One thing not mentioned was Sigurd was 18 years old when he set sail, and betrothed to a princess, further reinforcing the idea that this was just a massive holiday with the lads before settling down
Wow, he was indeed succesful! He: - Didn´t die on his way to Jerusalem and actually reached it - Wasn´t deposed or betrayed at home - Didn´t betray other crusaders or crusader leaders (just a little bit of pillaging in Spain) - Didn´t do anything stupid at Constantinople - Departed home by sea and returned by land getting to know many territories in the process - Made a succesful return trip back home to brag about his achievement and enjoy his fame! (By First Crusade standards this guy was a prodigy!)
It's long been a trend among many Scandinavians historically as far back as the Viking Age and probably before that and certainly now that they are innately curious, very intelligent, knowledgable, hard-working, but many are encouraged to see as much of the world as possible. I've met many people from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, even Finland that are well-traveled and have visited, experienced, and described in vivid details the sites, cities, countries, continents they've been too. New Zealanders and Aussies have some of that same adventurous spirit as well as many Germans.
@@davidroberts7282 having shared a house for over a year with a Dane i agree with that. But that desire to travel is not innate to them from birth, it comes from the open mindedness which is cultivated by their education and upbringing. People from any country can be like that but it's true Nordic people share those values more :)
@@Laotzu.Goldbug SO they replace the dragon, a symbol for Satan, with an angel, another symbol for Satan, the king of fallen ANGELS. The guy on the "Christ"mas tree is Satan by the way, and laying presents at his feet is symbolic devil worship. See more in "Proof Satan Rules The World Ergo The Bible is Right." Over 3,000 slides of evidence.
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@@scintillam_dei Can't you just leave and not try to enforce your religion and views upon history, this video, comments and all the people of planet earth through all time? Nidhögg isn't "satan" but he is gnawing on the roots of Yggdrasil. So he is so to say the force/being which try to destroy it all. But he's not satan as this is Norse gods, creatures and mythology now Jewish. As for the second part that would also be wrong because surely not all angels are fallen angels? And as for presents at-least here in Sweden where Jul predates Christianity the original meaning of Julklapp which is what the presents are called wasn't presents under the Christmas tree it was a prank on the neighbours where the kids ran around knocking onto people's doors and then opened threw in a prank gift typically with a writing on it. So it wasn't the modern style. To bring in a decorated tree was a thing German Christians came up with. But various plants have had mythological meanings before too. Our origin isn't middle-eastern monotheistic and much of our traditions aren't either.
@ No one is forced to read what I say. You can skim or skip entirely, so you misused the word "enforce" to portray me negatively in a strawman fallacy.
Europe: Make Scandianvia Christian so they stop Viking all over Christian Europe Sigurd: *Goes Viking all over Islamic Europe* Modern problems require modern solutions
@@haitamc5611 Well they fought with the muslim navies of Suther Andelucia and won a few battels at seas against them. They did ofcurse land in Suther Spain because then they would be outnumbered by the muslims. Since the muslims navies got defeated by the Crusders the Christian navies was not so heavy outnumbered as before, improving their situasion on the water.
So a bunch of Christian Vikings went to the Mediterranean beat up a bunch of Spaniards, killed some pirates, and partied with the Byzantine emperor. We need a historical comedy about this Hollywood. Screw another reboot I want my Holy Vikings movie.
@@arcticocean9106 Generally yeah, but there were some Viking pirates that were christian. It must also be noted that King Canute who conquered England in the early 11th century was also christian.
Fun fact: As a Norwegian, I've never heard Sigurd I described as "the Crusader". Up here, he's known as "Jorsalfare", literally "Jerusslem-farer". Which I suppose might actually be an old Norwegian term for crusader...
@@DPRK_Best_Korea Yes, that is what I've always assumed as well. I mean, that's literally what it means, so... But I started wondering if he got that name not so much for traveling to as for going on a crusade to Jerusalem. I don't know, though.
@@DPRK_Best_Korea It's possible that technically he wasn't a crusader. In later years a royal crusade needed to be declared by The Pope so that the crusading king could impose a special tax on his clergy (which they had to pay for fear of excommunication) and give his soldiers a plenary indulgence (which allowed them to kill anyone they liked without having to do penance). However I'm not sure these rules existed before The Second Crusade and even if they did Norway was on the periphery of the Christian world, with a poor, weak Church, so they might not have seemed all that relevant.
@White Brad Bad Thats actually a good point that i had never thought about. We had the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans and proabably others all land and take over large parts if not all of England at one time or another. Maybe waaaaayyy back the idea of being the conquerors instead of the conquered took root and we proceeded to tear shit up as best we could so that it couldn't happen to us again. What i am saying is the UK taking control over 25% of the planet is...ALL THEIR FAULT FOR BULLYING US YEARS AGO!!! We DEMAND REPARATIONS!!!! Just kidding! :)
@@cageybee7221 Noooooo Really!!! I never would of guessed!!!!! Kinda like you taking my first post seriously even though at the end is says "Just kidding" . so.....USE CONTEXT CLUSES BEFORE TYPING DUMB SHIT NEXT TIME!! P.S Don't like your own comment, it make you look even dumber :)
Dang, that’s actually a pretty decent crusade. -Keeps his men fed -Takes care of some pirates -Helps capture and important city -Gives his ships to the Byzantine Emperor in a total bro move -Gets a cool nickname and widespread fame as a result
Denmark tried to do some crusading in both Pommerania (Wendish Crusade) and Estonia (Estonian Crusade). Because of a tragic mixup we accidentally burnt down some Pommeranian cities, looted everything not nailed down and put up shop for decades.
