The History of the Vikings in England (AD. 793 - AD. 1066)

A look at the entire history of Viking interaction with England, from the first famous raid on Lindisfarne in AD. 793 to the climactic last battles of 1066.
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[@pabloramos1022]

If you are invading England, you have to do it the right way: dragon ships.

[@harrycarrabott4004]

pablo ramos take note muslims

[@dharma6902]

We'll be back. 😉

[@WingedHussar_PL]

yea they can probably fly as well

[@jessehackman3888]

@dryef don Unfortunately ,you are right

[@jessehackman3888]

@Baba Yaga it's strange, Europe must be coloured but Africa is in an opposite Situation.

[@gfcmoto4843]

Just here to better understand "The Last Kingdom" and "Vinland Saga" Thanks for the video.

[@mohammadalshouk1201]

Hahahahah mee 2

[@Stuntsmans]

SAme!

[@1cykrem394]

Same same

[@DavBlc7]

You'll also have to watch the history TV series "The Vikings" which is now in Amazon Video too.

[@K4izerr]

@@DavBlc7 Vikings is about as historically accurate as Samurai fighting for the Saxons

[@maxkaufmann833]

"Egg from egg." I love English.

[@werrtuky5803]

matthew bayliss 😂

[@edwardmartin2157]

Max Kaufmann 😂😂😂😂😂

[@maxdraper6462]

@matthew bayliss well that sounds like a you problem

[@keighlancoe5933]

Well eggs in Old English is...Ægru so didn't change all too much

[@markcummings2723]

Eggcellent

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

History With Hilbert, the "by the way, the friasian were there too" channel

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

The Italian Baron there was a least one frisian there

[@christopherellis2663]

The Frisians were in the same boat as the Angles and Saxons

[@oaneschriemer2724]

I am friesian, a lot of words are familiar to me

[@Maltechr]

As a Dane, this was very well written. And good pronunciations ;) Keep up the good work, Hilbert!

[@a_l7515]

You guys were pretty savage back then

[@jackielou68]

Fun Fact: The raid is believed to have been in June, not January. January would have been bad sailing weather, and the Annals of Lindisfarne actually give the date as 8 June 793. Excellent video as always Hilbert! *I only caught that because we have a Viking Festival that I demonstrate at every year on or around that date! :)

[@mrdarren1045]

Yeah you'd have to be crazy to risk crossing the North Sea in the middle of winter in those boats. I know they were brave men but that's plain suicidal.

[@Irish-King]

Your abundance of detailed information always surprises me. So glad I stumbled on your channel.

[@HistoryTime]

Lovely stuff mate. Hoping that you do these for the other countries of Europe too

[@martijn9568]

History Time See the poll on his channel

[@wiseoldwizard]

Who is here from the Netflix series *"The Last Kingdom"*

[@historywithhilbert146]

Forgotten Soul Got a video on the Last Kingdom out tonight actually ;)

[@akibedahebrew8555]

🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️ Meeee! Didnt know Uhtred was an actual Earl tho.

[@m.v.v.n886]

Destiny is ALL

[@Adishollywood]

Uthred son of Uthred, Uthred Ragnarson, Uthred of Bebbanburg and.... Osbert?

[@Tuxedo_YT-mn2mt]

Yes

[@hamilax156]

I was born in North Western England, and I am of Norwegian descent. Very interesting video.

[@kenny5577]

Norwegian Danish English is almost exactly the same thing

[@VikingsCode]

@@kenny5577 yes definitely after the many historical events, they have become very similar, and I would argue much richer culturally!

[@MatthewSmith-xl5cr]

And German, and French, and Irish, and probably others. There is almost certainly nothing especially Norwegian about you. That’s not how it works, and usually people who cling to this incorrect view of ethnicity or “I’m mostly Viking/Dane/German etc” are usually the type to be desperate for their own identity, and it’s often on a foundation of racism, or atleast exceptionalism, which is basically the same thing.

