The History of the Vikings in England (AD. 793 - AD. 1066)
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- Опубликовано: 31 дек 2024
- A look at the entire history of Viking interaction with England, from the first famous raid on Lindisfarne in AD. 793 to the climactic last battles of 1066.
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Lovely stuff mate. Hoping that you do these for the other countries of Europe too
History Time See the poll on his channel
As a Dane, this was very well written. And good pronunciations ;)
Keep up the good work, Hilbert!
You guys were pretty savage back then
Just here to better understand "The Last Kingdom" and "Vinland Saga"
Thanks for the video.
Hahahahah mee 2
SAme!
Same same
You'll also have to watch the history TV series "The Vikings" which is now in Amazon Video too.
@@DavBlc7 Vikings is about as historically accurate as Samurai fighting for the Saxons
If you are invading England, you have to do it the right way: dragon ships.
pablo ramos take note muslims
We'll be back. 😉
yea they can probably fly as well
@dryef don Unfortunately ,you are right
@Baba Yaga it's strange, Europe must be coloured but Africa is in an opposite Situation.
Your abundance of detailed information always surprises me. So glad I stumbled on your channel.
"Egg from egg." I love English.
matthew bayliss 😂
Max Kaufmann 😂😂😂😂😂
@matthew bayliss well that sounds like a you problem
Well eggs in Old English is...Ægru so didn't change all too much
Eggcellent
History With Hilbert, the "by the way, the friasian were there too" channel
The Italian Baron there was a least one frisian there
The Frisians were in the same boat as the Angles and Saxons
I am friesian, a lot of words are familiar to me
Fun Fact: The raid is believed to have been in June, not January. January would have been bad sailing weather, and the Annals of Lindisfarne actually give the date as 8 June 793. Excellent video as always Hilbert!
*I only caught that because we have a Viking Festival that I demonstrate at every year on or around that date! :)
Yeah you'd have to be crazy to risk crossing the North Sea in the middle of winter in those boats. I know they were brave men but that's plain suicidal.
Much better detailed history than what’s taught in any Anglo/Celtic country. Loved it and always enjoyed learning more about my ancestors
I really like the linguistical lesson. This is high-quality content. Thank you for making these videos, sir.
I'm here to learn because of AC Valhalla.
Dre S same
✊🏾
Dre S at least _some people_ research their history before playing/getting the game
@lenny Murphy Did you?
@lenny Murphy I’m just wondering why your watching this video? Because if it’s to learn ANYTHING then your idiotic comment would be redundant you fuck wit. ‘Did you go to school?’ 🤔 Unless your going video to video about different histories to call other people stupid because your a human school textbook, wtf does your question mean? ....idiot.
I learned more from this film than I did in the last four months of lectures on the subject. Thank you!
Who is here from the Netflix series
*"The Last Kingdom"*
Forgotten Soul Got a video on the Last Kingdom out tonight actually ;)
🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️ Meeee! Didnt know Uhtred was an actual Earl tho.
Destiny is ALL
Uthred son of Uthred, Uthred Ragnarson, Uthred of Bebbanburg and.... Osbert?
Yes
I was born in North Western England, and I am of Norwegian descent. Very interesting video.
Norwegian Danish English is almost exactly the same thing
@@kenny5577 yes definitely after the many historical events, they have become very similar, and I would argue much richer culturally!
And German, and French, and Irish, and probably others. There is almost certainly nothing especially Norwegian about you. That’s not how it works, and usually people who cling to this incorrect view of ethnicity or “I’m mostly Viking/Dane/German etc” are usually the type to be desperate for their own identity, and it’s often on a foundation of racism, or atleast exceptionalism, which is basically the same thing.
@@MatthewSmith-xl5crok now do the same thing, but not for the groups that are acceptable to hate
@@coolpilot5694 grow up, victim. If you’re that sensitive, and it means o much to you to delude yourself that you are especially Northern European for example, then thats your problem.
Why is always the most sensitive weakest of people who are so determined to seem of proud history and stock? It’s an insecurity.
My heritage is Danish and Irish on my maternal side..I've always been fascinated with *vikings* and the history.
