"Ved Stanford Brua" - Norse Song of The Battle at Stamford Bridge 

@Aggressive Tubesock No, you are

Aggressive Tubesock wooooosh

Aggressive Tubesock You are a 12 year old

Medieval Commentator: And the Norse are fighting brutally, and AH! Sorry, that was a narrow shave with an arrow, ladies and gents. Anyway, the Norse guy is on the bridge. He is fighting brutally. Look at that axe swing. *suck in of air* You fought well brave Saxon. But wait! There's a guy coming from under! He's going, going! Surely not, no! OH MA GOODNESS! AND HE HAS STABBED THE NORSE GUY FROM UNDER THE BRIDGE! 1-0 to the Anglo Saxons.

When listening to these historic songs you have to remind yourself almost all of them were recorded after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

lol based mishimajak

the little feelsbro was hiding in a barrel, A BARREL! Like a dwarf in The Hobbit

@Norman Pagan I get the urge tp break the geneva convention on you

That was tjodolf sterken (tjodolf the strong) he was a Roar means hes Main Job was to row the ship so the best fighters was less tired. They where also called giants in many songs the rowing guys, anyways the history of This war aint was not really a war between france and England, it was between four Norwegian clans, charlemagnes actual name when he left norway was karl Magne (free and strong man, is hes Norwegian name translated to english) hes from same ætt as gang Rolf whos hirdsmenn occupied Normandie, (Norman /Normann) is Norwegian for Norwegian) (dialects). And they wanted to tale the power from sverre ætta etc so it was a family feud that instigated the battle..England was already under dane law, and the Norwegians had already established jorvik (York)and Dublin and several other strongholds, so the intention wasnt to go to war with the british People but the danish saxons who saw themselves as a legit autority because they had installed a danish king and he was able to unite nortumbria Essex etc against the Norwegians, that was compllicated because the bagler clan contained both danes and Norwegians, which made four Norwegian gruops figth each other all over and they tried to kill all our kings, last attempt on kong sverre the third when he was Just four months old, 140 years after the battle at stamford bridge. That feud started about hundred years before that battle and ended when the danes gathered the chatolics of the world for the third time to make another genocide, but it was so much loss of lives that the chatolics thougth god was publishing them and a truce was made which later became a peace agreement which developed a few hundred years then we married the danes and was one country, but without the english /anglos William would lose to tjodolf alone. He was standing for more than 45 minutes alone, on the middle while People attacked him from both sides. At last he was shot from under the bridge between the boards by little saxon Child with a crossbow. So in a way a little kid won that battle. I Wonder if they now eats together and figth each other in valhall. In the song the Norwegians came shirtless while the english kings men had armors,i think thats maybe why tjodolf could figth so many for so Long, because Hes enemys was slow and heavy. While tjodolf even he was a Roar he was also trained in glima, would be cool if some alien tech had recorded it so we could see the moves and tactic he used. And it would be good for the sport of glima, sadly only norway and iceland has glima, but its now become very different styles,

He didnt get stabbed but shot with xbow from beneath the bridge one of the bolts hit hes inner tigh and cut the thickest pulse vein in your body exept for those directly from the heart. Maybe he was stabbed to, but according to our songs and sagas its not mentioned. We still signing about how tjodolf was defying physics Steel/Iron fire etc didnt Hurt him but a crossbow bolt killed him so i guess he wasnt immune to wood and rocks

what

@@starcluster2593 It is thought that a single Norseman held the bridge by killing 40 Anglo-Saxons before he himself died.

@@TemujinTheKhan Death by getting jabbed in the balls too, if the stories were true.

@@inspecthergadget4503 Come to think of it, his balls were an easy target. 'Cause his must've been huge to hold the bridge by himself.

@@starcluster2593 in the song which says they sent long thjodolf to hold the bridge he killed 40 saxons without any armour and just an axe and they were only able to cross the bridge when one solder reached him from below and impaled a sphere

In Norway, we say Hellas and not greece like the rest of the world

@@guzelataroach4450 You are not norwegian though. You are from the people that Harald fought against, while serving the Roman emperor.