[@drengr7210]

Much better detailed history than what’s taught in any Anglo/Celtic country. Loved it and always enjoyed learning more about my ancestors

[@michael3088]

probably worth mentioning that both Angles and Danes were once the same tribe of people but split on the mainland a few centuries prior to the Angles and Saxons migrating to England so those two groups are actually more akin to each other than the other groups mentions here though all are related even further back

[@ChantelStays]

My heritage is Danish and Irish on my maternal side..I've always been fascinated with *vikings* and the history.

[@luiznunes1404]

What about African

[@ChantelStays]

@@luiznunes1404 paternal is Jamaican :)

[@luiznunes1404]

@@ChantelStays By the way you look, you’re most Jamaican/African than anything

[@ChantelStays]

@@luiznunes1404 pretty sure it doesn't matter....? I'm half black half white. Black genes usually predominate when it comes to features. I resonate more with my maternal side bottom line Also married a Norwegian/Irishman and my daughter's are peachy white with blonde hair and green eyes. Genes are funny. My comment about my heritage and about me being proud to be Danish and Irish has nothing to do with the way I look.

[@luiznunes1404]

@@ChantelStays Are you ashamed of being black? Why didn’t you married a black guy who looks like you, then you childrens would look like you too? Don’t mind me, I am just a curious person.

[@LarsPallesen]

Great stuff! This was really packed with information. Very well researched!

[@DR3S1NGH]

I'm here to learn because of AC Valhalla.

[@loudregent60]

Dre S same

[@Sam-vp1yi]

✊🏾

[@therafmaster5958]

Dre S at least _some people_ research their history before playing/getting the game

[@Sam-vp1yi]

@lenny Murphy Did you?

[@Sam-vp1yi]

@lenny Murphy I’m just wondering why your watching this video? Because if it’s to learn ANYTHING then your idiotic comment would be redundant you fuck wit. ‘Did you go to school?’ 🤔 Unless your going video to video about different histories to call other people stupid because your a human school textbook, wtf does your question mean? ....idiot.

[@loudregent60]

Who’s here after Assassin Creed Valhalla trailer

[@scorpionsubzeroaregays9013]

Me

[@edwardmartin2157]

LoudRegent60 😂😂😂 how did you guess

[@therafmaster5958]

How’d you know? I was doing my research

[@mohammadhabibi4149]

Me

[@jarteaga1793]

Lenny Murphy get out of here Lenny you fucking nerd. Of course he went to school otherwise he wouldn’t be able to type or even comprehend how KZbin works. Go try to start stupid shit in your speech and debate class.

[@csm5040]

I really like the linguistical lesson. This is high-quality content. Thank you for making these videos, sir.

[@theblackprince1346]

Really good video as usual. Looking forward to more in this series.

[@gordon.x_x8912]

I learned more from this film than I did in the last four months of lectures on the subject. Thank you!

[@marcusrex77]

Thank you, that filled in a lot of questions that I had. Your presentation was excellent.

[@joseramondelpino3082]

Loved the part in which you talked about the etymology of the words!

[@briandennis7081]

This video really makes me want to see one about Viking history of Ireland. Its totally not because I LOVE talking about King Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf or anything ...

[@omar_elattar.6500]

Brian Dennis If a video is done about Ireland, I’d love to see him talk about Ivar The Boneless and Olaf The White.

[@keesvanatteveld5294]

I didnt expect to hear anything i didnt know in a relatively short video on such a large subject but even as a history major interested in mainly the ancient times and the early middle ages i did learn some stuff especially in the period after the slaughter of the Danelaw and 1066 so very good info

[@KyrieW]

A very convoluted history, but clearly presented! Well done!

[@tobilikebacon]

this finally brings glory to danish vikings as most people see norway or sweden as vikings

[@rustybench3334]

Nah man

[@tobilikebacon]

@@rustybench3334 nah man to what?

