Differences between Norwegian, Swedish and Danish Vikings

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00:00- Intro
00:40- Danes
06:03- Norwegians
11:25- Swedes
19:50- Conclusion

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  • I'm half Mexican and half Danish. Essentially a Spicy Viking.

    @dejorgensen10@dejorgensen102 жыл бұрын
    • I'm a mix Danish and Spanish, we're in the same Longship friend.

      @bluntlyhonest6803@bluntlyhonest68032 жыл бұрын
    • Interesting combo.

      @dreadcthulhu5@dreadcthulhu52 жыл бұрын
    • A Viztec

      @JP-sb6ll@JP-sb6ll2 жыл бұрын
    • My great grandparents were Danish. Let's get this rolling.

      @dreadcthulhu5@dreadcthulhu52 жыл бұрын
    • Im colombian and swedish

      @isakvlone4665@isakvlone46652 жыл бұрын
  • Norway: raiding vikings Demark: settling vikings Sweden: chillin vikings Iceland: still vikings

    @Satanistiskt-Initiativ@Satanistiskt-Initiativ2 жыл бұрын
    • Normandy: French Vikings

      @Caine61@Caine612 жыл бұрын
    • @@Caine61 Gallic and Breton, actually.

      @zoetropo1@zoetropo12 жыл бұрын
    • Faroe Islands: Still Vikings

      @hannahrozenberg3411@hannahrozenberg34112 жыл бұрын
    • Lol danes settling? you mean conquerors.

      @mangrey2361@mangrey23612 жыл бұрын
    • @@Caine61 Danish decent

      @mangrey2361@mangrey23612 жыл бұрын
  • As a Dane i love my Swedish and Norway brothers. I visit their contries a lot, and in my opinion Scandinavia must be the best place in the world to live.

    @michaelfrgegaard881@michaelfrgegaard8817 ай бұрын
    • i agree/enig :-)

      @mathiasfrandsen5468@mathiasfrandsen54687 ай бұрын
    • Have you lived anywhere else? Just curious.

      @joanofarcxxi@joanofarcxxi6 ай бұрын
    • I would love to live in my ancestors' home of Norway...so beautiful and they take care of their citizens and I could watch the Northern Lights!

      @valeriefaabergpitel7356@valeriefaabergpitel73566 ай бұрын
    • I’m a Dane as well and I truly agree we love our brothers!

      @TheProphecyIsTrue@TheProphecyIsTrue6 ай бұрын
    • Ya they just dislike anyone else moving to thier countries

      @colc8535@colc85355 ай бұрын
  • Excellent video! As a swede trying to explain the differences between us Scandinavian vikings to my non nordic friends, I usually say that Danes were conquerors, Norwegians were explorers and Swedes were traders. Generally speaking of course. I think the biggest achievement during the viking age, was the discovery of North America. Now that is an adventure filled with risk!

    @dixonqwerty@dixonqwerty9 ай бұрын
    • Existing was filled with risk in the viking age lol, I get your point though just cracking a joke

      @chase5298@chase52987 ай бұрын
    • Sounds like you are speaking American pretty good accent.

      @mrneilarnold@mrneilarnold6 ай бұрын
    • This trip to vinland „north armica“ can’t count as a historical fact as no one can proofe if it really happend or if it’s just a myth or saga, also no one can say for sure if vinland was in north america or somewhere else to beginn with.

      @ThrE3-GeS@ThrE3-GeS6 ай бұрын
    • @@ThrE3-GeS Look up "L'Anse aux Meadows". Pretty good evidence right there.

      @dixonqwerty@dixonqwerty6 ай бұрын
    • @@ThrE3-GeS there now is archaeological evidence. That there was at least 1 settlement.

      @rodneydecormier1504@rodneydecormier15046 ай бұрын
  • ''The danes have the courage of goats'' That is not an insult, have you ever met a goat!??!! Those things have no fear.

    @CookieCrusherC@CookieCrusherC2 жыл бұрын
    • Except the ones that freeze/faint when you scare them.

      @Indiana1337@Indiana13372 жыл бұрын
    • goats freeze and fall over if you walk too loud, not something to be so proud of

      @dud13@dud132 жыл бұрын
    • @@dud13 we don't have that type of goats in Scandinavia.

      @aphexon.@aphexon.2 жыл бұрын
    • @@dud13 Then you also have the goats that climb mountains without a care in the world.

      @Indiana1337@Indiana13372 жыл бұрын
    • Right on, don't fuck with an upset and cornered goat!

      @shanemolloy2824@shanemolloy28242 жыл бұрын
  • Hi, this is Airi from Finland. It would be great(really, really great) to be able to say that we were vikings too. We were not. If they were like 3 brothers, we were like the weird cousin who shows up at every worship, but no one knows exactly who he is

    @airisalama9166@airisalama91662 жыл бұрын
    • OK, I had my eye on Finland during this video. All very educational and entertaining - and one must be able to laugh at oneself to make progress. So, it seems the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bathnia really influenced different development between west and east, quite a barrier...

      @theplinkerslodge6361@theplinkerslodge63612 жыл бұрын
    • all around Baltic sea were sea riders / pirates, due to the nature of the area. Curonians (Kurir old Norse) now days Lithuanians and Latvians were in constant wars with Swedish and Danish sea riders / vikings and had been in military alliances with them. And they had kept they paganism... until 1387:D

      @jonstainerr5340@jonstainerr53402 жыл бұрын
    • The swedes in finland were vikings. The real finno-ugric people were not

      @MagnusHarvest@MagnusHarvest2 жыл бұрын
    • Well...you have the Estonians...and by extension the Hungarians as cousins.

      @BastiaanvandeWerk@BastiaanvandeWerk2 жыл бұрын
    • tää on kyl paras selitys :)

      @zoolkhan@zoolkhan2 жыл бұрын
  • Hi , there ..... im canadian with Italian origin, I always loved Norse history,it's amazing.... and I visited many many times Norway, Danmark and Sweden for holidays and I really really think that you 3 are the best places in Europe, you guys are open minded and speak and understand English, love you guys

    @posaidon67@posaidon673 ай бұрын
  • im a Chilean living at Denmark, like 10 months ago and I been discover new stuffs and history here its a real treasure, love the Nordics but also I been able to visit Norway and Sweden, with all of them are amazing people and countries ... ver nice video for me its a new discover and huge respect for the land im living . cool video

    @legalizexit@legalizexit5 ай бұрын
  • As a Swede I'm sad to say that almost all of our viking era history was lost when castle Tre Kronor burned with all those books in the library there.

    @johnlastname8752@johnlastname87522 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah even though im part swedish as well. I'm still pissed about that. Everyone thinks a viking is Norwegian and Danish.

      @Ominiumshadow24@Ominiumshadow242 жыл бұрын
    • @@Ominiumshadow24 Vikings in Britain/Ireland or France very likely where few Swedes. In the east mostly Swedes though.

      @PMMagro@PMMagro2 жыл бұрын
    • @@PMMagro Yeah Finland and anywhere near the black seas. At least I found out though my uncle since he search our ancestry on moms side. That I have a little lcelandic and slight Norweigan. But more swedish

      @Ominiumshadow24@Ominiumshadow242 жыл бұрын
    • @@PMMagro not true. Many swedes followed the danes to the west. One example of this would be the 'England runestones' which tells of Swedes who travelled to or were killed in England.

      @FluffyDaffodil@FluffyDaffodil2 жыл бұрын
    • Wait really? holy shit I didn't know that, I feel sorry for your brother. I'd be absolutely pissed if something like that happened to us Norwegians

      @canislunaticus@canislunaticus2 жыл бұрын
  • You know you're a badass when someone gets so tired of you raiding a place that they just give it to you.

    @chanhmilner2670@chanhmilner26702 жыл бұрын
    • I mean.... they really settled those danes as vassals, so it is more like: They get so tired of you raiding that they hire you to guard the place from raids.

      @alexandresilveira6905@alexandresilveira69052 жыл бұрын
    • @@alexandresilveira6905 When you hack the pentagon mainframe and they decide to hire you for projection.

      @michaelsimonsen2017@michaelsimonsen20172 жыл бұрын
    • Or your just a group of monsters.

      @WiseOwl_1408@WiseOwl_14082 жыл бұрын
    • @@WiseOwl_1408 Ja og vi elsker det ;)

      @Kado1609@Kado16092 жыл бұрын
    • More like they just picked a few clans, gave them the land against the remaining of their kin. And thus, you make those pesky raiders killing eachother

      @subutaynoyan5372@subutaynoyan53722 жыл бұрын
  • Just recently found your channel; I must say I am very happy and impressed with your work. I'm 2nd generation American of 3/4 Danish and 1/4 Swiss (Italian) stock. My parents always made it a point to teach and remind me and my siblings where we came from, and who we really are from the Scandinavian side of things. To not let our ways and culture (the old ways, as they both called it) be stamped and die out in terms of culture and religion. It is pretty obvious that they have been trying to get rid of us for a long time; now it's just blatant. I thank and salute you.

