I find it hard to believe that the moors where actually "black", they may have been darker than Europeans...I'm pretty sure black in medieval terms is noot the same as black in modern term...after all, they were mostly north African from the Maghrebs, not Subsaharan Africans.
Gad Yariv true in the Netherlands the Spanish have been referred to as black/dark because the dutch were much lighter than the Spanish i can imagine it was the same for the vikings and north africans.
@@aaliyahkassim9142 It's not a racist issue against black people. I live in the middle east, Arabs and North-Africans aren't 'black' now, why would they have been back in the days of the moors? that maks no sense.
@@aaliyahkassim9142 well we have literally 0 evidence that would even remotely suggest that north africans were actually subsaharan dark skinned blacks
@@aaliyahkassim9142 what I think Ambrose Burnside is alluding to, is that the modern western definition of 'blackness' and 'whiteness' come from slavery in America, and the moors are of different ethnicity then of the black Americans today.
The Viking-Muslim interaction in the Viking series was extremely inaccurate. The Vikings only managed to reach the outskirts of Seville and were able to attack or burn down coastal towns. The news spread to Scandinavia, and one of the largest Viking fleets was amassed. Vikings landed in Western Spain but were defeated. The Viking fleet tried to cross the straits but was burned down by the Andalusian fleet.
That is what they did, Viking are raiders, they did that everywhere in europe, only in england they stayed and made a government, in other places they just raided and took slaves with them. I don't think they like the temperate climate of Spain to stay there longer, they like cold weather that is why they choose england and northern france xD lol
Lovely stuff mate. I’ve been reading a lot about Vikings in Iberia recently.. It makes so much sense as Andalusia was incredibly rich. The effective resistance of the local rulers also explains why only relatively few expeditions went back there in comparison to the rest of Western Europe.
Lol is it weird that i'm muslim and decendant of norwegian . Most people did tho . Most mock me for not being christian . I replied "since when scandinavia viking is christian nation" . Most answer through conversion . Then is it wrong for me to be a muslim then .
Nathan Remix were there not pagans before christianity came to Europe? The world is always changing, you don’t always need to follow trends (it can be bad or good)- U do u 🙌🏼 stay strong !
Interesting. How many of Norwegian Muslims with norwegian blood there? Do you lots tend to marry fellow muslim Norwegian-blood or with muslims with african, arabs or south asian background?
@@blooduhz nah convert . Many of my family become non religious for some reason . I'm muslim my nephew is atheist . As you see religion ain't that kind of deal .
When they said north Africans where black they ment that they had dark hair and dark eyes just like southern Europeans in the UK they call people black that have dark hair or dark eyes or both together
A-A- RON English people use to call fellow English people who had dark hair/eyes as ‘black’ like Thomas Fairfax who was called ‘Black Tom’ for having dark hair and eyes.
I guess the vast majority wasn't black skinned (but surely darker) and probably had either black or brown (darker and lighter) hair. Just 30 years ago in the balkans everybody would assume that you were talking about a black haired person if you would say "He/She is black". Today it might not been that clear any more.
Of course a Viking hero teller would exaggerate about their successes. We do however have a proven account that 9 Andalusian Lancers routed a Viking raiding party of 20 ships.
@@HSQtr the amazigh were particularly brutal. there's a reason carthage used them as heavy infantry and the romans completely avoided them. the moors were lucky that the "berbers" converted to Islam and became allies. poor viking bastards
Dingo Egret thats why the arabian ummayads used them to initiate the first attack on lberia then they send musa bin nuseyr with an army of hilali arabs to support the berbers and tariq bin ziyad
@@HSQtr Bani Hilal move to Maghrib much later most of those who fought with Musa bin Nusair were mixture of many Arabian tribes and Musa's Arabian forces are the ones who conquered north of Iberian Peninsula .. and pushed forward to modern day France with no success and stopped because of a Berber revolt in Maghrib region
@@Dark123hound So, let me get this straight, because you dont like Islam, you called muslims a racial slur. Right, totally not an excuse to get racist. Why don't you tell us a bit about how wonderful Christianity is?
Same thing with Aryans. They were comparatively fairer to dark skinned Dravidians. The Dravidians called them white. Modern Europeans claim to be them now.
Admiral Mudkip slaves were the lost live people in the battles, they had every right to enslave them all white and black and brown, unlike western slavery which was based on skin color..
@@nantzstein3311 cleanest? When the Muslim scholar saw the Vikings wash themselves with blood, he called them nasty and dirty people lol. Unlike The Muslims who wash themselves 5 times a day before prayer.
I may be wrong, but I read it on good authority that the ‘blue men’ related to their clothing as the Berber and North African tribes were known to wear blue clothing.( As indeed the Tuareg still do). The Irish for black or dark is Dubh. As the name Douglas translates as dark foreigner for a Danish Viking and Fingal for a Norwegian Viking, as the Danes were darker haired on average.
I can confirm. Dubh gall (black foreigner) = Dane. Fionn gall (White/Light/Fair foreigner) ) Norwegian. There doesn't seem to be any precedence for using gorm for black, dubh seems to be the norm. Also in more recent times, Phil Lynot was called "An Roisín Dubh" (the Black Rose), not an roisín gorm. As for Blá meaning black, there is historical and linguistic precedence for this, though as mentioned, the blue clothing of the berbers is a more likely explanation (especially as the indigenous North Africans aren't really 'black').
@@daithimcbuan5235 actually gorm is the accurate term. I speak Irish fluently. Another reason why us Irish say blue instead of black is because "an fear dubh" is another way to say Satan as Gaeilge. So we say gorm instead. But also we say gorm because of influence from the Vikings.
@@darthvader5830 Interesting. Thanks for the info! Being from Sligo and not from the Gaeltacht, I must admit my grasp of the Irish language and its history is not what it could be.
It is said (by they themselves), that the Norse preferred fighting against Arabs/Saracens/Moors/Blåmenn/whateveryouwanttocallthem than Englishmen (Anglo-Saxons). The reason for this was that one Norseman was only worth 3 Arabs in battle, while one Norseman was worth a whole 10 Englishmen. So they preferred fighting Arabs, as they proved more of a challenge... fighting the English was 'too easy'. I can't remember the source, some book or another, I'll try and find it later. (in the Sagas, the Norwegians also referred to the Danes as 'Soft Danes'... who had no bravery in them, and the Swedes as 'Weak Swedes'... who were better suited to making animal sacrifices than battle) *edit* try not to get triggered peeps, that was just their personal opinion about themselves.
@Jarl William I think you need to take a chill pill. I even included a caveat in order for people to not get triggered. Still, it seems you have been triggered. The Norse said that the Irish made good slaves... I'm Irish... I'm not triggered... I don't take it personally. a) This has NOTHING to do with the TV program called 'Vikings'. It is from the Norse sagas. b) It is the Norsemen, i.e. Norwegians, I am referring to here, not the Danes. The Danes were described as 'soft' and lacking courage. c) This was the Norsemen's opinion of themselves, as found in the sagas. Opinion, not fact. The Germans had a similar opinion of themselves in the '30s and '40s... but that didn't pan out too well for them in the end. Opinion ≠ Fact. From the Saga of Olaf Trygvasson: Olaf, upon spying 3 intervening fleets on his way home from a raid in Wendland (Christianisation didn't stop the raids), asked whose was the fleet directly opposite. When he was told it belonged to King Svein Forkbeard of Denmark (one could tell from the banners), he scoffed and stated "We are not afraid of these soft Danes, for there is no bravery in them". When he asked whose was the fleet on the right, and was told it belonged to King Olof of Sweden, he laughed and stated "Better it were for these Swedes to be sitting at home killing their sacrifices (a reference to heathenism), than to be venturing under our weapons from the Long Serpent" (the Long Serpent, Olaf Trygvasson's ship was stolen by Olaf from Raud the Strong, a heathen chieftain in Hålogaland who refused to convert to christianity, and was killed by having a poisonous snake shoved down his throat). Olaf asked to whom the fleet on the left belonged, and upon being told that it belonged to Earl Eirik Håkonsson of Lade (Trøndelag) declaimed "He, methinks has a good reason for meeting us; and we may expect the sharpest conflict from these men, for they are Norsemen like ourselves". Olaf didn't seem to think much of the Danes and Swedes, and was only worried about the fellow Norsemen who were fighting against him. Olaf lost the battle (primarily due to the Norsemen, not the Soft Danes or Weak Swedes), and threw himself into the sea in full chainmail, so as not to be captured. The Norse sagas, not just the Icelandic ones, but also Heimskringla, the sagas of the Kings of Norway, are well worth a read.
@Jarl William I read it in a book somewhere. But in common with the "soft Danes" thing, it was just a statement of personal opinion. I'd imagine the Arabs were more technologically advanced than the Norse, though the Norse and Varangian Guard under Harald Hardråde (the guy from the Battle of Stamford Bridge) did pretty well against the Turks in Anatolia. And the English were also in many ways more technically advanced than the Norse, though the Norse had better ship technology (and as you point out, the Danes advanced their military technology, such as the use of Trelleborg forts for mustering armies, as well as the re-designing of the military structure and heirarchy). Most of my books are at home in Ireland and I'm currently living in Norway, but I can see if I can find the relevant source for the 1 Norseman = 10 English and update this comment at a later date. As for my use of Norsemen to specifically mean Norwegian, I did this because that's how it generally was during the Viking age. Norse = Norwegian, Dane = Dane and Swede/Ross/Rus = Swede (the Finns called the Swedes "Rotsi" meaning 'people who row'). Of course both "Dane" and "Norse" could at times be used interchangeably to mean any person from Scandinavia, but in general, Norse meant specifically Norwegian.
