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I want to extend an enormous thanks to the entire crew at Time Team. I've grown up with your shows, they were my dad and my 'go to' programme when we'd have a day of just father-son bonding time. There's always a nostalgia for me and still bringing out quality content all these years later is something I will cherish and share with my future children too. I now live in the historic city of Norwich on a hill overlooking the great Norman built cathedral and am surrounded by history I couldn't have appreciated without the seeds you guys planted years ago. You've been there through some rough times when I needed a bit of 'home' and I can't thank you enough for all the hard work, time and effort that goes into giving us these wonderfully enthralling shows. Long live Time Team!
@@terrydamron4770 You have thousands of years of history. The mound builders, the native Americans across the whole continent, the amazing geological history of the last ice age and the disappearance of the mega fauna, the fascinating history of piracy and revolutions. Just because it was prehistory before the arrival of Europeans, doesn't make it any less interesting than British or European history. I'm obsessed with pre-Columbus America, it's such an evocative history.
@@malbennett9806 indeed! we have our own mounds and henges and ruins. why, i live a couple km from a river tributary full of bits of worked flint, pottery sherds... basically, the area's archaeology shows relatively steady periods of habitation from 20k years ago until the present day (not to mention fossil finds as early as the cambrian, if that's what floats your boat). our public school system could use a massive overhaul, and history is one (of admittedly many) blind spots.
I take notes on all history. I live now near Pueblo and Navajo history. Most of my family culture is Swedish. But great dig in York! It has always been my passion ❤️
Do not forget that the Normans was of Viking heritage, so the Viking age in Britain did not end in 1066, it was just new Viking rulers that took over. Greetings from Norway. 🇧🇻
@@somedude6161Russia as well. Rus is said to mean "row" but IMO it likely stems from HROSS, or the horse-heads ("dragons") featured at the ends of the ships. "Russia" then means "Horsia", which is rather fitting considering that is where the horse, as well as the scythians that brought horse culture into scandinavia, came from.
Stewart has such beautiful hands! My children adored Time Team when they were young and now are introducing the programme to their own children. Time Team will never grow old. Thank you to everyone involved.
My kids called it “mum’s digging show”… reruns were on in the early evening when my kids were little, and I would watch as I cooked tea each night! Continuing to watch and impressed that the Team is continuing!
Speaking as a loathsome American, (who, coincidentally, has both Scandanavian and Norman blood) I appreciate these programs in/on the history of Britain. Cheers, from loathsome American in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
@@lauramelton9271 The Native Americans were the first then vikings but the vikings didn't stay from my understanding. It sure wasn't Christopher Columbus what they teach in American schools. Germans 1709 Palatine migration happen in the frontier areas of New York city.
Who say your loathsome?? We certainly don't in ENGLAND that's for sure your virtually our cousins and this is your history as well as ours especially if you've got FRENCH,DUTCH (NORSE VIKING) GERMANIC,SCOTISH,IRISH,WELSH ANCESTORS They we're all here..🏴🇺🇲
I was once asked who would I like most to have a meal with and my answer was Tony Robinson. What a wealth of knowledge and experiences he carries around in his head.
@@KNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Having followed every season of the old Time Team, now seeing its original members, especially those who are no longer around, that's what brought back those emotions for me.
@@KNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Well... you never know if the person asking is someone from the latest generation who isn't familiar with the origins of the program 😄
LMAO, someone who acted stupid for a living is your hero?...hilarious. These mugs waste millions and find a bit of broken pottery and lots and lots of "guessing" you don't know how TV works🤣
@@naomiboisson6966 I would say the whole team gives time team the amazing gift to let us watch and learn through tv and have a good time🙂 Phil and Tony have a way with always having fun with each other and in good moods.. Amazing tv serie 😀
One of the cool things about the Kirkdale inscription (the church featured at the end of this program) is that every word of it, except for the Scandinavian proper names, is still used in everyday English.
A lot of our basic words in "Scandinavian" ( three very similar / overlapping languages ) are actually still surprisingly similar to their English counterparts - often just a slightly alternative spelling or a simple systematic sound shift apart at the most - , and there are several grammatical similarities as well between our languages. So when we Scandinavians are learning English, it often feels as if we already know "half" of a simplistic older Germanic core English in advance and then "just" need to fill in the gaps and climb a few hurdles here and there ( e.g. the use of "do" & "-ing" with verbs ) - and that we don't even have to think very much most of the time - rather like a huge extension of our own languages instead of a completely unrelated language. A couple of examples in Danish of this astonishing similarity between our languages at the basic level: D Skal vi [ve] gå [go] ud igen [ee-gain] for at finde min [meen] fader [fað-er !] / moder [mo(u)ð-er !] / broder [bro(u)ð-er] / søster [s'oe's-ter]? E Shall (OE sceal !) we go out again (for) to find my father / mother / brother / sister? D Jeg [yigh] kan se / høre [h'oe'r-e] dem komme over til os [us] nu [noo*], så [sO] (th)at de [dee*] kan synge deres [dair-es] fine [feen-e] nye [ne(w)-e] sang [sAng] for os alle. E I can see / hear them coming ("come") over to us now, so that they ("dey") can sing their fine new song for us all. D Hvad vi du ( orig. "thu"!) give ham [hAm] for alle de mange [ mAng-e] ( many, OE moneGe !) gode ting han ha(ve)r [hAr] sendt [sent] dig [digh] fra(m) England? E What will you (thou) give him for all the good things he has sent you (thee, orig. "thik"!) from England? And so on and on at the basic level 😊
My dad was stationed in England(early 1950s. He noticed that many English surnames were of Norse origin. Our people are Norse.we love the English. My cousin started a furniture making operation. Olaf Brentwood.