    @BaronMorte@BaronMorte2 ай бұрын
  • I grew up in the place in Sweden with the most runestones ever found. If I took a walk I could easily see three different ones from one single point. It was really fun learning more about the differences between the vikings and why I grew up in the environment I did :)

    @moawiden621@moawiden6218 ай бұрын
  • We Danes don't usually receive this level of credit, I appreciate the recognition brother!

    @isaacmynott2858@isaacmynott28582 жыл бұрын
    • Yes he does great videos. Very informative & honest. Your countries & cultures are beautiful. 👋

      @driver55@driver552 жыл бұрын
    • Born 79

      @mikeconnors1599@mikeconnors15992 жыл бұрын
    • @@-_pi_- because they couldn’t tell Norwegians swedes and danes apart, pretty funny actually

      @isaacmynott2858@isaacmynott28582 жыл бұрын
    • True, but your people deserve it. Everyone who is interested in history of that time period should know how much impact the danish people had on the rest of the known world. Thay left there stamp everywhere 👍🏻 Greetings from North Germany

      @stig1976@stig19762 жыл бұрын
    • I've always said that all of the Nordic countries should create a (fair) union. Lots of natural resources, industry and such + also add tourism to it. Everyone produces stuff, send it to the Danes and they design it... and as always been a pretty good trading nation, sell it twice as expensive. 💲🤑💲🤑💲

      @tor6684@tor66842 жыл бұрын
  • Love how you define Scandinavians as brothers. It is a true depiction. Squable and fight amongst themselves, but band together if attacked. Very like any family.

    @sarahkelson8386@sarahkelson838611 ай бұрын
    • Ive recently learned a lot about what led up to WW2. Who knows how accurate the info is, and it's a complex issue. With that understanding, and absolutely no judgement here, the Scandinavian countries could of done things differently. As all of our countries could of. ❤

      @NiteOwlish@NiteOwlish10 ай бұрын
    • @@bruhmcchaddeus413 tough life ?, bad day ?, small dick syndrome ?

      @Weise1001@Weise100110 ай бұрын
    • All germanics

      @scrabbymcscrotus7481@scrabbymcscrotus748110 ай бұрын
    • These ain't regular families. When have you ever heard a Human described as a blue blood? Vampires!

      @AverageAmerican@AverageAmerican9 ай бұрын
    • @@AverageAmerican you have zero clue

      @Weise1001@Weise10019 ай бұрын
  • *Hey, Norseman. Your research confirms the feeling I had that the Brits had this cultural/heritage split as you described here.* The Scots, Irish, Welsh, and Cornish always seemed to speak English as though it was their second language.

    @hulkhatepunybanner@hulkhatepunybanner9 ай бұрын
    • So called English was developed in Scotland. My Son and husband have black hair and red, not ginger, beards. I call my Scottish Son a Viking 😊😊

      @jacqueline4905@jacqueline49056 ай бұрын
    • yes we are different, the Welsh and Scots are much more Celtic than the English . the Welsh language is much closer to the original language, spoken by the ancient Britons . England didnt really exist as a unified region untill Alfred the great united the saxons, jutes and angles and then had a treaty with the vikings who ruled the other side of england .The english language is a mix of the people who came and took over, but they didnt take over Wales and Scotland , so your kind of right, it is their 2nd language

      @rosannawebb8918@rosannawebb89184 ай бұрын
    • Because it is their second language? They have other native languages

      @Anonymous-uw4sr@Anonymous-uw4sr2 ай бұрын
    • ​@rosannawebb8918 Celtic is a broad term. You mean Brythonic. The jutes and angles were Scandinavian. The angles and saxons were paid mercenaries by vortigern (the administrator who was left with the romanised british) to fight off the picts and scots. He didn't pay, so they took over and became the Anglo-Saxons. Vortigern then fled to powys and was a king there. A lot of welsh people will have romano british ancestors, which is why the Anglo Saxons called them wealhas (foreigner) eventually being called welsh by the english.

      @terranaxiomuk@terranaxiomukАй бұрын
    • @@jacqueline4905English was developed in England and the Scottish lowlands from the Anglo Saxon Germanic language. It was called Old English.

      @carolerice5944@carolerice594422 күн бұрын
  • This is by far the coolest thing I have seen in some time. My Welsh ass loved this in-depth history lesson.

    @laurabuer4714@laurabuer4714Ай бұрын
  • It warms my heart to hear you speak of us as brothers.

    @BeastOfPrey84@BeastOfPrey84 Жыл бұрын
    • Norwegian here, så klart :)

      @ScavengerMerchant@ScavengerMerchant Жыл бұрын
    • Er truly are,!

      @eivsyvgmailcom@eivsyvgmailcom Жыл бұрын
    • @@ScavengerMerchant we are need to understand that there is a war against us all. We cant be cowards and let us be all be extinct

      @antoneckhart4010@antoneckhart4010 Жыл бұрын
    • Danes here, og altid ;)

      @samblackwolf7926@samblackwolf7926 Жыл бұрын
    • hahahahaha UBBE RAGNARSON = UBBI FRISKI leader of the frisian army! UBBI FRISKI had a Frisian Mother! I have 100's of kings in my bloodline.! and yes i'm VAN Norwegian, VAN Swedish and VAN Danish, VON SAKSEN, WESTFALEN, VON Beieren, VAN GRONINGEN, VAN FRIESLAND, VAN HOLLAND, MAGNA FRISIA! But i live my hole life in MAGNA FRISIA/HOLLAND CALL ME A FRISIAN BESERKER! WHO THE FUCK ARE U!!!!

      @050Gr0ningen050@050Gr0ningen050 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm swedish and my grandpa was huge into reading about scandinavian history, and according to him Denmark was the shield, Norway the sword and Sweden the body. Funny enough it makes sense with what you said in your conclusion of the video.

    @privatebandana@privatebandana2 жыл бұрын
    • Nowadays Denmark is the belly, Norway the loo and Sweden the brain.

      @HockyOne@HockyOne2 жыл бұрын
    • @@HockyOne not really, unless the scandinavian briain is braindead

      @alexanderludvigsen1893@alexanderludvigsen18932 жыл бұрын
    • @@alexanderludvigsen1893 Briain? Braindead? I think you mean brain, and brain-dead. Nice try, norrbagge. Norway's main contribution to technology: the cheese slicer.

      @HockyOne@HockyOne2 жыл бұрын
    • @@HockyOne hey, the cheese slicer is awesome.😄🧀

      @leonieromanes7265@leonieromanes72652 жыл бұрын
    • Keep being divided Much love from Canada 🇨🇦

      @chrisfrederiksen1358@chrisfrederiksen13582 жыл бұрын
  • A quick note on the dna makeup of scottish and irish as you mentioned at 2:30. Alot of both irish and scottish have part norwegian ancestry. Dublin was founded by a norwegian viking lord, and Norway had a large viking colony in the orkneys in scotland that resulted in scots also having part norwegian ancestry. But yes, celtic dna might be the most prominent. Great video!

    @henriktandberg9899@henriktandberg98995 ай бұрын
    • He wasn’t Norwegian, he was Anglo Norman (modern day English man)

      @EpicAelflaed@EpicAelflaed2 ай бұрын
  • I thought I was 100% English after doing ancestry DNA test I found out most my DNA is Scandinavian! So I'm starting to learn more about my old roots and Norse paganism. Great video 👍

    @andrewbloomer1163@andrewbloomer11632 ай бұрын
    • How big is your Scandinavian DNA percentage?

      @Tobythefirst1@Tobythefirst1Ай бұрын
    • Most English people don’t have 100% English DNA. We are a mix of DNA from past invaders along with native Brits.

      @carolerice5944@carolerice594422 күн бұрын
    • No my nan is 100 English so Ur well wrong with ya comment

      @andrewbloomer1163@andrewbloomer116322 күн бұрын
    • @@andrewbloomer1163 did you do her DNA test? I was born in England and most English people have a mix of Scottish, Welsh, english and the rest of Northern Europe. I’m not wrong, it’s a fact. Even my parents who are 100% English back to the 1700’s have a small amount of other than English. Facts are facts no matter what you think.

      @carolerice5944@carolerice594422 күн бұрын
  • As a Mongolian, I find the age of Vikings fascinating in the way they look, fought, raided, settled and civilized. Also you Scandinavian Vikings look bad ass with blonde hair, blue eyes and beards while wielding dope looking axes and painted round shields. Hope to visit all of Denmark, Norway and Sweden someday. Skol!

    @SONA7DO@SONA7DO2 жыл бұрын
    • Temüdjin Borjigin (Genghis Khan) was a real badass tho 😅 My dna-test at ancestry, 23andMe, ftdna and myheritage says i’m approximate 90% Finnish and 10% Central-Asian, Mongolian and very little Scandinavian. I’m a Saami from Norway.

      @PsychoNinjaKen@PsychoNinjaKen2 жыл бұрын
    • Hahaha blue eyes and blonde hair haha whats wrong with brown eyes and black hair? As a Mongolian, i like my brown eyes and black hair! I wish Mongols fought with vikings i wanna see who would win 😜😜😜

      @gantulgaganhuyag717@gantulgaganhuyag7172 жыл бұрын
    • @@haraldsigurdsson1232 No. Slavs are Europeans, I don't see any Asian features in us.

