What's the Most Viking-y Place in Scotland?
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- Vikings in Scotland settled in various places, but which is the MOST Viking place in Scotland? Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey meets archaeologist Chris Dyer to find out about Scottish Vikings
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
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Bruce, have you had a chance to read a book called "The Farfarers" by Farley Mowat? Gives a really good look into the Native Europeans(yeah, they are a thing) who were chased across from what we now call Scotland all the way to Newfoundland by the Vikings. Mowat actually kicked off the Viking research craze with his first book on them "WestViking" he challenges a lot of "Viking knowledge" that's still used today. Good read and can be found for like 6 bucks American on bargain book sites.
Top-notch video. Would be interesting to know how the Isle of Man and northern Wirral compare in Norse place-name density, and whether the climate back then was more benign. On Man too, 'wick' is used to denote bays, such as Perwick and Fleshwick; 'wick' as port - such as Lundenwic which became the London street Aldwych - would seem a natural association.
And isn't 'Viking' more something people did occasionally than a type of people - like raiding neighbours' cattle, but at sea? Hence the islanders turning the usual assumption on its head by 'viking' to Norway.
Black balls, you are
A Norwegian friend said to me "Ever wonder why those high keeps are there?"
"No", said I.
"That's so you girls had time to put on your makeup and get down to the strand"
"Really! What makes you fellers so hot?"
"Well we were the only men in Europe who Bathed!"
He had me there.
Once a week. Saturday is called lørdag in norwegian, comes from the older "laugardag" which means bathing day
Wednesday=Onsdag=Odins day
Thursday=Torsdag=Thors day
Friday=Fredag=Frey(Frøya)s day
Oh seriously bloke? What difference does it make to have a bath but not wash your clothes?
I lived in Shetland for 18 months, before moving i was told not to being English blah blah blah. I'm glad I never listened. Shetland kept a piece of me behind with it, I instantly fit in and was welcomed with open arms and locals could not be prouder of this gorgeous place and always wanted to show me around. I am thinking to buy a home here in a couple of years and live here indefinitely. It's no easy life with the weather but the warmth of local Shetlanders can warm those stormy winter nights. You've made me feel homesick and i understand why i felt at home, my DNA is 40% scandinavian and only 9% English, I'll just be a viking going home.
I'm glad you never listened as well!! How interesting with your genetics as well you've felt such a pull towards where our Norse settler's eventually called home.
@@magnushutchison4920Norwegian? My name is Magnus Viking Olberg, there isnt to many Magnus around
Harald halvdansson is my ancient ancestor..🛡⚔️🪓
Well your more celt than English so your from here. More than England..
@@walkaboutgla I wouldn't go that far as I was born and raised in England, so I only say I'm English but my ancestry is of Celtic and viking Britain and Ireland ❤️
My Mother’s Grandmother came from Sanday, Orkney. Her Grandfather was from Edinburgh. They immigrated to the US in 1889. Some day I’d like to see the Orkney’s. My daughter took me to Scotland in 2016. It was fabulous!
Hi my ancestors are from the Orkney Islands. My great grandfather immigrated from Ramsay to Kirkwall, then as a master stone Mason to Canada post WW1. Ancestors testing shows the Norweigian genes in those of us with the red hair or blonde hair. This confused some till I helped them understand that the Norwegian vikings wintered in the Orkney Islands both on trips to Canada, and when coming to raid the UK. So they mated with the Orkney women.
Where do you live now?
🙂
This one was very interesting for me. My Dad's side of the family is from Scotland (Name is McAllister, maybe some day we'll all agree on how to spell it). My Mom's side is Swedish. It would be great to be able to go the Shetland Islands and see them. Hopefully the native Norwegian Scots won't mind to much if an American Swedish Scot Tourist shows up.
They’ll be delighted to help you spend your money🤣🤣🤣
And up on the hill above the ‘beach house’ were abandoned crofts. Over 1200 years between them, but very little to separate them. The Vikings knew a thing or two.
