Alfred da Great was awesome it takes something to hold off the Vikings, establish a army and navy, and put in place a system of education
@griggs227
7 жыл бұрын
I always thought the great heathen army was up to the size of 8000 men, if the Vikings really conquered that much land with just 1000 men then I'm impressed
@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns
7 жыл бұрын
Sources at the time say 1000 men. Viking longships carried 25-100 men, 50 on average. That's 20 longships, which seems a pretty small amount. So later historians have inflated the figure.
@griggs227
7 жыл бұрын
i feel like the inflated numbers are most realistic but again if the number is really 1000 then they must have been amazing warriors
@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns
7 жыл бұрын
griggs227 A lot of archaeological evidence has emerged concerning the Anglo-Saxon invasion. They came in smaller numbers than the Vikings but were joined by large number of Romano-British recruits very quickly. The Anglo-Saxons were happy for locals to join there ranks, even become the majority. Letting people join you is more common throughout history than not letting people join you which is a very modern concept. It's possible then the same happened with he Vikings. Only a thousand came and then a few thousand English joined their ranks.
@17MrLeon
7 жыл бұрын
well you have to realize that world was less populated than now and 1000 men was quite a great army back in dark age europe.
@HornsoftheStagg
7 жыл бұрын
You might be right about there being smaller armies in the Dark ages, however the population of the world back then wasn't neccesarily relative to army sizes. Back in the times of Marcus Crassus and Spartacus, there were armies between 50,000 and 200,000. This was nearly 1,000 years before the Great Heathen Army. It's more likely that earlier fighting forces in England were made up of ambitious farmers and town watch-like warriors. Whereas the 1,000 Vikings who attacked in the army were formidable soldiers who had been trained for these upcoming battles.
@SniperPlatypus
7 жыл бұрын
I understand how hard it is to synthesize images using just some painting software, so I particularly appreciate how you recreate the medieval style of people not caring about being murdered.
@Nikolaj11
7 жыл бұрын
Uhtred of Bebbanburg calling.
@benjaminmclaren8782
7 жыл бұрын
He wants his Castle back. >:( o[===>
@SL-tc9vx
4 жыл бұрын
Ohhh the arseling 🤣
@captainpeyton6378
4 жыл бұрын
YESSSSSSS
@vallgron
7 жыл бұрын
HBO Viking spoilers galore
@nicholasloremann4741
7 жыл бұрын
darragh o halloran why and Vikings don't speak english' they speak a laungeuge similar to icelandic
@ibstrd
7 жыл бұрын
History Channel makes Vikings.
@nicholasloremann4741
7 жыл бұрын
ibstrd å gjør de det?
@ibstrd
7 жыл бұрын
Praise lord gaben Que quieres? Loco.
@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG
7 жыл бұрын
The Last Kingdom(English version of Jon Snow).
@pantslizard
6 жыл бұрын
2:14, it's called a Blood Eagle... ;>)
@aldogga3320
7 жыл бұрын
Great video! I can see that the art is getting much better.
@jannix861
7 жыл бұрын
Hmm... your Ubba looks really close to the Ubba from "The Last Kingdom" :D
@themindbowler
7 жыл бұрын
i was about to say rollo looks like the rollo from vikings and boneless looks like an old history channel doc that used to be used about vikings.
@Glimax
7 жыл бұрын
Jannix Is that show good? better than Vikings?
@jannix861
7 жыл бұрын
I really like the last Kingdom but i also enjoyed to read the books ^^ Vikings is a serie with a bigger budget, definitely, but I think one should give The last Kingdom a chanche :)
@Wanderer4622
7 жыл бұрын
Alfred the badass
@anonymousanonymous7250
7 жыл бұрын
Can''t wait to see the next couple of videos!
@TheOllecool
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this great video
@metarus208
7 жыл бұрын
Amazing video again. I can't believe there was so much in the history of Vikings in England. I thought they were just raiders in the Viking age (750-1050). I believe you have more episodes lined up on this? Hoping to hear more about Alfred and whether he really was ''Great'. Thanks!
@kolyayerg1118
7 жыл бұрын
Great vid man!