      @zigi5432@zigi54322 жыл бұрын
    • @@zigi5432 Really?! There is even saying “you scratch Russian back and Mongol skin will appear” jokes aside, Whats wrong with having some “mongol” in you? Having some color allergy are we?

      @gantulgaganhuyag717@gantulgaganhuyag7172 жыл бұрын
    • @@haraldsigurdsson1232 Agree! We would have made great allies! Vikings and Mongol/Huns were both pagans and raiders and valued merit and equality

      @gantulgaganhuyag717@gantulgaganhuyag7172 жыл бұрын
  • I wonder if England’s desire to explore and expand their empire was partially inspired by the Vikings that used to raid them.

    @boblangford81@boblangford812 жыл бұрын
    • I think it's more of just a built in desire for living organisms period. "Life itself is will to power, nothing more." -Friedrich Nietzsche

      @crypticreality8484@crypticreality84842 жыл бұрын
    • @MarkstrosityA hive/mob mentality does seem to be a common social behavioral occurrence along the homo sapiens species. Noted. Great point. But animals kill each other like a muthafucka!

      @crypticreality8484@crypticreality84842 жыл бұрын
    • I heard that most settlements along the Irish coast were all started by Vikings, and I wouldn't be surprised if Scotland had a lot too. My own ancestry is 25% Swedish, 25% Scotch, and similar amounts of Irish and English. I take after the Swedish, so I'm thinking my Scandinavian heritage is more than 25%, plus I got the name. Would have been Leif if my dad had his way.

      @dtvjho@dtvjho2 жыл бұрын
    • @@dtvjho cool. There's this weird romanticism nwith Vikings. Like I get it, the show was kinda cool and they were great explorers and all. Additionally, some my favorite bands are Swedish but, there's nothing wrong with being Celtic or Slavic or anything else. The Irish don't have much Norse DNA. The Irish stopped any outside people's from impacting their R1b L21 dominated genetics much. I think the Irish are the coolest/nicest people. Well, when they're not drunk mean. The Scots have quite a bit more Norse ancestry than the Irish.

      @crypticreality8484@crypticreality84842 жыл бұрын
    • More likely because of the fact that an island is only so big, and they were overpopulated. Also, because of it being an island, they developed fantastic ships and sailors. Scandi blood is just circumstantial, but probably beneficial if one believes in genetic pre-disposition to trait in certain areas.. Norway was also overpopulated although it is not an island - but might as well have been for the lack of arable land vs. mountains. The only way out was to sail.

      @OutnBacker@OutnBacker2 жыл бұрын
  • Love the brothers analogy! I watched the show Vikings and always wondered where they came from especially when they were moving around to different “Vikings” places. Thanks for clearing that up.

    @KNg-pt8wf@KNg-pt8wf7 ай бұрын
    • Hehe as someone from here, it wasn't really all that great knowing where the different places were located since I obviously knew better than the creators of the show. There were plenty of times I sat there thinking "oh, so he flew there. That's impressive" 😂😂.

      @loris-bismar@loris-bismar3 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for the shortcut. I really appreciate how you broke it down straight to the important parts.

    @ark1065@ark1065Ай бұрын
  • The relationship between the Scandinavian countries is similar to that of three siblings. We mess around and make fun of each other endlessly, but we're all good mates in the end

    @batcat4136@batcat41362 жыл бұрын
    • well its a bit difficult to understand what the danes are saying, but i get what you mean

      @zTeaTheCoffee@zTeaTheCoffee2 жыл бұрын
    • @@zTeaTheCoffee oi leave us danes alone we just really loved farming for some reason

      @adog2706@adog27062 жыл бұрын
    • @@adog2706 Grabbar tat lungt, vi kan alla hålla med om att finnarna lnte är skandinaviska.

      @edrosfelt9381@edrosfelt93812 жыл бұрын
    • @@edrosfelt9381 Precis! 😂

      @papasidex@papasidex2 жыл бұрын
    • And if someone outside of our brotherhood interferes or trying to participate in our quarrels, we got each others backs

      @SkogarmaorV@SkogarmaorV2 жыл бұрын
  • Having worked with goats on farms, I can say that "The danes have the courage of goats" Is a compliment rather than an insult.

    @thedon9247@thedon92472 жыл бұрын
    • They eat fucking everything

      @adrianmaxim4808@adrianmaxim48082 жыл бұрын
    • @@adrianmaxim4808 I really don't see what you mean. well Bacon yes anything with good tender meat on yes. mushrooms oh hell naw tastes like fucking dirt in my opinion

      @ExGoFX@ExGoFX2 жыл бұрын
    • @@ExGoFX goats eat everything...i had one eat a shoelace

      @adrianmaxim4808@adrianmaxim48082 жыл бұрын
    • From what I've seen, goats are the brain trust of the barnyard.

      @jeepdriver7603@jeepdriver76032 жыл бұрын
    • We have a saying in the USA, "if it can't hold water it can't hold a goat"

      @ah5721@ah57212 жыл бұрын
  • I’m American but most of my ancestry is of Danish and English descent. I’m very intrigued lately in learning more about how my Viking ancestors lived! This was a great video!

    @kylekelson8533@kylekelson85334 ай бұрын
    • Danish is Germanic, the same people as the Anglo Saxons

      @EpicAelflaed@EpicAelflaed2 ай бұрын
    • Perhaps your ancestors were thralls, not jarls.

      @triumph.over.shipwreck@triumph.over.shipwreckАй бұрын
    • I'm Inuit ( Greenland ) and Danish . I live in Canada ..I have Dupuytren's contracture The Viking Finger . I'll walk all over you . 😁

      @theonosehair6416@theonosehair641623 күн бұрын
    • ⁠@@theonosehair6416 I’ve started to get Dupuytrens as well. Not happy about it

      @kylekelson8533@kylekelson853322 күн бұрын
    • @@kylekelson8533 I used to play guitar since I was 15 res old I'm 65 yrs old now , I can't play anymore .😒

      @theonosehair6416@theonosehair641622 күн бұрын
  • Love the character description of the siblings. ❤❤❤

    @user-xc2iy8wb7t@user-xc2iy8wb7t2 ай бұрын
  • Haha, As a swede, I love the picture you paint about our countries. As all siblings, we tease and fight each other but as you say. Deep down we share the same heart.

    @fylghiakonst389@fylghiakonst389 Жыл бұрын
    • True 🇩🇰

      @listefanden860@listefanden860 Жыл бұрын
    • NEVER. AS A PROUD NORWEGIAN I REFUSE. We don't share the same heart! (To be honest I'm not very proud, Norway is flaaaawed maaan, also this is a joke about Norway being the "crazy little bro")

      @cristinaborch4759@cristinaborch4759 Жыл бұрын
    • Im a swede🇸🇪 Yeah...I joke alot about norway being dumb Denmark being...well how do I put this, Danish... But I have to admit... I love you guys, my brothers

      @godisbilsmastaren1440@godisbilsmastaren1440 Жыл бұрын
    • This video is completely wrong about Sweden though. The lack of historical and archelogical knowledge is astounding. Swedes weren't in England? Laughable. Is that why all the anglosaxon coins are found in Sweden and so are the Runestones that describes the journeys there

      @LordOfSweden@LordOfSweden Жыл бұрын
    • @@LordOfSweden Nestor's Primary Chronicle...we have written sources as well. Michael Psellos, Miskaway, Ibn Fahdlan and many others.

      @varangjar1544@varangjar1544 Жыл бұрын
  • This man seems like he would be a really fun and engaging history teacher. Not like the type who told us to open books to chapter 7 and read.

    @vinstar2710@vinstar2710 Жыл бұрын
    • Indeed. Had I had this guy as a teacher I would have been at class half an hour in advance.

      @northbreeze0198@northbreeze0198 Жыл бұрын
    • Could tame his language a bit.

      @debraforthofer3943@debraforthofer3943 Жыл бұрын
    • @@debraforthofer3943too many swears for ya Debra?

      @krusher181@krusher181 Жыл бұрын
    • I was thinking the very same thing, I don't know what they teach in school today but this approach would be a good asset for learning history to our kids because it is really important

      @davidferlazzo3183@davidferlazzo3183 Жыл бұрын
    • my history teacher is hella lazy, id way rather have this guy.

      @MikkelisNOTfunny@MikkelisNOTfunny Жыл бұрын
  • Fantastic, this is fascinating and I love the way you explain it all. Im in the UK and want to go and see the Viking museum in York now. Very very well done, Im a subscriber now.

    @Garryokee100@Garryokee1002 ай бұрын
  • You are an AWESOME storyteller! Please keep them coming and thank you very much for sharing

    @wildhorses267@wildhorses2676 сағат бұрын
  • It’s so weird. From fearsome Vikings to essentially the most chill peoples on the planet. Who knew?

