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It's a great video! However I do wonder why Frisian history is always put into Dutch history videos when they are a separate germanic group that only inhabited the coast, the Dutch are the Salian Franks and speak the purest and most unchanged form of Frankish(not strange since the Franks almost exclusively inhabited the lands surrounding the Rhine), Frankish history and impact is what the Dutch people, culture and language is, not Frisian/Frisi, Saxon or Dane, these were minority groups which left tiny impacts on Dutch/Salian history which is much bigger and more impactful, I mean France, a gallo-roman country literally got its name under Frankish/Old Dutch occupation for example.
When you imagine the Swiss cross to be a crossroads of waterways, things become more logic is this sense of DNA distribution. Not totally off course, but it will get you further. Migration does most of the rest. We are indeed very tall. I'm 6"1 and only half Dutch.
Thanks for the video! I'm from Antwerp in (now) Flanders, Belgium. Most of my family came from the West of Flanders, apart from a grandmother of Dutch (Holland) origin. I didn't take any genetic test. Most of today's Netherlands consisted of continually and drastically changing river beds up and well into the Roman period. When the Romans conquerred Gaul, they established the Northern border to what today's border between French and Flemish/Duttch languages are spoken. When the Franks came to Gaul they assimilated their language with Celtic leading to Dutch, or with Latin, leading to French. In the 16th cenury half of the population (Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent etc.) fled to Holland due to the religious persecutions done by the Spanish. Not only the protestants, but also free-minded people were persecuted. In (the South of) the Netherlands you'll find both Catholic and Lutheran churches close to each other.
Excellent overview! I'm Dutch from Frisian decent on my father's side an Hugenot from my mother's side of the family. The cultural divide between north and south is real but not divisive in nature.
Loch translates as "le lac" in French or "the lake" in English. "lac" in French may come from "ille aqua" in Latin. In Canada some crazy mixed up fur traders named a Lake in Saskatchewan "Lake LaLoche" which could be fairly translated as "the water the the water!"
My wife and I did such a DNA test. My wife is Viking Heritage (Northern Netherlands) and I myself Celtic Heritage (South-West Netherlands). As you can imagine, we fight it out every day:)
The border between Keltic dominant and Germanic dominant was already pushed towards southern Belgium as far back as 2000 years ago. The Netherlands is a Germanic country.
I don't know who sold you that nonsense but 1. vikings were not an ethnic group, it was an occupation and 2. The nothern Netherlands was subjectbto viking raids, it did not commit them
@@TechWechSech Lotsa people in the northern provinces have scandinavian blood and not because vikings happened to be attractive lol you're right tho, the history of raids against the frysians and dutch is terrible
@@TechWechSech 2 is not entirely true. The Frisians were like the vikings stil heathens when the viking age began and fought many wars with the Christianized Franks. It was a border region between the kingdom of the Franks and the kingdom of Danmark at various times being part of one or the other. The Frisians also participated in the earlier conquest of Britannia together with the Saxons, Angles and Jutes. The Germanic culture and people formed in what is now southern Sweden.
Going vikingr is going on sea raids. There's proto Germanic and Norse history, vikingr was something people did and there was a Vikingr period. Which ended with the Normans invading England.
People are indeed tall here in the Netherlands. I am not, but when I am abroad I am normal size or even tall. Once I stood in front of the Mona Lisa and there was an entire busload of Japonese people in front of me. I was a head taller than all of them and I could easily see the painting. That would never happen when I am in the Netherlands.
Ouch! You stepped on the Jos Bazelmans landmine. He's the one who came up with the idea that there is no historical/genetic relationship between the classical Frisii and the medieval and modern Frisians. He cites marine inundations and a lack of historical references to the Frisians during a short period to the annihilation of the Frisii and people wandering in and adopting the name Frisian ratione soli. I have spoken extensively with Frisian scholars, and Bazelmans' ideas have been thoroughly discredited. I have been told Bazelmans has backed off these contentions, but they persist on the Internet. There are indeed references to the Frisii/Frisians at the juncture of the fall of the Roman Empire and the Early Medieval Period. Marine inundations didn't drown the entirety of what is now the Netherlands. If the sea encroaches, you move a little further inland. Today's Frisians are descendants of the classical Frisii. Indeed, the Frisians took advantage of the Migration Period to expand their territory from around the now defunct Lake Flevo eastward such that their political center of gravity moved that direction and the prestige dialect of their language was spoken on the East Frisian Peninsula. Like many Americans of ostensibly Dutch ancestry dating to the 1600s, my ancestor was Frisian. Christoffel Harmens was born in Kleverens (modernly Cleverns) in 1618. The Frisian spoken modernly in the Netherlands has been under severe pressure from Dutch for centuries, and Christoffel's Frisian doubtless sounded like the now-extinct Wangerooge Frisian and Saterfrisian that remained mutually intelligible until the former's demise. The British passed a law in the late 1600s that forbade the use of patronyms, so we adopted the name van Zandt. These patronyms persist on the East Frisian Peninsula with old Frisian clan names like Cirksena, Tammena and Tjarksena now functioning as last names. And, yes, my Y DNA haplotype is R1B.
Are there examples of ancient burials in the Netherlands that have Y DNA results? I've read that the soil is not good for preserving bones / DNA. I've also read that there is unpublished work regarding the subject. I know, I know, I could Google but, rabbit holes...
This explains how the Anatolian agriculturalists, Iron Age & Scandinavian DNA got into my Dutch ancestors !!!! Haplogroup H10e. So very interesting!!! Thanks a million!!
I am Dutch and I did a DNA test with also haplogroups. My paternal haplogroup is actually more common in Southern Italy, North-Africa and West-Asia, even though we live in the Netherlands for at least 400 years or something (as far I can find the family tree and I have found no Spanish or Italian ancestors so I don't know where my sisters Italian DNA comes from). I do have a German in 1830 in the family and Flanders. I am Southern Dutch (Brabant). My sister did have 2.9% Italian in her DNA, but I didn't have that and neither my dad or the grandmother on my moms side. I am now 100% Dutch but before that I was 81,8% North-Western European, 16,8% English and 1,4% Irish, Scottish and Welsh. I have paternal haplogroep G (Which male mummie Yuya in Egypt also had) mine specifically is unique as it only occurs 1 in 13000 at 23andme and its: G-Z37368. The Maternal haplogroup is: J2a1a which is supposedly a more common one in Western Europe including Denmark. The G haplogroup has no R in its journey.
Might just be random noise - associating parts of genomes with regions is not an exact science, more like a well informed estimate. Generally, you shouldn't look at data under 5% as being established fact, especially if they go against proven family records. Fractions that small could just be an error during measurement, or a chunk of DNA that's interpreted as something it's not. These little fractions tend to differ between providers of tests like these as well. Alternatively, it's of course possible that the family records don't match up with genetic reality, and one of your maternal ancestors had an extramarital affair with some mediterranean sailor, which is the more fun explanation :)
I have found that uploading DNA results to MyHeritage for the Dutch gives the best ethnic results. It has the larger population of European testers to compare to. It was even able to place me right in Tilburg where I have found through genealogy that many of my ancestors come from in in almost all lines.
Thanks, very informative. As a Dutchman I had to watch this of course 🙂. From a Mormon herritage database I traced a herritage line back to Charlemagne (39 generations back) as well as Alfred the Great (35 generations back). So I should at least have some Frankish and Saxon blood I guess. But considering if you go back 38 generations you would potentially have 270 billion ancestors, which is obviously impossible, since there were only a few million people in all of Europe then, so I sometimes half jokingly say that every European probably has a line back to Charlemgne somehow.
@@valentijnrozeveld3773that a quite interesting claim. Because Julius Caesar had, as far as we know, only 2 biological children. Both died young without surviving children. So how do you descent from a man who’s descendants died within his lifetime? Julia’s Caesar’s children: His daughter Julia, who was married to Pompey and died in childbirth along with her child. His son Cesarion, born out of wedlock to Cleopatra. Died at 17 without issue, probably on orders of Augustus. Adoptive: Ceasar adopted his nephew, Gaius Octavianus Ceasar, better known under his title of “Augustus”. Augustus had 1 surviving biological child (Julia the Elder) who had surviving issue. Now, under Roman law an adoptive child is the same as a biological child. But lines of descend don’t work that way. If you descend from Augustus, it would make much more sense to to claim descend from him and not from Ceasar
@@JABN97 He didn't record his r*pings in Europe on papers my bro. It was passed down verbally through my mothers side and my DNA test said clearly: descendan of Julius Ceasar.
Great video, was very helpful for my family heritage research. I'm Hungarian but I have a bloodline that goes back to medieval Dutch/Saxon people. These ancestors moved to Slovakia in the 12th century and didn't really mix with the locals. Therefore I've got quite a big percentage of Scandinavian DNA in my results and many of my distant cousins are Danish and Swedish. To me, it seems like my DNA has the Viking era Dutch DNA and not newer or older "versions".
This video explains it pretty perfectly for me as Dutch person: 80,7% Northwestern European (mostly Central East Netherlands) 12.1% Scandinavian 4,7% Broadly Northwestern European 1,9% British & Irish (mostly Glasgow City) 0,5% Ashkenazi Jewish 0,1% Unnasigned
From The Hague I present you with this one ;-p 56.4% English, 23.6% Scandinavian, 19.2% Northwestern European and 0.8% Finnish. In family tree NO English influence, nor Finnish for nearly 300 years. Conclusion ? 56.4+23.6=>80% Saxons and Vikings (but from Germany, Sweden and Norway areas, not Danish area) and 19.2% Frankish and the 0.8% Finnish hopped along with those Vikings. That translates I think to at least ancestors going back to the same area of The Hague and immediate surroundings to the coming of the Saxons around 500-550 after Christ when the Romans had pulled back from our lands.
