maybe it was noth maybe they left in pease fore the first settler in faroe islands was half norse half celtic named grímur norse kamban celtic and the women in faroe islands have 84 % celtic dna
We "got rid" of the Vikings in 1014 only to have the place infested by priests, maybe if we kept the Vikings it would have been a better place earlier. 😉
I thought it's something nice and uncontroversial given my recent detours into the realms of Sinterklaas and Zwarte PIet ;) This is very up your street though!
I am so grateful you made a video about Iceland. It so often forgotten or glossed over, even though it might be one of the more important aspects of viking history and culture. I would love if you would make a video about the Icelanders’ Sagas. They are not the best historical source, due to people exaggerating events and characters, but they give such a detailed insight into Norse culture, values, laws and traditions. Your Norse accent is great, much better than how many others do it. You have clearly done your research on the language and included bits like what the name Hrafna-Floki means and origin of Vikingr from Vik, which is something most wouldn’t bother with going into. One slight error, it’s Reykjavik, not Rekjavik. The spelling has changed somewhat between Norse and Icelandic but I am pretty sure it is Reykjavík in both. Keep doing this good work. I’m sure you’ll be one of the biggest educational channels on TH-cam!
I can agree that parts of Icelandic history may or may not be true. But one reason for that is because Icelanders did not begin to write the history of Iceland until much later with Snorri Sturluson one of the first.
Wow as far as I can tell your Icelandic/Norse pronounciation is really good! I'm Norwegian though but I have heard quite a bit Icelandic, and your pronounciation is definately better than most attempts I've heard.
Worth also discussing the climate at the time being more benign than nowadays. That would be no small factor in the ultimate settlement. Thanks for making!
+ Shaden0040,That is sooo fuckin cool!.Just shows how well Michael Hirst had the show Vikings so well researched!!! Love it man! Great video.I learned quite a bit from it.
I've been fascinated by the vikings for years, so I'm glad that someone who has a good understanding of them is making videos to help people learn about and understand the vikings and who they really were and what they were really like
That shad shoutout will help a lot I imagine, i remember I subscribed after that Lindy video so shoutout/acknowledgment from bigger history TH-camrs helps a lot. Keep up the good work Hilbert
Yea, i remember in the beginning you got some hate from Lindy fans but when Metatron and others started giving positive comments it turned around. Loving these kinds of odd videos, reminds me of Jabzy. Also i am Norwegian and we were thought that we explored a uninhabitat land so i would love to learn more about those Monks
Regarding the poll: I love your videos and would love to see you do videos on all of those topics whenever you can. You make informative quality content!
Listening to people try to pronounce icelandic / norse words is always a wild ride of enjoyment. Looks like an interesting channel with good content so I might stick around
Here is an update for you. Starting in 2015 archaeologist Bjarni F. Einarsson and team have been working on a dig at Stöð in Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland. What they have uncover so far is that there is a 44m longhouse there from ca. 800 ce. and on top of it is a slightly smaller 36m longhouse, built before 871 ce. In the area around the longhouses are other buildings or houses that wait to be been excavated. The working thesis is that the older longhouse from ca. 800 ce. was an outpost from Norway, where a chieftain sent a crew to work the resources during the summers to bring back to Norway. What contradicts that is how big the longhouse is. The younger longhouse, on top, was definitely a permanent dwelling of a wealthy household and in it they have found among other things a lot of glass beads and silver.
I didn't know anything about this before. Thank you very much for this fascinating video! And about the poll: your animation style is one of my favorites on TH-cam!
Saw you on the recommended tab, very glad I clicked. Greetings from the Faroe Islands :D
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This is such an awesome video! I will be showing it in class on Monday, as we are currently learning about the History of Iceland! I am taking my students there in two weeks!
Its amazing how the vikings could travel across oceans without any form of cartography. In some cases they literally observed the colour of the water to determine their location.
This video was recommended on my youtube feed. I think because my cookies must have shown an interest in Iceland hahahah. I went to Iceland in 2013 but knew next to nothing about the history. Thank you for this video!! I will check out the test of your channel~
History With Hilbert Very enjoyable Hilbert, perhaps you could do one on the much disputed and less well known Irish Island of Rockall 😜, I don't think you'll get thirteen minutes out of it though.
I can't get enough hilbert. your passion for history with yourself is magical. i feel like a child again. except i hated history in school. i wish I'd taken notice, or had teachers that didn't fill us with propaganda lol.
I found this channel without Shad, though I am subscribed to Shad, but I just wanted to say: Shad, seems like a really nice guy. Well, as far as I can tell without knowing him, just being a subscriber of his.
