For me living 20 min and working 6 min from there, this was so random seeing my everyday life spots in your video 😂 But nice to see someone knowing about Heiðabýr!
@@taylorfusher2997 totally not and traditional trolls are usually much more hairy and less buffed looking since Troll most likely comes from Trell (unfree person) which was replaced by the term slave after just too many Slavs were put into such positions, imagine an old realistic troll to look rather like a stocky unkempt and unshaven Russian or so 🤣
I don't care how little German I speak, how expensive the trip may be, or how much of a tourist trap Schleswig might sound like, you have made me want to go so bad now. Sorry your friends weren't all that interested, your trip there sounds like a lot of fun.
You won’t be disappointed. Schleswig and Haithabu are not a tourist trap even though they see a lot of visitors. The museum costs you €9,- per adult and it includes the shown museum and the reconstructed houses at the outside part. A small selection of food and beverages are available directly at the museum and won’t cost you a fortune neither, I ate good for under € 10,-. The replicas that you could see in the video are well made and don’t fall apart easily. The whole region is a nice spot to spent some quality time, especially in spring, summer and early autumn, the landscape is beautiful, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea are both within reach. I personally recommend the east coast with the coastal towns of Kappeln and Arnis (Germany’s smallest town) and Eckernförde. They offer lots of tradition, history, authentic food and some amusement during the summertime when tourism peaks there.
the Wikingerschänke mentioned rather wants to entertain tourist and doesn't really want to please historians - but there are other restaurants and cafes in Schleswig were rather contemporary German creamcakes or fried whole plaice are very good.
@@henningbartels6245 Exactly. But the Schänke full filled my needs as I spent a whole day there and the food came in handy when my stomach started to howl at me.
@@pzakp311 they have an outdoor area, too - where they entertain with activites like axe throwing and such. For me as a modern German I'm rather concerned with questions like if the dishwasher really gets the drinking horns clean etc. ;-)
Link up with a local or two over the interwebs before you go. They can show you around and help avoid tourist traps. Also: Pick the right dates to travel there: Your experience will vary WILDLY depending on whether you're virtually alone there or whether the place is full of reenactors.
AS you can see we germans from Schleswig-Holstein and Jylland share same culture and blood from ancestors. As from north Friesland most have danish and german ancestors. Who knows how many Vikings have been from friesland and saxony as well.
@@user-he8lq8ny3v some that did are dead too, not the point they were the founders of Europe, the Germanic race waa predominant now they all cower under consumerism smh
As a northern german i will let you in on a little well kept secret, the weather in January is not always that farfetched from the weather in the summer months😂 the rain is a little warmer though
Thanks for this visit. I really enjoyed this unexpected tour of a Viking town in Germany. Fabulous and the food was reasonable in the Viking restaurant.
Awesome. It's great seeing people discover and be excited about places I see every day and most of us living here take for granted. You forgot to to visit one thing though: The Poppostein. A 5000 year old burial site, where Harald Bluetooth was baptised, which arguably is a major turning point in Norse history.
Some pastries, a thermos full of coffee, and money for souvenirs would keep me continuously intrigued by such a fascinating historical site. What an amazing place.
I have watched now maybe 50 of your videos. This oneis my favorite so far. Hilarious and informative at the same time. Also, great production value the nature. Peace and love from Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Oh and for the crowd: Its a very beautiful place. When I stood there at the waterside with the sun above and the nature around me me I felt like - Yeah I would have settled here too.
I've just got back from there! It was amazing 👏 we drove to Jelling in Denmark too to go to the viking museum there. Both were epic! Seen lots of rune stones too
Great you’ve made it there! I grew up close to Schleswig and even though i’ve seen it over and over, it’s still amazing to see how they preserve this heritage! I moved to northern sweden some years ago but not even here are as many cultural or historically accurate museums than in Schleswig! Thanks for this video and this wee reminder that northern germany took part in this special time in history.