@@notfitforhumanconsumption2507 As long as you're imagining chain mail, that's fine. But the iconic full-body plate armour didn't come until later. Late Viking arms and armour was pretty similar to early Crusader flair. (By the way, I didn't get your reference, so I'm clearly missing out on some history themed drama or comedy)
@@grafvonscyth2928 Vandals Vacantly Vassalized there Vineyards only to then Vacation at Carthage as a Vocation to screw over the Romans like a bunch of Varmit Vagrant Vultures!
shaun king Rape the cows? Source? These were humans mind you Anyhow, the Brits kicked us Norsemen out of Britain, with only cultural influences being left.
Imagine chilling with your pirate buddies and suddenly the king of one of the world's most famous seafaring warrior nations shows up to ruin your Mediterranean holiday
Sigurd the crusader is also famous for failing to leave a clear line of sucession, as he only had ilegitimate children. When he died in 1130, the civil war era began and only ended in 1240
English historian who lived in 1200s wrote about Norway in this time: " ... for more than a century back, although the succession of kings there had been rapid, yet none of them had ended his days by age or sickness, but all had perished by the sword, leaving the dignity of empire to their assassins as their lawful successors; so that, indeed, the expression, "Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?" [cf. 1 Kings 21:19] may seem to apply to all who reigned there for so long a space of time."
Sigurd was a good king tho. Denmark and Sweden did much to spark the civil war, they funded a variety of groups and pretenders. Such a shame, things were going well before the civil war, which was probably the longest civil war era in history as far as I know.
I guess when you have this guy you win some, you lose some. On one hand, he’s lack of heir made a long civil war happen in his country. On the other hand, Crusader Viking.
*me about a minute in* "What? A crusader who treated his hosts with courtesy and didn't sack any christian lands along the way? I must say, by Crusade standards this is going pretty we-" 1:06 "Ah. Yeah, now we're back on brand."
@@frenchguitarguy1091 Why are you using the present tense? You know there aren't any Vikings left, right? As Norwegians, we figured it was much better to get rich from oil than raiding innocent people all over Europe.
@@archsteel7 The Crusaders only did it out of survival necessity once even though it is wrong. The Vikings no doubt practiced obscene and horrible practices.
Have you never heard of Sigurd Jorsalafar? I heard of him when I was in school. Although, to be fair, this video was probably longer and more detailed than what I learned in school. Still, he is one of the more well known Norwegian kings.
@@Tjalve70 I suppose I can't definitively say we didn't hear about him in school, but I can't remember learning about him. Which to me made it a little weird when hearing about him here, because the crusades were a favourite historical topic of mine back in school, next to world war 1&2. Obviously I wasn't much of a researcher back then, having missed this guy of all people.
Or Ingvar the far travelled. "Ok Ingvar, we're christian now, so no more raiding and pillaging christian kingdoms" "Hmmm, that's fine. If Jesus says so, but... Iran's not Christian is it?" "..." "Go nuts"
One point about Sigurd's epithet: While it is often translated as "Crusader" the actual monicker (Jorsalafarare) simply means "person who journeyed to Jerusalem". A more accurate translation might be "Jerusalemfarer." This is partly where the uncertainty stems from whether or not he was journeying as a pilgrim for religious clout or as an actual crusader for military purposes.
To be fair, I don't know WHEN exactly the term "crusader" was coined. But this happened only about 10 years after the First Crusade. And when the pope called for the first crusade, he didn't use the word "crusade". He called it an "armed pilgrimage". So it is entirely possible that the term "crusade" didn't yet exist at the time of Sigurd's voyage to Jorsal.
I mean yea? Whats he suposed to do? Die? That was a slight against the throne of norway. His provisions were calculated based on being able to buy food.
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Could you do Shepherds'/Children's Crusade or Louis IX's attempts of crusade, or "the small war" or italian wars or partitions of poland? Sorry for so much suggestions, and im not sure if you use suggestions from youtube, but would be cool to see any of these
Pirates high fiving and thinking that they are the scariest thing in the Mediterranean Sea. But then they get a chill but they don't know why... Next morning they see bunch of Vikings in ships adorned with the Crusaders cross and yelling "Gud vil det!".