If you could talk about the settlement of Iceland (Around 874 - 930). There were also quite influential people up after the age of settlement in Iceland, you could also talk about them and Alþingi (Goðinn and Alþingi.)
omg am crying right now. sooo floki settled in ICELAND . the vikings serie just englightened me , i am 25 years old and i had no idea about how European countries were formed n, or in other meaning the history of Scandinavia wowwwwwwwwwww am so thrilled right now
Very good presentation! Nice to hear the correct pronunciation of the names, by a non-Scandinavian aswell. Always funny when people in other Viking videos pronounce the name Leif Eriksson, like ''Leaf'', when it's actually ''Layf''. If you do ''modern'' history aswell, it would be interesting if you could make a video about the only Swedish colony in America, called ''Nya Sverige'', in 1638. A piece of history that isn't that well known.
Love the channel dude, I enjoy your bit of slyly added humour here and there. The Pog mo thoin(kiss me arse) note left by the Irish slaves gave me a chuckle. Yeh nice one ✌
History With Hilbert Hope you make it, would be interesting. May I ask why you differentiate between Norsemen and Swedes ? Norsemen generally refers to all Nordic people; Swedes, Danes and Norwegians. Could also mention that there are equal amounts of Runestones in Sweden that tell of Western and Eastern journeys, so it's kind of a myth that Swedes only went East. Maybe you can mention that if/when you make the video about the Swedes in the East :)
Agree, Norsemen means Norwegians, Danes and Swedes (and later Faroese and Icelandic people as well), and in Scandinavia we use this term. And none of these 'groups' went only one way, there were certainly Swedes who went west and Danes and Norwegians who went east - are so tired of these divisions. There are also some who think 'Danes' only mean people from Denmark when we talk about those who settled in the Danelaw. 'Danes' was the Anglo-Saxon term for all Norsemen. Historians agree that the Danelaw consisted of a good number of Norwegians and certainly Swedes as well, although the Danes were in the majority. We can put it this way: - Most Norsemen who went east were Swedes, but there was obviously some Norwegians and Danes with them (perhaps more Danes than Norwegians?) - Most Norsemen who settled in England were Danes, but there was a fair amount of Norwegians and certainly many Swedes too. - Most Norsemen who settled in Scotland and Ireland were Norwegians, but quite a few were Danish and certainly some were Swedes too.
One falacy in the video is that a lot of Swedes went west to plunder, not any famous Swedes but a lot of rune stones mentions sons and fathers who died on travels to the west
Vikings technically landed on America when they set up their first city on the Island. The western part of the Island is in the North American plate. While the Eastern part of the Island is on the European plate. But I do have a question. How was it that the Norwegians were able to settle Iceland that had minimal resources but fail on the North American main land (modern Canada)?
Hilbert... did you put this together in a day? I should note that I don't mean this as an insult, it's just you said you did this video because of Shad's video yesterday
And btw, the word "Vikingur" can be easily understood if you know norwegian or any language using the word VIK, and spend half a minute studying the usage of words. Vik = Inlet/cove ingur = someone who is a practitioner of said thing Vikingur = someone who is commonly found in the coves/inlets. If you study the geography of scandinavia - and certainly NORWAY you understand why the term became used. Or more widely accepted Vikings = Seafarers.
The way you speak of Norsemen is quite confusing. "Iceland's connections to Scandinavia are thanks to its settlement by Norsemen, mostly from Norway" & "I will explore the first Norsemen (and one Swede)". Both of these quotes come from your description. The first quote sounds like you're saying that it was Norsemen, and most of them were from Norway. The second quote makes it sound like Swedes weren't Norsemen. I don't know what you mean, but from what I've learned through the years, Norsemen were all the people who spoke the North Germanic language of old Norse, which also include Swedes. I'm just saying that if you're on the same page as me with that fact, then you should know that it really sounds like the Norsemen were strictly old Norwegians in this video.
My two fairly worthless cents, "vik" and "viking" are most likely connected. Quite unlikely not to be connected, actually. In modern Norwegian, a lot of coastal places has the postfix -vik (Larvik, Husvik, Svelvik, could go on for hours), which means, as you say, "bay". To "go viking" would be to "go bay'ing", which makes perfect sense with their hit-n-run attacks on bay areas. Also, "viking" was never Scandinavian-specific. In many sagas, it's used both pejoratively and on non-Scandinavian pirates at times. The only requirement seems to be that the subject is a seaborne raider.
