The remnants of buildings at L' Anse aux Meadows (on the eastern coast of Canada) have features and characteristics strikingly similar to some of the Celtic/Pict stone architecture. I studied their metalwork, how and where iron was found or obtained, their smelting and forging methods, and have made a number of items to test ideas about their technology. It becomes clear quickly when studying the coastal Scandinavians of the Carolingian era that their greatest strength may have been the ease with which they recognized and adopted ideas they encountered elsewhere. The distances they could travel, and acumen for trade are nearly as great and allowed them to find such ideas, the "Damascus" furnace being one of the most important. It allowed them to produce steel weapons of a quality not seen again until the 17th century. Though not my area, it really looks like they were particularly attached to the type of construction seen around 8-9 minutes into this video. Anyone reading this in boredom please let me know if you're aware of a source on this

I can’t get enough of learning Viking history! Thanks for making these videos 👍🏻

I love listening to tales from another time.

I wish they would have given more information on the Norway area.

I have always believed that my ancestors were out and about far earlier than was recorded, now we have proof. Thank you absolute History!

I try not to romanticize the Vikings, but I do find Scandinavian culture fascinating in general. Vikings included.

Love watching documentaries like this

"When the Team from Tallin applied modern dating techniques to the skeleton, they were shocked by what they found. Skeletons actually prefer to stay single." 3:44

Thank you for making this film. Very interesting to me. I share this to family members!

The good old days !

New research is answering many of the unknown details of the whole Norse (-Dano) expansion from Scandinavia into the British (and Ireland) Isles. It is well known of the continental Norse expansion eastwards up the Baltic and up into Moscow, while another branch moves down into Northern Italy, and the western Neustria region of France becoming the southern branch of Normandy. Then one moves into the Shetlands, Orkneys, and intrusion (at the time of the Picts of Pictavia ... old Scotland) into northern Ross. It is the Anglo-Saxon named "Vikings" of 789 and their invasion of Lindisfarne Northumbria. Yet what is not said is that, while the continental Vikings, Norseman, Normans, were settling the western shorelines of Normandy, there has not been valid archaeology in knowing that the eastern shoreline of Pictavia was also being intruded upon, that lead to the further expansion down the coast into York/Northumbria, On the western front, the greater Hebrides, Isle of Man, and other intrusions and colonizations of the western shoreline of Pictavia, Argyll, Galloway-Carrick were happening as well as the documented "Scotti" of northern Ireland, Dublin, and northern Wales with the "Finngails" and "Dubhgails." The "Viking" name is the Anglo-Saxon designation for the eastern Norsemen, while the "Scotti" name is the Irish-Welsh designation for the western Norsemen, .. all being "explorer-adventurer-raiders." The various Vikings, Scotti, Finngails, and Dughgails were all the same, just different locales and different waves of Norsemen coming into Ireland, Pictavia, and England. With intrusions into the Argyll and Galloway-Carrick area from the west, and meeting up with other western shoreline Pictavia Norse groups, there was an expanded push across the Border Counties between Pictavia and Anglo-Saxon(ia) as the (Norse) Great Army moving back and forth across from Galloway/Carrick to York/Northumbria. The lands of Argyll and SW Pictavia having become the homeland of the Dal Raida, eventually surrounded the entire Pictavia and Picts. Eventually, with such surrounding external pressures, Pictavia settled with a marriage and merger with the Norse overlords, succumbing and starting the new kingdom dynasty of the Kings of Alba, eventually turning into the Kingdom of Scotland of the western Norse Scotti "Scots." With the increasing colonization, population, and mobilization from Ireland, northern Wales, western Scotland, the Border Counties of the Great Army, eastern Scotland, ... and the Norman invasion of 1066, the prior dynasty of the Danes and the Danelaw of those Irish and York regions were overcome, and the Normans came in and conquested Anglo-Saxon(ia). Those who were once the ancient British, who were pushed out by the invasive Anglo-Saxons into Wales and Pictavia, remain of the original peoples of the land. The Picts of Pictavia succumbed to the Norse, while Anglo-Saxon(ia) was conquested. There is further proofs of the Great Army of the Border Counties, and those Kings of York/Northumbria having intermarriage with the continental Normans. It is General Rognvald de Brussi of Normandy (forefather of the de Brus and Bruces of York/Northumbria and Annandale Scotland), who is said to be the son of a Norse marriage to a Russian Princess, daughter of Rognvald of Moscow. This appears to be invalid, at the most close, and most logical of all events, is that at this same time there is General Rognvald of the Great Army, and King of York/Northumbria, whose daughter is the one who was married. This brings further clarity in how the Normans and the 1066 invasion were assisted against King Harald of the Danes, ... and the post-1066 peaceful migration of Normans into Scotland, the Border Counties, and into Scotland. Such would be these Normandy to York/Northumbria to Annandale of the de Brus (Bruces) and many others peacefully settling with the rest of the prior waves of Norse in the area. What happened is the western Scotti, Finngails, and Dubhgails were in the 400s-500s period of Pictavia, Ireland, northern Wales, ... while the Normans of continental Normandy (and points east) happened in the 900s-1100s. The Norse Great Army happened in the 500s-1066 period. The fall of Pictavia and the rise of the kingdom of Alba, turning into the kingdom of the Scots, happened in the 600s-1000s. Such conjectures by historians that the "Scotti" were Irish or Norse-Irish coming from Ireland into SW Pictavia, creating the Dal Raida colony and kingdom is now non sequitor. The Scotti, Finngails, and Dubhgails were waves of Norse. The kingdoms of Dal Raida, Alba, and Scotland are Norse. The Welsh remain of the ancient Brythonic language British, while the Scot remain with waves and waves of the ancient Norse VIkings, Scotti, Finngails, Dubhgails, and Normans with Pictavian Brythonic, Gaelic, and Celtic languages. The English have successive waves of languages from Brythonic British, Gaelic and Celtic language, Roman Latin, Anglo-Saxon Germanic Indo-Aryan language, and back to Norse Gaelic and Celtic language hodgepodged together in what we now call English.

good work

It's really aggravating to find that the docu I'm watching is the same docu different title as I watched on another channel.

