Did your ancestors worship Odin? Every European country!
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2020
- Norway, Sweden, Denmark-2:50 Iceland-4:10 Finland-4:30 Germany-6:00 Poland-8:28 Czech Rep./Slovakia-10:10 Belarus-10:38 Moldova/Romania-11:05 Greece-12:47 Balkans Countries-13:45
Italy-14:25 Austria, Switzerland-16:25 Spain-17:55 France-19:05 Belgium-21:32 Netherlands--22:37
England-23:48 Scotland/Ireland-25:42 Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe etc.-27:34
In Finland, many gods come from the same norse paganism like for example Thor is Ukko. The Finnish men also wore a ukko's hammer necklace like norse pagan men. (Ukonvasara in Finnish). The hammer is pretty similar too but actually the oldest found thor's/ukko's hammer necklaces were found in Finland from about year 500-600 made of silver, I too have one replica and it's so well-crafted. We have a lot of similar traits in our cultures and our religions. Odin is found in the old books describing the ancient religion of Finland and we have a lot of different gods too like the bard and the warrior Väinämöinen and the god of the wind and good weather of the sea Ilmarinen. I am Finnish and some my ancestors came to Finland to Karelia from Denmark, so I have also jomsviking blood, so I usually celebrate Finnish pagan holidays and Danish pagan holidays. If you're interested about Finnish gods and real finnish sagas, you should read the Epic of "Kalevala." It's a beautiful book.
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing that. I am curious about Finland, as well as Slavic Paganism, as I have a lot of ancestry in the far eastern portion of German and Czechoslovakia, even though my father's people are more from Wesel in Westphalia.
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This was amazing, thank you. I love learning about my ancestral beliefs. Your videos have given me a place to learn about my ancestors in a way I never believed. Thank you.
thank you for sharing. I appreciate your diligence.
Awesome info!!!! Thank you
This is a very good podcast. I really appreciate it, thank you
Thank you for a great video and (once again) the amount of research and wisdom you put into it! My father was German, from Swabia but with some recent ancestry through one of my great-grandmothers (late 1800s) from Northwest Spain too, so Swabian German and Galician/Castilian Spanish. My mother's roots on both sides immigrated from Flanders (Vlaanderen), the area around the coast and near the French border, so Flemish....@4:01 - What I have found from etymology, archaeological evidence, and place-names from Swabia backs up your point. He was named Wuodan in Alemannic dialect, evolving later (like elsewhere in Germany) into Wotan. He is mentioned in Runic inscriptions like the Nordendorf Fibulae; associated with warriors wearing wolf skins as in the Gutenstein Scabbard; the missionary Columbanus reports disrupting a Blot to Wuodan and also that bears were associated with him as well; there are healing inscriptions and charms to Wuodan much like in the Norse texts; surviving folklore and traditions about the Wild Hunt, etc.. We absorbed alot from Celtic ancestors whom the Suebi and Alemanni assimilated, in addition to what we brought from the Migration Era. The same can be said about Bayern, Schweiz, Liechtenstein, and Osterreich. Indeed, Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg (Austria) and much of Switzerland is Suebi/Alemannic.
@18:05 - The Visigoths were preceded by the Vandals, who ultimately moved on to North Africa. And the Suebi, who settled in Galicia and Northern Portugal. As an aside, northwest Spain gave the Church alot of headaches clinging on to Paganism for quite awhile even after officially converted. Many Church councils and the writings of Martin of Braga attest to these remnants, a hybrid of Celtic and Suebi....@20:10 - The Frankish elites were defintiely the errand boys of Rome and I see this as early as the 4th century when they were used by Rome against the Suebi/Alemanni, Bavarii, Visigoths, and Burgundians. This was a dress rehearsal for when they later became the errand boys of the Church and Christianized our Ancestors. I theorize not only because of power, but an actual mind-virus overtook them....@21:35 - Indeed, the Belgae were fierce warriors, originally Celtic but later absorbed Germanic tribes and gave rise to our Flemish identity.
Generally speaking if you have germanic dna your ancestors worshipped the germanic gods. They might not have done it in the country the arrived in during the migration period but since all germanic tribes come from the proto germanic your ancestors worshipped the old gods before they started to migrate.
I really enjoy these kind of historical videos tied to the geographical situation of europe, greetings from 🇨🇭
Those that migrated kept their religion for a few hundred years after migrating. The Anglo-Saxons were pagan for a few hundred years after settling, until they started converting to Christianity.
Awesome video , like usual ! Thanks for these stories and the time you take to spread the germanic spirituality
Coming to this video everso late but was a wonderful find and thank you so much for making it. I'm English, 10% Danish, My True Ancestry has my closest ancient relatives as being Anglo-Saxon and Norwegian Viking so pretty conclusive 😁 completely agree with looking to your own ancestry first but also feel that anyone should go with whatever religion they vibe with regardless of whether they have it in their DNA. Subscribed to you because you have so much useful info on here .. cheers!
