Ok so it's 13 of November here in the UK and today I have received a message from 23 and me to tell me 4 of my ancestors died here St Brice's Day Oxford,, that has just knocked me flat. My ancestry is from Newcastle and West Yorkshire. I am 100% British going back from ad 600 where they found warriors (my genetic ancestors) buried in long boats (Estonia)and Viking women in Orkney. But today is the 13th of November...............
I received a message too from 23 and Me. I have one historical ancestor that died in the massacre too. I also have a match with the long boats in Estonia.
@@mycroft61 he used harsh in place of nasty "Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." - thomas hobbes humanity merely found a way to remove the solitude. there's nothing quite so democratic as forcibly sharing misery ...
Me too! My paternal ancestor came to America in 1772, and as a Loyalist, went to Canada to sign up to fight for King George. My maternal ancestors came to America on the Mayflower, but were always British by heritage and custom. I ❤️ Britain!
The damage to the skeletons of men aged 16 to 25 is pretty clear that they were 'warriors' who were surrounded and cut down. They were probably taken by surprise as this was an implied feature of the massacre. They must have surrendered, were probably herded together and then stabbed and hacked to death by a larger number of fully armed and ready men. I dont think its realistic so see such damage on bones that were in motion, 'running away' from their attackers. More like a rough execution type situation. Very interesting.
I'm from upstate New York and I recently found out through a genealogy book that I had descendents that fought in the battle of Hastings in 1066. Which I had no idea and was fascinated to find out about that.
I first learned of Ethelred the Unready from Michael White and have been intrigued since then. New traces and another excellent presenter. So descriptive and so well researched. Thanks.
Hi. Some of the "stabbing" points are so square-shaped, that I got the impression this was caused by an arrow with a bodkin-tip. Greetings from Germany, Chris
If some Viking is requiring huge payments from the English. Then everyone on the Island needed to help pay for it. If they refused to help pay the war reparations then they would have to be punished. Aethelred had to enforce the requirement, or go to war with the Vikings again.
No surprise, when you do the maths. Every generation you go back doubles the number of your ancestors, so by the time you reach the middle ages you have about a million ancestors. That means you're descended from half the country's population at the time.
@@Kevin-mx1vi That's totally incorrect. The number of our ancestral lines and ancestors actually begins to decrease at a certain point, due to cousins marrying and sharing the same grandparents. Otherwise, if you kept doubling, you'd have more ancestors than the number of humans who've ever lived. Look up 'pedigree collapse'. As for claims made by certain academics that we're all descended from Edward III, is also nonsense, based on flawed mathematical modelling. Edward may have, at most, around 2 million descendants alive today, and that's using demographic statistics based on Victorian populations, and modern families have nowhere near the number of children they used to have back then, when the average number of children per family was ten or eleven. And they didn't take into account generational smearing either (look it up).
There is a theory that the Saxons were invited into England by Vortigen, the 'Proud Tyrant'. Once settled, they rebelled against their employers and conquered them.
So were the Celts and the Beaker folk. What's your point? From a modern perspective Vikings and Normans ARE invaders because English is synonymous with Anglo-Saxon
The Angles and Saxons from the 5th century onwards came to make a new life - and no, the massacre of the native Britons narrative has been debunked. A big difference to the initial Viking raids of plunder, slave-taking and destruction. Of course, Vikings did end up settling but the almost constant raid and invasions that the inhabitants of Britain and Ireland suffered for almost 250 years from the Vikings must have bred some intense hatred.
Invaders. Track one. IRON MAIDEN, Number of the Beast. 1982. Give a spin on the ol wobbly turntable, adresses the joy of the natives recieving the Scandinavian emissaries.
17:48 What the hell are they all wearing hard hats and hi-vis vests for? Are they expecting cars driving through the site or the sky falling on their heads? Absolutely daft.
The Vikings did not just plunder the monasteries for plunder- they also disagreed with Monotheism. They were polytheistic, and the Norse Gods were threatened by emerging Christianity.
@@aarons6935 Who says that? Where? As a biologist, I am absolutely 100% sure we could. 1000years is not even a blink in the eye of evolution. We maybe would have problems procreating with someone 100 000 years ago, but even that would be questionable.
@@paavobergmann4920 You're 100% incorrect. From a genetics perspective over the last 1000 years we've changed ever so slightly to the point where it's just not possible. 1000 years evolutionarily speaking is nothing but there are still changes. Biologists and geneticists have said this themselves.
