I'm originally from Northern Italy, and no, I don't bleach my hair. I have many blond cousins and most of my relatives have blue eyes. I now live in the US, and not one American has ever identified me as Italian. I don't think most Americans realize the magnitude of the Germanic genetic influence on Northern Italy.
@Antarehs Your ancesters was probably Langobards (Longbeards), but this was just the name the romans gave you, not the real Tribal name. A part of nothern Italy is still called Lombardia after this tribes. Alaf Sig Runa from good old Germany.
@@rowdy9379 Waldenser was not a kind of tribes, but a Christian sect who was wiped out by the jewish Vatican, caused they was the real Christians. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldensians&ved=2ahUKEwjF9rPkydT4AhUyhf0HHYFTB-QQmhN6BAgVEAI&usg=AOvVaw3-5vLJG-HtxglmsMNtw5Ks
From where I sit you sound like you are not proud of being Italian and are connecting yourself to Germans . Sweetheart, Italy is the great Roman Empire . One of the top 3 best empires of all time . What have Germans ever accomplished? Nothing. In WWII which they started 60-90 million people were killed. That is more war dead than all wars in the history of man , combined .
Not at all they were monotheistic Christians to whom Jésus was no God.....Thus the diffamation campaign the Trinitarian church started from the third century C.E.until today.
@@maggan82 I don't know exactly what their " heresy" was.....but I doubt the fact that they might have considered Jesus as God's son. Muhammad -Peace be upon Him - send a Messenger to the emperor of then Byzantia, it said : " Surrender to the One GOD and you will have eternal Peace.....orelse you will carry the sin of the Arians or the sin comitted on the Arians" Sorry for my editing....but it looks like Arius who came from then Lybia ( current Tunisia and Tripolitaine) Arius grew up around Monotheistic Jews they had at least four major Synagogues in the region....and he adopted Monothéisme and considered Jesus as a Prophet. I might be wrong but scholars tend to overlook that lettre from Muhammad PbuH....to Herakles citing the Arians.
Brilliant summary. One hunk of evidence that can't be ignored are place names. These tend to stick through many centuries with little change and can indicate the people who lived there. Finally, my home town, Worms, is the seat of the niebelungenlied. And the end of that word is pronounced like English weed. It means song or story. I'd love to dive into the original story, which is far more ancient than the 12th century version we usually see. It's got seriously huge range, with honor, treachery, icelandic princesses, dwarves treasure, and gory revenge . Fun for the whole family
Very interesting my family has been living in South Africa more than 300 years they came from 7 countries Sweden,Denmark ,Germany ,Netherlands ,Flanders,Scotland ,France so I must have alot of different tribes as ancestors from my mother and fathers side we are mostly tall and blond I have been told I look Scandinavian
We speak Afrikaans at home a Germanic language I understand Dutch 100 persent and most of German and in writing I following the text in Swedish and Frisian but cannot understand all the words
@@janvanaardt3773 Wij, Hollanders, kunnen alleen fries lezen met behulp van een woordenboek. Ten noorden van Amsterdam bevindt zich een dorp genaamd Schellingwoude. Schelling heeft niets te maken met schelling (engels: shilling) maar komt van het deens adskille, scheiden. In dit geval scheiding tussen woud en water. Ten zuiden van Amsterdam bevindt zich een groot dorp genaamd Watergraafsmeer of Diemermeer. Dit dorp heeft een eigen wapen: de zwaan, een edel germaans dier. Water-graafs-meer heeft niets te maken met een adellijke titel. Er bestaan geen watergraven. Graaf komt van het deens gröft wat sloot betekent.
I studied Anglo-Saxon in college - mostly the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. What surprised me was how easy it was to learn. Also, how German/Norse it sounded. It had a sing-song lilt to it.
Saxon sounds like German, Dutch and English for that matter. There are similar words in all three of them. And they all again also have similar sounding words in Nordic languages.
Finally a video that covers the history of the Germanic tribes in particular, love this part of history in particular from the germanic bronze age to the migration period. Very well done! But also there are 2 eastern germanic tribes that deserve an mention and those are the Bastarnae and the Buri germanic tribes. The tribes are mentioned in the Trajan's Dacian Wars as fierce germanic tribes and lived in the parts of central Romania and north-east Romania... but archeological evidence is scarce. Great content as always!
Some years ago they found a relatively big germanic graveyard under one of our fields belonging to my village. It was quite interesting. Our small local museum was also happy :D Greetings from Lower Saxony
This is great. I remember the first time I read Tacitus’ Germania and so enjoyed reading about a time where “my people” (I’m part German) were tribal and living close to Nature. Of course, when I was in school this was never even touched on, as if European history didn’t really begin until the Renaissance 🤪
I remember having my mind blown in 12th grade English class when the teacher told us about Beowulf belonging to an actual "tribe" of early Germanic people in Sweden, and how they were connected to other "tribes" in England around that time. Before then, as a teenager, my sense of history was that northern Europeans went back into the Middle Ages, maybe the 1200's or possibly the 1100's, with knights and kings and castles and fair maidens and jousting and King Arthur, and then the next thing you know, we've gone back to the BC era and we're talking about Roman emperors and the Bible and Jesus. I remember just assuming that places like England were "medieval" right after the Bible ends, and then when I was informed that Europeans used to live in small tribes close to nature and had a different religion, I was really surprised. Like it hadn't even occurred to me that there might not have been a king of all of England in 600 AD, and that it was a land occupied by many kings and different loosely connected groups, and before then, even smaller tribes back on the continent. The idea that our own history could be similar to Native Americans or Africans was a real eye opener.
The renaissance was what brought Europe out of the dark ages so it’s not surprising that you never knew about it. Pagans had their own way of living and unfortunately, Abraham if religion destroyed it.
However some of the information is not quite correct.. :) Adogit was probably not germanic, but of the lapplanders ("sämi") or a similar group. The -it ending is typical for the northern branch of the finno-ugric languages like finnish and dävvi) but never used in the norse, german or the later scandinavian languages. The -it ending means that the name is in plural. So the singular in norse was either Adog, adok or áthogg ("aouw-thok"), most probably the latter ,but in a finno-ugric it would maybe be "ä-do'g". Adog is most certainly a latinized form as many historians of the medievals wrote in latin only.
We're not taught this because it's generalized garbage, Germanic is a specific ethnicity, most of these groups are barely German or not even a little German. They're baltic scandinavian and even confederation of scythians with germans.... this is deluded garbage
For the Finns I'd like to add that most people seem to agree that the Romans speaking of "Fenni" were in fact speaking of the Sami people, because at the time (pre-500 AD) the area of origin of what we today call the Finns was populated by a farming, cattle-raising populace, not by hunter-gatherers. And this area in the southwest Finland is actually still called "Finland proper" and based on the placenames from that time the people there spoke a proto-germanic or germanic-adjacent language up until some time between 500-1000 AD, and these people were heavily Scandinavian-influenced in culture and genetics even before the Kingdom of Sweden eventually expanded into the area later in the middle ages. And to this day there is still a "genetic border" in Finland that roughly splits the populace into two distinct groups: the Eastern Finns who are more isolated and have more Uralic and Siberian ancestry, and the Western Finns who are more Germanic both in genetics and custom. I personally find it really interesting, as most people just go "Oh the Finns are Uralic and came from the east" or "The Finns are just weird Scandinavians", but in truth Finland is like a historical borderland where these two people groups mixed together. And the further South West you go in Finland the more Germanic the people and the culture get, and the further northeast you go the more Finno-Ugric they get. It's sad that no one in that area wrote things down until late in the middle ages, because the stuff happening between these people groups and the different migration waves must've been wild.
