The Different Germanic Tribes
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The Germanic-speaking peoples speak an Indo-European language. The leading theory for the origin of Germanic languages, suggested by archaeological and genetic evidence, postulates a diffusion of Indo-European languages from the Pontic-Caspian steppe towards Northern Europe during the third millennium BCE, via linguistic contacts and migrations from the Corded Ware culture towards modern-day Denmark, resulting in cultural mixing with the earlier Funnelbeaker culture. The subsequent culture of the Nordic Bronze Age (c. 1700-c. 600 BCE) shows definite cultural and population continuities with later Germanic peoples, and is often supposed to have been the culture in which the Germanic Parent Language, the predecessor of the Proto-Germanic language, developed.
Generally, scholars agree that it is possible to speak of Germanic-speaking peoples after 500 BCE, although the first attestation of the name "Germani" is not until much later. Between around 500 BCE and the beginning of the Common Era, archeological and linguistic evidence suggest that the Urheimat ('original homeland') of the Proto-Germanic language, the ancestral idiom of all attested Germanic dialects, was primarily situated in the southern Jutland peninsula, from which Proto-Germanic speakers migrated towards bordering parts of Germany and along the sea-shores of the Baltic and the North Sea, an area corresponding to the extent of the late Jastorf culture.
According to some authors the Bastarnae or Peucini were the first Germani to be encountered by the Greco-Roman world and thus to be mentioned in historical records. They appear in historical sources going back as far as the 3rd century BCE through the 4th century CE. Another eastern people known from about 200 BCE, and sometimes believed to be Germanic-speaking, are the Sciri, who are recorded threatening the city of Olbia on the Black Sea. Late in the 2nd century BCE, Roman and Greek sources recount the migrations of the Cimbri, Teutones and Ambrones whom Caesar later classified as Germanic. The movements of these groups through parts of Gaul, Italy and Hispania resulted in the Cimbrian War (113-101 BCE) against the Romans, in which the Teutons and Cimbri were victorious over several Roman armies but were ultimately defeated.
00:00- Intro
03:30- West Germanic Tribes
04:37- Saxons
05:30- Angles
06:15- Jutes
07:01- Frisians
08:25- Franks
10:10- Hermiones
10:40- Cherusi
11:45- Suebi
13:10- Marcomanni
13:50- Alemanni
14:40- Lombards
17:30- East Germanic Tribes
18:05- Goths
19:20- Vandals
21:45- Burgundians
24:10- Heruli
25:35- North Germanic Tribes
26:45- Roman Sources
28:15- Finns
29:30- Beowulf/English Sources
30:40- Skandza
I'm originally from Northern Italy, and no, I don't bleach my hair. I have many blond cousins and most of my relatives have blue eyes. I now live in the US, and not one American has ever identified me as Italian. I don't think most Americans realize the magnitude of the Germanic genetic influence on Northern Italy.
Most Americans have no notion of the world existing before 1776 /s
R M 269 is found in Northern Italy, how about the Waldenseins or other Celtic people's.
@Antarehs
Your ancesters was probably Langobards (Longbeards), but this was just the name the romans gave you, not the real Tribal name.
A part of nothern Italy is still called Lombardia after this tribes.
Alaf Sig Runa from good old Germany.
@@rowdy9379
Waldenser was not a kind of tribes, but a Christian sect who was wiped out by the jewish Vatican, caused they was the real Christians.
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldensians&ved=2ahUKEwjF9rPkydT4AhUyhf0HHYFTB-QQmhN6BAgVEAI&usg=AOvVaw3-5vLJG-HtxglmsMNtw5Ks
From where I sit you sound like you are not proud of being Italian and are connecting yourself to Germans .
Sweetheart, Italy is the great Roman Empire .
One of the top 3 best empires of all time .
What have Germans ever accomplished?
Nothing.
In WWII which they started 60-90 million people were killed.
That is more war dead than all wars in the history of man , combined .
Brilliant summary. One hunk of evidence that can't be ignored are place names. These tend to stick through many centuries with little change and can indicate the people who lived there. Finally, my home town, Worms, is the seat of the niebelungenlied. And the end of that word is pronounced like English weed. It means song or story. I'd love to dive into the original story, which is far more ancient than the 12th century version we usually see. It's got seriously huge range, with honor, treachery, icelandic princesses, dwarves treasure, and gory revenge . Fun for the whole family
Very interesting my family has been living in South Africa more than 300 years they came from 7 countries Sweden,Denmark ,Germany ,Netherlands ,Flanders,Scotland ,France so I must have alot of different tribes as ancestors from my mother and fathers side we are mostly tall and blond I have been told I look Scandinavian
We speak Afrikaans at home a Germanic language I understand Dutch 100 persent and most of German and in writing I following the text in Swedish and Frisian but cannot understand all the words
Ich habe die "moderne" (aus dem Jahr 1827) Übersetzung des Nibelungenlieds in Verseform. Ist sehr interessant.
@@janvanaardt3773 Wij, Hollanders, kunnen alleen fries lezen met behulp van een woordenboek. Ten noorden van Amsterdam bevindt zich een dorp genaamd Schellingwoude. Schelling heeft niets te maken met schelling (engels: shilling) maar komt van het deens adskille, scheiden. In dit geval scheiding tussen woud en water. Ten zuiden van Amsterdam bevindt zich een groot dorp genaamd Watergraafsmeer of Diemermeer. Dit dorp heeft een eigen wapen: de zwaan, een edel germaans dier. Water-graafs-meer heeft niets te maken met een adellijke titel. Er bestaan geen watergraven. Graaf komt van het deens gröft wat sloot betekent.
I live near Worms😂😂 Coincidences can happen
A brilliant video. My DNA test in England show my origin is Anglo Saxon-Celtic-Nordic.
The Vandals were so gangster that the word vandalism was inspired by them
They taught Plack Beople how to luut
Not at all they were monotheistic Christians to whom Jésus was no God.....Thus the diffamation campaign the Trinitarian church started from the third century C.E.until today.
@@user-rj5db6nt4ithey saw Jesus as gods son, but denied the Trinity, so the Catholics hated them.
@@maggan82 I don't know exactly what their " heresy" was.....but I doubt the fact that they might have considered Jesus as God's son.