Again: Who, and where? Sourcelink, or you are making it up. 1000 Years is only 50 generation. The 50 generations with the highest abundance , highest mobility, highest admixture. All extant humans can procreate, although many of extant lineages are separated by more than 1000 years. Are you sure you understand population genetics?
@@paavobergmann4920 This is basic biological knowledge, whether you choose to accept it or not. We ARE genetically different to our ancient homo sapien ancestors, ever so slightly but we are. You're just wrong, simple as that.
@@kevinbuda7087 You know an interesting tidbit of sidenote: That area has long held a myth that sea creatures would come every season and steal their children and take their women. Makes me now think that myth evolved from the Vikings landings. Still, it really is in the middle of, as Americans say, bumfuck ville. Nothing there at all.
Alice is so intuitive,when she held that cup and suggesting it was something that was passed around i can't but help think that she is correct,just so enjoy the documentaries with her as the only narrator.
There is nothing mundane about our history, it is who we are. I have spent many summers on the outer hebridies as well as many all over Scandanavia, the peoples are the same in Aalborg, Dalarna, Tromso, Lewis or Torshavn. I share their DNA and their deseases....So What. We are one People.
I often wonder if the highlands & islands were always so bare of trees. How would the Vikings have been able to carry on with their amazing shipbuilding otherwise. Maybe the prevailing winds are just too harsh to consider a program of re forestation .
Scotland used to be largely covered by the Great Caledonian Forest of which only a few small pockets exist. The forest was slowly diminished by human habitation and in particular agriculture over the past few thousand years. 1000 years ago there would have likely been quite a bit more of that Forest still present in areas that are now bare.
@@Sevarriusstonewalls all through my small new England town's hill's and forests. 120 something years ago, the population was almost double what it is now, and most if the land was cleared back then for farming. The similar process, in reverse. The industrial revolution changed the society, and country folks headed ro the textile manufacturing hub's in Manchester and Boston and such.
NOT "Æthelred the Unready," but "Æthelrd Unrud," or Æthelred the Uncounseled, one who does not take advice. Similar to Chicken Pox, which has nothing to do with poultry, but plenty to do with itching (Anglo-Saxon guichen or something like that.
I had three, my family on both sides have being living in Australia since the 1870s to 1902, both sides are also from Oxford and recent DNA matches have over 20 or so distance relatives living in the Oxford area.
I have about 4% of Viking (Norway/Sweden) DNA and Scottish ancestry back at least 300 years, so I like to think that these guys were my ancestors in some way.
I have 3% Norway and 11% Scottish. I was born in Hull. I have no idea where the Scottish DNA comes from, but it's a major part of my DNA. Looks like i'm the result of constant raids on England by the Scots and the Vikings.
It is a fact that on 'Average' all 'original' British have around 3% Viking blood left over from their living and 'mingling' lol with us for centuries, so it's perfectly normal.
The Vikings came and enriched our culture, then we carried it forward and enriched cultures across the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania. For some reason people don't pretend that our enriching their cultures was enriching though 🤔
Britain is the reason why India is now a third world country. The brits also caused a famine in Bengal which killed over three million people. That's only one country the English soiled for profit and power. Stay delusional😂😂
@@shonamcwilliam2842 omg. Just cracking up reading my own comment. The sagas emphasize on their exploits, but as the population increased where they lived, land became ever more important. It's important to remember they were also pastoral people. Searching and finding land to settle became increasingly necessary. Becoming pirates and the buying and selling of slave was a byproduct of new found riches in the land they settled. As to raiding Lindisfarne being their first contact with England it's hard for me to imagine. They must have made contact elsewhere first.
My friend who has a strong viking heritage told me that the Viking's invaded the first town they came across, and killed every man, woman and child... but left one healthy strong man to live, so he could run to the nearest village and tell them how violent and brutal the Vikings were. as word passed on, almost every village surrendered after that without question.
To think there are some strident savages of the modern day who want us to stop referring to 'Anglo-Saxons'. The attempt to force forgetfulness is like enslavement.
I was expecting for the guy digging through the berzerker booboo to laugh but although it is a human thing we all do part of doing archaeology especially when it is filmed they really use their best impression of the stoicism of learned men of archaeology which has a unique feel of being a British addition to the field - British documentaries are always top notch it cannot be easy to make a few bones and sht smexy yet Ill probably subscribe just to hear her speculating about the Viking whose bones she hold s in her hands manipulating his skull pointing out all the horrific things which happened to him at the time of murder - at least they buried their dead - respect!