@@andreasiversen3440 jeg er norsk, bildet og navnet er bare et meme

It may not have been the best ending of harald, but he died a glorious death and what more could a warrior like him ask for

In England he is seen as one of the two invaders of that time

Steve Clark Yeah he was a beast. None of those Anglo saxons could best him, so they dogged the fight

Darth William : "apologies accepted, King Harold..."

@@silasfarrey417 well yes, but swedes did a lot of bad stuff to the finns as well during their 700-500 year reign of the place

We accept (Even tho Sweden was not there. We were exploring or maybe farming) -A Swedish person

The berserker’s kill count was a complete fabrication at best...

Yes I heard about that story, he held off until someone snuck up on him and stabbed him in the back, unfortunately his efforts were in vain, because the Anglo Saxons were able to catch up with the rest of the fleeing army later

@@juancarlosdegoya2757 the army didnt flee though

@@PajamaJazama well from what I heard, he was trying to hold off the Anglo Saxons so that they could get away but I guess I was wrong

@@juancarlosdegoya2757 He was holding them off awaiting reinforcements, aka Orri's storm IIRC. He expected the English to surrender, so his army had left behind most of their armor with said reinforcements. The reinforcements ran so far some supposedly died of exhaustion. Just some funfacts for ya :)

@@PajamaJazama oh ok thanks good to know, he - he

Why?

hardråde...hard råde means hard rule. Harald Hardruler

Like when you expect a huge loud fart because you feel a huge blockade in your stomach, but it turns out to only be a soft whiff of a fart.

@@Historicalstorical He became probably the richest and most successful mercenary of all time and returned to his home country to become king. His life was one big adventure

Live by the sword, die by it!

I honestly believe most of (not all) myths and legends of berserker can be attributed to the bravery, heroism, loyalty and sheer savagery of that one man who held a bridge with his dane ax. Absolute mad Lad.

@Kängan 161 That was haraldrs nickname not the berserker

@@liamimbriolo6066 That story might've actually been propagated by the English to excuse poor English tactics when crossing the bridge.

@@daemonzap1481 Käften Brittjävel

@@daemonzap1481 What bollocks. 😂

@Sakkra101 and fight in the end days of ragnarok.

@Sakkra101 they were Christians at least the vast majority

@@hannah.r6613 it doesn't matter. Any great warrior who has proven himself on the field of battle goes to Valhalla according to the norse faith.

Especially the one guy who guarded the whole bridge.

@@kevensting9036 Hail Tjodulv Sterk-enn!

What a badass.

Then the other Norsemen got him from the other end of England. He had no chance. Poor Harold. What would England have become if he had won both battles?

@@hannannah1uk Anglo-Saxon identity would probably have been preserved

@@hannannah1uk England probably would've been more Germanic, hence more purely English

@@hannannah1uk You can hardly call the Normans of 1066 Norse. Their culture had been heavily integrated with the local French culture at that point.

frik

Obviously.

Are you serious? I can't believe that, it seems so old.

:(

@@keizerkuzco6459 How does it seem "so old"? It's in modern Norwegian

Bhahaha

Aurelian -> Betrayed Julius Caesar -> Betrayed Atila -> Nosebleed Gengis Kan -> A horse fall And the list continous. Perhaps, that teach us that even if you are a great conqueror you're still human, you're still vulnerable :c

@@MrChrisboyle. They’re so strong the universe itself has the kill them 😂😂😂

George Washington -> Throat Infection This is the oddest death ever.. Well, his throat might of been closing up but still.

Hey 🅱️eter

@Ricky Kalita Chad Sigurðarson ;-)

Nordmen are taller than the english

Who are you quoting?

@@jmgonzales7701 Not really, the Anglo-Saxons and Northmen were the same people, even their languages were mutually understood. Only their religion separated them.

Apparently Godwinson said six feet, not seven.

Most Varangian guards were Swedish Vikings though who came from the Rus lands down the Dnieper.

