Wends: The Slavic Pirates that the Vikings Feared

[@naky6]

Slavic history is sadly underestimated.

[@vitraxgdanski1305]

Most people think that Slavs used to hit two rocks against eachother before they were taught how to create civilizations by the all knowing, all good germanics. Western schools will rather teach people about irrevelant indigenous or african tribes that brought nothing to world history other then being annihilated by the white man but they barerly even mention Slavs as a whole. They barerly even mention pre-ww2 Russia.

[@ronwinkles2601]

So true! The dominant language and culture of Europe is Slavic reaching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea and northward into Russia and Ukraine.

[@EricV-lq3jq]

Can anybody list any significant Sorbian/Wendish historical people, or events. It seems like its just a settlement without unique value and I'd like to know more

[@damirk3]

Yes, mostly because of christian elite hating our no christian past, being simps to christian overlords or hate towards other Slavs because christian overlord said to do it. Franks used christian duke(knez) Borna against knez Ljudevit who defended Croats from Frankish influence. And you can see all the way towarda today german using one slavic group against another.

[@Stalker950-l3x]

@@EricV-lq3jq Yes. There was a ruler named "Dervan/Drvan" (Dervanus according to latin sources) and he was the prince of the Sorbs/Serbs somewhere 610-630 AD. His state was part of the slavic realm of "Samo" (probably Samoslav). Dervan is believed to be the ancestor of those Serbs who migrated to the Balkans. The Serbs in the Balkans and the Sorbs in Germany are people of the same tribe. The relation in it´s names has been proven by historians.

[@bahamabartokmajestikassbis5240]

My Mom is German but my Dad was windish and i never knew anything about them because he didnt know much himself beeing born before ww2 everyone beeing dead when he was a kid. very intresting thank you

[@SerbskiUkrainer]

Germans (as a system) have always oppressed the Serbs/Wends, corrupting their ethnonym into 'SOrben', forbidding their Language and so forth.

[@johnking6252]

History, gotta luv it. Another great story to pass around the campfire. 👍✌️

[@holzbierproductions9153]

What everybody here seems to miss is: Viking is not an ethnical description. It's more like a certain profession of a defined area and period. So to get things right here: Vikings did not fear North-West-Slavic "Pirates". Pirates raid ships. Vikings come by ship and raid lands. So correctly it is Skandinavians who fear Vikings. Slavic Vikings. They did all the classic Viking stuff. Raiding, Enslaving, Trading... Just to other Slavs and to Skandinavians. The Skandinavians who feared them were less Vikings and more feudal Lords, Famers, simple people and the Clergy (Skandinavia was already christianised when pagan Slavs still went on viking).

[@bosnbruce5837]

"Viking is not an ethnical description. It's more like a certain profession of a defined area and period." You don't know that. You don't know that they didn't think of themselves as ethnically unique people, different than other Scandinavians. You arbitrarily chose vikings to mean profession. It could just as well mean ethnicity. Because what you don't get is that ethnicity is cultural category, not genetic.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

I was hoping the origin of the concept of "Wends" would have been touched. Which is really confusing. The German word may have its origin in an old word meaning wander, walk, and also hunting. These people practised animal husbandry and hunter-gathering, were more mobile than Germans who practised agriculture. Although obviously these people had villages/towns too. The name was applied to many peoples who lived east and spoke a language unknown to the Germanic speakers. Romans called them as Veneti (loaned from Germans?), Germans as Wenden/Winden and Norse as Vindar. While as Finnic people adobted the name and used it about Russians (In Finnish Russia is Venäjä, in Estonian Vene). For Germans in different parts of German lands, the name could mean entirely different peoples, for example the Central European Slavs. As a result, you can find maps that write Wends (and different form of the name) in very different places, all over the North-Eastern Europe. The Norse used the name "finnr" about Finns and Sami (whom they didn't know are different peoples), which also has its root meaning a hunter, hunter-gatherer. As I'm a Finn, I know that there is a Swedish historian who claims that before Finns, Finland was inhabited by Wends, and Finns stole their land and culture 🤯😝. The homeland of the Wends was called Wendland or Windland. But if one takes the narrow meaning of the Wends people, it generally means the people the Danes mostly dealt with, and that's then the South Baltic Sea non-Germanic peoples.

[@woytzekbron7635]

hunter gatherers? Wends, they built cities, strongholds (famous Grods), they built ships similar to viking ships, they were farmers, dude, whar are you talking about? educate yourself, it's easy nowadays.

[@theosforos7423]

Jomsborg was established on an Island of Wolin, not Rugen Im afraid. I actually live there now, the Jomsvikings are still alive and some of them even live the way their ancestors did. There's even a full sized viking village called "Jomsborg Vineta".

[@RackerPaS]

Jomsburg and the Slavic trading town of Vineta are not the same, even though the Vikings controlled Vineta. The Gau Jom went over both islands and the mainland behind them.

[@RackerPaS]

de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altes_Lager_(Menzlin)#/media/Datei%3AWalMenz.jpg That is near Anklam in Germany.

[@kraanz]

"the Jomsvikings are still alive and some of them even live the way their ancestors did." Yeah, no. No they are not and they do not.

[@theRealBased1492]

@@kraanzYou would be surprised lol.

[@kraanz]

@@theRealBased1492 *Pressing X for "Doubt"

[@scrapmason3721]

Dude this is very interesting but that small bit of Morrowind soundtrack might get you into trouble

[@balticempire7244]

The comments in a nutshell: - Wends were actually German - Wends were actually Serbs - Wends were actually Scanian - Wends were actually Balts - Wends were actually Poles - Wends were actually Albanians - Wends were actually Russians - Wends were Slavs and Slavs ruled the Baltic and Finland - Wends were actually Korean(yes someone posted this)

[@velikanskaglava2087]

If people don't trust politicized history, etymology of local names, maybe they can trust the science: genetics. The major haplogroup east of Elbe is R1a.

[@garmonington5673]

This does make sense considering my ancestry. I’m Swedish,Baltic,Russian German,Irish and “English” (the western Atlantic w*ore island) but studying the history of European migration it all makes sense.

[@zipperpillow]

Isn't Wednesday named after the Wends?

[@kaloarepo288]

@@zipperpillow No it's named after Woden the Anglo-Saxon god the equivalent of Wotan.He had some of the attributes of the Roman god Mercury -hence Mercoledi and Mercredi -Italian and French words for "Wednesday".

[@heyhej1]

​@@zipperpillow no but the name Wendy came from it...

[@ukrainiangir1]

Take a look in google translator and see how it says “Russia” in Finnish (Venäjä) and Estonian (Venemaa/ Vene) languages. Does anyone still have doubts about who the Wends are? 😂

[@KohaAlbert]

"Vene-" in "venemaa" and "venelane" are though to be adopted via Germanic (firstly meaning Wends neighboring the Germanic tribes, then Slavs more generally, then Rus', and finally the Russians). Evidences suggest that at least something Germanic (Scandinavian) must have been known by Estonians, inhabiting insular and coastal areas (with at least pockets here and there of actual native Scandinavians: linguistically and culturally). Bizarrely enough, in Estonian there are words "veli", "vennas", and "vend" - all of which mean "brother". First of the three is certainly of Uralic origin. The other two are mixture of "veli" and Germanic "wend"«friend». "Vennas” mostly means a chap; fellow; dude; ... Estonian "vend" means brother first, but also widely used in the meaning of the "friend" (there are cognates in Scandinavian languages, but mostly seem to be revolving around the meaning of friend). There's also medieval usages, like "mõõgavend"«brother of the sword» and "usuvend" (literally: «brother of the belief» - eg: a monk; «fellow believer»), and more modern, like "koolivend"«schoolmate» - so meaning in conclusion more like: * a member of the faction, guild, order, or etc group from external perspective; * among the members: comrade; companion; mate; ...

[@valentinstoyanov304]

The Slavic heritage (including genetic) in what is now Germany and Austria is enormous and widely unrecognized at the same time. There are even Austrians who prefer to talk about their supposed Celtic roots while sweeping under the rug their obviously Slavic surnames.

[@Nero_Karel]

That goes both ways tho lol

[@Stalker950-l3x]

The whole eastern part of Austria is almost mainly slavic by their genes. Especially Carinthia. So many german words have a slavic root but they are trying to deny these facts. There is even a book called "Slawen Mythos" and the book is all about the alleged non-existent slavic people and how they are originally germanic. Sick.

[@dtice69]

@@Stalker950-l3x as if former Soviet Bloc countries haven't been spending the past 8 decades trying to erase their Germanic ancestors as well or try to deny why Poland's borders look the way they do today lol.

[@vnxdragon]

ain't nobody scared of wends foh, stop trying to make it more than it really was. look at all slav countries now aday, bunch of crooks and thieves and corruption

[@F_Yale]

​@@dtice69 Yeah, it's easy to be unhistoried when there's an opportunity to denigrate Germans and German history.

