VIKINGS | You Could Be Speaking Old Norse
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2018
- ... and not even know it! Clive Standen (Rollo) takes us through some modern words that the Vikings also used in the Old Norse language. Vikings returns November 28 9EP on HISTORY Canada.
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Why does he look like he'd leave his brothers side and marry a French princess
I think he'll marry a Frankish princess by time traveling.
tnx for spoiler👌
@@Mc_Lovin-nd6cl If you ain't watched the show then you shouldn't
bother you filthy Angelo Saxon
r/rareinsults
@@Mc_Lovin-nd6cl It's not a spoiler. It's literally norse history. Like that stuff happened 800 years ago, mate.
possibly the friendliest way anyone has ever pronounced the word slaughter
It's like he had a twinkle in his eyes
Ever notice that *slaughter* and *laughter* are almost the same?
Slachten, in dutch funny how some things connect.
Fr I though he was gunna say Vikings invented the word slut for a second 😅
The sexiest lol
Imagine a Viking man raiding your monastery only to turn around and demand a little cake.
alright...i did. what now?
And you're actually a spanish monk visiting the monastery and you think the viking just want to take a shit (Kaka > Caca > Shit). XD
@@WolfenmarK that works in many languages
Confusion…
We all go a little kaka sometimes...
I love how he looks angry while speaking old norse and then suddenly changes his face to happy when he changes to english.
I think I prefer Old Norse lol
@@janeburke147 same
The face he made when he said "veikr"
Reminiscent of anime's "Pathetic"
Nick Nikolayev looked like robert de niro
Did not even pronounce it right.
Sander Man who pronounced it wrong
@@Xanderman As a Norwegian, we have a similar word (Veik), But it's pronounced like the English "Veil", just with a 'k' instead of the 'l'.
The kid of this guy: Mom can we have Rollo?
The wife of this guy: No, we have Rollo at home
Rollo at home
read the description
How do you say "betrayer of all the Gods and sacred things on Midgard" in old norse 🤣🤣
Haha aka rollo that asshole!
im dying
Svikari allra guðanna ok heilagra hluta á Miðgarði
I speak Old Norse by the way
Aaa Wotan will be proud
Vikings totally did Rollo's character dirty. In history he was a really good man that did what was best for his people and family. One of the greatest Vikings of all time.
It’s so cool to see how languages have evolved and influenced each other.
lmao he went from "anger" and "berserk" to "little cake"
I love the change of intonation between Old Norse and English 😂
thank you i noticed that too but I didn't know it was called intonation, I googled it after I saw your comment. i haven't done linguistics
@@ruphusincognito2301 nm, neither did I ;)
I love Rollo, his actor is so wholesome.
Right, even though he betrayed his own people I still loved him
Wholesome like raping a slave?
@@CyrodiilicKhajiit hate to tell you but when you hear of vikings raiding places it means that they killed all the men, then raped all the women and the killed all the women and then took everything of value
@@alfredvonhofsten4010 That doesn't mean I have to agree with or like it. That just means it happened.
@@CyrodiilicKhajiit also, all the caracters like Ragnar Björn Ubbe and all of those did the same thing, but that wasn't shown in the show
Erikson.. Son of Erik...
Chris Cool Eriksson, is a more correct version.
Those names came much later in Scandinavia.
Andersson, Persson, Svensson, Kristiansson etc.
This names are from the 1500 century. They had some variations since people didn't know how to write properly until everyone could go in school.
no, the "son" names comes from old norse.
Thats' still used in Iceland. My father's name is Jón. I am Jónsdóttir ( Jón'sdaughter) my brother is Jónsson ( Jón's son)
@@margretheilagadis_9753 that's why almost everyone in the Icelandic football team has the same last name.
Oh man, he's so good looking!
Ah now that i watch Vikings in Netflix all of the sudden RUclips knows what to Put in my recommendation lol
Same thing here
Yep, same here
You thought you were watching Netflix, but really Netflix was watching you!
