Yes, as a Swede I do love my brothers and sisters in the Nordic countries. Well...not Finland when it's hockey. And not Norway when it's skiing. And not Denmark when it's football. But other than that...❤
As a Dane, I will leave you with a really good, personal example of our Scandinavian sibling love. When Putin threatened Sweden, I got a little angry. I wasn't worried, I'd like to see him try. But I was angry. I swore right there that if he did attempt to invade Sweden, I'd personally go up there and help defend my brothers and sisters, why? Because if anyone's gonna invade Sweden, it's gonna be us
As an Englishman, I moved to Denmark in 1978 where I started a family. Sweet revenge!!! After years of being asked to say "rødgrød med fløde", I can also speak strangely now. 😀
Sweden went east, and people in the east called them the Rus aka the rowing people, in Finish and Estonia Sweden is still called Ruotsi. The Rus from Swden went down the Dnepr river in Ukraine and settled along it's shore and became the Kievan Rus that founded the city Kyev. Those people later founded Moscow and became Russia. It's one of the reasons why Putin is so hung up on Ukraine, the beginning of Russian history started in Kiev. A joke in Sweden is that Sweden is the founder of Russia because it has the name of the Swedes aka Rus.
You know, you are half correct but not quite. Vikings did found the kingdom of Novgorod but, by the time Russia was born, we are not dealing with vikings or the swedes anymore. Its like with the most vikings that went out there and settled. They integrated to local population. That means they discarded everything that made them... them. Traditions, language, religion etc. And it all happened very quickly (historically speaking). After few generations, there was nothing left of what made them vikings or swedes. By the time you get a nation that calls itself Russia, you are dealing with slavic people. Theres also cathegory's between them. You got east slavs and west slavs. East slavs are your modern day Russia Belarus and Ukraine while west slavs are Poles and Czech's and what not...
@@ghouldr1964 Truth be told im not 100% sure about the origin of that and apparently there are some discussion about this amongst historians themselve. Its not set in stone. There were Rus tribes. Granted, some of them were vikings, but all of them? Also, in modern days Herr Putin claims that Russia began in Kiev as Kievan Rus BUT, in reality What we call Russia today actually began with kingdom of Novgorod which is much further to the north. These were different kinds of kingdoms! In the middle theres also the ''white Rus'' that we know as Belarus today! They were not at all united under 1 banner untill russian czars conquered these territories!
@@rockmcdwayne1710 true as well. But to keep in mind is that Rus vikings settled in eastern europe and married slav women and in that way became part of east europe. The word "Rus" is still connected to the vikings which most believe comes from Finlands old name for "rowing men from Sweden/Scandinavia" or Finland's and the baltic's old name for sweden "Routsi" or from the place in eastern Sweden that also had viking villages which was named "Roslagen". What most people believe in the most is that "Rus" still means "Rowing men" which Finland and the Baltic called the Swedes in their native tounge
Never mess with the Norse, and yes all Scandinavian brothers and sisters stick togeher if shit hits the fan. You really don't want to mess with Scandinavia.
So true 💞 just look at many different Swedish,Danish and Norwegian family tree's ?! because more common than not "Norwegian families" are a Scandinavian mix/ are blended here in Norway. often with Swedish and Danish relatives including my own family + Finland 😊
Nobody sticks together in scandinavia. Sweden have become a 3. world country and nobody did anything but ridicule the few Danes that raised concern! So NO, they do not stick together.
When the old castle fire of the castle "tre kronor" in 1697 happened, almost all written history from the Middle Ages was lost in the fire. Therefore, there are very few writings about Swedish Vikings preserved today.
Sweden and Denmark have fought each other for centuries and hold the record for most wars fought between them. It all adds up to around 30 wars since the 15th century
Hey, Norway here, count us in! Don't forget Tyttebærkrigen, and also Welhavens jacket was torn that time at Torgslaget in 1829. Very strange we didnt rebel more being subjugated under Sweeden and Denmark for all those years, but I guess we needed some help after losing 2/3 of our population during the black plague.
Fun fact: Current Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and the late Queen Elizabeth II of England were third cousins, with both royal ladies descending from Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark. The Danish royal lineage can be tracked all the way back to year 900, which goes to show how much of a continued influence Danish royalty and rule has had in England up until this day. This shared bloodline of course extends to the rest of the Scandinavian royalty too. Many royal bloodlines of European kingdoms are intertwined, but especially the Nordic and English bloodlines are very closely connected still. And yea we do love our pastries. It's a requirement as a citizen here :)
The current King of Sweden, Karl Gustav XVI was also related to the late Queen Elizabeth II, third cousins. Both the king of Sweden and the queen of Denmark are in the British line of succession with the King of Sweden placed before the Danish queen. They are both placed around spot 200-300 in the line of order so i guess we won't see the British kingdom with an Scandinavian King/Queen on the throne anytime soon.
@@WoWFtw8 That's arguably the same thing (and your statement therefore empirically fallacious). That's literally how the word came to be. Just the popular designation changed, and then later the popular associations changed. You know no Norse/Scandinavian people called themselves "Norse", right? The closest you get is "Normanni" (Romans referring to Norway including Båhuslén) meaning "men of the North". Dutch invented/popularized the term "Norse" (people of the North, but this time not distinguishing from Swedish and Danish tribes (now nations) and as such meaning Norwegians, Danes and Swedes) and "Scandinavian" is just another word for the geographical area containing the relevant modern nations. Norse mythology is another subject but with much of the same backstory. Contemporarily, I believe it was called Asatrú.
Not far from where I live there´s a rune stone that says "Ragnvald had theese runes carved. He was in Greece. He was the chieftan of the raiding party." 1000 years ago, imgaine that.
Yeah Dwayne 👍🏼 It's like U say It's very much Brother/Sisters ❤LOVE❤ Between Sweden 🇸🇪.Norway 🇧🇻.Denmark🇩🇰. Is really true..we just are the same people from the same genetic TIME ..I have self relatives in Norway and Denmark..🇸🇪🇩🇰🇧🇻..And i have a Norweigian as my neighbor next to my house in Sweden..❤️🇧🇻❤️🇩🇰❤️🇸🇪❤️
Funny video! It's true, we do have that sibling love between Sweden, Norway and Denmark. We make fun of each other, pretend we can't stand one another but in reality we do sort of love each other 😂 Finland does'nt have viking history and are not part of Scandinavia. Sweden does still celebrate one big pagan ceremony - Midsummer! It's more like our national day than our actual national day! You should check it out if you are in Sweden by then 😊
@@kongvinter33 Cool! Do you celebrate the way we Swedes do it with the big pole and dancing around it or do you have your own version? Can't belive I actually did'nt know Norway and Denmark also celebrate midsommar 😂
Ragnar Lodbrok, was according to some saga’s born in Uppland by the Swedish viking king Sigurd Ring. But he served as Jarl to the danish king, Hårik. The name Lodbrok was taken as he was said to wear a special kind of wolf skin pants that was coated with pitch.
There are also some sources that say he was born in either lejr, or viken. But I mean he is a mythical character, he might have been real, he might not. Only his sons have been confirmed to have lived, some think it might have been a invasion plan like propaganda for the great Heathen army. Interesting stories from the sagas
"so Denmark came first, and the Norway came after and took over England". No, he said the norse... which is a common term for both danes and norwegians, and it fact it were danes both times (but with some norwegians and swedens in their armies... so yeah, it could be said all three).
Normans. But the ancient Romans referred to (what is now) Norwegians (including Båhuslén which was Norwegian but that's another story) as "Northmen", with a clear distinction from people of (todays) Sweden and Denmark (who were Angles, Jutes, Danes, Sueci and Gaets). It was the Dutch (who for Norwegians, was a welcome change from the Hanseatic League) who first coined the term "Norse" (from what I can gather). Then that word developed from there. These contexts are important when reviewing history of this period, so as to not confuse yourself. In short: "People of the North" were Norwegians but much much later (several hundred years) meant all Scandinavians. "Sueci (Svidjod) people" were Swedes, "Dane people" were Danish. Also the Vikings had many territories elsewhere than Normandy which are often forgotten, in the Iberian bay and Pommerania/North Germany. The traditions of later Rügen reflects this as well. Oh! Almost forgot. "Norman" also means "men of the North" 😅😅 (But "Normanni" was first used by Roman sources, as said, and denoted another area).
At that point not exactly Danes but Normans, the area was settled by Danes and where Im sure a majority, but there where also other scandinavians in the area and ofcourse natives of France mixed into a what grew to an own culture.
Sweden, Norway and Denmark didn´t exist at the time, as we know it today, just different tribes and clans and borders where all over the Scandinavia and changed alot. So you are right in the big landmass thought of yours, in a way :) They where all norsemen (people from the north), and english is in big part originated from the north germanic language.
Denmark officially united as a country in year 965 - under Harald Bluetooth and became Christian, there were however several other Kings before him, and some sources in France name the country as Denmark much earlier but I can't remember the date -the reason 965 is our official Birth date is that we were Christen then
That the Swedes went east, the Danes and Norwegians west etc is not really true. If you read the Old Norse Sagas, Norwegians for instance very often went east. Then look at Swedish runestones from the original Swedish region (Svealand). Half of them tell of raids in England and other parts of western Europe. Further more, todays Sweden has large parts that originaly belonged to Denmark and Norway. That means the Swedes of today are actually a blend of all the Norse peoples.
What you say is a bit contradicting, because of what Svealand is at that time, scholars would say that Svealand during the viking age is the coastal regions near the baltic and the runestones there are risen in honour of a dead person, the stones that say where all say "Died in the east". I have not read the stones more inland but since you say they say that people died in the west I have to believe you. However the inland parts of Svealand might have been part of their own kingdoms and or Norway. Norwegian Vikings started to go east when the route to Constantinople was created. Harald Hårfargre is the notable example, but as far as I know we do not know if he went to Constantinople by sea or by the "route to Constantinople" created by the Rus.