    @Truthster772@Truthster7722 жыл бұрын
    • Yup, it’s fascinating how peoples change over time. Look at the romans, it’s a mystery to me how they organized a huge empire but Rome is a logistical nightmare nowadays 😂, I guess the hordes of Japanese tourists were too much for them

      @circulati@circulati2 жыл бұрын
    • @@circulati Rome still lives. Especially where I am. The U.S. is founded on Roman politics. Even time seems to be founded on the names of Roman gods. Days of the week and months of the year. Heck, even the year proper is roman numerals. Rome hasn't gone anywhere.

      @Truthster772@Truthster7722 жыл бұрын
    • @@Truthster772 yes, totally agree. my people as they are today and my language wouldn’t have existed if not for the Roman conquest (I’m Romanian). But I wasn’t referring to their legacy, I was referring strictly to their organizational abilities, unparalleled in ancient times and which seem to have taken a back seat in more recent history. It’s a mystery to me how you go from keeping together a huge empire for hundreds of years with the best road system, administration and urbanism to the mess Rome is nowadays 🤷🏻‍♀️

      @circulati@circulati2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Truthster772 The months, yes, but not the weekdays. Thor's day e t c.

      @azynkron@azynkron2 жыл бұрын
    • Its the whole been there done that mentality, what can I do now kind of thing.

      @oLawlieto@oLawlieto2 жыл бұрын
  • I'm a Danish Historian and I approve this message.

    @DanishCamp@DanishCamp2 жыл бұрын
    • That's cute 😆

      @susanbeckham9586@susanbeckham95862 жыл бұрын
    • I know next to nothing about Nordic History but I enjoy learning!

      @susanbeckham9586@susanbeckham95862 жыл бұрын
    • @@susanbeckham9586 SOOO CUTE!! ^-^*

      @SirWusk@SirWusk2 жыл бұрын
    • Dette burde ha vært en reklame 👏😂

      @olafviklund3149@olafviklund31492 жыл бұрын
    • Norway is better

      @tomme6875@tomme68752 жыл бұрын
  • Very informative. Have Norwegian heritage but lived in southern Denmark for awhile so it's nice to hear another perspective on the differences.

    @jaymichelson5888@jaymichelson58885 ай бұрын
  • I thought I was primarily Scotch-Irish. My mother did the genealogy and we were involved in the Sir William Wallace Rebellion. But for some reason or another we couldn't go any further than Scotland and Ireland. Which didn't make sense to me. I did my DNA and lo and behold it came back that I'm primarily Danish. Which kind of makes sense now. I really love listening to your little bits of History it helps put my life in perspective. Keep up the good work my brother.

    @robertlittle9907@robertlittle99073 ай бұрын
  • Danish Vikings: "Where's the nearest village I can conquor?!" Norwegian Vikings: "Where's the nearest village I can raid?!" Swedish Vikings: "..Where's the nearest stone I can engrave?"

    @mattsmite8778@mattsmite87782 жыл бұрын
    • LOL

      @SeldimSeen1@SeldimSeen12 жыл бұрын
    • U do know that norway is only a country because sweden allowed them to be independent right? I swear ur the kind of guy to watch hbo's "vikings" and think its accurate to real life

      @Inaresco@Inaresco2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Inaresco Eller så tar du det för vad det var, ett skämt. Dessutom rätt roligt.

      @boboah1@boboah12 жыл бұрын
    • @@boboah1 skämt eller inte folk skrattar åt vårat land o jag tänker inte ta det

      @Inaresco@Inaresco2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Inaresco Calm down Kim, people laugh at other countries all the time. Don't get too butt hurt because it's sweeden this one time. Don't act like people don't clown on Norway/Denmark in the same way. Not to mention US, UK, italians, french people and so on and so on and so on. Stop being so ass mad, it looks bad and it can't be fun to get upset by so small things as well.

      @jacobaaandersen@jacobaaandersen2 жыл бұрын
  • im norwegian, and i can certify this person is a true viking himself

    @colonel86@colonel862 жыл бұрын
    • It’s just too sad that there’s no legitimazy to those claims. Seeing as you didn’t live 600 years ago

      @privateprivate6487@privateprivate64872 жыл бұрын
    • where is the ship?

      @raditicat@raditicat2 жыл бұрын
    • @@raditicat The Sami have it way up Nord... where the vessel style came from.

      @GoddessPottery@GoddessPottery2 жыл бұрын
    • @@GoddessPottery vikingr as the word itself says, there must be a ship. That's what I mean.

      @raditicat@raditicat2 жыл бұрын
    • @@raditicat vikingr is Norwegian for Vikings in the plural. The ships themselves are crafted in the style of the Sámi Nordland boats near the Arctic Circle, but were much larger. It is the Indigenous Sámi that have the ship style. I wish I could upload, we have an actual Viking ship, intact, where I live. It's small, but was sailed from Norway through the St. Lawrence Seaway to Minnesota with a crew of 6 I believe. Relics from the Iron Age show activity attributed to the Vikings. My family is from Loppa Municipality near the Arctic Circle in Finnmark. The ships are all over up there, but we, the Sámi, have the original style of the Nordland vessel.

      @GoddessPottery@GoddessPottery2 жыл бұрын
  • American of Norwegian and Swedish descent here. I appreciated and enjoyed this video - Tusen takk. I would suggest visual reinforcement - beyond showing Mark Wahlberg - in the form of putting the names of the historic figures that you discuss to help them stick in our memory. Your Scandinavian pronunciation of their names is 100% appropriate but would be easier to remember - for us non-native speakers - if they were written on the screen at the same time. The analogies of the different types of brothers were very effective.

    @DavidAnderson-ui3sh@DavidAnderson-ui3shАй бұрын
  • Sir, you are by far, the best and most interesting to listen to. Thank you.

    @DarknessovHezrou@DarknessovHezrou6 ай бұрын
  • Sweden - "did stuff in the east" Raided, traded and settled cities and kingdoms throughout eastern europe, the most important was the city of Kiev settled by swedish vikings from Roslagen which became the Kievan empire or the Kievan "Roos/Rus" which was a huge and important empire. The swedish also went far, became the Varangian guard in the Eastern Roman empire and went about the mediterranean. Besides, Much of South and western Sweden went with the Danes on their raids and settling.

    @Sebbe1@Sebbe12 жыл бұрын
    • Exakt så!

      @danolsson2093@danolsson20932 жыл бұрын
    • Was about to write this...

      @TheAnhard@TheAnhard2 жыл бұрын
    • South western Sweden is basically Denmark out on loan ;) Heja Skåne!

      @NisGaarde@NisGaarde2 жыл бұрын
    • Not really.

      @ElMakz@ElMakz2 жыл бұрын
    • @@ElMakz No, of course not really. It was obviously a joke :) But joking aside, I do know a hell of a lot of people in Skåne who feel a lot more connected to Denmark and Copenhagen than to Stockholm.

      @NisGaarde@NisGaarde2 жыл бұрын
  • As a child, I cried when I learned berserker was no longer an occupational choice. I still stare wistfully at the horizon when I think of it.

    @gen3kali877@gen3kali8772 жыл бұрын
    • One day... One day ;p

      @quaziz@quaziz2 жыл бұрын
    • 😂😂

      @Marvee78@Marvee782 жыл бұрын
    • Just be a cop

      @Ehahehahehahehah@Ehahehahehahehah2 жыл бұрын
    • Soldier/police

      @larsmonsen88@larsmonsen882 жыл бұрын
    • *Little Dark Age plays in background*

      @garyoak317@garyoak3172 жыл бұрын
  • Wow. Super interesting. Norwegian heritage here (from Oklahoma). When I was young I was inspired by the Heavener Rune Stone in eastern Ok., later supposedly "discredited" by "experts" but a huge inpression on me. Love you descriptions and understanding of the sources.

    @rv_at_the_beach2603@rv_at_the_beach26037 ай бұрын
    • The runes are fake and it’s obvious. Why and how would norwegian vikings travel to Oklahoma

      @corneliusmarents@corneliusmarents6 ай бұрын
    • Just a reminder: If somebody is born and lives in the USA, and has heritage from Europe, they're not that ethnicity. They're just american.

      @paldennorbu8808@paldennorbu88084 ай бұрын
    • Yes, I have visited Heavener runestone several times and am convinced that the runes were cut into the stone a thousand years ago. The patina in the groves matches the exterior of the stone. Two other smaller stones have been found in Oklahoma (see at Spiro Mounds Museum) and one each in Arkansas and Minnesota. Local American Indian lore has a story of blond and red haired people coming for a while.

      @RICHARDITIO@RICHARDITIO4 ай бұрын
    • ​@paldennorbu8808 incorrect. They are of that "ancestry", heritage is being misused by the comment you replied to tho. If you are 1st Gen Amefican, it could still be your heritage as well.

