I find it surprising and hilarious how little Americans actually know about history and how they try to rewrite it when they 'learn' about it these days because it offends them.
Hey Alan. The Varangians (Swede Vikings) didn’t “trek” across Russia to get to the Black Sea and the Byzantine empire. What they did was travel in their longships down the great rivers of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, colonising in their own fiefdoms and trading posts that were self-sustaining over the course of about a century. And that ultimately became a major trade route between the Baltic and the Black Sea. At some points: rivers that flow to the Black Sea and rivers that flow to the Baltic come within 20km of each other, so moving goods wasn’t too difficult. The later kingdoms and empires across the former Russian empire were all descended or partly-descended from the Viking/Varangian fiefdoms. In fact the name “Russia” ultimately is derived from a Swedish Varangian tribe that became dominant amongst the river fiefdoms. And many major cities in the former Russian empire like Novgorod today in Russia and Kiev today in the Ukraine were originally Varangian settlements.
The vikings were amazing people , their language, their culture. A lot of English names have Norse origins ie York , they raided as far as Russia to England etc…. Even North America was discovered before Columbus.
York had a name long before the Vikings adapted the local name at the time (Eorwic) to Jorvik [J as in the English y sound]. The settling Norse did however expand and build and develop York into England's second city. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York#Origin_of_the_name
Viking influence is everywhere. From Wednesday being named for Odin and Thursday named for Thor., to the mysterious ancient tribe of North American’s who were tall, red-haired and pale skinned. Interestingly fishing ships from Scotland and Iceland used to fish off the coast of New Foundland putting ashore to reprovision. They could sail to the US without having to cover more than 250 miles of open water. Author Bill Bryson talks of this in one of his books on America ( I think either ‘made in America’ or ‘mother tongue’)
@@danieleyre8913 , I have an old school friend who is clan Gunn . I was best man at he’s wedding and was made an honorary clan member , still have the clan tie .
My last name, Mullineux is not strictly Norse but it IS Norman French, and was the name used by a large Norman family who settled here in Lancashire, around the early 1100s, not far from 1066. It is a common name here along with all of the other variations of which there are possibly dozens and my relatives are all over the world including, Mr Beard, Alabama.
you should come to the jorvik viking festival one time. every february thousands of reenactors meet in york dressed as vikings for a week long series of history events, markets, battles and of course lots of beer!
Did you hear the name 'Bluetooth', which is a word we now use every day? He was a Viking King, and I think I'm right in saying, the symbol for his name is what we use to show Bluetooth.
Hello Alan. It is not the first time I have commented that my county Yorkshire has Viking heritage. Eric Bloodaxe was the last king here in York. Harald Hardrada spent around fifteen years in exile as a mercenary and military commander in Kievan Rus' and of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire, before getting killed at Stamford Bridge, near York in 1066. Yorkshire fishing boats are still basically a Viking boat, which always made me think the North Atlantic fishing grounds were perhaps never forgotten post Leif Eriksson. Fishing brought in a lot of revenue, so why would you tell anyone where all the fish were? Not long after Columbus, when the Pope started dividing up the New World, the English were quick to get Cabot to go and discover Newfoundland.
It was away to join and convert Christmas a good example already a mid winter celebration with feasting in Britain and a spring festival used by Christians for Easter.
Viking sailed up the rivers in Eastern Europe & establish Novgorod & Kiev and were known as The Rus (the origin of Russia). Sold slaves in Byzantium, hence Slavs. Formed the Varangian Guard. Many names in Eastern England of hills & villages etc come from Old Norse eg any place with a BY ending. Into the 20th Century shepherds in the NW would still count their sheep with Norse numbers.
At around 6.5 hours, Dan Carlin's series 'The Wrath of the Khans' is far too long to react to but I highly recommend checking it out for your own interest. It is split into episodes (audio) but each is around an hour. Fascinating and exciting telling of Ghengis and his descendants. It had been uploaded to youtube but it has disappeared. It seems to be back behind a pay wall
Most Christian holidays are pagan, like Halloween (samhain) for example. Apparently saint brendan (from ireland) went to America sometime around 512ad. Before the vikings. Theirs plenty of native American history going back thousands of years, but it's largely forgotten about by most, unfortunately
I remember watching "The Long Ships" 1964 and "The Vikings" 1958 movies as a kid. You need to watch "Ten Minute English and British History #05 -The Vikings and the Danelaw". Which covers when the Danes ruled half of England.