@Jarl William Well, there's only so much available in the English language, sadly. I learned SO much more after I first moved to Norway and got my hands on books in Norwegian. (the same can be said of availability of material in Icelandic, Danish and Swedish of course... much greater than in English) I wouldn't personally count the Saxons as Norse, as the term Norse only came about later on. Yes, the Germanic peoples, including Angles, Saxons, Danes, Jutes & Frisians came from Scandinavia, but the term Norse was never used of this group. Germanic fits much better imo. We did later have the split between West-Germanic, North-Germanic and East-Germanic after all. I'd count the Anglo-Frisian-Saxons as West-Germanic. Though the people of the East coast of England I'd count as Anglo-Danish, not Anglo-Saxon. Particularly from Norfolk to Hull. Yorkshiremen seem to be the most Anglo-Saxon of the English. Of course geneticists can't tell Anglo-Saxons and Danes apart, but they can tell Norwegians from Danes & Anglo-Saxons, so that is somewhat telling.
@@gamingforaday5446 The Muslims crushed them... They came to spain when it was for the muslims with 50 ships and the muslims reduced that to just 15 ships ....... And after few months they came back to apologize...
@@ddlr5867 muslims is a religion anyone can convert to.. but who founded muslim? Who founded the semitic religions Arab and Israelites! Who is the Arab /Israelites? Phoenicians / Semitic races.. sons of Assure, Aram, Ziezi, Lud, Arphaxad - (Abrahams forfather), Elam. These are Sem's sons! Long after Arphaxad, came Moses (no man was like Moses at his time) ! If we put the semitic races against the vikings alone.. the semitic races will annihilate the vikings! Semitic races are not just asians... but their blood / DNA give them devine speed and strength! We are the crown of human races. All our life we showed the world how mighty we are.. but the world ignore us! Thats why corruption is importent for the white boys today
@@BenSamara we are not mighty because of our DNA its because we were the only people who kept gods commandments and worked with it for that we stopped fearing death and wanted to meet god not because of our DNA
@Sono2 20 years with terror??? USA have destroyed All middel east in 20 years and killed more than 2 million innocent people, only to control the oil, not for hunting terrorist. So The western World are legal democratic terrorist gang. All wars against terrorist are fake, the want to control the oil. Dont wach cnn. They brainwash you.
@@humleridder7376 You over exagered, nothing you say is true, first of all USA didn't bomb all middle east and they didn't kill 2 million peoples… and USA is the bigger producer of oil… but your religion terrorise Europe and a lot of other countries and even in the middle east it is a constant war because of the differents islamic beliefs.
When the vikings reached modern day Spain they raided the city and it was a surprise attack and left with treasure then they went back and the military was ready since they surprised them the last time and it ended up really bad for the vikings which made them flee
i don't think that the Muslims in Andalusia were actually black cuz alot of sources said that the natives also converted to islam, black probably meant something different in these old languages than the modern term "black"
@@antiantifa886 not really cuz wars didn't happen between the two sides and most just converted (like tariq ibn ziyad who was a berber, he lead the caliphate army into Iberia) except a very few nomadic tribes who lived in isolated areas
8:58 - the Rus definitely did go themselves to Bagdad, they had no need for middle-men. Many accounts state Scandinavian and Slavic merchants of the Rus as sailing through the Caspian Sea, and then continuing on land to Bagdad.
I disagree with your characterisation of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphate, the biggest difference is the transformation of a largely ethno-religiously dominated empire where Arab Muslims occupied all the important positions and made up the army into one where converts were accepted and could rise to any position. The shift in centre of gravity from the Mediterranean littoral to Baghdad and continental Asia is also important. On colours in Old Norse check out Jackson Crawford's channel, he frequently remarks on them in source material, unsurprising as he did his PhD thesis on the subject.
@Asier Linazasoro To be fair though, the Caliphate in Iberia was vastly different from the Caliphate from the Middle East because it was run by fugitives and cut off from the Middle East in the beginning and there obviously was no real major Arab populations thus forcing the ruling class to become more tolerant of Non-Arab Muslims. The royalty eventually became more Arab elitists after they shipped over massive populations of Arab Muslims from Syria but not as much as originally because the greatest source of manpower for the wars against Northern Christian Kingdoms were the Berbers and Muladies which only ruined the stability of the Caliphate eventually leading to it's demise in the 900s.
@@Yassinekamp Umayyad focused on Art and Science in Andalusia, Dimascus and Jerusalem. Abbasid didnt focus on art at all and the foundation of science was already established by the Umayyads before the arrive of the Abbasites.
I saw a documentary once called "The Longships " and the vikings and muslims became friends and went on a treasure hunt. It would be interesting to see if there is a noticeable maghreb/sub Saharan component in the DNA of people in Ireland. Great video!
There's a famous painting now that everybody knows, it stands upon a gable wall over Sandyrow. In memory of King William and brethren who did join, they fought for our deliverance, at the battle of the Boyne. Triggered taigs.
The bird on the thumbnail is from a flag called the hravnsmerki. It's supposed to represent Odinn, his crows/ravens (not necessarily huginn & muninn), and death to one's enemies on the battlefield because corvids are carrion birds. The flag is told to promise victory, but defeat would surely come to whoever takes down the banner. The raven was only used in wartime. During peacetime the banner was plain white. That's what I've gathered from reading about the symbol so far anyways. I might be a bit off though. It'd be cool to learn more about it :)
Those 'Mauretanians' called 'black men' were Berbers or Maghrebi Arabs, and they were called 'black' due to their dark colour of the hair and eyes. The term still remains in use in Ireland, where Irish people with black hair (like Colin Farrel) are called Black Irish, although mostly by outsiders.
@@PhilHoy97 I first heard the term few years ago when a tourist who was visiting Belfast told my girlfriend that she is Black Irish. Obviously, I was confused since there are no Irish people that are also black (i.e. of Sub-Saharian descent), and she is rosy all over, except her jet black hair. Contrary to popular belief, most Irish people aren't redheads, but dark blonde or light browned.
Sir Galahad I’m Irish, half an hour from Belfast. Well there are black Irish people, Irish people of African decent I.e. parents were from Africa but they were born and raised here.
@@PhilHoy97 That doesn't make them anymore Irish that it would make me Korean if I were born in Korea, or Sudanese if I were born in Sudan. The line of reasoning pertaining to the identity resulting from birthplace is faulty to say the least. By the same logic if you were born on International Waters you would either be stateless or Aquaman.
Sir Galahad there’s a difference between ethnicity and nationality. Many people in Ireland are descended from Vikings, Normans and even the English from 800 years ago. Are they not Irish? 10,000 years ago all Europeans were black. Our skin adapted to be lighter to better absorb vitamin D through the clouds. A black person born and raised in Ireland is more Irish than an “Irish American” will ever be. How can someone born on the island of Ireland, with an Irish accent and Irish culture not be Irish? If you were born and raised in Korea, with a Korean citizenship you would be Korean. You won’t be ethnically Korean, but still Korean nonetheless.
It's quite the opposite, they were mostly Amazigh/berber (northern africans) but when they first invaded the iberians , it was Under the Omeyyad (Arab) banner. Arabs were a minority even in the Army (a small percentage) but because of the rulers, a lot of chiefs later/princes were Arab (a minority ruling the overwhelming majority). Bantus and others were basically slaves at that time...
@@sarahalotaibi1230 Qortoba was only a city, we had later many dynasties in Andalus. So yes, the rulers were All Arabs (omeyyads first) but the soldiers who did the real job +their chief weren't, they were Amazigh. Later, the last regions in the south were saved by an Amazigh dynasty, Arabs were long gone.
This is a quite biased interpretation of the interactions that went about between Muslims and Vikings, as there have been numerous occasions where the Moors utterly destroyed entire fleets of Vikings, but it is still a decent enough video to watch.
Just want to point out the fact that BLUE is a traditional color in the northwestern part of Africa. I don't think the vikings neccesarily referred to skin color when it comes to the naming of these foreigners. It's quite possible they gained the name due to their garment and trade of such material,- and the dye color of blue.
You did a really great job at trying to speak Irish there. I'm impressed, but you don't need that accent. Irish is wayyyyyyyy easier go pronounce than you think. "Fir" is said like "Fear/furr" you nailed the séimhiú in for me however. Nice job and thanks for trying our language. Much respect x
The thing about Vikings is their ability of surprise attacks, their battle win rate is really high when they surprise or ambush enemies. That's why they won in Andalousia in the Vikings series for example, but in history, when they came back this time for Moroccan territory, they were smashed by the Berbers because there wasn't any surprise. But thankfully, after the battle they kept trading together and developped bonds, that's why some Moroccans are sons and daughters of Vikings. Along with many other nations
Firstly, the Muslims were not so weak. Rather, they were very strong. You can search in the books that the Muslims had taken over half of the planet. Secondly, the Vikings are true that they killed people in this city, but he had heard of this the king of the Muslims. He has brought down 40 ships out of 60 ships and their altar has come to such an extent that the Vikings signed a truce with Muslims that they would never come to this region .. I hope the writer does not mock the courage of Muslims, I am sorry if there are mistakes, I use a translator
Hey I really dig your videos but you pop the mic a lot. Want any help with that? I know a real easy audio effect you could apply to fix that up quite a bit.
@@siegfriedeisenkraut5285 Applying an FFT Filter that cuts everything below 50hz to your voiceover file will remove any of that unnatural pop and rumble that comes with popping a mic, without messing with your vice since the human voice doesn't have tones that go to 50hz and below. It obviously won't sound as good as just not popping the mic in the first place, but it will greatly reduce how bad a pop sounds.
