The German Vikings: Saxons & Schleswig-Holstein

[@Botkillah]

Appreciate your videos. I’m Black American, It’s very important to learn Indo-European cultures, as it is important to learn the history of other human groups. It gives you a full and vivid picture of human history.

[@KimchiYeo]

Not every culture is worthy of remembering, many lack any achievements or great tales of conquest or like most in africa never having b uild anything great in over 4000 years. This is Pagan channel notafrica channel so he has no need to speak about them,also seeing as africans in americ a always get upset when non blacks talk about african culture, nobody needs that childish drama.

[@Botkillah]

@@KimchiYeo irrelevant

[@happyfreeliferc]

@@KimchiYeoWOW 🧐

[@SimpleMinded221]

@@Botkillah Dont worry, they're not representative of this culture. And he's a half Asian is quite ironic. People like that love to be extra racist, and they hope whites will notice them more, when whites more often dont give a damn. Welcome to the channel.

[@SimpleMinded221]

@@KimchiYeo And I and many other non Africans enjoy researching african history as well. I like the Benin empire, igbos, burkino faso, old kingdom of ghana and many others.

[@wotanmituns33]

As a German descendent I'm very grateful for your work. Cheers from Deutsche Kolonies in South Brazil.

[@nicm8909]

Yes agreed everybody likes to forget the ties ancient Germany had to paganism and their Tribal beliefs. Brothers n sisters that fought hard together against Christian influences. 🎉 history is beautiful

[@G2Bryce]

that what in Brazil?? the german diaspora needs to unify, Germany is being invaded by savage hordes.

[@wotanmituns33]

I wholeheartedly agree. This year we are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of German migration to Brazil. There's a movie that tells this story, it's called "Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht" and it's available on KZbin. I'm 6th to 4th generation german-brazilian, depending on the family branch,. I have full germanic ancestry (ancestors came from Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, the historic Sudetendeutsche and some distant Luxembourgish from Bivels right at the German border as well as some distant Dutch). My family still speak german, eat german food, celebrate easter with osterbaum, christmas/yule and we even have maibaum among other german traditions such as an oktoberfest in my city in Brazil. So what I gather here is this, if 200 years later our german traditions are still standing, what makes you think that the invaders of Germany are all of the sudden going to leave their bio-cultures behind? Our culture and blood was forged throughout the millenia in the Vaterland. Volksdeutsche unite! "The most precious possession you have in this world is your own people. And for this people, and for the sake of this people, we will struggle and fight, and never slacken, never tire, never lose courage, and never lose faith." @@G2Bryce

[@felineparalysis2227]

@@nicm8909when it comes to Christian influence one shouldn’t call German „Pagans“ bc that was a term from Christian’s for religions OTHER THAN CHRISTIAN. it’s like using the term „Indians“ for native Americans.

[@junkrider132]

brudi, zurück in die heimat mit dir.

[@ipolarisi2381]

These videos are great, I’m from Yorkshire in England so a lot of them cover the history of my ancestors, where they came from and what they did. Germanic history is such an interesting one that we should be proud of

[@margaretwebster2516]

im from yorkshire too.

[@Cumbrianlad3363]

@Sjárlistakunnari me and your mum are gonna change the name of England then

[@Cumbrianlad3363]

As a Cumbrian with Norwegian ancestory, same

[@ipolarisi2381]

@@Cumbrianlad3363 We have the same surname 💪

[@Cumbrianlad3363]

@@ipolarisi2381 I challenge you to a holmgang. Whoever wins gets to keep the name

[@H02TL]

Im American but most of my family immigrated Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. So opening this was like an early birthday present. Very well made and thank you for such an informative video!

[@Richard.Vox.]

Same, I don't like how Europeans think they have a monopoly over our shared history. All American and European history is the same past 400 years ago or so. Let me learn! Lol

[@t.b.1568]

@@Richard.Vox. we don`t think it`s not your history. I think our ancestors have the same history, so you and me have too...mabe not the last 200-....years ,but hey don´t you want to lend a cousin some money, come on we`re family. 😉

[@Richard.Vox.]

@@t.b.1568 Lol it seems that way anymore.

[@t.b.1568]

@@Richard.Vox. ok lets be honest i am from Schleswig-Holstein i think we share a lot history and culture but sadly many people rhink otherwise...imo many people are stupid 😏

[@Richard.Vox.]

@@t.b.1568 Idk if people are stupid. But they clearly spend their time focusing on dumb shit that has no basis on who they are. It's actually pretty sad/pathetic

[@ConradAinger]

Roman writers identified the Saxons as pirates in the North Sea during the 4th century. That is why they called the coast of what is now southern England the Saxon Shore, and why they fortified it.

[@RackerPaS]

On the Gallo-Roman coast there was the "litus saxonicum" for this.

[@Gwenhwyfar7]

Great video!!! My grandma's entire family is from Schleswig-Hosltein and they came to Iowa after the area became German. DNA tested and my Grandma was slightly more Danish/Swedish, than North German, but her family was so connected to the area, the entire region showed up in my mother's DNA results.

[@bardinmyriel5196]

Thank you for this video. I am a pagan from Schleswig-Holstein and I still live here. I learned norsk some time ago and there are a lot of words similar to Plattdeutsch. In my village exists a story that the villagers would not give up their "Ding und Recht" (Thing) and even wrote to the danish king about it. That was a lot later though.

[@margritpiepes8242]

My Aunt and Uncle where from the Island of Ruegen and they would talk Plattdeutsch all the Time. I remember one sentence .Meene litte soete.means my little sweetie.

[@sharoncooke1719]

My mother's family spoke plattdeutsch. They lived in Lippe tho (nord Rhein Westfalen)

[@RackerPaS]

@@sharoncooke1719 Naturally. Lippe is part of Westphalia and therefore Saxon. (North German)

[@Perspectiveon]

@@margritpiepes8242 Min lille soede in danish 😊

[@margritpiepes8242]

@@Perspectiveon oh my goodness my MIL was from Holland .I traveled to Denmark as a teen my dad had a Friend his name Leif .we stayed in the most prettiest places .👍❤️be well stay safe

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

As an actual Saxon with Hamburgisch origin, I'd like to add a few things. The areas of Holstein, Niedersachsen, west Mecklenburg, Northern Rhine, Hesse, West Phalia, East Phalia, Angria, and Hamburg are essentially the territory of Old Saxony and almost all of us within these territories are Saxons. True Saxons. The state of Saxony in Deutschland is named after Saxon nobles, but the people who live there are mostly Thuringians, Prussians, and Slavs. Linguistically, there is no one Saxon language as it can change from village to village, but the Low German/Saxon languages are connected to a certain extent. Outside of Germany, there are many Saxons and Frisians in Ostfriesland who also speak Low Saxon. Our language is extremely similar to Old English. I like to call it the Icelandic of the West Germanic world, as Icelandic is most similar to Old Norse. You can find videos of Englishmen speaking Old English to communicate with us and our Frisian brothers (Low Saxon, Frisian, and Dutch are very similar) and we generally understand with little difficulty. Though their pronunciation is quite different XD Personally I'm very proud of my Saxon heritage and Widukind is a personal hero of mine. It's strange to think my family comes from a city specifically built by Charlemagne to convert our ancestors, but Hamburg today is one of the largest cities in Germany and highly independent. It's important for us to remember the roots of the land we live in and honor our ancestors. I think many of us remember Verden and I have goals to travel there and carve a runestone, as a sign of remembrance. I am Christian but what Charlemagne did to my ancestors... It was nothing more than pure evil. I hope my ancestors are at peace, and I hope I can honor them. I also personally disagree that we came from Scandinavia. It doesn't make sense to me that the west Germanic languages are closer to Proto Germanic and are older than Nordic languages, but everyone thinks that we come from the north when in reality, it seems like we had a much stronger presence in the continent. Not to mention it would be pretty difficult to sail from denmark to the rest of Scandinavia to inhabit and settle untamed land. This is just my personal belief, but I strongly believe that Scandinavians come from us Saxons rather than we come from them.

