Icelander REACTS to VIKINGS
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2019
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Hi guys! Just want to let you know I put a lot of effort into this video but since I don't speak danish/norwegian/swedish feel free to correct me if anything was incorrect in the video! Also I would have included Faroese but it is not supported by Google Translate :( If you guys want more content from me then please go follow me on instagram @hrafnhildurrafns
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how old are you? 21
where are you from? Iceland
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You should see the episode where they discover Iceland and believe they have found Asgard...
I watched the entirety of season 5 AND DIDN'T FRICKIN REALISE THAT WAS IT?! It was ICELAND all along?!
... I knew Floki was tripping balls but I thought he just found a random place lol
Niko no, Iceland, Greenland is covered in ice. It’s literally the biggest troll in all history.
@@williamrussell7770 During the time of the vikings Greenland was not covered in ice. There was actually a very successful viking colony for over 500 years. I just watched an entire documentary on it haha! So, it might have been Greenland? But, Iceland seems like a more obvious choice. Who knows.
@@williamrussell7770 greater than the spinning squirrels??
@@Moon0525_ I understand. It's a well known fact that Floki discovered Iceland.
The actors were picking from different countries of Scandinavia, that is why you hear different dialects.
Actually the main character lothbrok is an Australian actor
A few Americans too (like Bjorn), Katherine Winnick (Lagertha) is Canadian, some of the “English” characters are played by Irish, Scottish, or Welsh actors. According to what I’ve read what they speak is supposed to be closer to Swedish or Norwegian than Icelandic. This woman is hung up on The Eddas having been written in Iceland in the Middle Ages. She likes to ignore that Danes, Swedes, Finns, and Norwegians were the ones who settled Iceland.
@@TGFischer1980 Bjorn is Canadian too
@Patrick Turner not sure if you commented on my comment, if so you have to prove me, Vancouver is not in Canada :)
@@TGFischer1980 Finns had nothing to do with the settlement of Iceland, Scandinavians did. Otherwise I agree with everything you say.
I tried to learn some Icelandic before I went to Iceland two years ago.
I tried to say simple things like ordering coffee or a sandwich in Icelandic.
Everytime I did this the Icelandic person taking the order would laugh or smile amused and then tried to correct my pronunciation but I couldn't get it right.
They were so nice to me and genuinely were pleased with my attempts.
Several times they even said things like, We like you. You get 10 or 15 percent off.
I think it was the most friendly country I ever visited.
A lot of people don't really value language or culture on a lot of countries; they'll think "I already speak english they are the ones who must learn too to talk to me". So this very simple act of taking your time to be polite and respectful is very appreciated,you don't need a lot. As a Brazilian,whenever a tourist acknowledge we speak Portuguese and not Spanish it is very appreciated, a "obrigado" instead of a "gracias" goes a long way.
Well well well...i will put their niceness to odin's test one day...pack my things over here in West Africa....jump on a viking galley and sail over and say howdy... ja ja ja ...von friend-min hankrur
@@kwekuotiacheampong2375 how is it living their? It looks beautiful.. Im so tried of concrete and asphalt
I lived in Germany for 6 yrs. I was in a small town at a small US Army base. I had a great time because I started to learn German and would speak as much German as I could. And the locals there accepted me because I respected them enough to try and speak the language. Some of the older German neighbors even adopted me like a son inviting me to dinners or even holiday celebrations . One of the best times of my life.
@@faamecanic1970 das ist schön zu wissen😍good to know.. you always welcome in Germany....and the Islanders too❣
The one who plays Floki is a Skarsgard. All of the Skarsgard actors are Scandinavian. They have said on many occasions that their father made them learn Icelandic growing up.
Gustaf Skårsgard?
@@gurbudurk9713 yes
@@gurbudurk9713no, Laquan
4:21 Floki is played by Gustaf Skarsgård, whose Swedish. So its makes sense he would nail the pronunciation. 👌🏻👌🏻
Wasn't even him that was speaking. Floki (Gustaf) is just standing next to him, but it's the guy with the partially shaved head that speaks.