Nice footage from world viking tournament wollin!

15:00 when they found resitance in France. The vikings turned to England. Are you telling me that the vikings kinda sparked the original French vs English hatred? The vikings..who today concists of denmark,norway and sweden. Denmark and Sweden has the Guiness world record for the most wars fought between two countries. Yes, even more than France and England.. and so again. The vikings, basically, sparked the fuse between France and England! I mean...I thought the guiness world record was kinda big..but daaaaaaamn! Everyone knows about the english-french feud. No one knows about the danish-swedish feud outside of scandinavia. And yet, it was the scandinavians who started it it all. Mind...Blown.

Why is the sound always so completely terrible in all of these videos?! I can’t even watch most of them for more than like 5 mins before it drives me insane having to continuously change my volume every 10 seconds

Interesting! 👀👍

I love learning about what my ancestors were actually like. Fascinating stuff.

wonder what she meant by there were dragons in the skys?

"Absolute History.. Thank you for beautiful accuracy. I would be even better if the murdering line in first sentence clarified they were retaliating from hundreds of years of forced and brutally imposed Christianity.. Of course we know Snorri downplayed the history."~Pdq

I find this so interesting! I am half english and half scandinavian by dna❤

I don't know why I always try to watch the history of Vikings while eating. As soon as we get to the more graphic details I loose my appetite. :/

@4:08 doesn't a high level of marine protein from shellfish cause carbon dating to be 100 years earlier than the actual age of the bones being dated?

With ads every five minutes this will be one of my blocked channels.

Where's Rollo? I must have blinked. Could have used bit of closed captioning.

Dam, you forgot or left out the 2 greatest "Viking" warriors. William the Conqueror and Gustavus Adolphus

Im swedish and im related to the Birka warrior woman found in Birka (old viking town), Sweden. Genetically though im more norwegian than swedish. What a crazy world we live in.

Something that bothers me is that on film all Vikings wear iron helmets and chain mail. In fact, of all the thousands of graves excavated, only a few helmets has been found. Therefore, it is most likely that the vast majority of Vikings did not wear an iron helmet or chain mail. These were luxury goods imported from the continent only by very rich chiefs and kings, not by the ordinary Viking.

Anyone notice the swastika on the shield at around 4:50? I thought that was just a Hitler thing. Idk I just find the vikings life style fascinating 🤔

I would like to appreciate pronunciation of polish archeologist's surname Jagodziński. Good lector :) Russian names sound also ok, but I am not native, so hard to tell for sure

What's with the winged helmet? A Wagnerian opera?

No relation

In 800 this era they got sails

The sagas are from 1200 this era

Runes are greek Roman letters

I'm obsessed with Germanic culture and stuff.

I believe they held a blood bath executed with extreme violence. Foaming at the mouth high on drugs maybe even, Vikings had unusual habits like loutenfish just very peculiar.

So different now.

What this documentary says about why the Vikings attacked is BS. The reason why they attacked the other Europeans is because someone told them these other Europeans were talking junk about them.

At 10:50 " the last pagans of Europe". This is unhistorical , there were others in for example East Europe that were pagans even much later

The normen were also called the russ

Charlemagne was not the merovingian

Ahhh now I understand why the biker gang called themselves The Norseman's

The first in eastern were greeks. They found the dna and in scandinavia

They stole the crown They were the employees of merovingians Pipin Martell They couldn't write

The Vikings were not the last pagans of Europe. It was the Baltic tribes.

Anglosaxons are from gallia germanics Old english Frigians In 500 Scandinavians were stealing in rivers

Don’t underestimate my beard.

Though I highly respect the Vikings as warriors, they almost always met their death destiny in Eastern Europe

Okay hold up I wonder who the absolute mad lad is who was fighting in nothing but pants and a hat wielding a wooden stick against fully armoured and equipped opponents 🤣😂

The vikings weren't the last pagans of Europe. The Baltic and Prussian tribes were. Long after the viking rulers converted to Christianity.

Not really Picts and scots are from another period They are viking dna all

The Vikings were kinda the badies

LISTEN, THERE'S NO FUCKING VIKINGS HERE.

tv and movies are changing the looks of vikings with stupid hair cuts tattoos you see the winged helmet for the ad for this...they didnt have horns or wing on helmets

Dragons in the sky? Come on now.. lay off the mushrooms

last pagans in europe were the balts, the samogitians.

Compare Norway 1200-1000 yrs back under Vikings and what it is today. Poles apart.

I researched my family name , discovered that I came from the Vikings! I wish I could find some of my great great great great great grand daddy's loot ! Until then please send yours to my address so I dont have to hunt you down and take it ! 😁

Umm... not sure this guy has Looked at a Map before but ... They came to Canada, North American Continent . Settled in New Found Land , there has been ZERO "Viking" Settlements found in the United States that i am aware of ? If there are im sure someone might enlighten me/us . Hearing them say Vikings bothers me .. it was not a name of a group its a Verb ,, To Go Viking.

41:45 - Mistake Vikings lost the battle at Sasireti in 1042 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sasireti captured Vikings was sent back home humiliated