[@lilithiaabendstern6303]

Mecklenburg is germanic-slavic, Groß Raden is in West Mecklenburg, and is one of the geatest slavic settlements here - it's an open-air museum - also mecklenburg lower german and swedish are related - sometimes I to watch out not to switch into Lower German when speaking Swedish + facts have nothing to do with feelings, just because you feel something doesn't make it true - Saxon is a dialect, Lower German is its own language with different dialects, like Frisian, Mecklenburg, Pomeranian, and is part of the germanic language family - we never had anything in common neither cultural nor language-wise

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

@@lilithiaabendstern6303 I'll keep your comment in mind next time I refer to west Mecklenburg as Saxon Also I know what goes under Low German. I just wanted to save some time by making broader statements when speaking about Low German/Saxon, instead of adding each individual dialect and language under Low German/Saxon as there are MANY dialects

[@gadpivs]

I understand where you're coming from for the last part, but you can't reduce any travel back into Scandinavia as "coming from Saxons." You have to account for Angles, Jutes, Teutons, Langobards, possibly the Heruli, etc. In particular, the Teutons were an older pre-Migration Era tribe who could more accurately have this claim made about them. They are accounted for hundreds of years before the word "Saxon" enters the history books, and then they disappear pretty quickly way before the start of the Migration Era after the Cimbrian War, but they and the Angles and Jutes were certainly far closer to Scandinavia than the Saxons ever were, at an earlier date. Also, we know of the Battle Axe Culture, which existed before even the Bronze Age in 2800 BC, which was an offshoot from the incoming Indo-European migrations, which introduced proto-Germanic and the soon-to-be Nordic Bronze Age into the region, which definitely has archaeological evidence all along the coast of Scandinavia, and we know that these peoples were ancestral to the Germanic peoples as a whole, who start having a definitive identity distinct from their neighbors around 500 BC. So later groups like the Swedes, Danes, Geats, Goths, Langobards, and Heruli are much more likely to be closer to the "homeland" from the times of Battle Axe than the Saxons, who had obviously spread further south well over a thousand years later.

[@heatherordonez1490]

Hamburg!!

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

@@heatherordonez1490 mhm

[@mauricedittmann4947]

I'm born and raised in Schleswig Holstein. Even within Germany we call ourselfs the "true north of Germany", even in commercials. I've been growing up to Toasts for "Danske leve, Prost for denmark" at the Table. While i was raised in christianity, i always felt that my roots where elsewhere, and since i found my way into paganism, it feels way more true, connected. Thank you for the Video and Investigation. It feels like a Tribute to my Home and ancestors. Asa og vana.

[@Hauke69]

Hi Maurice, I guess you are from north of the Eider river? Cause north of the Eider was Danish land in the old times, while south of the Eider was Saxon land (except for the very southeast, old Slavic lands). But where I am from, south of the Eider, to be specific southwestern Schleswig-Holstein, „Danske leve, Prost for Denmark“ is unheard of! Quite the opposite: I grew up with the old sagas how we „Dithmarscher“ (speak ‘Ditt-marsher’ - an old Saxon tribe near the North Sea) fought throughout all the middle ages for our independence especially against the Danish king who got at least two times a “bloody nose” when trying to subdue us (in 1319 and 1500) - a fact we Dithmarscher are still proud of :-) But no worries, nowadays we also like to go on holidays to Denmark ;-) Cheers, Hauke

[@Hauke69]

Hi Maurice, I guess you are from north of the Eider river? Cause north of the Eider was Danish land in the old times, while south of the Eider was Saxon land (except for the very southeast, old Slavic lands). But where I am from, south of the Eider, to be specific southwestern Schleswig-Holstein, „Danske leve, Prost for Denmark“ is unheard of! Quite the opposite: I grew up with the old sagas how we „Dithmarscher“ (for English speakers ‘Ditt-marsher’ - an old Saxon tribe near the North Sea) fought throughout all the middle ages for our independence especially against the Danish king who got at least two times a “bloody nose” when trying to subdue us (in 1319 and 1500) - a fact we Dithmarscher are still proud of :-) But no worries, nowadays we also like to go on holidays to Denmark ;-) Cheers, Hauke

[@mauricedittmann4947]

@@Hauke69 Well, i dunno if it's about the past but some people around are somewhat picky on the "ditschis" 🤣 making fun of the Marsches. I'm in between Itzehoe and Bad Bramstedt. I know it's closer to claim the ancestry to Nordfriesland, but all we've been on danish influence one time or another. In the End, we all are the true north against the outlanders south of Elbe, so Cheers Brother. Skal

[@Hauke69]

@@mauricedittmann4947 I didn't know about the "Ditschi" funmaking, lol. Maybe because your ancestors went with Rantzau and his Holstein allys of the Danish against my ancestors, and we were just too stubborn. These things have some deep roots which are long forgotten, I feel. But now its just interesting to think about. Thanks for your reply. Cheers, mate.

[@KenKobayashiRasmussen]

Denmark loves you Schleswig-Holstein, we want you back, you belong to us and we to you....

[@suebiwarrior7627]

Us Bavarians are a mix of Germanic and Celtic. Crazy to think about.

[@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht]

I'd argue far more germanic þan celtic þough.

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

Mm, more Slavic I'd think but I'm a Saxon so I'd assume you'd know more about that than I would 🤪🤪🤪 In the west, we're Germanic and Celtic. In the East, we're Germanic and Slavic. In the middle, we're mostly Germanic but still some mix. I once talked to a Dutchman who was 87 Prozent Germanic. Impressive in my opinion 🤣

[@Jeudaos]

according to my mother. her side HEAVILY bavarian. except for the Gdansk poland background.

[@ethanpeeler3147]

Honestly that’s most west Europeans. English, Swiss, south Germans in general are all very Celto Germanic.

[@noctiloucous]

"were" a mix of Celtic and Germanic you mean... demographics are changing lately

[@Horatio.Mantooth]

Most of the tribe's of germania were previking but still held similar beliefs and customs.

[@the2ndcoming135]

🥇

[@KarlReimerGodt]

#Astronomy

[@RackerPaS]

👍

[@BodkinBE]

I'm watching you for a couple years and Im really pleased that you are going to go more into slavo-germanic vikings history in the next video as I'm from Poland and I really admire your content.

[@RackerPaS]

I have to disappoint you, but there are no Slavic-Germanic Vikings. But even the doyen of Pomeranian regional historical research, Professor Dr. Martin Wehrmann (1861-1937), whose main work “History of Pomerania” (1921), is fundamental to this day, acknowledged the existence of the Jomsvikings and their Jomsburg in Pomerania by stating: “The low power of the on the south coast of the Tribes living in the Baltic Sea had to lead the Danes to look for bases for their enterprises of a peaceful or warlike nature. Of the few places of the Slavs that were important for trade and traffic, the most important seems to have been Julin (=Wollin, LM).... Therefore it can be explained that the Danes, who were the masters at sea, founded a permanent settlement and from the Jomsburg made the place (Wollin, LM) and the landscape (Gau Jom, LM) subject to themselves....

[@BodkinBE]

@@RackerPaS yeah I agree, but I mean like for the most time they were Danish warriors in Wolin and after time, especially after gaining an independence from Danish kingdom most of this were more Slavic, and that is why I used the "slavo-germanic" even i know that they used to be more Scandinavians first and more Slavs after.🙂

[@BodkinBE]

In Wolin of course, cause there were many Slavic tribes around this Jomsborg fortress

[@RackerPaS]

@@BodkinBE Around the year 1100 they were no longer considered Vikings but pirates who were destroyed by the Danes. Similar to Ranen and Wagrier.

[@BodkinBE]

That is also truth, but even after the fall of Jomsborg the locals were able to organizing a massive raids for another around 100 years on Scandinavian and Holy Roman Empire territory. They raided and burned for example Hedeby and Konugahella. So they were a little bit like vikings after Viking age and even managed to resist a little bit longer against the christianization then the Scandinavians for example.

[@njord-krakenarnesson5096]

I was born in Schleswig-Holstein, really nice place.

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

I love Schleswig! Very beautiful state, similar to Denmark! Greetings from a Hamburger 🍔😂 Funny how that word looks in English 🤣

[@KarlReimerGodt]

I even still live in Schleswig-Holstein. Probably we shouldn't be a nice place, though, since it attracts massive amounts of strangers.

[@drengr811]

​@@KarlReimerGodt You should do something about rapefugees.

