Little video addressing where the Anglo-Saxon came from, who they were and where they settled. Music used: Dhaka - Incompetech Music - Kevin MaCleod incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Patreon: / historywithhilbert
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@FlappyOW6 жыл бұрын
The Jutes landed and started in my home area, called Thanet (in Kent) which was a island at the time. We got taught in school about Hengst and Horsa, the two Jutish kings who started Kent, and are pretty much legendary in the history books. We Also got a present from Denmark which was a longboat in the 1950's which was sailed to Thanet, and remains there to this day on public display. Pretty happy my small home area has so much historical significance :)
@bartgielingh22125 жыл бұрын
But doesn't Kent's shield bare the Saxon horse? Saksen Ros in Dutch. Because I clearly recognise that same horse on the flag of Twente, wich is East Netherlands. Saxon Netherlands. There are even regions in North-West Germany that have exactly that same horse. .. Now let that be Nieder-Sachsen.
@LarsPallesen5 жыл бұрын
As a Dane from Jutland I'm intrigued by this story that it was Jutlanders who started Kent, as you say. If one looks at the map it seems a little strange that the Jutlanders would choose to go to the very southern tip of England instead of just crossing over the North Sea from their native Jutland and settling in Northumbria? The Southern cost of England would have been a shorter boat trip for the Saxons who lived near the channel. Is there any archeological evidence that Kent was in fact started by Jutlanders?
@mrcannoncomedy5 жыл бұрын
@@bartgielingh2212 the White horse was the banner of Horsa. There is a huge white stone (can't remember exactly where) in Kent and legend says that Horsa was slain in a battle near the stone and his brother Hengist laid him on it. His blood ran over the white stone and that is where the flag of Kent comes from, the white horse on a red background. Not sure how much credence there is to the story but still, explains the flag. I always thought the story might have been rubbish but it was featured on a walking through history episode with Tony Robinson so if its good enough for him, it's good enough for me ha ha
@mrcannoncomedy5 жыл бұрын
I'm from Thanet too, a seriously underrated place for history, there is so much here! Just a note though, Hengest and Horsa didn't start Kent. Kent is named after the Celtic tribe who inhabited the county, they were called the Cantiaci or Cantii. Hope that helps if it comes up in a pub quiz!
@nxxynx50394 жыл бұрын
Remember that Kent was never conquered INVICTA brother
@KingHaggis3 жыл бұрын
As a Frisian, I did some research on this and learned about the same as you're saying. This video contains helpful information for everyone who's interested in this subject.
@MrAtsyhere3 жыл бұрын
I believe the Frisians lent a huge amount of words to the Ancient English Language which shows they had a significant role in the settling of Britain. Also the Vikings took a particular dislike to Frisians as they did to Saxons in England which shows me a sort of rivalry between them and those south of Denmark.
@clivehodgson9352 жыл бұрын
So did they get on better with the Angles than the Saxons . The Wessex Saxons certainly were a more formidable and unified foe in the long run culminating in 1066 . When both sides finally met their match in a roundabout sort of way ?!
@AngloSaxon-yx8tk Жыл бұрын
I'm of English heritage and the Frisians were our ancestors. Old English or Anglo Saxon language was very much related old Frisian. As the Saxons and the Angles plus The Jutes were Germanic or Teutonic
@davejohnson56007 жыл бұрын
A great job of explaining this subject concisely and clearly. As an American who finds studying history so much more engrossing than entertainment TV, I thank you.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your compliments, really makes it worthwhile spending the time making these videos :)
@rosealexander90073 жыл бұрын
I’m also American. I have seven different European ethnicities. But the largest amount I have is English. Almost a quarter of me is English. 23 percent. I’m trying to learn everything I can about my heritage. I also have French, Dutch, German, Irish, Scottish and Finnish. I took a ancestry dna 🧬 test. That’s how I know
@user-gr1bn1vd2k3 жыл бұрын
Yes, history is the best‼️
@starwarsfannumber2 жыл бұрын
irish with small percentage of French and German. also western African eastern Indian (belive this to be that old legend , true story of scotia, Egyptian princess in Ireland and queen of alba, Scotland). Also the first King of England was French and there is 132 French and English words that are spelled and mean the same thing German is Dutch. . English Is galeic and French
@SD_yessir Жыл бұрын
@@starwarsfannumber "Legend," and "true story" are practically oxymorons. Just saying.
