Thank you my dear friend. Thank you for the support and friendship, as always. I'm feeling much better, in fact the day this video came out I got out for the first time and caught a bit of fresh air. I'll be around and trying to get back to work and carry on with the videos :) cheers! All the best to you.
I have all respect for you. This was a great video. Please don't consider yourself lesser because you are still suffering the aftereffects from covid. You have lots of useful and interesting information and communicate it very well.
Yours is such a lovely comment which certainly gives me hope and enthusiasm. Thank you very much for your support. Your words have moved me :) all the best to you.
I appreciate u always keeping history accurate with a very easy to understand and thorough explanation. Especially when there r so many lies and misconceptions. your knowledge is gold and your sharing it free to the world is oxygen in a 90% polluted atmosphere. Thank you
The importance of a good and explicit speech, holds us to the screen that I look forward to the broadcast of your videos, it's great to be able to watch your channel, thank you for the teachings! Congratulations on another video!
41:24 I do not know how bad your COVID - 19 was, but it sounded like it was a very horrific ordeal 😢 I am sorry 💔 My recovery still has some lingering effects, but as time evolves, medically symptoms are lessening more. My Luck (Self) returning, and I am grateful its continuing to stay. May you equally recover fully from this battle my friend ⚔️🛡️ I am still continuing to experience ongoing healing (after COVID - 19), but in-home-self-Care has been exceptionally key, (mainly, in-home remedies, that are too many to list), should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. One day at a time 🧐 One step at a time😎 PS Thank you for creating great videos on Scandinavian - history, may they never stop, because they are all wonderful! extremely knowledgeable, with enjoyable wisdom, why I appreciate every one that I watch 😘
Arith, thank you for this video. It's such a succinct explanation of how and why accuracy with respect to terminology matters. Your knack for public scholarship is so strong, even as you are dealing with the cognitive sluggishness of long covid (something that I struggled deeply with myself; my writing is only just in recent weeks starting to recover, many many months after my initial infection). I thank you and I struggle alongside you.
My son "Ginger beard" and I totally agree and praise this video. It's refreshing to know there are people like you still out there. 👍👍👍👍 👏👏👏👏 💕💕💕love this video thank you...from northern Illinois USA Dotson-Ritter.
Excellent presentation. I'm Venezuelan and have highly mixed ancestry. English is my second language. Imagine me trying to explain distinctions between Hispanic American, Latin American, Spanish, etc. #TheStruggleIsReal and you are a master at doing this! ¡Gracias!
🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻👏👏👏 Amor perfeito. Infelizmente as pessoas não querem mais saber da verdade e sim vender ou viver em uma ilusão. A palavra " viking " vende e isso Infelizmente acaba retirando toda a real história de um povo. Vídeo totalmente necessário nos tempos atuais. Para acabar com as ilusões e mentiras que muitos contam por aí. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻👏👏💜💜🐍🐍🐍⚡️⚡️⚡️
If I'm yout favourite TH-camr, perhaps you haven't watched that many :P hehehe. But thank you friend, you are very kind. Indeed, vitamin D is a must. Actually, when this video came out I went out for the first time, and got a little bit of fresh air and sun, which certainly helped. All the best to you friend.
Thanks for detangling and clarifying though I find using terms like 'old danish' an issue as well because language is always changing. A new danish may eventually form so wouldn't the current danish languages be then 'old danish'? It's sort of like saying 'new age' which doesn't make sense because the age after that would also be the new age so what would we say? The second new age or something?