A number of the actors are Scandinavian. I know the guy that plays Ivar is from Denmark.
If you watch the show youll actually hear Floki/Gustaf pronounce a lot of Norse words and names in his native language. Often with Ragnar, Thorstein, Vallhall, etc.
That scene was dark & it looked like Floki was talking. That scene was from from the earlier seasons which I haven't seen in a while.
Floki (Gustaf) does speak at 10:08 though ^_^ and she does take note that it was very well spoken, as you said he is Swedish so he did nail the pronunciation.
Note: I know the characters are speaking Old Norse NOT just old Icelandic. I just thought it would be interesting to compare the languages and see how much I could understand! This video is suppose to be entertaining but I also wanted to teach you a little bit of modern Icelandic along the way! I'm not a professional, just wanted to make a fun little video ❤❤
And you did a great job! 👍 But, yes, Vikings takes place long before the settlement of Iceland, so they are speaking either Old Norse or Anglo Saxon. Long before either Icelandic or English even happened. As for the actors, Ragnar is Australian, his wife and son are Canadian, and his brother Rollo is British. There are plenty of Scandinavian actors as well. Floki being a big one. Anyway, it is a really great show, and I hope you chose to react to it. So few people of Viking decent have tackled it. Plz, be one of the first.
Great job, thank you!
Hrafna There is a chapter in Season 5 where Floki (character played by Gustaf Skargård) arrives to Iceland and he thanks Odin for the opportunity. He is supposed to be speaking in old Icelandic/Norse??? I know it is not the same but it is such a magic moment. You can look for it on RUclips.
I like the background looks relaxing
I second what Spyder K B says! I think that they try to use different pronunciations and different dialects to show that the Vikings come from different areas, such as Lagertha who comes from Kattegat, between Norway and Denmark. Harold and Halfdan come from Norway and Jarl Borg came from Sweden, etc. The actors are from all over, but many are Scandinavian. I also watch Norsemen on Netflix, which I think is supposed to be a parody of Vikings made in Norway.
Flokie is played by one of the skarsgard brothers forgot which one but that would explain why he’s able to speak fluently
Gustav!
Björns actor is half Swedish or Norwegian aswell i think
"This video is turning to an Icelandic lesson" hehe perfect. As I watched this I really started wanting to learn Icelandic.
Some of the characters are actually speaking Old English too in the beginning
yes...the tough part for this show (respect fro even doing that) is probably, that there are way more sources for Old English than for the ancient Nordic languages...i don´t think much was written down or not destroyed
@@RSProduxx There is quite a bit in both Old English, and possibly more in Old Norse of which survived in Iceland including grammar documentation plus runic in other places. Old Norse refers to the dialects of Old West Norse, which became Icelandic, Faroese, and Norwegian, minus its Swedish/Danish influences. Old East Norse which the Vikings who mostly spoke this variant, became Swedish and Danish, and Old Gutnish (less close to each of them). Old West and East Norse didn't really split into their own family until the 12 century more or less. Modern Icelandic is the closest to Old Norse as one can get with it being relatively unchanged over the past 800 years, along with Faroese going a bit further. I like to think the producers tried to get as authentic as possible for the language parts mainly to juxtapose between cultures. With that in mind, I think Hrafna demonstrates her understanding of "Old Norse" quite well compared to modern Icelandic. Old English nobody really knows how that was spoken so mostly educated guessing for that.
i meyn they are saxons so its kinda of a mix between english and german
@@RaZuesR12 thanks for the lesson :)
Some speak old French too
Vikings are actually one of the reasons why I started watching you 😂
hahaha same here!
Same
Othinn brought me here
Appian A My man Floki too
absolutely the same here :D
“I’m gonna scoot on over here!”.....that sounded awful southern to me! 😍😍😍😂😂😂
I've heard her say "y'all"before too.
There's actually lots of Southern USA ancestry from Scandinavia, Germany and Netherland heritage (excluding Spanish/Hispanic influence)
I love these videos. I feel like I'm learning so much, even though I still haven't really actually learned anything.