The thumbnail looks like two groups of people who were hanging out with a mutual friend and then that friend left and now they awkwardly look at one another, having nothing in common
w8, did he actually gifted his ships to the emperor and departed peacefully? I was expecting u to say something like "Just kidding, he sacked the city and took the Emperor's ships as well in order help carry all his loot back home"
Sigurd I also sieged Acre if I recalled correctly, along with Baldwin and another lord. Norwegians are fun... They also inadvertently *ahem' contributed to the start of the Falklands war, have the oldest continuous border in Europe, and recently got asked by the Queen of England to take care of a rampant reindeer herd on one of the now wildlife protected islands in South America... (Norwegian whalers were the first to colonize/settle/set up stations on most of these islands, as well as many in the caribbean under Denmark-Norway - by the way the Kalmar union was supposed to be ruled by Norwegian king Haakon VI but he "lost" all heirs and died so the Queen inherited the title and Sweden opted out, starting centuries of internal conflicts in Scandinavia) They also wanted to gift a mountain to Finland on her anniversary, but couldn't find a way around the constitution which bars any cessation of land
"Some debate whether this was a crusade or a pelgrimage" The first crusades were essentially armed pelgrimages to help the eastern christians, enforce the rights of christians in the holy land, and maybe conquer some stuff along the way, so I'm not sure that's a very meaningful distinction.
The Norwegians did not have very good relations with the Pope at this point, Scandinavia was part of the Europe-wide conflict between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope, and the Pope was backing Denmark.
Love these. Ace stuff and despite the short form, you never make inaccurate generalisations or horrendous syntax mistakes like other youtubers. Man after my own heart.
In Norwegian Sigurd was known as "Sigurd Jorsalfare". "Jorsal" being the norse name for Jerusalem, "fare" being attached describes a journey there. I suspect it's related to the modern Norwegian word "Ferd", which means "Journey". So literally it just means something along the lines of "Sigurd who journeyed to Jerusalem". But that sounds really strange in English, so the easiest way to make an English version of it was "Crusader."
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It's weird to say "a period of independence from Denmark", Norway had been independent for centuries at the time of Sigurd. And would remain independent for centuries too.
It's also inaccurate to show Iceland as being part of Norway at the time. Icelanders wouldn't recognize the rule of any king until the year 1262 and before that, the Icelandic commonwealth as it is now known was an independent country ruled by the Icelandic Alþingi.
Understandable misstake at the end there. His epitaph is "jorsalfar", which literally means Jerusalem traveler (fare), which has been translated to English as crusader. The name difference is probably part of the reason for the pilgrim/crusade debate
Efficient? Year 1: Norway to England. Year 2: England to Spain. Year 3: Spain to Sicily. Year 4: Sicily to Jerusalem. Seriously, they could have walked there much faster.
Haven't heard of this Norwegian Crusade before! I have heard of the Angles settling England, the Rus moving to _Russland,_ and even Leif Eriksson finding Vinland. However, I would not have thought the Norwegians went to the Holy Land! I am particularly interested in this, not just because I am interested in history, but also because I myself am 4% Norwegian!
One thing not mentioned was Sigurd was 18 years old when he set sail, and betrothed to a princess, further reinforcing the idea that this was just a massive holiday with the lads before settling down
Reasonable
The ultimate stag do
Why hello there...
Now that is what I call a Bachelor party. War, Plunder and Adventure.
@@iverkjellkken6569 whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas... but if you have your bachelor party in the Holy Land, you get to call it a pilgrimage!
Wow, he was indeed succesful! He:
- Didn´t die on his way to Jerusalem and actually reached it
- Wasn´t deposed or betrayed at home
- Didn´t betray other crusaders or crusader leaders (just a little bit of pillaging in Spain)
- Didn´t do anything stupid at Constantinople
- Departed home by sea and returned by land getting to know many territories in the process
- Made a succesful return trip back home to brag about his achievement and enjoy his fame!
(By First Crusade standards this guy was a prodigy!)
No worries. Spain deserved it.
It's long been a trend among many Scandinavians historically as far back as the Viking Age and probably before that and certainly now that they are innately curious, very intelligent, knowledgable, hard-working, but many are encouraged to see as much of the world as possible. I've met many people from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, even Finland that are well-traveled and have visited, experienced, and described in vivid details the sites, cities, countries, continents they've been too. New Zealanders and Aussies have some of that same adventurous spirit as well as many Germans.
I want a movie or tv show about this guy. Especially as he was so young when he started, could be a fun adventure tale
Dare i say, Absolute Mad Lad
@@davidroberts7282 having shared a house for over a year with a Dane i agree with that.
But that desire to travel is not innate to them from birth, it comes from the open mindedness which is cultivated by their education and upbringing.
People from any country can be like that but it's true Nordic people share those values more :)
I like how he casually gives his boats to the Emperor of Constantinople and heads back home on land, what a dude
In reality he traded his ships for horses and supplies for the overland route. Also, a portion of his army enlisted into the Varangian Guard.
Sigurd the walker!
Chad move
Emperor of the Romans*
Venice/Crusaders *Sack Constantinople and almost Destroy the Byzantine Emperor*
King Sigurd To the Byzantine Empire *YALL WANT SOME BOATS?!?!?*
I'm pretty sure this was just an excuse for a Mediterranean vacation
Don’t reveal the secrets of history
Does sound like a Thomas Cook trip.
Especially the walking home part
Not all that different to to northern europeans going to the med today really.
Am scandinavian, can confirm that we do love our Mediterranean vacations.
"So he agreed to leave peaceful... just kidding he sacked the city and stole the food". Ahh, viking stuff, ammaright?
How does it go, you can take the Viking out of Norway...