@@backisgabbeYT There was no such thing as "Svealand" in the Viking age. There was Sviþióð, which roughly correspond to the modern region of Svealand. Sviþióð was the original homeland of the "svea"-people, and no, it was not just coastal regions. Västmanland (which denotes the west-svear) is inland. Here the svea-king Bröt-Anund is said to be buried for instance. The main capital of the svear was in Uppland which mostly is inland. Then you have Södermanland (region of the south svear) etc. You simply don´t know what you are talking about. Over all of this region there are many rune-stones telling of raids to the west. Roughly half of them. Here is one example from Grinda in Södermanland which happens to be in in the coastal area of the Baltic Sea: "Grjótgarðr and Einriði, the sons made the stone in memory of their able father. Guðvér was in the west; divided up payment in England; manfully attacked townships in Saxony." Now to be clear, Sviþióð was just a part of Sviariki or Sviaveldi, which was the name of the realm of the Swedish king, i.e Sweden. To Sweden of the day many other regions were counted such as Västergötland (in the west close to the North Sea coast), Östergötland etc. Here there are many other runestones telling of raids to the west. The Swedes were undoubtedly very active in the raiding of western lands at the time. It´s not even debatable.
@@alriktyrving5051 Lol. Nobody referred to "Swedes" as vikings at the time. They didn´t exist. Also, theres no "-swe-" in the portmandeau "Scan-Dina-Navia" Only Scania, Dinamarca and Noruega. How sad is that.
York is originally Yorvik. Many words (more than 600) in english language actually come from old norse, the language the Norsemen spoke. I completely understand you are hyped about you might have Norse genes. We are awesome! Who doesn't want to be awesome??? We Scandinavians love to roast each other. But if an outsider talks bad about one of the brothers. we will defend them!
According to the Icelandic primary sources there were TWO languages in Scandinavia in the viking era: "Old Norse" (Norrönt) spoken in Iceland and Northern Norway - and Danske Tunge spoken in all of southern Scandinavia. The Danes clearly never spoke "Old Norse". Danelaw refers to "the land with the law of those who speak Danish". Which is exactly why we know that York was "Jorvik" rather than "Yorvik" since in Danish two vowels in one syllable were never allowed.
I think he didn't mention Finland much because he was concentrating on the Scandinavian countries, as opposed to the Nordic countries. Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Nordic countries are the Scandinavian countries plus Iceland and Finland. Much like England vs UK vs GB.
@@oscarvanninen2891 Finland has about as much viking history as Sweden. Western coast is littered with Viking relics. Most common reason why they "Finland is not Scandinavia" because Finland is the weakest of the punch with history of being colonised land instead of a serious threat and to this day Sweden and others see Finland as inferior and not egual to them. The Swedish mainstream uses deragatory and colonial terms on finns regularly both in media and everyday people Swedes, Danes and Norwegians fell they're insulted if Finland is treated in equal manner. Check this video for example. It is filled with comments where other scandies are mad that Finland is sometimes considered to be equal
@@lisaanimi That's the biggest load of horseshit i've read all year. We (the swedes), do not find Finland inferior to us. We make fun of their accent, their love for vodka and their obsession of saunas, yes, but we love them all the same and treat them as equals.
Finland had Vikings too, we're just not Scandinavian as it is a peninsula thing. Did you know that bluetooth is named after a Danish viking King Harald Bluetooth who combined Denmark and Norway and the bluetooth symbol is made of two runes that stand for the letters H and B? The more you know.
yeah some finns took up the occupation of a viking, and were wanted for our magics on the ships, but we were also the target of a lot of raids because our weaponry and defences weren't as advanced as the other places, since we were more rural people. But even tho we were targets of a lot of raids, the raiders were also a bit vary of us.
Nice video! I'm a Frisian from the Netherlands. My DNA-test results: 48% Scandinavian, 37,6% English, 10,2% North-West European and 4,2% Finnish. I could have some Norse blood, but it's hard to tell. Frisians, Saxons, Angles, Jutes and the later Vikings were genetically very similar! 😁
@@hette457 Thanks! I'm very proud of my Frisian heritage. We're an ethnic minority in the Netherlands (and in Germany and former Danish territories) and we have our own language and culture. West-Frisian (the language) is still closer to English than it is Dutch. Where are you from?
@@Bjowolf2Thanks haha and greetings back to you of course! 🤣 A lot of Frisians went Viking too and they were glad that they could return to their old pagan religion...for a short time.
The English being mainly Anglo-saxon, who came from the Angles and Saxon peoples, essentially. As the map indicates before the 6 min mark, Saxons being from a northern part of Germany and the Angles coming from the borderland of Germany and Denmark/southern Denmark. You'll have to go pretty far back for this move, but not so far back that the Romans were still there. Hengest and Horsa are two names that are mentioned as some of the earliest for this settlement/invasion if you want to look deeper. It'd be interesting to see your DNA results!
Don't forget the Jutes from Denmark, the forgotten part of the Anglo-Saxon invasion/Migration. But you can see on the names of places in England who settled where, Wessex and Sussex end in sex meaning Saxon settlement and West and East Anglia was Anglian settlements
It is a sibling thing for sure. Different to the Scots, Welsh and English relationship. There's a solidarity between us which means we're a little harsher on each other than the rest - in a similar vein to how we'll tell our own the harsh truths and take the mick outta each other about minor things just because it's fun. As an note, Saxo Grammaticus ( c. 1150 - c. 1220) is worth reading as an additional source. Often overlooked but similar to Tacitus, can be quite interesting to browse.
The Swedes travelled east, controlling the trade routes to the Black Sea, colonising Finland and founding the Kievan Rus kingdom, which later became Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
I’m from Sweden and it’s my favourite , we start by dancing at 12 and eating herring and drinking snaps. Then strawberriecake. Then games followed by barbeque 🥰
Maybe we should adopt you folks some time? - you are already speaking advanced semi-Danish anyway 😂 Vi [ve] haver så [sO] mange (many) af nær [nair] de samme simple (w)ord(s) i(n) Dansk, (th)at en Engelsk-tal(k)ende person direkte kan se deres [dair-es] mening efter just få [foa] ((a) few) sekunder - vi kan derfor lær(n)e den Engelske tunge i(n) en hast her(e) i(n) Danmark 😉
@@kilipaki87oritahiti That tracks yeah, recently found out I have 15% Norwegian dna which startled me a bit as far as I knew I was just Irish/English, but no doubt it comes from the Irish side.
When he says there aren’t a lot of written sources about Sweden, he doesn’t mention one little known fact. The Royal Castle of Sweden, the Tre Kronor, burnt down to the ground in 1697. Among the many things destroyed in the fire was the whole National Archive and Royal Library where a lot of the historical texts that did exist had been gathered. So whatever texts and sagas that existed from the Viking age and even before were destroyed. Also, a lot of records seem to show that Swedes were at least involved in the foundation of Kyiv.
The original video is fun to watch already. But, watching it "together" with you, gave yet another level of "interesting and fun". Thx for this reaction video. My highlight of this day, so far. .. Edit: Oh and, (friendly reminder) can you please add the link to the original video to the description? I find this should be common curtsey.
Thank you for reacting this. As a fellow Brit I have often wondered, idly, whether it was just the Danes who came to our shores. Although our family has lived in the South of England our family name, still rare today, is used for a character in the Beowulf tale (only mentioned once) so may be, like you we have some connection to the Danes too. Being 'English' is not so straightforward as I used to imagine. We have already traced English, Norman, Anglo Saxon, Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry so far, so a spot of Danish won't faze us I am sure.
Denmark and Norway is to the west so naturaly they traveled to west. And because Sweden is the eastern country of Scandinavia we traveled to east. To the lands of Rus which we called them. We fought, pillaged and captured people. I believe we also settle down in the land of Rus. But the land of east was not as prosperous as the land to the west (England and France) so we traveled more south through todays Eastern Europe. And we arrived to Constantineople todays Istanbul. We called it Miklagård (translation: Big city or big marketplace). Back then the famous church Hagia Sophia, today the famous blue mosque, has a viking grafitti. Constantineople was a central point for trade, where Europe meet Asia. So of course we can discover some buddha statues in Sweden from viking diging grounds. Because there was goods from around the world in Constantineople. And is it wierd that only vikings and chinese has dragons in their mythology? I believe that vikings might have seen some dragon statues from China and ask the traders about that creature and took it to their own. England has some dragon in their literature but you shared some viking culture. In Stockholm, Sweden, we have a famous statue in the town hall "St Göran and the dragon". Vikings in Constantineople was of course taller and muscular than the average people around that part of the world. So many rich people hired vikings as bodyguards.
Drakar har funnits sedan bronsåldern i Mesopotamien och Egypten. Det är troligtvis ett äldre koncept än såsom en kombination av de 3 farligaste rovdjuren mot människan (Vilket gör att drak-mytologier finns överallt) Ormen är en del av draken och är så fast i det mänskliga psyket att nyfödda barn är rädda för ormar, även om de inte har lärt sig att de är farliga. Den stora katten är en annan del av draken och i europeisk mytologi är rovfågeln den 3e delen. Ordet drake kommer från forngrekiskan.
Really enjoyed this video with your reactions to it! Great content from both of you. Triggerwarning: Rape. I wanted to add something here tho, about "raping and pillaging", that the vikings always get accused of and I feel it's kind of important: There are no written sources to any rapes committed during these raids, even from church-books and annals that always wrote down cases like that. (Source historian Kim Hjardar in the book Vikinger i krig (vikings at war)). I am not saying that it never happened, but it is very important that we don't add stuff that are not recorded, often when we do that we add stuff from understanding our own culture and then disregarding trying to understand the other culture out of their own logic and premisses. There are therefore no reason for us to add rape to the pillaging, that we have seen being used as a weapon of war in our time, especially if the war have some origin in ethnic conflict or are attempted legitimized that way in the war propaganda. (Where rape then are used as some type of ethnic clensing). Women in Norway had pretty good coverage in the justice system (Ting-system) at that time, and could demand her rapist killed. You were asking about Finnland. They had a whole other culture than the Scandinavian, different language and peoples, and that is also why we distinguish between Scandinavia (without Finnland) and The Nordic countries (there Finnland is counted in). Thanks again for great video!