Languages are certainly always changing, and the Danish of today in the future might become "Old" but I'm sure we shall come up with a term. In my case, of instance (Portuguese) it has been changing quite a lot, especially since the Middle Ages. Portuguese as we know it (and not the Indo-European languages such as Lusitanian and Celiberian and Gaelic that were spoken in the Iron Age in the same territory) has quite a turn in the past 1000 years. We usually call a language according to a fixed notion of a nation or country, so all languages before the formation of a country have other names. Portuguese is only called "Portuguese" since the formation of Portugal starting perhaps with the Kingdom of the Suebi in the 5th century, the first Germanic Kingdom in Europe, so people would speak "Suebi"/"Suevi" or to be more specific a mix of Latin and Old High German, or a Western Old High German dialect influenced by Latin dialects of the West of the Iberian Peninsula; and during the early Middle Ages would be Gothic or West-Gothic; up until the 13th century there were many changes and much of the middle ages of Portugal the language is considered to be "Barbarian Latin" lol, the one spoken everywhere else in Europe in regions conquered by te Romans. From the 13th century onwards it started to be more fixed (just like the case of Iceland by the same period and building a collective identity) being called "Arcaic-Portuguese" until the 16th century (between the 14th and the 15th centuries being more specifically "galaic-portuguese"); 16th century onwards "Modern Portuguese", and until nowadays being "Portuguese" with several other sotaques e dialectos derevided from European Portuguese in other places all over the world. With Danish it's the same thing, from the Iron Age "Old Norse" to "Old Danish" in the Middle Ages and nowadays "Danish. Whatever may happen to the Danish language in the future, it depends very much on other cultural and linguistic influences and what impact it will have on the language, and only then we shall know what to call the "New" Danish if there is one, and the curent one will either remain "Danish" or "pre-something" Danish.
Thank you for all of your videos. I have been watching many of your older videos after only finding your channel a few months ago. Since then, your channel has become one of my favorites. I've never listened to a more knowledgeable person with regards to the subjects that you focus upon. Thank you again, great work you're doing!
Yes, I would say so. They call themselves Sámi / Saami from Sápmi, which is the way we should call them instead of "lapps" from "lapland" since those terms are quite derogatory, somewhere along the lines /sense of "intellectual inferiority" and/or "simpleton". Although their language (actually 10 languages) is Finno-Ugric, but we could call it Sámi-Languages as well, and be more specific for each of the languages like Pite Sámi, Ume Sámi, Lule Sámi etc.
Well explained, in my view you are an excellent teacher. I have spent my entire life in academia and have had many excellent and many not so great teachers. Based on my experience (former tenured professor at a major state university, former martial art school owner & head instructor) I would rate you very high even though we do have dramatically different opinions about the physical manifestation of the cosmos (e.g., I am a strict materialist). The qualities that make you a great teacher are not only cognitive but the way you communicate and prepare. There is no outward sign that you have been diminished in any of these capabilities and I have watched a fair few of your videos. Your videos on galdrastafir have been especially enjoyable and kindled an interest in Icelandic and other history of that region which I had previously neglected in my rather wide ranging study of eastern and western history, religion and esoteric traditions, so thanks for that!
It seems that society has to put labels on everything even the colour of someones skin. So thank you for clearing all the BS out of the way to give people a better understanding of those terms. Great video brother & Im glad you are on the mend all be it slower than you would like 🤟
I always thought you could blend entertainment and education, I'd love an accurate yet "embellished" portrayal of the heimskringla in a tv series. I've become infatuated with "Norse" culture, mythology, and history so your channel and several book recommendations I feel have been very illuminating, what do you feel about more interactive media like the "museum/living exhibit" mode in ac:Valhalla, do you think it trivializes aspects of a culture and people to such a point it cannot accurately portray their lives and history?
what do you think about Oleg de Normandie's theories(le secret cachê par Victor Hugo dans Notre Dame de Paris) ? Things like The occults secrets of Notre Dame? or theories of Atlantide, Hiperborians ... I'm a great fã of your perspectives and explanations
I am Norwegian. Thank you for a brilliant video. I totally agree that VIKING cannot be used for anything but pirates. However, I disagree that the umbrella-term SCANDINAVIAN can be used to describe any ethnicity historically. Noone ever identified as SCANDINAVIAN. SCANDINAVIAN was used by some Roman authors to identify certain peoples of Skåne (present day Sweden). I totally reject being called SCANDINAVIAN. In my opinion, NORDIC is a much better umbrella-term, and it is also the preferred umbrella-term historically in Norway (Norwegian: NORDISK). The correct translation of NORRØN is NORSE, which in modernday Norwegian means NORWEGIAN (Norwegian: NORSK). Therefor, I agree that NORRØN meant NORWEGIAN, but disagree that NORDIC meant NORWEGIAN, since NORSE meant NORWEGIAN, and NORSE is/was not the same as NORDIC. We also do have a few old texts in vernacular in Norway, but far less than in Iceland, so we should be very grateful to the Icelandic authors of the sagas, which document Norwegian as well as Icelandic history so well.