I was just thinking ! As we had been slaves in the UK a lot longer than the African ones in the USA were, can we hold IKEA to ransom on some payback for what happened to our ancestors.
Alan, if you want to look at this in a bit more depth, I'd recommend you take a look at ''Differences between Norwegian, Swedish and Danish Vikings'' on the Norse Magic and Beliefs channel. It's really good. It's about 20 mins long though but very enjoyable and well told - by an actual 'viking'. :-)
This is more or less the Western Vikings' history. The Swedish vikings' raids down the Russian rivers is barely mentioned. The name Russia is derived from a name given to the Vikings; they are also at least in part credited with the founding of Kyiv and Ukraine. The Byzantine emperor had a Viking life guard called the Varangians. (Harald Hardrada was one of them.) Trade routes were extensive. Finds in Scandinavia have contained coins from Baghdad, a baptism "ladel" from Morocco [or at least North Arfrica], a Bishop's crozier from Ireland and even a small Buddha statue from India/Pakistan. The Normans from... Normandy [who had been given the area as a bribe to stop them from raiding Paris and defend that kingdom from other Vikings) ... some of them went into the Mediterranean and became rulers of Sicily and southern Italy. Just recently, the settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows (Nwefoundland, Canada) has been dated to be from 1021.
Michael Wood is pretty good on Viking history in England check out "In Search of the Dark Ages...Erik Bloodaxe". We're pretty poor on our own history from this period at school . But people like Michael have really shone a light on it over last few decades. In other series he explains how the Vikings settled and integrated alongside the other Germanic tribes of England
I´m a bit miffed he skipped over how Iceland became christian since it´s probably unique in history. Long story short the nation was divided roughly 60% pagan and 40% christian, and to avoid violence one man trusted by both sides was given the job to decide what to do. He happened to be a pagan chieftain but he was considered wise, he spent 3 days in his tent laying under furs and thinking really hard on the dilemma. Because all of Iceland's neighbors and trading partners were christian by that point he ruled that the nation would convert to Christianity, but it was legal to be secretly pagan. Also for some reason he made sure that eating horse meat would not be made illegal for some years, can´t blame him since it´s delicious.
Rollo mmm, you should try watching Vikings 2013 2020 a great tv series that answers a lot of questions you may have after watching this, they have a lovely sort of melodic tone to their speech.
jesus... they had the same religious practices and even germans in modern germany had the same religion.... but aye they were different germanic tribes.
Constantine switched religions he ran a form of christanity alongside their pagan religious practices. That form of christanity is now called Catholicism, other forms, the Cathars were brutally crushed. They used a lunar calendar, with the end of year, 5 day celebration of Satinalias to sync with the solar year. That's why Christmas is at the end of a calendar year, to coincide with the pagan celebrations Christmas has nothing to do with WHEN Jesus was born.
Actually Orthodox Christianity is the form of Christianity that is descended from Constantine’s and The Roman empire’s practices and which Roman Catholicism split from. I’m not sure if it’s the oldest organised form of if that’s the Armenian apostate church or the Coptic church.
one part he missed out on in this is the war with the picts ands the union of cultures in Scotland our king was even married to the king of norways sister
I find it surprising and hilarious how little Americans actually know about history and how they try to rewrite it when they 'learn' about it these days because it offends them.
Hey Alan.
The Varangians (Swede Vikings) didn’t “trek” across Russia to get to the Black Sea and the Byzantine empire.
What they did was travel in their longships down the great rivers of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, colonising in their own fiefdoms and trading posts that were self-sustaining over the course of about a century. And that ultimately became a major trade route between the Baltic and the Black Sea. At some points: rivers that flow to the Black Sea and rivers that flow to the Baltic come within 20km of each other, so moving goods wasn’t too difficult.
The later kingdoms and empires across the former Russian empire were all descended or partly-descended from the Viking/Varangian fiefdoms. In fact the name “Russia” ultimately is derived from a Swedish Varangian tribe that became dominant amongst the river fiefdoms. And many major cities in the former Russian empire like Novgorod today in Russia and Kiev today in the Ukraine were originally Varangian settlements.
