some of this started to sound familiar and then I realized I read her book! I highly recommend “River Kings” to anyone interested in the archaeology of the period and some of the key historical points. Read on the beach this summer and found it easy enough to parse.
@shostakovich99
September 26, 2024 at 9:45 pm
About human sacrifice, I’m surprised she didn’t mention the famous account by Ibn Fadlan of a Norse funeral, though she mentions him later on.
@JLchevz
September 26, 2024 at 10:47 pm
Alfred The Great didn’t defeat the Vikings in a definite way but I think (of course I’m not the expert here) thanks to him England remained Anglo Saxon for the most part and he was the one that first envisioned a unified England, even though yes eventually some viking kings were crowned and after that The Normans conquered all. Weird times for England lmao
@ravtheskald6224
September 26, 2024 at 11:17 pm
Only a small percent of Viking age graves have been excavated and an even smaller percent of those have yet been genetically sequenced. Not to mention how many of those artifacts have gotten shuffled in the last 100 years or so since excavation. So while it’s true to say we don’t have a lot of evidence of women Viking age warriors, it’s also true that we haven’t looked at all of the evidence we have yet either. I’m confident that now that researchers are looking with less bias at the evidence, that we’ll see more evidence of women warriors surfacing.
@yogalandawellnessyolandati7654
September 26, 2024 at 11:56 pm
The evidence of Vikings traveling through the Great Lakes and living in Minnesota blows my mind and it’s so exciting!
@lucasjones3338
September 27, 2024 at 12:35 am
I love how different the nicknames are
@Touchpadse
September 27, 2024 at 2:30 am
My favorite fact about the Vikings are their graffiti like the “ was here” on Hagia Sophia
@Jesse6463-h2n
September 27, 2024 at 3:10 am
There sure are alot of writings. There are a stupid ammount of rune stones in Sweden.
@ElvinSilvester-p3b
September 27, 2024 at 3:46 am
Loyal Groves
@semoremo9548
September 27, 2024 at 4:53 am
The pregnancy question baffles me because, you could say the same thing about other cultures as well during the time period? Vikings are not exactly unique in that sense. People back then typically had a lot of kids, and STD’s were common as well, but you can say that for anyone, not just Vikings.
@semoremo9548
September 27, 2024 at 4:59 am
16:00 This question is actually fascinating. It clearly shows that, while all human societies have been concerned about keeping themselves clean and taking care of themselves, ideas around what cleanliness is have always been varied and have changed and continue to change over the years. Reminds me of this recent online discourse over cleanliness and the so called “cleanliness olympics” and how people see others who have different cleanliness standards and views as lesser than or even outright morally and ethically worse than.
@Altrantis
September 27, 2024 at 6:41 am
The nickname thing seems very similar to latin americans
@bjornasgeirkristjansson6513
September 27, 2024 at 7:07 am
There is a funny story about an Icelandic Viking raiding party that were hired by locals to get rid of a tyrannical bandit leader that had taken rule over Tallinn, Estonia. The vikings took the money, killed the tyrant and the proceeded to sack the city it self 10:23
@TheGrinningViking
September 27, 2024 at 8:10 am
I’m more of a scholar than an archeologist, so I’ve focused largely on primary source texts. Vikings performing human sacrifice is well attested in the primary sources, but it was never randomly. If you committed a theft you would be hung as a sacrifice to Odin. General thuggery would get you crushed on a rock as a sacrifice to Thor and dumped in the bog. So yes, but honestly it served the same role as normal executions would in other countries that didn’t have human sacrifice.
@xrast1215
September 27, 2024 at 9:20 am
Vikings are little bitches, specially the little cucks who claim they’re modern day lmfao
@Llamadosalvaje
September 27, 2024 at 10:54 am
YES!
@thursaiz
September 27, 2024 at 11:34 am
Hilarious that the Sagas are “historical fiction” because they were written hundreds of years after the Vikings were around, yet The Bible is taken literally despite it being compiled hundreds or thousands of years after the supposed events and has been heavily edited and changed by various Kings in Europe.