2:46 no wonder it sounds nothing like Icelandic he's speaking Old English
That was the vikings landing on England at Lindesfarne. The person talking old English was one of the English soldiers who met them on the beach. Vikings does this sometimes. 2 people will talk in Nordic and old English, then the characters will start speaking English for the viewers, but you know they are both speaking a different language.
Kazza 8240 yup. Occurs constantly in the series. She should research these scenes more
Hughston Bloomfield you gotta post the time before it happens, not after the scene buddy.
@@KaneCiticani did you even click my time stamp??? He speaks old English and then she says ok so far this sounds nothing like Icelandic
Hughston Bloomfield Did you click your own time stamp? It just goes straight to her talking, and not the clip of the show, which is what I meant.
She plays the clip again, and repeats herself, so it’s all good.
She sounds so cute when she is talking islandic. My ears are pleased, love it.
It really rolls of the tongue and sounds really cool
What are you doing ?
@@Michaelsloncehammr Why are you runnin
@@Tohrwid Don’t ever play Halloween with me. Scary Little Bitch.
@@Tohrwid Scabbies is the answer. We don’t give a fuck.
I love the feel of the first season. I wish it would have carried through.
Thank you for the Lesson! I found it quite interesting and thanks to subtitles and you explanation not difficult to understand at all!
They are from Scandinavia and this time the vikings hasn't been to Iceland yet
Agreed. Scandinavian/Norse.
Yes Old Norwegian and Danish. Icelandic language was not established yet.
They were specifically from Denmark so why would they sound like Icelanders anyway? The Norwegian variant did not come to the British isles for hundreds of years after this series is set.
Greeny202a They were mostly from Norway, not Denmark. Although there would be some Danes there.
@@cryosleeper1119 No, the ones that invaded England were from Denmark not Norway. The ones that went to France and Ireland were from Norway. Half of the loan words in English come From Danish.
I loved the scene where we see the saxon and Norse language interaction. The confusion and distrust. The simple misunderstanding. Very well done for tv at the least
i love the care for the language, and the respect for the actors, that Hrafna shows here. She has earned a sub!
Very entertaining.. really need a part 2
The actress who played Lagertha, the one who "spurðu hann", is from Canada, but was born in Ukraine and until 8 years old spoke only Ukrainian. And Ukrainian is a Slavic language, and in many Slavic languages, the letters sounds very straightforward, without mitigation, if they are not affected by softening of previous letters or special characters. And it turns out such an accent with the letter Ý. Just explaining why this could happen here)
The guys in the pointed helmets are speaking Old English (Anglo-saxon). Fairly different language
Oh okay, interesting! Thank you
@Yoel Armas Macías That's why I said "fairly". They are both germanic languages, respectively.
Camren Davis closest Language to that would be german since anglo saxons were german tribe
@@ave.christus.rex. true. Isn't there a Saxon dialect of German?
Sounds like Dutch almost
The most interesting thing about this is that "old norse" sounded a lot like icelandic, but with differences like dialects more than languages. Icelandic developed into what it is today from vikings moving there, but you already know😊 If we could have a viking back in this time, someone speaking icelandic would probably understand most of his/her words, but swedes, norwegians and danes wouldn't understand a lot as our languages changed too much. So icelandic is the closest we can get to understand how old norse sounded😊🙏
Vikings is the best series i ever watched. thanks for the informative video because it answered some of my concerns.
Listening to Icelandic makes me feel like I’m listening to elvish, such a beautiful language! Also I love the fact you not only put the translation in icelandic, I’m learning norwegian and it’s genuinely fun to see similarities between these languages
Tolkien based his elvish on obscure dead languages from the Scandinavian region
@@gordonhardwick9552 Elvish was based on Celtic languages. It's more flowy and less guttural. It's also written more flowy and not runic and brutish. Celts were whimsical in their approach to nature. Similar to the elves.
