... and not even know it! Clive Standen (Rollo) takes us through some modern words that the Vikings also used in the Old Norse language. Vikings returns November 28 9EP on HISTORY Canada.
Vikings totally did Rollo's character dirty. In history he was a really good man that did what was best for his people and family. One of the greatest Vikings of all time.
@@CyrodiilicKhajiit hate to tell you but when you hear of vikings raiding places it means that they killed all the men, then raped all the women and the killed all the women and then took everything of value
Those names came much later in Scandinavia. Andersson, Persson, Svensson, Kristiansson etc. This names are from the 1500 century. They had some variations since people didn't know how to write properly until everyone could go in school.
Cognates, related words, not borrowed terms. Just look at other Indo-European languages: German "Sohn", Russian "Syn", Lithuanian "Sūnus". As for the second one, German "Tochter", which is actually closer to the original pronounciation of "daughter".
@@ezravandesande5699 I know, there are surprisingly many words that are still the same or very simmilar in old scandinavian and modern languages such as English, Dutch and German. It's almost like tracing a path the words have traveld.
The fact that you understand 30% of what is said if you speak swedish and pay attention is fairly cool (in the tv-series). Sounds low with 30% but you can piece things together and understand way more.
Same with Danish. Sometimes you can even understand all of it, an example being when Ivar yells at the English, probably helps that Alex is Danish though.
Old norse developed to the nordic/ scandinavian languges, norwegian, swedish, danish, islandic and faroese. It is not dead. Icelandic people can still read old scripts. Many words are very similair to words in today’s nordic languges and even in English.
I really wish they would iron this out in these presentations: WE call it Old Norse (which is really just a blanket name for umpteen variations during that period). The contemporaries actually called it Danish (Dönsktungu), per the sagas. End rant... lol
Some of these words are actually from Germanic, not exclusively from Old Norse like Thor's Day, Hel, Syk, Slaughter. These words appear in similar forms in Dutch and German, so they were most likely present in some way in Anglo-Saxon vocabulary before the Norsemen even arrived. Old Norse and Old English were already very similar languages as is, both freshly branching off from Germanic.
Icelandic is the closest to Old Norse. Also, according to Wikipedia, the "Þ" was known as "Thurs" in Icelandic and Norwegian poems. This name can in turn be used as a different term for the "Jötnar." -My point is that -_-Thursday-_- can also translate to -_-"Giant's Day"-_- if one chooses to do so.-
In Old Norse, the day of the weak was called "Þórsdagr" which is just a combination of the possessive form of "Þórr" meaning Thor, and "dagr," meaning day.
Yes that character actually used to be in English. We called it the "thorn", but for several hundred years our upper classes spoke mostly French and German, and helped steer the language away from Nordic characters and replace the thorn with "Th" Hope i helped 👍👍❤️
Mordern Icelandic is more or less a living dialect or variety of Old Norse: Old Norse: Gáttir allar, áðr gangi fram, um skoðask skyli, um skyggnast skyli, því at óvíst er at vita, hvar óvinir sitja á fleti fyrir. Icelandic: Gáttir allar áður gangi fram um skoðast skyli, um skyggnast skyli, því að óvíst er að vita hvar óvinir sitja á fleti fyrir. Source: An Icelander's response to my comment that I as a Swede understood part of the Old Norse posted by Dr. Crawford: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Pw6LQeRS8s.html&lc=UgyeCPijR8hnQ8exx7p4AaABAg
@Martin I was talking about Faroese having a tone (how it sounds) that's similar to Swedish. I wasn't talking about Swedish itself. It's still very much a dialect of Old Norse, and while it sounds familiar to a Swedish speaker, they can't understand more than the odd stray word that hasn't changed much over time.
I was so excited about naming conventions until I realized that my Viking name would be Richie Richieson, or Richard Richardson, since my father and I share the same name.
It applied to the people on the raids as well. Vikings went on Vikings, just as hunters go on hunts. The only difference is that Viking wasn't really a profession, but a temporary outing.
@@SaturatedCat There is a small difference in Germanic mythology and Norse mythology, but they still had the same gods, but different names, and the mythology changed a bit due to regional and cultural differences. The same goes with the language, old norse is in the germanic language group, and in that the north germanic group. This north germanic language group had some words that looks alot like other words in germanic language, but there were still a difference, thats why they say a lot of old norse language, influenced the english language spoken today. The english language have a lot of words derived from scandinavia, France etc. Its is not Hollywoods fault, although they change a bit to make it more entertaining, especially in the vikings show, there is still a difference in those things you mentioned.