@mace8873
September 27, 2024 at 12:23 pm
As for what the Vikings called themselves, I have no idea about the Norwegians and the Swedes, but the Danelaw was called just that by the 11th century, so I can only assume we Danes called ourselves Danes at that point, at least if we were dealing with non-Danes. As for wether or not Vikings called themselves Vikings, well, in Old Norse the word “víkingr” refers to a person, the word “víking” is an activity as mentioned, but in any case, there’s a chambered cairn on Orkney, where many people have come by over the centuries, several have left their messages on the walls, one of these messages reads “A Viking wrote this” above the door, written in futhark runes. There’s a documentary about it somewhere around here, but I can’t remember the title.
And as a Dane, I’m not proud of all the destruction and pain we caused, to be totally honest we must’ve been a bunch of real assholes if our victims are to be trusted, but I am quite proud of our technological advances, at that time nobody built ships like we did, and despite the fact we used the narrower ones to make hit and runs on unsupecting villages and towns far inland, the technology that enabled us to do just that, aswell as sail all the way to what is modern day Canada and the US, is astonishing, they _really_ knew what they were doing. Oh, and Viking artwork is _awesome._
@sumoking3002
September 27, 2024 at 12:49 pm
that “UK” test is wrong then, it’s Alexander the 3rd of Scotland who defests the vikings at the battle of largs against Hakkon of Norway
@MenkoDany
September 27, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Somewhere around 900 CE a woman is brutally raped by a viking and gives birth to a child. 1124 years later on of the descendants of that poor woman is some american douchebag who had a dirt cheap test done on him and found out he’s 0,00000000000132% viking and is now going around claiming he’s “aryan”
@hugh.munguzs
September 27, 2024 at 2:02 pm
This is such a great series. Very educational and entertaining
@laylahassomethingtosay
September 27, 2024 at 2:17 pm
“One of my favorite graves…” is a fun new way to start a sentence ( 12:49 )
@roberthudson3386
September 27, 2024 at 2:44 pm
The Vikings were raiders, not particularly successful in battlefield tactics as is stated here. In their invasion of Britain, they conquered half of Northumbria which was riven by civil war, half of Mercia and were defeated by Wessex. They were also defeated by Rhodri the Great of Gwynedd and failed to achieve any lasting conquests. And this was with a huge army that numbered thousands in an era when many kingdoms could field only hundred of warriors.
@wolfgangBuonarotti
September 27, 2024 at 4:10 pm
not Alfred the ‘Great’ still living his “mission accomplished” moment a thousand years later!
@JonahMoore-i4b
September 27, 2024 at 5:48 pm
Wisoky Parkways
@monimelie
September 27, 2024 at 8:58 pm
Last question is well explained. But I admit I still have a kick out of it when I find people like Rollo or Alfred the Great in my genealogy. 😅
@diulikadikaday
September 27, 2024 at 10:48 pm
Why did the vikings go on raids? Is it because their region was so cold that nothing grew and they needed food?
@TabletMini
September 27, 2024 at 11:16 pm
For non native English speaker. The text in the upper right corner disappears too fast
@ltlbuddha
September 27, 2024 at 11:46 pm
Lovely to listen to an expert
@LeSethX
September 28, 2024 at 1:58 am
I know this won’t reach the original spokeswoman, but for future discussions viking = knight it’s not an ethnicity, but rather a profession
@samuellundblad5766
September 28, 2024 at 2:29 am
I have learned that there are some incredibly stupid people who are sadly taken seriously these days. Did the vikings use condoms? Did your grandparents use condoms?
@Wut3225
September 28, 2024 at 6:13 am
You were doing okay until your last sentence….
@samuellundblad5766
September 28, 2024 at 2:39 am
When she tries to answer the question about what vikings looked like she really wants to force in the diversity. Let me answer this for you because the answer is easy to see. If you look at a modern swede. He will probably have brown hair and blue eyes. There were definetly no black skinned vikings, because their descandants are all light skinned.