It was clear and informative. Thanks! And don't worry, if you hadn't said so, no-one would have noticed that you had COVID, and it will get better. Recovering from a virus takes time, sooner or later you will feel like your old self again.
WOW = yup, that's what i thought "Scandinavian' peoples. Oh, and thankyou so much Arith, one day i hope it will sink in, R and i wonder why people insist on being wrong. The other night I googled for origin of a name. And, there is was, ' . . . is Viking' (no no no no) The Northman- maybe i should check that out. Usually if one of the Skarsgard men are in it it is worth seeing. And dear Arith! This video was wonderful - i don't know how you do it, being as tired as you probably are. After my ME started getting worse - my dysphasia got bad again this year. i have some herb to slow down and do a Mahjong puzzle-Those help! That and play your guitar, it will help your brain, and your music is lovely.
Yeah, Northman is another good term, certainly better than "viking" to refer to a more generalized population, including more than just Scandinavia. Although, I would say "Northman" presents problems the same way we avoid saying "Mankind" and instead we use "humanity" or "human beings" to include all. "Northman" would simply focus on the perception of male individuals of a population, forgetting about other genders. Just the other day I was reading about a couple of women who went Viking, there are several, not just in the Sagas but also in Gesta Danorum, which is interesting reading. If you haven't already, check the viking woman Alvild, whom Saxo tells us "began to lead a life of a savage pirate" upon rejecting her husband-to-be. She had a company of all-women as vikings, causing chaos all over :)
Olá meu caro Joãozinho arith hager , como vai? Queria comentar algo , como o nome do seu programa não é vikings forever ou algo assim , você poderia fazer mais vídeos de regiões de Portugal como já fez da época paleolítica , meda tem menir lá não ? Tudo parece tão interessante em Portugal , a divisa com a galicia , os bárbaros , ibéricos,,mouros, etc , eu vejo que é um excelente arqueólogo , gostaria muito de ver e ouvir o passado de Portugal , E QUANDO CAPETINHAS , VOCE VAI FAZER UM VIDEO FALANDO TOTALMENTE EM PORTUGUES? , faz um canal novo só falando portuga, rssss , um abração aqui do Pindorama Brasil , até mais
Hi Arith, you probably won’t see this but I’ve just found your videos and watched a few dozen of them so far and really enjoy them so thank you, but also wondering if you would ever do a video delving into your personal work as an archaeologist like what’s involved in finding a subject or site that you are going to explore/study, and sites you’ve worked on in the past. It would be really interesting to hear about some of your finds and experiences in the field.
Hullo! I have done several videos about pagans and paganism :D you refering to the term pagan? If so, here's a video I've done that may be of help, titled "Heathen vs Pagan": th-cam.com/video/cuxeKUhfnZQ/w-d-xo.html&t
Good talk, Arith. I think one of the ways modern Anglo-Saxon descendants identify and stereotype the northmen peoples is by their administration of the slave trade. They will probably ask themselves how the slave market was accepted. Americans especially have a very warped view of what it was like to be a slave, and hyperbolize the worst cases of slavery as the norm. They'll most likely stick to their preferred nicknames based on that, so shedding light on slave trade routes may be helpful.
Danes were called Danes a long time before there was a Denmark as we know it, in Frankish sources there are listed Kings of the Danes going back 1500 years, the oldest mention of Denmark as a country however is from year 890
Viking describes a period of time from roughly 800 AD to 1200 AD. It was what could be described as the beginning of the Norse Migration period. The people involved were Old Norse peoples or what we could term as Nordic cultures.
