Germanic vs Scandinavian Tribes: Religion History

The Scandinavians and other Germanic tribes all worshipped the same gods. The norse religion is something we associate with the vikings but really, all the germanic peoples in Europe practiced this religion.
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#paganism
#norse

[@KatieBwriting]

I grew up in a Christian household, but I never felt connected to that religion. My mother's maiden name is Frank and I always knew we came from Germany. But after taking a 23 and Me test, I learned we specifically came from North Rhine-Westphalia. Since then, I've been learning everything I can about the germanic tribes and religion. So fascinating! Thank you so much for the informative video!

[@carolynhague7199]

Such an interesting vidéo...loved it❤

[@Behemot_]

I'm from Spain, I have DNA deep matches with goths, celts and scytians, is crazy.

[@soystefanie]

I have the same experience. It's great to connect with the ancestors.

[@Loterrach]

✝

[@johnh2055]

"That BASTARD Charlamagne". BEST description ever!

[@freiheit8582]

He was known as the "Sachsenschlächter" meaning the slaughterer of Saxons, as he invited them to unarmed peace talks, where he betrayed them and killed the defenseless Saxons. Of course, they try to avoid these facts in official history lessons. I didn't learn about that in German school, where Charlemagne was portrayed as the visionary true founder of Europe.

[@krispalermo8133]

@@freiheit8582 " Night of the Long Knives " have been a long standing tradition. Heard of a story of Two Rival Brothers, Each was a great warlord in their own right, but Who Will Rule the Great Kingdom ? There was a Family Gathering, argument broke out between The Two, A .. Rowdy .. wrestling bout was made on the dinning long table, they sounded like Dogs in a few short breathes. One palm a wooden spoon face in his hand and ran the spoon handle into the other Brother's Skull. The Best Strongest Wolf Wins. German nobility/ royalty had a tradition for a few centuries after that event where all food had to be cut into bite size bits in the kitchen before it could be brought out to the dinning long table, soup/ stews had to be drank from a bowel without a spoon. Also there were .. tales .. of mothers killing their grown man sons when they slam their son's faces down breaking wooden plates. .. " Do not disrespect your mother at the table by running off you .. mouth .. at her."

[@bohemianwriter1]

That's too kind!

[@Vladklx]

@@freiheit8582 ha ha 😂tribal cave dweller should thanks franks for western culture...

[@mortenthorsen8994]

@@freiheit8582 the Saxons that escaped fled to Denmark as refugees and launched the Viking age. And still people find it awful that they targeted Christian monasteries

[@deanerhar]

This channel is quickly migrating to the top of my subscriptions

[@bmoneybby]

Legit

[@dux_bellorum]

Yea it went from me watching a couple videos like hmm to now me sitting here binging it.......just call me Kylo Ren with the "MORE".....

[@janmulcahy1458]

Yep, it's a great one and I watch a lot of religion channels of all kinds

[@MyOnlyTasks]

Yea it happens fast

[@TheAaronRodgersTao]

Me too. He is a voice of wisdom for even our modern day.

[@starrcitizenalpha7847]

"Our own treacherous Kings...". Seems some things never change. As relevant today as it was back then. ;) On another note, and if I may be so bold, might I suggest that you acquire a desk lamp or two (the shrouded type like the animated one shown at the beginning of Pixar's animated movies) and try placing them out of frame but directed at the wall above and in front of you (assuming the wall is white/off white). This will result in a soft, even fill light for your face. Currently you are heavily backlit (silhouetted) which is a shame, given that you come across as a confident and articulate speaker. Some experimentation may be required but It would be a cheap and easy way to raise the production value of your channel. Just a tip from an ex-pro photographer...

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes nothing changes. Thank you! I got a better camera recentkly and wondered why the quality is not better. I will give that a try!

[@slayingroosters4355]

Plus we’d see your handsome Viking face more

[@corytucker6668]

Awesome video sir, love that you went into detail. My favorite time period in history is the age of the germanic tribes.

[@mystic48209]

The name Easter is a us due to the use of Eostre. The tall blonde fishnet wearing goddess. Her totems were the raven and the rabbit. You cam see the wood work in the ancient church with their seatings (pews ). The goddess is usually depicting extending the large red apple. Also I think from her the "easter" egg was a fertility gift encouraging young couples to have children.

[@Aseyona]

In the other hand, middle eastern polytheistic religions had astaroth or similar goddess names. The word star or astra (meaning sky) derives from this goddess' name.

[@noideahowtopickagooduserna22]

That's interesting to hear. In German Easter is called ''Ostern'' which is (as far as I know) directly derived from the Germanic Goddess Ostara. Ostara is the Goddess of spring and her symbols actually do include an egg (for fertility) and a rabbit (to be precise it's a 'moon rabbit').

[@yowzki7284]

Easter also came from "ishtar" she's a mesapotamian goddess of fertility

[@possemis]

most of these fertility goddesses have their origin in a larger, for now mostly unknown indo-european religion, from the time the germanic people still lived on the steppes.