      @funsizedi88@funsizedi8819 күн бұрын
  • Really enjoyed the video my guy. You explain stuff really well

    @bowfinnbass8836@bowfinnbass8836Ай бұрын
  • As a Dane, I don't feel the least bit made fun of, and the "hold din kæft" had me in stitches, well done brother, keep up the good work!:-D

    @mace8873@mace88732 жыл бұрын
    • but you speak with a potato in your troth

      @theodordalva7855@theodordalva78552 жыл бұрын
    • @@theodordalva7855 Had I been Swedish, it'd have sounded like I had a potato in my mouth while trying to sing (involuntarily off-key), piss drunk, and mentally challenged, so I'd say I'm doin' pretty good, all things considered.;-)

      @mace8873@mace88732 жыл бұрын
    • No Habla Dane !

      @SamCreecy@SamCreecy2 жыл бұрын
    • @@SamCreecy If you're referring to "hold din kæft" it means "shut up".

      @mace8873@mace88732 жыл бұрын
    • Hey, just think, every time someone saw Vikings coming, they yelled, "Danes!"

      @squamish4244@squamish42442 жыл бұрын
  • If only all history was passed down in such a delightful manner.

    @susim4503@susim45032 жыл бұрын
  • I thoroughly enjoyed that and you have a lovely lilting speaking voice. Thank you for sharing 🌞

    @raydriver7300@raydriver73004 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for taking the time to give your unique perspective! Very nice!

    @casstay4499@casstay4499Ай бұрын
  • "A hundred Swedes ran through the weeds, chased by ten Norwegians..." I remember that one from childhood.

    @Pipsqwak@Pipsqwak2 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah, yeah I remember that tune, written about when the 100 Swedes conquered Norway and the Norwegians chased them because they didn't know how to manage their country. I understand the emergency.

      @dracopticon7788@dracopticon77882 жыл бұрын
    • and I don't cuz I'm not swedish or norwegian

      @drownindesigner@drownindesigner2 жыл бұрын
    • @@dracopticon7788 We probably had had too much smalahove and needed some of our fellow vikings to eat it.

      @iseeu-fp9po@iseeu-fp9po2 жыл бұрын
    • American here. Most of family trace back to Norway. My Grandpa would tell me that little poem and laugh his ass off.

      @MrGary10k@MrGary10k2 жыл бұрын
    • I know someone whose father came from Oland, Sweden, who told it this way, ten tousand Svedes ran tru da veeds, chased by one Norvegian.

      @michaelalbertson7457@michaelalbertson74572 жыл бұрын
  • I do enjoy the simplicity of this video. No exhausting background music, no constant amount of flashy animations. Helped me relax when I struggled with sensory overload.

    @cristinaborch4759@cristinaborch4759 Жыл бұрын
    • Amen to all you said. Current media is overly hyper bedazzled beyond repair. ..my roots are from edesgof by Husqvarna. In so cal. Since 1960. Born in 50s in Chicagoland. A limerick if sorts..seven swedes ran they the weeds chased by one Norwegian, the dust from the weeds made snuff for the swedes and they called it Copenhagen...skal

      @carlbremer5576@carlbremer5576 Жыл бұрын
    • Same from me

      @domoreilly6093@domoreilly6093 Жыл бұрын
    • Tell me about it. I was just wondering how 20 minutes passed by and my brain cells were not tired.

      @ealya4938@ealya4938 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks so much for that! I am German, more precisely from the very South, thus Celtic but I study Scandinavian history, literature and Danish at university in Munich. I heard a lot of what you said already (obviously) but the way you describe it finally shows why still today and even at my university we make fun of one another even though we are kind of related (yes, in this context I count myself among the Danes).

    @MS-sk2nj@MS-sk2nj9 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for this explanation. I just did a DNA and it came back 65% on the viking index. It was a complete shock so trying to learn more about my ancestors. 😊

    @saharohannessian9403@saharohannessian94033 күн бұрын
  • As a swede, i just love the fact that us scandinavians can make fun of eachother in a loving way. Its rly wonderful. In sweden we mostly make fun of norwegians (and pretty much danish ppl too) but its all out of love

    @snakewichduo2678@snakewichduo2678 Жыл бұрын
    • Imagine being a swede, lmao -your friendly norwegian

      @SAGITTARlUS@SAGITTARlUS Жыл бұрын
    • @Skånerost hey man, thats unfair:(

      @SAGITTARlUS@SAGITTARlUS Жыл бұрын
    • It's okay, we all know Norway is like the stupid little brother that Sweden had to take to work with them and tolerate for an entire day because "it's a phase."

      @lunaaa8060@lunaaa8060 Жыл бұрын
    • @@lunaaa8060 :(

      @SAGITTARlUS@SAGITTARlUS Жыл бұрын
    • @@lunaaa8060 vi kan kjøpe hele sverige om vi vil!!!

      @knutforrloekken@knutforrloekken Жыл бұрын
  • I been living in Norway and Denmark, travelled a lot in Sweden and speaks the three languages quite well. There's a feeling of brotherhood when ever I meet someone from Sweden or Denmark. Only hundred and fifty years has gone since we all spoke Danish in Norway, and back then we were under the rule of the Swedish king. His quote on the Norwegian coins were "broderfolkenes vel" which can be translated to something like "The well-being of our brother nation" or "The well-being of our kinfolk"

    @Lars_Paulsen@Lars_Paulsen Жыл бұрын
    • Those coins are glorious. The Nordic nations need this unity more than ever today.

      @porkypile@porkypile Жыл бұрын
    • guys this is so foolish... you might as well compare pokimon cards because what we see on tv and even read of the history is make belief. this is actually disrespectful to the history to follow this hollycuck stuff.

      @WiseWarriorsPath2@WiseWarriorsPath211 ай бұрын
    • @@porkypile I think we have unity. We need to include Finland into Scandinavia and become a bigger player on the world scene if we keep investing in each other. I will say though, I don't think Sweden and Denmark has the same respect of us as I have for them. I rarely meet them in Norge, but I love visiting them anyway. Our cultures are very close, and we speak the same language, English!! Lol, no swede in my hundreds of times visiting have ever understood my Norwegian, lol. We are the one they liked to own, I guess I broke my first statement. I like to have unity, but that can't just come from me. I love my neighbors to the right no matter what, best neighbors one could ask for. Peaceful nations

      @SsspraakForsskkarring@SsspraakForsskkarring10 ай бұрын
    • ​@WiseWarriorsPath2 why is it always the Christians that watch and run people down? Gfsf

      @r.barstad2865@r.barstad286510 ай бұрын
    • @@SsspraakForsskkarring "I will say though, I don't think Sweden and Denmark has the same respect of us as I have for them. " Sweden and Denmark might be too pompous for historical reasons, but there is one thing both our countries agree on, and I really know this - we both love and treasure Norway the most 💙ni kommer för alltid vara vår älskade lillebror och vårt broderfolk (men danskarna kan dra åt he***** 😇)

      @Cloud-dq1mr@Cloud-dq1mr10 ай бұрын
  • Fascinating information. Thank you for presenting this!

    @clscurlock@clscurlock2 ай бұрын
  • Great insight into what Scandinavians are to each other. I’ve have visited Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, and have wondered about their commonality and differences. You’re freely spoken approach is entertaining, enlightening and appreciated. Well done! Well done indeed!

    @billbob7982@billbob79822 жыл бұрын
  • The bluetooth symbol is something new I learned today. A long with all the other great info here. Skål, from America.

    @neowolf09@neowolf092 жыл бұрын
    • Ubbe is on your land

      @reelfeels3542@reelfeels35422 жыл бұрын
    • @@reelfeels3542 I'm happy to have him.

      @neowolf09@neowolf092 жыл бұрын
    • @@neowolf09 Nice to see non nordic folk, use skål instead of skol. And not to make you sad or anything, but Ubba died in England.

      @hullababy123@hullababy1232 жыл бұрын
    • @@hullababy123 You mean in real history? Yes it is beleived as such, but no hard evidence proves it so. It's possible a norse man named Ubbe did in fact come to North America. Ubbe is never directly attributed to ragnar in the actual sagas if i remember correctly. But yes it's true that in real history it's beleived he was a general that died in battle in england.

      @neowolf09@neowolf092 жыл бұрын
    • @@neowolf09 I don't doubt the fact, that some norse named Ubbe went there. But according to the saga, it is mentioned that Ubbe was the direct son of Ragnar, however in real life, there is no actual evidence, that Ragnar ever existed.

      @hullababy123@hullababy1232 жыл бұрын
  • This was wonderful, thank you. So informative.

    @deansky-lucas7880@deansky-lucas78803 ай бұрын
  • Absolutely fascinating! Brilliantly presented.

    @carolthompson2438@carolthompson24389 ай бұрын
  • I’m Mongolian and my husband’s ancestors are Norwegians. Thanks to you now I have a glimpse of the history of “his people”. Love the humorous, casual, yet easy-to-stick-to-the mind kind of history lesson!

    @EL-fv2np@EL-fv2np2 жыл бұрын
    • Your children will be such an awesome mix. Think of the ancestors fame they get to combine. 💪

      @sloth_e@sloth_e2 жыл бұрын
    • You may descend from the Mongolians yourself. I do.

      @haleydoe2279@haleydoe22792 жыл бұрын
    • E L I am Norwegian and my great great grandfather was from Mongolia.

      @robinsinpost@robinsinpost2 жыл бұрын
    • @@robinsinpost that’s so awesome!

