King Sigurd & The Norwegian Crusade
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Was your focus going to adjust to the crusades, or on Scandinavia?
JJ Latham They are both areas of great interest to me so I will be dedicating many more videos to both.
That was amazing and I didn't realise that Ireland was the cause of sigurds father's death something for a video maybe? If their's info about considering I can't find but you seem to know where to look and by your videos you make nothing short of excellence.
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You might have wanted to use a map of Norway in the 1100's, not 2018. The one you use have modern borders.
I'm really shocked. Sigurd seems to have been an exceptional king for his time, and the fact that he and his brothers managed to rule their kingdom together is very impressive.
The grace of the lord guided them.
Right!
North's people invade Ibiza and menorca.... that is not past they are still doing every summer season.
AACLAGE but at least they pay for their stay, instead of just taking it.
Could you imagine the surprise of some pirate running into a fleet of Vikings?
Their asses would be kicked :-)
«Aaaah, fuck..»
🤣🤣🤣 pirates woukd be the leftovers between the teeths of vikigss
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i had no idea this happened, thank you for enlightening me in this.
I never knew why the Norwegian crusade is not as popular as the other crusades I mean it's literally a bunch of knights going on a viking it's so awesome
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like really seriously history beats fiction everytime
EYE FOR AN EYE...MORE CRUSADES SHOULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE...
@@dsala2614 might have happened if the West wasnt too busy fighting themselves.
Maybe because, as i told to an obstinate norwegian, Norway (and other countries like Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Netherlands and Northern/Eastern Germany) doesn't have a notorious history as a Christian nation as the great majority of european nations.
In Norwegian Sigurd is called "Jorsalfarer" meaning "Jerusalem Traveler".
I find the Norwegian Crusade very interesting. The fact that my small country was the first to send a European King to aid in the Holy Land and that this very significant event is not known by most Norwegians. I think it might be something about our negative perception of the Crusades, that Norwegians prefer their pagan Viking herritage over their Christian one or a combination of multiple factors.
I however find the Crusades a very interesting time period and I think it is quite cool how my country is connected to it.
I'm a direct descendant of his and king aellas daughter.
@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 suprise so are alot of us. My own descent has been traced back to when some Norwegian princling went whoring in Norrland
@@arawn1061 of course. I'm js.. we live in an interesting time.. 20 years ago, we wouldnt be able to dig that deep into family history.
@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 how do you trace your lineage that far back?
@@aksbeixhev the trick is that up here most people are related because of village marriages. Ie everyone is slightly inbred and thus if one branch can be found leading from some king a thousand years ago then all that is needed is to check the family tree to how you are related
As a Norwegian it was fun to watch this. All of the information seems to go along pretty well with what I read and was taught in school as a boy.
Except for Øystein as Eystein, Snorre as Snorri, Harrald as Haword, lmao
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Those people were not really called by our modern renditions during the middle ages, though. Snorre was actually Snorri and Øystein was Eysteinn. Harald was not Haword though. ;)
Back then there were no such thing as Norway. Only Denmark.
Back then there were no such thing as Norway. Which mean that Denmark was the land of vikings.
Vikings in this crusade were equivalent to an army of Spartans showing up in more ancient times. Awesome warriors.
Seriously, this is something you don’t learn in school - KEEP IT UP !!!
You always make quality videos of incredibly interesting topics that few other channels cover. Exactly what I've been looking for on TH-cam. Haven't failed to impress me yet.
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I love the integration of maps into your commentaries. Thank you for these most entertaining accounts of historical periods
This story should be a movie or a show. I'd definitely binge-watch it. This is very interesting.
I can't believe I never knew about this crusade! Thank you for teaching me something very interesting, This almost sounds like a Viking Resurgence right? Longboats rolling over the horizon to the cheers of weary European soldiers to wreak havoc on the Levant. Thanks man!
Right but in this case it was cheers!
Well done as usual chap.
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Blaine McCranie i wish i had a friend like that
This crusade would make a good movie.