Love them or loath them depending on your point of view, this is one American who loves you Great Britain and all your history. And Timeline,too. I was standing on the exact same spot you opened your program in July 1992 and walked all the way around from the Lindisfarne Cathedral to the Castle. It appears to be a bit farther than I remember. Afterwards at low tide I walked back across the Causeway. Truly one of the highlights of my life.
I could watch Tony Robinson all day and listen to his stories, I have grown up with him first seeing him on Boffs Island when I was a kid, he then went onto other Islands to discover our all important history. Thank you Tony and team, this was fascinating!
I started archeology as an advocate when I was 10. I'm now 76 and can spend some time digging it! I spent weeks, visiting relatives in Chicago and exploring the Egyptology section of the Field museum. Over the years I have touched many areas of ancient history and discovered that as a kid I had sledded down hills in a local park that were actually mounds of the Mississippian civilization the greatest of which is Cahokia outside of St. Louis. It was in mediaeval times larger than Paris or London with huge geological constructs, mounds, along waterways in the Midwest! My hometown monuments were only documented by History Signs at that time and later by one monograph on Aztalan near Madison, Wi. Cahokia is over plowed and only recently being geophys-ed. I'd love to see Time Team tackle parts of these sites, Cahokia, Cutler Park, and Aztalan with their unique mix of tech, acute observation and camaraderie to explore more of these sites.
And when I was a kid, my Irish Celtic relations swore that we kept Vikings in Ireland as "practice in the struggle against the British" Can you say cultural bias?
Tidbit: DNA research is starting to show a small connection between Scandinavians and the early "Native Americans" who arrived via the ancient Alaskan route. I am guessing my Norwegian 4 cm DNA connection with the 10k ago "Clovis" remains was via "Ancient North Eurasia" mutual ancestry contributions. (see map on Wikipedia article about the Ancient North Eurasia peoples). (They may also be the source of blonde hair per the article! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_North_Eurasian)
My parents live in a 500 year old medieval thatched cottage in England and when the thatchers was putting a new roof on they found graffiti on one of the roof beams.And it's hard to read but what could be read says "GODS PROTECTION WILL" and "OVER HOUSE" people think it was the carpenter wrote it and it was a blessing for the cottage?? But we really don't know..
@@KNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 we found similar graffiti, much later, in window frames of my mom's 125 year old house in Wisconsin. Apparently it was common in older times to sign and greet/bless the dwelling they worked on
@@peggywishon9857 I would expect it. Vikings were documented in Vinland (Nova Scotia) well before the Europeans of the central and south. Lots of cravings, runes and ogam examples exist and are datable. Simple navigation tools and the "proud barques" would get them here and they were superb sailors. And as they were good farmers and explorers, it would have been a boon to them. In these instances, cross cultural mingling, families, and people are almost inevitable
My uncle was a Norwegian from Wisconsin. I am half Swede from western PA. But my viking ancestry is Baltic which probably explains the wee percentage of Finnish in me.
I'm Norwegian, and I feel a strange form of kinship when it comes to the American midwest. Listening to countless bands and artists and following several TH-cam channels from the region, I definitely feel like we have more in common with Midwesterners than the rest of the usa
@@Ugleseth My uncle was from wisconsin and he was norwegian. I am from western PA and we had alot of swedes there, and I am 39% swedish, 9% coming from NW England.
Ohhhh, I saw what you did there. Were you waiting on your Mother's porch? After all, the Summer wouldn't last forever. Were they the Best Years of Your Life?
I've only recently discovered this channel and I'm so impressed with the stories that you uncover. I'm so glad that this story was told the way it was. The Vikings had such a big influence on the world and weren't just raiders. I'm sure that life in many towns of their homeland were tough conditions and it makes sense that they were made of tougher stuff but they were also people and it's always great to see the other side of them spoken about.
The Vikings thought it was strange and not least ridiculous to worship a twisted crucified man hanging on a cross. How could they worship such pathetic weakness? They always had Odin and Thor in mind, these most powerful and honorable men of all.
Another brilliant overview of Viking life and influence. Thanks to Time Team, I’ve read several books on Viking history and culture. Many thanks for years of hard work and dedication.
As a Californian of British Island ancestry, I loved one of the closing lines - ".. and like Americans, you either love them or loathe them." Great episode! It never surprises me when we find out people have always been people. Absolutely have loved all of the Time Team episodes, keep them coming!
In the opening moments Sir Tony points to the falicy that the vikings wore horned helmets. Then every artistic depiction shown of a viking continues the horned helmet myth.
The raid om Lindisfaern was probably an answer on the Kristian conversion by sword in Denmark that was not popular in Scandinavia and a direkt answer to the Church leaders and the pope..
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐BRILLIANT! I haven't seen this before, Time Team Official, which is strange. I thought I had watched absolutely every Time Team Episode ever made, but then this Precious Gemstone turns up! FANTASTIC! Fantastic on so many levels. I'm a descendant of King Harald Fairhair & the Lade Earls of Trondheim, and my Viking Ancestors were always prepared for Battle, and weren't afraid to fight outnumbered. But they cherished Fishing, Hunting, Arable Land for Crops and Trade far more than War. I just wish the late and Great Victor Ambrus had been partaking in these episodes! It is absolutely cringeworthy seeing Vikings being decked out with Horns and Wings on their Helmets! A helmet needed to be efficient like every other Instrument of War, and that stupid decoration would just have been in the way. Other than that, this was a FABULOUS EPISODE! Thank you, Time Team Official! 🇳🇴🇩🇰🇬🇧👍
Thank you for mentioning "trade." There are websites showing many places with "rock decorating" in Scandinavia, with boats as the primary topic! Scandinavians were traders from way before the Viking era. Supposedly, amber from the Baltic was traded (over a lengthy "pathway") to the Pharaohs of Egypt - a long time before the famous Lindisfarne Vikings!