In Ireland east we have towns Wicklow (Vik lae) Vikings meadow. Wexford (Vaskfjord) washed fjord . Waterford (Vadrefjord) rams fjord . Heldvik half bay
I am just thoroughly fascinated by the Norseman/Scandinavian and their complex and rich history. I have Danish blood ...born Canadian...I would do anything to move there ! 🤣🤗 Ps I love your voice.
For this one I mostly used Jesse Byock's "Viking Age Iceland." I'd highly recommend it if you're interested. I hardly put sources because, without wanting to sound big-headed, this is the stuff I'm interested in so a lot of it I know without remembering particularly where I read it or who told me about it.
LjFJDhs History of Bulgaria goes back as far as 681 A.D. and of the Bulgar peoples even beyond that... Bulgaria becomes an empire for the first time in 811 during the reign of Simeon the Great who subjugated vast Greek, serb, Albanian and pecheneg or whomever was in Romania back then, and accepted the title of Tsar, which is equal to emperor... After a byzantine subjugation, a rebellion gave way to the Second Bulgarian Empire which lasted until 1336(not sure) when Bulgaria was conquered by the ottomans...
I went whale-watching in Húsavík, and our guide pointed out the spot where the escaped slaves went ashore! It was near the mountains and rivermouth at the southwest corner of the bay. That area is just outside the Arctic Circle. I also stayed at a hotel near Vatnsfjörður, and drove up over the mountain pass where the big glacier probably was which Floki saw. On that same trip, I also visited Hrafnseyri, northwest of Dynjandi, where Jón Sigurðsson was born and raised. He got a lot of the credit for Icelandic independence from Denmark. Rounding it all out with visits to the Althing and old Reykjavik, Thingvellir, the National Museum and other spots, I've had a chance to visit many of the key sites of historical importance to Iceland. :)
The first viking to reach Iceland was Gardar Svavarson from Sweden. He just passed the information to orthers. In Norway there was a lot of internal conflicts so many of those who where in bad standing with the ruling king emigrated to Iceland with became a "democratic" republic.
Firstly I looooove your videos and enjoy them (regardless of format tbh, everything you make is great). Secondly are you going to collaborate with Leornende Eald Englisc again maybe in another livestream like you did months ago? I watched the 2 hour stream you guys had together after it was posted and I enjoyed it sooo much. All the things you two talked about together excited me and I was hoping there'd be another livestream like this in the future so I could participate and ask questions live in the way a livestream format allows (as you two discovered with awe hahaha). Anyways thank you so much for making all this content and reading this if you did. 💛It brightens my life💛
I can't remember where I learnt this exactly but if you're interested in Old Norse then you can learn the basics (and more) on Jackson Crawford's channel if you're not already a fan of his: th-cam.com/channels/XCxNFxw6iq-Mh4uIjYvufg.html
The Sagas mention people called "papar" living there, "papar" sounding suspiciously like the "papa" used for monks at the time. Also there was a cabin dated to before the majority of Norse settlement etc. Would you like me to make a video exploring this?
I reckon that would be good .If there's not enough material in just that story you could talk about the influence of the early Irish monks on Europe but I'm an easy viewer ,I mean I wouldn't have asked for any Frisian videos but they were great .I'm away to get rained on ,have a good day Hilbert.
In Ireland it is generally accepted as likely that Irish monks were there. From the old Irish legend of Saint Brendan it seems clear that he reached the Faroes, and possibly even Iceland. Here's a link to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan
Thanks mate! Now that my time machine is working (mostly working... a few power relay problems left to work out) I can check your work and verify the names and places. If you don't hear back it means that I dunna whoopsie...
@@historywithhilbert You don't pronounce the 'f' as you would in English or like the 'f' in 'Floki'. The 'fn' combination becomes like a very abrupt 'b or p' sound, it's pretty unique, haven't come across it in any other Germanic languages. Also noticable in the modern Icelandic words 'nafn' - name and 'safn' - museum. But good effort! *Qualification language interested Brit engaged to an Icelander and has lived in Iceland*
Norsemen: Vikings were the seafaring Norse people. The identity of Norsemen derived into their modern descendants, the Danes, Icelanders, Faroe Islanders, Norwegians, and Swedes, who are now generally referred to as 'Scandinavians' rather than Norsemen.
