To be fair, if they had just found the building and the people paying them just showed up to ask what they'd found, they'd rather say "Well this depression here was probably a fire pit, so this was probably a place for ritual sacrifice!" so that the bankrollers ooh and ahh, then once they're gone they'd figure out what it actually was, and say "So new evidence has turned out that this was in fact a kitchen."
My favourite archaeology lecturer at college had a poster on his office door entitled 'mysteries of archaeology' the top was a picture of a single shard or pottery, underneath was the 'archaeologist's reconstruction' and he'd drawn camelot.
To be fair a lot of times pirates didn't take other people's stuff they "leased" their "protection services" and if you didn't pay the fine then your port could be *accidentally* raided
Skelligers are a cross between Scandinavian and Irish culture, so it makes sense. But viking is a profession more than a culture, which is where the caricature supercedes the actual people
@@mortman200 Yep, you are correct. I would say that "social class" is probably an even better word for describing what Vikings were, at least in some cases.
@@mortman200 Given the Vikings founded Dublin, settled large parts of Ireland and "absorbed" some of the local Celtic people as well as settling large parts of Scotland as we know it today (a lot of the women sent to Iceland to become brides were of Irish\Scottish heritage - thanks to modern Genetic science for that fact) would lend credence to what you're saying ;o) @Kamil Szadkowski erm... they were a sort of Movement or Part Time profession... Early Medieval Scandinavians would volunteer to Go Viking to make their riches, so could be a Farmer, or Woodcutter... then Go Viking maybe for 1 Raid\Voyage... then go back to Farming again... then maybe do another couple of Raids\Voyages... then go back to their Farm... etc... so it's not even a "Social Class" thing either...
Some of us stayed true to our roots though. Especially in my family name. Farming was shitty, and the weather was worse. Norman warriors even took England lol.
I remember a Swedish historian who pointed out that most “vikings” would be furious for being called just that as they would use said word to refer to pirates.
1066 Anglo-Saxon Guard 1 [looking from the tower out to sea]: Oh no, we've had it! Anglo-Saxon Guard 2: What? What is it, vikings?!? Anglo-Saxon Guard 1: Worse! Anglo-Saxon Guard 2: Worse? How can it be worse than vikings? Anglo-Saxon Guard 1: They're vikings... WHO SPEAK FRENCH!!!
@@John_winston For Thors sake! Of course they didn't. Very clearly, the war baguette was a thrown weapon, not unlike a javelin, and not made for melee combat. Loosely related to but clearly distinct from the war baguette, there also was the battle croissant - also known as "baked pommel" - which was used to end rightly anyone coming into melee range. Axes on the other hand were really just tools used to gather the fuel for forging new war baguettes and battle croissants in the countless ovens of their war machinery.
That's nearly correct. Roman gladiators where a mix of athletes and performers. Their fames and fortunes where not only from martial provess but for giving the audience a good show of courage and braveness, and more often than not a defeated gladiator would be spared. People volunteered to become gladiators, as it was a good way to earn money to get out of debt, and a good gladiator could become a celebrity
@@adrianmedeiros8431 well, not exactly but it depends on the age you're talking about :it started as a religious ritual, the Munera. Then they became a strongly codified sport with strict rules
@@francescosirotti8178 there were criminals that were used in the games to publicly execute them. so you could say they were two different classes. one professionl athlete the other disposal attraction.
@@toomanyaccounts The Familiae Gladiatorie (gladiator schools. my latin is a bit rusty, excuse me) were composed of condemned criminals too, but also from volunteers. What you're thinking of are public executions, which were a thing. The Ludi Gladiatorii were a totally different show, in which fixed classes of fighters fighted with strictly codified weapons and armours. The key factor was equilibrium between different fighters, for examle the heavy armoured Mirmillones against the lighter and quicker Secutors. You didn't kill a professional gladiator for a very simple reason : training them was expensive
4:30 Vikings are depicted inaccurately on TV because Hollywood wouldn't make a program with some dude dressed in a silly blue outfit with a red cape and tight pants, pffft.... oh wait...
*Movie & Video Game Logic:* 1. If they were Brown Furr as clothing they must be Vikings! 2. If they wear Horned Helments they must be Vikings! 3. If they charged with no fornation they must be Vikings! 4. If they have Wooden Shields they must be Vikings! 5. If they are muscular with paints on their faces they must be Vikings!
@@AstralS7orm If the theory about prince Mieszko I - the founder of Poland, being a descendent of of some Viking is correct, there may be something to your claim. Also, Cnut the Great was his grandson.
6. Everyone breaks formation to charge. Unless you have vikings, in which case they're the only ones. 7. Whatever unit cohesion you have at the beginning of a battle is only for that one good shot of armies clashing, after which the battle inevitably devolves into a melee.
I know many people say that it’s not important that many games or movies are so historically inaccurate but I hate it because they shape the minds of countless people who then think these depictions are a decent representation even though it is horribly wrong.
@@arminius504 if they didn't learn about them like this they probably wouldn't know them at all, old people for example, shit ton of them don't know about a lot of stuff, because it wasn't introduced to them as it was introduced to us, this gives us the chance to know, if you want a better depiction do it yourself, but you better make it fun or it will flop
Nah, pretty much anything involving medival times. Most people's ideas about the middle ages are based on pop culture rather than actual historical facts and evidance.
@@sinaparsi6736 I love the show. Most of it is accurate like the one handed swords and the civilian clothing. The combative clothing could be better. But at this point it doesn't bother me.
@@maazmasood6601 You're right about that. For instance King Horik's court/hall robes were extremely detailed vs the leather armor his character would wear into battle. Pretty much goes for all the characters. King Harald's and Ubbe's combative clothing look pretty good and detailed even though there still a little too much leather.
@@maazmasood6601 I hope in season 6 and the next spinoff show we see more mail and textile armor, and I hope that specific faction of Wessex guards lose those burgonets and get Spangenhelms. The Mercians and Northumbrians wore nice helmets yet some of the West Saxons wear burgonets. Come on Michael Hirst. Lol.😄
Ive been spreading this gospel for years. "Viking just means pirate, most people living in "viking countries" were farmers or craftsmen or other less exciting jobs, calling every Scandinavian a viking is like calling everyone in Japan a ninja."
Vikings traded as much as they raided (trade expeditions would have to travel with many warriors anyway to protect them from pirates, so which one it turned out to be often depended on what opportunities presented themselves) but otherwise yes. I think other people would have referred to the people as Northmen.
The word viking was actually used contemporary. But it's origins are uncertain. Some believe that's what they called the people from Viken (area around Oslo-fjord) others believe it was used on the raiders in general since they landed their ships in bays (vikr). Perhaps both istrue.
@@ShiningDarknes I don't know if he mentions it but I think it goes like this: fara i wiking = to go on a raid -> wikingr = raider (the spelling may well be complete arse but there was a word equivalent to our "viking")
I believe i've heard several historians say that the word Viking was invented after what we call the viking age, so the vikings probably did'nt refer to themselves as vikings or 'going viking' when going on raids, trading cruises etc. - Great video as usual :)
Because a cowboy is literally the transition of Spanish "vaquero" who were guarding cattle on horse since XIV and later extended through Castillan territories such Argentina or Mexico (Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, etc).
Thank you for this, I am a historian who had gotten into arguments about this topic by people who watch the show "Vikings" and believe they know more by watching a show then those that have done proper research.
I love the show, but I'll never get the modernized look they gave to some of the characters. it does not seem at all the kind of haircut I'd use in a pretty much frozen country all year round.
@@jayzak2271 It is very funny, I wasn't talking about the entertainment of the show. It was about people who run on about knowing facts AFTER waiting the show. I might come off as smug however you come off poorly educated, not understanding tense and jumping to cursing are taletale signs. Cheers
How do people not realise that if it's on tv or in movies it's not going to be accurate? How do you control your anger? Breathing techniques? meditation?
This is the real reason why we're oppressing the inhabitants of Skyrim. Their sleeveless armour, rampant shirtlessness, and horned helms with no neck protection are that infuriating.
I know this is way off topic But I couldnt help but take a jab at our thin skinned very distant (I cringe but) relatives. Soooooo Feelings, P.C., the words and the Abbreviation. Rights, Infringe ,Me, Too, Transgender, OMG Transgender and OMG lol. Ha LOL.
Metal armor The Nordic country’s have horrible metal you can’t really make armed out of it. Even just chainmail would be a no go unless like in the show Vikings their rich and raided England for it.
wait up...the Wi-Fi in this mountain range is spotty at best...got to download that Troll Spotter App to protect our war goats as we ride forth to both victory and Valkyries
Thank you. These are things I constantly explain to people. I'm a historical Viking era Norse reenactor, and for the past 15 years now I've spend many a day talking about these topics. I'm glad that accurate information is finally circling around more frequently these days. Love your channel.
Well, If you want to get super technical. Most vikingrs would of been farmer/ Levi warriors who decided to go a viking. And, the main "deity" would of been tho. So yeah, viking jewelry. 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷♂️
Yeah, it has been distorted by stereotypical depictions of all sorts. It's why I can *never* sit through an old Western. Dances with Wolves was pretty dang accurate, though. Both the novel and the movie.
@@GlidingZephyr Heck, the most accurate depiction of native American culture by non-natives that I've seen was by a boy scout secret society/cult that Worked with a local tribe to avoid misrepresentation. If these guys can get it right on a shoestring budget, why can't most media?