Tolkien was a linguistic prof
10:08 He´s actually swedish his name is Gustaff Skarsgard.
*Gustaf Skarsgård*
@@sparkyjohan Exactly, sorry.
@@simaozinho37 Lol, no problem. Just making sure it's correct.
Yep yep, he was also the self appointed dialogue coach during filming
Of course he's a skarsgård - he's Bill Skarsgård who plays Pennywise in the IT films brother. I think Floki and Pennywise have a similar laugh, I love to think that's their natural laughs, and the whole family sit around chuckling like that 😂
Love your RUclips channel. Very educational. I am learning alot thank you
In Latvian we use double Ls too. interesting. Your channel is by the way amazing
I love the sound of your language ! I don't really understand much but I prefer that than the RUclips subtitle
Hrafna, I recently discovered your channel, I love it by the way, and this particular video I decided to comment on to clarify a few things especially for those who never watched this television show. Here in the US, the show is a production of the History Channel and this story is based on the legend of Ragnar Lodbrok or Ragnarr Loðbrók. I actually watched this show during its first 3 seasons because I find history fascinating and I've always been intrigued by the history of Norse peoples.
First thing first, the characters in this show are not from Iceland per se. Some of them are and they comprise peoples from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. That speaks to the history of Ragnarr Loðbrók and his legend. According to this history, he's originally from Sweden but ended up in all the Scandinavian countries when he was building his armies to invade Western and Eastern Europe. He's basically ascribed as being the historic figure who brought all the Scandanivans together as one loosely nit nation. This probably explains why you hear the similarities in the languages they speak in the show. Old Norse, a general language for trade, etc, is why languages like Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, etc have very similar root words and sentence structures. Old Norse was to Scandanavia what Latin was to Southern and Western Europe.
Also, none of the actors in this show are Icelandic that I know of and only a few of them are Nordic or Scandinavian. As you've listened to them speak you can probably tell which ones. For example, Gustaf Skarsgård who plays Floki is from Sweden and comes from a family of very famous actors namely his father, Stellan Skarsgård. Most of them are British, Danish, Australians, Irish, and Canadians. I don't think any of them are Americans. Although, to a greater extent Canadians sound a bit like Americans until they pronounce certain words like proooocess instead of process. LOL
The one language you didn't understand wasn't Scandinavian at all, it was Olde Anglish/ Old English. It has its roots in older Germanic languages with a healthy amount of influence from the Latins who invaded during the Roman empire and brought them Catholicism. Hell, people who speak English today wouldn't understand 90% of Old English. And with that, I ask forgiveness for such a long comment. Cheers.
some things you said are wrong, the last paragraph is completely wrong.
old english doesn't have any latin influence, it is a dialect of low german. the germanic tribes that conquered england came from germany, denmark and holland [saxons, jutes, frisians], each of those tribes spoke their own dialect of low german [read the anglo saxon chronicles]. old english was not influenced by latin, regardless if it absorbed some religious words from christianity. it is modern english that is hugely infected with latin and french, so diluted it's hardly a germanic tongue anymore
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess I stand corrected to a certain degree but seemingly we were both a bit wrong in our respective analysis. Athelstan, the Catholic monk represented in the show as well as the other Anglo-Saxons were speaking Wessex, which is based on old Germanic. I was attempting to address however that this might be the reason Hrafna didn't understand a particular scene she seemed perplexed by.
I think the show did it's best considering what it had to work with and considering no one alive really speaks any of these languages from over 1,000 years ago. What I found humorous was your use of the word "infected" when referencing other influences on modern English. That was hilarious. I appreciate your reply though.
ANDON HOWARD yes, that is exactly the impression I got from the two posters.
I would like to say aswell that in your content i have also found you very respectful to all your potential viewers..and thank you for being so respectful.
You are truly amazing! Keep up the great work!
Iceland wasn’t a thing back then, maybe that’s why you’re not hearing a lot of Icelandic in there or abnormalities. 😛 The Viking who discovered Iceland is in the show though, they get there later. He’s played by a Swede, that’s why he had such a good prenounciation. The main characters of the show are Danes and Norwegians.