I’m a Texan. My grandad was a Buchanan. My DNA says UK 60% and 20% Scandinavian. I have red hair, blue eyes and an angular face. What grandad use to call a Viking face lol.
having a shared heritage for a lot of cultures of the North Sea i'm surprised the Shetlands aren't more of a tourist hotspot? I mean i know the weather isn't perfect but damn it looks beautiful!
Our transportation to shetland isn't the best, this might have something to do with it, but I agree the weather isn't the most inviting, but okay if you're tough;)
@@magnushutchison4920 tourism has boomed, all the hotels are full in the summer and tour buses are in big demand. Since covid Shetland has become the place to visit, and tons of wildlife and birdwatchers are drawn here too. Up helly aa in Lerwick is also booming with tourists and some of the jarl squad even goes to the USA for a festival. But I also don't think shetland deserves to be ruined by high tourism too, look at how the isle of Skye struggles each summer (I lived there for two summers and it's insane)
Incredible! I really enjoyed this lesson, what a wonderful choice for this fine Saturday morn. I've always been fascinated by the Viking era. Thanks again Bruce my friend and good morning from America.
You're very welcome!
Really starting to love this channel. I'm born in Ayrshire, both parents are Scottish. As a Scot, I had more pride in what Scotland had contributed to society: Great engineers, modernity philosophy, medicine etc
Then lived in US. They're obsessed with where they came from. Never had that in Scotland. If you're poor (most were) Nobody travelled. You know where you came from! But as I've gotten more interested, you see the family names in the area. My father is from Dundonald, many Frasers, Kilmarnock has Boyd. Loads. Enjoying seeing you put everything together.
My mum used to go to Ayrshire for holidays. You ever pass through Greenock?
We're cuzins from lock Glenn Garry
My parents migrated to Australia when I was 2 years old, I now live in lovely New Zealand. My parents made certain I knew where I came from. My gf ather and his father were from Greenock. My mother's people were from Port Glasgow My great Grandad Robert Boyd came to Greenock from Killyman, Tyrone, Northern Ireland as did his wife Margaret Hill. The Boyds went to Northern Ireland in the plantation of protestant people into Ireland. I believe they originated in Ayrshire. My mother's people of the Doak clan also were in Northern Ireland (Roscommon). This is all oral tradition that has been handed down by my family. My paternal granny was a Campbell and it may have been that other than her brother they stayed in Scotland. Those appear to have been difficult times in Northern Ireland that's why the Boyds returned to the Clydebank looking for work in the then flourishing shipyards. My father could see that coming to an end so left to find work in Australia. The family has flourished there & in New Zealand.
I don't know if I have commented on this video in the past, I know I have watched it before. My father's Scottish ancestry as far back as I can trace it begins in Shetland. He did a DNA ancestry test that surprised us with an overwhelming Norwegian percentage. Fascinated to learn more.
Loving these shows, very professionally presented. They could easily be on TV. The presenter's enthusiasm is infectious!
Born in shetland and moved to glasgow as a child but definitely a very proud part of my history and up helly aa is amazing to see
I wondered where that boat went to. Lay ő the pier in lerwick for years. Used to be lots of trees in Shetland. Thus the peats
Fascinating. Many thanks for this, Bruce. I have observed the similarity of the Shetland place names with those in Norway and the Faroes, e.g. Sandvik, Leirvik, våg (the same as Voe) and so on. One can see the continuities between Shetland and the other Norse lands so clearly. I love it!
Your enthusiasm knows no bounds, you were like a wean in a sweetie shop, keep up the great work
I was, wasn't I
@@ScotlandHistoryTours very contagious in a good way....
Ahh, Shetland. How mesmerizing, this video, this ship and this subject. So interesting. Beautiful beach too!
This bloke obviously loves his job. Nice boat. Nice vid.
