Why Were Vikings So Much Better At Fighting?
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- What made vikings so much better at fighting than others? Why were the vikings superior? In today's animated educational and historical video?
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Who were in your opinion the best warriors in history?
Lol
The best are the ones who know how to fight... I guess..?
S U B S C R I B E T O P E W D I E P I E they could also make a video comparing these too. just maybe, maybe They Should Not Put Horns On Helmets...
The Samurai or the Shaolin warriors, The Korean Hwarang-Do were very good as well.
Vikings were not as good as ny other warriors of the time. They were beaten by the Irish and the Saxons when they stopped fighting internecine wars and banded together to fight the vikings.
If anything it was the sneaky vikings who the most successful the unscrupulous ones who broke there vows etc etc and anyone can do that.
Vikings were cowardly lowlifes. Not as brave as this video would make them out.
I think samurais were amazing warriors, I dont think the best, but I would argue Miyamoto Musashi would be one of the greatest warriors of all time.
Imagine being the Viking that figured out churches are full of gold and people that can't fight.
His name was Ragnar and he basically became the most famous viking ever for figuring it out lol
(If you want to believe he was a real person that is)
@@AD-df5tm no doubt he was a real person, but his fame actually came from raiding england and france
@@zeka7812 Paris too
It was more common with silver in churches not gold in those times
@@zeka7812 It is not proven he was a real person. It might actually be multiple persons.
“Why were the Vikings so much better at fighting?”
_Thor is typing..._
Evariste Galois thor is a god, not a viking.
Apple Applepie Thor is a Viking god
Orion The Lord> Thor is a Viking god
Thor was a _Norse_ god; not all Norse were Vikings.
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z yeah some people think of Norse as Vikings although not all of them were Vikings. Thanks for getting that out there
Lol! LMAO
saying "according to BBC"
makes it less believable for me
Very true
How? The BBC is extremely credible
Rude
@@bitajoanilzaalencar988 how
Prelusion ! HA HA HA wow you should be a stand up comedian. That is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. Whew you would make millions can I be your manager straight up?
Horned helmets, vikings in finland, Refering to russia before it existed, yeah dont trust this video
I'm not sure if us Finns really were vikings in similar fashion as Scandinavians but I do know that there has been found more viking swords in Finland than in Denmark and we're just finding more and more. It's also a fact that Finnish tribes raided Sweden and other nearby countries. We also did lots of trade with Scandinavians and Novgorodians.
@@paavoilves5416 no, Finns were never Vikings, they're a completely different thing.
@@meginna8354 Finns were never vikings (because only norse seafarers can be called vikings) but did basically same things, just in a smaller scale and focused more on trade than raiding (even though Finns did raid Novgorod, Sweden and possibly other places a lot around years 1000-1200)
@@paavoilves5416 Litterally everyone did raiding,, literally individuals of every ethnic group did raiding. are you referring to finnic pirates from Estonia that were mentioned in Norse sources?
@@meginna8354 No, I'm referring to Karelian and Tavastian tribes. If I remember right, Savonians and Bjarmians raided norse tribes and Novgorod at some point too. And yes, most tribal peoples raided during the viking age. Viking means nothing more than a seafarer/raider.
The vikings did not have horned helmets
No they didn’t have horns on their helmets. That was made up after the vikings time.
Nor were they hulking brutes. Real vikings were incredibly average in build.
horned helmets where used by pagans in scotland in ceremonial events. vikings used helmets but not with horns in them. its a myth.
@@dampsomsatan nope the only evidence we have is a rock carving of Gods wearing horns. (wood for horns would break down with age. Also every helmet found has no sign for horns.)
@@aubreyreed5046 Horned helmets most certainly existed, although during the Scandinavian bronze age. If they were in use it was likely for ceremonial use. However I think that archaeologists are sometimes overly obsessed with practicality in their analyses; meanwhile modern man keeps using poorly designed tools and inventions which I'm sure future archaeologists will say could never have been used in a practical sense.
Oh god. Just imagine having to battle Vikings on skis
OMEGAPOCALYPSE the nazis did... when they were conquering Norway there were Norwegians with machine guns on skis, that’s one of the reasons they lasted so long.
