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Our last TimeGhost Short on Normans and Saxons was a little too spicy for some and rustled some feathers in the YouTube comment section. What better way to follow up than smash another nationalist myth? This time it's only about the vikings, good thing no one takes that too seriously, right?

Let us know if you like these half 'myth busting' videos.

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The Nationalist Myth of Vikings

Vikings: Scandinavian a people from Scandinavia, or a bunch of multiethnic seafaring barbarians who pillaged, raped, and conquered their way through more than three centuries of European history? Or maybe they never existed at all? Subscribe to our World War Two series: https://www.youtube.com/c/worldwartwo?sub_confirmation=1 Like TimeGhost on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhost-1667151356690693/ Hosted by: Indy Neidell & Spartacus Olsson Written by: Spartacus Olsson Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Spartacus Olsson Image Research by: Lucas Aimó Edited by: Lucas Aimó Sound design: Marek Kamiński Sources: http://viking.archeurope.com/ Icons created by the Noun Project Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

They were mostly explorers, traders and migrants with a talent for cleaving skulls. They were hired by the Byzantines and Sicilian kings as bodyguards and mercenaries. So many Swedes left their homeland to join the Byzantine army that Swedish nobility eventually banned the practice as their pool of manpower was diminishing.

Anonymous

You people, always insisting on facts. Next thing, you will be telling us there was no such thing as an Aryan race!

Anonymous

I never was a Vikings fan anyway. I prefer the kinder gentler Dolphins.

Anonymous

The next thing you're going to tell me is the nasty, cruel, murderous Barbarians never existed.

JM

Bloody Victorians ruined everything...

Anonymous

Should the sagas be thrown out entirely? Archaeological evidence has suggested that some of the westward exploration from Greenland into North America actually happened. Maybe not exactly the way the sagas tell it, but it seems to me they could at least be useful as a starting point for further investigation.

Anonymous

Really really thank for myth busting.. I admit it hurts a bit as I believed a lot of what was told about it especially in school times.. man.. isnt historical work not really de-illusioning?^^

Eric Johnson

Can you do one on the Templars ?

Anonymous

This is tangential, but I noticed Sparty's chain over leather bracelet is back. I was wondering: is it just costume or does it have some meaning?

Anonymous

"Shavings of soft wood for stuffing" ... ?