But there was basically no difference between Swedish, Danish and Norwegians at that point. They spoke the same language and all that so I think it's silly to differentiate in that era.

@@danielk3919 Even today I'd say that we are very similar here in the north. We still understand each others languages, you know? Best wishes from Sweden!

@@danielk3919 at the time there was a slight difference and that comes with their specific styles of "viking" (referring to a water farer, or a man that makes his money at sea). swedish vikings tended to be traders in the baltic and often along rivers like the danube and the volga. some danish vikings traded but most raided the coast of western europe and were the most active in the practice of establishing danelaws and overseas kingdoms. the norwegian vikings were more commonly seen expeditioning out the far off lands (expeditioning referring to a voyage being sent out and not being expected to return for maybe several decades), evidence of that is how the northwest coast of scotland and eastern coast of ireland were raided and frequently settled by norwegians but these vikings rarely went inland like the danes so frequently did. their cultural and linguistic diffferences were extremely small but the differences in how their respective seafarers went about making their money were vast. its silly to differentiate when talking about scandinavia itself but talking about their impact on the rest of europe is where it really does matter.

@@danielk3919 The Rus Guards were also called the Varangian. Our nations lived together in the north of Russia for a long time.

Died like a little bitch but ok.

DAMN IN THE BALLS!!!!!!

gigachad

Bro was the physical embodiment of this emoji 🗿

I'm stealing this

Super interesting my dear, how precious it is to know that someone still cares about the story🤭🤭 well and takes the time to write, it is a difficult job !! Greetings from Bergen across the sea 🇸🇯🇸🇯

Cool.

@@angelsjelsker3004 There are even those of us who care in far off lands!

@@angelsjelsker3004 1066 is what got me interested in history actually.

Interesting!

Had to move from Germany in a similar way, I feel that pain too

måtte en hederlig mann komme hjem

@@radtsov8438Alltid Nordmenn i våre hjerter - fra Norge

Come home brother

id love to come home but the barnevernet will most certanly take me again unless im an adult. i dont think theyll just let a child of bodnariu to come back after we bearly managed to escape their cluches.

He achieved Valhall and be chillin with his brothers. Respect from Norway👊💯

@@johannesroundhouse5996 Yooo why so aggressive? What did he do to make you so upset?

@@bambooandmeofficial What did he even wrote Xd

@@montee2603 He said "Shut the fuck up"

@@bambooandmeofficial Oh, thanks for telling me

@@montee2603 You're welcome

Question, do you believe this song was written in the viking era?

@@jamesconn this is a modern song, and is sung in modern norwegian, so uh, no

@@amxelcbis4464 Sorry, it was the way you worded the comment.

Norway will always stand with Hellas.

☦️

Yes, this has made my day, perhaps my week.

I listenin this for 4 month 😀

Same

They helped keep the Greco-Roman safe for centuries. The Varangians were excellent warriors.

I hope you can reclaim Constantinople someday Greek friend

What About The Danish axeman Thats held The bridge almost by himself for some time

@@krieger7368 you mean the Norwegian this song is about?

I will enlist as a "neo varangian" in the greek army to retake constantinople

Me too as a swede. Our ancestors were tough men!

@@harrypjotr4075 Me too, as a Roman. We all were tough.

@@juliuscaesar5397 As an American, i feel the same(I know my name is Russian, but that doesn't mean i am). Our ancestors were tough Europeans who sailed across the ocean to flee religious persecution and survived on harsh new land, and then fought for independence. Sometimes i feel like Eastern Europeans and Russians are the only ones left who can truly say they are tough like their ancestors.

Would have loved to raid the anglos a bit longer F for viking age

Harry Pjotr you guys were tough, a worthy opponent for us Scots, and we served as mercenaries in your wars throughout history! Long live the Celts and Norse! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇲🇩🇰 🇮🇸 🇳🇴 🇸🇪

Angelsaksarkongen 😂😂😂

Idk why, but I loved it when they said that. It honestly sounds funny 😂

"Sex to Sex"

Иди уроки делай

@@Nobody-Ever why it's just sixty six with a weird accent

Frank Dieter based frank

Stamford Bridge was a norse defeat

@Frank Dieter How was Hastings a norse victory? If you're implying it's due to the norse ancestory then fair enough but idk how much of them were norse and what percentage.