Finally some good information about my Norwegian roots. My father would have appreciated your channel. You would have made him smile. So thanks from Saskatchewan, Canada
Another great video brother good information.
Before the arrival of the Visigoths, Spain had the invasion of the Suevi and the Vandals, the Visigoths fought the Vandals, who fled to north Africa, and in the VI century the visigothic king Leovigild conquered the suevi kingdom
Another excellent video, thanks!
Really great video! We'll done, and thank you!!
Great video. Thank you.
Thank you! Your video was awesome!
Thanks for the video. One thing that comes to mind is that other people moved around too, maybe not as much as the Nordic people, I have seen in other videos where it appears as if the only turmoil was Vikings moving around. But what a great video, it is another piece of the puzzle on northern European settlements. Jolly good show
I love your videos. They are so informative…I was history major but I think I have learned more about Scandinavian history from your videos than from anyone….I spent time in Norway and it didn’t work out to move there☹️
I love watching your videos when I have the time to do so, I started after learning my Ancestry, I don't know much about my family's heritage's or much about my maternal or paternal parents side, so I took a DNA test two years ago, it updated a bit since I first took it, but I am more then half of Germanic Europe, ( Northern Germany) Denmark, Sweden and Norway,a bit of Scotland and Ireland very low percentages, I have more Germanic Europe then anything! Going by a few names I do know I was able to build my family tree up to the early 1700's all the way to Sweden and Germany! I was born the 4th generation born American and I am from Northern New Jersey. Thank you for taking your time and sharing the History of the Germanic Tribes, I enjoy every minute of it!! Have a good day 😊
Hailaz thank you for that video my family came from baden baden Luxembourg and barvaria on my mom's side northern Germany and possibly the southern most part of Denmark as well as latvia and sicily/Italy on my dad's side
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for making it. With reference to Ireland, the norse were there for several centuries and most of the main cities were founded by them: Dublin for example was a norse town from it's beginnings right up until the 1170s when the English invaded. Parts of the East Coast of Ireland in particular still have norse names: Strangford, carlingford, Wicklow, Arklow, Waterford etc. We know the pagan norse gods were worshipped in Ireland because the gaelic Irish refer to them as heathen foreigners and pagans. Also, for example for a couple of hundred years there was a forest outside Dublin called "Torswood" (Thors Wood) where rituals took place. This was chopped down when the christian gaelic irish defeated the norse and took over Dublin for a few years in the 900s, before the norse returned again and took it back. Dublin was ruled by the dynasty founded by Ivar the Boneless, one of the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok - their clan was known as the "Ui Imair" in gaelic (O'Ivar) and there is still a common surname in Scotland and Ireland of McIvor, which pretty much means the same as "Ivarsson"
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Thanks for sharing your self and your wisdom. If you ever make it to Alaska look me up for some hospitality.
Great video! Love studying pre iron age history!
Good stuff
Brilliant as always
Loved this.
I enjoy your videos alot! As a Gotlander living on the island still, I've long found the subject of the Goths very interesting. Back in the day (migration period) Gotland was divided into three realms, and according to the Gutasaga that was written around the year 1300 it's mentioned something that is believed to be associated with the migration era "over a long time, the people descended from these three multiplied so much that the land couldn't support them all. Then they draw lots, and every third person was picked to leave, and they could keep everything they owned and take it with them, except for their land. They went up the river Dvina, up through Russia. They went so far that they came to the land of the Greeks. They settled there, and live there still, and still have something of our language." Possibly referring to the Ostrogoths who still might have lived there at the time when this was written.
Greetings from the land of the Visigoths ;)
I love your videos. History with humor. Very thorough.
My late father spent 30 years on our ancestral background. My ancestors came from Norway, Scotland, and Ireland. Strangely, I tan very well. Must have been some Iberian in there.
Thanks for the hard work.
there is still pockets in ireland that speak Gaelic every day as their first language. i live in one said area, connamara, irish is our first language, a old celtic language. its mostly along the western sea bord from north to southern ireland that the main pockets are found.
theres a few celtic traditions still practiced/celeabrated today.
bonfire night on the summer solstice , for a bountiful crop on the harvest.
we also have halloween, st Bridget day, and so no, but sadly a lot has been lost or wiped out
My mother’s side is Scottish and German. The German going back to 1500’s came down from Denmark.
My fathers side is Scottish, English and Norwegian.
All of them finding their way to Aus.
I’ve got more scot blood in me but I’ve always felt drawn to the Norse beliefs.