Yeah… Okay, a bit of banter coming up so bear with me here 😉: Denmark is the Boomer/early GenX:er who did the career thing early, made a name for themselves and a good amount of money, and now is the sort of drunk uncle who smells of tobacco, talks loudly and laughs a little too hard. Norway is the 90’s millennial/GenZ youngster who was a bit awkward but also curled/pampered as a child and then accidentally got rich and had glow-up and now thinks they’re top tier. Sweden is the middle child, the 80’s millennial/young GenX:er who’s trying to please everyone, mediating, solving everyone’s problems, trying to do everything right. The one who is actually doing good, but constantly being made fun of and has to take all kinds of shit from everyone, but just smile and laugh and not say anything because they just want to be loved, but is secretly burnt out and dying on the inside from the weight of it all, struggling with anxiety. We are all family though 😊
@@mariannekelstrup7633 Is that a Danish eye roll I detect? 😉 Come on now, it’s all said tongue in cheek. I love us all equally (said the anxious Swede careful not to offend, while the Danish part of her can’t keep her mouth shut 😅)
@@kajsahermansson9619 I love us all too (says the oldest sibling Dane with another Danish eyeroll, feeling called out and definitely going to grab another beer after all.
I haven't read all the comments so this might have already been said :) Danish/oldnorse words made their way into english language, if you want to look into that. Like: Link, husband, cake, window, they/them/there, towns ending on by/toft/kirk in that area, die, skin, again, sky (which actually means cloud but is used differently), skirt (the long shirts that went to like the middle of the thigh) - actually we borrowed it back when it got the meaning it has today and we named the clothing 'skørt' (which also means crazy XD we have some words that has two different meanings...). York is shortened from Jorvik (Horsebay), streetnames like Swinegate (pig/swinestreet) (Castlegate actually means street and not a gate). It's estimeted it's many hundreds or maybe over a thousand words. Regarding horse eaters (I think it was worded?): I know the vikings had a relation to horse meat, probably to do with worshipping Odin's horse Slejpner (modern Danish use of name) and Christiany forbid that. So that might have been th ereason he said that. So: how did that ancestry test go, I'm curious? :)
People tend to forget that "viking" isn't what we called ourselves. "Viking" basically means "pirate". All of us Scandinavians called ourselves "Norse" because it literally meant "from the North". We only took up the names like "Danes" and "Swedes" after we started uniting from clans into countries.
Danes didn't leave much? How about the language. Today English relates to Danish much more than to any other germanic language to a degree where many linguists classify English as a scandinavian language and the reason scandinavians pick up English so easy.
The Dutch and the Danes are biologicaly very close. Dutch and the English 2nd place. So its logic our language are easy to pick up. You can speak Old English to a Frisian and you can have a conversation.
Seen from a Scandinavian perspective English is pretty much half Latin/French. Like, all those P-words (piece, place, port, pay, pray, pickpocket, prepare, postpone, poison, etc.).
I'm half Danish🇩🇰 and my father is from Jutland, and my mother is half Gambian🇬🇲 and half Bissau-Guinean🇬🇼 and my name is Franknarr pronounced like Ragnar without the F. Can be spelled like Fragnar or Franknarr.
It's important to remeber that nations as we know them, such as denmark, Norway, Sweden, England and France did not xist back then. it's a very modern invention.
Remeber the Viking's discover the USA as you se on the map they where at "vinland" as they called it is most northern east side of the USA and dicover that in the Viking time year 1000 or some. Think about that a sail boat with 20 man with not much food and water could sail so fare way from Norway haha it is a masterpice if you ask me!
Norwegian here. His view of the history is very correct. Except for one thing: Sweden went far beyond Scandinavia after the 16th century, and became incredibly powerful. Sweden was a superpower in the 17th century, even owning two military forts near Manhattan in the New World. These holdings were later conquered by the Dutch. Sweden then conquered parts of Russia in several battles. At this time, late 17th century, early 18th century: Sweden and Prussia were the preeminent warrior cultures in Europe, in addition to Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth (another superpower at the time). But his cryptic non-sequiturs about people fleeing modern Norway for "freedom" - and how modern politicians are "doing the same as Olav Trygvasson" - are transparently demagogic and hyperbolic. Based on all that I have heard so far, he is - I bet - a Libertarian. Probably someone who spends meaningful time at the annual (right-wing) hippie communal anarchy gathering near Kristiansand. Someone who thinks *all* taxation is theft. I know several people like this. You can understand the demagoguery of his talk by the fact that he keeps enticing the listener without going into detail. He promotes curiosity to his political views by building up to it from the beginning, without providing context at the time. He wants your attention for something *entirely* different from the historical analysis of Norse history, hoping to catch several gullible vulnerables to his practiced political context. I'm sure we'll find that on his youtube channel. To his credit, this was a great video, and he kept his ideology *mostly* away from it.
Swedish vikings more often went east. The Kiev and Novgorod empires where created by Swedish vikings. Trade routes where created with Irak, Iran and Konstantinopel. The highest concentrations of silver treasure made up of eastern coins etc has been found in Gotland.
The Danes are also the precurser to the Normans as well. I know that the Norwegian narrator is biased toward Norway, but in a nutshell, the Danes were the heart and most widespread raiders and conquerers. Danes took over most of the UK, parts of France, Frisia, and even raided the Mediterranean and Northern Africa. Norwegians pushed westward and established in Ireland, then founded Iceland and Greenland. Eventually finding North America which they called Vinland. Norway spent a lot of time feuding among their own. The Swedes crossed the Baltic and began raiding slavic lands (a region known as Courland). They went up the rivers and founded Russia. They were referred to as the Rus or Russian. (Meaning people of the red hair. In that age "Red" hair meant anything from blond to red to auburn hair). They rolled their ships across open grasslands on the Eurasian steppes to then rejoin rivers in their exploration. They eventually came south and attacked Constantinople with great success. The Emperor was impressed with their power and savagery and hired them on as Varangian Guards. He paid them heavily. That's the basic 3 viking groups geographically in a nutshell. PS. You should understand that the poor Swedes get picked on by Danes and Norwegians more so than Danes and Norwegians messing with eachother. The Swedes did get revenge by getting the Norwegians hooked on Lutefisk (Pickled herrings in snot) and they got us Danes too by taking back Southern lands that used to be Danish, after WW2, and later making better money from the pornography industry. In all seriousness, I love Swedes and Norwegians almost as much as my fellow Danes.
Actually... (don't you learn abt this in school, in the UK?) as an example on how ''all over the UK they got'' is how English and Norse-language influenced each other. Very common words in English, today, comes from the Nors language. Like: Husband, window, cake, egg and law, are just a few that comes from norse Vikings were all over the UK. Just as they were ''all over the world''... at least they got pretty far. America ''we all know', but just as they were able (because of the engineering mastery of the ships) could go far inland through the UK, all the way to Paris, but also through the river Volga -through Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and across the Black Sea to Istanbul/Constantinople. The did not stop there, cause further south Vikings met Arabs, and for the same way they got, anywhere basically, they went upriver on the Tigris river to Baghdad, Iraq (if we think the brits were shocked seeing vikings... Just think abt how the Arabs far inland Irq thought? Man..! I wish photo and video was a thing then!).
Greatings from Denmark. Did you notice what he said about “Bluetooth”? The word Bluetooth that is used today is taken from the name of a danish king Harold Bluetooth or Harald Blåtand as he is called in danish.
As a Dane and a proud Scandinavian, I couldn't agree more. If any invidene country sets so much as a foot in either, Denmark Norway or Sweden. And those countries will come together like never seen since the viking era, and show why everyone on earth today knows who the vikings were, make no mistake we bite back and we bite HARD. We love and make fun of each other, but it's also just that, fun. The way it is with siblings. Find oplysninger
You won't believe how many people that don't even think Swedes were vikings ^^ And they refuse to believe it, no matter how much I try to explain. ^^ Hopefully, this Norwegian will help change that :P Nice to see that you actually knew! :))
The reason is, unlike Danes, there were no people called "Swedes" at the time. However, people living in areas of what is now Sweden (Halland) were already called "Hellevikings" (Hilleviones) during Roman times.
Most Swedish vikings interacted with Eastern Europe. So there's unfortunately not a lot of preserved litterary sources. The water level was higher back then, so it was very easy to travel by river all the way down to Greece/Turkey. The modern name for Russia is based on the eastern European name for swedes/vikings "rus".
I was born in West Yorkshire and lived between two former villages now part of a town. One in the valley was called Bradley (an Anglo-Saxon name) and the one on the hill called Fixby (a very very Norse name) It is two places showing the nature and extent of the Danelaw. BTW check out Jay Foreman's "Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?" It will show you indirectly the extent of the Danelaw. You know that in 1066 there were two invasions of England Harald Hardrada - from Norway / Denmark and William from Normany Harold II defeated Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge and marked the end of the Viking era The other invasion he rushed to Hastings and sadly lost to William dying in the battle and thus we have the Norman kings.
With all due respect to my nordic brothers. But he is some what off with the Swedish vikings. The Danes where aboslutely more active in Europe but... He miss a very big fact, Swedish vikings went east and founded Kievan Rus. Who later attacked Constaninopel who was the capital of Byzantine, the greatest empire at that time.
Grimsby, Whitby, Derby and more seems to have something in common. Strangely, many towns and cities in Denmark also ends on by, which means town/city. You get the picture?
Certain english words used today are influenced by old norse. Since danes had the biggest influence and actually settled in England, we most likely are the influencers. :P (Keep in mind, old norse - spoken by scandinavian people back then, were more or less the same through out the whole scandinavian peninsula, or atleast in the major countries there. Im just trying to say that it was basically the same language back then, more or less... Also both old english and old norse stems from germany, or germanic language tree, and its very possible that old english speaking and old norse speaking ppl might have been somewhat able to understand each other and be somewhat intelligibel.
Finland didn't have vikings, more than the Swedish ones that took the boat across the sea to expand. The area had very few people at the time, and their tribes was mostly fighting amongst themselves and with tribes from further east, and doing agriculture. Finland pretty much became a part of Sweden very early on, and 1253 is the first time that Finland is administratively listed as being part of Sweden through diocese records, and the the karelian area was added at the end of the 13th century. If you look at the flag and coat of arms of Soutwest Finland (Egentliga Finland/Varsinais Suomi) they still bear the Swedish flags.