not if you are Scandinavians (unless we speak to English speaking people) we always say Vikings(Vikinger) it's only non Scandinavians who have this debate, 10 years ago nobody outside the Nordic countries discussed Vikings, now everybody have an opinion about what to call people from our history, and somehow nobody ask us
I have to check the sources, because I could have sworn "Moose" was only for specific special Swedes who can run over the ocean to kidnap Estonian dudes D:
I never use the term "Scandinavian" for anything. Nor did anyone call themself by such a fancy term before almost the 1800s. An equivalent to the word "Norse" in the sense that English speakers nowadays use it have never existed in my language either. In English it was used to just mean Norwegian, and was already then an unnecessary word they borrowed from Dutch, and then later again very recently in the 1800s it shifted meaning to basically only refer to old historical nordic language etc. In Swedish we only have the word "Nordisk" (Nordic), and "Forn-Nordisk" (Old-Nordic) if one wants talk about the old language etc. As for "Norön", it's basically just an outdated or slightly more archaic way to say Norwegian as far as I know it's usage in my language. I call our region Norden (The North). Quite a generic name, but I think nordic 1200s writings at least call people in germany "suþärmän" and us in north "norþmän" (not just norwegians then, that would be instead where Norän came to use.) But why complicate and mess things up so. Today we got established words like "nordic peoples"/"north-germanic peoples" etc. But yeah, no one, not even modern day Deutsch people ever really called themself "Germans" or "Germanics", perhaps some tiny tribe the Romans met. But today we can in retrospect call a collective bunch of past/present related peoples "germanic", and everyone knows what it means, and that should work just fine and clearly I suppose.
No, NORSE means NORWEGIAN. You can use NORDIC for the Northern Germanic tribes, if you do not want to just call them Northern Germanic tribes. Not sure what your definition of GERMANIC is.
@@acenname Norse paganism, northern Germanic tribes, Norseman... It doesn't mean specifically Norwegian... A Norseman is a man of the Germanic tribes from the North... It's almost as if it's for the northern Germanic tribes... Like it's a dedicated word... You know... Like the word Norse... See a question was in the video and I responded with my comment... But you're probably so dense that you didn't notice what the question was... When the Norse were pillaging Europe they called them Norseman.. Someone is wrong here... And I'm pretty damn sure it isn't me... But thank you for incorrecting me..
even Scandinavian Historians use the term Vikings when talking about people from Scandinavia during the Viking age, it's simply to complicated to use all the "correct" terms from the time, we don't have a term such as "Norse" and nobody say "the people of the Nordic countries during the middle age" or so . also it was societies who worked together, those who didn't raid/trade/settled ect. produced the boats, sails, trading goods ect. in terms of "Viking" blood or dna it's not possible to have Scandinavian dna and not have "Viking" dna, to put things into perspective 50% of all Europeans are related to Charlemange! 1 man, more than 1 billion people are related to Ramses the great, many thousands of people from Scandinavia was Vikings in some battles there were 10.000 men, and it was hundreds of years so it's not mathematically possible not to have dna from people who were Vikings if you have Scandinavian dna
As I, an American head off to sleep, The voice of Arith Harger educates my tired mind again.
@ladladladlad8863 Yes, he's not even truly norse. The biggest tell isn't even a nose, but usually the low-set ears and ear shape.
You're a good teacher Arith. Keep up the great work!
towards a treat, be good to yourself
Thank you my dear friend. Thank you for the support and friendship, as always. I'm feeling much better, in fact the day this video came out I got out for the first time and caught a bit of fresh air. I'll be around and trying to get back to work and carry on with the videos :) cheers! All the best to you.
I have all respect for you. This was a great video. Please don't consider yourself lesser because you are still suffering the aftereffects from covid. You have lots of useful and interesting information and communicate it very well.
Yours is such a lovely comment which certainly gives me hope and enthusiasm. Thank you very much for your support. Your words have moved me :) all the best to you.
Thank you for clarifying these terms!. Wishing you a continuous recovery, take care!
I appreciate u always keeping history accurate with a very easy to understand and thorough explanation. Especially when there r so many lies and misconceptions. your knowledge is gold and your sharing it free to the world is oxygen in a 90% polluted atmosphere. Thank you
The importance of a good and explicit speech, holds us to the screen that I look forward to the broadcast of your videos, it's great to be able to watch your channel, thank you for the teachings! Congratulations on another video!
Great video. Nice to see you still posting new videos. Keep up the great work, thank you.
Thank you friend. I'll try my best to carry on :D be well!
41:24 I do not know how bad your COVID - 19 was, but it sounded like it was a very horrific ordeal 😢
I am sorry 💔
My recovery still has some lingering effects, but as time evolves, medically symptoms are lessening more.