@@HelleKurstein Well, the Viking Age didn't have nation states as we know them today. The Angles live north of Haithabu and the Saxons south of Haithabu. Vikings are not a tribe, but a designation for seafarers or sea warriors from the north. Vikings can come from all tribes in the north. Angles, Jutes, Danes, Swedes and Normans from what is now Norway.
@@HelleKurstein Unfortunately I have to disappoint you, I happen to live in this region and know the history. The territory of the Saxon tribes began, seen from the north, south of the Danewerk. North of it lived the Angles in the eastern part and the Frisians in the western part. Even further north, roughly in the area of today's German-Danish border, lay the territory of the Jutes. The eastern part of Holstein, roughly from a line from Kiel via Neumünster to the Lübeck area, was settled by Slavic tribes, the Abrodites. In 808, the Danish king Godofred attacked the Slavic people of the Abodrites in East Holstein and West Mecklenburg, but the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne responded by sending his son Charles with an army to help the Abodrites. Godofred retreated to Haithabu behind the Danewerk and at this point decided to fortify the border between the Land of the Angles and the Saxons. The reason was the expansion of the Franks, who had meanwhile taken over the Saxon Empire.
@@callsigndd9ls897 Maps may vary - most show Schleswig AND Holstein as Angel. Some the border between Schleswig and Holstein, the Eider. Where also the Deutsch-Römisches Kaiserreich ended. Dannewerk/Dannevirke was not the southernmost border, but the best choice - between the Schlei and the marshes.
I live 20 mins away from Schleswig in Mittelangeln. My wife and I Just recognized that we were with you in the Restaurant. Its our Favorite place to eat 🖤. Next time you're here you have to say Something so we could raise a Horn of Mead together
You know how and why all Danes today overuse Dannebrog in celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, and even on Christmas trees? It came from southern Danes' resiliency being occupied by Prussia and then Germany not being allowed to show the flag in public.
My great grandfather came from Schleswig holstien Germany to Ellis Island in America 1876. His betrothed wife followed him here a month later from Schleswig. I have seen our Surname on the town roster. I am so excited to hear we are real Viking blood. ❤ Thank you for the mini tour of my native homeland, since I may never be able to walk in the footsteps of my ancestors. 🥺
Not to be rude! Love this posting! Amercans tend to misspronouncing german words. And flipping 'ei' to 'ie' :) Its Schleswig Holstein, not Holstien. Pronounced [Holstine] or [Holstain]. Stein=Stone. Don't know why, but it's quite a bit funny :) Be proud of your heritage! 😊
Classic heritage-obsessed American. You should know that viking is a profession and not an ethnicity by now. You're American and your homeland is the US, not Schleswig or Germany. It's been 150 years for crying out loud
I really enjoyed this style of video. Your friends look just as excited as my family whenever I drag them to a historical site and start my ramblings 😂 (but I always have time for lunch).
As a local native I can give a small hint for a further place to visit: The museum "Schloss Gottorf" in Schleswig offering the Nydam boat (22m rebuilt ship from pre viking time around 500 AD) and the mumie collection of ancient people found in the local swamps.
Wow great editing and video-making skills in this one👏👏 This looks like a cool trip! Been between Esbjerg, Copenhagen and North of Hamburg and I dearly remember the cool Norse sites I saw near Esbjerg and the ships in Roskilde. That’s Denmark, but really cool places anyway. Going to check Schleswig out next time I’m in that area of Germany👌
Alexandria, Minnesota has a cool Viking museum and the Kensington runestone on display. Swedes and Norwegians that immigrated to the US settled here in large numbers. There's a lot of history here detailing the work of early Scandinavian pioneers in the US as well.
I once visited that museum, I live a little south of the Twin cities. The Giant Viking statue is pretty cool. Some pretty good native American items in that museum as well. I'm agnostic as to if the stone is legit but I lean towards it being legit, either that or it was a hell of a good replica of runes even if the usage seemed wrong at the time.
