The Baltic Vikings: Curonians
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2022
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The Curonians were a Baltic tribe living on the shores of the Baltic Sea in what are now the western parts of #Latvia and #Lithuania from the 5th to the 16th centuries, Come with me as we explore this tribe that even the Norse were terrified of!
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References:
Livonian Rhymed Chronicle. 6794-6800, 9095-9100
Matthews, W. K. "Medieval Baltic Tribes". American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Apr., 1949), pp. 126-136.
Östen Dahl (ed.) 2001, The Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact, vol. 1
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In West, everyone knows only vikings where slavs was a stranger tribe.
“God, save us from the plague, the fire and the Curonians."
This was found inscribed on a Danish church, dated to the 11th-12th centuries.
No proof.
@@Husrip19 there is the mention in Heimskringla. Not as vivid but it does contain the main bit - the prayer to God to protect from the Curonians
They also said that on that sign is Croatians xD but on church in middle Europa somewhere
@@frand1844 🐴💩
Haha! I just made a comment saying how my father visited that (or a similar site) during his 20's. Glad to know other people know of it as well :)
As a Lithuanian I am deeply greatful to you for making this video. Since baltic pagan religion and history is so obscure and most of our older history is only found in sources from other cultures and countries, we ourselves miss out on alot of it. I always used to be really frustrated at how much of our ancestor's history and culture went unrecorded in any way, but your video has made me realise that there is so much more invaluable pieces of information left to discover than I first thought, it's just that they are all scattered across other cultures. Now I'm hell-bent on searching for it.
My pleasure!
Latvians are lucky that these tales still survived here, but mostly as mythical stories and novels from old age, but we had people gathering those diaries and stuff. And in Latvia those things mostly survived because of german historians recording a lot of stuff in their books back in the day.
@@Swarmah true, it's really paradoxical how having had your country occupied and at risk of ethnic extinction saved so much of it's early history
@@cilindras2952 then came rashians and tried to destroy it all tho. Germans back in the day had very cultural society, they had a lot of historians, who just wanted to record everything and examine it, they were very interested in the unknown.
You wanna know why you can't find any Baltic pagan culture? You wanna know?!
Well here's the reason:
YOUR ANCIENT BALTIC ANCESTORS HAD NO CULTURE!!!
*BECAUSE THEY WERE SAVAGES!!!*
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
DEUS VULT!!! YOU PAGAN SAVAGE!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The word viking has become a brand of pirates from skandinavia to a degree that people forget that pretty much every nation around Baltic sea practiced piracy. Scandinavians just practiced it most extensively.
Skandinavija iš nothing to do with this video
@@vitagail it kinda does tho it refrences vikings many times
During my father's travels across Europe when he was in his 20's, he came to a monument in northern Denmark saying:"God save us from the storms, and the Kurs(Kurši)" (EDIT: This prayer is alluded to in 7:50 of the video!) It makes me proud to be descended from one of the only peoples that the Vikings not only couldn't conquer, but downright feared for their ferocity. Lai dzīvo Baltija!!🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹🤝🇪🇪
I am mostly kuršis an a bit of žemaitis
🙄 Anyone who prays in a church is a Christian and no longer a pagan Viking.
Lol what does estonia have to to with it?
@@user-hm6yf7or1t estonias are half baltic, half finish finish are half siberian half skandinavian
Balts were slaves. by the way
Im from Kurzeme, modern name for the land of Curonians. There is an old saying of Kurši putting up cut off legs of invaders on sticks on the Baltic sea shores. Most invaders thought it was a warning to stay away from these lands, but actually the warriors were drying up the legs in the seashore winds and sun to be able to pull off the fine leather boots from the cutoff legs.
That’s metal af!
I've heard that story, too, and it's quite stupid. It simply doesn't make sense.