This is one of the best channels out there. Thanks for your great work!
Sigurd killing for Thor: no
Sigurd killing for Jesus: yes
Almost like you believe Jesus, himself, solicited the Crusades. I don't think anything could be further from the truth, I seriously believe Jesus is appalled by them and anything like them, since it isn't what He preached.
@@karenlasslett5731 If jesus actually existed then it was his kinsmen the crusaders were slaying...sooo yeah you're not really going out on a limb claiming that
@@nuclearnadal9385 His kinsmen were Jews. Jesus, the man, was a Jew. The crusaders were not Jews, they were Europeans from the "Holy" Roman Empire. They were Romans, you know the ones that crucified Jesus and other Jews. So no limb here.
@@karenlasslett5731 You seem confused. I'm obviously talking about the people living in the middle east whom the crusaders were slaying indiscriminately as jesus himself undoubtedly was a middle eastern man. An Arab so to speak. I'm western & christian myself but I'd be remiss if I did not recognize that
@@nuclearnadal9385 you are correct, I did misread what you said. However, the crusaders were part of the "Holy" Roman Empire, they were an extension of the Roman Empire, whom Jesus preached against. So no, as an extension of that, they were not doing it in Jesus's name, they were following the false teachings of the "Holy" Roman Empire.
I'm truly impressed with your channel!!! Thank you I really enjoy your history lessons. I hope soon I can contribute to your channel.
Thanks for history lesson, it was new knowledge from our own history.
Nice video man. I happen to have been reading about him lately. He deserves a movie about his life.
Movie would be too short need to be an whole series.
And about his forebear, Harald Hardrada.
The greatest of Norwegian composers Edvard Grieg wrote some incidental music toBjornson's play about this hero and the most impressive part is the Hommage March
Thank you for the excellent lecture 😊
Love how your channel is growing.
Sigurd the Chad.
Heart of a good christian, king of the seas and fierce as a warlord.
Thank you for including the fact that he went to Småland for a crusade in 1123, where the people had reportedly renounced christianity. As a Swede and interested in Swedish history this is very interesting and also can give a hint on how fast, or slow, christianity had spread. It's interesting if it's true since the area around Varnhem (Middle western Sweden) has christian graves from the late 800's by the local rulers.
I really do believe that crusade was just an excuse to pillage though.
@@daginn896 probably it was the catholic church and the papacy that wanted to direct europeans to fight in the middle east rather then threaten their realm which they had done with the holy roman empire often attacking the papacy also it gave the Europeans a holy excuse to wage war pillage and conquer territories
There is no need for fiction when men like this existed in reality.
Excellent presentation, thank you.
I've already said it but I do love those videos on little known/forgotten chacacters or events
I do think Sigurd is better known in Norway as Jorsalfar (the Traveller that went to Jorsal eg Jerusalem) than the crusader.
Yeah, he is, but nobody abroad would really know him by that name.
Great video, very interesting! 👍🏼
As always another great video!!
One of the greatest periods of European triumph!
Big Bill O'Reilly Fucking dumbass
People in those days were not in a hurry.
The fact Sigurd was to be married when he got home.
You could see this whole expedition as a massive bachelor party with the boys.
Sigurd and the boyz rocking up to constantinople th-cam.com/video/sAXZbfLzJUg/w-d-xo.html
Excellent video! Thank you so much. I love, History!
love all your videos
I'm glad I found your channel. Awesome you did one of the lesser known crusades. I really dislike real crusades history so you're channel is my first stop for crusades history. How about the prussian crusade and the wendish? And the epic fails against the badass jan zizka?
I have always enjoyed this history.
We literally talked about this a week ago in my world history class.
Luke Thomas You must be in a very good world history class then. If you're in America, it is probably a private or a charter school.
Doby Pilgrim although I did go to a charter school was excellent. I was talking about my college history 1500 class.
The Norwegian Crusade narrated by a Norwegian !
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Luke Thomas I knew it. One if my sons went to a charter school and the other was home-schooled. Your college class is also impressive, sir. As are you.
imagine the sight of the Dragon ships
in full sail approaching !!!