@Wut3225
September 28, 2024 at 8:28 am
😂
@FredBlogs-j7j
September 28, 2024 at 8:41 am
There may have been a few black vikings, perhaps even originally taken as slaves. To give an example that we know about. Lisbon in the 16th century had about 10% of its population that were slaves, many originally “Moors” (please note the inverted commas) or black African.Yet now, most people around that area would be classed as “White European.” The mixing of backgrounds leads to the majority background hiding the minority background.
@samuellundblad5766
September 28, 2024 at 9:50 am
@@FredBlogs-j7j What do you mean? Are inferring that there may have been a well-integrated black minority in scandinavia during the middle ages because Lisbon did during the renaissance?
@kristin123a
September 28, 2024 at 5:21 pm
She just said many of them also had brown hair and some even brown eyes. How is that to force diversity? That’s just fact.
@Darksjeik
September 28, 2024 at 2:54 am
What’s funny is that future generations will have far less trouble getting an idea of our contemporary lives because of how well everything is documented now. It’s crazy how much trouble we’re having getting a good sense of how people lived their lives even just a 1000 years ago.
@jcrios1917
September 28, 2024 at 5:00 am
Yo BlackRedGuard! Ya famous bro haha!
@informitas0117
September 28, 2024 at 5:28 am
Missed “hållihanden” (hold her hand/hold hand) which was a epitetet to a girl who stole a lot.
@OEFvet0311
September 28, 2024 at 6:15 am
Don’t forget about the graffiti in the Hagia Sofia “Halfdan was here.”
@CrusaderSlick
September 28, 2024 at 6:26 am
As a swede I was pleasently surprised that she knew what she was talking about!
@Wut3225
September 28, 2024 at 8:26 am
That tends to happen when they have PhD and specialises in this area
@CrusaderSlick
September 28, 2024 at 9:13 am
@@Wut3225 No there is often a lot of agenda when talking about historical events, like the shieldmaiden thing for example. She was very objective with the facts and didn’t put that much philosophy to it
@Dalzombie
September 28, 2024 at 7:54 am
“[Vikings] really had some very cool names. Well, hopefully some were quite rude and offensive as well.”
I like her already.
@Navy-Seal-Ninja90
September 28, 2024 at 8:01 am
a couple of days ago we actually found a big viking grave in denmark, i think it was around 60-70 people below the ground there.. pretty cool if you ask me. denmark has the most impressive history when it come to the vikings. everybody know they were the most impressive, they raided the most, dominated the most, were the best at sea. etc.
@LasseEklof
September 28, 2024 at 10:05 am
The word ‘Viking’ originally meant seapirates in general for everyone, not just for Scandinavians; for example, when Sigurd jorsalafar during his journey to Jerusalem (1107-1111) was attacked by Arab seapirates off the North African coast, these arabs are called Vikings in the old sources. And since the majority of Scandinavians of that time were actually farmers, the majority were not real Vikings in the sense of the word (ie seapirates). Nowadays however, we “incorrectly” call everyone who lived in Scandinavia at that time Vikings, both children, women and old people.
@rebeccamcnutt5142
September 28, 2024 at 10:28 am
15:26 Sounds like The 13th Warrior was pretty accurate then.
@mm9773
September 28, 2024 at 11:00 am
Oh man , you don’t want to be known as Butterpünis in a society like that.
@unrefusableoffer4412
September 28, 2024 at 11:18 am
Please bring an expert on Vedic period of India that migrated to subcontinent bringing Sanskrit and vedic religion with them .
@NulJern
September 28, 2024 at 11:32 am
The only ways i connect with my viking heritage is that i have a thing for mushrooms and it’s literally impossible for me to get sea sick, however idk if it’s fair to give them credit for that lol
@view1st
September 28, 2024 at 12:18 pm
It influenced an entire generation of hair stylists. 😮😂
@judgeflems
September 28, 2024 at 12:19 pm
Somehow I did expect more.. 😕
@ClassyRice
September 28, 2024 at 12:20 pm
Idk about then but in the present day the most selfish people are Scandinavian ppl not surprised of them eating humans
@Wut3225
September 29, 2024 at 8:31 am
Er what?
