Journey to Gnezdovo: The Industrial Giant of Viking Rus'
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The most prominent portage on the eastern trade route is the one between the river Kasplia in the north, and the great Dniepr in the south. The Kasplia is a tributary of the great Daugava, directly connected to the Baltic sea. The Dniepr could be reached from the north via portage from the Lovat, directly connected to Lake Ilmen and Ladoga. It is no surprise then, that a settlement would appear on the portage between the Kasplia and the Dniepr, running along the banks of the latter. It is in fact, the largest archaeological site discovered in the region and has proven a virtual treasure trove - it is comparable to more well-known locations like Novgorod or Kiev, and some have even argued, that it was the most important settlement on the route to Byzantium. Nowadays it is called: Gnezdovo.
Sources:
Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages(500-1300) - Florin Curta
GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL ISSUES OF THE UPPER DNIEPER - WESTERN DVINA RIVER REGION (WESTERN RUSSIA): FIELDTRIP GUIDE
gnezdovo.com
GNEZDOVO ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX - M. V. Bondareva, A. S. Mironova, A. A. Rudenko
Horse remains from the Gnezdovo archaeological complex, Smolensk Region, Russia - Irina V. Kirillova, Natalia N. Spasskaya
Landscape and historical conditions for the emergence and formation of the city of Smolensk - V.A Nizotsev and N.M Erman
Symbols of Faith or Symbols of Status? Christian Objects in Tenth-Century Rus´ - Fedir Androshchuk
The Technology of Manufacturing Glass Beads at Gnezdovo, Smolensk Region - O.P Dobrova
The Varangians - Sverrir Jakobsson
Viking-period pre-urban settlements in Russia and finds of artefacts of Scandinavian character - Tamara Pushkina
Viking Rus - Wladyslaw Duczko
Music credits:
Skyrim Solstheim OST - Jeremy Soule
Too Cool - Kevin Macleod
Featuring photographies of Gnezdovo kurgans by Mikra72
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
4:52 Geographical situation
9:52 Industry
16:16 Jewelcrafting
20:28 Town and hillfort
24:48 The cemetaries
35:16 Rise of Smolensk
#vikings #history #russia
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Gnezdovo sounds similar to polish Gnezno.
As a russian with some interest in old slavic and norse cultures and history, those several videos connecting them were very interesting, thank you :)
Varangian nobility where a Hungarian-Swedish offshoot of Hungarian A Vár nobility that got rebranded as KiJEWISH RUS by Orthodoxy just as many others.
Slav-Slöwen a Indo-Iranian people with such genetics converted local Hungarian-Macar-Scythian population like other to they language,traditions...via forced religious conversion which is how they rebranded Catholics as well and Ostrogoths or Eastern Gothic people become Slav-Slöwen or Indo-Iranianised like in case of Ostrogotski Manastir or Deutsch-Dutch-Dutchian-Dacian to Dečanski Manastir....
5:25 small correction: The word Svinetz does not mean Swine River, it literally is just a word for lead. As in the metal. So it could be interpreted as being called the Lead River. Interestingly tho, the word svinetz in itself does in fact come from the russian word for swine - swin'ya. So in russian lead is literally called "pig metal". No idea why
Could it be related to its use for plumbing?
Svinetz - “svinjac” in serbian means mud where pigs bath
This is the result of a language change. The word "lead" and "pig" sounded similar, but different enough to be different words in general in ancient Russian.
@@mikipublikum8362It is where the pigs are kept rather then bathed something that none was doing at all.
Svinets doesn't come from Swine or Lead it is connected to slavic word that describe something curved, it simply means river with a lot of curves a curved river. In today Slovenian languague there are several examples: Svitek - english means Scroll S often change o Z for example Zvin- english Twist, than for example Zavoj - english Turn and so on. That S - Z exchange is quite common in slavic language grammars, the spoken sound is almost the same. There is a nice example of river name with english meaning Bend it is river Sava that floats from Slovenia to Croatia and then to Serbia and in Serbian and Croatian language Saviti means exactly that - To bend. And the slavic word for Lead metal - Svinec is also connected to slavic word root Sav - Zav, it simply means the metal that bends easily or better is prone to bend or to be curved. All this old slavic etymology is easily understandable for slavic language speakers.