First of all: Love the Scottish accent! Was a pleasure to listen to you. I am interested in doing a DNA test. I am dutch, living in the Netherlands and is there a test you can recommend? For some reason I don' t want to send my DNA to the US or another country outside of the EU. But so far I haven't found any. And maybe I am just way to paranoid.
Same problem here with a DNA test. I don't believe the results of the test are safe or destroyed. I have no crminal past or anything like that. But I don't trust what they will do with the test results in the future.
I've the same feelings and I've read some weird stories about collecting the DNA in the last four years and also negative feedback on some of the well known "DNA companies", I don't know what else to call them 😁. I've shared my wish to find out a reliable "DNA company" on some TG groups. May I ask you to do the same and let's keep each other updated on the results we got. You agree? I'm Ditch but apparently, through ancestry, there's roots leading to Germany. Have a nice day.
You forgot to mention in the medieval era a sizable amount of Dutch farmers moved to the territory the Teuton knights "christened by the sword"" creating what later would become Prussia, and now are part of Poland and the Baltic states. You can notice this today in the Dutch names used in the Witcher ( game and series ) which fantasy environment is based around that area in the medieval era. Since Stalin chased away or killed much of the Prussian population by erasing Prussia from history after WWII i am not so sure traces of Dutch DNA still exist in that area. Probably were displaced to Germany, of which the Netherlands territories were part of for centuries anyway.
@@kimashitawa8113 Teutonic Knights/Prussians (after the Baltic tribes) were Germans from many parts of the Holy Roman Empire (from today Westphalia, Hessen, from Flandern/Flemish, from today Netherlands, today Luxemburg etc.). Also the 'Saxons' in Eastern-Central or Eastern Europe (if you look up the many German communities back then (sometimes partly mixed with others there still) were not exactly the 'Saxon tribe' but - again - a conglomerate of all kind of Germans from many regions of the Holy Roman Empire. Also the Hanseatic League created a framework for a lot of exchange from other ppl (while the merchants themself stayed mostly among themself due to some guild-merchant restrictions)
Nice! Someone from Scotland will have no difficulties in pronunciating 'Van Gogh'. The 'a' is like Scottish 'a', both 'g' and 'gh' are close to Scottish 'ch'. Si say 'van choch' and there you are!
The Huguenots were mentioned. They fled from France to the Netherlands from 1685. But about a century earlier a much larger group of protestants fled from Flandres.
Same here, I'm 27% Scottish/Irish/Welsh and 12%English. So do you reckon this is just from the general mixed bunch of ancestral DNA in our country. Or do we have an actual Scottish person closer in our family line, a few generations back? The genealogy so far is not showing anyone from the UK or Ireland..
Very interesting video. I'm born and raised in the center region of the Netherlands but living in the south now close to the Belgium boarder. Culture here is slightly different and people are on average also a little shorter. Now I know why. (I'm 6,7 btw)
I grew up in Noord-Holland (north-west) and live in Brabant right now (south). First thing I noticed is that there is a lot more smaller people around in the south compared to the north. Sure you still see the giants but there is a lot of smaller than average people around. I'm only 183 cm in height but I find myself a bit taller whenever I'm in Brabant. It could also be because of the amount of expats in the bigger cities nowadays that's influencing the average. I grew up in a small town north and now I study in a large city south. So the amount of dutch natives does decrease I guess.
Whether it impacted northern or Southern Netherlands isn't really important because Southerners also from modern Belgium have moved north in the hundreds of thousands especially in the 1500's and ww1. And intermixed.
i know my mothers family history is from Friesland, (helped build the afsluitdijk on the west side, and moved to Texel when that work dried up, survived the german occupation there and moved to Beverwijk after because of work the Steel factory provided. most of my uncles still work there) and my fathers side from central Netherlands and thats all i know about there history. wish i knew more. but i dont trust my data security (or what they do on purpose with your DATA) to companies that do those DNA tests.
it was not an occupation, more of a visit. keep in mind that the Netherlands and parts of Belgium were with parts of Germany at first the core region of the Frankish Empire (Austrasia with Aachen as center and de facto capital of Karl dem Grossen/Karl the Great (NOT CHARLES! everyone who uses this name just tells that he missed something!) even if at that time most kings/emperors were traveling rulers. And later most of that was also part of the Holy Roman Empire. Anyway, the rest is more like a family meeting when children get a kind of unwished visit from the Parents who 'occupy' a bit more than just a couch and stuff for some time ;)
In the Netherlands there is a saying: 'Born on the correct side of the river.' Which is basically just banter if you hear an accent from the east, south or west. Perhaps there is more history to it but idk
Im from the centre of the Netherlsnds, did a heritage test earlier this year, turned out im 21% scandinavian mainly Denmark and Norway. Now i know a little bit of why, thank you so much. If only this episode could be longer
I am 1.95m of Dutch ancestry on my father's side. The Dutch ancestors all came from north of the with some Friesian and Swedish from my father's mother who was born in Estland . There is also some Hugenot blood from 1680's and later. I did a DNA test a few years ago and was disappointed as it did not tell me things I didn"t know already. My Dutch ancestry is traced back to Dordrecht AD 1550. My mother's side is Anglo Saxon + Viking + French + Scots + Irish.
Viking can be all kind of people. It is a groupname, not DNA related. Forget that.😊 Anglo saxon is also a groupname. Same as above. Can be frisians/angels/saxons/jutes. What did your DNA-test say?
you skipped the most important period: the high middle ages. Colonisation of the wetlands of Holland, the establishment of the cities and villages, the expansion of a trade network into Northen and eastern Europe. It has brought DNA from Rhineland Germany, Northern France, England, Scandinavia and the Baltic area.
The difference between the north and south is called the Patat-frietgrens, the patat friet border. Chips (French fries) are called patat in the north and friet in the south.
Considering that after the last Ice Age - Wurm , the inhabited Europe was around Carpathians ( UCLA _ Maria Gimbutas research ) and first agriculture tools ( 5000 bc) discovered nearby Danube -Romania ( Schela Cladovei ) proved by 4 labs includding Groeningen and ratified at the Arheological Congress Edinburgh 2002 ( prof. Clive Bonsall) , the agriculture starts here in south Romania 2000 yrs before Sumer . It's not at all surprising that even today you use the endonyme Dutch as we romanians called ourselves Daci same phonetics . ( Deutsch as well a branch of same peoples ) According to Octavian Augustus the Daci lived all allong the Danube up to the north and they were strong tall , blue eyed people . Just a sample of reminiscent language ( after the Catholic Church attempt to mix the tongues for controling peoples ) is the word "boier " meaning an owner of "boi" ( plural) herds ( bovine) back than the cattle herds meant important assets . In Dutch you have "boer" mening farmer 🙂 The cattle use to return "home" to the owner shelter NOT for grass which was everywhere and not running from the cow😄 but instead for the salt -a scarce substance . The only place with salt at the ground level ( below ground all over Europe) was/is in Carpathians . Primitive communities didn't know where to dig for underground salt . Salt was so expensive even late antiquity as the word salary comes from sale- salt in Latin . The soldiers were payed with salt . For now , it's enough . If you find it interesting there is more , if you don't - forget about it .
I am mixed Dutch with Nigerian. My DNA test was more diverse on the Dutch side- English mostly, Irish/ Scottish/ Welsh, Dutch, German, Italian and Finnish…
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Somewhere in the future the Dutch will be called Blue white beaker people, because of the Blue white Delfts pottery.😅 Imagine being called after your pottery. 😅
I'm Dutch, so are my parents and my grandparents but my DNA test shows I'm 66% English and 34% Scandinavian. But now I've seen this it makes more sense, very interesting!
I think the Danish genetic heritage being so low is indicates that the region wasn't deserted as otherwise the Danes would have taken over and have a larger part. Although it's probable that many Frisii moved to the English shores that Rome evacuated, as they where trading a lot with Rome and those shores. In early English history it's recorded that kings enlisted Angelo-Saxon help, but a sax is a sword and a angle it a polearm used in swampland called "Kletsie" in Frisian. I think it should be read as kings hiring mainly Frisian swordsmen and spearman.