Great video. Hedeby was, of course, an extremely important Danish port city, where the Baltic trade terminated before the goods were shipped across Jylland to the North Sea. The odd thing is that there doesn't seem a comparable shipping port on the other side, although Ribe once had a port. I'm aware that a county-sized, low lying area washed away in the "hurricane" during the later Middle Ages and was lost forever. A shipping port may have been located in that area. Later, the trans-Jylland shipments went from Kiel to Altona. It's also the route where the first ever Danish railway was constructed, and later the German government made the Kiel Canal to connect the Baltic with the North Sea. After the War of 1864, Esbjerg was developed into a major Danish shipping port. From my Danish history classes, I remember it mentioned that there was very heavy Viking activity against the Baltic merchant ships south of Fyn. It makes sense to let the ships get close to their destinations, before you raid them. Some of the most famous Jomsvikings (i.e. Palnatoke) were from Fyn or the island group south of Fyn.
byen Rungholt som lå i det gamle Slesvig var på sin tid i 1300 formodentligt den 2 største by i Danmark den lå i det der nu er vadehavet cirka 20 km udefra hvor Husum ligger men under den store manddrukning(1362) blev hele byen ødelagt og alle i den druknede
@@springer9828 interesting. I did not know about that port city. However, I heard about 40,000 people perished in that “hurricane.” The land was flooded forever.
I dont know what these guys are bored about this would be an incredible trip, and extremely fun adventure learning about history finding my roots, and imagining what could have been sounds like one of, if not THE BEST, vacation I could think of!
In the old days the Hammer of Thor was worn by women as part of their jewellery. Nowadays that changed a bit but it still makes me smile to see a hammer around a man’s neck.
Lol, yes, that goes back to the Nazi cult, which saw everything Nordic and Germanic as an ideal, but also perverted it to such an extent that all that was left of it was nonsense.
A Swedish dynasty founded by Olof the Brash is said to have ruled Hedeby during the last decades of the 9th century and the first part of the 10th century. This was told to Adam of Bremen by the Danish king Sweyn Estridsson, and it is supported by three runestones found in Denmark.
Schleswig-Holstein is where the Angles ie English originated from. They started moving to Britain in the 5th century. Vikings and Anglo Saxons could understand each other when speaking, a bit like how a Swede and Norwegian can understand each other in the modern era.
Yes, but the Vikings were not a tribe. It is the term for seafarers or sea warriors from the north. Vikings came from different tribes in the north. From North Saxony, from Angles, from Jutland and from areas that later became Denmark, Sweden or Norway. They all spoke the North or West Germanic basic language and could understand each other. Languages only changed in later centuries.
Even then it was not Denmark, Schleswig and Holstein were in a personal union with Denmark. The same way eastern Prussia was never polish, the teutonic order was just in a personal union with Poland and Poland was never saxon, it was just in a personal union with Saxony.
@@m.s.8927 it was Denmark. The Eider was stated as the southern border of Denmark in 1040. When DK lost the war against Prussia and Austria in the year 1864 it became a Prussian province up until Kongeåen. In the year 1920 people elected the border as to be there, where it still is. Hi from a guide of the Landesmuseen Schlewig-Holstein.
I was watching the video "Gullinbursti Real Meaning;" That you did 2 years ago. It got to the end and the commercial that started was a 40:00 long christian sermon. I let the commercials play to show my support and thanks, but I could not let that play out, Sorry.
Wish I was there. My wallet and stomach are both agreeing upon that restaurant. Cold weather excites me and makes me want to go jogging or kick boxing.
You didn't go to Gottorf Castle and to the archeological museum there just 5 km north of Heitabu. Big mistake! They have a huge display of Viking artefacts and they display the Nydam Boat, a full Viking ship that was excavated it in 1863,
That might be a bit 2 nerdy, but Heiðabýr and Schleswig are two different places. At least that's what it looks like concerning the video description, as if Heiðabýr were identical to Schleswig. But this is not the case. Schleswig was first mentioned by the year 804 as Sliasthorp (Old Norse form: Sliestorp) and the suffix "thorp" (can be translated with: "village") indicates that it was an outlying settlement of Haithabu/Heiðabýr. The question of whether Heiðabýr and Schleswig existed at the same time, is a matter of controversial debate in research - the current consensus is that Schleswig was only founded after the final destruction of Haithabu in 1066.