I find the Finno-Ugric peoples fascinating. You have the northern branch, which ended up in modern Finland and Estonia, the middle branch from which were derived the Huns, and the southern branch which spread from modern Turkmenistan to Turkey. From one relatively small group, you have such a diaspora of peoples with different cultures and appearances. I really have only read a cursory amount about them, but would love to gain more understanding of them.
Sámi peoples also lived in most of Finland back in those days, but were then pushed further and further into the North by the Finnish tribes. It’s really a mystery how and when the different tribes developed. The Finns proper and Tavastians clearly have had Germanic influence judging by the names of the gods they worshipped. There is also a very old strata of Germanic words in Finnish language, including the word äiti, which means mother. Can’t get much more basic than that. Curiously, Estonian does not have that word, but uses the Finnic emä, which is only applied to animals in Finnish. Tho it must be said, that it’s not certain how and when exactly those words were included in Finnish. What is almost certain is that the Sámi are the indigenous people compared to Baltic-Finnic and Germanic speakers. The latter two arrived later and in different parts of the country. Finland was extremely sparsely populated during middle ages and before, with few tens of thousands of inhabitants at most. Probably due to harsh weather and lack of much arable soil. Estonia and Southern Scandinavia had both tens of times those numbers. In conclusion, the Sámi were here first, and at some point there were likely Germanic speakers too in the west and the Baltic Finns arrived from South and East at some point in the past 1000-3000 years, possibly in waves and assimilated the others. By that time they arrived, a lot of other Indo-European words had already been accumulated to the language. First Indo-Iranic, then Baltic and Germanic words in various parts of Finnic migrations toward the Baltic Sea. To the point that a lot of the very basic and common words are loans. Later on, there were also additions of Russian and Swedish loanwords, sometimes even basically the same words that already existed but received a slightly different form and meaning. Also, due to different influences at different points, even languages like Estonian and Finnish are not mutually intelligible.
Nonsense. You have deliberately removed the Elephants in the ROOM. The Sami, The Mari and the Slavs. I am so angry that you have not done any research. GO DO SOME! Finish language is a Uralic Language READ THIS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages BTW you lot have at the very min 6 to 8% ASIAN DNA! So what are you drinking. What did they teach you at school? Why the German Bromance when it does not exist.
I do enjoy this era. You are well versed in the history and it shows that you enjoy this very much. Your face was lit up in happiness throughout video.
it's almost the same in portuguese, except that part about "ostrogoth". And our equivalent to "vandale" (vândalo) means "someone who makes a mess", but our equivalent to "franc" (franco) means "honest" too
Hello there! I know it's a year old video but I just fallen down into this DNA rabbit hole. So here we are! Ostrogoths, Gepids, Franks, Kievan Rus, Swedish, Cherusci, Visigoth, Boi ancestors are the ones I have alongside Belgae, Thuringii, Gauls, Early Slavic, Illyrian, White Croat, Sarmatians. Wee over a third of my DNA is Scythians (Kievian steppe region) and so called Proto-Hungarian and Western Hun. So Im a Hun, Swedish Germanic Slavic mix with a hint of Pannonian Illyrian. Funny mix.
9:59 In the east of The Netherlands there is a region called "Twente" (Tubantes). We have a separate identity from Holland and we were historically closer to Westphalia, which isn't suprising, because we both spoke and still speak Nether-Saxon dialects. To this day we Twentenaren are pretty proud to be different :D we have a newspaper called "Tubantia" we have a small football club called Tubantes where I live and we have a big club called FC Twente, which finished fourth in the national league :D
Mede-nederlander hier. Het grootste gedeelte van het zuiden en oosten van nederland kan ingedeeld worden in gebieden aan de hand van oude germaanse stammen. Brabant het land van de texandrii. De betuwe van de bataven (bata betekent sterk of goed, de betuwe betekent dus wellicht goede grond). De veluwe daarentegen slechte grond dus werd minder bewoond door de bataven. Dan heb je Salland het land van de saliërs (salische Franken. Twente het land van de tubantii (een saksische stam). De achterhoek mogelijk eerder de chamaven alleen hebben daar minder culturele binding mee dan bijvoorbeeld twente als Saksen en de Brabanders als Franken. Al met al heeft Nederland een hele significante geschiedenis omtrent Germanen al helemaal als men buiten het nieuwkomertje holland kijkt.
Ex-dutchie here. I (and just about my whole family) moved out of the Netherlands, but I still have family in that area. Used to read the Tubantia when I was visiting my grandmother
@@gnvinternationalambassador925 That introductory comment is so eye-catching! The English 'heel' is not only a 'hiel', but also a 'schurk/ scoundrel', so it looks like the 'backhanded compliment' of calling someone an 'interesting schurk/scoundrel'. Intentional or not, it is still quite an entertaining and well-turned phrase, so: well done!
@@denniscannon769 in Dutch "heel" sounds like the English "hail" but means "very" so "heel interresant" is (ironically) rather mundane, meaning "very interesting".. so probably not intentional but it's always nice to learn opportunities for new puns in multiple languages!
You should see the video: Kempe Medley, from one of the areas the vandals came from, Värmland, including Fredrik Kempe. Their name VendilaR (sing.) probanly comes from the ancient name for Vänern lake, namely *Vendiz. So the vandals might have come from a huge area from Vänern to south Norway..PS I can´t link to other videos anymore..DS
More tribes: Batavians and Cananefates from modern day Netherlands. Strong auxiliary forces that could swim and were great cavalry. They could even cross rivers without bridges while om horseback or simply by swimming over.
My family has been in the US for several generations, however doing genealogy I’ve traced many branches to Europe. A lot were either Germany or the British Isles. My direct paternal line is from Northern Germany, right along the Weser River. My surname comes from a town not to far away, in the Osnabrück district. Looking into the area, it has a long history. It was around the area where the battle of Teutoburg Forest happened. Osnabrück district was the first diocese founded by Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars
Portuguese archaeologist here. I'm in love with the suebic, vandal and visigothic chapter of our history and I'm very proud of being a part of their legacy. I found out recently im descendant of the franks, and may have some visigoth and saxon herritage as well. Great video on a very underrated topic.
The first kings of Portugal were the dukes of burgundy who reconquested Portugal and they used the nights templars who escaped from France who originated from the burgundy region.
