Get your Saily eSim data plan and receive an exclusive 15% discount: https://saily.com/sandrhomangeschichte Download Saily and use the code sandrhomangeschichte at checkout. Throughout history, the Vikings have stood at the gates of Paris at least five times. Their attacks are nowhere portrayed more vividly than in the Vikings series. Ragnar and his warriors storm the walls from water and land, build floating siege towers, and face the defenders' elaborate traps, such as massive ballistae, cauldrons of hot oil, and a death roller. Paris holds out until Ragnar fakes his own death and jumps out of his coffin at the funeral in the cathedral to kill the bishop and take Gisla, the emperor's daughter, hostage. Vikings tells an epic, gripping story, but a story that never happened like this. This video is not about how historically accurate the series is, after all, it is primarily intended to entertain and a certain amount of artistic freedom is certainly justified. Instead, we ask which historical events form the basis for this part of Vikings. Become a channel member and receive exclusive benefits: / @sandrhomangeschichte Merch store: https://sandrhoman-shop.fourthwall.com Patreon (Thanks): / sandrhomanhistory Paypal (Thanks): paypal.me/SandRhomanhistory Bibliography Bradbury, Jim, The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare, London/New York 2004. Bradbury, Jim, The Medieval Siege, Woodbridge 1992. Brink, S./Price, N., The Viking World, Abingdon 2008. Christiansen, E., The Norsemen in the Viking Age, Malden MA 2002. DeVries, K./ Smith, RD, Medieval Military Technology, Toronto 2012. Donvito, Filippo, The Viking Siege of Paris 885/886, in: Medieval Warfare 5 (2015), pp. 29-35. Gillmor, Carroll M., The logistics of fortified bridge building on the Seine under Charles the Bald, in: Anglo-Norman Studies 11 (1989), pp. 88-90. Griffith, P., The Viking Art of War, London 1995. Halsall, G., Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, c. 450-900, London 2003. Jones, Gwyn, A History of the Vikings, Oxford 2001. Kortüm, Hans Henning, sv Paris, Siege of, in: Clifford J. Rogers (ed), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, 2010 [https://www.oxfordreference.com/displ...]. Logan, F. Donald, The Vikings in history, London 1991 McTurk, Rory, Ragnarr Lodbrok in the Irish Annals? In: Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress, Dublin 1976, pp. 93-123. McTurk, Rory, Studies in “Ragnars saga loðbrókar” and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues, Oxford 1991. Nelson, Janet L., The Frankish Empire, in: Sawyer, Peter (ed.), The Oxford illustrated History of the Vikings, Oxford 1997, pp. 19-47. Price, NS, Viking armies and fleets in Brittany: a case study for some general problems, in: H. Bekker-Nielson and HF Nielsen (eds) Tiende tværfaglige Vikingesymposium, Hikuin 1991. Reuter, T., Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian Empire, in: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5.35 (1985), p. 75-94. Sawyer, Peter, The Age of the Vikings, London 1962. Sawyer, Peter, The Oxford illustrated History of the Vikings, Oxford 1997. Simek, Rudolf, sv Vikings, in: Clifford J. Rogers (ed), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, 2010 [https://www.oxfordreference.com/displ...]. Williams, G./Pentz, P./Wemhoff, M. (eds), The Vikings, Berlin 2014. Reading tips Non-fiction Mertens, Dietmar, Journey through history. Journey through history: From the Big Bang to the Internet - the world over time, 2019. https://amzn.to/3vmF6nF Price, Neil, The true history of the Vikings, 2022. https://amzn.to/49kOzcJ Harari, Noah Yuval, Sapiens. A Brief History of Humankind, 2019. https://amzn.to/49jzjwO https://amzn.to/3PH6LX5 Wagner, Gerhard, Lucky! Sayings of the Middle Ages, 2023. https://amzn.to/3TEV6Js Novels Follett, Ken, The Weapons of Light, 2023. https://amzn.to/3TYuC7u Yarros, Rebecca, Fourth Wing - Kissed by Flames, 2023. https://amzn.to/3TUcQlt Olbrich, Jörg, The Winter King. Stories of the Thirty Years' War, 2017. https://amzn.to/49hDwBf Gablé, Rebecca, The Second Kingdom, 2000. https://amzn.to/49ddi2U #history #documentary #middleages