The Vale of York Hoard is spookily similar to the Galloway Hoard, which I would suggest is possibly what's left of the short lived Anglian (not Anglican) Bishopric set up at Whithorn. Before the Vikings came!
17:03 It would be weird to see someone walking and talking like that to no one in a public place. Just talk in the background while showing the views when in a crowded place.
But a glorious life; Seriously hard for sure, but clean, No TV, No Social Media, No Transphobia! A man was a man; a woman was a woman; a child was a child, a dog was a dog, a cat was a cat! But a fish was dinner, it wasn’t gay, bisexual or homophobic….it was dinner...hush my mouth.
It might have been more simple but it was definitely not glorious, these people suffered horribly everyday. The average British peasant today lives better than the kings of that time.
Actually, I am connected to Bram, but that's only 100 years or so ago. I can't share the proof, as it's my big Bruv's research. Pity I can't claim reparations from Hammer Horror tho !😁
Please stop calling them "Viking". Call them Norse or Scandinavian or Danes -- "viking" translates to raiding. Once they become settlers and traders they were no longer viking, some may have gone viking elsewhere, but the locals probably weren't viking their own newly settled towns.
@@nopeboat5383 Is calling black people certain words acceptable? Is calling Amerindians certain words acceptable? How about Mexicans, Chinese or anyone else? -red herring- _your ass_
Same as a genetic match to V11P and VK166 found here. And I find this to be so fucking interesting that through all the trials and tribulations my ancestors went through my family made it to America!
According to 23andMe, I share dna with one of the victim, it was found at the Dorset ridgeway mass burial site. It’s interesting to know such informations
@@TheNatty88 What are you rolling your eyes about? What he says is completely true, our ancestors fought tooth and nail to protect Europe and now our weak pathetic government allow the worst people imaginable to flood in and destroy it! They should have been united and turned their attention to the much greater outside threat to Europe, ISLAM!
Hopefully, the next video will be about the Massacre of 300 Anglo Saxon Nobles by the Vikings - i believe it was called the Night of the Long Knives, as the Vikings invited them to party, but the Vikings had concealed daggers
I don’t know how many times I have seen this. Every time I make certain to click on the thumbs up so it won’t appear for me to watch again. What gives????
If you click thumbs up on a certain subject TH-cam will show you more of that same subject because you have told them you're interested in it by giving a 'thumbs up'. That's why it will keep recommending these Viking History videos to you. If you have lost interest in the subject and don't want to watch any more of them... stop giving them a thumbs up.
Archeologists, sooner or later, will always, inevitably, find a massive toilet and dig deep into the septic system of most ancient people! PS Stonehenge was a massive public toilet too!
Ok, so this isn't the first time there's been a weird coincidence with what gets uploaded on this channel to something I've just watched or read about...this is actually like the 10th time and it's starting to seem like you people are stalking me
If you click thumbs up on a certain subject TH-cam will show you more of that same subject because you have told them you're interested in it by giving a 'thumbs up'. That's why it will keep recommending these Viking History videos to you. If you have lost interest in the subject and don't want to watch any more of them... stop giving them a thumbs up.
She’s an excellent host, but I can’t stand her accent. Round House becomes Rind heiss. So is sayoo. I know I’m being an ass, but where is that accent from?
I once got a '24-hour comment ban' for saying this ''England is a Christian Country'' !! TH-cam are lefty, snowflake, communist Bstrds !! I might be back in another 24 hours, who knows lol...........
I share 5 SNP chains with one of the St Brice Viking Massacre skeletons here. Largest chain 252 snp. VK166 Male mtDNA: H3ag2 Y-DNA: R1b1a1b1a1a2a1b1a1a CTS4299
I have been thinking about this moment in British history for a couple years now watching the events of mass immigration into Europe wondering if history will repeat itself ?
lol The UK is only 1.7 times bigger than the state of Illinois and, the state of Illinois is ranked the 24th largest state in the US. The UK may be a large island but still a small country!
@@Burrow93 So we agree that it's not a small island then. BTW, GB is the big island in the British Isles, hence the name; the UK is the country. I don't think that people in Israel, Lebanon, Rwanda, Burundi, the Netherlands or Belgium (just to throw out three pairs of neighbours which came to mind) would agree with you that the UK is a small country. Perhaps we could agree that it's a medium sized country?