Im from england and in my dna i have a small percentage of Danish and Swedish. This is from the Vikings. I also have Irish, Welsh, Scotland, and North West England...so Celtic as well 😅😂
It was a made plan. The 3 different scandinavian vikings had differnet tasks. Danes to conquer big parts, the norwegians to rob everything and the Swedes to explore. Not interfering with each other. Back then we probably spoke almost the exact same dialect aswell
He did not say Norwegians but Normans as from Normandy France. As in battle of Hastings = Vikings (descendents of Danish Vikings) An other fun fact is the influence in English language from Danish! Kind regards the Danish Viking
Well that is how a Norwegan would tell just a nother "saga" to day. The "Swedes" where much more out and about then he clames theyu where. But they where more of mercenerys or tradesmen. Saladin and Charles le Main had vikings as hierd sodiers and as traders. As the Jewes, Cristians and Muslims would not trade with each oter the swedish vikings where hierd to do the trade as they where neutral in the wars betwen said religeus groups. Our long boats made it easy to travel the baltic sea and all the rivers that where conected to the baltics. And the ships chould even be draged across some landmasses to get futer inlnads if so where needed. But there whas nothing called Sweden back then. There there major "tribes" Östgötar (est-gots), Västgötar (Väst-gots) and Svear (Sveades) that lived in what whas to become Sweden later on. To day we know that "Swedish" vikings had stelemnats all across the baltic sea and along the rivers that is conected to it. They had large setllements in Russia and Urkraine for example. But even Hagia Sofia got some viking tags carved in to it. The Swedish Vikings where vritten about by muslim and roman/german historians. While the Norwevians where just dreaming up sagas in those days. So if you look for historical facts only in the sagas, you are missing a lot of viking history. Denmark whas always under atack from the Roman/German-empiere and Swedes where fighting on both sides as mercenaries or ass alied if there whas some family ties by marriage that whas usualy made to tighten bounds between familys and/or tibes back then. (No I am not drunk. But I do got dyslexia, hense the bad spelling from my part.)
Half Norwegian half Scottish.. born in Canada and still honour my roots for both of my families heritage. 6’1” and 230lbs. Deadlift 500lbs naturally and can’t handle the 30 degree C heat of summer. The universe is balanced. 😘
Many swedish vikings were hired into the roman and greek army. The greek emperor even had at one point a set of bodyguards who were all swedish vikings. There are sevral lions heads in the greek habour Pireus where you can find viking runes.
He didnt talk about Finland becuse.. the swedish vikings settled in the south of Finland, befor later svedish kings conquerd the whole of Finland! The name Finland is probably by swedish origin, actualy latin (fine = end of/the bottom of?) or there could be a tribe.. its probably a swedish name for those living there? In any case the swedish vikings biggest impact was securing the traderoute to Constantinopel by establish Kiewan-Rus, that later become Russia!
The name Finland has been explained in many different ways, starting from the phonetically close Finnish words such as suo ("suomaa", marshy land) or suomu, ...Suomi.. aka Marshy-land.
I'm a mix of them all lol. Around 40% Scottish and the rest English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish. And a small amount of Native American from 1 of my 2nd great grandmothers.
Sorry U miss understood that the danish Vikings whom ruled eastern England also got Normandie from France, they later invaded England i 1066. Not the Norwegian Vikings.
don't mind him this guy has very peculiar opinions. Norway Sweden and Denmark are all democracies and very civilized countries nothing bad is happening there.
Already 2,500 years before the Viking Age, Nordic high culture prevailed. The Bronze Age was characterized by boat trips, trade, warrior ideals and a chieftainship with luxury consumption and power from the gods. The parallels are striking, today's research shows.
Making fun of each other is what we have done since i was a child and even before. But at the end of they day we are brothers and sisters! i love Sweden and Denmark. I cheer for them in sporting events so forth.
The English flag has the Scandinavian cross just like Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Finnish flag has the Scandinavian cross as well despite not belonging to Scandinavia. The reason for this is that Finland used to be the eastern most part of Sweden. When it gained independence it adopted a flag with the Scandinavian cross despite losing its Scandinavian status. A Scandinavian nation has to fulfil three criteria: 1) shared history, traditions and mythology, 2) language, and 3) be mainland nation. Finland doesn't share mythology or language with Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Scandinavian cross is also called the Nordic cross in order to include national flags outside of Scandinavia such as Iceland, Faroe Islands, Shetland and others. Finland is included in the Nordic category of nations, as is Iceland.
I am frome iceland and oure language is the most like the old nors languages that the viking spoke. If you speak icelandik then you can read and understand the old writings frome the old nors language, of course ther have bin some smaller chances and some words end differently or the meaning has changed a bit, but you can understand moste of the context of the text.
It might be that the enduring Danish influence in England is not apparent to people living there. However, the English legal and parliamentary system is based on Viking law - and by extension, the American system as well.
Records of Finnic vikings are dubious (Finnic meaning not just modern Finnish but also that entire area including Estonia, Lituania and Latvia) Finn in the sagas is mostly thought to refer to the Sami nomads. It's not impossible that Finnic people raided but if they did it wasn't on a wide enough scale that they have left much of a trace. Maybe they were just beating back Swedes and Russians while hanging out in Saunas
About the dividing of the people it's the same in most countries. that the politicians and people in power want the rest divided and infighting instead of being united, because when the people divided they focus on eachothers differences and things they don't like, and the prejudices. example making a divide between natives vs immigrant, rich vs poor, people from the cities vs people from the countryside and so on. The only situations that people in power want the people united is in war times or if they want something done quickly.
The Finns where not Vikings and they are not a part of Scandinavia. They are however culturally tied to Scandinavia since they where a part of the Swedish kingdom for over 500 years.
I'd say that Vikings could pretty much be split into two factions sort of, mostly Danish + Norwegian Vikings would travel west mostly attacking countries like Germany, France + Brittain. While the Swedish Vikings would mostly travel east going to places like Russia all the way down to Istanbul and even became something like the royal guards there from what I've heard. Also while he called Swede's the "nicer" Vikings it is a bit funny that after the, I believe Danish Viking King joined the christians and forced Norway, Denmark + Sweden to convert since Vikings could no longer attack other Christian countries Sweden then went and declared a crusade on Finland since they weren't christians at the time xD.
Yes, as a Swede I do love my brothers and sisters in the Nordic countries. Well...not Finland when it's hockey. And not Norway when it's skiing. And not Denmark when it's football. But other than that...❤
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You’re not intimidated by our skiing abilities in Denmark? 😂 You should be… The way we come flying down the mountain? 😂😂😂 (Never mind the landing… 😉)
@@Sonderborg75 What mountain?
@@tinasjostrand2677 The ones we travel a loooong way to ski on. In Norway or Austria mostly. 😂
@@Sonderborg75 yeah, I don't really trust skiiers from countries that don't have their own mountains 😁
As a Dane, I will leave you with a really good, personal example of our Scandinavian sibling love.
When Putin threatened Sweden, I got a little angry. I wasn't worried, I'd like to see him try. But I was angry. I swore right there that if he did attempt to invade Sweden, I'd personally go up there and help defend my brothers and sisters, why? Because if anyone's gonna invade Sweden, it's gonna be us
And as a Swede, the only one's gonna invade Denmark is us! =P
@@itspandasman3040 You know we're gonna hit with you sticks if you try :p
As a Swede I just wanna do my meditation and give offerings to Odin in peace, you brother Danes relax now 😂 🪓
@@itspandasman3040 we did let Germany take them onece tough. But hopefully nothing like that would repeat. But like your comment. Swedish me too.
Slapp av a folkens vi slår hverandre men lar ikke noen slå oss
As an Englishman, I moved to Denmark in 1978 where I started a family. Sweet revenge!!! After years of being asked to say "rødgrød med fløde", I can also speak strangely now. 😀
As a Swedish woman I love my sisters from Denmark and Norway. And I think we would be indefatigable if we became a united Scandinavia 😁👌🏼
Sweden went east, and people in the east called them the Rus aka the rowing people, in Finish and Estonia Sweden is still called Ruotsi. The Rus from Swden went down the Dnepr river in Ukraine and settled along it's shore and became the Kievan Rus that founded the city Kyev. Those people later founded Moscow and became Russia. It's one of the reasons why Putin is so hung up on Ukraine, the beginning of Russian history started in Kiev. A joke in Sweden is that Sweden is the founder of Russia because it has the name of the Swedes aka Rus.
Ye since "Russia" means "Land of the Rus" which kind of referres to Swedish 'Rus' vikings who settled down there
You know, you are half correct but not quite. Vikings did found the kingdom of Novgorod but, by the time Russia was born, we are not dealing with vikings or the swedes anymore.
Its like with the most vikings that went out there and settled. They integrated to local population. That means they discarded everything that made them... them. Traditions, language, religion etc. And it all happened very quickly (historically speaking). After few generations, there was nothing left of what made them vikings or swedes.
By the time you get a nation that calls itself Russia, you are dealing with slavic people. Theres also cathegory's between them. You got east slavs and west slavs. East slavs are your modern day Russia Belarus and Ukraine while west slavs are Poles and Czech's and what not...
@@rockmcdwayne1710 ye but the word "Rus" came with the vikings who settled in eastern europe, so I guess they didn't change that part
@@ghouldr1964 Truth be told im not 100% sure about the origin of that and apparently there are some discussion about this amongst historians themselve. Its not set in stone. There were Rus tribes. Granted, some of them were vikings, but all of them? Also, in modern days Herr Putin claims that Russia began in Kiev as Kievan Rus BUT, in reality What we call Russia today actually began with kingdom of Novgorod which is much further to the north. These were different kinds of kingdoms! In the middle theres also the ''white Rus'' that we know as Belarus today! They were not at all united under 1 banner untill russian czars conquered these territories!
@@rockmcdwayne1710 true as well. But to keep in mind is that Rus vikings settled in eastern europe and married slav women and in that way became part of east europe. The word "Rus" is still connected to the vikings which most believe comes from Finlands old name for "rowing men from Sweden/Scandinavia" or Finland's and the baltic's old name for sweden "Routsi" or from the place in eastern Sweden that also had viking villages which was named "Roslagen". What most people believe in the most is that "Rus" still means "Rowing men" which Finland and the Baltic called the Swedes in their native tounge
Never mess with the Norse, and yes all Scandinavian brothers and sisters stick togeher if shit hits the fan. You really don't want to mess with Scandinavia.
never mess withb the nice reserved guy! XD
So true 💞 just look at many different Swedish,Danish and Norwegian family tree's ?! because more common than not "Norwegian families" are a Scandinavian mix/ are blended here in Norway. often with Swedish and Danish relatives including my own family + Finland 😊
I wish our soft politicians had the same spirit as your comment.