Haha. That’s great
HTTYD?
Viking: "I am up the hill! I have the high ground. Here I come, foolish victim!"
*victim dodges*
Victim: "Now you are down the hill."
Viking: "Hahaha correct!"
Victim: "And you must lose your skis to climb up the hill again."
Viking: "No! Wrong. Fighting uphill is disadvantageous. Instead, I will climb up the hill sideways. Just... slowly... wait for me. Don't run! Aw..."
Viking on skis were a real thing. They were called birkebeiner or "birch feet". It allowed them to traverse long distances during the winter quickly and quietly.
"According to one source", wow, that is some solid research.
I dont see you getting millions of views. So remind us why you're so much more knowledgeable....
@@jasontodd2533 just cuz u get views don’t mean ur reliable
@@jasontodd2533 Though I am Scandinavian, I never stated that I was more knowledgeable.
I am unfamiliar with the concept that "Views equals factual accuracy".
So how many views does a "Flat Earth" channel need before it becomes true?
Me with my research papers lol
@@71Dana it only becomes true once you believe in it
Also most vikings believed that there own death were allready predetermined, so they were less scared of dying. (Sry for the spelling mistakes)
they wanted to die with a sword or axe in hand.
If you didn´t die in battle you would not get sent to Valhöll which is where Óðinn lives , Getting there meant you´d get to fight to the death every day and be raised up to party every night
Well, if time is an actual thing, and not just a human-made concept, then your death is indeed predetermined. :P
believe in predestined!so were not afraid to die! it was a honour!.
They're also broken on For Honor,which is pretty mental
Just gonna add That: Vikings actually had Chainmails, iron helmets, AS Well as they travelled to America...
BUT THE TV TOLD ME THEY WORE STUDDED LEATHER AND HORNS REEEEEEEE
No they did not it was only in the end of the viking era when they needed better gear to raid well defenced citiz and most viking had quit being viking bc they could afford
@@seal3427 they did have them if they could afford them. If they couldn't then they'd use cheaper armor like gambesons. Regarding helmet, they would always prioritize it over chainmail. If your history is as bad as your grammar I'm really concerned. Also yes, in the late viking age, most of them would quit going "viking" and focus more on trade.
@@fuhduh2544 no most vikings did not use nothing but hide armor and a helmet as armor and i wrote wrong in the last sentance i ment to write not afford, i'm swedish so we learnd alot about vinkings in school and i learnd alot from museums
@@seal3427 any sources you can direct me to? "Hide" armor sounds pretty dumb honestly, hide and leather don't offer as much protection as a gambeson or just thick clothing. Also rich vikings would have a full set of gambeson, chainmail, helmet, sword, spear, axe and seaxe, and of course a shield. You saying "did not use nothing but hide armor and a helmet" doesn't make any sense at all. They used to attack less defended targets but they still liked to stay alive so it really makes no sense for them to only use "hide" armor. They weren't savages, they didn't dress like in movies, they used brightly coloured clothes and were particularly clean for the standards of the time. Again, show me your sources, and I'll admit I was wrong and you were right.
btw "hide" is organic matter, it decomposes with the passing of the years, so I doubt there's any in museums. The only viking pieces of armor you can find in museums are chainmail and helmets
"Let me tell you the TRUTH about the vikings..." Shows a cartoon with horn helmet and double bitted war axes...
No horned helmets.
They commonly only fought if they thought they could win, were extremely mobile, and didn't fear death
There is no proof though, but I still doubt they had them.
@@gort7361 I mean, there's no proof they wore horned helmets in battle, so they practically didn't
Well that’s why they are called barbarians being the one to defeat Rome which is the most devestating defeat for them
That’s the best fight to fight. Wouldn’t want to fight a losing fight lol
@@TypicalIndian1981 I mean not really, the most devastating defeat rome faced was mostly to Goths in the west and Turks in the east, latter which ended the roman empire completely when they conquered Istanbul
Viking Video starting with horned helmets ... already a testament to how much research you did
Because they were so strong because of all the rowing they did. Very good exercise.