Can take the Norseman out of paganism but you can’t take the paganism out of a Norseman
Al Ataque Gaming more like crusader stuff
nedh amirite
@@jonbaxter2254 ...but can't take the Viking out of the Norwegian
Sigurd: Viking raid to the Holy Land!
Pope: No.
Sigurd: Oh, um Crusade?
Pope: *nods*
The difference is they type of boats.
@@morganrobinson8042 Crusade Boats™ replace the dragon-head usual found on Raiding Boats™ with an angle-figure, _very important_ difference
@@Laotzu.Goldbug SO they replace the dragon, a symbol for Satan, with an angel, another symbol for Satan, the king of fallen ANGELS. The guy on the "Christ"mas tree is Satan by the way, and laying presents at his feet is symbolic devil worship. See more in "Proof Satan Rules The World Ergo The Bible is Right." Over 3,000 slides of evidence.
@@scintillam_dei Can't you just leave and not try to enforce your religion and views upon history, this video, comments and all the people of planet earth through all time?
Nidhögg isn't "satan" but he is gnawing on the roots of Yggdrasil. So he is so to say the force/being which try to destroy it all. But he's not satan as this is Norse gods, creatures and mythology now Jewish.
As for the second part that would also be wrong because surely not all angels are fallen angels?
And as for presents at-least here in Sweden where Jul predates Christianity the original meaning of Julklapp which is what the presents are called wasn't presents under the Christmas tree it was a prank on the neighbours where the kids ran around knocking onto people's doors and then opened threw in a prank gift typically with a writing on it. So it wasn't the modern style. To bring in a decorated tree was a thing German Christians came up with. But various plants have had mythological meanings before too.
Our origin isn't middle-eastern monotheistic and much of our traditions aren't either.
@ No one is forced to read what I say. You can skim or skip entirely, so you misused the word "enforce" to portray me negatively in a strawman fallacy.
“Frederick Barbarossa”
*drowning*
Lmao you did not have to do him like that
He had to do him like that - Fred Barbarossa
Its what happens when your fat and have heavy armour
@@CoffeeSuccubus and have no idea how to swim
Was old over 70s weak by the March and with heavy armor 🙈
It needed to be done, for my personal entertainment.
Europe: Make Scandianvia Christian so they stop Viking all over Christian Europe
Sigurd: *Goes Viking all over Islamic Europe*
Modern problems require modern solutions
Somali Kid yeah but The Christians did it to so really these Vikings were perfect crusaders.
He attacked christian Iberia not andalucia lol.
@@haitamc5611 Well they fought with the muslim navies of Suther Andelucia and won a few battels at seas against them. They did ofcurse land in Suther Spain because then they would be outnumbered by the muslims.
Since the muslims navies got defeated by the Crusders the Christian navies was not so heavy outnumbered as before, improving their situasion on the water.
nazi spotted
Hey at least no one can accuse them of being biased their raids were rated E for everyone 😂😂
So a bunch of Christian Vikings went to the Mediterranean beat up a bunch of Spaniards, killed some pirates, and partied with the Byzantine emperor. We need a historical comedy about this Hollywood. Screw another reboot I want my Holy Vikings movie.
I'd watch that
Directed by Monty Python
@@arcticocean9106 Generally yeah, but there were some Viking pirates that were christian.
It must also be noted that King Canute who conquered England in the early 11th century was also christian.
@@arcticocean9106 Viking was something one did. Not a religion. The religion is as we call it Norse Pagan.
@@RedKrossSquad Today's practitioners call it Asatru.
Fun fact: As a Norwegian, I've never heard Sigurd I described as "the Crusader". Up here, he's known as "Jorsalfare", literally "Jerusslem-farer". Which I suppose might actually be an old Norwegian term for crusader...
That is so much better than 'the Crusader'.
That just indicates that he travelled to Jerusalem.
@@DPRK_Best_Korea Yes, that is what I've always assumed as well. I mean, that's literally what it means, so... But I started wondering if he got that name not so much for traveling to as for going on a crusade to Jerusalem. I don't know, though.
@@DPRK_Best_Korea
It's possible that technically he wasn't a crusader.
In later years a royal crusade needed to be declared by The Pope so that the crusading king could impose a special tax on his clergy (which they had to pay for fear of excommunication) and give his soldiers a plenary indulgence (which allowed them to kill anyone they liked without having to do penance).
However I'm not sure these rules existed before The Second Crusade and even if they did Norway was on the periphery of the Christian world, with a poor, weak Church, so they might not have seemed all that relevant.
So it may be that this was a grand pilgrimage which involved lots of fighting because Sigurd was a Viking.
"and continued the trend of seaborne Norsemen showing up and just taking what they wanted"
that's awesome
@White Brad Bad Thats actually a good point that i had never thought about. We had the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans and proabably others all land and take over large parts if not all of England at one time or another. Maybe waaaaayyy back the idea of being the conquerors instead of the conquered took root and we proceeded to tear shit up as best we could so that it couldn't happen to us again.
What i am saying is the UK taking control over 25% of the planet is...ALL THEIR FAULT FOR BULLYING US YEARS AGO!!!
We DEMAND REPARATIONS!!!!
Just kidding! :)
@@aaronosborne4906 i mean you have like half the world's gold i would say that is reparation enough?
