The Legendary Order of the Jomsvikings | The Greatest Viking Warriors?



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There are many tales on individual Viking warriors, but today I will tell you about the legends who were in the Jomsvikings order.
The Jomsvikings were a legendary order of Viking Mercenaries who lived in the 10th and 11th century. They were well known around Scandinavia for their Pagan worship of Odin and Thor and their incredible fighting abilities. However, as mercenaries they would fight for any lord or King no matter their religion, as long as they were paid handsomely. The Jomsvikings first appear in the history books in the 12th and 13th century Icelandic Sagas. These sagas were written at least 100 years after the disbanding of the Jomsvikings so it is difficult to assure the accuracy of the writings.

Sources: The Jomsviking Saga, The Kings’ sagas, King Olaf Tryggvasson’s saga, The Knytlinga Saga and the tale of Strybjorn the Swedish champion.

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32 thoughts on “The Legendary Order of the Jomsvikings | The Greatest Viking Warriors?”

  1. Good as gold my ode : )
    Any chance you could cover Egil Skallagrimsson's saga please ? I love the fact that when he lost his brother ' Thorolf ' at the Battle of Vin Moor , that the actual battle was mentioned in other accounts about ' King Athelstan ' . : )

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  2. As a Swede I don't know why you change the names to a English version. I don't care if you pronounce it wrong but its kind of disrespectful in my opinion to change their names. For example you say "Canut" It's Knut without the A. You could just not say the A and you would say it right. And Thorkell is Torkel. And so on…

    Also if you need help with how to pronounce names and places I'll be glad to help.

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  3. Vikings has become trendy. Its kind of annoying. I go anywhere with my Mjolnir or my native tattoos showing, and EVERYBODY wants to tell me how their ancestor was Ragnar, or Blood axe, or some Television viking warrior. I just blow it off and continue on my way. The woke vikings, or woke pagans drive me insane. 😑🙄. They will disregard history, just to continue their weird fetish of Netflix Vikings, and worshipping odin indoors. 🤣🤣😆

    Thank you for telling the truth about our ancestors and warriors.

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  4. Not sure how historically accurate Vikings Valhalla is as a TV series but I was happy to see for season 2 the JomsVikings have a story arc. Even if the show is for purely entertainment purposes I'm excited to see that they got mentioned in this series.

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  5. Palnatoke's rules make good sense and should go with out saying in the Viking world. Also, the part where the Jomsvikings executed the Arch Bishop of Canterbury for 'being annoying' was very amusing…as ya do ha ha! Keep up the good work History Profiles!!

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  6. It is a legend or history, judge for yourselves.
    In times of Nordic wars were born the wolves of comvate-berjast við úlfa-a warrior lodge at the service of the highest bidder, was a warrior elite similar to the berserkir but more refined and religious followed the ancient Scandinavian gods and a bariant imported respect for the Móðir- Jörð, these Vikings could give the image of the helmet with horns as some used them as an attribute to the goat clear allusion to his masculinity.
    When more peaceful times came, the rulers wanted their dissolution because Christianity came and they hated and killed them, lacking resources they gave themselves to banditry and the Scandinavian kings condemned them, seeing their extinction they fled to Iceland with 26 ships, In Iceland they were not allowed to disembark, and being left with no other choice, they went westward and discovered a land called TULAND, today East Greenland. They listened to and learned from the natives of INUIT, whose religion was a variant of the Móðir-Jörð, and became very skilled in sinkings. But they kept bothering the Scandinavians, plundering their ships and coasts in search of food, silver and women, the Scandinavian kings searched hard for them and finally found them in TULAND, and they were imprisoned for 20 years on those coasts and then put to death, the kings said they would kill anyone who wrote about the Vikings in TULAND.

    Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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