I enjoy watching videos of Viking history, I want to learn as much as I can about it. I did a DNA test a few years ago and I found that my Y chromosome is traced back to the I1 haplogroup which is from Scandinavia. My Viking ancestors settled in northern England in Durham county. Matter of fact they were Lords of Durham county until the Norman invasion in 1066 AD. If there is anyone who has information on the Ledbetter family I would love to hear it. I've often wondered if Ledbetters have any relationship to Ragnar Lothbrook or Ivar the Boneless. They had to have had some importance to be Lords over a county of occupied territories. Sorry it's so long winded, but any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Clyde.
1000 years ago there were about 10000 icelandic people. Today there are 332000. I saw a video which considered what is the proper colony size in Mars to avoid inbreeding. Iceland has been kind of a test tube for that. No offence to Icelandic people. I'm from Finland and my parents were first cousins i turned out to be fine :)
By the end of the settling period there were around 74000-76000 Icelanders By the time that the industrial era arrived there only about 46000 Icelanders left I read this in a book that was written in the 60’s so this might be outdated though I highly doubt it.
Awesome video mate, and thanks for the mention, you're more than welcome ^_^
After a trip to Ireland, I learned that not just Dublin, but many of Ireland’s biggest cities started as Viking trading posts.
This is so: Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Wexford.
Ford is Fjord, is fjörður... so yeah... you're welcome :)
@@steveanderson8727 Ford is just river crossing in English, not related to fjord.
Love the format! Very interesting as always!
Thanks so much!
haha, the Irish monks not getting on too well with the Norse settlers is a bit of an understatement :D
I mean the Sagas say "they voluntarily left" - but the Norse had an interesting definition of "voluntary" hahaha xD
hehe yeah, it's like HIGHLY understated humour :D
maybe it was noth maybe they left in pease fore the first settler in faroe islands was half norse half celtic named grímur norse kamban celtic and the women in faroe islands have 84 % celtic dna
way are ther menny place names in iceland and faroe island with celtic names ???
We "got rid" of the Vikings in 1014 only to have the place infested by priests, maybe if we kept the Vikings it would have been a better place earlier. 😉
Always a good idea with a video on Vikings!
I thought it's something nice and uncontroversial given my recent detours into the realms of Sinterklaas and Zwarte PIet ;)
This is very up your street though!
Absolutely! As it so happens, I will also briefly mention the Varangian Rus, like you do here, in an upcoming video.
I am so grateful you made a video about Iceland. It so often forgotten or glossed over, even though it might be one of the more important aspects of viking history and culture. I would love if you would make a video about the Icelanders’ Sagas. They are not the best historical source, due to people exaggerating events and characters, but they give such a detailed insight into Norse culture, values, laws and traditions.
Your Norse accent is great, much better than how many others do it. You have clearly done your research on the language and included bits like what the name Hrafna-Floki means and origin of Vikingr from Vik, which is something most wouldn’t bother with going into.
One slight error, it’s Reykjavik, not Rekjavik. The spelling has changed somewhat between Norse and Icelandic but I am pretty sure it is Reykjavík in both.
Keep doing this good work. I’m sure you’ll be one of the biggest educational channels on TH-cam!
I can agree that parts of Icelandic history may or may not be true. But one reason for that is because Icelanders did not begin to write the history of Iceland until much later with Snorri Sturluson one of the first.
Wow as far as I can tell your Icelandic/Norse pronounciation is really good! I'm Norwegian though but I have heard quite a bit Icelandic, and your pronounciation is definately better than most attempts I've heard.
Thank you very much, I do try!
TheInfidel666i But he pronounced v as an f while it should be pronounced as just a v
Dear Hilbert. This is well done and historically correct. I am an old Icelander and have studied our history. Keep on my friend.
Worth also discussing the climate at the time being more benign than nowadays. That would be no small factor in the ultimate settlement. Thanks for making!
Floki found it.
+ Shaden0040,That is sooo fuckin cool!.Just shows how well Michael Hirst had the show Vikings so well researched!!! Love it man! Great video.I learned quite a bit from it.
Ehm no Leikur Eirikson found it...would be cool though.
Not according to Vikings.
Shaden0040 vikings is also not historically accurate ;)
Wow could have fooled me. ;P
Brilliant
Thought I would point out that today, Reykjavík's coat of arms depicts Ingólfr's two pillars floating in the sea.
Thanks - that's a really interesting fact actually! Doesn't it have a an ox on there as well?
No, Reykjavík's coat of arms only has the floating pillars. Iceland's main coat of arms however has a bull which is one of Iceland's four land wights.
Good video as always Hilbert. Now thanks to shad more people shall know of your greatness!