[@nilsjurgensen1894]

My father was born in the area between Schleswig and Flensburg. Today this area is called "Angeln". He was always very proud of his "Viking-Roots". Lets wait for the next Episode, my mother was born in Pommerania and from her mothers side they had the Familyname "Borg".😊

[@alexandros6433]

The vikings were the raiders, not everyone. The rest were peasants. As if a Roman today thought he is descendant of patricians

[@RackerPaS]

@@alexandros6433 In Germany it has become common to use the term Viking to refer to North Germanic people in general.

[@pappelg2639]

We also have that name, Borg, in Norway, I know several myself :)

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

​@@alexandros6433You talk shit ! Learn English before you make comments.

[@frost8077]

My memory fails me but I remember being surprised one day when relating one of the locations in a saga or edda to possibly being in Switzerland, not just from being part Swiss, but because it was one of the earlier locations in Norse literature. The stories themselves cover a vast area, from the Black Sea to Canada, with the Rhine being like the backbone to the known Germanic world. It's strange to reflect on all the comments I've seen over the years like "Germany isn't Germanic" when even the oldest Norse heroes center around Germany. I never thought of the Saxons as being able to take on the name viking, but now that you describe it this way, it really is fitting to think of them as the first vikings.

[@felineparalysis2227]

As a German: Thanks for that video! I‘m currently living in the former Dulgibinii-Habitat. You can find the German influences everywhere over here - e.g. old thing places 🥰

[@filipieja6997]

Thank you for sharing the Vikings contents that extend to the Schleswig/Schleswig-Holstein/Slesveg. I am not a German but am married to northern German woman whose mother was given birth at Haithabu. There is still a castle to this day in Schleswig called Schloss Gottorf which holds a lot of the Kingdom of Denmark's history back in the days. My mother in-law who was given birth and has grown up in Haithatabu as a child still to this day told a lot about Haithabu and the region to her grandchildren(my children). I am proud of my wife's bloodline and lineage and their rich history of regions you shared that incudes their northern German and Dens relations and their Viking heritage they shared through common history to this day. Keep up the great work.

[@Behind.Heaven]

And where are you from?

[@filipieja6997]

@@Behind.Heaven I originally came from the Pacific, where my ancestors (not long ago) hunted each other (from different ethnicities) for heads as sacrifices to their Deities/Gods - or the period of the Headhunters and raiders by war canoes as it has been called. Paganism is not a new thing for me, as was it for the Germanic people, and their decedents(Vikings) back in their days😅

[@filipieja6997]

I also learned that the Franks were Germanic tribes, who also were the first to migrate out of Germanic territories westward, only to find themselves the first to be Christianized and helped Rome conquered the Gaul/Celtic lands further westwards. The fact the Charlemagne (Karl der Größe) abled spoke Germanic language enabled him to rally all other Germanic tribes to fight on his side, and baptized them to Christianity.

[@Behind.Heaven]

@@filipieja6997 sometimes i asked myself how would europe live under a technocracy, and how far would they reach

[@filipieja6997]

@@Behind.Heaven I absolutely have no idea. Technocracy likewise, is becoming more like protectionism of the same now a days I guess.

[@TacticalSquirrel]

My Germanic ancestors range from Schleswig-Holstein to West Prussia, Denmark, and Sweden. All part of that Magna Germania region on the map you shown.

[@marshallfeltz4403]

Great video. I always feel like my germanic ancestors are underrated. I hope my ancestors feel proud of me worshiping the old gods.

[@sebe2255]

Depends, the Christian ones probably aren’t

[@jorgnocke991]

great video thank you I'm from Germany and it is so interesting to learn about our history thank you so much have a wonderful and blessed day

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

I'm German American, but of actual Saxon origin. I'm currently writing a story about Süntel (In High German and English) and I will happily share it with you if you'd like once it is finished. I also very much enjoy learning about the history of our people, especially my old Saxon ancestors. Are you also Saxon or are you of different heritage? I personally want to learn more about the fall of the Bavarian and Swabian pagans at the hand of the Franks, which came much earlier before the Saxons fell.

[@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht]

​@@EinDeutscherPatriot620 if all of þat is true, þen you're þe kind of migrant I'd actually would love to welcome, since þis part of Europe is þe place, where all people of germanic descent hail from

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

@@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht That makes me very glad! I'm well aware of the immigration issue in Germany, but for me it's about returning home and reconnecting with my long lost heritage. And I agree, Germany is the birthplace of the Germanic world in my opinion.

[@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht]

​@@EinDeutscherPatriot620 In my honest worldview: þere can only be two kinds of honourable migration: 1.if a folk migrates as a clutch, a coherent singular entity, in order to find better lands to settle upon. 2.if parts of a clutch or folk body , after living in a region þat cannot be considered part of þeir ancestral homeland, return to home so to speak. PERMANENTLY Leaving your people behind , in order to leech off a better life on a wealþier folk's soil would be an example of dishonourable migration. And since you're most certainly keen on learning german (or þeedish) þe whole þing again in German, let's see how good you can comprehend my raþer sophisticated speech ;) Getreu meiner ureigenstens Weltanschauung kann es nur zwei Arten ehrbarer Migration geben: 1: wenn ein Volk als ein geeinter Haufen gemeinsam herumwandert, um geeignetere Böden der Besiedlung anheim zu bestellen. 2: Wenn Volksangehörige in einer Region, die der Stammheimat nicht entspricht danach drängen in Letztere zurückzukehren. Durchgängig die eigene Heimat zu verlassen, um sich ein Besseres Leben in wohlhabenderen Ländern aufzubringen, sei als Beispiel einer ehrenlosen Migration genannt.

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

@@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht @ᚱᚨᛒᚨᚾ ᛞᛖᚱ ᛒᛚᚨᛃᚺᚺᛖ I tend to agree. I understand why my ancestors left and I do admire the courage they had to leave their homeland and everything they knew in hope for a new life. But at the same time, it's our Fatherland. I guess you could consider me as the second part of your grouping of honorable migration as I'm returning home and ensuring my family grows up connected to their roots and heritage. And I pretty much got the jist of the German you said. It's just a translation of everything you said about migration, only into more complex German it seems. Or at least it's complex for me as you used words I haven't seen before but I got the jist of it 😂 I understood the first stanza pretty well, I struggled a little with the second one. And yes, I very much am trying to learn German fluently, but I'm at the stage where I just need to speak it

[@vrilvanir]

My mother and her bloodline were born and raised in Elmshorn, just north of Hamburg. Great little history lesson. Thanks for this video 👌🏻

[@PItheMc]

Dann bist ja super normal😂💪

[@doju4166]

Elmshorn, das gehört zu Schleswig-Holstein oder so

[@grindfuckernms]

@@doju4166 Richtung Kiel mäßig...

[@doju4166]

@@grindfuckernms 🤣

[@AxelausDe]

At the end of the day, Northern and Southern Germanics are still GERMANIC. We are all one big unique and special bloodline/family at the end of the day. 🇩🇪🤝🏻🇩🇰🤝🏻🇸🇪🤝🏻🇸🇯🤝🏻🇮🇸🤝🏻🇫🇴

[@korstiaanakse1]

🇳🇱 🤝

[@ilikegliding]

Good video. I am Afrikaans-speaking South African, but my paternal ancestors were from the Schleswig region (Orten, Varde; originally from Brinkgård).

[@cyan1616]

This helped solve a family mystery... My father's family was from Schleswig and called themselves German. And as a small child I learned German from my father's mother. Years later I had a friend from Heidelberg and of course wanted to speak German to him. When I did he laughed and said it wasn't really German but probably a sort of mix of Danish and German, a dialect of that part of what is now Germany. Maybe that's why I don't really feel connected to Germans, I feel more at home with Scandinavians, I'm very much like them and even very very tall and blonde. Thanks for this!

[@naturbursche5540]

If you are interested in later remaining Pagans in northern Germany, check out the Stedingers. The bishop of Bremen led a crusade against the farmers of the marshlands along the Weser river around the town Stedingen. Them being Pagans was the excuse, but the real motivation was just landgrabbing for that particularly fertile area. Pagan rites would still be widespread among the people well into more recent times so it could be used as excuse to prosecute anyone. As with the witch hunts. In Lower Saxony people did oldfashioned harvest rituals until the industrialisation of agriculture after the second world war. They would kneel down on the grain floor and throw a hand full of freshly harvested grain backwards over each shoulder once, saying: "O Wode! o Wode! Hoal dinen Parden Foder, Nu Düssel und Dorn, To'n andern Jaohr bäter Korn" Oh Odin! Oh Odin! Get your horses fodder, Now thistle and thorn, To the other year better corn.

