POV: Your Life as a Viking While Europe Makes a Fatal Mistake

Medieval Times, Black Death, History You are on a wooden longship. Fifty-nine men around you. You've spent four weeks at sea. No toilet, no bath, no soap, no walls, no ceiling; Just open sky, freezing salt spray, and the smell of sweat from men who've been rowing for days. By every rule of medicine, you should be dead by now. Why? Because you could have gotten dysentery or typhus from close contact with your crew. And yet, these voyages were far more survivable than they should have been. You conquered Iceland and colonised Greenland. Meanwhile, across that same ocean, the most "civilised" cities in Europe are drowning in their own filth and losing millions of people to diseases they never even saw coming. In today's video, we look at POV: Your Life as a Viking While Europe Makes a Fatal Mistake … Keep watching to see Medieval Times, Black Death, History Also check out:    • POV: Your Life in the Most Miserable Time ...   #pov #yourlifeas #vikings