Muhammad -Peace be upon Him - send a Messenger to the emperor of then Byzantia, it said : " Surrender to the One GOD and you will have eternal Peace.....orelse you will carry the sin of the Arians or the sin comitted on the Arians"
Sorry for my editing....but it looks like Arius who came from then Lybia ( current Tunisia and Tripolitaine) Arius grew up around Monotheistic Jews they had at least four major Synagogues in the region....and he adopted Monothéisme and considered Jesus as a Prophet.
I might be wrong but scholars tend to overlook that lettre from Muhammad PbuH....to Herakles citing the Arians.
@@user-rj5db6nt4i that whole story was completely made up as propaganda
For the Finns I'd like to add that most people seem to agree that the Romans speaking of "Fenni" were in fact speaking of the Sami people, because at the time (pre-500 AD) the area of origin of what we today call the Finns was populated by a farming, cattle-raising populace, not by hunter-gatherers.
And this area in the southwest Finland is actually still called "Finland proper" and based on the placenames from that time the people there spoke a proto-germanic or germanic-adjacent language up until some time between 500-1000 AD, and these people were heavily Scandinavian-influenced in culture and genetics even before the Kingdom of Sweden eventually expanded into the area later in the middle ages. And to this day there is still a "genetic border" in Finland that roughly splits the populace into two distinct groups: the Eastern Finns who are more isolated and have more Uralic and Siberian ancestry, and the Western Finns who are more Germanic both in genetics and custom.
I personally find it really interesting, as most people just go "Oh the Finns are Uralic and came from the east" or "The Finns are just weird Scandinavians", but in truth Finland is like a historical borderland where these two people groups mixed together. And the further South West you go in Finland the more Germanic the people and the culture get, and the further northeast you go the more Finno-Ugric they get. It's sad that no one in that area wrote things down until late in the middle ages, because the stuff happening between these people groups and the different migration waves must've been wild.
I find the Finno-Ugric peoples fascinating. You have the northern branch, which ended up in modern Finland and Estonia, the middle branch from which were derived the Huns, and the southern branch which spread from modern Turkmenistan to Turkey. From one relatively small group, you have such a diaspora of peoples with different cultures and appearances. I really have only read a cursory amount about them, but would love to gain more understanding of them.
Sámi peoples also lived in most of Finland back in those days, but were then pushed further and further into the North by the Finnish tribes. It’s really a mystery how and when the different tribes developed. The Finns proper and Tavastians clearly have had Germanic influence judging by the names of the gods they worshipped. There is also a very old strata of Germanic words in Finnish language, including the word äiti, which means mother. Can’t get much more basic than that. Curiously, Estonian does not have that word, but uses the Finnic emä, which is only applied to animals in Finnish. Tho it must be said, that it’s not certain how and when exactly those words were included in Finnish. What is almost certain is that the Sámi are the indigenous people compared to Baltic-Finnic and Germanic speakers. The latter two arrived later and in different parts of the country. Finland was extremely sparsely populated during middle ages and before, with few tens of thousands of inhabitants at most. Probably due to harsh weather and lack of much arable soil. Estonia and Southern Scandinavia had both tens of times those numbers.
In conclusion, the Sámi were here first, and at some point there were likely Germanic speakers too in the west and the Baltic Finns arrived from South and East at some point in the past 1000-3000 years, possibly in waves and assimilated the others. By that time they arrived, a lot of other Indo-European words had already been accumulated to the language. First Indo-Iranic, then Baltic and Germanic words in various parts of Finnic migrations toward the Baltic Sea. To the point that a lot of the very basic and common words are loans. Later on, there were also additions of Russian and Swedish loanwords, sometimes even basically the same words that already existed but received a slightly different form and meaning. Also, due to different influences at different points, even languages like Estonian and Finnish are not mutually intelligible.
@@willremy5142 You are completely wrong.
@@willremy5142 bro, the Huns did not descend from the Finno-Ugric peoples, the Finno-Ugric peoples were only part of the union of the Huns' tribes
Nonsense. You have deliberately removed the Elephants in the ROOM. The Sami, The Mari and the Slavs. I am so angry that you have not done any research. GO DO SOME! Finish language is a Uralic Language READ THIS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages BTW you lot have at the very min 6 to 8% ASIAN DNA! So what are you drinking. What did they teach you at school? Why the German Bromance when it does not exist.
Finally a video that covers the history of the Germanic tribes in particular, love this part of history in particular from the germanic bronze age to the migration period. Very well done! But also there are 2 eastern germanic tribes that deserve an mention and those are the Bastarnae and the Buri germanic tribes. The tribes are mentioned in the Trajan's Dacian Wars as fierce germanic tribes and lived in the parts of central Romania and north-east Romania... but archeological evidence is scarce. Great content as always!
I studied Anglo-Saxon in college - mostly the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. What surprised me was how easy it was to learn. Also, how German/Norse it sounded. It had a sing-song lilt to it.
I think they're trying to ban Anglo-Saxon history in UK universities now. I saw some video about it.
Saxon sounds like German, Dutch and English for that matter. There are similar words in all three of them. And they all again also have similar sounding words in Nordic languages.
I love it! This is great. For some reason, we aren’t taught our own history in school. Great job giving this information to hungry minds, my friend.
However some of the information is not quite correct.. :)
Adogit was probably not germanic, but of the lapplanders ("sämi") or a similar group.
The -it ending is typical for the northern branch of the finno-ugric languages like finnish and dävvi) but never used in the norse, german or the later scandinavian languages. The -it ending means that the name is in plural. So the singular in norse was either Adog, adok or áthogg ("aouw-thok"), most probably the latter ,but in a finno-ugric it would maybe be "ä-do'g".
Adog is most certainly a latinized form as many historians of the medievals wrote in latin only.
We're not taught this because it's generalized garbage, Germanic is a specific ethnicity, most of these groups are barely German or not even a little German. They're baltic scandinavian and even confederation of scythians with germans.... this is deluded garbage
The reason, you probably know, is that it's vorbotten for our people to feel pride in our heritage.