Ikr
Wait Vikings is on Netflix now??
Well, my favorite examples are still: "Son = son" and "Dottir = daughter"
that suffix of Icelandic surnames too
That’s just because English and Norse are both Germanic tho
Cognates, related words, not borrowed terms. Just look at other Indo-European languages: German "Sohn", Russian "Syn", Lithuanian "Sūnus". As for the second one, German "Tochter", which is actually closer to the original pronounciation of "daughter".
@@matusmotlo3854 Dochter is Dutch, in German it's Tochter. But well spotted =D
@@ezravandesande5699 I know, there are surprisingly many words that are still the same or very simmilar in old scandinavian and modern languages such as English, Dutch and German. It's almost like tracing a path the words have traveld.
I'm happy that Rollo got to live a happy life after being in the shadow of Ragnar for years
The real Ragnar and Rollo lives hundreds of years apart
@@fathomgathergood7690 you do know that the Vikings series isn't entirely historically accurate, right?
The fact that you understand 30% of what is said if you speak swedish and pay attention is fairly cool (in the tv-series). Sounds low with 30% but you can piece things together and understand way more.
Same with Danish.
Sometimes you can even understand all of it, an example being when Ivar yells at the English, probably helps that Alex is Danish though.
This man has the most amazing smile! 😍
Don't forget "egg" or "skirt" or "skull".
skull "jeg fik den lige i skalden" haha
"vikings spoke a language called old norse"
so you are telling me that norsemen spoke norse?!?! *gasp*
There's an idiot born every minute, someone out there didn't know that Norsemen spoke norse.
I really wish they would iron this out in these presentations: WE call it Old Norse (which is really just a blanket name for umpteen variations during that period). The contemporaries actually called it Danish (Dönsktungu), per the sagas. End rant... lol
"kaka" (caca) means poo in french lmao
In Portuguese too akakakka
And Spanish
Italian cacca
Kaka means Poop in german as well
Greek too xD
I love how he smiles when he switched to english :D
even in 2021 still love to listen to him, legend
I love thar he makes the faces with the old norse words
He does it so well I see why they casted him
Some of these words are actually from Germanic, not exclusively from Old Norse like Thor's Day, Hel, Syk, Slaughter. These words appear in similar forms in Dutch and German, so they were most likely present in some way in Anglo-Saxon vocabulary before the Norsemen even arrived. Old Norse and Old English were already very similar languages as is, both freshly branching off from Germanic.
Old norse developed to the nordic/ scandinavian languges, norwegian, swedish, danish, islandic and faroese. It is not dead. Icelandic people can still read old scripts. Many words are very similair to words in today’s nordic languges and even in English.
Icelandic is the closest to Old Norse.
Also, according to Wikipedia, the "Þ" was known as "Thurs" in Icelandic and Norwegian poems. This name can in turn be used as a different term for the "Jötnar."
-My point is that -_-Thursday-_- can also translate to -_-"Giant's Day"-_- if one chooses to do so.-
In Old Norse, the day of the weak was called "Þórsdagr" which is just a combination of the possessive form of "Þórr" meaning Thor, and "dagr," meaning day.
Yes that character actually used to be in English. We called it the "thorn", but for several hundred years our upper classes spoke mostly French and German, and helped steer the language away from Nordic characters and replace the thorn with "Th"
Hope i helped 👍👍❤️
@@RoemDaug Ooh Okay. I didn't know that! Thank you for the clarification, man!
no it's actually danish and norwegian
Faroese is the closest to old norse
in swedish we still say kaka as "cookie, little cake" and syk has been rewritten as sjuk which of course means "ill"
Mordern Icelandic is more or less a living dialect or variety of Old Norse:
Old Norse:
Gáttir allar,
áðr gangi fram,
um skoðask skyli,
um skyggnast skyli,
því at óvíst er at vita,
hvar óvinir
sitja á fleti fyrir.
