How did the Vikings Discover Iceland?
Iceland's connections to Scandinavia are thanks to its settlement by Norsemen, mostly from Norway - but how did they get there in the first place, after all, it's not exactly the corner. In this video I will explore the first Norsemen (and one Swede) who ventured across the North Atlantic and either purposefully or, in most cases, accidentally, came across the land we now call Iceland.
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How Vikings Names Work:
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Viking Raids - History Visualised:
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The Great Heathen Army - History Visualised:
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Norse and Anglo-Saxon Paganism:
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A Guide to Dark Age Irish Politics:
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A Guide to Dark Age British Politics:
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Who Were the Anglo-Saxons?
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After a trip to Ireland, I learned that not just Dublin, but many of Ireland’s biggest cities started as Viking trading posts.
This is so: Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Wexford.
Ford is Fjord, is fjörður... so yeah... you're welcome :)
@@steveanderson8727 Ford is just river crossing in English, not related to fjord.
Floki found it.
+ Shaden0040,That is sooo fuckin cool!.Just shows how well Michael Hirst had the show Vikings so well researched!!! Love it man! Great video.I learned quite a bit from it.
Ehm no Leikur Eirikson found it...would be cool though.
Not according to Vikings.
Shaden0040 vikings is also not historically accurate ;)
Wow could have fooled me. ;P
Awesome video mate, and thanks for the mention, you're more than welcome ^_^
haha, the Irish monks not getting on too well with the Norse settlers is a bit of an understatement :D
I mean the Sagas say "they voluntarily left" - but the Norse had an interesting definition of "voluntary" hahaha xD
hehe yeah, it's like HIGHLY understated humour :D
maybe it was noth maybe they left in pease fore the first settler in faroe islands was half norse half celtic named grímur norse kamban celtic and the women in faroe islands have 84 % celtic dna
way are ther menny place names in iceland and faroe island with celtic names ???
We "got rid" of the Vikings in 1014 only to have the place infested by priests, maybe if we kept the Vikings it would have been a better place earlier. 😉
Thought I would point out that today, Reykjavík's coat of arms depicts Ingólfr's two pillars floating in the sea.
Thanks - that's a really interesting fact actually! Doesn't it have a an ox on there as well?
No, Reykjavík's coat of arms only has the floating pillars. Iceland's main coat of arms however has a bull which is one of Iceland's four land wights.
Wow as far as I can tell your Icelandic/Norse pronounciation is really good! I'm Norwegian though but I have heard quite a bit Icelandic, and your pronounciation is definately better than most attempts I've heard.
Thank you very much, I do try!
TheInfidel666i But he pronounced v as an f while it should be pronounced as just a v
Always a good idea with a video on Vikings!
I thought it's something nice and uncontroversial given my recent detours into the realms of Sinterklaas and Zwarte PIet ;) This is very up your street though!
Absolutely! As it so happens, I will also briefly mention the Varangian Rus, like you do here, in an upcoming video.
Love the format! Very interesting as always!
Thanks so much!
I am so grateful you made a video about Iceland. It so often forgotten or glossed over, even though it might be one of the more important aspects of viking history and culture. I would love if you would make a video about the Icelanders’ Sagas. They are not the best historical source, due to people exaggerating events and characters, but they give such a detailed insight into Norse culture, values, laws and traditions. Your Norse accent is great, much better than how many others do it. You have clearly done your research on the language and included bits like what the name Hrafna-Floki means and origin of Vikingr from Vik, which is something most wouldn’t bother with going into. One slight error, it’s Reykjavik, not Rekjavik. The spelling has changed somewhat between Norse and Icelandic but I am pretty sure it is Reykjavík in both. Keep doing this good work. I’m sure you’ll be one of the biggest educational channels on KZhead!
I can agree that parts of Icelandic history may or may not be true. But one reason for that is because Icelanders did not begin to write the history of Iceland until much later with Snorri Sturluson one of the first.
Dear Hilbert. This is well done and historically correct. I am an old Icelander and have studied our history. Keep on my friend.
BJORK BJORK BJORK.
She means a lot of things, when she sings.