@@kraanz Thats half truth, but human skin was used,yes. As descendant of Curonians, my ancestors did a lot of cruel things, as exsample, - killing newborns, if they was fathered by some other men, from different culture. As i know, we didnt took slaves. We just killed. Womens was strictly guarded, and until ww2, women from Kurzeme had 1 common thing, getting pregnant before men go to war,from our men. Long story short, we did all things together, also, raising children. There wasn't only mother/father thing. Inwolved was all people in hause. In most cases paid workers( other Latvians,not slaves), and 3-4 generations of family members. We still do that, in some parts..... Curonians didn't leave family home,they expanded family home. ✅
@@DitaDike1993 Kuršiem pilnīgi noteikti bija vergi, t.i., dreļļi, kas gan nedudz atšķiras. Vergs ir vergs, drellis/thrall sevi var... "atrstādāt," vai pat otrādi, pārdot sevi drellībā. Apmŗam, ja tu esi drellis 20 gadus no vietas, wtf, tu laikam neesi normāls =]
Kurši nodedzināja pirmo zviedru galvaspilsētu tik pamatīgi, ka tie bija spiesti labāk uzcelt jaunu - Stokholmu. Sirot Kursā nebija laba ideja, tev atriebsies.
Un, tāpat kā pie skandināvienm, kas tavuprāt, valdīja saimniecībā, kad tie stulbie veči atkal aibrauca kauties? Saimniece! ;D
P.S. Ir iemesls, kāpēc uz pasaules globusa ir viens līcis, ko sauc nevis par zviedru, somu, dāņu vai pom'erāņu līci, vai jūru. Vācieši vienīgie to uzdrīkstas saukt par Austrumu jūru. Pārējie tie zina to kā tieši Baltijas jeb drīzāk, baltu jūuru.Šeit? Nelien.
I'm Lithuanian and I'm so happy that I found this video. Instant subscribe, our history is so scatered around the Europe. It is really hard to find such information. Video is great from the begining to the end. That background music creates amazing atmosphere, you just dive yourself into the past...
Glad you enjoyed it!
My name is Kuhr. My ancestors were driven away from their home during WW2 but I can trace my roots way back to the Kuren (how we call them in German).
🇱🇹🤝🇱🇻 Real viking descendants.
True my brother
About a year ago I actually found out that I’m a very far desensitised for Kurši🇱🇻🇱🇻
My Name is SKRABS, a original curonian word. Ist means „treasure, money“. Thais word doesnt exist in another language and I think, that my anchores are curonian vikings.
@@skrabs "Skarb" in Polish.
@@SweetArmadillo361 Thank you! Thats true! The similar words means the same thing. My ancores lived at curonian spit. My great grandfather came from a little village near Ruß (Rusne).
The similarities in warfare that the Baltic peoples had with the Norse reminds me of how the Mongols frequently fought Turkic and Tungistic peoples who also practiced warfare in a manner similar to themselves.
Google xiongnu empire and you might find yourself going down an interesting rabbit hole.
*The Curonians from the Land of Amber* are one of the most interesting ancient peoples that I've learned about. Thank you for the video.
One of best videos about Curonian tribe.
Great video! My maternal grandmother is from Lithuania (fled in 1950), & I love learning more about our ancient Baltic ancestors & teaching this to my children and eventually my grandchildren. Would love to see more on the Balts & I look forward to seeing more of your content.
Mine did too i was told civil war but i dont know and would like to know
My great grandfather did in 1908
Worth mentioning that not all of the Curonians were conquered. The most Southern parts of Curonia joined the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and ended up assimilating into the neighboring Samogitian tribe. This includes the aforementioned Apuolė hillfort. It's believed to be the reason why the local dialect/language is so different from the rest, due to the Curonian influence.(e.g word for duck is Pylė, believed to be a curonianism and not seen in any other Lith dialect, they preserved the diphong ei instead of the diphong ie, which was only done by western balts etc)
DEUS VULT! YOU INFIDEL! YOU CURONIAN SAVAGES GOT CONQUERED!!! GET WRECKED!!!! ⚔️⚔️⚔️
WHO CARES ABOUT THAT?!!! WHY DON'T YOU JUST ACCEPT THAT YOU GOT CONQUERED IN AN EPIC WAY?!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
There is plenty of the diphong ei in Latvian language, probably due to the Curonian influence - meita, kleita, veikals, sveiki, beigas, teikt, reibt etc. Not just preserved some, but truly essential for the language.
@@spinamalatesta6202 oooo I never thought of it that way, how fun! I know a lot of livonian words exist in Latvian - Maksa, Skuķis, allaž, beka, jauda, but I never thought of the couronian impact on Latvian. What a fool am I!