Thank you for another brilliant, enlightening video from a region worth discovering. But holy cow - a three-camera shoot, multi-channel audio - the production values are off the chart! You three have done a heckuva job.
Big thanks to Matt Ward
Thanks again, Im watching your latest before my first cuppa. The fall season has started at the higher altitudes here in Colorado and the chill is working its way down hill. Your good nature is a welcoming start to the day. Thanks for all your you do.
My flatmate in 2nd year at Edinburgh Uni many years ago was from Orkney and did not identify as Scottish. She had literal white blonde hair that she wore long down to her waist, like something out of a painting, and it did not take a geneticist to know her ancestry (though she'd happily tell you about the Vikings if asked).
In the end it's the language you speak. Those Scots claiming to have more of an affiliation with Scandinavian groups don't speak any of those languages l guess. We can all trace our DNA back to northern Europeans. Angles Saxons Normans were in the end the same Germanic type as Scandinavians.
@@leonardgibney2997 Sorry, but that's not correct. Non of "us vikings" speak the language of our ancestors. The closest one is the Icelandic language but the rest of us nowadays speak languages quite far from the Norse the vikings used. Modern day Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are far removed from the language of our viking ancestor but so much of our culture still survive from back then, more than most of us realize. Even large parts of our "Christianity" comes from the pagan vikings as do many of our children's stories of magical creatures living around us.
The Angles Saxons Normans would be a paper all by it self, when it comes to the viking age and how fast they lost their connection to the viking culture and language.
if she didnt have bright blue eyes then she is not viking
@@andrewccochrane8052 I'm not sure what you're doing showing up at this late date, but, yeah, of course she had blue eyes. Unless you're very hard of reading comprehension she was a textbook stereotypical Scandinavian, except she was from Orkney. Run along now, asshole.
@@andrewccochrane8052 "if she didnt have bright blue eyes then she is not viking" Sorry, but that's not true.
The country with the highest percents of blue-eyed people is Estonia (89%) followed by Finland (89%) and the Sweden (78%), Iceland (75.5%), Netherlands (60.9%).
Not exactly a who's who in the viking world as we know it. Only around 50-80% of vikings would have had blue-eyes depending on the region they came from. High percentages in the east and lower in the west.
In the west it seems like being viking were more a mater of culture than genetics.
Aye Bruce...thank you so much for the wondereful presentation. the rich history of our ancestors is alive in all of us if only we look and reach out to our past! Bravo Mate!
I can’t help but notice the Highlanders rugby jersey at 8:40 - apropos for a Scotsman to wear, bravo! I live in NZ, although my ancestors on my mom’s side all came from the Shetlands. Very cool video, makes me really want to visit sometime.
Bruce, ANOTHER excellent video. You do such a good job bringing history to life!
I am a descendant of Scottish Vikings, myself. Thanks for the great information. Cheers!
Our pleasure!
Knowing one’s history I’s Al walls heefulmmi
Snap. Skol
I met this Scandinavian beauty from the Shetlands. Her Clan went back & forth between Scotland & Denmark over the centuries. And following the 1864 war with Prussia, emigrated en massê to New Zealand's Province of the Wairarapa. There they cleared the 90 mile Bush, just outside of the colonial Capital of Wellington. Further up north their Nordic cousins established the town of Dannevirke!
It is a fantastic site I’ve been there many times my mum is from Shetland my dad from the east coast of Scotland I live in Shetland as a child I was in last in Shetland this may sadly at my uncles funeral in Sandness it is an amazing place to go so much history well done great great video 🏴🏴🏴
Another great video Bruce, went to school in Haraldswick when family lived on Unst,at Burrafirth. could see the building from yr first longhouse site,but now its a community centre.
Haraldswick did hold its own ' up helly aa' back in the day was a massive community knees up.
Keep up the good work.
Norwick Up Helly Aa is still going!
Skol
Many thanks for sharing this with us all...