Her Name is spelld Björk by the way and it rhymes with jerk
its a tree
The birch to be precise
ther was an army in norvay named birkibeinar leade of king sverre king sverre came from faroe island he made norvay to one kingdom
Regarding the poll: I love your videos and would love to see you do videos on all of those topics whenever you can. You make informative quality content!
Thank you so much! I think I will to be honest - such an interesting topic!
I hope you make a video about the Norsemen who went east. Maybe even one about the Varangian guard?
I'm new to viking history, and these videos are super helpful!
Good video as always Hilbert. Now thanks to shad more people shall know of your greatness!
That shad shoutout will help a lot I imagine, i remember I subscribed after that Lindy video so shoutout/acknowledgment from bigger history KZheadrs helps a lot. Keep up the good work Hilbert
Yes it was very kind of him! Really, my first video responding to Lindybeige's critique of the Last Kingdom?
mathias neergaard Me too!! Remember he loves his FIRE ARROW's YA YA!
Yea, i remember in the beginning you got some hate from Lindy fans but when Metatron and others started giving positive comments it turned around. Loving these kinds of odd videos, reminds me of Jabzy. Also i am Norwegian and we were thought that we explored a uninhabitat land so i would love to learn more about those Monks
Dude I’m so glad your channel has come so far! I feel so proud of you dude
This is such an awesome video! I will be showing it in class on Monday, as we are currently learning about the History of Iceland! I am taking my students there in two weeks!
I'm glad Shad brought me to your channel, you make amazing videos
Thank you so much - and welcome to the community!
I watched shad's video just today and subscribed now. Better late than never.
I didn't know anything about this before. Thank you very much for this fascinating video! And about the poll: your animation style is one of my favorites on KZhead!
Whoo! I love Icelandic history
Because it's short
Nice video. I really appreciate you actually trying to pronounce the old norse/Icelandic, it sounds really good
Im new to this channel and im very impressed. Amazing and detailed, enjoyed it very much. Brilliantly done..
Saw you on the recommended tab, very glad I clicked. Greetings from the Faroe Islands :D
I've been fascinated by the vikings for years, so I'm glad that someone who has a good understanding of them is making videos to help people learn about and understand the vikings and who they really were and what they were really like
Great Vid.!!! Sounds like you have the history down firmly. I always wondered exactly where the Faroe Isles were.
Listening to people try to pronounce icelandic / norse words is always a wild ride of enjoyment. Looks like an interesting channel with good content so I might stick around
Thanks for the video! It was very entertaning and interesting
That was actually a great video. Please do more about Nordic exploration!
Amazing video, shad knows who we have to watch
Thank you - I really appreciate your support :)
Worth also discussing the climate at the time being more benign than nowadays. That would be no small factor in the ultimate settlement. Thanks for making!
Brilliant
Quite like your videos. So mesmerising to watch.
Thank you!
Interesting content. Wondering where you got your information. Thanks !
please dont hold back.. this was good.. informative.. and for once quite accurate according to the knowledge we have.. thumbs up
Love Floki on the thumbnail. Great video man
As a history lover I find this channel fantastic and the animation is enjoyable 👍
Thank you for this very interesting video ~ It makes me want to visit Iceland, too!
This was really fascinating
interesting and informative. great video well presented .
great video! very interesting as always
Thank you!
Firstly I looooove your videos and enjoy them (regardless of format tbh, everything you make is great). Secondly are you going to collaborate with Leornende Eald Englisc again maybe in another livestream like you did months ago? I watched the 2 hour stream you guys had together after it was posted and I enjoyed it sooo much. All the things you two talked about together excited me and I was hoping there'd be another livestream like this in the future so I could participate and ask questions live in the way a livestream format allows (as you two discovered with awe hahaha). Anyways thank you so much for making all this content and reading this if you did. 💛It brightens my life💛
Its amazing how the vikings could travel across oceans without any form of cartography. In some cases they literally observed the colour of the water to determine their location.
I came from the shout out. Shad's a good bloke
Top notch fella
awesome video man, keep it up!
Thanks!
really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work :)
Thanks very much, glad you're enjoying them!