21st century dudes who say that have clearly never worn a well made historical tunic. They're more comfortable than Wranglers...and I say that as a Texan.
No but Minnesota was the main area where Swedish immigrants settled in the US so they get a pass on theme. All their ancestors traveled the oceans in search of land and wealth.
Yeah, Viking Conquest has, I’m gonna say it, the most accurate depictions of Vikings in any video game, period. Hell, I can’t think of any piece of media in general that does it better. Not even the movie The Northman does it as well.
*Aewulf:* "Why did you brought a hammer for a battle?" *Borrg:* "Just want to have some fun, you know?" *Aewulf:* "I bet two gold coins that you can't throw this thing at a peasant while mounting a horse and hit him" *Borrg:* "Accept it"
+ MyNameIsMud There was a Knight that was famous for it. He used to throw any mace handed to him straight through any opening . I think his name was Mace Window.
That was part of the point in the raids in the first place. Not just adventuring, and pillaging, but finding new and better places to live. They werent as successful as I'm sure theyd hoped, but if they were glad to get out of Scandinavia for whatever reason, that's a success.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 Not the entire truth, they travelved for all sorts of reasons.. not in the least riches to come back to Sweden etc... we have a lot of runestones for the dead who traveled and died overseas.. or for treasures.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 yup and that's why they were offered settlements in england too (the king thinking they would not raid on their own people). Like in the tv show. And that's why they went to iceland Groenland and america. Some (not all as you said) of the vikings were settlers and just wanted to do quiet farming in a quiet place. Some people think that the raids started because some of the people were starving, so it was raid or death. Vikings at first were just ... farmers. And that is why their simple (not for war) clothes are so accurate. They were pirates and thiefs, basicaly. Their fist raid was against non violent people ... lol that was safe. Hit hard (mostly on pacific and almost empty coast villages), loot all (mostly the church), rape a bit, and then run. How romantic is that ? The romantic postmodern vision of vikings is so laughable. They wanted easy loot that's all. Like any man would want. Thiefs still exist in today's world. Vikings were sea thiefs, looting on earth not in open sea. The only difference with pirates. Some were pros, some were not (only poor people that only wanted to live and become rich to be abble to settle somewhere).
I had a history teacher that gave an explanation to the whole "fur armor" myth that i was happy with; if you were out raiding you didn't really want to stop, so making a fur mantle to protect from the elements wouldnt be too far fetched if yours was damaged beyond use
The equivalent of wearing the tin foil packaging of the burrito you just ate as a hat. Also hunting is not really a sport in my country, so I was pleasantly surprised to found out that 1.rabbits can be skinned by hand just like opening a pack of chips, and 2.the fur doesn't need curing or any special treatment to be usable.
All Vikings looked more or less like Marvel cinematic version of Thor, and had horns in their helmets, had enchanted tattoos and magical tools to give one man the power of a small army unit and durability of a rock and infinite stamina and wild wolves instantly became their pets just by establishing an eye contact and were ready to run through ice and fire and travel on boat to follow their master.
@@pontiff7322 And Tyr. Honestly, you could probably list a dozen or so Norse deities and other mythological figures who fit the description 'war god' better than Thor does.
@@Taimur.Shairyar to be fair... Vikings has always been pro farming. It was Ragnar's, Lagertha's, Björn's, Ubbe's, and Floki's goal/dream. The Dane's were like, "Hell yeah, we'll settle and farm instead of fighting!"
@Riff Raff the name of the Empire is Ze Anuhac and was conformated by Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Nahuas, Otomies, Mayas... the Aztec was just one city (Mexico-Tenochtitlan) and was one of the cities that rule, the other 2 being Tacuba and Texcuco. Calling them Aztecs is like calling all East Europeans Russians just cause the Russians conquer them
@J C The Spanish were not able to conquer them as easyli as you thing cause the empire was conformated by lots of conquer groups and when Cortes arrive the groups that don't like the threatment they been been receive go rogue, Cortes actually siege the main city for months and later take years to reunify all the other groups that have obtained their freedom and got independence goverment, if you take any serious history book (Recomend books from the INAH) also would realize that explain the difference between Aztec, Tenocha, Meshica, Nahua and Anuhac. you are confusing the City of tenochtitlan with the whole Ze Anuhac empire history of Mexico is harder than Cortes conquer the Aztecs
@@thepacific2933 my people gave chocolate to the world, the world give disrespect to my people and I wasn't complaining I was explaining, then people come and try to teach me my own history and someone come and insult me for no reason
when i saw the title i was like "who thinks movie and video game vikings are real?" then i remembered people still think that all vikings word giant horned helmets and did nothing more then raid villages because its not like they needed land to live on or farms to grow food on...
People still think katanas cut through steel. I laugh when HEMA fanboys cry about the cult of Katana, positive prejudice is even worse than bad prejudice.
Hi Skallagrim. Thank you for this awesome show! You are definitely right to state Normans were not vikings at all. As a matter of fact: - the 70 meters Bayeux Tapestry, which was ordered by William’s wife - some say his half brother Odo -, has a lot of text at its top explaining William’s invasion of England and the battle of Hastings; it reads that William was the dux of Normandy, not the jarl of the Normans, and that it was FRANCI vs ANGLI, which means clearly they considered themselves as Franks. - Due to almost 200y of presence in Franci (from 841) Normans had a lot more Frankish blood than Northmen’s, eg William had 1/32 Northmen blood, 1/32 Brittanish blood, 30/32 Frankish blood. - To the exception of boat construction and navigation words, their language, customs, culture, administrative organisation, architecture, military equipment and tactics (use of heavy cavalry) were Frankish, and that’s what they imported in England.
Skall I hope you do a review of Vinland Saga when it comes out, it's the most historically accurate manga I've seen so far btw the farm arc is the most exciting arc of the manga so far
Yeap, no horned helmets and other silliness - Makoto Yukimura (the author) has done his research and is, obviously, quite the perfectionist. (His older series, "Planetes" is a hard sci-fi that got an _amazing_ anime adaptation. Also zero-bullshit.)
Skallagrim, Idk who made you feel bad for "talking too long" but speaking for myself and possibly other fans; we could listen to you talk all day. I have no complaints about longer videos.
That someone took the trouble to draw the flyng mace seems so funny to me, I imagine that someone saw that in some battle and marked him for life " I tell you dude, this guy out of nowhere threw his mace at me an almost broke my head "
And then there's straight up just a giant dude that slices 4 people in half with a single stroke of his apparently indestructable Axe. Not because he hit them with the axe, mind you. He merely swung that thing. It was the SHARP, CUTTING AIR that sliced those men in half. Truly an accurate depiction of viking-age warfare. Also, berserker mushrooms are a thing. And there's a guy that is quite literally the legend of king arthur personified. Also naruto-running, also Thorkell being portrayed as a dumb, warhungry fighter when in reality he was just a really tall mercenary and nothing more.
I'm watching it rn and yeah it's got anime stuff in it like overdramatized action but DAMN I love the little historical bits where they throw in dates and stuff
Apple Pie Armor LOL"That was the practical one in the series" The most laughable was the early Ragnar armor with some weird leather raven in the middle of the chest piece like some bizarre Nordic Superman logo.
I know the comic and its damn good. Story wise and from the look (historical accurate depiction of things). There are some OP stuff in it regarding certain combat abilities of some characters but thats about it.
One day Imma going to Malta to bigga hotel In the morning I go down to eat a breakfast, I tell the waitress I want two pieces of toast, She brings me only one piece, I tell her I want two piece, She sais: "go to the toilet", I say: "you no understand I wanna two piece on a my plate” She says: "you better not piss on your plate you son of a bitch", I dont even know the lady and she calling me a son of a bitch
I do Viking Age Reenactment in Trondheim, and most of us take great care to be historically accurate. I also study Archaeology, and I was so glad to see this video! Its not often these "stereo-types" get addressed, so thank you for this! So many people will benefit from this, as well as the reenactment community!
Intergalactic Human Empire no shit 1st game: YEAHHHHHH LETS RAID!!!! 2nd game 2 minutes later: “alright guys we have medical staff standing by. If they put up a fight, we cut bait and come back later.”
I think an important reason for the lack of Viking helmets and armour finds is also because they would generally pick targets that were vulnerable. Not to suggest that they were indestructible and they had no casualties, but I imagine they tended to be on the winning side against their chosen targets and would have the opportunity to recover equipment from any fallen fellow vikings.
Theory about re-using iron could be true, for example first Japanese to visit US in 1800s commented that there is a lot of iron vaste and that something like that is unimaginable in a feudal society like Japan
10:00, My immediate thought was some sort of fluffy wool or sheepskin (with wool still on the hide). Really reminds me of how one typically depicts the fluffiness of sheep, and I'd wager sheep were common livestock. Wool would also be quite warm, is naturally fire retardant, AND it maintains its warmth even when soaking wet, a perfect material for braving the chilling spray of the Arctic waters as your boat cuts through the waves.