[@am_haus]

I love your history lessons. My gGrandpa was from Dörpling, Schleswig-Holstein.. about 30 minutes south of Haithabu. My gGrandma's parents were from Sweden. I am trying to go back now.

[@ottosaxo]

Dörpling is situated close to the border between Holstein and Schleswig, which is the Eider River, but on the Holstein side. To be more exact, it's a part of the Dithmarschen region, which was a proud old peasants' republic during the Age of Feudalism. Holstein is best known for the Kiel Canal now, which is cutting through the entire country. If you like, you can watch the ships entering and leaving its entries on KZbin 24/7. It also gives you an impression of the seasons and current weather in Holstein.

[@am_haus]

@@ottosaxo Thank you for all the details. My family were farmers then and we still have the family farmlands here after grandpa came to the US. I looked up the canal and have watched a few ships now. Hopefully I can immigrate back to my family homelands.

[@ottosaxo]

@@am_haus Thanks for your feedback. You know, what you plan to do is for strong personalities. If you're able to live at your own expense as long as necessary, you have an ace up your sleeve. Social insurance contributions devour a lot of money each month, and they are mandatory in fact, even for artists and freelancers who can't rely on a regular income.

[@ndie8075]

As a native saxon from westphalia in northwest Germany....we are are very much connected with England...westsaxon..wessex

[@adventussaxonum448]

As a West Saxon, I agree with this.👍

[@ndie8075]

@@adventussaxonum448 Hello brother\ bropor....bruder\ we are from the same blood......

[@00Hendrik00]

As a North-German I've never felt like the southern parts of Germany were the same culture as North-Germany. Many Northern-Germans feel much more connected to Scandinavia and the Netherlands because the cultures are more similar to these cultures than to South-German ones. I didn't know that the Saxons were behaving in a similar way to the Vikings! I only knew that their religion was basically the same with a few smaller changes. I can trace my family-tree back to the 1400s and almost everyone was from the Northsea-Coast (East Frisian, Lower Saxony, North Frisian and some from the Baltic Sea) with some speculation that some of them were originally from Norway because their names were Norwegian but I can't be 100% sure about that since some of the names could as well be old versions of Frisian or Low-German names. This video was a really nice history lesson, showing me how close the contact between all the Northsea germanic people was! Thank You!

[@shanesprecher8290]

I think there may be some truth to that. Even when the Germans immigrated to America, a large number of Germans from Schleswig-Holstein immigrated to the midwestern part of America. The Midwest was where the Scandinavians made their homes in America. This may be because of the cultural ties you were speaking of.

[@kenhart8771]

Mange tak for endnu et spændende viking bidrag.

[@TNTUXO]

My family started off in Sweden. Ended up in Germany Austria and Switzerland. Our name changed too. This makes total sense of my family tree studies.

[@rbkstrm]

Så jävla grym är du! Tack för ännu en bra lektion i historia

[@Fires755]

Thank you, love the history!

[@johnhanson5943]

I come from Yorkshire. Although my mother is from the Rhineland. Our area of Britain was Danelaw (which covered a lot of what today is northern England and southern Scotland). Danelaw was a kingdom under Scandinavian kingship. Our ancestors mixed with Saxons and Angles well - because they were closely related. In Yorkshire, you can find Scandinavian names of villages and Saxon named villages next to each other. Our ancestors problems came more with the Normans. They were related too genetically - but had been too long in France to be very close. In fact, they were and are still very different. The class system is still based on their influence in the British Isles (including Ireland - also very Nordic influenced). The Normans also came as conquerors. It isn’t well recorded in British history - but the Normans committed vile genocide in the north of Britain against Anglo-Scandinavian-Saxon people. The divides this created still exist to this day to some extent - even if subconsciously mainly. The North / South divide is real. Britain was / is far from a United Kingdom. It is interesting that the enforced Christianity of the ‘Holy Roman Empire’ had nothing to do with Christ, of course. It was about pure totalitarian power - and recreating Roman power (fundamentally also pagan and the precursor of fascist authoritarianism). The Devil’s work all in the name of Jesus. Nothing could be more disgusting and vile. We see the new Roman Empire under the EU/US oligarchic regime under the UN-WEF and various other cloaks of camouflage today. Rome was / is still very much pagan in reality - as backed by Jesuits (Gnostics and worse). I’ll resist this to the end, if necessary. As my ancestors did.

[@simontenkate9601]

@ john hanson. Very interesting information and true!! 100% in accordance with your stance. Love England, despise war- monger Britain. The country has been hijacked.

[@mikeycraig8970]

The Norman brutality in the whole of England IS recorded, its just not widely taught. You can't have English people suffering genocide, it'll detract from the sympathy on offer to others 😉

[@goudgio]

@JackSonEFla2 LOL, yes of course they did, because no one lived in whats called England then.

[@Perspectiveon]

@Stokie_Lad22 English = Anglian = Anglii = Germanic tribe from Slesvig-Holstein just north of Saxony.

[@Perspectiveon]

William the conqueror I believe was 5th generation after Rollo but the Normans adapted to french customs fast. I fully agree on your last statement and it`ll probably get worse corruption and cowardness among politicians in mind.

[@cynthiarowley719]

Love your maps. Thank you. Your lectures are superbly spoken.

[@hiddenwoodsben]

from germany as well, from the south/upper-rhine though (and for at least 400 years, so probably longer than that.). pretty dang difficult to find much on swabian/alemannian/marcomannian/burgundian customs, so happily piggybacking on my beloved norse brothers!

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

Haha! As a Saxon Hamburger, I've spent a significant amount of my life learning about the Norse Vikings. I definitely consider myself an expert in some regards, so I've been trying to expand my horizons and learn more about my own direct Saxon heritage. I get depressed quickly when learning about our pagan heritage so I try to learn more about what we were up to in the Holy Roman Empire and what my own family (apparently we were minor lords who ruled a Hamlet and castle in Lower Saxony. Today it's a proper village though) were doing. Very interesting stuff :) But I can very rarely find videos or information about pagan Swabians and Bavarians, which I really want to learn more about. Hope you have more luck than me! Greetings from a Hamburger 🍔😂

[@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht]

Souþern Germany may have been predominantly celtic in 100bc or some time before but most of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg were actually mostly forsaken by þe Celts, since about þe year 0, þere was a giant forest,called þe Hercynian forest. Þere wasn't much agricultural land to speak of, which indicates þat þe Celts left þis region long before þe germanic tribes could settle in þis region.

[@RackerPaS]

That’s right. Brennus.

[@williamnolan1943]

You don’t have to use the thorn for everything

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

@@williamnolan1943yeah you can also use “ð”

[@KarlReimerGodt]

I personally doubt, the Germans did much grain crop agriculture, because of insecure summer climate.

[@captainbackflash]

Ich mag die alten Karten, bei denen der Sylter Hindenburgdamm eingezeichnet ist!

[@Juzten]

Love your channel man, just like the old days sitting in the long house telling tales of bravery and vengeance good stuff good stuff.

[@KGUdle]

It drives me nuts how people think Germania was only modern day Germany.

[@richardschafer7858]

My grandad is from Schleswig Holstein and spoke Platzdeutsch as well as Hochdeutsch. My great grandad was born in 1864 when it went from Denmark to Prussia. Took the DNA test and we are actually more Danish and Swedish than German.

[@Oradon01]

It's not named "Platzdeutsch". Correct is "Plattdeutsch".

[@Gwenhwyfar7]

Same with my Grandma, she's slightly more Danish than North German genetically.

[@Paula-pv7ep]

Tak

[@DSRE535]

Most of my relatives came from mid-northern Sweden, I’ve always felt a very strong connection to the Vikings for some reason, really cool channel! Lots of great information!!!

[@jayjohnsg5941]

we need a good historical accurate Germanic movie

[@Mma-basement-215]

Great video great channel great knowledge of History during the Viking age awesome thank you brother

[@xxschliemoxxthesasquatch6296]

I’ve recently found out my ancestors come from Schleswig-holstein, my family tree dates back to the early 1600’s my surname is Schliemann. I’m very proud!!