Row a little bit across the world and you will notice the difference.
True and climate
They where not strong they where most avrage built and short
But the people in europe was skinny
@@seal3427 lol nope! That is asia, africa, south and north america son
@@kasperknutsen8283 son... the average viking whas 1.73 cm in norway and sweden is it 1.81 right know. SON
If you terrify Russia, that means something.
Novgorod in the middle ages was a Viking state.
There wasn’t a Russia, just the remnants of the mongol empire and a couple of its tributary states
No there was but very weak.
@@Oxley016 Russia is literally named after the Vikings, Rus is Viking in russian.
@@rojavabashur6455 no rus where baltics kind of *viking* not real vikings.
dislike for the fact you did zero research and just used the BBC article as a source and for calling Kievan Rus "Russia".
Lol. Butthurt of offended ukrainian clown nobody cares.
Русские - истинные русы и наследники Руси =)
@@topsesXD Kiev has never been a true Russian city. It was captured by Rus' Prince Oleg in 882 from the Khazar Khaganate. True first Rus' cities are Novgorod, Izborsk, Belozersk, Staraya Ladoga, Staraya Russa, Rostov, Murom, Smolensk, Polotsk and all of them are located on territory of Russian plain in Russia.
@@topsesXD she is typical imperial chauvinist)))
you realize he used the term Russia simply because most people watching this would not have even known it was called kievan rus? you say kievan rus to most people and they are pretty dumbfounded as to where it is.
Probably because most the audience would have no idea what it was. For instance England was split into a bunch of smaller Kingdoms when the Vikings invaded. In fact the English identity existed because of the vikings as the Anglo Saxons united to kick out the vikings.
7:35 You put a viking on Finland but not Denmark? O_o Clearly this is another person just citing things without proper understanding
Swedish vikings where in Finland. Finland was only a province back then and later on unite the rest of the tribes there. But thats why its named Finland and not some other name cause it all started there
He means that denmark is WAY more viking related then lil old neighbour finland.
144p Lobster yes, but it was vikings that lived and created Finland. Finland was not the entire country as it is today, back then it was a small part in the southern region and there vikings lived there ofcourse some of the finno-ugric people to, my point is there where alot of vikings there so old Finland is very related to vikings. And if you read eddan you can read about greater svitjod that goes from Uppland to Finland and Novgorod.
@@huginmunin8253 bro everything Swedish schools said that there were Vikings in the coastal areas of the south of Sweden south/south-west areas of Norway and whole Denmark
@@harald7309 I dont know what you want to say with that, i have not mentioned anything about schools in Sweden and what they teach about vikings. What do you meen by that comment? No offense just want to know what i should reply
Sounds like someone did research by looking up some TH-cam videos.
Exactly, this video is pure clickbait and most of it is wrong.
A lot of what he's saying is true... He's just briefly skimming the surface because otherwise it'd be a documentary. It took me a while for my knowledge of Norse Myth, and I only got so far in.
Hah, You just realizing that. Literaly a dozen vids on this channel have misinformation.
I actually think this is they worst channel hands down thast attempts to pass what they say as fact but get SO MUCH WRONG ON SO MANY SUBJECTS/VIDEOS.
BUT HEY< THEY GOTTA GET THEM VIDS OUT AND $$ IN...WHO CARES ABOUT ACCURACY...😎
@lil crispy explain yourself do you know anything about Norse history or Vikings...or anything for that matter
This is why I like simple history more.
Because they played minecraft pvp daily.
imagine that the milk supply runs out so they take women to farms and milk their tities
Y u here
xd
Yeaaaa
JudgeBullShit no u
Fun fact Viking's didn't wear horn helmets
Fun fact Vikings did'nt look like bodybuilders either.
just become BORINGFACT.
It would be cooler if they did though
@@aaronross9326 No, it wouldn't. Having horns on your helmet is like having long hair. Don't give an enemy something to hold onto for leverage.
they barely wear helmets
One thing that was semi-recently discovered was that Viking warriors often used weapons made from primitive steel. I'm sure not all, but many groups would collect the bones of particularly fierce enemies that had been slain and would sometimes add the bone into the forging process in hopes of infusing the weapon with some of the fallen warriors ferocity and skill. What this really did was infuse some carbon into the weapon, strengthening the iron a bit which helps quite a lot.