I'm glad i gre up in Sweden, we learn ALL this stuff in grade school and more! It's awesome to see the pride we take in that specific period.. Even remember that we had to learn the runic ''alphabet'' xD Made a runestone for my deceased grandfather in art class after that, rest in peace Arne :') And I really do despise how foreigners just think of ''vikings'' or actually NORSEMEN as these macho big dudes in horned helmets etc.. And while yes the horned helmets thought at first to have been vikings but were in fact a whole other age also comes from the 16:th century kings and nobles of sweden who had extreme proudness of their history and just thought it'd be cool to portrait their ancestors with big horned helmets :) And yes, axes and spears were the most common ''tools/weapons'', and the spear was also used for hunting, mostly for boar which are hard to kill with bow and arrow xD Also a common misconception of them were that they were dirty, unhygienic etc which is farther from the truth than you might think, seeing as there were findings of combs and other such things and also that they did in fact bathe more than the average european (in hot springs especially but also at winter, in the snow) which has to do with the most part of eu being christian and there was something in there about not bathing too much but cant quite remember what exactly And a cool thing was that a Persian(I believe) missionary went to Scandinavia to record what life and the people here were like and he of course trashed everything and spread shite about the people here and that is also where a lot of misconceptions come from believe it or not! the vikings would also use Charcoal etc to paint under their eyes and so on to look more terrifying when going to battle, who's to say makeup cant be badass xD And also the norse culture was unbelievably more equal as to men/women in society than the christians, which to be honest isnt too difficult :D Even women could be warriors in norse society reffered to as sköldmöer or shield-maidens in English! Also a cool fact is that asatro never really died out here in Scandinavia, even in the 1800-hundreds for example pople would say ''now loki has ridden through the fields'' when it was misty and poeple would be scared to go outside the farm, but a lot of post viking-era folklore is in fact from that belief, and a lot of records show that many still stayed true to the old beliefs, aaah could go on forever about all this My grandmother and mother are also ''asatroende'' as we call it in sweden which i think is ''asatruar'' in English? Grew up with stories of the gods and also some of ''snorres'' sagas and such, another awesome thing that my mother has been researching foreeeever is our familys heritage which she was able to date all the way back to Fale bure who was one of the last ''norsemen'' or ''vikings'' if you will, also some rus blood from my mothers mothers side but almost 100% scandinavian My grandmother left a peculiar item upon her death as well that my mom found in our homestead up in northern sweden.. its a brosch, old as all hel but the thing is that it has the map of Scandinavia on it, and i mean ye olden times map, and you can tell that it is that manually mapped ''chart'' of the lands that the first mappers did, it's really cool but ill update this when i know more, moms obsessed with that stuff xD scared of taking it to a proffessional museum tho, theyd probably take it :P Cheers to ye all :D
No, viking society wasn't unbelievably equal. There were strict gender roles. And the idea of "shield maidens" is largely a myth. Clover, Carol J. "Maiden Warriors and Other Sons," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 85 (1986):35-49. "The only case in which a woman was allowed to take up arms was if (1) she was never married, (2) she had no living male relatives in the degrees listed in Baugatal who would have received weregild for the death of a family member, and (3) a crime had been perpetrated against her family that required vengeance by the social code of the day, often the murder of her last male relative. This role was temporary, but for its duration conferred the social role on the warrior woman as "son"."
@Bob el Silencioso Im sorry, but the viking raids started firstly because of charlemange.... kinda. When the holy roman empire reached the danish boarders the king of denmark didnt realy like the navy that charlemange built upp. So he launched the first raid. After that both kings died there was no all out war but the raids went on cuz the danes realised it was good money in it. And later came the Danegeld ect. But the raids did not start cuz scandinavia was a shit poor country on the edge of civilization.
One thing thou.... women usually didnt go to a viking so often.... one reason being that men get realy bored when they are stuck on a ship for some weeks. Besides, The women had more important things to do, like take care of the house or the fields. It was also always the woman who had the keys to the food storage and house..... That was what gave them some amount of power over men. Expescialy the granary bit.
I live in Utah. My high school mascot was the Vikings. We took that stuff seriously. We spent probably more time on the Vikings then we should have. But we went through all of that as well. We took it seriously haha. Which was really cool. We'd do the boat rowing and famous songs. For whatever reason, it took hold of me and I'm learning Swedish now. Scandinavia is at the top of my list for places to visit.
"Can you think of any other word from history that's as abused as Viking?" 1. Indian 2. Barbarian 3. Vandal 4. Ninja 5. Samurai 6. Cowboy 7. Liberator 8. holy 9. the great 10. truth
I encourage you to watch a bit of the Vikings television show. Not because I think you'll enjoy it, but because I want you to mercilessly rake it over the coals.
I always hate how they depict Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons in media, they are always pathetic and useless scrubs while the Vikings are the superior machos. Quite frustrating that it happens everywhere. And Vikings is quite enjoyable for the first 3 seasons, though sometimes you do roll your eyes at stupid stuff. After that it just became really bad, they had potential with the timeskip to improve costumes and settings but they completely failed.
@@valkorion8958 Finally someone else noticed the show went to shit! The worse part is how lazy and half-assed they've gotten with their characters by season 5, damn thing was basically Game of Thrones lite. The writers had a few outs for a post Ragnar show, but instead they decided to focus on his damn kids and pulling things right out of their asses. Guess it was like the Great Heathen Army, had a large impact and eventually fell apart over time. Now I'm just waiting for Harald Hardrada to show up and end the show.
Thorsvald Fr. I love The Last Kingdom. Somehow find this historical fiction show more accurate than Vikings...which is on History channel. Then again, the history channel talks about Aliens now. The Last Kingdom is fantastic though imo. Only shows I really watch/watched were Game of Thrones and The Last Kingdom
The creator always makes it clear that he uses history as a blueprint, but that he’s a dramatist first, and many times what he does deters from history. I’m a big history buff, but when the creator of a series makes it clear from the get go he doesn’t necessarily try to be historically accurate, it’s like massive bodybuilders who do steroids and admit to it. They’re not fooling anyone, they’re not trying to sell it as something it’s not. It’s a great series, so, mission accomplished.
@@calculuswalulu7560 Just because it is based on history, it doesn't mean it's a documentary, dumbass. It would be cancelled after one season because of how boring it would be. History is a slow process and sometimes historical accuracy makes for disappointing TV. It's one thing to go through it as an overview (as in reading, or watching a documentary), in which you can cover decades within a few sentences, it's another going through it step by step.
The "splint armour" at 8:57 is now considered wrong and obsolete. The splints are now considered to be arm- and leg-armour. Source: "Krigarna från Valsgärde" by Kent Anderson (2017).
haha yeah skall you vain bastard (drop the dane axe im kidding bro lol) the jest is as skall will know is that Baldur, O∂ins son is said to be the most good looking of all the gods. Even more so than Frey and Freyja. There are also parallels with him and Jesus but thats a whole nother theology debate for another time.
There's American comedies that already stereotype blacks, it's made by the very people that it is stereotyping. I used to watch them when I was younger but I don't watch TV as much as I used to so idk if it stills air.
Lack of Military Standardization led to individual tastes; and that always lends to comfort. If it was too hot, too cold or inhibited swimming, it was traded away. As you pointed out, land armies were different from Maritime Raiders. Love your channel!
@@sim.frischh9781 well from what I understand, it's the roman equivalent for stranger, ie : the People that speak/say "bar bar". Not the blood-thirsty, double headed axe wielding, long haired, dirty and extraordinarally muscular but dung for brains individuel that we might imagine now a days.
@@sim.frischh9781 well I wouldn't go as far as insult, though I'm not qualified to determine such things. Would you consider it insulting to be called a stranger or a foreigner if you were in a different part of the world where they don't speak your language, nor dress like you, etc ?
@@Antenor1990 I understood it as an insult because that is what we would say if someone refers to chinese people as "Ching-chings" because that´s how they sound to him/her. But you have a point, it might not have been meant as an insult at all.
Have you ever seen "Vikingane" from Norway? I think the English translation is "Norsemen." It's a brilliant Norwegian comedy, and I think, a little more accurate than most of the "serious" television programs out there.
Viking Viking... there should be a HEMA battle royale between the HEMA youtubers. Skall the viking, Shad the knight, Met the Legionary, and Lindy the Brit.
Not much to look at, I think Skall even with the kinda bum legs would win. The other three guys are not quite combatants or practiced. Also where's Matt Easton where you need him.
@@LamantinoElettronico Not when I was writing it. But I agree. Matt would wipe them all due to being an actual professional. There's a difference in skill level here. I'm not entirely sure even how often Skal train. Met and Lindy are mostly doing historical reconstruction as far as I'm aware, very well though; and Shad is mostly a historian. A pretty entertaining historian of course. Correction: Met is training kenjutsu recently, he might get good. Shad has been doing some kendo a long time ago.
"What year is this?"
"It's the Viking Age."
"That explains the laser raptors..."
Nice reference
Nice reference, indeed
What is the reference from?
If you don't mind inviting me inside for the joke
@@benparrish672 Look for a short movie called Kung Fury
Kung Fury is a masterpiece.
"It's about as accurate as the depiction of japanse girls in Hentai, don't ask me how i know"
Alright keep your secrets
I see youre from the shire as well
Wait what part was it again!?
@@Sensei.Of.Kivotos 2:08
I am more interested about how he knows about actual japanese schoolgirls
Now we know Skall is a Gentleman of Culture.
I just imagined an archaeologists entering a kitchen for the first time and say: "ah yes, this place is for rituals".
To be fair, if they had just found the building and the people paying them just showed up to ask what they'd found, they'd rather say "Well this depression here was probably a fire pit, so this was probably a place for ritual sacrifice!" so that the bankrollers ooh and ahh, then once they're gone they'd figure out what it actually was, and say "So new evidence has turned out that this was in fact a kitchen."