What about African
@@luiznunes1404 paternal is Jamaican :)
@@ChantelStays By the way you look, you’re most Jamaican/African than anything
@@luiznunes1404 pretty sure it doesn't matter....? I'm half black half white. Black genes usually predominate when it comes to features. I resonate more with my maternal side bottom line
Also married a Norwegian/Irishman and my daughter's are peachy white with blonde hair and green eyes. Genes are funny.
My comment about my heritage and about me being proud to be Danish and Irish has nothing to do with the way I look.
@@ChantelStays Are you ashamed of being black? Why didn’t you married a black guy who looks like you, then you childrens would look like you too? Don’t mind me, I am just a curious person.
Who’s here after Assassin Creed Valhalla trailer
Me
LoudRegent60 😂😂😂 how did you guess
How’d you know?
I was doing my research
Me
Lenny Murphy get out of here Lenny you fucking nerd. Of course he went to school otherwise he wouldn’t be able to type or even comprehend how RUclips works. Go try to start stupid shit in your speech and debate class.
probably worth mentioning that both Angles and Danes were once the same tribe of people but split on the mainland a few centuries prior to the Angles and Saxons migrating to England so those two groups are actually more akin to each other than the other groups mentions here though all are related even further back
I didnt expect to hear anything i didnt know in a relatively short video on such a large subject but even as a history major interested in mainly the ancient times and the early middle ages i did learn some stuff especially in the period after the slaughter of the Danelaw and 1066 so very good info
Great stuff! This was really packed with information. Very well researched!
Quite the interesting topic, well elaborated and nicely visualised. To further enhance the quality of your content I would suggest to reduce the audible peaking in your audio-recording (I.e. 'but','before' and 'plethora' 0:00-0:15) either by editing, or easier, by putting a bit more space between you and the microphone, acquiring a muffling cover for it might do the trick too. This is probably one of the cheapest ways to improve one's audio-Setup and helps taking it towards the next level. I hope this advice is helpful, your videos are!
Really good video as usual. Looking forward to more in this series.
Hilbert you said you would link a video about the Jomsvikings
Thanks for the reminder, it's in there now!
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I absolutely love your content. Keep it coming, my friend
k0vert What da heck is your profile pic!
A fish in a turkey. Nothing out of the ordinary.
k0vert Lmao, did do you actually stuff the fish in there yourself?
Nah, just happened upon it on the interwebz and the rest is history.
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k0vert Haha nice one.
this finally brings glory to danish vikings as most people see norway or sweden as vikings
Nah man
@@rustybench3334 nah man to what?
@@tobilikebacon I forgot
@@rustybench3334 lol
This video really makes me want to see one about Viking history of Ireland. Its totally not because I LOVE talking about King Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf or anything ...
Brian Dennis
If a video is done about Ireland, I’d love to see him talk about Ivar The Boneless and Olaf The White.
12:46 I think the colour schemes and symbols on the Shields look awesome.
“Ket in the modern day means sweets” yea...... sweets
a different kind of sweets than your traditionalist ideas of it
it means sweets in northern slang hahaha, however has also taken on a more of a psychedelic form too
HadynHarris I’m from Manchester and not once has someone spoke to me and said Ket meaning sweet it’s not mothers slang at all mate 😂
Arachnids Gaming not really that northern mate i live near newcastle and its very common up here
HadynHarris fair enough then so ur a jordi
Facinating. Great educational video. I'm a 54 year old Southern Californian Latino but I find the history of that area very interesting.
Loved the part in which you talked about the etymology of the words!
Thank you, that filled in a lot of questions that I had.
Your presentation was excellent.
I was recommended this after watching the AC Valhalla trailer way too much.
@@GeorgeNicol. The Vikings (except for the bandits) where a noble people. Most of the slander was written 200 years after the viking age by Christian Jews that settled in Europe. If you watch this video again, it isn't hard to figure out why.
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@@melkor3496yeah I've seen tag idiotic video. It's a cinematic trailer dude. That video is the very definition of nitpicking.
Shaheen Ziyard How dare you. XD
@Loke ok so? At least the Vikings don't have horns on there helmets 24/7
Funny how a surprising amount of the words English got from Old Norse is present in modern English but not in modern Scandinavian languages
Good video.
Respect from Denmark 🇩🇰
I would love to see a video on the Vikings in Wales, I know it wasn't a poll option you made but there is some interesting things there- I promise!
For no reason other than getting rid of the case system I whole heartedly support the Viking invasion. Great video HWH!