@ricktownend9144
September 28, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Thank you, Cat – really fascinating. Several years ago I made a highly enjoyable visit to Norway, and discovered how many modern English words have Norse roots. I met many people who looked very like the stereotypical Viking, but they were all very mild-mannered – some even introspective – and most were interested in psychology; none behaved in any aggressive manner at all! So, what happened to the Viking spirit?
Re the compass issue, I can imagine how they managed without one. Even getting to North America the open-sea journeys would be a series of ‘hops’ (Norway > Shetland > Faroes > Iceland > Greenland > Baffin Is. > Labrador) none more than a day’s travel (Google suggests 19km/hr for average speed of a long-ship). And they probobly travelled mainly in the summer, so it would have been daylight all the way – a definite advantage for people who lived near the polar circle.
@MrThatnativeguy
September 28, 2024 at 5:56 pm
I like how theres just a random skull sitting next to her
@chanelblairmallon6049
September 28, 2024 at 7:38 pm
Pleaseee do the Scottish Picts
@hairyviking9248
September 28, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Hollywood has a long history of making us all dumber…
@RainnySkies
September 28, 2024 at 11:19 pm
No way they made Vinland Saga a real thing.
@johnnybacklund153
September 29, 2024 at 2:15 am
I did one of those DNA tests for fun. It showed me as 100% Scandinavian 😅 I am Swedish born
@1973sonvis
September 29, 2024 at 3:53 am
People often talk about the Vikings’ use of violence, but few talk about the fact that they had laws, rules and a legal system that regulated their domestic society.
@Kimose1
September 29, 2024 at 6:23 am
hey. kan you talk about Christianity next, they are also becomming fairy tail.
@lisadistefano1367
September 29, 2024 at 6:41 am
Love these videos.
Where can I find out what the next videos will be about and ask questions?
@gilc.880
September 29, 2024 at 8:44 am
Am I the only one that thinks she looks like Woody Harrelson with a wig?
@seana5942
September 29, 2024 at 9:12 am
wow, she sounds so thoroughly English that I would never have guessed she wasn’t
@ghaffir
September 29, 2024 at 9:19 am
The norwegians has always been clumsy.
Best regards
Your danish brother 😀
@magnushjort3258
September 29, 2024 at 11:04 am
i am born in denmark, and they showed denmark in the vikings show. that was the first time i saw a mountain in denmark.
@Bernieo153
September 29, 2024 at 2:11 pm
It’s annoying that The Faroe Islands🇫🇴 are almost always overloooked. Föroyar was settled long before Iceland. It was a Faroese viking, Naddoddur, who was the first norseman to Iceland.
@ovekkjlstad7703
September 29, 2024 at 4:49 pm
We know that the Islandic sagas often was based on older written sources.
@elgato71
September 29, 2024 at 5:39 pm
Genetics and identity isn’t really different in this case, Scandinavia was not a place that got a lot of people going to, biggest movements I can think of is small scale things like a few Wallonian blacksmiths moving over at the kings offer in Sweden, but that’s not really serious numbers like what happened with the Germanic tribes going into Gaul/Iberia/Lombardy or Turkic settlement of Anatolia, none of that ever happened here.
If migrations into Scandinavia happened it happened during the Viking age or right now, but not in between, so those 300 years are a pretty safe bet you’re related to them.
Besides that, great video.
@EmperorWelkin
September 29, 2024 at 6:25 pm
Human sacrifices were typically either prisoners of war or the instances of the death penalty.
@yogachick1955
September 29, 2024 at 6:42 pm
Amazons were considered mythical too…and then there are the people of the steppes
@zea-mazecalico7384
September 29, 2024 at 7:26 pm
what classifies a viking?