It's because Vikings grew up playing Minecraft and not Fortnite.
Elmer Fudd Eating Grilled Cheese Real Viking's play Minecraft
I'd have gone with Dark Souls.
Notch Pearson just distributed it to the rest of the world
Reindeer hide armour helps
Skyrim or Dark Souls makes more sense
*ACCORDING TO THE BBC*
I was searching for this comment
😏
Big black coconut
Marco Flores me too 😂
BBC the heros are black of course
Fun fact: The average height for a male viking was 5'6, modern day folk stories portrayed them as enormous.
ȥαιԃ They where enormous. Not compared to us, but to people back then. They where the tallest humans at earth back then. They was much taller compared to people who lived in the Vikings time
@@maxharkestad1897 fr tho my great-grandfather said that there was an enormous guy back at their time and he was only like 5'7-5'8 soo ppl used to be small back then
That's average some we're taller some we're shorter just like today. The average Danish Viking was only 5'7, the average Norwegian Viking was 5'6 to 5'8 and the Swedes also known as Rus were the tallest of the bunch at 5'10 and up
Actually the average height was 5"8.
The Average height for a modern day Scandinavian is 6 foot, thats average. I think you need to check your facts bud
Who’s here after assassins creed Valhalla trailer?
The gameplay trailer was dissapointing
Not a particularly well researched video, seems you only got your info from the BBC, which we all know has been lacking quality in recent years.
There's atleast one mention to the national history museum of Denmark, which is going to be about as credible as you can get on this topic.
Yes
@@freakymoejoe2 except they are not, viking raids against monasteries and churches were a direct response to Charlemagne's butchery and desecration of holy pagan sites in Saxony and how Christianity had brutally murdered and butchered its way into Europe for centuries. Not because "there was easy plunder" academia is as biased and agenda based about the viking age as anything else.
@@INSANESUICIDE Oh interesting, so if you completely disregard the work of academia, where did you get your opinion on the matter? You've personally gone through all of the primary sources and competently evaluated the bigger picture, as a proffesional might?
I'm also not sure why you'd buy into the idea that MODERN academia has any interest in twisitng history to protect christianity of all things lol.
@@freakymoejoe2 well studying the matter as well as having dealt with and been friends with both established historians within academia and those that are not part of academia but have proved their theories through excavations and so forth and witnessing the ugliness of established academia from the sidelines, as well as being a hobby historian and reenactor working closely with people in the field in NORWAY yes, what I say is based on reality that some foreign outsider would never comprehend. But do feel free to instruct me on y forefathers based on foreign state propaganda channels.
Because they had *beards*
Just like any other charicter that wonna look badass
Brilliant comment. Not just beards. Epic bushes
@@noahstone264 bush? BUSH?! it was no bush! it was magifictly trimmed hedge!
Bushy Beards
so did like 90% of men in Europe...
As a side note, aside from just their incredibly advanced steel, their ships were far ahead of their time allowing them to travers almost any situation whilst remaining sturdy, and to boost their sailing skills they had an amazing ability of navigation which let them time their raids and locations in their advantage.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla trailer just dropped and now I'm here
*"Odin is with us!"* -Eivor
*Valhalla's calling*
*_"you are a raider, Legendary!"_*
I hated general tozen so much
RAH!
FOR HONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRR
Tenebris!
Snapmare out...standing
If i saw a man in the nude running at me with a battle axe i would be mortified
😂
I'd just hit him where it hurts most. He wont have chainmail to protect him
you do realize you would there for be coming in contact with his genitalia right?
@@LyrosHazard Or maybe your just at a gay-azz Village People reunion festival. LoL.
workhardism i don’t get it but okay
Nobody :
Vikings : Weapons are part of my religion
According to BBC lol.
Hey everybody, it’s Leif Erikson Day! Hinga dinga durgen
Yes!