@@peggywishon9857 You are very welcome, peggy. I presume you are referring to Rock Carvings. Those were made several thousand years ago, 4000-6500 years ago in the neolithic age by the first people who moved up along the coast of Norway after the ice after the last ice age started retracting inland, leaving the coast to settle on. Those people presumably intermingled with the later Germanic Tribes who settled in Norway and later became the Vikings.
I’m surprised that at 3:26 and then onward Tony and the Time Team perpetuate the inappropriate use of the term “Viking”. All those Scandinavias who came to our shores were Norse. Some came as warriors, were admittedly very cruel, and were known as Vikings because they “went a’viking”, I.e., raiding and pillaging. Viking is a verb and those who did it were “Vikings”. Many of the Norse folk did viking at times but many were also farmers/settlers who contributed so much to our society. I think it’s an important distinction.
Except they themselves sometimes referred to themselves as Vikings. See Dr. Sarah-Jane Gibbon's observation at 34:10. 'Viking' is not inappropriate at all.
Viking was NOT just used as a verb that is a myth, it is used in many ways on at least on Rune stone it says "he was a great Viking", in old Norse it could be written as "Vikingr" or Vikingar" as a Scandinavian I can tell you we always use the term Viking about Scandinavians living in what is known as the Viking age, nobody knows exactly what it means, this video state it mean pirate, we know of a much older word Wiking meaning pirate at one point in time, yet mean warrior in another, and we can't be sure the Norse use of the word is even one of those,the same or similar word can mean something completely diff. in diff. language like "glass" in Swedish it means Icecream, some historians think it comes from the old Norse (and modern Scandinavian) VIK meaning Bay, Vikingr being people settling in Bays and going exploring new Bay's to settle in and maybe trade or raid, anyway the word Norse is a modern English term , it does not tell us what timeline we are in of the history of Norse people, back in the Viking age they were called Normans but then people confuse them with the mix of Vikings an Franks from Normandy, but that is how the Normans and Normandy got the name, from the Normans from Scandinavia, another problem with terms like Norman, Norse and Northmen is a lot of people incl. Scandinavians think it only the Norweigians as we call them Norrman/Nordmænd , other names they were called: Danes, Varangians, Sveir, Rus among other names but again it does not tell us the timeline we are still called Danes in Denmark , so we say Vikings everybody know who they were and what age we are in, also it was communities some of the farmers did go on raid/trade, whole families settled in other countries, some build the ships, some made the sails, clothes and items to trade so you can't really separate them from each other, they were not outlaws from their own society like pirates, they were part of it.
"All those Scandinavias who came to our shores were Norse." Nope, not all. Danes are Danes. Old English sources clearly use the word "Danes". Sure, there were some Norsemen from Norway whom the Anglo-Saxons apparently also called Danes now and then. There were allegedly some Slavic mercenaries as well. There were even some mercinaries from upper Sweden who had a strange tradition of raising Runestones for their fallen relatives and commemorating their service under the Danes fighting in England. None of it changes the fact:: It´s called DANEGELD, not Norsegeld, not Vikinggeld. It´s called DANELAW, not Norselaw, not Vikinglaw. Cry more!
It is fine. They were a mixed bunch that travelled for different purposes over two centuries. No single term will accurately describe them. Calling all of them Norse or Danes is just as inaccurate than calling them Vikings.
Wonderful programme: thank you. One quibble: when the Normans came over in 1066 when Harald lost the Battle of Hastings, right after the Battle of Stamford Bridge, William of Normandy's men and soldiers were actually NORTHMEN. i.e. they were Vikings who had earlier been settled with land in northern France. My husband has traced his family lineage back to the invasion of the Northmen, and guess what: he's 6' 3" with bright red hair, a beard, and a military disposition. Incredible to think that those genes continue to be passed down over the centuries to the present day!
what happens in the privacy of our bedroom is our business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keelhauling is fun too. My husband's only complaint is that he didn't get to Marks' and Spencers" after a raid. @@carywest9256
I think a lot of us older people could have used TT during history classes. It would have been far better than the monotone films and dull literature 👀😄
As a 'Proud American' (USA not Canada or South), I simply LUV Sir Robinson..." Vikings were Global Traders, Technological Pioneers & Frightening Invaders.... abit like the Americans..!! You either Love Them or Loathe Them".... Well Said, Tony..!! And We Americans feel the same way too....!!
Probably not the first to post it, but i just have to clear up the term "Viking" and the scandinavian meaning: Viking means "Person from Viken". A "Vik" in norwegian is a sort of cove (large or small), and rerference the area in norway just north of denmark. That area/county is litterally called "Viken" today. "ing" is an ending scaninavians add to an adjective when a person is described. So a crazy person would be "Galing" (gal=crazy + ing). But the "ing" ending can be added to other words as well to describe a property of a person, like when we say "søring" (sør=south +ing) would be a person from the south, or a southerner. So a "Viking" litteraly means "A person from the area called viken". But in English the correct term would be a Vikerner or maybe Vikenerner. The idea that viking means "looter" does not come from scandinavia, but probably England and europe since that is what people from viken did. We have similar meanings from other groups of people like "Vandals" who is now used for Vandalism (deliberate desctruction of property)
The Viking Age didn't really end at Stamford Bridge. The Normans were basically Vikings with a thin Frankish veneer, making the harrying of the North (i.e. the Danelaw) an inter-faction Viking thing. Not that the conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings was much different. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from a similar area, spoke a similar Germanic language, worshipped the more or less same Norse gods when they arrived, and invaded/settled by crossing the North Sea in longboats.