Sigurd ! Ja !
"Magnus Barefoot".
How the hell did he get that name?
Google, here I come.
Very interesting topic, thanks for making this video :)
Wow history is so vast. I feel so small and insignificant
Very good channel dude
Great info, very interesting.
great episode
Ooh I haven’t got this far in Heimskringla yet!
Excellent!
Omg I thought this was my “Guy of Warwick” video. Your intro music is the same in that video. XD
Good vid btw!
Impresive😮
This goes to show that even after being baptized in the name of Christ, the Norse continued to behave much as they did when they were still heathens.
Sarah Gray Why because they looted and sacked? Everyone did that. The Norse were just famous for doing it with ships to get away, everyone else just did it on foot or horseback.
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@@Yassinekamp funny comment, well said. Religion has always been used to lead the masses into countless wars.
@@aksbeixhev Fucking idiot, out of all 1,763 known historical conflicts 123 (6%) had religion as a cause.
@@CM-qd9dp They had only recently converted and still held the strength of their pagan ancestors tightly, the weary grey years of Christianization had not taken its toll on our peoples spirit yet.
Everything in the video was great, though I would hardly agree that "most crusading efforts failed" the reality is much more complicated and seems to point toward the opposite.
Is there an English biography of this king? It seems crazy that there hasn't been a made for TV show or something about somebody who at one time had so much loot they hung things off the boat. I mean... what a life.
6:36 how about a video on the conquest of James I of Aragon of Valencia and the Isles?
What is the painting that you used for the thumbnail? It's gorgeous.
What a hero
I am a viking fan and this is very cool very nice thank you for this video. ☀️🐺🌙🐺
you guys should read Snorre Sturlason, King saga. If you liked Sigurd's story you'll love Harald Haraldson.
There was no king named Harald Haraldsson.
About "Calmare Ledung", Smaland/Sweden!
It happened there was a lot of different christian communities around the Baltic Sea at Sigurds time. For example Himmerland/Denmark according to German texts have a lot of churches and priests, but they was Briton Christians, and they did NOT recognice the Pope as first of bishops. On Holm Island the churches shows the christians there probable were Arians. South of Holm the german texts says the people living around Oder outfall, and especially in the largest town in the north at the time - Jumne - that is the "Jomsborg" in the sagas, WERE GREEK. That´s a popular name at the time for Greek Orthodox christians.
When the german archbishop of Hamburg/Bremen during 1010-1020 sent Roman Catholic bishops to the "free counties" (they were allied as "pree-Sweden") around the Baltics, they was not wellcom other place than Scara. In Helsingland the german bishop was killed - they already had their own - probable a Greek Orthodox or Armenian - their first bishop was "Stefanos" or in Swedish ""Stefan". The Helsinglands was "christianed" 1364, that is they converted when the people could not resist the central states forces any more, probbable because of Black Death consequensies.
Their bishop to Kaupang/Oeland had to go back (thats a town/marketplace), planned as residense for the christians round "Baltic Islands". Near by, at west, was the small country of "ten-Herreds" inland Smaaland with its own bishop, may be a Briton Christian one, that is a old christian faith since the English roman period. They was not recognicing Roman Chatholic church until 1150-1250 and not a part of sweden either. The swedish king at about 1250 had to marry their "princess" in order to got the country under his rule. The german bishop sent to Strigin (modern Strängnäs) and Aros (modern Västerås) went well, but the third bishop was going to Uppsala, allways thought of as a "pagan head site", but at that time it seams there resided a Greek Ortodox/Armenian bishop (or may be an arch bishop). The Roman Catholic church did not get that church in hands until about 1250 and The Roman Chatholics burned the church. In a well close to Uppsala church it is found a complete bishops service-dish in silver - that´s no coincidense! Then the winning Roman Catholic part set up a new place as residens for the comming arch-bishop of sweden and moved the name Uppsala to the new place.