@michaelhockus8208
September 29, 2024 at 9:12 pm
brilliant! thanks!
@Raz.C
September 29, 2024 at 10:31 pm
I don’t think he was asking “Where did they go,” as in “To where did the Vikings travel?” Rather, I think the thrust of the question was meant to be “What happened to the Vikings?” Or, if you prefer “What was the fate of the Vikings, according to historical records?”
@timweber2434
September 29, 2024 at 11:21 pm
3:15 they named that skeleton BJ 😂😂😂😂
@somarriba333
September 30, 2024 at 12:01 am
I love that episode in “Vikings” when they reach the Middle East and where the series ends.
@villekorpi714
September 30, 2024 at 12:51 am
If you want to say the word “viking” in Finnish, say “we kinky”
@emilycarr3718
September 30, 2024 at 1:05 am
i had to click on this to confirm that i knew exactly what accent this woman had by seeing the muted preview of her mouthing ‘internet’
@danielweldon3004
September 30, 2024 at 2:58 am
as soon as you said offensive I left
@agustinox3881
September 30, 2024 at 4:33 am
Viking is a proffesion not the people.
@martinhope6542
September 30, 2024 at 4:35 am
What hog wash
@dyvel
September 30, 2024 at 4:56 am
What’s so special about that? Republicans sacrifice thousands of humans every year just to get donations by the NRA.
@drshinobi3979
September 30, 2024 at 5:36 am
An Brit talking about Vikings, im not trusting that 😉
@RuniLavaOlsen
September 30, 2024 at 5:36 am
As a Faroese person, I’m disappointed by most videos talking about this sort of stuff.
This video mentions vikings crossing the atlantic and also mentions Icelantic as the language closest to olde norse.
No mention of the closeness of Faroese to olde norse, neither any mention of vikings landing on the Faroe Islands.
I think it’s misleading and naive. Both Icelantic and Faroese are similarly close to old norse, yet different languages, with different alphabets.
The Faroese Løgting, formed by vikings, is perhaps even older than the Althing in Iceland.
Just doing my Faroese duty here.
@daavc7252
September 30, 2024 at 6:17 am
Nooe. but the jews did and still do.
@Hoggaforfan
September 30, 2024 at 6:34 am
There is a village in East Europe that speaks Swedish, think it’s along Volga but not sure. Saw a documentary once and they where quite proud of their heritage.
@muskatDR
September 30, 2024 at 7:44 am
“This has been viking support” sounds like an old phone support line
“Viking support. If youve been raided press 1”
@janaliljeteg9621
September 30, 2024 at 8:17 am
I live in a viking village in Sweden, so if anyone wants to build on virgin ground they have to check so there isnt finds in the ground, we also have a church with rune markings and viking burial mounds.
@marcus914
September 30, 2024 at 8:22 am
Beowulf is more realistic than Vikings, and is entertaining
@TomaszGoos
September 30, 2024 at 8:45 am
People need to stop watching shows like vikings and vikings valhalla and read some books 😂
@RLiao-n5x
September 30, 2024 at 8:55 am
They got the greeks, the romans now the vikings. Would love some japanese, medieval english, mesopotamian or meso america next.
@ghostreviver4646
September 30, 2024 at 10:10 am
There is a reason why there is blond women in the UK 🤣❤
@westhorpelane
September 30, 2024 at 11:53 am
I would love to know of a viking lady really got gifted a kitty as a wedding present? 😸
@Ali-in-Wonderland.
September 30, 2024 at 12:58 pm
You keep mentioning Scandinavia, but never mentioned Finland and as somebody who is very interested in Norris and Viking history with a degree in European history, I just found it odd I didn’t hear anything about Finland, and didn’t know if that’s on purpose or if in the Viking days that area was all kind of clump together and did not have the national borders nor the actual nations at that time.
