Thats why Inuits also have such great stories too! All passed down through the generations.

Amy Stone Would you agree that storytelling is found in all of the "tribes" of humanity? At least until the television came with so many stories inside the dang box. Do colder climates produce better storytellers than warmer climates? Somehow I doubt it.

Also story telling was a way of passing along history. Before written language they used tapestry. Hand woven minute details of exploitation at sea.

@@shirleyniedzwiecki1104 Yes, they make better stories. They have more time for it. Sounds perfectly logical to me. Also, 1 in 10 people are authors in iceland. That says a lot...

It's the same when you read the ancient Roman classics. Read Cicero or Suetonious and you'd think they're addressing the corruption of today's sleazy politicians.

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Same for me

Never loose your roots

As a American/Dane, I am very proud of my ancestors from Denmark to Ireland, we are people always pushing the envelope to the limit, daring and bold.

Thank you Joe I knew not that. 15:58 Moreover to style the culture as "a multicultural meltin pot" because the wives were British is more dishonesty. "Bicultural" might be closer to truth, but were the cultures not very similar to begin with? . 18:02 That Mediterranean-type narratrix was very jealous of the English woman whom she interviewed, though she bore a dishonest smile upon her face. And to say that "the" Vikins created the Icelandic republic, rather than "some" Vikins is fuzzy and foggy thinkin at best.

Also the writers kept callin the Anglo Saxons "British".

I believe there was a warming trend at 1000 AD. The last ship to sail to Greenland from Europe was about 1418. It was much colder then and the crops were failing.

@@marthabrunner4067 Thankieu so heartily!

I did not know that, Joe. When I was getting ready to go on my first deployment to Iceland I was only 19. The Liaison Officer told us young sailors that, “There is a woman behind every tree.” What they neglected to tell us is that there were few trees! LOL I know that geothermal heat is the most common method for heating in Iceland.

Nope, you're just another joe with ancestors in Europe

Lol wtf

@@jgriss353 what say you

That's a scary thaught,I know 2 many bad mothers out there

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They were most definitely not considered equal in Norse culture but women had a lot more freedoms than other cultures in that time period but def not equals lol ...

Enjoy your exploration into the rich history of that time. Some of it will put today's world order into prospective.

Me too! I also think ancient Asian history is one of the most amazing and interesting history there is.

@@jman29x It is, a rich history of exploration.

@Fred Kardin😎😍

Could be something from another Life.

It wasn’t so harsh at the time. Deforestation and climate change.

I find it so amazing to read about my ancestors and then have a dna ancestry analysis and Íslendingabók confirm everything Landnáma and Laxdæla said happened.

And usually not true.

The vikings didn't write. Aside from runes, anyway.

You can't educated these miseducated Globalist. They can only think in their terms. Conditioned really.

These liberal progessive types from the universities can only see the world thru their narrow mindset. They claim anyone different is a biggot if they have any pride in who they are especially if they are white. I am so tired of this revisionist BS.

Yep just typed that. Rolls eyes, sure some went voluntarily. To their credit they cover it later.

No no you are wrong they were all respected strong independent POWERFUL wamahn!!!

@@potatoradio define voluntarily???

I hope you understand that glomming all Europeans together into a generalized "white" is in itself creating a "multikult". Your pale hopenchange lost. You can stop being a tool now. It's okay.

Hey don't you dare question the woke narrative!

@@andrewphillips8341 ... or the "red pill" (which essentially means the same thing as "woke") for that matter. Awake or asleep, a sheep is a sheep. Wake them up and they just bleat louder in the same futility.

@@nicolelasher Nobody is talking about glomming all europeans together in some generalized "white". Multicultural means several different cultures living side by side. This wasn't the case. The women that came mostly assimilated into the icelandic/nordic culture. Even though there were influences sure, it's also basically a neighboring, very similar culture. Using this as an argument for why it's a great idea for cultures/groups from different sides of the planet to live side by side in a massive scale is just a desperate attempt to paint two very different things as being comparable. They're not similar or comparable at all.

@@-RXB- take it up with the people who decided to invade or colonize previously inhabited areas and traffic humans. Whether you like it or not, they're creating multicultural societies on purpose and profiting from it. Doesn't matter who assimilated. Assimilation is never one way. In other words, even if you're the colonizer's child, if your wet nurse was a slave, she is still your wet nurse and still from wherever she's from, and you're still dependent on her to survive. Deal with it.