Pylė sakydavo mano močiutė ,o ji gyveno Pakruojo raj. TAIP kad nevykęs pvz.
I just found out that my father is mainly Lithuanian. This explains a lot about me and things I am drawn to. Thank you so much for this!
I found out I have Baltic and Celtic DNA. However it's hard to tell what parts specifically. I hope it's Irish and curonian. Badass mix.
In 1183 a force of 186,000 Curzeme and fellow Latvian and Baltic tribes had enough of Swedish Viking raids on our shore of the Baltic Sea. We raided, sacked their capital Sigtuna marched across to Norway and gave them some payback to!! So frightened were they that Norway converted to Christianity for help from the Pope. And in Sweden all Christian masses up to the 16th Century ended with the prayer. God save us from the Cur! God save us from the wrath of Latvians. We Latvians and fellow Balts are Deeply proud of our Pagan Identity. While the rest of Europe gave up their gods an goddesses
This isn't uniquely Baltic. The Finnic Balts were equally stubborn. Keralian, Estonian, Sami, and other Finnic peoples equally stayed closeted pagans so long.
Uralics broadly speaking. It's also wasn't uncommon for Uralic and Baltic or even a Occasional Northernmost Slav in Northern Russia and Urals, to be closet pagans or syncreticize of Christianity and pagans. I remember for example a Latvian Christian who had pagan customs and a Lithuanian downright pagan who merely use Jesus as a additional god for salvation rites.
It's a rather interesting culture. When Christian they're syncretic and when pagan it's in full.
Bruh where did you get that history from? That is 100% wrong
But u did give up ur gods tho 🤔
Does that even matter?!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
OY!!! YOU CURONIANS GOT BRUTALLY CONQUERED BY US HOLY CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS!!!
DEUS VULT!!! YOU PAGAN SAVAGE!!! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING EDGY(ACTING VIKING)!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
... nobody knows latvians from this period... Curonians and estonians from Saaremaa have some like union against nordic raiders and they made raids against scandinavians and even against germans. Some times they took along western estonians to increase raiding group. There were no Latvians on the coast of Baltic Sea, Livonians lived there. From today latvian Riga to estonian Pärnu. Look on the map.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonians
When the whole world feared the Norse, the Norse feared the Kurs.
And the Kurs feared the Holy Christian Knights.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! GET TF OUT OF HERE WITH THAT BUFFOONERY!!!
CURONIANS GOT THEIR ASSES CONQUERED BY CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
@@HolyKnight-zm7ff nope, they didnt, and finaly Balts defeated Christians in 1410
@@vytautassulcas6494
WTF?!!! THE GLORIOUS CHRISTIAN PALADINS MADE THE CURONIANS THEIR SUBMISSIVE GIRLFRIENDS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Teutonians were ended up long before. Mind Sureb and Saule battles. @@vytautassulcas6494
My grandmother used some words in her language which were curonian origin and her family home was close by Apuole. We are still here just under different names.
*Apūle
One thing to keep in mind is that in Northern Curonia lived Finno-Ugrics - Curonian Livonians. Outsiders might have not distinguished between Northern Curonians aka Finno-Ugrics and Southern Curonians aka Balts. It were probably the Northern Curonians who used to go on raiding trips along with Saaremaalased (Oeselians) since they both were Finno-Ugrians and spoke very similar languages.
There were other tribes, mostly slavic which had similiar tactics as the Vikings. On the Island of Wolin (in present day Poland) were Wolinians en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolinians also knowns as Chąśnicy pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chąśnicy (this article needs translation from polish).They have plunder the Kungahälla, Roskilde near Copenhagen and Lübeck.
Great video. I German with East Prussian ancestry. Some of my ancestors came from the Curonian Spit and were amonst the last speakers of the Curonian language in the 1940s.
I’m glad I came across your video. I found out I have Baltic DNA as well as Swedish and Germanic. I enjoy learning about my heritage. Thank you.
Great heritage. 👍
In official sources it is stated that Kuronian language disappeared early, but I have read in literature not connected to linguistics, that between World Wars some fishermen in Kuronian spit Lithuania still spoke Kuronian. Or at least some Baltic dialect unintelligible for Lithuanian speakers.