The thesis, which is widespread today and accepted by European scientists; The thesis is that the R1a subgroup is the 'common gene of the Indo-Europeans, and the R1b subgroup is the common gene of the Turks and other Central Asian peoples and Finn-Yuğra peoples. (1- Anatoly A. Kyosov, Journal of Russian Academy ogf DNA genelogy, 2010 vol. 3No 1 pp.3-58) However, the R gene is a single gene with all its haplogroups and is a 'Turkish gene'. The R1b subgroup is actually highly concentrated in Western Europe and moderately in Central Eurasia and Sub-Sharan in Central Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Central Asia. The R1b subgroup is 80% Irish, Scots and Welsh; 50-60 percent in Spaniards, Portuguese, French and English; 25-50% in Germans, Dutch, Danes and Norwegians; 25-40% in Italians; 25% in Sweden and Norway; 15% in the Balkan peoples; It is found 10-15% in Poles, 10% in Russians and Ukrainians, 10-15% in Anatolian Turks (25% in Black Sea and Eastern Anatolia regions and 15-25% in Kyrgyz. Rb1 ratios in Central Asian Turks and Fin-Yuğra peoples are very low or there is none. The Rb1 subgroup is quite high among Celtic, Germanic, and Latin peoples who have assimilated Proto-Turkic Peoples such as the Iberian and Aquit peoples in Spain and France, and Finns further north at a low level. This ratio is around 60-80% in the British and Irish islands, for example. In Scandinavian peoples who have heavily assimilated the Finnish peoples, the R1b rate is relatively low, such as 25%. Rb1 is as low as 10-15% in Slavic and Balkan peoples. For Russians, Ukrainians and Polish peoples, this rate is at a very low level, between 0-10%. In Hungarians, this rate is between 0-10%. This subgroup is also between 0-10% in Croats of European Avars origin and Bosnians of Pecheneg origin. R1a is a haplogroup with a high rate in Turks. R1a, 50-70% Central Asian Turks, 50-60% Russians, Ukrainians, Poles and Sorbs (Slavs in Germany), 50-60% Afghans, Pakistanis and North Indians, 20-60% Hungarians; 52% Ashkenazi Jews, 15-30% Scandinavian peoples, 30% Finns, Estlers, Lapps, Baltic people, 15-20% Italians and some areas in northern Spain (this includes the Basque region) 25-60% Dravidians, 10 percent -15% in Tibetans, 15-20% in North Chinese, 15-30% in Germans, 30-40% in Balkan peoples, 20-30% in Caucasian, Anatolian and Iranian peoples. The genetic compositions of today's Turkic peoples are quite different from each other and show a genetic unity. Anatolian Turks also have C, H, I, J, K, O, Q, T chromosomes besides R1a and lesser R1b. The highest gene among Turkic peoples is R Y-DNA. (R1a and R1b) Next comes J Y-DNA. J Y-DNA is a gene carried by Arabs and Semetic Jews, which emerged in the Arabian peninsula about 30,000 years ago, and is divided into 2 subgroups as J1 and J2. This rate is as low as 20% in Ashkenazi Jews of Turkish origin, and they got this gene by mixing with Semetic Jews. There are J2 subgroups at the rate of 10% and 20% among the Anatolian Turks. The genetic composition of Azerbaijan's Iranian Turks is similar to that of Anatolian Turks. In Turkmens in Turkmenistan, on the other hand, R1a is higher and J chromosome is lower than Anatolian and Azerbaijani Turks, while O and Q chromosomes are higher. Among the Turkic peoples in Central Asia, the highest rate of R1a is found in the Kyrgyz Turks with 70 percent. 50-60% of that. KazakhTurks, UygurTurks, and UzbekTurks, MongolTurks and TibetTurks, this rate is around 10-15%. All Central Asian peoples have C, I, J, K, O, Q chromosomes, but the J chromosome is very low in these peoples. However, C Chromosome is found at very high levels in KazakTurks, MogolTurks, KirgizTurks, UygurTurks and UzbekTurks. Other peoples carrying this chromosome are Tunguses, Koreans and Japanese. Tibetans also carry about 40% of the D chromosome. This chromosome is found in other Central Asian Peoples at very low rates. Another people who carry this chromosome at a high rate like the Tibetans are the Aynos, the oldest people of the Japanese islands. The issue that confuses European scientists is that the R1a subgroup is found in Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Pakistanis; It is very high in Afghans and north Indians. This is quite natural actually. The lands where these peoples live are the old lands where the Turks have established strong lands for centuries. If we look at the maps of these Turkish states, it can be easily seen that these maps overlap with the R1a maps. This is the only reason why these populations have high levels of R1a. The Turks living in these lands became new peoples by mixing with other peoples who did not migrate from these lands when their states were disintegrated. It is not known on what the European scientists base the thesis that the R1a subgroup is the common gene of 'Indo-Europeans' and the R1b group is the common gene of Turks and other Central Asian peoples and Finn-Ygra peoples (Fins, Estonians, Lapps), but it is found in Turkish and other Central Asian peoples and Phoenician peoples. the higher gene is not R1b, but the R1a subgroup. R1b is at very low levels. This 'strangeness' is explained by European scholars as 'the Turks carry a high rate of R1a because they assimilated the Iranian Peoples in Central Asia in the 4th and 11th centuries' (2 origins, age, spread and ethnic association of European Haplogroups and subclades) However, there is no record that the Turks erased the 'Central Asian Iranians' from history in the 4th and 11th centuries. If one can show records, evidence, etc., of course, it would be very appropriate. In addition, R1a is high not only in Turks, but also in Caucasian peoples living in the Caucasus and Dravidian peoples living in southern India. Also, if R1a is a Turkish gene, why is it 60-80% found in British, French, Spanish, and Celts? It must be Ahhuns (Sakalar, Kushans or Ak Sakalar) or Tagars (Tohars) that European scientists mean by Iranians in Central Asia. The Tağars established a powerful state in the present-day Shanxi and Kansu provinces of China between 300 BC and 20 BC. However, European historians claim that the Tagars were 'Indo-European'. No 'Indo-European' state was established in Central Asia, neither in 300 BC nor in the following centuries. There are no archaeological findings proving this. there are only dry claims. There was only a small number of people of Indian origin, who spread to present-day Southern Turkestan (Afghanistan and then to East Turkestan, and then melted down among the Uyghurs) around 500 AD. The descendants of this people are texts written in Brahmi script from the period between 500 AD and 700 AD. It is understood that they spoke an Indian language that has become extinct.European historians and archaeologists have found thousands of years old in central Asia. They claim that they were descended from 'Indo-European tohars' because their mummies were auburn-blonde and their clothing resembled those of the Celtic peoples. However, the People of Indian origin, whom they call the Tohars, are not brown-haired, but a dark people like today's Indians, and their migration date to Central Asia is very late. These mummies are from the Turks. In addition, it is natural that these oldest clothes of the Turks are seen in the Celts, an early Turkish people. It is not surprising that the Turks were brown-blonde before mixing with other peoples.
I'm about 5% Scandinavian and East European, the rest is Dutch, many Germans came over to work here as seasonal workers in the last 500 years or so, many of them from the eastern parts of Germany.. many Scandinavians came to work here as sailors..
According to my DNA test I am about 75% native Dutch and about 18% Scandinavian. Yet, I have no direct Scandinavian relatives up to 6 generations in the past on either side. The only plausible explanation that I have is that either DNA technology is not able to distinguish between Frisian and Scandinavian DNA, or there is little difference in DNA between those regions.
I am originally from the north-east of Belgium, closest to the NL. My MyHeritage test came out as: 50% scandinavian 46% western european 2% italian 1.6% greek And 0.4% other
You forgot to mention that the golden period of the Netherlands started with an influx of refugees from the southern low countries (the current Belgium)
@@henkvandervossen6616 yes but the scale was completely different. When there are 70000 french huguenots more than half of the population of the southern netherlands fled. Big cities like Brugge Ghent Antwerp lost up to 80% of their population. Often well educated and wealthy people. Up to 60% of the habitants of Leiden were refugees from the southern netherlands, current Belgium and north of France
True, i don't think they are genetically really different though, but it is true that a lot of brainpower from Flanders moved to the Netherlands after the fall of Antwerp
What language are you speaking? I mean what dialect is it. It is hard to follow but it’s interesting, I always thought the romans had a huge impact on Europe, because the scriptures still refers to the Romans empire which will also be in the end times, and we are in the end times as we speak.
'For some reason' we Dutch are made to believe that we live in a Judeo-Christian culture. But almost everybody I ask, feels more akin to Germanic, Roman and Greek culture. What's up with that?!?
@aheroyaheroyalproductions7631 I think that is just about right. Though the Romans used the Rhine river as the northernmost frontier of their empire, just like they did with Hadrian's wall in Schotland, because the people across these frontiers were supposedly insensitive to what Julius Caesar described as "the effeminate Roman culture". Though he wrote that about the Belgae, whom he saw as the fiercest of all, with their women fighting just as hard as the men.
That's because the people you ask are ignorant about their own culture. The Dutch school system is abominable. If you really had to live in Greco-Roman or Germanic culture (such as they actually were), you would go crazy at all the horrors you would witness on a daily basis - gladiatorial games, human sacrifice, tribal warfare, slavery, etc., etc. You can't even imagine what kind of hell Europe would be without the judeo-christian element in our culture. All those who glorify "pagan" Europe don't know what they are talking about - most of us keyboard heroes would not have lasted very long in those cultures.
It always intrigues me where so many Anatolian farmers came from to form the population of Europe, maybe there were no farmers left in Anatolia and the population disappeared due to hunger, since the farmers all went to Europe
@@EGO0808The whole history consists of migration patterns, sometimes from entire continents. Look at the US, New Zealand and Australia, almost completely taken over by migrants, especially from Europe. Almost no original population left.
@@castorpollux3389 I know. And in recent years globalization and digitization creates even more migration. Look at Dubai, where no more than 12% is of Emirati, native origin. Many more examples, especially in the developed nations.
As a Dutch, Afrikaans sounds like a toddler learning to talk... Not that strange as Afrikaans mostly come from old Dutch and German. I love how in South-Afrika they use Dutch words for new things. Underwear, in Dutch we call that very short underpants for women a string, I believe in Afrikaans it is a kleine broekie, een klein broekje, it makes perfect sense...