@SOMSebster6 жыл бұрын
My great grandmothers maiden name was Frostick, apparently the name of an abandoned Frisian village in Norfolk which is where I live now
@historywithhilbert1466 жыл бұрын
That’s very interesting, need to look into that!
@gronizherz20124 жыл бұрын
Looking into old genuinely european names is extremely interesting - for (basic) instance, a name like "Alric (Alaric)" meant 'All's ruler/Ruler of all'.
@dougodyssey504 жыл бұрын
Sebastian keep that heritage going if you have kids. That's pretty cool.
@williamcooke56277 жыл бұрын
No, it wasn't a Roman emperor who likened Angles to angels. It was Pope Gregory I, who saw some handsome Angle slave boys for sale in the Roman slave market. And he was punning, which shows that the name 'Angli' (Angles) already existed.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
William Cooke Right you are, I want entirely sure who said it, only that it took place in a slave market in Rome which left me with it either being a Roman Emperor or a Pope. I'll correct it with a little note on the screen tomorrow, thanks for pointing out to me :)
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the extra information!
@bluediamond39887 жыл бұрын
im american but I took a DNA test and I carry 35%, Anglo saxon, 30 percent Norwegian and 30 percent Danish and 5 percent german. is this normal for a American to be mixed like me and
@williamcooke56277 жыл бұрын
Probably. I'm Canadian and about 1/8 German. My DNA test also gives me a large 'Scandinavian' component, but I reckon that came down mainly from Danes who settled in Yorkshire, and Norwegians who settled in the Isle of Man, in the 'Viking Age'.
@bluediamond39887 жыл бұрын
William Cooke thanks so where me ancestors Vikings or just farmers
@BoreSight19735 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Especially the last bit. My surname is Friskney, originating in Friskney, Lincolnshire. The name is mentioned as far back as the Domesday Book c. 1066ish but I’ve often wondered where it came from beforehand and whether it was connected with the Frisians. Thx for the videos. I look forward to more.
@Bjowolf2 Жыл бұрын
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friskney ... The place-name 'Friskney' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Frischenei. It is recorded as Freschena circa 1115 and as Freschenei circa 1150. The name is Viking, meaning 'freshwater island' (Old English Frescan ēa).[3] Danish: frisk = fresh ø ['oe'] = island, OE eo- / oew-land (!)
@alfredoalejandro877 жыл бұрын
This is pretty interesting, as my wife is English, specifically from the Berkshire region of England. Most of her family have always been in the south, but she has some people who have moved down from the Yorkshire region (don't know which area exactly). As far as she knows, apart from that Yorkshire connection, everyone else can be traced back to the South East, specifically around the Reading/Ascot/Bracknell area of Berkshire. She is pretty short, has red hair, and looks very typically English facially. She did her test through a ancestry website as she was always keen to know her background, seeing as there is so much conflicting information based on tribes, race and culture within England itself. What we found is that according to her test she is around 40% Great Britain, and 49% Scandinavian (there is also around 11% Italian. She was absolutely astounded and thinks she definitely has some possible Norse ancestry from the Yorkshire region. We don't really know, but she seems happy to have a rough idea of what she is now.
@Fuk9999911 ай бұрын
I would think “49% Scandinavia” answers the Norse question for you.
@simonh63718 ай бұрын
Does the 40% Great Britain mean Brittonic i.e. Celtic Briton, or does that include Anglo-Saxon/Jute/Frisian/Danish/Norse as well? That's a confusing result to me. On the face of it, if the 49% Scandinavian means Norse from Yorkshire, then she has no Anglo-Saxon DNA and the side of the family from the SE are Brittonic dating back pre-Roman times with no admixture.
@anihtgenga40966 жыл бұрын
Anglo-Saxons. Angled Saxophone. Coincidence?