[@gflovemyweebow6094]

There was no ppl called the Vikings (vikings is what ppl did )

[@wfqsfg]

Why are they called slavc pirates and scandinavians are vikings. They mean the same and the word viking was only used by the English.

[@agroplode9680]

The Kings of Denmark claimed to be "King of the Danes, Goths, Cimbri, Vends" only in 1972 when her Majesty Margrethe II became Queen of Denmark, for some reason Vends were left out. Same happened in Sweden, where they left out the "King of the Vends" part.

[@Northerner-NotADoctor]

Nowadays Wendisch are officially recognized only by Germany, so it makes sense

[@scalfer]

Capture the area and then change their language.

[@extraditori6604]

Germanic world tries to wipe out Slavs from history, it's a long story. There is a reason why Nazi German invasion of Russia was called "Barbarossa Operation", after king of Germany Barbarossa who led several crusades against Polabian Slavs, starting the german "Drang nach osten" policy

[@pliashmuldba]

Margrethe 1 was more man than many of the kings before and after her, her namesake Margrethe 2 current queen of Denmark are pretty much a insult to the original. Looser leaders, the bane of the Danes.

[@TommyAtkins-eh8cd]

They also didn't claim to be 'King of the Vikings' either. So your logic is terminally flawed.

[@bigozimak]

As a Westerner with obvious Slavic Heritage I sadly wasn't taught much about Eastern Europe. So thanks!

[@gordonpi8674]

Yeah, Wends are much closer to you than Alexander.

[@Wasteland88]

There's only so much you can teach someone in school. It's great that we have such massive amounts of information at our fingertips these days.

[@danutamarchwinski6226]

Agreed :-)

[@srdanimilan]

No one called you watch

[@MadAnthonyI]

That might be because the events of this presentation were in Northern Europe.

[@Nero_Karel]

I was disappointed to see how little information there is about Wendish history on freely available online sources after first having read about them in Morkinskinna, so it's great to finally see a well-produced summary on KZbin!

[@РАшенСлавянов]

I do not rule out that this information is deliberately hidden and destroyed by the political circles of the world.

[@TheRezro]

It was mostly due to lack of writing. More information about Wands, show up only from 10'th century, but under name of the dominat tribe of Polans.

[@bobbah676]

Im pretty sure he is talking about the Jómsvíkinga or Jomsvikings.

[@TheRezro]

@@bobbah676 Jomsvikings were Poles

[@bobbah676]

@@TheRezro Not really, they were Danes. Jomsborg is either made by Harald Bluet thooth or Jarl Palnatoke. Maby ur right, but then the written History is wrong... So i might think ur wrong,

[@pointgreece4331]

As a Serb I can tell the same for Balkan peninsula. Serbs always had Knez (or Knyaz) and Župan as a leader title. Major gods Perun, Triglav, Veles are here present even today in toponyms. Ratibor as a name is used widely. Love for all Slavic brothers and let no German or Latin nation to divide us anymore. They always try to make us fighting each other.

[@scalfer]

Divide and conquer. Balkan's fate in last 500 years. Especially last 100.

[@floridaman318]

I don't think you guys need any help fighting amongst yourselves 😂

[@mikeryan4055]

You don't need anyone to divide you in the balkans!!! You guys have caused millions of deaths with you internal affairs and skirmishes..just think of all the people dragged into your shit over the last 2000 years and probably well before that with your great Alexander going round killing everyone in site.... your always going to fight or want to fight even if your not very good at it!! Your like the little drunk guy in the bar that wants to fight everyone even though he can't stand up properly

[@Alexander-dt8sk]

Looks like you forgot the Ottoman overlords in that list of villains to blame for Balkanization.

[@arkjedrzejewsky4990]

best regards from Polish side - hope you are doing well, in our tradition for a while when has Croatians and Serbs on the southern part of modern Poland - but it is very interesting to dig deeper..

[@larissawendhausen7213]

I always wanted to know the origin of my surname Wendhausen. Each year more information is associated with my research. I knew that Wendhausen would be the name of a region in Germany, it would be something like wend's house. A property owned by wend . And now I found out that the Wends were a pirate tribe. It's really exciting to discover that my ancestors were so interesting. Thank you for the vídeo 😊❤

[@andrzejrada86]

Brother so you came from Slavic tribes ,forget the Germans......

[@erichamilton3373]

No reason to forget the Germans. Modern Germans are not the same as ancient Germanic people. Many modern Germans descend from the Wends making them German ancestors.

[@francisdewindt2267]

My surname “De Windt” also points to the Wend’s. Interesting.

[@melvinamoss3561]

Your ancestors were thieves, like the gypsies, not something to be proud of

[@rodoljubmutavdzic1386]

VENDS JEST SRB SRBI.

[@jokemon9547]

Interestingly, the names for Russia in Finnic languages (Venäjä in Finnish and Venemaa in Estonian) derive from the Wends. The term being a general name for all Slavs would make sense, as this borrowing of "Wend" into Finnic predates the eastern Slavic migrations north and it was borrowed from Germanic speakers centuries before Slavs migrated and established themselves as neighbours to Finnic speakers. Finnic speakers probably acquired the word when conducting trade with Germanic speakers in Scandinavia and northern Germany, where they then came into contact with Slavs or "Wends" and just took the word that the people they were already familiar with used for them. Venäjä is something along the lines of "Wendia" and Venemaa "Wendland".

[@zipperpillow]

Sounds about right.

[@bugzyhardrada3168]

What makes it even more ironic is that the danish word for friend is "ven"

[@NichtNameee]

​@@bugzyhardrada3168 "Wenn" in German means "if. Blows my mind 🤯

[@Bjr-i5q]

Varnarian is what the Scandinavian raiders were called by some in Europe. Venaja can be mixed old finn/Norse word for people who went to raid into russian areas. Rurik is from this area and probably spoke this language. Check out his DNA on Google.

[@jokemon9547]

@@Bjr-i5q Finnic people never referred to the Norse who came from Sweden and went east as that. We know exactly what they were called because that name still lives on in the names for Sweden in Finnic languages, that being Ruotsi/Rootsi and variations of that. Venäjä/Venemaa probably predate these events by centuries. What Finnic people called the Norse likely had influence on or it was a direct borrowing that turned into "Rus" among the Slavs. I for one subscribe to this idea since Finnic people inhabited the coastal areas of the gulf of Finland directly between the Slavs further inland and the incoming Norse from Sweden. This would have meant that the coastal Finnic people were the ones introducing the Norse to the Slavs further inland, leading to the Slavs knowing the Norse by what Finnic people called them. Actually very similar to the word "Wend" being borrowed to Finnic to mean "Slav". Rurik was probably descended from a southwestern Finnish noble, who for whatever reason settled in that area of Sweden. Rurik may have been a result of an old marriage alliance for political gains, who knows. The Roslagen and Mälaren valley of Central Sweden did have old and close ties to southwestern Finland and burials in Roslagen point to a southwestern Finnish population there. There is also the matter of the Kylfings, who were separated as distinct from the Varangians in Byzantine and other sources. Some historians and researches have identified Kylfings with the Finnic Votians, although their identity overall is not confirmed and that is only one theory.

[@jiritichy7967]

Under the pretense of spreading Christianity. Germans and Danes attacked western Slavs, Obroditi, Veneti and Sorbs, subjugated and assimilated them and occupied their land. The whole of today's easter Germany was Slavic, as documented by Slavic origin of city names. The remnants of this Slavic population in eastern Germany are Lusatians, about 90 000 (Lower and Upper) still speaking the language.

[@zipperpillow]

100% correct, 0% wrong. Bad Germans.

[@RackerPaS]

The land up to the Vistula was Germanic you took away our land. Evil Slavs.

[@guzelataroach4450]

Dude, the whole of poland was inhabitated by germanic tribes since 200 bc, long before slavs

[@jiritichy7967]

@@guzelataroach4450 Not quite and moreover, many other people before that.

[@Detelinara68]

Thank you for this video. I am from Serbia..... love you all. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@nothingman5645]

Spominju Knes,knez kao što mi Hrvati imamo,nigdje Knjaza nema...Spominju "Slavonic" Slavoniju,što Hrvatska ima a Srbija ne.Nadam se da ti ovaj video otvorio oči da vidiš po jeziku čiji je originalniji premda,svi smo slaveni.Ipak,Hrvati su daleko bili rašireniji po europi kao ratnici i plaćenici također.

[@goranjovic3174]

@@nothingman5645 Wendi su direktno vezani za Srbe/Luzicki Srbi konkretno ako nisi znao ili neces to da prihvatis.

[@nothingman5645]

@@goranjovic3174 Nisu samo Srbi bili rašireni tim prostorima,šta ćemo sa gradišćanskim Hrvatima ili brodogradnjom,flotama,koje ste vi to flote u povijesti ikada imali osim čamaca na Dunavu?Aj ne bulazni brate,pogledaj istini u oči.

