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Queen Elizabeth I was definitely NOT the ruler of England in 1014, I can tell you that

Congratulations on 1 million. I've been recommending your channel for years now. Well done. Now I only hope Bazbattles gets the same treatment. 😂

@@Cowpitulate Cheers! Agreed on BazBattles, he's the OG

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Yeah I can't help but to call bs on that lol

Even Gimli son of Glóin doesn't claim that many in The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.. Someone is massaging their stats.

presumably from a very old chronicle or saga they did tend to be a bit shall we say creative with the truth still a kick ass way to be remembered

Um maybe? Or maybe it happened 😅

Must hav been using a cheat code

How to Train your Viking lol

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Well the Viking expansion was stopped. So yeah, it was a victory

Braindead comment!!!

Sounds to me like Sigtrygg won the battle to be honest. He started all the problems, got everyone else killed, and then lived on to rule Dublin. Marriage might have been a bit frosty from then on though. Reading up on his dynasty some more, it seems his son Olaf was killed by the Anglo-Saxons but then his granddaughter would go on to be the mother of the Welsh kings of Gwynedd.

Brian is a man made legend. He should be regarded as Great, since he actually dominated the whole island. No other irish managed to do what he did.

The life of Brian was indeed great.

​@The_ZeroLine it was a great movie

They did , they just weren't Christian enough to be written about ​@@mercianthane2503

​@@mercianthane2503 disagree, countless high kings did the same, Cormac mac Airt, Niall Noigiallach, Diarmaid mac Cearbaill, Máel Seachnail mac Máel Ruanaide, and Flann Sinna to just name a few. Boru wasn't the only High King, nor the longest reigning. A lot of history was rewritten to make him seem far greater than he was (Chatterton Newman, 1983)

Interesting that Aethelred means noble counsellor when in modern Norwegian Adelråd would still mean noble counsel. Not surprising perhaps, with how closely related the languages are, but still fun to be able to understand even after so much time has passed

Basically he was a good king who trusted bad advisors hence the reason his rule was so chaotic and terrible.

@@bxzidffbxzidffThe Saxons and several other northern Germanic groups probably shared the same ancestors as the Norse. The similarities in language and culture are what you would expect to find in related peoples.

One could also argue "ill-read" to mean other things, but the same principle applies.

King Sigtrygg's name also sounds like the nordic meaning: Sure of Victory - Sieg (seier=victory) Trygg= sure/safe in securing victory.

Definitely a pyrrhic victory.

Irish history be like: War started over stolen cow, heroics on both sides, everyone dies, the end.

Sounds like a typical Irish battle to me.

I just made a similar comment before seeing this one... they probably should have worn armor, huh?

That's why I respect the leaders of those days, because they FOUGHT and DIED with their troops. Nowadays, though?

It's because vikings loved battle and embraced death in their culture. Any other european armies would flee if the commander dies or if the casualities get high, but vikings were out of those lines (if they weren't arogant and technologically retarded they should dominate the world)

Sounds like my totalwar campaigns

whole line wasnt wiped out, this aint texas.

The cost of the victory in men wasn't the problem. It was having the line of succession wiped out

What school in clontarf is the sword in ???

​@@christianmccann9400be in a museum nowadays.

Seems like they had a few spares. 😂

I would say the guy watching from the city as everyone else gutted each other almost to the last man xD

Because the west is too woke and weak at this point to do it justice

An attempt was made about 20 years ago. A book was written, a script was developed and then those involved started fighting about content and rights. I lost interest in it at some point, so I don't know for sure how far they took it, but the film was never made.

Brian’s “ the lion of Thomond “ early life was just as dramatic.. his father was killed by Vikings when he was a boy.. educated by Monks in religion , language , arts of war , he eventually led a group of men who lived off the land and in the hills and Mountains close to his home ambushing the Vikings at every turn , eventually taking revenge on Ivar of Limerick , who were Vikings ,( hunted him down and had him killed on Scattery island in the Shannon estuary after the sacking of Limerick ) he had most of the male military aged Vikings put to death after the battle … eventually what was left of the Vikings assimilated with the Irish and served him hence his allies at Clontarf. Went on to build his power base from Kincora .. became king of Munster whose seat of power was the rock of cashel in Tipperary .. I’ve left out loads but no doubt he was one of the greatest Irishmen that ever lived .