My Luck (Self) returning, and I am grateful its continuing to stay.
May you equally recover fully from this battle my friend ⚔️🛡️
I am still continuing to experience ongoing healing (after COVID - 19), but in-home-self-Care has been exceptionally key, (mainly, in-home remedies, that are too many to list), should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
One day at a time 🧐
One step at a time😎
PS Thank you for creating great videos on Scandinavian - history, may they never stop, because they are all wonderful! extremely knowledgeable, with enjoyable wisdom, why I appreciate every one that I watch 😘
Arith, thank you for this video. It's such a succinct explanation of how and why accuracy with respect to terminology matters. Your knack for public scholarship is so strong, even as you are dealing with the cognitive sluggishness of long covid (something that I struggled deeply with myself; my writing is only just in recent weeks starting to recover, many many months after my initial infection). I thank you and I struggle alongside you.
Succinct = my new fave word
My son "Ginger beard" and I totally agree and praise this video. It's refreshing to know there are people like you still out there. 👍👍👍👍 👏👏👏👏 💕💕💕love this video thank you...from northern Illinois USA Dotson-Ritter.
I agree Mom👍. Also I'm glad to show you videos from this channel (from the past and now🙂), it's one of my favorite channels.
Excellent presentation. I'm Venezuelan and have highly mixed ancestry. English is my second language. Imagine me trying to explain distinctions between Hispanic American, Latin American, Spanish, etc. #TheStruggleIsReal and you are a master at doing this! ¡Gracias!
Thank you Arith for sharing very important information, you were very clear!!
🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻👏👏👏 Amor perfeito. Infelizmente as pessoas não querem mais saber da verdade e sim vender ou viver em uma ilusão. A palavra " viking " vende e isso Infelizmente acaba retirando toda a real história de um povo. Vídeo totalmente necessário nos tempos atuais. Para acabar com as ilusões e mentiras que muitos contam por aí. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻👏👏💜💜🐍🐍🐍⚡️⚡️⚡️
You're my favorite TH-camr. Please take care of yourself and keep up your vitamin D.
If I'm yout favourite TH-camr, perhaps you haven't watched that many :P hehehe. But thank you friend, you are very kind. Indeed, vitamin D is a must. Actually, when this video came out I went out for the first time, and got a little bit of fresh air and sun, which certainly helped. All the best to you friend.
Many thanks 🐺
My pleasure and honour :)
Thanks for detangling and clarifying though I find using terms like 'old danish' an issue as well because language is always changing. A new danish may eventually form so wouldn't the current danish languages be then 'old danish'? It's sort of like saying 'new age' which doesn't make sense because the age after that would also be the new age so what would we say? The second new age or something?
Languages are certainly always changing, and the Danish of today in the future might become "Old" but I'm sure we shall come up with a term. In my case, of instance (Portuguese) it has been changing quite a lot, especially since the Middle Ages. Portuguese as we know it (and not the Indo-European languages such as Lusitanian and Celiberian and Gaelic that were spoken in the Iron Age in the same territory) has quite a turn in the past 1000 years. We usually call a language according to a fixed notion of a nation or country, so all languages before the formation of a country have other names. Portuguese is only called "Portuguese" since the formation of Portugal starting perhaps with the Kingdom of the Suebi in the 5th century, the first Germanic Kingdom in Europe, so people would speak "Suebi"/"Suevi" or to be more specific a mix of Latin and Old High German, or a Western Old High German dialect influenced by Latin dialects of the West of the Iberian Peninsula; and during the early Middle Ages would be Gothic or West-Gothic; up until the 13th century there were many changes and much of the middle ages of Portugal the language is considered to be "Barbarian Latin" lol, the one spoken everywhere else in Europe in regions conquered by te Romans. From the 13th century onwards it started to be more fixed (just like the case of Iceland by the same period and building a collective identity) being called "Arcaic-Portuguese" until the 16th century (between the 14th and the 15th centuries being more specifically "galaic-portuguese"); 16th century onwards "Modern Portuguese", and until nowadays being "Portuguese" with several other sotaques e dialectos derevided from European Portuguese in other places all over the world. With Danish it's the same thing, from the Iron Age "Old Norse" to "Old Danish" in the Middle Ages and nowadays "Danish. Whatever may happen to the Danish language in the future, it depends very much on other cultural and linguistic influences and what impact it will have on the language, and only then we shall know what to call the "New" Danish if there is one, and the curent one will either remain "Danish" or "pre-something" Danish.