[@rustybench3334]

@@tobilikebacon I forgot

[@tobilikebacon]

@@rustybench3334 lol

[@k0vert]

I absolutely love your content. Keep it coming, my friend

[@kyrgyzjeff4550]

k0vert What da heck is your profile pic!

[@k0vert]

A fish in a turkey. Nothing out of the ordinary.

[@kyrgyzjeff4550]

k0vert Lmao, did do you actually stuff the fish in there yourself?

[@k0vert]

Nah, just happened upon it on the interwebz and the rest is history. WITH HILBERT

[@kyrgyzjeff4550]

k0vert Haha nice one.

[@Dohlenblick]

Quite the interesting topic, well elaborated and nicely visualised. To further enhance the quality of your content I would suggest to reduce the audible peaking in your audio-recording (I.e. 'but','before' and 'plethora' 0:00-0:15) either by editing, or easier, by putting a bit more space between you and the microphone, acquiring a muffling cover for it might do the trick too. This is probably one of the cheapest ways to improve one's audio-Setup and helps taking it towards the next level. I hope this advice is helpful, your videos are!

[@Alrik.]

Thank you for this video, it's so interesting!!

[@shamlessgaming8789]

“Ket in the modern day means sweets” yea...... sweets

[@prime2243]

a different kind of sweets than your traditionalist ideas of it

[@hadynharris494]

it means sweets in northern slang hahaha, however has also taken on a more of a psychedelic form too

[@DamianTheLightskin]

HadynHarris I’m from Manchester and not once has someone spoke to me and said Ket meaning sweet it’s not mothers slang at all mate 😂

[@hadynharris494]

Arachnids Gaming not really that northern mate i live near newcastle and its very common up here

[@DamianTheLightskin]

HadynHarris fair enough then so ur a jordi

[@shaheenziyard5631]

I was recommended this after watching the AC Valhalla trailer way too much.

[@thinkingmachine354]

@@GeorgeNicol. The Vikings (except for the bandits) where a noble people. Most of the slander was written 200 years after the viking age by Christian Jews that settled in Europe. If you watch this video again, it isn't hard to figure out why.

[@melkor3496]

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[@shaheenziyard5631]

@@melkor3496yeah I've seen tag idiotic video. It's a cinematic trailer dude. That video is the very definition of nitpicking.

[@melkor3496]

Shaheen Ziyard How dare you. XD

[@hetecks1385]

@Loke ok so? At least the Vikings don't have horns on there helmets 24/7

[@craigallen7421]

Great content. Really informative. thanks

[@Kenny-hz5ux]

THANK YOUUU 🙏🙏🙏. I'm watching Vinland Saga right now and I'm unsure about how the history goes during that time but this is perfect!

[@bxzidffbxzidff]

Funny how a surprising amount of the words English got from Old Norse is present in modern English but not in modern Scandinavian languages

[@thesmilinggun-knight9646]

12:46 I think the colour schemes and symbols on the Shields look awesome.

[@Shaniflewog]

I would love to see a video on the Vikings in Wales, I know it wasn't a poll option you made but there is some interesting things there- I promise!

[@baryonyx9642]

This is very interesting. Great video!

[@jrabbit87]

Great video! I love your stuff! I do have a question though.. Were the Anglo-Scandinavians, those born of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian parents, slaughtered during the St. Brice’s Day Massacre or did Æthelred only target the Danes?

[@Sam-vp1yi]

As a geordie, that was weird when you had the northern words for things 😂 I say Hyem and Marra almost everyday, had no idea it came from the Danish

[@evillimey6965]

Being from Durham it always interested me, Gan yem dose sound like danish ga hjem, you also have Beck - stream, oot - out, Barin - child, but they are probably Anglo Saxon (old English) as old English and old Norse are very similar and are cousins of each other, both come from Ingvaeonic Germanic languages. Remember the Angles emergrated from Jutland where Danish 'Vikings' later came from, they did a documentary not long ago to see if the north-east had Viking ancestry, Sir walter bodmer (geneticist at oxford) found that "three quarters of the regional gene pool tested in the North East matches the Anglo Saxon genetic signature" but "it is impossible to distinguish between the Danish Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, because they are same" so I guess we will never know, one thing is for sure we in the North-East do share a common DNA ancestry with our Danish Viking cousins.