Probably, because they are on opposite sides of the bay (small fjord). But from a today's tourist point, both places are very close together: there is basically just the museum, a chapel and a camping site in Haitabu today, but no real settlement - while Schleswig next to it is a town that offers restaurants, shops, accomondation ...
Greetings from Germany, we are grateful to keep the honorable history and noble blood of our Northern Germanic Brothers alive!
All of Jutland peninsula was west Germanic at some point,but after 500 AD the Danes who came from zeland settled there
Is the troll in God of war 2018 video Game accurate with the original Norse mythology?
@@HYDROCARBON_XD You got that backwards. Proto Germanic tribes came from Scandinavia - English idiocy calls Tyskland for Germany.
@@Hammerhook12 Sure but he means that Jutland wasn’t Danish or North Germanic. It was (North Sea) west Germanic, or Ingvaeonic
Vikings where Scandinavian not Germans
For me living 20 min and working 6 min from there, this was so random seeing my everyday life spots in your video 😂 But nice to see someone knowing about Heiðabýr!
Is the troll in God of war 2018 video Game accurate with the original Norse mythology?
so random to see another ghost who lives 20 minutes away from there right here 😂
@@taylorfusher2997 totally not and traditional trolls are usually much more hairy and less buffed looking
since Troll most likely comes from Trell (unfree person) which was replaced by the term slave after just too many Slavs were put into such positions, imagine an old realistic troll to look rather like a stocky unkempt and unshaven Russian or so 🤣
Yeah, as someone from Eckernförde, this was very random and fun to watch
I don't care how little German I speak, how expensive the trip may be, or how much of a tourist trap Schleswig might sound like, you have made me want to go so bad now.
Sorry your friends weren't all that interested, your trip there sounds like a lot of fun.
You won’t be disappointed. Schleswig and Haithabu are not a tourist trap even though they see a lot of visitors. The museum costs you €9,- per adult and it includes the shown museum and the reconstructed houses at the outside part. A small selection of food and beverages are available directly at the museum and won’t cost you a fortune neither, I ate good for under € 10,-. The replicas that you could see in the video are well made and don’t fall apart easily.
The whole region is a nice spot to spent some quality time, especially in spring, summer and early autumn, the landscape is beautiful, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea are both within reach. I personally recommend the east coast with the coastal towns of Kappeln and Arnis (Germany’s smallest town) and Eckernförde. They offer lots of tradition, history, authentic food and some amusement during the summertime when tourism peaks there.
the Wikingerschänke mentioned rather wants to entertain tourist and doesn't really want to please historians - but there are other restaurants and cafes in Schleswig were rather contemporary German creamcakes or fried whole plaice are very good.
@@henningbartels6245 Exactly. But the Schänke full filled my needs as I spent a whole day there and the food came in handy when my stomach started to howl at me.
@@pzakp311 they have an outdoor area, too - where they entertain with activites like axe throwing and such.
For me as a modern German I'm rather concerned with questions like if the dishwasher really gets the drinking horns clean etc. ;-)
Link up with a local or two over the interwebs before you go. They can show you around and help avoid tourist traps.
Also: Pick the right dates to travel there:
Your experience will vary WILDLY depending on whether you're virtually alone there or whether the place is full of reenactors.
Man, this ist my Hometown. I Love watching you enjoying your time Here.
AS you can see we germans from Schleswig-Holstein and Jylland share same culture and blood from ancestors. As from north Friesland most have danish and german ancestors.
Who knows how many Vikings have been from friesland and saxony as well.
The Oera Linda
Germany was founded on fighting men how far they have fallen 😮
@@sanderson9338those that didn’t give in are dead, sad
@@user-he8lq8ny3v some that did are dead too, not the point they were the founders of Europe, the Germanic race waa predominant now they all cower under consumerism smh
@@user-he8lq8ny3v im talking of last 5000 years on, not 100 years ago.