This video makes me feel like I’m aloud to study and be apart of Norse paganism.
Thank you x
How would you go about finding out what clan you e related to if none of your elder family is alive and the younger do not know and don't care to find out?
@Daniel Linley Seems to me he has more "Germanic" ancestry than Scottish. But i agree, he shouldn't abandon his Scot roots. At least not entirely.
Dude Scots are Picts, danes, norwegian, Norman. I know B/c I am Clan Anderson tracing back to 1200 AD on paper. We are all Indo european. The difference between Celts and Germanics a modern view. They were the same.
@@AmmaNonna You can look up the type of clan you’re related to
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Just discovered that my Biological Grandfather’s family comes from Norway and Denmark. Started looking into the culture and found your Channel. Awesome stuff.
I'll have to take a DNA text since I am so mixed haha. Great video like always. 👍
Love it. Bravo
I absolutely love your channel.
THANK YOU !🙂👍
My name and family came from Wesel Germany. I am Catholic, but find comfort and connection from Pagan Germanic beliefs and history. Keep up the great content. Friede sei mit dir.
Lithuanian and Latvian territories were not settled by Vikings to any extent because of Kurši ( Curonians ), a coastal tribe of Balts that made the Baltic Sea, especially later on in the Viking age, off limits to Scandinavians, they were feared by Scandinavian vikings for they regularly raided Danes and Swedes and Gotland and were notorious pirates of the Baltic. Viking prayers to this day remain inscribed in stones asking their gods to spare them from Curonians. Ragnar Lothbrok himslef, according to the sagas, tried to pick a fight with Curonians twice and twice he was utterly crushed. In one particular raid Curonians with Oeselians basically erased the old Swedish capital Sigtuna, and that is why Stockholm became a capital afterwards. The only place where Scandinavians had some sort or presence among Baltic tribes were in Old Prussian lands where there is archeological evidence to support that Scandinavian traders were present in coastal trading towns. No Germanic paganism in those parts probably, but again Baltic paganism is quite similar to Germanic.
Swedes and Danes did try to return the favour sometimes with some occasional minor successes.
Same holds for Estonian territories due to Oeselian tribe that regularly raided Scandinavians together with Curonians.
Greetings from Romania. There's no question of the Germanic genetic influence on the region, but when it comes to old Germanic beliefs, Romania doesn't really get a significant worship of Germanic deities, because the Bastarnae of Moldova never kept anything tied to it, the Visigoths were already Christian in the 4th Century AD, and the Teutonic Knights, together with their Saxon settlers, were also Christian by the time they arrived in Transylvania. What there is a lot of presence of around is Celtic or Gallo-Roman deities and religious aspects tied to these people, as well as Slavic ways of worship (of course, we're talking about different frames of time here, the 4th Century BC Celtic cultures, the 1-3 Century Gallo-Romans, and the 6th - 10th Century Slavic influence).
I'm stoping only a minute in. Totally agree about the heritage research first. I'd like to add to that also, listen to the music of that religion/culture, if the music resonates and hits you in an unfamiliar place, then that religion and culture were most likely once yours in a past life. Cheers from a Van Alyne
Since finding I'm 23.9 % swedish was hoping they would take me as a resident,thank you for the videos brother!
the Romans and saxsons never tried to invade ireland.
the Norse were in power in large parts of ireland for over 200 years or more. they founded the capital city Dublin, as well as other major cities.
ivar the bone less ruled Ireland for year's.
norse heatherny is still alive and well in Ireland today
I’m so glad I found this channel. My Grandfather was from a town named Skein. Apparently it is now called Christiansen? Anyway, south-east Norway. He came to Canada and married an Indigenous woman (my Grandmother). My brother and I also don’t do well in the heat, it makes me feel sick, although we both tan very easily.
absolutely great video very true I live in georgia and do landscaping I about die in the summer
About Austria: the region was ethnically Roman/Celtic mixed wih some early Germanic people in Roman service, but religiously completely Christianized when the Germanic migration began. The important year here is 488, when Odoaker - the Roman magister militum of Germanic origin - ordered all Roman troops from Noricum back to Italy to defend against the Ostrogothic invasion, that came from Pannonia through modern day Slovenia. So Noricum was suddently without Roman troops. This was taken advantage of by Germanic tribes that lived North of the Danube and in today's Bohemia. They crossed the river and just took over the land the Roman administration had just abandoned. This land was not completely empty however, since the majority of the Celto-Roman population stayed. So in archeology we find a sort of Apartheid society with romanized Celts on one hand and Germanic Baivarii on the other hand for about two centuries. The two groups had seperate burial sites, and when the used the same graveyard, they had seperate areas in the same graveyard.
