What Was It Like To Live In An Anglo-Saxon Village? | 1000 AD | Chronicle

[@Andy_Babb]

I love when this channel shares docs about this time period!

[@NatashaCreatesThings]

Why am I so invested in the future of Grunhilde (Brunhilde??)???!! Only a few minutes in and am so worried for her

[@dawndubinka]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@stevenlowe3026]

Cynehild

[@chraffis]

This is a great video and I recommend it to any who haven't seen it, HOWEVER, I'm getting tired of it being constantly reposted across your multiple affiliated channels.

[@MarkfromNewYork]

Crying over free content

[@chraffis]

@@MarkfromNewYork I pay for KZbin, homie

[@MarkfromNewYork]

@@chraffis so do I

[@conclavecabal.h0rriphic]

@@chraffis I agree. This is a great documentary, I’ve rewatched it a few times. They’ve gone a little over board with the re-uploading though. Seems like I see them repost it once a month lol.

[@cindygillespie5750]

Very interesting! Thank you!

[@cherryblossomlatte]

This was wonderful, thank you!

[@patriciaheil6811]

that myth again. "clean water" is a concept from the 1830s on. the truth is that any time water gets on grain, fermentation starts because the grain naturally has yeast on it. instead of throwing it away after all the hard work of raising and reaping it, people kept this strong water to drink. it meant one less trip to the well or river. the buzz was nice, too. and it went well with bread and cheese or meat. The Babylonians even had pickles with their beer; traders from pre-Hindu India coast-hopped, bringing cucumber seeds and spices that they were used to from home. The seeds eventually found their way to early Semitic Mesopotamia.

[@ismayilarifoglu6226]

Thank you. But I am wondering on how intense was maritime communication with France? Was it daily routine or happened on occasions?

[@teena2322]

More videos like this

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Volume is too low.

[@Wmaddox333]

Old love at the beginning looks pretty portly for a Saxon lady 😂

[@geoffboxell9301]

With the Priest/narrator being from "oop north", possibly Jorwick, he was likely, at that time, to be Norse rather than English. Just one of the many quibbles I have, such as fyrd men and Vikings using swords rather than spear, the primary weapon. A young unmarried woman with cropped hair, men working stripped to the waist, everyone with dirty faces, a Viking with a nose guard on his helmet with an engraving that is obviously laser cut. I had hoped for more portrayal of domestic life.

[@jakewhoskate]

I take pride in my Mexican/Aztec roots as well as my Anglo-Saxon British roots! I feel like two worlds collided and created me. 😁😂

[@longforgotten4823]

My favorite insight into medieval English daily life was in 1066 year of the conquest.

[@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185]

Yes but that’s like saying for German history it’s 1871 or American history it’s 1776. It’s kinda like yeah no shit bro lol!

[@longforgotten4823]

What does that have to do with the context of the book itself though? It’s a great book with good insights into daily life prior to and during the year of conquest.

[@ceilconstante640]

@@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 Long Forgotten is entitled to their favorite year regardless.

[@jaybee9269]

@@longforgotten4823 >> David Howarth! That was a great, great narrative history, partly because of the inherent drama of 1066.

[@longforgotten4823]

@@jaybee9269 quite right and it’s great to show to college students.

[@69JONESYrugbyCHAPELHILL]

1:11

[@ciprianaluzon4498]

I dont know the life of this historical movie, but i want to see this kind on movie

[@captaincrunchiii158]

Pretty sure they had bath houses

[@pxrays547]

The bathhouses the Romans built fell into disuse soon after Rome abandoned the occupation of Briton and across Europe. It is fairly well documented. Heating the water was not too common except for the wealthy.

[@willbass2869]

Only in San Francisco. Lol

[@MatLujan]

They call them Anglo Saxon I call them Anglo Sexy and my mom calls the cops

[@Ericat257]

Anglo-Saxons actually did have lice treatments that they used and that worked. Huh. I just looked it up. Lol

[@lindsay6518]

they also washed more than this documentary suggests

[@Ericat257]

@@lindsay6518 I looked into that too, but many sources do claim their non bathing as truth, but honestly... Logically... I dunno. I KNOW when I feel nasty and HATE it and so I'm pretty sure they would too. I mean, if we found at least a ton of combs, it also stands to reason there'd be far more things for personal hygiene we might have just missed. I know the medival German ppl were really clean. Why not the Anglo-Saxons who also came from the same area. How would archeologists even know for sure for sure without living with them. Nah mean? People are people even if they're ancient. It's weird to think of them as so different. You know? Idk that's just me. I'm a huge history buff. Like... Nerdy levels but I'm not a professional archeologist or a historical anthropologist.

[@megancrager4397]

But I thought this was specifically 1000, not the entire period?

[@Ericat257]

@@megancrager4397 why would one year matter in terms of cultural hygiene practices. No, those kinds of things are things we can structure attribute to a long time period. They wouldn't just suddenly change one year later and be like OPE NOPE. That's not how that works.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

@@Ericat257 This documentary is very lazy.They trot out things that had been discredited even in 1999. And all that guff about Stoic Brits and bad bureaucrats Looks pretty silly now. It was silly then and uncalled for in a documentary about something unrelated. But you can see how long they were selling the propaganda. Much good it has done the country Yet there are still fools who believe it. Still waiting for their unicorn.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

Dr Andrew Reynolds sound a bit like Mr Richard Ayoade.🙂

[@navelaviator18]

@7:57 "penal slavery" lol ...sounds dirty!

[@rebekahlikesmusic2723]

😂😂😂

[@MyPhobo]

Hey KZbin, it's okay to say "Cock" in the subtitles if you are talking about a male Chicken. I promise nobody will get offended.