      @EL-fv2np@EL-fv2np2 жыл бұрын
    • Im Native American husband is Norwegian viking ancestry.. we have a son.. but you can barely tell im hos mother since he takes after his fatger with the light skin and dirty blond hair.. BUT.. he does have my nose and my eyes. Im sorry for the native American nose hahaha!!

      @fuzzymaiden1@fuzzymaiden12 жыл бұрын
  • As a swedish guy, i think you pictured the diffrent vikings in a really good way with the perspective of them all being brothers. Good job with this video and I hope you all the best

    @linusreitbergermarinko7035@linusreitbergermarinko7035 Жыл бұрын
    • Sorry to say we wasnt brothers at all. We killed eachother for petty power. IF we united the world would be a very different place today.

      @oliwwer@oliwwer Жыл бұрын
    • Yes I do as well, loved the video. The brother part is of course a very loose use, but certainly we share the language regardless of how we fought within and outside our borders. The thing not mentioned is how why we were so fierce fighters - the knowledge or sense of our what is really the beliefs that made dying in battle something that was not feared but held high. Once there could only be one god and only one spirit that killed the fierceness and the spirit of the vikings. As it similarly did to Japan after WWIII, and so many others. When current day people look at vikings they mostly see the crudeness and viciousness but they had some high spirited views that went far beyond killing. Like the runes which when translated are often from a spirit of play. Today humans have turned in to pussies, to quote Clint Eastwood. During the sea faring days of 1700's and 1800's people were whipped with cat o' 9 tails (whip with nine tails with hooks and other sharp objects along it) which was routine, you got your several whippin's and were soon back to work. Today you'd probably kill a person with a single hit. To compare how people lived and died with today will be hard for most to comprehend and with that largely not understood. Now you must be politically correct and society sets its standards by the lowest common denominator. The olympics should not have winners because that means there are losers so no more pushing the limits and just settle into some low mediocre life. It does not mean life's choices are black or white, but we need to toughen up and not cry because of some petty reason. Definitely treat others the way you want to be treated and lead a life where others are happy you lived, but be strong, know the difference between right and wrong and stand for something! Be true to yourself! [I'll get off my soap box now.]

      @growpermaculture2197@growpermaculture2197 Жыл бұрын
    • @@oliwwer Not true, they operated in the Scandinavian region as collective whole. Just go back further... the ones that went "north" probably originated from Sweden as in modern day Norway.

      @ElegantenFranVidderna@ElegantenFranVidderna Жыл бұрын
    • @@ElegantenFranVidderna no we didnt, götar and svear was enemies before we united under the three crowns just in sweden. You clearly have no clue either, norwegians had nothing north. They went to the west and britannia for the majority. East and north was rus aka swedish viking territory.

      @oliwwer@oliwwer Жыл бұрын
    • @@oliwwer You make it sound like they had NO CONTACT or interaction. North = NORway

      @ElegantenFranVidderna@ElegantenFranVidderna Жыл бұрын
  • Hello from Melbourne, Australia. This was a wonderful video. Thank you!

    @deansky-lucas7880@deansky-lucas78809 ай бұрын
  • Man i like this guy he's so genuinely enthusiastic

    @asiandog3975@asiandog39752 жыл бұрын
  • Interesting video. I live in a historical region in Sweden called Roslagen, a vast coastal region in the province of Uppland filled with small ancient coastal towns with direct access to the Baltic Sea. In the capital of Norrtälje we have a monument to Rurik and his two brothers, Sineus and Truvor, who set out to take the Kievan Rus' in modern Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. In folklore they were called Ruser, and is believed to have set out from Roslagen to explore the vast lands in the East. This explains the Finnish name for Sweden, Ruotsi. Roslagen played an important part in Swedish viking history with its immediate position on the Baltic coast. Roslagen is also filled with runestones and burial mounds from the Viking Age. So if the tales are true Roslagen played a direct part in founding Russia, but don't tell the Russians that as they have a long and dark history with Sweden and are probably not very enthusiastic about their possible viking heritage. 🤪

    @faderneslandet3489@faderneslandet34892 жыл бұрын
    • Yes Sweden for sure played a huge role in the East. Just not so many written records unfortunately. But lots of little clues everywhere!

      @norsemagicandbeliefs8134@norsemagicandbeliefs81342 жыл бұрын
    • Russians love their founding story with the Kievan Rus, they referred to themselves always as Varangians and always refer back to Rurik and the Rurik dynasty. Although most of them are of slavic descend they feel connected to the Kievan Rus. Just look up some speeches of Putin about the history.

      @devrimsarigul8387@devrimsarigul83872 жыл бұрын
    • I also live in Uppland. Also, the word Rus also origin from the swedish word "ror". Fram "rorsmän" men with oars. And the runic stones mostly tell about individuals travelling towards the black sea, to Grekland and Miklagård. Later in Varnhem, Västergötland central sweden it is confirmed that some individuals buried there participated in the battle of Hastings, in 1066.

      @Max1990Power@Max1990Power2 жыл бұрын
    • @@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 there is some writen from Byzantine then there is arabs and the slavic them self. There is also some runestones in Sweden about east. I can also ad that house of yngling where alot of viking kings comes from is also swedish vikings and house of munsö with Björn Ironside is a part of house of yngling those all are counted as swedish people then i belive it was some in norway and Denmark also that comes from yngling and are swedish people ruling over others. And for those that want to know what varangian comes from its synonomous with vaeringar and if im not mistake me it meens the oath sworn/the oath sworn people.

      @huginmunin8253@huginmunin82532 жыл бұрын
    • @@Max1990Power yes the old name for Sweden amongst finnish, Estonians, slavic and even greek people that said Rōssía i belive meens land of rowers and later became Roslagen

      @huginmunin8253@huginmunin82532 жыл бұрын
  • Great video and a good summary of the viking era. I don't buy the AD793 date as the "start" of the Viking Age, this is the official start as chronicled by the attack on Lindesfarne but this is just the start of the "record" of the age. The sail was added much earlier than 793 to longships enabling voyages across seas like the North Sea. I will be very interested as we learn more from current research into the period 600AD - 793AD.

    @paulallison6418@paulallison64182 ай бұрын
  • Great post. I love history and learning about different cultures.

    @andymcneil7085@andymcneil70856 ай бұрын
  • My mother's family were Danish until the Germans (& Austrians) invaded Schleswig Holstein in 1864. Young Danish men were sent to fight in the German army, something the men in my family did not want to do, so all five brothers took five different ships and sailed to different countries all around the world, and settled. Thus, the Danes have maintained their propensity to settle and to be skilled sailors even into the modern world!

    @alistairmcelwee7467@alistairmcelwee7467 Жыл бұрын
    • That’s real history right there

      @curtiszyr@curtiszyr Жыл бұрын
    • Well they are still danish genetically,although there is very little difference between danish and northern Germans

      @HYDROCARBON_XD@HYDROCARBON_XD Жыл бұрын
    • My Danish 5x great grandad was from Bornholm and he was a ship captain. He migrated to NZ and started a shipping company. His brother was also a Sailor, and their father a ship captain 😂

      @torichan9872@torichan987211 ай бұрын
    • okay you are not a viking brother, none of you are... none.... guys this is so foolish... you might as well compare pokimon cards because what we see on tv and even read of the history is make belief. this is actually disrespectful to the history to follow this hollycuckj stuff. ps study shows that tthe english were under the rule but they did not get taken over genetically. people of the british islands are almost entirely related to northern iberians, are actually original northern iberian natives...no they are not genetically related to danes hahahahahahahahaha

      @WiseWarriorsPath2@WiseWarriorsPath211 ай бұрын
    • Thanks for shedding light on this, I'm half German and Nigerian but my DNA test revealed that Imt actually 3/8 German and 1/8 Scandinavian. I'm from Schleswig-Holstein so I assumed that to be Danish ancestry, and I had been wandering about the nature of the exchange.

      @johnthies1150@johnthies115010 ай бұрын
  • My family is Swedish and Norwegian when we have our reunions we call ourselves Swedwegians. I supply the lefse, lingenberry and cloudberry jelly and honey. My cousins supply the mead and Aquavit. Lukfisk is only necessary for new comers. Love your video! I will play this at next years gathering.

    @dfuss2756@dfuss27562 жыл бұрын
    • Hispanic/Scandinavian dude here, so I proudly call myself Hispandinavian 😎

      @Valhalla_Heathen@Valhalla_Heathen2 жыл бұрын
    • My family is also Swedish/Norwegian and if I were to crash your get together I would hope to double up on the Lefse and give every spec of my Lukfisk to someone else.

      @badgerrrlattin35@badgerrrlattin352 жыл бұрын
    • I thought you were gonna say Norswedgians haha

      @JamesReborn2023@JamesReborn20232 жыл бұрын
    • What would you call an American woman whose ancestors are MOSTLY Swede, French Canadian, English, Scottish, Irish, Native American, Dutch, and Polish? Lol

      @Janellabelle@Janellabelle2 жыл бұрын
    • We call them Scandihoovians, a mix of Swedish, Norwegian, and Scottish, mostly hooligans.