Excellent observation. As an aside, the people researching Dupuytren's contracture ("Vikings' disease" where your finger curves inward) held that it could not have been from the Vikings because it was also in "non-Viking" areas of England. They failed to recognize that if it was a "farther back" Germanic tribes disease, it would (as it actually is) all over England due to the observation you make. Thank you for your insightful comment.
100% FALSE. The Normans were French bastard sons (born out of wetlock) who were left with no career opportunities other than becoming gansters in mercinary warbands. Like many other bastards the Normans simply CLAIMED foreign ancestry in order to hide their low status as French bastards. They used the dubious continental European legal notion of "MORE DANICO" in their attempt to escape and ignore the local Christian laws that had shunned them, but their claims were always nothing but LIES.and DECEPTION. The true facts are that not a single Norman has ever been able to offer trustworthy evidence of Norse ancestry and likewise no Dane has ever claimed these French-Norman bastards as their sons. The Normans were Romano-French to the bone. They all had French names. Their language were simply an Old-French dialect, and they were indeed always the arch-enemies of the Danes. William the Bastard got his name for a reason.
I just had the realization that the empire building colonizing British of the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries were actually the Vikings that settled the area hundreds of years before. They just expanded what they had already been doing.
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I want to extend an enormous thanks to the entire crew at Time Team. I've grown up with your shows, they were my dad and my 'go to' programme when we'd have a day of just father-son bonding time. There's always a nostalgia for me and still bringing out quality content all these years later is something I will cherish and share with my future children too. I now live in the historic city of Norwich on a hill overlooking the great Norman built cathedral and am surrounded by history I couldn't have appreciated without the seeds you guys planted years ago. You've been there through some rough times when I needed a bit of 'home' and I can't thank you enough for all the hard work, time and effort that goes into giving us these wonderfully enthralling shows. Long live Time Team!
Bravo! I feel exactly the same. I'm probably in a good 100 episode rewatch on every one . magnificent program. Thank you Time Team. 😊
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Thank you. You are very very welcome indeed. That is so kind of you
Amen to that! 🇨🇦
Have they ever found anything?
Baldric is still looking for his giant turnip after a thousend years or so.
I have notes on 20 seasons of Time Team. Handwritten because I'm 73😊. Grandma 🤗 hugs
The Secrets of Stanehedge ......... th-cam.com/video/dTHxeRq8Df0/w-d-xo.html !!!
In the US we have really no history. I'm in love with Britain.. I'm keeping notes trying to figure out your history time lines.... ❤I'm 62...
@@terrydamron4770 You have thousands of years of history. The mound builders, the native Americans across the whole continent, the amazing geological history of the last ice age and the disappearance of the mega fauna, the fascinating history of piracy and revolutions. Just because it was prehistory before the arrival of Europeans, doesn't make it any less interesting than British or European history. I'm obsessed with pre-Columbus America, it's such an evocative history.
@@malbennett9806 indeed! we have our own mounds and henges and ruins. why, i live a couple km from a river tributary full of bits of worked flint, pottery sherds... basically, the area's archaeology shows relatively steady periods of habitation from 20k years ago until the present day (not to mention fossil finds as early as the cambrian, if that's what floats your boat). our public school system could use a massive overhaul, and history is one (of admittedly many) blind spots.
I take notes on all history. I live now near Pueblo and Navajo history. Most of my family culture is Swedish. But great dig in York! It has always been my passion ❤️
Mick would be proud that time team is back at it and going strong.
I don't think he would be proud of the cast they have now!
@@marqueemark5917Agreed there are a few that need to up their game infront of the camera, but i always like seeing the old crew back together.
Can you imagine his reaction to them being able to dig at Sutton Hoo?
Tony is a true storyteller! He's more than a host.
Do not forget that the Normans was of Viking heritage, so the Viking age in Britain did not end in 1066, it was just new Viking rulers that took over. Greetings from Norway. 🇧🇻
Yep I always tel folk we weren't done by the French, once had a argument with a frog about this subject and ya know what he got it 100%
I find that hilarious, personally.
So technically, the Vikings DID build an empire. It was just called the British empire.
@@somedude6161Russia as well.
Rus is said to mean "row" but IMO it likely stems from HROSS, or the horse-heads ("dragons") featured at the ends of the ships.
"Russia" then means "Horsia", which is rather fitting considering that is where the horse, as well as the scythians that brought horse culture into scandinavia, came from.
@@fredriks5090 ah yes. The czars were of Viking decent until about 1600.
Stewart has such beautiful hands! My children adored Time Team when they were young and now are introducing the programme to their own children. Time Team will never grow old. Thank you to everyone involved.
My kids called it “mum’s digging show”… reruns were on in the early evening when my kids were little, and I would watch as I cooked tea each night! Continuing to watch and impressed that the Team is continuing!
Another loathsome American here …absolutely fantastic …love, love, love the Time Team!!!
I haven't watched this in 10 years or something , amazing episode! Greetings from a Norwegian Viking.
Bonjour to a 0007, from a 007...
Speaking as a loathsome American, (who, coincidentally, has both Scandanavian and Norman blood) I appreciate these programs in/on the history of Britain.
Cheers, from loathsome American in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
? Hmm? (Clarify query.)@@lauramelton9271
@@lauramelton9271 Russia, over the Bering strait
@@lauramelton9271 The Native Americans were
the first then vikings but the vikings didn't stay from my understanding. It sure wasn't Christopher Columbus what they teach in American schools.
