Episode 4: Völkerwanderung Part 2! Link ⬇️. In this episode we complete the Germanic conquest of the Western Roman Empire and dive into the Medieval Kingdoms that grow out of its ashes, while getting into everything from Tolkien/LOTR, to Jägermeister, Warhammer 40K, R. Kelly, Maserati, Testosterone maxing, and Germanic/Norse paganism, as we explore how part of the Germanic world fused with Classical civilization and Christianity to create what you picture in your mind when you think of the word ‘medieval’, and how this event created a cultural fault line in the Germanic world that will trigger the Viking Age to come.

It's REALLY easy to 'snipe' issues in trailers, but I'm excited for this. Bloodaxe's story is not well known, and this looks higher budget / devoid of the cringe stuff the Vikings series had, nor are they DEI casting

In honor Leif Erikson Day, I am launching a 4-part (10 hr) series between October and January, on the violent story of how the Norse transformed into a people capable of lighting Northern Europe on fire…a story humanity has only recently begun to understand. Stay tuned, it's going to completely upend your understanding of who, and what, the Norse are. It's a crazy story that by the end it will be genuinely disturbing.

Since you guys liked this…. Enjoy some more of the story. Feel the excitement and vitality of youth re enter your veins. Cross section history books are a gateway drug. Getting my kid started early.

Doing research for the next episode

"Nægling burst asunder! Beowulf's sword, old, grey-bladed, had failed him in the fight"

The North Sea is dangerous because it's SHALLOW: when Atlantic storms roll through, they can quickly create large, ship-breaking waves The highway of the Viking Age sat on land that hunter gatherers had hunted on, but had been submerged in the millennia after the Younger Dryas

The North Sea is among the most dangerous oceans on earth, even with a strong wind, you are 100% rowing: getting across fast was the best guarantor of safety. Viking raids are thought to have had a ~50% mortality rate, and shipwrecks were a significant part of that.

This was the best meme to come out of @erling becoming the ubermensch Credit to @Templarpilled, this made me laugh

Imagine trying to not shit yourself when ~3-4 crews full of different versions of Erling Haaland show up out of the blue and you get *MAYBE* a 2 minute warning to find your children and run

Just crossed 6,000 downloads: a huge milestone for me. Truly, truly thankful for you all for helping make this long-form, deep dive history show on the Viking Age successful in our slop + vaporized attention span era. We’re successfully bucking the trend. Super grateful

In the past, Germanic (including Anglo Saxon) Honor culture would have required an **extreme** level of violence for the rape of 250,000 of their women, as violent revenge was THE thing that restored your pride and honor.