The Celto-Romans were catholic Christians, while the Baivarii were partly Arian Christians (see: Arianism), which had spread to them through the Goths and the Wulfila-Bible. The other part of the Baivarii were Germanic Pagans, as you said, but we have no evidence which kind of Germanic Paganism they adhered. There are not written texts about that and from what we find in graves, there is no evidence for any of the Nordic Germanic pantheon (Odin, Thor, etc.). What we find are burial objects like swords, jewelry, craftsmen tools, but also animals, especially horses. What is important to know is that the names for the days of the week in Bavarian don't derive from Nordic gods, but all come from Gothic-Greek Christian background, so not Mars or Thor but Ares for Tuesday and Pfingstag (penta die) for Thursday, not Donar like in other German languages or Jupiter in the Roman context. Also the "Samstag" (saturday), from Greek Sambaton (Hebrew Shabbat) entered via the Bavarians into the German language.
So we know that there were Pagan remnants in the earyl days of the Bavarians (from 500 to 700 A.D.), but this kind of Paganism could have been very different from classical Nordic Paganism (unlike with their Alemannic neighbours, where the Nordic gods are well documented). The Bavarians could have had a more Eastern Paganism, through the Goths/Vandals/Heruli/Gepids and maybe even Slavic. From about the year 650 the pagan remnants start to dissapear in Bavarian graves. Most likely the Bavarians first converted all to the Eastern Gothic form of Christianity (Arianism), while the Celto-Romans stayed Catholic - a situation similar to Gothic Spain or North Africa under Vandal rule at that time. Only later, when the Bavarians lost first their Langobardian allies in Italy (Desiderius 774) and than their political independence to the Franks in 787, the catholic Christianity supported by the Franks and already the religion of the local Celto-Roman population replaced the Arianism. All famous early monastaries and bishoprics date back to this Catholiziation periode in the 8th century. What was before is not well documented (since all documents were written and kept by catholic clerics).
My father's side is French, Welch and English. My mother's is English, Scottish and Irish. Found an old handwritten book in one of my paternal great grandmother's items called "The old gods". Obviously she was reading about Norse Paganism and I love it. Have never been so at peace as when I discovered Norse Paganism.
Må nok være den beste "norsk-engelsken" som har kommet ut fra moderlandet ja. Veldig informativ video forresten! :)
I am norman and here in Normandy we had several waves of germanic settlements.
Along with the franks, saxons settled in some coastal areas, and the romans gave them lands as long as they took part in the defense against the other saxons that were raiding the coast at this time. There is a very rich and beautiful grave that was found where a saxon princess was buried in Normandy. Some saxon place names still exist, even though it's quitte difficult to sometimes make the difference between saxon and old norse names.
Then of course the vikings settled in large number during the 9th and 10th centuries. Normandy was officially named and given to them in 911 (this region used be called Neustrie) and Hrólfr (Rollon) became the first duke.
When William the Conqueror invaded England all Normans where christianised and nobody still spoke in old Norse, but a large number of place names, family names, and current vocabulary come from old norse in Normandy.
Many norse pagan beliefs can also be found in our folk tales and legends. Some runes were found and a norman church is decorated whith a man holding a hammer in a boat fighting a sea serpent that he just fished... i'm not sure the ox head appears, but we are very close of what we know from this myth where Thor fights Jormungandr.
i am from romania/ moldova (i am right on the border) and i have been raised in a Christian family (very religious family) but i never felt right there. and about 4-5 years ago i stumbled across some works and scripts about Odin and the Norse gods and the believe and as i was reading it something felt right. and for a year i was just trying to learn as much as i could about this cuz i was so fascinated, all my problems that i had with Christianity were solved by this to say like that (in this one year i also saw the show vikings and i was like this isnt really right. right?? but the show as a show was good). but after a year, maybe a year and a half i had some family issues and i had to go on my separate way at the age of 17. and for a long time i wasnt thinking about this anymore only sometimes would i do so. but for almost 2 years now i have started again to learn more about the old gods and the more i learn the more i love it. idk why but this just feels right
maybe its just me maybe im just weird idk
That heat is why my grandparents emigrated to Canada from Norway and my parents came to Alaska where we are still here through my grands!
I look forward to all your videos! Wow! Great job! Obviously I’m a MacLeod, descended from the Siol Tormod or the Clan MacLeod of Harris and Skye in the Hebrides. We are descended from a Norse Gael named Leoid or Ljotr and we have a very strong tie (confirmed by an extensive dna project) to our ancestor Leod who’s roots appear to be in Shetland and perhaps Western Norway. For 800 years we have distinguished our clan as a very Norse clan descended from The Kings of Man and the Isles. Actually a very similar claim as Clan Gunn, as you have mentioned before with your tartan kilt. I will not bore you with any more details but we view the Norwegians as our cousins in the same way many Gaels would similarly look to Ireland. You should investigate our Fairy Flag at Dunvegan Castle which some believe was passed down from our ancestor Harald Hardrada, his Land Ravager Flag but it’s pure modern day speculation. We have always claimed it was given to us by the fairies to be used three times in times of severe crisis. Thanks again, just a little personal history here. I enjoy your channel very much.