Icelandic:
Gáttir allar
áður gangi fram
um skoðast skyli,
um skyggnast skyli,
því að óvíst er að vita
hvar óvinir
sitja á fleti fyrir.
Source: An Icelander's response to my comment that I as a Swede understood part of the Old Norse posted by Dr. Crawford: ruclips.net/video/1Pw6LQeRS8s/видео.html&lc=UgyeCPijR8hnQ8exx7p4AaABAg
Modern Faroese is pretty much another dialect of it, a little bit closer in tone to Swedish.
@Martin I was talking about Faroese having a tone (how it sounds) that's similar to Swedish. I wasn't talking about Swedish itself.
It's still very much a dialect of Old Norse, and while it sounds familiar to a Swedish speaker, they can't understand more than the odd stray word that hasn't changed much over time.
We learn the old norse text in school here in Iceland
viltu ríða
@@karikrummi4222 geggjaður gamli
Clive is my inspiration for life😂🤘🏻 rock and Rollo baby!
I was so excited about naming conventions until I realized that my Viking name would be Richie Richieson, or Richard Richardson, since my father and I share the same name.
More like Ríkharðr Ríkharðsson
The thing is the term viking means: to raid a viking was a raid not a person, so people such as danes or norsemen commited vikings
It applied to the people on the raids as well. Vikings went on Vikings, just as hunters go on hunts. The only difference is that Viking wasn't really a profession, but a temporary outing.
Honestly as an archaeologist and someone who speaks Dutch and German half of these aren’t specifically “Norse” but rather “Germanic” 😅
Im not surprised, most of this bologna these people claim historically accurate is false or otherwise inaccurate
Would that not be where Norse came from? They had the same pantheon with slightly different pronunciations.
@@SaturatedCat There is a small difference in Germanic mythology and Norse mythology, but they still had the same gods, but different names, and the mythology changed a bit due to regional and cultural differences. The same goes with the language, old norse is in the germanic language group, and in that the north germanic group. This north germanic language group had some words that looks alot like other words in germanic language, but there were still a difference, thats why they say a lot of old norse language, influenced the english language spoken today. The english language have a lot of words derived from scandinavia, France etc.
Its is not Hollywoods fault, although they change a bit to make it more entertaining, especially in the vikings show, there is still a difference in those things you mentioned.
@@SaturatedCat You have to remember scandinavian people invaded and moved to England and integrated the lands, and brought both culture and language to the island, therefore many words derives from old Norse language, this is a fact you cannot deny, but the languages was pretty similar beforehand, this is also why English is so easy to learn if you already speak one of the Germanic languages. But old norse/Danish and later frence, had a pretty big influence on the english language and culture.
You can call it some kind of loan words they took from the old norse language, the same as they have loan words from french
@@SaturatedCat and again because you can see the similarities is because it is the same language group. According to Google around 400 words in the english language comes from old norse language, this is a significant amount, but you still a very small amount. And no we Scandinavians dont think that we had a big influence on the English language, we just know that we had some influence, this is also what we get taught in school.
Ok. You just made my down with the British Day weekend much better. July 3rd today.
0:51 I can see Rollo in his face!
I immediately thought: "wait.. that face seems familiar!".
Not sure that the Vikings used the expression "Rollo Roka" as the name of a music genre...
Ofcourse they did. As soon as they stuck their amplifiers in their bass guitars they would scream ROLLO ROKA!. It's common knowledge
@@Adama.1 😂👍
I think he was joking about the last 2 names
Wow i didnt even know this and im scandinavian and love the history here
i knew about berserker but not the others!
Fun fact, we still use Kaka for small cakes/biscuits or cookies
In my country kaka means Shit
0:05. Old Norse is not extinct at all, it has developed into our Scandinavian languages, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic. Most of the words you mention are still common words here.
The language is still extinct, anyone who could read or write died in the black death. Icelandic is exactly what we Norwegians spoke before, but is now a danish version since we were slaves under them.