      @lauriekl@lauriekl2 жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for this---a great presentation. You did a good job in the right mix of fact and humor, I truly appreciate this and sent it on to my brothers. My family (grandfather and younger brothers) emigrated to Alaska from a farmstead east of Kristiansund during the Klondike Gold Rush era. The oldest, who also got in on the gold rush, went back to take over the farm and the rest became halibut and salmon fishermen out of Petersburg, named after the town's founder, Peter Buschmann, another Norwegian. The town still retains its name of "Little Norway."

    @davidotness6199@davidotness61993 ай бұрын
  • Remarkably well presented. Informative, interesting, humourous and entertaining.

    @goldenoriolesilverbirch8220@goldenoriolesilverbirch82206 ай бұрын
  • "friendly rivalry but deep down we love eachother" i liked that

    @elysium30@elysium302 жыл бұрын
  • I was not expecting this to be a video in the perspective of someone who has actual viking heritage, this makes it so much more fun and personal, thank you!

    @tylerpullen1652@tylerpullen1652 Жыл бұрын
    • It’s a little out there. Coming from a 10th generation American who still remains 55% Norse and 25% Finn. The rest is English but history covers that well ⚔️

      @tom6347@tom6347 Жыл бұрын
    • Exactly. On the bright side the rumors circulating about me kinda provide a double edged sword. Plus, it gives me the opportunity to reinforce the point of barbaric manhood.

      @the2ndcoming135@the2ndcoming135 Жыл бұрын
    • Scandinavian heritage* Viking is a profession, not a bloodline.

      @kusivelho4733@kusivelho4733 Жыл бұрын
    • @@kusivelho4733 am i of viking decent?

      @HarleyRunner@HarleyRunner Жыл бұрын
    • @@HarleyRunner No Harley, did you even read my prior comment?

      @kusivelho4733@kusivelho4733 Жыл бұрын
  • Interesting, informative, great delivery. Good stuff.

    @robe8591@robe85918 ай бұрын
  • Hi, thanks for this video, it always exciting to watch and hear about viking age. Greetings from pagans in Latvia 😊

    @Latvijasfans@LatvijasfansАй бұрын
  • It’s hard to get stuff done when there is Fika.

    @TheJL103@TheJL1032 жыл бұрын
    • ..and almost impossible without it!

      @larsnordstrom364@larsnordstrom3642 жыл бұрын
    • funny how the same (phonetically) word represent the female reproductive organ in Italian (or a very beautiful woman by extension) 😂

      @elmogalante7688@elmogalante76882 жыл бұрын
    • True that. My work ethic is founded on Fika.

      @Tyrfingr@Tyrfingr2 жыл бұрын
    • You get shit done because of fika 😂

      @AbtinX@AbtinX2 жыл бұрын
    • 11 kaffet är heligt ☝🏽

      @AmandaMiklja@AmandaMiklja2 жыл бұрын
  • I am from Asia and even though I share nowhere near to the Vikings DNA, I really like your videos. I think I have a thing with the Vikings. Keep it up bro 👏.

    @aungkhantphyohein8060@aungkhantphyohein80602 жыл бұрын
    • Are you Burmese?

      @kaungkyaw465@kaungkyaw4652 жыл бұрын
    • Dont be so sure that you dont have any viking dna. These lil' bastards managed to fertilize large part of the world.

      @rockmcdwayne1710@rockmcdwayne17102 жыл бұрын
    • Actually it’s thought the Mongols went north to the Arctic circle and followed caribou herds around the polar cap and settle many areas including Scandinavia. Norwegian Sami’s and Finish people actually have Asian dna traces because of the influence so you might have more influence in Viking dna than you think.

      @sabunim29@sabunim292 жыл бұрын
    • @@sabunim29 But do us Finns have Asian dna in us because of mongols, or because of the fact that our Uralic ancestors lived in Ural mountains and most likely their ancestors migrated from eastern asia towards west thousands and thousands of years ago?

      @singleturbosupra7951@singleturbosupra79512 жыл бұрын
    • Same

      @asmrbully6980@asmrbully69802 жыл бұрын
  • I'm a dane, and I agree with pretty much everything you said. This is a great video and a great channel in general. I subscribed.

    @andersolevitting9982@andersolevitting99823 ай бұрын
  • I sent this to student(I don't know what else to call him he not learning to practice from me) of mine. That is trying to learn things about vikings. He is new to the practice and religion so the books you mentioned i thought would help. That and he love history and learning more about the vikings as well as other things. It also helped me out alot learning about all the difference in the vikings. So i can better understand my heritage as it is mostly Scandinavian.

    @gothicfairy96@gothicfairy9619 күн бұрын
  • The goths were mostly just trying to get to Ibiza. And the rus and varjag were trying to find their way to Thailand. Even to day we have a strong tradition to travel far in search of cheap alcohol and sunny beaches.

    @andreasolsson4539@andreasolsson45392 жыл бұрын
    • You're joking, but the vikings were actually in Ibiza as well. Well, Norwegian now-christainized vikings, and not at all Goths, but funny all the same 😂 You should check out Sigurd I, perhaps the most badass person to ever emerge from Scandinavia ... and a (the first ever) Crusader King at that... Edit: I now realize the joke may have been more educated than I thought even at first glance 😅 I assume you're thinking about the conquests in Iberia and Sicily (Though Sigurd did go to the Balearic Islands, and beat the crap out of the Berber pirates that had been plaguing central Europe)

      @SebHaarfagre@SebHaarfagre2 жыл бұрын
    • @@SebHaarfagre I knew Scandinavians were in Sicily but had no idea the were in Ibiza (which i think is childishly funny hi hi). Sigurd is defenitly a guy i'm gonna check up on. Thanks for the tip.

      @andreasolsson4539@andreasolsson45392 жыл бұрын
    • det gjør vi også

      @jaysonlima9271@jaysonlima92712 жыл бұрын
    • @@jaysonlima9271 Tror till och med att norrmännen har en folkvisa om att åka till Ibiza

      @andreasolsson4539@andreasolsson45392 жыл бұрын
  • That was the most enjoyable viking history lesson. You're great at it.

    @OldPhartbsa@OldPhartbsa2 жыл бұрын
  • Man I truly enjoyed this clip! Thanks.

    @Trampus10-4@Trampus10-42 ай бұрын
  • Brilliant!! Wonderful explanations and totally entertaining. Time went by and I did not even notice. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    @mjr8791@mjr87916 ай бұрын
  • I am from a town called Grimsby in England at the mouth of the Humber River. The town was named from the Danish child king Havelok the Dane who was smuggled here by Grim the fisherman to keep in hiding as he was under threat of assassination. The town became the biggest fishing port in the world and from that came my great grandfather who was Icelandic. I am proud of my heritage as i am my many tall strong sons. Great video, very informative.

    @stephenyoung1484@stephenyoung14842 жыл бұрын
    • Grímsbær,

      @Svavarsk@Svavarsk Жыл бұрын
    • King ugly lmao

      @djgokker3433@djgokker3433 Жыл бұрын
    • Hi Stephen. I'm from Boston. 👍

      @gazza2933@gazza2933 Жыл бұрын
    • @@gazza2933 Just down the road :)

      @stephenyoung1484@stephenyoung1484 Жыл бұрын
    • @@stephenyoung1484 Yes. Definitely not the USA. 🤣👍

      @gazza2933@gazza2933 Жыл бұрын
  • I have always been glad I'm part Norwegian and Danish and not Swedish, but it seem like you have given Sweden short shrift by not further describing the Swedes adventures in the east. Their role in the formation of the early Russian state, the incredible trade route that extended along the Volga river all the way to Constantinople, and the Varangian guard where they were the elite warriors for Byzantine empire.

    @davidemmet7343@davidemmet73432 жыл бұрын
    • We Swedes are glad you’re not part Swede too! XD

      @j.erlandsson@j.erlandsson2 жыл бұрын
    • @@j.erlandsson kung

      @nicoramirez3932@nicoramirez39322 жыл бұрын
    • @@j.erlandsson Glad to see a salty response! It shows that Swedes still have some spunk and are willing to directly return an insult. My issue with the Swedes is based mainly on three things: 1. I dislike the wimpy guy in the IKEA commercials. 2. I don't find ABBA to be all that spiritual. 3. I hate Swedish meatballs

      @davidemmet7343@davidemmet73432 жыл бұрын
    • True even the norwegian king who had family ties to one of the swedish vikings in the early formation or the russian state stayed at their court at some point before going back to Norway.

      @beepboopbeepp@beepboopbeepp2 жыл бұрын
    • Norway was a part of sweden. I think

      @AlexAlex10703@AlexAlex107032 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for these videos, so intertaining and educational🤩🙏

    @tesseng2714@tesseng27149 ай бұрын
  • I am half Maori and have a bit of Swedish, Danish and Germanic blood and have been learning my Vikings ancestry history. Thanks for sharing this short documentary, I was just wondering if the viking could have accidentally ended up in the pacific ocean back in those times and integrated with the Polynesian people.