Ok so it's 13 of November here in the UK and today I have received a message from 23 and me to tell me 4 of my ancestors died here St Brice's Day Oxford,, that has just knocked me flat. My ancestry is from Newcastle and West Yorkshire. I am 100% British going back from ad 600 where they found warriors (my genetic ancestors) buried in long boats (Estonia)and Viking women in Orkney. But today is the 13th of November...............
I received a message too from 23 and Me. I have one historical ancestor that died in the massacre too. I also have a match with the long boats in Estonia.
Hi brother 👋 @@moni-ayumi
I’m also genetically connected with VK173 and 147. Hello cousins!
@@moni-ayumime too!
Same here. I have 3 male matches tied to the massacre. Really interesting.
What I've learnt from a lifetime of studying history - is that for most - if not all, my ancestors, life was harsh, brutal - and short!!
dont forget nasty
and usually, so were they ...
@@mycroft61 he used harsh in place of nasty
"Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
- thomas hobbes
humanity merely found a way to remove the solitude. there's nothing quite so democratic as forcibly sharing misery ...
E soprattutto non c’era la TV e il cellulare!
As it is for most species of animals that inhabit the earth.
I love British History
Me too, Northside!!!
Mercia
They've mucked up and made a mockery of so much.
Me too! My paternal ancestor came to America in 1772, and as a Loyalist, went to Canada to sign up to fight for King George.
My maternal ancestors came to America on the Mayflower, but were always British by heritage and custom.
I ❤️ Britain!
As do I…Texas
The statue of the warrior with the sword shown when they are talking about Aethelred is actually a statue of King Alfred in Winchester!
So I noticed, well spotted!
I was yelling "That's not him!" at my computer. Hugely disrespectful to Alfred the Great.
The damage to the skeletons of men aged 16 to 25 is pretty clear that they were 'warriors' who were surrounded and cut down. They were probably taken by surprise as this was an implied feature of the massacre. They must have surrendered, were probably herded together and then stabbed and hacked to death by a larger number of fully armed and ready men. I dont think its realistic so see such damage on bones that were in motion, 'running away' from their attackers. More like a rough execution type situation. Very interesting.
damage on the backside of the Person? Running away. Damage on the front side? They stood and fought or at least died facing their Enemies.
Thanks Alice love your documentaries great history you do a great job 👍
I found this very interesting as I share DNA with two of the victims from the Brice massacre: VK173 and 147
Fascinating information!
That's why I'm interested in this topic as I share DNA with VK174, VK262, VK165, VK143, VK145, and VK151.
I can't imagine how bad Norway was for them to think that Scotland was a great place to live.
I mean, when you think of the ‘braw Sco’ish midgies - and bagpipes, too! - life in the Sandinavian countries must have been sheer unrelenting hell!
Ah, don't be self-deprecating. Scotland is beautiful
The Climate was warmer then, start of the Medieval warming
I'm from upstate New York and I recently found out through a genealogy book that I had descendents that fought in the battle of Hastings in 1066. Which I had no idea and was fascinated to find out about that.
Hastings is a nice area. You should visit 👍
As a Decendant of the Danes I demanded compensation!
We need reparations 😂
Not before me mate- no-one asked your lot to come here!😂
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg sure ya did by acting all weak and stuff....
You already got it. See Canute and the North Sea Empire :)
Æthelred is my 30x direct ancestor. However, as I am 54% Scandinavian v 7% English I totally agree with you
I first learned of Ethelred the Unready from Michael White and have been intrigued since then. New traces and another excellent presenter. So descriptive and so well researched. Thanks.
I love being english and thankyou for finding more of our history the more we have the harder it is for the haters to deny delete or erase
No one is trying to deny or delete or erase English history…
@@johnvaughan8239look up the recreation of cheddar man 😅😅😅😅😅
@@johnvaughan8239 of course the social engineers are
@@insertnamehere5146🔯
@@StuartAnderson-xl4boThanks, I'll stick to scientists instead of luddites.
I love historical events and people of history..
Hi. Some of the "stabbing" points are so square-shaped, that I got the impression this was caused by an arrow with a bodkin-tip. Greetings from Germany, Chris
Spot on.
Dr Alice is such a legend
😆😅🤣😂 Surely you're joking!
Professor, not Dr.
Thanks forletting me know my future ex wifes name
Alice Roberts is an absolutely elegant lady. Just admire her wonderful respect for people and her love for social history.
@@SaltyPirate71why would I be joking
If some Viking is requiring huge payments from the English. Then everyone on the Island needed to help pay for it. If they refused to help pay the war reparations then they would have to be punished. Aethelred had to enforce the requirement, or go to war with the Vikings again.