[@goranjovic3174]

@@nothingman5645 ne bulaznim ja ništa nego ti pokušavaš nešto provokacijama. Hrvati su došlu iz Bele Hrvatske mi iz Bele Srbije i bili smo susedna bratska plemena i nismo se svadjali kao sada i to do pre 100 godina pa i manje!

[@nothingman5645]

@@goranjovic3174 I osim toga,ovo Slavensko pleme je opisivano kao visokog rasta,blondi i riđi ljudi pretežno crvene kose,a sad pogledaj genetiku Hrvata i Srba,90% populacije Hrvata blondi sa svjetlijim tenom,visoki,a Srbi tamnije puti,crne kose i očiju pretežno,sa gustim crnim obrvama,dlakavi...Nadalje,u to vrijeme Srbi nisu doprijeli do Srbije nego su živjeli na krajnjem jugu da bi se nastanili u Raškoj a Hrvati zauzimali područja od Morave do Murja na samom kontaktu sa Europom porazivši Avare i narode koji su tu živjeli.Oko flota i brodogradnje možemo pričati koliko hoćeš jer Hrvati imaju pomorsko i ratno iskustvo ogromno boreći se protiv mlečana ponajviše i ne gubivši bitke na moru.Izgradili prve brze pasare koje su velike mlečanske ratne brodove presretale i rasturale,u Talijanskoj povijesti ti brodovi su opisani kao tihe i brze ubojice protiv kojih se bilo nemoguće boriti.Vještinu gradnje brodova imamo i dandanas : "Viktor Lenac, 3.maj" ali i lopina koje su nam rasturile brodogradnju kao i vaši vaše rudnike,no tragovi povijesti nisu nestali,podmorje ne laže kao ni svi zapisi o bitkama.

[@iamkinginmycastle2018]

We have few Stargard in Poland one is not far from Szczecin. It is call Stargard Szczecinski. Greetings from Poland.

[@pz9mo1221]

Stargard is germanized Starogród - old town

[@feldgeist2637]

@@pz9mo1221 star/ståre or more modern stor/store means "great" in norse and gard in the broader sense a "enclosed occupied area" which could be a city like Miklagard ("Big Place"aka Constantinople) a mythical location like Asgard ("Asir Place") or even your own garden (kinda "Leisure Place" hopefully) in some way.....

[@Occident.]

That's German land.

[@dumnylach]

@@Occident. Nope- polish, western slavic and polish will remain.

[@HCforLife1]

@@Occident. nope, even Berlin was a Slavic settlement, up until the XIV century the Pomeranian rulers had Slavic names. The Slavic culture still survived up to the XVIII century in Pomerania deep in the rural parts. A lot of Slavic history has been changed/re-made in the XIX century while most of Slavic countries were under German rule. This is why most of the modern historiography is still quiet about this stuff.

[@slavicduke]

To this day, the Germans call the Lusatian Serbs as Wends

[@TheMichaelK]

Wends also survived in what today is north eastern Lower Saxony until the 18th century. The area is still called Wendland.

[@Usernotfound9920]

😅čim je na S odma su svi Srbi😂,,nema ti to veze sa srbima.bez ljutnje,ali tako je.okanite se dobrice ćosića.btw ćoso je turskog porijekla😂

[@jorgeeusebio8738]

Sounds like Lusitania 🇵🇹

[@slavicduke]

@@jorgeeusebio8738 Not this is located on the border of Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, but it is still in Germany, it is a Slavic nation that suffered a lot in history, but managed to preserve its identity, The Germans call them Wendi, while some nations call them Lusatian Serbs after the place of Luzica where they live, and they are also called Sorbi.

[@ra-ge]

They call them Sorbs, it's close to Serbs but i don't think Balkan Serbs ever went that far north-west.

[@lazywallstreetnews7234]

Videos like this make me realize just how watered down the educational system really is. We always talk about the Vikings that went West, but never about the ones that went East.

[@ivanmatusic5540]

Rurikid dynasty and Varangians were all norse people that went East.

[@DanWhe]

Vikings also went east and even into main land Europe via river systems

[@hakanliljeberg790]

@@ivanmatusic5540 The swions mainly...

There are Viking runes carved into the mezzanine area of Hagia Sophia. The Viking word for "red" is the basis for the word Russia. Some educational systems are watered down.

[@IloPilo]

You learn more in the comments every day

[@StoicHistorian]

Great video, pre-Christian history simply does not get enough attention. Great channel you got going here man just found it!

[@balticempire7244]

thanks, hit me up if you want to do a collab

[@gbp4998]

I think it is way more interesting. I love pre Christian history. Although, Serbian Orthodoxy is a bit different from others in a way of pre-Christian castoms still celebratad and incorporated into church. Our first Arch Bishop-Patrijarh Sava (prince Rastko Nemanjic, later canonised as Saint Sava) incorporated lots old Serbian faith and castoms into Christianity. I think othervise we would strongly oposed it. We even celebrate god Vid (even the church celebrated it) in July and is still one of the biggest Serbian holidays. Christmas castom celebration in Serbia is also very old pre Christian. We have combine it all into one faith. Did you know that Berlin true name is Brljin. It means mud, for it is buld in old marsh mudy area. We still use that word for someone who gets mudy or dirty. We say why are so brljav, dirty (mud is dirty) Slav Language is facinating and it hides a lot of history. South Serbs have a dictinary of 11 million words. It very extensive. The reason Slavs are not liked very much is because we keep strongly to our old ways. Our national costumes, dances, our colours of white, red and blue (but mostly red and white) dancing in circle-kolo is still honoring a son. Our white singing voices, our mitology. We are the bigest related white group of Europe (holding around 50% of Europian land mass) with extensive history that has been supressed by Germans and by Vatican. Our history has been falsified greatly around 16, 17 and 18 century.

[@talisikid1618]

@@gbp4998so not really Christian then.

[@Sksk27547]

I am a serb. I believe that slavs were everywhere in Europe. Our ancestors traveled all the time. They lived in yurts. From Europe, to China. Yurts can easily be built and destroyed, that's why there ain't much evidence 😆

[@kks777]

Definitely, you are right.

[@MrUzminiNu]

Definitely they are called Mongols. If your cross eyed, short, wide hips and blocky statue and a brown mark on your buttocks. Congratulations! that's evidence enough 😂

[@KevinSterns]

The movie "The Thirteenth Warrior" combines the Wends with the Beowulf story... the result is bizarre and non-historical, but entertaining.

[@RackerPaS]

The film "The Thirteenth Warrior" has nothing to do with Wends.

[@annagaldova2777]

@@RackerPaS More than the authors of the film and literary works suspect. No Swedes have ever forded the Volga. Today, even according to genetic tracing, we know that the so-called Vikings never expanded to the east, but on the contrary to the west. The myth of the founding of Russia was invented by German historians during the reign of the German Romanovs in the 18th century. Likewise, archaeological finds of historic ships have been uncovered, none of the Scandinavian type. So who did ibn Fadlan see in Bulgaria? Varangians, whose name comes from the Slavic tribe of Vagres.

[@RackerPaS]

@@annagaldova2777 No sorry. That is not right.

[@arminiush]

Interesting. Before this all i knew about the Wends were a passing reference in Beowulf, and the fact that the Wends, aka Sorbs, were an officially recognized minority in the Communist German Democratic Republic (1949-1989).

[@keithstevens5614]

Other tribes along the Baltic coast became merchants rather than pirates. Just east of the Wends was Wolin (Volinn), one of the greatest trade centres in Europe in the tenth century. It boasted a large Greek population who came to trade Byzantine goods for furs and amber. Even many Vikings came in their longboats to shop there when they got tired of raiding.

[@zipperpillow]

They also came to Wolin for blonde slave women, which were the most expensive things for sale at Wolin, brought there by the newly established Polish Dynasty who traded slaves for arabic silver coins, which they used to hire mercenaries to capture more slaves.

[@keithstevens5614]

@@zipperpillow Oh yes, all the 10th century slave trade. I guess it only happened at Wolin. Cursed place no doubt.

[@bogdanbaudis4099]

@@zipperpillow Wolin is also one of the possible locations of the semi-legendary Jomsborg, where Jomsvikings supposedly resided. The fortress was supposedly populated only by warriors and their slaves, the warriors being from all-over around Baltic and North Sea. The coastal Slavic people were in IX to XII century only loosely on and off controlled by German or Polish kings, dukes or margraves, usually as fiefs. The Pomerania was only conquered by Boleslaw Wrymouth in XII century, it was not only pagan then but quite warrior-like and constantly raiding Polish interior thru the rivers using boats.

[@zipperpillow]

@@bogdanbaudis4099 You are correct.

[@thorspoczta4436]

​@@zipperpillow unfortunatelly for your poor knoelege in Wolin were seling mostly "brave" vikings from raids of slavics pirates on norse terains. Other servants were selling in Cracov and Praga.