Germans 1709 Palatine migration happen in the frontier areas of New York city.
@@lauramelton9271 doesnt matter where the first to come are from its the ones who were last to stay that mattered..
Who say your loathsome?? We certainly don't in ENGLAND that's for sure your virtually our cousins and this is your history as well as ours especially if you've got FRENCH,DUTCH (NORSE VIKING) GERMANIC,SCOTISH,IRISH,WELSH ANCESTORS They we're all here..🏴🇺🇲
Bring back Time Team!!! One of the most interesting programmes on TV ever. All my children were brought up watching it. Miss it!!!
it is back! Plenty of new programmes on TH-cam, along side much of the back catalogue
I have seen 20 seasons of Time Team, is that enough for a degree in archeology? 🙂
It's enough to teach a course in archaeology. But you only have three days ....
Have you done the accompanying labs, or just attended the lectures?
@@ariannedechateaumichel7777Ha, ha, I'm am actually taking courses in archeology and history and have a study trip next week.
Praktikum?
@@ariannedechateaumichel7777 Study trip to excavations next week.
I love seeing time team and tony at the beginning giving you a warm welcome is like seeing an old friend who has a story to tell
My daughter and I never missed an episode I think it was on every Sunday . MY daughter is now 52 years old . Well done TIME TEAM 👏👏👏👏🏴
I was once asked who would I like most to have a meal with and my answer was Tony Robinson. What a wealth of knowledge and experiences he carries around in his head.
I found TT during the pandemic lockdown. I will never stop loving the show and the whole team!
Oh my word... this episode brought me to tears. How much they are missed!
Umm why??
@@KNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Having followed every season of the old Time Team, now seeing its original members, especially those who are no longer around, that's what brought back those emotions for me.
@@Klara-Hvar I'm just joking 😂👍
@@KNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Well... you never know if the person asking is someone from the latest generation who isn't familiar with the origins of the program 😄
Tony Robinson is my hero.
I love Phil Harding, that guy is awesome 😊
Btw im danish, so kinda funny this episode was about our Viking past
LMAO, someone who acted stupid for a living is your hero?...hilarious. These mugs waste millions and find a bit of broken pottery and lots and lots of "guessing" you don't know how TV works🤣
Ime english name ending in son and have two viking traits @@snedler
He is rather awesome ❤
@@naomiboisson6966 I would say the whole team gives time team the amazing gift to let us watch and learn through tv and have a good time🙂
Phil and Tony have a way with always having fun with each other and in good moods..
Amazing tv serie 😀
One of the cool things about the Kirkdale inscription (the church featured at the end of this program) is that every word of it, except for the Scandinavian proper names, is still used in everyday English.
A lot of our basic words in "Scandinavian" ( three very similar / overlapping languages ) are actually still surprisingly similar to their English counterparts - often just a slightly alternative spelling or a simple systematic sound shift apart at the most - , and there are several grammatical similarities as well between our languages.
So when we Scandinavians are learning English, it often feels as if we already know "half" of a simplistic older Germanic core English in advance and then "just" need to fill in the gaps and climb a few hurdles here and there ( e.g. the use of "do" & "-ing" with verbs ) - and that we don't even have to think very much most of the time - rather like a huge extension of our own languages instead of a completely unrelated language.
A couple of examples in Danish of this astonishing similarity between our languages at the basic level:
D Skal vi [ve] gå [go] ud igen [ee-gain] for at finde min [meen] fader [fað-er !] / moder [mo(u)ð-er !] / broder [bro(u)ð-er] / søster [s'oe's-ter]?
E Shall (OE sceal !) we go out again (for) to find my father / mother / brother / sister?
D Jeg [yigh] kan se / høre [h'oe'r-e] dem komme over til os [us] nu [noo*], så [sO] (th)at de [dee*] kan synge deres [dair-es] fine [feen-e] nye [ne(w)-e] sang [sAng] for os alle.
E I can see / hear them coming ("come") over to us now, so that they ("dey") can sing their fine new song for us all.
D Hvad vi du ( orig. "thu"!) give ham [hAm] for alle de mange [ mAng-e] ( many, OE moneGe !) gode ting han ha(ve)r [hAr] sendt [sent] dig [digh] fra(m) England?
E What will you (thou) give him for all the good things he has sent you (thee, orig. "thik"!) from England?
And so on and on at the basic level 😊
Love this show. Especially for seeing the digsites and the people who work in them!
My dad was stationed in England(early 1950s. He noticed that many English surnames were of Norse origin. Our people are Norse.we love the English. My cousin started a furniture making operation. Olaf Brentwood.
There's still places and street names in especially ENGLAND that are still named after the Norse..
I’ve been binging Time Team since roughly middle school. I love this show.
Love them or loath them depending on your point of view, this is one American who loves you Great Britain and all your history. And Timeline,too. I was standing on the exact same spot you opened your program in July 1992 and walked all the way around from the Lindisfarne Cathedral to the Castle. It appears to be a bit farther than I remember. Afterwards at low tide I walked back across the Causeway. Truly one of the highlights of my life.
I could watch Tony Robinson all day and listen to his stories, I have grown up with him first seeing him on Boffs Island when I was a kid, he then went onto other Islands to discover our all important history. Thank you Tony and team, this was fascinating!
Thank You for keeping my ancestors alive today♥️
Nothing beats Time Team series 💞it's just the best🌸🌸🌸🫠
Great programme as always. Well done for keeping history alive!
Tony really landed on his feet with this job. Something that he is passionate about and getting paid too.
So good to see Tony back at it again!