@@cageybee7221 I just checked my bank account and...no, I don't have half the worlds gold. But if you want to send me some that would be great! ;)
@@aaronosborne4906 hey dumbass i was referring to britain as a nation not you personally. use *context clues* before typing dumb shit next time.
@@cageybee7221 Noooooo Really!!!
I never would of guessed!!!!!
Kinda like you taking my first post seriously even though at the end is says "Just kidding" .
so.....USE CONTEXT CLUSES BEFORE TYPING DUMB SHIT NEXT TIME!!
P.S Don't like your own comment, it make you look even dumber :)
Sigurd's cruise, sight seeing in England, Spain, Turkey, Holy Land with a bit of pirate killing in between
The Norwegian _Cruise_sade.
What are you doing here xd 😂
Dang, that’s actually a pretty decent crusade.
-Keeps his men fed
-Takes care of some pirates
-Helps capture and important city
-Gives his ships to the Byzantine Emperor in a total bro move
-Gets a cool nickname and widespread fame as a result
Pillage, plunder, crusading we often get those mixed up here in the North
LivingBiscuit it was very common at the time
Denmark tried to do some crusading in both Pommerania (Wendish Crusade) and Estonia (Estonian Crusade). Because of a tragic mixup we accidentally burnt down some Pommeranian cities, looted everything not nailed down and put up shop for decades.
@@esbenandersen5706 Accidents happens
Doesnt help the word Viking could mean either a trading trip, a conquering campaign or a raiding expedition.
@@Sabrowsky you can condense that to "aquisition of wealth and resources"
Balearic pirates: Come at me, you can’t touch this
Norwegians: You think piracy is your ally? I was born in it
Balearic pirates: "We're the greatest pirates ever!"
King Sigurd: "Hold my beer while I deal with these posers."
@@Somewhat-Evil ...hold my mead?
I didn’t know civilization until the 9th century. By then it was nothing but boring
“I will drink from your skull” -Norwegian crusaders
Norwegian Raider : I was born in it. Moulded by it. I didn't earn a coin fairly until I was already a man. And by then, it was nothing but taxing.
Pirates: We're pretty good at raiding you know
Vikings: Hello there
General Sigurd, you are a cold one.
They were no longer vikings at that point
@@FRODIII '.' I mean, their crusade was practically a long distance virking
Pirates are still out there doing their thing. Vikings are a crappy tv show.
@@Marcusjnmc no
Everybody gangsta till the *Norwegians* pull up to the holy land
Hell yeah
ODIN VIL DET
I now have a mental image of Varg Vikernes showing up in medieval knight armour and beating up arabs
@@notfitforhumanconsumption2507 As long as you're imagining chain mail, that's fine. But the iconic full-body plate armour didn't come until later. Late Viking arms and armour was pretty similar to early Crusader flair. (By the way, I didn't get your reference, so I'm clearly missing out on some history themed drama or comedy)
@@jeffbenton6183 Okay nerd
Making your viking ancestors proud and still be a good Christian, now that is an achievement
Sigurd: I wanna do some viking stuff
Europe: No, we don't do that here
Sigurd: *slaps a cross on his boat*
Europe: I think he found the loophole
1:20 germanic people visiting the balearic islands
some things just never change
Probably with about the same consumption of alcohol, quantity wise
Vandals : First time ?
Vandalism intensifies
@@grafvonscyth2928 Vandals Vacantly Vassalized there Vineyards only to then Vacation at Carthage as a Vocation to screw over the Romans like a bunch of Varmit Vagrant Vultures!
OMG, Norwegians came to Britain & didn't sack it? must have been an off day for them...🤔
A bit far south for the Norwegians, they preferred sacking the Scots to the English.
shaun king
Rape the cows? Source?
These were humans mind you
Anyhow, the Brits kicked us Norsemen out of Britain, with only cultural influences being left.
shaun king
Sorry, haven’t seen or heard of it, my mistake
Bigger plunder was on the horizon....
@troll oracle I'm not Welsh... why do you ask?
Imagine chilling with your pirate buddies and suddenly the king of one of the world's most famous seafaring warrior nations shows up to ruin your Mediterranean holiday
Here we just call this tourists nowadays.
@@antonstiensen3020 lol rip
I mean, it was Sigurd and his crew that was on holliday, not his fautl the pirates where to weak to party Viking style
Broke: Being peaceful for Jesus
Woke: Raiding for Thor
Bespoke: Raiding for Jesus!
Actually made me laugh 😂
@Richard Wilson more like deus vault....
Perfect Norwegian balance.
They also did turn upside down the Christian cross into Thor's hammer, depending on the situation.
@Richard Wilson deus vult Valhalla!
Sigurd the crusader is also famous for failing to leave a clear line of sucession, as he only had ilegitimate children. When he died in 1130, the civil war era began and only ended in 1240
English historian who lived in 1200s wrote about Norway in this time:
" ... for more than a century back, although the succession of kings there had been rapid, yet none of them had ended his days by age or sickness, but all had perished by the sword, leaving the dignity of empire to their assassins as their lawful successors; so that, indeed, the expression, "Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?" [cf. 1 Kings 21:19] may seem to apply to all who reigned there for so long a space of time."