[@nicksmith7719]

If the Pomeranians can see how their name has fallen😂... the only thing that comes to mind when you think of Pomeranians now are annoying little ankle-biters

[@magdalenabuljan7219]

Modern day Croatia was named after White Croats who settled there in the 7th and 8th century. Croats came from an ancient pagan state White Croatia once located in Western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland, northern Slovakia-Czechia and Hungary. In Western Ukraine today still exists an ancient settlement of Stilsko-capital city of White Croats. ❤Bili Horvati ❤

[@robwalsh9843]

The similarity that the Wends had with their Germanic and Baltic neighbors reminds me of how the Mongols competed against Turkic and Tungusic peoples who also had a similar nomadic cavalry culture.

[@Alex.af.Nordheim]

Similar yes, but the Tungustic people had more of a dragoon-like cavalry(similar to how the Anglo-Saxons or the Norse would ride to the battlefield, dismount, and fight on foot) which is different from the typical horse archer style.

[@robwalsh9843]

@@Alex.af.Nordheim You're right. It seems like Jurchens fought closer to Normans than to Mongols, even though they were pretty good horsemen.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Based Turkics

[@teovu5557]

@@Alex.af.Nordheim what are you talking about? Literally ALL sources say the Jurchens fought ON horseback as horse archers and heavy lancers.

[@adboroutdoor..7662]

Interesting description of the Wends temple in Radogoszcz/Retra: In the country of the Redars there is a triangular town with three gates leading to it, called Radogoszcz, which is surrounded on all sides by a great wilderness, untouched by the natives' hand and revered as sacred. Two gates of this stronghold are open to all entering, the third from the eastern side is the smallest and opens onto a path that leads to the nearby and terrible-looking lake. There is only one temple in the city, intricately built of wood and resting on a foundation of wild beast horns. Its outer walls are decorated with various images of gods and goddesses - as you can see if you look closely - in a strange carved way, while inside there are man-made gods in terrible helmets and armor, each with a name carved on the bottom. The first of them is called Swarożyc and is especially honored by all pagans. There are also banners (stanice), which they do not take anywhere, unless they are needed for a military expedition, and then they are carried by foot warriors. To guard all this with due diligence the natives appointed separate priests. When they gather here to offer sacrifices to idols or to appease their wrath, priests alone are allowed to sit while others stand. Whispering mysterious words to each other, they tremble in digging the earth in order to examine the essence of doubtful matters by the lots they have cast. At the end of these divination, they cover the lots with green turf and, having driven two spearheads crosswise into the ground, they humbly lead a horse through them, which they regard as the greatest thing and they venerate as sacred. Then, casting lots, by which they had previously examined the matter, they resume the divination by this divine beast, as it were. If both of these omens show the same sign, then these tribes follow it in their operation; if not, they sadly abandon the enterprise altogether. From antiquity, which has been falsified by various erroneous tales, comes the testimony that whenever they are threatened by the grievous annoyances of a long civil war, a great boar emerges from the above-mentioned lake, foam glistening on its white tusks, and delights to roll in a puddle amid terrible tremors in the sight of all. . As many districts in this country, there are as many temples, and as many images of idols are worshiped by the infidels, but among them, the aforementioned city has priority. When they go to war, they always salute him; when they return safely from it, they honor him with due gifts, and by lots and by horse, as has been said above, they diligently examine what a fitting sacrifice the priests should make to the gods. The silent wrath of the gods is appeased by the sacrifices of men and cattle. - Thietmar of Merseburg.

[@tymkoc3293]

Rodogoszczis in Polish is same as Radogost/Radagast.

[@alastorcrueley1031]

So, even from this fragment you can see, that slavic peoples used to have alphabet and knew writing.

[@PlaviStrumf]

radgost(dearguest) bosnian language all slavs come from bosnia(today's serbia) former rashka they messed up with that name giving it to the russians ,huge mess they created...

[@goldenbard]

​@@PlaviStrumfaj suti

[@PlaviStrumf]

@@goldenbard everyone is a serb(surrounding of being)whereve you live but for one land to give up its glorious name of rasi to its northern offspring and just to keep the base name serb is an act of huge future confusion and division. All because of linguistics

[@oppolatoespresso6369]

It seems like you don’t know when the Vikings existed?? The Viking Age ends in 1066 with the Battle of Hastings in England - yet this video focuses on the 1100’s… Nice clickbait title, you even admitted to it in a reply to another comment. It was a good video though, but coming up with ridicolous titles like that is just stupid. When the Vikings (in this case a Danish and Norwegian force) actually did fight the Wends in 1043, the Wends were slaughtered even though they were much larger in number. The Vikings ultimate goal in life was to die a warriors death and ascend to Valhalla, therefore they can’t fear, their ideal version of an afterlife was literally fighting all day long and drinking mead for eternity, those guys didn’t fear anyone.

[@balticempire7244]

congratulations, you figured it out

[@thorspoczta4436]

Unfortunatelly for your pseudo netflixo history in 935-936 all vikings capitals: Riskilde Hebedy and Konungahela were destroyed, burned and your vikings captured and sold in Wolin to Arabs. This is history not fairy tales about vikings from tv.

[@DeathRiderDoom]

Hey man another fantastic and well made video. I’ve been following your videos for a while and just want to say great work. I appreciate the content or more obscure peoples, places, or topics the most. I will share your channel with friends. I have no doubt you’ll have 5 then 10k subscribers very soon. Keep up the great work!

[@hermosafieldsforever4782]

This was Amazing! Sending love to all of our Slavic, Estonian and Scandinavian friends from California. My family is Lagegren of Sweden. We always wondered what happened to all of the gold? My Grandfather would say it was hidden in the caves of the Bosphorus Straight, buried forever. Thank you for this wonderful look into our past. Many Blessings of love and friendship 🙏🏻💕

[@overlord5068]

Slavs got destroyed and dominated by germanics and foreigners almost their entire history Nobody knows for certain who these "Wends" were but the vast majority of the pirates and savages back then had a full germanic skull similar to that of the actor Dolph Lundgren If the Wends really were Slavic then they weren't much of a threat. That race never have been a threat to the germanic

[@obiking4392]

god triglav was also in slovenia we named a mountain after him

[@hh8575]

It's shameful how you forgot to mention tribe aliance of Sorbs.The only polabian slavs which remain even today.Serbja or Sorbs live today in Lusatia region of east Germany,numbering around 50-60k people.They are related with balkan Serbs.

[@Stalker950-l3x]

The Sorbs are most likely the leftover from the serbian migration towards south somewhere in 600 AD. Amazing how even up to this day, they both kept their tribe name.

[@borisstojanovic6633]

Sorbs are Serbs exactly, not just related but same people

[@milosav7314]

@Notyourenemy-ix8hx This entire 7th century migration theory is based off a single alleged document by Porfirogenit written in 10th century. Its a story for little children. Serbs are native to Europe

[@Stalker950-l3x]

@@milosav7314 You missunderstood something here friend. No one ever said that Serbs are not native to Europe. They are Slavs and Slavs are native to Europe.

[@milosav7314]

@Notyourenemy-ix8hx That is the theory that conventional history pushes, that Serbs are not native to the balkans and that they came in the 7th century. If you do not believe in this then are you referring to a migration from the balkans north into central eastern and northern europe? That would be a surprising breath of fresh air, being the truth

[@ronbork684]

Thank you for the very interesting video. Having recently learned that my family is old Pomeranian, your information was very informative. In view of the cruel attempts by the Church to convert our ancestors to Christianity, one can see the accuracy of the Apostle Paul's prediction of the corruption that would take place, when he told the elders from Ephesus, "I know that after my going away oppressive wolves will enter in among you and will not treat the flock with tenderness, and from among you yourselves men will rise and speak twisted things to draw away the disciples after themselves." Acts 20:29,30, Matthew 7:15

[@overlord165]

Thank you for this awesome video! I've tried to study about the Slavs on-and-off for over a decade now only to be detered by the huge anti-Slavic bias all the English channels/pages/books have. According to English-speaking people the Russians were all just Nordics controlling a bunch of untermensch, Wends are just shitty farmers who stood no chance against the superior Germanic culture and the Moravians and South were just subjugated and that's it. The Bulgarians were only a force to be reckon with when the rulers were non-Slavic etc. It's a fresh breath of air from the borderline Nazi ideology many western historians have adopted. If all of this was true then we shouldn't exist or be this successful.

[@markelalagoz7363]

You hit it right on the money, brother. I live in America and man you’re so correct when you’re talking about the Anglo-Saxon world being totally racially biased against Slavic.

[@SviatoslavKaverin]

Btw Lithiuanians and Latvians did not exist by then in the 12th century. There were quite many tribes, which joined or/and got assimilated later to form L&L.

[@zipperpillow]

They were there already, just known by other names. People don't just pop into existence, unless you didn't pull-out in time.

[@SviatoslavKaverin]

@@zipperpillow Hey, they "joined ... to form". Peoples do evolve, they are not the same entity with changing names. In this case, one cannot speak of L&L before Christianity, because their lifestyle and culture were different back then (the interim period is to be considered, too).