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Evil Limey that’s really interesting. Actually just a large part of regular English is also derived from old Norse, which is why it’s really easy for Scandinavians like me to learn English. The names of weekdays are an obvious example.

[@rustybench3334]

I live in hull and we/older people say bane meaning child

[@2_mutch]

@@rustybench3334 same learned recently aswell when we say 'ta' for thank you it's derived from 'tak' which is thank you in Scandinavian countries

[@miggi8144]

@@2_mutch wow, I had no idea about this. It's very common in Australia too. We (Aussies) all shorten 'thank you' to 'ta'.

[@brycehart9652]

15:36 I wonder if it's referring to the war horns that were common amongst many cultures just a thought would love to hear more thought on it and thank you so much for the great content I love the style you have and the content you talk about so again thanks

[@GmachineDean]

great video thankyou for sharing

[@lollypopjo1]

I AM UHTRED SON OF UHTRED

[@mrnobody4237]

Great series of books.

[@Minees-up5zy]

Billy Billy Hi UHTRED SON OF UHTRED

[@TheFaro2011]

Destiny is all

[@metalmadsen]

Good video. Respect from Denmark 🇩🇰

[@drmahlek9321]

Great video. Nottingham born here, so this history is very interesting to me.

[@navigatorofnone]

Quite enlightening video 👍👍👍👍

[@TheRetroRaven]

Fun fact. William The Conquer is a descendant of Rollo, a Danish viking that was Duke of Normandy.

[@LeHappiste]

Everyone knows this fun fact, but few people know that Godwinson was much more Danish than William (Godwinson = a literal Danish mother while William's last actual Danish ancestor was his great great great grandfather Rollo)

[@noahsfoodreview6301]

@@LeHappiste Yeah William's heritage was more Frankish than Danish

[@lw.1730]

As someone from a less than savoury part of the U.K., saying “Ket” means “Sweets” sounds like the biggest euphemism ever lol

[@l7me4n83]

sounds like some wonky sweets alright

[@stevelyon867]

What a fantastic video, thank you!

[@paladinbob1236]

A well researched and presented video and enjoyed the clear names around the kingdom. I wondered wether you would include Canute and his kingdom as it was sure to be revelant and have me rofl with the microphone comment :d....A most turbulent but interesting time in britains history which was sure to be repeated when the normans arrived and tipped the table over again [perhaps that might be worth a few in depth videos as that ..like this age , changed England and its surrounding kingdoms in major ways that still stand today ] {bows in homage for a excellent vid}

[@meginna8354]

Hilbert you said you would link a video about the Jomsvikings

[@historywithhilbert146]

Thanks for the reminder, it's in there now! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oprcfmqmic56m7s

[@a.w.sawtooth9469]

I never knew that Harold Godwinson was of Danish descent, it certainly puts the war of 1066 in a new perspective.. Harold Hardrada, a Norwegian. William the Conqueror, a Norman. And Harold Godwinson, Anglo-Saxon but with Danish ancestory. No matter who had won, a Norseman would still be on the throne in some way or another. Anglo-Saxon England was pretty much done by that point regardless. Anyway, great video, and you just got yourself a new subscriber!

[@Evansdrad8515]

Let's be fair. Every Englishman probably has Danish, or Norwegian ancestry (be it Norse control in parts of England or Normans)

[@Fankas2000]

I mean, Anglo Saxons are from Modern day Denmark and North Germany... So it has always been one big family fighting over the same island.

[@LS-kg6my]

Fascinating!!! Thank you for sharing actual history, which is so helpful in the face of all these fictionalized TV series!!