Moors were Arabs and North Africans who looked like Arabs and spoke Arabic and also some.very dark skinned semites from places like mauretania and black soldiers fighting for the caliphate. Sad truth is that black Muslims were mostly employed as soldiers only and did not consist a big part of Moorish society and population itself.
since my paternal grandfather is an islander Swede--I know they went through the Russian rivers to help establish such minor cities as Moscow and Kiev and made it to Constantiople and were popular as bodyguards to the emperor and were known as the Varangian guard
Mamluks ? Mamluks had mix folks..but majority were turkic khazars n slavs rtc.Vikings took slavs from there n traded them as slaves to muslims in al andalus..some settled in a special area in there who git converted to islam.
*FROM WIKIPEDIA* The Viking raid on Išbīliya, then part of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba, took place in 844. After raiding the coasts of what are now Spain and Portugal, a Viking fleet arrived in Išbīliya (nowadays Seville) through the Guadalquivir on 25 September, and took the city on 1 or 3 October. The Vikings pillaged the city and the surrounding areas. Emir Abd ar-Rahman II of Córdoba mobilised and sent a large force against the Vikings under the command of the hajib (chief-minister) Isa ibn Shuhayd. After a series of indecisive engagements, the Muslim army defeated the Vikings on either 11 or 17 November. Seville was retaken, and the remnants of the Vikings fled Spain. After the raid, the Muslims raised new troops and built more ships and other military equipment to protect the coast. The quick military response in 844 and the subsequent defensive improvements discouraged further attacks by the Vikings.
@@thesonofandalusia3082 you never know algeria became a mixter of races there are amazigh Arabs Turkish French Spanish and more and no one can define his race 100%
It should be noted that when you see ancient and medieval descriptions, we cannot take everything at face value, especially when describing people's skin by a colour, since even now we are not accurate with it (even the fairest Scandinavian isn't literally white, and the Darkest Congolese isn't literally black). So most likely, all those all descriptions actually mean "dark", not black, and "dark" is of course, relative. A Turk could be considered "dark" by a Norwegian, but the same Turk would be considered "fair" for a Pakistani, in the same way, a Pakistani might be considered "fair" by a Congolese. Its all relative. The average Moor was clearly darker than the average European, but were they "black" in the modern sense? I don't think so, there is far too little evidence to support that, and too much evidence against it. The people of the Maghreb were consistently described and depicted as "Mediterranean" looking throughout history, both the romans and the greeks made a clear distinction between the "Libyans" and the "Maurians" (greek and latin word for North Africans) compared to the Ethiopians, which were much darker. The argument of etymology which claims the word Moor comes from the greek word mahur (black) also falls apart because greeks called them Lybians, the word Moor comes from the Latin word Maurus, meaning from Mauretania, meaning "land of the western sun". Medieval illustrations of the Reconquista portray the Moors ranging from as pale as the Christians, to brown, but never with a dark-brown colour of the Sub-Saharan people. And they were also not adressed as such. The black portrayal of moors only begins In the 16th century onwards with the discovery age when Iberians started calling every muslim or hindu people they encountered as "moor" (moor=the enemy: reconquista mentality) and the rest of Europe started to portray every non-European as dark as possible to propagate this eurocentric idea of the Europeans being unique and very different from all the other "non-white" peoples. The Spaniards and the Portuguese inquisitions had to conduct thorough investigations of many people's ancestors to determine if they were Moorish or not, this means that some moors could pass as native Iberians, this can only mean the Moors had a Mediterranean phenotype, if they were black they would stand out like a sore thumb even with several generations of mixing with whites. I mean how could modern Maghrebi people go from black to white/brown in a few hundred years without massive migration and genocide? The average native Arabian actually looks darker than the average native Amazigh Berber. Now were there Black people among the moors? Very possible, afterall the Arabs did transversed the Sahara and contacted the Sub-Saharan africans, so its very possible that some sub-saharan found their way (or were take) north. But native Berbers were definitely not Black.
kareem hashimi . But their skin will get darker after converting as god blackens them so that we see the pure from the moslam. This has been proven to happen by an independent study by a priest but so called scientists won’t listen
The Vikings are heroes in films only. The Muslims have defeated them 3 times, and the Persians and the Romans are the largest empires in history. They have fought 700 years without a victor or a loser. The Muslims defeated them in two years.
I’m Algerian, living in the Capital Algiers, my department name is Murad Rais, it’s the name of a Dutch convert to islam who became later a captain in the local navy.
@@dragenmaster5385 Algeria is mix of both Arabians and Berbers many Arabian tribes live in Algeria by millions such as Sha'abinah , Bani Sulaim , Awlad Nael , Bani Hilal, Bani Jashm , Bani Thor , Quraish , Azd tribes and Kindah tribes
The Norwegian crusade was the very first with a European king who went on crusade. It has been completely forgotten but it was actually the 2 Crusade. The Crusade 1147-1149 is actually the 3 Crusade. Vikings from Norway not the weak Danes. www.revolvy.com/page/Norwegian-Crusade
Based on the assumptions that nobody converts willingly to the religion of the ruling class given enough time and even through being convinced that it's the better religion given enough time ...
I like to believe its exactly because they are using XV century nomenclature to give more historical context. And not because they are forgetting about Portugal. Like when people say the fall of Constantinople instead of fall of Istanbul. 13 colonies instead of U.S.A, Or Dutch East Indies instead of Dutch Indonesia. Spain used to mean Iberia and the Portuguese used to be called Spaniards, that is untill Castille-Aragon decided to call their kingdom Spain and then Portugal had find a new word to call themselves because Spain was now a different country instead of just the peninsula.
@@FaithfulOfBrigantia Ok, but have a Brit say "Gibraltar iis in Spain" publicly. I guess the nomenclature will change drastically in that event. No self respecting historian uses Spain instead of Iberian Peninsula, much the same way an anthrpologist uses mongoloid to refer to Asian ethnicity, or negroid for ethnicities in non-Bantu west Africa. It's an academic archaism, which only reflects badly on the ones who use it.
I am very excited for your upcoming videos on the Rus'. There are lots of good sources for usage, such as the monumental compilation of almost all versions of the Primary Chronicle by Donald G. Ostrowski of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, or *_The Origin of Rus'_ by Omeljan Pritsak*, one of the best monographs written on the Rus' in my opinion. Of course, if you ever need any help translating something from Ukrainian or Russian or Belarusian, you know you have us to contact for help, and probably a bunch of resources are present in Cambridge (I know there is a Ukrainian Studies centre at Cambridge, they could get you a whole ton of sources if you are looking for them). But regardless, I do hope that whatever you end up doing, you don't end up falling into the trap of equating the Rus' with modern Russia. I also would love to see you use the Varangian names for these cities - Holmgård instead of modern Russian Novgorod, etc. I feel that today there isn't enough attention paid to the Varangian language and mother tongue of the Rus' Varangians :)
Don't forget that the Normans conquered Arab Sicily in the 1000s. I don't know if most historians count the Normans as classical Viking or more French by that point in time.
Ragnall is the Anglo-Saxon interpretation of Ragnar, as most of the Christian monasteries in Ireland were established by Anglo-Saxons. In fact modern English preserves it as Reginald, Randall, and Ronald. It’s funny because my foster brother’s name is Ronald, he has a half-brother named Randall.
James A. Franklin Ugh dude, Ireland was Christian way before the Anglo saxons. You got it the wrong way around, many English monasteries were established by Irish people.
@@Velnias8 I'm actually an alien wearing burqa in Sweden, no one know since if someone told me to wear off my burqa, he will be beaten up and be labelled as racist, sexist and xenophobic.
Just a small correction. The account of Viking funerals giving by Ibn Fadlan describes the boat carrying the chieftain as being set on a pyre or scaffold on the shore, they didn't push the burning boat out into the water. Good video otherwise.
Abasi caliphate quickly broke up in smaller kingdoms and first part to get away was Iran or Persia which established the Abbasids, to begin with. In Caspian sea, because they were Muslims it doesn't mean they were necessarily Arabs but rather Persians. Actually, a study By a Swedish university shows that Vikings came down the Volga into Capsian sea then Iran and in Iran, they purchased steel which they produced with high quality. This steel was taken back to Scandinavia for the famous Viking sword which had much higher quality compared to other European swords of the time. Iranian Merchants regularly traveled north and engaged in trade with the Vikings, including purchasing slaves.
kutbleat dude they didn’t found Australia they found the Island state of Australia called Tasmania or its original name Van Diemen land and New Zealand and Fiji.and Australia was know about before the Dutch the Romans thought there was something there and ancient China as well
kutbleat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Diemen%27s_L yeah I couldn’t translate it so this is the best thing it’s the closest thing in English with a bit more I think
Why are you so butt hurt lol 😂 Muslims and mosques would have seemed very strange to them as they had no material wealth in them whereas previously for them, the go to place to get treasure was a church. And Muslims didn't have silly images of God in their place of worship and crosses and other rubbish which was pretty easy to mess with for invading pagans lol
@@pierzing.glint1sh76 nope, english monasteries were as ornate and full of gold as andalusian mosques in the high middle ages. And history show that the vikings had no problem to plunder other pagans, muslims and christians alike. It's just incongruent and pandering to muslims. Just broke the characters.
@earaza Meh, It breaks character consistency. If just Flóki became awestruck but every single viking? It's just pandering lazy writing. Like an chinese woman in scandinavia who also knows herbal medicine with plants she never once saw just so the protagonist could become an drug addict, the never-aging female cast, the openly lesbian relationship that came out of nowhere. Everything in the show is lazy and pandering to the SJW-esque crowd, looks like some corporate souless bullshit.