[@deagor4578]

@@zipperpillowLearn to read, captain obvious.

[@zipperpillow]

@@deagor4578 I thought literacy implied reading, Deag. And I also think captain and obvious are both capitalized, so maybe learn to write?

[@michaelalbertson7457]

The Letts, a Finnish tribe, gave their name to Latvia. The country that is now Lithuania, had a different name, which I cannot recall, was named after a tribe in that area. I can't remember how the name Lithuania came about.

[@MichaelThomas-ys7zr]

Foreigners called these people “Wends.” Today Germans call them “Sorbs” or “Lusetian Sorbs.” These people, however know their history and know who they are, they call themselves “Srbi” or “Serbs.” The Wends/Sorbs are Serbians and are the same as their brothers in Serbia.

[@gamingchamp6728]

My guy sorbs are West Slavic, Serbia is South Slavic

[@nizam-alem6761]

they have the same name which implies they were one tribe in the past

[@hungrylion101]

@@gamingchamp6728 in that time that diiference is not that radical yet also you should know about white Serbia

[@SerbskiUkrainer]

@@gamingchamp6728 Don't read polish cardinal Stanislaw Sestrenczevicz Bohuszevicz, because there, you will find that he himself stated that the Serbs built their third Kingdom which happens to be Poland proper. Before being Called (and calling themselves) Slavs, all of these Peoples/Tribes called themselves Serbs. Adding or changing any voyel between the 's and the 'rb', from the original 'SRB' radical, doesn't change that.

[@hungrylion101]

@@SerbskiUkrainer Croatian propaganda was pushed to them, you will find how they place "white Croats" in the south of Poland, for which there is not enough evidence, it also goes so far as to claim that 100,000 Poles in the 19th century were declared as white Croats and as migrants in America and similar nonsense, of course anyone who knows history is aware of the untruth of such claims

[@byronlee8745]

I like studying history as a hobby, and this is awesome! Keep it up! New subscriber here! 😊❤

[@finddeniro]

H G Wells..1920..Outline of History.. After the Great War..I image Wells looking at the Sky .. Wondering the Times of Historical Chronicles..

[@ivancar555]

My first playthrough of crusader kings 2 was as the obotrites around 860, and what a first impression that was, fell in love with the game since and the wends still have a special place in my heart.

[@bobvel5670]

Obotrits are Bodrici as for real name👍

[@lordrainbow5029]

Similar experience, starting with Arkona as the guardian of a holy place, then leading a religious reformation uniting the Western Slavs, transforming the Baltic Sea into an internal lake, and then clesing the world from pesky Germs. But in ck3

[@maciejniedzielski7496]

Fun fact to complete 02:42 name of South Austrian city GRAZ (where Arnold Schwarzenegger comes from) is of Slavic origin GORODETZ = GRAD, GOROD, GRÓD

[@djape1977]

Graz is short for Gradac, small Grad.

[@maciejniedzielski7496]

@@djape1977 exactly, I think is equivalent of Polish "Gródek" = mały Gród

[@aightimmaheadout3573]

i still carry a very old slavic last name from the island of Rugia.

[@АлександрИванов-ч4б3с]

Are you German?

[@scottnunyos2315]

The Wends did a great job of forcing thier enemys from raiding them, by throwing smart strong adventures to attack. They were more viking then the danes perhaps.

[@brettanthonypalmer2956]

From what I can gather Wendish are mostly an international diaspora in modern times, in my own family circles and community that migrated to my area of Australia were mostly mixed Ethnic from the Central Baltic region Slavic,Baltic,Geat ). My own family mostly coming from the Isle of Wolin and surrounds. I'd like to come home one day but Central Baltic doesn't really exist as the home my ancestors lived and breathed.

[@keithstevens5614]

One thing you need to credit the Vieleti with was their great pagan rebellion of 983 AD when they sent all the dukes, margraves, priests and bishops running from their lands while taking almost no casualties themselves.

[@hakanliljeberg790]

Around the year 1000 the obotrites attacked and burned Hamburg....

[@miklosz4162]

It is a pleasant surprise to see the history of the lands where I live discussed by foreign historians. Western Pomerania / Vorpommern is an extremely interesting region rich in history.

[@melpannack8245]

They also called the Sorbs

[@gigigigi1271]

German proples called serbian peoples - Vends!!

[@aleksandarjevremovic1028]

Im from Serbia and I litrrally understand every Vend word and even name of cities have meaning on modern Serbian lenguage 😅

[@makavelimaka8035]

Bla bla bla. You understand shit. They are not Serbs, never were, nothing to compare really. Sorbs and Serbs are two different ethnic groups. period. Biased Serbian propaganda.

[@TheRezro]

Serbs and Sorbs are related.

[@makavelimaka8035]

@@TheRezro Just like Serbs and Slavs.

[@TheRezro]

@@makavelimaka8035 In this case it is more direct.

[@bobovoxar9296]

serbs are R1A slovenes (pej.slavs)

[@chriswadecki1666]

Don’ t forget that the Danes at times also allied up with the Baltic Slavs against for instance the Non Scandinavian rulers of the British Isles. In the last known Scandinavian attempt to regain control over the English throne in (I think) 1072, after the battle of Hastings and the Norman victory in 1066, there were many Slavic ships with Slavic crews rallied by the Danes that participated in the invasion attempt.

[@RackerPaS]

Total bullshit. Sven Estridsson - son of the Danish Jarl Ulf Thorgilsson of Skåne and Estrid Svendsdatter, daughter of Sven Gabelbart - grew up with King Anund Jakob of Sweden. Sven was in the service of King Hardeknut in England and was appointed Jarl over Denmark by King Magnus the Good and followed him in the war against the Wends, where he destroyed the Jomsburg, killing the Obodrite king Ratibor, a Nakonid.

[@etiennee9813]

We had an Expression in our Family 👪 👩‍👧‍👧 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 : "Don't be Wendish." Until now, I didn't know what that Meant !

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

Very interesting! "Forgotten" peoples like this are always interesting. Same with Baltic history in general. Cheers!

[@gbp4998]

They not forgoten, Germans call all Serbs, Sorbs Wends. Have nothing to do Germans. You have Luzian Serbs/Sorbs (East Germany) and South Serbs (Helm peninsula or what they call Balkan region)

[@gbp4998]

They don't call all Slavic people Wends, they only call Serbs Wends.

[@TheRezro]

@@gbp4998 Sorbs not Serbs. Anyway Wends were conquered and assimilated by Germans. Most notably Saxons, but also powerful tribal union of Polans, who actually may be those Wends mentioned in sources. Though after Christiansation, there was major cultural shift in the region. Sorbs are one of few things what left. Pomeranians actually were on right from what map in the video say. You know, in Pomerania.

[@gbp4998]

@@TheRezro polish are not the Wends

[@adspur]

This is so interesting and well done.I think Slavic tribes are so interesting.The Slavs certainly reshaped the maps of the world.On a personal note.I have mostly Western European ethnic dna.I had some Slavic dna too surprisingly.I just don’t understand we Europeans think we are so different when we aren’t.History and even dna says otherwise.

[@zipperpillow]

How did the Slavs "reshape" the maps? The maps must have been wrong to begin with. Do you even know how maps work?

[@norten76]

@@zipperpillow Stop being so edgy. You know what he meant. For one, just look at Russia and how it transformed Central and North Eastern Asia. Check the maps of old and compare them century by century. Hold on...Do you even know how maps work?

[@zipperpillow]

@@norten76 Cute. Don't tell me how to be. Freedom of speech is a real thing. People draw maps, not cultures. Words matter.

[@zipperpillow]

@@011dux Duki. Ha. Real intellectual.

[@norten76]

@@zipperpillow Cultures transform those maps, not "people". People simply record what changed. Words do indeed matter, so get used to precise wording yourself. I tell you whatever I want. Freedom of speech is indeed a real thing.

[@theChaosKe]

Shouldnt the map also include (modern) saxony aka the sorbs? Afaik those are defined as wends (althought nowadays it has a negative connotation to it and they prefer to be called sorbs).

[@thorspoczta4436]

It was Połabie not Saxony this days. Its mean territory close to river Łaba, your Elbe.

[@theChaosKe]

​@@thorspoczta4436 The name doesnt matter. The map just seems to miss the southern half of Połabie, roughly the region that is now called saxony.

[@brandonclark1119]

Good to know some history about the Viking & Slavic people! ❤

[@RackerPaS]

Viking is just a job title, it is about Germans.

[@Rauser142]

@@RackerPaS What is about Germans?

[@RackerPaS]

@@Rauser142 There is no such thing as a Viking nation, nor is there a nation of bricklayers or carpenters. Scandinavians were Germans in the south. Germanic tribes.

[@Rauser142]

@@RackerPaS Ah you're mentally ill, I see.