The English Vikings had some big balls
For sure!
But no bone.
Pfsif You're confusing that with now.
Probably because they sold loads of tickets....
@Roccio O'RoganThere is now.
Can you do a video on Sweden and Finland during the viking age? They're kind of overlooked in the grand scheme of things...
Finland is Finno-Urgic. Their relatives are near the Urals.
The Swedes had been in contact with the Finns and Estonians for a long time even before the ''Viking Age'', (trading and creating settlements in Finland and so on), so they kinda had a relationship already. The Swedes who ventured out from Roslagen, the coastal area between Stockholm and Gävle, seems to be the origin for both the name ''Rus'' and the Finnish name for Sweden, which is ''Ruotsi''. There's a alot of theories, but to me it seems to be a connection there, no doubt about it.
The Rus (Swedes from Roslagen), went on expedtions East, into modern day Russia and founded alot of settlements and colonies there. With them on these journeys there were surely alot of Finns and perhaps Estonians aswell. Together with Slavic people already inhabiting the area, they formed the foundation of Russia - the land of the Rus.
The Rus are best known in history as the Varangian Guard to the Byzantine (Greek) Empire. It became a tradition for big, sturdy Scandinavian and Rus adventurers to be recruited as body guards, and this continued for several hundred years, way into the Medieval period.
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No! The Mongols are in the Kalmykh Republic. No connection.
Prussia Ball SWEDEN IS OVERLOOKED???????
Swedens vikings went down through the rivers of europe instead, focusing a bit more on trade. They went down to konstantinopel and met with muslims in Turkey. They also started colonies together with local people in what today is Ukraine which later became the kingdom Kiev Russ, which in turn became Russia.
Finland was not a viking state. It was occupied by Sweden during the middle ages and before that had its own semi-slavic/semi-nordic culture.
As a geordie, that was weird when you had the northern words for things 😂 I say Hyem and Marra almost everyday, had no idea it came from the Danish
Being from Durham it always interested me, Gan yem dose sound like danish ga hjem, you also have Beck - stream, oot - out, Barin - child, but they are probably Anglo Saxon (old English) as old English and old Norse are very similar and are cousins of each other, both come from Ingvaeonic Germanic languages. Remember the Angles emergrated from Jutland where Danish 'Vikings' later came from, they did a documentary not long ago to see if the north-east had Viking ancestry, Sir walter bodmer (geneticist at oxford) found that "three quarters of the regional gene pool tested in the North East matches the Anglo Saxon genetic signature" but "it is impossible to distinguish between the Danish Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, because they are same" so I guess we will never know, one thing is for sure we in the North-East do share a common DNA ancestry with our Danish Viking cousins.
Evil Limey that’s really interesting. Actually just a large part of regular English is also derived from old Norse, which is why it’s really easy for Scandinavians like me to learn English. The names of weekdays are an obvious example.
I live in hull and we/older people say bane meaning child
@@rustybench3334 same learned recently aswell when we say 'ta' for thank you it's derived from 'tak' which is thank you in Scandinavian countries
@@2_mutch wow, I had no idea about this. It's very common in Australia too. We (Aussies) all shorten 'thank you' to 'ta'.
I never knew that Harold Godwinson was of Danish descent, it certainly puts the war of 1066 in a new perspective..
Harold Hardrada, a Norwegian.
William the Conqueror, a Norman.
And Harold Godwinson, Anglo-Saxon but with Danish ancestory.
No matter who had won, a Norseman would still be on the throne in some way or another. Anglo-Saxon England was pretty much done by that point regardless. Anyway, great video, and you just got yourself a new subscriber!
I mean, Anglo Saxons are from Modern day Denmark and North Germany... So it has always been one big family fighting over the same island.
A very convoluted history, but clearly presented! Well done!
Ket deffinetly means something different today...
I was saying the same thing xD
Still pretty sweet tho...
Cat
Keta
You make some great videos, this one included. However, the first recorded Viking raid recorded in what would become modern England was at Portland, Dorset in 789. It was most likely done by Raiders from modern Norway, as were the majority of raids before 840
Could you explain once all the Arabic States prior to Muhammed?? Like you did once with the British Isles?
Diego Ragot i dont think that's his area of expertise
James Atherton who can be? (Western)
Diego Ragot I have no idea sorry man
James Atherton ok, don't worry
@Bill The Bull Gates no 1 or 2 min. I enjoyed informing you.