Nice to see mention of the Hebrides, I lived there for some while.
Ah nice one!
No wonder the Vikings used ravens to symbolize wisdom. They knew the intelligence of that animal.
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
Here is an update for you. Starting in 2015 archaeologist Bjarni F. Einarsson and team have been working on a dig at Stöð in Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland. What they have uncover so far is that there is a 44m longhouse there from ca. 800 ce. and on top of it is a slightly smaller 36m longhouse, built before 871 ce. In the area around the longhouses are other buildings or houses that wait to be been excavated. The working thesis is that the older longhouse from ca. 800 ce. was an outpost from Norway, where a chieftain sent a crew to work the resources during the summers to bring back to Norway. What contradicts that is how big the longhouse is. The younger longhouse, on top, was definitely a permanent dwelling of a wealthy household and in it they have found among other things a lot of glass beads and silver.
Cudos to your pronunciations. Very well done.
This video was recommended on my youtube feed. I think because my cookies must have shown an interest in Iceland hahahah. I went to Iceland in 2013 but knew next to nothing about the history. Thank you for this video!! I will check out the test of your channel~
Thank you very much, hope you like it!
History With Hilbert Very enjoyable Hilbert, perhaps you could do one on the much disputed and less well known Irish Island of Rockall 😜, I don't think you'll get thirteen minutes out of it though.
Very interesting. Really want to know more about the Vikings in America!
I liked the music you put on at 5:00.
Same here, I thought it fit well with what I was talking about :)
and i like the weed you put on at 4:20
Loving the videos Huw. Any chances of some references to go with them? Books and stuff rather than just youtube vids?
For this one I mostly used Jesse Byock's "Viking Age Iceland." I'd highly recommend it if you're interested. I hardly put sources because, without wanting to sound big-headed, this is the stuff I'm interested in so a lot of it I know without remembering particularly where I read it or who told me about it.
You make a video about Iceland (Smowland) it's actually snowing right now in the Netherlands. That's my weather update
Oh lekker, hier nog niet, het is alleen wal stervens koud :P
+History With Hilbert Stervens? Vreemde verwoording heb je daar.
Judiska Ekonomen yep, it's pretty snow covered for most of the country right now
You can't handle the truth stervenskoud is vrij gebruikelijk in mijn omgeving
+Infected Apple waat woon jij dan. Ik heb er nog nooit van gehoord. Mischien omdat ik een Belg ben. Kweetnie.
I found this channel without Shad, though I am subscribed to Shad, but I just wanted to say: Shad, seems like a really nice guy. Well, as far as I can tell without knowing him, just being a subscriber of his.
Great video
Thank you!
I'm Icelandic, thank you for this video
Great video. I'd love to see more Icelandic (and maybe some Greenlandic) content in the near future! Such a remote and unique place, with so much interesting history! A question however: Where do you get all this information? Are there specific websites for such information? Especially in this video, the content that you shared with us sounds considerably difficult to dig up, even in the age of the internet. It would be great to know where you get your sources.
Thank you! I plan to make some more :) I've read rather a few of the sagas and Jesse Byock's " Viking Age Iceland" covers this and loads more in a lot more detail if you're interested in finding out about this place and period :)
You sound almost exactly like ZeroEmpires, the Age of Empires personality. Also, great video!
Nice job! You could do one about Greenland! Would be nice.
Congrats on the shoutout! You totally deserved it! =]
Thank you very much!
Your pronunciation is brilliant!
If you could talk about the settlement of Iceland (Around 874 - 930). There were also quite influential people up after the age of settlement in Iceland, you could also talk about them and Alþingi (Goðinn and Alþingi.)
Very very good video
I can't get enough hilbert. your passion for history with yourself is magical. i feel like a child again. except i hated history in school. i wish I'd taken notice, or had teachers that didn't fill us with propaganda lol.
I just spent 6 hours reading the exact same thing you wrapped up in 13 minutes.... I thank you
Very good presentation! Nice to hear the correct pronunciation of the names, by a non-Scandinavian aswell. Always funny when people in other Viking videos pronounce the name Leif Eriksson, like ''Leaf'', when it's actually ''Layf''. If you do ''modern'' history aswell, it would be interesting if you could make a video about the only Swedish colony in America, called ''Nya Sverige'', in 1638. A piece of history that isn't that well known.