[@ethanpeeler3147]

@@RackerPaScome on man you know exactly what he meant. By this point people need to shut up about the word Viking in a technical term. Everyone knows when someone says viking it refers to Scandinavian raiders and their culture.

[@zarkostankovic2777]

Wends its old german name for Serbs.

[@SrbinHercegovac]

Wends are Serbs that lived in today Germany. Most of today, if not the whole, was populated by Serbian tribes. Then Frank's came and conquered them, of course Vatican followed behind braking the names of the towns, changing everything and language. Thanks for talking about Northern Serbs.

[@howl9311]

Didn't curonians ravage a city that was close to the nowadays Stockholm ?

[@jooleejoolz]

I know I'm two weeks late in requesting this, but I cast my vote for an episode regarding the Teutonic Knights. My Mom's family is Transylvanian Saxon, and the books I read say there is a connection between the two groups.

[@basedlindsey]

Nachzehrer would have been routinely hunted by the Teutonic Knights, yes. Glad your mom managed to escape though.

[@TheRezro]

Yes. Portion of Tautones wander there there. But majority come from Prussia, what basically was founded by them.

[@Povhc]

Good vid. I think ch in cholop is pronounced as h. For some reason i don't know why, i was always interested in wends. I even have book about them. One interesting thing i found is that on manuscripts they are always depicted with reddish shoe laces, which is funny becouse peasant clothing of Slovene farmers in high middle ages is also described with red shoe laces. I wonder if this was supposed to have certain meaning among early slavs or just coincidence.

[@gligor03]

If you look on the slavic folk costumes white and red dominate, considered as sacred. Medieval slavic peasants are also depicted in frescoes with these colours.

[@bobovoxar9296]

more precisely ch ... is kh ... cholop (chlop- chlap) is in eastern slovakian dialekt and slovakian synonymum of big man

[@letsdothis9063]

So cool. Im not Slavic, but my youngest daughter about a quarter slav. I have always found their history fascinating.

[@PlaviStrumf]

all slavs come from Serbs meaning the area where ex yu was, particularly Bosnia and Serbia.The word slav did not exist prior to the 9th century.Ask yourself where that word could come out of

[@TheRezro]

@@PlaviStrumf Only South ones. Word "Slavs" come from Sclaveni (Serbs) who come in contact with Byzantium in the 6'th century. But Sclaveni were only bench of Veneti (Wands) from north, separated by Huns (Hungarians).

[@PlaviStrumf]

@@TheRezro do you know when we as kids in sarajevo would want to go outside we would say ajde vanka or vani (which is another term for outside) so vandi loll.... think of parents that no one wants cuz they are old and out dated,so they try to shun them in to anywhere but here lol

[@overlord165]

​@@PlaviStrumfaren't you guys getting tired of this Serbo-Schizo-Propaganda? Like yeah, Elon Musk is sure from Serbia.

[@PlaviStrumf]

@@overlord165 If you are white you stem from the Balkans Only we who speak English German and Bosnian understand this

[@50tisic]

Lusatian culture, which existed before 1300-400 BC, has the characteristics of Slavic culture, farmers, building castles. The Germans did not build castles and were semi-nomadic.

[@RackerPaS]

You don't have the faintest idea about history. The Lusatian culture is Germanic, there were no Slavs west of the Vistula.

[@hubertzubrzycki4234]

​stop trolling asshole,deal with it, not everything originated in Germany, there are/were other equally important cultures as well

[@hubertzubrzycki4234]

It sickens me to hear that Russia was started by vikings, Poland stems from Germanic culture etc, Horse shit, political situation has everything to do with it and we all know it, obviously poor country's culture will be overshadowed by its richer neighbor like we see with Poland and Germany Slavic culture has left its footprint and especially Germans are trying to dismiss it,sweep it under the rug like it's never happened or is irrelevant

[@RackerPaS]

@@hubertzubrzycki4234 de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slawen#/media/Datei%3ARoman_Empire_125_de.svg No Slavs west of the Vistula. de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slawen#/media/Datei%3AThe_origin_and_dispersion_of_Slavs_in_the_5-10th_centuries.png Eastern European immigrants is what you are.

[@RackerPaS]

@@hubertzubrzycki4234 We try not to sweep anything under the rug or dismiss it as irrelevant when it comes to history. But we don't add as much poetry as the Poles, who don't have a very long history and (as a young people) seem to have a problem with that.

[@robbingcars9140]

Ohhh yeah this is a KZbin niche I’ve been looking for. I lived in Russia 2019-2020 before Covid and got super into Slavic history and folklore

[@virtualnimuzejsrbije]

Venetia still have Schiavone street (Slavic), king of Vandals have slavic name Gelimir.

[@RackerPaS]

Gelimir is Not a slavic name. „Gelimer was the sixth and last king of the Vandal regnum of North Africa from 530 to 534. He was the son of Geilarith, grandson of Gento and great-grandson of King Genseric.“

[@virtualnimuzejsrbije]

@@RackerPaS wtf?! mir not mer is a slavic prefix, back to school. we have coins with mir not mer...

[@RackerPaS]

@@virtualnimuzejsrbije In fact, you really need to go to school again. Hahaha, every idiot knows that there must have been an Indo-European proto-language. E.g. Waldemar/ Wladimir even means the same thing. the fact is that vandals are Germans and you can tell by the names of the kings. Only Poles lie there and all other Europeans know it.

[@RackerPaS]

@@virtualnimuzejsrbijeVandals is a germanic tribe and his Name is Gelimer. There is no Gelimir. Go to school and learn something too.

[@virtualnimuzejsrbije]

@@RackerPaS i'm archaeologist, PhD, did u know origin of Vandals? How Germans called Slavs?

[@michaelweeks9317]

Bravo! Wow! Absolutely riveting new information for me. Thank you for the many hours of research, illustration collection and a great delivery! Most Respectfully, Michael Weeks, San Antonio Texas.

[@balticempire7244]

Thank you Michael

[@giffysstiffy8874giffytuck]

​@@balticempire7244is there any connection between the Wends and the Wendols?🤔

[@TheRezro]

@@balticempire7244Except you put Pomeranians in wrong place. But borders at the time were quite fluid.

[@sorblife2308]

Are you a Texas Wend by any chance?

[@michaelweeks9317]

@@sorblife2308 I am, sir.

[@markusbroyles1884]

In the movie with Antonio Banderas ~ They fight the WENDO ("Thirteenth Warrior") SO ~ The movie was based in some truth... very interesting . That was really a great movie

[@zipperpillow]

I think you should be on the movie channel. Not this one.

[@attilahun77]

Lužički Srbi. You are free to say that Wends were the north Serbs.

[@loganus9114]

Charlemagne NEVER EXISTED

[@johnhoward8362]

so what's the real history smarta ss

[@caryboyd2181]

He sure as hell did!

[@loganus9114]

@@johnhoward8362 The real story is that he is a worm of fiction by the Vatican

[@loganus9114]

@@caryboyd2181 no he did not, King Arthur has more Historical veracity than Charlemagne. Charlemagne is a fictional character invented by Christian monks during the dark ages

[@jvonhousen3055]

The Wends were remnants of Atlantis people as told by Plato

[@user-hr3rc3sh4h]

No, the Turks are from Atlantis.

[@karl5175]

The finnish and estonian vikings mentioned in end are Oesilians (modern day estonian island of Saaremaa) and Curonians (modern day coastal latvia), Curonians were baltic peoples that spoke non latvian or lithuanian related language while Oesilians were islander estonians. In 2012 the biggest viking ship burial was discovered in Salme( location in Saaremaa) which predated sack of Lindisfarne

[@simonfarre4907]

You seem to imply that the buried ship belonged to Finnish and/or Estonian Vikings (though I might be wrong about what you imply). But those ships and the dead buried amongst them were Vikings from central Sweden (Mälardalen), suggested by the examination of DNA and teeth.

[@karl5175]

​@@simonfarre4907 yes, the men buried were from central sweden but i indicate that viking age began earlier than sack of lindisfarne and scandinavians interacted with local balts and finns since very long time ago

[@jokemon9547]

@@karl5175 The timeline from Lindisfarne to Hastings given for the "Viking Age" in Western Europe, especially when it comes to the British Isles, cannot be applied at all really to the Baltic in general. That time during the 8th century all the way to the 11th and even further with Baltic and Finnic groups partaking in piracy against the Christianized Scandinavians wasn't much different to what had been going on in the Baltic for centuries with raiding and trading both on land and from the sea.

[@ingus5552]

Curlanders language is of Baltic origin. Latvian and Lithuanian are descendants of Baltic tribal languages.

[@IceGnikDilf]

You got some things wrong here bud

[@salonez91]

Its funny as an Serbian i understand meaning of 3 cities he mentions as Wedish. Stargard - Starigrad = old city ; Liubice (similar to Slovenian Ljubljana) = mistresses, Vologost = the big bull ; Sczecin = dont know the meaning, but we have many smal places that you prounounce them the same as that Sczecin we just write it diferently = Čečin.