As a northern german i will let you in on a little well kept secret, the weather in January is not always that farfetched from the weather in the summer months😂 the rain is a little warmer though
Yes, and they were lucky they had vertical rain, not horizontal!
It's crazy I'm from england and I have germanic ancestry from both sides of my family and with some Norwegian
@@corablunt-zy2be but Norwegian would be Germanic, too
Love this style of filming. Thanks dude
Thanks for this visit. I really enjoyed this unexpected tour of a Viking town in Germany. Fabulous and the food was reasonable in the Viking restaurant.
Dang this was a huge step up in content - very cool.
Come back on 11.-13.8.23, there will be Viking Days (Wikingertage). 3 Days of viking life in a viking village, close to the Schlei.
Literally you need to start an airbnb/tour guide. I would travel and pay for this.
This was excellent. I love this channel man.
Greetings my Germanic Viking brothers from Juttland. My great grandfather is from Eggebek, halfway between Schleswig and Flensberg
My fathers side of the family is from Schleswig-Holstein area. I was told by my great aunt that my 2nd great grandfather spoke in German and Danish.
Pretty cool to touch the sacred tree! And that ship 😮
Looks like some serious good effort went into this, keep it up!
What a fantastic tour🤘
Awesome video
Thank you. I love your channel so proud of our viking ancestry!
Awesome. It's great seeing people discover and be excited about places I see every day and most of us living here take for granted. You forgot to to visit one thing though: The Poppostein. A 5000 year old burial site, where Harald Bluetooth was baptised, which arguably is a major turning point in Norse history.
Super tour - thanks for sharing! 😊
Living in Rendsburg, close to Schleswig and always wanted to visit.
Your comedy is amazing along with your vast knowledge thank you for sharing
@ 3:09 min " ...but that is just the sacrifice I am willing to force them to make!"...Now that(!) is really funny...PROST!
wow, new format! that's nice!
A lot of my ancestors are from this area. It's awesome to see where they lived.
MANY Danes fled after 1864.
I agree, it is awesome to see this. My ancestors were also from this area and fled after 1864.
Some pastries, a thermos full of coffee, and money for souvenirs would keep me continuously intrigued by such a fascinating historical site. What an amazing place.
Fick can mean fuck, but the original meaning is "sewing leather". The needle goes in and out, and it was used as a metaphor for "fucking".
Thanks brilliant video
I have watched now maybe 50 of your videos. This oneis my favorite so far. Hilarious and informative at the same time. Also, great production value the nature. Peace and love from Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Oh and for the crowd: Its a very beautiful place. When I stood there at the waterside with the sun above and the nature around me me I felt like - Yeah I would have settled here too.
What a coincidence that quite a few of my Danish ancestors originate from that area.
For me, it was always a puzzle why my German ancestors had so many DNA matches on Denmark..
What a great place will have to save up and visit myself.
I've just got back from there! It was amazing 👏 we drove to Jelling in Denmark too to go to the viking museum there. Both were epic! Seen lots of rune stones too
I‘m from a small german town where the people claim it’s the hometown of sigurd the dragon slayer. We celebrate for four days every may. It‘s so cool.
And what town is that? I just might visit, living up here in Schleswig-Holstein myself.
Haha! love the storytelling in this one!
@Norse Magic and Beliefs You deserve more likes.
Those restaurants are so badass!!
Nice effort that went into this video! Very well combined with your story telling style! Greetings from Schleswig Holstein.
Thanks for the tip. It's only 2 hours drive away from me, and I have never been there. Now I have to go :)
Great you’ve made it there! I grew up close to Schleswig and even though i’ve seen it over and over, it’s still amazing to see how they preserve this heritage! I moved to northern sweden some years ago but not even here are as many cultural or historically accurate museums than in Schleswig!
Thanks for this video and this wee reminder that northern germany took part in this special time in history.
Southern Denmark...