@@raydawson2767 That's true! There might also be some sort of connection between count Henry and the kingdom of Hungary but it's hard to say if its legitimate or some medieval legend. As far as we're concerned, what you've said is the accepted version.
@@andremiguel1143 The royals were inter related,I know that the Spanish and Portuguese royals were inter married and the Spanish royals had Hungarian royal ancestry.
Portugal, Spain a lot like Rome, a sort of melting pot of >Europe, you will find a bit of everything, including Germanics. most Portuguese have if not most, at least a significant part Germanian blood. Hail Odin, my Iberian brother.
I am originally from Hessen, from the Taunus region which was sacked by the Romans. When I was a kid, the small towns still protected their dialect and food recipes. We even had our own types of holidays and parades, much of it with Pagan roots. That's pretty much all gone now. Not wanting to sound like a bigot, but my birthplace has been totally changed into a muslim holdout in the last 20 years. The local traditions are gone, Pagan stuff is no longer around because it "offended" the new "migrants", even the christian churches have taken down symbols of the religion as not to "offend" the "refugees". Won't be long before much of the old stuff is all gone.
Not a bigot. A realist. And an honest person. Very rare these days. This is happening all over Europe and America. You are not alone. And many of us are finally waking up to what's happening, and who is the Puppet Master in charge of making this happen.
@@gcanaday1 Yes, because speaking the truth is now considered "hate speech" and they've been allowed to censor and silence dissenting voices. Many of us are awake to what's happening and are helping to wake up our fellow European brothers and sisters to the true reality of the Agenda. We were warriors once. We should've never stopped. Some of us did not. But most have become soft under the guise of civilization and an assault from the Abrahamic poison in our lands.
@@scythianking7315 Funny that you mention the Jews...hmmmmm...I wonder why all this is happening around the western world. Who are the puppet masters hiding behind the curtains? Glad you brought them up!
I'm so glad you did this video because as I've told you a while ago this is my favorite period as well. I traced my fathers dna back to Hedmark and Oslo area. From what I can find the germanic tribe in the area was the Heidner. I found their history very interesting from what information I could find. cheers 🍻 hope all is well
I have been very lucky to have traced my family tree, person to person, back to 1620. I found that around 1800, we were awarded the titles of Baron and Baroness. Going back further, I found our family crest dated 1280. My family name is mentioned in Rome around 400 AD. We have lived in Baveria for about 2,000 years. Bavaria was a seperate country for about 1,000 years, until 1871. My grandfather always reminded me that we were Bavarian, not German.
Bavaria derives this name from a Celtic tribe that ancient Romans calls Boi, in the first century Ac arrives in this land two Germanic tribes, they was called by Romans Quadi and Marcomanni, the fusion of these tribes with Celtics Boi tribe is the origin of Bavarians , this is the true story of your ancestors!! 👍🙏
@AngeloCapra Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. I too am a student of history and what you wrote is very correct. I wish more people knew their heritage and the history of their people. Linda Werlein
Much depends on the older generations passing on history to the extent they knew it. I know when I got interested in all this stuff my father's brother or my uncle did pass along the history to a minor extent. The parents need to treat it as an important topic and if done the right way, the younger folks will carry the mantle@@europrosk-9121
Every Bavarian would tell you, he is at first Bavarian but he know, that he ist German as well! Propably your grandfather told you this cause of ww1 and ww2! Greetings from germany 🙂
@@achimfrankenbach7374us Bavarians feel like we were forced to join the German state back in 1870 and forced to become part of a country we culturally don't belong to. We lost our independence and had to submit to Berlin.
„Don‘t mess with the Suebi😂!“ My family comes from the area around Stuttgart…and we are „Schwaben“ (Swabians or Suevians or Suebi). We speak a very distinctive German dialect and are proud of it. Based on the dialect you can mostly identify from which area a German comes from - and roughly to which ancient tribe his or her ancestors belonged to. Years ago I was in Norway and was able to read and understand a Norwegian brochure. Many European languages are related to each other. Thank you for this report.
Looking old and modern maps, I see different parts where the Suebi are, first in the north close to denmark then in the south named Swabia. So, where you guys actually are from? You cannot be from everywhere at once its confusing and unfair for Geographic studies haha
American with half German ancestry here. My grandfather's last name (and thus my mom's maiden name) is an Americanized/modernized variant on the word Alemanni, and genealogical research has proven that this family name is for descendants of the Alemanni tribe. After the Migration Period ended, these formerly anti-Christian, pro-pagan people with a wolf warrior background were one of the last peoples on the continent to convert to Christianity (although the continental Saxons converted after them), mostly in the late 600's and early 700's, after their entire line of nobles and kings were executed as Frankish prisoners. In spite of this, the common people of the tribe continued to live in the same regions of southwest Germany (Baden-Württemberg) and northeast France (Alsace-Lorraine) where they had settled during the Germanic migrations, having previously been one of the largest thorns in the side of the Roman Empire at a time when many of the other tribes had been pacified or were looking to establish larger, more permanent kingdoms of their own. The area after that time was part of Frankish territory, and Alemannic German became one of the distinct dialects of Old High German alongside Thuringian and Bavarian as they all coalesced into a loose grouping of peoples who would later come to be seen simply as Germans as East and West Francia split apart and the Holy Roman Empire formed, occasionally breaking apart or allowing smaller internal kingdoms to self-govern for various periods in a complex political climate that lasted until the end of the Prussian Empire and going into the modern era. The Alemanns continued to be war-like and in favor of keeping out invaders well past their assimilation into the Frankish kingdom, and while being awarded lands and castles from the 10th century into the 15th, they more or less never moved from this relatively small region in southwest Germany for hundreds of years, with a fairly small and consistent gene pool, until the Protestant Reformation caused a large portion of them to flee the country for America, where they settled in Pennsylvania in the 1600's and early 1700's. Of particular interest to me has always been a sword scabbard from Alemannia around the sixth century, which appears to depict an ulfhednar in the same fashion as the Vendel plates from the same period back in Sweden, in Geatish territory (Beowulf's tribe). We of course know that the southern tribes had migrated south because of climatic concerns and the Huns to the east, but it seems that they often maintained contact with their Scandinavian kin. The Alemanni were a later confederation of tribes that probably evolved from the Suebi, or specific parts of the Suebi in particular such as the Hermunduri and Heruli, who are depicted on a map from Jordanes as living in the same region as the "Gautigoths," an early Gothic name for the Geats. And here I am today, having traced the Alemann lineage from my grandfather to a great great (etc.) grandfather in the early 1500's, with some evidence of a lost family tree that went back to Alemannic nobles from the 1300's. Here in 21st century America, it seems that I'm quite far removed from their history, but I like to think that I am nevertheless one of their few descendants who hasn't forgotten it.
@@thesomberlain8053 Sure. The comment was already running a little long, so I figured not naming every single location was probably for the best, lol. Most of my "German" ancestors were actually Swiss-German, from Berne, or some smaller towns nearby.