I've been fascinated by the vikings for years, so I'm glad that someone who has a good understanding of them is making videos to help people learn about and understand the vikings and who they really were and what they were really like
That shad shoutout will help a lot I imagine, i remember I subscribed after that Lindy video so shoutout/acknowledgment from bigger history TH-camrs helps a lot. Keep up the good work Hilbert
Yes it was very kind of him! Really, my first video responding to Lindybeige's critique of the Last Kingdom?
mathias neergaard Me too!!
Remember he loves his FIRE ARROW's YA YA!
Yea, i remember in the beginning you got some hate from Lindy fans but when Metatron and others started giving positive comments it turned around. Loving these kinds of odd videos, reminds me of Jabzy. Also i am Norwegian and we were thought that we explored a uninhabitat land so i would love to learn more about those Monks
Regarding the poll: I love your videos and would love to see you do videos on all of those topics whenever you can. You make informative quality content!
Thank you so much! I think I will to be honest - such an interesting topic!
Listening to people try to pronounce icelandic / norse words is always a wild ride of enjoyment. Looks like an interesting channel with good content so I might stick around
I'm new to viking history, and these videos are super helpful!
Nice video. I really appreciate you actually trying to pronounce the old norse/Icelandic, it sounds really good
I'm glad Shad brought me to your channel, you make amazing videos
Thank you so much - and welcome to the community!
I watched shad's video just today and subscribed now. Better late than never.
I came from the shout out. Shad's a good bloke
Top notch fella
Whoo! I love Icelandic history
Because it's short
I hope you make a video about the Norsemen who went east. Maybe even one about the Varangian guard?
Amazing video, shad knows who we have to watch
Thank you - I really appreciate your support :)
Here is an update for you. Starting in 2015 archaeologist Bjarni F. Einarsson and team have been working on a dig at Stöð in Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland. What they have uncover so far is that there is a 44m longhouse there from ca. 800 ce. and on top of it is a slightly smaller 36m longhouse, built before 871 ce. In the area around the longhouses are other buildings or houses that wait to be been excavated.
The working thesis is that the older longhouse from ca. 800 ce. was an outpost from Norway, where a chieftain sent a crew to work the resources during the summers to bring back to Norway. What contradicts that is how big the longhouse is.
The younger longhouse, on top, was definitely a permanent dwelling of a wealthy household and in it they have found among other things a lot of glass beads and silver.
I didn't know anything about this before. Thank you very much for this fascinating video! And about the poll: your animation style is one of my favorites on TH-cam!
Saw you on the recommended tab, very glad I clicked.
Greetings from the Faroe Islands :D
This is such an awesome video! I will be showing it in class on Monday, as we are currently learning about the History of Iceland! I am taking my students there in two weeks!
Its amazing how the vikings could travel across oceans without any form of cartography. In some cases they literally observed the colour of the water to determine their location.
Congrats on the shoutout! You totally deserved it! =]
Thank you very much!
This video was recommended on my youtube feed. I think because my cookies must have shown an interest in Iceland hahahah. I went to Iceland in 2013 but knew next to nothing about the history. Thank you for this video!! I will check out the test of your channel~
Thank you very much, hope you like it!
History With Hilbert Very enjoyable Hilbert, perhaps you could do one on the much disputed and less well known Irish Island of Rockall 😜, I don't think you'll get thirteen minutes out of it though.
Dude I’m so glad your channel has come so far! I feel so proud of you dude
please dont hold back.. this was good.. informative.. and for once quite accurate according to the knowledge we have.. thumbs up
You make a video about Iceland (Smowland) it's actually snowing right now in the Netherlands.
That's my weather update
Oh lekker, hier nog niet, het is alleen wal stervens koud :P
+History With Hilbert Stervens? Vreemde verwoording heb je daar.
Judiska Ekonomen yep, it's pretty snow covered for most of the country right now
You can't handle the truth stervenskoud is vrij gebruikelijk in mijn omgeving
+Infected Apple waat woon jij dan. Ik heb er nog nooit van gehoord. Mischien omdat ik een Belg ben. Kweetnie.
I'm Icelandic, thank you for this video
I can't get enough hilbert. your passion for history with yourself is magical. i feel like a child again. except i hated history in school. i wish I'd taken notice, or had teachers that didn't fill us with propaganda lol.
BJORK BJORK BJORK.
She means a lot of things, when she sings.
Her Name is spelld Björk by the way and it rhymes with jerk
its a tree
The birch to be precise
ther was an army in norvay named birkibeinar leade of king sverre king sverre came from faroe island he made norvay to one kingdom
No wonder the Vikings used ravens to symbolize wisdom. They knew the intelligence of that animal.