Damn anglos

@Frank Dieter eh they lost tho

noone knows the name of the warrior who held off the saxons through one on one combat, due mainly to the battle of hastings, otherwise we'd still be singing about him.

@@peterforden5917 We agree lol, but for the sake of the song I used the name Thjodolf. I don't think we can verify that name, sure, but it certainly flows off the tongue better than "That viking at Stamford Bridge" lol.

Though there aren't many dudes who are 7 feet tall and hold an entire English army at a strategic chokepoint just so that their bros can't get ambushed anymore.

@@masonwingate7683 well sure, but calling him by a fabricated name is just wrong, and he already kind of has a name. If you say "the nameless berserker at Stamford Bridge" there wouldn't be many people who do not know who you're talking about, as that is the "name" often attributed to him

@@juhaszmate5095 Indeed - find yourself a nameless berserker, ladies. I see nothing wrong with this 😀

to be fair, he stole the throne from him and killed his brother. Harold technically stole the throne from both kings, but had more respect for the Norse.

Godwinson Gang

This is insanely informative ❤

​​@@eggybreath2958 He was actually Anglo-Saxon, unlike William the Bastard who destroyed Anglo-Saxon England.

Right back at you Belgians 💗

Do you speak Belgian?

@@antoniescargo4158 They speak "Kill Congolese"

@@mohdadeeb1829 Congo corridor

Inderdaad! (Indeed!) Groeten uit Nederland! (Greetings from the netherlands!)

both sides say the same thing, both say that Harald held that bridge and that he was stabbed in the balls with a spear from below, both sides say he died standing up, if both sides can agree on something imma believe it more then i normally would.

So you're a Swede that pretends to be a Slav?

Что за "флаг новгородской Руси"?

@@maximilienrobespierre6276 ну вообще-то это и есть флаг Великого Новгорода.

@@WeazelNewsBroadcasts интересно, не знал об этом.

Sad i can't find norman's scandinav flag

Нет, к сожалению Рюрик мифический персонаж существование которого не подтверждается ни одним параллельным источником( И нет ни одного исторического документа где встречалось бы такое словосочетание как "Новгородская Русь". Новгородцы себя Русью ну никак не считали( И напоследок(как ликбез) пару цитат из повести временных лет: "идоша за море к Варѧгом̑ . к Руси . сіце бо звахуть . ты Варѧ̑гы Русь . ӕко се друзии зовутсѧ Свеє(шведы) . друзии же Оурмани(норманы или норвежцы) . Аньглѧне. инѣи и Готе . тако и си ркоша . Русь" То есть, как мы видим, Русь это не шведы и не норвежцы. К тому же история не знает ни одного скандинавского или вообще германского племени, что именовалось бы подобным образом и существовало во времена Рюрика. И ещё одна важная цитата: "В лѣт̑ . ҂s҃ . т҃ . ѯ҃ . [6360 (852)] индикта . е҃ı . наченшю Михаилу цс̑рьствовати . нача сѧ прозывати Рускаӕ землѧ . ѡ семъ бо оувѣдахом̑ . ӕко при̑ сем̑ цс̑ри приходиша Русь . на Цс̑рьград̑ . ӕко же писашеть в лѣтописании Грѣцком̑ . тѣмь же и ѿселѣ почнем̑ . и числа положим̑ . ӕко ѿ Адама" Здесь говориться о том, что за 10 лет до "призвания варягов" Русь ходила на Константинополь. А значит ни от каких "варягов" Русь пойти просто не могла, ибо исходя из ПВЛ в 852 году "Русь" и "руськая земля" как понятия уже существовали, но Рюрика на тот момент ещё никто не призывал. Так что либо речь о каком-то доселе неизвестном нам германском племени, что ну очень маловероятно, либо версия о "германском" происхождении "Руси" просто несостоятельна и противоречит источникам. Как-то так🤷🏼‍♂️

Hei harald haraldson

de var ikke de gode folka: de drepte uskyldige folk. idiot

"Good guys" sure..