I remember reading a 1950s book about this, in the general library of the University of Auckland, NZ, in about 1990. Wish i could remember the author.
So nicely made. Enjoyed every second of it! 😃 Try some time to make something about Estonians or ancient Estonians. Maybe even about the Oesaelians. 👍😊
Thank you! That's definitely on the list
i would love something like that!
Lithuania was the last pagan state in Europe. Almost 1,000 years after the official conversion of the Roman Empire facilitated the gradual spread of Christianity, the Lithuanians continued to perform their ancient animist rituals and worship their gods in sacred groves. By the 13th Century, modern-day Estonia and Latvia were overrun and forcibly converted by crusaders, but the Lithuanians successfully resisted their attacks. Eventually, the state became Christian of its own accord: Grand Duke Jogaila converted to Catholicism in 1386 in order to marry the Queen of Poland
That's why Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are poor trash places!!! The feces toilets of Europe!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Curonians went to fight with Vikings with Sweden and Denmark and stayed on Gotland Island
They burn down capital city of vikings witch nowadays is known as Stockholm
Great video make more video about Prussia or Curonians or any baltic tribes. I think they should be more promoted not many know anything about it
Thank you. I really enjoyed how informative and well made is your video.
That Baltic Bloodline runs deep in my Veins!!
And that means you're a savage who is prone to being conquered!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Germanic/Nordic people were obsessed with trying to conquer, exterminate or assimilate the Baltic lands. Which is Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, etc.
What attracts Germans and Scandinavians into this land? The Eastern Baltic sea I mean.
hot women obviuosly
As i know, Nordic people had allied relations with Balts... In Old Ladoga, the first capital of Rus; nords, balts, finns, slavs and even germans lived tougether, formed pirate troops, and commited attacks on Byzantie Empire and the area.
@@Visgirtas
WHAT?!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! A HOLH CHRISTIAN KNIGHT LIKE ME WOULDN'T EVEN WANT TO LOOK AT THOSE DISGUSTING SMELLY SAVAGES!!! THEY ARE NOT EVEN WOMEN!! THEY'RE SIMPLY MEN ACTING LIKE WOMEN!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
THE ONLY THING A HOLY CHRISTIAN KNIGHT LIKE ME WANTS TO DO WITH THOSE SAVAGE "WOMEN" IS TO CUT THEIR BREASTS AND COOK THEM ALIVE!! THEN I WILL FEED THEM TO MY DOGS!!!
PAGAN BALTIC WOMEN?!! DISGUSTING!!!
@user-tx4xn4kn9m
Pagan Baltic women are savages!!! A holy Christian knight like me wouldn't even want to look at those smelly dirty savages you call "women"!!!
Amber was one thing, very valuable in ancient times and highly prized up to the present day, it was used as currency and jewelry, it is the fossilized resin from ancient trees, sometimes encapsulating small insects and plants and even birds and reptiles.
The eastern Baltic was rich in timber, foodstuffs, horses, cattle, bison, all kinds of birds and people whom the Scandinavians and Germans tried to enslave. A powerful state arose in Lithuania who fought these invaders and eventually brought an end these invasions.
Rare in the past, the stories of the peoples of theses regions is becoming better known and more and more information is becoming available. One good thing thing that the internet has done is made research in this area much easier and much more available to researchers around the world.
After hostility and repression for ages, the peoples of the eastern and southern Baltic still live, may God protect and guide them always, Amen.
Would love to see a video about the Vendel age, it holds many epic legends in Sweden, thanks for this awesome video.
Dude this video looks amazing! 🔥
Nice to see you're developing your style. Well done!
My ancestors. I'm Lithuanian/Swedish and love my nature and dogs more than people
I am from Lithuania. I remember when I was in fitht grade we learned about this in history classes. Since Curonians lived on the shore of Lithuania they used to suffer from Vikings attacks. There was even a prayer made called "God save from Vikings" but it was really back and forth relationship between Vikings and Curonians. They would often sail to the shores of Scandinavian and commit the same kind of atrocities.
Balts are not cousins to slavs. We're nowhere close to even being similar in any way whatsoever. Besides that, great video.
Enjoyed the history.... I'm addicted to listening...