I just spent 6 hours reading the exact same thing you wrapped up in 13 minutes.... I thank you
That was actually a great video. Please do more about Nordic exploration!
Im new to this channel and im very impressed. Amazing and detailed, enjoyed it very much. Brilliantly done..
Love Floki on the thumbnail. Great video man
I found this channel without Shad, though I am subscribed to Shad, but I just wanted to say: Shad, seems like a really nice guy. Well, as far as I can tell without knowing him, just being a subscriber of his.
Please never stop rumbling! This is the only reason why we watch your video! :)
Very interesting. Really want to know more about the Vikings in America!
Thanks for the video! It was very entertaning and interesting
If you could talk about the settlement of Iceland (Around 874 - 930). There were also quite influential people up after the age of settlement in Iceland, you could also talk about them and Alþingi (Goðinn and Alþingi.)
awesome video man, keep it up!
Thanks!
I remember egils saga it seems like everyone would upset the king have a son and then make a farm on Iceland after they stop raiding
It explains why everyone in the sagas is a massive radgy xD
Great Vid.!!! Sounds like you have the history down firmly. I always wondered exactly where the Faroe Isles were.
As a history lover I find this channel fantastic and the animation is enjoyable 👍
Quite like your videos. So mesmerising to watch.
Thank you!
You sound almost exactly like ZeroEmpires, the Age of Empires personality.
Also, great video!
omg am crying right now. sooo floki settled in ICELAND . the vikings serie just englightened me , i am 25 years old and i had no idea about how European countries were formed n, or in other meaning the history of Scandinavia wowwwwwwwwwww am so thrilled right now
Very good presentation! Nice to hear the correct pronunciation of the names, by a non-Scandinavian aswell. Always funny when people in other Viking videos pronounce the name Leif Eriksson, like ''Leaf'', when it's actually ''Layf''.
If you do ''modern'' history aswell, it would be interesting if you could make a video about the only Swedish colony in America, called ''Nya Sverige'', in 1638. A piece of history that isn't that well known.
Thank you for this very interesting video ~ It makes me want to visit Iceland, too!
really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work :)
Thanks very much, glad you're enjoying them!
Love the channel dude, I enjoy your bit of slyly added humour here and there. The Pog mo thoin(kiss me arse) note left by the Irish slaves gave me a chuckle. Yeh nice one ✌
Nice to see mention of the Hebrides, I lived there for some while.
Ah nice one!
Could you do a video on the Swedish travels of Eastern Europe and Russia
It's on my list :)
History With Hilbert
Hope you make it, would be interesting.
May I ask why you differentiate between Norsemen and Swedes ? Norsemen generally refers to all Nordic people; Swedes, Danes and Norwegians.
Could also mention that there are equal amounts of Runestones in Sweden that tell of Western and Eastern journeys, so it's kind of a myth that Swedes only went East. Maybe you can mention that if/when you make the video about the Swedes in the East :)
Agree, Norsemen means Norwegians, Danes and Swedes (and later Faroese and Icelandic people as well), and in Scandinavia we use this term.
And none of these 'groups' went only one way, there were certainly Swedes who went west and Danes and Norwegians who went east - are so tired of these divisions.
There are also some who think 'Danes' only mean people from Denmark when we talk about those who settled in the Danelaw. 'Danes' was the Anglo-Saxon term for all Norsemen. Historians agree that the Danelaw consisted of a good number of Norwegians and certainly Swedes as well, although the Danes were in the majority.
We can put it this way:
- Most Norsemen who went east were Swedes, but there was obviously some Norwegians and Danes with them (perhaps more Danes than Norwegians?)
- Most Norsemen who settled in England were Danes, but there was a fair amount of Norwegians and certainly many Swedes too.
- Most Norsemen who settled in Scotland and Ireland were Norwegians, but quite a few were Danish and certainly some were Swedes too.
One falacy in the video is that a lot of Swedes went west to plunder, not any famous Swedes but a lot of rune stones mentions sons and fathers who died on travels to the west
As compensation for sounding negative i give you Vigmunds runestone (a humble man) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland_Runic_Inscription_1011
This was really fascinating
Icelandic History sure is epic!
Cudos to your pronunciations. Very well done.
Vikings technically landed on America when they set up their first city on the Island. The western part of the Island is in the North American plate. While the Eastern part of the Island is on the European plate.
But I do have a question. How was it that the Norwegians were able to settle Iceland that had minimal resources but fail on the North American main land (modern Canada)?
Hilbert... did you put this together in a day?