@@jans6271 It depends on what you mean by extinct. Nobody speaks Old Norse today, but we all (in Scandinavia) speak languages which are descendants from old Norse. Even the Danish-influenced Norwegian which you mention (bokmål I guess) descends from Old Norse, since Danish does so. But you have tried to go back somewhat to the roots with nynorsk, haven't you? We Swedes have unfortunately not such a good copy of the old language as you have in Icelandic, but it was obviously something similar.
@@svergurd3873 Most norwegians doesn't speak either Bokmål or Nynorsk they speak their dialect which in some cases are more like Faroese/Icelandic than Danish or swedish
0:35 the way he says "kaka" litteraly makes me want to just screaam NOOOOOOOO!!! it sounded more like he tried to say poop at another language ...
@That Otaku Guy i dont know maybe, som balkan and arabic languages says that
Old Norse was not pronounced the same as Icelandic. I don't know if they use modern Icelandic pronunciation on the show.
Yes, his pronunciation is horribly wrong.
Most languages say it for poop.
In french we write it caca and it means poop, yeah.
Why would you not translate syk to sick?
Exampel in swedish the Word sick is sjuk and is really simular to Syk
@@historybuilds Syk and sick are already similar enough but yeah, I'm Swedish btw.
I could listen to him recite Dr. Seuss and be contented. What a voice.
We also get knife (knifr) and gun (gunnr, which refers to any weapon)
Why does this dude look like Rollo, Ragnar’s brother?
Because he is!!!
Lot of these words are used daily in swedish language like Torsdag, Rannsaka and kaka
Om du säger rannsaka dagligen är du uppenbarligen i en udda branch
@@BoofPack69 Rannsaka med mening att granska eller att söka igenom
@@BoofPack69 Men vi kan alla enas om att kaka är det viktigaste ordet i norden
I love clive so much
bro writing those words is more satisfying that doing it on modern english
My ancestor was truly great, would love for us Scandinavia's to learn about them more than just the ''fairy tales'' and the sagas. Would love to know more about our culture and people. Because when the Christians came they destroyed a lot of our heritage and folklore
It's not like 'the christians' came and destroyed culture. It was the native norse people who converted to christianity, after having a lot of contact with the continent through travel, trade and politics. This process took several hundred years, and in many cases the two faithsystems merged or coexisted. Most of the folklore survived christianity, albeit in a modified way. (How much of a scandinavian christmas is really christian, it's not even called christmas in scandinavia) Luckily, with christianity came education and literacy. And a few learned men put the sagas into written form so it would not get lost. We really have the monastic orders to thank for not the entire european culture being wiped out during the plagues of the middle ages.
And the English word “egg” also comes from Danish and Norwegian vikings.
Thank you Rollo
Rollo was actually my favorite character from the vikings. Am I the only one thinking that in a 1v1 situation he would have defeated his brother? Ragnar was smarter, but Rollo was brute force.
What about TRAITOR!
SVIKARI!!!!!!
Everyone giving love to Icelandic, let me introduce Elfdalian
Such a cool tongue!
We gave rise to pretty much modern day English. We traveled the world before anyone else did. We invented the names of each day. Our saga, mythology, history and legends are renowned across the world, and has inspired thousands of writers, story tellers, movie makers and philosophers from ancient times to modern day. We basically ensured that Skyrim ever became a thing. Tolkien was inspired by our mythology and named his world after ours, with a twist on the name; Middle-earth, and wrote Lord of the rings. We gave rise to much trade across all of Europe, and almost became an empire.
We are Vikings. Hail all my Scandinavian Brothers and sisters.
Well that was very interesting I would like to see more
The way he said ”kaka”, you pronounce it kAka like with an harsh a and then the soft. Not kakka
He pronounced most words wrong.
In icelandic? Icelandic pronounciation is very different from old norse
@@Thename123J this is in all Old Norse descendant languages. It even shows up in English with reference to long and short "a". It should be roughly /kawh-kah/.