Once I sat next to a Chinese guy on an airliner. I told him I am Anglo-German, and he humorously said that to the Chinese English and German sound much the same. They sound 'like a dog trying to talk with a mouthful of gravel ' 😆
There are some clay ‘stones’ dug up from the coast of Walcheren, which look like those used in some smoking devices. They probably date from the Viking era. They had trade routes with Persia and beyond.
During the Claudian invasion of Britain, much of the fighting was done by Germanic auxiliaries - the Batavi and the Tungri. As their names indicate, these were from what we now term the Netherlands.
Basically we’re mixed out of Viking’s, Germanic and Romans. Like all the West Europeans (Belgians, French, Swiss, German) just more Viking blood in the north and more Roman in the south. As you can clearly see, because a lot of frisians and Groningers are straight Viking and often only have Scandinavian dna, not even north Western European.
Frisians and Groningers are genetically related to the "Vikings" (= Scandinavians) and look like them, but they don't descend from them. The Vikings never settled in Frisia or Groningen in large numbers. It's an older common Germanic heritage.
6:25 "This Danish Viking contact is contemporaneous with a CRITICAL PERIOD in the establishment of the modern Dutch genome FROM OTHER OUTSIDE FORCES." I would absolutely love to know what THOSE were. What possible other outside forces that ended up being critical to the modern Dutch genetic composition would there have been at this time? The mind boggles. Maybe we should ask the researches because nothing is springing to mind.
As a bit of Everything born Indonesian, also strongly Dutch, I speak fluent Dutch as well aside many other languages such as Arabic, etc. I was born on Wednesday February 1st 1984. Wednesday, Woensdag, Woden's = Odin Father of Thor.
wonder why the dutch are so tall, was there better nutrition through the ages, a better distribution of wealth?? My husband is British, but he is 2.006mts (6ft 7inch) he is adopted, but came originally from a very wealthy family, we may come over to the Netherlands at some point to go clothes shopping for him as he is well above average for the UK, just awaiting his DNA results which should be interesting.I am British, did a DNA test and came out 43% northwestern european, 39% scottish (father was a scot) 11% Germany, and the rest danish, norway and sweden ( scots family from Shetland partly) not quite sure what ancestry dna class as scottish, celt i suppose, but very germanic/norse i suppose
People are not much taller than I the UK and Germany. I go shopping about every weekend in the Netherlands as I live right across the border on the German side. Their appearance is no different..so no reason why clothes would be different..
@@marchauchler1622 The only reason I said that was because I once knew a fashion buyer for a retail outlet in the UK called 'big and tall' and she regularly went to the Netherlands to buy clothes for their company!!
Viking is a name of (multi genetic, multi ethnic) profession not any tribe or particular haplogroup so why do you use this word for describing migrations or influences connected to genetic ancestry?
Hahahaha 1:17 you literally poldered in the entire Northsea for some reason, but you speared the Wadden Sea but still quite an ambitious polder project a lot more then the still very missed markerwaard
Well you may not get an accurate sample due to modern migration and even irregular migration of the previous era. Switzerland for example is much more largely Southern European than you'd think because it was such a haven for Italian (Savoyard) Protestants during eras of Catholic violence. Which would be considered irregular migration. So there's going to be a lot of variation depending on the individual. And depending on what era the testing is done. Example: Human remains in Southern Germany show mixed Northern European and East Asian DNA but only up to a certain time period when geneticists assume the signature was bred out. Modern Germans are their descendant but they have no DNA to them because it's been bred out. The remains of the ancestors of these people do have the unique East Asia DNA signature , however. Which shows at some point they lost it. Probably because the generation of migrants directly from the Far East was limited to one or two waves. So the Dutch DNA of today isn't the same as 500 years ago and so on. So you have to see it in context. The sample is going to be different depending on the era.
This DNA-thing is always funny. On my maternal side there is a dark complexion with black hair. And not very tall. But somehow my brother and I ended up as 2 tall gingers.
Even today you can see a physical difference between the people from the two northern provinces and the rest of the country and in particular the south. It's quit remarkable.
The theory is that catholic families in the south got more children and therefore the food was less. Dutch are taller because of a proteïne rich diet like meat and dairy and a lot of cheese.
@@lienbijs1205Hence it is said He or she is from above the rivers or under the rivers. . The people from under the rivers are more open, happier, love conviviality and parties and are more gastronomically laid out. The people from above the rivers are more serious, economical, love simplicity, less gastronomic. Maybe because of Calvinism.
@@castorpollux3389thats not true. I am born in Groningen and have been living in Haarlem for 20 years now. The biggest difference is the mentality. In the North it is free and social and in the West it is unwelcoming and businessminded. I am used to it now.
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It's a great video! However I do wonder why Frisian history is always put into Dutch history videos when they are a separate germanic group that only inhabited the coast, the Dutch are the Salian Franks and speak the purest and most unchanged form of Frankish(not strange since the Franks almost exclusively inhabited the lands surrounding the Rhine), Frankish history and impact is what the Dutch people, culture and language is, not Frisian/Frisi, Saxon or Dane, these were minority groups which left tiny impacts on Dutch/Salian history which is much bigger and more impactful, I mean France, a gallo-roman country literally got its name under Frankish/Old Dutch occupation for example.
When you imagine the Swiss cross to be a crossroads of waterways, things become more logic is this sense of DNA distribution. Not totally off course, but it will get you further. Migration does most of the rest.
We are indeed very tall. I'm 6"1 and only half Dutch.
Hey..... the netherlands as you speak of did not exist at that time. So its not the netherlands back then. Be realistic ma men
Thanks for the video! I'm from Antwerp in (now) Flanders, Belgium. Most of my family came from the West of Flanders, apart from a grandmother of Dutch (Holland) origin. I didn't take any genetic test.
Most of today's Netherlands consisted of continually and drastically changing river beds up and well into the Roman period. When the Romans conquerred Gaul, they established the Northern border to what today's border between French and Flemish/Duttch languages are spoken. When the Franks came to Gaul they assimilated their language with Celtic leading to Dutch, or with Latin, leading to French.
In the 16th cenury half of the population (Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent etc.) fled to Holland due to the religious persecutions done by the Spanish. Not only the protestants, but also free-minded people were persecuted.
In (the South of) the Netherlands you'll find both Catholic and Lutheran churches close to each other.
Excellent overview! I'm Dutch from Frisian decent on my father's side an Hugenot from my mother's side of the family. The cultural divide between north and south is real but not divisive in nature.
Thank you and thanks for sharing, very interesting.
The divide is about 5 to 10 cm between the north and the south 😂
Funny, so am I 😊
Just a hint, "Van Gogh" rhymes with "Loch" (in a Scots' accent).
It comes from a town in Germany.
So glad you mentioned it
True they shouldn't be able to go wrong with that one
Loch translates as "le lac" in French or "the lake" in English. "lac" in French may come from "ille aqua" in Latin. In Canada some crazy mixed up fur traders named a Lake in Saskatchewan "Lake LaLoche" which could be fairly translated as "the water the the water!"
@@gordbolton27 and van Gogh
My wife and I did such a DNA test. My wife is Viking Heritage (Northern Netherlands) and I myself Celtic Heritage (South-West Netherlands). As you can imagine, we fight it out every day:)
The border between Keltic dominant and Germanic dominant was already pushed towards southern Belgium as far back as 2000 years ago. The Netherlands is a Germanic country.
I don't know who sold you that nonsense but
1. vikings were not an ethnic group, it was an occupation and
2. The nothern Netherlands was subjectbto viking raids, it did not commit them
@@TechWechSech Lotsa people in the northern provinces have scandinavian blood and not because vikings happened to be attractive lol
you're right tho, the history of raids against the frysians and dutch is terrible
@@TechWechSech 2 is not entirely true. The Frisians were like the vikings stil heathens when the viking age began and fought many wars with the Christianized Franks. It was a border region between the kingdom of the Franks and the kingdom of Danmark at various times being part of one or the other. The Frisians also participated in the earlier conquest of Britannia together with the Saxons, Angles and Jutes. The Germanic culture and people formed in what is now southern Sweden.
Going vikingr is going on sea raids. There's proto Germanic and Norse history, vikingr was something people did and there was a Vikingr period. Which ended with the Normans invading England.
People are indeed tall here in the Netherlands. I am not, but when I am abroad I am normal size or even tall.
Once I stood in front of the Mona Lisa and there was an entire busload of Japonese people in front of me. I was a head taller than all of them and I could easily see the painting. That would never happen when I am in the Netherlands.
The Dutch live at the bottom of a soggy pit behind creaky dykes. It's a miracle that they came to thoughts and speech at all!
if youre around 190cm, youll be SHORT in the netherlands
@@BP-iz2lt
The Dutch grow like asparagus, in all that salt mud. 😁
As a southern European who lived in the Netherlands, I can guarantee the Dutch are tall for real ;)
We know my small friend, we know xD.
thats why latinas love their gringo's :P
True. I'm 6' / 1.83m, and sightly below average.