My favourite archaeology lecturer at college had a poster on his office door entitled 'mysteries of archaeology' the top was a picture of a single shard or pottery, underneath was the 'archaeologist's reconstruction' and he'd drawn camelot.
Basically yes
They're not wrong
Ritual toilets. Its always a ritual place instead of something practical
Pirate being abused reminds me of that Disney kid show meme.
"Good pirates don't take others stuff"
@@TheGamersfolly heh
@@TheGamersfolly epic
It ain't other people's stuff if you kill them and burn down their home
@Devilish Jester based
To be fair a lot of times pirates didn't take other people's stuff they "leased" their "protection services" and if you didn't pay the fine then your port could be *accidentally* raided
A word abused more than viking...
Me: ninja
Same thought, exactly.
@El-ahrairah
😀 "Yay"
Thought the exact same.
Don't ninja my loot, man.
@@LichlordKazam
Ninja style!
Ninja kick!
Ninja vanish!
Ultimate ninja sword.
The funny thing is, although in The Witcher there are no "Vikings" per se, but Skellige pirates are one of the best fantasy Vikings out there.
Skelligers are a cross between Scandinavian and Irish culture, so it makes sense. But viking is a profession more than a culture, which is where the caricature supercedes the actual people
@@mortman200 Yep, you are correct. I would say that "social class" is probably an even better word for describing what Vikings were, at least in some cases.
@@mortman200 well that explains it actually
@@mortman200 Given the Vikings founded Dublin, settled large parts of Ireland and "absorbed" some of the local Celtic people as well as settling large parts of Scotland as we know it today (a lot of the women sent to Iceland to become brides were of Irish\Scottish heritage - thanks to modern Genetic science for that fact) would lend credence to what you're saying ;o)
@Kamil Szadkowski erm... they were a sort of Movement or Part Time profession... Early Medieval Scandinavians would volunteer to Go Viking to make their riches, so could be a Farmer, or Woodcutter... then Go Viking maybe for 1 Raid\Voyage... then go back to Farming again... then maybe do another couple of Raids\Voyages... then go back to their Farm... etc... so it's not even a "Social Class" thing either...
i hear skellige and all i can think of is total war warhammer norscan raiding up and down my coasts like a bunch of assholes
My favorite description of Normans I’ve heard is “Domesticated Vikings”
Lol, that is strangely suitable.
"Frenchified vikings"
Some of us stayed true to our roots though. Especially in my family name. Farming was shitty, and the weather was worse. Norman warriors even took England lol.
Vikings: lost saxons in Scandinavia
well like those in Dublin
Pussyfied Vikings
I remember a Swedish historian who pointed out that most “vikings” would be furious for being called just that as they would use said word to refer to pirates.
Vikings are basically pirates
@@arminius504 marauders i would say
@@BallsRollProjects Raiders, even
@@jooot_6850 plunderers, perhaps
Viking was the act of sailing and raiding. The word that they used to describe what they did. Danes, Rus etc all were Vikings
Ah my favorite weapon. The throwing mace.
It's like a pommel on a stick!
@@Artyomthewalrus Gotcha.
@@Artyomthewalrus I've found you
@@Artyomthewalrus how are you?
They didnt throw the maces.........
Ninjas, Pirates, Knight, Samurai...
Pretty much any groups of fighting people, have been adapted so loosely to the point of cartoonish.
Indian brave, conquistador, crusader... pretty much everyone that's not so obscure there's no possible misunderstanding.
To add to this roman legionaries!
And that is how For Honor is made
Eh, Spartans?
@@ravissary79 Never heard about "indian brave" what are those? Or what do they depict them if they picture them anywhere?
1066
Anglo-Saxon Guard 1 [looking from the tower out to sea]: Oh no, we've had it!
Anglo-Saxon Guard 2: What? What is it, vikings?!?
Anglo-Saxon Guard 1: Worse!
Anglo-Saxon Guard 2: Worse? How can it be worse than vikings?
Anglo-Saxon Guard 1: They're vikings... WHO SPEAK FRENCH!!!
Do they use a baguette as an axe ?
@@John_winston For Thors sake! Of course they didn't. Very clearly, the war baguette was a thrown weapon, not unlike a javelin, and not made for melee combat. Loosely related to but clearly distinct from the war baguette, there also was the battle croissant - also known as "baked pommel" - which was used to end rightly anyone coming into melee range.
Axes on the other hand were really just tools used to gather the fuel for forging new war baguettes and battle croissants in the countless ovens of their war machinery.
This is the best comment chain on TH-cam. period.
Britain's two worst enemies, combined into one! :)
"je suis un Viking qui parle français, mouahahahaha"
"Viking is the most abused word in history" Also: "This video is sponsored by Viking"
How about Samurai and Ninja? Both being overused and misinterpreted into oblivion aswell.
Sam moo rai
@SoulSurvivor Or Spartan. Or Musketeer. Or Shaolin monk. Or... ok, maybe I should stop.
I don’t speak weeb
W H A T I N O B L I V I O N I S T H A T!!
I play for honor so im basically an expert i know everything
You can see the level of a Viking by the size of the horns on the helmet.
...
Lvl 1 crook: propeller hat but it's a spectacled helmet
Lvl 35 huskarl: Skyrim's iron helmet
lvl 100 jarl: a fucken reindeer rack
Det är så underbar, eller hur?
@@storyspren i mean...a reindeer rack would be a pretty sick nord crown....
Ahahhahaha
@@cobraglatiator how true.
Gladiators are misrepresented as well. Some records show they had more in common with professional athletes than with the tributes in the Hunger Games
That's nearly correct. Roman gladiators where a mix of athletes and performers. Their fames and fortunes where not only from martial provess but for giving the audience a good show of courage and braveness, and more often than not a defeated gladiator would be spared. People volunteered to become gladiators, as it was a good way to earn money to get out of debt, and a good gladiator could become a celebrity
@@francescosirotti8178 So basically WWE
@@adrianmedeiros8431 well, not exactly but it depends on the age you're talking about :it started as a religious ritual, the Munera. Then they became a strongly codified sport with strict rules
@@francescosirotti8178 there were criminals that were used in the games to publicly execute them. so you could say they were two different classes. one professionl athlete the other disposal attraction.
@@toomanyaccounts The Familiae Gladiatorie (gladiator schools. my latin is a bit rusty, excuse me) were composed of condemned criminals too, but also from volunteers. What you're thinking of are public executions, which were a thing. The Ludi Gladiatorii were a totally different show, in which fixed classes of fighters fighted with strictly codified weapons and armours. The key factor was equilibrium between different fighters, for examle the heavy armoured Mirmillones against the lighter and quicker Secutors. You didn't kill a professional gladiator for a very simple reason : training them was expensive
"Frankly, these are generally Norman helmets..."
I see what you did there!
4:30 Vikings are depicted inaccurately on TV because Hollywood wouldn't make a program with some dude dressed in a silly blue outfit with a red cape and tight pants, pffft.... oh wait...
Ain't that superman?
@@fireline4765 no its batman ofc
Nacho libre?
@@jackb4164 solid movie
Why did I think of Dr Strange instead of Superman?
“The elite neckbeard guard LARP edition” is the best thing you’ve ever said.
That needs to be a t-shirt.
They kinda look like skallagrim dont they . Goddamnit.
*Movie & Video Game Logic:*
1. If they were Brown Furr as clothing they must be Vikings!
2. If they wear Horned Helments they must be Vikings!
3. If they charged with no fornation they must be Vikings!
4. If they have Wooden Shields they must be Vikings!
5. If they are muscular with paints on their faces they must be Vikings!
spare a comment section.I find you on every lol video and now skall
Darn, I bet all those Polish and Russian nobles who wore nice fur coats must have been secret vikings.
The facepaint-galore really bothers me.
@@AstralS7orm If the theory about prince Mieszko I - the founder of Poland, being a descendent of of some Viking is correct, there may be something to your claim. Also, Cnut the Great was his grandson.
6. Everyone breaks formation to charge. Unless you have vikings, in which case they're the only ones.
7. Whatever unit cohesion you have at the beginning of a battle is only for that one good shot of armies clashing, after which the battle inevitably devolves into a melee.
It's really funny how many people get offended, when they learn that "Vikings" didn't look like in their imagination or the TV-Show.
I am more surprised not actually offended if anything learning more about a topic I had not knowledge on is a wonderful thing
I know many people say that it’s not important that many games or movies are so historically inaccurate but I hate it because they shape the minds of countless people who then think these depictions are a decent representation even though it is horribly wrong.
@@arminius504 I learn that vikings never really have horn helmets
@@arminius504 if they didn't learn about them like this they probably wouldn't know them at all, old people for example, shit ton of them don't know about a lot of stuff, because it wasn't introduced to them as it was introduced to us, this gives us the chance to know, if you want a better depiction do it yourself, but you better make it fun or it will flop
@@SpecterNeverSpectator The truth is more important than fun im sorry to say
Hollywood is never going to make a movie about six guys wearing long t-shirts boringly robbing a church.
Sounds like a Horrible Histories sketch.... If BBC STILL MAKES THEM, THAT IS! (sigh)
Now that's a Monty Python sketch it I've ever heard one.
@@ArcturusOTE they're making a horrible histories movie about Roman Britain
@@isitnotwrittenthat1680 Beware the half dress
@@danielwyman8990 You can't have a prisoner! They're a lot of work! You've got to feed it, and exercise it, and who's going to clean up after it?
An historic term more used, abused and overused than viking ? Try pommel or a variation of berzerker.