A really good video I hope a lot of people really appreciate this. Most history channels just passed by this time or just pick certain subjects to review. Keep up the great work ⚔️👍🏻
The Netherlands were mostly uninhabitable swamp areas between sand and sea. The people(s) who tried to make a living there were the ones that wanted or had to be far away from the civilized world of castles and armies and organized agriculture and taxes.
Afrikaner from South Africa here. DNA says 94% northern European and some southern European. Still Germanic as we come! My surname also comes from a town that is in Northern Germany just south of the border of Denmark. Makes me Saxon. My children are Lombard from their mother's side.
I did a DNA test recently, and I found that a large part of my ancestry is from Northern Spain and Portugal (as well as Slavic and Baltic) and there was some Germanic and Scandinavian DNA in there as well, which comes from the Suebi and Visigoths that settled in the peninsula. It’s been very interesting to learn about our Germanic ancestors and our history
@@Vulfheim It’s nice to meet you lol. It’s good to meet someone with similar roots as me, I always enjoy connecting with people and talking about our peoples heritage
@@ricardoj3456 So I personally did my test with 23&Me, and it gives you percentage estimates of your ancestry. The problem is that I’ve heard some of the bigger DNA testing companies have been known to skew the results, but it can give you an idea of your ancestry
It's becoming more clear that we Frisians are a semi Scandinavian people - i got a DNA done; 33% North Germanic Dane/Norwegian....the rest West Germanic...
Loved this video! I'm actually really surprised you didn't make this a year ago, tbh. Hope you're enjoying the Finnish/Sami books you got. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on them, being my main area of focus😉
@@lillemy4260 That the origins of the Sami PPL are mongolian and not caucasian is clear. My Question is, they real related to the Innuit, approved by DNA, or still this Beringbridge Theory?
2:49 a correction,it also started in northern Germany,if you look at a map of Nordic Bronze Age,it is also in northern Germany so not only Scandinavia,originally the urheimat (original home) of Germanic tribes was also a part of Germany,not only Scandinavia,and that map is incorrect,there were already frisii (frisians) in Netherlands before 100 BC
Just an FYI, there's a school of thought that lumps "English" as a "north Scandinavian" language. The sentence structure is very close to Norwegian, not so close to modern German.
I agree with this. In fact, most modern English derives from the Danelaw area, where English was changed from a West Germanic syntax, to a pigeon Norse/English hybrid with Norse syntax. I think we have to look to the development of English in 4 distinct periods; the original Anglo-Saxon (Old English), the Norse influence period (??? English), the Norman period (Middle English), and Elizabethan to Modern English.
You missed an excellent opportunity to mention the Kingdom of Suebi in Portugal/Galicia, which is quite interesting considering the original location of the Suebi near the Elbe river. Portuguese still has a few words + names that are of Suebic origin. But it should also be mentioned that the impact of the Visigoth on Portuguese culture and language was a lot greater. Basically, the most known Portuguese last names like Fernandes, Gonçalves, Henriques, etc., are actually of Visigoth origin.
Perhaps that is why Portuguese understand Catalan often better then Andalusian Spanish do? Was Portugal or parts of it also part of the Spanish mark? The Visigoth Satellite state of the Frankish empire in southern France and North Spain meant as a buffer zone between the Franks and the Moorish so the Franks could concentrate on subjecting their rivals the Frisians and the Saxons first before clashing with the Moorish invaders.
@@peterkralt2478 The Moorish never invaded Hispania, that was a big fat lie made up. The reason the Vandals got so easy into the Berber territories was that they had the same religion, both were None trinitarians. The Germanic tribe went down to Northern African territories and stayed there, but not the Moorish(Berbers) until much, much later when the Christian scripture change from having a title for Jesus called "Muhammad"(the chosen one) to a person called Muhammad. The Abbasid worked hard in making their own scripture and having their own heroes.
I may be from the Suebi tribe. My family moved to Hungary which is now Serbia and we are known as Donauschwaben. Even here in America we are still very proud of our culture. Many groups, festivals and family traditions still used today
I read the War Commentaries of Julius Caesar at around 17 years of age, and recall the battle of the Legions against the sudden attack of the Suebi who initiated the battle by swarming out of the forest edge from mid-way up a large hill to attack the two Legions at work on their field fortification. The battle is well described by Caesar, and the remainder of the Legions who were on the road march arrived piece meal and engaged in the battle to its conclusion. He described the Suebi as having 100 thousand warriors rotating into the very wide border areas of their territory, and described the warriors as running along side their horses on foot while holding the horses manes practicing stamina training for battle. It was a Warrior Tribe for sure.
@@Jayla-dj2gj Germans were persecuted and sent to Russia as war reparations after the war, many fled, many were killed. It was abad time to be german even if you had nothing to do with the nazis.
Thank You! I was always told I am "German". After much research, I now consider myself, more accurately, Saxon. My DNA shows primarily Danish./English My Polish/Italian wife actually has more "German" DNA than I. This confused us at first. Her Father was from Venice so her "German" DNA is courtesy of the Lombards (Long Beards) that invaded and controlled the city state of Venice for a time. It's satisfying to follow our own tiny little thread interwoven into this beautiful amazing complex tapestry of history!!!
My maternal ancestors were from the Mazury area of the former East Prussia. The ethnicity of the area is Baltic Old Prussian/Galindian blended with Mazovian colonizers (colonization opened courtesy of the crusading Teutonic Knights) in the early/mid 1200s, followed by Lipka Tatars of the Golden Horde about 1400. There was a smattering of Germanics, Jews, and other settlers. After WWII when East Prussia was split between Russia and Poland, many from this district moved around Poland. As of the 1980s we still had relatives in the area. Sadly, only a few thousand identify as Mazuren, and the dialect of Mazuren (Mazovian mixed with now extinct Baltic Old Prussian) is spoken by few. In the northern and NE of the former East Prussia, the Old Prussian tribes and Lithuanians were mixed with German colonizers. Being more Germanic by culture, they pretty much split after WWII, mostly into Germany.
I'm from York, and my surname is after a small local town, so I guess my heritage has remained here a while. I suppose that makes me either saxon or possibly viking, given that yorvik was under danelaw for a while.
As an italian from the north, i see people overestimating the influence of the Lombard migrations, even calling it “germanizing” simply not true. The impact the lombards left in northern italy is equal to the arab legacy in the south and Sicily. We italians are primarily Mediterraneans
Yes I agree with you, even though German tribes fascinate me, I can't say that we descend from them. Only small traces. And I can't stand people from the Nord of Italy that are proud of those "Germanic roots", they consider exclusive of their regions.
Hey, no mention of the Balts? All the Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians kicking Teutonic knight ass? The Baltic nations were the last to be Christiansted in Europe.
It's like a rundown of my entire ancient family history. Definitely some Langobard, Ostrogoth, Saxon, Frisii, Marcomanni and then various Norwegian, Swedish and Danish tribes, since their specific tribal areas aren't too clear.