Great video.
Nottingham born here, so this history is very interesting to me.
As someone from a less than savoury part of the U.K., saying “Ket” means “Sweets” sounds like the biggest euphemism ever lol
sounds like some wonky sweets alright
Good video. The maps help me more than the illustrations of guys standing around.
@Craig Benz True Dat! The Maps brought much clarity into the Battle History, but got me (a dude in the USA) thinking. In the near future, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom could team up and re-take America in a three-way! That is, until we launch three F-35s coupled with a "tag-a-long" USAF KC-10 Extender Refuel Airship.
The English and all Scandinavias are brothers in a way.
@Carmicha3l Well, Anglos and Saxon where both from north germany/danmark who invaded just a few centuries before the vikings.
@Carmicha3l so true... got my whole family done with the Ancestry dna test. mum was 95% anglo saxon 5% Celt and dad was almost split irish anglo. yet I had Euro Germanic dna and my sister had Swedish Dna. So in other words they really cant tell.
The Saxon was not as strong as the Norse it's like posh estate meets rough estate when the Norse Vikings founded Irish cities in 795 ad the Anglo Saxon were unprepared for the battle's that would follow in the following centuries Brian Boru defeated the Norse Irish in 1012 but the Anglo Saxon lost to the Norse in 1066 the point is that Anglo Saxon Is posh estate whereas Norse Vikings are tough estate
They were tough enough to stave off Charlamagne and without Stamford Bridge the Normans wouldn't have made it off the beach. So that's clearly nonsense. Plus it was the Anglo-Saxons who ended the Vikings at Stamford Bridge. The Norman army of William consisted of a lot more than just Normans. The pope basically called for a europe wide crusade on England, and a big % of the 'Norman' forces were Bretons, who descended from the Britons in the first place. So nothing about what you said holds any water. @raleighburner1589
@@raleighburner1589and the anglo saxons heavily defeated a huge joint irish/norse army at brunanbruh
Fascinating!!! Thank you for sharing actual history, which is so helpful in the face of all these fictionalized TV series!!
Even with the Norman invasion of 1066 it's more of a continuation of the same. You see, The Normans that invaded England in 1066 came from Normandy in Northern France. However, they were originally Vikings from Scandinavia.
True although funnily enough the Angles and Saxons originally came from NW Germany and part of Denmark I believe. It just shows how fluid the various tribe movements were. They pretty much assimilated the Normans in the next century.
15:36 I wonder if it's referring to the war horns that were common amongst many cultures just a thought would love to hear more thought on it and thank you so much for the great content I love the style you have and the content you talk about so again thanks
Where in East Anglia did the Vikings actually land? I live in Ipswich so would be curious to know
The best compact I have found unttil now. Now I understand better the chronology of the serie "Vikings", "The Last Kingdom" and the anime "Vinland Saga". Of course is known that they are most fictions, but they have strong influences of real characters and events.
13:00 some badass warriors and a badass metal album from Amon Amarth
The show the Lost Kingdom includes a lot of this history so interesting!
Fun fact.
William The Conquer is a descendant of Rollo, a Danish viking that was Duke of Normandy.
Everyone knows this fun fact, but few people know that Godwinson was much more Danish than William (Godwinson = a literal Danish mother while William's last actual Danish ancestor was his great great great grandfather Rollo)
@@LeHappiste Yeah William's heritage was more Frankish than Danish
Thank you for this video, it's so interesting!!
Would you say overall the impact of the viking on England was good or bad?
Probably a good thing in the long run but it's such a big equation to weigh up.
Many Victorians thought they were good for Britain, however that was after all in the 19th century.
I'd say it was good because now we can all grow sweet beards and have superior genes for fistcuffs
Bear hn celt is a what name? Lol, Where you getting your info?
Im an archaeologist i live n work in a predominantly celtic area ..verulam.. i write up reports of my excavations & Celtic IS what we call the Celts !!!! Lol are you English?
Bear hn how did the Vikings give us the British the normans?
Just bc they were Vikings given land in Normandy hence 'normans
William the bastard was the hier to the throne of england he was nephew
Harold stole the crown & wasnt related to the confessor at all.
Thats why he invaded, has nothing to do with anything else ..