@@SaturatedCat You have to remember scandinavian people invaded and moved to England and integrated the lands, and brought both culture and language to the island, therefore many words derives from old Norse language, this is a fact you cannot deny, but the languages was pretty similar beforehand, this is also why English is so easy to learn if you already speak one of the Germanic languages. But old norse/Danish and later frence, had a pretty big influence on the english language and culture. You can call it some kind of loan words they took from the old norse language, the same as they have loan words from french
@@SaturatedCat and again because you can see the similarities is because it is the same language group. According to Google around 400 words in the english language comes from old norse language, this is a significant amount, but you still a very small amount. And no we Scandinavians dont think that we had a big influence on the English language, we just know that we had some influence, this is also what we get taught in school.
We gave rise to pretty much modern day English. We traveled the world before anyone else did. We invented the names of each day. Our saga, mythology, history and legends are renowned across the world, and has inspired thousands of writers, story tellers, movie makers and philosophers from ancient times to modern day. We basically ensured that Skyrim ever became a thing. Tolkien was inspired by our mythology and named his world after ours, with a twist on the name; Middle-earth, and wrote Lord of the rings. We gave rise to much trade across all of Europe, and almost became an empire. We are Vikings. Hail all my Scandinavian Brothers and sisters.
My ancestor was truly great, would love for us Scandinavia's to learn about them more than just the ''fairy tales'' and the sagas. Would love to know more about our culture and people. Because when the Christians came they destroyed a lot of our heritage and folklore
It's not like 'the christians' came and destroyed culture. It was the native norse people who converted to christianity, after having a lot of contact with the continent through travel, trade and politics. This process took several hundred years, and in many cases the two faithsystems merged or coexisted. Most of the folklore survived christianity, albeit in a modified way. (How much of a scandinavian christmas is really christian, it's not even called christmas in scandinavia) Luckily, with christianity came education and literacy. And a few learned men put the sagas into written form so it would not get lost. We really have the monastic orders to thank for not the entire european culture being wiped out during the plagues of the middle ages.
0:05. Old Norse is not extinct at all, it has developed into our Scandinavian languages, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic. Most of the words you mention are still common words here.
The language is still extinct, anyone who could read or write died in the black death. Icelandic is exactly what we Norwegians spoke before, but is now a danish version since we were slaves under them.
@@jans6271 It depends on what you mean by extinct. Nobody speaks Old Norse today, but we all (in Scandinavia) speak languages which are descendants from old Norse. Even the Danish-influenced Norwegian which you mention (bokmål I guess) descends from Old Norse, since Danish does so. But you have tried to go back somewhat to the roots with nynorsk, haven't you? We Swedes have unfortunately not such a good copy of the old language as you have in Icelandic, but it was obviously something similar.
@@svergurd3873 Most norwegians doesn't speak either Bokmål or Nynorsk they speak their dialect which in some cases are more like Faroese/Icelandic than Danish or swedish
Rollo was actually my favorite character from the vikings. Am I the only one thinking that in a 1v1 situation he would have defeated his brother? Ragnar was smarter, but Rollo was brute force.
As well as Tuesday which came from Tyr, and Wednesday came from Odin, Thursday came from Thor, Saturday came from Saturn, which rather then any Norse God, is actually a Roman God.
@@Easy-Death_Oven4056 and Sunday came from Sunnudagr, Old Norse for the Day of the Sun, who was also a deity in a way. If we called Saturday by its Nordic name, it would be Bathday, as in Old Norse it was called Laugardagr.
The days of the week in english did not come from old norse. These came from old english and the anglo saxon pagan gods who shared common ancestry with the norse ones.
Glad to be of real viking desent. Swedish mother ,norwegian father and they gave me the name Åsa ( godess among vikings and a direct variation of Asa (tro) I live in Sweden but in the part that was once danish . I have the fortune to speak swedish ,norwegian danish and english. I totally am a viking!
Wow i didnt even know this and im scandinavian and love the history here i knew about berserker but not the others! Fun fact, we still use Kaka for small cakes/biscuits or cookies
@@Thename123J this is in all Old Norse descendant languages. It even shows up in English with reference to long and short "a". It should be roughly /kawh-kah/.