​@@SokolskodrustvoGood guys for them

Amazing

Lmao gay

@Hoolio Great response buddy, gonna throw a party now?

Justinian I why not invade Miklagard?

@@hoolio5659 lol hope that's not intentional

Hadrada was well known throughout history too, he was a warrior from the start. I don't know much about Godwinson though.

Tjodolf the Strong?

@@user-be9rq5re2l Harold Godwinson was a very unlucky king. Competent, but couldn't be in 3 places at once.

Thjodolf the strong was the berzerker

@@eggybreath2958 They don't know the Bloke's actual name

Not to be that guy but your name is in elder futhark That's the proto Germans Not the Norse The Norse wrote in younger futhark (In case you didn't know)

@@Madsvda That's just a coincidence, I wrote my last name in elder futhark because it looked cool...

@@Madsvda the Norse used elder futhark too

The elder Futhark surely is one of the most beautiful and "natural" looking alphabet (if I can call it so). Anyways, Nordman - I aswell enjoy this kind of music

@@weirdkidfromspace I'm a hitman you know that ?

Bellow the belt striking is justified when your life or a loved ones life is threatened

@@danielreardon6453 sure, that’s exactly what happened

@@danielreardon6453 they were an army vs 1 guy since when he was threatening their loved ones lol

@@erwannthietart3602 wdym since when was he threatening loved ones? He was part of the entire Norwegian army who were invading and trespassing in English territory where English families lived.

@Pneumonocolvocanomicroscopicsilicolvocano-coniosis No this is literally just a dialect with a few old norwegian words added to the mix, its not middle norwegian

Wiggyam What words are added to the mix?

Christopher Miller Yes, it’s sung in Norwegian in the dialect of the vocalist. But they haven’t “thrown in” Old Norwegian words as someone said in the comments 😊

Telemarks dialekt

Hvadan?

Cảm ơn rât nhiều!

Imagine how diffrent England would be today

@@americanman3054 Right. The whole history of the world would have been different!

Actually, here’s what I think would happen. History would unravel exactly what it had been doing for the past 60 years. The North Sea Empire would be reestablished, the English nobility surrendering to Harald. Eventually, King Harald would die, as he was very old and his invasion of England was more for glory than anything. His claim would be passed down to one of his sons, if not both. Then there would be some war to restore some anglo saxon king bla bla bla. Remember Normandy? Well, William is going to have to build up his army again. Any defeat from the Anglo Saxons wouldn’t be incredibly decisive if it was achieved - the norman army was much better equiped and diversly comprised of horsemen, archers, etc. In the midst of the chaos with England and Norway, they’d give it another shot and press William’s claim. Basically, the pre-1066 ante bellum is restored for a short while until they go again for part 2. The exhausted Norwegians couldn’t hold on to England for much longer at this point. The North Sea Empire was able to hold on to England for so long because the English people were just tired of war and chaos and the Danish king was seen as a stabilizing factor. That is where the Norwegians would not succeed in. Not to mention the likelihood of a Swedish invasion or Danish invasion to restore hegemony over the weak state back in Scandinavia. As cool as a continued Second Viking Age would be or maybe even a third, European politics meant that the vikings were long dead.

I think he wanted to capture great loss of his country with music

😃👍

To be fair, the song was sung by a Norwegian, which is why it was so understandable.

Why wouldnt you understand it?

@Ringsfjord Så rart.

How much understanding is there between eg. Swedish and Norwegian in day to day speech?

Sandt jeg er dansker

*Lindisfarme burning noises*

Oh!!! Ragnarson's is coming

No, Scandinavia was all Christian in 1066.

@@alkfouq8762 only the kings and powerfull were 100% many peasants and Farmers still beleived

Go back to raiding in that little game of yours son, the grown ups are listening to your dad. Now shut up. Now shut up. Now shut up. Now shut up.