I started archeology as an advocate when I was 10. I'm now 76 and can spend some time digging it! I spent weeks, visiting relatives in Chicago and exploring the Egyptology section of the Field museum. Over the years I have touched many areas of ancient history and discovered that as a kid I had sledded down hills in a local park that were actually mounds of the Mississippian civilization the greatest of which is Cahokia outside of St. Louis. It was in mediaeval times larger than Paris or London with huge geological constructs, mounds, along waterways in the Midwest! My hometown monuments were only documented by History Signs at that time and later by one monograph on Aztalan near Madison, Wi. Cahokia is over plowed and only recently being geophys-ed. I'd love to see Time Team tackle parts of these sites, Cahokia, Cutler Park, and Aztalan with their unique mix of tech, acute observation and camaraderie to explore more of these sites.
And when I was a kid, my Irish Celtic relations swore that we kept Vikings in Ireland as "practice in the struggle against the British" Can you say cultural bias?
Tidbit: DNA research is starting to show a small connection between Scandinavians and the early "Native Americans" who arrived via the ancient Alaskan route. I am guessing my Norwegian 4 cm DNA connection with the 10k ago "Clovis" remains was via "Ancient North Eurasia" mutual ancestry contributions. (see map on Wikipedia article about the Ancient North Eurasia peoples). (They may also be the source of blonde hair per the article! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_North_Eurasian)
My parents live in a 500 year old medieval thatched cottage in England and when the thatchers was putting a new roof on they found graffiti on one of the roof beams.And it's hard to read but what could be read says "GODS PROTECTION WILL" and "OVER HOUSE" people think it was the carpenter wrote it and it was a blessing for the cottage?? But we really don't know..
@@KNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 we found similar graffiti, much later, in window frames of my mom's 125 year old house in Wisconsin. Apparently it was common in older times to sign and greet/bless the dwelling they worked on
@@peggywishon9857 I would expect it. Vikings were documented in Vinland (Nova Scotia) well before the Europeans of the central and south. Lots of cravings, runes and ogam examples exist and are datable. Simple navigation tools and the "proud barques" would get them here and they were superb sailors. And as they were good farmers and explorers, it would have been a boon to them. In these instances, cross cultural mingling, families, and people are almost inevitable
Love Time Team... just good for the mind.
I'm an American from Minnesota, a Midwesterner, and by ancestry I am related to these people. Thank you for bringing them to life for me.
Thousands and thousands of AMERICANS are related to people in the UK your virtually our cousins 😂
My uncle was a Norwegian from Wisconsin. I am half Swede from western PA. But my viking ancestry is Baltic which probably explains the wee percentage of Finnish in me.
I'm Norwegian, and I feel a strange form of kinship when it comes to the American midwest. Listening to countless bands and artists and following several TH-cam channels from the region, I definitely feel like we have more in common with Midwesterners than the rest of the usa
@@Ugleseth My uncle was from wisconsin and he was norwegian. I am from western PA and we had alot of swedes there, and I am 39% swedish, 9% coming from NW England.
time team is one of the top shows ever on tv , I watched every episode tony the ELVIS of presenters.👍🇨🇦
I remember "Summer of 969" Great song!
My thought exactly!
Ohhhh, I saw what you did there.
Were you waiting on your Mother's porch? After all, the Summer wouldn't last forever.
Were they the Best Years of Your Life?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one, lol
Got my first real longship
Set the course for Lindisfarne
Rowed it till my fingers bled
That was the summer of 969
Brybjorn Adamsen?
Best! Show! Ever!
You should come to Newfoundland, Canada and visit the Viking settlement.
The Vikings were smart enough to abandon the 'Lands of Newfie' ... and left them for the Scotch to claim..!!
Some in Rhode Island, USA as well
I've only recently discovered this channel and I'm so impressed with the stories that you uncover. I'm so glad that this story was told the way it was. The Vikings had such a big influence on the world and weren't just raiders. I'm sure that life in many towns of their homeland were tough conditions and it makes sense that they were made of tougher stuff but they were also people and it's always great to see the other side of them spoken about.
Just fabulous, thank you all.
I loved when Tony compares the American to the Viking, because its so true 👍
With a bit of the Roman's in us to 😊
The Vikings are still here. 😉🥰
And I have a crooked little finger which is apparently thanks to my Viking heritage.
Nope
They are gone forever
The Vikings thought it was strange and not least ridiculous to worship a twisted crucified man hanging on a cross. How could they worship such pathetic weakness? They always had Odin and Thor in mind, these most powerful and honorable men of all.
And then they became Christian.
What do you mean by honorable in this context? Honorable by viking standards or by modern?
Another brilliant overview of Viking life and influence. Thanks to Time Team, I’ve read several books on Viking history and culture. Many thanks for years of hard work and dedication.
Every time I see Mick, Robin and Ian the elder JCB operator I get wet eyes. Two academics and a backhoe operator . All brilliant at their trade.
I love Time Team!
As a Californian of British Island ancestry, I loved one of the closing lines - ".. and like Americans, you either love them or loathe them."
Great episode!
It never surprises me when we find out people have always been people.
Absolutely have loved all of the Time Team episodes, keep them coming!
In the opening moments Sir Tony points to the falicy that the vikings wore horned helmets. Then every artistic depiction shown of a viking continues the horned helmet myth.
But loads of those were lady bird history stuff...if it enchants children to discover more let's applaud x
Fascinating period of history and as always, most amazing show!
Tony does it best The time team crew make history just interesting
Gods bless Mick and Phil and Tony and Helen.
Tony so good to hear you again very missed you are so I ntresting telling us story's about our history no 1
Excellent. I really enjoyed this! Thank you Sir Tony and Team. 🌟👍
Thank you for sharing!!