Vendel Era is tops for me. I would love to know the exact relationship, if any, between the Swedes and the Anglo-Saxons, East Angles specifically, during that period. There is too much similarity between Sutton Hoo ship grave goods and those of Valsgarde ship burials. It is also the age of heroes. Beowulf, Sigurd, etc.
from my own backchecking a few tribes of the Swedish branches were given land in the 1066 norman invasion, but as part of thier settling thier names were changed and the new names installed into the doomsday book
Sutton Hoo means seventeen howes in older west geatish (Götaland, Sweden), more or less. Beowulf was a geat. The helmet and weapons are almost identical to swedish finds from the vendel era. Near Southampton there are two villages named Eling and Bitterna. These two villages also exist in Geatland
@@soderlund3610 Southampton is in the Jutish area of Wessex, mentioned by Bede, as is the New Forest across Southampton Water and the Isle of Wight across the Solent. (The New Forest was called Ytene in mediaeval, pre-Norman English). I've always tentatively linked the Jutes to the Geats (especially as the initial "G" would be a "y" sound, in Old English. "Ing" as a suffix is common, more usually in Saxon areas, meaning "followers of" or "descendants of", as in Tolkien's Eorlingas.
What a great source of information you are. Great video, but frankly I wouldn’t know where to start. Born & live in Yorkshire, near York, my DNA denotes Anglo Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Scottish & Welsh ancestry, nowhere else. The only certainty Germanic I am 😁
On my mother side, on MtDNA, I get strange results... Hundreds of people, if not thousands from N England, seem to share the same ancestral mother far back as I have...My mother is related to Christina Nilsson, the operasinger, and gives a good idea what she looked like, quite similar...
do you know why germanic people are called germanic people..and not allemanic?(wich is how they are still called in Italy) why the russians are called the russian?(The word Rassia literally means Borean realm) or why the british are called british? or why poles are called poles and not wendic(wich is how they still called in some parts. all this names have to do whit Roman .both western and Greek Easter
Excellent video. My German grandfather used to tell me the story of Arminius as well as that of Siegfried when I was a child. Sparked my interest in ancestry and our ancient roots.
@@icxcnikasrb that's a very unscientific statement and even if it's true, how is that a bad thing? My gedmatch metadata returned a 9.22% Caucasian (from the Caucasus) and a 0.55% Siberian. The majority of the elements were North East European and Mediterranean. I guess NE European could include Slavic? Again, saying "all Slavic descendants" is very unscientific.
I am of Old Germanic Swedish origin. Except for a splash of Finnish blood. The latter I am very proud of as the Finns are a fantastically tough people with a great sense of humor. My ancestors probably never plundered the Roman Empire or were bloodthirsty Vikings. We stayed at home and were hardworking farmers. We have owned the family farm according to preserved tax lengths for 500 years now, but probably much longer than that. The Swedish bureaucracy only began to keep people in order in the 16th century and still does today.😆 Ni djäkla norrmän som sitter i en snödriva och tuggar rått sälkött hela dagarna. 🤭
@Peter Dammelius The Bloodthirsty Vikings is fairytale, that they not have to explain that the same kind of tribes lived for thousends of years around the baltic sea, southern sweden, southern norway, hele danmark, england south of the Hadrian Wall, northern Germany, entire Holland and Belgium, down the Atlantic Coast to Gibraltar and into the medditerean sea. This was once one Empire, I will call it the Atlantean Alliance. The lying Archeologists call it Roman Empire. Search for "Bock Saga". Alaf Sig Runa From Germany
@@ShermanistDruid Who said this? I said the VikingRiots started at Lindisfarne. and was lasting about 200 years, until they had destroyed the Agressors. After England, they attacked for almost 100 years the Frankish Empire and burned mostly Churches and Monestaries down, for a good reason. Once they was going with about 1.000 ships up the Seine. Close to Paris they had a battle with Franks and they defeated them, caused the stupid Franks had split their army on both sides on the river. The Franks then started to negociate with the Vikings, caused this was their second unsuccessful battle experience with Vikings. They had to pay a huge compasation to the a Vikings, top a piece of Land in France, which called since and until today Normandy. Then the Vikings paid attention to the other big enemy in the east who was part of this plot. This Battles was lasting over 100 years until the finally destroyed the Capital of this Empire, Idil 969 AD. These Vikings (Varäger) liked this Country so much that they founded the Kiewer Rus, the Heartland of Russia. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiewer_Rus&ved=2ahUKEwi2lvXhzdX6AhXwSfEDHVsPDzkQmhN6BAghEAI&usg=AOvVaw1sYbuynSSylZ9Icjjt7znf
Good video. One way to also see the connection between the tribes is to look at the dialects we have today in Germany: The dialect that is spoken here in the Black Forest is called "alemannisch" and it's like a mix of Swiss-german and the regular "badisch" that is spoken in the rest of the region that the Black Forest is a part of. This part is where the Alemanni lived (also in parts of today Switzerland). West of it is the part where people speak "schwäbisch" as you also mentioned. That's the heritage of the suebians. Both dialects sound very similar to someone who isn't from southern Germany. Both dialects come from the same language family (Alemannic) along with Swiss-German and they have a lot in common like pronouncing an "st" as an "sch" ("sh" in English) and lots of special words that all others Germans find kind of funny when they hear them 🤣
As a direct descendant of the Alemanni, thanks for bringing this up. It seems to be the case that a lot of descendants of both the Suebi and Alemanni still live in more or less the same regions, centuries later, probably marrying in small circles for a very long time and not having much outside genetic input. It's also worth noting that one of the most important tribes to later form the Alemanni were the Hermunduri, who later also became the Thuringii, and their name shares a root with Irminones/Herminones and Herman/Arminius, the leader of the Teutoburg uprising against Varus' legions.
Vandals are very underrated . The great King Gaiseric they were proto viking . The mesmerized the sea even before the frisians and they established the only Germanic kingdom out of Europe . The word Vandals still exist for a reason , vandals has nothing to do with Slavs they were from south Sweden like the longbards . Still a tiny few minority exist in North East Algeria beaeing the Germanic nordid phenotype and the y dna r-u 106. I am one of them, the only recognition we got was by hans guther and the selection in the French waffen ss.
I came from the Netherlands to the United States as a kid. We go back many generations in Amsterdam and other parts of noord holland where my parents were from although my grandfather was from Friesland. Our family name is a Dutch branch of the Flemish vanderNoot noble family and goes back to the first vanderNoot, a Roman citizen circa 500 a.d.
Do you know if there are any genealogical databases or records accessible to the public in the Netherlands? I'm working on a patrilineal family history, and the furthest back I've been able to trace a verified ancestor was 1520 in Harderwijk. I was wondering if there's a chance that there might be older records preserved somewhere over there
Hi, this is so interesting!! I've always been interested in my Native American heritage, recently I've been researching my Norwegian heritage, my moms mother was half Norwegian and Welsh. I've learned thru Ancestry DNA that my Norwegian family is from Rogaland in Norway. Thank you for your videos.