I should note that I don't mean this as an insult, it's just you said you did this video because of Shad's video yesterday
I did actually - I felt I had to live up to the shoutout ;)
History With Hilbert I'm quite impressed! Visuals especially
And btw, the word "Vikingur" can be easily understood if you know norwegian or any language using the word VIK, and spend half a minute studying the usage of words.
Vik = Inlet/cove
ingur = someone who is a practitioner of said thing
Vikingur = someone who is commonly found in the coves/inlets.
If you study the geography of scandinavia - and certainly NORWAY you understand why the term became used.
Or more widely accepted Vikings = Seafarers.
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
The way you speak of Norsemen is quite confusing. "Iceland's connections to Scandinavia are thanks to its settlement by Norsemen, mostly from Norway" & "I will explore the first Norsemen (and one Swede)". Both of these quotes come from your description. The first quote sounds like you're saying that it was Norsemen, and most of them were from Norway. The second quote makes it sound like Swedes weren't Norsemen. I don't know what you mean, but from what I've learned through the years, Norsemen were all the people who spoke the North Germanic language of old Norse, which also include Swedes. I'm just saying that if you're on the same page as me with that fact, then you should know that it really sounds like the Norsemen were strictly old Norwegians in this video.
great video! very interesting as always
Thank you!
Very good video so I SUBSCRIBEd
My two fairly worthless cents, "vik" and "viking" are most likely connected. Quite unlikely not to be connected, actually. In modern Norwegian, a lot of coastal places has the postfix -vik (Larvik, Husvik, Svelvik, could go on for hours), which means, as you say, "bay". To "go viking" would be to "go bay'ing", which makes perfect sense with their hit-n-run attacks on bay areas.
Also, "viking" was never Scandinavian-specific. In many sagas, it's used both pejoratively and on non-Scandinavian pirates at times. The only requirement seems to be that the subject is a seaborne raider.
In Ireland east we have towns Wicklow (Vik lae) Vikings meadow. Wexford (Vaskfjord) washed fjord . Waterford (Vadrefjord) rams fjord . Heldvik half bay
I liked the music you put on at 5:00.
Same here, I thought it fit well with what I was talking about :)
and i like the weed you put on at 4:20
I am just thoroughly fascinated by the Norseman/Scandinavian and their complex and rich history. I have Danish blood ...born Canadian...I would do anything to move there ! 🤣🤗
Ps I love your voice.
Loving the videos Huw. Any chances of some references to go with them? Books and stuff rather than just youtube vids?
For this one I mostly used Jesse Byock's "Viking Age Iceland."
I'd highly recommend it if you're interested.
I hardly put sources because, without wanting to sound big-headed, this is the stuff I'm interested in so a lot of it I know without remembering particularly where I read it or who told me about it.
"Shaddai-versity". That would be an interesting channel.
I'm not complaining. Just thought it would be cool. 😂
Nice North Shields to Ijmuiden reference
Would you do an episode on the First and Second Bulgarian Empire?
LjFJDhs Frankly dear, I don't give a damn about your biased opinion... I just want people to know more and be well educated...
LjFJDhs History of Bulgaria goes back as far as 681 A.D. and of the Bulgar peoples even beyond that... Bulgaria becomes an empire for the first time in 811 during the reign of Simeon the Great who subjugated vast Greek, serb, Albanian and pecheneg or whomever was in Romania back then, and accepted the title of Tsar, which is equal to emperor... After a byzantine subjugation, a rebellion gave way to the Second Bulgarian Empire which lasted until 1336(not sure) when Bulgaria was conquered by the ottomans...
I went whale-watching in Húsavík, and our guide pointed out the spot where the escaped slaves went ashore! It was near the mountains and rivermouth at the southwest corner of the bay. That area is just outside the Arctic Circle. I also stayed at a hotel near Vatnsfjörður, and drove up over the mountain pass where the big glacier probably was which Floki saw. On that same trip, I also visited Hrafnseyri, northwest of Dynjandi, where Jón Sigurðsson was born and raised. He got a lot of the credit for Icelandic independence from Denmark. Rounding it all out with visits to the Althing and old Reykjavik, Thingvellir, the National Museum and other spots, I've had a chance to visit many of the key sites of historical importance to Iceland. :)
interesting and informative. great video well presented .
Interesting content. Wondering where you got your information. Thanks !
The first viking to reach Iceland was Gardar Svavarson from Sweden. He just passed the information to orthers. In Norway there was a lot of internal conflicts so many of those who where in bad standing with the ruling king emigrated to Iceland with became a "democratic" republic.