@bartgielingh22125 жыл бұрын
It was probably the Kosovo-Albanian black Moslem-Jews.
@ulrikschackmeyer8484 жыл бұрын
Well spotted! Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone. He was Belgian, so a genetic 'Saxon' link is not implausible. And 'angle' meaning 'hook-shaped' or indeed 'angled' an other old germanic word could well be used for both the 'angel-shaped' instrument and the historic homeland of the Angels in modern day Schleswig between the cities of Flensborg and Schleswig. An area still called Angel (Danish) or Angeln (German)!
@gtgodbear63204 жыл бұрын
Angl Saxo
@xavierkorir25803 жыл бұрын
I think not!
@LeohTheArcher7 жыл бұрын
That was a very interesting video, thanks for effort you've put into this!
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much for your kind words!
@Vypren4 жыл бұрын
Ironic. KZbin suggesting me a video about the Anglo-Saxon while I’m binging The Last Kingdom.
@oldjoe38694 жыл бұрын
Vypren same bro same
@sunnyd55884 жыл бұрын
same
@hmwat16233 жыл бұрын
That’s not irony though...
@KyleOzz3 жыл бұрын
Big brothers watching, and listening.
@user-gr1bn1vd2k3 жыл бұрын
Yeah same, but maybe because I'm logged into Netflix and KZbin via gmail so Google takes my user history to recommend the stuff that suits me best.
@metalmindedmaniac25873 жыл бұрын
I recently discovered my great grandmother's my grand father's mother's side comes from Wartling, Sussex last names Mittin around 1746 that's all I have found. My grandmother and her family side is Reid I think it's Scottish. This type of history is very important to me and I am still searching for more.
@sidsnot69523 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍
@urseliusurgel43653 жыл бұрын
Reid is the Northumbrian English spelling of a word that in West Saxon English was Read, both mean the colour red. It is a Northern English variant that became widespread in Scotland. The earliest recorded version is in the name of Leofwine se Reade (Leofwine the Red), who petitioned King Cnut in 1016.
@metalmindedmaniac25873 жыл бұрын
@@urseliusurgel4365 that's very interesting can you tell me the origins of Kane and Thompson those are also surnames of relatives of mine.
@cottonmather58836 жыл бұрын
The vast majority of all of us have many different genes due to interbreeding of the past, compounded by time. It's no secret that English und German are cousin languages and if it weren't for the Norman invasion, our vocabulary would be much closer to German than it is now. I read that there's a movement called Anglish to replace Greco/ Latin based words with Germanic root words in common talk. For example "rainshade" for "umbrella" or "waterstuff" for hydrogen. So getting back to genetics, one would need to look at both a regional sample and an overall sample.
@RhysapGrug6 жыл бұрын
Cotton Mather the people of my county Gwynedd (Wales) are 82% Celtic, Welsh is our first language, and all schools are Welsh speaking only, making us one of most unmixed races in Europe. (Unfortunately not so much in the south of Wales, but they are catching up)my name is actually Llewellyn, but on this account I go by my Irish second name "Gerard" as Llewellyn is to much of a tongue twister.
@hunkydude3225 жыл бұрын
if its true what u think you may have to wait another 1000 or 2000 yrs for that to develope.
@elmaeskola36155 жыл бұрын
Cotton Mather talvisota
@doosin86965 жыл бұрын
If it weren't for the Normans, we would be speaking a much nicer and mor sophisticated language.
@danielpatrick37615 жыл бұрын
Umbrella comes from the Raj... It's an indian word originally
@oisinsmith8824 жыл бұрын
Last name Smith here. An anglo saxon name been around since 975 ad. Proud of my heritage :)
@dougodyssey504 жыл бұрын
My family name back then was Hygges or Hygg, meaning Courage. Not sure if we were mixed with tribes from other areas though. I think we were from the Kent region.
@RedemptionKing283 жыл бұрын
You are of jewish descent.
@swansea_loyal11153 жыл бұрын
Fuck England
@UstashaMe843 жыл бұрын
@@swansea_loyal1115 fuck you.