[@Gwenhwyfar7]

Same here, surnames Mordhorst and Kiel, many others.

[@davidyocham7579]

American, but basically my entire family on my mom's dad's side is from Lensahn. Such a neat video to come across. I love learning these things!

[@KarlReimerGodt]

Lehnsahn, as small town of few thousand people, south of #OldenburgInHolstein, a bigger small town of less than 10'000 inhabitants ? 30 years ago, I drove through that town some 10 times a year, to visit relatives near the coast. No industries there, except grain silo, no active train station. Highway access downwards to #Lübeck city. The only remarkable thing to remember would be a larger lake that got emptied to harvest Christmas and New Year carps, and I was working as roofer / tiler on some newly erected Waldorff private school. Nevertheless, it gives me some positive vibes, having mentioned such a small known to me settlement. Honestly, about developing that town, I would have been out of ideas at those times, except the usual newly setup industrial area because of the nearby highway access. Today, there is quite some wind energy operating in the farther area, visible at all times. The #Ostholstein county is a large vacation area, during the summer half year, notably for caravans in the coastal area. From 1980 to 2000 tourism declined somewhat, since the Mediterranean became more and more affordable, but since then, tourism got some rebirth, albeit the hotel guests stay shorter times, and tourists also leave less money elsewhere. Caravan camping though did not suffer, and even became more attractive to people. For small businesses, that sell souvenirs and such, it is still difficult to survive. And people usually aren't happy with seasonal jobs, thus leaving for the bigger cities. Lehnsahn with it's approx 10 miles off the coast, is already too far off, since tourists prefer direct sea view. I hope, I did not gave depressions by telling about how it is there, and probably those reasons to emigrate existed a hundred years ago, already, without armies marching through devastating the country. With best regards, and best wishes for the future !

[@mrspencer9999]

This is literally less than 30 km from wehre i libe😮

[@davidyocham7579]

@@mrspencer9999 that is awesome! Maybe you know someone with the surname Kröger. Likely my distant relatives! 🙂

[@davidyocham7579]

@@KarlReimerGodt this was an amazing comment to read. Perhaps I'll be able to make a visit to that part of the world in my lifetime. Would love to walk the land that my ancestors once called home. Thank you for putting all the effort into that reply!

[@christiano2444]

A big part of the Netherlands is also saxon.

[@kimashitawa8113]

Irks me everytime when people talk about the Saxons like they're exclusive to Germany and England😭 Even the maps always try their best to avoid going over the Dutch border😢

[@CidFafner]

With the German North and Baltic Sea coast belonging to the Germanic origin and the northern Alps being the cradle of the Celtic culture, I recently learned that the indigenous people in Germany already had the widest genetic span among all European countries.

[@robertb.1574]

Enjoyed the video. Going to have to disagree about what evil is. I won't defend the church of Rome but whether you are killing for ideology or for thievery, other people's land or human slavery, evil is evil.

[@StressResponseAbility]

Lovely! Thank you for this, I'm an exiled Schleswig-Hosteinian, so I appreciate this walk through our history. However, I have to say that unfortunately we are not biligual, at least not south of the border. The Danish speak an amazing German, but the Germans mostly do not speak any Danish, unless of Danish origin or they send their children to a one of the danish schools and kindergardens. However, it is, funnily enough due to the Viking history, one of the most peaceful places on earth you can find.

[@aragorn1780]

I'm a quarter Bavarian from my Grandma, and funny thing my half sister did a DNA test and we found that our Bavarian side actually has a chunk of Italian 😆

[@justicartiberius8782]

Southern germans have more celtic and roman ancestry than most other germans. Not saying they aren't mostly germanic but they definitely have a big celtic and roman influence.

[@drop9482]

Well, because all of the Alpine people are grouped into Celto-Italic. The native Celtic people of Bavaria were not much different to those living in Northern Italy. But saying „Italian“ would be wrong in this case, since many Italian peoples like the Etruscans themselves came from the Middle East in different waves, which is why the appearance of the average Bavarian vs. average Italian is still very different. Basically the same thing could be said about Switzerland and France.

[@siegfriedlechler7412]

Don't you know that the Boi = Bavarians lived in Italy for 400 years 400BC. and bolongna = Boi-logna build? The Bavarian dialect is 20% Latin. hostas?

[@galaxystars5617]

I love your information . Now I understand far more why I am who I am . Greetings from Germany , Paderborn .

[@jarlwilliam9932]

Man I disagree on the HRE part, they all killed tortured and slaughtered each other for all kinds of reasons. Just because the HRE won that conflict doesn’t mean they’re more evil. For whatever reason a group engages in violence it’s still evil. Charlemagne converted the Saxons because it unified the northern parts of his empire and consolidated his wealth and made it easier for him to collect taxes from the Saxons with less fuss, highly doubt he cared about the Saxons all that much beyond expanding his own land.

[@PolyCube71]

I was born in Berlin (Germany). One day my brother started to research our family tree. Interesting to me is that my father's side comes from Saxony. My grandfather to be more precise. According to the history records of the churches my family lived there over centuries. My grandmother on my father's side comes from Angeln. It's a small town in Schleswig. And here comes the surprising part. I made a DNA test with MyHeritage. It says that i am 49 % British. I have absolutely no ties to that country. That can only be explained by the fact that the anglo saxons ruled over England for a very long time and have spread their DNA there. The other half of my DNA (my mother's side) comes from Schleswig as well. But also from Denmark, Sweden and Norway. That's why i have so many cousins in Scandinavia according to the MyHeritage app. My grandmother (my mother's side) and other relatives lie in a cemetary in Haithabu. Even my uncle and cousins still live in Schleswig. I can only encourage people to do a DNA test. It's a true journey through the history of your DNA.

[@beijon1810]

Hello my friend. It is similar for me. 50% of my family comes from the Odenwald region. The origin of the name is disputed, but it could mean Odin's forest. The other 50 per cent is divided between Silesia and Transylvania. According to the DNA test, however, I am 66.6% English and 12.4 Scandinavian. The rest is Southern Italian, Eastern European, Western Asian and even 3% Oriental. That last one came as a surprise.

[@ShireTommy_1916_Somme-Mametz]

Anglo-Saxons created England. We share DNA, that means you are tied to Englishmen by blood historically

[@Svensk7119]

Very well detailed. This showed how tribal the ancient kingdoms were and how they overlapped. Thank you.

[@NielsJensenSailingSVFreelance]

I think you're correct about Danish concern about the Frankish push into the Saxon areas. Major work was done on the 30 km long defense line (Danevirke) across Slesvig around 805. The was last used for Danish military purposes in the War of 1864. It is interesting that if you build a 30 km long defense line, it would be useless if you don't also have the manpower on site to defend it. it might indicate a much higher level of national military organization, infrastructure, and preparedness than we commonly expect during the Danish Viking age. Of course, Hærvejen (the Army Road) down the middle of Jutland might quickly have moved troops southward, if necessary. BTW, your are not entirely correct about Slesvig not being a territorial part of modern Denmark. The top third of Slesvig was returned to Denmark by election after WWI.

[@masonmorgan6753]

Radbod be like: "Yeah, I got a problem with that..."

[@doomhippie6673]

Living actually in Schleswig-Holstein about 40 miles south of what used to be Haithabu I was always fascinated in the rather diverse culture and heritage of my home country. 20 miles east of here was the former divide between Slawic and Germanic tribes and we can still see that by looking at city names around that area. And even today there is this weird feeling of being just this little bit different here in Schleswig-Holstein than i the rest of Germany. We have a reputation of being a lot more stoic and quiet, very tough on the outside (all lies, we are all happy little fuzzy bears up here). And we sometimes call anybody from "down south" (meaning south of the Elbe river) "northern Italians". So interesting how long these things stay somewhere in the collective memory. And it's even weirder, because about half or population is actually from Eastern Prussia, people who fled or were kicked out in the last days of World War 2 and the years following it.

[@RackerPaS]

Die meisten Menschen aus Ostpreußen haben Friesische/Sächsische und Rheinländische Vorfahren mit einer Prise Balten. Durch den 2. WK kam zurück was einst dahin auswanderte. Sie sprachen einen sächsischen Dialekt des Plattdeutschen.