@ValeriePallaoro
September 30, 2024 at 1:31 pm
3:30 To be fair, given the patriarchal skewing of the skeletons studied, in which archaeologists have habitually said, ‘if it’s got grave goods that are warrior like, it must be a male’, and with that the subsequent DNA analysis of the occasional grave to find the skeleton is actually female, it would probably be a good idea to reassess known skeletons to check the gender, yes? It’d cost a lot, it’d be time consuming, but we can’t say ‘there prolly weren’t many female warriors’, with out doing the science properly.
@dzwadziescia
September 30, 2024 at 4:56 pm
“son of Thor or whatever” – Viking Expert
@GenomancerBot
September 30, 2024 at 5:07 pm
Wow an academic who isn’t completely brainwashed by far left feminazis, civilisation destroying brain rot?
Nice one.
@bonkersblock
September 30, 2024 at 5:19 pm
Mine was “sugardick.” 😂
@KasumiRINA
September 30, 2024 at 10:15 pm
The Arabia travelers on Rus’ vikings were Ibn Fadlan and Ibn Rustah, they kind of were biased as showing every non-Muslim as “dirty” because of not doing the namaz, but still complimented them on hair and beard care, so extremely well-kempt hairstyles and facial hair with braids etc. IS historically accurate.
@Enz82
September 30, 2024 at 10:53 pm
Viking traits that can be inherited is the claw hand or Trigger finger and more resistant to spoiled food. the claw hand or trigger finger. is because we have used rowing boats for alot of generations.
@sureshot8399
October 1, 2024 at 12:58 am
Do we really need a cut shot every few seconds like we have the attention span of a beagle? Please stop it. People watching this sort of thing are able to follow without getting bored.
@Brokiemon
October 1, 2024 at 11:55 am
Have you tried crying about it some more? 😂
@MrChadLedford
October 1, 2024 at 2:56 am
What an excellent series!
@Wloppish
October 1, 2024 at 3:11 am
Old Norse isn’t just the origin of the Scandinavian languages. It’s the origin of all Germanic languages, including English.
@MiguelGLD
October 1, 2024 at 3:51 am
17:30 What’s up with this hate symbol and symbol of genocide in the video? Are you okay, Wired?
@missingno6216
October 1, 2024 at 5:09 am
It is their twt name
@studentstudent5044
October 1, 2024 at 6:48 am
I’m swedish
@YannickOkpara-d5l
October 1, 2024 at 7:07 am
Corbein Butterpenis… that’s one for the ages. Of course Mr. Shitbreast may challenge that claim.
@ChristySusie-f4w
October 1, 2024 at 8:22 am
Gerry Pines
@charlesiphone5765
October 1, 2024 at 8:31 am
What about the black female Jarl in vikings? Most absurd thing i’ve ever seen
@studentstudent5044
October 1, 2024 at 8:52 am
Very strange to talk about danes and norwegians and barely about the Swedes when they were the most successful and famius Vikings that we’re the most fierce.
@halflifeger4179
October 1, 2024 at 9:15 am
She even looks like a Viking woman
@tahaplh1
October 1, 2024 at 1:19 pm
there are even ancient arab historians who wrote about encounters with the Vikings
@deeznutz8320
October 2, 2024 at 12:05 pm
More like Arab slavers buying slaves of the Vikings and one of them died so the Arab slavers go to see a funeral and the customs
@boyeatsworld-vr9ci
October 1, 2024 at 1:40 pm
12:40 no. no they didnt. also, pot isnt the miracle snake oil you believe it to be. stop making it the defining characteristic of your life, so much so that you wonder if Vikings smoked it.
@chocolatemonk
October 1, 2024 at 2:01 pm
There were no armies of women vikings
@Only_white_lives_matter
October 2, 2024 at 8:51 am
Vikings were typical males
They were rapists
Women not rapists
So yes
There were not womens armies.
@gehtdichnixan3200
October 1, 2024 at 2:14 pm
just finding weapons in a womans grave prooves nothing … i know about toddler graves with weapons in them … but i never heard of babyzerkers
@Laruto722
October 2, 2024 at 6:41 am
Were they boy toddlers though?
