Why You'd Regret Becoming a Viking Raider | History For Sleep

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianEver wondered what it was really like to be a Viking raider? Not the heroic, slow-motion version with soaring music and chiseled jawlines — the actual experience. The rowing. The blood. The blisters. The awkward silences. Welcome aboard.In this darkly immersive journey, you’ll live every miserable, smoke-choked moment of your very first Viking raid — from recruitment (read: conscription via peer pressure) to the long, echoing silence afterward. There’s looting. There’s screaming. There’s the deeply underrated horror of Viking cuisine. And yes, someone definitely throws up on the boat.This isn’t history as it’s told in sagas — this is history as it probably smelled.