@leakycheese
7 жыл бұрын
I wonder how much genetic commonality there is today between inhabitants of Great Britain and the Scandanvian countries? Does this vary greatly by region in the UK? Off course, this could be skewed by recent events such as WW2 displacing the population.
@Fancypenguin1
7 жыл бұрын
leakycheese The relationship between Britain and Scandinavia are good today. Especially Norway and UK would earn a bestfriend-like relationship since Norway and England were some of the first Protestants in a Chatolic Europe. This relationship still stands today (with the exeption of the Napolionic years).
@leakycheese
7 жыл бұрын
Arthur Fosheim Indeed! My wife's Grandmother was originally from Namsos, she came to the UK after marrying a British Army officer at the end of the Second World War.
@lmonk9517
7 жыл бұрын
Genetically they differ because the UK still has a lot of Celtic DNA. Not just in Scotland and Wales but also in England.
@Hellxar1
7 жыл бұрын
While I'm not sure about the genetics side, as every study I've read seems to come to different conclusions. In terms of culture the Scandinavian presence in England is very strong in the North and the East Midlands. In the county Yorkshire for example, the local dialect, called Tyke, has more in common with the Danish language than it does with English. Though it's use has severely declined.
@lmonk9517
7 жыл бұрын
Skinhead Stan Tyke doesn't have more in common with Danish than English. It is a English dialect so that means it is a form of English. I've been the Yorkshire and spoken to people who speak Tyke and it is understandable so clearly not based on a foreign tongue. It does borrow quite a few words from Danish but then so does modern english so that isn't an issue.. Tl;DR: Tyke is still just english with a strong accent.
@nicholasloremann4741
7 жыл бұрын
Just to let you know jabzy i am a Norwegian (native norwegian) also i like you'r series it's really good series
@faque5634
7 жыл бұрын
"i am a Norwegian *(native Norwegian)*" Isn't this a little redundant?
@thehistorynerd8537
7 жыл бұрын
no, he could had been pure black,asian, not a native
@nicholasloremann4741
7 жыл бұрын
The History Nerd No dude i'm a aryan dammit (Facepalm's)
@nicholasloremann4741
7 жыл бұрын
The History Nerd and i am a white person
@nicholasloremann4741
7 жыл бұрын
The History Nerd nå begyner jeg å tenke at jeg lyver men du ar feil jeg er innfødt i sør Norge men du kan ikke forstå dette
@adventureinc1568
7 жыл бұрын
Just got back from my eye surgery, thanks for the upload:))))))
@user-kt8ul3gj7s
4 жыл бұрын
Assassins Creed Valhalla
@scrim90smuk3
3 жыл бұрын
Alternate title: explaining assassins creed Valhalla story line
@sergejmiladinovic1181
7 жыл бұрын
We come from the land of the ice and snow from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow!
@muhammadasadabbas5479
3 жыл бұрын
I came here to know about the decendants of emperor canute
@RemingtonSteel
6 жыл бұрын
This video started of with the show the Vikings and then ended with The Last Kingdom. Great vid
@jakobkristensensandvik5588
7 жыл бұрын
Why didnt you talk about the viking invasion of 1066, Harald Hardråde and the battle of Stamford bridge?
@JabzyJoe
7 жыл бұрын
Jakob Kristensen Sandvik its coming
@jakobkristensensandvik5588
7 жыл бұрын
Jabzy Can't wait
@nicholasloremann4741
7 жыл бұрын
Jakob Kristensen Sandvik hallo
@AlexOjideagu2
7 жыл бұрын
Jakob Kristensen Sandvik Chelsea won 2-1 in extra time
@donovanstollsteimer4652
7 жыл бұрын
Ivar the BONELESS
@nathanstephenson7917
7 жыл бұрын
2:12 Aella was blood eagled...yes! but, many Sagas have different story lines, that Halfdan and Ivar werent related to Ragnar. Its still awesome stories! Funny thing is, all of these people all came from the same origins. Many fights and feuds for years and the path to victory has followed for many years later, even today. This story seems to follow both shows, The Last Kingdom and Vikings even though there are differences between both story lines.
@__prometheus__
7 жыл бұрын
Can you do one of the revolutions/independence movements in mexico? sorry for the vagueness.
@IsraelOrHamas
7 жыл бұрын
england is my city.