[@Marvinuser]

and where Eostre is the germanic word) Ostara is the celtic as the name of the celtic season is directly named after her ) Ishtar, astra, astarte or astaroth are merely names from other regions for the same goddess ;) i know anat, astarte , ishtar and astoreth have long been confused with each other, because they come from roughly the same roots, yet to some astarte has akkadian roots, - Canaanite and Phoenician, even in some sources West Semitic, ishtar - sumerian mesopotamian, but both are of assyrian origin so maybe there is a possible explanation in the spoken dialects. In Ancient Sumer she was also known as Inanna, but the most common thought is that Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart of the West Semitic goddess Astarte, yet if you look closely at the pronunciation, Eostre, Ostara, Ishtar', Astra, Astardu, Astarte. they even sound alike, as in reference with the goddess of the night from egypt: Nut, in Old norse: Nótt or Nat (Both meaning: Night) and Nótt is spoken almost exactly the same way as Nut

[@WolfofOdin.]

Loving the channel , becoming one of my favorites on this topic!

[@pepperedwithpenguins4387]

So glad I found this guy. Awesome info!!!

[@MichaelEricMenk]

3:30: We still in Norway and Sweden decorate with Thor's goat for Christmas.. And Julebukk is also pagan, just modified...

[@raourotsukodoji3790]

Just discovered this channel. Very interesting! Greetings from the Cananefates tribe.

[@jsigur157]

I am a quarter English (Thompson), a quarter German (Duhar and Varwig) and then 1/2 Slavic (Croatia- Sigur). I'm enjoying your channel and have really gotten interested in the Nordic countries, including Finland). Not sure of the Germanic spellings and that side of the family did not share the history of the family at all with me and didn't become interested until I began rearing my daughter, in my 40's. Subscribed!!!

[@widukindbooks9934]

Any scholar worth anything knows that Germanic peoples passed on these tales orally throughout time. The story of the Volsungs takes place in many continental European settings. This is also why there is the very similar story of the Nibelungenlied written later in the medieval period in what is now modern day Germany.

[@isaeihwaz3227]

true, but isnt the first written fragment of the nibelungenlied older than the icelandic Völsunga saga? Or are you only referring to the highgerman version?

[@MrZeljko88]

Great vid thumbs up very much explained

[@Ancient_Entity]

I found you and have been going thru all your vids... love your content and sense of humor, keep it up friend👍

[@初春-y2n]

i tracked my ancestors back to saxony, and its tough finding info on the pagan traditions of them, but in the end honoring and remembering my Sax ancestry makes me very proud.

[@Cernunnos_83]

Very good video! 👍🌳

[@abiataabyssi6273]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@stephanreichelt2700]

I imagine Njord and Ran were more worshiped in the Scandinavian kinds because they have to do with the Sea...

[@michaeljlydon6991]

another great video. could you possibly do a video on asatru and the 9 noble vitures.

[@remoengels2085]

learned some new things again:D i,m wondering why i have such feeling to fight untill i die,even in this times . and when i search out my history i makes more sense and sense. cant save the Nehterlands on my own:( but people keep sleeping when they are awake:(

[@mindfield9]

Hope you guys can also make a documentary about the Batavi and the Batavian Revolt against the Romans wich was directly caused by the Year of the Four Emperors.

[@m.f.hopkins8728]

Another interesting video!

[@kylepickus5712]

If you can, can you go over the differences between Norse paganism and Baltic paganism.

[@mariascheu817]

I guess, I have it in my soul. I growed up in a small village sorounded by wood. As a little child I looked out of the window and noticed a special tree. I told my brother: This is a magic tree. We must go there. We found a little spring at its roots. And I put little playing figures around its roots to admire tree and spring. I did it instinctively, nobody had ever told me to do such things, and we never talked about that to any adult. I just felt it and did it. I guess old knowledge coming out of my children's soul.

[@BloodIsTheInkOfFreedom]

Out of curiosity, have you found evidence of Scandinavian and or Germanic influence in North Africa like Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia? I've grown up hearing about that from my mother's side which is North African and I'm curious, I have swedish and Welsh blood so this is definitely something that I grew up with from my father's side and part of my mother's side

[@jonathans9537]

Amazingly good synopsis of the red thread that ties so many Germanic peoples and descendants.

[@AZViKing]

Very interesting

[@Ravishrex1]

I like to hear About the Frisians .

[@matthewwhite3444]

For the most part I enjoyed the video. However you neglected to mention the Saxons started the war with Charlemagne. They were constantly raiding into Frankia.

[@saxogrammatikus4195]

And the franks had this not for generations? They all raided each other. The franks are not a exeption to this in Charlemagnes time. He respected the old law of the franks like the gavelkind succession and maybe other costumes. For latin-romans and greeks the franks and lombards were savages long after they become christian and they raid in 4 crusade byzanz as christian knights.

[@vonborgestad]

Snorre Sturlasson claimed that a large part of Norway still was holding on to the old traditions with bloting and was honoring Frøy and Tor. He was in Norway in 1218-1220 and in 1237-1239.

[@hakanpersson6524]

In Sweden they say there were people who had two religions (christianity and paganism) two hundred years ago.

[@dannyvanekeren3592]

Ik have a theorie about old pagan use that still exist even we dont know It anymore. When i was a kid i Saw a scarecrow in the fields and i asked met mother what IT was. And she told me that IT was to scare away the birds. Buy i Saw that the crows are zitting on the scarecrow. Zo is didn't beliefed IT. Now years later i Read a book about Seidr And there i Saw a story about people who went in the fields with old cloathes on sticks and walk tot onnor Freya. Zo i think that the old pagan farmers invented the scarecrow to misguide the christian priest and still worshop Freya and we still do IT today even we dont know that IT is still the old way. Danny from Amsterdam

[@twiektwiek32]

I like the german blonde and lagharta they are so pretty

[@tigrecito48]

3:00 talking of a good chunk of people practicing 'paganism' privately etc after being Christianised / force converted... I went to Central America in 2008... I'd say that in some of the Mayan areas like Guatemala, especially in villages etc, Christianity would be barely recognisable to most European Christians.. In fact, I went into one church and they had a load of smoke and leaves all over the ground and they were sacrificing a chicken... I also read that for most of Mayan history, they converted secretly, the statues of Mary and Jesus into ones of their own Gods in their heads at least... often burying pagan statues etc under those Christian statues and secretly worshipping their own Gods in front of Christian priests. This lasted centuries not just a few years...

