Everything You Need to Know About the Vandals

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[Russo-Delenda-Est]

Ah yes, the "stabby" times. They were followed by the shooty times, which bring us up to the modern explody times. Humanity marches ever towards progress...

[Johnny_Shields]

It's amazing how everything I needed to know about Vandals fits into a top 10 video.

[Seventeen_Syllables]

Sometimes it isn't the winning side that writes the history. Sometimes it's the literate side.

[Sick_Boy_Rick]

I thought we were going to talk about the classic punk band, The Vandals!!! I want to be a cowboy....

[rivernuri]

"Atilla's villas" is my new favorite phrase

[charles]

But did the Huns really have any friends? Lol

[theoriginal]

I feel like I'd watch an entire stream of Simon playing War Thunder, and I'm in no way a fan of watching game streams, lol

[jesserothhammer]

I love this. A lot of the videos that cover any barbarian people hop between groups and blur the lines of who they're talking about, making it difficult to retain the information. I like that the focus stayed on the Vandals.

[xGameBeatx]

And i thought nobody remember Silesian vandal history! Big props from Silesia :)

[danniejones]

Thank you so much for mentioning the band, The Vandal's. When I heard the word and Simon's definition, I felt it described them perfectly. Great job and thank you for what you do.

[larsrons]

1:43 it has also been speculated, that they could have come from the northernmost part of Denmark called "Vendsyssel" ("Vandal-syssel"?).
The neighbouring region (syssel) up there is called "Thy", probably from the Teutons, and the region just to the south is called "Himmerland" ("Cimbrer-land"?), probably named after the Cimbres. But without a time machine I guess we will never know for sure.

[larsrons]

8:25 Geiserics fleet: Actually a large portion of the Roman fleet were stationed in Carthage, so the Vandals wouldn't have had to build ships, they got them for free. Perhaps they captured more when some years later they won a naval battle against the combined Roman fleet.

[daniellahouel]

Thank you Simon for the video, it is RARE to see something about the Vandals/Alans other than the sack of Rome, which ironically happened (with slaughtering and enslaving) a few years earlier by the Visigoths. I am Tunisian, and they are part of our History and ancestors and most of all they are much more than an alleged looters. We were taught about them as part of our history but from a different (more fair) angle.

[eurodoc]

Rome was hardly the "Winner writing the history" in this matter.

[janektarnogrocki]

Wenedzi (Veneti) after Wandale (Vandals) - ancient Arian (Slavic peoples) living in Central and Eastern Europe. The etymology of the word Wandal comes from name of river Węda, Wenda /venda/ (today Wisła, Vistula). Wenda pronounced in the old Polish language with a nasal: wanda - ("water, fishing"), Baltic slavic: vandene ("water nymph") or vanduo ("water, wave"), Germanic: Wenedka (Lusatian, Slavic woman).
Wanda is also an ancient Polish female name that is still being used today

[RyanCAyers]

Thanks for giving a out to Southern California punk rockers, The Vandals, at the end of the video. I've probably seen them 100 times in concert, even opening for Run DMC in May of 1999.

[muskachu]

I clicked this thinking it was about the band The Vandals, somehow wasn't disappointed.

[tiannawilliams]

I love your shows keep up the excellent work!!

[lisamac]

Cunning, Uniqueness, nerve and talent hehe I like what you did there

[ericbartol]

Love the fact that you mentioned the band! BRAVO!