Appreciate the support! ✊🏻🖤
Thank you. Very interesting video. I really enjoyed your video. I
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hell yeah,great info
Love this video bud. Great research, great content. Took me a bit to get to it(working) but man what a treat once I did. Great job buddy. Check out the Oeselians more. Deep dive on them would be great. Dude I love it yes! The battle of Bravellir!!!
They will be coming soon don't worry 😉✊🏻✊🏻
The battle of Bråvalla would be awesome!
My father's childhood friend was from this region, his family fled in the war. Last name Kurse (Kursi). Gone for many years now, God bless him. 🙏
Hehehe! Good to see something about my tribe as well! Thank you! :)
In Lithuania Curonian descends used and worshiped pagan traditions till 19th century!
That's why Lithuania is a poor 🗑🗑🗑💩💩💩💩💩🧻🧻🧻🧻
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F YOUR COUNTRY!!!
GLORY BE TO GOD!!! AMEN!!!
@@HolyKnight-zm7ff you have some mental problems, try to fix them somehow
I think we forget also the Slavs of Pomerania were also know as fierce sea raider (The Wends).
Using ships designed to carry horses to raid deep into danish territory even after the Viking age. Even reaching eastern Norway.
With Christianity taking root in Denmark many crusaders and holy wars were needed to subdue them as they still practiced paganism into the 13 century.
A stepping stone for the the following crusades that would eventually reach the baltics
Very good well done video.
5/5 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
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Also could you make a video about grass snakes 🐍 being worshiped in the Baltic region? I’d like to see more videos about Baltic region in particular since there are very little videos on the Baltic region stories, legends and history, very little.
And your videos are often interesting and great to listen to.
Snake worship in the baltics!? I'm on it! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
@@IrishinFinland 🤘
Very well made video!
Thank you!
I like this video finally some good content about my people
Amazing video. One mistake that I think you mentioned was that the Curonians were the last to be conqered by the Brother of the Sword (Livonians). In fact, the last of them were the Semigallians, neighbors of the Curonians. These 2 tribes were both enemies and friends on many occasions. If I remember correctly the attack on Daugavgrīva monastery in 1228, which you mentioned, was conducted by both the Curonians and Semigallians.
They were indeed frenemies.
I have a homestead in north-eastern Lithuania. The village of Kuršiškii is nearby. Historians claim that it was founded by the Curonians who fled to Lithuania fleeing from the Teutonic Order when they lost to it.
I jokingly tell men who have taken wives from that village that their wives are not Lithuanian. They are surprised, angry, but when I tell the whole story, they laugh and say that it was a long time ago.
The villagers do not remember anything about their origins.
Fascinating! Shows how monotheism has been the misfortune of the world.
I’m so proud of you for show Lithuanian some light as we really go overlooked. And you make beautiful and professional videos. I wish you a great time and hope u gain more subs and grow your channel
Thank you very much Richard!
dont forget latvia, curonians mostly lived there
@@balticbvll2987 I wouldn't say most
@@richard7673 yes you would
@@richard7673 you’d be really, really wrong then. Of course Curonians lived in what is today’s Latvia. Look at where Courland is. Or, you know, any approximate map.
Explains the meaning of my given name Dain (song). I know not of Latvian or Slavic language, but the elder songs resonate my soul.
You can listen Lithuanian song "Stay" for EuroVision Contest this year. It contains magic "Čiūto oi tūto" in english "chiooto oh tooto"
Hyvä! Jatka samaan malliin! ;)
We still have our pagan traditions, we know the religious beliefs and gods, even if we don't believe it so much, but we have pagan celebrations like Jani where we dance around fires and so on. Also some Curonian language pieces still exist just not completely. My grandma was from Kurzeme (Curonia) and she spoke some words that were very unique to Latvian.
Can you post some of your sources 🙏 I would love to read more on thistopic
This is so true everyone thinks of vikings as just Swedes or Dans or Norse and forgets about the eastern people that were raiding in the Baltics long after and were responsible for the end of sword brothers.
Subbed easily
Surprisingly there is nothing about Ragnar Lodbrok having been beaten by curonians twice in famous THE VIKINGS serial movie.