@@HelleKurstein Well, the Viking Age didn't have nation states as we know them today. The Angles live north of Haithabu and the Saxons south of Haithabu. Vikings are not a tribe, but a designation for seafarers or sea warriors from the north. Vikings can come from all tribes in the north. Angles, Jutes, Danes, Swedes and Normans from what is now Norway.
@@callsigndd9ls897 Thank you for the lecture The border between Angles and Saxons was further south.
@@HelleKurstein Unfortunately I have to disappoint you, I happen to live in this region and know the history. The territory of the Saxon tribes began, seen from the north, south of the Danewerk. North of it lived the Angles in the eastern part and the Frisians in the western part. Even further north, roughly in the area of today's German-Danish border, lay the territory of the Jutes. The eastern part of Holstein, roughly from a line from Kiel via Neumünster to the Lübeck area, was settled by Slavic tribes, the Abrodites.
In 808, the Danish king Godofred attacked the Slavic people of the Abodrites in East Holstein and West Mecklenburg, but the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne responded by sending his son Charles with an army to help the Abodrites. Godofred retreated to Haithabu behind the Danewerk and at this point decided to fortify the border between the Land of the Angles and the Saxons. The reason was the expansion of the Franks, who had meanwhile taken over the Saxon Empire.
@@callsigndd9ls897 Maps may vary - most show Schleswig AND Holstein as Angel. Some the border between Schleswig and Holstein, the Eider. Where also the Deutsch-Römisches Kaiserreich ended. Dannewerk/Dannevirke was not the southernmost border, but the best choice - between the Schlei and the marshes.
Now I have a new bucket list location!
I live 20 mins away from Schleswig in Mittelangeln. My wife and I Just recognized that we were with you in the Restaurant. Its our Favorite place to eat 🖤. Next time you're here you have to say Something so we could raise a Horn of Mead together
You need a new crew my friend. 😂😂 We are a Danish reenactment guild and we fight and dance in all weather!!
Great video
In 1864 part of my mother's family went from Danes to Prussians. The rest were in Denmark.
Outstanding!! Would love to see that sometime soon
You know how and why all Danes today overuse Dannebrog in celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, and even on Christmas trees? It came from southern Danes' resiliency being occupied by Prussia and then Germany not being allowed to show the flag in public.
Thanks for sharing this
Thanks for posting this...just started my bucket list!
Wow. Absolutely amazing
My hometown 🤩 hope you had a good time!
Fantastic video!
My great grandfather came from Schleswig holstien Germany to Ellis Island in America 1876. His betrothed wife followed him here a month later from Schleswig.
I have seen our Surname on the town roster. I am so excited to hear we are real Viking blood. ❤
Thank you for the mini tour of my native homeland, since I may never be able to walk in the footsteps of my ancestors. 🥺
Not to be rude! Love this posting!
Amercans tend to misspronouncing german words. And flipping 'ei' to 'ie' :)
Its Schleswig Holstein, not Holstien. Pronounced [Holstine] or [Holstain]. Stein=Stone.
Don't know why, but it's quite a bit funny :)
Be proud of your heritage! 😊
@mystic: Don't take it to seriously. Wiking is not an ethnicity and your ancestors could be just boring farmers or fishermen.
Classic heritage-obsessed American. You should know that viking is a profession and not an ethnicity by now. You're American and your homeland is the US, not Schleswig or Germany. It's been 150 years for crying out loud
@@henningbartels6245 i live in Schleswig-Holstein ;)
@@fliplefrog8843 me too.
This was awesome. Liking this type of video..keep them coming
Ungrateful peasants indeed, good thing you brought us along for the tour :)
I was there in 2021. Really a must- see... Greetings from South-Germany
Wow, love the editing.
Welp, thanks for giving me a new place to visit. heck it isn't too far away from me down here in Scania.
I really enjoyed this style of video. Your friends look just as excited as my family whenever I drag them to a historical site and start my ramblings 😂 (but I always have time for lunch).
As a local native I can give a small hint for a further place to visit: The museum "Schloss Gottorf" in Schleswig offering the Nydam boat (22m rebuilt ship from pre viking time around 500 AD) and the mumie collection of ancient people found in the local swamps.