Muslim in Spain is Descendants of converted Visigoth and Hispano-Roman, North African ( not black ) and Syrian ( Syrians are levantine arabs who are mixed with romans back days and have bright Skin )
It's actually the spanish that asked for help from the Muslims to defeat the viking barbarians, and in few years tariq ibn ziyad defeated the vikings till toledo, and it was the time where andalousia reached greatness, there was freedom of religion and the flourishing of education and science. before the Muslims the spanish were enslaved. and btw tariq ibn ziyad was a white person, yellow hair, and blue eyes, not brown or black, but the berbers that conquered andalousia there was people from diffrent colors. its just so funny how Europeans use their imagination and draw every muslim person who ever lived as a brown angry person even muslims from the ottomans but luckily the ottomans started painting their characters after they knew this. Andalousia has many amazing Islamic sites, ive seen the first public garden that was constructed there in the world, the architecture, its just amazing. and ive seen the modern made statuses for great islamic rulers of spain that were constructed by the spanish as a sign of respect of people that accomplished national unity.
Hilbert a posté deux vidéos dans une heure? Incroyable... C’est encore Noël évidement!!!! Dia dhuit hilbert! Ciarán is ainm dom! J’espère que vous allez bien et vos études sont pas trop dur!
Probably this has nothing to do with it, but the Tuaregs, a Berber group from the Sahara, are also called the blue men because of their turbans, which are also worn by other imazighen (Berbers) from the Zenata tribes. So it is possible that the slaves were Berbers and not blacks, although black people certainly existed in the Peninsula at the time, mostly as slaves, but some as freed men.
I do not know what people talk about in the comments, but the inhabitants of Andalusia were brown or white skinned Arabs, of course, there are people with black skin, but the majority are Arabs. This is something known, but I think because they do not study the civilizations of the other nations you have or transmit wrong information for one reason or another. As for the Vikings series, they report incorrect historical events. The Vikings had their end as an army and as invaders in Andalusia at the hands of the leader of the Muslim army, Issa bin Shahid Al Hajeb, after Prince Abdul Rahman Al-Awsat ordered him to fight them.
I'm British and I have taken to using British and Irish Islands for the whole of this archipelago. It's insulting to many Irish people so it's only polite. I still feel its not and adequate name but it's the best we've got at the moment.
@@logeye888 Ireland isn't British, it's Hibernian, so to call it that implies some kind of ownership. Whatever one's feelings about the rights and wrongs of our shared history we have to start with find acceptable language to all of us.
Two questions: 1) The Irish & Frank's mentioned that joined the raid to Iberia & N. Africa, were they ethnically Irish & Frankish, or Scandinavians that settled in those areas? 2) Does anyone know of genetic markers of Mauritians (sp?) in modern Irish or Scandinavians?
There is no difference in this context about "the western side" of Norway and Norway in general. There was just as many people from the inland that was raiding as it was people from the coast, even if most of the towns was build along the cost. The same goes for Sweden. It was the culture, not the geography that decided this.. And the culture in land was exact the same as on the coast. For the same reason, all that lived inland had it as a duty to come to any coastal city that was under attack to help to defend it. The Viking name for Africans (North Africa) was "bluemen" We are not 100% sure why, but it is known that Africans in that part of Africa often used blue paint on their clothes and that also coloured their skin blue after some time.. So it was most probably not because the dark skin, but because they actually was blue.. ;)
Have a look at the tribe of Dan and the Phoenicians that go way back, I know history has different opinions but I have always believed the tribe of Dan became the Danes just my opinion.
Another fun fact. A few years ago, a viking ring was found with 'ya Ali' (or 'Ali') written on it in Arabic, who is a very important religious figure in Islam, especially among shias.
Ali is an important figure to us all for that he is one of the most important companions of the Prophet + he was his cousin and from his lineage we have "Ahl Al-Bayt" (people of the household of the Prophet) whom still alive today like Sherif of Makkah (who is from Qatadah family of Bani Hashem clan of Quraysh tribe) most of Ali's descendants are Sunni .. NOT Shia and actually most of them still live in their homeland, the Arabian Peninsula (see picture) > pbs.twimg.com/media/D8mEPyVXYAA5W0D.jpg
Great Video! But small comment on the ad : I have no problem with ads, but it this one didn't feel great. Sound quality went down on it and the placement felt odd. It really didn't feel smooth, and I feel it could have been better.
Vikings: Odin with us
Abderahman II: hold my zamzam
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
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omg i laughed sooo hard
Bhwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha, I nearly wet myself.
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Fun fact : the Vikings who remained in al andalus ( emirate of Cordoba) were making cheese later
They became muslim..
I find it hard to believe that the moors where actually "black", they may have been darker than Europeans...I'm pretty sure black in medieval terms is noot the same as black in modern term...after all, they were mostly north African from the Maghrebs, not Subsaharan Africans.
Gad Yariv true in the Netherlands the Spanish have been referred to as black/dark because the dutch were much lighter than the Spanish i can imagine it was the same for the vikings and north africans.
Ambrose Burnside there are thousands of tribes in Africa..very ignorant to say they all came from.the same
@@aaliyahkassim9142 It's not a racist issue against black people.
I live in the middle east, Arabs and North-Africans aren't 'black' now, why would they have been back in the days of the moors? that maks no sense.
@@aaliyahkassim9142 well we have literally 0 evidence that would even remotely suggest that north africans were actually subsaharan dark skinned blacks
@@aaliyahkassim9142 what I
think
Ambrose Burnside
is alluding to, is that the modern western definition of 'blackness' and 'whiteness' come from slavery in America, and the moors are of different ethnicity then of the black Americans today.
The Viking-Muslim interaction in the Viking series was extremely inaccurate. The Vikings only managed to reach the outskirts of Seville and were able to attack or burn down coastal towns. The news spread to Scandinavia, and one of the largest Viking fleets was amassed. Vikings landed in Western Spain but were defeated. The Viking fleet tried to cross the straits but was burned down by the Andalusian fleet.
That is what they did, Viking are raiders, they did that everywhere in europe, only in england they stayed and made a government, in other places they just raided and took slaves with them. I don't think they like the temperate climate of Spain to stay there longer, they like cold weather that is why they choose england and northern france xD lol
@@wewenang5167 there were many of them stayed in Spain, reverted to islam. They also became infamous cheese makers.
Yes. And we are also rather hairy on our backs and chests (women too) so we prefer kolder clima.
There was a story about the viking raid of sevilla. Some vikings got captured, converted and became cheesemakers.
lol true
i was waiting for him to mention that
That’s very, european job
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They got butchered and their longboats were burned
@@XiangnuKhaan What you expect your attackers to be given roses and kisses?
Lovely stuff mate. I’ve been reading a lot about Vikings in Iberia recently.. It makes so much sense as Andalusia was incredibly rich. The effective resistance of the local rulers also explains why only relatively few expeditions went back there in comparison to the rest of Western Europe.
Actually they also raided North Africa and iran successfully. Western Europea was closer and brothers. Way more successful in muslim occupied Spain.
Lol is it weird that i'm muslim and decendant of norwegian . Most people did tho . Most mock me for not being christian . I replied "since when scandinavia viking is christian nation" . Most answer through conversion . Then is it wrong for me to be a muslim then .
Nathan Remix were there not pagans before christianity came to Europe? The world is always changing, you don’t always need to follow trends (it can be bad or good)- U do u 🙌🏼 stay strong !
@iVirtualPlays Can't ask the guys who built it though XD. They didn't leave anything about their culture behind.
Interesting. How many of Norwegian Muslims with norwegian blood there? Do you lots tend to marry fellow muslim Norwegian-blood or with muslims with african, arabs or south asian background?
@@blooduhz nah convert . Many of my family become non religious for some reason . I'm muslim my nephew is atheist . As you see religion ain't that kind of deal .
@@nathanremix5800 I heard that this is the case with Nordic countries and the Czech republic
When they said north Africans where black they ment that they had dark hair and dark eyes just like southern Europeans in the UK they call people black that have dark hair or dark eyes or both together
A-A- RON
English people use to call fellow English people who had dark hair/eyes as ‘black’ like Thomas Fairfax who was called ‘Black Tom’ for having dark hair and eyes.
Thnxx
I guess the vast majority wasn't black skinned (but surely darker) and probably had either black or brown (darker and lighter) hair. Just 30 years ago in the balkans everybody would assume that you were talking about a black haired person if you would say "He/She is black".
Today it might not been that clear any more.
Sub-Saharan slave trade, North Africans and Arabs brought black slaves to Iberia
Of course a Viking hero teller would exaggerate about their successes. We do however have a proven account that 9 Andalusian Lancers routed a Viking raiding party of 20 ships.
Dingo Egret when the arabs arrived by sea to support tariq bin ziyad the amazigh general who conquered lberia they destroyed 49 viking ships
@@HSQtr the amazigh were particularly brutal. there's a reason carthage used them as heavy infantry and the romans completely avoided them. the moors were lucky that the "berbers" converted to Islam and became allies. poor viking bastards
Dingo Egret thats why the arabian ummayads used them to initiate the first attack on lberia then they send musa bin nuseyr with an army of hilali arabs to support the berbers and tariq bin ziyad
Dingo Egret it was 30 Vikings ships and they killed 1000 Vikings that day
@@HSQtr Bani Hilal move to Maghrib much later
most of those who fought with Musa bin Nusair were mixture of many Arabian tribes
and Musa's Arabian forces are the ones who conquered north of Iberian Peninsula .. and pushed forward to modern day France with no success and stopped because of a Berber revolt in Maghrib region
Thank you for pronouncing "Muslim" correctly.
Skinner funny I didn't hear him say sand devil even once in the video
@@Dark123hound Very funny! Didn't your parents teach you any manners?