[@smithy7034]

Fantastic video. Thank uou very much. 👍🏻

[@HistoryHouseProductions]

The English Vikings had some big balls

[@historywithhilbert146]

For sure!

[@Pfsif]

But no bone.

[@crowsbaneful]

Pfsif You're confusing that with now.

[@gilesfarmer5953]

Probably because they sold loads of tickets....

[@KampfGruppeLehr88]

@Roccio O'RoganThere is now.

[@Makaveli-yq9rj]

when speaking about how the mixing of anglo saxons and the danes effected the peoples dna there for ever, I couldn't help but to laugh about the fact that most anglo saxons themselves were in fact danes (Jutes and angles) who migrated from Denmark to england 400 years before the vikings arrived. it means the people there had germanic roots in their dna (mainly danes) long before the vikings, and it also means that the mixing between anglo saxons and the celtic tribes had much bigger impact on the people's dna there, than the mixing between anglo saxons and the danes :)

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

All English people have Danish ancestry. Ironically geneticist simultaneously say Anglo-Saxon and Danish DNA is identical, than say England has little to no Danish DNA. How could they tell the difference if its identical? 😂 I trustly can safely assume I got Danish ancestry and blood. No differentiation. Btw Jutes and Angles aren't Danes. They just lived in what is now happened stance the same country. Its like calling Cherokee and Navajo the same because both are from the U.S. The Angles are called Angles for a reason. Different tribe.

[@kopibin9532]

i am watching The Last Kingdom and find your knowledge very enlightening. Thanks GBU

[@christopherellis2663]

Fascinating. My matralineal descent is from Yorkshire (Otley) Patralineal is from Normandy. ☆ Royal Forest of Dean (Fforest Dêna ) is one of my favourite places. ..

[@StefanMilo]

For no reason other than getting rid of the case system I whole heartedly support the Viking invasion. Great video HWH!

[@alexhicks6207]

13:00 some badass warriors and a badass metal album from Amon Amarth

[@frizoyt5599]

Great video you did your research

[@dreamgirlfahima8233]

The show the Lost Kingdom includes a lot of this history so interesting!

[@meilirlloyd2289]

Ket deffinetly means something different today...

[@alal-cs9tr]

I was saying the same thing xD

[@Saint_Y8S]

Still pretty sweet tho...

[@the_rover1]

Cat

[@StanNL7201mk]

Keta

[@Altiar253]

Whos here after valhalla??

[@swevykilla9228]

Yeh man this crazy asf spin out to man good to listen to

[@Altiar253]

@@swevykilla9228 yeah enjoying it myself...age of empires 2 definitive edition does the campaign on this era aswell

[@caseyduckett8585]

You make some great videos, this one included. However, the first recorded Viking raid recorded in what would become modern England was at Portland, Dorset in 789. It was most likely done by Raiders from modern Norway, as were the majority of raids before 840

[@julionavas5626]

The best compact I have found unttil now. Now I understand better the chronology of the serie "Vikings", "The Last Kingdom" and the anime "Vinland Saga". Of course is known that they are most fictions, but they have strong influences of real characters and events.

[@inpersonaDK]

Thank you for sharing. The Norse and Anglo-Saxons were cousins

[@TheRAMBO9191]

I'm here to learn a bit for assassin's creed valhalla :)

[@shadowgamer4653]

AC Valhalla is historically very inaccurate. I am a bit disappointed playing it right now. Odyssey and Origins were historically more accurate.

[@TheRAMBO9191]

@@shadowgamer4653 more along the lines of the time period is what I watched the video for. I'll never take a video game seriously.