Nah, pretty much anything involving medival times. Most people's ideas about the middle ages are based on pop culture rather than actual historical facts and evidance.
@@firekeeper1870 mainly because most people don't even bother searching about it
I think Viking isn't even the right name
Lindybeige did a good video about the whole berzerker thing.
Greatsword
Everyone: Omg Vikins is so great and historicaly autenthic series.
Skall: Neckbear guard larp edition.
@@sinaparsi6736 I love the show. Most of it is accurate like the one handed swords and the civilian clothing. The combative clothing could be better. But at this point it doesn't bother me.
@@roderickclerk5904 civillian clothing in Vikings > combat clothing
@@maazmasood6601 You're right about that. For instance King Horik's court/hall robes were extremely detailed vs the leather armor his character would wear into battle. Pretty much goes for all the characters. King Harald's and Ubbe's combative clothing look pretty good and detailed even though there still a little too much leather.
@@roderickclerk5904 Yeah pretty much, its frustrating at times to see it. I've no idea who looks at leather armor and thinks it looks good lmao
@@maazmasood6601 I hope in season 6 and the next spinoff show we see more mail and textile armor, and I hope that specific faction of Wessex guards lose those burgonets and get Spangenhelms. The Mercians and Northumbrians wore nice helmets yet some of the West Saxons wear burgonets. Come on Michael Hirst. Lol.😄
At least you didn't debunk the fact that a Valkyrie's level of badassery was proportional to her cup size.
And to how much skin she’s showing
"Thats a nice head on your shoulders" "Its almost harvesting season."
gaoth88 ”I WILL DRINK FROM YOUR SKULL”
MY MEN AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A TALK WITH YOU ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS
Today the gods will decide your fate.
Away with you vile beggar!
I'm here to deliver you my demands!
Ive been spreading this gospel for years. "Viking just means pirate, most people living in "viking countries" were farmers or craftsmen or other less exciting jobs, calling every Scandinavian a viking is like calling everyone in Japan a ninja."
Vikings traded as much as they raided (trade expeditions would have to travel with many warriors anyway to protect them from pirates, so which one it turned out to be often depended on what opportunities presented themselves) but otherwise yes. I think other people would have referred to the people as Northmen.
Wait... you mean not everyone in Japan are ninjas?! I have lived a lie
yup, and this video even mentions when and how the term was born: youtube dot com/watch?v=Sk8POUhLwM8
@@j7studios663 Well you have seen Japanese people haven't you?
The word viking was actually used contemporary. But it's origins are uncertain. Some believe that's what they called the people from Viken (area around Oslo-fjord) others believe it was used on the raiders in general since they landed their ships in bays (vikr). Perhaps both istrue.
Viking is a job description, not a people.
Viking is an action not a descriptor
@Brutal Beat by us, not by them.
the guy making the video knows that
@@ShiningDarknes I don't know if he mentions it but I think it goes like this: fara i wiking = to go on a raid -> wikingr = raider (the spelling may well be complete arse but there was a word equivalent to our "viking")
@@ShiningDarknes So still, they are called Vikings.
I mean, the French call themselves "Français"; they're still called French.
I believe i've heard several historians say that the word Viking was invented after what we call the viking age, so the vikings probably did'nt refer to themselves as vikings or 'going viking' when going on raids, trading cruises etc. - Great video as usual :)
I'd throw "cowboy" into the mix of most overused/misused/abused terms in media.
How bout "Hero"
Because a cowboy is literally the transition of Spanish "vaquero" who were guarding cattle on horse since XIV and later extended through Castillan territories such Argentina or Mexico (Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, etc).
"Cowboy" - someone who herds a d handles cows, generally a young man.
Society: "tHEy ran ARouNd the WEsT shOOting reVOLvers and drinking WhiSKEY!"
They get it bad but no where near vikings
Its been said 1000 times but what people normally mean when they say "ninja" is WAY more inaccurate then viking or cowboy
An historic term more used would be "Ninja". It's both overused and abused.
@Brian the Trainer who beat that irish guy that screams
@Brian the Trainer Who?
also Nazi
@Adam J. Harper Ohhhh
Seeing Sekiro use the term "Shinobi" certainly was a fresh change.
Thank you for this, I am a historian who had gotten into arguments about this topic by people who watch the show "Vikings" and believe they know more by watching a show then those that have done proper research.
I love the show, but I'll never get the modernized look they gave to some of the characters. it does not seem at all the kind of haircut I'd use in a pretty much frozen country all year round.
@@jayzak2271 It is very funny, I wasn't talking about the entertainment of the show. It was about people who run on about knowing facts AFTER waiting the show. I might come off as smug however you come off poorly educated, not understanding tense and jumping to cursing are taletale signs. Cheers
@boggleroggler Typing errors happen. Thank you for the correction.
How do people not realise that if it's on tv or in movies it's not going to be accurate? How do you control your anger? Breathing techniques? meditation?
This is the real reason why we're oppressing the inhabitants of Skyrim. Their sleeveless armour, rampant shirtlessness, and horned helms with no neck protection are that infuriating.
To be fair to this 3yr old comment…. Yes. Not only that but it looks stupid too.
I can think of one word that's been overused: "literally."
"like"
Thank you!
legitimate
at least 2012-2014
I know this is way off topic But I couldnt help but take a jab at our thin skinned very distant (I cringe but) relatives. Soooooo Feelings, P.C., the words and the Abbreviation. Rights, Infringe ,Me, Too, Transgender, OMG Transgender and OMG lol. Ha LOL.
epic
Berserker is symilarly abused i think. And samuraj. But i have one word that beat them all. NINJA.
*lindybeige flashbacks*
Coming to second that lindybeige berserker video comment. If you like Skall you'll probably enjoy it
@der das Ah yes, the mighty Samuraj
@Angel Dust Ohhh lol
@@raidonshin Yes, it is. But here I just missclicked. Stop making a buzz over single letter...
How do I know if a Viking is hilariously inaccurate? Two words: Horned. Helmets.
Metal armor
The Nordic country’s have horrible metal you can’t really make armed out of it. Even just chainmail would be a no go unless like in the show Vikings their rich and raided England for it.
Curved. Horns.
On top of that.
@@Ninjaananas and a metal shield
Ikr. Sigh.
@@kevind3974 Denmark didn't have any metals at all. Still had the most metal armor, by being the richest area, so importing more,
So... About Assassin's Creed...
Ohh dont get us from scandinavium started on that 😂....
Honestly I would like to hear you folks rant about it haha
@@bastrixer yeah what about assassin's creed valhalla ⁉️
Damn, I really miss one-handed swords in AC Valhalla.
Ass Man’s Credo
The only authentic depiction of vikings i've seen on popular culture is in Kung Fury.
Gabriel Pilati Everyone knows they fought laser raptors
That doesn't count it is a time travelers video.
Check out my pecs!
BARBARIANNA
Lookup a new show called Vinland Saga. Is pretty accurate to history.
Scandinavians: We shall ride into battle to Valhalla!!
Normans: *HONHONHON!!!* I shake my fist at you!!!
wait up...the Wi-Fi in this mountain range is spotty at best...got to download that Troll Spotter App to protect our war goats as we ride forth to both victory and Valkyries
Majestic Valhalla Flap Flaps
Norman’s were actually really op
@@Duke_of_Quenelles I'm not saying they weren't. I'm saying they were French.
@@nicolasgodines1129 they immigrated to France and Scotland...and parts of Ireland
There's a shield in Vikings with a PokéBall color-scheme, that's hella cool. Gotta raid them all!
RJLpt better than sword and shield
I got a feeling that their Pokémon are mostly water type.
@UltimateGeek you're right, lol
@@marsbase3729 he's the ultimate geek of course he is right
Yeah I laughed when I saw spotted it.
Thank you. These are things I constantly explain to people. I'm a historical Viking era Norse reenactor, and for the past 15 years now I've spend many a day talking about these topics. I'm glad that accurate information is finally circling around more frequently these days. Love your channel.
Is Dark Souls historically accurate? I mean... Are we really living in a post linking of the fire age?
Never thought I'd see a comment referencing dark souls here 😂😂😂😂😂😂
No, because time in Dark Souls is...
*C o n v o l u t e d*
@Aggromemnon Also the nefarious and twisted "Church"
@Aggromemnon You're right. The church of England is whack. The spanish inquisition on the other hand...
@@Manudyne I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition to come into this!
*Says how the word Viking is misused*
1 minute later.
*vIkiNg jEWelRy*
Well, If you want to get super technical. Most vikingrs would of been farmer/ Levi warriors who decided to go a viking.
And, the main "deity" would of been tho. So yeah, viking jewelry. 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷♂️
"Levi warriors who decided to go a viking." Can someone explain this statement using sane terminology?
@@r.murray6549
Levi,
Like a militia.
Viking is a Verb not a Noun. A Farmer or Militia Man would go a viking in the winter.
To go on a raid.
gotta get them ad money bro. piss on them vikings some more, who cares.. they all dead anyway
R. Murray 3:55
Native american culture is sadly pretty much same story.
Yeah, it has been distorted by stereotypical depictions of all sorts. It's why I can *never* sit through an old Western. Dances with Wolves was pretty dang accurate, though. Both the novel and the movie.
Leland Turner it's a great show and movie but not historically accurate
Vulpes appreciate you 🇨🇦❤️
Japanese : Hold my monster girl
@@GlidingZephyr Heck, the most accurate depiction of native American culture by non-natives that I've seen was by a boy scout secret society/cult that Worked with a local tribe to avoid misrepresentation.