[@gbp4998]

Berlin, je bio Brljin, zbog mocvarnog i blatnjavog zemljišta. Mi i danas kažemo, brljav (blato je brljavo zar ne). Pogotovo deca koja se iz-brljaju po licu kada je igraju napolju, ili prljav novija verzija. P zamenjeno za B. Nas jezik otkriva velike tajne i istoriju.

[@salonez91]

slažem se, ima puno stvari u koje i ja nisam mogao da verujem kad sam krenuo da istrazujem, i slusam tako imenovane teorije, medjutim kad se pojavi puno dokaza koji odpacuju staru teoriju kao masovno preseljavanje slovena u 7 veku onda kreneš opet da razmišljas o tim alternativama koje odjednom postanu zanimljivije

[@gbp4998]

@@salonez91 istina je da su se selili i mesali međusobno. Nije sporno da se jedan deo stanivnistva preselio na Balkan i obrnuto. Istina je da je Slovevski narod uvek imao dodira međusobno. Ne bi nam se tradicije, kultura, folklor jezik, mitologija zadržao do dan danas. A to da su slovenski narodi dosli tamo negde iza Karpata gde su većinom tatari i turski narodi je najobicnija nebuloza. Mi smo većinsko belo stanivnistvo u Evropi, u posedu sa najobimnijom zemljanom površinom Evrope. Latini su svi mešani sa severno afričkim narodima. A i Grci do neke mere.

[@gbp4998]

@@salonez91 evo recimo ja po očevo liniji imam dodira sa Baltikom. Kada sam uradila DNK analizu 95% sam Srpkinja i 5%Baltik. Promena je desila na 11 hromozomu sa oceve strane. Negde je došlo do mešanja sa severnkm Slovenima. Neko je od njih došao na Balkan. Ja verujem da su se Slovenski narodi pomagali u ratovanju protiv Germana i ostalih napadača na Slovenske teritorije.

[@salonez91]

@@gbp4998 tačno to i ja smatram, kao i mnogi vrlo poznati teoretičari. Slovanski jezik je šta više kao lingua franca za ceo slovanski prostor čak i tih naroda kiji na tom prostoru nisu bili slovani. Dok nije postojala centralna vlast ta plemena su se mešala i ratovala medjusobno a i protiv drugih. Iliri recimo nikako nisu bili homogen narod, već po mom mišljenju različiti narodi uključujući prednike Albanaca, Kelta, Germana i Slovana. Meni je šokantno kako malo pažnje se daje Etruščanima koji su bili prvi veći Rimski protivnik i njihovom sličnošću u narodnoj nošnji i pisanom jezuku koj sumljivo podseća na ćirilicu. Teško je verovati isto da Iliri koji su nosili opanke neverovatno slične našim slovanima, zvali svoje vodje Teta i Bata nemaju absolutno ništa sa slovanima koji "slučajno zive" na tačno istom područkju...itd itd.

[@radlofmedia]

Wenden ist eine deutsche Bezeichnung. Sie nannten sich Obodriti, Rani. Pomorani, Lutizi.Retrairi, Tollensari, Hevelli....

[@toTSX]

It would be good to see serie about Curonians. Curonians was like vikings, but raided only Baltic sea. Gotland feared Curonians, also Curonians raided in Denmark and other places around Baltic sea.

[@kraanz]

And burnt down the Swedish capital, and were present as mercenaries in almost all of the major Scandinavian battles. Strange how a channel called "the Baltic empire" hasn't done a single video on the actual Balts.

[@Bubajumba]

@@kraanz Actual Balts? What is that suppose to mean? The only Baltic people with a proper Baltic empire is Sweden.

[@kraanz]

@@Bubajumba Swedes are Scandinavian, not Baltic, moron.

[@usponsvijestiuzisusakrista8185]

Curonians were relatives to Croats

[@Sgsgssgsgsgs]

curonian language is same as finnish, the oldest recordings and written language can be understood 100% it is the same. Quite sad these things are not speaken openly.

[@nwstrdmws]

respect to the Slavs and Danish people from Morocco 🇲🇦🇩🇰🇨🇿🇧🇬🇭🇷🇭🇺🇲🇪🇸🇮🇸🇰🇷🇺🇷🇸🇵🇱

[@srupidcat4525]

Albanians are not slavs

[@dd-sp9jy]

​@@srupidcat4525 they are not, they are short swarthy ppl

[@kjdempsey]

Albania? 😂

[@fulahno]

where is D. Sebastião

[@rohlik6482]

​@@srupidcat4525that's a montenegrin flag bruh 😭

[@alexondrick141]

New subscriber, here - very glad to find you & to see that the algorithm has chosen your channel! Keep up the great work and thank you for preserving history. 👍

[@galenbjorn443]

The most feared and the ''best'' people come from all around the baltic sea. From Norse, Germanic; Finnic and Slavic people

[@lo5182]

Nah, I don't think so.

[@MrCristianposso]

Best in what?

[@oro7114]

@@MrCristianposso I think that’s a rabbit hole best not to go down

[@MrCristianposso]

@@oro7114 No, I love to read pathetic attempts of arguments in favor of the racial supremacy of a particular people.

[@jaromor8808]

mongols?

[@ranojutro426]

Start with Lepenski vir civilization, Vinca civilization, Vinca letters, Vinca calendar. That is oldest civilization in Europe dating after flood. Those civilization started spreading North and down towards now Greek

[@ranojutro426]

All those countries on North were covered in ice after flood only one that was good for living not under the ice was today's Serbia Lepenski vir civilization and Vinca that is 10 000 years old

[@Sam200960]

Please make more videos about the Wends!

[@BenjaminGessel]

The surname “Wendt” in Germany likely comes from the Wends. Many people in Europe, European-Americans, etc., likely do not realize how similar the Poles, Wends, Sorbs, Lithuanians, Moravians, Silesians, Latvians, Czechs/Bohemians, Pomeranians, etc. are to the Swedes, Prussians, Saxons/Saxon Germans, Danes, Goths, Austrians, Bavarians, Thuringians, Hessians, etc., more esp. regarding physical appearance. Northern Europeans in general have many similarities with each other, from Ireland and Scotland, France, etc. clear over to Finland, Russia, etc. I’m not talking about white supremacy, I’m just talking about greater European brotherhood and respect for each other. Particularly in this case, better relations between Slavic and Germanic/Celtic peoples…

[@PlaviStrumf]

they all come from bosnia and that surrounding area (bosnia means the life giving) (salt giving)

[@mangodzeri6613]

fck off, westerns and germans torn us apart and made us fight each other... We got nothing with you, except sharing the continent!

[@dummlp]

​@@PlaviStrumfWhere can i learn more about this theory?

[@PlaviStrumf]

@@dummlp read about vinca civilization and Kakanj culture

[@PlaviStrumf]

@@dummlp also in my book the issue of hospitality at barns n nobles lol

[@Oujouj426]

Sounds similar to my ancestors, the Curonians. I hope to see a future video about them from you!

[@bojanbabovic111]

The same it's being said for the Serbs that established borderland statehood in areas of ongoing warfare. Even Russians say: "it was german tribes that lived there" I had to laugh out loud. You should all read at all least Pavel Jozef Safarik, if not Marvo Orbini. Serbian name is older than any historical mention of the word "Slavic, Slav" which has derogatory translation in all western languages. Not ethymology and ethnology of the word Slav, but derogatory translation, exactly.

[@radovanspasic5466]

Maybe the most famous northern Serb-Wend is the great scientist Nikola Kopernik known under Latin name as Nicolaus Copernicus, Russian Empress Catherine the Great was of Serbian-Sorbian origin her father was a Prince of Anhalt-Zorbst the term Zorbst is a remainder of the Sorbian-Serbian past of that region. It is a Germanized version of Serbian term Serb-Serbište which is very common Serbian toponym.😊. Although she was regarded widely as a German she was emphasizing her Slavic origin. The greater half of today's Germany including entire north central and eastern Germany from the Baltics to Bavaria was called Serbia or White Serbia, and this name even survived in Germany until 18 century among local Serbs. Besides Berlin another German-Austrian capital Vienna was also founded by the Wends, in Roman times it was called Vindobona or Vindonisa, official history claims that it was established by Celts but the name itself proves who lived there. Gratz is also a Slavic city derived from Slavic Grad (town)/Gradec (small-town). All of the major German cities in the north and east were previously Serbian: Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Leibnitz, Jenna, Gdansk... even the names of some provinces comes from Serbian names i.e. Brandenburg was derived from Serbian Branibor, Pomerania from Serbian Pomorje inhabited by Serbian people called Pomorjani (distorted into Pomerani). The term Prussia is also derived from Slavic P+ Russia, the P is just a suffix the root word is Russia the same as Bo+Russia, Prussia were later Germanized. Germans and Austrians live on a Serbian and Slavic land😢. Slavs are INDIANS OF EUROPE THEY WERE INHABITING THE ENTIRE EUROPE IN A PAST BUT WERE GRADUALY REDUCED TO CENTRAL AND EASTERN HALF OF THE CONTINENT.😢 Unfortunately we will be learning a fake history who knows for how long!