@swansea_loyal11153 жыл бұрын
@@UstashaMe84 ouch that hurt
@OleOlson3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for covering the Frisians. I'm doing my genealogy research right now, and a quarter of my ancestry is Frisian, so it's really interesting to see part of their history in the colonization of England along with the other, more well known groups.
@WhalePolarizer6 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video mate! Just keep on making such informative videos for us!!!
@mowvu53803 жыл бұрын
gotta love this channel. finding videos from 3 years ago that I've not plummeted into yet👍top lad.
@sareinhart6 жыл бұрын
came here after the Top Tenz suggestion. Great video.
@historywithhilbert1466 жыл бұрын
Steve Reinahrt Thanks very much, hope you enjoyed it :)
@DHMenke6 жыл бұрын
This was not one year ago, but on January 2, 2018. I'm an amateur historian and linguist, and enjoy your vids. I'm a retired college professor of physics and astronomy. Many of my ancestors are from AngloSaxons.
@JuniorJuni0705 жыл бұрын
I’m half Frisian (fries) And many of my ancestors are every one of those
@unhooked254 жыл бұрын
DrDave Menke: Very interesting. However that makes you like me a modern day Anglo Saxon. Therefore you should be very proud of that. And you do not owe anyone an explanation or an apology.
@WallStwizkid3 жыл бұрын
@@unhooked25 There is no such thing as a "modern day anglo saxon". Anglo-Saxons were a medieval tribe and have heck all to do with the modern world. They left only a miniscule genetic influence on British DNA.
@unhooked253 жыл бұрын
@@WallStwizkid No such thing as a modern day Anglo Saxon? Yeah says who? Under what modern day law? Don't give me that modern day gibberish, because since when can you go making up modern day ideas on your own accord? Why does the name itself make you think of The Mississippi Burning?... We are Anglo Saxons and we couldn't be prouder, if you can't hear us now, we'll yell a little louder and we don't owe you or anyone a modern day explanation or an apology.
@pawelkurzanski3 жыл бұрын
Really good job mate,i’m watching your channel from some time now,and really enjoy,for person like me who is also into a history,greets grom Poland 🇵🇱
@longgowhereto5 жыл бұрын
In the north of Germany is a town called Kappeln which sits on the Schlei (a fjord of the Baltic Sea). The part from Flensburg to Schlei is ANGELN (yes, the name still lives!) and the side from Schlei east is called SCHWANSEN. The saying was: A guy from Angeln never takes the last piece of cake and never drinks to the last drop in the cup. Coming from eastern side, I took the last slice and explained: "Well, finally I am not ANGELITER but SCHWANSENER."
@marktwain3685 жыл бұрын
Excellent in every respect! Useful history--every time!! Thanks, Hilbert!
@albionmyl77352 жыл бұрын
I am German and a native Saxon from Westphalia northwest Germany I feel very much connected to England... they are our closest counterparts.... our natural partners Anglo-Saxon as we are one tribe... should stick together forget Brexit🏴🇩🇪❤️🤗
@DerSchleier Жыл бұрын
You mean... "forget Marxist European Union". Wake yourself up.
@micha825511 ай бұрын
Yeah... Forget about Germans bombing London.
@Zaman8052 ай бұрын
@@micha8255Germans are not Low Saxon. They speak very different languages and one is an Elb Germanic and one is North Sea Germanic English, Frisian and Low Saxon are North Sea
@gre3nishsinx0Rgold47 жыл бұрын
This was awesome, so great job and you've gained a new subscriber.. also do you take suggestions, if so I would love to learn more about the ancient germanic tribes.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! I'm really glad you enjoyed this and decided to subscribble to the channel :) Of course :) I have a series called "Ancient Culture Analysis" where I look at a different ancient culture each time so I'll be making ones for the Angles, Saxons, Frisians, Jutes, Franks etc in due course :) Welcome to the channel!
@ShahidIqbal-gv6ny5 жыл бұрын
ßax Sax
@fourriversfarm7 жыл бұрын
Love these videos man, keep up the good work!
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much Devin! I appreciate your feedback and your positivity!
@doppelgangerseven10306 жыл бұрын
Anglo , Angland , England
@robertarmitage18995 жыл бұрын
Anglo , Angland , England pronounced Ingland.