If these guys can get it right on a shoestring budget, why can't most media?
"do you like anime"
skallagrim: "i do, hentai too"
Speaking of Undertale, did you notice that the sword that Alphys made for Undyne lacks a pommel? Do you think Undyne ended someone rightly?
Wasn't that from a Samuel l Jackson interview?
Hahahaha!
Samuel l. Jackson said that in a interview once... i belive
@@lolibudang5085 Yes, he also laughed like a maniac after that line.
The man's a legend.
Skal: "The word "viking" is really abused".
Also Skal: "Here's some Viking Jewerly™".
It's okay Skal, sponsors gotta sponsor 😂
It's actually correct since not descriptive term but the name of the brand.
I love this 'they typically wore a tunic', crushing the dreams of so many guys in the 21st century, wouldn't be seen dead in a tunic.
All in favor of making medieval clothes mandatory
@@onetrucksizedsalmon2962 i second that notion
I wish they would make a TV series that was 100% authentic.
@@Fatelovesirony960 Never gonna happen. If you wanna see that you'll need a time machine and a documentary film crew
21st century dudes who say that have clearly never worn a well made historical tunic. They're more comfortable than Wranglers...and I say that as a Texan.
I'm guessing that the Minnesota Vikings are not accurate as well...
They do Pirate people's hopes and dreams of them winning a Super Bowl.
No but Minnesota was the main area where Swedish immigrants settled in the US so they get a pass on theme. All their ancestors traveled the oceans in search of land and wealth.
No, those are correct
They might get to a Super Bowl if they were outfitted with swords and shields. Maybe.
*Looks at their pass completion %*
Yep this checks out
The fact that Skallagrim skipped the DLC for Mount&Blade Warband made me a bit sad…
Yeah, Viking Conquest has, I’m gonna say it, the most accurate depictions of Vikings in any video game, period. Hell, I can’t think of any piece of media in general that does it better. Not even the movie The Northman does it as well.
Okay, I can understand dedicated throwing axes being thrown but what kind of brainlet throws a perfectly good mace away in battle?
I feel like this meant to be an arrow but something went wrong.
*Aewulf:* "Why did you brought a hammer for a battle?"
*Borrg:* "Just want to have some fun, you know?"
*Aewulf:* "I bet two gold coins that you can't throw this thing at a peasant while mounting a horse and hit him"
*Borrg:* "Accept it"
Love your name
Some think it could be just a stone attached to a stick. So a cheap dedicated throwing weapon.
+
MyNameIsMud
There was a Knight that was famous for it. He used to throw any mace handed to him straight through any opening . I think his name was Mace Window.
Depiction of 'Ninjas' as they are called nowadays also has nothing to do with actual history.
Seth117 it has something to do with actual history.
Actual history of theatre.
“The Norman’s were frenchified vikings.”
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
That was part of the point in the raids in the first place. Not just adventuring, and pillaging, but finding new and better places to live. They werent as successful as I'm sure theyd hoped, but if they were glad to get out of Scandinavia for whatever reason, that's a success.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 Not the entire truth, they travelved for all sorts of reasons.. not in the least riches to come back to Sweden etc... we have a lot of runestones for the dead who traveled and died overseas.. or for treasures.
@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 yup and that's why they were offered settlements in england too (the king thinking they would not raid on their own people). Like in the tv show. And that's why they went to iceland Groenland and america. Some (not all as you said) of the vikings were settlers and just wanted to do quiet farming in a quiet place.
Some people think that the raids started because some of the people were starving, so it was raid or death. Vikings at first were just ... farmers. And that is why their simple (not for war) clothes are so accurate. They were pirates and thiefs, basicaly. Their fist raid was against non violent people ... lol that was safe. Hit hard (mostly on pacific and almost empty coast villages), loot all (mostly the church), rape a bit, and then run. How romantic is that ?
The romantic postmodern vision of vikings is so laughable. They wanted easy loot that's all. Like any man would want. Thiefs still exist in today's world. Vikings were sea thiefs, looting on earth not in open sea. The only difference with pirates. Some were pros, some were not (only poor people that only wanted to live and become rich to be abble to settle somewhere).
France is the favorite place of vacancy of all germanic peoples...
King rollo is a viking Normandie was the place where he ruled
I had a history teacher that gave an explanation to the whole "fur armor" myth that i was happy with; if you were out raiding you didn't really want to stop, so making a fur mantle to protect from the elements wouldnt be too far fetched if yours was damaged beyond use
The equivalent of wearing the tin foil packaging of the burrito you just ate as a hat.
Also hunting is not really a sport in my country, so I was pleasantly surprised to found out that
1.rabbits can be skinned by hand just like opening a pack of chips, and
2.the fur doesn't need curing or any special treatment to be usable.
@@WingMaster562 You simply must elaborate on opening rabbits like a bag of chips.
@@Griff1011 th-cam.com/video/RENhcR0BPLo/w-d-xo.html this video should suffice
@@Griff1011 if my comment with the video link got redacted, just look up "how to skin rabbit by hand" here on youtube.
@@WingMaster562 Yes but if you want it to actually last, it does. If it's only going to be used temporarily, then it doesn't.
All Vikings looked more or less like Marvel cinematic version of Thor, and had horns in their helmets, had enchanted tattoos and magical tools to give one man the power of a small army unit and durability of a rock and infinite stamina and wild wolves instantly became their pets just by establishing an eye contact and were ready to run through ice and fire and travel on boat to follow their master.
But what about drag- oh wait, wrong *context* as... anyway, what about bears? And mjöd! ;D
Well.... shit. 😂
For honor: new viking will use a hammer
Skallagrim: actually......
Thor
@@Elisabet_G-nx3mi just the deity they worshiped as a war god. My bad.
Just thor hammering his anvil for happiness as the sea gets more and more wavy
@@293940cabster fuck sake, He is the storm/thunder god you muppet. Odin is the war god. get our basic mythology right at least.
@@pontiff7322 And Tyr. Honestly, you could probably list a dozen or so Norse deities and other mythological figures who fit the description 'war god' better than Thor does.
I lost it at "Apple Pie Armor."
Now I'm hungry!
I find it really interesting that of all the Scandinavian languages today, Icelandic is the closest one to Old Norse.
We all know that real vikings were shirtless beasts that had a gigantic dane axe
Bruh. 😂
That also had horns on their helmets and were filthy and unclean and all had beards
And dont forget that every single norseman was a viking and that they hated farming
getting drunk constantly
@@Taimur.Shairyar to be fair... Vikings has always been pro farming. It was Ragnar's, Lagertha's, Björn's, Ubbe's, and Floki's goal/dream. The Dane's were like, "Hell yeah, we'll settle and farm instead of fighting!"
"Apple pie armor" That killed me! LOL
OpticalGreen what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Shamefully, that's not the case with you, sir.
@@joejug162 Yeah, kind of difficult to achieve this with that armor LOL.
a word really abuse: Aztec is use to describe most cultures of Mexico when it was just one tribe that got one main city
@Riff Raff the name of the Empire is Ze Anuhac and was conformated by Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Nahuas, Otomies, Mayas... the Aztec was just one city (Mexico-Tenochtitlan) and was one of the cities that rule, the other 2 being Tacuba and Texcuco. Calling them Aztecs is like calling all East Europeans Russians just cause the Russians conquer them
@J C The Spanish were not able to conquer them as easyli as you thing cause the empire was conformated by lots of conquer groups and when Cortes arrive the groups that don't like the threatment they been been receive go rogue, Cortes actually siege the main city for months and later take years to reunify all the other groups that have obtained their freedom and got independence goverment, if you take any serious history book (Recomend books from the INAH) also would realize that explain the difference between Aztec, Tenocha, Meshica, Nahua and Anuhac. you are confusing the City of tenochtitlan with the whole Ze Anuhac empire history of Mexico is harder than Cortes conquer the Aztecs
Shut up and stop complaining they gave you chocolate
@@thepacific2933 my people gave chocolate to the world, the world give disrespect to my people and I wasn't complaining I was explaining, then people come and try to teach me my own history and someone come and insult me for no reason
@@cantcomewithsomethingorigi6799 Let them be ignorant about the natives. We don't need their validation to appreciate our many cultures. ¡Salud!
You missed the series The Last Kingdom, my favorite Netflix series.
I saw a back scabbard and I gave up on it forever 🤨
Still entertaining as hel
Destiny is all!
@@drakonidesthevigilant5155 you're missing out
Indeed. But the word 'viking' isn't mentioned anywhere in the series, iirc.
Viking, pirate, ninja, samurai, the word "medieval" itself and...
DEUS VULT
This comment deserves more attention.... Hahahahahahaha!
Gave me a good laugh
Pummels thrown
Deus *lo* Vult!
*powerwolf intensivies*
A. C. That’s wrong
Now i'm waiting your review when Vinland Saga comes out (July 7th)
I didn’t realize it was so soon!
@Kyros Droztamyr yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, man
when i saw the title i was like "who thinks movie and video game vikings are real?"
then i remembered people still think that all vikings word giant horned helmets and did nothing more then raid villages because its not like they needed land to live on or farms to grow food on...
People still think katanas cut through steel.
I laugh when HEMA fanboys cry about the cult of Katana, positive prejudice is even worse than bad prejudice.
Hi Skallagrim. Thank you for this awesome show!
You are definitely right to state Normans were not vikings at all.