Definitely watch the series, one of the best of all time.
Icelandic is the closest language to the viking language, modern Swedish/Danish/Norwegian have changed a ton and didn't exist back then.
@@meginna8354 Yeah, I never said they were speaking any modern language. They spoke Old Norse, but prenounciation and spelling can be different depending on the region. Icelandic is close, as she pointed out, but not 100% the same.
There have been found roman coin on Iceland. There are also mentions of Irish monks being there as early as 8th century. Though it's all theory and speculations. We do however find Scandinavian archaeological finds dating back to mid 10th century, which goes well with the Landnam book that states it was discovered in 950th.
Could be Romans actually discovered it first :-)
@@beersmurff No, Icelandic grammar and spelling are pretty much identical to Old Norse while it's completely different in Danish.
3:14 sounds like Swedish with Icelandic dialect, but could be "poorly" pronounced Icelandic. This is the first I have ever seen from the TV series. I'm from Sweden.
Swedish: Vad säger han? (säger is pronounced säyer in modern Swedish, but can be prounced säger for effect)
Danish: Hvad siger han? (the hardest of the Scandinavian languages and by far biggest difference between spelling and pronunciation; can't speak for Icelandic)
Norwegian: Hva sier han?
Icelandic: Hvað segir hann? (Only Icelandic still has old characters like ð)
Language wasn't standardized back then. You could put words in different order (e.g. vad han säger? (what he say?/what say he?)) and nobody would react. Spelling was all over the place. All languages were, not just the Scandinavian ones. Shakespeare wasn't entirely consistent with spelling, if I'm correct.
Floki: "I'M IN VALHALLAAAAAAAAAA!!!". Me: "oh dear, do i tell you?".
Thanks so much for the video! This was very interesting to watch. Greetings from Chile!
I really liked this video!
Can you PLEASE make part 2?
Vikings is a good show, especially the early seasons.
"ESPECIALLY" very important
The show actually starts off slow for me. It gets better every season until season 5 and even then it's better than the 1st season or 2 of Vikings. At least in my opinion.
@@redpillbulgaria-v2.063 Really? Vikings is one of the best shows with some of the best characters of all-time for me. Have you seen The last Kingdom, maybe you would prefer it more. It's another show with Vikings that I think is really good, at least in my opinion.
@@randycooper3428 No I haven't seen "The Last Kingdom" I'll check it out. I think someone else mentioned it.
As far as "Vikings" is concerned, yes from a production point of view is a fantastic show, but what I (personally) find annoying is the SJW agenda pushed into it. In fact not only annoying but "intelligence insulting"
The writers/producers use a good premise to push modern day political ideologies that in spite of all resources and propaganda invested into them are still highly unpopular with the average joe on the street.
@@redpillbulgaria-v2.063 agreed with every word you said.
Does she not realize so many of the characters were speaking old english?
That was amazing. Very well edited and very informative.
Very cool video Hrafna! This show is awesome!
The first sentence you listened to, he says “vad säger han” witch is Swedish. I have noticed they speak different languages all the time haha
It's like he's speaking Swedish with a northern Norwegian accent.
I never realized how nice the Icelandic accent is. Thank you
Love the video, especially the focus on language content and translation!
I really enjoyed this breakdown. What fun this was :)
“Before we get started, I just want to say-“
Oh boy here comes an advertisement.
“-hi!”
Oh. Hello! :)
I wish I knew scandinavian languages they sound so beautiful...
*downloads duolingo*
@@waseem8710 I think he was just joking
@Conexus X18 tror det går dåligt för han haha
Scandinavian isn’t a language so it depends on what region you’re talking about
@@blainepavlock8012 Well I mean, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic a d Danish 😊 Wish I could learn them all 'cause even in songs it sounds so Beautiful!