This was so interesting ❤❤❤
Love archeology ❤ so much we can learn about behaviour and humans over time.
This was so cool to see since I just found out that King Aethelred was an ancestor of mine.❤❤
Congratulations. How did you document that?
No surprise, when you do the maths. Every generation you go back doubles the number of your ancestors, so by the time you reach the middle ages you have about a million ancestors. That means you're descended from half the country's population at the time.
@@Kevin-mx1vi That's totally incorrect. The number of our ancestral lines and ancestors actually begins to decrease at a certain point, due to cousins marrying and sharing the same grandparents. Otherwise, if you kept doubling, you'd have more ancestors than the number of humans who've ever lived. Look up 'pedigree collapse'.
As for claims made by certain academics that we're all descended from Edward III, is also nonsense, based on flawed mathematical modelling. Edward may have, at most, around 2 million descendants alive today, and that's using demographic statistics based on Victorian populations, and modern families have nowhere near the number of children they used to have back then, when the average number of children per family was ten or eleven. And they didn't take into account generational smearing either (look it up).
Is that why you were never ready for school.
@@gigmcsweeney8566Gengis Khan is the main ancestor of EuroAsian people. All young women in captured territory were brought to him.
love the title 'invaders' which is exactly what the anglo saxons were too
There is a theory that the Saxons were invited into England by Vortigen, the 'Proud Tyrant'. Once settled, they rebelled against their employers and conquered them.
So were the Celts and the Beaker folk. What's your point? From a modern perspective Vikings and Normans ARE invaders because English is synonymous with Anglo-Saxon
The Angles and Saxons from the 5th century onwards came to make a new life - and no, the massacre of the native Britons narrative has been debunked. A big difference to the initial Viking raids of plunder, slave-taking and destruction. Of course, Vikings did end up settling but the almost constant raid and invasions that the inhabitants of Britain and Ireland suffered for almost 250 years from the Vikings must have bred some intense hatred.
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handleAngles not Saxons were deployed/hired to defend against Pict and Irish invaders.
Invaders.
Track one.
IRON MAIDEN, Number of the Beast. 1982.
Give a spin on the ol wobbly turntable, adresses the joy of the natives recieving the Scandinavian emissaries.
17:48 What the hell are they all wearing hard hats and hi-vis vests for? Are they expecting cars driving through the site or the sky falling on their heads? Absolutely daft.
It's a legal requirement by OH&S
@@outinthesticks1035 I guess, but really not necessary and just makes your day uncomfortable for zero benefit.
@@sureshot8399 lots of things are uncomfortable, but 2000$ fine for the worker , 20,000 $ for the employer
Great show!
The Vikings did not just plunder the monasteries for plunder- they also disagreed with Monotheism. They were polytheistic, and the Norse Gods were threatened by emerging Christianity.
I am sure we have not changed that much in over a thousand years. We were basically the same people without modern technology.
We have changed slightly, a modern human for example couldn't procreate with someone from 1000 years ago.
@@aarons6935 Who says that? Where? As a biologist, I am absolutely 100% sure we could. 1000years is not even a blink in the eye of evolution. We maybe would have problems procreating with someone 100 000 years ago, but even that would be questionable.
@@paavobergmann4920 You're 100% incorrect. From a genetics perspective over the last 1000 years we've changed ever so slightly to the point where it's just not possible. 1000 years evolutionarily speaking is nothing but there are still changes. Biologists and geneticists have said this themselves.
Again: Who, and where? Sourcelink, or you are making it up. 1000 Years is only 50 generation. The 50 generations with the highest abundance , highest mobility, highest admixture. All extant humans can procreate, although many of extant lineages are separated by more than 1000 years. Are you sure you understand population genetics?
@@paavobergmann4920 This is basic biological knowledge, whether you choose to accept it or not. We ARE genetically different to our ancient homo sapien ancestors, ever so slightly but we are.
You're just wrong, simple as that.
Site is in the middle of nowhere. Surprised they found it.
had a beach. for the longboats.
@@kevinbuda7087 You know an interesting tidbit of sidenote: That area has long held a myth that sea creatures would come every season and steal their children and take their women. Makes me now think that myth evolved from the Vikings landings. Still, it really is in the middle of, as Americans say, bumfuck ville. Nothing there at all.
