Farmers To Raiders: The Mysterious Origins Of The Vikings | Wings Of A Dragon | Timeline

Those ships are beautiful , happy to see the traditional boat builders on the sea.

The most underrated aspect about the longship has to be that it combines rowing, sailing, shallow water, symmetrical hull, carriable, draggable, rollable, surviving seas good, makes for a good shelter when tipped, can carry lots of tonnage and men, and fight well sea to sea and sea to land.

I am a Filipino but the History of the Vikings fascinates me most.

I live in norway and there's 2 viking graves in the small city i live in (One just 100 meters away from my mother's house, another 100 meters away from my father's flat)

So good. 20 years old but still one of the best ones on this subject. Most other ones focus on the dramatic raids by vikings only. This docu should be mandatory in schools. Especially in Sweden where most young people know nothing about this part of their heritage, believe it or not...

"Why would anyone go further?" Because, they're Viking.

Another entertaining, and informative piece from Timeline documentaries! Well Done!!

They settled where I live in the UK. VERY Happy that they are my ancestors!

My town "Burned fleet" became Benfleet in about 900AD. So we were systematically raided by the Vikings in Essex after a pitched battle along the creek

Love this documentary. It doesn't just regurgitate what most other producers tell us, but do a lot of research of their own and dive into the Norse colonisation of North America, which we know so little about.

I lived in a big city in the Netherlands where there was a living history Viking museum where they did some filming but mainly continued working in the daily tradition of Vikings as they lived on land. The pushback from those who don't didn't know about Viking burials remind me of myself when I was newly landed in Europe and not yet fully in touch with my ethnicity.

26:29 Iceland 31:05 Greenland 33:41 native: Inuit 36:09 Vinland -> L'Anse aux Meadows 44:00 native: Skræling 46:02 why the Norse abandoned Greenland

The Vikings actually sailed to the continent of North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus that's very impressive considering the longboats were clinker built and had a shallow keel and it would have taken a gang of Vikings to row it, Ireland is full of history relating to the Vikings,wood quay in Dublin was where the Vikings set up a settlement that would later be called Dublin, in the county of fingal the area would have witnessed many a raiding horde, from Balbriggan skerries loughshinney Rush and even lusk about 5 miles inland from the sea but was made possible by the Vikings sailing up rogerstown estuary and marching into lusk in 2 groups, from the south and east, it's a fascinating insight into the history of Vikings,

I've loved anything to do with Vikings since I was a young kid . I can't get enough history about them

I read "Viking" and came here quickly, I'm about to watch I'm into Norse Art very much, how they put art even in their distinguished Dragon ships. I hope I get to see some in this doc of their voyages, thank you Timeline

My Paternal Grandmother was Norwegian. I wish I knew more about my ancestors. This video is helping me learn. Thank you.

Once again thank you Timeline .. wonderful, insightful and informative. Another winner from a great team.

The best history documentary channel. Thank you.

This is by far my favorite channel. I am 50% Norwegian with Leif Erikson in my bloodline.. I'm also married to a 100% Norwegian with 3% Neanderthal DNA 😆 keepin' those genes going!! Haha