[@danilthorstensson8902]

@@shadowgamer4653 wow a game about two secret societies fighting each other throughout history is unrealistic 😂

[@shadowgamer4653]

@@danilthorstensson8902 Looks like you dont know much about the franchise Assassins Creed in general. Ubisift takes much care about historical accuracy of the games. How the buildings look like, the clothes, the language and so on. Btw. mate. Unrealistic and inaccurate are two very different things. Historical inaccuracy for example is how the churches in England in the 9th century looked like and how they look like in the game. Most churches were wooden constructions while in AC Valhalla, almost every church is a stone building. This is just one example of what I mean with historical inacurracy. And this is actually a shame for Ubisoft. They normaly work with historians when developing their AC games. For Origins and Odyssey they hired international TOP historians to make the games as accurate as possible. Assassins Creed Odyssey Discovery Tour is even used in schools to show students how the greek world back then really looked like. Inform yourself ;)

[@shadowgamer4653]

@@danilthorstensson8902 kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5mXeqxjpZ5naa8

[@craigbenz4835]

Good video. The maps help me more than the illustrations of guys standing around.

[@designertjp-utube]

@Craig Benz True Dat! The Maps brought much clarity into the Battle History, but got me (a dude in the USA) thinking. In the near future, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom could team up and re-take America in a three-way! That is, until we launch three F-35s coupled with a "tag-a-long" USAF KC-10 Extender Refuel Airship.

[@matthewbrookes5741]

great narration .

[@Me2Lancer]

Even with the Norman invasion of 1066 it's more of a continuation of the same. You see, The Normans that invaded England in 1066 came from Normandy in Northern France. However, they were originally Vikings from Scandinavia.

[@chrisparnham]

True although funnily enough the Angles and Saxons originally came from NW Germany and part of Denmark I believe. It just shows how fluid the various tribe movements were. They pretty much assimilated the Normans in the next century.

[@GiderTheGreat]

Thorkell was a Scanian, so he'd very much have been a Dane. It wasn't until the treaty of Roskilde in the 1650s somewhere that Scania became Swedish (and pretty much culturally genocided)

[@robertfletcher3421]

If only I could have had someone like you when I went to school in the 50'd. Excelent, Thanks.

[@friattmoooo]

Thank you Hilbert

[@svennorman9123]

The English and all Scandinavias are brothers in a way.

[@tomchch]

@Carmicha3l Well, Anglos and Saxon where both from north germany/danmark who invaded just a few centuries before the vikings.

[@zionnofate]

@Carmicha3l so true... got my whole family done with the Ancestry dna test. mum was 95% anglo saxon 5% Celt and dad was almost split irish anglo. yet I had Euro Germanic dna and my sister had Swedish Dna. So in other words they really cant tell.

[@raleighburner1589]

The Saxon was not as strong as the Norse it's like posh estate meets rough estate when the Norse Vikings founded Irish cities in 795 ad the Anglo Saxon were unprepared for the battle's that would follow in the following centuries Brian Boru defeated the Norse Irish in 1012 but the Anglo Saxon lost to the Norse in 1066 the point is that Anglo Saxon Is posh estate whereas Norse Vikings are tough estate

[@diegoragot655]

Could you explain once all the Arabic States prior to Muhammed?? Like you did once with the British Isles?

[@jamesatherton1853]

Diego Ragot i dont think that's his area of expertise

[@diegoragot655]

James Atherton who can be? (Western)

[@jamesatherton1853]

Diego Ragot I have no idea sorry man

[@diegoragot655]

James Atherton ok, don't worry

[@main506]

@Bill The Bull Gates no 1 or 2 min. I enjoyed informing you.

[@toddcott9510]

Really informative.

[@Dallascowboy666]

Excellent as ever

[@WarDogMadness]

I had a hypothesis about when harold lost the battle of Stanford Bridge many of his varangians would have agreed to put into service in Godwin army also of their Eastern kit would have taken by the English. The survivors those who abandoned the field after Godwin died took the surving huscarls and varangian to byzantium via the rus Rivers. after the reformation of the varangian guard in 1071 you have almost linked series of events from 1066 to 1071 but not many records of weather it was a mass exodus or small group of displaced people

[@FromaTwistedMind]

After 1066 the Varangian guard suddenly had an influx of Anglo Saxons refugees, so much so that there were too many to take into it, these were used as auxiliaries by the Byzantine Empire. They were granted land in northern Anatolia and settled for about 100 years on the Crimea before the were over one, destroyed or assimilated. This area was called New England and had towns called Sussex etc.