I will add the Chiefs of Clan MacLeod, specifically Tormod was offered to be King of Norway during a dispute in the 13th or 14th Century in Norway but he declined and in the last 150 years supposedly it happened again! I can confirm this claim with specific details if needed.
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Oh for sure my ancestry comes from all over Europe Bavaria, Swabia, Gaul, Ireland, Scotland, Sussex, Brittany, Normandy my surname was originally Schwab before they came to the States in the colonial era. Wodanaz Wotan Odin has evolved much like our peoples as well as the other Gods and the Celtic Gods are similar. Very good video I love topics on ancestry and culture.
As a Canadian of Scottish, Irish, Nordic (and even Cree ancestry), I can say that there's a really good chance that my ancestors back in the day honoured Odin and his kin. Indeed, I have met people out here who have honoured the Old Ones of the north for generations - if not more. It is so good to see the old ways coming back - with respect.
The English weren't invaded by the Angles Saxons and Jutes they were the English, they invaded Britain conquered/assimilated perhaps with the Britons.
Try telling the Welsh that the English were in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons arrived, the Welsh and Cornish were the ones displaced not the English.
Plus it would make the English originally Celtic and the other nations in the British/Irish isles pride themselves on being Celts because the English aren't.
The English Jutes pushed the Picts out of Southern Britain back into what we now call Scotland the Scotti hadn't arrived from Ireland at this point.
The Angles settled large parts of Southern Scotland and the Scots language is derived from old English even Scotland's Capital is an old Angle settlement hence the name Edinburgh.
I think the Anglo-Saxons were happy to just keep the good flat fertile land rather than go into the more mountainous regions of Great Britain, the Vikings thought exactly the same a few hundred years later.
North West England lady here. We had the Angles (we're around the border between Northumbria and Mercia).
And later the Danes. Lots of Danish influence in our Northern English dialects.
Before that the Romans had a considerable impact and there's even a river that the Romans used for transportation, and they called it after a Gallic-Celtic goddess, who I presume must have been honoured by the local Britons.
A mix of Germanic/Norse and Celtic Paganism keeps me rooted to our land.
My english side is from West Middlands so me im more related with the saxons and also had a lot of viking raids
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good video.
the irish had Norse/Gales. when the Norse and the Irish marriage and the children were Norse/Gales, which followed the northern Gods for a long time, even today
Don't forget the Suebi, they settled in what is now Portugal and Galicia, they came from the heart of Germany, more pagan than that only in Scandinavia, in 409 and stayed there until the Visigoths arrived and annexed the kingdom of the Suebi in 585 with the help of the Romans.
So, I am a small percentage Swedish. My direct ancestors came from Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, and the Basque region of Spain that immigrated to the island of Puerto Rico. When I chose my Pagan path, I did explore Santeria and Wicca. However, I could not easily connect to Santeria or Wicca. Norse Paganism is where my passion lies. I started listening to music Aurora and Eivor, it both of their own language and this opened me up to visions and memories that aren't my own. Perhaps from my European ancestors?
Glad I got to hear about Scotland and Ireland 👍
Í put like a shrimp under the sun😂my skin is not strong.// nice vídeo, i have part from Belgium, England and italy in my blood ✌
Aside from the Goths, another important tribe and kingdom to note in the area of Romania and part of Hungary and north Serbia was the Gepids. I believe they were an East Germanic tribe related to the Goths but became distinct. I don't think they made a big impact on the area but they still ruled it for about a century or so in the 5th/6th century.
I’m Swiss with half Scandinavian and English, the swiss people are mainly Germanic, the lombards and bargundians which are Scandinavian tribes would have made up most of the genetics of the Swiss, and the genetics would have been preserved far more than others due to its location and timing of the migrations. Majority of the Celtic tribes in Switzerland fought to the death against the romans or migrated to Gaul around the beginning of the Roman conquest of Central Europe
Not so sure on my mother's side, but my father's side is VERY Scandinavian. My great, great,great,great (maybe another great in there LOL) came to USA in the 1800s with his family from Norway, in fact my family farm is still standing and it is about 2 hours away from Olso (Skyttland). Every since we traced our family tree back a couple generations, I have been fascinated with learning more and more about the homeland and culture, since I am very westernized. I wish I grew up learning stories of the old Gods, but better late than never!