@vityaak2520
4 жыл бұрын
@@JRF1004 it was a joke you idiot
@Sabrowsky
7 жыл бұрын
could you do one of those except about the norsemen in Novgorod and Kiev, always find their stories more interesting despite being generally eclipsed by the invasions of england
@Yup71719
7 жыл бұрын
Than you Alfred the great
@Team.Melli.Report
7 жыл бұрын
The Last Kingdom On Netflix!
@CybermanKing
6 жыл бұрын
I couldn't really get into the second season but the first was good.
@liamgrey7974
6 жыл бұрын
+Jonah Mansel you take that back
@Nnnnn636
6 жыл бұрын
ALL KIIINDS viking is a good show but it isn't realistic. They make the anglo saxons look like weak pussies and the Vikings great warriors.
@Youhance
7 жыл бұрын
What about the norwegian conquest with the battle of stikklestad were norway had 9000 men and England 15000
@somalipiratethatpiratedyou4750
7 жыл бұрын
theboythemyth TBM eh thats two different battles....
@coincollectorofallcoins3098
Жыл бұрын
Battle of Battle of Stiklestad didn’t involve England wtf are you talking about
@hannastenros6009
4 жыл бұрын
Some Punishments in Nordic countries were often severe and not always just. One punishment was to be banished from the country. Some probably fled into other countries.
@tjonchen9420
7 жыл бұрын
You mentioned that there would still be struggles over the control over England till the conquest of William, did the scandinavians still controlled holdings in England at that time or was that struggle in the form of an invasion of Hardrade?
@crystaldavis6169
4 жыл бұрын
I saw on the history channel years ago that England was the only ones who repelled the Vikings.
@kiDkiDkiD12
7 жыл бұрын
I love you videos keep it up
@Hq1e
Жыл бұрын
BLASFOMY ITS 4:23 MINITES SEND THIS MAN TO THE CONFINMENT CELL
@NatureLover-ji4gl
6 жыл бұрын
The Great Heathen Army was one of the best things that happened to england✔💯
@alima4280
7 жыл бұрын
love you videos
@matthewwright9143
4 жыл бұрын
Stop spoiling Vinland Saga for me, damn.
@ariannapondrandolfo9235
7 жыл бұрын
Hi! I'm italian girl and I very like your videos "3 minute history"; they help me to study! But it would be more comfortable if I had the text or subtitles because there are words that I don't understand beacuse of speed. If only you put the text in english in the description, you would do me happy! I'm sorry for eventually errors and thank you!
@JabzyJoe
7 жыл бұрын
I've been meaning to for a while. Hopefully I can recruit a couple of people to help me in the future.
@ariannapondrandolfo9235
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your consideration! I attend your news.
@thatchannel195
7 жыл бұрын
Arianna Pondrandolfo 😊
@ricardoguanipa8275
7 жыл бұрын
OMG this video is such spoiler for the series Vikings
@weldin
7 жыл бұрын
Happy Leif Erikson day! Hinga Dinga Dergen.
@basedman1443
7 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on the Turkish Military Coup?
@OwnedEpicStyle
2 жыл бұрын
Did they play paintball?
@serbiaball4929
7 жыл бұрын
What is the name of the music that you use in these videos? I've heard it before but can't remember the name.
@melophile0306
6 ай бұрын
Which accent did he speak?
@alabamaviking.2309
4 жыл бұрын
Very cool.
@MrKevinrooster
7 жыл бұрын
What is the background music you use?
@leakycheese
7 жыл бұрын
It's Nevada City by Huma Huma.
@Rynewulf
7 жыл бұрын
That the Great Heathen army may have only been 1000 men, yet conquered much of the country and retained a great deal of what they took raises a question: why didn't the English rebel? The only major conflict appears to have been between groups of raiders and warleaders of the Danelaw and the independent kings of Wessex and their supporters. I've always noticed the great influence the Norse language had on Old English and the great similarities between them: maybe they were also culturally very close, so that the English of the time living under the Danes didn't so much feel oppressed as that a new set of royal families had simply walked onto the thrones in a violent fashion? It wouldn't exactly have been a new concept for them. The national founding story is of tribesmen sailing from Europe and establishing themselves over the area of modern England, with relations back in Germany, Denmark, Friesland (and possibly Sweden and other places too) were fondly referred too and Anglo-Saxon England had many ties to the continent lots and lots of English founded and supported monasteries, their own dedicated area for visitors in Rome, several marriages to the Frankish royal family and a few monarchs imported when the in-England branch of the family died out (St. Edmund was supposedly from Old Saxony in Germany and deliberately brought over to continue the Wuffingas line of kings in East Anglia). Any thoughts anyone?