Me a dutch frisian laugh at this for we still speak vikingr
Anglo saxons spoke a language related to Old Norse. As I recall the weekdays stem from this. Like we say Odin and onsdag - they say Woden and wednesday. We say Thor and torsdag, they say Thunor and thursday. Another word he could have mentioned is window, from Old Norse Vindauga - modern Danish/Norwegian: vindue 😊
Lol they got the cheap Odin.
I love his angry face while speak old norse. XD
Why does he change his from from "Evil Viking" to "Puppy dog"?
Friday came from Freyja
As well as Tuesday which came from Tyr, and Wednesday came from Odin, Thursday came from Thor, Saturday came from Saturn, which rather then any Norse God, is actually a Roman God.
@@Easy-Death_Oven4056 and Sunday came from Sunnudagr, Old Norse for the Day of the Sun, who was also a deity in a way. If we called Saturday by its Nordic name, it would be Bathday, as in Old Norse it was called Laugardagr.
The days of the week in english did not come from old norse. These came from old english and the anglo saxon pagan gods who shared common ancestry with the norse ones.
staswiat your are correct friend
@@Easy-Death_Oven4056 or Saturday came from Laugardagr - Bathday - through "Satyrday" - just imagine Vikings bathing at public places :)
Been studying Old English and noticed a great many cognate forms.
Love that last on! \M/
Read the comments and now I know that Kaka means poop in just about every language on earth, except old Norse.
"kaka" isn't really fased out of Norwegian yet either, although in the Oslo dialect it's now "kake", up North (at least in my dialect) it's still "kaka"
Yeah I speak future Anglo-Saxon
The way he says "slaughter".. im weak
Adorabile 💫💫💫💫
Tyr's day =Tuesday
and wednesday, used to be wodensday. woden=odin, just another version of his name he had many.
Anglo-Saxon word origin, not Norse. Same with Thursday.
@@faramund9865 I mean, they're linked to what most people would refer to as Norse Mythology, so close enough. Thursday being from T(Þ)orsdæg, from Thor
@@s1lverbullet1234 It might be close enough in other circumstances, but it is not close enough if the video is about what words are from the vikings!
From what I've read, Thursday MIGHT be from Old Norse though, but not Tuesday
Hell and Thunorsdeigh _(Thursday)_ are from Old English, ne Old Dennish.
Probably not. Try this line of thought. The old Norse came with the invaders the Angles and Saxons and became the root of Anglo-Saxon languages that became known as old English. Just looking at the similarities in sentence structure, spelling and words comparing old Norse and old English. It makes sense. Then add that Hel and Thor are both from the old Norse religious beliefs.
I forgot to add that I am no scholar so it is just my personal thoughts and observations.
This is correct they are from Old English - thunresdæg meaning Thunder’s day and Old Norse meaning Thor's day, remember Angles believed in the old god before they converted to Christianity, there are many worlds that a similar, I am from the school of thought that both languages infucenced these sorts of words equally.
@@evillimey6965 yes, a blend is what I think happened. The language of Britain at the time of the invasion by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians was old Brythonic right? What was Thursday called in old Brythonic before the invasion of Angles etc.? Was it Latinised or was there a Brythonic name for Thursday that could have been blended with? I am very curious. In old Norse it was þórsdagr. However there were different dialects of old Norse and the Danish style of dagr is pronounced basically the same as day is in English.
If you have the answers to any or all of my questions I would be really excited to learn.
I keep finding links back and forth and it is really fascinating.
Exactly.
today is friday, freya's day
Haha! Love this!
I think this is a pretty cool fact:
In German Thursday is called Donnerstag wich means translates ‚‘thunders day‘‘
The reindeers donner and blitzens' names mean thunder and lightning respectively too.
its not true thor in old high german is donar.We belived in the same god before christianity so it translate to thor's day not thunder day.
@@os4108 didn’t even know about that, but thanks. Now it’s even cooler xd
It's all pronounced wrong...