In the very first episode, Ragnar loses a battle "somewhere in the East." He loses almost his entire force, and the last man attacking him can be heard screaming "mirsti!"
Also, Vikings is an absolutely horrendous series. No history in it whatsoever. Not a single warrior knows what a helmet is (because we would struggle to tell them apart), the Anglo-Saxons wear 14th-15th century armor, Lagartha eventually leads an army of lesbians wearing Matrix-style leather coats, and so on, and so on. Also, it makes it feel like the Lothbroksons conquered the entire world in, like, 3 years. Historical Rollo lived roughly 200 years later.
Stopped watching it after Ragnar's death. I couldn't take it any more.
Interesting, as usual.
Do You have anything more, concerning "The Finnish" vikings, You mentioned some time ago?
from a finn in Diaspora
Toponims of Curonians in Lithuania and Latvia with "- ga": Kretinga. Palanga. Neringa. Kuldiga...
Funny thing lithuanians called vikings "žuvėdos" wich translates as "fish eaters" and Curonians "kuršiai" wich probably is a fish called "karšis" Abramis brama - common bream, that's because with the dialect vowels change and no one understood how similar words can actually be, also there is "kuršių marios" the Cronian lagoon at lithuanian coas side, and it is full of bream ,so probably Curonians were called by this fish name and viking were called fish eaters.
Čia girti lietuviai pirtyje taip vadina vikingus?
Ne, blaivūs lietuviai, kuršiai, prūsai taip vadino žuvėdus (švedus) prieš tūkstantį metų ir dar ilgai vėliau. @@druginys
@@druginys visi lietuviai taip anksčiau vadino vikingus, specifiškai švedus
It’s really sad and unfortunate how European tribes lose their native identity after Christianization.
Lithuanian here. Our and our brothers Latvians and Estonians identity is very alive and celebrated! We still celebrating some pegan events and singing our folk songs with pride! Check out Latvian song and dance festival for example, it's been talked about with jealousy in Lithuania long after 😊
This is why Christianity typically gets a smirk from people.
50 miles long? Interesting 🙂
Northern Crusades
Baltics aka "Last lagans of Europe" got crossed for what the ancestors of the crusaders did just century or two earlier (not to forget: "old habits die hard")
One question;
Curonians = kuurit are baltic and uralic peoples. Usual uralic culture is forest culture.
How they make that unic sea culture???? Has anybody do any searshing for that???
Thanks for video.
Do oselians video also please.
If you start doing videos about nordic peoples other than just finns whose history is less know you might actually be able to increase the views on your channel significantly. The few other channels about similar topics are very often bot English speaking.
There are some still existing loan words from kuronians in Finnish language but I can only remember one. Scythe-vigades-viikate. It apparently means all cutting.
Hard to say which way the word spread. Scythe in Estonian is vikat, in Latvian it's completely different. What if it spread from South Estonia to Kuronia?
Thank you for the english version. I saw it in lituanian, but dont understand.
That's the exact same reason why I made this 🤣🤣🤣
As a Latvian from Kurzeme (Courland) I would like to thank you for making this video and being almost completely correct stating facts. I imagine it is hard to detect the exact historical facts when most available written sources have been made by intruders to the particular territories. By the way "pagans" as Christians like to call them are not destroyed. They adapted to the world of Christianity to survive. 😉
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hey curonians arent dead they all live in a town called Kuršenai :D
Raminkis,eržile! :D
WHAT?!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! CURONIANS GOT CONQUERED BY US HOLY CHRISTIANS KNIGHTS!!! DEUS VULT!!! YOU DIRTY PAGAN SAVAGE!!!
THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING EDGY(ACTING VIKING)!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
SAVAGES!!! CURONIANS ARE SAVAGES WHO GOT CONQUERED BY US GLORIOUS HOLY CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS!!! AS A RESULT, ENTIRE CURONIAN WAY OF LIFE WAS LOST!!!
POOR POOR CURONIANS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
No, they live in Kurzeme. Literally meaning "the land of kurši."
Kuršėnuose gyvena tik tie, kur likosi po Durbės mūšio.
Ah, the Kurländer!
Yeah boyyyy 🇱🇻
I am from Sweden
Good old Harold Wartoot.
Valhalla calling me!