This is great. I remember the first time I read Tacitus’ Germania and so enjoyed reading about a time where “my people” (I’m part German) were tribal and living close to Nature. Of course, when I was in school this was never even touched on, as if European history didn’t really begin until the Renaissance 🤪
I remember having my mind blown in 12th grade English class when the teacher told us about Beowulf belonging to an actual "tribe" of early Germanic people in Sweden, and how they were connected to other "tribes" in England around that time. Before then, as a teenager, my sense of history was that northern Europeans went back into the Middle Ages, maybe the 1200's or possibly the 1100's, with knights and kings and castles and fair maidens and jousting and King Arthur, and then the next thing you know, we've gone back to the BC era and we're talking about Roman emperors and the Bible and Jesus. I remember just assuming that places like England were "medieval" right after the Bible ends, and then when I was informed that Europeans used to live in small tribes close to nature and had a different religion, I was really surprised. Like it hadn't even occurred to me that there might not have been a king of all of England in 600 AD, and that it was a land occupied by many kings and different loosely connected groups, and before then, even smaller tribes back on the continent. The idea that our own history could be similar to Native Americans or Africans was a real eye opener.
The renaissance was what brought Europe out of the dark ages so it’s not surprising that you never knew about it. Pagans had their own way of living and unfortunately, Abraham if religion destroyed it.
What a tragedy, such a colorful history has been hidden from us. Yet I know more about African slavery than my own culture.
I really hate the mainstream take on European history.
@@slappy8941 I hate the mainstream take on everything
Some years ago they found a relatively big germanic graveyard under one of our fields belonging to my village. It was quite interesting. Our small local museum was also happy :D Greetings from Lower Saxony
I was in the pre-history museum in Halle (Saale) in April - that's in Saxony Anhalt but is it near you?
@@johnbrennick8738lower saxony is a western german state, Sachsen Anhalt is eastern
Wo genau ist das? Mein Vorfahr stammte aus Bad-Gandersheim.
Thats so cool. About an hour from me here in Texas is the Gault site. Loaded with Clovis stuff, and pre-Clovis!!!!!
I noticed that in French:
vandale = brutal
ostrogoth = ignorant
franc = honest
XD
it's almost the same in portuguese, except that part about "ostrogoth". And our equivalent to "vandale" (vândalo) means "someone who makes a mess", but our equivalent to "franc" (franco) means "honest" too
The Romans named these tribes.
goth(visigoth) in old frankia also catalan and languedocian...
Vandal in English is a criminal but one who vandalizes or destroys or defaces something. Goth is a style lol.
@@mountainadventures7346 TRUE not their original names
I really love listening to your channel and this one was fantastic! Thankyou so much for all the preparation you put into each podcast.
I do enjoy this era. You are well versed in the history and it shows that you enjoy this very much. Your face was lit up in happiness throughout video.
Portuguese archaeologist here. I'm in love with the suebic, vandal and visigothic chapter of our history and I'm very proud of being a part of their legacy. I found out recently im descendant of the franks, and may have some visigoth and saxon herritage as well. Great video on a very underrated topic.
The first kings of Portugal were the dukes of burgundy who reconquested Portugal and they used the nights templars who escaped from France who originated from the burgundy region.
@@raydawson2767 That's true! There might also be some sort of connection between count Henry and the kingdom of Hungary but it's hard to say if its legitimate or some medieval legend. As far as we're concerned, what you've said is the accepted version.
@@andremiguel1143 The royals were inter related,I know that the Spanish and Portuguese royals were inter married and the Spanish royals had Hungarian royal ancestry.
Portugal, Spain a lot like Rome, a sort of melting pot of >Europe, you will find a bit of everything, including Germanics. most Portuguese have if not most, at least a significant part Germanian blood. Hail Odin, my Iberian brother.
How did you find out? I would like to know my heritage too, but not through these online commercial sites preferably.
about half of the so called germanic tribes are slavic tribes, being "fact checked" by Vatican and the simillarz
Yes and the Adogit is not a germanic name, but finnougric
Now I realize why our teacher called us Vandals ahahah
A really good video I hope a lot of people really appreciate this. Most history channels just passed by this time or just pick certain subjects to review. Keep up the great work ⚔️👍🏻
Deliberate bc of middle eastern ideology
love your videos! I think I've learned more in the past few weeks watching your vids than I did in all my years of school 🤣 Keep it up! I love all the knowledge I can get 🍻
Afrikaner from South Africa here. DNA says 94% northern European and some southern European. Still Germanic as we come!
My surname also comes from a town that is in Northern Germany just south of the border of Denmark. Makes me Saxon.
My children are Lombard from their mother's side.
Probably dutch because of colonization
What a great source of information you are. Great video, but frankly I wouldn’t know where to start. Born & live in Yorkshire, near York, my DNA denotes Anglo Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Scottish & Welsh ancestry, nowhere else. The only certainty Germanic I am 😁
Tak for endnu et spændende indslag. Et relevant historisk emne, der er total overset.
Excellent video king 🤟🏻 had to pause like 10 minutes into it and go make a coffee to enjoy it even more 😆
An excellent and informative video, thank you.
This is probably my favorite video that you have made!
9:59 In the east of The Netherlands there is a region called "Twente" (Tubantes). We have a separate identity from Holland and we were historically closer to Westphalia, which isn't suprising, because we both spoke and still speak Nether-Saxon dialects. To this day we Twentenaren are pretty proud to be different :D we have a newspaper called "Tubantia" we have a small football club called Tubantes where I live and we have a big club called FC Twente, which finished fourth in the national league :D
Mede-nederlander hier. Het grootste gedeelte van het zuiden en oosten van nederland kan ingedeeld worden in gebieden aan de hand van oude germaanse stammen. Brabant het land van de texandrii. De betuwe van de bataven (bata betekent sterk of goed, de betuwe betekent dus wellicht goede grond). De veluwe daarentegen slechte grond dus werd minder bewoond door de bataven. Dan heb je Salland het land van de saliërs (salische Franken. Twente het land van de tubantii (een saksische stam). De achterhoek mogelijk eerder de chamaven alleen hebben daar minder culturele binding mee dan bijvoorbeeld twente als Saksen en de Brabanders als Franken. Al met al heeft Nederland een hele significante geschiedenis omtrent Germanen al helemaal als men buiten het nieuwkomertje holland kijkt.