0:53 that "man" speaking sent shivers through my Frisian blood.
Awesome seeing Haitabu featured in a video. Lived in Schleswig for over a decade 🙂 awesome place, awesome Museum!
Wow great editing and video-making skills in this one👏👏
This looks like a cool trip! Been between Esbjerg, Copenhagen and North of Hamburg and I dearly remember the cool Norse sites I saw near Esbjerg and the ships in Roskilde. That’s Denmark, but really cool places anyway. Going to check Schleswig out next time I’m in that area of Germany👌
Alexandria, Minnesota has a cool Viking museum and the Kensington runestone on display. Swedes and Norwegians that immigrated to the US settled here in large numbers. There's a lot of history here detailing the work of early Scandinavian pioneers in the US as well.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to New Ulm, MN and Alexandria is not too far from there.
@@Kritiker313 The area is still heavily Norwegian and Swedish; few now speak either, but you'll see it in the family names and place names.
I once visited that museum, I live a little south of the Twin cities. The Giant Viking statue is pretty cool. Some pretty good native American items in that museum as well. I'm agnostic as to if the stone is legit but I lean towards it being legit, either that or it was a hell of a good replica of runes even if the usage seemed wrong at the time.
@@deadcatbounce3124 it's a shame the people don't speak their ancestral languages. That's why I'm learning Norwegian
Got married the first time in New Ulm. Much of MN are of Nordic descent.
Great video. Hedeby was, of course, an extremely important Danish port city, where the Baltic trade terminated before the goods were shipped across Jylland to the North Sea. The odd thing is that there doesn't seem a comparable shipping port on the other side, although Ribe once had a port. I'm aware that a county-sized, low lying area washed away in the "hurricane" during the later Middle Ages and was lost forever. A shipping port may have been located in that area.
Later, the trans-Jylland shipments went from Kiel to Altona. It's also the route where the first ever Danish railway was constructed, and later the German government made the Kiel Canal to connect the Baltic with the North Sea. After the War of 1864, Esbjerg was developed into a major Danish shipping port.
From my Danish history classes, I remember it mentioned that there was very heavy Viking activity against the Baltic merchant ships south of Fyn. It makes sense to let the ships get close to their destinations, before you raid them. Some of the most famous Jomsvikings (i.e. Palnatoke) were from Fyn or the island group south of Fyn.
byen Rungholt som lå i det gamle Slesvig var på sin tid i 1300 formodentligt den 2 største by i Danmark den lå i det der nu er vadehavet cirka 20 km udefra hvor Husum ligger men under den store manddrukning(1362) blev hele byen ødelagt og alle i den druknede
@@springer9828 interesting. I did not know about that port city. However, I heard about 40,000 people perished in that “hurricane.” The land was flooded forever.
Happy thorsday
I dont know what these guys are bored about this would be an incredible trip, and extremely fun adventure learning about history finding my roots, and imagining what could have been sounds like one of, if not THE BEST, vacation I could think of!
In the old days the Hammer of Thor was worn by women as part of their jewellery. Nowadays that changed a bit but it still makes me smile to see a hammer around a man’s neck.
Lol, yes, that goes back to the Nazi cult, which saw everything Nordic and Germanic as an ideal, but also perverted it to such an extent that all that was left of it was nonsense.
Great hint! I never know that i can visit so much viking history here in germany
A Swedish dynasty founded by Olof the Brash is said to have ruled Hedeby during the last decades of the 9th century and the first part of the 10th century. This was told to Adam of Bremen by the Danish king Sweyn Estridsson, and it is supported by three runestones found in Denmark.
Awesome video. Such a cool place to visit. Looks like you had a great time. Plus you could probably write it off on your taxes.
Schleswig-Holstein is where the Angles ie English originated from. They started moving to Britain in the 5th century. Vikings and Anglo Saxons could understand each other when speaking, a bit like how a Swede and Norwegian can understand each other in the modern era.