Dark Hound lmfao you wldnt be chatting shit irl wld you
@@Dark123hound So, let me get this straight, because you dont like Islam, you called muslims a racial slur. Right, totally not an excuse to get racist. Why don't you tell us a bit about how wonderful Christianity is?
Dark Hound to be fair it’s the same with christianity
I find it very hard to believe that the moors where what we today consider "black".
Only African american afrocentrists thinks that
Best general: Africanus
Why?
Same thing with Aryans. They were comparatively fairer to dark skinned Dravidians.
The Dravidians called them white. Modern Europeans claim to be them now.
They aren't now, they weren't then.
Hey Hilbert! I speak Russian, read Ukrainian and Belarus if you want me to translate sources for I can! I've been studying the Rus for a long time.
@Ron Lewenberg My Slavonic is okay.
@Ron Lewenberg Yeah, Old Church Slavonic is practically identical to Russian.
Aaaa, but do you read Old Church Slavonic?
Algericas in Andalusian Arabic = Al-Jazeera
Sevilla = Ish-billya
Both had badass armies, liked gold, and had baller boats. They definitely did business, had a lot they could talk about.
And they were the cleanest people around
@IBrainedMyDamage lol you got me
They both killed a lot of Christians and sold slaves as well.
Admiral Mudkip slaves were the lost live people in the battles, they had every right to enslave them all white and black and brown, unlike western slavery which was based on skin color..
@@nantzstein3311 cleanest? When the Muslim scholar saw the Vikings wash themselves with blood, he called them nasty and dirty people lol. Unlike The Muslims who wash themselves 5 times a day before prayer.
I may be wrong, but I read it on good authority that the ‘blue men’ related to their clothing as the Berber and North African tribes were known to wear blue clothing.( As indeed the Tuareg still do). The Irish for black or dark is Dubh. As the name Douglas translates as dark foreigner for a Danish Viking and Fingal for a Norwegian Viking, as the Danes were darker haired on average.
Correction Dougal
Black is dubh but not when referring to skin colour. Even today in blue you refer to dark skinned people as blue as Gilbert states
I can confirm. Dubh gall (black foreigner) = Dane. Fionn gall (White/Light/Fair foreigner) ) Norwegian. There doesn't seem to be any precedence for using gorm for black, dubh seems to be the norm. Also in more recent times, Phil Lynot was called "An Roisín Dubh" (the Black Rose), not an roisín gorm.
As for Blá meaning black, there is historical and linguistic precedence for this, though as mentioned, the blue clothing of the berbers is a more likely explanation (especially as the indigenous North Africans aren't really 'black').
@@daithimcbuan5235 actually gorm is the accurate term. I speak Irish fluently. Another reason why us Irish say blue instead of black is because "an fear dubh" is another way to say Satan as Gaeilge. So we say gorm instead. But also we say gorm because of influence from the Vikings.
@@darthvader5830 Interesting. Thanks for the info! Being from Sligo and not from the Gaeltacht, I must admit my grasp of the Irish language and its history is not what it could be.
It is said (by they themselves), that the Norse preferred fighting against Arabs/Saracens/Moors/Blåmenn/whateveryouwanttocallthem than Englishmen (Anglo-Saxons). The reason for this was that one Norseman was only worth 3 Arabs in battle, while one Norseman was worth a whole 10 Englishmen. So they preferred fighting Arabs, as they proved more of a challenge... fighting the English was 'too easy'.
I can't remember the source, some book or another, I'll try and find it later.
(in the Sagas, the Norwegians also referred to the Danes as 'Soft Danes'... who had no bravery in them, and the Swedes as 'Weak Swedes'... who were better suited to making animal sacrifices than battle)
*edit* try not to get triggered peeps, that was just their personal opinion about themselves.
i would like to get a source, please. sounds interesting.
Ironically it was the Englishmen who became the rulers of the world while the Norse became more and more irrelevant in the global stage
@Jarl William I think you need to take a chill pill. I even included a caveat in order for people to not get triggered. Still, it seems you have been triggered. The Norse said that the Irish made good slaves... I'm Irish... I'm not triggered... I don't take it personally.
a) This has NOTHING to do with the TV program called 'Vikings'. It is from the Norse sagas.
b) It is the Norsemen, i.e. Norwegians, I am referring to here, not the Danes. The Danes were described as 'soft' and lacking courage.
c) This was the Norsemen's opinion of themselves, as found in the sagas. Opinion, not fact. The Germans had a similar opinion of themselves in the '30s and '40s... but that didn't pan out too well for them in the end. Opinion ≠ Fact.
From the Saga of Olaf Trygvasson: Olaf, upon spying 3 intervening fleets on his way home from a raid in Wendland (Christianisation didn't stop the raids), asked whose was the fleet directly opposite. When he was told it belonged to King Svein Forkbeard of Denmark (one could tell from the banners), he scoffed and stated "We are not afraid of these soft Danes, for there is no bravery in them". When he asked whose was the fleet on the right, and was told it belonged to King Olof of Sweden, he laughed and stated "Better it were for these Swedes to be sitting at home killing their sacrifices (a reference to heathenism), than to be venturing under our weapons from the Long Serpent" (the Long Serpent, Olaf Trygvasson's ship was stolen by Olaf from Raud the Strong, a heathen chieftain in Hålogaland who refused to convert to christianity, and was killed by having a poisonous snake shoved down his throat). Olaf asked to whom the fleet on the left belonged, and upon being told that it belonged to Earl Eirik Håkonsson of Lade (Trøndelag) declaimed "He, methinks has a good reason for meeting us; and we may expect the sharpest conflict from these men, for they are Norsemen like ourselves". Olaf didn't seem to think much of the Danes and Swedes, and was only worried about the fellow Norsemen who were fighting against him. Olaf lost the battle (primarily due to the Norsemen, not the Soft Danes or Weak Swedes), and threw himself into the sea in full chainmail, so as not to be captured.
The Norse sagas, not just the Icelandic ones, but also Heimskringla, the sagas of the Kings of Norway, are well worth a read.
@Jarl William I read it in a book somewhere. But in common with the "soft Danes" thing, it was just a statement of personal opinion. I'd imagine the Arabs were more technologically advanced than the Norse, though the Norse and Varangian Guard under Harald Hardråde (the guy from the Battle of Stamford Bridge) did pretty well against the Turks in Anatolia. And the English were also in many ways more technically advanced than the Norse, though the Norse had better ship technology (and as you point out, the Danes advanced their military technology, such as the use of Trelleborg forts for mustering armies, as well as the re-designing of the military structure and heirarchy). Most of my books are at home in Ireland and I'm currently living in Norway, but I can see if I can find the relevant source for the 1 Norseman = 10 English and update this comment at a later date.
As for my use of Norsemen to specifically mean Norwegian, I did this because that's how it generally was during the Viking age. Norse = Norwegian, Dane = Dane and Swede/Ross/Rus = Swede (the Finns called the Swedes "Rotsi" meaning 'people who row'). Of course both "Dane" and "Norse" could at times be used interchangeably to mean any person from Scandinavia, but in general, Norse meant specifically Norwegian.
@Jarl William Well, there's only so much available in the English language, sadly. I learned SO much more after I first moved to Norway and got my hands on books in Norwegian. (the same can be said of availability of material in Icelandic, Danish and Swedish of course... much greater than in English)
I wouldn't personally count the Saxons as Norse, as the term Norse only came about later on. Yes, the Germanic peoples, including Angles, Saxons, Danes, Jutes & Frisians came from Scandinavia, but the term Norse was never used of this group. Germanic fits much better imo. We did later have the split between West-Germanic, North-Germanic and East-Germanic after all. I'd count the Anglo-Frisian-Saxons as West-Germanic. Though the people of the East coast of England I'd count as Anglo-Danish, not Anglo-Saxon. Particularly from Norfolk to Hull. Yorkshiremen seem to be the most Anglo-Saxon of the English. Of course geneticists can't tell Anglo-Saxons and Danes apart, but they can tell Norwegians from Danes & Anglo-Saxons, so that is somewhat telling.
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@@gamingforaday5446 The Muslims crushed them... They came to spain when it was for the muslims with 50 ships and the muslims reduced that to just 15 ships ....... And after few months they came back to apologize...
@@ddlr5867 muslims is a religion anyone can convert to.. but who founded muslim? Who founded the semitic religions Arab and Israelites! Who is the Arab /Israelites? Phoenicians / Semitic races.. sons of Assure, Aram, Ziezi, Lud, Arphaxad - (Abrahams forfather), Elam. These are Sem's sons! Long after Arphaxad, came Moses (no man was like Moses at his time) ! If we put the semitic races against the vikings alone.. the semitic races will annihilate the vikings! Semitic races are not just asians... but their blood / DNA give them devine speed and strength! We are the crown of human races. All our life we showed the world how mighty we are.. but the world ignore us! Thats why corruption is importent for the white boys today
@@BenSamara we are not mighty because of our DNA its because we were the only people who kept gods commandments and worked with it for that we stopped fearing death and wanted to meet god not because of our DNA
Those days we hammered those who mocks us, but now....
*TOO MUCH KEYBOARD WARRIORS*
Fahad Naushad I salute u
@Sono2 20 years with terror??? USA have destroyed All middel east in 20 years and killed more than 2 million innocent people, only to control the oil, not for hunting terrorist.
So The western World are legal democratic terrorist gang. All wars against terrorist are fake, the want to control the oil. Dont wach cnn. They brainwash you.
@@humleridder7376 You over exagered, nothing you say is true, first of all USA didn't bomb all middle east and they didn't kill 2 million peoples… and USA is the bigger producer of oil… but your religion terrorise Europe and a lot of other countries and even in the middle east it is a constant war because of the differents islamic beliefs.
@@robindesblings7419 is estimated that 1.5
Millions people died in iraq war
If we didn’t count post American iraq tho??