It's wednesday, october the ninth right?.
lol patric spongebob
Man speaks Maori and has a Cuban Flag lol
I could hear that lol
It bothered me so bad that you had them wearing horned helmets
"According to BBC" dislike. Use real sources next time
I don't know how biased or un biased BBC's news is these days but that doesn't mater because this is not BBC News, it's BBC Documentary. Can anybody explain what political motifs they can possibly have for skewing a documentary about something that happened a thousand years ago?
@@tessjuel wrong more like the fìth century!
Ok @Pyro Paragon, what sources would you recommend, seeing as how you are acting like you know much more!
@@ulfberht4431 Well you could use BBC as a source as long as it is at least 10 years old or older, the did have credibility in the past but not anymore.
Actually most of his facts are true.. and i think the vikings in the video got horn helmets just because of the hollywood cliche..
Why was Thor avoiding his brother?
He Odin money
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thats a loki joke man...
This comment is underrated
Stop.
big sn0ke that’s *loki* the best joke I’ve ever seen
*_But could they win against the school bully?_*
Woah dude calm down you Kno he watches this right
yes
They WERE the school bully.
Looking how they trained as young i don't think soo
I love ur prof pic!
They were the first europeans to come to america before Columbus but just left
Actually, the Solutrians were here millennia before that. The so-called Clovis and Folsom projectile points look just like the Euro ones from the same era - 10-13.5K years back. They didn't seem to leave much in the way of genetic presence among current Native Americans, but the overall population was pretty sparse back then.
Im proud to have viking anscestors! 🇳🇴🇩🇰🇸🇪
Norwegian and swedish for me
@@TacticoolVIKINGBeard me too!
Im swedish
It should be noted that Vikings never actually wore horned helmets; that myth came about because Carl Emil Doepler made such helmets for the first Bayreuth Festival production of a German opera, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
we get it. u watched that commercial
We all know this. You must feel very clever enlightening us. Whats next, earth isnt flat?
@@bajingo4759 Actually I was under the impression that they were depicted as having horns when there was a plea for assistance from the Church, that way they could get more backing for the northern crusade... Now I have more research to do
No duh
I was under the impression that the reason it was believed they wore horned helmets was because skeletal remains had been found with drinking horns near the head but it was incorrectly assumed they wore horned helmets at the time.
''Berserkers were howling and biting on their shields''
Anybody saw Linybeige's video on berserkers? lol
BERSERKEEEER!!
I was just looking for this comment. 😂
Hah yeah
Beige brigade
Lindybeige was uneducated on the subject
Even as a swede, I have to point out how wrong it is that Denmark is left out on all the maps in this video..
I am from Norway, and you are embarrassing Scandinavia.
"Infographics" mistakenly made me think you would have researched and come at me with accurate information. That's my mistake, won't happen again.
*Thor would like to know your location*
Because they were trained by Mr.Beast's viking
I thought you said Mr.Breast's for a second XD
Lol:))
They were actually trained by chuck norris but they didin't pay attention that much
Lol
"if you can fight in artic climate, you can fight anywhere"
No you also need to be able to fight in warm weather
Viking plundring a church be like: There's two bald short skinny men without weapons praying to a dead corps on a wall in a giant house full of silver
It's free real estate
Free gold and silver and easy slaves
*_Ragnar Lothbrook typing_*
It's actually Lodbrok
Ivar is typing......
@@adsrfg5213 Lothbrok is enligsh verison it is actually ragnar lodbrok
It is Loðbrók and Lothbrok in english it translates to hairybriefs
Actually it’s Lodbrog muthafuckaaas, cause he was Danish!!!
You didn't highlight Denmark when going over the area the vikings were from. . . .