I love these videos
Very interesting .. would love to visit but I am right at the other end of the globe. Thank you.
Great video! Where is the Netherlands clip though?
Love the channel dude, I enjoy your bit of slyly added humour here and there. The Pog mo thoin(kiss me arse) note left by the Irish slaves gave me a chuckle. Yeh nice one ✌
Nice North Shields to Ijmuiden reference
Cool video......i visited iceland beautiful country
Very nice video! Reykjavík is misspelled though just pointing it out ;)
Nice sneaky Dizee Rascal reference, mate
You just got a subscriber!
Thanks mate! Now that my time machine is working (mostly working... a few power relay problems left to work out) I can check your work and verify the names and places. If you don't hear back it means that I dunna whoopsie...
Great video from a dane who has also family in iceland
Just discovered your channel, great work man :) Could you make your opinion on second season of The Last Kingdoms ? Any predictions ? :)
omg am crying right now. sooo floki settled in ICELAND . the vikings serie just englightened me , i am 25 years old and i had no idea about how European countries were formed n, or in other meaning the history of Scandinavia wowwwwwwwwwww am so thrilled right now
Very good video so I SUBSCRIBEd
Excellent
Icelandic History sure is epic!
I remember egils saga it seems like everyone would upset the king have a son and then make a farm on Iceland after they stop raiding
It explains why everyone in the sagas is a massive radgy xD
Great! thank you!
Hilbert... did you put this together in a day? I should note that I don't mean this as an insult, it's just you said you did this video because of Shad's video yesterday
I did actually - I felt I had to live up to the shoutout ;)
History With Hilbert I'm quite impressed! Visuals especially
Very interesting so now I know thanks 😎👍
And btw, the word "Vikingur" can be easily understood if you know norwegian or any language using the word VIK, and spend half a minute studying the usage of words. Vik = Inlet/cove ingur = someone who is a practitioner of said thing Vikingur = someone who is commonly found in the coves/inlets. If you study the geography of scandinavia - and certainly NORWAY you understand why the term became used. Or more widely accepted Vikings = Seafarers.
Please never stop rumbling! This is the only reason why we watch your video! :)
Saint Brendan was there first but there is little record, just a few times mentioned in a few monks chronicles.
I too, found this channel cuz of Shad when he did the shoutout in a video.
Very cool 👍
The way you speak of Norsemen is quite confusing. "Iceland's connections to Scandinavia are thanks to its settlement by Norsemen, mostly from Norway" & "I will explore the first Norsemen (and one Swede)". Both of these quotes come from your description. The first quote sounds like you're saying that it was Norsemen, and most of them were from Norway. The second quote makes it sound like Swedes weren't Norsemen. I don't know what you mean, but from what I've learned through the years, Norsemen were all the people who spoke the North Germanic language of old Norse, which also include Swedes. I'm just saying that if you're on the same page as me with that fact, then you should know that it really sounds like the Norsemen were strictly old Norwegians in this video.
Vikings technically landed on America when they set up their first city on the Island. The western part of the Island is in the North American plate. While the Eastern part of the Island is on the European plate. But I do have a question. How was it that the Norwegians were able to settle Iceland that had minimal resources but fail on the North American main land (modern Canada)?
I am just thoroughly fascinated by the Norseman/Scandinavian and their complex and rich history. I have Danish blood ...born Canadian...I would do anything to move there ! 🤣🤗 Ps I love your voice.
One falacy in the video is that a lot of Swedes went west to plunder, not any famous Swedes but a lot of rune stones mentions sons and fathers who died on travels to the west
As compensation for sounding negative i give you Vigmunds runestone (a humble man) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland_Runic_Inscription_1011
Shad pointed me to this hidden gym. :)
Could you do a video on the different terminology and debate between "the dark ages", " Medieval" and "the middle ages". Because I find it interesting how scholars have shifted from describing the time as the dark ages to more positive language.