Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the Vikings. When did the Viking Age begin? How do we know about the Vikings? Where did they voyage to? How did they navigate so effectively? Did Vikings really sacrifice humans? Were the Vikings actually more violent than other cultures of their day? Answers to these questions and many more, today on Viking Support.
0:00 Viking Support
0:15 Nicknames
1:13 How violent were the Vikings?
2:08 Vikings on TV
3:50 Did Vikings really sacrifice humans?
5:02 How do we know about the Vikings?
7:54 Fun, if you’re a Viking
8:18 Where did the Vikings go?
9:57 When did the Viking Age begin?
10:39 Norse and Vikings
12:01 How did Vikings navigate?
12:39 …did they?
13:26 Everything you wanted to know about Viking sex but were afraid to ask
14:55 Did Vikings use soap?
16:28 What did the Vikings look like?
17:29 What do modern Norwegians and Danes think of the Viking era?
18:50 Descendants of Vikings online?
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Netflix says they were arabs
Er denne svadaen ment som årets vits ?
Don’t leave it to your enemies to write your history
True
I’m guessing the woman called Thoid Sound Filler could pee like a horse? Also presumably she was famous for showing off this talent?!
Iv viking ancestors I’m Irish so they got my female ancestors pregnant lol on there mad days here I’m the only one in family with blue eyes and red hair so I’m a throw back
Nerdy chicks are hot.
ummm literally look at Iceland to figure out….
I am a dna match to VK549, which is one of the Vikings buried in Estonia.
Well Canute was Christian so yea Alfred kinda won
England’s connection to the Vikings is in fact quite simple since the English language is just another Scandinavian dialect! 🙂
it’s really not. we have some loan words but that’s it.
corbain butterpenis
“One of my favourite graves” as if everyone had one or two favourite graves😭
Would love to see her react to Vinland Saga
As a Dane im super proud if the vikings. Not the horrible violence, but that they were great warriors, that they were great sailors, their fame and that they seemed very free/free minded compared to people of the relegions such as christianity.
L’Anse au Meadows is in Canada! Not the 51st state. In Newfoundland.
Good video. But it is annoying having to pause the video and rewind when the summarized written answers come on screen one letter at a time. If you want us to read them, give us a few seconds. If you don’t want us to read them, don’t show them.
she is so good, i love her and her way of explaining history
Ppl act like sacrificing is worse than just killing ppl by gun or sword 🤦♂️ death is death that’s that everyone’s ancestors probably fought and kill doesn’t make it any better just cuz is not a sacrifice. There are worse things the man has done that are non sacrificial or defending themselves but just for the pleasure of doing it but ppl really gotta act like sacrificing humans was so wrong when kings and presidents sacrifice soldiers on a daily but since they look professional is not wrong that’s just stupid thinking like I said death is death no matter how it happens or how the person looks like cuz death is all the same.
That last question just reminds me of this blonde hair blue eyed couple in my hometown… They named their 2 sons “Sven” and “Odin”
they’re 100% not even Scandinavian.