The vikings were amazing people , their language, their culture. A lot of English names have Norse origins ie York , they raided as far as Russia to England etc…. Even North America was discovered before Columbus.
York had a name long before the Vikings adapted the local name at the time (Eorwic) to Jorvik [J as in the English y sound]. The settling Norse did however expand and build and develop York into England's second city.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York#Origin_of_the_name
Viking influence is everywhere. From Wednesday being named for Odin and Thursday named for Thor., to the mysterious ancient tribe of North American’s who were tall, red-haired and pale skinned. Interestingly fishing ships from Scotland and Iceland used to fish off the coast of New Foundland putting ashore to reprovision. They could sail to the US without having to cover more than 250 miles of open water. Author Bill Bryson talks of this in one of his books on America ( I think either ‘made in America’ or ‘mother tongue’)
I’m partly descended from the Scottish clan Gunn from Caithness, who’re definitely descended from Vikings.
@@danieleyre8913 , I have an old school friend who is clan Gunn . I was best man at he’s wedding and was made an honorary clan member , still have the clan tie .
My last name, Mullineux is not strictly Norse but it IS Norman French, and was the name used by a large Norman family who settled here in Lancashire, around the early 1100s, not far from 1066. It is a common name here along with all of the other variations of which there are possibly dozens and my relatives are all over the world including, Mr Beard, Alabama.
'' I love these names'' says Electric Beard 🤣
I love the way that the grey T-shirted Eclectic Beard liked the names GREYcloak and ForkBEARD! 😅🤣
you should come to the jorvik viking festival one time. every february thousands of reenactors meet in york dressed as vikings for a week long series of history events, markets, battles and of course lots of beer!
Thanks for the great content Alan
Bro himself looks like a proper viking.
Good for you for getting those Nordic genes
If you ever go to Scandinavia watch out for the Norwegian Blue parrot.
Apparently They don't move much.
@@Ayns.L14A Nae energy for movement, all used up in the pining.
If you go to Norway, take a big bag of money.
Did you hear the name 'Bluetooth', which is a word we now use every day? He was a Viking King, and I think I'm right in saying, the symbol for his name is what we use to show Bluetooth.
In the UK Vikings have a lot of history many places have Viking names.
Hello Alan. It is not the first time I have commented that my county Yorkshire has Viking heritage.
Eric Bloodaxe was the last king here in York.
Harald Hardrada spent around fifteen years in exile as a mercenary and military commander in Kievan Rus' and of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire, before getting killed at Stamford Bridge, near York in 1066.
Yorkshire fishing boats are still basically a Viking boat, which always made me think the North Atlantic fishing grounds were perhaps never forgotten post Leif Eriksson. Fishing brought in a lot of revenue, so why would you tell anyone where all the fish were? Not long after Columbus, when the Pope started dividing up the New World, the English were quick to get Cabot to go and discover Newfoundland.
Fun Fact: According to Dr Nusbacher Harald Hardrada's male heir was called 'Olaf the Flashy'.
Bluetooth was named after the Viking
Sweden has about 3000 known rune stones. many still at the place they were risen, other known from drawings, and some are just fragments.
It was away to join and convert Christmas a good example already a mid winter celebration with feasting in Britain and a spring festival used by Christians for Easter.
Viking sailed up the rivers in Eastern Europe & establish Novgorod & Kiev and were known as The Rus (the origin of Russia). Sold slaves in Byzantium, hence Slavs. Formed the Varangian Guard. Many names in Eastern England of hills & villages etc come from Old Norse eg any place with a BY ending. Into the 20th Century shepherds in the NW would still count their sheep with Norse numbers.
I've learnt more from these videos than I did at school
I like your new setup impressive
Once upon a time, the world was a much, much bigger place.
At around 6.5 hours, Dan Carlin's series 'The Wrath of the Khans' is far too long to react to but I highly recommend checking it out for your own interest. It is split into episodes (audio) but each is around an hour.
Fascinating and exciting telling of Ghengis and his descendants.