@@johanneslagerholm469 för honom*
I thank you for making this video. Well done 👍👏
I love your channel really you changed my Life and i moved to iceland thank you for your infromtion
Old Norse was divided into two dialects. East ON and West ON. Icelandic derrives from the West ON which almost all Old Norse we know of today are based on. Therefore its kinda funny how it seems easier for a dane to understand the Old Norse in Vikings :D
They are actually using Icelandic pronunciation in the show, they seam to switch a lot.
Actually no, because Danish has drastically changed from Old Norse to the point that it is unintelligible. Dialects are mutually intelligible, so if you can understand one dialect, you can understand the other. That's how Norwegians (who spoke West ON) and Danes (who spoke East On) were able to formulate raids on England together. Icelandic is the closest language to Old Norse so they would have a little more trouble understanding East Norse, but more so than the Danish, whose language is far removed from Old Norse.
Norwegian Are from old West Norse aswell
@@tylersmith3139 Yet the Icelandic pronunciation has derived considerably from West ON, so a modern Icelander would not be able to understand a person speaking West ON in 950 AD.
@@beersmurff Yes they would. They can read old Norse for God's sake.
The opening scene with the man with the helmet speaking is actually speaking old Anglo Saxon
Anglo references a people/nation/tribe called Angles (from soil that is Danish today) and Saxon references another Germanic nation. As of when did this become a single thing? By the way, the migration waves to England also saw a lot of Frysians go there (who's language of today may be nearer Old English than anything else). Just asking - no part of those tribes.
@@jpdj2715 Anglo Saxon is a common demographic of the British isles which effectively bred out true Bretons, Anglo saxons effectively means English, this isn't an uncommon thing, I live in England and have somehow managed to get a group of friends who represent Gaelic, Celtic, Angle and Anglo Saxon whilst I am effectively Saxon so we have the full spread of the common genepools that make up the English, hope that clears that up, so old Anglo-Saxon would be old English, effectively.
You need a part 2 with this video. Id like to see your reaction to Ivar.
I love your video. As a person who speaks 6 languages I love how you wrote the pronunciation of all 4 languages including Norwegian!
Gracias!!!
They’re attempting to recreate Old Norse language by essentially mashing the languages together between Icelandic, Swedish, and danish
Yes it's a mix
Something about all Nordic languages, and Icelandic in particular, sounds both so charming and brutal at the same time... I tried repeating some of the phrases after you, and I've never felt more confidant about myself. It must the words themselves that made me brave. Thank you so much!!! P.S. Cheers from a native Ukrainian speaker.
Thats so cool to watch u and see how proud u are of ur culture
Nice video Hrafna! It's has been fun learning some Icelandic from you!
The guy that introduces himself as the sheriff is speaking the forerunner to English.
Being Anglo-Saxons they are speaking Old English. If they were going correct, they would be speaking Prehistoric Old English (which is unknown to us) as Early Old English comes about due to the Danelaw and Norse settlers and the two peoples with somewhat similar, Germanic languages, learning that they do have some problems (I believe on clear example is the word for horse in each language, means something completely different in the other), so a need for a common trading language pushed some hardcore Danish/Norse influences into Anglo-Saxon, especially loanwords and such. The use of modals and grammar are debated by linguists, since we don't know what Old English sounded like before the Danelaw, we don't know for sure if they used modals and Germanic grammar before or after the Old Norse settled. Literacy became a thing after Christianization of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 7th century. After the Danelaw the Anglo-Saxons started hard core writing (giving us the extant Early/Late Old English texts of "Beowulf" for instance).
These peoples share a common ancestry, yet developed very different culturally and linguistically from one another.