As a matter of fact:
- the 70 meters Bayeux Tapestry, which was ordered by William’s wife - some say his half brother Odo -, has a lot of text at its top explaining William’s invasion of England and the battle of Hastings; it reads that William was the dux of Normandy, not the jarl of the Normans, and that it was FRANCI vs ANGLI, which means clearly they considered themselves as Franks.
- Due to almost 200y of presence in Franci (from 841) Normans had a lot more Frankish blood than Northmen’s, eg William had 1/32 Northmen blood, 1/32 Brittanish blood, 30/32 Frankish blood.
- To the exception of boat construction and navigation words, their language, customs, culture, administrative organisation, architecture, military equipment and tactics (use of heavy cavalry) were Frankish, and that’s what they imported in England.
Skall's my favorite Viking! Don't forget ninjas being abused!
As always, you deliver consistent and high quality content.
Skall I hope you do a review of Vinland Saga when it comes out, it's the most historically accurate manga I've seen so far
btw the farm arc is the most exciting arc of the manga so far
Yeap, no horned helmets and other silliness - Makoto Yukimura (the author) has done his research and is, obviously, quite the perfectionist.
(His older series, "Planetes" is a hard sci-fi that got an _amazing_ anime adaptation. Also zero-bullshit.)
Also by the trailers it's gonna be epic
What can you expect from an author that accept an award while cosplaying as an actual Viking lol
Skallagrim, Idk who made you feel bad for "talking too long" but speaking for myself and possibly other fans; we could listen to you talk all day. I have no complaints about longer videos.
That someone took the trouble to draw the flyng mace seems so funny to me, I imagine that someone saw that in some battle and marked him for life " I tell you dude, this guy out of nowhere threw his mace at me an almost broke my head "
-draw- sew. It's a tapestry.
How do you know if the youtuber is good?
Even long videos seem too short.
I swear it was 5 minutes
Agreed
Yes..
*Plays Amon Amarth's "Twighlight of the Thunder God" in the background*
odly anime "vinland saga" comes the closest when it comes to vikings armor, weapons and clothes
And then there's straight up just a giant dude that slices 4 people in half with a single stroke of his apparently indestructable Axe.
Not because he hit them with the axe, mind you. He merely swung that thing. It was the SHARP, CUTTING AIR that sliced those men in half.
Truly an accurate depiction of viking-age warfare.
Also, berserker mushrooms are a thing. And there's a guy that is quite literally the legend of king arthur personified. Also naruto-running, also Thorkell being portrayed as a dumb, warhungry fighter when in reality he was just a really tall mercenary and nothing more.
@@RedFloyd469 Well he didn't say the story and characters were accurate, just weapons, armor, and clothes.
I'm watching it rn and yeah it's got anime stuff in it like overdramatized action but DAMN I love the little historical bits where they throw in dates and stuff
0:01
Sparta, Rome, Hentai
That last one took me by surprise.
Ninja
@@maximilianfranz2158 Yeah...as long as main character isnt doing "something" with your M16, right?
@@czarus_the_sniper9924 nothing wrong with a well-oiled M16.
@@maximilianfranz2158 dont have a weapon failure because you and ya packer let some dirty anime bitch gum up your weapon.
Apple Pie Armor LOL"That was the practical one in the series" The most laughable was the early Ragnar armor with some weird leather raven in the middle of the chest piece like some bizarre Nordic Superman logo.
This summer an anime with viking thematic called VINLAND SAGA will be released. Could you do an analysis about how accurate it really is?
I know the comic and its damn good. Story wise and from the look (historical accurate depiction of things). There are some OP stuff in it regarding certain combat abilities of some characters but thats about it.
No need to watch the anime. It's got a manga with 162 chapters. And still publishing...
Freaking love it...
@@CollinMcLean well there's no need to ask anyone not to watch the anime either. The show's just started adapting the manga.
Thorkil can do naruto run... So inaccurate and funny
@UltimateGeek yes i mean thorfinn thanks for the correction... Still interested to watch the upcoming episodes of vinland saga...
A word more abused than "viking" through history?
Peace.
One day Imma going to Malta to bigga hotel
In the morning I go down to eat a breakfast,
I tell the waitress I want two pieces of toast,
She brings me only one piece,
I tell her I want two piece,
She sais: "go to the toilet",
I say: "you no understand
I wanna two piece on a my plate”
She says: "you better not piss on your plate you son of a bitch",
I dont even know the lady and she calling me a son of a bitch
Careful you’ll cut yourself on all that edge
@@m.r.9127 what
@@iceeee1245 I'm not afraid of bleeding
I do Viking Age Reenactment in Trondheim, and most of us take great care to be historically accurate. I also study Archaeology, and I was so glad to see this video! Its not often these "stereo-types" get addressed, so thank you for this! So many people will benefit from this, as well as the reenactment community!
You do public shows or just play in the woods? Im from trondheim too. You have a web site?
Mount And Blade: Viking Conquest is the most accurate depiction of Vikings I’ve seen.
Intergalactic Human Empire no shit
1st game: YEAHHHHHH LETS RAID!!!!
2nd game 2 minutes later: “alright guys we have medical staff standing by. If they put up a fight, we cut bait and come back later.”
Yeah it's a damn good DLC, but I feel like it could've been better if they had more realistic character models and less gambesons.
I think an important reason for the lack of Viking helmets and armour finds is also because they would generally pick targets that were vulnerable. Not to suggest that they were indestructible and they had no casualties, but I imagine they tended to be on the winning side against their chosen targets and would have the opportunity to recover equipment from any fallen fellow vikings.
Theory about re-using iron could be true, for example first Japanese to visit US in 1800s commented that there is a lot of iron vaste and that something like that is unimaginable in a feudal society like Japan
10:00, My immediate thought was some sort of fluffy wool or sheepskin (with wool still on the hide).
Really reminds me of how one typically depicts the fluffiness of sheep, and I'd wager sheep were common livestock.
Wool would also be quite warm, is naturally fire retardant, AND it maintains its warmth even when soaking wet, a perfect material for braving the chilling spray of the Arctic waters as your boat cuts through the waves.
4:19
1066, the battle of Stamford Bridge, not the battle of Hastings
Hastings was also 1066 the saxons fought the vikings then went straight to hastings and fought the normans
@@poohbear4821 ...yes, but it was Stamford Bridge that marked the symbolical end of the viking age, not Hastings
I agree
Two handed viking swords? I didnt even know people made those things!!
There aren't really two handed swords in the Vikings show. From what I've seen it's pretty much one handed.
I'm glad i gre up in Sweden, we learn ALL this stuff in grade school and more! It's awesome to see the pride we take in that specific period.. Even remember that we had to learn the runic ''alphabet'' xD Made a runestone for my deceased grandfather in art class after that, rest in peace Arne :')
And I really do despise how foreigners just think of ''vikings'' or actually NORSEMEN as these macho big dudes in horned helmets etc.. And while yes the horned helmets thought at first to have been vikings but were in fact a whole other age also comes from the 16:th century kings and nobles of sweden who had extreme proudness of their history and just thought it'd be cool to portrait their ancestors with big horned helmets :) And yes, axes and spears were the most common ''tools/weapons'', and the spear was also used for hunting, mostly for boar which are hard to kill with bow and arrow xD
Also a common misconception of them were that they were dirty, unhygienic etc which is farther from the truth than you might think, seeing as there were findings of combs and other such things and also that they did in fact bathe more than the average european (in hot springs especially but also at winter, in the snow) which has to do with the most part of eu being christian and there was something in there about not bathing too much but cant quite remember what exactly
And a cool thing was that a Persian(I believe) missionary went to Scandinavia to record what life and the people here were like and he of course trashed everything and spread shite about the people here and that is also where a lot of misconceptions come from believe it or not!
the vikings would also use Charcoal etc to paint under their eyes and so on to look more terrifying when going to battle, who's to say makeup cant be badass xD
And also the norse culture was unbelievably more equal as to men/women in society than the christians, which to be honest isnt too difficult :D Even women could be warriors in norse society reffered to as sköldmöer or shield-maidens in English!
Also a cool fact is that asatro never really died out here in Scandinavia, even in the 1800-hundreds for example pople would say ''now loki has ridden through the fields'' when it was misty and poeple would be scared to go outside the farm, but a lot of post viking-era folklore is in fact from that belief, and a lot of records show that many still stayed true to the old beliefs, aaah could go on forever about all this
My grandmother and mother are also ''asatroende'' as we call it in sweden which i think is ''asatruar'' in English? Grew up with stories of the gods and also some of ''snorres'' sagas and such, another awesome thing that my mother has been researching foreeeever is our familys heritage which she was able to date all the way back to Fale bure who was one of the last ''norsemen'' or ''vikings'' if you will, also some rus blood from my mothers mothers side but almost 100% scandinavian
My grandmother left a peculiar item upon her death as well that my mom found in our homestead up in northern sweden.. its a brosch, old as all hel but the thing is that it has the map of Scandinavia on it, and i mean ye olden times map, and you can tell that it is that manually mapped ''chart'' of the lands that the first mappers did, it's really cool but ill update this when i know more, moms obsessed with that stuff xD scared of taking it to a proffessional museum tho, theyd probably take it :P Cheers to ye all :D
Cool! thanks dude, nice to know all of these.
No, viking society wasn't unbelievably equal. There were strict gender roles. And the idea of "shield maidens" is largely a myth.
Clover, Carol J. "Maiden Warriors and Other Sons," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 85 (1986):35-49.