Very interesting video. My family is farming in southern Africa since 1658. That is 365 years already. My fatherline came from Hoorn in West Frisia. (So it could be Batavi, Chamavi, Cherusci or a any other origin) So the Swart family could come from any of the tribes in the area. But my blood is a mix of many Germanic tribes. I got Dutch, German, and French herritage. My Y DNA haplo group: R1b -M173. Test results say 100% European (Even more than 360 years in Africa) Of the 100% European, 95% is Western European and 5% Southern European (Italian Peninsula). The 95% Western European is made up by 69% Central Euroepen (Germany, France,Netherlands) and 9% Scandinavian, 18% Scotland.
The Romans wanted to conquer all of Germania. But after the defeat in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD they gave up their goal. The risk was too great for them. The Germanic tribes were fighters who were not discouraged by defeat. They always stood up and fought for their freedom. Arminius, the Stolen Son ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--UQsSC3seUo.html
Well to be fair Scandinavians were never truly badasses beyond the vikings, in fact they’ve been quite weak for much of its history. Even the vikings lost many many battles to their Anglo Saxon cousins, as well as to Slavic tribes. The reason they were so successful is because they attacked poorly defended villages that wouldn’t put up a fight for them, and they attacked from rivers much of the time, so it was unexpected. The most warrior like of all Germanic tribes is most definitely the Anglo Saxons, if we are talking full scale history. From the year 0 until now. Countless medieval wars (bloodiest medieval battle was fought on English soil aka battle of towton), world war 1 and 2 (English and Germans primarily). The Scandinavians have been afraid of conflict ever since the Viking age more or less.
depends, sometimes the vikings were fierce warriors, they did land unexpected but the saxons won over their lands back because they were more civilized
@@davidjoelsson4929 Scandinavians only really had their hey day in the Viking age. Before and after that, they were actually quite weak. And Saxons literally defeated vikings many times over. Nearly ever time the Norse vikings went up a cohesive and well structured Saxon army, they lost. Even adolf hitler said the Scandinavians were naive and weak militarily. The Anglo-Saxons overall were the most successful and militarily successful of all Germanic tribes, that includes the Norse as well.
Herwig Wolfram - probably one of the most well respected historians when it comes to the germanic tribes - would disagree about the germanic homeland being in Scandinavia. He describes the homeland of the first germans at the time of the germanic ethnogenesis not in Scandinavia but in Northern Germany. According to him they only later migrated further north when the climate got warmer. Would be cool if you could do a video about that some time.
I thought they moved through Germany, settled in Scandinavia, then the weather got too cold with the little ice age, and they migrated south for a period. Once the weather warmed up, they returned to the north. It would make them Germanic before they were Nordic, right? But either way, we are all brothers and sisters. I'm over half Germanic with about 5% Nordic, but to me Nordic=Germanic.
Yeah, that's what I thought as well. I thought they originated from Niedersächsen and migrated into Schleswig, then Jutland and Sjælland, then to Southern Sweden.
Being an Australian, I found this very interesting ,as I would be a mix of a lot of these tribes.My main background and interests are Scotland, Sweden and Northern Germany area. Picts,Angles,Saxons, Jutes to start.too many to name.
Probably more Angle than Saxon or Jute if you are of Scottish descent. The Angle Kingdom of Northumbria crossed South East Scotland and North East England. The Saxons and Jutes were more in the South of England. Though probably some mix for sure. And Picts for sure. Possibly Gaels - called the Scoti by the Romans - from Ireland? It was the Scoti/Gaels coming into Norther Britain after the Roman withdrawal that gave it the modern name Scotland.
it really depends on what Scottish clans you are from some clans are germanic in origin from the angles which are from both English and south east Scots south west is more Gael north west is mostley Viking areas including Shetland and Orkney north east is mostly Gael and pict mix but it mostly depend on clan my Scottish ancestor was an Erskine which they where more Brythonic Celts
Perfect! I had been digging into this myself recently and here I find your video just uploaded. Stop apologizing for video length, I could listen to this with even more detail for hours on end. Thank you for your work as I know the research isn't quick or easy. Excellent job putting it together. As I understand it, my surname root word 'Wilk' is modern Polish for wolf. The 'es' suffix makes it "people from a land inhabited by wolves". I wonder then did it originate from a Gothic tribe? Time and study may tell, hopefully in my lifetime. Keep doing what you do brother!
The German language comes from the same tradition as Greek (and Latin Greek). This is perfectly clear because of the way that only Greek and German use the case system. No other languages use the nominative, accusative, genative cases etc , in the same way. It is unique. Despite the divergence of 5000 years, the main words are all still recognisable as having the same origin.
@robertolang9684 What does? Runic script is generic not topical and the recipients of its intellectual aspects could have been anyone from anywhere. They are obviously more spiritual symbols from ancient times and not particularly Germanic or Info-European. The German language comes from Russia along with the other Indo-European who fathered most modern European languages.
There are Icelandic written stories from around 800, that state that Odin, his family and tribe came frome a land far away in the south called Azar. I went a few weeks ago to visit archeological sites and findings in Azerbaijan, south Caucasus (other legends say that the white race in the Caucasus region, hence called caucasians). I saw my self at least 12.000 year old cave cravings of viking ships and several giant skeletons from that period over 3 meter tall! Some historians are convinced that the legends are based on reality. I also agree. It simply fits beautifully with all known evidences.
@@donnama9374 I don't know that, but could well be. Manny of the so called "gods" roamed different territories, must have lived for long times and were famous in different countries under different names.
Really enjoyed this. I am originally from today's Franken (English: Franconia), the last small remaining part of the Eastern Frankish kingdom which is now considered by many to be part of Bavaria - even though in terms of history, we share few commonalities with the Bajuwaren and are, if I may be so bold, too proud and rich in culture to be in any way associated with them haha. Just joking here. ;-) But seriously: The history of Germanic tribes or "people" is complex - if we stay with us Franks, our history can only be understood if we truly understand what came before all the many divisions of the Frankish Empire, the split in Franken and Francia (today's France), the christianisation/Merowingian age and all of that stuff. It gets kinda hard to trace back Frankish history from the time of the Salfranken (Salii) to earlier years, but for all we know, we supposedly "southern" Germans are anything but that and rather north-western people from today's Brabant (southern Netherlands). I'd like to encourage anyone who's interested in our history to read about the Salii, the Ripuarii or for example Toxandria. I guess I spent some 15-ish years of digging into my ancestry now and up until this day, new surprises and "plot twists" emerge. Now apply that to the myriad non-Frankish tribes. Never seizes to amaze me how rich our history and culture is. Thank you for your take on this, really nice and respectful overview for such a complex and rich topic. Especially as it shows how similar we all are and that we should cherish our brother- and sisterhood, united in ancient tradition, animism and folklore indeed. Too bad we lost so much of that understanding, especially as modern Germans kinda created this rather depraved and disgusting misrepresentations we saw raise to the ultimate perversion in the 1930s and 1940s.
