So I began this longships project one and a half years ago with an idea for one short video. Four full length videos and nearly 4 hours of content later it is finally finished. You can watch the entire series here, charting the entire history of Scandinavian longships and the Vikings from 10,000 BC to the 13th Century:- kzfaq.info/sun/PL4kqG-CL4ToC_bC5ZNc_vaRzk-pPbz4A_ If you enjoyed the series please let me know in the comments & Don't forget to like and subscribe so I can make more videos like this. Thanks for watching ! What would you like to see me cover next? Watch my latest full length history documentary:- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZl4pJmGxqy1oZ8.html

Since TV channels like history and discovery started focusing on ridiculous reality shows, makes me very happy History/documentary KZfaqrs are capable of producing these gems of quality content. 💯🥇👌😎

The reign of King Cnut must have been a very dangerous time for dyslexics

I'm almost 30. I use these as my bed-time stories. The best part is that I fall asleep after ~10 min so I can use them for at least a week!

I personally like the longer, more in depth docs. Saves me from jumping to new videos as much when I'm listening in the kitchen

An hour long vid that is so fascinating it feels like 5 mins and you want more

Hallo from Denmark . Congratulations on completing the video series . And you mentioned danish King Valdemar the greats conquest of Ruggen in 1168-69 . You and the painting named “Bishop Absalon topples the god Svantevit at Cape Arkona” by danish painter Laurits Tuxen. Once again another well researched historical video delivered by genius Pete Kelly . Bravo sir 👏👏👏👏👍🏻....

DUDE please keep up the extended vids! I must be odd but I have always been a fan of the long vid channels and this one is way better then most. Keep rocking out my man!

I’m so glad I found your channel, not only do you make incredible documentaries, but your voice is so relaxing. They help me fall asleep when I’m tired and entertain me during the day.

This is the third time I've watched this episode, and each time I learn / See=new things. Thank you, Well Done!

So I listen to your stuff as I sleep. This is a compliment. See I am a history buff and must know EVERYTHING. I learned in high school about people retaining information in their sleep. Got me through high school and college. I will continue to only play your content as I sleep.

I listen to these in place of relaxing rain sounds to fall asleep. I wonder if I'm learning anything...

I just re-watched your Age of Arthur vid (am reading a novel called Vindolanda, seemed like a good compliment) and then scrolled through your vids for a bit of nostalgia, or something like that. I've been watching your stuff for years, felt like sharing some unasked-for feedback; All of your vids have been thoroughly enjoyed by me and mine, but watching your content evolve, the videos becoming longer, better, eventually setting the standard for YT (my opinion), it's just amazing. I've always enjoyed your work, but the obvious improvement in production values, the longer format, and the really wonderful stuff happening with the other related channels... You're doing amazing things, and I really appreciate you sharing your gifts with us. I've been looking for the next/last in this particular series, and this just made my day. Plus VOTP on European and Japanese early interactions, and I'd say my day is off to a great start. Cheers, and thanks as always, Pete.

Being from Greenland, and having seen the norse ruins, this subject intrigues me immensely! Keep up the good work!

What a wondrous collection of educational documentaries for history lovers!! Well Done!

History Time, thank you for producing some of the best historical documentaries found on KZfaq and they rival anything else I've seen on the tele! Keep up the good work!

Watching / Listening to "History Time" on the tablet in the kitchen on a Sunday morning while cooking up an elaborate brunch... with a proper Irish Coffee... makes my weekend complete ! Thanks History Time ! keep 'em coming !

I just love your channel. Never knew that history could be this entertaining. Thanks and more power.

Your voice is absolutely intoxicating. It makes me so peaceful. Shalom

Oh History Time, you spoil us with such great in depth content :D Thank you!

My ancestors where at the battle of Hastings and I’ve stood when the battle took place. I get chills just thinking about standing where blood was spilled and victory was celebrated

We lately found a "missing link" between a viking ship and a kogge on Falster, doing excavations in a watering canal. It has a flat bottom but still is built much like a viking ship.

