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Viking Expansion - Rollo the Walker - Extra History - #2 (Patreon)

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2018-11-02 03:37:21
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The sack of Paris marks a major turning point in the Viking expansion, a time when simple coastal raids became full-scale invasions. But it didn’t have to happen that way... 

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Viking Expansion - Rollo the Walker - Extra History - #2

Rollo the Walker led the Great Heathen Army and had his sights set on sacking Paris, in a time when relations between the Vikings and the Franks had become, essentially, getting paid to raid. Eventually his sights would turn to stability--and he became the founder of Normandy. Join us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon (--More below) Check out all our shows at http://becausegamesmatter.com Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://goo.gl/HkzwQh Contribute community subtitles to Extra History: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg&tab=2 Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Outro music: "March of the Northmen" by Tiffany Román http://www.tiffanyromanlouk.com

Comments

Jonathan Dowding

You uh.... made the ancester/descendent mistake again

Brian Rose

So here's something for Lies -- re 10:44, the "French" Language wasn't really yet a thing in the 10th Century. (Unless you want to make the case that Old Norman and other Langues d'Oil count as "French" as we understand it.)

Martin Verran

Is anybody Else looking Forward to the next Part of the current Series of Vikings later this Month?

themunck
>>16814444

Of course! The Doctor travelled back in time with William to let him be his own ancestor. That's why nobody knows where Rollo came from.

Rossum

Dane-Geld by Rudyard Kipling: It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to say: -- "We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away." And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld And then you'll get rid of the Dane! It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: -- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane. It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say: -- "We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that pays it is lost!"

Joo-Hwan Jun

*sniff, sniff* There is a joke fit for Hetalia somewhere in this episode!

Thomas Alfred Weaver

"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk"

Jonathan Luoto
>>16814481

Sure, national languages were not a thing yet. People spoke and wrote what we today would call dialects but at the time were local languages. In France there were many, in the north they were related to modern French, in the south they were more like Iberian or Italian languages.

Ryan Wojciechowski

Well that was absolutely amazing guys! (Can we please have a shirt/sticker of Odin save the Queen? Please??) My only commentary is when you do a lot of names like this if you can fit in more distinct colors for the bean people because it's really easy to get them mixed up. Sort of like the crusades episodes.

Chloe413

*insert mandatory walking dead joke here*

Erik Eldritch

So I'm not sure about this factoid, but it's something I've heard about the viking raids on Paris before: Paris wasn't the grand city we think of today. Like they said, it wasn't even Charlemagne's capital. I think it was still a large city, and heavily fortified for the time, and a strategic place with access to France's waterways, but I'm not a Parisian historian. I wouldn't mind some more information on that when you get to Lies.