@@philtoonen6338 Heel interessant! Ik wist al een beetje over de bataven maar niet over de saliërs en chamaven.
Ex-dutchie here. I (and just about my whole family) moved out of the Netherlands, but I still have family in that area. Used to read the Tubantia when I was visiting my grandmother
@@gnvinternationalambassador925 That introductory comment is so eye-catching! The English 'heel' is not only a 'hiel', but also a 'schurk/ scoundrel', so it looks like the 'backhanded compliment' of calling someone an 'interesting schurk/scoundrel'. Intentional or not, it is still quite an entertaining and well-turned phrase, so: well done!
@@denniscannon769 in Dutch "heel" sounds like the English "hail" but means "very" so "heel interresant" is (ironically) rather mundane, meaning "very interesting".. so probably not intentional but it's always nice to learn opportunities for new puns in multiple languages!
American with half German ancestry here. My grandfather's last name (and thus my mom's maiden name) is an Americanized/modernized variant on the word Alemanni, and genealogical research has proven that this family name is for descendants of the Alemanni tribe. After the Migration Period ended, these formerly anti-Christian, pro-pagan people with a wolf warrior background were one of the last peoples on the continent to convert to Christianity (although the continental Saxons converted after them), mostly in the late 600's and early 700's, after their entire line of nobles and kings were executed as Frankish prisoners. In spite of this, the common people of the tribe continued to live in the same regions of southwest Germany (Baden-Württemberg) and northeast France (Alsace-Lorraine) where they had settled during the Germanic migrations, having previously been one of the largest thorns in the side of the Roman Empire at a time when many of the other tribes had been pacified or were looking to establish larger, more permanent kingdoms of their own.
The area after that time was part of Frankish territory, and Alemannic German became one of the distinct dialects of Old High German alongside Thuringian and Bavarian as they all coalesced into a loose grouping of peoples who would later come to be seen simply as Germans as East and West Francia split apart and the Holy Roman Empire formed, occasionally breaking apart or allowing smaller internal kingdoms to self-govern for various periods in a complex political climate that lasted until the end of the Prussian Empire and going into the modern era. The Alemanns continued to be war-like and in favor of keeping out invaders well past their assimilation into the Frankish kingdom, and while being awarded lands and castles from the 10th century into the 15th, they more or less never moved from this relatively small region in southwest Germany for hundreds of years, with a fairly small and consistent gene pool, until the Protestant Reformation caused a large portion of them to flee the country for America, where they settled in Pennsylvania in the 1600's and early 1700's.
Of particular interest to me has always been a sword scabbard from Alemannia around the sixth century, which appears to depict an ulfhednar in the same fashion as the Vendel plates from the same period back in Sweden, in Geatish territory (Beowulf's tribe). We of course know that the southern tribes had migrated south because of climatic concerns and the Huns to the east, but it seems that they often maintained contact with their Scandinavian kin. The Alemanni were a later confederation of tribes that probably evolved from the Suebi, or specific parts of the Suebi in particular such as the Hermunduri and Heruli, who are depicted on a map from Jordanes as living in the same region as the "Gautigoths," an early Gothic name for the Geats.
And here I am today, having traced the Alemann lineage from my grandfather to a great great (etc.) grandfather in the early 1500's, with some evidence of a lost family tree that went back to Alemannic nobles from the 1300's. Here in 21st century America, it seems that I'm quite far removed from their history, but I like to think that I am nevertheless one of their few descendants who hasn't forgotten it.
You forgot to mention that the Alemanni also settled german- speaking Switzerland and Vorarlberg (Austria) and Liechtenstein ;)
@@thesomberlain8053 Sure. The comment was already running a little long, so I figured not naming every single location was probably for the best, lol. Most of my "German" ancestors were actually Swiss-German, from Berne, or some smaller towns nearby.
In swabian region, there are still villages/ settlements called ,Sachsenheim' or ,Sachsenhof'.
Great video ! Big thanks.
I love your videos! I’ve been binging them ever since I came across your channel a week ago. In college, one of my big research papers was on the distinctive identities of the Germanic tribes and how they developed over time. My professor was infatuated as they had never seen a topic ever like it and it made them deeply interested in the subject.
Sorry?!Saxons came over,whole tribes,families. Just released DNA research proves it. And a lot of intermarriage went on. With the previous Britons. Germanic culture won out.Look it up. Kills myth of a warrior elite, taking over.A massive influx!
One of the most anticipated videos of yours, great insight in some of the more lesser known tribes. Greetings from 🇨🇭, the descendants of the alemanni who were a subtribe of the suebi.
Hello people from 🇨🇭. My name is John Aleman a direct decent from the Alemanni.
Family is from Texel. When ever I have asked what is our ancestory they always have said Frisian. Great content as always.
You damn right it's Frisian ;)
Indeed. And with the oldest pre-viking ringford of the Netherlands as archeologists recently discovered. Groetnis freon!
Awesome to see other people of Frisian ancestry here 👊
Went to the records of Steenwijk with my mother decades ago. And dug up on our ancestors, when going a few generations back everything is Frisian.
It's becoming more clear that we Frisians are a semi Scandinavian people - i got a DNA done; 33% North Germanic Dane/Norwegian....the rest West Germanic...
Hello, I love your videos!
Thank you, Vikingbroder!
Ja! Gillade den här väldigt mycket. Bra jobbat!
Thank you Thor for another excellent video! Always glad to learn more about my Frisian heritage.
Don't mind if park my Frisian as over here I have some beers.
@@Ravishrex1 my fellow tribesmen 👊🏻we should all get some beer and interrupt a baptism sometime 🍻🗡 in honor of King Redbad
I'm currently studying the dictionary of northern mythology by rudolf simek (at your recommendation so thank you again for that!) and the information I'm finding in there refers a lot to old roman inscriptions from proto-germanic tribes. So some of the stuff you're mentioning here I've only just learned about! I highly recommend this book to everyone as the author has done a spectacular job with this book; the layout, the references to sources and the structure. I can look up just about any old norse word and find a good chuck of info on it there; along with references to more detailed sources.
Great video man cheers!
