Forgotten weapons Viking Firearms

[damoc]

Was just watching some YT and this popped up and I thought it would be interesting.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

That’s incredible. I had no idea Vikings had access to gunpowder weapons of any kind, let alone primitive firearms.

 

[armoredman]

That is truly revolutionary in the history of firearms. Suck it, China, we Norse had it too!

 

[Heir Kommt Die Sonne]

Ewart Oakeshott, a medieval/reniassance historian in the 20th century, frequently argued that the history of Firearms was much more European in origin than originally believed. Although the Arabian world had a lot of documented use in that time period, cannon type weapons used in European battlefields were recorded as early as the 1350ss, and shoulder mounted artillery in the 1400s. Documentation let alone illustration is scarce however, and firearms use only took off widely in the 16th century.

 

[RevolvingGarbage]

Guys, beware on YouTube when the calendar date reads “April 1st”...

 

[Bibbyman]

 

[CapnMac]

Not the first April Fool's Ian has executed.

 

[hawg]

Didn't it strike anybody as odd that he was talking to a guy that spoke Icelandic without an interpreter? Or that they were both apparently reading the same book?

 

[Heir Kommt Die Sonne]

Not the first April Fool's Ian has executed.

It's a annual thing for him. I see most people fell for it (I partially did, but was mainly disinterested)

 

[CapnMac]

I see most people fell for it (I partially did

Well, in fairness, he set up a lot of "cover" for the ruse, what with using actual historians and authors.

Certainly better than Nick Moran doing an "In the Chieftain's Hatch" on a Bluebird bus

 

[Heir Kommt Die Sonne]

Well, in fairness, he set up a lot of "cover" for the ruse, what with using actual historians and authors.

For me its just, any subject you become deeply profecient in you start to realize that in history, there's hardly an actual "invention date" of a specific tool or device, only versions of it that only got improved over time. The real question typically is, what was the first modern version of a tool?
The history of gunpowder and weapons is unsurprisingly cloudy. We know the earliest recording of it is Chinese. But telling me that somehow this went to Iceland in the same time frame? Didn't surprise me. We'll never truly know, even if it was true.

 

[hawg]

It's highly unlikely the Vikings had gunpowder. I'm not saying it isn't possible but I for one don't believe it.

 

[SterlingBullet]

That’s where they get their name from:
violent incident kings; VI-Kings.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

If the vikings had firearms they wouldn't have gotten driven out of Newfoundland by the natives in the 11th century.

 

[Slamfire]

Let he who has never been tricked by an April Fool's joke, throw the first leg of mutton!

Now, in terms of paring mead with mutton, do I serve red or white mead?

 

[CapnMac]

That’s where they get their name from:
violent incident kings; VI-Kings.

Viking was, originally and adverb, used to describe any Scandinavian gone out raiding and plundering. That usage in English is now archaic, as the noun form replaced the adverb equally long ago.

If you were, say a Frank in NW Iberia, and these dude came up over your beach, and you asked, they were the "North Men come a viking (from the Norse vikingr, like as not." Later, when the Saxons starting pushing the settled Norsemen out of Britannia, and they settled on those Frankish shores, the region became Brittany, and specifically Normandie. The lands of the North Men. Who later returned to those English shores as Normans, and messed up old English by adding French spelling and grammar to it.

The Normans pushed the Britons to the west, into Wales, and that displaced the Gaels there into Eire, and the Picts to move norht of the Grampion mountains to mingle with the people there.

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

OK! Lets talk about Portuguese stone cannon balls and pieces of an exploded "Handgonne" or Swivel gun found with charcoal remains carbon dated to the 1300/1400's on Oak Island that match historic museum pieces in Portugal!!! Norman decedents of the Vikings start the Poor Knights of Christ and become the Templers who became the Portuguese Order of Christ who became the Oceanic titan sailors and discoverers! Oh and lets not forget Henry Sinclair and the Micmac flag that is a reversed Sinclair/Templar flag!

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

Oh and Roslyn Chapel!!!

 

[Gordon]

I think there was a lot of international arms trade in those days that flew under the scribes radar ! Kinda like the South American Cocaine and Opium found in Egyptian tombs we heard about thirty years ago.

 

[hawg]

OK! Lets talk about Portuguese stone cannon balls and pieces of an exploded "Handgonne" or Swivel gun found with charcoal remains carbon dated to the 1300/1400's on Oak Island that match historic museum pieces in Portugal!!! Norman decedents of the Vikings start the Poor Knights of Christ and become the Templers who became the Portuguese Order of Christ who became the Oceanic titan sailors and discoverers! Oh and lets not forget Henry Sinclair and the Micmac flag that is a reversed Sinclair/Templar flag!

Portugal had gunpowder in 1381 but Portugal is a far cry from Iceland.

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

I think there was a lot of international arms trade in those days that flew under the scribes radar ! Kinda like the South American Cocaine and Opium found in Egyptian tombs we heard about thirty years ago.

Most of the scribes don't want to hear about stuff that flew under the radar. Unfortunately this is something that was really ramped up by the first director of the Smithsonian. He was infamous for torpedoed careers. Here in my part of the country there's a gravesite of a 12 th century Englishman marked by a stone carved in Runic writing that mainstream archaeology doesn't want to admit is the real thing.

 

[armoredman]

Guys, beware on YouTube when the calendar date reads “April 1st”...

Yep, I fell for it hook, line and sinker, because I don't really pay attention to holidays much anymore. My bad.

 

[CapnMac]

This is long, an hour, where Ian discusses the set up, and how it was a tie-in set up, as well.

 

[hawg]

Yep, I fell for it hook, line and sinker, because I don't really pay attention to holidays much anymore. My bad.

I hadn't really noticed the date but when he started talking to the guy face to face and they were speaking two different languages and then they huddled over the book like they were both reading it I said this is BS.

 

[woodnbow]

I hadn't really noticed the date but when he started talking to the guy face to face and they were speaking two different languages and then they huddled over the book like they were both reading it I said this is BS.

I liked the “Viking level of powder” carefully measured… “The Vikings didn’t get where they got by being timid!”
Let’s ask old Eric Four Fingers…