They even keep saying "acording to the danish museum of..." but does not recognize Denmark
I'm not of nordic descent but I know Finland was not part of viking culture. Only Norway, Denmark, and Sweden were. As far as I know the raiders towards west (England, France, Mediterranean lands) were mostly from Norway and Denmark while the raiders toward the east (Finland, Russia, Balkan lands) were from Sweden. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Finland had different culture and gods and they were also raided by vikings. Iceland was inhabited by vikings later on and didn't have human population before that.
you are right, only denmark, norway and sweden were vikings, BUT norway was the country that had the vikings that most People reconize today. They were the ones who raided the English coast and were called satans work by the englishmen. Denmark i know mastered how to make beatufiul boats whilst sweden had more vikings clashes in their own country. If you ever see a viking With an Axe, that viking is Norwegian because they were the only ones to bear the Axe. You are right, but they were'nt who you think they are.
growlingbehemoth I’m just saying they mastered the boats, not that they didn’t go out raiding
@@Felix-fx1zu Actually, Danes are who are what we see as vikings, conquerors, politicians, raiders, pillagers. Norwegians and Swedes did have an impact, but Denmark was by far the closest to what imagie we have of vikings
10 seconds into the video and I don’t want to watch anymore. Hellooo, Denmark were vikings! Btw, they don’t have horn on their helmets.
Yes they were but Norse Vikings seem to get more attention
@@teddyragins6488 And you comment really proves why, when people hear the word "norse" vikings they think about Norway but Norse was what Scandinavians called themself back then that includes Denmark, Sweden and Norway..
@@valividar7939 Denmark were Danes
@@valividar7939 PREACH!!!
WHY would you listen to the BBC about ANYTHING ?
Hehe
If your choice is FOX?
BBC documentary =/= BBC news
Graphics show no vikings from Denmark, can we really trust anything else this video says?? ;)
😒
I would say not xD Danes are very different to Vikings
Video says that there was vikings in Finland zone... There wasn't
Jonas Jensen Danes are not Vikings
And vikings didn't have horns on their helmets
I've never heard so much misinformation in my life, your "sources" are quite questionable.
I literally laughed as soon as I saw horned helmets and heard raindeer leather! Pfft! Yea um Vikings had metal weapons, were well trained, had the best navy at the time, used a combination of chainmale and a special leatherlike armor made of multiple lairs.
elk !not reindeer.
But it is more romantic to think of vikings with reindeer leather, and their clan leader is 3x their size with a battle axe made from a a large piece of driftwood and a broken boulder. :-)
@@Alsayid the warrior vikings ate and drank much so not impossible of big dudes but you're right anything can be romanticize and reality always tells different
Berserkers were used as the first attack, also they did not have a fricking bear costume
Acutually there were 3 groups of berserkers. The wolf, bear, and boar. They wore the skins accordingly, and took on that animals energy. Live and light Evie
Becuase they had *DRAGONS* duuuuh 😒
YaHoboMan 7000 Good one
Lmao ikr! Instead of ubers they call their dragons
FUS RO DAH!!!
Nah, they had Jack.
So true and obvious
Now imagine them with ak47s
@Kekistan Shitlord No. Not at all.
Or better yet, M240s and M4s
RPGs
No one could stop them.
Ur phat or imagine them in todays with a gadget of black and white weapons like an army like delta force have😄👍🔪🔫
Who's here after watching Assassin's Creed Valhalla Trailer.
Me
Everyone
MEEEE!
don't bother, this video is awful and terribly researched
Interesting facts:
The national boats in my country, the Faroe Islands, are still built the same way as our viking ancestors built them. And many boats that compete in the annual rowing races are fitted with the dragon's head bow. Faroe Islanders are the best in the world at rowing because the tradition has been kept alive since viking times :)
Virgin catholic vs Viking chad
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4:31 _Ah, So I see they were actually ninjas the whole time_
(They happened to have boats)
Wtf every kind of warriors had boats back then, viking is the point most far away from ninjas
big sn0ke its a joke 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Oh please, the ninjas in Ninjago had a boat too...
@@MrPancake777 its...uhmm. not funny
*ACTUALLY HAPPENED*
Here is something I always wanted to know. Maybe some Scandinavians have some opinions. Why do you think the viking region went from being so war-like to so pacifist?
I think it had to do with all the missionaries who came and preached about Christianity and its benefits of trade and cooperation with most parts of Europe until the idea took hold and began to spread throughout the country.
Because the vikings ended up ruling all of europe and there was nobody left to fight.