Sigurd was a good king tho. Denmark and Sweden did much to spark the civil war, they funded a variety of groups and pretenders. Such a shame, things were going well before the civil war, which was probably the longest civil war era in history as far as I know.
I guess when you have this guy you win some, you lose some.
On one hand, he’s lack of heir made a long civil war happen in his country.
On the other hand, Crusader Viking.
@@12D_D21 And mostly peaceful, smart, good crusader viking.
@@GangeHrolfr The Warring States Period and Spring and Autumn Period were longer.
*me about a minute in* "What? A crusader who treated his hosts with courtesy and didn't sack any christian lands along the way? I must say, by Crusade standards this is going pretty we-"
1:06
"Ah. Yeah, now we're back on brand."
*cries in Constantinople*
lmao
Why let a little sacking of Christian lands get in the way of a good crusade?
atleast he didn't attack Constantinople.....
Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eight and Ninth didn't sack any christian land along the way by any means.
*Shows Fredrick Barbarossa drowning*
That's exactly the sort of _dry_ humour I subscribed for XD
Well in this case it's wet humor I'd say
@@anthonyteasley3837 That's some really low-hanging fruit you went for there, you should be ashamed. Also you beat me too it.
Too early man, 900 years too early.
You know who isn't dry?
Frederick Barbarossa
@@merlynjep yeah it is low hanging, as low as Barbarossa was (yes i did just answer to this 1 year old comment)
Next you'll be telling me that the Vikings went on the first crusade as well
Normans, who went to the first crusade, were descendants of Vikings.
@@ElBandito i think he knew that
@@ElBandito A lot of Anglo Saxons were there too, they didn't have much to do anymore and were bored
Generally vikings worship pagan gods, but if you tell him about the loot the end result will be the same
@@frenchguitarguy1091 Why are you using the present tense? You know there aren't any Vikings left, right? As Norwegians, we figured it was much better to get rich from oil than raiding innocent people all over Europe.
Let’s not kid ourselves, Sigurd and his men were just Christian Vikings 😂
Huscral: Wait? are we fighting? pilgrimage? raiding? crusading? It says here we're freeing slaves. what are we doing?
Sigurd: yes.
Let's not kid ourselves, Crusaders were mostly just Christian Vikings.
@@archsteel7 They weren't.
@@historian252 You're right, it's pretty unfair to compare Vikings to the Crusaders. After all, Vikings never committed mass cannibalism.
@@archsteel7 The Crusaders only did it out of survival necessity once even though it is wrong. The Vikings no doubt practiced obscene and horrible practices.
I love the silent little "Hooray!" Soundeffect at 2:02😊
“My favorite part about visiting the Middle East was going to Ibiza.”
I was searching night & day for that comment!
As a Norwegian, I am disappointed in our history curriculum for not including this mad lad. I had never heard if him!
Have you never heard of Sigurd Jorsalafar?
I heard of him when I was in school. Although, to be fair, this video was probably longer and more detailed than what I learned in school.
Still, he is one of the more well known Norwegian kings.
@@Tjalve70 I suppose I can't definitively say we didn't hear about him in school, but I can't remember learning about him.
Which to me made it a little weird when hearing about him here, because the crusades were a favourite historical topic of mine back in school, next to world war 1&2.
Obviously I wasn't much of a researcher back then, having missed this guy of all people.
Loved the Friedrich Barbarossa part
Barbossa: *drowns coz he forgot he can't swim*
@@NinjaOfHorizon He most likely had a stroke or something. I'm sure he knew how to cross a river having fought wars in foreign lands all his life.
Your choice of semi obscure but still incredibly interesting topics consistently amazes me
Ye
Me: Starts campaign as Haraldr Fairhair in CK2
History Matters: Oh boy, I've something that will interest you.
The History Matters and Crusader Kings fan bases probably have a lot of overlap.
Am I the only one who is fu*ked because CK2 is now running on 64 bit insteed of 32?
@@leonrenner8403 I leave an F my Paradox brother
@@leonrenner8403 Can't you revert the patch or something?
Im related to that guy.
'beware of greeks baring gifts'
nah: beware of Norsemen arriving in boats
0:12 Running through the field of dasies is my favorite part of this channel
I always think of King Sigurd I Magnusson "Jorsalfare"
The world: Is the Viking age over yet?
Norway: 5 more minutes..
Or Ingvar the far travelled.
"Ok Ingvar, we're christian now, so no more raiding and pillaging christian kingdoms"
"Hmmm, that's fine. If Jesus says so, but... Iran's not Christian is it?"
"..."
"Go nuts"
Basically a Viking pleasure cruise.
When you want that sweet "Crusader" trait
Now, this is a reference only the gamers will understand
I born and rise in Norway. And i have never learnd this during my time at school. It's a shame
There is much they won't teach us cuz patriotism is "dangerous and spooky".
If only your Viking ancestors could see you now.
Ib4 viking age 2.0 electric boogaloo happens
Kommet gjennom norsk skole uten å ha hørt om Sigurd Jorsalfare?
@@floro7687 Ja, ikke hørt om han. Skamfullt
Sigud: You pirates ever heard of Vikings?