Alice is so intuitive,when she held that cup and suggesting it was something that was passed around i can't but help think that she is correct,just so enjoy the documentaries with her as the only narrator.
There is nothing mundane about our history, it is who we are. I have spent many summers on the outer hebridies as well as many all over Scandanavia, the peoples are the same in Aalborg, Dalarna, Tromso, Lewis or Torshavn. I share their DNA and their deseases....So What. We are one People.
Wonderful!!!! does anybody know the name of the tune at 0:10 ?
I often wonder if the highlands & islands were always so bare of trees. How would the Vikings have been able to carry on with their amazing shipbuilding otherwise. Maybe the prevailing winds are just too harsh to consider a program of re forestation .
Scotland used to be largely covered by the Great Caledonian Forest of which only a few small pockets exist. The forest was slowly diminished by human habitation and in particular agriculture over the past few thousand years. 1000 years ago there would have likely been quite a bit more of that Forest still present in areas that are now bare.
@@Sevarriusstonewalls all through my small new England town's hill's and forests.
120 something years ago, the population was almost double what it is now, and most if the land was cleared back then for farming.
The similar process, in reverse.
The industrial revolution changed the society, and country folks headed ro the textile manufacturing hub's in Manchester and Boston and such.
NOT "Æthelred the Unready," but "Æthelrd Unrud," or Æthelred the Uncounseled, one who does not take advice. Similar to Chicken Pox, which has nothing to do with poultry, but plenty to do with itching (Anglo-Saxon guichen or something like that.
Maybe they suffered from the Muslim pox that infects people...
Europe has rich history ❤
It does? News to me.
Enjoy it because the immigrants are going to erase it from history books in a few decades
Europe!? Where’s that?
@@dr.barrycohn5461???
@@dr.barrycohn5461 you should probably read a book
According to family tree dna one of the St Brices day victims was one of my ancestors.
I had three, my family on both sides have being living in Australia since the 1870s to 1902, both sides are also from Oxford and recent DNA matches have over 20 or so distance relatives living in the Oxford area.
I have about 4% of Viking (Norway/Sweden) DNA and Scottish ancestry back at least 300 years, so I like to think that these guys were my ancestors in some way.
😂
I have 3% Norway and 11% Scottish. I was born in Hull. I have no idea where the Scottish DNA comes from, but it's a major part of my DNA. Looks like i'm the result of constant raids on England by the Scots and the Vikings.
It is a fact that on 'Average' all 'original' British have around 3% Viking blood left over from their living and 'mingling' lol with us for centuries, so it's perfectly normal.
Wow great show… the woman narrating has a twin in Dr. Oakley. A Veterinarian in Alaska
ok the subject of this film doesn't start until 23:51
Picture looks 3d awesome
The Vikings came and enriched our culture, then we carried it forward and enriched cultures across the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania. For some reason people don't pretend that our enriching their cultures was enriching though 🤔
Britain is the reason why India is now a third world country. The brits also caused a famine in Bengal which killed over three million people. That's only one country the English soiled for profit and power. Stay delusional😂😂
What brought the vikings to Brittish shores? Boats. Gold, guns, girls. It's a great theme for a Saga or Epic..
Gold, girls and ale. That's what the saga say.
Land.
@@shonamcwilliam2842 Preferably on land, yes. 😉
@@eddygonzalez6018
Ha! Funny guy
@@shonamcwilliam2842 omg. Just cracking up reading my own comment. The sagas emphasize on their exploits, but as the population increased where they lived, land became ever more important. It's important to remember they were also pastoral people. Searching and finding land to settle became increasingly necessary. Becoming pirates and the buying and selling of slave was a byproduct of new found riches in the land they settled. As to raiding Lindisfarne being their first contact with England it's hard for me to imagine. They must have made contact elsewhere first.
My friend who has a strong viking heritage told me that the Viking's invaded the first town they came across, and killed every man, woman and child... but left one healthy strong man to live, so he could run to the nearest village and tell them how violent and brutal the Vikings were. as word passed on, almost every village surrendered after that without question.
To think there are some strident savages of the modern day who want us to stop referring to 'Anglo-Saxons'.
The attempt to force forgetfulness is like enslavement.
I was expecting for the guy digging through the berzerker booboo to laugh but although it is a human thing we all do part of doing archaeology especially when it is filmed they really use their best impression of the stoicism of learned men of archaeology which has a unique feel of being a British addition to the field - British documentaries are always top notch it cannot be easy to make a few bones and sht smexy yet Ill probably subscribe just to hear her speculating about the Viking whose bones she hold s in her hands manipulating his skull pointing out all the horrific things which happened to him at the time of murder - at least they buried their dead - respect!