[@hulejul9748]

we also have a lot of archeological finds in Denmark with asatru iconography from at least as far back as the 500s :). and a few years back we found a truckload of Viking jewelry and other goods in the first Scandinavian city of ribe. it always blows my mind how big an impact the germanic culture, which originated in Scandinavia, has had on the world. for better or worse. this channel is great btw.

[@roybean1906]

Cool

[@paulbadtram748]

It's funny how you say that the German pagan religion never really died out. My catholic cousin once asked my grandfather what the family religion was and he said we are not catholic, Lutheran or any other Christian religion. He said his grandfather was more pagan than anything else. He said that his grandfather gave tribute to ancestors and the forces of nature. It might have been away to keep from being burned at the stake. His grandfather grandfather was never part of any Christian churchs.

[@duchessnanciann9592]

My grandmother said the same to me. She had prayers that had nothing to do with Christianity which puzzled me as a child. As an adult though, I have been on a mission to learn as much as possible the religion of my ancestors and I thank my Grandma for that.

[@paulherzog9605]

The Old Gods still live

[@Makarosc]

How the hell did his line pull that off

[@paulbadtram748]

@@Makarosc I don't know exactly they where mostly farmers and small land owners. We do know that it was one of my past ancestors that provided protection to Martin Luther when he was wanted by the Catholic church. Found that out from a Lutheran friend of mine who is a Lutheran historian. That might have been a reason the Lutherans left them alone. The other reason is my last name has been seen in writings of Wolfmen. Whatever that means, maybe the Roman Catholic Empire just decided to leave them be.

[@Makarosc]

@@paulbadtram748 or maybe they just avoided getting caught until everyone realized the Empire barely functioned to begin with

[@zhp500]

I grew up with some Germanic gods as a daily part of life. A thunder storm my Mom would bring up Thor and his hammer. It was like a background story to things, even though we went to a Christian Church.

[@circomnia9984]

Oh. Thor. I always thought lightning was God taking selfies with me.

[@MamaFirehorse5]

I have always loved to watch lightening and hear the thunder. The louder, the better. On the rare occasions we did get thunder storm or electric storms I would sneak out and watch the lightening, asking the storm for more, as it very entertaining to me - still is.

[@sv7017]

How is that possible?

[@doristravella1680]

German background,my grandmother always did the same.

[@hym3323]

Every Christian holiday is a germanic holiday. People still don't know this.

[@dannestrom]

Germanic people also spread to England (Anglo-Saxons). The Angles came from souther Jutland in Denmark, and the Saxons were from Sachsen (now called Nieder-Sachsen) in Germany, Some of the weekdays in English are named after the old gods. Tuesday after Tyr (Tisdag in Swedish), Thursday after Thor (Torsdag in Swedish), and Friday after Frigg or Freja (Fredag in Swedish). Wednesday is a bit off from the Swedish name (Onsdag in Swedish after Odins dag), but when you know the German name fro Odin, which was Wodan, the you can see that Wednesday is from Wodan's day.

[@nialloneill5097]

I had to learn this at primary school in the 60s in Northern England...even my relatives...you could see who was Celt and who was Germanic...in size, hair colour...eyes colour...Yorksire was divided into 3 Ridings...which were used until around 1970...strange, when we entered the EEC...our coins and boundaries changed...I was in the West Riding, which was close to the River Don...that flowed to the Ouse then Humber...This became South Yorkshire...included Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham. This was the main coal mining and steel areas.

[@dannestrom]

I’ve been in Yorkshire and Durham a lot. My parents divorced when I was about 6 years old, and my dad’s second wife was born in northeastern England. While I grew up n Sweden, we visited my stepmother’s relatives in Yorkshire and Durham.

[@AbnerWandekin]

I'm from Brazil and my ancestors are from northern Germany ( Lower Saxony to be more precise), I've always heard stories about the old gods, the myths and specially about that bastard Charle Magne, i'm doing a lot of research to get to know better about my roots. I've even discovered that my Last name is a derivation of Widukind, the saxon warrior Thanks for the video, it helped me a lot putting the pieces togheter.

[@hmvollbanane1259]

The lower saxons are actually Widukind's tribe so the link has some feasibility. Lower Saxony is the actual saxon tribe, today's federal country of Saxony and its predecessor state are actually predominantly slavs of the pommeranians and wenden who were conquered and christianized by the saxons under otto the great and his father and sons. Eventually the main line died out in saxony in the male line and hence the Kurfürsten (prince elect title, the biggest german lords that got to elect the emperor) title and honours as well as the title of the lord of the saxons went to the surviving subbranch in their former eastern province which became therefore known as Saxons and Saxony. Heraldically you can always tell historic saxon areas by the use of the saxon steed (white steed on red background)

[@AbnerWandekin]

@@hmvollbanane1259 Thank you so much for the precious information mate. May the gods watch over you !