Nobody sticks together in scandinavia. Sweden have become a 3. world country and nobody did anything but ridicule the few Danes that raised concern! So NO, they do not stick together.
When the old castle fire of the castle "tre kronor" in 1697 happened, almost all written history from the Middle Ages was lost in the fire. Therefore, there are very few writings about Swedish Vikings preserved today.
Sweden and Denmark have fought each other for centuries and hold the record for most wars fought between them. It all adds up to around 30 wars since the 15th century
and skåne will be ours again!!
Hey, Norway here, count us in! Don't forget Tyttebærkrigen, and also Welhavens jacket was torn that time at Torgslaget in 1829. Very strange we didnt rebel more being subjugated under Sweeden and Denmark for all those years, but I guess we needed some help after losing 2/3 of our population during the black plague.
As a skåning, it is nice to be loved. We'd probably help@@RiosxxDk
@@RiosxxDk In Sweden we sometimes joke with the people from Skåne that we should give Skåne back to Denmark asap so that we can get rid of em. 😂
About same number with the Russians. Over 30 times.
Fun fact: Current Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and the late Queen Elizabeth II of England were third cousins, with both royal ladies descending from Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark. The Danish royal lineage can be tracked all the way back to year 900, which goes to show how much of a continued influence Danish royalty and rule has had in England up until this day. This shared bloodline of course extends to the rest of the Scandinavian royalty too. Many royal bloodlines of European kingdoms are intertwined, but especially the Nordic and English bloodlines are very closely connected still.
And yea we do love our pastries. It's a requirement as a citizen here :)
True! Give this man a pastrie!
The Swedish king and the Danish Queen are first cousins.
The current King of Sweden, Karl Gustav XVI was also related to the late Queen Elizabeth II, third cousins. Both the king of Sweden and the queen of Denmark are in the British line of succession with the King of Sweden placed before the Danish queen. They are both placed around spot 200-300 in the line of order so i guess we won't see the British kingdom with an Scandinavian King/Queen on the throne anytime soon.
I’m half Swedish half Norwegian… we always make fun of our Danes relatives 😂
Thats all well and good - we make fun of you guys all the time too
At least you got the two best parts of Scandinavian heritage 😜
@@danielrosenkvist3445 You do realize that Norwegians are just the Danes that got lost in the snow, right? ;)
@@Akkolon Norwegian (Bokmål) is basically Danish spoken in a silly-happy semi Swedish singing tone.
We can't really be bothered - it's below our dignity 😂
We were Norse people. Viking is a verb, to go viking.
We are...
It's both a verb and a noun.
@@snorungar70 we are not Norse, there are no Norse people left in the world.
We are scandinavian.
Viking is a job description
@@WoWFtw8 That's arguably the same thing (and your statement therefore empirically fallacious). That's literally how the word came to be. Just the popular designation changed, and then later the popular associations changed.
You know no Norse/Scandinavian people called themselves "Norse", right?
The closest you get is "Normanni" (Romans referring to Norway including Båhuslén) meaning "men of the North".
Dutch invented/popularized the term "Norse" (people of the North, but this time not distinguishing from Swedish and Danish tribes (now nations) and as such meaning Norwegians, Danes and Swedes) and "Scandinavian" is just another word for the geographical area containing the relevant modern nations.
Norse mythology is another subject but with much of the same backstory. Contemporarily, I believe it was called Asatrú.
Not far from where I live there´s a rune stone that says "Ragnvald had theese runes carved. He was in Greece. He was the chieftan of the raiding party."
1000 years ago, imgaine that.
Yeah Dwayne 👍🏼 It's like U say It's very much Brother/Sisters ❤LOVE❤ Between Sweden 🇸🇪.Norway 🇧🇻.Denmark🇩🇰. Is really true..we just are the same people from the same genetic TIME ..I have self relatives in Norway and Denmark..🇸🇪🇩🇰🇧🇻..And i have a Norweigian as my neighbor next to my house in Sweden..❤️🇧🇻❤️🇩🇰❤️🇸🇪❤️
I’m half danish and Norwegian ❤️ and are proud Viking 🇩🇰
And so you should be, you have a fascinating history.
Viking is not ethnical but more like an occupation. It's probably very illegal to go viking in modern days Scandinavia. 🤣❤️🇩🇰
Funny video! It's true, we do have that sibling love between Sweden, Norway and Denmark. We make fun of each other, pretend we can't stand one another but in reality we do sort of love each other 😂 Finland does'nt have viking history and are not part of Scandinavia. Sweden does still celebrate one big pagan ceremony - Midsummer! It's more like our national day than our actual national day! You should check it out if you are in Sweden by then 😊
We celebrate Jul and not Christmas too.
hey you Sweded guy you! we Norwegians celebrate midsommar too, but like the Danes (of course they ruin everything Norsk) we call it St. Hans. hehe
@@kongvinter33 Cool! Do you celebrate the way we Swedes do it with the big pole and dancing around it or do you have your own version? Can't belive I actually did'nt know Norway and Denmark also celebrate midsommar 😂
@@ln8173 we collect all the scrap wood we can find, and set it on fire!! and then we eat hot dogs. hehe
@@kongvinter33 😂 Sounds like our Valborgsmässoafton
Ragnar Lodbrok, was according to some saga’s born in Uppland by the Swedish viking king Sigurd Ring. But he served as Jarl to the danish king, Hårik. The name Lodbrok was taken as he was said to wear a special kind of wolf skin pants that was coated with pitch.
There are also some sources that say he was born in either lejr, or viken. But I mean he is a mythical character, he might have been real, he might not. Only his sons have been confirmed to have lived, some think it might have been a invasion plan like propaganda for the great Heathen army. Interesting stories from the sagas
He forgot to mention that leif eriksson discovered america.
@Lamar Davis The context is obviously European ancestry. Of the Europeans, Leif Eriksson was most likely the first to discover America.
@gondar6181 Native americans where from Europe too, so still europeans discovered America...
This was proven by DNA a few years back
@@JesperSandgreen Dane here. I think that has been disputed or even proven vrong.🌱🕊
"so Denmark came first, and the Norway came after and took over England". No, he said the norse... which is a common term for both danes and norwegians, and it fact it were danes both times (but with some norwegians and swedens in their armies... so yeah, it could be said all three).
He didn't say Norway took over England the second time, it was the Danes from Normandie, invading point from the France side
Normans. But the ancient Romans referred to (what is now) Norwegians (including Båhuslén which was Norwegian but that's another story) as "Northmen", with a clear distinction from people of (todays) Sweden and Denmark (who were Angles, Jutes, Danes, Sueci and Gaets).
It was the Dutch (who for Norwegians, was a welcome change from the Hanseatic League) who first coined the term "Norse" (from what I can gather). Then that word developed from there. These contexts are important when reviewing history of this period, so as to not confuse yourself.
In short: "People of the North" were Norwegians but much much later (several hundred years) meant all Scandinavians. "Sueci (Svidjod) people" were Swedes, "Dane people" were Danish.
Also the Vikings had many territories elsewhere than Normandy which are often forgotten, in the Iberian bay and Pommerania/North Germany. The traditions of later Rügen reflects this as well.
Oh! Almost forgot. "Norman" also means "men of the North" 😅😅 (But "Normanni" was first used by Roman sources, as said, and denoted another area).
At that point not exactly Danes but Normans, the area was settled by Danes and where Im sure a majority, but there where also other scandinavians in the area and ofcourse natives of France mixed into a what grew to an own culture.
@@SebHaarfagre How can “people in the north” be Norwegians when it wasnˋt a country at that time? It was people of the north.
Stop the nonsense. The Normans were not Danes. The Normans were enemies of the Danes. The Normans were French bastards. As French as they come.
Normans was norwegians and danes mostly. They still argue if Rollo was Norwegian or Danish.
here in Norway, we still like to call York by its original name, "Jervik" hehe
it was Jervik, it got Englified to Yorwick, and then just York
In general you can see it like this: Norwegian vikings sailed northwest, Danish vikings southwest and Swedish vikings east and southeast
Sweden, Norway and Denmark didn´t exist at the time, as we know it today, just different tribes and clans and borders where all over the Scandinavia and changed alot. So you are right in the big landmass thought of yours, in a way :)
They where all norsemen (people from the north), and english is in big part originated from the north germanic language.
Denmark did actually 😊
Denmark officially united as a country in year 965 - under Harald Bluetooth and became Christian, there were however several other Kings before him, and some sources in France name the country as Denmark much earlier but I can't remember the date -the reason 965 is our official Birth date is that we were Christen then
That the Swedes went east, the Danes and Norwegians west etc is not really true. If you read the Old Norse Sagas, Norwegians for instance very often went east. Then look at Swedish runestones from the original Swedish region (Svealand). Half of them tell of raids in England and other parts of western Europe.
Further more, todays Sweden has large parts that originaly belonged to Denmark and Norway. That means the Swedes of today are actually a blend of all the Norse peoples.
What you say is a bit contradicting, because of what Svealand is at that time, scholars would say that Svealand during the viking age is the coastal regions near the baltic and the runestones there are risen in honour of a dead person, the stones that say where all say "Died in the east". I have not read the stones more inland but since you say they say that people died in the west I have to believe you. However the inland parts of Svealand might have been part of their own kingdoms and or Norway. Norwegian Vikings started to go east when the route to Constantinople was created. Harald Hårfargre is the notable example, but as far as I know we do not know if he went to Constantinople by sea or by the "route to Constantinople" created by the Rus.
@@backisgabbeYT There was no such thing as "Svealand" in the Viking age. There was Sviþióð, which roughly correspond to the modern region of Svealand. Sviþióð was the original homeland of the "svea"-people, and no, it was not just coastal regions. Västmanland (which denotes the west-svear) is inland. Here the svea-king Bröt-Anund is said to be buried for instance. The main capital of the svear was in Uppland which mostly is inland. Then you have Södermanland (region of the south svear) etc. You simply don´t know what you are talking about.
Over all of this region there are many rune-stones telling of raids to the west. Roughly half of them. Here is one example from Grinda in Södermanland which happens to be in in the coastal area of the Baltic Sea:
"Grjótgarðr and Einriði, the sons
made the stone in memory of their able father.