Great content. Really informative. thanks
when speaking about how the mixing of anglo saxons and the danes effected the peoples dna there for ever, I couldn't help but to laugh about the fact that most anglo saxons themselves were in fact danes (Jutes and angles) who migrated from Denmark to england 400 years before the vikings arrived. it means the people there had germanic roots in their dna (mainly danes) long before the vikings, and it also means that the mixing between anglo saxons and the celtic tribes had much bigger impact on the people's dna there, than the mixing between anglo saxons and the danes :)
All English people have Danish ancestry.
Ironically geneticist simultaneously say Anglo-Saxon and Danish DNA is identical, than say England has little to no Danish DNA. How could they tell the difference if its identical? 😂 I trustly can safely assume I got Danish ancestry and blood. No differentiation. Btw Jutes and Angles aren't Danes. They just lived in what is now happened stance the same country. Its like calling Cherokee and Navajo the same because both are from the U.S.
The Angles are called Angles for a reason. Different tribe.
The reference to "horns" could be war horns (you blow in like trumpets to make noise) more likely than horns in their helmets. For example the as Æsir Heimdal (the watcher of heaven in norse mythology) has a horn named Gjallarhorn that he blows in at the arrival of Ragnarök.
I had a hypothesis about when harold lost the battle of Stanford Bridge many of his varangians would have agreed to put into service in Godwin army also of their Eastern kit would have taken by the English. The survivors those who abandoned the field after Godwin died took the surving huscarls and varangian to byzantium via the rus Rivers. after the reformation of the varangian guard in 1071 you have almost linked series of events from 1066 to 1071 but not many records of weather it was a mass exodus or small group of displaced people
After 1066 the Varangian guard suddenly had an influx of Anglo Saxons refugees, so much so that there were too many to take into it, these were used as auxiliaries by the Byzantine Empire. They were granted land in northern Anatolia and settled for about 100 years on the Crimea before the were over one, destroyed or assimilated. This area was called New England and had towns called Sussex etc.
@@FromaTwistedMind yeah i sore that report about chimera new england there were anglo saxon incription and other stuff in the churches there some people say they were put there later by saxon merchants but some people in academic circles don't want the accoation there but except that the area was settled by eastern rome .
What a fantastic video, thank you!
And to think that it was only recently that I discovered that I’ve grown up right in the middle of the Danelaw region. Isn’t history just fascinating.
Quite enlightening video 👍👍👍👍
I think a good example of vikings in England is the show "the last kingdom".
This is very interesting. Great video!
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I've seen HISTORY TIME'S work on this subject. It too is superb . Never knew history was so interesting, as well as important. Thanks to both of you for your work. Been learning much these past few months. At 54 years old, I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks. Or new intellect.
Where is Eivor and Sigurd? :D
It was a really helpful video. However, my advice would be to share the names of the kings on the screen as you mention them, lest it becomes confusing which one is who (considering the pronunciations are almost the same).
Je zou een video moeten maken over Wiki de Viking.
(En): You should do a video on Wiki the Viking.
Case system did exist in Old Norse, in fact Old Norse and Old English had pretty similar patterns of declension from the Germanic root.
I'm here to learn a bit for assassin's creed valhalla :)
AC Valhalla is historically very inaccurate. I am a bit disappointed playing it right now. Odyssey and Origins were historically more accurate.
@@shadowgamer4653 more along the lines of the time period is what I watched the video for. I'll never take a video game seriously.
@@shadowgamer4653 wow a game about two secret societies fighting each other throughout history is unrealistic 😂
@@danilthorstensson8902 Looks like you dont know much about the franchise Assassins Creed in general. Ubisift takes much care about historical accuracy of the games. How the buildings look like, the clothes, the language and so on. Btw. mate. Unrealistic and inaccurate are two very different things. Historical inaccuracy for example is how the churches in England in the 9th century looked like and how they look like in the game. Most churches were wooden constructions while in AC Valhalla, almost every church is a stone building. This is just one example of what I mean with historical inacurracy. And this is actually a shame for Ubisoft. They normaly work with historians when developing their AC games. For Origins and Odyssey they hired international TOP historians to make the games as accurate as possible. Assassins Creed Odyssey Discovery Tour is even used in schools to show students how the greek world back then really looked like. Inform yourself ;)
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Nice picture of ‘England’ on the thumbnail…
One thing that really bugged my throughout this video was the depiction of the Norse and Anglo-Saxons as very different peoples. By the 700s the two groups had only been separated for a couple hundred years. That also brings me to the fact Old Norse and Old English were closely related. There were even people saying things like Old English and Old Norse are the same tongue, so the idea that Norse speakers couldn’t understand Old English cases is just nonsense. Just go watch Jackson Crawford’s video on how similar they are. If anything, English dropped the case system because its a creole of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse.