I built a Slavic warrior impression from the finds at Gnezdovo and Czarnaja Mogila.
I still have this kit as well as a Magyar impression.
I based that of the book Ancient Hungarians which is one of the best books I have ever seen for those interested in early Magyar history and those who have silversmithing and blacksmithing skills and wish to make a Magyar kit.
Another good book is Europus Mitte Um in German but allot of english descriptions.
He literally rebranded Hungarian-Macar-Scythian as Slav-Slöwen a Indo-Iranian group similarly as how Orthodoxy have done accross the lands.
Thanks a lot for an exciting and well done video! I especially liked that you went over reasons for placement and actual findings from that location
"Oooohhhhh Raaaaaaaah!" 😂
Very good video, thank you.
Excellent video. TY
Cool stuff!
Amazing! Sure: it's just Smolensk being born and growing up... but you explain it sooo well and in such great detail, that you'd deserve a prize if there was one to documentaries without budget.
It was quite easy to find these grave mounds on satellite images. There is a group where the 120 road crosses the Dnieper.
very informative documentary
Beautiful
your a great historian, superb vid
My CK3 brain is happy
En välgjord video för ett väldigt intressant ämne? Perfekt.
They forgot to mention that typical Scandinavian-type burials contain remains identified as Baltic Slavs.
It is also known that in the undoubtedly Slavic Rugen, there are burials in boats with iron rivets. Which clearly indicates borrowing from the Scandinavians.
Great video, seriously.
Super 👍
Can you make a video about Volga Bulgaria? Are there any evidences that a significant number of Scandinavians stayed there to live? The thing is, I am Tatar, and I recently took a genetic test which revealed that I am 40% North-Western European with ties to Sweden
Question for the east Slavic brethren - would you translate Bezdonka into English as bottomless?
judging by my first instinct (without delving deeper, because there are surprises in etymology where things are a lot more complicated than they seem) - yes I would
@@marcusaurelius4941 we also have a place called Bezdan near some water
Also
Bez - without
Dno - bottom
Безъдъна -- bottomless. Безъдънка -- a small bottomless.
Yes that's it.
31.46 : Etymologically You can connect the inscription on a vessel GOROUŠNA to GORNYI that means UPPER or AT THE TOP or to a word GORKY that have several meanings one is BITTER and the other is WARM or BURNING. It could simply mean that the content of a vessel was bitter or containing a liquid that burned the throat. So probable the vessel belonged to a slavic warrior that liked a drink that burned the throat. Connection to Mustard is total etymological fail, most of so called slavic experts in the west dosn't know a single word of slavic languages.
The connection to mustard comes from Slavic sources listed in the video description lmao
@@balticempire7244 If You translate Mustard it literally means Gorčica, but Gorćica - Mustard or beter Mustards seeds is Mediteranian spice also used by Romans and I don't see any connection with it regard to ancient Slavs or old Scandinavian Germanic tribes or nations. Slavic source means nothing, entire south Slavs history doctrine lays on old pangermanic Vienna history doctrine. Basically someone misunderstood word Gorko - Bitter, or Goreče - Burning with modern day Mustard spice and I don't think he was well versed in old slavic language grammar whoever he was. But this are just minor linguistic and etymological remarks. Keep up the good work. Regards. Milan
Gnezdovo had trade links with the Mediterranean and Romans/Byzantium
@@balticempire7244 Ja probable it had, but I don't think the mustard seeds or mustard sauce would be a commodity worth of such a journey. Keep Up the Good Work. And By the way Gnezdovo comes from Gnezdo or Gnjazdo, that is Nest like Bird Nest in English. Regards Milan
@@milanpracek2931it's mustard and it's not exclusive to the Romans. Mustard plant (Sinapis) grows all over Europe. It could have been mustard seeds for production of mustard oil or something like that.
Also, you seem to mix up different eras. We're not talking about "ancient" times, but the middle ages. Gnezdovo is just the name of the village where this site is found today, it's not the original name of the town. It's believed to be the original place where Smolensk was founded. Which later was moved a little further east to where it is located today. The name Smolensk derives from the Russian word smola, meaning tar. It was the place where they tarred their boats.