I can oddly trace my dad’s DNA back to the Bavarian tribe, which extended to the Tyrol region of Austria. My family is one that doesn’t move from where we plant ourselves unless the situation is life or death, so up until the witch hunts (yep, I traced that too) they were firmly planted. Earliest record of my family’s surname is from the 1300’s in Tyrol. Ancestor was a knight, and earned our coat of arms. By the early to mid 1600’s they booked ass into the Alps and then into Bavaria.
I love your enthusiasm when it comes to the tribes! I'm from northern Germany and my father loves his genealogy. He traced his part of the family back to Denmark in the 14hundreds. My mom's family comes from the north east, the area of Poland and because most documents in churches etc. are gone and many things were destroyed during the war, my dad couldn't find out more. My dad is a history nut and he told me a lot about the tribes, but there were so many you've mentioned which I've never heard before. Thank you for making this video. I don't mind if it was longer. Especially if there's so much to tell. Is there a book you could recommend about the different tribes, especially the Germanic ones aside from the sources you've mentioned? I find it hard to select a good book about this topic especially here in Germany.
one of the most informative videos about our ancestors. I adore our German culture because I was cut off from it and was able to learn the languages of my ancestors (Dutch, a little German and a little Scandinavian). Breaking away from culture has allowed me to develop an identity that I cherish!
I can understand why you feel 'Breaking Away' is 'from the culture'. Even though most still see the 1979 'Breaking Away' as a working class Indiana teen (starring the blonde Dennis Quaid) obsessed with the Italian cycling team, more and more viewers feel the film, and especially the subsequent TV series with the then wildly popular (and also blonde) Shaun Cassidy, was truly about the German team.
Religion cut me off from my German ancestry, culture and language. Now, after 300 years I take an interest where no one else will. I’ve posted my family tree for my child to see our ancestry. I think it’s important to know where you came from and try to learn the history understand the cultures and language. It enriches our lives to use technology to find records dated hundreds of years.
Thank you so much my grandmother escaped from Northern Germany and I did the research because my family last name is Gerber and I check my family and name is high German and freaking Suebian and now I am definitely more proud. I had to re subscribe because of you tube. I also took the 23&me DNA test and I part of the corded ware people. Also my family is all the way up to Sweden because of the DNA. Thank you for helping me rediscover my paganism 😂😂😂😂
nice Video! I´m from Sauerland (old Süderland) in Westphalia Germany. Seems it was the most southern part of the Saxon world and before may be Cheruskian ;o)
One of the most anticipated videos of yours, great insight in some of the more lesser known tribes. Greetings from 🇨🇭, the descendants of the alemanni who were a subtribe of the suebi.
love your videos! I think I've learned more in the past few weeks watching your vids than I did in all my years of school 🤣 Keep it up! I love all the knowledge I can get 🍻
My last name is Braunersrither but was originally “Braunesreuther” and usually German names with -er at the end stands for somebody being from an area. There is a village called Braunesreuth in a place that was once its own independent kingdom called Franconia. From Reddit I learned the name kind of means that someone cleared a Forrest and made a settlement. Apparently this area was settled by the eastern expansion of the Carolingian Empire in the 700’s AD. So in simple terms I could very well be descended from the Franks, or not I’ve tried my best to get to the bottom of this.
This thing about names is that they don't speak for a lot of your ancestors. Your name like your Y-Hablogroup comes from exactly 1 ancestor and therefore doesn't say a lot about an individual.
Where are the Gepids? Their last homeland was the Carpathian basin. You do not mentioned it. The Hungarian language is more Finno-Ugric than Turkish. On the other hand, the Turkish influence is so strong that the possibility of a creole language has been suggested several times. The composition of the Hungarian gene pool is very interesting. 4% Far East (today's China and southern Siberia). 10% are of Northern Afghan origin, (Its belong to to the subcontinent of India, cultural and anthropological), 10% Middle East (today's Syria) 36% Central Asian (Turkish language influence) The 36% Scandinavian-Germanic gene pool was surprising to me. 4% other Europeans. So it is mostly Proto-European. There is strong German (deutsch) linguistic influence for now days Hungarian language. Based on the gene pool, it may be older, perhaps Eastern Gothic and Gepids. Mongoloid features in Hungary are usually associated with light eyes, hair and skin color, so they are not noticeable. In the case of Far-Eastern-Hungarian mixed marriages, the predominance of Mongoloid features is already noticeable, 90% in the looks of their children. It's an impossible mix. I don't know how the leaders of Hungary 1000-1500 years ago were able to hold the country together and form a nation from this mess. Different cultures, traditions, races, religions (Jewish Muslim ,Tengri, and Christianity) and maybe even languages coexisted. In today's Europe this is a mission impossible.
I'm from Spain and I have some french-germanic dna and I thing It must be suebi and visigoth (maybe some vandal) because of my family origins. A interesting info is that Andalucia comes from Vandal.
Hohenstaufen Swabian here, thanks for the content! I've often wondered how grave turning the ghost of Caesar must have been to watch them later take the emperorship of Rome.
My family and yours would be neighbors. We are originally from Goppingen, one train station away from Geislingen. I've been to the Hohenstsaufen. Beautiful place, great history.
I am Brittas boyfriend, swabian and can see Hohenstaufen from my village. Oh , Friedrich ll was both ,Roman Emperor' of ,HRE' and ,King of Naples' , so he was regular ruler of nearly whole Italy.
You helped me answer a big question that has been annoying me for years with this video. I'm from north-east Germany and mostly focusing my research on the pagan slavic era of my home (I am not educated at all, it's just what I do fun). A couple years ago I was reading a news article about the archeological digging they are doing at Arkona on Rügen where once stood the last pagan slavic temple on todays German territory. In this article they mentioned that they discovered that the foundations of some of the buildings and even the temple were not build in a typical slavic way, but the way the scandinavians would do it. It was said that they believe that the temple probably had the shape of a gigantic ship, reminding them of scandinavian longhouses. Since the temple stood on a cape most of it is sadly already lost to the baltic sea. However in the article they said they at this point do not know why the slavic temple and the surrounding buildings had a scandinavian type foundation. After your video it seems very clear to me. Thank you for all the work you do with your videos. You are actually one of the few people I can listen to actively and not dose off into a coma from the boring way they are talking and even memorize the information you give (which is rare for me).
The Slavs only came to eastern Germany after the Great Migration Period, when all the Germanic tribes from eastern Europe moved into Roman territory or merged with other Germanic tribes.
@@wulfheort8021 Yes, that is known. What happened in between is unknown though. In theory it is possible that some germanic people stayed and merged with the slavs. I personally do not believe that an Island like Rügen stayed unoccupied for such a long time. The Island has always been important and seen as sacred. It is possible that the slavs just build on top of the already existing foundations too. Why build new ones if there is already existing ones?
@@KatAstrophe878 Constant warring probably drove the Slavs away, the Jomsvikings settled in that area as well and it also got conquered by the Danes at some point, so I'm sure there wasn't much Slavic blood left after a while.
@@wulfheort8021 No, not the constant warring. King Waldemar I defeated the slavs and had them christianized. What happened there was documented well enough and is not up for making assumptions. Anyways I get the feeling we are both part of two completely different conversations. Good night.