The Calmare Ledung took place around Kaupang/Oeland and the island and mainland was looted. 20-30 years later the Roman Chatholics established a new bishopric in a place called Liunga and also moved the older Kaupang recidens to the place (developped to Liunga-Kaupang - an ordarnary naming when two bishoprics combined). Probably there were a lot of religious tension and violence arond the two places after Sigurds crusaide.
Gutland was a very rich "nation" at the time and when they was confronted by the threat of a crusaid, they decide to take christianity on their own terms (that is they converted as a nation to Roman Catholic church about 1140. Holm had done the same about 1050.
From 1100 there were a lot of northern crusaids round the Baltics.At least three against Wendland (today Finland), a couple against western Estonia, trails to attack Oesel, and severall against the are of Letvia/Lituina. No texts says other than the inhabitants was "pagans". But everytime the crusaiders left the inhabitants left the roman Catholic faith. That means it´s probable other chistians than Roman Catholics living in those areas. The german Order was organized to "convert" the inhabitants in Lettvia/Lituina and Estonia/Oesel for good. The people in Letvia/Lituina resisted so sharp and revolted so often, that in the end they were droven eastwards and the land was empty. That started a building of a new inland nation of Lituina, which became a main power in the region, later on taking power in Poland with a mariage-alliance.
When Norway ruled the world ;-)
Best channel
Call hollywood or HBO, this is a badass miniserie
Not Hollywood come on, it's the same as netflix. Brain washing companies
Nice
Viking Crusaders must have been a dream come true for the Pope
But what events occurred during th stopover at Sicily and Cyprus? Definitely news that this event happened though Scandinavian involvement was limited to the varangian guard based on prior knowledge and a few hundred knights over the course of the Crusades on the Levant seems they played a greater role than englismen based on this though
Thanks for this. I have only recently realised how little I know about European history.
Don't feel bad, this is actually not common knowledge even amongst norwegians. ;)
@ Erik: Certainly not amongst my fellow NZers who descend from European colonisers as I do! Thanks for that consolation.
There is another fun thing about Sigurds crusaid.
The king was master of a norse clan which was represented as rulers in sevarall Européan nations at the time. The new English rulers of Rollo´s kind formaly stood under Sigurd. That´s why Sigurd had to make a visit. During the visit the ruler, still named Duke asked Sigurd to be able to take the name of "king". Sigurd was the master of the clan and was the only in the clan who had a right to call himself king. Sigurd said yes. Sigurd also visited the channel islands, where his kind was ruling and he became the right to name himself a Duke. When the fleet arrived at Cicily, also that ruler was of his (rollo´s) kind and during the visit he also, while his relative in England got the right, asked to get the right to name himself king. It´s not until Sigurds visit the two dukes are named as kings. The protocols from the two official meetings is preserved. At the time there always was a monk present when rulers met important persons, making protocols. That also made the Curia (pope) well informed about european rulers plans (spying)
Sigurds travel to Konstantinopel/Miklagaard had another purpose. He was going to tell the East Roman emperor, that from now on the varangian guard was being recruited from "Normands" in England and arrive every four year as the troops from Kiev Rus. Originali Sigurds kind in Kiev Rus had asked Sigurd to re-negotiate an agreement. The king of Kiev needded his troops himself. And the Kiev Rus was under constant battles with a lot of horse-people moving westwards.
I don't know about your second paragraph, but the first one isn't true. The Normans and Sigurd wasn't a part of a clan, or a tribe, or whatever. The Normans had been independent of the norse kingdom of Norway for hundreds of years, and subservient to the French King - and Christianity for a long time before Norway turned to Christianity.
And Roger I of Sicily was named King in 1130, 20 years after Sigurds visit, by the Pope. Even William the Conqueror was crowned King of England by Papal Legates in 1067, before Sigurd was even born - and by the authority of the Pope that superseded everything back then.
Norway a destination of mine dreaming hopeing it neverends
Is that Dan Jones talking?
Movie or series would be cool if done right
how is the city Acre related to the measuring unit Acre?