Sketch Doge You are in for a treat 👍🏼 Cheers from Denmark 🇩🇰

check out Dr Jackson Crawford on KZfaq, you can get his translations of the Saga of the Volsungs and the Poetic Edda on audible if you want to hear the REAL Norse texts

also check out Arith Härger for information on the runes and many other interesting Norse things! :)

Me 2

Penguin books has a pretty good selection.

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That was funny ... you made my day - love your sene of humor

FUN-EE!

Read in the sagas how drinking blood was a common thing, like the saga of burnt Knall.

I supposed, 9 tall giants

Me Too. Grips my heart. And the Music...

inn winter time the sun can ben sen for 4 hours for the shotest time in winter. talkin a bout long winters.

The climate was warmer 1,000 years ago than it is now. The climate was warmer 2,000 years ago than it is now as well. In between was periods where the climate was colder. It is likely that when Iceland was settled it was more hospitable than it is today, not dramatically so I should add. Life would have still been harsh. Life was harsh in most places around the world at that time for various reasons compared to today.

Hurri Yet Ancient Greece had a democratic system more than 1500 yrs before.

I don’t know for sure but yes I think so. I only read about deforestation in a Jared Diamond book

Yep, a dwarf Birch tree species covered most of the island originally. It was almost all cut down to extinction within 100 years of the settling of Iceland. Then the Althing (Iceland's government) put bans on cutting trees and bans were put on just collecting driftwood too because wood was so scarce by that point.

Not only that, the weather/climate was much warmer in those days. Bad historian, imo.

Odin but I've two eyes.

@@tenzin2378 this can be fixed. Your depth perception will.....change though.

Hmm.. thinking of the bloodshed done in the name of Christianity...."hold the wine"...humans, they're pathetic!..but they absolutely need true the cross

Skol!

No, Christ defeated Odin too.

Neither she was from Norway

Did Scotland excist in year 800? I know that the British Isles did.

I just happen to know that it's Janina Ramirez.

@@Griexxt Thanks...

unless you watch the first five minutes, where she introduces herself and her name appears on the screen...

Naomi Sedgwick The Irish ‘myths’ are on a par with the Iliad in my opinion. Not only that, the tales of the invasions has been proved to have solid historical roots. Btw not a lot of people know that William Morris was very fond of Iceland and not only learnt the language but travelled there. Read his books - particularly ‘The well at the world’s end’, my favourite.

and almost no documentary on iceland will mention the fact that irish monks were living there before the vikings came.

@Tom Taylor according to chronicles written by Irsh monks it's quite possible they may have made it all the way to North America before the Vikings did.

Not just hundreds, well over a thousand years. The Irish are far more than their past. God Bless Ireland!!

Wasn't only the Irish..

She is one of my favourites, too!

She's terrific! (Have to admit, I thought she was the actress who played Esme on Peaky Blinders, lol)

Ah, but that doesn't play into the Globalist agenda...

@Jesse Marcel Like everywhere else. It is the same show no matter where you go. Har har yourself

It's not even the most egregious problem. The Narrative: The men were primarily Scandinavian, but more than half the women were British. This shows that British women really flourished in Iceland. The Reality: This shows that British women were frequently kidnapped during the Viking raids in which their husbands, brothers, and sons were slaughtered and they were then forced to marry their captors. You know, like all the histories say.

@@peterpike There is also the narrative that you can't be a slave girl unless you are black.

@@peterpike I'm sure that was often true, but are you denying that women could have chosen their own fates? What of the examples offered in the documentary?

Get yourself hooked on "Time Team" like so many of us, UK history is fascinating!

There are stories about many british women willingly joining the vikings as they were regarded as being more hygienic and with wel groomed hair and beards unlike the anglo saxon men.

Anglo Saxons and Vikings could understand each other because Anglo Saxons migrated to Britain from northwestern Europe, the same area Vikings were from. They also shared similar religious beliefs.

Scotland is part of Britain. The Scots are British.

@@skellagyook Not in AD 892...

@@SenshiFX Britain was not a single political entity/nation then. But Britain is also an island/landmass, and in that sense they were British.

@@skellagyook Being on the landmass renamed Britain by your invaders does not make you British. The United States landmass is now called America. The indigenous peoples of this land are of their own distinct nations. Lakota, Mohawk etc......and do not self describe using the term given the land mass by their colonial invaders.