    @EiwaAotearoa@EiwaAotearoaАй бұрын
  • Love you too Norway. Don't tell Sweden I said so.

    @Dani_Krossing@Dani_Krossing2 жыл бұрын
    • Ojojoj, hur vågar du!

      @mangosallad1388@mangosallad13882 жыл бұрын
    • @@Nattereven69 maybe he did that for us who are Danish-challenged?

      @gcanaday1@gcanaday12 жыл бұрын
    • First the danes totaly fuck up the norwegians language, and then you write in english.

      @swetrollskogsson629@swetrollskogsson6292 жыл бұрын
    • Tratior!

      @zeoys2254@zeoys22542 жыл бұрын
    • Sverige håller med om att Norge är det bästa skandinaviska landet

      @BlueEyedSlytherin@BlueEyedSlytherin2 жыл бұрын
  • Love your way of telling - lots of facts combined with a smile, some jokes and irony. Makes it so fun to watch 💪

    @lassemadsen3803@lassemadsen38032 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for this illuminating and hilarious video

    @PolishBerserker@PolishBerserker9 ай бұрын
  • Wow. I didn’t know these precise details about the scandi vikings.thank you for the insights.

    @bluejesper@bluejesper7 ай бұрын
  • One mute Swede, one deaf Danish and one paralyzed from the waist Norwegian in a wheelchair was out in the forest and came to a cave with a sign with "Go in and wish what you want and it will come true!". The Swede went in and later came out shouting "I can speak!". The Danish went in and later came out shouting "I can hear!". The Norwegian went in and then came out and said: "Look guys, new tires!"

    @henrik.norberg@henrik.norberg2 жыл бұрын
    • As a Dane, I prefer to poke fun at the Swedes, but that was actually funny.:-D

      @mace8873@mace88732 жыл бұрын
    • Maybe it should be the other way around, the Dane who could speak and the Swede that could hear ;-)

      @falukropp2000@falukropp20002 жыл бұрын
    • @@falukropp2000 a Dane who can speak so others understand?? Funny

      @reineh3477@reineh34772 жыл бұрын
    • As a norwegian, i prefer to poke fun at the swedes

      @xtratic@xtratic2 жыл бұрын
    • I prefer when both Danes and Norwegians make fun of us Swedes, It's more fun to give back than hitting someone in the back 😜

      @henrik.norberg@henrik.norberg2 жыл бұрын
  • As a swede I'm a bit disappointed you didn't mention the swedish rule of kiev and how Russia means the land of Rus (those who row = swedes)

    @sillybilly7590@sillybilly75902 жыл бұрын
    • Was the varangian guards spoken about ? The thumbnail pictures, suggest something not so historical.

      @RogerCillion@RogerCillion2 жыл бұрын
    • @@RogerCillion No I'm pretty sure they weren't

      @sillybilly7590@sillybilly75902 жыл бұрын
    • @@sillybilly7590 So this is just another atempt of disgrace swedish minority.

      @RogerCillion@RogerCillion2 жыл бұрын
    • @@RogerCillion lead by the soon to be Norwegian king 😎

      @remysagmyr2128@remysagmyr21282 жыл бұрын
    • That's just Swedish propaganda, i learned that in history class in Norway.

      @captainmorgen486@captainmorgen4862 жыл бұрын
  • Oh man I been playing crusader kings 2 and it's amazing how the game has all of this history in it. I have gained a love of learning history.

    @zanderwhitcroft@zanderwhitcroftАй бұрын
  • Very interesting. Thank you for this information. The paternal side of my Estonian grandmother came from Sweden to Estonia at some point in the 18th century.

    @natureforthesoulsvibes@natureforthesoulsvibes2 ай бұрын
  • As others already pointed out, you forgot to mention that Russia got its name from the Swedish Rus Vikings on the east coast of Sweden :(

    @upstream1942@upstream19422 жыл бұрын
    • @Aslak Vikingsson Well, Rurik was a Varangian chieftain of the Rus', and with the help of his rus vikings he founded Novgorod to begin with. If the area would take its name from Rurik alone, wouldn't it then rather have been called Rur(ik)land?

      @upstream1942@upstream19422 жыл бұрын
    • @Constantine I am a Swede, living in Sweden, in a part called Roslagen, on the east coast, where we have rune stones and other historical remains from the Rus vikings. They spread far, but they originated from Roslagen in Sweden. They were famous for their strong, efficient rowing teams and martial art. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27_people Finnic speaking people used the name Rus for these vikings too, at least Finns and Estonians. (I don't know about the Hungarians.) They even call Sweden Ruotsi/Rootsi, which probably meant that the Rus vikings were their most common contacts with Swedes in the viking period.

      @upstream1942@upstream19422 жыл бұрын
    • @Constantine I would very much like to see a verification of Rus and Roden having different linguistic origines. The information I have is that they both are originated from the old norse word ruᚦ.

      @upstream1942@upstream19422 жыл бұрын
    • @Constantine Of course there was ample cultural exchange in the area. The sea didn't separate people at that time- it connected people. Birka seems to have been an international metropol. But I cannot see why that should in any way contradict that the Rus vikings were Swedes, originally populating Roslagen. We know they were there, notwithstanding recent research in Gamla Upsala and Birka. This is information from Wikipedia on Rurik: "According to the , Rurik was one of the Rus', a Varangian tribe likened by the chronicler to Swedes and Gotlanders. The scholarly consensus is that the Rus' people originated in what is currently coastal eastern Sweden around the eighth century and that their name has the same origin as Roslagen in Sweden (with the older name being ). According to the prevalent theory, the name ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (), is derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" () as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen () or , as it was known in earlier times. The name would then have the same origin as the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden: and ." You are of the oipnion that this is all false?

      @upstream1942@upstream19422 жыл бұрын
    • @Constantine So who were the people in Roslagen who called themselves Rus? Finnic no doubt, with a knowledge of old norse runes? I don't know what recent archeological research you are referring to, but I think it is highly improbable that what have so far been regarded as an international trading center with goods from a large part of the world should in fact be a small, insignificant finnic enclave. You have to excuse me for not buying that... It seems to me that you are trying to turn the entire viking period of Sweden into The Era of The Finnic... :) And as for Rurik being Finnish- he could very well have been a Swedish viking who settled on the west coast of Finland. If so, he was certainly not the only one. But if you like to think of him as Finnish, be my guest... He was obviously much appreciated by the Rus, wether or not he was Finnish and they finnic, said to come from Sweden, fighting together in the Varangian army as mercenaries all over the world, and conquering land all over the world. I know I must be wrong, but I read that even Rhodos in Greece has its name from the Rus vikings' homeland, the Rode. Finnic or not. (After all, the vikings are said to originate from hoards of people on horseback, coming from today's Ukraine, who invaded Scandinavia. The vikings must have inherited their culture and mentality. So what is a Swede, a Scandinavian, a Finnic?) Are you by any chance of Finnic origine?

      @upstream1942@upstream19422 жыл бұрын
  • I really like this. My mother was from the very south of Sweden (Malmö), my father was half norwegian and half german (no, not a "war child", he was born 1927) and I am born and raised in Sweden. I find your "tale of three brothers" very enlightening. Thank you very much for your insight and your excellent storytelling. Ingemar, son of Tormod, son of Ernst and Ingerda.

    @ingemarzuchner6462@ingemarzuchner6462 Жыл бұрын
    • Today Malmo is all Somalis.

      @justynjonn@justynjonn9 ай бұрын
    • He actually doesn't know anything. He says Swedish Viking didn't go to England - yet only Sweden has a special collection of Runestones specially dedicated to the Journeys to England. This guy doesn't know what he is talking about.

      @LordOfSweden@LordOfSweden9 ай бұрын
    • ☣ Ödets brunn är förgiftad och de tre Nornorna mördades ☠

      @c4rt3ls.@c4rt3ls.21 күн бұрын
  • I found this quite informative, thanks. I'm Scottish, but on my father's side, they come from Orkney and the Western Isles, and on my mother's side, her dad claimed to be descended from a Norman king. So I probably have a fair bit of Viking in me. When I was a kid, I had blonde hair and blue eyes. My hair turned dark, but I still have some red hairs in my beard, and I am tall. I like travelling and meeting people of different cultures, and also occasionally get the urge to go pillaging, but I try to resist that. ;D

    @fishypaw@fishypaw5 ай бұрын
  • How entertaining! Watched bec. I'm half-Danish, and Scottish, so more than 1/2 Danish. The characterizing of the Scandis as brothers really helped to understand the differences in their culture. Of course, the distinctions are more recent than we think as "countries" did not exist until the Middle Ages and later.

    @sherrillsturm7240@sherrillsturm7240Ай бұрын
  • At the age of 25, my Swedish roots are finally popping up, guiding me to explore the history of my ancestors. I'm loving it so far, thank you for your informative video!

    @ashtray0belief@ashtray0belief2 жыл бұрын
  • Dude you are a nice fellow, I like the way you elaborate historical events in both serious and humorous manner! Keep up the good work.

    @Lother1n@Lother1n2 жыл бұрын
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