I never felt comfortable growing up Christian, so it was a relief when I discovered Norse Paganism during my early teen years, and I felt right at home
Great video sir. Skin Cancer at a young age? Is this common? Saludos desde San Diego
I'd add something interesting about Portugal. Around the X century, a reasonable number of "viking" settled in and around an island in the Tagus river. The locals of al-Andalus (muslim hispano-romans starting to mix with syrians and berbers) started to call them "mages" as they noticed their funerary rites - based on fire - reminded them of some religious rites of the zoroastrians so they called them by the same same. Centuries later, the same settlement is now a city called "Salvaterra de Magos", Mages' Landing, literally.
Turkey was the former Druid Kindom before Turkic invasion...Goth, getae, goezzi were in Romani earlier than 4th AD mentioned dino-getae in Roman Empire sources...100 BC
@11:15 - Could "Ermaneric" be related to the God Irmin and the Irminones? Just from what I read from Saxon Heathens, it seems that Irmin was another name for Wotan....@13:33 - Interestingly, there were certain Croatian and Bosnian nationalist intellectuals and figures from the late 19th/early 20th centuries who emphasized a Gothic origin for themselves, perhaps to link themselves with Austria? Not sure how common this is in the Balkans nowadays.
I'm Frisian with Frisian ancestry. Thanks for noticing man.
I'm Polish, German and Russian on my mothers side. It's interesting because, before I knew any of this. When I changed my 'gamertag' like 8 years ago. I choose the name Wodinn. only because I didn't really want to use the default Odin. Turns out that seems to be my ancestral pagan heritage. I just thought that was interesting. Now if I could figure out what it is on my dads side.
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Im the typical anglo- celt Australian. Ancestors from England, scotland ireland and Germany. As I've got older I've learnt to enjoy our folk dances and music.Looking at those things it's interesting to note that the dances and tunes are a mix of English, scottish ,German, Belgian and irish.Due to convicts being majority irish all the music have a celtic flavor ,but is slightly differant to the I r ish style.There are also place names of all these cultures,we even have a town in Victoria called Walhalla.
Portugal/Spain or Iberic Pensinsula would have been better than just Spain.
Great video, thank you for sharing
Spain is just another name for the peninsula, spain=hispania
In Romania we still have German traditions such as the Yule Boar and nearly everyone on my father’s side is blond with some from my mother’s.
Buna! Yule Boar is "Ignat" where we cut the pig that we eat after on Christmas?
My ancestor is Danish and Scottish so it makes me proud and looked up the knowledge and wisdom I have mixed thoughts on it
Yes, although I have mainly German/Scottish/Dutch ancestry I am a direct descendent of Ragnar Lothbrok and he was the son of Odin, so Odin is my great great great great great grandfather. I will get some runes tattooed on the side of my head to show my Viking heritage.
5:40 of what you're saying is true then Lithuania was pagan longer we converted to Christianity in 1387 and to this day we still have a lot of our pagan beliefs
Yes I'm sure. Don't know a whole lot about Baltic pagan beliefs but I know there is a big tradition. Would love to learn about that more.
@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 we believed in a number of gods/goddesses/entities like there is a goddess of the lakes rivers and the seas who drowns sailors in storms we have a god of wine and rituals we have a entity that's a chicken and gives gifts/blessings to hard working people a entity that's a snake is a symbolic symbol for immortality
@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 BTW Latvia and Lithuania believed in romuva while Estonia believed in suomenuska the same as Finland
And here is the trailer of Baltic Tribes ruclips.net/video/uAVLBvxm0ZI/видео.html
@@danalasmane6191 I watched this in theatres here in Lithuania
So when exactly did you talk about Baltics more? In the end when you once just named them and then immediately started talking about Kievan Rus?
I do have one Rune and a deep appreciation for and that is Ing. "Move as one" "Bend but do not break" and in your mind "see" the action before you strike-- I like that one yes indeed I do. Must be the DNA, it is rather "clever". Ing is older than Inguz.
I grew up in the North West of England,I'm half Welsh/English and like to follow a mix of Celtic/Scandinavian and Germanic Paganisum,as I believe all European people interacted together and swapped ideas about there God's and there culture.
In southern italy there's the story of the "Noce di Benevento" a sacred three of Odin/Godan,this three was very important for the longobards
I've researched my last name n I found in mostly French , German and dutch . I wasnt blessed with size lol I'm a lil guy but I liked this video
i believe my ppl came from Denmark to France/Germany . so I probably do have Norse history in my back ground
My dad is fully Germanic as in Norwegian Saxon and Dutch an my mom is angol-Saxon Scottish Dutch and Irish
Norwegian on dad's side, French on mom's (Picardie), I felt very much at home in Normandie !