[@WarDogMadness]

@@FromaTwistedMind yeah i sore that report about chimera new england there were anglo saxon incription and other stuff in the churches there some people say they were put there later by saxon merchants but some people in academic circles don't want the accoation there but except that the area was settled by eastern rome .

[@yeiguess8110]

I think a good example of vikings in England is the show "the last kingdom".

[@sprucemaroose]

You should certainly have more views - great videos!

[@tomasrhysdavies]

great video. hope you do a video for owain glyndwr. stay great!

[@supremerevelations]

Yay, more Vikings and Anglo-Saxons!!

[@valofalconery]

Where in East Anglia did the Vikings actually land? I live in Ipswich so would be curious to know

[@mrsutiandhisbudynotharrypo258]

Thanks so much just did all my homework

[@lisaanne8459]

This is a great video.

[@Floral_Green]

And to think that it was only recently that I discovered that I’ve grown up right in the middle of the Danelaw region. Isn’t history just fascinating.

[@csabafamin2277]

Where is Eivor and Sigurd? :D

[@ResoRonnie]

Facinating. Great educational video. I'm a 54 year old Southern Californian Latino but I find the history of that area very interesting.

[@braaierman]

Love your videos! Baie interessant :)

[@hannahjohnston7632]

Wait. Why is this better than Netflix? 😮 I didn't know any of this.

[@historywithhilbert146]

Thank you! More videos on the Viking Age on my channel if you're interested.

[@hannahjohnston7632]

@@historywithhilbert146 oh man I'm like 5 videos in to the playlist. Seriously well done. 🥳

[@johnbrereton5229]

A very interesting and informative video Hilbert. Which leads one to think that England was more Nordic than Anglo Saxon, despite the name. With much inter marriage going on between them, even William the bastard was related to Edward the Confessor and yet descended from the Danes as were most of these people. And of course were all germanic people, who originated in Scandinavia.

[@ldr7125]

My Norwegian partner forever insists English is actually a Scandinavian language. The invasion is still going strong 😂

[@johnbrereton5229]

@@ldr7125 We are often told that England comes from Angloland. Yet I was reading the other day that in Scotland they spell it Ingland. Well Ing was the original name for the old Norse god Yngvi, god of the common people so Ing- land makes more sense as it means the land of the common people. Which fits very well, because all the 'Anglo Saxon' settlers were common farmers who interestingly never referred to themselves as Anglo Saxon. While Ing was the god of the Common people, Freyr was the god of fertility and the upper classes and legendary ancestor of the Swedish royal family, so perhaps you wife is on to something.

[@arcanics1971]

I hope you do do a video on the effects of Vikings in the North West. I have been (on and off and not very effectively) trying to figure out what the history of my area is for years. I come from North Lancashire (Lancaster) and I became interested a few years back in our local dialect. Unfortunately it mostly died off in the early part of the last century but I did find a lot of clues of Viking origin and even more that MAY be Norse but I cannot be sure as I just cannot find sources. If you can find anything out about this area (North Lancs, Cumbria) I would be very grateful and very, very interested. The Roman history of the area is very well documented but after that I really struggle to find anything until the 13th Century and that's pretty sparce and until the 15th century there's little I have found that does anything other than raise more questions. There was definitely a Viking presence in the area at Heysham, possibly due to its proximity to Man and Ireland, but again there's little in the way of reliable sources about it. I am hoping you're better skilled (well, you are; but you know what I mean) and that if you do eventually look into it, you'll do better than me.

[@patriciamackinlay6495]

thankyou so much most informativex

[@williamcooke5627]

A fine video, as usual, Hilbert. But I see i must once again slay a couple of persistent linguistic dragons. 'Knife' is just as likely to be Old English as old Norse (you have the same word in Dutch and Frisian), and 'borough' is from OE burh (that's why it's found all over England, not just in the Danelaw).