@@mr.jackhatter9385 history left the Chat
As a Swede and a practioner of the Asatro, the "viking" religion i can say that the religion itself never was violent, we had our ways of sacrifice but most of the religion is about nature and spirits, there were the ulfhednars and beserkers who were known as beasts from nature but thats pretty much it. Norway and Denmark were more into the fighting meanwhile Sweden was like the viking jerusalem, we didn't fight as much and were more into religion, spirit and nature. Thats why Uppsala, the viking jerusalem is in sweden, because we were the most spiritual. But war is in every relgion, Christians preach love and peace yet they go to war and still do today. It's my opinion mixed with some facts, just wanted to share :)
Cultural masculinity developed into a civilized culture I think is one factor.
But most of all I think it is because of christianity.
What I disagree on with your question is how we are so "pacifist".. In my opinion we are peacefull, not pacifist! We like our modern army AND our work for world peace. (Sweden is more focused on neutrality than Norway is).
The viking era and culture was many things; Some positive things, but also extremely brutal compared to the christian values we have today. Vikings lived by "an eye for an eye", which is barbaric and totally unheard of in Norway today.
That Viking with the axe said “stay ready so you don’t gotta get ready” in a lot of words
I think you forgot to include Denmark, they were as much viking as Sweden and Norway :)
Yeah every country went their different ways, Norwegians went West/Northwest, Danes went West, and the swedish went east to russia, etc. So they should def include Denmark aswell
This video is actually discriminatory
@@legendteigen461 norway for the most
Denmark inferior to ancient Sweden reeee!
@@hoar2340 yes it is actually only norway and denmark+iceland. But sweden did their own thing i guess
They were so good for the same reason the Spartans were as good as they were. Their whole lives were dedicated to fighting. They had superior battle tactics and training. They also (like the Spartans) used psychological warfare to their advantage which plays a HUGE part in battle.
most of them were farmers
AC Valhalla dropped, is amazing. Now I’m here binging every drop of Viking the web has to offer
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Infographics Show: According to the BBC...
Actually Finland didnt have vikings, but vikings raided and traided with them, the vikings that traveled down the Volga river and such in Russia were mostly Swedish
Finland was basically russia
The Western area of Finland today (Ostrobothinia) was synonymous with Sweden and the people there were Swedish/Finns and had Vikings combatants. The Viking who ruled Novgorod in Russia was Rurik and his DNA results are most similar to the people who live in this area to this day. Also the word Russia some believe comes from this same group of Vikings who would of spoke Old Finnish/Norse dialect and Russia could of been named after the word for Sweden which in Finnish today is Ruotsi.
VikingFitness It's belived that the name "Russia" comes from the Swedish viking settlement "Kievan Rus".
I'd say the Finns were more trade companions than victims of raids, Finns would have been valuable to the Swedish traders when moving east since Finns would better be able to speak with some of the tribes along the Volga due to the difference between Slavic and Germanic language families.
Modern russians (atleast 80%) look very asiatic. Roundhead, slanted eyes. Putin phenotype is extremely wide. Closest people to Kievan Rus remained today are Ukrainians.
vikings did not have horns on their helmet but on the animation they had helmets.
Agree no horns
Nobody:
Me: is this a Vinland saga reference
Lemo2x this was the comment i was looking for XD
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All that rowing must have gave them great upper body strength and they had the ability to heat steel 100 Celsius higher than other Europeans.
Hmm.Just thought of this: arms strengthened by rowing push more air through the bellows = Uhlfbert swords. OK, that works.
Thanks!
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"According to a BBC article" yeeeeeah, definitely trustworthy...
The main reason is simple: as they came by sea & rivers, they had the element of surprise on their side. The Norse were battle ready whereas their victims were completely in the dark until it was all but too late.
Well not exactly
They weren't, they were raiders who caught their targets off-guard. Their record in pitched battles against well-trained armies is actually pretty abysmal.
Can't lie they were experts at guerrilla warfare and ambushing. Even William the conquerer decided paying the Viking Lord's to leave would be smarter then fighting as they hindered his marches and castle building and fought harder then the Englishman who were also at war with the Norman's.