[@12tanuha21]

@@hmvollbanane1259 the situation of Saxony have more to do with the fall of Heinrich the Lion

[@jaif7327]

what proportion of german ancestry ? you look more italian if anything

[@AbnerWandekin]

@@jaif7327 My father's family is from Germany and my mother's half Iberic and natives from south america

[@carnation6827]

Looking forward to hearing more about the Anglo Saxons as well. Always happy to see your videos!

[@Sepulchria]

I always wondered where my origins lied. I'm Belgian but from a young age I've been interested in Germany and the old gods. In my teens i didn't find much about my surname but few years back my love for the gods increased a lot and I found a story about Odin, Frigg and the Winniler. Who Odin called the Longbeards and later were called Lombards. I'm so proud of being a "De Lombaert" now!

[@brittakriep2938]

Good , that your name is not ,van Daalen'.

[@Sepulchria]

@@brittakriep2938 👌😂

[@brittakriep2938]

@@Sepulchria : You noticed the joke ;-). I am german, Brittas boyfriend, and i am not sure , what my family Name means. Ferryman? Horsedriven wagon driver? Italian or french name? I don' t really know!

[@Sepulchria]

@@brittakriep2938 Can I ask what you family name is? Maybe I can help in the search 😁 I like researching names

[@brittakriep2938]

@@Sepulchria : Fahrion. It seems, that this Name is mostly seen in the region of Stuttgart, which is a bit strange.

[@robgau2501]

A big reason I love this channel is because your enthusiasm when discussing our people equals mine. Seriously, sometimes it's like I'm listening to myself lol

[@wilb6657]

Folks should remember that Charlemagne was himself, Germanic. He wasn't "Roman", per see, but instead, was FRANKISH-meaning, he was of Germanic descent.

[@stephanreichelt1960]

built Achen in Germany

[@boahkeinbockmehr]

Yep and the only reason he pushed Christianity that strong is that his family of the Karolinger were the Hausmeier (huskarl) of the Merowinger dynasty. The Merowinger had the Germanic king's Heil which means that by Germanic pagan religion and cultural norms the Karolingians could not usurp the weaker Merowinger. When they eventually did anyway they did it with the backing of the pope and hence were forced to put the foundation of their kingship on the new religion of Christianity (king by God's grace) and actively fight the old pagan one that was at the time still dominant amongst the normal folk as it directly challenged and deligitimized their rule - hence remaining pagan suddenly turned from a personal decision to a political one for the free men amongst the Franks and the tribes living under their rule

[@tokeeriksen2425]

Did anyone really try and Christianize Scandinavia by force? other than our own kings and nobles that is. You talk as if the Franks tried to invade and got rebuffed, which as far as I know is not the case. They probably made a bunch of threats though. Christianity got into Scandinavia by way of the Danish sort-of-king Harald Klak who let the missionary Ansgar preach and build churches from around 826 CE - Harald of course wanted to be a real king and was hoping that by allowing this the Franks would support his bid for power - it didn't work out for Harald who had to flee the country (again!), but it worked very well for Ansgar. He later became the first Archbishop of the North with a seat in Hamburg and got the epithet Apostle of the North. There weren't that many Christians in Scandinavia yet, and many would continue to worship the old gods along with Christianity, since pagans have no problem worshipping multiple gods. Christianity was present though, and accepted for the most part. The Franks/HRE would continue to diplomatically and economically pressure the Danish kings to convert, so in 965 Harald Bluetooth eventually did. By that time Christians and pagans had lived side by side in Denmark for over 100 years.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Yes absolutely. Otto II and the holy roman empire tried to do this by force. Also pressure from English Kings. See my video on the Christianization of Denmark. But yes you are right. Most of the blame is on our own Kings and nobles.

[@slavicrecycling3053]

Again thank you! You're a legend! Great video I no longer call myself an Australian born Irish, German I now just call myself Germanic 🤘

[@dontgivamonkeyz]

Makes sense considering your name is Burton.

[@erikivarson5514]

the last pagan holdouts were the balts

[@Chevymonster203]

Crazy to think Christianity wiped out the Germanic pagans, Slavic pagans, Baltic pagans and the Celtic pagans. Even though I know that in some Slavic countries they still practice paganism and celebrate the holidays. I think Lithuania might be one.

[@johnbland1585]

@@Chevymonster203 I think The Romans did most of the Celtic Cleansing of Paganism...I could be wrong though.

[@vladdracul5072]

​@@johnbland1585 The Roman Empire was already split and in decline and did no longer have the necessary influence in Europe when Christianity was established as its major religion. The aggressive and intolerant expansion of that Mediterranean cult into Europe really got started in the early Middle Ages, when the Western Roman Empire had ceased to be a major player. The Christian Eastern Roman Empire held out longer, but their influence in Western Europe was limited.

[@Rykliukas]

@@Chevymonster203 Yes, sir. We are celebrating. Greetings from Lithuania

[@ilokivi]

The presenter appears to have ignored the changes to old German as spoken in Saxony, Jutland and Angeln upon its adoption into use in Britain. This is not evidence of a takeover as has been claimed, but rather of contact over an extended period. It should be pointed out that Christian missionaries had been active in Britain from the third century CE, before this exchange began.

[@HonorAndWisdom]

Great video! I just wanted to point something out shown in the image displaying the origins of the different migrating Germanic groups. They didn't originate from north-eastern Germany, which was what was shown, but has been proven, based on recent studies, to have come from southern Scandinavia instead. This also proves what is said in the ancient Longobardic legends.