@Logan we do that still and we are proud on it
When the vikings reached modern day Spain they raided the city and it was a surprise attack and left with treasure then they went back and the military was ready since they surprised them the last time and it ended up really bad for the vikings which made them flee
i don't think that the Muslims in Andalusia were actually black cuz alot of sources said that the natives also converted to islam, black probably meant something different in these old languages than the modern term "black"
killr1234567 right but those Arabs who invaded North Africa enslaved blacks and brought some to Spain as slaves.
@@antiantifa886 not really cuz wars didn't happen between the two sides and most just converted (like tariq ibn ziyad who was a berber, he lead the caliphate army into Iberia) except a very few nomadic tribes who lived in isolated areas
@@antiantifa886 your sources ? if you're talking about slavery then no that didn't except long time after Muslims entered Andalusia
@@antiantifa886 and they were just a bunch of desert bandits
killr1234567 berbers are there own not arab or black.
‘Played these games with dedication most youngsters wouldn’t understand…’. Well 2500 hours in eu4 and 700 in ck2 says otherwise
@@sebastianplaum4667 lmao
8:58 - the Rus definitely did go themselves to Bagdad, they had no need for middle-men.
Many accounts state Scandinavian and Slavic merchants of the Rus as sailing through the Caspian Sea, and then continuing on land to Bagdad.
(insert joke about immigrants in Sweden here)
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@@yasminemeziani8173 bue jiza
Meme
are you a Jew?
I disagree with your characterisation of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphate, the biggest difference is the transformation of a largely ethno-religiously dominated empire where Arab Muslims occupied all the important positions and made up the army into one where converts were accepted and could rise to any position. The shift in centre of gravity from the Mediterranean littoral to Baghdad and continental Asia is also important.
On colours in Old Norse check out Jackson Crawford's channel, he frequently remarks on them in source material, unsurprising as he did his PhD thesis on the subject.
@@Yassinekamp
I still can't believe Banu ummaya is the same tribe that Uthman (r.a) the 3rd rightly guided caliph is from
@Asier Linazasoro To be fair though, the Caliphate in Iberia was vastly different from the Caliphate from the Middle East because it was run by fugitives and cut off from the Middle East in the beginning and there obviously was no real major Arab populations thus forcing the ruling class to become more tolerant of Non-Arab Muslims. The royalty eventually became more Arab elitists after they shipped over massive populations of Arab Muslims from Syria but not as much as originally because the greatest source of manpower for the wars against Northern Christian Kingdoms were the Berbers and Muladies which only ruined the stability of the Caliphate eventually leading to it's demise in the 900s.
@@Yassinekamp
Umayyad focused on Art and Science in Andalusia, Dimascus and Jerusalem. Abbasid didnt focus on art at all and the foundation of science was already established by the Umayyads before the arrive of the Abbasites.
İ saw that most beatiful art on earth was at the time of Ummayid syria(just my personel opinion)
الي عربي او مسلم لايك
مااعرف شيگول بلفيديو. 😤
@@سجادالعماري-ز6ر تعلم انجليزي
لست هذا او ذاك. اللغة لكل شخص يرغب في تعلمها
@@fredrik3110
انا لست عربيا ايضا . اصلي من تركمان العراق يعني لغتي تركيه ولكنني تعلمت عربي وعشقتها
هلو عرب
I saw a documentary once called "The Longships " and the vikings and muslims became friends and went on a treasure hunt.
It would be interesting to see if there is a noticeable maghreb/sub Saharan component in the DNA of people in Ireland.
Great video!
peace
-from a muslim
Salman The Nub sounds like you’re a muslim.
Anti Antifa i am
Salman The Nub yup.
An oxymoron
Comments are being deleted by people scared of muslims.
William of Orange connected them through the power of epic ness and badass patriotism of the Netherlands!
King Billy was a murdering bastard.
viva hollandia
There's a famous painting now that everybody knows, it stands upon a gable wall over Sandyrow. In memory of King William and brethren who did join, they fought for our deliverance, at the battle of the Boyne.
Triggered taigs.
@@bandit8481 🤢
LOL People I wasn’t necessarily being serious it was just a fun little reference to Hilbert’s Dutch gags in his videos.
The bird on the thumbnail is from a flag called the hravnsmerki. It's supposed to represent Odinn, his crows/ravens (not necessarily huginn & muninn), and death to one's enemies on the battlefield because corvids are carrion birds. The flag is told to promise victory, but defeat would surely come to whoever takes down the banner. The raven was only used in wartime. During peacetime the banner was plain white. That's what I've gathered from reading about the symbol so far anyways. I might be a bit off though. It'd be cool to learn more about it :)
Those 'Mauretanians' called 'black men' were Berbers or Maghrebi Arabs, and they were called 'black' due to their dark colour of the hair and eyes. The term still remains in use in Ireland, where Irish people with black hair (like Colin Farrel) are called Black Irish, although mostly by outsiders.
Sir Galahad That’s an American thing
@@PhilHoy97 I first heard the term few years ago when a tourist who was visiting Belfast told my girlfriend that she is Black Irish. Obviously, I was confused since there are no Irish people that are also black (i.e. of Sub-Saharian descent), and she is rosy all over, except her jet black hair.
Contrary to popular belief, most Irish people aren't redheads, but dark blonde or light browned.
Sir Galahad I’m Irish, half an hour from Belfast. Well there are black Irish people, Irish people of African decent I.e. parents were from Africa but they were born and raised here.
@@PhilHoy97 That doesn't make them anymore Irish that it would make me Korean if I were born in Korea, or Sudanese if I were born in Sudan.
The line of reasoning pertaining to the identity resulting from birthplace is faulty to say the least. By the same logic if you were born on International Waters you would either be stateless or Aquaman.
Sir Galahad there’s a difference between ethnicity and nationality. Many people in Ireland are descended from Vikings, Normans and even the English from 800 years ago. Are they not Irish? 10,000 years ago all Europeans were black. Our skin adapted to be lighter to better absorb vitamin D through the clouds. A black person born and raised in Ireland is more Irish than an “Irish American” will ever be. How can someone born on the island of Ireland, with an Irish accent and Irish culture not be Irish? If you were born and raised in Korea, with a Korean citizenship you would be Korean. You won’t be ethnically Korean, but still Korean nonetheless.
VIKINGS: we are fearless Warriors
Muslims: Hold My ZamZam
Did you know that the almoravids king of north africa had viking guards.
Leo luster was right
kiss my ass Afrocentric racist
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ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ Amazigh
wow you are in Europe..
The Moors were mostly Arabs with a handful of Berbers and Bantus in there regiments and units
It's quite the opposite, they were mostly Amazigh/berber (northern africans) but when they first invaded the iberians , it was Under the Omeyyad (Arab) banner. Arabs were a minority even in the Army (a small percentage) but because of the rulers, a lot of chiefs later/princes were Arab (a minority ruling the overwhelming majority).
Bantus and others were basically slaves at that time...
Ssookawai but aren’t the noble family “Al-Ansari” who ruled al-Qurdoba, Spain are Arabs? How can Arabs have no role in Spain?
@@sarahalotaibi1230 Qortoba was only a city, we had later many dynasties in Andalus.
So yes, the rulers were All Arabs (omeyyads first) but the soldiers who did the real job +their chief weren't, they were Amazigh.
Later, the last regions in the south were saved by an Amazigh dynasty, Arabs were long gone.
moors were mostly berbers, the elite and ruling class were arabs at that time though
I was expecting the comments to be about Sweden hurrddurr muslims but instead it’s rather nice! What a nice community you’ve made here!
Muddy Skies better than the shithole america
@Muddy Skies This is so sad, can we nuke Sw*den?
@Muddy Skies like you even have the call LMFAO!
A nice community indeed
Interesting to have two so different cultures meet each other
Pretty impressive to think that the vikings settled in almost every part of the world in these ages. Excluding Oceania and most of Asia, of course.
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M A A T
@easy deism makker, kokosnoten zijn geen specerijen
P E P E R N O T E N
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M E R D E K A, F U C K M Y B A M B O E R O E N T J I N G
This is a quite biased interpretation of the interactions that went about between Muslims and Vikings, as there have been numerous occasions where the Moors utterly destroyed entire fleets of Vikings, but it is still a decent enough video to watch.
Just want to point out the fact that BLUE is a traditional color in the northwestern part of Africa.
I don't think the vikings neccesarily referred to skin color when it comes to the naming of these foreigners.
It's quite possible they gained the name due to their garment and trade of such material,- and the dye color of blue.
Vikings also came in contact with Persians (and also Turkmens) after sailing the Volga river down to the Caspian Shores!
Had Turkmen arrived in the Middle East at that time?
@@JOE-bm9oq I believe he means people of Turkmenistan.
Andaluz, the land of the Vandals. I have been to Algeciras y Gibraltar 🇬🇮
Good work ☆☆☆
You did a really great job at trying to speak Irish there. I'm impressed, but you don't need that accent. Irish is wayyyyyyyy easier go pronounce than you think. "Fir" is said like "Fear/furr" you nailed the séimhiú in for me however. Nice job and thanks for trying our language. Much respect x
The thing about Vikings is their ability of surprise attacks, their battle win rate is really high when they surprise or ambush enemies. That's why they won in Andalousia in the Vikings series for example, but in history, when they came back this time for Moroccan territory, they were smashed by the Berbers because there wasn't any surprise.