@@KatAstrophe878 2 different conversations? Unless you're schizophrenic we're not. It's also not up for debate that the Danes conquered the Pomeranians and that the Jomsvikings established there and that the Saxons fought the Slavs there as well. You don't just make a culture and language disappear in times like that, you'd need demographic changes for that. The Teutonic Order and people from all over the Holy Roman Empire also influenced Pomerania heavily. So, as I said, conquest and demographic changes made the Slavic identity disappear over there.
German & English from my father. On the English side can trace ancestry to a Henry Cobb, who arrived in Plymouth, Mass in 1632. Some sources state his origins are unknown, while others state he was originally from Reculver, Kent, UK. The Jutes settled mainly in Kent, and established a kingdom. Thus perhaps some Jute heritage? On the German side, as one ancestor from the early 1800's had 16 children, all of whom survived to adulthood (a rarity in that era), seems many distant relatives have traced the family line all the way back to the early 1500's. It was in the 1500's that the ancestor I descend from emigrated from Switzerland to Germany to avoid religious persecution. Not 100% sure of what part of Switzerland or Germany. However, knowing that the ancestor was Anabaptist (later Mennonite), and using historical context (early 1500's) my ancestor was most likely from the Canton of Zurich. Again, using historical context, likely he went to Swabia - or more specifically, the Duchy of Württemberg, as the Dukes of Württemberg were protestant, and gave refuge to Swiss farmers escaping Roman Catholic persecution The area around Zurich was under Alemanni rule from the 2nd-5th century AD, then later under Swabian rule. So in theory, could have a mixture of Jute, Alemanni & Suebi.
Värmland belongs to the wast area the vandals came from 2000 years ago from S Norway to Vänern. There was a similarity in culture already in bronze-age, similar rock-carvings etc. Snorri went to Väner lake before editing the Edda in 1223. The first known name VendilaR has maybe something to do with Vänern lake´s oldest name *Vendiz "the Turner", "floodlake"... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q0ewH4VKRI8.htmlsi… #Eurovision #vandals Eils! Arme Froia! Be greeted! Mercy lord! Still understandable for swedes. Old basic meaning arm meaning poor.. The widened meaning is miserable, and in vandalic also merciful.... Arme man! Miserable man! Arma kvinna! Poor woman etc...
It’d be awesome to see videos just like this, but for areas in greater detail. For instance, I’ve always been interested in the many conquests of Britain, from Britons to Celts and Picts, Angles and Saxons, and then the Norman conquest. Getting deep into “aboriginal Europe” basically.
One of the biggest conquests of Britsin is virtually unknown!: the Celtic/Indo-European population was replaced by Anatolian farmers. See: Mass Migrations into Britain in the late Bronze Age.
@@johnpatrick5307 The Celtic/Indo-European population was still around and in charge in the British Isles when the Romans invaded. The pre-agricultural population of the islands may have been displaced at the time agriculturists came, but that was in 5000-4000 BCE. The Celtic Culture was a much later development.
My distant paternal ancestor was Ragemer of Normandy, Knight who fought in the 1066 Battle of Hastings and he was listed in he 1084 Doomsday census in England. He was also listed as man from "Raumr" or Romerike. We know he was born there 1037-1039. There was a Germanic tribe "Raumarici". There was a legendary King Rain. Old Norse "Raumr Inn Gamli" Ragemer was granted land in the town of Well and two other towns and he lived to 1093 in Lincolnshire, England. I was adopted but my actual surname is Wells and my paternal line adopted this name from the town of Well. Name started as de Well and morphed into Wells. Maybe this can add another Germanic tribe to your well? Best regards, Doug
As you mention; the main tribes to invade England and lowland Scotland were the Saxons Angles and Jutes: the area the Angles first arrived is still know as East Anglia, (due to its position on the East coast of England), as they moved west into the midlands the adopted the title of Mercians, the west midlands in England is some times still referred to as West Mercia;(Anglia). So my tribe; in answer to your last question would be Angle (West Mercian). Entlang der felsigen Berge, über die moosige Schlucht hinweg, wagen Feinde nicht auf die Jagd, aus Angst vor dem Mercian!
I appreciate the strength of those Germanic tribes, they spread all over the Continent and left their traces in many populations. Greetings from Apulia, ex spartan colony. ❤
In Spain we are suevi, Vandal, Alaní, goth, and celt.... Also Iberian, fenician, greek, jewish, roman, berber, arab..... The Sun makes people fuck and mix....😂😂😂💪🤟⚔️
Loving this video! Frisian here (northern Netherlands). It might be interesting to some that the modern day Frisians are not the same as the ancient Frisii (who beat the Romans in the Baduhenna forest, sort of like the Teutoburger Wald battle, but smaller in size). At around 400 AD to 600 AD, the area here became flooded and uninhabitable. Around this time most Frisii left (to for example Kent, England). When the water lowered (after 600 AD) Saxon, Anglian and probably some original Frisii formed the people that are now called Frisians and are living here to this day. So we kind of took the name of the Frisii, but ah well, it's all Germanic brothers anyway. ;)
Very nice video, thank you !! I am always wondering whether the "Externsteine" near Detmold at the Teutoburg Forest are or were known to the North Germanic tribes ? Can anybody from Scandinavia answer this question ? I'm convinced that they were very important to the South Germanic tribes and I think it is no coincidence that Arminius/Hermann and the Cherusci and others joined to defeat the Romans here - and in addition to that: Widukind, most famous of all Saxon leaders, lived and died only 30 km from the "Externsteine" trying to fight off Charlemagne for 12 years, 700 years later. The two greatest conquests from the West threatening Germanic land - both fought in the region of Eastern Westfalia and the south of Lower Saxony near this sacred place.....?! In the end Charlemagne forced christianity upon them and the priests of the old faith lost their power.
I'm currently studying the dictionary of northern mythology by rudolf simek (at your recommendation so thank you again for that!) and the information I'm finding in there refers a lot to old roman inscriptions from proto-germanic tribes. So some of the stuff you're mentioning here I've only just learned about! I highly recommend this book to everyone as the author has done a spectacular job with this book; the layout, the references to sources and the structure. I can look up just about any old norse word and find a good chuck of info on it there; along with references to more detailed sources. Great video man cheers!
I'm Mexican and I just recently found out that I have approximately 18% of Germanic ancestry from Visigoth Spain and medieval Austria on top of my equally divided Spanish, Jewish, Greek and Native American ancestry.
Great video!!! Very informative and illustrative. Just as a side note, you don’t have to have Germanic ancestry or Germanic blood in your veins in order to view and enjoy this video for what it is and what it teaches us, this is historical knowledge that matters to all of us whether we are Germanic or not.
Um, no, þat is incorrect. History of one's own forefaþers is þe utmost important to þeir respective descendants. What þe heck is a Māori tribe going to do wiþ þe knowledge about Germanic tribes, if it is less invested in his own people's history? Absolutely noþing!
