Why are Viking Swords Called That? #martialarts #history #sword

[Soguwe]

Imagine stealing so much shit they name the stuff you nicked after you

[ethanames]

The absolute disrespect of stealing a dead mans sword and having it buried with you is crazy.

[MarcusVance]

How do you like these quick sword facts videos? Also, another factor was that Pagans were more likely to bury their dead with swords than Christians.

[davidwooden]

Oooh I'm gonna remember that, Carolingian swords.
I didn't know that about these blades, very interesting. Do a bit on the crucible steel ones sometime maybe? I love that vikings traveled far and wide enough that some swords even came from much farther east than many would give them credit for

[jessehayes]

The direct predecessor of the Medieval Arming sword

[Krieger]

East francia was quite the major "producer" of swords and you can identify the origin of some of the swords quite accuratly. Quite a few swords were purchased and swords are also a way to proof that trade with the rest of Europe was a thing before the "Viking" age.

[truly-oni]

i didn't know that, but that's actually fuckin hilarious.

[einarr]

Viking age norse swords are one of the final evolutions of germanic migration era swords. These swords share a very similar blade profile, sometimes identical. Some cross guard and pommel differences, but you still find migration era examples very similar to their viking age descendents.

These types of swords were in use by the various germanic migration era tribes such as the angles, saxons, geats, jutes, suebians, alamanni, franks, visigoths, vandals, danes, thuringians etc. etc.

The danes, geats, jutes and angles are the peoples that would eventually be remembered as the vikings.

Infact, these germanic migration era swords predate carolingian swords. The carolingians themselves were a germanic empire. They used the same swords their germanic migration era ancestors used, and so did the vikings. The migration and merovingian era swords would influence carolingian swords and norse viking age swords. Even a 5 second google search reveals this information.

The norse people were proficient craftsmen. To suggest that they didnt have the capability to craft a popular sword design that not just their own ancestors, but most of northern and western europe used for centuries before the viking age, and had to steal it in order to get it, is an outrageous claim.

And yes, im well aware that not ALL viking age sword production was done in scandinavia. The ulfberht for example came from whats now in modern day france if i remember correctly, which further proves the point that this was a popular design used all over western and northern europe.

[georgieboi]

This seems obvious, but I never thought about it. Of course they had their own weapons, but with how much pillaging they did it just makes sense they would use what they took.

[camerongrondzki]

Thats the most viking way to get a weapon famous: take so many that people think it was your thing

[rokka]

Actually local smiths either copied or made those as well, some of them were single-edged, which remind me of a longer version of a Baltic War Knife/Seax. Which are longer than Puukko knives.

Some of them/Usually were made with forgewelding techniques of twisting wrought iron and adding higher carbon steel to the edge by buttwelding it. It has a rather nice pattern as well. But yeah, they did take some of them or traded them as well, sometimes they took/bought just the blade, and made the hilt and handle at home.

[Scudboy]

Never forget the word "viking" in old Norse was a verb - it meant to go pillage or steal from someone. Their entire culture revolved around raiding and pillaging and amassing wealth and power from those raids.

[ardagne]

give us more cyberpunk videos, the other ones are great too though

[atmac]

To be fair, that IS on brand for the Vikings.

[townwitchdoctor]

The main reason is christian burials don't generally contain swords, or much of anything else. Ulfbert swords are most associated with vikings because they're found in viking burials, even though they were frankish swords and highly regarded across all of europe.

[ekamandalaputra]

From gold digger, we was had sword digger 😂

[chillemdafoe]

Pretty sure they still forged their own as well since we have plenty with norse patterns on the more high status ones

[Derering]

Out licks were so devilish that we even stole the names

[MrAwsomenoob]

Another fun fact. The frankish king Charles the bald forbad the trade of swords to the norse because they would be used in raids against the franks.

[warlord]

I would say the vendel swords in for example valsgarde is alot more Scandinavian than the ulfberht though the ulfberht is made of much better steel than most medieval swords in general