Virgin King John of England who oppresses the people and tries to usurp the crown while his brother is crusading vs. Chad King Eystein of Norway who rules the kingdom peacefully while is brother is crusading and is remembered as a better king than his warlike brother
Crazy to think that just 300 years prior most Norwegians were pagans who had been raiding Christendom for a good 200 years before then! Cultures change so quickly
Actually, only 50 years prior it would've been the case.
Hmm... First you say first crusade is from 1096-1099 then you say 1095-1099... ??? I "heard" it started in 1097 ???
I wonder what Sigurd and his warriors would think of modern Norwegians and Norway.
They'd probably invade...and then modern Norwegians would have a lot more to worry about than a few Syrian refugees!
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Podcast_Anon He's saying that the concept of race and ethnonationalism as we know it today did not exist. And it's the truth, it came to be in '800, going on the '900.
They would think, we should have stuck to the real gods. This turning the other cheek stuff was obviously a poisoned chalice.
exellent
Viking crusaders
FUCKIN KILL ME!
He had a son. Magnus. The only son of the three brothers
Dying without an heir served the bastard right for messing with Smålands internal business. My father, and grandfather and grandfathers father and beyond all came from Småland.
Sounds like Tyr's justice.
Why did they return to Norway overland?
Probably to brag all a cross Europe
I didn’t know piratical was a word but here we are.
Is that a shoot-out to your own ignorance?
@@JudasPriestSUCKS yeah I was ignorant of the word’s existence and I looked it up and it turned out it’s a word. So yeah I was ignorant but now I’m not. Two years later. Thanks for pointing this out.
Emmm... Kingdom of Jerusalem 1099-1291 *?
Galicia, including Santiago, that perhaps at the time was a mere tiny settlement from the Roman times, was absolutely and completely conquered and dominated by the Moors or Arabs or musulmans or whatever you want to call them, as soon as 714. Only some areas between Picos de Europa and the sea in the actual Asturias and Cantabria were not conquered, but Gijon, for instance, a city by the sea had a muslim governor. The astures will later on will conquer Galicia thanks to the berber revolt and with difficulty, first the north and then the south of Galicia by the end of the VIIIth century. Santiago as a city was born in the 9th century. Lisbon was completely muslim by the XItth century, and conquered by the christians during the XIIth century. The Balears were conquered by the reign of Aragon in the XIII century.
I can't be the only one who thinks the narrator sounds a bit like Ewan McGregor?
Wasn't Sigurd's Brother, known as Eystien the Fart
axe to the max. harharhar have fun gare
Jesus assassins creed valhalla out now lol
Valhalla rising \,,/
Kvitekrist vult!
Is this why Sigurd was killed off in the TV series by Ivar ? PC bullshit ?
What are you talking about? If it is "Vikings", then that show is almost completely fiction. They have interwoven parts of stories that happened hundreds of years apart into one incoherent mess. And the Sigurd in Vikings is the son of Ragnar, and not related to Yngling-dynasty at all.
Not the same Sigurd though, the one you are talking about was active 150 years before.
This is not the Sigurd that is one of the sons of Ragnar is it?
C Rock No, you refer to Sigurd Snake in the Eye.
tomurg O okay he is the dead one in the show killed by ivar.
C Rock I saw it man. In real life became king of Denmark and all European monarchs are descendants from him.
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye died like 200-300 years before this Sigurd was born
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Typical vikings. ...Show up. Kick ass. Take s**t. Go home. ...Sigurd just did it in grand world tour style.😁
Ah, when you're a warrior and king but still got fooled by a bunch of charlatans to fight for absolutely nothing....and i'm not even European so fuckin sad!!
This was not as eye ñ
Now all we need to do is declare Anne Marie Waters our Joan of Arc, get Tommy Robinson to dress up in chain mail, and start rolling hard.
Gud ønsker!
Hva ønsker Gud? Oo
it must have been a real boring thing to be a christian king of Norway hah ?
Sounds like they still raided and pillaged juat as much though.