[@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205]

I enjoyed this but it’s historically inaccurate when so many of the women in the village are overweight. There are so many contradictions in this documentary. Even when the narrator says “I was tending my wayward flock” but if they’re wayward then he couldn’t be tending them. They clearly put a lot of effort and money into this just to lose the credibility, when the expert reports one thing the narrative script contradicts them.

[@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205]

@Brandon Letzco that’s exactly what I envisioned the issue is, and that’s sad.

[@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205]

@Brandon Letzco I am afraid all the body positivity stuff is losing sight of how being overweight is unhealthy, and the all inclusive mentality is normalizing unhealthy lifestyles, unrealistic lifestyles and rewriting history to make allowances for sloth and sedimentary behavior. I feel like her, one would have to of been wealthy to over eat, but you also would have to be completely stagnant in physical activity, like so many are now, and that is just impossible in this time frame. It also would have never been encouraged, since all were expected to pull our own weight, eat our own portions, and you can’t represent reality with fiction. I wish they would go back to being about good health even when doing a film and less about accepting and normalization of unhealthy.

[@knewledge8626]

@@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205 "since all were expected to pull our own weight". Okay, did you do that on purpose? 🤣

[@psdeas7530]

The wayward flock was the priest referencing the villagers. It is a metaphor.

[@abbylouise4450]

I noticed that as well. Yes, very contradictory the women would not have carried excess fat, so why depict overweight women.

[@b00stpicard]

Ads every 5 minutes…. Come on..

[@Wmaddox333]

I think there are many misconceptions about the Saxons when it comes to things like hierarchy, we perceive slavery through a modern lens, where the slave is treated with contempt by their master - failing to understand that people understood their place in the natural hierarchy and things like equality were entirely non-existent. The modern mythology surrounding the African slave trade and liberal ideologies have entirely distorted our perception of history. We must always disregard and put any moralism aside when telling history as to understand it objectively and truthfully. Also, the belief that saxons were incredibly filthy people is unfounded, and there is no reason to believe they were - the so called “dark ages”, weren’t actually as dark as they are made out to be - this is done intentionally, as to create the illusion that they were backwards, and our modern progressive world and ideas are somehow better - which in reality is entirely untrue, as it has quite clearly degenerated in every way. Saxon life was simpler, they were healthier, stronger, and probably a lot better looking than the majority of Englands population today - especially those early pagan saxons. One thing which is also never mentioned, is the fact that they originally spoke a form of Proto-Norse , which over time developed into old English.

[@beverlybalius9303]

My Ancestor line traces back to the Anglo Saxons of Essex, to a knight n landowner and he traces back 29 generations to Emperor of Europe and King Charlemagne,, I traveled for work and went to London a lot.

[@scruffmcgruff03]

Whatup cuz

[@willbass2869]

That's NOTHING.....my family goes back to Adam & Eve!

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

These experts do know that they didn't grow corn back then, right?

[@knewledge8626]

He's not talking about corn as we know it. See below. 😁 Originally, sometime before 700, a “corn” in Old English was a small hard particle or seed, like an appleseed. By the 800s it meant “the fruit of the cereals,” the OED says, so “corn” was simply grain in general: wheat, rye, barley, oats, and so on (hence the terms “barley-corn” and “pepper-corn”).

[@thewildacre2240]

They are not referring to maize but to 'corn' as being a chief grain crop; probably wheat in England or oats in Scotland.

[@Tom_Quixote]

Learn to speak English English.

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

@@knewledge8626 interesting. Thanks for letting me know

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

@@thewildacre2240 oh, cool

[@zleo9923]

What does the last speaker say about the characteristics of the English today ("as the Year 2000 dawns", so 1999), inherited from the Anglo-Saxons: we are stoical, backs-to-the-wall toughness, some melancholy and fatalism, GREAT love of ceremony, of doing things the right way, of ritual, "we would be fools not to look back to look forward (at the future)". We WERE all those things back in 1999; today we have been taken over by woke, emotionalism, patheticness, which have destroyed our faith in the future and produced the politicians and choices for prime minister to what they are today.

[@starcrib]

Oh - do sit the __uck down. Another rage grievance hysteric about our own times. 😱

[@willbass2869]

A people, a culture, aren't destroyed, short of genocidal war, in a 20+ year period. Calm down

[@GodlessGirl]

They must have all smelled foul with no showers no deodorant 🤢

[@Tom_Quixote]

It was blocked out by all the firewood smoke

[@argondrolf785]

People probably cleaned themselves daily with a little water, bad smells were associated with disease and death and no one likes laying around after a long day of work without at least wiping off the dirt and grime they picked up.

[@robertsettle2590]

Why would you think they all smelled like birds?!

[@m.r.e.5731]

True but when you think about it, that's the way we're supposed to smell. I'm glad we don't, of course.

[@draganjagodic4056]

Sorry, can't give a "like". The candles in 02:10 were too precious, expensive commodity, to be used as sources of light.

[@Scriptorsilentum]

you're right: candles were DAMNED expensive. most likely they'd have had reed lights every chance they got to supplement the fire.

[@draganjagodic4056]

@@Scriptorsilentum Thank you. Best regards.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

It's documentary? It isn't really 999? It is done for dramatic effect, and if they had filmed in authentic conditions we would not have seen anything. Notwithstanding that they had no cameras or tvs then! Lol Monks would very probably had candles. Or did they do all those manuscripts by touch? That could expalin all those weird creatures. 'Stick a head on the Gryphon!'

[@supermidgetninjarockturtles]

I never knew Anglo saxon had a different language then what we speak these days My father's from London England and my mother Newcastle Australia so I'm fully white haha

[@starcrib]

Horrifying : replete with all manner of Malignant ideation and diabolical superstitions. 🌬🦠