Really interesting video. Thank you.
Such a great video!
I'm so glad you did this video because as I've told you a while ago this is my favorite period as well. I traced my fathers dna back to Hedmark and Oslo area. From what I can find the germanic tribe in the area was the Heidner. I found their history very interesting from what information I could find.
cheers 🍻 hope all is well
In New Ulm, Minnesota there is a statue of Hermann The German.
Nice video, thank you!
very good overview, with some insights about the backgrounds: thx a lot
More tribes: Batavians and Cananefates from modern day Netherlands. Strong auxiliary forces that could swim and were great cavalry. They could even cross rivers without bridges while om horseback or simply by swimming over.
The Germans were excellent horsemen, the only Europeans who could compare in this with the Asian nomads
I'm an italian living in Lombardy and I'm proud to have Lombards ancient origins. The capital was Pavia and Queen was Teodolinda.
Great presentation. Obviously well researched.
„Don‘t mess with the Suebi😂!“ My family comes from the area around Stuttgart…and we are „Schwaben“ (Swabians or Suevians or Suebi). We speak a very distinctive German dialect and are proud of it. Based on the dialect you can mostly identify from which area a German comes from - and roughly to which ancient tribe his or her ancestors belonged to. Years ago I was in Norway and was able to read and understand a Norwegian brochure. Many European languages are related to each other. Thank you for this report.
Tusen takk for en så flott video om de forskjellige germanske familiene i antikken. Det er første gang jeg finner informasjon om det så didaktisk, godt forklart og stimulerende. Det er bare fascinerende! Jeg følger kanalen din med ekte lidenskap, fordi jeg er veldig interessert i germanismen, lutherdommen og spesielt skandinavismen som en historisk, politisk, antropologisk, sosial og kulturell enhet. Veldig stolt av mine forfedre, vi ses neste gang! Hilsen, Daniel
Great summary: you really know this history sir. I'm glad someone is proud and feels affinity for our ancient roots and culture. Danke
Excellent video, thanks 👍
Great, informative video.
Being from Portugal/Spain, with Swedish dna, I know I am Visigoth/goth.
Thank You! I was always told I am "German". After much research, I now consider myself, more accurately, Saxon. My DNA shows primarily Danish./English My Polish/Italian wife actually has more "German" DNA than I. This confused us at first. Her Father was from Venice so her "German" DNA is courtesy of the Lombards (Long Beards) that invaded and controlled the city state of Venice for a time. It's satisfying to follow our own tiny little thread interwoven into this beautiful amazing complex tapestry of history!!!
Die Germanen (Permiter) wurden ausgerottet! Vor 800 Jahren hat Gott die 12 Stämme Israel in Deutschland gesammelt.
Poland to this day has a region that was formerly called Royal Prussia within it’s border.
My maternal ancestors were from the Mazury area of the former East Prussia. The ethnicity of the area is Baltic Old Prussian/Galindian blended with Mazovian colonizers (colonization opened courtesy of the crusading Teutonic Knights) in the early/mid 1200s, followed by Lipka Tatars of the Golden Horde about 1400. There was a smattering of Germanics, Jews, and other settlers. After WWII when East Prussia was split between Russia and Poland, many from this district moved around Poland. As of the 1980s we still had relatives in the area. Sadly, only a few thousand identify as Mazuren, and the dialect of Mazuren (Mazovian mixed with now extinct Baltic Old Prussian) is spoken by few. In the northern and NE of the former East Prussia, the Old Prussian tribes and Lithuanians were mixed with German colonizers. Being more Germanic by culture, they pretty much split after WWII, mostly into Germany.
Thank you sooo much for this!!!!!
I have been very lucky to have traced my family tree, person to person, back to 1620. I found that around 1800, we were awarded the titles of Baron and Baroness. Going back further, I found our family crest dated 1280. My family name is mentioned in Rome around 400 AD. We have lived in Baveria for about 2,000 years. Bavaria was a seperate country for about 1,000 years, until 1871. My grandfather always reminded me that we were Bavarian, not German.
Bavaria derives this name from a Celtic tribe that ancient Romans calls Boi, in the first century Ac arrives in this land two Germanic tribes, they was called by Romans Quadi and Marcomanni, the fusion of these tribes with Celtics Boi tribe is the origin of Bavarians , this is the true story of your ancestors!! 👍🙏
@AngeloCapra Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. I too am a student of history and what you wrote is very correct. I wish more people knew their heritage and the history of their people.
Linda Werlein
Much depends on the older generations passing on history to the extent they knew it. I know when I got interested in all this stuff my father's brother or my uncle did pass along the history to a minor extent. The parents need to treat it as an important topic and if done the right way, the younger folks will carry the mantle@@europrosk-9121
Every Bavarian would tell you, he is at first Bavarian but he know, that he ist German as well! Propably your grandfather told you this cause of ww1 and ww2! Greetings from germany 🙂
@@achimfrankenbach7374us Bavarians feel like we were forced to join the German state back in 1870 and forced to become part of a country we culturally don't belong to. We lost our independence and had to submit to Berlin.
Loved this video! I'm actually really surprised you didn't make this a year ago, tbh. Hope you're enjoying the Finnish/Sami books you got. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on them, being my main area of focus😉
I look forward to your critique when he gives his thoughts on the Finns/Sami.
@@juni_pearl_9591
Explicit to the Finns I recommend the Bock Saga.
The Sami are not Caucasian-, they are Mongolian tribes.
Sámi are also from Inuit tribes
Or Lappisk they came from LAppland
@@lillemy4260
That the origins of the Sami PPL are mongolian and not caucasian is clear.
My Question is, they real related to the Innuit, approved by DNA, or still this Beringbridge Theory?
Excellent video. My German grandfather used to tell me the story of Arminius as well as that of Siegfried when I was a child. Sparked my interest in ancestry and our ancient roots.
You can also read about Widukind, who fought the christianizer Charlemagne. Sadly he was also eventually converted.
You are all Slavic descendants
@@icxcnikasrb that's a very unscientific statement and even if it's true, how is that a bad thing? My gedmatch metadata returned a 9.22% Caucasian (from the Caucasus) and a 0.55% Siberian. The majority of the elements were North East European and Mediterranean. I guess NE European could include Slavic? Again, saying "all Slavic descendants" is very unscientific.