@@elricthebaldwas about to say this. 183 and still have to look up so often when talking to people
198 cm
Ouch! You stepped on the Jos Bazelmans landmine. He's the one who came up with the idea that there is no historical/genetic relationship between the classical Frisii and the medieval and modern Frisians. He cites marine inundations and a lack of historical references to the Frisians during a short period to the annihilation of the Frisii and people wandering in and adopting the name Frisian ratione soli. I have spoken extensively with Frisian scholars, and Bazelmans' ideas have been thoroughly discredited. I have been told Bazelmans has backed off these contentions, but they persist on the Internet. There are indeed references to the Frisii/Frisians at the juncture of the fall of the Roman Empire and the Early Medieval Period. Marine inundations didn't drown the entirety of what is now the Netherlands. If the sea encroaches, you move a little further inland. Today's Frisians are descendants of the classical Frisii. Indeed, the Frisians took advantage of the Migration Period to expand their territory from around the now defunct Lake Flevo eastward such that their political center of gravity moved that direction and the prestige dialect of their language was spoken on the East Frisian Peninsula. Like many Americans of ostensibly Dutch ancestry dating to the 1600s, my ancestor was Frisian. Christoffel Harmens was born in Kleverens (modernly Cleverns) in 1618. The Frisian spoken modernly in the Netherlands has been under severe pressure from Dutch for centuries, and Christoffel's Frisian doubtless sounded like the now-extinct Wangerooge Frisian and Saterfrisian that remained mutually intelligible until the former's demise. The British passed a law in the late 1600s that forbade the use of patronyms, so we adopted the name van Zandt. These patronyms persist on the East Frisian Peninsula with old Frisian clan names like Cirksena, Tammena and Tjarksena now functioning as last names. And, yes, my Y DNA haplotype is R1B.
Are there examples of ancient burials in the Netherlands that have Y DNA results? I've read that the soil is not good for preserving bones / DNA. I've also read that there is unpublished work regarding the subject. I know, I know, I could Google but, rabbit holes...
@@kevingriffin1376 The ancient Germanic tribes practiced cremation for the most part, and this makes such DNA scarce.
Well.....
There's are a number of bog bodies found that could provide the answer.
Thanks for this awesome explanation! 👍
This explains how the Anatolian agriculturalists, Iron Age & Scandinavian DNA got into my Dutch ancestors !!!! Haplogroup H10e. So very interesting!!! Thanks a million!!
great video man keep up the good work
Thanks
I am Dutch and I did a DNA test with also haplogroups. My paternal haplogroup is actually more common in Southern Italy, North-Africa and West-Asia, even though we live in the Netherlands for at least 400 years or something (as far I can find the family tree and I have found no Spanish or Italian ancestors so I don't know where my sisters Italian DNA comes from). I do have a German in 1830 in the family and Flanders. I am Southern Dutch (Brabant). My sister did have 2.9% Italian in her DNA, but I didn't have that and neither my dad or the grandmother on my moms side. I am now 100% Dutch but before that I was 81,8% North-Western European, 16,8% English and 1,4% Irish, Scottish and Welsh. I have paternal haplogroep G (Which male mummie Yuya in Egypt also had) mine specifically is unique as it only occurs 1 in 13000 at 23andme and its: G-Z37368. The Maternal haplogroup is: J2a1a which is supposedly a more common one in Western Europe including Denmark. The G haplogroup has no R in its journey.
Hat to be the one to say it but you and your sister should do a test to see if you have the same father 😅
Might just be random noise - associating parts of genomes with regions is not an exact science, more like a well informed estimate. Generally, you shouldn't look at data under 5% as being established fact, especially if they go against proven family records. Fractions that small could just be an error during measurement, or a chunk of DNA that's interpreted as something it's not. These little fractions tend to differ between providers of tests like these as well. Alternatively, it's of course possible that the family records don't match up with genetic reality, and one of your maternal ancestors had an extramarital affair with some mediterranean sailor, which is the more fun explanation :)
I have found that uploading DNA results to MyHeritage for the Dutch gives the best ethnic results. It has the larger population of European testers to compare to. It was even able to place me right in Tilburg where I have found through genealogy that many of my ancestors come from in in almost all lines.
Thanks, very informative. As a Dutchman I had to watch this of course 🙂.
From a Mormon herritage database I traced a herritage line back to Charlemagne (39 generations back) as well as Alfred the Great (35 generations back).
So I should at least have some Frankish and Saxon blood I guess.
But considering if you go back 38 generations you would potentially have 270 billion ancestors, which is obviously impossible, since there were only a few million people in all of Europe then, so I sometimes half jokingly say that every European probably has a line back to Charlemgne somehow.
Thanks. Yes, I think every European is essentially related to Charlemagne the way the numbers work out, but it's still cool anyway
My line is traced back to Julius Ceasar.
@@valentijnrozeveld3773that a quite interesting claim.
Because Julius Caesar had, as far as we know, only 2 biological children. Both died young without surviving children. So how do you descent from a man who’s descendants died within his lifetime?
Julia’s Caesar’s children:
His daughter Julia, who was married to Pompey and died in childbirth along with her child.
His son Cesarion, born out of wedlock to Cleopatra. Died at 17 without issue, probably on orders of Augustus.
Adoptive: Ceasar adopted his nephew, Gaius Octavianus Ceasar, better known under his title of “Augustus”. Augustus had 1 surviving biological child (Julia the Elder) who had surviving issue. Now, under Roman law an adoptive child is the same as a biological child. But lines of descend don’t work that way. If you descend from Augustus, it would make much more sense to to claim descend from him and not from Ceasar
@@JABN97 He didn't record his r*pings in Europe on papers my bro. It was passed down verbally through my mothers side and my DNA test said clearly: descendan of Julius Ceasar.
Same with Charlemagne and Alfred the Great .... and then Matilda of France etc etc
Great video, was very helpful for my family heritage research. I'm Hungarian but I have a bloodline that goes back to medieval Dutch/Saxon people. These ancestors moved to Slovakia in the 12th century and didn't really mix with the locals. Therefore I've got quite a big percentage of Scandinavian DNA in my results and many of my distant cousins are Danish and Swedish. To me, it seems like my DNA has the Viking era Dutch DNA and not newer or older "versions".
This video explains it pretty perfectly for me as Dutch person:
80,7% Northwestern European (mostly Central East Netherlands)
12.1% Scandinavian
4,7% Broadly Northwestern European
1,9% British & Irish (mostly Glasgow City)
0,5% Ashkenazi Jewish
0,1% Unnasigned
From The Hague I present you with this one ;-p 56.4% English, 23.6% Scandinavian, 19.2% Northwestern European and 0.8% Finnish. In family tree NO English influence, nor Finnish for nearly 300 years. Conclusion ? 56.4+23.6=>80% Saxons and Vikings (but from Germany, Sweden and Norway areas, not Danish area) and 19.2% Frankish and the 0.8% Finnish hopped along with those Vikings. That translates I think to at least ancestors going back to the same area of The Hague and immediate surroundings to the coming of the Saxons around 500-550 after Christ when the Romans had pulled back from our lands.
Horrible result 😂
First of all: Love the Scottish accent! Was a pleasure to listen to you.
I am interested in doing a DNA test. I am dutch, living in the Netherlands and is there a test you can recommend? For some reason I don' t want to send my DNA to the US or another country outside of the EU. But so far I haven't found any. And maybe I am just way to paranoid.
Same problem here with a DNA test. I don't believe the results of the test are safe or destroyed.
I have no crminal past or anything like that. But I don't trust what they will do with the test results in the future.
I've the same feelings and I've read some weird stories about collecting the DNA in the last four years and also negative feedback on some of the well known "DNA companies", I don't know what else to call them 😁. I've shared my wish to find out a reliable "DNA company" on some TG groups. May I ask you to do the same and let's keep each other updated on the results we got. You agree? I'm Ditch but apparently, through ancestry, there's roots leading to Germany. Have a nice day.
@@herne63 If I find something useful I'll let you know!
You forgot to mention in the medieval era a sizable amount of Dutch farmers moved to the territory the Teuton knights "christened by the sword"" creating what later would become Prussia, and now are part of Poland and the Baltic states. You can notice this today in the Dutch names used in the Witcher ( game and series ) which fantasy environment is based around that area in the medieval era. Since Stalin chased away or killed much of the Prussian population by erasing Prussia from history after WWII i am not so sure traces of Dutch DNA still exist in that area. Probably were displaced to Germany, of which the Netherlands territories were part of for centuries anyway.
That is interesting because Prussians were tall as well.
There was also settlement from the Netherlands by Frisians and Saxons in Poland after the reformation i believe
@@kimashitawa8113 Teutonic Knights/Prussians (after the Baltic tribes) were Germans from many parts of the Holy Roman Empire (from today Westphalia, Hessen, from Flandern/Flemish, from today Netherlands, today Luxemburg etc.). Also the 'Saxons' in Eastern-Central or Eastern Europe (if you look up the many German communities back then (sometimes partly mixed with others there still) were not exactly the 'Saxon tribe' but - again - a conglomerate of all kind of Germans from many regions of the Holy Roman Empire. Also the Hanseatic League created a framework for a lot of exchange from other ppl (while the merchants themself stayed mostly among themself due to some guild-merchant restrictions)
"Christianed by the sword". Now I know where your projection comes from.
Nice! Someone from Scotland will have no difficulties in pronunciating 'Van Gogh'. The 'a' is like Scottish 'a', both 'g' and 'gh' are close to Scottish 'ch'. Si say 'van choch' and there you are!
You have to make that "CH" sound about 1/3 of the way down your throat so that it almost sounds like a duck quacking or a moderate collision!
Van Gogh rhymes with loch 😁
the English of Scotland actually shares a lot of pronunciation with German, Dutch etc. - the vibe is sometimes like a regional German dialect.
@@publicminx I was speaking of the Gaelic of Scotland!
Your knowledge is smashing! 👌👍
The Huguenots were mentioned. They fled from France to the Netherlands from 1685. But about a century earlier a much larger group of protestants fled from Flandres.