Thank you for another great and informative video Pete! I look forward to the next one.

Perfect, i just finished watching Vinland Saga!

Oh yeah, I've been waiting a long time for somebody to touch this subject.

listening to your video helps calm me down. I also fall asleep to it... but I love history especially Vikings, Norse mythology etc.

Love your videos, you're definitely in my top 3 favorite history KZfaqrs. Thank you so much for the time you take entertain us.

Great video. There is one last man you could have included, which in Norway has been nicknamed 'the last viking', its the Norwegian earl Alv Erlingsson (died 1290). His story is quite interesting and there are several surviving folk songs about him. Though you'll probably have trouble finding any english sources on him.

this is so great, thank you for all your hard work

We have just found and excavated a formerly unknown circular viking fortress near Køge in Denmark: "Borgring", like Trelleborg, and the very largest of them all: Aggersborg! It was found a circular shadow on photos taken from the air, by the Danish Airforce.

So enjoyed this....look forward every Sunday to these

keep doing what you're doing man, very nice material .. big fan of your work, wonderful choice of music. i keep your videos on all day

The history and discovery channel couldn’t come close to the quality of this! Fantastic work, sir 👍

Great work Pete Kelly. Cheers from Colorado

thanks Pete really enjoying all your Viking videos. Excellently done and good content

This is fabulous, thank you for the content - love it

I love that sometimes there'll just be an hour of viking knowledge in my subscription box.

This probably showed up on my recommended because of all the Assassin Creed videos I’ve been watching...

Great video. Thanks!

This is fascinating and well produced. Thank you.

They never died out. They're still very much alive in their descendants and the hearts and minds of those who remember them.

Love your work. Thank you

Thanks brother! Excellent as always.

Absolutely amazing doc :) thankyou fir all your effort and research :)

Finally got a chance to watch this. Amazing!!!! So much I didn't know about how England and Scandinavia were so ontwrtwoned.

Ever a chance to do something on Brian Boru? I feel everyone outside of ireland have no idea how great of a king he was.

So much to take in,, I best watch it again and again and again. Thanks...

Absolutely splendid. Enjoyed every second

Fascinating video, Harald Hadrada is my favorite late Viking king ;)

By the gods yes! cant wait to takr my time and watch this with exitement tonight

Thanks for uploading such nice Vid, excellent piece of work

Outstanding video. Bravo.

Oh my love for the history of the Vikings continues via History Time channel!!

Its a shame that Canute the great`s father Sweyn Forkebeard is so forgotten in viking history. He was truely a pagan by heart, and story behind him and his way to the danish throne is really interesting. Besides he was the first to conquer England in 1013 (with a very young Canute)

Thank you SO MUCH!!! You are creating a brilliant source of learning and discovery for viewers of all ages!!! So rare and needed more than ever these days!

Great piece of work sir!

Thanks so much from a Viking...Well a Dane.

Can you do more late roman history (361-641) please Great video!

Just watched "Last of the Vikings". Excellent! Looking forward to the earlier videos. Your work is needed and appreciated. Subscribed!

Fascinating. Thanks!

The last Viking I think is somewhere on the Isle of Man. We haven't found him yet.

I learn so much from your documentary, thank you..

And so Master Kelly. Another brilliant doc produced and lovingly shared with the masses, whom it seems continues to join and enjoy. Nearly 3/4 of a million subbies! My goodness, it seems such a short time ago that you were putting these vid-docs on at a rate of about once a fortnight. I congratulate you (and your brother, too) on your success. Long hours, hard work and I am positive, some tears, have parlayed this channel into such a teaching and information tool as I am only to glad to be a member of. Yee Haw! From the heart of the Great State of Texas. Long Live the Queen...Bees ♥ Koni B.

Thanks for your site 👍

I can't wait until you do something on Catalonia. There is so much history in this region of Spain. Marca Hispanica, Reconquista, Crusades, Crown of Aragon, etc.