Nice to see the more obscure history 😊 alot of yt same stuff 😢
3:23
The subliminal message worked. I was so confused to hear what the sound in the background was, and now I'll never forget Arua.
You already forgot how to spell it 😂
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мне понравилось.Многие русские сами не знают кто они и откуда.А здесь столько новой информации.Спасибо.
Do you have any idea what GDNEZDO means in slavic. And how absolutely nothing GNEZDO means in germanic languages.
Gnezdo means nest in slavic languages.
This is just another anti-Slavic channel , unsub from me
Gnezdo or Gnjazdo in slavic languages means Nest as Birds Nest or maybe Wasp Nest. There is a possibility that by indigenous population it was seen a Nest of foreign invaders. In germanic languages Gnezdo ot Gnjazdo doesn't have any meaning. Like for example name of German capital Berlin it doesn't refer to Bear but to Marshes in old slavic language Brlja means marshes and Brljin simply meand a town in a marshland.
@@milanpracek2931 od course it does Milane.
The name of the excavations is given according to the modern names of nearby cities, this is normal, this does not mean that this was the name of the settlement in ancient times, it means that it was found near the modern village of Gnezdovo
What id do to go back in time.
The good old days before mosquito repellent.
They used plants
Vodka was first used repellant
Hope hemp replace trees, can make toilet paper, ethanol, houses, ropes, even car and forest saved
hah this name sound so bulgarian.Gnezdo(гнездо) in bulgarian mean -nest and most villages in Bulgaria finish,with vo.Is this land bin part of Old great Bulgaria,or Volga Bulgaria?Healt and happynes
This is obviously one of shared Slavic words, and the Gnezdovo site is named after the village nearby which appeared in the 15th century.
in russian this is also a nest
In polish similar
😅AND SERBIAN👍
I think Volga Bulgars were more to the east
svinec means metal - LED
Do ever consider the Bock Saga?
Gnezdo is home for litle birds that was home for Slavic Rusians not norsman..... Serbian songg Gnezdo Orlovo!!!!!!!!!! 🇷🇸❤🇷🇺☦️
Varangian nobility where a Hungarian-Swedish offshoot of Hungarian A Vár nobility that got rebranded as KiJEWISH RUS by Orthodoxy just as many others.
Slav-Slöwen a Indo-Iranian people with such genetics converted local Hungarian-Macar-Scythian population like other to they language,traditions...via forced religious conversion which is how they rebranded Catholics as well and Ostrogoths or Eastern Gothic people become Slav-Slöwen or Indo-Iranianised like in case of Ostrogotski Manastir or Deutsch-Dutch-Dutchian-Dacian to Dečanski Manastir....
@@hondacbrification That name was give to our people from pope and Germany the ultimate enemy of Serbs. First was genocide and asimilian Serbs from Germany, now try to kill us all on Balkan and always. Serbs are oldest name for Slavs and we are the first people in whole Europe, we are indians of Europe. We are been the Guardian of Europe many times. We are been stupid. We should let Turkish ottomans army to Europe, but no more after 1999 , next time we are the first on west doors like we in many times, now when Russia will rise again we will rise and many free people's will rise against west beast
@@hondacbrification it's inaf of Western lies !!!!!!! ;!!! 🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺
@@hondacbrification And Var and Kijev are SrbRus words,.GostiVar, VukoVar, TamishVar, PetroVar, BeloVar,VarVarin, Kijevo , Kijevski,Kijevamet, and so on.............
The name of the excavations is given according to the modern names of nearby cities, this is normal, this does not mean that this was the name of the settlement in ancient times, it means that it was found near the modern village of Gnezdovo
Its called Gnezdovo like Nest.🕊️
G-nest-ovo
Well, since you have already started talking about Novgorod, Ladoga, Gnezdovo and the origin of the princes of Rus, it would be important to note the literary sources on which your theory is built. And this, as I understand it, is the "Tale of Bygone Years". The source itself is very doubtful, since for many centuries no one has seen the original and there are doubts about its existence. At least, archaeology has not confirmed its reliability. The legend of Rurik was inscribed in the text even later than the writing of the probable original source and not earlier than the second half of the 12th century, in the time of Monomakh. Historically, the person of Rurik is no more a fact than dragons, fairies and elves. He was invited to a city that did not exist at that time. So, the whole scheme with the genealogies of subsequent princes collapses. No, there were princes, but, they had a different origin and the history was somewhat different
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Western authors and historians love to say how first Russian state was founded by Vikings,like somebody from the ,,WesT" had to come and show them how to do so.