I'm pretty sure the fact Old English is West Germanic and Norse North Germanic didn't make the 2 directly intelligible, adding on top of that the fact we can distinguish to this day many Norse borrowings again shows a distinct difference in phonology at the very least.
Also language is not the only identifier, it's pretty clear from the historical outcome that Danes and Anglo Sxons were pretty different enough that discriminating against one groups was possible and made sense to the other, also the division in religion with the Anglo-Saxon being solidly Christian cemented the separation, by the raid of Lindisfarne 3 and more centuries passed since the start of the Germanic invasion and during that time things changed.
Of course, they were different languages, but they were clearly close enough that the speakers of the languages found it easy enough to communicate.
Humans are perceptive to even tiny differences their group and another. If dropped an American, Aussie, and Brit in the same room as soon as they stared talking they’d all know where the other two were from instantly, so they probably could tell each other apart by small details you’d have to be an expert to even know existed. As for religion, that’s probably the single largest difference between them.
There's a massive and distinguishable difference between English spoken in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds, which are only 40 miles apart relatively. I don't think it's a stretch to deduct that there would have been distinguishable differences in the past over a much wider geographical area and timeframe
You should certainly have more views - great videos!
9:45-9:51 was it historically mentioned anywhere that the Danes got more girls than the Anglo-Saxons due to better grooming, or was that a joke?
Socialite I read that in a history book at my local library once & it showed the different Combs and other grooming devices the Danes/Vikings used to get most of the Women! I think it's true, haha.
@@NickFouladi11
Seems right lol
My dad is Anglo Saxon-French-Danish-Norwegian
My mother is middle Eastern Semitic
I'm 55% European
I'm 44.8% Semitic
I'm 6ft 8 Tall
Yes the Vikings washed every weekend; on saturday. Is is said that Norse women used and hour a day grooming and a man used two hours - one hour for the hair and another for the beard
An Anglo-Saxon bishop (I forget who) wrote of his disgust that Anglo-Saxon men were trying to emulate Danish hairstyles rather than focusing on saving their souls. One can only assume that they noticed the effect the Danes and their fashionable, clean appearance had on Anglo-Saxon women.
Assassins Creed Valhalla brought me here, this is an informative channel, keep it up!
Thorkell was a Scanian, so he'd very much have been a Dane. It wasn't until the treaty of Roskilde in the 1650s somewhere that Scania became Swedish (and pretty much culturally genocided)
i am watching The Last Kingdom and find your knowledge very enlightening. Thanks GBU
Thank you for sharing. The Norse and Anglo-Saxons were cousins
Hello, Hilbert. Do you have any videos where you can teach us Frisian and/or Dutch?
I really want to watch this but I also really want sleep! I CANT DECIDE WHAT TO DO!!!
Thomas Elliot.s I agree with your comment very much, when I see History with Hilbert, I can even fathom the thought of putting it my “watch later list.”
I like to doze off while videos play in the background. Amazingly I retain a bit of new facts.
sleep over it
History-related question: how is it that we get to hear about the invasion of England before the Vikings by the Angles and Jutes and then Vikings, but at about that time we never hear about England being an aggressive naval force or an invasive nation itself? It is clear that the Northern tribes came in search of better farming opportunities and general resources - was the Heptarchy at that time in such a crystallized form that it did not need further conquests outside its borders, or were they barely just trying to survive the attacks and never had time to devise expansion politics overseas up until it became a full functioning colony based kingdom? Thank you
A fine video, as usual, Hilbert. But I see i must once again slay a couple of persistent linguistic dragons. 'Knife' is just as likely to be Old English as old Norse (you have the same word in Dutch and Frisian), and 'borough' is from OE burh (that's why it's found all over England, not just in the Danelaw).
The Encomium Emmae is a work in praise of Emma, not one that she wrote herself; and she was actually the Queen of England. She was the second wife of Aetelred Unraed, and mother of Edward the Confessor; and Cnut married her after Aethelred's death, to strengthen his own claim to the throne.