@joaobarbosa5959
7 жыл бұрын
I'd imagine that the regular folk wouldn't care who ruled as long as they could work their land and pray to their god in peace while not beeing under threath of violence, same thing happened all over Europe in many diferent forms
@Rynewulf
7 жыл бұрын
João Barbosa Quite possible that. The whole thing had just got me thinking though, especially since from the same time period there are records of locals being quite upset by Edward the Confessor giving local government positions to Bretons and Normans over Englishmen and Danes, and the resistance given against William the Conqueror at the end of this period being particularly fierce despite him being a blood relation to the crown no more distance than Harold Godwinson or Harald Hardrada and having shown no signs of great cruelty until the Harrowing of the North and conscripting labour for the earthworks of his castles. As you say it could just simply be that normal people, until heavily pushed, don't particularly care who's in charge and that the cases of rebellion and discontent we do have are when they were pushed. Can't help but wonder how much a sense of cultural closeness or perhaps smallness in numbers pays into it too though.
@slothfromthegoonies8201
5 жыл бұрын
1,000 was a fairly significant force in that era, and it would have grown larger as they recruited mercenaries along the way.
@RonaldoFearsEboue
7 жыл бұрын
I heard that the vikings raids were exaggerated and that they peacefully lived next to the English. Not sure if thats true though.
@Fancypenguin1
7 жыл бұрын
RFE You're right. As we scandinavians started to feel happy with our share of England and the riches taken from it, we thought of settle peacefully. In the mid 9th century, Norwegians had coloniced Greenland, Iceland, east coast of Canada and parts of Ireland and Scotland under the new established Kingdom of Norway. This encouraged us to create new colonies in England, so called "Viking colonies", the most fameous of them the city of York. These colonies would strife until around the year 1000 when an English king (don't remember the name) ordered a mass-suprise attack on the colonies. Those who didn't lay pledge to the crown would be mass slaughtered. The Scandinavians would be trying to retake England a couple of times until the failed conquest of England by the Norwegian Harald Hardrada in 1066 which is marked as the end of the Viking age.
@Gladius879
7 жыл бұрын
York wasn't a Viking colony. It was built by the Romans and was originally called Eboracum.
@Fancypenguin1
7 жыл бұрын
Gladius879 You`re right, my bad.
@duncanclark1828
7 жыл бұрын
Do one about the Anglo Saxons if you haven't done one already please
@failureiam9006
7 жыл бұрын
found out i am a direct descendant of Alfred the Great of wessex
@Sildrig
7 жыл бұрын
Failure I am Time to usurp the queen's throne then!
@Emilsuseronyoutube
7 жыл бұрын
It's hard not to be a descendant of someone from that time period.
@Vatt-Ghern
5 жыл бұрын
The ones who attacked Lindisfarne weren't Norwegians....
@simonbhn5509
6 жыл бұрын
3 minute history?!? I was 4 minutes and 23 seconds.
@Hazza456
6 жыл бұрын
Simon Bøhn EXACTLY
@ayyelemayo7390
7 жыл бұрын
ah another 4 minute history
@yeshualionofjudah7107
5 жыл бұрын
Hey they made it to America too.
@englishman9020
3 жыл бұрын
Ragnar Lothbrok
@dominikhutnikviktorovichch8546
6 жыл бұрын
Well thanks and what about Ireland
@benquinney2
7 жыл бұрын
They raided Oregon?