​@@samr131what are you babbling on about. Braveheart did alright, and I think you underestimate the appeal of Celts vs Vikings on a movie screen. A movie would take artistic license to engage the audience. So it's not like it would mirror a boring academic reading that you would give.

@@samr131 You're delusional!

i feel that medieval English history overshadows medieval irish history.

@@enamulhaquefahim4924 oh okay.

I really would love to learn more about Irish history, before the Norse or English conquests.

@@enamulhaquefahim4924 possibly, but I greatly enjoyed this video.

@chasechristophermurraydola,9314 Unfortunately then, you missed the Crown in Cricklewood --on a Friday night in the 60's.

Thanks so much man!

There were a shitload of vikings in Ireland for quite some time.

Vikings founded both Dublin and Kyiv. They were literally everywhere in Europe, including Al-Andalus

There is sort of "good test" that will help You finding out Viking heritage, only really works in English lounge. Every country's name finishing on LAND, like Scotland, Iceland even Poland but that is a long and complicated story 🤔.

Most of the big coastal cities were Viking built

@@stzawadzkiThey only attacked the Emirate of Córdoba and the Kingdom of Nekor.

@BertieBrosnnan, He didn't say Brian was a Cork man. He mentioned Cenn Corad, Irish for Kincora? which is I believe, at the heart, as it were, of Thomond. His pronunciation of Connacht left something to be desired, but that is the "Angleterre" way. I too have a mild interest in "history" though I've learned, with some angst, that "History ain't what it used to be".

@@ccahill2322 All in all, I'm Sligo, and I think that he did an extremely respectful attempt. It's unfair to expect a foreigner to dictate everything accurately. They're not from a Gaeltacht. He told our story, and, God willing, people can enjoy it.

@@ccahill2322 Watch the graphics. For a good chunk of the video, he clearly places Brian in Cork. Re-watch it; he is clearly placed in Cork City, which is totally wrong. For example, at 11:37, for over two minutes, he said 'Kincora', but the pins were sticking from Cork. It's hard to miss.

@@deathrabbit8710 My words on his video: "Exceptional work overall, the graphics and storytelling are insanely good. As an Irishman and History Enthusiast, I can safely say this is one of the best videos I have seen covering Irish History... But your work is outstanding, so I have subscribed. Go raibh míle maith agat, mo chara. Thank you." I clearly commented massive compliments to him. My constructive criticism will most certainly help him in the future if he notices. I only mentioned it because, in those times, the Tuatha and their territories were essential. He placed his stronghold on Cork City and said Kincora which is a massive mistake. I produced videos on Irish History, and I welcome constructive criticism; I loved this video overall.

Spot on. My family the O'Loughlin's the Princes of the Burren ancestral lands bordered that of the O'Briens. Sometimes we fought against them, other times we fought along side them. We were at Clontarf alongside the O'Briens as part of the host from Clare.

@Your_President_Kanye_East, Was before "social media," they didn't have cell phones. And, more important, before "IMMODIUM."

Yeah, it was all incredibly heroic. It's nice to see it all played out neatly in a KZfaq video, but my goodness. Champions dueling each other, an underdog king rising from obscurity. As someone who's read extensively into this, fiction couldn't create anything better!

Its relatively common once you get to the 'Barbarian tribes of Europe'. They just did not rout like other men. I always found it fascinating to learn about battles fought by the ancient powers like the Greeks, Romans or Persians; and while there is much to be admired from their strategies, their technology and the skill at arms; relative to the Northern Barbarians they appear rather wimp-ish. They flee after maybe 20-40% of the army has been killed, and the big slaughters tended to happen when people were run down after the battle. Meanwhile the Goths, Irish, Saxons, Franks, Vandals and 'vikings' just brutalised one-another with horrifically high casualty rates in almost every battle, routing only after huge (60-80%+) losses, and sometimes not even then. There are even a few famous examples of them just dying to the last and often ignoring or even being urged on to fight all the harder when their leaders are killed. What is somewhat interesting is how the trend persisted into the modern era with wars against China or India yielding similar results of the non-European sides fleeing after relatively mild losses, and a fair few examples of Europeans stubbornly fighting on in apparently doomed situations and just not breaking.

@@HaggisOfDeath that fits.. Tbf the natives from all those countrys are quite stubborn in temperment.

@@HaggisOfDeath To be fair retreating can just be seen as regrouping. Withdrawing from a battle when you see you are going to lose to regroup and come back to try and re-take the advantage is the reason the Romans, Greeks and many others were so victorious. Even today this is the case.