@@cocobunitacobuni8738 I did not say that it is bad thing. Sorry I am not a scientist
Actually its the exact opposite way 🤒@@icxcnikasrb
I think this might be my favorite channel. Donar looks out for this guy. He does good work and the hammer knows it.
your knowledge is enormous
My family has been in the US for several generations, however doing genealogy I’ve traced many branches to Europe. A lot were either Germany or the British Isles. My direct paternal line is from Northern Germany, right along the Weser River. My surname comes from a town not to far away, in the Osnabrück district. Looking into the area, it has a long history. It was around the area where the battle of Teutoburg Forest happened. Osnabrück district was the first diocese founded by Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars
Charlemagne😂 His Name was Karl der Große! At least in german.
Perfect! I had been digging into this myself recently and here I find your video just uploaded. Stop apologizing for video length, I could listen to this with even more detail for hours on end. Thank you for your work as I know the research isn't quick or easy. Excellent job putting it together.
As I understand it, my surname root word 'Wilk' is modern Polish for wolf. The 'es' suffix makes it "people from a land inhabited by wolves". I wonder then did it originate from a Gothic tribe? Time and study may tell, hopefully in my lifetime. Keep doing what you do brother!
Mine is “Vos = fox” greetings from one K9 to another 🦊👋
@@tyv5887 "Man må hyle med de ulve man er I blandt" .... One must howl with the wolves (or fox in this case) one is among 😁
Very informative
This is really cool
The German language comes from the same tradition as Greek (and Latin Greek). This is perfectly clear because of the way that only Greek and German use the case system. No other languages use the nominative, accusative, genative cases etc , in the same way. It is unique. Despite the divergence of 5000 years, the main words are all still recognisable as having the same origin.
actualy it comes from iberia , where the first runic script was found
@@robertolang9684 What does? Runic script is generic not topical and the recipients of its intellectual aspects could have been anyone from anywhere. They are obviously more spiritual symbols from ancient times and not particularly Germanic or Info-European. The German language comes from Russia along with the other Indo-European who fathered most modern European languages.
Brilliant video! On my Mothers side they have the old Germanic name of Mann! And there history goes back 700 years to York/Yorvik in the UK!
I'm from York, and my surname is after a small local town, so I guess my heritage has remained here a while. I suppose that makes me either saxon or possibly viking, given that yorvik was under danelaw for a while.
@@Nate-dj9nt there's a small village called Saxton not far from York. Might it have identified an enclave of Saxons living in the Danelaw?
@@irenejohnston6802 could have done, I think york was an area with alot of conflicted territory between the groups
@@Nate-dj9ntYorkshire has the most Saxon dna and Nordicin the country aside from peaks in Scotland who has the most Norse.
@@Emilyb21-dm3bfit was the Angles that settled in Yorkshire. The Saxons settled in southern England
Nicely done! 👍👍😎
This is great!
Wonderful descriptions and now I’m inspired to read Beowulf again! 😏
I am of Old Germanic Swedish origin. Except for a splash of Finnish blood. The latter I am very proud of as the Finns are a fantastically tough people with a great sense of humor.
My ancestors probably never plundered the Roman Empire or were bloodthirsty Vikings. We stayed at home and were hardworking farmers. We have owned the family farm according to preserved tax lengths for 500 years now, but probably much longer than that.
The Swedish bureaucracy only began to keep people in order in the 16th century and still does today.😆
Ni djäkla norrmän som sitter i en snödriva och tuggar rått sälkött hela dagarna. 🤭
@Peter Dammelius
The Bloodthirsty Vikings is fairytale, that they not have to explain that the same kind of tribes lived for thousends of years around the baltic sea, southern sweden, southern norway, hele danmark, england south of the Hadrian Wall, northern Germany, entire Holland and Belgium, down the Atlantic Coast to Gibraltar and into the medditerean sea.
This was once one Empire, I will call it the Atlantean Alliance.
The lying Archeologists call it Roman Empire.
Search for "Bock Saga".
Alaf Sig Runa
From Germany
@@phornthip1991 So the viking protest at Lindisfarne was mostly peaceful...
@@ShermanistDruid
Who said this?
I said the VikingRiots started at Lindisfarne.
and was lasting about 200 years, until they had destroyed the Agressors.
After England, they attacked for almost 100 years the Frankish Empire and burned mostly Churches and Monestaries down, for a good reason.
Once they was going with about 1.000 ships up the Seine.
Close to Paris they had a battle with Franks and they defeated them, caused the stupid Franks had split their army on both sides on the river.
The Franks then started to negociate with the Vikings, caused this was their second unsuccessful battle experience with Vikings.
They had to pay a huge compasation to the a Vikings, top a piece of Land in France, which called since and until today Normandy.
Then the Vikings paid attention to the other big enemy in the east who was part of this plot.
This Battles was lasting over 100 years until the finally destroyed the Capital of this Empire, Idil 969 AD.
These Vikings (Varäger) liked this Country so much that they founded the Kiewer Rus, the Heartland of Russia.
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiewer_Rus&ved=2ahUKEwi2lvXhzdX6AhXwSfEDHVsPDzkQmhN6BAghEAI&usg=AOvVaw1sYbuynSSylZ9Icjjt7znf
I read a book about vikings. People In GB were thankful when it was stormy wether, because the vikings didnt arrived then. 🤭
Sounds pretty Dutch to me, your name
I came from the Netherlands to the United States as a kid. We go back many generations in Amsterdam and other parts of noord holland where my parents were from although my grandfather was from Friesland. Our family name is a Dutch branch of the Flemish vanderNoot noble family and goes back to the first vanderNoot, a Roman citizen circa 500 a.d.
Do you know if there are any genealogical databases or records accessible to the public in the Netherlands? I'm working on a patrilineal family history, and the furthest back I've been able to trace a verified ancestor was 1520 in Harderwijk. I was wondering if there's a chance that there might be older records preserved somewhere over there
awesome, very informative video....
awesome work
Just an FYI, there's a school of thought that lumps "English" as a "north Scandinavian" language. The sentence structure is very close to Norwegian, not so close to modern German.