The Vale of York Hoard is spookily similar to the Galloway Hoard, which I would suggest is possibly what's left of the short lived Anglian (not Anglican) Bishopric set up at Whithorn. Before the Vikings came!
Apparently, I'm related to three of the men killed in the St. Brice's Day massacre.
Those triangular wounds were made with a Rondel dagger.
Wrong period, rondel daggers didn't come around for several centuries
17:03 It would be weird to see someone walking and talking like that to no one in a public place. Just talk in the background while showing the views when in a crowded place.
But a glorious life; Seriously hard for sure, but clean, No TV, No Social Media, No Transphobia!
A man was a man; a woman was a woman; a child was a child, a dog was a dog, a cat was a cat!
But a fish was dinner, it wasn’t gay, bisexual or homophobic….it was dinner...hush my mouth.
It might have been more simple but it was definitely not glorious, these people suffered horribly everyday. The average British peasant today lives better than the kings of that time.
Average British PEASANT?
Who be that then? Explain yourself sir!😁
@@timstoker your great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents, unless their name was Bram. 😎
Actually, I am connected to Bram, but that's only 100 years or so ago. I can't share the proof, as it's my big Bruv's research. Pity I can't claim reparations from Hammer Horror tho !😁
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I feel like this video has been posted elsewhere.
Please stop calling them "Viking". Call them Norse or Scandinavian or Danes -- "viking" translates to raiding. Once they become settlers and traders they were no longer viking, some may have gone viking elsewhere, but the locals probably weren't viking their own newly settled towns.
Cool vikings lol
Please stop policing language.
@@Evdog001 You would not be saying that about derogatory terms being used about any other group.
I like Viking
@@nopeboat5383 Is calling black people certain words acceptable?
Is calling Amerindians certain words acceptable?
How about Mexicans, Chinese or anyone else?
-red herring- _your ass_
OT: that’s a beautiful beach!
Here because a load of my ancestors died in this this, hi to all my cousins ❤
Same as a genetic match to V11P and VK166 found here. And I find this to be so fucking interesting that through all the trials and tribulations my ancestors went through my family made it to America!
I’m here because 23 and me says I have three distant relatives that were killed during this massacre.
fascinating to imagine what happened to the person who buried that treasure in york.
Hail from Orkneyjar.
According to 23andMe, I share dna with one of the victim, it was found at the Dorset ridgeway mass burial site. It’s interesting to know such informations
Idk the hosts name but i think Im in love with her
It's (Professor) Alice Roberts.
Dr Alice Roberts, yes, welcome to the long queue of people who have fallen for her charms..
Arrow stab wounds .bodcum arrows ?
If they knew what European countries looked like today, they wouldn't have ever raised a sword against another of their own kind.
They would never have let this happen, they fought tooth and nail to keep Islam out of Europe.
They would have defended their culture from migrants seeking to destroy it.
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@@TheNatty88 What are you rolling your eyes about? What he says is completely true, our ancestors fought tooth and nail to protect Europe and now our weak pathetic government allow the worst people imaginable to flood in and destroy it! They should have been united and turned their attention to the much greater outside threat to Europe, ISLAM!
Some of my viking ancestors were killed in this massacre according to ancestry and my true Ancestry records.
Hopefully, the next video will be about the Massacre of 300 Anglo Saxon Nobles by the Vikings - i believe it was called the Night of the Long Knives, as the Vikings invited them to party, but the Vikings had concealed daggers
No, English people always have to be the oppressors. Sorry. Lol
was the ivory mammoth ivory, from siberia?
Mammoth tusks are regularly dragged up from the north Sea by trawlers - so they must have been all across northern Europe....
looting the graves of the looters...
Watching 👀 Vikings Valhalla on Netflix was Intriguing...
oh my gosh ... did no one tell the team that the outer islands belonged to Norway .... sigh
Perhaps that little settlement on the top of the rock island was the district penal colony, not the home of some chieftain.
I don’t know how many times I have seen this. Every time I make certain to click on the thumbs up so it won’t appear for me to watch again. What gives????
If you click thumbs up on a certain subject TH-cam will show you more of that same subject because you have told them you're interested in it by giving a 'thumbs up'. That's why it will keep recommending these Viking History videos to you. If you have lost interest in the subject and don't want to watch any more of them... stop giving them a thumbs up.
viking is not a nationality , its a career choice.