"Basil the bulgar slayer" Hahah what a name

Thank you for sharing your history interest with us that love too

It is always a pleasure to watch your uploads - keep up the good work....you are a Hero of History! ;)

They retired to a simple life in Minnesota, if I recall correctly. EDIT: For those who didn't understand my comment - The Vikings are a professional NFL team from the state of Minnesota.

15:52 Went on a rampage seeking severance pay....sounds like a very angry Union😅

Excellent as usual. Thanks

Awesome thanks for your work

Going to say this because I see it in all your video comments: thank you for doing what the history channel should be doing. "Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the Bayeux tapestry could've been created inside the great pyramid by extraterrestrial machine elves."

I did a double take about a minute in, when I thought I heard “how did this sh*t happen and what became of the Vikings” Passionate about this topic are we History Time? 😂😂😂

Pretty good story and editing! So next time im sowing something, ill be looking for Vikings, and then well, i may find your channel again. :) Greetings, Jeff

Fascinating series Pete, excellently compiled and brilliantly narrated. Subscribed! Going to be watching many more of your documentaries. Thank you. All the best from Cornwall.

Long time subscriber here, I was wondering if you have any interest in covering the fall of Assyria and the rise of the Medes, Neo-Babylon and and later Persia under Kurash II/Cyrus the Great?

Another fantastic video. It looks like Feudalization and centralization of the Scandinavian Kingdoms and Rus, contributed most of all to the decline of the Viking Age, as the Jarls and strongmen became more streamlined into the Feudal Frankish nobility of Europe and became regular nobles. This is interesting, because a lot of people seem to wrongly assume that Christianity put an end to going a-Viking. I definitely think more time was warranted on Somerled, Gudred Crovan and Haakon IV of Norway in 1263, and the final hurrahs in the Isles. Perhaps also on the invasion of the Normans, and the incorporation of Ireland and the Kingdom of Dublin into the realm of England. It might have been good to look at the process of "Normanization" how Anglo-Saxon England, and also Celtic and Norse Scotland too, transitioned from realms of Saxons/Danes and Celts and Norse respectively, into Frankish Kingdoms, becoming the modernized kingdoms. Maybe some on how the Norse element lessened in Rus' too. It was amazing to learn about the process of 'forgetting' Vinland. I never knew that it was the Skraelings who essentially ended the process. In terms of both the loss of Vinland and Greenland, and the end of Vikings in general, the Scandinavian Civil War eras, the Black Death and the age of the Mongol upheaval might have been worth looking into as other factors leading to this knowledge being lost. The Civil Wars in Scandinavia, like the Norwegian Civil War, were really a crushing blow that deserved a good look. The Plague resulted in catastrophic loss of life, so that hardly needs much explanation. The Mongol Invasions, while of course not reaching Scandinavia, did cause huge damage to the Rus - really ending Kievan Rus and paving the way for Muscovite Russia. It also changed the orientation of the world to incorporate China and India once more. Both the plague and the Mongols really ought be viewed as nigh apocalyptic events. Still waiting on the documentaries on the Jarls and Kings at Canute's court, like Siward, Thorfinn, Godwin, Macbeth ;) Still, super amazing video. Keep up your great work.

Another great vid!

this was great. both the story and the production.

As a certain account goes there was a settlement in North America that was attacked by native americans and the populace run off as they were outnumbered. Being tired of running, one of Lief's very pregnant sisters stopped, grabbed a sword, tore the top of her clothing, and screamed at the natives chasing after them. If i recall correctly when the natives saw this they just stopped and stood there for a moment like "wtf?" and then stopped chasing after them. Long story short, when a crazy pregnant Scandinavian lady wants to be left alone you leave her alone, haha.

sounds very close to a real-life game of thrones...

I freaking love this channel! Great job!! 🪓🩸🗡️⚔️👍🏻👍🏻

Friggin love yr vids, so much so I’m thinking about Magellan TV

As someone who has sailed a replica viking ship once (single trip) and the more modern Åfjordsbåt (a design from the 1800 based on the viking ships but updated to use new wood types and some changes in building techniques etc) I loved seeing this video Great work. =) That said, as someone who has lived in Lade it still drives me nuts that the "e" isn't pronounced right in this video. -_- It's **not** a silent letter or a modifier of other letters but a letter in its own right with its own sound.