@leenpels7646
October 2, 2024 at 8:53 pm
@@Laruto722 There weren’t any bruises on her skeleton that would indicate she ever fought.
@glenstribling6123
October 1, 2024 at 2:43 pm
We are making human sacrifices now. Of course they did in the past.
@theworldofcronis
October 1, 2024 at 4:23 pm
I was so afraid to watch this due to the many “modern experts” with a modern perspective, but this is really good, most facts I already knew. 🙂 😃😃😃😃😃
@deeznutz8320
October 2, 2024 at 11:55 am
Facts like what women warriors which isnt true?😂
@DaDunge
October 1, 2024 at 5:07 pm
Not very accurate is being very very kind.
@DaDunge
October 1, 2024 at 5:08 pm
3:45 Those light just as well have been executions with religious overtones. Heck even today executions pander to that.
@DaDunge
October 1, 2024 at 5:09 pm
4:30 written by Christians.
@runarhe5913
October 1, 2024 at 5:24 pm
People forget Sweden too easily. 99% of viking runestones are found in Sweden, the Rus and Varangians were mostly Swedish, sweden converted to christianity long after Denmark and Norway
@Junshisan
October 1, 2024 at 6:04 pm
4:38 is just plain wrong, Adam of Bremen never visited Uppsala nor did he ever claim to have done so.
@tonybento7199
October 1, 2024 at 7:42 pm
Entire history of Anglo Saxons:
Stealing, stealing, and more stealing.
@askaldsson
October 1, 2024 at 11:36 pm
Did you know that, There is less of a gap between old norse and old English than there is between old English and modern english.
@Elvertaw
October 2, 2024 at 12:12 am
Ha!! I African American. And like most I have European ancestry. For me those ancestors were Irish. Guess I’m a bit Viking too!! Where’s my shield and sword!!??🗡️
@dorte3791
October 2, 2024 at 5:19 pm
Vikings were usually Scandinavian…mostly Danish cause of living conditions
@Elvertaw
October 2, 2024 at 5:38 pm
@@dorte3791 yes they come out of Scandinavia. But according to the archaeologist presenter these Vikings traveled widely. And because of this if you have European heritage, you are probably have a genetic connection to Vikings.
@DJP-cy9qq
October 2, 2024 at 3:22 am
3:40 its prolly REAL normal… kinda like how cannibalism is a ritual for tribes not normal for tribes that are known for it
@holdermeddk
October 2, 2024 at 3:40 am
Besides being happy with your answers, it made me very happy to hear you say Knud and Canut
@torasaurusss
October 2, 2024 at 4:13 am
I like that for some other experts they prepared props on the table but here there’s only a skull replica
@helmaschine1885
October 2, 2024 at 5:57 am
Who defeated the vikings indeed! Only one correct answer, or no citizenship! 😂 The eternal irony of how one nations “history” can become a vehicle for propaganda and so normalised they become blind to it.
@CGOLAN
October 2, 2024 at 7:15 am
Perfect material for an elementary school, before the kids will dig in the topic.
@elliebonavia9167
October 2, 2024 at 8:43 am
@shufflapaguss seems to be asking a lot of questions that get answered in these Wired interviews 🤔🤔🤔
@TheGumlE
October 2, 2024 at 8:48 am
yay my ancestors were extremely violent!!
@beatc
October 2, 2024 at 10:35 am
sound is not very good 🧐
@Helblind
October 2, 2024 at 2:12 pm
Cat was great! Glad to see and archaeologist focusing on accuracy, not politics.
@Masterfighterx
October 2, 2024 at 6:49 pm
When you go to a Danish town or small city, maybe even in the big ones, there are nicknames as well, I know some personally. Not everyone with these traits has these nicknames, I only know 1 of each. Longhair he has long hair. Shorty he’s short. The American, my neighbor, had a Chevy Astrovan. Upper Arm, he’s super skinny, there are probably more that I don’t remember on top of my head.
@Hammerhook12
October 2, 2024 at 9:11 pm
You forgot Sweyne Forkbeard, Knut’s dad, who invaded England prior to Knut.