"The only case in which a woman was allowed to take up arms was if (1) she was never married, (2) she had no living male relatives in the degrees listed in Baugatal who would have received weregild for the death of a family member, and (3) a crime had been perpetrated against her family that required vengeance by the social code of the day, often the murder of her last male relative. This role was temporary, but for its duration conferred the social role on the warrior woman as "son"."
@Bob el Silencioso Im sorry, but the viking raids started firstly because of charlemange.... kinda. When the holy roman empire reached the danish boarders the king of denmark didnt realy like the navy that charlemange built upp. So he launched the first raid.
After that both kings died there was no all out war but the raids went on cuz the danes realised it was good money in it. And later came the Danegeld ect.
But the raids did not start cuz scandinavia was a shit poor country on the edge of civilization.
One thing thou.... women usually didnt go to a viking so often.... one reason being that men get realy bored when they are stuck on a ship for some weeks. Besides, The women had more important things to do, like take care of the house or the fields. It was also always the woman who had the keys to the food storage and house..... That was what gave them some amount of power over men. Expescialy the granary bit.
I live in Utah. My high school mascot was the Vikings. We took that stuff seriously. We spent probably more time on the Vikings then we should have. But we went through all of that as well. We took it seriously haha. Which was really cool. We'd do the boat rowing and famous songs.
For whatever reason, it took hold of me and I'm learning Swedish now. Scandinavia is at the top of my list for places to visit.
"Can you think of any other word from history that's as abused as Viking?"
1. Indian
2. Barbarian
3. Vandal
4. Ninja
5. Samurai
6. Cowboy
7. Liberator
8. holy
9. the great
10. truth
Love your example at number 10
You're trying too much
Years from now, that list would be expanded by all the "ists" and "phobes" abused these past 6+ years(and seems to have no end in sight).
If you don't understand why holy well here are two examples:
1. Holy roman empire ( or as i like to say "holy" "roman" "empire" )
2. holy water
@@wildside316 average idiot getting upset that bigotry exists
I encourage you to watch a bit of the Vikings television show. Not because I think you'll enjoy it, but because I want you to mercilessly rake it over the coals.
I liked Bernard Cornwell's 'Last Kingdom' series for a reasonably accurate depiction of Anglos and Danish warriors. Show is ok as well.
I always hate how they depict Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons in media, they are always pathetic and useless scrubs while the Vikings are the superior machos. Quite frustrating that it happens everywhere.
And Vikings is quite enjoyable for the first 3 seasons, though sometimes you do roll your eyes at stupid stuff. After that it just became really bad, they had potential with the timeskip to improve costumes and settings but they completely failed.
@@valkorion8958 Finally someone else noticed the show went to shit!
The worse part is how lazy and half-assed they've gotten with their characters by season 5, damn thing was basically Game of Thrones lite. The writers had a few outs for a post Ragnar show, but instead they decided to focus on his damn kids and pulling things right out of their asses. Guess it was like the Great Heathen Army, had a large impact and eventually fell apart over time. Now I'm just waiting for Harald Hardrada to show up and end the show.
He would be too busy being impressed by Fimmel´s performance and ability to carry a show singlehandedly to shit on the show too much.
Thorsvald Fr. I love The Last Kingdom. Somehow find this historical fiction show more accurate than Vikings...which is on History channel. Then again, the history channel talks about Aliens now. The Last Kingdom is fantastic though imo. Only shows I really watch/watched were Game of Thrones and The Last Kingdom
I would love to see a Viking series review of the accuracy by this guy :0
The creator always makes it clear that he uses history as a blueprint, but that he’s a dramatist first, and many times what he does deters from history. I’m a big history buff, but when the creator of a series makes it clear from the get go he doesn’t necessarily try to be historically accurate, it’s like massive bodybuilders who do steroids and admit to it. They’re not fooling anyone, they’re not trying to sell it as something it’s not. It’s a great series, so, mission accomplished.
Alexander Angelus So a show on the history channel isn't trying to be historically accurate. Got it.
@@calculuswalulu7560 Just because it is based on history, it doesn't mean it's a documentary, dumbass. It would be cancelled after one season because of how boring it would be. History is a slow process and sometimes historical accuracy makes for disappointing TV. It's one thing to go through it as an overview (as in reading, or watching a documentary), in which you can cover decades within a few sentences, it's another going through it step by step.
Alexander Angelus So you're saying the HISTORY channel doesn't have to be HISTORICALLY accurate, Got it.
Wombo I blame that on the History channel and not on the shows on the channel. They really need a name change.
now i am curious about how many hentai you watch or how many japanese schoolgirls you know
LOTS
Yes
@@jernie9384 he seems too but he doesnt look lile a huge weeb
hes talked of several animes before, so i put him down as a weeb.
@@oz4087 he maybe is a weeb he is in my maybe weeb list
you should do a video on historical viking women: how they dressed, what were their roles in both their community, family and war (if any)
"The Welsh Viking" has a good couple of videos on this topic: th-cam.com/video/We4lKgKfXuQ/w-d-xo.html
The "splint armour" at 8:57 is now considered wrong and obsolete. The splints are now considered to be arm- and leg-armour. Source: "Krigarna från Valsgärde" by Kent Anderson (2017).
Also, your beard is magnificent. Would you consider braiding it? Like baldur from God of war?
@@ReasonAboveEverything a variation of that might be cool though
@@ReasonAboveEverything How about the eye?
haha yeah skall you vain bastard (drop the dane axe im kidding bro lol) the jest is as skall will know is that Baldur, O∂ins son is said to be the most good looking of all the gods. Even more so than Frey and Freyja. There are also parallels with him and Jesus but thats a whole nother theology debate for another time.
I’ll just make a movie where everyone is a super stereotype.
Everyone is equal.
Mel Brooks already did it... Blazing Saddles and Robin Hood: Men In Tights.
Professor Mobius good luck with black people
There's American comedies that already stereotype blacks, it's made by the very people that it is stereotyping. I used to watch them when I was younger but I don't watch TV as much as I used to so idk if it stills air.
Neurofied Yamato key and peel ?
@@neurofiedyamato8763 I would say "there were" haha
Lack of Military Standardization led to individual tastes; and that always lends to comfort. If it was too hot, too cold or inhibited swimming, it was traded away. As you pointed out, land armies were different from Maritime Raiders. Love your channel!
Dude 1,6 thousand likes to 14 dislikes.
You seem to be one of the most appreciated youtubers of this decade Skallagrim
this is normal on channels now because the algorhithms know you better. People posting videos on narrow interests tend to be close to 100% likes.
Hey Skal, have you heard of the anime "Vinland"?
Apparently, it's in production and it's supposed to portray the Viking invasion of England.
And that is ironic as vinland is what the vikings called the place in america where they was for some time.
@@havtor007 Don't take my word for it though, I only saw a 30 seconds trailer 6 months ago
@@havtor007 that's an important plot point for the series. Leif Eriksson is a prominent character in the manga.
@@biggestchungus9032 So him coming to America would be part of the series? Also (apologize for the low brow joke but....) hinga dinga durgen
@@ArcturusOTE Leif Eriksson on the series has already visited Vinland. He's helping thorfinn get there
A historical word more abused and over used than viking ?
Barbarian ?
I´m still not sure whether they were a specific tribe or just an insult of the romans towards anyone attacking them.
@@sim.frischh9781 well from what I understand, it's the roman equivalent for stranger, ie : the People that speak/say "bar bar".
Not the blood-thirsty, double headed axe wielding, long haired, dirty and extraordinarally muscular but dung for brains individuel that we might imagine now a days.
@@Antenor1990 So it was just an insult.
Funny where some words come from.
@@sim.frischh9781 well I wouldn't go as far as insult, though I'm not qualified to determine such things. Would you consider it insulting to be called a stranger or a foreigner if you were in a different part of the world where they don't speak your language, nor dress like you, etc ?
@@Antenor1990 I understood it as an insult because that is what we would say if someone refers to chinese people as "Ching-chings" because that´s how they sound to him/her.
But you have a point, it might not have been meant as an insult at all.
Have you ever seen "Vikingane" from Norway? I think the English translation is "Norsemen." It's a brilliant Norwegian comedy, and I think, a little more accurate than most of the "serious" television programs out there.
That axe you've got there though. ...
*drools in Viking*
Viking Viking... there should be a HEMA battle royale between the HEMA youtubers. Skall the viking, Shad the knight, Met the Legionary, and Lindy the Brit.
And don't forget Matt Easton, the dark overlord of supreme CONTEXT
Not much to look at, I think Skall even with the kinda bum legs would win. The other three guys are not quite combatants or practiced.
Also where's Matt Easton where you need him.
@@AstralS7orm What are you talking about? They're all HEMA practitioners. Also, I mentioned Matt Easton
@@LamantinoElettronico Not when I was writing it. But I agree. Matt would wipe them all due to being an actual professional. There's a difference in skill level here. I'm not entirely sure even how often Skal train. Met and Lindy are mostly doing historical reconstruction as far as I'm aware, very well though; and Shad is mostly a historian. A pretty entertaining historian of course.
Correction: Met is training kenjutsu recently, he might get good. Shad has been doing some kendo a long time ago.
Jason from modern history rides down and charges everybody
You should check out Mount and Blade: Viking Conquest. It’s about as close to historically accurate Vikings as I’ve ever seen.
Truly adore the chainmail Vikings, making badass shield formations and charging the enemy