History is so interesting to me. Idk how people think it’s boring. It literally feels like an entirely different world that these people used to love on but it’s the same ground we walk on today. It’s breathtaking when you think about it

This is probably the best documentary I've seen about the vikings. It answered many questions I had concerning social and economic typology prior to the "raids" . Very well done.

I would love to go back in time to get a glimpse of how these people lived and acted. In all eras... Amazing!

How do you make documentaries so quick? Your upload rate is so high, I mean your work is cinema quality

My 10 year old is learning about the Vikings at school, so this documentary will come in handy

This was an incredible documentary, filmed and produced at the highest standard. Well done and thank you! Also Vikings rule!!

This was well made, great documentary. Thanks so much.

I’m SO in love with this channel! I miss the “old” history channel on tv!

Best documentary on the Vikings EVER . Thank you so much for sharing with us :)

Camera work during the interview segments is really great.

Thank You for sharing and posting.

In school I got an A* in history mock exam but after taking it as a option for gcse I was told I wasn’t going to be accepted as they thought It was too much work for a student like me (basically thought I wasn’t smart enough and was from a rough working class area) 8 years later I’m still amazed by all facets of history , great judgment by the teachers.

Beautiful! Something I would have in my home or office, for two reasons. One, the design is efficient and not bulky, yet shows plenty of strength to be used very comfortably. And two, it is handmade and not simply a piece of "production." It's more personal, and warm, both in the way it was constructed, and the very warmth of the wood itself! Awesome. Thank you!

If Dan Snow introduces a programme. It's going to be very good! 👍🏻

Very well done documentary, really worth your time

Thank you for sharing!😊 It's nice to learn about history around the world!😊👍🏾💯

love this stuff

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

Awesome 🤩 I love ❤️ history and this is an amazing documentary. I recommend it!

Well this was awesome.

Wonderful to hear a small reference to Sandby Borg at Oland Sweden. Excellent film

This was on Amazon Prime too! Great show.

The emotional detachment from children in their early years would make sense. Graveyards from where I grew up and I have visited around the US, you find that until the early 20th century a lot of people didn't name their child until they reached 2 or 3 years old. Child mortality caused by influenza, typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria, and household accidents, was in some places as high as 60% for children 3 and under.

Awesome video. Is there another part ?

I did a dna test recently and found out im related to danish vikings so I have come to love this kind of content!

Great documentary.

I hope they upload the other episodes, they’re on Amazon prime but only available in the USA and I don’t want to get a VPN just for three episodes of vaguely factual docu-drama 😅😂 it’s so good though... I need the other episodes!

This series is so well done. Thank you for having real historians who are not blinded by modern politics/society discuss this topic. They cite evidence and are nuanced when it comes to making absolute assertions. Refreshing.

Timeline taking advantage on the Valhalla hype 👍

really good :)

Excellent. Cheers.

I am loving the fact that the documentary has English, French, and Norwegian (??? Or is it Icelandic??) featured in it.

Amazing 🤗👍🙏💕

I would do anything to have the ability to time travel and see the way people lived in all eras of humanity from 10’s of thousands of years ago to even just 75-100 years ago

AT 2:42 Viking third from the front is the best Viking I've ever seen.

OK, I'll watch this soon. I hope to be enlightened further. I have read the Heimskringla (the the real one not the fake when they put on Wikki). I have read a lot of the research done by the BBC when Magnus Magnusson was still host of "Master Mind" too.

You can tell that the BBC had nothing to do with this excellent documentary.

Wheres the next episode? I need it

It would be interesting if you would explore the effect of the Holy Roman Empire massacre's of northern German and Scandinavian tribes. That might have caused the Viking raids on Europe.

so much for their "honor" and "bravery"

I’m becoming obsessed with Vikings. Don’t know.

I hope they talk about Charlemagne

guess you cant have vikings on ships without screaming. lel

19:40 it's still like that today, especially in farmer families. Kids help on the field ect. since young age

The very wealthy, it seems have always shown their greed and punished unreservedly those less fortunate than themselves. So as "modern" as we think we are today, have we changed so much❓Sadly, I don't think so❗️ A fascinating and very enjoyable informative video. Thanks.👍🏼

Interesting choice of narrator

One word ...Santorini . It was huge. Impacted most of Europe

As an American I always scratch my head when Brits, or Scandinavians talk about going to "Europe" as if it's a different continent.

Influenced by the latest AC game?

is stonehenge no longer a public site and only Timeline has access to?

The Viking age just proofs that the gangsters from one generation are the heroes of the next.

Are all the village and war clips from movies? Or are they made for the document? The detail of daily life is very fine and the clothing and dress is as real as it was happening. Where do these clips come from?

I'm a proud half Norwegian anforth sheepish. my moms GPA came from Norway an her mom an fam still reside in minnosota. she was adopted. 4 a long x I was a mutt. didn't kno wat I was. peeps assumed and most rite an dam .im proud an luv to learn. so thanku sooo very much. I also did DNA an was confermed

I love that when discussing the data and research on the climate disaster that drove the peoples forth the guests say "they" or "them" when discussing the researcher(s). It was ONE MAN that discovered and did the initial research that discovered this HUUUUUGE and EXPANSIVE world disaster. Kudos to him.

Prior to what we now call the Viking Age, Scandinavians raided along Scandinavian shores, so the practice was folded into the culture, long before they began to raid in Continental Europe, and later, far afield places such as in the Mediterranean, and interior areas of Eastern Europe.

[Q] What is the Worst place, in a hospital, to play Hide & go seek? [A] the Intensive care unit (ICU)

My Family Was, and Is, These Survivors= Peopled The Earth! RESPECT!!

Key element, were their vercital, long boats . At home on rivers or the oceans.