@@SenshiFX It doesn't matter what you call it. The landmass exists. And Scottish and English people are both descended from both indigenous/earlier peoples of the island (Brythonic-speaking Celts like the Picts and Britons) and from later invaders and migrants (like the Anglo-Saxons from Germany/Denmark who invaded England and South Scotland and the Gaelic-speaking Irish Celts who invaded the Scottish Highlands from Ireland - they were not native either). The Welsh and Cornish are mainly of native British/Brythonic Celtic descent and preserved their Brythonic Celtic languages descended from Briton dialects. (And genetically, despite language changes, native Brythonic Celtic ancestry tends to predominate in the English in most regions and many Scots as well.)

The same was done on the Easter Island(Rapa Nui), but we shouldn't judge people who lived one millennia ago, with today's standards. Sure, they f-ed up, killed all the trees, but those were different times, and life was very harsh. There is no excuse, however, for a modern deforestation, all around, but especially in the Amazon - the lungs of our planet.

Was not expecting that to come out of Trevor Phillips

​@@jason3891 What can I say... I'm retired now, with $40M in gold and TP Inc. prospering, I'm practicing my daily yoga, meditation and masturbation - I mellowed down. Although only a whiff, or two, of gasoline, you know, to clean my sinuses from time to time - no more crank, incest and cannibalism, for now - but who knows what future will bring ;-]

I heard they called it Iceland to confuse the enemy and Greenland to have the enemy go there. I could be wrong, I wasn’t there 😂

@@trevorphillips4595 The Venetians did the sane to Dalmatia, they employed locals and had such vast amounts of lumber that much of it rotted away until some robber princes sold it on the sly, but the REAL reason the islands and coastlines get denuded is because goat and swine herders nievly cause young shoots and roots to be eaten and dug up, this is also why Pacific islands are washing away, the tides are no higher, as proven in Sydney Harbour, there is simply nothing holding them there as was before early explorers ships dropped a pair of pigs on various islands as a fresh meat supply...little did they know...lol... also the huge tsunami that hit New Zealand at 20 feet and Sydney at 10 feet in 1868, was likely why the population on Easter Island vanished...along with all the trees.

Also the Vikings called themselves the Rus as in the enemy russia

Hear, hear! It didn't arrive quietly anywhere here in the Nordics (heck, the saint my town is named for was killed - by pagans - halfway to our neighboring town), and on Iceland it took quite a while for people to let go of their pagan roots. Christianity bringing peace? Let me snort in disdain.

the necro pants were what intrigued me most

RIP

We cannot comprehend the concept of god. We humans simply don't posses the tissue to understand such thing. That being said, yeah, the narrative of Nordic gods is pretty cool.

*Watch my playlists if u want know who the One True God is☝🏽✨☦️*

@@YouhavetoBelieve3347 there is no true God. Only true uncertainty.

Erick Gonzalez - *Lol wrong brother. There is One True God and his name is YAHWEH. He revealed his Name to Moses on Mt Sinai and his Name is the Symbol of your DNA because u were made in His Image. Look up “symbol of Human DNA” and you will see YAH* *Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Psychics has now proved using String Theory there are 10 Different Dimensions and all of these are a result of vibratory Strings which give off a frequency which shapes all Matter.* *This is what the Bible has said all along. John (1:1) In the Beginning was the Word. YHWH spoke all things into existence using his Word which is vibratory frequency.* *If ur an illogical atheist who assumes that nothing (no matter, time, or space) before the Big Bang somehow created something as complex and intricate as the Universe which is logically and literally impossible admitted by Stephen Hawking himself.* *Watch my playlists “The Proof of God” or “Language of Creation” if u want to know the Real Truth*

*All pagan gods are Lucifer and the angels that fell with him when they rebelled against God in Heaven because they wanted worship for themselves. The Fallen Angels mated with human women and gave birth to all the Demi gods hybrids of Old*

They just steal documentaries and monetise them bro

You hope.

#okayKaren

@@melanphilia WOOOOOoosssh.

I bet you are an American Karen.

And what a great writer he was! I have most of his books, and when possible search through second hand book stores for more. Though now with wuhan virus that is not possible.

Most ppl would out-vote you on that! Give us our Freedom to be Mystery!

@@ridethecurve55 welcome to post truth era , we got the info but nah i prefer magical stupidity

ill also add, classical period works like the iliad are fiction but have potential to portray true events and characters that were real people. so i mean makes total sense tome

nope. pretty sure they were mexicans.