The Suebi and a couple of other Germanic tribes founded kingdoms of their own in northwestern Hispania prior to the Visigoths founding their own kingdom, and were largely still pagans at the time as well.
Their time as an independent, Germanic pagan kingdom in Hispania was short lived though. The Visigoths eventually absorbed or kicked them all out and ruled over Hispania until the Moors invaded.
I would have said "Iberian Peninsula" when you talked about "Spain"... you forgot Portugal there ;) We are a small country, but we are on the map and we are part of Europe and its history.
Very true. In addition to German and Flemish, I'm also of Spanish ancestry (roots in Galicia and Castilla y Leon), so the regions closest to Portugal...and I have traveled to both countries! Traveling there twice made me a Lusophile ;) You're very right, there were the Lusitanians who were cousins of us, the Celtiberians and Gallaecia. But also the Suebi settling in North Portugal and Visigoths in the rest of Portugal (just like most of Spain). Obrigado!
My main ethnic background is Norwegian and even my Scotish , English and French ancestry my be Scandinavian as well (that explains a few things about me lol) I do know my last name was changed when my great-grandparents emigrated to the US . As far as I can see it should be
Swendsen which is the Norwegian spelling of Swanson (english version) . One day I hope to be able to trace my ancestry better but atleast I have a little of it.
PS it was not only northern germany pagan, the suibi start to settle already 1 BC south and in 260 the limes was given up and the south was conquered mainly by suibi. As genetics studys show at modern day south germans their were no romans left. So their are a few hundred years of wotan in southgermany ;)
Yes a few hundred years at least. Probably more unofficially. But probably a few thousand years celtic though.
@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 yes of course this part was old celtic territory, not like northgermany the very old germanic tribe area, but in the southwest area some suebi tribes begin to settle about 0 or earlier and between 260 and 280 the southwest was conquered by the allemani, the maintribe of the allemani were the suebi, which the name swabians is from (the year 260 is the official date of the Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg), later some franks also came in this area, when the allemani lost the war against them. And the ancestors of the modern day swabians were not the celtic people, most fled or were whiped out when the allemani conquered the area, archeological finds and dna studies suggest this. Little different in bavaria, there I think the country was conquered about 500 completly, but in the graves Reihengräber you found typical germanic people, beside other graves you found propably unfree people, maybe celtic. Modern dna studies have shown, that there is also no celtic or roman impact in the bavarian dna ( also when the bavarian always think they are something superspecial, unique and not like the rest of germany :-( ). Btw suebi tribes also went to Iberia with the goth.
Were the Celts and the Germans always a separate people or do they have the same origins in the indo Europeans or corded ware people? I don't know the full history and would love a good starting point if anyone knows.
The Langbarðs came directly from Scandinavia, as suggested by the name Bernasconi, from Bernaskáney, that could be translated in old Norse as Bjarnarskáney; old high Germanic Bernus then turned in Björn because of a process known as "rupture", where U causes E to break in JÖ, as also seen in erþu, jörd, which mens earth, while Björn turnes into Bjarnar with genitive inflection.
Skáney was the name of a region in Scandinavia; in modern icelandic it is now Skáni, which is vocalized basically as the Lombardic name Berna-Sconi.
This is the name of my mother, while my father's is still of the same origin: Beretta, from Ber-hatt, "bear hat" in english, which reminds of Ber-serkr.
The Langbarðs had Wōþan and Goðan, clearly related, as names for this deity, while Óðinn is a mutated word that came after; W tends to fall in front of O in old Norse, while þ, in the middle of a word, tends to turn into ð.
Over a year later watching this video, but a more recent video was a little rant about people taking DNA tests to find out where their ancestors came from. Granted the rant was more about people getting the tests back with very little Scandinavian DNA found, and them claiming they are Viking when they are more Celtic or something else overall. Go back far enough, like when the Northern Sea didn't exist, and Britian was literally connected to mainland Europe during the stone age, everyone basically worshipped the same gods. I highly recommend watching docs about Doggerland. Just off the Netherlands, Belgium, and France connecting Britian was a large land mass that was flooded from ice melt. Fishermen in the Northern Sea have pulled up ancient human artifacts in their nets. Tools that are evidence the land below was once dry ground, grasslands and forests, and humans inhabited it. The flooding didn't just wipe out a huge chuck of land, but also reshaped the Scandinavian coast lines. The rock carvings we find in southern Sweden very well could have more under the water just off the coast. They probably didn't call the gods by the names we know today, but they were probably very similar.
My maternal grandfather is partly English so most of my germanic comes from him and maternal grandmother is partly Baltic
Im from spain
Interesting to see the spread of the Norse religion throughout Europe.