Yes, but the Vikings were not a tribe. It is the term for seafarers or sea warriors from the north. Vikings came from different tribes in the north. From North Saxony, from Angles, from Jutland and from areas that later became Denmark, Sweden or Norway. They all spoke the North or West Germanic basic language and could understand each other. Languages only changed in later centuries.
Bro I would be right there with you man! I wish I had like minded friends that were interested in Viking history.
Definetly a place i will visit ⚔️
😂 I love it! My Great-Gran was from there❤
okay, i,ll wait in the museum, bring me some brochures and photos.
2:00 yes nothing says viking like Mcdonalds! that part threw me off🤣
So proud! Greetings from Kiel!
I was not expecting this masterpiece, well received though haha!
as a descendent of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes this made me smile. Love, your Grandkids, the Brits...xxxx
When my great grandfather was born in the Schleswig area, it was Denmark. When he left, it was Prussia.
1. You must be old as hell.
2. Change of government or state territory somewhat misrepresents the accrual demographic situation.
Even then it was not Denmark, Schleswig and Holstein were in a personal union with Denmark. The same way eastern Prussia was never polish, the teutonic order was just in a personal union with Poland and Poland was never saxon, it was just in a personal union with Saxony.
@@m.s.8927 it was Denmark. The Eider was stated as the southern border of Denmark in 1040. When DK lost the war against Prussia and Austria in the year 1864 it became a Prussian province up until Kongeåen. In the year 1920 people elected the border as to be there, where it still is. Hi from a guide of the Landesmuseen Schlewig-Holstein.
ayyyy, I live in Schleswig! I wish I was there when filming.
Here we have a strong danish community, me being a half-dane myself!
I was watching the video "Gullinbursti Real Meaning;" That you did 2 years ago. It got to the end and the commercial that started was a 40:00 long christian sermon. I let the commercials play to show my support and thanks, but I could not let that play out, Sorry.
I went there with my school class on a field trip.
Thank you. Another spot to visit is the Slagelse Viking Festival
Great vid, keep up the good work! I have visited that area and the museum while I was stationed in northern Germany.
Wish I was there. My wallet and stomach are both agreeing upon that restaurant. Cold weather excites me and makes me want to go jogging or kick boxing.
Ty for continuing these amazing videos my friend I hope life is treating you very well 😊 ✌️ ❤️
My new favorite show, Hiking Viking.
Great video man thanks for going there. I know the first place I want to visit in Germany.
I would love to have that tour!!!👍👍👍
You didn't go to Gottorf Castle and to the archeological museum there just 5 km north of Heitabu. Big mistake! They have a huge display of Viking artefacts and they display the Nydam Boat, a full Viking ship that was excavated it in 1863,
That might be a bit 2 nerdy, but Heiðabýr and Schleswig are two different places. At least that's what it looks like concerning the video description, as if Heiðabýr were identical to Schleswig. But this is not the case.
Schleswig was first mentioned by the year 804 as Sliasthorp (Old Norse form: Sliestorp) and the suffix "thorp" (can be translated with: "village") indicates that it was an outlying settlement of Haithabu/Heiðabýr.
The question of whether Heiðabýr and Schleswig existed at the same time, is a matter of controversial debate in research - the current consensus is that Schleswig was only founded after the final destruction of Haithabu in 1066.
Probably, because they are on opposite sides of the bay (small fjord). But from a today's tourist point, both places are very close together: there is basically just the museum, a chapel and a camping site in Haitabu today, but no real settlement - while Schleswig next to it is a town that offers restaurants, shops, accomondation ...
Love it!!! Forced compliant torture of your friends. Great job again, thanks for sharing. Now have new sojourn to plan. Stay strong.
History is so interesting...wish we could go back to our past..
Loved it! Can't understand why your buddies aren't excited.
Also I can't find Vikingfjord vodka...
I love the new short film style video.
I think you've sold me on visiting continental Europe. Been thinking of visiting England and Iceland, but this might be a great idea for another trip.
Awesome video!
Great video! Loved the editing and style 👌 nice information as well!