Thank you for your contribution. By reading the comments, it seems the commentator should have done a lot more research.

Ps im glad we today have camed across paper n pen n for all to learn by school and to type on machines n u tube, better n for worse aye x)

When i mean kart, its apple thats not fully grown apples not ready to eat..

Lol right? Its ignorant and wrong and frustrating

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What are you guys on about? Are you trying to insinuate the Vikings weren't a diverse people?

@@justinerickson5486 Yes. I'm insinuating that there were NO black people or other types of brown people among the Vikings. They may have had different eye color, different hair color. BUT they were all white Europeans. The true Israelites of old.

A recently published DNA study may disagree with you on that. But good luck with your racism... I guess.... Actually. No. I take that back. Because you I don't care if there were black or brown or yellow or red Vikings. Because color doesn't matter. It's the attitude.

Large eyes and exceptionally... well fed? (Where's Suzannah Lipscomb or Lucy Worsley when you really need them?!)

For real...women could even divorce their husbands. Which was unheard of in other civilizations of the same time period. They understood that women have very specific strengths, and they honored that in their society.

@@mysticmama_3692 Exactly right. The variety of possible roles for Nordic women in pre-Christian times was vast and their rights under the laws equal to that of the men in almost all cases. The encroachment of Christianity saw a corresponding decrease in the rights and, of course, the rites available to, observed and often availed of, respectively, by women who were in religious roles such as that of a seidkona and völva and also as skalds (bards). In Nordic society the women were treated with respect, including when they were thralls (slaves/servants). That is contrary to the stereotype of the society and the beliefs most people unfortunately have and still tend to hold about both the Norse generally and Norse women, specifically. The series "Vikings" whilst over-dramatising various historical events, thankfully get some important matters right such as women in Norse society having the option to learn to fight and who did engage in combat and who were often buried with not only jewellery associated with women but also with swords and other weapons they typically used in their daily lives. It helped that some archeologists and forensic anthropologists took a second look at some of the skeletons in various graves and recognised they were of women and that the inclusion of weapons like swords did not make them men and that some women were buried with swords and daggers, indicating they engaged in combat and knew how to fight during their lives. Christianity was at first tolerated by the Norse and then, over time, embraced - often for political or "diplomatic" reasons including to help increase the Norse people's success as traders indicting that oftentimes the Norse 'embracing' Christianity was for expedient purposes more than it was from sincere or heartfelt belief in the religion. Unfortunately, as time went on and Christianity became more and more a part of the Norse ruler's apparent beliefs - often because they had married a Christian woman and/or were ruling lands predominantly Christian - so too did the Norse peoples tend to embrace or at least publicly appear to embrace Christianity. And as Christian tenets and customs became more commonly a part of Norse society, so too did the Norse women increasingly see their rights stripped away. The Norse women were, of course, barred from the various religious rites they had engaged in for innumerable centuries. Eventually, Norse women became the subjects of their husbands and/or other male relatives and the roles of seidkona and other religious and spiritual role and professions were either hidden from public view and matters like runecraft and trancework practised in secret or ceased altogether. Over time, it seems that the teachings that typically went from one priestess to another and from mother to daughter began to trickle down less and less over generations until it stopped altogether. This in part was due to the understandable fear that the woman known to be involved in divination and any other kind of spiritual practices other than Christian ones would be called a "witch" and at one point in history for many decades there was a very real case of what's called the "Burning Times" otherwise known as the times a war waged upon an entire gender, with men and patriarchal institutions, headed by the Catholic Church and then its Protestant counterpart, targeting women and ensuring the books like "The Malleus Maleficarum" often better known as "The Hammer of the Witches" were followed to the letter.

Yeah Iceland had a robust northern forest, Wish I could have seen it. The British isles were all covered in forest as well the rest of Europe. Absolutely amazing how people see no tree's for as far as the eye can see and think it must have always been that way.

We are trying to recover the forest.... Give us few more decades

Fred Versteeg Interesting. Deforestation in Tudor times is to do with the felling of trees to build ships. Most people don’t know that we’re still coming OUT of the Little Ice age, this process started in about 1850.

JETWTF so I wonder why they didn’t plant tree back? .,,the earth is still the earth, so why not try to revive it?

🙄...It could be because this documentary is about the VIKING SAGAS, not the indigenous peoples of Iceland.

that is not true, but there were some irish munks here before Scandinavian, called Papar