Thank you for all of your videos. I have been watching many of your older videos after only finding your channel a few months ago. Since then, your channel has become one of my favorites. I've never listened to a more knowledgeable person with regards to the subjects that you focus upon. Thank you again, great work you're doing!
9:55 excuse my ignorance @Arith but would the term Sami be considered an endonym?
Yes, I would say so. They call themselves Sámi / Saami from Sápmi, which is the way we should call them instead of "lapps" from "lapland" since those terms are quite derogatory, somewhere along the lines /sense of "intellectual inferiority" and/or "simpleton". Although their language (actually 10 languages) is Finno-Ugric, but we could call it Sámi-Languages as well, and be more specific for each of the languages like Pite Sámi, Ume Sámi, Lule Sámi etc.
Thank you@@ArithHärger this is a very detailed response which actually answers all the questions I had about the Sami peoples
Well explained, in my view you are an excellent teacher. I have spent my entire life in academia and have had many excellent and many not so great teachers. Based on my experience (former tenured professor at a major state university, former martial art school owner & head instructor) I would rate you very high even though we do have dramatically different opinions about the physical manifestation of the cosmos (e.g., I am a strict materialist). The qualities that make you a great teacher are not only cognitive but the way you communicate and prepare. There is no outward sign that you have been diminished in any of these capabilities and I have watched a fair few of your videos. Your videos on galdrastafir have been especially enjoyable and kindled an interest in Icelandic and other history of that region which I had previously neglected in my rather wide ranging study of eastern and western history, religion and esoteric traditions, so thanks for that!
It seems that society has to put labels on everything even the colour of someones skin. So thank you for clearing all the BS out of the way to give people a better understanding of those terms. Great video brother & Im glad you are on the mend all be it slower than you would like 🤟
Good morning Mr Arith ☀️
Hey! Good morning! :D
I appreciate your time and focus on a topic so important. Honest and true, as always. Happy you are well!!!
I always thought you could blend entertainment and education, I'd love an accurate yet "embellished" portrayal of the heimskringla in a tv series. I've become infatuated with "Norse" culture, mythology, and history so your channel and several book recommendations I feel have been very illuminating, what do you feel about more interactive media like the "museum/living exhibit" mode in ac:Valhalla, do you think it trivializes aspects of a culture and people to such a point it cannot accurately portray their lives and history?
I know how hard it is to let go, but trust me, once you do, it will feel liberating, and you will look and feel better. Own it!
Arith can you please do a video discussing all nine worlds of yggdrasil and where different halls are and what beings said to dwell in each
Nice video.
I tend to explain it like this; a 'viking' is not what you are, it's what you do. It was an occupation.
Thank you. Indeed that's a good way to put it, and quicker :P
Thanks!
Hey friend. Thank you again. How have you been since last we spoke? Wish you a wonderful week. Take care!
what do you think about Oleg de Normandie's theories(le secret cachê par Victor Hugo dans Notre Dame de Paris) ? Things like The occults secrets of Notre Dame? or theories of Atlantide, Hiperborians ...
I'm a great fã of your perspectives and explanations
I am Norwegian. Thank you for a brilliant video. I totally agree that VIKING cannot be used for anything but pirates. However, I disagree that the umbrella-term SCANDINAVIAN can be used to describe any ethnicity historically. Noone ever identified as SCANDINAVIAN. SCANDINAVIAN was used by some Roman authors to identify certain peoples of Skåne (present day Sweden). I totally reject being called SCANDINAVIAN. In my opinion, NORDIC is a much better umbrella-term, and it is also the preferred umbrella-term historically in Norway (Norwegian: NORDISK). The correct translation of NORRØN is NORSE, which in modernday Norwegian means NORWEGIAN (Norwegian: NORSK). Therefor, I agree that NORRØN meant NORWEGIAN, but disagree that NORDIC meant NORWEGIAN, since NORSE meant NORWEGIAN, and NORSE is/was not the same as NORDIC. We also do have a few old texts in vernacular in Norway, but far less than in Iceland, so we should be very grateful to the Icelandic authors of the sagas, which document Norwegian as well as Icelandic history so well.