Guðvér was in the west;
divided up payment in England;
manfully attacked
townships in Saxony."
Now to be clear, Sviþióð was just a part of Sviariki or Sviaveldi, which was the name of the realm of the Swedish king, i.e Sweden. To Sweden of the day many other regions were counted such as Västergötland (in the west close to the North Sea coast), Östergötland etc. Here there are many other runestones telling of raids to the west. The Swedes were undoubtedly very active in the raiding of western lands at the time. It´s not even debatable.
@@alriktyrving5051 Lol. Nobody referred to "Swedes" as vikings at the time. They didn´t exist. Also, theres no "-swe-" in the portmandeau "Scan-Dina-Navia" Only Scania, Dinamarca and Noruega. How sad is that.
@@jesperlykkeberg7438 We love you to Denmark :)
York is originally Yorvik. Many words (more than 600) in english language actually come from old norse, the language the Norsemen spoke.
I completely understand you are hyped about you might have Norse genes. We are awesome! Who doesn't want to be awesome???
We Scandinavians love to roast each other. But if an outsider talks bad about one of the brothers. we will defend them!
I thought York was a germanized from Ebrauc (Brythonic name for Eboracum) and Jorvik was the Norse variant.
According to the Icelandic primary sources there were TWO languages in Scandinavia in the viking era: "Old Norse" (Norrönt) spoken in Iceland and Northern Norway - and Danske Tunge spoken in all of southern Scandinavia. The Danes clearly never spoke "Old Norse". Danelaw refers to "the land with the law of those who speak Danish". Which is exactly why we know that York was "Jorvik" rather than "Yorvik" since in Danish two vowels in one syllable were never allowed.
The south of Sweden was danish so in some way Sweden was a part off the danish invasion of GB.
I think he didn't mention Finland much because he was concentrating on the Scandinavian countries, as opposed to the Nordic countries. Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Nordic countries are the Scandinavian countries plus Iceland and Finland. Much like England vs UK vs GB.
Finland doesn't have a viking history that's why he didn't mention them
@@oscarvanninen2891 Finland has about as much viking history as Sweden. Western coast is littered with Viking relics.
Most common reason why they "Finland is not Scandinavia" because Finland is the weakest of the punch with history of being colonised land instead of a serious threat and to this day Sweden and others see Finland as inferior and not egual to them. The Swedish mainstream uses deragatory and colonial terms on finns regularly both in media and everyday people
Swedes, Danes and Norwegians fell they're insulted if Finland is treated in equal manner. Check this video for example. It is filled with comments where other scandies are mad that Finland is sometimes considered to be equal
@@lisaanimi you cant be more wrong finland is treated as equally as the rest
@@lisaanimi That's the biggest load of horseshit i've read all year. We (the swedes), do not find Finland inferior to us. We make fun of their accent, their love for vodka and their obsession of saunas, yes, but we love them all the same and treat them as equals.
Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland are also Nordic Countries
Finland had Vikings too, we're just not Scandinavian as it is a peninsula thing.
Did you know that bluetooth is named after a Danish viking King Harald Bluetooth who combined Denmark and Norway and the bluetooth symbol is made of two runes that stand for the letters H and B? The more you know.
No, you were just sitting in a sauna 😂
@@Pfizer_Johnson Well, they say Vikings were some of the most hygienic warriors of their time. So Finnish vikings must’ve been the cleanest!
@@sagamaraia at least the most tender, after having been slow cooked for so long :D
yeah some finns took up the occupation of a viking, and were wanted for our magics on the ships, but we were also the target of a lot of raids because our weaponry and defences weren't as advanced as the other places, since we were more rural people. But even tho we were targets of a lot of raids, the raiders were also a bit vary of us.
@@Pippuri_ I wouldn't call you guys Rural. You were more like hunter-gatherers. Essentially half-uncivilized savages.
Sweden: "Hahahaha! Sorry, i just thought of a joke about Skåne".
Denmark: "Oh. Would you like to tell me?"
Sweden: "You wouldn't get it".
Nice video! I'm a Frisian from the Netherlands. My DNA-test results: 48% Scandinavian, 37,6% English, 10,2% North-West European and 4,2% Finnish. I could have some Norse blood, but it's hard to tell. Frisians, Saxons, Angles, Jutes and the later Vikings were genetically very similar! 😁
@@hette457 Thanks! I'm very proud of my Frisian heritage. We're an ethnic minority in the Netherlands (and in Germany and former Danish territories) and we have our own language and culture. West-Frisian (the language) is still closer to English than it is Dutch. Where are you from?
Greetings to our Frisian Spare Viking cousins 😂
the 48% scandinavian is the norse dna
@@Bjowolf2Thanks haha and greetings back to you of course! 🤣 A lot of Frisians went Viking too and they were glad that they could return to their old pagan religion...for a short time.
@@TheLadySakai Maybe...but It's really hard to tell, because we're so similar. I'm not sure if a DNA-company can tell the difference.
The English being mainly Anglo-saxon, who came from the Angles and Saxon peoples, essentially. As the map indicates before the 6 min mark, Saxons being from a northern part of Germany and the Angles coming from the borderland of Germany and Denmark/southern Denmark. You'll have to go pretty far back for this move, but not so far back that the Romans were still there. Hengest and Horsa are two names that are mentioned as some of the earliest for this settlement/invasion if you want to look deeper.
It'd be interesting to see your DNA results!
Great summary! I love seeing a fellow history lover being able to summarize things short and concise, as opposed to my OCPD essays LOL
Don't forget the Jutes from Denmark, the forgotten part of the Anglo-Saxon invasion/Migration. But you can see on the names of places in England who settled where, Wessex and Sussex end in sex meaning Saxon settlement and West and East Anglia was Anglian settlements
It is a sibling thing for sure. Different to the Scots, Welsh and English relationship. There's a solidarity between us which means we're a little harsher on each other than the rest - in a similar vein to how we'll tell our own the harsh truths and take the mick outta each other about minor things just because it's fun. As an note, Saxo Grammaticus ( c. 1150 - c. 1220) is worth reading as an additional source. Often overlooked but similar to Tacitus, can be quite interesting to browse.
The Swedes travelled east, controlling the trade routes to the Black Sea, colonising Finland and founding the Kievan Rus kingdom, which later became Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
How common blond hair is in Ukraine is a sign of how many Swedes went there.
Sweden didn't "colonize" Finland until after the christian crusades and Rurik of Russia was of Finnish DNA.
sweden colonizing finland was PART of the christian crusades@@courtesan8784
And too Konstantinopel and became the personal gard of the Emperor
Haha love the brotherly love between Sweden and Norway, its all good and fun.
27 official wars between Denmark and Sweden in recorded history. A world record.
"All good fun"
I'm a Proud Dane living in Sweden at the moment!
Skål!!
Vi må jo håbe du ser lyset igen på et tidspunkt 😅
Hvad skal det betyde xD
bor faktisk et virkelig smukt sted med en god udsigt
I’m from Sweden and it’s my favourite , we start by dancing at 12 and eating herring and drinking snaps. Then strawberriecake. Then games followed by barbeque 🥰
Living in Uppsala, history really is exciting ;)
Fair number of Scots, Brits and Irish are part Viking too. My most recent part are Danish ancestors who came to the US in the mid-19th century.
Maybe we should adopt you folks some time? - you are already speaking advanced semi-Danish anyway 😂
Vi [ve] haver så [sO] mange (many) af nær [nair] de samme simple (w)ord(s) i(n) Dansk, (th)at en Engelsk-tal(k)ende person direkte kan se deres [dair-es] mening efter just få [foa] ((a) few) sekunder - vi kan derfor lær(n)e den Engelske tunge i(n) en hast her(e) i(n) Danmark 😉
All Brits are part Scandinavian, mainly Danish, while the Irish and Scots are as much as 40% Norwegian.
@@kilipaki87oritahiti That tracks yeah, recently found out I have 15% Norwegian dna which startled me a bit as far as I knew I was just Irish/English, but no doubt it comes from the Irish side.
When he says there aren’t a lot of written sources about Sweden, he doesn’t mention one little known fact. The Royal Castle of Sweden, the Tre Kronor, burnt down to the ground in 1697. Among the many things destroyed in the fire was the whole National Archive and Royal Library where a lot of the historical texts that did exist had been gathered. So whatever texts and sagas that existed from the Viking age and even before were destroyed.
Also, a lot of records seem to show that Swedes were at least involved in the foundation of Kyiv.
The original video is fun to watch already. But, watching it "together" with you, gave yet another level of "interesting and fun". Thx for this reaction video. My highlight of this day, so far. .. Edit: Oh and, (friendly reminder) can you please add the link to the original video to the description? I find this should be common curtsey.
Thank you for reacting this. As a fellow Brit I have often wondered, idly, whether it was just the Danes who came to our shores. Although our family has lived in the South of England our family name, still rare today, is used for a character in the Beowulf tale (only mentioned once) so may be, like you we have some connection to the Danes too. Being 'English' is not so straightforward as I used to imagine. We have already traced English, Norman, Anglo Saxon, Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry so far, so a spot of Danish won't faze us I am sure.
Denmark and Norway is to the west so naturaly they traveled to west. And because Sweden is the eastern country of Scandinavia we traveled to east. To the lands of Rus which we called them. We fought, pillaged and captured people. I believe we also settle down in the land of Rus.
But the land of east was not as prosperous as the land to the west (England and France) so we traveled more south through todays Eastern Europe. And we arrived to Constantineople todays Istanbul. We called it Miklagård (translation: Big city or big marketplace). Back then the famous church Hagia Sophia, today the famous blue mosque, has a viking grafitti.
Constantineople was a central point for trade, where Europe meet Asia. So of course we can discover some buddha statues in Sweden from viking diging grounds. Because there was goods from around the world in Constantineople.
And is it wierd that only vikings and chinese has dragons in their mythology?
I believe that vikings might have seen some dragon statues from China and ask the traders about that creature and took it to their own. England has some dragon in their literature but you shared some viking culture. In Stockholm, Sweden, we have a famous statue in the town hall "St Göran and the dragon".
Vikings in Constantineople was of course taller and muscular than the average people around that part of the world. So many rich people hired vikings as bodyguards.