[@RackerPaS]

de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederpreu%C3%9Fisch#/media/Datei%3ALs-dialects.jpg

[@sebe2255]

@@RackerPaS Where did you get the Frisian from? Saxon and Franconian (not modern day Franken) would make sense as those just made up a large part of the Germanic people inside the HRE, but there were hardly any Frisians

[@RackerPaS]

@@sebe2255 Frisians migrated just like other Germanic tribes. Some with Saxons and Angles to the west and some also to the north-east (North Friesland was settled at about the same time as Danes came to Jutland, after the Angles had migrated.) So also with the east colonization. There are traces to this day, e.g. in Pomerania the Freesendorfer See named after Freesendorf. It's flat for Friesendorf today. Frisians are also East settlers.

[@RackerPaS]

@@sebe2255 Wiki: „The settlement of the West Slavic coastal area between the Danish and Spandowerhagener Wiek mostly took place in the course of the feudal German eastward expansion or colonization in the 13th century, whereby the no longer existing Freesendorf u. refers to Frisians as colonists and settlers.“

[@philippschwartzerdt3431]

The early Chauci were sea faring raiders named in mentioned in 45 BC until c170-175 BC when they merged somehow with the Saxons. Then the Saxons started their raids or viking activities.

[@AJ_B_]

Yes i agree the saxons where sea pirats, the romans build a defence structure the saxon shore to protect against them.

[@mariascheu817]

Brutal fights at that time. Beside that religious conflicts there had been many fights between the Germanic tribes itself. But to fight against the Roman empire brought them together. Growing up in the part of Germany which never was conquered by the Romans make me a little proud. Celtic people had settled here and also Germanic tribes. What makes me always sad is the fact that churches were built at old spiritual and magic places. Some days ago I again read about the church of Wormbach, which is told to be unique in Europe. You find horoscope signs inside. It seams that it had been a kind of calendar. And has probably been a very much older holy place. Without light, without TV the evening sky had of course a big influence to poeple. Watching the movement of stars, sun and moon was very much more important. I think the disappear of nature religions was the beginning of destroying nature. If a spring or a tree is a holy thing for poeple, they behave with respect towards nature. That is what we lost. And if we keep on going we destroy our planet, our own base of living. Somehow that started with monotheistic religions. Even I respect the faith, this is the negative consequence. So much violence in the name of religion. No one wants to give up the own beliefs or traditions by force. Beliefs normally teaches us to protect and respect life, not to destroy it. We are a part of nature, that's what we should never forget. The old poeple had known that.

[@spirittalkwithlizzy990]

Great stuff ❤ love listening to you talk about this

[@zamani3535]

I've been to Haithabu so many times now and it's still amazing! I can really recommend going there while they do boat shows or have summer markets!

[@chrisbrightmoon]

I started to care about all of this, after I had learned, that my mother's surname is of German origin. She's name is Roósz, which comes from Roß. It's interesting too see a historical pattern here. So my grandfather told my mother, that he's from the Hungarian Alföld, which happened to be repopulated by Germans back in the days. It's awesome how much connection one can have, if he or she tries to uncover it.

[@-RONNIE]

Germanic & Norse are incredibly similar it's all about the migration pattern that's how we get so many different cultures that are close ⚔️

[@VanaheimrUllr]

Oh, thats correct, young one. We are all weaved into the fabric by past, present and future by Urd, Skuld and Verdande. The coolest thing about being a history-junkie in these times I think is DNA-history. Quote awesome in comparison just archeology, absolute game changer.

[@-RONNIE]

@@VanaheimrUllr Yeah but the way people are now some of them take it way too far & have to be an expert in the culture they just found out about in a bad way. You know what I mean.

[@RackerPaS]

Similar? It's basically the same. North Germanic and South Germanic, the differences are almost entirely of a dialectal nature.

[@RackerPaS]

@@-RONNIE I do not know what you mean.

[@VanaheimrUllr]

@@RackerPaS He's just begun his journey, Mr. reiðir.. Explain him, instead of acting like you're five years and mom just snatched your desert.

[@katarinavomdach]

I love your 'video's detail and humour and "different to common" point of view to the Viking topics. Interesting intel in this video. You just gave me a few new "wanna go there" flags on my map. I was searching for interesting places "outside the city" for my "train+bicycle"-day trips and this will definitely be part of my tours this year. Combining this with my latent interest in my ancient Viking family heritage is defo a plus. THX.

[@sebastienloyer9471]

Allô allô from Alberta

[@waldundwiesenandi4079]

...Greetz from Kropp, near Danevirke, Schleswig-Holstein! ❤

[@scottbubb2946]

Yes, they could have made the priests leave, but then there would have been more, and more. Eventually, they would have had a hundred priests to kill instead of just two. What they did was a definitive statement. Message, loud and clear: don't send any more priests!

[@inyomoufizaWabbit]

Haha thats how you think? Id love see your modern ass go and live in these times haha you’d go crazy in a week.

[@DarkKhagan]

Thanks for the interesting history lesson. I'm of Hungarian, Swabian and Tatar ancestry. I remember reading about this period of European history and how Charlemagne had blood on his hands, because he ordered many Saxons to be slaughtered. Then a few year's later when he was having a difficult time fighting against the Avars of Hungary Charlemagne agreed to peace talks with the Avar leaders to so he invited them to a banquet and since they came unarmed he had all the military leaders killed. Charlemagne the Great, who considered the Avars living in the Carpathian basin to be dangerous enemies for his empire and launched multiple campaigns against them. The Avar Wars were fought between Francia and the Avar Khaganate in Central Europe from 788 to 803, and ended with the Frankish conquest of the Khaganate's western regions. Charlemagne's biographer Einhard (d. 840) says that aside from "the war against the Saxons, the greatest of all the wars waged by Charlemagne was the one against the Avars" in 791. According to Einhard's account, the war started in 788. Bavaria's full integration in Charlemagne's realm alarmed the Avars. They attacked northern Italy and Bavaria, but both armies were defeated. In retaliation for the invasions, two Bavarian commanders, Graman and Otachar led troops across the Enns and routed the Avars on the plains along the river Ybbs. The Avars launched a new invasion of Bavaria, but they were again defeated and many of the Avars fleeing from the battlefield drowned in the Danube. The Avar Khagan sent envoys to Worms to start negotiations about the borders. According to Pohl, the Franks probably wanted to seize lands across the Enns, but the Avars refused. Charlemagne came to Regensburg to make preparations for an invasion of the Avar Khaganate in early summer 791. In preparation for the campaign, troops from Austrasia and Neustria assembled at Regensburg together with Saxons, Frisians, Ripuarian Franks, Thuringians, Alamanni and Bavarians. Charlemagne's younger son Louis came from Aquitania. He ordered his eldest son Pippin, King of Italy (r. 780-810), to lead a scara-a highly mobile military unit-against the khaganate. This strike force reached Avar territory (probably the region between the rivers Drava and Sava) in August. They routed the Avars, pillaged an Avar fortress and seized much booty and 150 captives before returning to Italy. Charlemagne divided the main army into two parts. He appointed one of his relatives, Count Theoderic, and the chamberlain Maginfred to be the supreme commanders of the contingents of the Ripuarian Franks, Frisians, Saxons and Thuringians, and kept the rest of the Frankish troops along with the Bavarians and Alamanni under his own command. A fleet was also built for the Danube. His campaign started only after the end of the harvest season. The two armies marched along the two banks of the Danube but a later version of the Royal Frankish Annals indicates that at least part of the northern army marched through southern Bohemia. The historian Charles Bowlus proposes that the destruction of the Avar fortifications in the borderlands was Charlemagne's principal strategic purpose because as long as they existed the Franks were unable to make raids into Avar territory. After the Frankish-Avar wars between 791-804 - as a result of the internal quarrels of the Avar Khaganate and the attacks of the Bulgarians - the Avar political power collapsed, and with this there was an opportunity to expand the political influence of the Frankish empire and Christianity east of the Alps. With the growth of the Frankish power, the eastward expansion of Frankish political influence and border. According to some sources and contrary to western historical accounts, the Avars were not destroyed by Charlemagne. They remained in Hungary until the arrival of Árpáds Magyars and joined the Magyars in their military expeditions and campaigns which were strikes against their hostile neighbors the remnants of eastern Franks.