Slavic culture at those times still based on one generation telling stories to the next one,and by ddoing so they would carry the information and legacy of their past for their future generations.
This empty space is often used by west to manipulate history of Russia and try to control its future in that way.
This is a recepy that is well known to us in Balkan,best regards from Serbia!
what's your point and how is it relevant to the video?
@@marcusaurelius4941 it's relevant because half of nowdays Germany was once Slavic,only due to the long process of germanization they became what they are today,so to be able to grasp Suebians were you need to know history a bit better than average youtuber.
But we actually have tons of archaeological sites, artifacts and linguistics that proves that the Vikings did come in and rule over the Eastern Slavs. Slavic and Germanic lands were not ever static. The Slavic tribes did rule themselves but they were in conflict with themselves, the Byzantines, Goths, Celts, Pechenegs, etc. and the Northmen were the foremost technologically and cohesive raiding warbands that terrorized the entirety of Europe culminating in the Normans. The Normans were like the Germans against the Poles in WW2, legions of hyper advanced tanks against calvary and trench warfare in a developing recovered nation.
Slavs in academia suffer an inferiority complex by not accepting history where it needs to be accepted and dieing on hills over delusional self mythologizing lies. Instead of being grateful and proud for the history we do have, we choose to ignore it over the bitterness that doesn't come from being the best and fall into chauvinism rather than addressing weaknesses and adapting.
Anybody with academic integrity knows what your saying is just a load of horse shit meant to make yourself feel better and it doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme, but you don't have a mountain, you have a mole hill.
Lastly, Slavs are hardly a unified group since they're only unified by a loose linguistic family when Eastern and Western Slavs could not be more different from Balkan Slavs and to some degree less with each other. Its like claiming a Bavarian Herman is identical to an Anglo from York or a Scandinavian Norwegian that speaks Bokmal and even further a Faroese. They have similar elements but they are NOT one nation and pan Slavism is one of the worst concepts in history and its ironic Serbs and Balkan slavs seem to love it so much given that the region falls into an ethnic conflict every 60 years.
@@PanSzawu Lol who has proves western academic societies? 😂 you weaternes never learned that we do not care much about what you tell about our own history,you will tell anything they told you to learn in your university while you were studying and serve the narrative your own country needs you to serve.
You plundered 3/4 so you can fill up your own museums with artefacts and history since you were lacking your own and you dare come preach about Slavic history anywhere? German historians and academy of science has infiltrated itself in to Russian academy and they did the same in Serbia.
Every war we had our enemies first bombed our libraries,not a surprise since there is a clear intention for centuries to push us out of our ancestral lands in Balkans.
Half of today's Germany is of Slav origin yet nobody talks about,together with the capital that doesnt have any meaning in German but in Slavic language it does.
Do not preach about history that you ain't familiar with,we have been listening to western interpretation of history for far too long.
facts
one of my grandfathers at Gnezdovo -VK273
Гнездово - это по сербский !
K
Yup, another Wendo-Norse classic!
It would surprise me that in the Middle Ages in Russia they wouldnt think of putting the boat on a bunch of wheels and drag it with multiple horses? Why bother with the slow inefficient log and roll method
Boat too heavy, wheels will have too high ground pressure and will sink into marshy and muddy ground
@@kremepye3613 large wheels, spiked wheels, or just a sled. With a couple engineering parts, to add and remove as needed a sled can be pulled pretty much anywhere in any condition rather easily.
@@blanco7726 The experience of "Leopards" and "Abrams" demonstrates otherwise.
A horse in ancient Russia is a very expensive pleasure (not every knyaz could afford a horse suitable for combat) and do you want to use a horse to drag ships?