Drakar har funnits sedan bronsåldern i Mesopotamien och Egypten. Det är troligtvis ett äldre koncept än såsom en kombination av de 3 farligaste rovdjuren mot människan (Vilket gör att drak-mytologier finns överallt) Ormen är en del av draken och är så fast i det mänskliga psyket att nyfödda barn är rädda för ormar, även om de inte har lärt sig att de är farliga. Den stora katten är en annan del av draken och i europeisk mytologi är rovfågeln den 3e delen. Ordet drake kommer från forngrekiskan.
Really enjoyed this video with your reactions to it! Great content from both of you.
Triggerwarning: Rape.
I wanted to add something here tho, about "raping and pillaging", that the vikings always get accused of and I feel it's kind of important: There are no written sources to any rapes committed during these raids, even from church-books and annals that always wrote down cases like that. (Source historian Kim Hjardar in the book Vikinger i krig (vikings at war)). I am not saying that it never happened, but it is very important that we don't add stuff that are not recorded, often when we do that we add stuff from understanding our own culture and then disregarding trying to understand the other culture out of their own logic and premisses. There are therefore no reason for us to add rape to the pillaging, that we have seen being used as a weapon of war in our time, especially if the war have some origin in ethnic conflict or are attempted legitimized that way in the war propaganda. (Where rape then are used as some type of ethnic clensing). Women in Norway had pretty good coverage in the justice system (Ting-system) at that time, and could demand her rapist killed.
You were asking about Finnland. They had a whole other culture than the Scandinavian, different language and peoples, and that is also why we distinguish between Scandinavia (without Finnland) and The Nordic countries (there Finnland is counted in).
Thanks again for great video!
I'am Danish, but my great grandfather was Swedish, and I have a great grandmother from Norway.
You definitely look like a genuine spare Viking 😂
Greetings from Denmark 😊
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Yeah… Okay, a bit of banter coming up so bear with me here 😉:
Denmark is the Boomer/early GenX:er who did the career thing early, made a name for themselves and a good amount of money, and now is the sort of drunk uncle who smells of tobacco, talks loudly and laughs a little too hard. Norway is the 90’s millennial/GenZ youngster who was a bit awkward but also curled/pampered as a child and then accidentally got rich and had glow-up and now thinks they’re top tier. Sweden is the middle child, the 80’s millennial/young GenX:er who’s trying to please everyone, mediating, solving everyone’s problems, trying to do everything right. The one who is actually doing good, but constantly being made fun of and has to take all kinds of shit from everyone, but just smile and laugh and not say anything because they just want to be loved, but is secretly burnt out and dying on the inside from the weight of it all, struggling with anxiety.
We are all family though 😊
pfff.....typical Swede....hehe
Let me guess... You're from Sweden?
@@mariannekelstrup7633 Is that a Danish eye roll I detect? 😉
Come on now, it’s all said tongue in cheek. I love us all equally (said the anxious Swede careful not to offend, while the Danish part of her can’t keep her mouth shut 😅)
@@kajsahermansson9619 I love us all too (says the oldest sibling Dane with another Danish eyeroll, feeling called out and definitely going to grab another beer after all.
@@mariannekelstrup7633 😂
Skål from Norway!
I haven't read all the comments so this might have already been said :)
Danish/oldnorse words made their way into english language, if you want to look into that.
Like: Link, husband, cake, window, they/them/there, towns ending on by/toft/kirk in that area, die, skin, again, sky (which actually means cloud but is used differently), skirt (the long shirts that went to like the middle of the thigh) - actually we borrowed it back when it got the meaning it has today and we named the clothing 'skørt' (which also means crazy XD we have some words that has two different meanings...).
York is shortened from Jorvik (Horsebay), streetnames like Swinegate (pig/swinestreet) (Castlegate actually means street and not a gate).
It's estimeted it's many hundreds or maybe over a thousand words.
Regarding horse eaters (I think it was worded?): I know the vikings had a relation to horse meat, probably to do with worshipping Odin's horse Slejpner (modern Danish use of name) and Christiany forbid that. So that might have been th ereason he said that.
So: how did that ancestry test go, I'm curious? :)
People tend to forget that "viking" isn't what we called ourselves. "Viking" basically means "pirate". All of us Scandinavians called ourselves "Norse" because it literally meant "from the North". We only took up the names like "Danes" and "Swedes" after we started uniting from clans into countries.
Danes didn't leave much? How about the language. Today English relates to Danish much more than to any other germanic language to a degree where many linguists classify English as a scandinavian language and the reason scandinavians pick up English so easy.
jutes and angles basically from denmark as well
The Dutch and the Danes are biologicaly very close. Dutch and the English 2nd place. So its logic our language are easy to pick up. You can speak Old English to a Frisian and you can have a conversation.
Seen from a Scandinavian perspective English is pretty much half Latin/French. Like, all those P-words (piece, place, port, pay, pray, pickpocket, prepare, postpone, poison, etc.).
We should close the doors to EU and make our Skandinavien Union! We would be much stronger united! 💪🇩🇰🇧🇻🇸🇪
I'm half Danish🇩🇰 and my father is from Jutland, and my mother is half Gambian🇬🇲 and half Bissau-Guinean🇬🇼
and my name is
Franknarr pronounced like Ragnar without the F.
Can be spelled like Fragnar or Franknarr.
Oh that's so cool. What a mix!
It's important to remeber that nations as we know them, such as denmark, Norway, Sweden, England and France did not xist back then. it's a very modern invention.
Remeber the Viking's discover the USA as you se on the map they where at "vinland" as they called it is most northern east side of the USA and dicover that in the Viking time year 1000 or some. Think about that a sail boat with 20 man with not much food and water could sail so fare way from Norway haha it is a masterpice if you ask me!
North America, not the USA
@@12tanuha21 Actually we have no way of knowing how far south they reached. But, sure, the US didn´t exist at the time.
Norwegian here.
His view of the history is very correct. Except for one thing: Sweden went far beyond Scandinavia after the 16th century, and became incredibly powerful. Sweden was a superpower in the 17th century, even owning two military forts near Manhattan in the New World. These holdings were later conquered by the Dutch. Sweden then conquered parts of Russia in several battles. At this time, late 17th century, early 18th century: Sweden and Prussia were the preeminent warrior cultures in Europe, in addition to Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth (another superpower at the time).
But his cryptic non-sequiturs about people fleeing modern Norway for "freedom" - and how modern politicians are "doing the same as Olav Trygvasson" - are transparently demagogic and hyperbolic.
Based on all that I have heard so far, he is - I bet - a Libertarian. Probably someone who spends meaningful time at the annual (right-wing) hippie communal anarchy gathering near Kristiansand. Someone who thinks *all* taxation is theft. I know several people like this.
You can understand the demagoguery of his talk by the fact that he keeps enticing the listener without going into detail. He promotes curiosity to his political views by building up to it from the beginning, without providing context at the time. He wants your attention for something *entirely* different from the historical analysis of Norse history, hoping to catch several gullible vulnerables to his practiced political context. I'm sure we'll find that on his youtube channel. To his credit, this was a great video, and he kept his ideology *mostly* away from it.
Swedish vikings more often went east. The Kiev and Novgorod empires where created by Swedish vikings.
Trade routes where created with Irak, Iran and Konstantinopel.
The highest concentrations of silver treasure made up of eastern coins etc has been found in Gotland.
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The Danes are also the precurser to the Normans as well.
I know that the Norwegian narrator is biased toward Norway, but in a nutshell, the Danes were the heart and most widespread raiders and conquerers.
Danes took over most of the UK, parts of France, Frisia, and even raided the Mediterranean and Northern Africa.
Norwegians pushed westward and established in Ireland, then founded Iceland and Greenland. Eventually finding North America which they called Vinland. Norway spent a lot of time feuding among their own.
The Swedes crossed the Baltic and began raiding slavic lands (a region known as Courland). They went up the rivers and founded Russia. They were referred to as the Rus or Russian. (Meaning people of the red hair. In that age "Red" hair meant anything from blond to red to auburn hair).
They rolled their ships across open grasslands on the Eurasian steppes to then rejoin rivers in their exploration.
They eventually came south and attacked Constantinople with great success. The Emperor was impressed with their power and savagery and hired them on as Varangian Guards. He paid them heavily.
That's the basic 3 viking groups geographically in a nutshell.
PS. You should understand that the poor Swedes get picked on by Danes and Norwegians more so than Danes and Norwegians messing with eachother. The Swedes did get revenge by getting the Norwegians hooked on Lutefisk (Pickled herrings in snot) and they got us Danes too by taking back Southern lands that used to be Danish, after WW2, and later making better money from the pornography industry.
In all seriousness, I love Swedes and Norwegians almost as much as my fellow Danes.
Actually... (don't you learn abt this in school, in the UK?) as an example on how ''all over the UK they got'' is how English and Norse-language influenced each other. Very common words in English, today, comes from the Nors language. Like: Husband, window, cake, egg and law, are just a few that comes from norse
Vikings were all over the UK. Just as they were ''all over the world''... at least they got pretty far. America ''we all know', but just as they were able (because of the engineering mastery of the ships) could go far inland through the UK, all the way to Paris, but also through the river Volga -through Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and across the Black Sea to Istanbul/Constantinople. The did not stop there, cause further south Vikings met Arabs, and for the same way they got, anywhere basically, they went upriver on the Tigris river to Baghdad, Iraq (if we think the brits were shocked seeing vikings... Just think abt how the Arabs far inland Irq thought? Man..! I wish photo and video was a thing then!).
Don´t the varangians since you are talking about the area down south
Greatings from Denmark. Did you notice what he said about “Bluetooth”?
The word Bluetooth that is used today is taken from the name of a danish king Harold Bluetooth or Harald Blåtand as he is called in danish.
As a Dane and a proud Scandinavian, I couldn't agree more. If any invidene country sets so much as a foot in either, Denmark Norway or Sweden. And those countries will come together like never seen since the viking era, and show why everyone on earth today knows who the vikings were, make no mistake we bite back and we bite HARD. We love and make fun of each other, but it's also just that, fun. The way it is with siblings.
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You won't believe how many people that don't even think Swedes were vikings ^^ And they refuse to believe it, no matter how much I try to explain. ^^ Hopefully, this Norwegian will help change that :P Nice to see that you actually knew! :))
The reason is, unlike Danes, there were no people called "Swedes" at the time.