Pirates: uhhh no
Sigud: YOU HERAD EM BOYS LETS SHOW EM HOW IT'S DONE!
They probably did Vikings raided Spain
VIKINGS TO PIRATES......
MOTHERFUCKERS TO FUCKERS.....
A PALE REFLECTION TO THE FATHER OF CUT THROATS....
Vikings were raiding Iberia even a few centuries before this (raised both Christians and Muslim states alike).
Sigurd always looks so damn happy, I love him
One point about Sigurd's epithet: While it is often translated as "Crusader" the actual monicker (Jorsalafarare) simply means "person who journeyed to Jerusalem". A more accurate translation might be "Jerusalemfarer." This is partly where the uncertainty stems from whether or not he was journeying as a pilgrim for religious clout or as an actual crusader for military purposes.
To be fair, I don't know WHEN exactly the term "crusader" was coined. But this happened only about 10 years after the First Crusade. And when the pope called for the first crusade, he didn't use the word "crusade". He called it an "armed pilgrimage". So it is entirely possible that the term "crusade" didn't yet exist at the time of Sigurd's voyage to Jorsal.
*Medieval history summed up in one sentence* : Sigurd agreed to leave peacefully and JUST KIDDING he sacked the city and stole all of the food anyway.
I mean yea? Whats he suposed to do? Die?
That was a slight against the throne of norway. His provisions were calculated based on being able to buy food.
Just recently found your channel, God knows how with TH-cam’s stupid algorithms, but I can truly say I’ve binged watched so many videos thus far. So good.
Keep it up
Could you do Shepherds'/Children's Crusade or Louis IX's attempts of crusade, or "the small war" or italian wars or partitions of poland?
Sorry for so much suggestions, and im not sure if you use suggestions from youtube, but would be cool to see any of these
I think there were several (at least attempted) childrens crusades, any particulars?
The last time I was this early the North Sea Empire still existed
The crazy thing is Orkney was the capital .
The last time I was this early, Jesus was still sucking Judas Iscariot's dick❗
The Pope: Crusade?
King Sigurd: Viking Raid?
The Pope: What no Crusade.
King Sigurd: Gotchaaaaaaaaaaa Viking Raid!
Holy Viking Raid?
@@stunner9005 Holy Viking CrusRaid.
Turks: It’s Istanbul!
Greeks: No it’s Constantinople!
Norse: *MIKLAGÅRD*
TSARGRAD
Pirates high fiving and thinking that they are the scariest thing in the Mediterranean Sea. But then they get a chill but they don't know why...
Next morning they see bunch of Vikings in ships adorned with the Crusaders cross and yelling "Gud vil det!".
Goð villir þat (God wants it in old norse)
The thumbnail looks like two groups of people who were hanging out with a mutual friend and then that friend left and now they awkwardly look at one another, having nothing in common
I love finding one of your vids I haven't seen before. It's like a reward.
Barbarossa: “cry me a river~”
More like: "Fuck me, a river..."
Yeah quite literally
I love all the small details like how you worte "this is a for jesus" on the Norwegian soilder shield.
Bohemond and Tancred de hauteville are two that always come to mind, definitely my favorite crusaders
When I feel down, I watch your old videos. When I'm feeling great, i watch your old videos.
1:11 "*Ship to scale"
Of course, who would be crazy enough to think otherwise?
Enough of these boats, let's walk home, across a continent.
It made a change I suppose.
This was great, I'd never heard of this event! Please do more medieval videos!
w8, did he actually gifted his ships to the emperor and departed peacefully? I was expecting u to say something like "Just kidding, he sacked the city and took the Emperor's ships as well in order help carry all his loot back home"
That would be the third crusade. Well, the Byzantine fleet along with nearly the entire empire.
Rodolf Nordmadr You mean the 4th crusade
Ye. He left most of his army in the Byzantine Emperor's personal bodyguard, the Varangians, as well
@@omologo95 What a chad haha
What a fantastic little known story. Thank you very much for sharing it.
Sigurd I also sieged Acre if I recalled correctly, along with Baldwin and another lord.
Norwegians are fun...
They also inadvertently *ahem' contributed to the start of the Falklands war, have the oldest continuous border in Europe, and recently got asked by the Queen of England to take care of a rampant reindeer herd on one of the now wildlife protected islands in South America...
(Norwegian whalers were the first to colonize/settle/set up stations on most of these islands, as well as many in the caribbean under Denmark-Norway - by the way the Kalmar union was supposed to be ruled by Norwegian king Haakon VI but he "lost" all heirs and died so the Queen inherited the title and Sweden opted out, starting centuries of internal conflicts in Scandinavia)
They also wanted to gift a mountain to Finland on her anniversary, but couldn't find a way around the constitution which bars any cessation of land
“Oh wow this going pretty well and different for a crusade” enters 1:06... “Ah shit here we go again”
Well why would you piss him off?! He’s only a century out of being a Viking sure he’s being nice but that it self is a miracle
So interesting! Thanks for the great video (and new information!)
Sugurd be like : I will combine christian pilgrimage with norse raids ,what could go wrong.
Apparently not much.
Nothing seems to have gone wrong
New millennium, new Vikings.