Firstly I looooove your videos and enjoy them (regardless of format tbh, everything you make is great).
Secondly are you going to collaborate with Leornende Eald Englisc again maybe in another livestream like you did months ago? I watched the 2 hour stream you guys had together after it was posted and I enjoyed it sooo much. All the things you two talked about together excited me and I was hoping there'd be another livestream like this in the future so I could participate and ask questions live in the way a livestream format allows (as you two discovered with awe hahaha).
Anyways thank you so much for making all this content and reading this if you did. 💛It brightens my life💛
7:30 Where did you learn this?
I can't remember where I learnt this exactly but if you're interested in Old Norse then you can learn the basics (and more) on Jackson Crawford's channel if you're not already a fan of his:
th-cam.com/channels/XCxNFxw6iq-Mh4uIjYvufg.html
Thanks!
Where did you get the story of Irish monks finding Iceland ? I wouldn't put it past them but I've never heard that before .
The Sagas mention people called "papar" living there, "papar" sounding suspiciously like the "papa" used for monks at the time. Also there was a cabin dated to before the majority of Norse settlement etc. Would you like me to make a video exploring this?
ı would love to see a video about that :)
I reckon that would be good .If there's not enough material in just that story you could talk about the influence of the early Irish monks on Europe but I'm an easy viewer ,I mean I wouldn't have asked for any Frisian videos but they were great .I'm away to get rained on ,have a good day Hilbert.
In Ireland it is generally accepted as likely that Irish monks were there. From the old Irish legend of Saint Brendan it seems clear that he reached the Faroes, and possibly even Iceland. Here's a link to Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan
papar = pope mens the gay in the vatican rome
Very interesting .. would love to visit but I am right at the other end of the globe. Thank you.
Nice sneaky Dizee Rascal reference, mate
Your pronunciation is brilliant!
Thanks mate! Now that my time machine is working (mostly working... a few power relay problems left to work out) I can check your work and verify the names and places. If you don't hear back it means that I dunna whoopsie...
Haven't watched it yet, but I hope you're gonna try to pronounce Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson in this video. I tried and well... yea.
Hope you're not disappointed ;)
I have no idea how it should be pronounced, but at least it sounded much much better than the sound that came out of my throat trying to speak bjork.
@@historywithhilbert You don't pronounce the 'f' as you would in English or like the 'f' in 'Floki'. The 'fn' combination becomes like a very abrupt 'b or p' sound, it's pretty unique, haven't come across it in any other Germanic languages. Also noticable in the modern Icelandic words 'nafn' - name and 'safn' - museum.
But good effort!
*Qualification language interested Brit engaged to an Icelander and has lived in Iceland*
I love these videos
Will you ever do a video on the age of Sturlungs
Great video from a dane who has also family in iceland
Norsemen:
Vikings were the seafaring Norse people.
The identity of Norsemen derived into their modern descendants, the Danes, Icelanders, Faroe Islanders, Norwegians, and Swedes, who are now generally referred to as 'Scandinavians' rather than Norsemen.
You should do about the Icelandic civil war
I enjoy watching videos of Viking history, I want to learn as much as I can about it. I did a DNA test a few years ago and I found that my Y chromosome is traced back to the I1 haplogroup which is from Scandinavia. My Viking ancestors settled in northern England in Durham county. Matter of fact they were Lords of Durham county until the Norman invasion in 1066 AD. If there is anyone who has information on the Ledbetter family I would love to hear it. I've often wondered if Ledbetters have any relationship to Ragnar Lothbrook or Ivar the Boneless. They had to have had some importance to be Lords over a county of occupied territories. Sorry it's so long winded, but any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Clyde.
You have Scandinavian ancestors from about a thousand years ago?
Practically all Germanic people have Scandinavian dna since Germanic tribes come from Scandinavia including northern Germany
Saint Brendan was there first but there is little record, just a few times mentioned in a few monks chronicles.
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Can you please make a video about the Balts or Kurshi Vikings?
Yes, it's on my list ;)
Thank you Hilbert!And Su Kaledom!
1000 years ago there were about 10000 icelandic people. Today there are 332000. I saw a video which considered what is the proper colony size in Mars to avoid inbreeding. Iceland has been kind of a test tube for that. No offence to Icelandic people. I'm from Finland and my parents were first cousins i turned out to be fine :)
there were 50000 people 1000 years ago.
By the end of the settling period there were around 74000-76000 Icelanders
By the time that the industrial era arrived there only about 46000 Icelanders left
I read this in a book that was written in the 60’s so this might be outdated though I highly doubt it.