[@AJ_B_]

I'am not sure if that really is the case. I think you refer to the Lombard dna study. I'am convinced that all suebic germanic people have DNA similar to todays swedisch an especially west norwegian people.

[@12tanuha21]

But somehow they would have to get to southern Scandinavia first. I doubt they traveled through today Finnland . In my opinion they traveled through today north Germany along the baltic coastline until they found Denmark. Then they traveled northward to southern Norway and southern Sweden. At one point they started to expand to the east, south and further to the north, founding the 3 germanic language groups.

[@inpersonaDK]

You’re truly a goldmine of knowledge of the European past before Romanization and Christianity took over.

[@kimhansen3479]

Great content and very educational about heritage. Best regards from Odense Denmark. Odense named after Odin

[@wesleycarrez7416]

Heil Wodan🤘🏻 heil al de goden🇧🇪

[@bartgielingh2212]

St Nikolaas ( St Nick ) The most well known Dutch celebration, derived from our pagan god; Wodan And so do many of our words, epressions, the days of the week and so on. It never really died. It just evaded the Christian sword ;)

[@thebrocialist8300]

It’s somewhat ironic that my Iberian pagan ancestors (the highland tribes of the Astures) were not fully Christianized until they were subjugated by the (Arian Christian) Visigoths - following their expulsion of the Vandals and annexation of the Suebic Kingdom (also Arian Christian, but its sovereigns respected the customs, traditions and autonomous ways of the frontier highland tribes).

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

yes, visigoths were a tough bunch. they are some of our ancestors though less so than iberians and romans in terms if genetic contribution. we have a lot of names ofgermanic origin. Gonzalaz( Gonzalo) Ferdinand(fernando) Recared or something like that(ricardo)

[@svetislavljubisavljevic674]

Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Thracians, Dacians, Lombards, Etruscans, etc. These are all names of peoples from ancient times or before, who have disappeared. There are dozens of fictional peoples with the aim of hiding the origins of the natives of Europe. They are half-brothers, Germans, Spaniards, Italians, French, Scandinavians and others. Many modern states did not even exist until the 18th or 19th century, and the Italian language was made official in 1989, in the Italian parliament, although there are parts of Italy where people do not understand each other linguistically. There is a claim that in modern European languages ​​originated administratively in the last few centuries.

[@seanjobst1985]

Yes, and I've found that church accounts like the writings of Martin of Braga are very useful in showing just how long our traditions survived (and how much it was a headache for the Church and State). My father was originally from Southwest Germany (Swabia), but through one set of my great-grandparents I also have Iberian roots (Gallego and Castilla y Leon)! So that same mix of Suebi and Celt as occurred in Swabia. Asturias, Galicia and Cantabria - the most Celtic regions - preserved traditions far longer and still so many folk traditions clearly pre-Christian even if outwardly "folk Catholic".

[@angeluslistrell9378]

Still can´t get over how cheery and happy all the norse norwegians sounds when they talk.

[@akiraasmr3002]

Thank you so much for the video I am so proud of my Germanic heritage I am a Quarter German, Italian, Irish, and Bulgarian. My mothers last name is Moran from our Irish side of the family she didn't know she was also Italian since I took a DNA test to find that out but we do look more Italian with dark hair and really pale skin my aunt always told me I look really Italian so do my German friends. Im from the US but a lot of my friends are from Germany all over last time I visited them I had an amazing time I spent over $2K there but thats with flight and air bnb while I had to take the train alot in Germany to visit each of my friends like in Augsburg, Köln, Hamburg, Berlin, and Dessau. I got to sleep at my friends house in Köln they treated me like family and we had an amazing time they had to translate for me but I want to learn the language so I can surprise them. And my bestfriend is from Augsburg I talk to him almost everyday or at least every week.

[@Hainero2001]

Obviously traditions remain and are repurposed fur the new religion. It doesn't mean the people continue to believe in the deities and myths originally associate with those traditions. Belief is a funny thing. The Romans became Christians and exchanged their shrines to their ancestors for shrines to saints. The English are partly Danish, yes, but the word English comes from the Angles, a west Germanic tribe. The Angles spoke Anglish or English. So they were quite Germanic and from a region of what is now southern Denmark but was not Danish at the time. When they moved out and over to Britain the North Germanic tribes moved in. You're factually wrong about the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians (Anglo-Saxons) not mixing with the local Romano-Celtic people. Modern DNA studies price they did significantly. Charlemagne may have been Christian, but he was a Frank. He was Germanic.

[@StateofBeingness]

Charlene: Carl, the great was the king of the western franks… He spoke Frankish Germanic dialect, and he was “ Germanic” not Roman. He was the “holy Roman emperor of the German nation… This was what was referred to as the second Reich .

[@cranck07]

You need to read "Sort hedder en sten" by Flemming Chr. Nielsen. It researches the survivability of Asetro in Denmark (and thus Scandinavia and parts of Britain).

[@fleshen]

Just found this channel and I'm busy cramming it all! Love it and I'm a Welsh Celt!!!

[@chelsduscher6551]

I did not realize that there was so much migration both to and from Scandinavia. The old description of Odin brings to mind the old Wodin deity of Northumbria mentioned in the Last Kingdom series.