Slightly different motivation
"Some debate whether this was a crusade or a pelgrimage"
The first crusades were essentially armed pelgrimages to help the eastern christians, enforce the rights of christians in the holy land, and maybe conquer some stuff along the way, so I'm not sure that's a very meaningful distinction.
I think most people would agree that after this amazing video we want to see more from Friedrich Barbarossa, so pls do it!
I'm surprised he didn't stop off in Rome to see the Pope since he was passing through the Med anyway
The Norwegians did not have very good relations with the Pope at this point, Scandinavia was part of the Europe-wide conflict between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope, and the Pope was backing Denmark.
@@luxborealis fuck the pope from a Spanish andlosian
@@lostboy4207 fuck you sarracen
@@lostboy4207 I would rather not. I am heterosexual.
@@lostboy4207 f*** al andalus
Love these. Ace stuff and despite the short form, you never make inaccurate generalisations or horrendous syntax mistakes like other youtubers. Man after my own heart.
In Norwegian Sigurd was known as "Sigurd Jorsalfare". "Jorsal" being the norse name for Jerusalem, "fare" being attached describes a journey there. I suspect it's related to the modern Norwegian word "Ferd", which means "Journey".
So literally it just means something along the lines of "Sigurd who journeyed to Jerusalem".
But that sounds really strange in English, so the easiest way to make an English version of it was "Crusader."
What about "Jerusalem-farer"? Fare means the same thing in English.
fascinating!
- also Barbarossa's depiction is just pure gold.
Fredrick Barbarossa: sees water.
Drowns: insert sonic drowning sound.
Dude you are awesome.I wish high school history teachers would buy your vids to use at the beginning of a lessons.Hell i am 40 and cannot stop watching.
Thanks for the laughs and refreshers.Keep up the outstanding work and i will hit up your patreon asap.
Emperor Alexios I Komnenos makes his first appearance 🙌🏻
Brilliant. Thank you. I had never heard of this before.
Do that crusade where no one fought and they just solved it diplomatically and chilled
Do you mean the sixth crusade?
@@franciscomm7675 yes
And barons crusade
This is excellent. Love the insights
This guy really was badass. Still had a lot of Viking energy.
Pretty sure you'd need about 10 minutes to cover this topic.
He can't do 10 minutes videos since TH-cam algorithms and monetization policies suck and force creators to go quantity over quality
yeah, properly covering a topic in History Matters.
He just did it in a little over 3. Why? Cuz he's the man.
@@ilnur9973 I thought he meant that as a play of words, but yeah, you explained it perfectly
@@ilnur9973 I thought 10 minute videos were optimal for monetisation? That shorter videos don't earn nearly as much?
1:38 “Sigurd defeated all pirates there and stole their riches.”
LOL!
Sooooo...
When does Max von Sydow gets to play chess with Death?
This takes "yaaaas party in Ibiza" to a whole another level!
"and then being a decent enough man he left the city peacefully"
Oh? I didn't expect that
"Just kidding-"
Ah I thought already.
Well old mate had to feed his army
It's weird to say "a period of independence from Denmark", Norway had been independent for centuries at the time of Sigurd. And would remain independent for centuries too.
It's also inaccurate to show Iceland as being part of Norway at the time. Icelanders wouldn't recognize the rule of any king until the year 1262 and before that, the Icelandic commonwealth as it is now known was an independent country ruled by the Icelandic Alþingi.
@@ThatIcelandicDude Absolutely correct. The democracy of Iceland has long tradition. Regards from Norway.
Understandable misstake at the end there. His epitaph is "jorsalfar", which literally means Jerusalem traveler (fare), which has been translated to English as crusader. The name difference is probably part of the reason for the pilgrim/crusade debate
He left peacefully and just kidding he sacked the city.
Me: XD
You can take the the Norseman away from his Viking but you can’t take the Viking out of the Norseman.
2:03 Just heard the sound bite in the background 😂
You have so many great videos that stand out in my mind but this was an amazing story and I'm surprised it's not more famous
VIKING CRUSADE???? I NEVER HEARD SOMETHING SO BADAAS SABATON SHOULD MAKE A SONG FOR THIS
I absolutely love your vids, keep it up!!
Can everyone please appreciate what an efficient trip that turned out to be?
Norwegian crusade is best crusade!
Efficient?
Year 1: Norway to England.
Year 2: England to Spain.
Year 3: Spain to Sicily.
Year 4: Sicily to Jerusalem.
Seriously, they could have walked there much faster.
I knew absolutely nothing of this.
Thank you for making this video.
Haven't heard of this Norwegian Crusade before! I have heard of the Angles settling England, the Rus moving to _Russland,_ and even Leif Eriksson finding Vinland. However, I would not have thought the Norwegians went to the Holy Land! I am particularly interested in this, not just because I am interested in history, but also because I myself am 4% Norwegian!
What a lucky person!
I’m 0% Norwegian :(
Google where angles is on map lol
I love this new upload schedule, keep it up man, love the channel as well.
It wouldn't be Scandinavian if it didn't include raids from the sea!
I love stories like these, some relatively unknown king doing something awesome!
I'd go for "Pilgrimage in force" to describe it.
Great job on the animation, and getting the info across.