It was clear and informative. Thanks! And don't worry, if you hadn't said so, no-one would have noticed that you had COVID, and it will get better. Recovering from a virus takes time, sooner or later you will feel like your old self again.
WOW = yup, that's what i thought "Scandinavian' peoples. Oh, and thankyou so much Arith, one day i hope it will sink in, R and i wonder why people insist on being wrong. The other night I googled for origin of a name. And, there is was, ' . . . is Viking' (no no no no) The Northman- maybe i should check that out. Usually if one of the Skarsgard men are in it it is worth seeing. And dear Arith! This video was wonderful - i don't know how you do it, being as tired as you probably are. After my ME started getting worse - my dysphasia got bad again this year. i have some herb to slow down and do a Mahjong puzzle-Those help! That and play your guitar, it will help your brain, and your music is lovely.
Yeah, Northman is another good term, certainly better than "viking" to refer to a more generalized population, including more than just Scandinavia. Although, I would say "Northman" presents problems the same way we avoid saying "Mankind" and instead we use "humanity" or "human beings" to include all. "Northman" would simply focus on the perception of male individuals of a population, forgetting about other genders. Just the other day I was reading about a couple of women who went Viking, there are several, not just in the Sagas but also in Gesta Danorum, which is interesting reading. If you haven't already, check the viking woman Alvild, whom Saxo tells us "began to lead a life of a savage pirate" upon rejecting her husband-to-be. She had a company of all-women as vikings, causing chaos all over :)
hello from Scandinavia just call them Vikings if you want, we Scandinavians do
Thank you Arith. Hope you are feeling better.
Wow, Arith….perfect as always. Thank you so much. You are a master! 🙏🏻✨
Olá meu caro Joãozinho arith hager , como vai? Queria comentar algo , como o nome do seu programa não é vikings forever ou algo assim , você poderia fazer mais vídeos de regiões de Portugal como já fez da época paleolítica , meda tem menir lá não ? Tudo parece tão interessante em Portugal , a divisa com a galicia , os bárbaros , ibéricos,,mouros, etc , eu vejo que é um excelente arqueólogo , gostaria muito de ver e ouvir o passado de Portugal , E QUANDO CAPETINHAS , VOCE VAI FAZER UM VIDEO FALANDO TOTALMENTE EM PORTUGUES? , faz um canal novo só falando portuga, rssss , um abração aqui do Pindorama Brasil , até mais
Hi Arith, you probably won’t see this but I’ve just found your videos and watched a few dozen of them so far and really enjoy them so thank you, but also wondering if you would ever do a video delving into your personal work as an archaeologist like what’s involved in finding a subject or site that you are going to explore/study, and sites you’ve worked on in the past. It would be really interesting to hear about some of your finds and experiences in the field.
Personally i prefer the term old norse, both when it comes to the pagan and the Christians,
Loved this one Arith!
Hello! I always enjoy your videos. Have you ever done a video on pagan?
Hi Krystal he has her is the link 😀 th-cam.com/video/cuxeKUhfnZQ/w-d-xo.html
Hullo! I have done several videos about pagans and paganism :D you refering to the term pagan? If so, here's a video I've done that may be of help, titled "Heathen vs Pagan": th-cam.com/video/cuxeKUhfnZQ/w-d-xo.html&t
Good talk, Arith. I think one of the ways modern Anglo-Saxon descendants identify and stereotype the northmen peoples is by their administration of the slave trade. They will probably ask themselves how the slave market was accepted. Americans especially have a very warped view of what it was like to be a slave, and hyperbolize the worst cases of slavery as the norm. They'll most likely stick to their preferred nicknames based on that, so shedding light on slave trade routes may be helpful.
Very useful❤ keep going brother ❤❤
Oof I feel you on that COVID brain fog. I have ADHD so my executive function is trash these days :/
I'm sorry about that love. I wish such fog is lifted so you can see the way ahead more clearly and brighter than before. All the best to you.