But thankfully, after the battle they kept trading together and developped bonds, that's why some Moroccans are sons and daughters of Vikings. Along with many other nations
Morocco ??? Lol .. you mean north Africa .. not the little Morocco . Stop dreaming
Firstly, the Muslims were not so weak. Rather, they were very strong. You can search in the books that the Muslims had taken over half of the planet. Secondly, the Vikings are true that they killed people in this city, but he had heard of this the king of the Muslims. He has brought down 40 ships out of 60 ships and their altar has come to such an extent that the Vikings signed a truce with Muslims that they would never come to this region .. I hope the writer does not mock the courage of Muslims, I am sorry if there are mistakes, I use a translator
Hey I really dig your videos but you pop the mic a lot. Want any help with that? I know a real easy audio effect you could apply to fix that up quite a bit.
Pray do tell
@@siegfriedeisenkraut5285 Applying an FFT Filter that cuts everything below 50hz to your voiceover file will remove any of that unnatural pop and rumble that comes with popping a mic, without messing with your vice since the human voice doesn't have tones that go to 50hz and below.
It obviously won't sound as good as just not popping the mic in the first place, but it will greatly reduce how bad a pop sounds.
Moors were Arabs and North Africans who looked like Arabs and spoke Arabic and also some.very dark skinned semites from places like mauretania and black soldiers fighting for the caliphate. Sad truth is that black Muslims were mostly employed as soldiers only and did not consist a big part of Moorish society and population itself.
Arabs are Not dark skin
since my paternal grandfather is an islander Swede--I know they went through the Russian rivers to help establish such minor cities as Moscow and Kiev and made it to Constantiople and were popular as bodyguards to the emperor and were known as the Varangian guard
Mamluks ? Mamluks had mix folks..but majority were turkic khazars n slavs rtc.Vikings took slavs from there n traded them as slaves to muslims in al andalus..some settled in a special area in there who git converted to islam.
Omg the comments nearly destroyed my brain. How could people think so gibberish!!!!
i'm from north africa (algeria) and we also use the word blue (zerag) often to describe people with darker skin
i always wondered why
We Use 3AZZI In Morocco ,, Do You Think The Same I Think ??!
*FROM WIKIPEDIA*
The Viking raid on Išbīliya, then part of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba, took place in 844. After raiding the coasts of what are now Spain and Portugal, a Viking fleet arrived in Išbīliya (nowadays Seville) through the Guadalquivir on 25 September, and took the city on 1 or 3 October. The Vikings pillaged the city and the surrounding areas. Emir Abd ar-Rahman II of Córdoba mobilised and sent a large force against the Vikings under the command of the hajib (chief-minister) Isa ibn Shuhayd. After a series of indecisive engagements, the Muslim army defeated the Vikings on either 11 or 17 November. Seville was retaken, and the remnants of the Vikings fled Spain. After the raid, the Muslims raised new troops and built more ships and other military equipment to protect the coast. The quick military response in 844 and the subsequent defensive improvements discouraged further attacks by the Vikings.
in algeria we still describe the brown skin color as bleu so they meant brown not black just like normal Arab's skin color
HEY BROTHER
@@kaddouraymen3296 this meme is the stupidest thing ever but hey brother
We are not arabs god damn it we are amazighians berber the free men
@@thesonofandalusia3082 LMAO CALM DOWN
@@thesonofandalusia3082 you never know algeria became a mixter of races there are amazigh Arabs Turkish French Spanish and more and no one can define his race 100%
It should be noted that when you see ancient and medieval descriptions, we cannot take everything at face value, especially when describing people's skin by a colour, since even now we are not accurate with it (even the fairest Scandinavian isn't literally white, and the Darkest Congolese isn't literally black). So most likely, all those all descriptions actually mean "dark", not black, and "dark" is of course, relative.
A Turk could be considered "dark" by a Norwegian, but the same Turk would be considered "fair" for a Pakistani, in the same way, a Pakistani might be considered "fair" by a Congolese. Its all relative.
The average Moor was clearly darker than the average European, but were they "black" in the modern sense? I don't think so, there is far too little evidence to support that, and too much evidence against it.
The people of the Maghreb were consistently described and depicted as "Mediterranean" looking throughout history, both the romans and the greeks made a clear distinction between the "Libyans" and the "Maurians" (greek and latin word for North Africans) compared to the Ethiopians, which were much darker.
The argument of etymology which claims the word Moor comes from the greek word mahur (black) also falls apart because greeks called them Lybians, the word Moor comes from the Latin word Maurus, meaning from Mauretania, meaning "land of the western sun".
Medieval illustrations of the Reconquista portray the Moors ranging from as pale as the Christians, to brown, but never with a dark-brown colour of the Sub-Saharan people. And they were also not adressed as such.
The black portrayal of moors only begins In the 16th century onwards with the discovery age when Iberians started calling every muslim or hindu people they encountered as "moor" (moor=the enemy: reconquista mentality) and the rest of Europe started to portray every non-European as dark as possible to propagate this eurocentric idea of the Europeans being unique and very different from all the other "non-white" peoples.
The Spaniards and the Portuguese inquisitions had to conduct thorough investigations of many people's ancestors to determine if they were Moorish or not, this means that some moors could pass as native Iberians, this can only mean the Moors had a Mediterranean phenotype, if they were black they would stand out like a sore thumb even with several generations of mixing with whites.
I mean how could modern Maghrebi people go from black to white/brown in a few hundred years without massive migration and genocide? The average native Arabian actually looks darker than the average native Amazigh Berber.
Now were there Black people among the moors? Very possible, afterall the Arabs did transversed the Sahara and contacted the Sub-Saharan africans, so its very possible that some sub-saharan found their way (or were take) north. But native Berbers were definitely not Black.
By the Gods, I hope we don't draw in THAT RUclips crowd here with that title.
You guys know what I'm talking about
The tards are already here.
Tooooo late
@@farazbhat9832
Literally nobody is arguing that.
earaza WE WUZ VIKANGZ N SHIEET SNOWNIGGA POWER
kareem hashimi . But their skin will get darker after converting as god blackens them so that we see the pure from the moslam. This has been proven to happen by an independent study by a priest but so called scientists won’t listen
The slave girl at that funeral was raped. Repeatedly.
Why people think that the Vikings are awesome is completely mysterious to me
The Vikings are heroes in films only. The Muslims have defeated them 3 times, and the Persians and the Romans are the largest empires in history. They have fought 700 years without a victor or a loser. The Muslims defeated them in two years.
"British and Irish Isles!" YES! THANK YOU.
I'm curious as to where did the " Hannibal of the Highlands " Video went, as it was only up for perhaps 2 hours or so..?
They have no problem meeting them now
@Anonymous A880 understandable,have a great day...
they are forced to meet them
@Anonymous A880 how is that bad?
Chanovia are they tho
@@dontsubscribetome3262 yes
I’m Algerian, living in the Capital Algiers, my department name is Murad Rais, it’s the name of a Dutch convert to islam who became later a captain in the local navy.
also algeria is berber not arab
@@dragenmaster5385 Algeria is mix of both Arabians and Berbers
many Arabian tribes live in Algeria by millions such as Sha'abinah , Bani Sulaim , Awlad Nael , Bani Hilal, Bani Jashm , Bani Thor , Quraish , Azd tribes and Kindah tribes
The Norwegian crusade was the very first with a European king who went on crusade.
It has been completely forgotten but it was actually the 2 Crusade. The Crusade 1147-1149 is actually the 3 Crusade.
Vikings from Norway not the weak Danes. www.revolvy.com/page/Norwegian-Crusade
Ummayd were more peaceful than Abbasids. Majority of subjects during Ummayd rule remained non muslim.
Based on the assumptions that nobody converts willingly to the religion of the ruling class given enough time and even through being convinced that it's the better religion given enough time ...
Why do people still say "Spain" when they mean Iberian Peninsula. That is so XIX century.
I like to believe its exactly because they are using XV century nomenclature to give more historical context. And not because they are forgetting about Portugal.
Like when people say the fall of Constantinople instead of fall of Istanbul. 13 colonies instead of U.S.A, Or Dutch East Indies instead of Dutch Indonesia.
Spain used to mean Iberia and the Portuguese used to be called Spaniards, that is untill Castille-Aragon decided to call their kingdom Spain and then Portugal had find a new word to call themselves because Spain was now a different country instead of just the peninsula.
@@FaithfulOfBrigantia Ok, but have a Brit say "Gibraltar iis in Spain" publicly. I guess the nomenclature will change drastically in that event. No self respecting historian uses Spain instead of Iberian Peninsula, much the same way an anthrpologist uses mongoloid to refer to Asian ethnicity, or negroid for ethnicities in non-Bantu west Africa. It's an academic archaism, which only reflects badly on the ones who use it.
@@jorge6207
I agree.
I am very excited for your upcoming videos on the Rus'. There are lots of good sources for usage, such as the monumental compilation of almost all versions of the Primary Chronicle by Donald G. Ostrowski of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, or *_The Origin of Rus'_ by Omeljan Pritsak*, one of the best monographs written on the Rus' in my opinion. Of course, if you ever need any help translating something from Ukrainian or Russian or Belarusian, you know you have us to contact for help, and probably a bunch of resources are present in Cambridge (I know there is a Ukrainian Studies centre at Cambridge, they could get you a whole ton of sources if you are looking for them).
But regardless, I do hope that whatever you end up doing, you don't end up falling into the trap of equating the Rus' with modern Russia. I also would love to see you use the Varangian names for these cities - Holmgård instead of modern Russian Novgorod, etc. I feel that today there isn't enough attention paid to the Varangian language and mother tongue of the Rus' Varangians :)
Rus means rower in old norse.
Don't forget that the Normans conquered Arab Sicily in the 1000s.
I don't know if most historians count the Normans as classical Viking or more French by that point in time.