Thanks for that. I enjoyed that song too.

already have, listen to olafur liljuros, better. eiril jarl is good too, every viking song is good

Respect. The English are originally Anglo-Saxon, so we have a common ancestry in Germanic roots. I am an American with mixed Germanic and Celtic heritage. The Germanic is specifically Norwegian, Danish, German, and Saxon.

@@MagnsATK98 100% brother 💪🏻

Respekt från Svea Rike, 200% bröder! 💪🏻💪🏻

im english with viking ancestry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇴🇩🇰

Russia and Britain we're friends until The Revolution happened.

Vladimir Yaroslavich, or in Norse, Valdemar Jurislevsson :)

@@agri9971 Not always. There were a multitude of times when the Brits and Russians fought against each other, either diplomatically or on the field of battle. This was mostly because the British worry that the Russians would counter their own Colonial ambitions or would grow to powerful.

​@@agri9971 **cough** Crimean War **cough**

Wouldn't you like that... frenchy..

@@averinus7706 we nords and the french have a very good relationship Rip normandy

@@drageben145 what country my fellow Scandinavian

@@shaneleach110 norge/ noreg/ norway

@@drageben145 norge

Warrior brothers ❤️

Viva Italia!

F for the berserker

Why is that

@@torqara1879 immigration

Ragnar I think it‘s more of the native Europeans that are afraid of Terrorism and what immigration can bring into country that might be malicious. I think people try to be as least as racist as they can be, but it‘s just the fear part of it. The only reason there is racism is because people are fearful.

@Clownface were not volkdeutch but we are germanic

förlat du musta sej jag älskar sverige

Ulle Jarnsida jag hader sverige :P

Her er Danmark og Sverige i et nøtteskall🤣 Sloss dere om oss igjen?!🤦‍♂️

Øyvind Grande-Kjær at kæmpe med svensker er det vi er mest kendt for XD jeg mener bort set for lego

@@captaincookie1286 👌

@@gilgamesh7055 haha hva faen

​@@gilgamesh7055 migrerer? Tror det er veldig få som flytter til Sverige for å handle billig mat og sprit. De ganske få nordmennene som f.eks. flytter til Bohuslän handler vel stort sett i Grebbestad, Tanumshede og lignende, der er det ikke spesielt billig. På grensa er det veldig billig, men dit er det nordmenn som bor i Norge som drar på dagstur. Det blir ansett som et problem i Norge også, at nordmenn legger igjen så mange penger i Sverige fremfor å støtte norsk økonomi. Altså, Sverige tjener masse penger som kanskje heller burde forblitt i Norge på "svenskehandelen". Synes ikke at det nødvendigvis er en god ting jeg heller.

​@@gilgamesh7055 Jepp, det er en svært god ting at Sverige ikke gikk inn på det tilbudet. Svenske arbeidere som bor i Norge er nå en annen sak enn norske dagsturer 10 minutter over grensa til Nordby, men kanskje de burde skattlegges høyere enn nordmenn, ikke vet jeg.

​@@gilgamesh7055 det var egentlig ikke et seriøst forslag fra min side, jeg bare bidro med motsatsen til det du meldte innledningsvis.. men du mente altså kanskje bare dagsturer/svenskehandel, og ikke nordmenn som faktisk migrerer til Sverige? Personlig synes jeg ikke at folk som ikke er nordmenn bør få norsk statsborgerskap i det hele tatt, men det er en annen sak :-) svensker er selvfølgelig ikke noe særskilt problem i så måte! F.eks. i Vietnam vil en innvandrer aldri få nøyaktig de samme rettighetene som vietnamesere selv har, og jeg ser ikke at det er noe galt i en slik ordning. Kanskje det kunne vært en særskilt ordning oss skandinavere imellom, vi er tross alt brødrefolk. Men igjen, nå beveger vi oss inn på annet territorie, vil ikke åpne en helt ny "can of worms" her.

faxx🔥🔥💯💯💴💴

Tf? The song is about the battle of Stamford Bridge (1066 AD)

@@unfathomablyunfathomable Didn't knew the stadium was that old. And people say Chelsea had no history before Roman took over

@@sadafhusain2059 There was no battle in any football stadium. They are talking about a bridge. There was a battle in England on a bridge. What did football stadium come from?