As a Frisian this dna explanation makes allot of sense.
It confirms allot of things I've always thought and read.
Nice to see it in genetics
Excellent
Thanks
I'm Dutch and according to my DNA I'm 25.1% Scottish/Irish/Welsh (Celtic)
Same here, I'm 27% Scottish/Irish/Welsh and 12%English. So do you reckon this is just from the general mixed bunch of ancestral DNA in our country. Or do we have an actual Scottish person closer in our family line, a few generations back? The genealogy so far is not showing anyone from the UK or Ireland..
Very interesting video. I'm born and raised in the center region of the Netherlands but living in the south now close to the Belgium boarder. Culture here is slightly different and people are on average also a little shorter. Now I know why. (I'm 6,7 btw)
Thanks
I grew up in Noord-Holland (north-west) and live in Brabant right now (south). First thing I noticed is that there is a lot more smaller people around in the south compared to the north. Sure you still see the giants but there is a lot of smaller than average people around. I'm only 183 cm in height but I find myself a bit taller whenever I'm in Brabant. It could also be because of the amount of expats in the bigger cities nowadays that's influencing the average. I grew up in a small town north and now I study in a large city south. So the amount of dutch natives does decrease I guess.
Question do you do any Celtic history on Clans such as the Duncan Clan or Donnachadh.
Whether it impacted northern or Southern Netherlands isn't really important because Southerners also from modern Belgium have moved north in the hundreds of thousands especially in the 1500's and ww1. And intermixed.
great vid, I had to put the speed to 0.75 to understand it all.😃
You don't know English?
1m77 is the average height of men + women in the Netherlands. Males are on average 1m84 and women 1m70
Only 77% of all the inhabitants of The Netherlands is Dutch. So is it 177m for all Dutch or for all inhabitants...
@@EGO0808 It's just the ethnic Dutch of course. The immigrants are mostly short swarthy creatures.
@@BillyThetitThe Dutch are tall but 4gly AF.
i know my mothers family history is from Friesland, (helped build the afsluitdijk on the west side, and moved to Texel when that work dried up, survived the german occupation there and moved to Beverwijk after because of work the Steel factory provided. most of my uncles still work there)
and my fathers side from central Netherlands and thats all i know about there history.
wish i knew more. but i dont trust my data security (or what they do on purpose with your DATA) to companies that do those DNA tests.
it was not an occupation, more of a visit. keep in mind that the Netherlands and parts of Belgium were with parts of Germany at first the core region of the Frankish Empire (Austrasia with Aachen as center and de facto capital of Karl dem Grossen/Karl the Great (NOT CHARLES! everyone who uses this name just tells that he missed something!) even if at that time most kings/emperors were traveling rulers. And later most of that was also part of the Holy Roman Empire. Anyway, the rest is more like a family meeting when children get a kind of unwished visit from the Parents who 'occupy' a bit more than just a couch and stuff for some time ;)
In the Netherlands there is a saying: 'Born on the correct side of the river.' Which is basically just banter if you hear an accent from the east, south or west. Perhaps there is more history to it but idk
Down South we call everyone and everything above the river Hollanders
@@turkmenistan1940 I don't listen to people that call it friet
@@croozerdog PTSCHAT AT
@@croozerdog PTSCHAT AT, mhmm jammie
@@turkmenistan1940 nou brek mien klomp
Im from the centre of the Netherlsnds, did a heritage test earlier this year, turned out im 21% scandinavian mainly Denmark and Norway. Now i know a little bit of why, thank you so much. If only this episode could be longer
welke test heb je gedaan?
@@Mello-208 bij myheritage gedaan. Geen idee hoe t precies heet die test
@@bootboy030 aha
Excellent video!
Thanks
Tested my DNA and iam 81% northwest european and 18% scandinavian and 1% finnish. So probably a typical nether-germanic 💪🏻.
I am 1.95m of Dutch ancestry on my father's side. The Dutch ancestors all came from north of the with some Friesian and Swedish from my father's mother who was born in Estland . There is also some Hugenot blood from 1680's and later. I did a DNA test a few years ago and was disappointed as it did not tell me things I didn"t know already. My Dutch ancestry is traced back to Dordrecht AD 1550. My mother's side is Anglo Saxon + Viking + French + Scots + Irish.
Viking can be all kind of people. It is a groupname, not DNA related. Forget that.😊
Anglo saxon is also a groupname. Same as above.
Can be frisians/angels/saxons/jutes.
What did your DNA-test say?
Have you done a video on Alsace Lorain?
Not yet but good idea
you skipped the most important period: the high middle ages. Colonisation of the wetlands of Holland, the establishment of the cities and villages, the expansion of a trade network into Northen and eastern Europe. It has brought DNA from Rhineland Germany, Northern France, England, Scandinavia and the Baltic area.
All those people especially Rhineland Germans aren't thay different anyway though right? Besides the Balts en maybe the French
The difference between the north and south is called the Patat-frietgrens, the patat friet border. Chips (French fries) are called patat in the north and friet in the south.
Linguistically, in the rural areas of Groningen, Drenthe, Twente en Overijssel, the primary language is lower Saxon.
Texan here with R-U106 Fresian ancestry.
The Lone Star symbology comes from the House of Orange.
Frisia boppe!!
@@urbnctrl😂
Considering that after the last Ice Age - Wurm , the inhabited Europe was around Carpathians ( UCLA _ Maria Gimbutas research ) and first agriculture tools ( 5000 bc) discovered nearby Danube -Romania ( Schela Cladovei ) proved by 4 labs includding Groeningen and ratified at the Arheological Congress Edinburgh 2002 ( prof. Clive Bonsall) , the agriculture starts here in south Romania 2000 yrs before Sumer . It's not at all surprising that even today you use the endonyme Dutch as we romanians called ourselves Daci same phonetics . ( Deutsch as well a branch of same peoples ) According to Octavian Augustus the Daci lived all allong the Danube up to the north and they were strong tall , blue eyed people .
Just a sample of reminiscent language ( after the Catholic Church attempt to mix the tongues for controling peoples ) is the word "boier " meaning an owner of "boi" ( plural) herds ( bovine) back than the cattle herds meant important assets . In Dutch you have "boer" mening farmer 🙂 The cattle use to return "home" to the owner shelter NOT for grass which was everywhere and not running from the cow😄 but instead for the salt -a scarce substance . The only place with salt at the ground level ( below ground all over Europe) was/is in Carpathians . Primitive communities didn't know where to dig for underground salt . Salt was so expensive even late antiquity as the word salary comes from sale- salt in Latin . The soldiers were payed with salt . For now , it's enough . If you find it interesting there is more , if you don't - forget about it .
That was interesting.
I am mixed Dutch with Nigerian. My DNA test was more diverse on the Dutch side- English mostly, Irish/ Scottish/ Welsh, Dutch, German, Italian and Finnish…
Ranking of the tallest people by country (2024):
1. Netherlands 183.78
2. Montenegro 183.3
3. Estonia 182.79
4. Bosnia and Herzegovina 182.47
5. Iceland 182.1
6. Denmark 181.89
7. Czech Republic 181.19
8. Latvia 181.17
9. Slovakia 181.02
10. Ukraine 180.98
(...)
Ranking of the shortest people (the last 10 of the ranking) by country (2024):
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Madagascar 165.16
Bangladesh 165.08
Yemen 164.42
Guatemala 164.36
Nepal 164.36
Mozambique 164.3
Papua New Guinea 163.1
Solomon Islands 163.07
Laos 162.78
Timor Leste 160.13
Somewhere in the future the Dutch will be called Blue white beaker people, because of the Blue white Delfts pottery.😅
Imagine being called after your pottery. 😅
Nice video.. I a born Germanic #Cananefate living in South Holland - Westland.
Not gonna lie, it took me a while to understand you were saying "language", which was horribly ironic. 😅
I'm Dutch, so are my parents and my grandparents but my DNA test shows I'm 66% English and 34% Scandinavian. But now I've seen this it makes more sense, very interesting!
I think the Danish genetic heritage being so low is indicates that the region wasn't deserted as otherwise the Danes would have taken over and have a larger part. Although it's probable that many Frisii moved to the English shores that Rome evacuated, as they where trading a lot with Rome and those shores.
In early English history it's recorded that kings enlisted Angelo-Saxon help, but a sax is a sword and a angle it a polearm used in swampland called "Kletsie" in Frisian. I think it should be read as kings hiring mainly Frisian swordsmen and spearman.
The thesis, which is widespread today and accepted by European scientists; The thesis is that the R1a subgroup is the 'common gene of the Indo-Europeans, and the R1b subgroup is the common gene of the Turks and other Central Asian peoples and Finn-Yuğra peoples. (1- Anatoly A. Kyosov, Journal of Russian Academy ogf DNA genelogy, 2010 vol. 3No 1 pp.3-58)
However, the R gene is a single gene with all its haplogroups and is a 'Turkish gene'. The R1b subgroup is actually highly concentrated in Western Europe and moderately in Central Eurasia and Sub-Sharan in Central Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Central Asia.
The R1b subgroup is 80% Irish, Scots and Welsh; 50-60 percent in Spaniards, Portuguese, French and English; 25-50% in Germans, Dutch, Danes and Norwegians; 25-40% in Italians; 25% in Sweden and Norway; 15% in the Balkan peoples; It is found 10-15% in Poles, 10% in Russians and Ukrainians, 10-15% in Anatolian Turks (25% in Black Sea and Eastern Anatolia regions and 15-25% in Kyrgyz. Rb1 ratios in Central Asian Turks and Fin-Yuğra peoples are very low or there is none.