[@heathenhammer2344]

They are the same deity

[@Cardan011]

Lol all these neo pagan hipsters in comments section that stroke hard on Viking fetish are hilarious. 99% of bs they peddle as historical fact is complete fantasy….

[@mrlellol1626]

Scandinavian tribes are Germanic tribes. A better way to distinguish between the two would be to say northern and southern Germanic.

[@bjornekdahl721]

Hi again! Since we have so few texts and sources from the Norse and Germanics I often go to the Vedic and early Persian texts. Considering the (Proto)Indo European heritage we share it’s quite likely that this is what the Norse and Germanic worldview looked like. And the similarities are immense.

[@linguaLatinae]

I will look into this. Many gods and legends have also survived as fairy tales. Frau Holle from the brothers grimm was once a sky goddess called Hulda for example.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Absolutely. I learn more everyday when I look at those comparisons. I just wish I had more time to really get into those old texts. Its even more broad and complicated than the Norse sources

[@bjornekdahl721]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 I recommend the KZbin channel DharmaNation, with the amazing guru Sri Acharya, an American who's possibly THE most cunning living person in the field in the world today, who's also ... how shall we put it ... pro Indo European, haha. It's just ASTONISHING how much I understand my own path by understanding Vedism.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

@@bjornekdahl721 Thank you! I have been watching him all morning. Great stuff!

[@ariamehr3339]

in very Ancient Iran we have Shah Freydon with 3 sons who ruled over Iran, Turan and Assagarardia the king/Shah of Assagardia was Abtin his people couldn't stand rivalry between Iran and Turan and they immigrated to your Europe i didn't want to say this here but i saw your comment and shocked with what you said in a good way

[@kevinjs26]

Germanic brotherhood. Don't let them divide us.

[@nocaption5562]

Absolutely glad I stumbled upon your chanel, great insight into history and great story telling skills. I'm from northern switzerland and "became pagan" 2 years ago, some friends of mine also did without me forcing them or anything. I think the most vital thing to "spread" the old religion of our ancestors is exposure, whether through telling the history of your and their people or through series based on history such as vikings and barbarians. Keep it up and greetings from switzerland🇨🇭

[@williamSchmidhuber01]

Scandinavian are Germanic too!🤷🏻‍♂️

[@bobhaverbeck7585]

but i was told learning about our ancestors perpetuates "white supremacy"...keep up the good work.

[@Tiber234]

No it certainly isn't - if you love your heritage and culture that's just love if you seek to use it as a way to downgrade denegrate and belittle other cultures based on the supposition of supremacy thats where you go wrong so research learn and take pride in your history but never use it negatively. I do and just FYI im not European I enjoy learning about my culture immensely and also enjoy watching shows like Vikings and learning about other cultures ie the Germanic tribes of Europe.

[@beberforumer9715]

Our culture also came from paganism. But we are not white. Do not jumo to comclusions yet

[@andrewlast1535]

Now I feel better about my tattoos since I am mostly of northern German heritage with a touch of Dane.

[@maxwellmills4825]

Where did you get the maps of genetic ancestry of the British isles?

[@mystic48209]

Time for levity... this is satire now. Thor had a devious older sister who got away with things and no one talked about her. she bullied the men and had sex with them . Her name was Hor. LOL!

[@krispalermo8133]

OMG ! that sounded like my own mother as a late teenager and her in her early 20's.

[@Aseyona]

Actually I don't think that there is a little amount of norse blood in me but I'm just curious about history and religions. Therefore I'm here layed on my bed listening old stories from the past and imagine how would it feel like to be in a time period where most of the people are pagan or polytheistic. Your channel is fascinating. Greetings from Turkey.

[@andreioancea2659]

Thor = tunet , trăznet, toarnă, Tunet= lighting Trăznet - lighting( like hit ) ți-am trăznit un ciocan in cap sau pumn = i give you a punch like lighting with hammer or fist Toarnă is rain but asimilate with striking bolts Odin Wodan Vodă Vodă is emperor or ruler Odă = expresses praise, enthusiasm or admiration for people, heroic deeds, ideals Poetry or poem (with heroic subject) sung or recited with lyre accompaniment. heroic poetry.

[@qbasicmichael]

The branch of christianity that the goths converted to was arian, non-trinitarian, and not catholic. Also, it's my understanding that the anglo-saxon immigrants to britain did interbreed with the local celts, rather than completely replacing them, even in the tradionally anglo-saxon areas of england and southeast scotland.

[@Lightman0359]

Its refreshing to see a history-tuber who doesn't worship at the altar of Rome. After a DNA test, I am proud to say I have no imperial blood [Iberian, Italic or Hellenic] only the derided "barbarians" who refused to bow to the Eagles. What is your opinion of, to me, the biggest villain in Antiquity: Constantine? I call him villain [both in the modern, "bad guy", and classical "idiot" sense] due to appointing [or at least setting in motion the gateway for it to happen] Christianity as the official Imperial Cult. Prior to his garum-induced fever dream, Rome, while absolutely warring with the Germanic tribes, was more tolerant of local cultures and more or less let natives be that paid taxes and contributed to the legions. After Constantine, a Christian Empire could not accept non-christians as human, let alone potential citizens. This is why Rome fell in the west, they tried to convince non-Romans that their gods were the Devil in disguise, as opposed to the previous way of accepting similar cults like Odin/Jupiter/Zeus as the same god manifesting to people in different ways [Thoth-Hermes is a good example] or just accepting foreign gods as legit [like the Isis mystery cults]. To Christian apologists who disagree: your precious Rome lasted 800+ years before Constantine, and fell less than 200 years later. Some of the bloodiest wars in Europe [the Crusades, Reconquista, and 30 years' war to name a few], and the darkest period in human history, the Atlantic slave trade & Colonization, were justified with the Bible.

