Explaining the Vikings

[Euphrical]

I could listen to Rudyard ramble about history all day, every day

[wbcorkery]

This and Common Ground interviews are great expansions. Content is great. Thanks so much.

[spencerbuck]

I feel like I speak Rudyard's language, so I understand if others find this dull or nonsensical, but I listen to every word with interest and since I know a bit about history myself, this episode helps me create a lot more connections in my gaps of knowledge on what sort of form this society took, what incentive structures drove them to act how they did, their influence on the people they came in contact with, how trends over time affected the arc of their history, and the extremes that this whole system went to as a result. When you look at it that way you can pull back and see a grand tapestry that speaks to the character of this chapter of history. I appreciate his work and I'm excited for more.

[gonfreecss]

As per your co-host's instructions, I'd like to see videos about the following subjects:

1. Colonial America (The Thirteen Colonies)
2. Biblical Israel/Judea/Judah (From the arrival of the Jews to the land of Canaan to their colonization under the Romans)
3. Czarist Russia (unto the conflict between the Reds and Whites)
4. The Janissaries (up unto the purges of 1800)
5. The Bronze Age Collapse
6. The Cold War (Nuclear Threats, Korean War, Vietnam War, Space Race, etc)
7. The Samurai
8. British India
9. The Chinese Warring States period of the 20th century
10. The French Revolution and the following Napoleonic Wars

Obviously if you don't do any of these things, that's fine. Just thought I'd give some ideas since you guys were asking.

[pros]

33:00 term “Slavs” has an interesting etymology. It derives from the Old Slavic word “slovo, ” which means “word” or “speech.”
Because someone who spoke slavic language you could understand unlike german speakers thats why they are still called "Niemcy" in west slavic languages which derives from word for mute

[junior]

1:55 POV you’re about to get plundered while having the raiders’ socioeconomic pressures for raiding you explained to you

[josephedmond]

So vikings were post-apocalyptic raiders. 😮

[benandring]

The Vikings: traded in Baghdad, were super soldiers in Constantinople, founded Russia, took and still hold the throne of England, raided every European County with the exception of Switzerland, they concurred southern Italy, settled Iceland and Greenland, and were the first Europeans in America.

[jeffhaskins]

a cool drinking game is to take a shot every time you hear the interviewer say "yeah fascinating".

[joshuamitchell]

Vikings playing cute-sounding doot-di-doot panpipes ditties instead of throat chants is the "dinosaurs had feathers and went Bwark" of ethnomusicology.

[monkeyladder]

This is the best content you've put out in my opinion. I want you to do a whole video on the dark ages, high middle ages, than early modern period. Your tirade on it was super interesting. God I could through a hundred topics at you that'd I'd love to hear. I hope you do hundreds of these.

[kingsnozu]

I would love for y’all to do a podcast on the crusades

[davidfereira]

The actual youtube channel for the history segments.

[gdkartongips]

You guys have saved my bachelor degree with this one! Keep it up!

[Rakibrown]

Aside from settling in Canada there are mummified dogs of danish breed in South America from before Columbus. So they likely went much further. There are stories that Columbus got hold of maps of America from the vikings travels via the knights Templars who are cultural inheritors of the vikings and likely were still connected strongly up to Denmark and later Scotland that then also had those maps (Roselyn Chapel) to go to America also before Columbus.

[AGB_the_don]

I’m so happy to have found this whatifalltist is my favourite YouTube channel I just binged watch all these lmfao

[bullphrogva]

A good cultural touch point to understand Christianity in the Post-Norse landscape is poems like Dream of the Rood and of course Beowulf and Wanderer. But truth be told the person who captures a Christianized Germanic spirit the best is Tolkien, but that isn't in the direct wake.

[joakimsaxin]

A lot of south western Finland and Estonia were Scandinavian. We have our own names for all of the islands and the today capital of Finland bares reference to the old Scandinavian tribe of the Hälsings. The Estonian Capitals name literally means the Danish fortress in Estonian.

[homefrontforge]

Maybe dark ages and power vacuum are synonymous.

[comparatorclock]

On the dark age question, 12th century bc (bronze age collapse) leads to greek dark age, then 5th century ad (Roman collapse) leads to early middle age. This suggests a periodicity of around 1600 - 1700 years.

That suggests civilizational collapse begetting dark age around 2100 ad? So not this current saeculum transition, but the next one instead.