[@kks777]

😅😅😅 Take your pills and go to bed.

[@ragnargrabson1287]

Great job on the research - we need to hear more of those Slavic stories because those stories are ours - Slavic folks.. It would be fantastic to have a movies series about exploits of those western Slavs - the Vends.

[@vitraxgdanski1305]

Even in native Slavic countries people here, thanks to the Anglo centric Big Media™, know more about the chamber buissneses of invidual english royals, while being oblivious to their own history. I don't think anybody I know deeply has even heard about the wendish pirates.

[@TheRezro]

@@vitraxgdanski1305 To be honest it is because lot of discoveries were mad only recently. There is not that many sources prior to 10'th century. Vikings at least have runes.

[@CAP198462]

Interesting video. Gorod (город) is the Russian translation of the English word city. Then there’s the movie The Thirteenth Warrior in which the mysterious bad guys are called Wendol instead of Grendel as in Beowulf. Despite the movie being an adaptation of Eaters of the Dead by Michael Chrichton there’s several parallels.

[@RackerPaS]

Novgorod The Old Norse place-name Hólmgarðr has traditionally been considered to be the designation of Novgorod. In one of the redactions of Göngu-Hrólfs saga this identity is voiced: “Hólmgarðaborg […] þat er nú kallat Nógarðar” (“Hólmgarðaborg […] which now has the name of Nógarðar”) (Göngu-Hrólfs saga 1830, 362). The earliest occurrence of Hólmgarðr is in a runic inscription on Esta rock (Sö 171), of the first half of the eleventh century, and there are two cases more (G 220; U 687). The skalds are not familiar with the name. Still the name is popular in Old Norse literature, where it occurs more than hundred times, in all other types of sources.

[@opo-f1r]

yes but luzik serbs (wends by germans) used the word grad (град) serbian word similar to russian город also city, old language of them is more similar to Serbian than it is with Russian

[@CAP198462]

@@RackerPaS that’s interesting, thanks for the insight on the name Novgorod (New City). I’d be interested in what you have about the alleged first Rus settlement in Russia called Старая Ладога , Old Ladoga in English.

[@RackerPaS]

@@CAP198462 This settlement was only named after 1703. Old Ladoga after Lake Ladoga is a Slavic form of the Old Finnish name (aaldokas - "wavy") after the Viking settlement (the oldest in Eastern Europe) was also called Aldogaborg. It also makes sense since the area of ​​present-day Petersburg was inhabited by Finnougrians from the Chud tribe.

[@RackerPaS]

@@CAP198462 Isländske Snorre Sturluson berättar i Heimskringla (1230) - diktverket om de nordiska kungarna - om Aldeigjuborg. 😉

[@henrylee2792]

Slavs are the last tribe against Islamisation on these days!

[@tinitus23]

Knew the name but knew little about the Wends, now I know more. Good vlog.

[@tymkoc3293]

Ostsiedlung (settling of the East) started with German capture of Wendish territories and continued until the battle of Grunwald 1410 in defeat of Teutonic knights by Polish and their allies forces.

[@TheRezro]

Tautons operated independent from Germany. They and later Prussia, were rogue vassal of Poland.

[@frankmorton1920]

I don't think the Vikings feared anyone!

[@toTSX]

Vikings didn't fear those enslaved Wends. Vikigns feared Curonians.

[@thorspoczta4436]

​@@toTSX 😂😂😂 Wends were selling brave vikings assholes in Wolin for servants in arabia. This is history not netflix fairly tales. Read chronicles and good books.

[@djoledjole5007]

They are still afraid of them. They are bombarded with depleted uranium in the Balkans. Hatred and xenophobia towards that people stem from the fear of Europeans. Fear from difference. Wends are Serbs. The Bodrici, Ljutici, Luzicani, Milcani tribes. Limes Sorabicus (which they never mention because of their Drang nach Osten) exists in history textbooks. From the northern Vends to the southern Veneto (Italy).

[@MrUzminiNu]

History GONE totally WRONG! There arent Slavs 😮😮😮 THE "VENDS" were BALTIC-FINNIC people that lived from 12 to 16th century around the town of Wenden (The Western-German Name from Now the city of Cēsis in Latvia! The Vents had they fortress city built on a hill, you can visit the place, we have a museum and castle mostly dedicated to the history of this place from 10-16th century. How do i know this, I'm from the city Wenden (established by Germans in 1206) altough it was the capital city of Vends after they Exiled the Southern part of Baltic shore.. Since they were the OG pirates here mentioned and landed in the place later named Wenden via the sea route sailing throughout the river GAUJA(460km total length) and Daugava (1200km total length), the river goes trough the City..

[@catrionahenderson7759]

Very interesting. I have not heard of the Wends before. I am struck by how much warfare there was in ancient times. It was so brutal. Do you have any information on how these Wends looked characteristically, or on how they dressed? I will be sure to check out more of your work. Thank you for posting, I look forward to finding out more.

[@balticempire7244]

Aside from the priests I have not found any descriptions on how Wends dressed or were armored, meaning they probably had the same equipment or similar as their neighbors. I found recently that the dragon was an important symbol among them, and adorned the prows of their ships. It was also incredibly hard to find visual sources for this video. The only illustrations made deliberately of Wends are of them getting conquered, and made by German or Danish romanticists.

[@bosanskislavonac]

Germanic vs Slavic for a long, long time....even today

[@jan3381]

We are good friend with poland, aren't we?

[@gligor03]

High probability that Wends first introduced lamellar and scale armor in NW Europe.

[@that1metalhead792]

Saxo said that the men usually wore their hair short when describing the Svetovit temple.

[@SviatoslavKaverin]

As a Slav, I should correct some pronunciations: * Jómsborg = starts with [y] * cholóp = starts with [x] * Starigrád = starts with [s]

[@giansideros]

I thought the pronunciation was a little funny, is the "ch" in Cholóp like chleb?

[@metanoian965]

@@giansideros ch = h / sz = sh / cz = ch / rz = z

[@SviatoslavKaverin]

@@metanoian965 Correct, with an exception of RZ which is Ž (zh).

[@daneaxe6465]

Interesting video. Only through genealogy research of my Danish branch (Bornholm) did I encounter the Wends. They were on the fringe of my searching so I haven't looked into their background. Bornholm and the Hammershus fortress were in center of everything going into or leaving the Baltic Sea. Plus being so close to the northern coast of modern day Germany and Poland + Sweden, there was constant contact with land activity. The Danes/Bornholmers seemed to be fighting with someone, seemed like nonstop from Viking era to 1800s. I know they went east a lot, often in company with forces from Lubeck,Germany. The video has shed some light on why the eastern campaigns were happening. Later Bornholm was incorporated into the Hanseatic League so it was natural to team up with the northern Germans on expeditions. And if things got boring or too quiet they'd start another fight/war with the Swedes. The Swedes got tired of Bornholm and the Hammershus fortress invading them. So the last time the Swedes got onto Bornholm they wrecked the beautiful fortress, as you see it today. Yes, its quite a wild history and I've only skimmed the surface.

[@Ludovicus1769]

You’re not entirely correct. The fortress, as we see it today, wasn’t made so by Sweden. Not entirely, anyway. Instead it was deconstructed by the Danes themselves, and used to construct many of the buildings on Christiansø.

[@daneaxe6465]

@@Ludovicus1769 Thanks for the new information. The only story I ever found was the Swedes tore it down the last time they invaded. Guess it had something to do with Swedes getting very tired of raids or invasions coming from Hammershus. I knew my relatives were a bit rowdy and rough. What you say makes sense, like if the Swedes knocked down so much stone then left, I can see the locals scavenging for building projects.

[@Ludovicus1769]

@@daneaxe6465 Indeed. However the Swedes didn’t actually do a lot of damage, most of the damage was caused by the Danish military by deconstructing it.

[@klausdieterreinert8439]

Kommt ins nordöstliche Niedersachsen und ihr seid im Wendland, hier wurde bis ins 16. /17. Jahrhundert Slavisch gesprochen. Der Däne König Waldemar ll und sein Sohn waren bei uns 1223/24 in Dannenberg eingesperrt. Seitdem heißt der Turm Waldemarturm. Mfg aus dem Wendland

[@josefmalar7837]

Ljutiči.......oldgermanic Liut (people) is in fact slavic word. old germanic was slavic language. in czech we have this word Lid. slovaks have Ljud.

[@yesitis1012]

Filmen var jättebra. Må Gud vara med dig

[@antennastoheaven]

What a hidden gem this channel. Subscribed immediately.

[@gorila987k]

Wends is synonym for Serbs (Sorbs), and they were ancestors of Varangians who established the Russ.

[@jaoll76]

good video, in fact this baltic powers were strong. In the vikings tv serie, the first episode begins with a battle with eastern populations.