[@linguaLatinae]

It’s so sad to think about all the knowledge, culture and history that has been lost forever. In germany there was a very harsh christianization so 99% of all germanic places of worship have been destroyed and replaced by chapels, crosses and churches

[@bjornekdahl721]

See my other comment on this video.

[@Necroyy]

I feel empty. I know nothing about (relatively) my ancestors or the gods of my land.

[@galenbjorn443]

Yes, and the sad part is that our people and culture were mass destroyed. And yet 99,9% of all people do not know this. The celts were mass genocided by the Romans and more. Europeans were killed off long before native American was. But no one talks about it, we germanic people are still seen as the oppressors

[@sualtam9509]

Charlemange's Saxon Wars are probably exaggerated. I work as an archaeologist in the Hellweg region where most of war took place and we can't find any evidence for any cultural, social or population change within this period. Also no increase in fibulas depicting saints or Jesus.

[@vickilindberg6336]

My parents visit Sweden in the 1980's & my mother claimed that the back door of my grandmother's home church had a dragon on it; apparently recycled from older times.

[@christopherlester1737]

This is the first KZbin channel I have subscribed to.... This young man has done some serious homework.... This has helped me not only understand where and who I come from, but I have learned a lot about myself as well.... Thank you

[@billder2655]

thought world in motion was playing at the start 😂 ‘it’s woden for england : ENG-AH-LAND’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@mortemtyrannis7468]

From what I’m gathering is that the pagan Gods (even the Christian line up) came from the original Indo-European Gods and through thousands of years and migration, became all of the different variations. I find Norse Mythology the most fascinating being of Scandinavian and Celtic origin. I don’t believe in the Christian God, Thor, Zeus etc. as being actual Gods however I do believe in the spiritual realm. I see all of pagans having the best grasp on the true “Gods” in the spiritual aspect of all humanity. I completely believe in Reincarnation. I love this channel. I watch it daily.

[@Sigfuss01]

It is worth pointing out that it is not at all certain that the Gothic tribes was coming from Sweden. The region Götaland (Gothicland) might as well be named after the the Goths rather then being the land where they originated. Truth is noone really know where they came from. So at best it is a theory.

[@ZecaPinto1]

4:15 actualy the Buri, one of the tribes that came with the suebians to the iberian península were still pagans and there are still traces of their worship places in Terras de Bouro, the place where they settled.

[@RevengeoftheEnts]

I thought the Baltic peoples were the last in Europe to be adopt Christianity. Estonians didn't "convert" until the 13th century.

[@carereimar5975]

We are all brothers and sisters

[@CORIOLANVS]

love having been brought here more or less by accident. mainly because as linguist i love how your approach is interdisciplinary and well informed and still lets me learn something new each video about our history. cheers from germany!

[@harrykadaras9459]

Finally. I've been waiting for this confirmation for years and years - since early 1970s when I first studied pre-medieval Scandanavia and history of my forefathers - but little was written back then, either due to subversion, religion, Church influenced supression, etc...these are historical facts - and the connection is so obvious, but seldom mentioned. Excellent job Sir.

[@markhuckercelticcrossbows7887]

Nein das est nicht true! Ich dein Cymru! Wales (cymru) was one of the nordic tribes, centuries before the romans landed, slept with our food and ate all our women 😂😂😂 explains why italy still cant play rugby today 😂😂😂 lol

[@seanjobst1985]

Great video! Christianization of my Suebi/Alemanni people took hundreds of years of a "syncretic" period where the Christians (through the Frankish occupiers) sent foreign missionaries to slowly erode our traditions, Christianizing them one part at a time but it was slow exactly because we held on to it longer than the Establishment historians would have us believe. Mostly in the 8th and 9th centuries were we fully Christianized - and even then its easy, especially what I know from the Catholic region of my ancestors (Ostalbkreis), to identify what is "Christian" as actually Heathen. The sacredness of springs and trees, and people continuing to go to them; the Maibaum; the various poles that were representations of the World Tree (much like the Saxons' Irminsul); Fastnacht traditions; folklore about Wodan, Holle and the Wild Hunt; the little wooden shrines throughout the countryside that were often visited more than churches, etc.. Much can be said of what survived among peoples in the Subconscious, like how we just seem to take to our landscape and our forests. The Heathen soul still resonates within a people long after they are officially converted.

[@mercianthane2503]

I always wanted to know how old is the tale of Sigurd the dragon slayer. He was known among the english as Sigemund and he is mentioned in Beowulf, a tale that dates to 600 AD. I don't know if Arminius is the origin of such tale.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Arminius was in the 1st century and very real person. Sigurd we are not sure. But his story comes from the time of Atilla the Hun(5th century)

[@sweetpea9196]

My surname is Frisian German, I know we are Frankish, I do wish i knew some type of meaning of my surname.

[@Ravishrex1]

What is your surname perhaps I can help with a meaning

[@sweetpea9196]

@@Ravishrex1 Hello. Thank you!