That's for showing us this. So cool
Enjoying your content, Bruce. Recently discovered your channel.
I'm an Englishman, but had family living in Shetland for the last couple of decades, so visited a few times and took an immediate interest on my first visit in the Shetland Bus, which I know you've covered.
My last visit was very much a flying visit. In 2017, I was the first to ride an electric motorcycle from Land's End to John O'Groats and when I told my Shetland-based brother of my plan, his reply was, "Oh, you're giving up at John O'Groats, are you?" I took the bait, so took the opportunity to visit him and family, ride up to Skaw beach at the top of Unst (to properly get to the true most northerly public road in the UK) and took the opportunity to visit Orkney too.
I repeated the journey back in June this year on a newer electric motorbike (video on my channel), with rapid charging capability, and a fellow EV advocate and biker, but we didn't get chance to spend longer than the day there, before getting the Northlink back to Aberdeen. We certainly passed the boat and long house you visited here on our way up to Skaw beach though.
Sadly, my brother and his wife have relocated to Italy, and their daughters work in mainland Scotland, so I don't have as strong a reason to make the journey quite that far north now, but I still have a nephew in Shetland at least, so look forward to heading back again some time for another longer visit.
Lovely place. We nearly moved there ourselves back in the late 2000s, but then 2008 happened, so we stayed where we are.
Keep up the great work! I can live with the English digs, because, you know, that's all part of our confused islands' rich tapestry, and you are, after all, 44% English too. 😉😀
...but you do have to go to Italy
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Ahh, shucks! Them's the breaks! I'll try to be brave. 👍😁
Awesome video. Wonderful filming and editing. The quality of the presentation was top notch. Makes Bruce’s presentation even more engaging.
It's nice to see you having fun.
Very good. Thanks, your videos are always informative.
For me the most interesting video to date!! thanks as usual
Love this channel. So educational.
Stunning video! Can't wait to visit Shetland. 💙 Thank you, Bruce!
Another AWESOME, INFORMATIVE, AND INTERESTING VIDEO!👍
Another truly amazing vlog, thanks Bruce.
Good Saturday morning, Bruce. Thanks for another interesting tutorial,these are quite interesting.
Great episode. It is very informative, I would love to see it
Another very interesting video!
Loved Chris' jumpers.
A video on Shetland and Fair Isle knitting perhaps?
Cheers Brucie! 🍻 From an Icelandic MacKenzie!! 😃 Fascinating!!!!
Just saw your cameo in the trailer for The Lost King. Congratulations Mr Fummey! 👏🎉
Good video and great place to visit having been
Loved this🙋🏴👍
Superb channel, originally from the north myself with Viking heritage, glad to have found you :)
Love this vlog. It’s so interesting and new knowledge for me and so neat to learn. Thank you, Bruce👍
My pleasure!
Surely Orkney Bruce?
Thats where the Norse made their base in Northern Scotland.
The Orkneyinga saga is a challenging, but informative read.
Really interesting! Thanks Bruce 🏴💜
These videos are so well done! Keep it
Glad you like them!
Very interesting, a lot of info in less than 17 minutes.. Good video.
I thoroughly enjoyed this great video. Thank you.
So glad!
The Viking settlements and wars are fascinating love your videos mate
Another great video planning my next trip definitely will get up there
Please do!
Love all your videos Bruce! Reading a lot of Arthur history recently. Heard you say you might do a video about the prince one day?
I need to get round to it
FACINNATING. My DNA tests show Norwegian from my Scottish/Irish paternal side. My Scottish line comes from the Western Isles and Shetland. My paternal Irish line comes from Dublin. My guess is that the 6% Norwegian is from Viking ancestry - both in Scotland and Ireland.
Love the videos,just got it in Australia look forward to your brilliant info on our great land
Please keep it up
More to come!