@@DVXDemetrivs multiple horses yes. There were surely some for rent back in the day, you dont have to own it.
The Baltic Empire??? Is this some kind of Papuan empire?
K
Спасибо конечно, но в потоке английского русские слова звучат ненатурально, особенно "Городищще". Нельзя ли робота попросить лучше произносить славянские названия?
не знаю к чему токсичность, по моему наоборот хорошее произношение, особенно Новгород и Смоленск, видно что старался. на его акцент в английском вы также реагируете?
да пофиг же. "хоть горшком назови, лишь бы в печь не сажай".
A synonym for Eastern Slavs is RUS. Greetings to all Russians.
We have a special greeting for russians here in Ukraine. You should come & find out!
@@whyukraine It would be better if you stop the aggression against the Russian brothers, you all came from the same cradle anyway.
@@user-th1ci7rx9g As soon as they stop invading the country.
@@user-th1ci7rx9g Светлые эльфы всегда смотрели на сие иначе. "Ewig ist der Hass des Untermenschen gegen die hellen Gestalten, die Träger des Lichtes" (с) 1942
No the Rus is from Sweden
There was no such thing as viking anything on the continent, moreover Rus as the spoke distinctly different languages, Germanic and Slavic accordingly.
Three typical mistakes of poorly educated people. Firstly, those people never considered themselves part of Rus. Secondly, Gnezdovo is a typical medieval junction on the trade route and therefore there are not only traces of Scandinavian culture, but also Finno-Ugric, Bulgar, and Rus. Thirdly, there are no weighty artifacts proving the serious influence of the Scandinavians on Rus. Unlike the Gothic influence
Sorry, but there are no scandinavian influences on slavic people. It is totally otherwise.
@@user-wb1yb6hd9o Before the arrival of the Slavs in the area of the Dnieper river system, the civilization of the West Goths had already existed there for several centuries, and to the west to the Carpathian Mountains and beyond them lived Celtic tribes.
From here it is difficult to say what the influence of the Slavs on the Scandinavian peoples was. Except for the raids of the Slavs who occupied the southern coast of the Baltic on the Danes
@@user-sk3yz9kr1t Goths are Gets and Gets were Tracians. West Goths and whatever Goths have nothing to do with germanic people.
@@user-wb1yb6hd9o I heard this theory
Well, this is the 10th century. when the Varangians were just invited to serve the Russian princes.
By the way, the author did not say that half of the Viking burials were Baltic Slavs.
Rus = Russia
simple as that.
= RasKa = Ras( sinonim with Rus) = old Serbia !!!
813 sweden vikings call them selves russians, so russians are vikings who got lost
Rus=Rós =Kievan Rós =Nida Rós =Rós lyn.
Vikings wasnt only Scandinavian. It was northern european.
A loosely connected empire spanning over 6-700 yrs. Including Poland, Ukraina, Germania, Normandie, England++++
Viking Rus', what is it? there was Vladimir Rus, Novgorod Rus, Moscow Rus, Kievan Rus, Tver Rus... the author makes up a lot
you didn't even watch the video, you just get triggered over a video title, comment and then boost the algorithm for max 💲💲💲
Viking Rus is clearly all the lands ruled by the Rus combined
@@loshadkinloshadkin725 neither in Russian chronicles, nor in Greek, nor Arabic, there is such a phrase, Viking Rus', this never happened in history, this is a fiction
neither does "Kievan Rus" appear in period documents, it is a term invented by 19th century historians to distinguish the polity ruling the Rus' region/people during a particular period. "Viking Rus" is a similar term used by historians - you'll notice one of my sources listed in the video description using this title - used in reference to viking dominions or presence in the Rus' region. why use it? for convenience, and because most of my audience and potential audience are americans or other english speakers and westeners unfamiliar with this history - but interested and familiar with vikings
@@balticempire7244 ok, now it’s clear, I wrote this because there may be a feeling that there was a Viking principality in Rus', which did not exist, although they were present in history, which is undeniable
Good vid, but drop the put-on british accent!
Whichever way I speak someone will complain about it. Deal with it or get out