[@nicoleluchs2595]

I appreciate how you lay things put clearly with sources. It makes it super easy for research

[@ronin47-ThorstenFrank]

Heya! Greetings from a German region called Odenwald*. As you´ve said at the end of your video some of the tales were much older and had a common source I might have some info you likely haven´t heard about. Regarding the Sigurd´s saga we have three places that claim to be the one where Sigurd was slain. We also have a folk tale about the place where Weyland/Wieland had his smithy. To top that off a lot of people here (myself included)** have a strong signal in their DNA from a certain region in Sweden (Gävleborg) which genetic distance seems to relate to the Viking age. No one really really understands how this could´ve happened or can make anything out of this, of course. *** But no one can be sure and as I state in my second footnote it seems people didn´t really care at all back then. *If the name is related to the god is debatable though. One of the earliest descriptions called it Othenwald which doesn´t make the things any clearer. I follow the general consensus that the name derives from the Celtic derived "Itter" meaning water. However, one can´t be sure. ** In fact that was a rather surprising und unexpected find. I wouldn´t have expected that. But my genetic makeup is weird anyway (including, of course a strong German part, a strong Scottish component, which is as obscure as the Swedish one, also Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukranian and Circassian stuff - besides some other rather interesting DNA). Seems to me that my ancestors didn´t care much for race and similar nonsense. *** One guy of our ancestry project even claims he can pinpoint the Norse ancestry here to the warband of Hrorik of Dorestad - but even he has to admit that no one can be sure. Having seen the data I´ve got to admit he might have found at least something.

[@andreasrademacher5715]

Was für ein Projekt ist denn das, von dem Du schreibst? Ich bin Ostfriese, der sein Herz im Odenwald verloren hat und dort seinen Wohnsitz hat. So langsam werde ich auch neugierig, was meine DNA zu sagen hat. :)

[@ronin47-ThorstenFrank]

@@andreasrademacher5715 Das ist eine familiäre Sache, also nichts öffentlich. Zumindestens nicht bis wir wirklich handfeste und wirklich belastbare Daten haben. Ich bin in dieser Hinsicht sehr sehr vorsichtig denn man darf eines nicht vergessen: die Anzahl der Vorfahren verdoppelt sich mit jeder Generation. In der Gnealogieszene gibt es den Scherz das jeder in Mitteleuropa seine Herkunft auf Karl den Großen zurückzuführen ist. Falls du Interesse an deiner eigenen DNA-Analyse hast frag mich - ich hab insgesamt 3 gemacht und mittlerweile ein bischen Ahnung. Darf man fragen in welcher Ecke du wohnst? Komme aus dem Raum Erbach.

[@andreasrademacher5715]

@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank Da habe ich auch schon gewohnt und damals mein Herz gelassen. Jetzt in Mörlenbach. Und ja, ich habe Interesse ;)

[@teutoniceagle2368]

Hail Brüder, der Odenwald ist Odinswald, dort fand die wilde Jagd statt,

[@ronin47-ThorstenFrank]

@@teutoniceagle2368 Rodenstein....

[@Melissa-pe2jr]

Got to love my ancestors have always been trying to irradicate my line.....Irish and british....Celtics and germanic/anglo-saxon

[@widukindbooks9934]

The English a certainly English. They formed a new group of the different Germanic peoples who settled there and created England.

[@johnguslen9315]

The Stockholmers are definitely Stockholmers. They moved there and became Stockholmers. ???

[@widukindbooks9934]

@@johnguslen9315 England formed as a new group of people over time as angles, jutes, frisian, and saxon peoples moved there. These people became the English. English comes from the word for the Angles. The English are English. They are there own sort of Germanic peoples. Saxons are people form Northern Germany. Britons are celtic peoples the inhabited the british Ilse before the Germanic peoples who became the English arrived. The welsh and Cornish for example are still britons today. Ofc they are all in modern times apart of Britain. Did I cover it sufficiently?

[@johnguslen9315]

@@widukindbooks9934 Yes thank you kindly. And exactly, they differ from no other people on earth. It's all a matter of where in the chronology, and in how big a span, of history one chooses to look.

[@widukindbooks9934]

@@johnguslen9315 What do you mean that they differ from no other people on earth?

[@johnguslen9315]

@@widukindbooks9934 That it has been a melting pot, like most places. However, when doing DNA-analyses for example, Northerners are found to have more of Celtic and Scandinavian heritage than Southerners. Also culturally.

[@BUZZKILLJRJR]

It's funny that my exact DNA almost goes with the pattern of this or you said their migration pattern was from scandi, German, French, Irish are my mix I have the same eye color as you identical you can see in my pic, and my beard is the same color from the video but thicker lil darker you can see in my Christmas gun shooting video, I have a horrible time in heat. Mine was a strange mix of just English isles Ireland 35% and German 45% almost 13% french but only 2.5% scandi for my ancient profile, I don't have the full breakdown in front but it said 100% European haha also I have never cheated and extremely loyal to friends family and my woman. Drinking absolutely haha. But I'm American through and through. I'm always armed.

[@patrickbateman7157]

10:50 just a personal note for the future needs

[@KingNoLuv]

Even Christianity itself has many Roman pagan traditions in it and some Germanic

[@YouKnowN0thing]

Is it possible, some of those migrations landed in South America? The 'CHACHAPOYA'? "Unusually tall, compared to the Incas that later migrated to Peru. Fair skin. Reddish hair. Blue eyes."

[@francisbyron-falconer]

Ex forced Christian here living in Germany. Brothers I am ON my Way back to our Religious Roots. That we Germanic and Norse Tribes had long long Time ago.