It had been uploaded to youtube but it has disappeared. It seems to be back behind a pay wall
Most Christian holidays are pagan, like Halloween (samhain) for example. Apparently saint brendan (from ireland) went to America sometime around 512ad. Before the vikings. Theirs plenty of native American history going back thousands of years, but it's largely forgotten about by most, unfortunately
Bloodaxe is my favourite name, love it
I remember watching "The Long Ships" 1964 and "The Vikings" 1958 movies as a kid. You need to watch "Ten Minute English and British History #05 -The Vikings and the Danelaw". Which covers when the Danes ruled half of England.
The descendants of Italians over in your place certainly refuse to believe old Christopher C was not the first European to land on America. Lol
We are all interrelated woven together by conquest and marrage
I was just thinking ! As we had been slaves in the UK a lot longer than the African ones in the USA were, can we hold IKEA to ransom on some payback for what happened to our ancestors.
Alan, if you want to look at this in a bit more depth, I'd recommend you take a look at ''Differences between Norwegian, Swedish and Danish Vikings'' on the Norse Magic and Beliefs channel. It's really good. It's about 20 mins long though but very enjoyable and well told - by an actual 'viking'. :-)
This is more or less the Western Vikings' history. The Swedish vikings' raids down the Russian rivers is barely mentioned. The name Russia is derived from a name given to the Vikings; they are also at least in part credited with the founding of Kyiv and Ukraine.
The Byzantine emperor had a Viking life guard called the Varangians. (Harald Hardrada was one of them.)
Trade routes were extensive. Finds in Scandinavia have contained coins from Baghdad, a baptism "ladel" from Morocco [or at least North Arfrica], a Bishop's crozier from Ireland and even a small Buddha statue from India/Pakistan.
The Normans from... Normandy [who had been given the area as a bribe to stop them from raiding Paris and defend that kingdom from other Vikings) ... some of them went into the Mediterranean and became rulers of Sicily and southern Italy.
Just recently, the settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows (Nwefoundland, Canada) has been dated to be from 1021.
These are pretty good to watch.
Michael Wood is pretty good on Viking history in England check out "In Search of the Dark Ages...Erik Bloodaxe". We're pretty poor on our own history from this period at school . But people like Michael have really shone a light on it over last few decades. In other series he explains how the Vikings settled and integrated alongside the other Germanic tribes of England
I´m a bit miffed he skipped over how Iceland became christian since it´s probably unique in history.
Long story short the nation was divided roughly 60% pagan and 40% christian, and to avoid violence one man trusted by both sides was given the job to decide what to do.
He happened to be a pagan chieftain but he was considered wise, he spent 3 days in his tent laying under furs and thinking really hard on the dilemma.
Because all of Iceland's neighbors and trading partners were christian by that point he ruled that the nation would convert to Christianity, but it was legal to be secretly pagan.
Also for some reason he made sure that eating horse meat would not be made illegal for some years, can´t blame him since it´s delicious.
Love when you do this stuff.........im aware as a Brit of the Viking conquests but i enjoy seening you be interested m8
Are you pining for the fjords?
Those names were alright then, but imagine nowadays being called "Kevin the Anorak" or "Eustace Bumfluff".
It was holy island not lindisfarne, ive been.
Rollo mmm, you should try watching Vikings 2013 2020 a great tv series that answers a lot of questions you may have after watching this, they have a lovely sort of melodic tone to their speech.
Finnish language is class. Love it. Love the Finnish attitude too
jesus... they had the same religious practices and even germans in modern germany had the same religion.... but aye they were different germanic tribes.
Constantine switched religions he ran a form of christanity alongside their pagan religious practices.
That form of christanity is now called Catholicism, other forms, the Cathars were brutally crushed.
They used a lunar calendar, with the end of year, 5 day celebration of Satinalias to sync with the solar year.
That's why Christmas is at the end of a calendar year, to coincide with the pagan celebrations
Christmas has nothing to do with WHEN Jesus was born.
Actually Orthodox Christianity is the form of Christianity that is descended from Constantine’s and The Roman empire’s practices and which Roman Catholicism split from.
I’m not sure if it’s the oldest organised form of if that’s the Armenian apostate church or the Coptic church.
Yea there’s an IDEA BUT JUST WHAT NAME WOULD YOU GIVE TRUMP THE ORANGE BERK ?.
one part he missed out on in this is the war with the picts ands the union of cultures in Scotland our king was even married to the king of norways sister
That guy needs to re-learn his history. A lot of discrepencies
had to stop this video after 4 minutes its so incorrect.