I'd say Old Norse
I say Vikings like all other Scandinavians or actually we say Vikinger
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Danes were called Danes a long time before there was a Denmark as we know it, in Frankish sources there are listed Kings of the Danes going back 1500 years, the oldest mention of Denmark as a country however is from year 890
Norse Pagan. I’m ethnically British/Irish and German. I’m Celtic but also have Germanic ancestors as well.
Viking describes a period of time from roughly 800 AD to 1200 AD. It was what could be described as the beginning of the Norse Migration period. The people involved were Old Norse peoples or what we could term as Nordic cultures.
maybe old norse is more suitable
I would say so, indeed.
not if you are Scandinavians (unless we speak to English speaking people) we always say Vikings(Vikinger) it's only non Scandinavians who have this debate, 10 years ago nobody outside the Nordic countries discussed Vikings, now everybody have an opinion about what to call people from our history, and somehow nobody ask us
You're too hard on yourself, Arith! 🤔🥺 I understood what you were trying to say. It was interesting. 🥰🤗💖🇨🇦
Moose Arith.. Moose is the correct term 🙏
I have to check the sources, because I could have sworn "Moose" was only for specific special Swedes who can run over the ocean to kidnap Estonian dudes D:
I never use the term "Scandinavian" for anything. Nor did anyone call themself by such a fancy term before almost the 1800s.
An equivalent to the word "Norse" in the sense that English speakers nowadays use it have never existed in my language either. In English it was used to just mean Norwegian, and was already then an unnecessary word they borrowed from Dutch, and then later again very recently in the 1800s it shifted meaning to basically only refer to old historical nordic language etc.
In Swedish we only have the word "Nordisk" (Nordic), and "Forn-Nordisk" (Old-Nordic) if one wants talk about the old language etc.
As for "Norön", it's basically just an outdated or slightly more archaic way to say Norwegian as far as I know it's usage in my language.
I call our region Norden (The North). Quite a generic name, but I think nordic 1200s writings at least call people in germany "suþärmän" and us in north "norþmän" (not just norwegians then, that would be instead where Norän came to use.)
But why complicate and mess things up so. Today we got established words like "nordic peoples"/"north-germanic peoples" etc. But yeah, no one, not even modern day Deutsch people ever really called themself "Germans" or "Germanics", perhaps some tiny tribe the Romans met. But today we can in retrospect call a collective bunch of past/present related peoples "germanic", and everyone knows what it means, and that should work just fine and clearly I suppose.
Norse when speaking about the Northern Germanic tribes... when speaking of specific groups at specific times...
No, NORSE means NORWEGIAN. You can use NORDIC for the Northern Germanic tribes, if you do not want to just call them Northern Germanic tribes. Not sure what your definition of GERMANIC is.
@@acenname Norse paganism, northern Germanic tribes, Norseman... It doesn't mean specifically Norwegian... A Norseman is a man of the Germanic tribes from the North... It's almost as if it's for the northern Germanic tribes... Like it's a dedicated word... You know... Like the word Norse...
See a question was in the video and I responded with my comment... But you're probably so dense that you didn't notice what the question was...
When the Norse were pillaging Europe they called them Norseman..
Someone is wrong here... And I'm pretty damn sure it isn't me...
But thank you for incorrecting me..
Awesome info says a Norwegian...
Nordic just means north. Its a loan word from French (nordique)
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even Scandinavian Historians use the term Vikings when talking about people from Scandinavia during the Viking age, it's simply to complicated to use all the "correct" terms from the time, we don't have a term such as "Norse" and nobody say "the people of the Nordic countries during the middle age" or so . also it was societies who worked together, those who didn't raid/trade/settled ect. produced the boats, sails, trading goods ect. in terms of "Viking" blood or dna it's not possible to have Scandinavian dna and not have "Viking" dna, to put things into perspective 50% of all Europeans are related to Charlemange! 1 man, more than 1 billion people are related to Ramses the great, many thousands of people from Scandinavia was Vikings in some battles there were 10.000 men, and it was hundreds of years so it's not mathematically possible not to have dna from people who were Vikings if you have Scandinavian dna
I have a hard time following you. You jump from one subject to another.
My grandmother is from Norway and want to learn about the culture.
You are genius when you don ttalk about transg3nder gods kkkkk