"Large... tracts of land." 🤣😂🤣 11:59. You know you thought it, too. 😂👍

tried to watch the series, but it's not for those who have vision problems and can't read fast. They can take the time to translate into text so you have to pause to read . Would be much easier to to do voice over or just get english speakers

Godt klaret.

So why is no one mentioning the Saxon Wars?Started by Charlemagne to forcefully introduce Christianity to northern Europe. Refugee Saxons who shared a common religion with their Scandinavian cousins would relate tales of destruction of their way life. This surely left a bad taste in Scandinavian mouths about western Christian civilization and may have influenced some of their reactions to destroying Christian monestries in their raids in the following years.

So if I've followed the story/thesis correctly: the climate crisis starting in the mid-sixth century caused a severe population decline and freed-up land for the ruling classes to compete for. This lead to militarisation, culminating in the advent of Viking raiding - which was also helped by technological and societal advances allowing for production of sophisticated ships etc. This is interesting... it somewhat contrasts with the social changes thought to have followed a similar population decline after the Black Death in the 1300s (i.e. the weakening of the feudal system in England - brought about by the surviving peasants having greater bargaining power).

Not all the Norths were vikings, viking is the term of the action of some one who sails, pillages and plunders, or a pirate. But not all Nord were pirates.

Tess of durbervilles !

How much does history hit tv cost ?

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So because the Vikings came from a better organized social background, did their axes hurt any less in a monk's skull?

Time to get BAKED boys!

There is archeology evidence that the Dani came out of South Sweden. They filled in the Jutland peninsula after the Saxons and Angles basically left. And that the Dani Wich is what the word Denmark denotes, land of the, Dani or Danes. And there are many things that have came to light to support this. Including evidence that the Viking age began in Denmark.

Man’s first great explorers

Yay! He's not sitting in his Lancaster Bomber... he's at Stonehenge.

Would have liked to see a mongol vs viking

wasn't Charlemagnes crusade (782) against the north before the viking raids(792)?

7:59 :)

It was not JUST Scandinavians who raided from the sea. The Gaelic Celts launched raids across the Irish Sea into Scotland, England, and Wales. Although their coracles were perhaps not up to the standards of the sea-going Knarrs and Longships, they were sufficient to raid for treasure and slaves to import to Ireland. The most well known case, is the historical Paidric, ( Patrick ) who later became the bringer of Catholicism to pagan Ireland.

in some ways the mentality is still there, in some people, at some times

Kracatoa maybe

How tf did they stack those giant stones man

Great Stone people's not all them were so called pirate's they were Nomads Nomadic if you think about it

Not sure which came first, Charlemagne killing all non Christians, Frankia before he went on his quest to become ruler in Rome and proclaim himself "God on Earth" Pope or the raid on the church. I know he proclaimed 25th December 800 AD, and he thought he's killed anyone who wouldn't convert. Before getting into a way with the Lombards (who were also Christians) Anyway, few from either side survived and there was "Peace on Earth" that year, as most of the Christians had been killed in battle fighting each other leaving Frankia wide open. One thing is for sure, the Norse thought they would be next to be put to the sword if they didn't nip in in the bud. So, Frankia was made to pay. Bordeax, Perigueux, Lomiges, Angoulele, Toulouse, Angers, Tours and Orleans made deserts Rouen invaded, sacked and set on fire Paris (3 times), Beauvais and Meaux are taken the fortress of Melun laide waste, Chantres occupied, Evreux and Bayeux looted and every town invested (not sure what that means back then) Says Ermentarius of Noirmoutier (they took that and used it as their base of operations) Some of the names on this list no longer exist, as they were never rebuilt

0:37 it starts

I see. So the Vikings were really nice people!

Enjoy aa I had Viking ancestors

6:17 Speak English! Damn it. I usually listen to this while working.

Ma la visione senza confini nazionali 😬o guerre c'è 🤔🤣😇🕺🌌

I would love if these kids would actually preface their statements with more, "This is speculation". I mean really this is poor docu drama. Horrendously so.

Charlemagne dinasty also had its role in this.

We Pharaoh's Medjays like Vikings Barbarians Tribes we Medjays in Egypt seen many Vikings like the Vandal's

I find it hilarious that so many ppl in comments are flexing their inability to follow the subtitles. Wow.

There could be another Viking age of raiding yet to come.

En español

at the start got the dates wrong when they started raiding they were doing it n the 7th century and along france belguim, holland and russia back in the late 6th century ,due to a bad 90 years or more of very cold weather ,in sweden ,norway denmark ect ,and the romans never went up as far as the boaders of the franks,and less folks for the high lords the lower class had more power as they would be offered more from other lords as well,and women were held in high reguard even held power over the village or settlement in some places,and the word vikger was a bay dweeler ,and alot of the metals were mainly silver from england and the europeian coast lines,the different norseman fought against eachother as early as the 6th century and even from the same countries,the idea they didnt is a strange one also that the franks king charlimayne was a main reason for the attacks against his ideas of christians takeing over the pagan gods and the vikings were in a holy war was nonsense

Charlemagne? Rollo obtained Normandy a hundred or so later.

I'm from Latvia, Vikings family.

21:25 Why? Because you should not throw dead children's carcasses away...THERE IS NO 'AWAY'.

Could they not get permission to use clips from Vikings then. Pity😔

Now we have dad working a 40 hour work week, hopefully making a living wage, so mom can go shopping 2 or 3 times a week at Walmart or Costco for clothes and food items. Maybe take the kids to a water park in summer on wkends, or a ski event in winter. Things haven't changed much in all these centuries, except the human race has gotten softer.

The real wealth sought was the people they took as slaves, the economics of ship and crew don’t figure with the few trinkets they took from monasteries.

Certain Native American tribes fought other tribes for what "goods" they could plunder as the spoils of war.