[@joeroganstrtshots881]

This dude is inhaling copium at 8:30 lmfao So its ok when the Saxons raid and pillage because they do it for “honor” and recourses but not ok when Charlamagne destroys them for raiding Frisia. He is engaging in a-historical bias for the sake of painting the Franks as “bad guys” and the human sacrificing Saxons who raided first as the “good guys” incredible😂😂😂

[@Leodachef1]

No no no you are not listening. The Franks did it because they wanted to convert all of the germanic tribes to christianity. If they would have defended their homeland noone would have said a thing. It is about the reasons for the violence. Religious extremists that try to convert the non believers are not a justified reason in my opinion. You migth see it differently, i dont care, but you definitly missed his point, because that wasn't what he was saying. He even specificly said it the way i did, the Franks were religious extremists trying to convert germanic people.

[@drengr811]

Charlemagne was funded by Jews. There are historical records of this, as well as the words that entered our lexicon at that time proves it. So it was the usual Jewish deception. Like they still do it now. Brother against brother because one believes in a different god. Never happened before Christianity. Celts thought about Germans "those folk over there think different" in religious matters.

[@joeroganstrtshots881]

@@Leodachef1 after the Pagans consistently raided Charlamagne realm, raping and pillaging through North France. Charlamagne was correct in his belief that the violence wouldn’t stop until he permanently pacified the Saxons and converted them. All im getting from you neo-pagan dorks is that you think Pagans raiding a pillaging is just fine but it’s a problem when Charlamagne puts a stop to it.

[@PaddiJ]

I live in Mittelangeln near Schleswig and love listening to those Stories🖤

[@micksjoint]

Awesome mate. In from Australia. Where both my G Grandfathers migrated to Australia from. Our Norse blood runs deep which the family has always honoured and been proud of. Sub'd in brother.

[@bluebear6570]

Thank you for this video, in which you describe part of my families history!

[@bloodygoat6941]

Born and raised in lower Saxony. It's incredible what destruction we caused in the country around us when we are actually rather quiet and chill people. Barley anything can get a lower Saxon out of his state of chill, observe and drink his beer quietly while saying "Jo...nh" every few hours

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

Haha! Ich bin in Amerika geboren, aber stark sächsischer Abstammung, da meine Familie aus Hamburg stammt. Ich hoffe, bald nach Deutschland zu ziehen. Darf ich fragen, ob Sie Plattdeutsch sprechen? Und da stimme ich zu, wir Sachsen und Deutschen allgemein sind heute in Sachen Kampf und Gewalt weit zurückgefallen 🤣🤣🤣 Wir sind übermäßig chillig, aber wir sind immer noch hervorragende Trinker und wir haben immer noch eine durch und durch germanisch klingende Sprache!

[@bloodygoat6941]

@@EinDeutscherPatriot620 spreche fließend platt da meine Großeltern nix anderes sprechen

[@EinDeutscherPatriot620]

@@bloodygoat6941 Wow, deine Großeltern sprechen kein Hochdeutsch? Ich kann nicht sagen, dass ich so überrascht bin, aber das ist sehr interessant. Nachdem ich Hochdeutsch fließend gelernt habe, hoffe ich, weiterzumachen und Plattdeutsch zu lernen. Soweit ich weiß, ist es eine sehr interessante Sprache

[@bloodygoat6941]

@@EinDeutscherPatriot620 Jupp, sie haben nie Hochdeutsch gelernt und jetzt lohnt sichs auch nicht mehr.

[@alexandros6433]

​@@EinDeutscherPatriot620 also nichts worauf man stolz sein kann

[@johneisenhower-ll5dd]

I am American with ancestry roots from Germany so I know I'm not a Christian started looking into paganism a couple years ago and your videos have been so helpful and informative I love this channel

[@frontgamet.v1892]

I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter. Stupid oversimplified: Rejects Roman annexation - Germanic Tribes defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them Creates an empire that wasn't really an empire but also was an empire and somehow lived for over 1000 years - very special and unique The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals. defeats the French, unites into a new empire Get a colonial empire Fights 80% of the world alone and almost won.. Is treated badly Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world and only lost because of own mistakes.. Gets divided again Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again. Also a few German inventions: - Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854) - The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859) - The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866) - The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925) - Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany, of course.. Are they lucky that we exist - 1938) - The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969) - Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864) - Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873) - The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887) - The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879) - Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902) - Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903) - the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg) - The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz) - Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928) - Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929) - The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929) - First rocket (general) - The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936) - The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886) - First Computer (Konrad Zuse 1941) - First 3D film (during the Nazi period) - Fanta (Yes the Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era) - The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869) - NASA (actually the US buys thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves) Well, as you saw, we changed the world with our inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German thinkers art. Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it is known. The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood, unfortunately also because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. Almost no German was a Nazi during the Nazi era. Also, any historian will tell you that the Allies, created Nazi Germany and WWII because of the unfair Versailles Treaty. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who fixes it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed everything and gave the Germans hope again. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy. It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers dying for the country. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. You must consider this one army fought against the rest of the world. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all Germans were evil Nazis. What "Peace" could they expect. These soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head.. Then the normal people knew that even more. Many were manipulated and could do nothing about it. The Nazis were a small parasite not the Germans. You can imagine the Nazis like a natural dark Parasite Rising from the suffering of the Germans. And the 'Problem' is that Germans are People who have a very special mentality and gene.. They have work and perfectionism in their blood. That's not a weak enemy. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power. We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German with perfection in his blood! Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA. And people are manipulated and have no prospects. A dark age. What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also created English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same. Thanks for listening 🥂

[@Ich-Bin-Hendrik]

Very interesting video, thank you! Greetings from the town of Schleswig :)

[@teresajohnson5265]

You are right. It is always religious forceful leaders who are the real evil!!!!!!!! This is STILL going on, as we all know. Thank you for your very clearly explained history videos. T.

[@joeroganstrtshots881]

The Saxons raided the Franks , but it’s evil when the Franks march up into Saxony and wreck them😂😂 serious cope

[@drengr811]

​@@joeroganstrtshots881 It wasn't about some simple raiding lol. Christianity is a deception and controlled opposition: it has convinced its White adherents to believe that their ancestors were the equivalent of African mud hut men, and instills in them the desire to slit the throats of Whites who don’t bend the knee to the god of Israel and Judea. The entire massacre of Saxons by Charlemagne is because of theology.

[@TheMichaelK]

It’s saddening that Saxon (Low German) culture was wiped mostly out over time. First, the Saxon wars of the Franks (Charlemange in particular) against the Saxons, followed by the Stellinga, and two more Saxon wars in the 11th century by a Salian king against the Saxons, then within Holy Roman Empire (these were later called the worst wars on Saxon ground until the Thirty Years war). And finally the dissolution of the duchy of Saxony in 1180 by emperor Barbarossa, which in its aftermath led to another period of civil wars on Saxon ground, and laying the base for the title Duke of Saxony to wander out of the Saxon territory and end up in today’s Saxony whose inhabitants aren’t even 1 permille (1/1000) Saxon. The Hanseatic time was still a prime time for the Saxons. Even though it was never backed up by the Emperor or the (Holy Roman) Empire, the Hanse dominated the North and Baltic Sea trade for centuries. Their language, still called sassesch or sassesche sprake back then, was a lingua franca in the northern half of Europe from around 1250 to 1550 and had a deep impact on the three continental North Germanic languages. Their vocabulary consists still today of around one third of Saxon (Low German) words that were borrowed during the Hanse time. Linguists usually compare the impact of Saxon (Low German) onto Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish with the impact that Norman French had on English, as both did not only introduce vocabulary but also change and simplify grammar in the affected languages. With the end of the Hansa, however, Early New High German was quickly introduced in northern Germany, in church and in schools (actually schools were still run by the church at that time) and by 1579 the usage of Saxon was already forbidden in higher education in the first northern German cities like Paderborn, Brunswick, Flensburg, etc. Around 1650 the name Plattdütsch was basically forced onto Saxon speakers by the High German speaking upper class, and Saxon speakers had to learn that their language and culture was now heavily stigmatized as a language of the "dumb", the peasants, etc. At that time it was not that long ago that the Danish-Norwegian monarchs spoke Saxon (Low German) because it was perceived a prestigious language. With the domination and growth of Prussia the Saxon (Low German) suppression developed further, and from 1820 on High German was the only allowed language for all official usage in Prussia - even though more than 70% of the Prussian population spoke Saxon (Low German) back then. Practices like children having to wash their mouth with soap for speaking Saxon (Low German) in schools occurred as punishment, and were actually documented as late as the 1970s (!!) being still in practice. Northern Germany was slowly but surely colonized and Germanized (for those interested in this topic, you can read works of Prof. Gessinger/Uni Potsdam, Prof. Besch/Uni Bonn, and Prof. von Polenz work on Deutsche Sprachgeschichte), and today Saxon (Low German) is still there, but an endangered regional/minority language, and no one really seems to care much about it. Leev grötenis uut Berlyn van en sassen / Kind regards from Berlin by a Saxon.