Another fun, amazing show. Tony is unstoppable.
Happily shared with a Viking friend of mine - this is a great one.
Time Team on You Tube is a ...... cunning plan . Good on you, Baldrick.
Sir tony robinson is a national hero!
The raid om Lindisfaern was probably an answer on the Kristian conversion by sword in Denmark that was not popular in Scandinavia and a direkt answer to the Church leaders and the pope..
Charlemagne
I really love time team and especially Tony Robinson❤❤❤❤❤ archaeology at it's best!
I love Time Team, It's great learning from you, even I live in the Netherlands
Bjorn
I live in Lincolnshire (England) not that far from tbe Dutch coast. 👍
I was born in 1984 and grew up watching this man in a Robin hood show as a kid. Alongside Sooty and T-Bag
I adore these programs! hello from Tulsa, Ok! I'll never get to visit, but my heart lies there!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐BRILLIANT! I haven't seen this before, Time Team Official, which is strange. I thought I had watched absolutely every Time Team Episode ever made, but then this Precious Gemstone turns up! FANTASTIC! Fantastic on so many levels. I'm a descendant of King Harald Fairhair & the Lade Earls of Trondheim, and my Viking Ancestors were always prepared for Battle, and weren't afraid to fight outnumbered. But they cherished Fishing, Hunting, Arable Land for Crops and Trade far more than War.
I just wish the late and Great Victor Ambrus had been partaking in these episodes! It is absolutely cringeworthy seeing Vikings being decked out with Horns and Wings on their Helmets! A helmet needed to be efficient like every other Instrument of War, and that stupid decoration would just have been in the way.
Other than that, this was a FABULOUS EPISODE! Thank you, Time Team Official! 🇳🇴🇩🇰🇬🇧👍
Thank you for mentioning "trade." There are websites showing many places with "rock decorating" in Scandinavia, with boats as the primary topic! Scandinavians were traders from way before the Viking era. Supposedly, amber from the Baltic was traded (over a lengthy "pathway") to the Pharaohs of Egypt - a long time before the famous Lindisfarne Vikings!
@@peggywishon9857 You are very welcome, peggy. I presume you are referring to Rock Carvings. Those were made several thousand years ago, 4000-6500 years ago in the neolithic age by the first people who moved up along the coast of Norway after the ice after the last ice age started retracting inland, leaving the coast to settle on. Those people presumably intermingled with the later Germanic Tribes who settled in Norway and later became the Vikings.
My family was part of the vikings that took over Normandy when the French king gave them land to stop the raiding.
The land was Normanby from where William launched his invasion of England.
My god I love Time Team!
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you!😊
Great episode! As an American, the little dig at the end made me laugh.
If she says "rune" one more time, I am going to swim across the Atlantic in a trance. What a beautiful voice!
Its my name :)
My 45x great grandfather was Sigurd 'snake in the eye ' Ragnarsson. A distant cousin was the Duke of Normandy, William the Conqueror.
I absolutely LOVE the closing comments comparing the attitude toward the Vikings to that we hold toward the Americans!!! PERFECT!!!
Some of us moved back to Scandinavia !🇩🇰❤
I so miss the OG time team 💔
You are a great musician, SirT Robinson.
I love time team ❤thank you for this 🎉
I will definitely rewatch some Blackadder episodes after this.
The American 'vikings' approve of the show.
excellent documentary
Funnily, here in Denmark, we are mostly told that Canute and Forkbear are also vikings.
Had to share this with a knife maker. Love this stuff ❤
The discovery of the viking poo was amazing. Can you imagine being the historical giant who sired such a significant part of history ?
Viking mud is no big thing, lessen ya step in it then track it in your house!😮
And he must have been a giant, that would've left me limping for days
awesome happy sit back and enjoy
Glad to have “discovered “ the Time Team you tube channel. I don’t have a TV only my iPad. I want to know so much more about post Roman Britain.
this one should be good like all the rest.
I’m surprised that at 3:26 and then onward Tony and the Time Team perpetuate the inappropriate use of the term “Viking”. All those Scandinavias who came to our shores were Norse. Some came as warriors, were admittedly very cruel, and were known as Vikings because they “went a’viking”, I.e., raiding and pillaging. Viking is a verb and those who did it were “Vikings”. Many of the Norse folk did viking at times but many were also farmers/settlers who contributed so much to our society. I think it’s an important distinction.
We already know that. 🇩🇰👊🏻
Except they themselves sometimes referred to themselves as Vikings. See Dr. Sarah-Jane Gibbon's observation at 34:10. 'Viking' is not inappropriate at all.
Viking was NOT just used as a verb that is a myth, it is used in many ways on at least on Rune stone it says "he was a great Viking", in old Norse it could be written as "Vikingr" or Vikingar" as a Scandinavian I can tell you we always use the term Viking about Scandinavians living in what is known as the Viking age, nobody knows exactly what it means, this video state it mean pirate, we know of a much older word Wiking meaning pirate at one point in time, yet mean warrior in another, and we can't be sure the Norse use of the word is even one of those,the same or similar word can mean something completely diff. in diff. language like "glass" in Swedish it means Icecream, some historians think it comes from the old Norse (and modern Scandinavian) VIK meaning Bay, Vikingr being people settling in Bays and going exploring new Bay's to settle in and maybe trade or raid, anyway the word Norse is a modern English term , it does not tell us what timeline we are in of the history of Norse people, back in the Viking age they were called Normans but then people confuse them with the mix of Vikings an Franks from Normandy, but that is how the Normans and Normandy got the name, from the Normans from Scandinavia, another problem with terms like Norman, Norse and Northmen is a lot of people incl. Scandinavians think it only the Norweigians as we call them Norrman/Nordmænd , other names they were called: Danes, Varangians, Sveir, Rus among other names but again it does not tell us the timeline we are still called Danes in Denmark , so we say Vikings everybody know who they were and what age we are in, also it was communities some of the farmers did go on raid/trade, whole families settled in other countries, some build the ships, some made the sails, clothes and items to trade so you can't really separate them from each other, they were not outlaws from their own society like pirates, they were part of it.