Ragnall is the Anglo-Saxon interpretation of Ragnar, as most of the Christian monasteries in Ireland were established by Anglo-Saxons. In fact modern English preserves it as Reginald, Randall, and Ronald. It’s funny because my foster brother’s name is Ronald, he has a half-brother named Randall.
James A. Franklin Ugh dude, Ireland was Christian way before the Anglo saxons. You got it the wrong way around, many English monasteries were established by Irish people.
Nope@@juxyoh4659
As a Dane, I still love that the UK has a town named "Grimsby". 🤣
Explain that
@@ktaishere4275 It means Uglys town. Grim = ugly. By = town.
In Hollywood Vikings wins. But in real life Muslims of course
Ger Many but not Muslims 😂
(insert Sweden's immigrants joke here)
@@Velnias8 I'm actually an alien wearing burqa in Sweden, no one know since if someone told me to wear off my burqa, he will be beaten up and be labelled as racist, sexist and xenophobic.
A Human Being stfu
Just a small correction. The account of Viking funerals giving by Ibn Fadlan describes the boat carrying the chieftain as being set on a pyre or scaffold on the shore, they didn't push the burning boat out into the water. Good video otherwise.
The comment section is actually people talking from various sources without inciting hatred,wonderful
*And the Dutch*
*Oh no, what have I done*
You sir, you are my hero
carolingians when?
The Frankish were too mysterious. You never see decent videos about them, especially about their early days...
@@mahakalabhairava9950 Well their history is quite well documented though
@@superduperfreakyDj It is about time, then...
@TheWastedViking I don't see much about origins and such.
The 13th warrior movie of course 🤔🤔
Very true. It was the Danes that went to Muslim lands... They traded silk.
Abasi caliphate quickly broke up in smaller kingdoms and first part to get away was Iran or Persia which established the Abbasids, to begin with. In Caspian sea, because they were Muslims it doesn't mean they were necessarily Arabs but rather Persians. Actually, a study By a Swedish university shows that Vikings came down the Volga into Capsian sea then Iran and in Iran, they purchased steel which they produced with high quality. This steel was taken back to Scandinavia for the famous Viking sword which had much higher quality compared to other European swords of the time. Iranian Merchants regularly traveled north and engaged in trade with the Vikings, including purchasing slaves.
the "peaceful" abbasids. Tell that to Abu Muslim, who killed over 100000 in the Abbasid rebellion.
All hail the Dutch,
Irish Engineering better one all hail the Norwegians they were actually good at what they do unlike the Dutch
No.
kutbleat dude they didn’t found Australia they found the Island state of Australia called Tasmania or its original name Van Diemen land and New Zealand and Fiji.and Australia was know about before the Dutch the Romans thought there was something there and ancient China as well
kutbleat yeah I know that because I Live there
kutbleat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Diemen%27s_L yeah I couldn’t translate it so this is the best thing it’s the closest thing in English with a bit more I think
Vikings is a ridiculous series where vikings openly mock christian symbols but are awestruck with a small mosque.
Why are you so butt hurt lol 😂 Muslims and mosques would have seemed very strange to them as they had no material wealth in them whereas previously for them, the go to place to get treasure was a church. And Muslims didn't have silly images of God in their place of worship and crosses and other rubbish which was pretty easy to mess with for invading pagans lol
erick meyer
wrong
@@pierzing.glint1sh76 nope, english monasteries were as ornate and full of gold as andalusian mosques in the high middle ages. And history show that the vikings had no problem to plunder other pagans, muslims and christians alike. It's just incongruent and pandering to muslims. Just broke the characters.
@earaza Meh, It breaks character consistency. If just Flóki became awestruck but every single viking? It's just pandering lazy writing. Like an chinese woman in scandinavia who also knows herbal medicine with plants she never once saw just so the protagonist could become an drug addict, the never-aging female cast, the openly lesbian relationship that came out of nowhere. Everything in the show is lazy and pandering to the SJW-esque crowd, looks like some corporate souless bullshit.
I agree, the pagans had more in common with the christians (even though they had little in common) than the muslims
Muslim in Spain is Descendants of converted Visigoth and Hispano-Roman, North African ( not black ) and Syrian ( Syrians are levantine arabs who are mixed with romans back days and have bright Skin )
Actually Muslims consider the Umayyads more peaceful than the Abbasids(Abbasys)
That scholar sent by the caliphate to the vikings, there is a movie about it, right? The 13th warrior?
Walpole, it was Walpole.
Sorry, wrong channel
Imagine a Muslim viking :
"Hi ! My name is Muhammad OLAF and my brother is Abdullah GORGON"
Ernest Jay which country brother..? I'm from India 🇮🇳
Wouldnt it be Olafson and Gorgonson?
Islam is a religion and not names. Not every Muslim should be named Arabic I am a Berber Muslim Amazigh and my name is not Arabic
It's actually the spanish that asked for help from the Muslims to defeat the viking barbarians, and in few years tariq ibn ziyad defeated the vikings till toledo, and it was the time where andalousia reached greatness, there was freedom of religion and the flourishing of education and science. before the Muslims the spanish were enslaved. and btw tariq ibn ziyad was a white person, yellow hair, and blue eyes, not brown or black, but the berbers that conquered andalousia there was people from diffrent colors. its just so funny how Europeans use their imagination and draw every muslim person who ever lived as a brown angry person even muslims from the ottomans but luckily the ottomans started painting their characters after they knew this.
Andalousia has many amazing Islamic sites, ive seen the first public garden that was constructed there in the world, the architecture, its just amazing. and ive seen the modern made statuses for great islamic rulers of spain that were constructed by the spanish as a sign of respect of people that accomplished national unity.
Hilbert a posté deux vidéos dans une heure? Incroyable... C’est encore Noël évidement!!!!
Dia dhuit hilbert! Ciarán is ainm dom! J’espère que vous allez bien et vos études sont pas trop dur!
Kieran Besancon yay
Watch the last kingdom it's way better than the Vikings series
"Blue People" you say?
_Aliens_ XD
Holy shit face reveal?
There was one, a couple of vids back.
He was live streaming at that moment..
And he told me he was black... And I fell for it. lol
@Micahistory. Fool me twice, shame on me...
Probably this has nothing to do with it, but the Tuaregs, a Berber group from the Sahara, are also called the blue men because of their turbans, which are also worn by other imazighen (Berbers) from the Zenata tribes. So it is possible that the slaves were Berbers and not blacks, although black people certainly existed in the Peninsula at the time, mostly as slaves, but some as freed men.
I do not know what people talk about in the comments, but the inhabitants of Andalusia were brown or white skinned Arabs, of course, there are people with black skin, but the majority are Arabs. This is something known, but I think because they do not study the civilizations of the other nations you have or transmit wrong information for one reason or another. As for the Vikings series, they report incorrect historical events. The Vikings had their end as an army and as invaders in Andalusia at the hands of the leader of the Muslim army, Issa bin Shahid Al Hajeb, after Prince Abdul Rahman Al-Awsat ordered him to fight them.
Ivar the boneless brought me here.
Thank you from saying British and Irish isles
Is that technically correct? I thought that whole area is collectively know as "the British isles"
@Edwin Cheesecake Lesser Britain is the province of Brittany in France.
I'm British and I have taken to using British and Irish Islands for the whole of this archipelago. It's insulting to many Irish people so it's only polite. I still feel its not and adequate name but it's the best we've got at the moment.
@@logeye888 Ireland isn't British, it's Hibernian, so to call it that implies some kind of ownership. Whatever one's feelings about the rights and wrongs of our shared history we have to start with find acceptable language to all of us.
Micahistory Keep screaming into the void. The Irish government doesn’t recognize the term.
you should do a video about the Heimosodat
DarthNicky back when Finland decided to fuck with Russia
Shame it didnt work out
Two questions:
1) The Irish & Frank's mentioned that joined the raid to Iberia & N. Africa, were they ethnically Irish & Frankish, or Scandinavians that settled in those areas?
2) Does anyone know of genetic markers of Mauritians (sp?) in modern Irish or Scandinavians?
There is no difference in this context about "the western side" of Norway and Norway in general.
There was just as many people from the inland that was raiding as it was people from the coast, even if most of the towns was build along the cost.
The same goes for Sweden.
It was the culture, not the geography that decided this..
And the culture in land was exact the same as on the coast.
For the same reason, all that lived inland had it as a duty to come to any coastal city that was under attack to help to defend it.
The Viking name for Africans (North Africa) was "bluemen"
We are not 100% sure why, but it is known that Africans in that part of Africa often used blue paint on their clothes and that also coloured their skin blue after some time..
So it was most probably not because the dark skin, but because they actually was blue.. ;)
Have a look at the tribe of Dan and the Phoenicians that go way back, I know history has different opinions but I have always believed the tribe of Dan became the Danes just my opinion.
Dont do drugs
@The Unknown Thanks the last time I was called a lad was 50 years ago.
Yay!! The Dutch anthem is back!!!
Can't wait to take back Andalusia Incha allah
Another fun fact. A few years ago, a viking ring was found with 'ya Ali' (or 'Ali') written on it in Arabic, who is a very important religious figure in Islam, especially among shias.
Ali is an important figure to us all for that he is one of the most important companions of the Prophet + he was his cousin
and from his lineage we have "Ahl Al-Bayt" (people of the household of the Prophet)
whom still alive today like Sherif of Makkah (who is from Qatadah family of Bani Hashem clan of Quraysh tribe)
most of Ali's descendants are Sunni .. NOT Shia and actually most of them still live in their homeland, the Arabian Peninsula (see picture)
> pbs.twimg.com/media/D8mEPyVXYAA5W0D.jpg
Great Video! But small comment on the ad : I have no problem with ads, but it this one didn't feel great. Sound quality went down on it and the placement felt odd. It really didn't feel smooth, and I feel it could have been better.