[@MarkusPutz-w2q]

So much "Halbwissen". If there was a genocide on the saxons is debatable. The idea that christianity was forced on the germanic tribes is just untrue. Archaeology shows that it was mostly a slow process. People believed in theyr pagan gods and just added christ into theyr pantheon. You can still see how pagan traditions fused with christian believes. How is waging war for honor better than for religion? Think about it. If your neighbour starts to raid your freezer and he has a war god to legitimate this actions what is the most efficent way to end it? Right. Show him a god who dont want you to raid your brothers and make him one of your family. Old times where rough in general but this idea of the bad christians who destroyed pagan paradise is just wrong and also it denies a huge part of my german and also of scandinavien history. Where did your vikings go? Nowhere. They just became christian and stopped raiding theyr brothers. It isnt as heroic as the idea of strong germanic people who fought until the end just to never become christian but it is theyr story how they overcome old traditions to engage in a new, changing, never stopping world. They adapted like humans always do and so did the christians. To deny the accomplishment of christianity for europe shows absolute ignorance towards reality. Christianity united europe in beliefes, protected europe from becoming islamic (no im not a christian but I'm still verry happy about it), and seted the basis for our todays wealth, society and probably nearly everything you life of and love. Paganism is super interesting and also a part of our roots but so is christianity and christianity accomplished what paganism wasnt able to. Paganism wasnt even able to unite the pagans. Embrace your history but all of it. Stop cherry picking.

[@sebe2255]

Obviously there was no genocide against Saxons. There is nothing that suggests Saxons were killed for being Saxon. A Saxon dynasty even took over East Francia and started the process of forming a German state and identity

[@sebe2255]

@Steiner 01 And because they revolted, but yes there was obviously an effort to stamp out paganism, not saxonism

[@MarkusPutz-w2q]

@steiner016 Christians killed pagans and pagans killed christians but none of them did it because they wanted to force the other side to convert. Christianisation was a slow process and paganism never completely died out in germany. Paganism fused into christian rituals. I said it is debateble if there was a genocide and that is because we only have one source that implies that there was an event with genocidal actions. I said the idea of christians killing pagans because of their believe is wrong and I stand by that. Saxons raided, franks answered. In the end they became christians but there was never some kind of "crusade" to convert the pagans. Christianity is just a verry appealing religion. You dont need to die in battle for a place in heaven and everyone can get there even women. Christians dont raid each other and they dont feel the need to sacrifice people or your valuable lifestock. These things seem not that importand today but they were. Monks did a great job in peacefully spreading christianity and we have records of that. Our blood shows the same. Is the saxon DNA for example eradicated? Absolutely not. They were not forced to become christian back than it was just the better philosophy to life after and also the christian world was more developed. The people back then had real problems and there was no need to force someone into a more peaceful life with a full belly and protection from other raiding tribes.

[@drengr811]

​​@@sebe2255 Paganism is a blood religion. Saxon's paganism belonged to themselves. It was their culture and their traditions. So it was against "Saxonism" very well. Christianity does not belong to anyone. It is a universal religion. Anyone can be Christian. And sharing your religion with an Ethiopian and bending knee to a Jewish god shows how much of a cuck one is.

[@drengr811]

Christianity never did anything for Europe. If Christianity was that great for making people accomplish things, why nothing happened in Africa? The first nation to convert was Ethiopia. Why nothing has happened? Your mere patheticism to reduce Europe's history into a Jewish-Judean desert cult is laughable. Europe's history is much, much older and greater than this. Europeans accomplished great things because that is who we are.

[@rnedlo9909]

Thank you for a very well-presented video. My paternal Great Grandfather came from Holm, Germany, right west of Hamburg. My haplogroup is I1, originating in Sweden. The family tradition is they were "boat makers" and settled there to get away from the "Sea Raiders" in the 9th century and started to farm. I think they were not only boat makers, but also Vikings who settled there and helped defend against further raids, thus my I1 haplogroup. Just speculating, but the facts seem to be confirming the theory and family origin tradition.

[@PetroBeherha]

If what you said is true, then that would have been very cool! You should cherish that legacy.

[@colddarkness1798]

Now Germania is Germanistan

[@Horatio.Mantooth]

Saxons were also named for beign men of swords. Saxon - Seax

[@TheMichaelK]

Sax-on. Sax was the kind of sword, seax, sahs, … are different spellings for it.

[@Bloodletter87]

Greetings from Kiel! I visited Hathabu/Hedeby multiple times, and it is always a great experience.

[@BerserkerGang2019]

really dig this episode. I am going to Haitabu soon. Once a year visit to this area is really exciting.

[@ingwiafraujaz3126]

The Ingvaeonic Saxons are also native to the east of the Netherlands. We have millions of Low Saxon speakers here to this day.

[@sebe2255]

There are not millions of speakers of low saxon in the Netherlands. It is dropping off very quickly

[@kimashitawa8113]

​@@sebe2255There is still quite the amount though, try communicating with a farmer, old person or construction worker here😮‍💨

[@tobbt1106]

I really appreciate your knowledge and the way you present the material. Your knowledge and good humor serve you well. Thank you Viking friend😊😊😊

[@danawinsor1380]

Thank you! What a wonderful overview of this part of the world and it's history.

[@johnmurray2995]

Very interesting. I recall hearing the idea that there was an element of a religious "counter-offensive" to the initiation of Viking raids, but I had not heard the full context of the Saxon Wars preceding the start of the Viking era.

[@slams777]

Hi my family was from Bavaria. Very good video!

[@sassisch]

Thanks. Nicely introduced and pretty accurately so! It’s information even most people in Northern Germany are pretty ignorant about. When I was a kid there in the 1950s and 1960s we had to celebrate Charlemagne (“Charles the Great”) as the great unifier and bringer of Christianity. (BTW, I’d prefer the absence of background music.)

[@samanthasavarese7631]

Thank you one more time for the very engaging and instructive content, as always ☺️. You are now my n.1 Norse anthropology source after the actual sources 😅. Please make that video about the Italian Vikings, I'm all ears!! Looking forward to that ✌️

[@wiebkeforsterling1550]

I am a Northfrisian from Schleswig-Holstein. The Frisians build Haithabu and than the Danes used it. Frisians also went to Great Britain. Nordfriesland was from time to time part of Denmark til the people voted if the wanted to be German or Dansk.

[@ThorsHammer-1377]

I live in a little town called leck it's an hour away from the Danish border its called north friesland and obviously a part of schleswig holstein

[@gregoryleevandall1880]

Ty for continuing these amazing videos my friend … I hope life is treating you very well 😊 ✌️ ❤️

[@snakefires582]

Awesome video.. if you could do a video on the Jomsvikings I think would be really cool!

[@geeblenhoff1]

Man these videos are awesome! So much great information! Going to look for a play list now.

[@tulsalien]

Thanks for this! Just in a few minutes I learned stuff i didn’t know ❤

[@NLSBLN]

Very cool video! I went to Schleswig and the viking museum some years ago. It was really interesting as you said. My family is from Berlin, Germany and in some online databases i found my last name is dating back to the 15th century here in this region and todays polish border area.

[@alexandros6433]

And you believe that's your origin?

[@dannyboywhaa3146]

Mate this video is brilliant! Answered so many burning questions I had, thank you! 👍

[@lowiq3409]

My surname is: Van Rensburg, I am an Afrikaans person from South Africa. My forefather that came to South Africa came from a town called Rendsburg in Germany close to the Danish border. The "Van" part in my surname means "from". So my surname tells where I am from!