Irish in Finland. I got a somewhat mythological bloodline. I'm a direct decendent of forest Finn's that decended from Viking kings and princes in northern Sweden burea and includes the Bure kinship. I can send the geneology tables I got. Like 30 pages back 1000 years.
I don't know if it's possible here but I really wanna see it
@@danilapolesciuk4316 what's your email
@jrsgarage I am very interested in researching more about my own ancestry from this area- would you be willing to share the geneology charts you have?
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All my ancestors got from the northern region. From sweden to lithuania, up to northern poland my ancestry is from
ngl it's funny hearing foreigners struggle with Latvian language and it's hard names of places and people
Intrestingly I have 21,1% Curonian DNA and I am from Finland. And I am pension from military from Air Force 34 years. But I am also 21,7% Viking (Swedish) Now I understand why my DNA is so much in Gotland too. They did live and fight each others under 100 miles or 150km from each others. DNA is so interesteing, You can find new relatives and get info where are You really from.
I've just discovered that I had some od Curonians DNA ( MyTrueAncestry).Very strange feeling after that video.. :)
...so that’s where my name comes from
Came here because I am 4.4% Baltic.
The Christian yoke is no more. Time to embrace our ancestral traditions again!
I love theese videos. Very informative and enjoyable!
I find ancient Baltic aswell as Finno-Ugric mythology and history very fascinating. But I think it's a bit misleading to use an Old Norse word (Vikingr) to describe a people with a very different and unique language, religion, culture and traditions. I seriously doubt that any Curonian would have described themselves or their "job description" with a North Germanic/Old Norse word (a language that is completely unrelated to their own).
Using boats to raid people in different lands doesn't turn you into a Viking in my opinion, in that case almost every civilization in the world would have had Vikings too.
The Word Viking is something deeply tied to Norse culture and it can even be found used on Runestones that are still around today, so it's quite obvious that Norse people used that specific word to describe themselves when they raided with their boats.
However, it shouldn't be that surprising that two peoples that have encountered and fought eachother numerous times (they are neighbors afterall) would have had similar weapon and boat technologies and used them in similar ways.
We should celebrate and enjoy theese unique and fascinating cultures as they are and encourage people to learn more about them. I don't think we're being fair or doing them any justice by bunching them up together with the Vikings and basically calling them Scandinavians. It's about as accurate as calling Irish, Scottish or Welsh people English.
The curonians are not a viking/germanic community, they are a baltic community with a little bit uralic.
Baltic Amber till this day are found in the whole world that dates BC. Curonians also traded with Native Americans.
They most definitely did not, lol.
Church erased so much culture and history, especially finnish history...
A lifestyle centering around raiding, pirating, banditry, pillaging, slavery, and rape is what you call a culture!
If it weren't for us Holy Christian Knights, your mother and your sister would be Curonian sex slaves by now.
I am glad that those finnish savages got destroyed and conquered by us holy Christian knights! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
So they had not much to do with the Norse/Northmen, but with Goths, Svea and Danes.....
Slavs in Russia and Belarus were de facto converted to Christianity only in 16th century.
There is a Slavic pagan community in Balerus that were never converted to Christianity and was destroyed by the communists only in 20th century.
There are so many mistakes at first 45 seconds already that I can not watch it any farther. 🤕
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Vikings are originally from Skandinavia. In this video we see desigs of Viking drakkars of Norway and Denmark. Axe designs from same countries and all the other hardware. haha Funny video.. Vikings of Scandinavia had Viking kings. It is the center of our culture and history. Can anyone show me the family trees of these Vikings in Estonia? And if they were from Scandinavia ? The word Viking only stems from Scandinavia.
And yet, you don't seem to know what the word means.
But last pagans is Semigalls not Curonians. I proud with my ancestors. Im Latvian!
Yeah and you're savages!!! DEUS VULT!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pēdējie bija žemaiši. Kad zemgaļi saprata, ka ir pilnīgā dirsā, lielākā daļa nodedzināja paši savas pilis un devās uz Žemaitiju, kur asimilējās.
The germanic Vikings started it all By being the ones who attacked Balt lands first and We intern attack them
you say it wrong its kurši and its kurland in latvian kurzeme.
i hope to never go there
idk.
Yes
Kurši= Kurshi