The Vikings! - Crash Course World History 224
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Haley
I was hopeing you would keep more on topic and touch on some of the great struggles for power in a lot of the Scandinavian countries. For instance we often think of Denmark as a peaceful place, and we never hear many untoward things about the royal familiy. BUT actually their history of vikingship and establishing their houses how their names were decided, is quite interesting. They didn't pass down last names like we think of today. Also their house struggles for power were even bloodier than that of brittain. They once had a bastard son who raged war across the entire country just so he could have rights to fight his brother in a traditional ritual for the right to the throne! All legal! He was finally defeated after being allowed to rule half of the country as was his right, not becuase he did all of that but because his other brother[not the one he waged war on] decided he should also be allowed to rule and went on a rampage against him after he was still recovering. It was not illegal for a bastard to rule there, and the child had as much rights to the throne as the other siblings unlike Britain who often barred their bastards from much of anything but an empty title if they were afforded that. The traditional ritual is a custom of their people that if any member of the ruling house decides that they wish to challenge the current seat on grounds that they are unfit for whatever reason they can call for a formal battle in which they may vie for the throne face to face with their opposition. Often the other members of the house would attend and throw their support behind either candidate and hope theirs wins. Infact the bastard had a great number of house members on his side who felt he did have great ideas, and whom supported him and gave him lodging as he rampaged along the country. Crazy how all of this is Legal huh? Lol. Often they intermarried with the close Mongolian and North Asain tribes and had settlements far into siberia! Infact, a maternal hablogroup unique to that of Scandinavian peoples actually is now being studied as the missing link between the predecessors to American Indians through the bering straight. They have already done archaeological digs on the tribe and have isolated down a boy child from the tribe to see his unique dna signature and how it relates to the tribes who crossed the bering straight down into the americas. His maternal dna group mixing with that of Asain populations has been shown to be the missing european maternal link. Also! You forgot to mention that even though viking raids were written to sound so horrible, and they were misunderstood, actually raiding was seen as a very valid profession in most of the world! What we think of as horrible today was really not that bad and was normal back then. And the Vikings were certainly not the first nor last people group to establish a raiding route! Happy Video Makeing! -
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I was hopeing you would keep more on topic and touch on some of the great struggles for power in a lot of the Scandinavian countries. For instance we often think of Denmark as a peaceful place, and we never hear many untoward things about the royal familiy. BUT actually their history of vikingship and establishing their houses how their names were decided, is quite interesting. They didn't pass down last names like we think of today. Also their house struggles for power were even bloodier than that of brittain. They once had a bastard son who raged war across the entire country just so he could have rights to fight his brother in a traditional ritual for the right to the throne! All legal! He was finally defeated after being allowed to rule half of the country as was his right, not becuase he did all of that but because his other brother[not the one he waged war on] decided he should also be allowed to rule and went on a rampage against him after he was still recovering. It was not illegal for a bastard to rule there, and the child had as much rights to the throne as the other siblings unlike Britain who often barred their bastards from much of anything but an empty title if they were afforded that. The traditional ritual is a custom of their people that if any member of the ruling house decides that they wish to challenge the current seat on grounds that they are unfit for whatever reason they can call for a formal battle in which they may vie for the throne face to face with their opposition. Often the other members of the house would attend and throw their support behind either candidate and hope theirs wins. Infact the bastard had a great number of house members on his side who felt he did have great ideas, and whom supported him and gave him lodging as he rampaged along the country. Crazy how all of this is Legal huh? Lol. Often they intermarried with the close Mongolian and North Asain tribes and had settlements far into siberia! Infact, a maternal hablogroup unique to that of Scandinavian peoples actually is now being studied as the missing link between the predecessors to American Indians through the bering straight. They have already done archaeological digs on the tribe and have isolated down a boy child from the tribe to see his unique dna signature and how it relates to the tribes who crossed the bering straight down into the americas. His maternal dna group mixing with that of Asain populations has been shown to be the missing european maternal link. Also! You forgot to mention that even though viking raids were written to sound so horrible, and they were misunderstood, actually raiding was seen as a very valid profession in most of the world! What we think of as horrible today was really not that bad and was normal back then. And the Vikings were certainly not the first nor last people group to establish a raiding route! Happy Video Makeing! -
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Mike
7: 30: Umm. where did you get those facts? According to the Sagas, Lief Eriksson never came into contact with the Indians. He did settle the land, but did not kill 95% of Indians, and for that, yes, we could say good job! Sadly, the colony vanished by 1250, two and a half centuries after Lief Eriksson discovered North America. So no, Columbus did not discover America. Amerigo Vespucci did, and Lief beat both of them anyway by five hundred years.