​@@unfathomablyunfathomableI think that you're missing the sarcasm bait here. He is joking about a Football Club's stadium named the Stamford Bridge, in London England. Chelsea Football Club

@@GrzegorzBraunYTOfficial Didn't seem like a joke, but just some random person on the internet not understanding something (which is the case 99.9% of the time). Plus I'm not from the UK, so I don't know about a random stadium (or perhaps it's well known what do I know) but ok

FUCK OFF

@@Whayleejay 😂

well william had a good plan

fuck off

William the conqueror is the descendant of Rollo, a Danish Viking chief, so tbh the Saxons lost to a French Viking.

Oh, ist das ein deutscher Kommentar?

@@maximilienrobespierre6276’Oversett’ knappen på telefoner hjelper også ❤

@@RU-vidisgettingworse. Sorry ich verstehe dich nicht :(

@@maximilienrobespierre6276 The ‘Translate’ button you get on mobile phones makes it easy to understand other languages.

this is not old norse mate

@@hades9025 well it is a very calm song about a brutal and violent battle that led to the end of an age

@@mittromney417 Indeed, although I don't have Charlemagne in my known tree. I have Scottish royal blood in the 1500s, Danish in the 1300s and back from there it gets wild since all European noble and royal families essentially intermarried for millennia. Comparing records to DNA sequencing doesn't make too much sense though. It is true that you can see whether you share say mithocondrial DNA with some person of history, which tells that you at least have some ancestor in common at some point in history. But that does NOT mean you're descended FROM that historical figure. It means that historical figure and yourself are both descended from some unknown individual unknown to history. This is not like a record where you can go back and pinpoint generation after generation. As for a regular DNA test that shows your relations, that only goes back some 200-250 years. After that you only have trace amounts of DNA from your own ancestors due to exponential growth of the family tree.

@@mittromney417 "I don't know how much it will take for you to realise this is extremely common, and there is absolutely nothing special about this." I don't know how much it will take for you to learn to read. You're just repeating what I said. Here, I'll slap you in the face with it again since you need assistance: "that far back we have most ancestors in common if we live in a similar geographical area". "I'd also seriously reconsider the 200-250 point you've made. I've seen it made before in ignorance." No, you just need to understand simple math and biology. You seem extremely confident while also being extremely lacking in actual knowledge. A good example of Dunning-Kruger. This is called chromosomal DNA and is the one showing direct relation. 250 years is approximately 9 generations back. 50% (simplified, it's not precisely 50) of your DNA is shared with each of your parents. 25% with each of your grandparents... 12,5% with your great-grandparents... By the time you get to your 9th generation ancestor you share approximately 0,2% of your DNA from that ancestor, because you have 500 9th generation ancestors. At that point it's basically trace DNA, too little to be a credible result. It's so little that since this rule isn't absolute, there are slight variations, there are ancestors at this level that you have no traceable DNA in common with at all as the sections of your genome passed on are random. "Your records are held purely in faith". This is true. While records held by the church for centuries are considerably credible, humans are not and cheating occurs. "I know you are emotionally invested in defending your 'records matter' comment" Quite the opposite again if you were able to read. Speaking of face, I can understand why you had to make a new anonymous YT account with a fake name to make posts in the comment sections to distance your writings from yourself.

Jimmy Holm, indeed. Can trace my line back to Many important norse leaders. Mine actually goes back to the Saxon kings tho.

I swear these replies to this comment are so silly "I'm descended from Harald Haldrada that's cool! I know most other Northern Europeans are but still that's cool! "Um asks ackshully being descended from nobility and royalty is common and not special, I'm so smart 🤓"

@@mittromney417 Man why are you so snarky 💀 he just wanted to share a cool fact that he can trace his ancestry back to Hardrada. Why are you trying so hard to argue?

i bet you are the great grandson of the coward that escaped the battle that day :))))