Edmund Ironside was Aethelred's eldest surviving son, by his first wife. The present royal family actually descend from him, but that's another story.
I don’t know a Dutch analogue of “knive”, Frisian (which I speak) has “knyft” (for a large knive, a smaller one is “mês”, like Dutch “mes”); the sound-laws would dictate “*knijf”, which is not a Dutch word. I agree with “burh” (Dutch “burg, burcht”, Frisian “boarch”) etc.
It's all germanic
5:40 That's an interesting Danelaw map, usually the border is further up parallel with Liverpool. This means my ancestors once lived in the Danelaw, when about was it like this?
"Their horns shining with gold" is in reference to their drinking horns, which would be inlaid with gold if that person could afford to have the smith do the work.
didn't it refer to the bull heads on the ships, so the horns of the bulls?
@@ivodewispelaere9137 nah, not all of them used bull heads on ships. From what I've picked up over the years, more often you would see dragon head, or sometimes horse head effigies on ships. The bull was more of a male fertility animal to the vikings, so having a bull head carved on the ship wouldn't make as much sense to them as having a dragon head, symbolizing fierceness in battle, or a horse head symbolizing endurance.
Fascinating. My matralineal descent is from Yorkshire (Otley)
Patralineal is from Normandy. ☆ Royal Forest of Dean (Fforest Dêna ) is one of my favourite places. ..
12:12 Vinland Saga started.
4:02 Egg is very close to the Old English Ey (similar as Ei in German or Dutch) I assume the words were so similar that after a time only the Norse version of the word survived.
Yay, more Vikings and Anglo-Saxons!!
A very interesting and informative video Hilbert. Which leads one to think that England was more Nordic than Anglo Saxon, despite the name. With much inter marriage going on between them, even William the bastard was related to Edward the Confessor and yet descended from the Danes as were most of these people. And of course were all germanic people, who originated in Scandinavia.
My Norwegian partner forever insists English is actually a Scandinavian language. The invasion is still going strong 😂
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We are often told that England comes from Angloland. Yet I was reading the other day that in Scotland they spell it Ingland. Well Ing was the original name for the old Norse god Yngvi, god of the common people so Ing- land makes more sense as it means the land of the common people. Which fits very well, because all the 'Anglo Saxon' settlers were common farmers who interestingly never referred to themselves as Anglo Saxon. While Ing was the god of the Common people, Freyr was the god of fertility and the upper classes and legendary ancestor of the Swedish royal family, so perhaps you wife is on to something.
Anglo-Saxon identity survived beyond the Norman conquest, came to be known as Englishry under Norman rule, and through social and cultural integration with Celts, Danes and Normans became the modern English people.
I would like to study this further. Can you tell me the books and sources you used for this video?
Great video! I love your stuff!
I do have a question though.. Were the Anglo-Scandinavians, those born of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian parents, slaughtered during the St. Brice’s Day Massacre or did Æthelred only target the Danes?
15:33 Presumably means the horns of the carved bulls at the prows of the ships?
The first known account of a Viking raid taking place in Anglo-Saxon England comes from 787, when three ships from Hordaland (in modern Norway) landed in the Isle of Portland on the southern coast of Wessex. They were approached by the royal reeve from Dorchester, whose job it was to identify all foreign merchants entering the kingdom, and they proceeded to kill him.
dont know if this is 100% correct but heard it on a tour of medieval dorchester (where i live) and Maiden Castle. its also listed on wiki. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_activity_in_the_British_Isles
Fantastic video. Thank uou very much. 👍🏻
Wait. Why is this better than Netflix? 😮 I didn't know any of this.
Thank you! More videos on the Viking Age on my channel if you're interested.
@@historywithhilbert oh man I'm like 5 videos in to the playlist. Seriously well done. 🥳
A well researched and presented video and enjoyed the clear names around the kingdom. I wondered wether you would include Canute and his kingdom as it was sure to be revelant and have me rofl with the microphone comment :d....A most turbulent but interesting time in britains history which was sure to be repeated when the normans arrived and tipped the table over again [perhaps that might be worth a few in depth videos as that ..like this age , changed England and its surrounding kingdoms in major ways that still stand today ] {bows in homage for a excellent vid}