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7: 30: Umm. where did you get those facts? According to the Sagas, Lief Eriksson never came into contact with the Indians. He did settle the land, but did not kill 95% of Indians, and for that, yes, we could say good job! Sadly, the colony vanished by 1250, two and a half centuries after Lief Eriksson discovered North America. So no, Columbus did not discover America. Amerigo Vespucci did, and Lief beat both of them anyway by five hundred years.
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crash_course
To think that some languages don't evolve too much so people today can read texts written years ago while some languages have evolved so much over time that people today might read a text that's difficult to read and not be able to even understand something along the lines of a fart joke as the video says or things that are considered very inappropriate today. The joy of language evolution.
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To think that some languages don't evolve too much so people today can read texts written years ago while some languages have evolved so much over time that people today might read a text that's difficult to read and not be able to even understand something along the lines of a fart joke as the video says or things that are considered very inappropriate today. The joy of language evolution.
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Mike
7: 23 Where in North America? Excuse me, John, but have you read the Vinlund Sagas? Those sagas were actually written by Bjarni Herjolfsson, who was the first European to SEE, but not land on, North America, and who followed Lief Eriksson when he established the colonies of Hellulund, Vinlund, and Marklund. The ruins are still seen near L'Anse-Aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
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7: 23 Where in North America? Excuse me, John, but have you read the Vinlund Sagas? Those sagas were actually written by Bjarni Herjolfsson, who was the first European to SEE, but not land on, North America, and who followed Lief Eriksson when he established the colonies of Hellulund, Vinlund, and Marklund. The ruins are still seen near L'Anse-Aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
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Mike
7: 08: Actually, Erik the Red was exiled FROM Greenland TO Iceland for the murder of several of King Olaf Tyvgersson's courtiers. And I should know, because Viking history is my speciality. This is especially true when we consider that Lief Eriksson was born in Iceland.
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7: 08: Actually, Erik the Red was exiled FROM Greenland TO Iceland for the murder of several of King Olaf Tyvgersson's courtiers. And I should know, because Viking history is my speciality. This is especially true when we consider that Lief Eriksson was born in Iceland.
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btfication
About 5 years since this video was released, but still I want to honor the realistic picture that is presented here. I believe that the popularized views of Vikings is often on the level of a story by JRR Tolkien.
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About 5 years since this video was released, but still I want to honor the realistic picture that is presented here. I believe that the popularized views of Vikings is often on the level of a story by JRR Tolkien.
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When the Vikings went to Spin the Arabic people were there, the war against them was for three months, the Arabic stopped them and broke half of their ships, the series lied to us.
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When the Vikings went to Spin the Arabic people were there, the war against them was for three months, the Arabic stopped them and broke half of their ships, the series lied to us.
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The
I still wish i was taught about the Vikings because I am an Amon Amarth Fan. Give me that test and the song Shield Wall and I'll ace that test.
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I still wish i was taught about the Vikings because I am an Amon Amarth Fan. Give me that test and the song Shield Wall and I'll ace that test.
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Nicolas
So we basically don't know anything avout vikings.
At least now I know what si the real cause of thunder, dead heavenly dinosaurs
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So we basically don't know anything avout vikings.
At least now I know what si the real cause of thunder, dead heavenly dinosaurs
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