I dunno, the Varangean Guard would have a word with you.
Yup
I'm pretty certain I could beat up a French priest, especially if I had an axe and the element of surprise.
Vikings: We believe in honor and courage
Also vikings: *sneak attacks unarmed village people*
Vikings have created myths about themselves that do not correspond to reality.
Dont trust that
You salty Russians
@@shtorka_v_dome As do all people in all times, apparently. Maybe even chimps, for all we know.
There's a story of some Viking raiders who just looted some gold from a village and left. They weren't happy that they didn't have a decent fight for the gold so they return to the village killed some folk and then left with their honour fully intact.
I sweaaar, I'm in such a mood to delve into the deep roots of Norse mythlore.
This is so awesome!!
Take a shot for every time the video references BBC.
take a hit
I’m totally knackered, and I still have 4 to go
"Where is your beard and where is your axe"
would you rather be gay or have stage 4 cancer, kinda a hard choice tbh
@@killaklown7229 stage 4 cancer
@@CloroxBleach-fd6ph alright, see you at the hospital
Did you know the vikings pioneered the invention of the teapot cozy? It allowed them to drink hot sleepy time tea, keeping them all warm and snugglie on long sea voyages!
There is an astounding amount of inaccuracies in this video.
Viking: lowers down sword and yells out of his lungs....
DUN MAH GLAS!!!!!!!!!
Wrong character
@@tristinjudd2595 Fus Ro dah?
@@Rattus-Norvegicus thats cultural appropriation!!!
KRI VA HAN
DO VAH KIIN
4:03 **fighting for each other's v-buck belts**
Its beacause they ate a large amount of mushrooms before going into battle
Weeeeeel, no. But yes aswel, They created stew from a highly poisonous mushroom found mostly in Norway and Denmark Wich they gave to warriors to send them into a Brutal rage making them more or less loose control for a short period of time, screaming shouting and attacking anything they could get they're hands on, it was more or less a suicide scare tactic, most of the vikings eating the stew would die either from the battle or the poison during or after the battle.
(the more you know👍🏼)
@@Kvitravn. It could be what the Berserkers ate before battle but other sources suggest they did go 'berserk' at all they just got their name from wearing bearskins.
Two words: Scandinavian awesomeness. Glad I could clear that up for anybody still in the dark.
Did you know that some of the English words come from the danish language and the vikings carried it over to you guys
@@cassandrawinther Not the danish language but Old Norse. Old Norse does not exist anymore but Norwegian Nynorsk, Icelandic and Faroese is the closest to Old Norse. OId Norse influenced the English language.
Awesomeness > harmful Romanticism
Oh boy in the very beginning you forgot to paint the country with the most vikings (as in the raiding and warrior ones in Western Europe), namely, Denmark
Nerd
Finland is not or never was a Viking country
This is true. Only shamans
r u gay
Very much right
Finland was raided from time to time, but vikings never had pernament settlements there. Although after the viking age there were finnic vikings that raided Sweden until Sweden conquered Finland in 13th century
Nah you were to bad. Finland is Sweden's appendix 😂
Do you think he got some information from the BBC?
You had me up to the horned helmet.
You know for a fact there was a kid that came to school wearing full armor made of gold and flexed
They hit really really hard
REALLY hard
"Live in honor, die in glory"
aswell as Columbus didnt discover USA, the Vikings did
true
*USA*
boi
Leaf Erikson
vikings where not afraid to die. They lived for what they did, and as long they died with honor they didnt care
No hesitation. 100% aggression
VIKINGS DIDN'T HAVE HORNS ON THERE HELMETS!!!
nor did they have morning stars
Be a lot cooler if they did
@@bestwarrior2660 Some vikings had hornets in their helmets and were none to pleased with the concept, spawning the other popular myth of the berserker.
Adam "THERE" IS SPELLED "THEIR"!!!! NORMAL CONVERSATION IS NOT ALL CAPS!!!!
yes they did ! that was there sunday best gear! but not for raiding! too cumbersum!.
Physical strength, weapons and willingness to fight.
I’m part Norwegian