I feel the norse vibe everyday as a pure Scottish lassie with the name Johan. The name has been handed down through generations in my family
Fantastic place . I was stationed at Saxa in the 90's , just up the road from Haroldswick. Had a work colleague that stayed in one of the cottages at this bay. Walked the beachroad a few times too
Another great video Bruce! 👍😊
Thanks again!
A great video, excellent! Cheers
Many thanks!
Chris called the Viking house a "longhouse" and I had seen similar structures during my trip to Dublin, another Viking settlement.
I grew up in Huronia, a part of southern Ontario Canada, and I remember being in a "longhouse" as it is a structure used by the local Hurons and other Iroquois First Nations. However, it was built entirely of timbers, as they would have been "up to their arm pits" in trees.
Viking age scandinavian long-houses and halls were all timber structures... the type of long-houses as the one in this video, pops up when wood is scarse
The Iroquois longhouses were my only understanding of the term for many years, too, and it's always so weird to see it applied to Viking stuff now that I do! I'm actually Czech so I have no first hand experience with either version. :-)
Sorry, but Hurons were NOT Iroquois. They were our sworn enemies. I am Seneca.
@@wiseguysoutdoors2954 Thanks for the clarification, it did kind of itch me but I could not lay my finger on why (it's been years upon years since I studied that particular history). Now I know why. :D
@@wiseguysoutdoors2954 Culturally and linguistically the Huron, Erie, Tuscarora and Cherokee are Iroquoian but not members of the Iroquois Confederacy. After the American Revolution, the Tuscarora joined the Iroquois Confederacy on the Grand River Reserve. The Huron and Erie ended up in Oklahoma with the Cherokee.
I’d love to know the pattern for Chris’ sweater/jumper! Of course it was very interesting to hear his report, but as a knitter, that was what caught my eye! Well, truth be told it was the second thing that I noticed about him, but I’d love to know about the pattern 😉
Love your passion for the history you give us. The man and his boat love his excitement and knowledge brilliant.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@ScotlandHistoryTours your a legend.
Boost!
Nice one big man
You rock the brave heart look👍🏴
Watt
Recently discovered your channel and loving it!
Cheers from Antwerp, Belgium
13:03 What an amazing shot this is; real art.
Matt will be pleased to hear that
I was in Orkney in August '22 and it was very hot. ORKNEY??!! I loved this video. THANK YOU. My motorbike rally was in Sandwick in Orkney......though I took ages to find it as it was a parish/area rather than a specific place! These Three Words wusnae invented for the norse folk!
I found you through your collaboration with Max Miller and I gotta say I'm loving the content. Your delivery is on point and you make a very likeable and interesting host
Ah thanks Finn
Awesome guy's cheers 👍🏻
Thanks 👍
just saw the trailer for The Lost King. Congrats on being involved with the film!
Thanks
On my bucket list is to attend Hellya! Great video lesson Bruce.
Very interesting, again.
Have you done anything on Aberdeen, Scotland and surrounding castles?
Keep up the awesome work! Much love from the United States
Great video mate. I do love how you had to ask 3 times, where did they get the wood?, but you got there eventually :)
😜
Perfect!! Thank you so very much!!👍👍👍👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏❤️
You are so welcome!
Brilliant! What a stunning tribute to a tremendous place. I wish to return before too long.
You and me both!
Better video that’s anything I’ve seen mainstream recently. Awesome Bruce. Very interesting.
Thanks
On my mothers side we have a strong link to Shetland!
It was the promise of work on the Forth Road Bridge that dragged them Leith.
Very good video, love ya work!
Same here, my granny had a Shetland maw and an Orkney faither. Leith start then South Queensferry for the Forth Brig.
Glesga train and we're still here. Sadly nobody has been to Shetland. Wherrs that bucket? ❤
On my dads side - 1/16th Viking...the rest of his half- Scottish. Robert the Bruce is my 35th or 36th Great- grandfather...amazing to me. I'm an American in Michigan...its 1.28.24 now. Thank you for your videos...😊❤
Interesting, great!!!