Well we Romanians are a mixture of Dacians and Romans, and the Dacians were described as blonde with blue eyes by the Romans. So probably that's where the light genes are from. But yeah we had a lot of contact with Germanic people throughout the history.
I believe there is even a small pocket of Saxons in Romania too
@@-._A2._- sorry for the late reply. Yes, there are. A good part of Romania was under the occupation of Austro-Hungarian Empire before the WWI. In Banat area there are quite many people with German last names, and some who have German as mother tongue.
@@izipizi23 no worries, and thank you for the information
I went to Romania when I was 17, and learned about the Dacians. It was very interesting, there were a lot of stone circles that reminded me of Celtic ruins. You have a very beautiful country, especially in the rural areas, where I spent much of my time. It was an experience I will never forget! 🙂
arn't the Slavic related to Romainians also?
What's great is I've never watched Vikings, I just have known my ancestry since being a young child and raised Christian. Now that I'm 32 and have done a lot of history studies, I wasn't too excited to be apart of Christianity. I have Scottish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, and Native American in my family tree. So yeah definitely feel more connected to nature than the average person. My own intuition took over, though my wife doesn't agree, yet. I never knew anything about Odin until these last couple months. I will say this...I have both eyes, but one has always been blind, and 4 eye doctors have no clue why and they don't think any Lasek/surgery will fix it...so I felt some connection there, and my mom has always said I'm wise for my age, and has been behind my decision 100%. She's Christian.
My ancestors came from North Germany & North East Poland right next to the Baltic sea. My father's cousin back in the 80s a history Professor traveled to these Northern Germany & Poland areas and spent 1 year tracking out ancestoral heritage. On my mom's side we have oral stories carried here to the US all the way back to what they say is before they were turned Cathlic. So a long time. It's well known in my family we were quoted Dirt Farmers who worshiped trees and rocks lol. So clearly Animism was part of my ancestoral pagan practice. As a recovering Christian I'm deconstructing and finding more peace in pagan ideas. I'm a farmer lol fitting as it's in my blood. But I see the value, power, energy that is within the natural world.
Do you have a map that show's the location of the medieval Township in Germany call Priebus?
I'm part Irish Norman and my family settled/ruled a large area in the North, but I'm unsure whether the Normans were pagan at the time. I know Ireland was somewhat Christianised, but still very pagan. So considering my family were nobility they may have still worshiped Odin. Any insight?
Im not too knowledgeble of irish history. But I know most of the sources also say that the Normans Christianized pretty quickly after they moved from scandinavia to France/Normandy. So probably christian for the most part by the time they moved to Ireland. However, the norwegian vikings came in very large numbers to Ireland and settled. They settled in Dublin and alot for other areas and have records that they were pagan for 1-200 years after they settled. So for sure if you are Irish, you've got a few ancestors at least that worshiped the Norse gods!
21:32 I want to add that beside the Germani Cisrheni (the germanic tribes living and mixing with the Belgic Celtic tribes). Saxons first settled in ths area before crossing into England (which can still be seen in the large amount of saxon influence in the West Flemish dialect). The Franks also made the area their home region during the migration period before conquering modern day France and in the early middle ages Gallo-Romanised Franksh nobility kept sending their sons to the area of Belgium because those regions were still more frankish then gallo roman. In fact the Franks only turned christian after Clovis conquered Gaul however the region of Belgium relativly stayed pagan until the coming of irish monks, making belgium thus for a relative large time a germanic paganist region.
Thank you for getting history right, or should I say putting it right? Eg where the Angles and Saxons came from. Who the people were.
There was a battle in 496 at Zülpich, the battle was betweens the franks and allemani, it is said that the franks convertet to christianity after that. The allemani were driven back to theier southern area and the franks became the mightiest tribe. In france there was in former times always a celebration of this battle they saw it as a french (franks) victory over germany (allemand, allemani). But they always fortget, that it was a battle between two germanic tribes and today huge parts of westgermany is frankish territory (not only Frankfurt). The number of franks who went to france was not so huge. Most stayed at home ;). At the treatment from Verdun 843 they used two different languages and in a nutshell they saw the old german as the language of the people. Btw the rivality between franks and allemani ended in a massaker at 746, das Cannstatter Blutgericht. So not only the saxons fought against the franks, also the allemani, but allemani became little earlier christians. At the end the franks won.
Thank you! I didn't know alot of that
I've read about that aswell, I don't know if it was this exact fight or another but the alemanni fought agains't the franks and the franks were loosing and the leader of the franks thought the gods were not with them so he started praying to the christian god and swore that he will become christian if they win now and then the franks were able to kill the chieftain of the alemanni and the alemanni retreated.
Don't forget about the Norman conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century!
I have both Scandinavian and Germanic and my family DNA comes from Mexico to Basque Country via the Conquistadors…