The Unspeakable Things Vikings Did During Their Reign
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n February 2022, Netflix premiered the sequel to History Channel's "Vikings," called "Vikings: Valhalla." Two main characters are the famous Leif Eriksson and his sister, Freydis Eriksdotter. As you may know, Leif is reputed to have arrived in North America centuries before Christopher Columbus. Some accounts in the Norse sagas include a couple of tales of Leif's sister, Freydis – but in one of them, the close brother-sister relationship depicted in the series is anything but that! We'll tell you about that in a moment.
The Vikings were brutal. It was the early Middle Ages – everyone was brutal. The most powerful Christian king at the start of the Viking era was Charlemagne. Charlemagne may have been Christian and well-educated, but that didn't stop him from waging a genocidal war against the Saxons of Germany in his campaign to convert them to Christianity. Saxon children were instructed to report any pagan activity. Many pagan men and women were burned alive, and many Saxon children were taken back to Charlemagne's kingdom and raised as Christians. Pretty brutal, right?
The Magyars of today's Hungary became Christian around 1000 under King, now "saint" Stephen. Stephen was brutal, too – he burned stubborn pagans at the stake, among other punishments.
The only real reason the Vikings were considered especially brutal – and they were, make no mistake - was that combined with their brutality was their habit of appearing suddenly out of nowhere and killing many unsuspecting people. Then, they took the survivors as slaves and then disappeared. They did this for about 300 years before most converted to Christianity. At that point, Scandinavian raids essentially stopped, and the tales of their brutality stopped as well.
00:00 Start
01:29 Conquer The Seas
03:35 Freydis Eriksdotter
07:10 Erik the Red
09:55 Slaves, not always intact ones
12:21 Female slaves
13:08 “Vikings” did get some things right
15:11 Warfare, up close and personal
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Scriptwriter: Matthew Gaskill
Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Kanishka Mudaliyar
Voice-over Artist: Jake Flory
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