@@faramund9865 I mean, they're linked to what most people would refer to as Norse Mythology, so close enough. Thursday being from T(Þ)orsdæg, from Thor
@@s1lverbullet1234 It might be close enough in other circumstances, but it is not close enough if the video is about what words are from the vikings! From what I've read, Thursday MIGHT be from Old Norse though, but not Tuesday
Also in Danish, fx: Vindue = window, Mus = mouse, hjælp = help, læg = leg, æg = egg, pande = pan, arm = arm, fod = foot and so on and so on, Danish (and old norse) really had a huge impact on the English we know today :)
"kaka" isn't really fased out of Norwegian yet either, although in the Oslo dialect it's now "kake", up North (at least in my dialect) it's still "kaka"
Probably not. Try this line of thought. The old Norse came with the invaders the Angles and Saxons and became the root of Anglo-Saxon languages that became known as old English. Just looking at the similarities in sentence structure, spelling and words comparing old Norse and old English. It makes sense. Then add that Hel and Thor are both from the old Norse religious beliefs.
This is correct they are from Old English - thunresdæg meaning Thunder’s day and Old Norse meaning Thor's day, remember Angles believed in the old god before they converted to Christianity, there are many worlds that a similar, I am from the school of thought that both languages infucenced these sorts of words equally.
@@evillimey6965 yes, a blend is what I think happened. The language of Britain at the time of the invasion by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians was old Brythonic right? What was Thursday called in old Brythonic before the invasion of Angles etc.? Was it Latinised or was there a Brythonic name for Thursday that could have been blended with? I am very curious. In old Norse it was þórsdagr. However there were different dialects of old Norse and the Danish style of dagr is pronounced basically the same as day is in English. If you have the answers to any or all of my questions I would be really excited to learn. I keep finding links back and forth and it is really fascinating.
@@VentureHolly What cultural nuances are you even talking about. I didn't have to learn english, but speaking at least 1 foreign language should be anyones goal. I don't see why so many americans just don't want to. Coming back to being lazy again I guess. And Irony/Sarcasm exists in any language. If you properly speak a language you spot sarcasm without any problems.
Us Geordies use slang that has a few old Norse words supposedly. Especially when you some say the likes of I'm gannin yerm (going home) or how's the bairns (how's the kids)... it's not as common now and it is generally just more slang but interesting though.
@@ericaangelinatunacao7565 he just say it as i think everyone would.(not native) i think not right and not completley wrong cuse this could even be more old english sounding of the words like they use to use ''ye old'' wich was þe old and came to be the old
I live in a town in Yorkshire in England. We say " are you laiking ( playing)out!". We use old Norse all the time. If l travel 5 miles and say it they won't have a clue what it means.
I like how Norwegians are now using the English Word "bag", which stems from the norse baggi. We're basically just playing tennis with the Word at this point
Terriible pronunciations! Vowels are mostly wrong, the stress is usually off, and the R should be a trilled or a tipped one. Also useful is that egg, knife, die are also from Old Norse
Anglo saxons spoke a language related to Old Norse. As I recall the weekdays stem from this. Like we say Odin and onsdag - they say Woden and wednesday. We say Thor and torsdag, they say Thunor and thursday. Another word he could have mentioned is window, from Old Norse Vindauga - modern Danish/Norwegian: vindue 😊
Its makes total sense that today's English contain some words similar to Old Norse. Both English and German originated from Old Germanic. Old Norse is also known as Northern Germanic, hence the close relationship.
Apart from Monday 🌙 and Sunday ☀️, all our day names are Old Norse/Germanic gods. Saturday is the Latin outlier being the Roman version of Chronos, Greek god of time (ergo chronological).
It's confusing but actually Thursday is named after the Anglo-Saxon version of Thor called Thunor. The Anglo-Saxons before their christianisation practiced a form of Germanic paganism that was not the same as Norse paganism but the two will have had a proto-Germanic ancestor. This means a lot of AS and Víking gods had similar sounding names. Thor/Thunor, Odin/Wodan etc etc.
I work as a carpenter in norway. I always wear my knife wich we call "tollekniv". Did some research the other day. Found out that "Tolle" comes from "telgje". An old norse Word wich means shaping and cutting.
Not just english, also Swedish,Danish,Norwegian,Icelandic. and many different dialect aorund Scandinavia like Elvdalian which still is spoken language, but only few understand & can speak.