The Rb1 subgroup is quite high among Celtic, Germanic, and Latin peoples who have assimilated Proto-Turkic Peoples such as the Iberian and Aquit peoples in Spain and France, and Finns further north at a low level. This ratio is around 60-80% in the British and Irish islands, for example. In Scandinavian peoples who have heavily assimilated the Finnish peoples, the R1b rate is relatively low, such as 25%.
Rb1 is as low as 10-15% in Slavic and Balkan peoples. For Russians, Ukrainians and Polish peoples, this rate is at a very low level, between 0-10%. In Hungarians, this rate is between 0-10%. This subgroup is also between 0-10% in Croats of European Avars origin and Bosnians of Pecheneg origin.
R1a is a haplogroup with a high rate in Turks. R1a, 50-70% Central Asian Turks, 50-60% Russians, Ukrainians, Poles and Sorbs (Slavs in Germany), 50-60% Afghans, Pakistanis and North Indians, 20-60% Hungarians; 52% Ashkenazi Jews, 15-30% Scandinavian peoples, 30% Finns, Estlers, Lapps, Baltic people, 15-20% Italians and some areas in northern Spain (this includes the Basque region) 25-60% Dravidians, 10 percent -15% in Tibetans, 15-20% in North Chinese, 15-30% in Germans, 30-40% in Balkan peoples, 20-30% in Caucasian, Anatolian and Iranian peoples.
The genetic compositions of today's Turkic peoples are quite different from each other and show a genetic unity.
Anatolian Turks also have C, H, I, J, K, O, Q, T chromosomes besides R1a and lesser R1b. The highest gene among Turkic peoples is R Y-DNA. (R1a and R1b) Next comes J Y-DNA. J Y-DNA is a gene carried by Arabs and Semetic Jews, which emerged in the Arabian peninsula about 30,000 years ago, and is divided into 2 subgroups as J1 and J2. This rate is as low as 20% in Ashkenazi Jews of Turkish origin, and they got this gene by mixing with Semetic Jews. There are J2 subgroups at the rate of 10% and 20% among the Anatolian Turks. The genetic composition of Azerbaijan's Iranian Turks is similar to that of Anatolian Turks. In Turkmens in Turkmenistan, on the other hand, R1a is higher and J chromosome is lower than Anatolian and Azerbaijani Turks, while O and Q chromosomes are higher. Among the Turkic peoples in Central Asia, the highest rate of R1a is found in the Kyrgyz Turks with 70 percent. 50-60% of that. KazakhTurks, UygurTurks, and UzbekTurks, MongolTurks and TibetTurks, this rate is around 10-15%. All Central Asian peoples have C, I, J, K, O, Q chromosomes, but the J chromosome is very low in these peoples.
However, C Chromosome is found at very high levels in KazakTurks, MogolTurks, KirgizTurks, UygurTurks and UzbekTurks. Other peoples carrying this chromosome are Tunguses, Koreans and Japanese. Tibetans also carry about 40% of the D chromosome. This chromosome is found in other Central Asian Peoples at very low rates. Another people who carry this chromosome at a high rate like the Tibetans are the Aynos, the oldest people of the Japanese islands.
The issue that confuses European scientists is that the R1a subgroup is found in Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Pakistanis; It is very high in Afghans and north Indians. This is quite natural actually. The lands where these peoples live are the old lands where the Turks have established strong lands for centuries. If we look at the maps of these Turkish states, it can be easily seen that these maps overlap with the R1a maps. This is the only reason why these populations have high levels of R1a. The Turks living in these lands became new peoples by mixing with other peoples who did not migrate from these lands when their states were disintegrated. It is not known on what the European scientists base the thesis that the R1a subgroup is the common gene of 'Indo-Europeans' and the R1b group is the common gene of Turks and other Central Asian peoples and Finn-Ygra peoples (Fins, Estonians, Lapps), but it is found in Turkish and other Central Asian peoples and Phoenician peoples. the higher gene is not R1b, but the R1a subgroup. R1b is at very low levels. This 'strangeness' is explained by European scholars as 'the Turks carry a high rate of R1a because they assimilated the Iranian Peoples in Central Asia in the 4th and 11th centuries' (2 origins, age, spread and ethnic association of European Haplogroups and subclades)
However, there is no record that the Turks erased the 'Central Asian Iranians' from history in the 4th and 11th centuries. If one can show records, evidence, etc., of course, it would be very appropriate. In addition, R1a is high not only in Turks, but also in Caucasian peoples living in the Caucasus and Dravidian peoples living in southern India. Also, if R1a is a Turkish gene, why is it 60-80% found in British, French, Spanish, and Celts?
It must be Ahhuns (Sakalar, Kushans or Ak Sakalar) or Tagars (Tohars) that European scientists mean by Iranians in Central Asia. The Tağars established a powerful state in the present-day Shanxi and Kansu provinces of China between 300 BC and 20 BC. However, European historians claim that the Tagars were 'Indo-European'. No 'Indo-European' state was established in Central Asia, neither in 300 BC nor in the following centuries. There are no archaeological findings proving this. there are only dry claims. There was only a small number of people of Indian origin, who spread to present-day Southern Turkestan (Afghanistan and then to East Turkestan, and then melted down among the Uyghurs) around 500 AD. The descendants of this people are texts written in Brahmi script from the period between 500 AD and 700 AD. It is understood that they spoke an Indian language that has become extinct.European historians and archaeologists have found thousands of years old in central Asia.
They claim that they were descended from 'Indo-European tohars' because their mummies were auburn-blonde and their clothing resembled those of the Celtic peoples. However, the People of Indian origin, whom they call the Tohars, are not brown-haired, but a dark people like today's Indians, and their migration date to Central Asia is very late.
These mummies are from the Turks. In addition, it is natural that these oldest clothes of the Turks are seen in the Celts, an early Turkish people. It is not surprising that the Turks were brown-blonde before mixing with other peoples.
Do you know why the black sea region has more blonde hair and blue eyes?
Really fun to watch since my familyline is one of the oldest of the country
Excellent but slow down! This American had real trouble listening as fast as you spoke! Keep up the good work!
You can play it at .75 speed. 😉
Im dutch and used to fast speaking people. And im strugling to a bit, its good feedback.
I found the subtitles to be very helpful and accurate. And I noticed he actually talks slower than he used to. Subtitles to the rescue!!
I'm about 5% Scandinavian and East European, the rest is Dutch, many Germans came over to work here as seasonal workers in the last 500 years or so, many of them from the eastern parts of Germany.. many Scandinavians came to work here as sailors..
According to my DNA test I am about 75% native Dutch and about 18% Scandinavian. Yet, I have no direct Scandinavian relatives up to 6 generations in the past on either side.
The only plausible explanation that I have is that either DNA technology is not able to distinguish between Frisian and Scandinavian DNA, or there is little difference in DNA between those regions.
I am originally from the north-east of Belgium, closest to the NL.
My MyHeritage test came out as:
50% scandinavian
46% western european
2% italian
1.6% greek
And 0.4% other
You forgot to mention that the golden period of the Netherlands started with an influx of refugees from the southern low countries (the current Belgium)
Also french protestant Hugenots
@@henkvandervossen6616 yes but the scale was completely different. When there are 70000 french huguenots more than half of the population of the southern netherlands fled. Big cities like Brugge Ghent Antwerp lost up to 80% of their population. Often well educated and wealthy people. Up to 60% of the habitants of Leiden were refugees from the southern netherlands, current Belgium and north of France
True, i don't think they are genetically really different though, but it is true that a lot of brainpower from Flanders moved to the Netherlands after the fall of Antwerp
They are different. They look different, for instance...@@kimashitawa8113
And they influenced the language in Holland heavily, and so Common Dutch.
What language are you speaking? I mean what dialect is it. It is hard to follow but it’s interesting, I always thought the romans had a huge impact on Europe, because the scriptures still refers to the Romans empire which will also be in the end times, and we are in the end times as we speak.
My Frisian forefathers bequeathed upon me a large, broad forehead, a big nose, and red-ish blonde hair.
My sympathies.
You are probably 6ft5 so that helps
broad forehead gang, good look for a baseball cap or an authority demanding bald/buzzed head 8)
I can actually pinpoint the exact village of origin by your description. It's called Harkema and everyone there has these features.
@tbrown4080 5ft 10
Live in Friesland it was easy for me to learn English
Did the DNA test and am 49% North West European, 22% Scandinavian and 29% British :)
'For some reason' we Dutch are made to believe that we live in a Judeo-Christian culture. But almost everybody I ask, feels more akin to Germanic, Roman and Greek culture. What's up with that?!?
@aheroyaheroyalproductions7631 I think that is just about right. Though the Romans used the Rhine river as the northernmost frontier of their empire, just like they did with Hadrian's wall in Schotland, because the people across these frontiers were supposedly insensitive to what Julius Caesar described as "the effeminate Roman culture". Though he wrote that about the Belgae, whom he saw as the fiercest of all, with their women fighting just as hard as the men.
That's because the people you ask are ignorant about their own culture. The Dutch school system is abominable. If you really had to live in Greco-Roman or Germanic culture (such as they actually were), you would go crazy at all the horrors you would witness on a daily basis - gladiatorial games, human sacrifice, tribal warfare, slavery, etc., etc. You can't even imagine what kind of hell Europe would be without the judeo-christian element in our culture. All those who glorify "pagan" Europe don't know what they are talking about - most of us keyboard heroes would not have lasted very long in those cultures.