Fantastic video!!!❤
Thank you!!
A'reyt Bruce. I thought you were coming back to Doncaster. Only joking, but there is much in common with Yorkshire.
I really enjoyed this video, as always. Especially since by coincidence Hilbert, from History with Hilbert channel, did Vikings in Normandy and said he was studying Vikings and the period you called Norse times. His video on York suggested these island dwellers could have been trading in Jorvik. They certainly settled all across the North Atlantic fishing grounds. There are remains like that building in Newfoundland. Yorkshire fishing boats still look a lot like the boat in the video and fish eating flourished in medieval England. I always thought that the knowledge was not lost of where the fish were, but you do not go telling folk where you get your revenue. I wonder if Scotland also had increased fishing and if there is evidence from the bones like you talked about as to where the fish were being caught?
History with Hilbert is a great channel as well n very informative too!
I didn't know Rhod Gilbert was a Viking expert!
Oh thank you so much Sir
Most welcome
💜💙💚 Simply. Awesome. History. Very well done and so interesting. Thank you
Our pleasure!
I so love your videos.
I’m so excited to find your channel. All of the history is so fascinating to learn. I teach art history in the States, and my father’s family has been here since the early 1600’s but goes back to England and Scotland, so the Vikings on both sides as far as we can trace. He did track down a connection to three different clans, that crazy red headed blue eyed bugger. Apparently since we are descended from Thomas Dudley there are 16 ways to get to William of Normandy.
Brilliant
You ROCK, I love your videos. I so want to go to Scotland. One day❤️❤️❤️
Don't come when it's raining
Great video as always chief . Been so busy sorting through my Auld boys books n stuff lately found original books from 1840 annnie ferguson book is even signed by the high school very rare edition printed by Morrison n gibb of Edinburgh you won't even find this copy online, ontop of that old manuscripts maps stamps coins mN my dad kept alot of auld stuff 💙
Bruce Fummey has to be my favorite person to exist in the world currently
😘
Very nice! It's almost as Viking-y as York XP
Almost!
I loved my short stay on Shetland, and I loved not understanding the people at Whalsey (to start with).We shared some parts of the language. I want to go back.
No trees! Good question. Kicks off this fascinating conversation. Those Vikings were hardy, adventurous and inventive. After every big storm, Massive amounts of driftwood are cast upon the beach of the bay where I live in BC. It’s a gift that presents an opportunity for beachgoers, especially the boys and men (yes, this is my observation) to build an amazing variety of shelters, both, simple and more complicated. Swept away by tides, storms, ready for the next batch of builders. My ancestry dna shows up as points on the west coast of Norway and Shetland. I guess that my Henderson ancestors came across on one of those boats, and set up housekeeping. So interesting. Bruce, you bring out the stories with good questions! It’s an art.
Yes i remember Vancouver Island , seeing the actual beach is pretty hard there with the driftwood piled high on the beach that one cannot see..
I believe they would have ferried timber into Shetland. For the number of vessels they had they could not rely on waterlogged driftwood for repair and maintenance. They would have brought boat-building skills with them from their original homes and would have continued with that.
This is brilliant my dna has lots of viking/Norwegian markers . My dads from Scotland
wow that was really fascinating, I still don't understand how they navigated so well for the time.
I've taken a break from playing CK3 for a while, and even longer than that starting as Haraldr "Tanglehair" Yngling. This video makes me want to pick up the game again
Bruce, I don't know Scottish History,
I'm not a expert on Vikings either.
I have 69 years experience as the audience though. I know what I find interesting.
I still can't help but think that if you, and Mike the Viking at Norse magic and beliefs.
The two of you could discuss this Vikings Scott relationship as it effected each side respectively.
To my way of thinking that would be wonderful.
This is the last time I will mention this though. (I don't want to be a pest)