Archeologists, sooner or later, will always, inevitably, find a massive toilet and dig deep into the septic system of most ancient people! PS Stonehenge was a massive public toilet too!
Oh, there's Doctor Alice again! I've been in love with her for years - decades... She's so sweet...
Here's a declaration of love from the Netherlands!
Ok, so this isn't the first time there's been a weird coincidence with what gets uploaded on this channel to something I've just watched or read about...this is actually like the 10th time and it's starting to seem like you people are stalking me
If you click thumbs up on a certain subject TH-cam will show you more of that same subject because you have told them you're interested in it by giving a 'thumbs up'. That's why it will keep recommending these Viking History videos to you. If you have lost interest in the subject and don't want to watch any more of them... stop giving them a thumbs up.
Music was also printed like this.
Viking is long lit like a bar to a snake a long line. Like the older civilizations
Lucky you, all of the Archaeology, has been investigated, You are the 'Teller of Tales' the BARD. No research required. Tales to tell, though.
I wonder what they'd think of cars and computers? maybe magic
She’s an excellent host, but I can’t stand her accent. Round House becomes Rind heiss. So is sayoo. I know I’m being an ass, but where is that accent from?
According to Wikipedia, she's from Bristol. I personally think that her accent is charming 😁
At the time nobody had the exclusive on violence the anglo-saxons were invaders themselves and they used violence as much as anybody else.
Everybody dies. Remember that before you inflict pain in others. You can't escape Death and God will remember what you did regardless of your religion
I'm phoud to be English. Such a shame that our politicians aren't.
Proud*
Why are they all doing this with their arms and hands?
Not víkingur....Noregsmen. he called himself as noregsmens and never as vikingr rekr.
The presenter is very attractive ❤🔥🔥
Idk why my comment keeps getting deleted
Dito. Many times
I once got a '24-hour comment ban' for saying this ''England is a Christian Country'' !! TH-cam are lefty, snowflake, communist Bstrds !! I might be back in another 24 hours, who knows lol...........
A tooth is often a source of ancient DNA. Why are these archeologists handling such things with ungloved hands?
Alfred and Harold were true English kings. This dynasty, founded by William the Bastard (aka conqueror) are Normandian usurpers.
Damn you Putin!
I share 5 SNP chains with one of the St Brice Viking Massacre skeletons here. Largest chain 252 snp.
VK166 Male
mtDNA: H3ag2
Y-DNA: R1b1a1b1a1a2a1b1a1a
CTS4299
5th - 6th LARGEST ISLAND ON THE PLANET actually (Great Britain).
That’s just a rock!
What is haping?
She must have the best teeth in the UK.
I have been thinking about this moment in British history for a couple years now watching the events of mass immigration into Europe wondering if history will repeat itself ?
The people currently allowing their nations to be given away, will never have the wherewithal to reclaim them.
What an intelligent handsome woman - makes me want to go and find some old stuff
The Vikings all became Christians.
@@HowlOfFenrir Iceland is primarily Lutheran.
@@HowlOfFenrirso they basically became Christian like op said
😂 send some royalties over to 23 and Me
Vikings seahorse boats face still have on chestboard pawns from
Sea😂
"Britain has been divided and enriched by invaders from overseas", try getting a doctor's appointment!
LMAO vikings were nasty
I'm Viking Tomkinson. MARIE from England 🏴🌹.
Miller Helen Brown Kevin Thompson Barbara
One thing is certain, Lenny Henry's grandfather didn't build our country!
Love the programme, BUT ... Can we please stop saying that it's a small island? It's not! Great Britain is the ninth biggest island in the world!
Udi
N.& S. America isn’t that small either!!
lol The UK is only 1.7 times bigger than the state of Illinois and, the state of Illinois is ranked the 24th largest state in the US. The UK may be a large island but still a small country!
@@Burrow93 So we agree that it's not a small island then. BTW, GB is the big island in the British Isles, hence the name; the UK is the country. I don't think that people in Israel, Lebanon, Rwanda, Burundi, the Netherlands or Belgium (just to throw out three pairs of neighbours which came to mind) would agree with you that the UK is a small country. Perhaps we could agree that it's a medium sized country?
@@jeffpollard7304they are continents! Australia is an island continent
The voice just doesn't do it for me, bye
Way too many closeups of the female presenter. It looks like a showcase for her with some archeology thrown in. 👎🏻
she's not bad looking though. I don't mind it!