@manjsher3094
5 жыл бұрын
I want more Boneless!!! Please
@paske2001
7 жыл бұрын
BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP SAYS THE BEST WAY TO AVOID GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT FARTING OUTDOORS 😎
@hyperion1028
7 жыл бұрын
K
@Mikhael_bureau
7 жыл бұрын
haha Ubba from The Last Kingdom
@countchocula2169
7 жыл бұрын
You do it in 3 minutes by speed talking into a mic
@JabzyJoe
7 жыл бұрын
+Count chocula youve got me
@rayguesswho2290
7 жыл бұрын
its in history channel not HBO
@countchocula2169
7 жыл бұрын
Do a 4 minute for dummies one.
@JamieSunderland23
4 жыл бұрын
Who’s here to prepare for assassin’s creed Valhalla?
@djynfxxbdhtbrn6854
7 жыл бұрын
Why you put crosses on Viking shields. No.
@maryann4presidente396
6 жыл бұрын
*NOT Jesus Crosses, you Stupid Fuk!!!!*
@socrateswept
7 жыл бұрын
Northumbria will rise again!
@killian9665
7 жыл бұрын
1,000 men conquered half of England impossible
@slothfromthegoonies8201
5 жыл бұрын
Not at all, 1,000 was a decent size in that era and they would have recruited mercenaries along the way. That and England wasn't unified, it was split in a bunch of rival kingdoms which made it much weaker and unable to put forward a unified response.
@JRF1004
5 жыл бұрын
Any Vikings fans?
@jan-eriktrres3654
6 жыл бұрын
you forgot or left out a lot of important information lol
@rade9499
6 жыл бұрын
Damn u Athelstan
@maryann4presidente396
6 жыл бұрын
*Wut is your Butt Wod, issue with AtheL Stan!!!????*
@coincollectorofallcoins3098
Жыл бұрын
No danelaw? 😢
@theharristrain
7 жыл бұрын
so the Danelaw was still there when the normans invaded?
@Shinxgod403
7 жыл бұрын
no it was conquered by Alfred the greats sons and when the normans invaded it had recently been unified. the Viking struggle he was on about at the end may have been raids and herald hardrada
@theharristrain
7 жыл бұрын
***** cant wait
@l0necroc
7 жыл бұрын
well, the vikings did become king of England. But the viking king died with no heir so the english nobles was able to svindle the throne. Harald Hardrada did try to take it back but failed
@Shinxgod403
7 жыл бұрын
Dildo Faggins edward the confessor was viking? I thought he just allied with the norweigans to make the North sea empire.
@comradefrisealach9246
7 жыл бұрын
Shinxgod403 The kings Svienn, Cnut, Harold Cnutsson and Heathacanute were viking kings of England.
@notcal
6 жыл бұрын
Boi
@Gurrr.201
7 жыл бұрын
do vietnam
@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG
7 жыл бұрын
No, Iraq-Afghanistan Commonwealth Involvement in Kingdom of Florida & Dukedom of New York.
@nathanstephenson7917
7 жыл бұрын
But who were the Normans? hahahahaha Yes, lineage of Vikings...who came to conquer all of what Alfred tried to do (unite ALL of the kingdoms under one. He came close, I give him props to that) The great, great, great grandson of Rollo came and united them all, many bloody battles. but William the Conqueror did it!
@connorsmith5255
2 жыл бұрын
The Normans didn't claim their selves to be Vikings stop kidding yourself lol
@Puzzoozoo
7 жыл бұрын
I live in Warrington, and my family surname comes from Yorkshire, so I've probably go some Viking DNA in my genes.
@coincollectorofallcoins3098
Жыл бұрын
Why do you care so much if you do or not, what was so special about them?
@huseyinikizlerli2051
5 жыл бұрын
Wtf is heathen army
@primodernious
6 жыл бұрын
classic idea is that the vikings invanded britain, but vikings have existed as long as the norse and goes back tousands of years before the supposed invansion. the ruins of the vikings are older than the castles of the british empire. many british people decends from red haired vikings that also exist in many european countries. the vikings was big and strong. the decendeds are the feeble and weak we see today. i have personally seen a few of the remaining vikings that are a foot taller than most people have rough apprence and really big and strong and have very thick bones compared the rest. some heritage have decendents that inherent some of the genes of the vikings. the myth we have now that vikings was like us like feeble and with tiny swords is a modernly created lie. no normal people could hold the ancient swords of the vikings that live today. swords made in the middle ages is usually the example of viking weapons.
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