@@VentureHolly
Marvelous excuse for being dumb and lazy
I mean if the words are spelled bad as the guy above says, he could've just learned how to say those words lol.
@@VentureHolly
The exception to a rule only further strengthens it
In this moment english is the global language, but French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese are behind the corner.
@@VentureHolly What cultural nuances are you even talking about.
I didn't have to learn english, but speaking at least 1 foreign language should be anyones goal. I don't see why so many americans just don't want to. Coming back to being lazy again I guess. And Irony/Sarcasm exists in any language. If you properly speak a language you spot sarcasm without any problems.
Not bad not bad! I understood all the words without the translation! And im surprised how many of the words were similar to english!
And "Syk" we still use today in Norway
Also in Danish, fx: Vindue = window, Mus = mouse, hjælp = help, læg = leg, æg = egg, pande = pan, arm = arm, fod = foot and so on and so on, Danish (and old norse) really had a huge impact on the English we know today :)
Old Norse courses are in the English departments of British universities.
@@wms72 Cool
Ehhh kaka in Estonian means poop....which could also be a small cake....
This kaka tastes like kaka!
it means the same thing in many languages.
Everything u said is pronounced wrong lol
Somebody needa get Icelandic RUclipsr Hrafna in this joint and educate Clive on Old Norse language XD LMAO!!!
@@ericaangelinatunacao7565 he just say it as i think everyone would.(not native) i think not right and not completley wrong cuse this could even be more old english sounding of the words like they use to use ''ye old'' wich was þe old and came to be the old
Can we just talk about how cool he is
How do you say "when everybody wanted you dead i kept you alive! And this is how you betray my love?!"
This guy looks like pewds and markeplier had a love child
😂 😂 😂 😂
What triggers me as a scandinavian is to see is a british trying to pronounce our words, trying to be a viking.
so ? go for raid then! summers near
No ones stopping you from correcting them
@@JTomas96 How's that, since your Bible isn't anything but a copy?
Why does this comment feel so DORI ME
Swedes today = snowflakes
Us Geordies use slang that has a few old Norse words supposedly. Especially when you some say the likes of I'm gannin yerm (going home) or how's the bairns (how's the kids)... it's not as common now and it is generally just more slang but interesting though.
Hes all cheerful when he said hell hes all “ hell!”
Terriible pronunciations!
Vowels are mostly wrong, the stress is usually off, and the R should be a trilled or a tipped one.
Also useful is that egg, knife, die are also from Old Norse
Give the man a break, he's british.. they don't have the same ease as us from scandinavia when it comes to
the pronounciation of our lingo.
His old norse isnt the best tho ;p
✨The more you know!✨
sorry but the way he said Hell 😃 im DYIING 🤣
He pronounces everything wrong and there's nothing historical about the Netflix series Vikings.
Ingwia Fraujaz ”Nothing” is exaggerating.
Reeeeeeeeeeeeee
Please teach me to say these words correctly
Yeah, I prefer Last Kingdom.
I like how Norwegians are now using the English Word "bag", which stems from the norse baggi. We're basically just playing tennis with the Word at this point
Waiting for season 6
Why do we have an Englishman pronouncing ancient Scandinavian? Depressing. It's all wrong.
Because he plays a Viking in a major show, duh.
Traitor !!!!
Glad to be of real viking desent. Swedish mother ,norwegian father and they gave me the name Åsa ( godess among vikings and a direct variation of Asa (tro) I live in Sweden but in the part that was once danish . I have the fortune to speak swedish ,norwegian danish and english. I totally am a viking!
Really.. Then you know you arent Viking and its something you go...
@@masharozalija9187 Well, yes I know. I used the term loosely as most people do.
Er jeg sikker på du gør. Man bliver bare lidt træt af det stereotyoe billede på os 😉
the face he does when he sais a word from old norse then the face when he sais it in english hahahaha
Rockin rollo
Ahh Rolo I’ve missed you 🥰
I'm gonna speak like this and nobody could stop me
Rock and Rollo!?
Best pun ever!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