However, people living in areas of what is now Sweden (Halland) were already called "Hellevikings" (Hilleviones) during Roman times.
Most Swedish vikings interacted with Eastern Europe. So there's unfortunately not a lot of preserved litterary sources. The water level was higher back then, so it was very easy to travel by river all the way down to Greece/Turkey. The modern name for Russia is based on the eastern European name for swedes/vikings "rus".
I was born in West Yorkshire
and lived between two former villages
now part of a town.
One in the valley was called Bradley
(an Anglo-Saxon name)
and the one on the hill called Fixby
(a very very Norse name)
It is two places showing the nature and extent
of the Danelaw.
BTW check out Jay Foreman's
"Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?"
It will show you indirectly the extent of the Danelaw.
You know that in 1066
there were two invasions of England
Harald Hardrada - from Norway / Denmark
and William from Normany
Harold II defeated Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge
and marked the end of the Viking era
The other invasion he rushed to Hastings
and sadly lost to William
dying in the battle
and thus we have the Norman kings.
With all due respect to my nordic brothers. But he is some what off with the Swedish vikings. The Danes where aboslutely more active in Europe but... He miss a very big fact, Swedish vikings went east and founded Kievan Rus. Who later attacked Constaninopel who was the capital of Byzantine, the greatest empire at that time.
Grimsby, Whitby, Derby and more seems to have something in common. Strangely, many towns and cities in Denmark also ends on by, which means town/city.
You get the picture?
The music in the background at the beginning of the video slaps and i need it.
Certain english words used today are influenced by old norse. Since danes had the biggest influence and actually settled in England, we most likely are the influencers. :P (Keep in mind, old norse - spoken by scandinavian people back then, were more or less the same through out the whole scandinavian peninsula, or atleast in the major countries there. Im just trying to say that it was basically the same language back then, more or less... Also both old english and old norse stems from germany, or germanic language tree, and its very possible that old english speaking and old norse speaking ppl might have been somewhat able to understand each other and be somewhat intelligibel.
where do you get dna tests? i kinda wanna see mine. Lovely video, happy you learnt something new!
Finland didn't have vikings, more than the Swedish ones that took the boat across the sea to expand. The area had very few people at the time, and their tribes was mostly fighting amongst themselves and with tribes from further east, and doing agriculture. Finland pretty much became a part of Sweden very early on, and 1253 is the first time that Finland is administratively listed as being part of Sweden through diocese records, and the the karelian area was added at the end of the 13th century. If you look at the flag and coat of arms of Soutwest Finland (Egentliga Finland/Varsinais Suomi) they still bear the Swedish flags.
Im from england and in my dna i have a small percentage of Danish and Swedish. This is from the Vikings. I also have Irish, Welsh, Scotland, and North West England...so Celtic as well 😅😂
Honestly the way he speaks about human kind and us Scandinavians as we’re all man, is very provoking.
It was a made plan. The 3 different scandinavian vikings had differnet tasks. Danes to conquer big parts, the norwegians to rob everything and the Swedes to explore. Not interfering with each other. Back then we probably spoke almost the exact same dialect aswell
He did not say Norwegians but Normans as from Normandy France.
As in battle of Hastings = Vikings (descendents of Danish Vikings)
An other fun fact is the influence in English language from Danish!
Kind regards the Danish Viking
Well that is how a Norwegan would tell just a nother "saga" to day. The "Swedes" where much more out and about then he clames theyu where. But they where more of mercenerys or tradesmen. Saladin and Charles le Main had vikings as hierd sodiers and as traders. As the Jewes, Cristians and Muslims would not trade with each oter the swedish vikings where hierd to do the trade as they where neutral in the wars betwen said religeus groups. Our long boats made it easy to travel the baltic sea and all the rivers that where conected to the baltics. And the ships chould even be draged across some landmasses to get futer inlnads if so where needed.
But there whas nothing called Sweden back then. There there major "tribes" Östgötar (est-gots), Västgötar (Väst-gots) and Svear (Sveades) that lived in what whas to become Sweden later on. To day we know that "Swedish" vikings had stelemnats all across the baltic sea and along the rivers that is conected to it. They had large setllements in Russia and Urkraine for example. But even Hagia Sofia got some viking tags carved in to it.
The Swedish Vikings where vritten about by muslim and roman/german historians. While the Norwevians where just dreaming up sagas in those days. So if you look for historical facts only in the sagas, you are missing a lot of viking history. Denmark whas always under atack from the Roman/German-empiere and Swedes where fighting on both sides as mercenaries or ass alied if there whas some family ties by marriage that whas usualy made to tighten bounds between familys and/or tibes back then.
(No I am not drunk. But I do got dyslexia, hense the bad spelling from my part.)
Back in the day, York was called Jorvik.
Oh cool I actually prefer that name, they should of kept it.
I'm from Denmark, where the Vikings started. Later Norway also got vikings & Sweden last, because they were to far east.
Viking greetings from Denmark
Half Norwegian half Scottish.. born in Canada and still honour my roots for both of my families heritage. 6’1” and 230lbs. Deadlift 500lbs naturally and can’t handle the 30 degree C heat of summer. The universe is balanced. 😘
Many swedish vikings were hired into the roman and greek army.
The greek emperor even had at one point a set of bodyguards who were all swedish vikings.
There are sevral lions heads in the greek habour Pireus where you can find viking runes.
He didnt talk about Finland becuse.. the swedish vikings settled in the south of Finland, befor later svedish kings conquerd the whole of Finland!
The name Finland is probably by swedish origin, actualy latin (fine = end of/the bottom of?) or there could be a tribe.. its probably a swedish name for those living there?
In any case the swedish vikings biggest impact was securing the traderoute to Constantinopel by establish Kiewan-Rus, that later become Russia!
The name Finland has been explained in many different ways, starting from the phonetically close Finnish words such as suo ("suomaa", marshy land) or suomu, ...Suomi.. aka Marshy-land.
I'm a mix of them all lol. Around 40% Scottish and the rest English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish. And a small amount of Native American from 1 of my 2nd great grandmothers.
Sorry U miss understood that the danish Vikings whom ruled eastern England also got Normandie from France, they later invaded England i 1066. Not the Norwegian Vikings.
They also got down to Sicily and founded a kingdom there
The only reason I know about King Canute is from Vinland Saga. That show has started me down a viking rabbit hole
His name is Knut.
don't mind him this guy has very peculiar opinions. Norway Sweden and Denmark are all democracies and very civilized countries nothing bad is happening there.
William the conqueror was the illegitimate son of a Viking *he was called William the bastard, behind his back.
Dwayne, im sure you have Viking genes, i Can see that in your humble side, grettings from the hippies from Sweden :)
Already 2,500 years before the Viking Age, Nordic high culture prevailed. The Bronze Age was characterized by boat trips, trade, warrior ideals and a chieftainship with luxury consumption and power from the gods. The parallels are striking, today's research shows.
its because during viking era finland on maps had text "there be trolls dont go there"
Making fun of each other is what we have done since i was a child and even before. But at the end of they day we are brothers and sisters! i love Sweden and Denmark. I cheer for them in sporting events so forth.
The English flag has the Scandinavian cross just like Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Finnish flag has the Scandinavian cross as well despite not belonging to Scandinavia. The reason for this is that Finland used to be the eastern most part of Sweden. When it gained independence it adopted a flag with the Scandinavian cross despite losing its Scandinavian status.
A Scandinavian nation has to fulfil three criteria: 1) shared history, traditions and mythology, 2) language, and 3) be mainland nation. Finland doesn't share mythology or language with Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
The Scandinavian cross is also called the Nordic cross in order to include national flags outside of Scandinavia such as Iceland, Faroe Islands, Shetland and others. Finland is included in the Nordic category of nations, as is Iceland.
I am frome iceland and oure language is the most like the old nors languages that the viking spoke. If you speak icelandik then you can read and understand the old writings frome the old nors language, of course ther have bin some smaller chances and some words end differently or the meaning has changed a bit, but you can understand moste of the context of the text.
Maybe😉 u Got first Discorved in 930 by the vikings from Norway. At that time the vikings in Denmark have been arround since 800
Agree iceland is the last vikings , but still proud of the danish vikings ❤
It might be that the enduring Danish influence in England is not apparent to people living there. However, the English legal and parliamentary system is based on Viking law - and by extension, the American system as well.
😳 6:20 The Icon we see everyday on electronic devices is "Magical".
Nokia, Bluetooth are all Norse words etc
The name Norway is a description of the route you had to sail to get from Denmark to England - The North Way.
Records of Finnic vikings are dubious (Finnic meaning not just modern Finnish but also that entire area including Estonia, Lituania and Latvia) Finn in the sagas is mostly thought to refer to the Sami nomads. It's not impossible that Finnic people raided but if they did it wasn't on a wide enough scale that they have left much of a trace. Maybe they were just beating back Swedes and Russians while hanging out in Saunas
20:14 HAHAHAHAH! That hairy mountain man is not wrong haha ☮
He is talking about EU, it is sneaking in through trade and power "exchange"....We should make a Nordic Union with GB instead....
About the dividing of the people it's the same in most countries. that the politicians and people in power want the rest divided and infighting instead of being united, because when the people divided they focus on eachothers differences and things they don't like, and the prejudices. example making a divide between natives vs immigrant, rich vs poor, people from the cities vs people from the countryside and so on. The only situations that people in power want the people united is in war times or if they want something done quickly.
The Finns where not Vikings and they are not a part of Scandinavia. They are however culturally tied to Scandinavia since they where a part of the Swedish kingdom for over 500 years.
The stone with the animal picture looks a bit like Thors two goats Tanngrisner og tanngjost, on danish tandgnost og tandgrisner
I'd say that Vikings could pretty much be split into two factions sort of, mostly Danish + Norwegian Vikings would travel west mostly attacking countries like Germany, France + Brittain. While the Swedish Vikings would mostly travel east going to places like Russia all the way down to Istanbul and even became something like the royal guards there from what I've heard. Also while he called Swede's the "nicer" Vikings it is a bit funny that after the, I believe Danish Viking King joined the christians and forced Norway, Denmark + Sweden to convert since Vikings could no longer attack other Christian countries Sweden then went and declared a crusade on Finland since they weren't christians at the time xD.