The red squares are particularly beautiful.

Fully agree , this is what makes his videos special

If Brian Boru was thirty years younger it would have been and while I think it still should be it's a hard sell for the main character to be a weak battered old man unless you want to take historical liberties

@@bpdhoplite what makes you picture a weak, frail, battered old man? Most british kings look old af, yet bravehearts a movie.... I think what you mean is " there is no british king and queen who are brother and sister, leading the movie so their son/brother can one day rule"

Won't be "northern ireland" for much longer, mucker. 🇮🇪

Do you mean the ancient irish province known as Ulster?

@@g_g8537 And what would you do with the population that doesn’t want to be a part of Ireland?

@@g_g8537 It'll be Something-stan on account of all of the third-worlders you keep letting in. That or some random un-pronounceable gibberish African name. Pick your poison. Doesn't matter which one, but at the rate the Brits, Scots, and Irish are going....you're going to pick one whether you like it or not. The only people not being flooded with third-worlders is Wales. Odd that.

​@@danielboone8256It will be done via referedum, to deny it will be undemocratic.

This actually makes more sense. Why execute a man for killing your King in a battle?

@@EerieV23they executed him because those men loved their king and were tasked with defending him but he died, the amount of anger that must of built up in all those Irish soldiers was probably insane

@paulduffy4585, I had heard from a "reliable source" that "Brodir" went to Brian, on a stroll back to the beach whereupon seeing Brian he, (as in those times formalities were deemed dispensable) he said "Brian I've come to bury the hatchet and before Brian could utter nay, or yea he promptly buried in Brian's head. Such was diplomacy in the days of the "warrior"

@@ccahill2322 And then Wolf, not believing Brodir would have the guts to say such a thing, ripped them out to take a look.

its because we are lovers not fighters primarily, its easy to have an impact when your sleeping with everyone lol

Yes the British isles were a hot mix of tribal alliances, mercenary activities trading and talking.. Irish Scottish, welsh and English are all intertwined. The DNA does not lie..The two major occorances that drew the sharpest lines between them and created the more recent polarized society was the split in the Church under Henry the 8th which created the Protestant Catholic dividing line. The subsequent mismanagement of the Potato famine caused the end of Irish ever trusting the mainland to govern them and they spent the next 2 generations conspiring en masse to become a separate State. Nowadays all groups seem to pretend all the alliances and intermixing of the past never happened and that the current lines always were .. The DNA does not lie.. 😂

​@BobBelson what planet do you live on

@nedlooby7419 What is your point ? Make your point.Taken at face value your comment is answered as such - There are 8 planets in our solar system not including Pluto which flip flops as an exo planet due to its oribital plane which suggests it may not be a planet.. That notwithstanding only one planet supports life in our solar system .The planet earth which is the 3rd one out from the sun..I reside on planet earth.. All of the British isles are also on earth in the northern hemisphere above the Atlantic Ocean.- you idiot.😉

@@BobBelson Very true

@@BobBelson ha...funny.. Only people seeing it as confusing is the british...we ALL raided each other, allied up, fell out and raided each other again... But the british are condemned by all other celtic nations because of the ATROCITIES they committed to their celtic cousins.. Us. The DNA doesnt lie, true. But celts dont forgive. Also true. Brit = traitor.

Is that what he's saying? Knorth? I have an ear infection so couldnt figure it out! CON-ACHT

Also Murchadh is pronounced MURKA

​@DestroyTeamAvolition Murchadh is my namesake, and finally, someone who said it right!

The burn on that, ouch.

The luck of the Irish

Thank you very much!

Viking’s had kingdoms here

Most of Irelands cities were founded by vikings

Blessed be the algorithm which provides variety.

@@dennisfarris4729 All hail the Algorithm!!!

Awesome! Thank you!

Thank you so much!!

Viking expansion was stopped. How is that not a victory? Jesus, you really just hate Irish people

It was a victory for Ireland and the Irish but not for the Royal family and the Vikings

Almost..and yet..Not. 😉

all o briens are his family tree that name started with him

Came here to say this

Who are 'we' and what are you babblibg about?

​@TransoceanicOutreach the immigrants taking it over

Sure. Until the 3rd World immigrants you keep letting in, overwhelm and take over and rename it something more fitting to their cultural sensitivities and tastes because they are having more babies than the Irish folk. Oh but I know, I'm racist so clearly everything I've said can be dismissed.

Carthago delenda est!!!