I agree with this. In fact, most modern English derives from the Danelaw area, where English was changed from a West Germanic syntax, to a pigeon Norse/English hybrid with Norse syntax. I think we have to look to the development of English in 4 distinct periods; the original Anglo-Saxon (Old English), the Norse influence period (??? English), the Norman period (Middle English), and Elizabethan to Modern English.
Old English sound Icelandic
I did a DNA test recently, and I found that a large part of my ancestry is from Northern Spain and Portugal (as well as Slavic and Baltic) and there was some Germanic and Scandinavian DNA in there as well, which comes from the Suebi and Visigoths that settled in the peninsula. It’s been very interesting to learn about our Germanic ancestors and our history
Haha, I'm from Spain and Portugal with a little bit of Basque, Scottish and Welsh. Nice to see someone with very similar roots!
@@Vulfheim It’s nice to meet you lol. It’s good to meet someone with similar roots as me, I always enjoy connecting with people and talking about our peoples heritage
My grandfather had roots from that part! He had a Germanic look to him
Where you do DNA test ? Im portuguese, from Minho and i would like to know my ancestours
@@ricardoj3456 So I personally did my test with 23&Me, and it gives you percentage estimates of your ancestry. The problem is that I’ve heard some of the bigger DNA testing companies have been known to skew the results, but it can give you an idea of your ancestry
That's very informative
I am American with Irish, Scotland, Wales, and German Ancestry. I am heavy in genealogy which with my DNA has placed my Ancestry in all of these Countries. I love studying Old Europe history. You have helped me figure I have strong blood connecting with many Strong groups. This would make me happy to know I might have Viking blood as well.
It's like a rundown of my entire ancient family history.
Definitely some Langobard, Ostrogoth, Saxon, Frisii, Marcomanni and then various Norwegian, Swedish and Danish tribes, since their specific tribal areas aren't too clear.
It should be noted that the modern German dialects from Switzerland and the Schwarzwald are still known as alamannic
…and from Vorarlberg in western Austria 🇦🇹.
Thank you!
Superb video and great channel aperently!? 😮 Never bumped into it before now.
A lot of knowledge squeezed into this video. Great info 👍👍🙂
Loved the story about the burgundy connection to Bornholm, cause I have some theories on that 🌭 Mustard!
I may be from the Suebi tribe. My family moved to Hungary which is now Serbia and we are known as Donauschwaben. Even here in America we are still very proud of our culture. Many groups, festivals and family traditions still used today
I read the War Commentaries of Julius Caesar at around 17 years of age, and recall the battle of the Legions against the sudden attack of the Suebi who initiated the battle by swarming out of the forest edge from mid-way up a large hill to attack the two Legions at work on their field fortification. The battle is well described by Caesar, and the remainder of the Legions who were on the road march arrived piece meal and engaged in the battle to its conclusion. He described the Suebi as having 100 thousand warriors rotating into the very wide border areas of their territory, and described the warriors as running along side their horses on foot while holding the horses manes practicing stamina training for battle. It was a Warrior Tribe for sure.
I‘m a Donauschwabe too!!!!! My family was expelled after WW2 though so we have never been back
@@scrabbymcscrotus7481 Why were you expelled??
Hey im a schwabe too greetings from Baden Württemberg
@@Jayla-dj2gj Germans were persecuted and sent to Russia as war reparations after the war, many fled, many were killed. It was abad time to be german even if you had nothing to do with the nazis.
Hi, this is so interesting!! I've always been interested in my Native American heritage, recently I've been researching my Norwegian heritage, my moms mother was half Norwegian and Welsh. I've learned thru Ancestry DNA that my Norwegian family is from Rogaland in Norway. Thank you for your videos.
Great video. I'm a teacher and I like your style of teaching. Awesome!
Love watching this video great history. I am Anglo Saxon from England 🏴 I love reading about my surname it tells you a lot about where you really come from looking forward to seeing more 👍🏴
There are Icelandic written stories from around 800, that state that Odin, his family and tribe came frome a land far away in the south called Azar. I went a few weeks ago to visit archeological sites and findings in Azerbaijan, south Caucasus (other legends say that the white race in the Caucasus region, hence called caucasians). I saw my self at least 12.000 year old cave cravings of viking ships and several giant skeletons from that period over 3 meter tall! Some historians are convinced that the legends are based on reality. I also agree. It simply fits beautifully with all known evidences.
Azores has plausibility here with new discoveries.
Danish documentary series “Gåden om Odin” told that Odin was actually Atli or Attila.
@@donnama9374 I don't know that, but could well be. Manny of the so called "gods" roamed different territories, must have lived for long times and were famous in different countries under different names.
Good video. One way to also see the connection between the tribes is to look at the dialects we have today in Germany: The dialect that is spoken here in the Black Forest is called "alemannisch" and it's like a mix of Swiss-german and the regular "badisch" that is spoken in the rest of the region that the Black Forest is a part of. This part is where the Alemanni lived (also in parts of today Switzerland). West of it is the part where people speak "schwäbisch" as you also mentioned. That's the heritage of the suebians. Both dialects sound very similar to someone who isn't from southern Germany. Both dialects come from the same language family (Alemannic) along with Swiss-German and they have a lot in common like pronouncing an "st" as an "sch" ("sh" in English) and lots of special words that all others Germans find kind of funny when they hear them 🤣
As a direct descendant of the Alemanni, thanks for bringing this up. It seems to be the case that a lot of descendants of both the Suebi and Alemanni still live in more or less the same regions, centuries later, probably marrying in small circles for a very long time and not having much outside genetic input. It's also worth noting that one of the most important tribes to later form the Alemanni were the Hermunduri, who later also became the Thuringii, and their name shares a root with Irminones/Herminones and Herman/Arminius, the leader of the Teutoburg uprising against Varus' legions.
Alemannisch ist Suedbaden suedlich des Fluesschens Oos in Baden-Baden, noerdlich davon ist fraenkischen Ursprungs.
@@juergenernst1320 Danke für die Info.
Yeah, man. Making sure I keep up with my honey-do project😎
Same tribe that gave the French & many other nations the official name for the German nation.