"All those Scandinavias who came to our shores were Norse."
Nope, not all. Danes are Danes. Old English sources clearly use the word "Danes". Sure, there were some Norsemen from Norway whom the Anglo-Saxons apparently also called Danes now and then. There were allegedly some Slavic mercenaries as well.
There were even some mercinaries from upper Sweden who had a strange tradition of raising Runestones for their fallen relatives and commemorating their service under the Danes fighting in England.
None of it changes the fact:: It´s called DANEGELD, not Norsegeld, not Vikinggeld. It´s called DANELAW, not Norselaw, not Vikinglaw. Cry more!
It is fine. They were a mixed bunch that travelled for different purposes over two centuries. No single term will accurately describe them. Calling all of them Norse or Danes is just as inaccurate than calling them Vikings.
Brilliant programme 👏 ❤ cant beat the old oresenters❤
Wonderful programme: thank you. One quibble: when the Normans came over in 1066 when Harald lost the Battle of Hastings, right after the Battle of Stamford Bridge, William of Normandy's men and soldiers were actually NORTHMEN. i.e. they were Vikings who had earlier been settled with land in northern France. My husband has traced his family lineage back to the invasion of the Northmen, and guess what: he's 6' 3" with bright red hair, a beard, and a military disposition. Incredible to think that those genes continue to be passed down over the centuries to the present day!
And you like to get pillaged?
what we do in the privacy of our bedroom is our concern!!!!!@@carywest9256
what happens in the privacy of our bedroom is our business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keelhauling is fun too. My husband's only complaint is that he didn't get to Marks' and Spencers" after a raid. @@carywest9256
@@carywest9256 LOL....probably a real berserker!
You are quite right. William the Conquerer was grandson of Uffe, from Jutland, who took land from the French king for danegeld !
Love this show.
That viking that stood by himself at Stamford Bridge was called a bazerker
Thanks so much for posting
I think a lot of us older people could have used TT during history classes. It would have been far better than the monotone films and dull literature 👀😄
Definitely
As a 'Proud American' (USA not Canada or South), I simply LUV Sir Robinson..." Vikings were Global Traders, Technological Pioneers & Frightening Invaders.... abit like the Americans..!! You either Love Them or Loathe Them".... Well Said, Tony..!! And We Americans feel the same way too....!!
Probably not the first to post it, but i just have to clear up the term "Viking" and the scandinavian meaning:
Viking means "Person from Viken". A "Vik" in norwegian is a sort of cove (large or small), and rerference the area in norway just north of denmark. That area/county is litterally called "Viken" today. "ing" is an ending scaninavians add to an adjective when a person is described. So a crazy person would be "Galing" (gal=crazy + ing). But the "ing" ending can be added to other words as well to describe a property of a person, like when we say "søring" (sør=south +ing) would be a person from the south, or a southerner.
So a "Viking" litteraly means "A person from the area called viken".
But in English the correct term would be a Vikerner or maybe Vikenerner.
The idea that viking means "looter" does not come from scandinavia, but probably England and europe since that is what people from viken did.
We have similar meanings from other groups of people like "Vandals" who is now used for Vandalism (deliberate desctruction of property)
The Viking Age didn't really end at Stamford Bridge. The Normans were basically Vikings with a thin Frankish veneer, making the harrying of the North (i.e. the Danelaw) an inter-faction Viking thing.
Not that the conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings was much different.
The Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from a similar area, spoke a similar Germanic language, worshipped the more or less same Norse gods when they arrived, and invaded/settled by crossing the North Sea in longboats.
Excellent observation. As an aside, the people researching Dupuytren's contracture ("Vikings' disease" where your finger curves inward) held that it could not have been from the Vikings because it was also in "non-Viking" areas of England. They failed to recognize that if it was a "farther back" Germanic tribes disease, it would (as it actually is) all over England due to the observation you make. Thank you for your insightful comment.
100% FALSE. The Normans were French bastard sons (born out of wetlock) who were left with no career opportunities other than becoming gansters in mercinary warbands. Like many other bastards the Normans simply CLAIMED foreign ancestry in order to hide their low status as French bastards. They used the dubious continental European legal notion of "MORE DANICO" in their attempt to escape and ignore the local Christian laws that had shunned them, but their claims were always nothing but LIES.and DECEPTION.
The true facts are that not a single Norman has ever been able to offer trustworthy evidence of Norse ancestry and likewise no Dane has ever claimed these French-Norman bastards as their sons. The Normans were Romano-French to the bone. They all had French names. Their language were simply an Old-French dialect, and they were indeed always the arch-enemies of the Danes.
William the Bastard got his name for a reason.
Loving it thanks.💕💖
Thank you.
I just had the realization that the empire building colonizing British of the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries were actually the Vikings that settled the area hundreds of years before. They just expanded what they had already been doing.
Nitpicking: York wasn’t renamed Jorvik by the Vikings. Before they came, it was called Eoforwic. “York” is a distortion of Jorvik
So good❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks, that was a fabulous video. Hats off! 🙂
"Vikings are like Americans. You either love them or loathe them." --Tony Robinson
Yes, can't wait!!!