[@williamcooke5627]

The Encomium Emmae is a work in praise of Emma, not one that she wrote herself; and she was actually the Queen of England. She was the second wife of Aetelred Unraed, and mother of Edward the Confessor; and Cnut married her after Aethelred's death, to strengthen his own claim to the throne.

[@williamcooke5627]

Edmund Ironside was Aethelred's eldest surviving son, by his first wife. The present royal family actually descend from him, but that's another story.

[@hennobrandsma4755]

I don’t know a Dutch analogue of “knive”, Frisian (which I speak) has “knyft” (for a large knive, a smaller one is “mês”, like Dutch “mes”); the sound-laws would dictate “*knijf”, which is not a Dutch word. I agree with “burh” (Dutch “burg, burcht”, Frisian “boarch”) etc.

[@urghlegrue2979]

It's all germanic

[@martijn9568]

Je zou een video moeten maken over Wiki de Viking. (En): You should do a video on Wiki the Viking.

[@Darkurge666]

The reference to "horns" could be war horns (you blow in like trumpets to make noise) more likely than horns in their helmets. For example the as Æsir Heimdal (the watcher of heaven in norse mythology) has a horn named Gjallarhorn that he blows in at the arrival of Ragnarök.

[@strafrag1]

Super. Great diction and speech too. Cheers.

[@Vivisugarxdoll]

Can you do a video on Sweden and Finland during the viking age? They're kind of overlooked in the grand scheme of things...

[@jamestang1227]

Finland is Finno-Urgic. Their relatives are near the Urals.

[@gripen2341]

The Swedes had been in contact with the Finns and Estonians for a long time even before the ''Viking Age'', (trading and creating settlements in Finland and so on), so they kinda had a relationship already. The Swedes who ventured out from Roslagen, the coastal area between Stockholm and Gävle, seems to be the origin for both the name ''Rus'' and the Finnish name for Sweden, which is ''Ruotsi''. There's a alot of theories, but to me it seems to be a connection there, no doubt about it. The Rus (Swedes from Roslagen), went on expedtions East, into modern day Russia and founded alot of settlements and colonies there. With them on these journeys there were surely alot of Finns and perhaps Estonians aswell. Together with Slavic people already inhabiting the area, they formed the foundation of Russia - the land of the Rus. The Rus are best known in history as the Varangian Guard to the Byzantine (Greek) Empire. It became a tradition for big, sturdy Scandinavian and Rus adventurers to be recruited as body guards, and this continued for several hundred years, way into the Medieval period.

[@christopherellis2663]

goff0103 No! The Mongols are in the Kalmykh Republic. No connection.

[@JacobafJelling]

Prussia Ball SWEDEN IS OVERLOOKED???????

[@mackmaster100]

Swedens vikings went down through the rivers of europe instead, focusing a bit more on trade. They went down to konstantinopel and met with muslims in Turkey. They also started colonies together with local people in what today is Ukraine which later became the kingdom Kiev Russ, which in turn became Russia. Finland was not a viking state. It was occupied by Sweden during the middle ages and before that had its own semi-slavic/semi-nordic culture.

[@clandorangaming]

"Their horns shining with gold" is in reference to their drinking horns, which would be inlaid with gold if that person could afford to have the smith do the work.

[@ivodewispelaere9137]

didn't it refer to the bull heads on the ships, so the horns of the bulls?

[@clandorangaming]

@@ivodewispelaere9137 nah, not all of them used bull heads on ships. From what I've picked up over the years, more often you would see dragon head, or sometimes horse head effigies on ships. The bull was more of a male fertility animal to the vikings, so having a bull head carved on the ship wouldn't make as much sense to them as having a dragon head, symbolizing fierceness in battle, or a horse head symbolizing endurance.

[@kieranlock3070]

This was awesome

[@lapilla3]

Very useful.