Some older ones were set in their ways I'm sure and died off while the younger men adapted to changing circumstances by means of adopting christianity

Well done! Love history.

Enjoyed this very much. Keep them coming. New subscriber.

I’m a sucker for this period, it’s so complicated I never feel proficient in it but love it anyway😅 Great job Pete, love the maps and dates and tapestries and ships, been to the highlands but never made it to Orkney; I know they are digging furiously to gather what they can- It would be awesome if you do more about finds in the new world, very mysterious and intriguing ✌🏼thanks 😊

Amazing documentary. Wonder why the records of New England and Atlantic Canada got lost. I'm very interested to find out.

I have always been so drawn to the Vikings. Their way of life and etc. Ty for this info. Video.

Truly excellent! Thank you!

One of the reasons, that's often not discussed, that the Vikings were able to seize large kingdoms and territories but then lost them a few decades later is because their culture and religion was so different. European Christian culture believed in a strong, single government, strong, unified church and a weak society and people. Vikings believed in a strong society and people, but a minimal government and a free and open religion. In Christian culture, they had primogeniture succession (inheritance), where the oldest son got all of his father's lands, titles and power. This kept kingdoms from splitting up into smaller, free territories, and kept all the power, land, money and soldiers concentrated in the hands of one man. Vikings believed all children should inherit equally (what's called a confederate partition type succession). So if a Viking conquered 10 provinces and had 5 sons, when he died each son would get 2 provinces and be independent of each other. If a Christian duke with 5 sons owned 10 provinces of land, when he died his 1st born son got all 10 provinces and the younger siblings basically got nothing and had to serve their oldest brother and find a place in his court. So, over time, a Viking kingdom in the middle of a Christian kingdom will never last ... it gets split up every time a father dies, into numerous, smaller entities that are not united, making it easy for Christians to take the land back, piece by piece. That was good for the Christian rulers, but not so good for the society and people over time. It gave rise to larger and larger, ever more oppressive autocratic regimes, in which one man controlled the lives of millions of people. The people had no choice: law and religion forced them to serve their master ... this is the whole reason pagan rulers began adopting Christianity ... it helps pacify and subdue large populations so that a single man can rule them all. And the religion operated like a franchise: when a rule agreed to convert, the Catholic church woild automatically send priests and clergy to come help manage the empire, build cathedrals, enforce laws and train the people how to be Catholics. Tax collection became more efficient than ever, and the rulers and the clergy grew horrifyingly rich, while the peasant class suffered and lost freedom. Even in modern systems of government, we still suffer under the shadow of precedents and traditions set in the old days under Christian autocracy. Society is essentially "brainwashed" to believe that a large, powerful, centralized state is the only way a society can work ... and though we don't call them "king" or "lord" anymore, the state is more powerful and better at pacifying than ever ...

I've never seen this one before I knew Ivar had descendants but didn't know any facts about it. Thanks your research is amazing you need to be involved in the NETFLIX spin-off of the history channel VIKINGS especially where it begins with these generations.

One of my absolute favorite channels. ❤

Awesome. Just awesome!

I have a suggestion for further videos, you could tell the story of each viking age king, especially the Norwegian ones are well documented so there's a lot of material to use. The Norwegian pagan earl Håkon, Norways last pagan ruler and possibly the most zealously pagan ruler in Scandinavia, would also be a very good subject for a video. Some other interesting characters, like Egil Skallagrimsson, might be suitable as well.

Thanks for this I've been wanting to know a lot more about the vikings. I actually live on the N/E coast of England and our accent and words we say are very connected to the Viking dialect. In fact we have many words that the rest of England hasn't got a clue what we mean. I also have around 40% of my family are blonde or fair haired including my own 23 Yr old son who if anyone could see looks totally Nordic.

Thank you and bravo!

Great stuff