@@goldenhide Prehistoric Old English is the name commonly given to the language as spoken between the 400s and 600s. This show is set in the 8th or 9th centuries, right? That's before the Danelaw. We have an enormous amount of textual evidence for the Old English of that time. Early Old English, typically considered to designate the language spoken from ~600-900, is more or less pure and unaffected by the Danelaw, which is founded toward the very end of that period, in 854, and probably doesn't have an immediate linguistic impact in any case. It's really mainly by the 10th century (the beginning of the Late Old English period) that Old Norse begins to influence English, though the extent -- both geographical and linguistic -- to which that took place is a bit of a controversial topic (many of the effects were confined to the northern dialects of English). To be sure, you're absolutely right: Danish and Norse settlers *did* influenced Old English, and this is hypothesized *by some linguists* to have played a part in the erosion of inflectional endings in the late Old English period. It also appeared to affect phonology in the northern regions (Northumbria, etc. -- where we have "kirk" instead of "church"), and to have affected the phonology of at least a few words in the south (giving us inanimate "ship," but animate "skipper" -- but such examples are few, and mostly confined to nautical vocabulary).
@@samuelbarham8483 I was indeed discussing the post-Dabelaw bits. But you're correct. I was under the assumption that Angko-Saxon was spoken before this time and all these different languages were still close-ish branches from the Proto-Germanic limb.
Maybe things have been redefined with more studies since I last looked. Either way, thanks for the new info, excellent to know.
It’s funny when you are German and there are these few bits and pieces you just understand both spoken and written...😂
(It is ofc quite the stretch, but still...)
Definitly the old english is what you're hearing. Remember where the anglo-saxons came from.
well, they all have Germanic routes so it's not uncommon to see similarity
Norwegian, Icelandic, danish and english are all germanic languages. I understand lots of icelandic, english (ofc) and german, just from hearing it. i never took lessons for icelandic or german.
@@christuspilatus Eh, swedish? "The main North Germanic languages are Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish, which have a combined total of about 20 million native speakers in the Nordic countries."
@@gollese Yeeeah. Swedish is also part of that. no matter how much i don't want it to be the truth. xD
I love the show Vikings. I didn't know anything about Norse culture before and I found your channel bc of the Vikings show. I love learning about the culture. You are awesome.
This was great. I really enjoy hearing what the words actually sound like.
Thank you for this!
According to the Geni world family tree, Ragnar "Lodbrock" Sigurdsson is my 29th great grandfather on my mother's side. :)
stretching his words because he's the nglish king learning a new language
Noticed right away that there's lots of echo in your new location. Need acoustic (aka. sound-dampening or studio) foam, or some DIY alternative. Some get away with putting tapestry on the wall, but that would require you to just have such a thing laying around already. >.>
Yeah it sounds like she talking inside of the bathroom, too much echo and the lighting is very dim. Perhaps some background art or a green screen would suffice.
Amazing series love it!
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks.
when the lady is this attractive, no one can see the back ground.
They call you romeo
Preach brother
settle down robert
Lol it’s all makeup.....
Mitchell Bast matter of taste
Vikings is my favorite show of all time!
I live your videos! Also I am mesmerized by your stunning beauty Hrafna! You are truly a one of a kind jewel.
Great video! I hope you post more informative content such as this for comparison between Icelandic and other Germanic languages.👍👏
i really like your old location, it just gave me a cozy feeling, loved watching your videos with that view! 💕
Vikings is amazing tv-series especially 1-4 seasons, you definetely should give it a try. You may also react to some old-norse songs or something similar. Have a nice day ❤
i love it, the background isnt important, you make the whole video worth watching
I’m from Massachusetts and I love it but Iceland is so fascinating to me. The climate and scenery seem stunning beautiful I wanna live there
Started watching Vikings last week. Accidentally stumbled on your page.
This show was part of the reason I became interested in Icelandic, so this video is like coming full-circle😂
In the first sequence you have the sherif of Lindysfarm, so that guy was speaking old english.
Loved this video!
2:48 There are too languages being spoken in this scene: Old English and Old Norse, both of which would have been somewhat intelligible at the time, at least enough for simple conversations.
Gustav skarsgard is from Sweden and he plays floki, the guy who said “maybe for him”
Gustaf Skarsgård
Are all the skarsgard’s great actors ?
@@cirith100 Pretty much
I love the way you put a translation from English to Icelandic to Danish.. I wanna learn more from you. Wow. Amazing.