Judeo- Christian culture refers to religion and German, Roman and Greek culture to lifestyle.
The Dutch are very easy to manipulate, that's why.
Danes and Dutch look very similar
We're family! That is nice!
I'm from Jutland, Denmark and had the pleasure of visiting the Netherlands 3 times and yeah, it feels like "Netherscandinavia" actually.
@@ole7146 Frikandel broodje is lekker
@@Monkeyamingus777 ja, frikadelle sandwich (brød) er lækker👍
@@ole7146 lus jie ok kroketjes op een bolletje dan
Of heuw jie dat nog nooit e pruft
0:42 Fan Go and Fan Gock lmao. Different sounds, I understand, but tutorials are abundant on youtube on how to pronounce certain stuff.
Bro please make captions for your videos...
Hit the CC button, there are captions
The Baalgi from Belgium became Walloons. When the German tongue tried to say Gauls it most often came out as Walls or even Wales!
It always intrigues me where so many Anatolian farmers came from to form the population of Europe, maybe there were no farmers left in Anatolia and the population disappeared due to hunger, since the farmers all went to Europe
It's part of the Great Migration plus they mixed with the local peoples (Hunter/Gatherers) in southern Europe mainly.
Well, even nowadays there is still a large Anatolian population in The Netherlands...
@@EGO0808The whole history consists of migration patterns, sometimes from entire continents. Look at the US, New Zealand and Australia, almost completely taken over by migrants, especially from Europe. Almost no original population left.
@@castorpollux3389 I know. And in recent years globalization and digitization creates even more migration. Look at Dubai, where no more than 12% is of Emirati, native origin. Many more examples, especially in the developed nations.
@@EGO0808I wouldn't call it large. If you're referring to the Turks, it's not even half a million on 18 million people.
As finishing touch, God created the Dutch.
What language is this guy speaking?
Scottish 🙂
As an Afrikaner, Dutch sounds like an Afrikaner talking Afrikaans with a mouthful of peanut butter, haha.
As a Dutch, Afrikaans sounds like a toddler learning to talk... Not that strange as Afrikaans mostly come from old Dutch and German. I love how in South-Afrika they use Dutch words for new things. Underwear, in Dutch we call that very short underpants for women a string, I believe in Afrikaans it is a kleine broekie, een klein broekje, it makes perfect sense...
Once I sat next to a Chinese guy on an airliner.
I told him I am Anglo-German, and he humorously said that to the Chinese English and German sound much the same. They sound 'like a dog trying to talk with a mouthful of gravel ' 😆
2:01 ahh so we did invent the bong.
No that came from China we just did cultivate Canabis
There are some clay ‘stones’ dug up from the coast of Walcheren, which look like those used in some smoking devices. They probably date from the Viking era. They had trade routes with Persia and beyond.
We don't have a painter called Van Cock It's Van Gogh.
Ah, the typical Dutch wisenose.
Yep, i am a northerner (Groningen) and pop out as Dane, Norwegian and lowland Scot in my test.
I am dutch, and my dna is.
58.8% english
14.3% north and west european.
11.6% eastern europe.
9.0% scandinavian
6.3% Filipino, indonesian, malaysian
During the Claudian invasion of Britain, much of the fighting was done by Germanic auxiliaries - the Batavi and the Tungri.
As their names indicate, these were from what we now term the Netherlands.
Basically we’re mixed out of Viking’s, Germanic and Romans. Like all the West Europeans (Belgians, French, Swiss, German) just more Viking blood in the north and more Roman in the south. As you can clearly see, because a lot of frisians and Groningers are straight Viking and often only have Scandinavian dna, not even north Western European.
Frisians and Groningers are genetically related to the "Vikings" (= Scandinavians) and look like them, but they don't descend from them. The Vikings never settled in Frisia or Groningen in large numbers. It's an older common Germanic heritage.
Vikings are Germanic
6:25 "This Danish Viking contact is contemporaneous with a CRITICAL PERIOD in the establishment of the modern Dutch genome FROM OTHER OUTSIDE FORCES." I would absolutely love to know what THOSE were. What possible other outside forces that ended up being critical to the modern Dutch genetic composition would there have been at this time? The mind boggles. Maybe we should ask the researches because nothing is springing to mind.
Thank god for subtitels....
As a bit of Everything born Indonesian, also strongly Dutch, I speak fluent Dutch as well aside many other languages such as Arabic, etc.
I was born on Wednesday February 1st 1984.
Wednesday, Woensdag, Woden's = Odin Father of Thor.
Interesting, but what does it mean?
That we are not Dutch people, but a combination of all kinds of genes through migration. As is still happening today.
@@castorpollux3389 This is such a nonsense statement. If that is the case then no one is anything.
That's for you to decide
wonder why the dutch are so tall, was there better nutrition through the ages, a better distribution of wealth?? My husband is British, but he is 2.006mts (6ft 7inch) he is adopted, but came originally from a very wealthy family, we may come over to the Netherlands at some point to go clothes shopping for him as he is well above average for the UK, just awaiting his DNA results which should be interesting.I am British, did a DNA test and came out 43% northwestern european, 39% scottish (father was a scot) 11% Germany, and the rest danish, norway and sweden ( scots family from Shetland partly) not quite sure what ancestry dna class as scottish, celt i suppose, but very germanic/norse i suppose
It's a genetic mutation to keep their heads above the rising water
/s
People are not much taller than I the UK and Germany. I go shopping about every weekend in the Netherlands as I live right across the border on the German side. Their appearance is no different..so no reason why clothes would be different..
@@marchauchler1622 The only reason I said that was because I once knew a fashion buyer for a retail outlet in the UK called 'big and tall' and she regularly went to the Netherlands to buy clothes for their company!!
at 3:48 the ancient map includes flevoland, which definitely didnt exist back then
Legend has it the dutch are so tall because they need to look over their dykes to see the sea
No, it is so we can still breath when the dykes break and we are flooded 😂
Since the 1964, we have the start of the omvolking, a great masonic European project
there used to be raids, now it is by invitation
So how does it work and more importantly, why are they doing it?
I am an Afrikaner Afrikaans and English are very similar in many ways The English words from Germanic origin very similar to Afrikaans
Viking is a name of (multi genetic, multi ethnic) profession not any tribe or particular haplogroup so why do you use this word for describing migrations or influences connected to genetic ancestry?
My dads supposed to be german and dutch and my DNA test showed im 40% Scandinavian
Most people who come to the Netherlends now have the overal known id group UB40
Next video topic....... mega daddy genes.....gengis khan and Niall of the nine hostages.
3:55, I'm fairly sure Flevoland didn't exist back than :)
You have a good accent are you Irish greetings from the Netherlands
Thanks. Scottish
Like your accent
Hahahaha 1:17 you literally poldered in the entire Northsea for some reason, but you speared the Wadden Sea
but still quite an ambitious polder project a lot more then the still very missed markerwaard
Say "Purple Burglar Alarm".
Well you may not get an accurate sample due to modern migration and even irregular migration of the previous era. Switzerland for example is much more largely Southern European than you'd think because it was such a haven for Italian (Savoyard) Protestants during eras of Catholic violence. Which would be considered irregular migration. So there's going to be a lot of variation depending on the individual. And depending on what era the testing is done.
Example: Human remains in Southern Germany show mixed Northern European and East Asian DNA but only up to a certain time period when geneticists assume the signature was bred out. Modern Germans are their descendant but they have no DNA to them because it's been bred out. The remains of the ancestors of these people do have the unique East Asia DNA signature , however. Which shows at some point they lost it. Probably because the generation of migrants directly from the Far East was limited to one or two waves.
So the Dutch DNA of today isn't the same as 500 years ago and so on. So you have to see it in context. The sample is going to be different depending on the era.
This DNA-thing is always funny. On my maternal side there is a dark complexion with black hair. And not very tall. But somehow my brother and I ended up as 2 tall gingers.
Hmm... did you ever watch the episode of the TV series "Father Ted" with the ginger milkman?
Those darker skinned people aren't black.
what a language you have bro
Even today you can see a physical difference between the people from the two northern provinces and the rest of the country and in particular the south.
It's quit remarkable.
The theory is that catholic families in the south got more children and therefore the food was less. Dutch are taller because of a proteïne rich diet like meat and dairy and a lot of cheese.
@@lienbijs1205Hence it is said He or she is from above the rivers or under the rivers. . The people from under the rivers are more open, happier, love conviviality and parties and are more gastronomically laid out.
The people from above the rivers are more serious, economical, love simplicity, less gastronomic. Maybe because of Calvinism.
@@castorpollux3389thats not true. I am born in Groningen and have been living in Haarlem for 20 years now. The biggest difference is the mentality. In the North it is free and social and in the West it is unwelcoming and businessminded.
I am used to it now.
@@sea.imagineering Haarlem is still North. I am talking about the North and South.
@@castorpollux3389 I dont think people in the North are more serious and love simplicity.
Great video! Too bad your accent sometimes made it hard for me to follow. Try working on that!
Hoe vaak denk jij aan het Romeinse rijk?
Neanthertaler 100%
the Dinka and Tutsi people are way taller than the dutch
But they're not human.
@@PatrickFitzgerald88Lovely colonizer Dutch comment.
Interesting as I carry some Dutch DNA.