I love flow chart's an timelines in a visual format. Glad i found this channel. Thank you. My dad's Priebe ancestors from Pribislav area. My mom's side were Viking settler's in Scotland.
Thank you for your exploration! It was realy interesting!! Greetings from germany.
one of the most informative videos about our ancestors. I adore our German culture because I was cut off from it and was able to learn the languages of my ancestors (Dutch, a little German and a little Scandinavian). Breaking away from culture has allowed me to develop an identity that I cherish!
Exactly. My mentor Günther really had my back back in the 80’s🧐
I can understand why you feel 'Breaking Away' is 'from the culture'. Even though most still see the 1979 'Breaking Away' as a working class Indiana teen (starring the blonde Dennis Quaid) obsessed with the Italian cycling team, more and more viewers feel the film, and especially the subsequent TV series with the then wildly popular (and also blonde) Shaun Cassidy, was truly about the German team.
Religion cut me off from my German ancestry, culture and language. Now, after 300 years I take an interest where no one else will. I’ve posted my family tree for my child to see our ancestry. I think it’s important to know where you came from and try to learn the history understand the cultures and language. It enriches our lives to use technology to find records dated hundreds of years.
There is no German culture philosophy and ethics it's all stolen from Grecoromans
Are you talking about Germanic and what do you mean by Scandinavian?
I love your enthusiasm when it comes to the tribes! I'm from northern Germany and my father loves his genealogy. He traced his part of the family back to Denmark in the 14hundreds. My mom's family comes from the north east, the area of Poland and because most documents in churches etc. are gone and many things were destroyed during the war, my dad couldn't find out more.
My dad is a history nut and he told me a lot about the tribes, but there were so many you've mentioned which I've never heard before.
Thank you for making this video. I don't mind if it was longer. Especially if there's so much to tell.
Is there a book you could recommend about the different tribes, especially the Germanic ones aside from the sources you've mentioned? I find it hard to select a good book about this topic especially here in Germany.
Perhaps ancestry DNA tests might help?
Interesting, and something i been looking for. Thanks from netherlands
Love that you open in Norwegian! Hyggelig å møte deg!
Excellent video, thanks! Both my parents were from Poland, and according to my mother (who was an obsessive researcher), my father's family were Lugiones (the Celtic tribe) and Vandals. My mother's family were Langobardi. Cheers!
Interesting to hear the Dutch where anti-hierarchy even back then. It’s still really embedded in the culture today.
??? What the fuck are you talking about. We’re not?
The Netherlands were mostly uninhabitable swamp areas between sand and sea. The people(s) who tried to make a living there were the ones that wanted or had to be far away from the civilized world of castles and armies and organized agriculture and taxes.
@@alfreddaniels3817 what the fuck??? You are terribly wrong aswell.. you both know nothing about my country…
Thank you for this informational video! I have been yearning to learn more about the Germanic tribes so this video was really helpful! According to my ancestry, I can definitely say that I am Anglo-Saxon, absolutely.
Very good Video
A recent update in my ancestry test says I am over half Scandinavian (my mother) and the rest is British (my dad). That's it. My grandmother (mother's side) was born in Denmark and my grandfather's family comes from Sweden/Denmark. I just love these videos and all of the information that you provide. Thanks!
You missed an excellent opportunity to mention the Kingdom of Suebi in Portugal/Galicia, which is quite interesting considering the original location of the Suebi near the Elbe river. Portuguese still has a few words + names that are of Suebic origin. But it should also be mentioned that the impact of the Visigoth on Portuguese culture and language was a lot greater. Basically, the most known Portuguese last names like Fernandes, Gonçalves, Henriques, etc., are actually of Visigoth origin.
Yep, for some reason he forgot them. Fernandez and Hernandez were Visigoths origin.
@@cascarrabias397 FernandeZ+HernandeZ are the Spanish versions though
Perhaps that is why Portuguese understand Catalan often better then Andalusian Spanish do? Was Portugal or parts of it also part of the Spanish mark? The Visigoth Satellite state of the Frankish empire in southern France and North Spain meant as a buffer zone between the Franks and the Moorish so the Franks could concentrate on subjecting their rivals the Frisians and the Saxons first before clashing with the Moorish invaders.
@@peterkralt2478 The Moorish never invaded Hispania, that was a big fat lie made up.
The reason the Vandals got so easy into the Berber territories was that they had the same religion, both were None trinitarians.
The Germanic tribe went down to Northern African territories and stayed there, but not the Moorish(Berbers) until much, much later when the Christian scripture change from having a title for Jesus called "Muhammad"(the chosen one) to a person called Muhammad.
The Abbasid worked hard in making their own scripture and having their own heroes.
@@cascarrabias397 holy schizophrenia
Will be purchasing that arm ring forth with as my descendants are from Behrensdorf near the Dane/German border…my newest fav channel and since I can’t do Patreon as they cancel folk I support I will purchase from your shop! Thx for your channel!
I come from Sussex and learnt that the Saxons were known by the sword they carried, the seax. So Sussex is south seaxs, Wessex, the western seaxs, Essex, the eastern seaxs. History is right there with us.
Is there also a "Nessex"?
If anyone wants to help me identify which tribes left and went to Ireland that would be great. Thank you for the informative video and all of your informative material that you educate us with. I love your content and appreciate your willingness to educate us all about every part of history. Thank you!
A lot of Irish people are descending, at least partially, from Anglo-Normans who led an invasion of south-east Ireland in the 12th Century. Though being French Canadian, I have some Irish ancestors myself. My great-great grandfather came from the area of Waterford. He was named Powers, a name that derives from the Anglo-Norman name Le Poher, which means The Poor...So, the question we have to ask ourselves is more about the germanic origin of the Normans first living in France. An author of the 18th century mentioned that many of them were from Nordalbingia, on the east side of the Elbe river. That would correspond to a Saxon territory but also to Suebians on their east side. Hope this is of some help.
Check out the Dal Riata tribe operated around Dublin area and originally came over from scandanavia
From my mother's side I'm from Suebi tribe and possibly Alemmani since I'm from Vorarlberg,great video,very informative.👍
According to my family tree, Heimgest Godgestsson, Konge av Hälogaland is my 51st great grandfather.
Well spoken.