Hrafna, you did a great job at this! I loved it! 👍👏🏼💝☮️🎃
You should correct the names. In the serie they continuously keep calling Ivar as “Ay-vahr” whereas should be “Ee-vArr”.
I tried watching Vikings but I stopped because as someone who has learned medieval history in university, the historical inaccuracies drives me mad...
But your video was great and fun ! I'm learning Norwegian and I loved watching the differences between the languages ^^
The only thing they got right were the names..
Watch the series "norsemen". This is Fun!
Well it's not a documentary my friend, it's a show loosely based on history and characters that may or may not exist at all.
It's like you said I didn't watch superhero movies because we all know no one have super powers!
This was really interesting, i love it
Vikings was amazing, probably my all time favorite show!!
Thw actors are australian and english. And in the show they are from Norway but some of them end up in iceland so maybe some of the differences were because in the early episodes they used norwegian as reference but after some study realized icelandic is closer to old norse
A large part of the cast are from the Nordic Countries. Ragnar's actor is not, but the actors who play his sons and companions are largely from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. For example King Harald Finehair is played by the Finnish actor Peter Franzén, Halfdan the Black by another Finn, Jasper Pääkkönen, Ivar the Boneless is played by the Danish actor Alex Andersen etc.
@@wardeni9603 ah I was referring to Ragnar Rollo and Floki. And lagertha's actress is from Canada
@@phsycotater3608 I thing Floki's actor is Swedish, he's one of the Skarsgårds. Ragnar and Rollo are played by non-nordic people though
Actually alot of the people who went to Iceland were rogue Norwegians, still the Icelandic language is almost the same as it was 1200 year's ago.
You do know that old Norse was the language of all Nordic countries. Iceland is the only country that kept it but modernized it.
6:19 the actor is Irish-Canadian. His name is Donal Logue.
Icelandic sounds so badass. I love hearing you speak it. I also Love Vikings. Please react more to it 🙂
The first scene you watched, this represents one of the first clashes of culture of the Norse and Britons. Even simple spoken communication would be a significant challenge. Then factor in the cultural, religious and political differences... Love the show and enjoyed your reaction :)
"He says Rollo like he's rolling his R's"
Nice one
I love it. My hands are already full with Swedish. One of the funniest things I did after learning Russian was watching Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking heavy Austrian/German accented Russian in the 1988 movie Red Heat. The beginning fight scene it sounds Russian with cerebral palsy. It's the movie where he plays a Soviet cop.
Very interesting to see your reaction... It's always interesting to watch a movie where you know the language the actors are speaking. You can usually tell when the actors are speaking a non-native language or speaking phonetically.
Your beautiful looks have overshadowed the blank background making it look perfect
A bit off topic, but yet on topic.
Many Norwegian dialects are more similar to Old Norse/Icelandic than Bokmål is, some isolated ones even mostly the same, as Bokmål was created by the Danish during the union. Before the black death we spoke Old Norse and it was slowly taken over by "Mellonorsk" after the black death and then made into Danish by the union, but most dialects around the country have very Old Norse sounding way of spelling and speech. We can to some extent understand Icelandic. We also have lots of words we can pronounce correctly in many ways, like Ég, Jeg, Vatn, Vatten, Vann, etc Some halfway Old Norse and some more Danish.
Yup. Icelandic is more or less how Norwegians would speak today had we not been taken over by the Danes :P It's a shame!
It think it is so funny how happy you were when they started speaking Icelandic. I am sure you do not hear it very often.
Lovely. Thank you for the review and perspective. Skal.
Idk why I’m getting notifications for this but Godamn am I glad I am. This woman is breathtakingly beautiful
As a german i understood one half perfectly and the other one was like from another universe lmao
I've just realized, that icelandic is the most beautiful language in the whole world! S2
sure, but good luck trying to wrap your head around learning it :P
I’ve just discovered your videos and you cover some interesting things.
Its really cool to hear that the writers and actors in this show made such an effort to either speak Old Norse or at the very least Icelandic. I'm impressed. I would be interested to see what you think of the show "Norsemen"...