@Cludnugget
October 3, 2024 at 3:36 am
Bloody vikings.. Coming over here, combing their hair, having a bath..
@michaeloxlarge4345
October 3, 2024 at 5:25 am
it doesn’t matter what they tell you in history class, the Vikings were black
@Mr.Monkeyreal7
October 3, 2024 at 9:44 am
Medieval support again please!!
@arthurreede4478
October 3, 2024 at 9:49 am
Harald I Finehair, Harald Hardrada or William the Conqueror defeated the essence of the vikings if you’d ask me
@mclark23
October 3, 2024 at 10:45 am
Metatron loves your knowledge
@callumager537
October 3, 2024 at 11:58 am
Metatron sent me here.
Amazing video.
@ScevenofTwistingNeth
October 3, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Men, if there is an herb or plant or concoction that can help control your pregnancy cycles, women have known about it for centuries.
@dannymerov
October 3, 2024 at 4:50 pm
shieldmaidens were the trans male warriors. yeah, that sounds better, huh? 😛
@hunterotails2015
October 3, 2024 at 7:10 pm
People need to remember that Vikings is not a documentary series, it’s a dramatic tv show inspired by historical events and people that are just characters in a show. But, it was written by 21st century writers, so they did have to wokify it some 😂
@freespeechforall99
October 3, 2024 at 7:49 pm
Two great points: 3:29 and 19:16
@freespeechforall99
October 3, 2024 at 7:51 pm
Too bad YT censors free speech so I can’t explain them. Basically, they’re about genetics vs identity
@tarpsoff57
October 3, 2024 at 9:43 pm
To go a’Viking verb
@PiscesEnfp
October 4, 2024 at 12:16 am
Please, do an episode with a Celtic culture specialist as well❤
@WestAbbey
October 4, 2024 at 4:07 am
They found a urn i western Sweden filled with Anglo Saxon coins in a Viking-grave. Varnhem to be more specific.
@andyknowles772
October 4, 2024 at 4:21 pm
Värnhem? In Malmö?
@sommersnow79
October 4, 2024 at 6:26 am
This woman is remarkable! I would absolutely have no problem applying the word “expert” to her. Far too many people think they are experts who simply and clearly are not. Kudos to her!
@bobjones2959
October 4, 2024 at 7:42 am
Wow, I always assumed the Sagas were contemporaneous accounts written by the vikings themselves, didn’t realize they were actually written hundreds of years later.
@auruba.zoya73
October 4, 2024 at 10:28 am
please do one on the history of the serbs! especially the ustashe. Hardly any people outside croatia and neighboring countries know about the roma and serbs . I certainly didn’t learn about them in school in asia.
@cynicalshows1789
October 4, 2024 at 12:37 pm
3:12 my favorite female viking
@Mojo-exe
October 4, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Estonia mentioned 🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪
@nicholas99norge
October 4, 2024 at 1:17 pm
She has hair in her eyes the whole video
@NuevoExistence
October 4, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Vikings were not tall. They were described as giant demons because they were terrified of them.
@andyknowles772
October 4, 2024 at 4:23 pm
You missed “Ulf The Unwashed” in your list if nicknames 🙂
And of courae the Danskjävlar were the weakest vikings.
@DonnaRobinson-y7f
October 4, 2024 at 4:28 pm
Heller Pass
@OlavAlexanderMjelde
October 4, 2024 at 6:12 pm
I am the Viking!
@dinobuzi2457
October 4, 2024 at 6:37 pm
The Viking where black
@Irishrover101
October 4, 2024 at 7:33 pm
Would you call a Muslim a pagen. They prayed to Thor and other gods so I’d not call them pagens. Also there’s so much we know nothing about. For instance them killing people for there gods. How can you prove this. Also I believe they found American land before Columbus. There so much people talk so fierce about the vikings they were certainly a force to be reckoned with. But the people who wrote about them I would not trust anything because history is written by winners not losers so who knows