@monkeyton55 жыл бұрын
Angleland
@robertrobski10135 жыл бұрын
AngloArabia now
@robertrobski10135 жыл бұрын
AngloArabia
@isnissen4 жыл бұрын
pretty cool if the region (southeren denmark) as i am in, has named england after that spot:b
@jovanweismiller71147 жыл бұрын
Hilbert, an excellent video, saving my friend, William Cooke's remark (Hello, William!), and the fact that you neglected to mention that the Jutes also settled the Isle of Wight and Southern Hampshire, whence my people came. I'm rather proud of my Jutish ancestry!
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! Apologies I forgot to mention it, although Kent is the biggest and best known one, I'll be sure to mention it when I make a dedicated culture analysis of the Jutes.
@ulrikschackmeyer8484 жыл бұрын
I'm PROUD that people remember their roots. A Jutish Dane
@AholeAtheist7 жыл бұрын
Wow! Awesome! As a Kiwi with a Scottish grandparent, a Kiwi grandparent of English origin, and two Dutch grandparents with a Frisian surname, this video is highly interesting to me. It's the story of my family. I already knew some of this, mainly about the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, but I didn't really know the Frisians had jumped the channel too.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Sorry this has taken me so long to respond to, it appears to have slipped through my notifications! That really is quite the mix, wow! Yes it will be indeed :D The role of the Frisians in the Anglo-Saxon Migrations is much debated, being as they were at this time period often hard to separate from the Saxons who had mingled with the Frisii to form the people later to be named Frisian. I'm writing a dissertation on the topic, very interesting topic indeed :D
@ulrikschackmeyer8484 жыл бұрын
Always trust the Dutch to be where the good trade is!
@marlajacques69476 жыл бұрын
That was great thank you! I struggle with timelines but you laid it out very simply n factually. It also filled in some blank spots in my family history
@robstone62345 жыл бұрын
This was amazing. Thank you!
@osXFan6 жыл бұрын
Please do a video about the Alamanni or Subian people's, the ones specifically near the black forest.
@timl30005 жыл бұрын
Nice, succinct video. Great, rare mention of the small town of Frizington in Cumbria and its toponymic root as a ton of the Frisians! Grew up near there, very bleak but beautiful part of secluded Cumbria. I did my undergraduate dissertation on the 'kingdom of Rheged', which possibly existed around those parts.
@chrisb40036 жыл бұрын
Love a good explanation of maps and history
@sbwende5 жыл бұрын
Kevin Stroud gives a good explanation as to how the modern English word angle relating to a hook (as in angling for fish) has a Germanic root, where as angle in geometry comes from Latin via French. See episode 28: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians @06:05 mins. It has a good map as well. historyofenglishpodcast.com/2013/08/06/episode-28-angles-saxons-jutes-and-frisians/
@Bjowolf2 Жыл бұрын
Yes, we also have the word "angle" ( with an open a: [Ang-le] ) in Danish today - meaning "to fish", but also in a wider sense "to catch" ( trying to catch someone's attention for instance ). 😉
@amanb86986 жыл бұрын
You hit the nail on the head. Germany, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc. are modern concepts they were simply Germanic tribes back then. They had loyalty to Tribes/Clans. No one had these modern identities back then.
@robertrobski10135 жыл бұрын
Scandinavian have completely different DNA learn a little
@alfredoalejandro875 жыл бұрын
@widhbnw efDwdwDW I think this man hit his head after falling over a cliff. How come so many Brits come out with quite a lot of Scandinavian DNA in ancestry tests? My wife from England is 60% Scandinavian so there goes your theory.
@shawnv123 Жыл бұрын
england had the identity of englishness since unification
@amanb8698 Жыл бұрын
@@robertrobski1013 Nah. Many Scandinavian Germanics have Haplogroup I1, R1b, and R1a as well as N via intermixing with Finno-Urgics in Scandinavia. I1 is the earliest, and R1b and R1a became prominent after the rise of the Yamnaya on the steppes, and Bell Beakers, Corded Ware, and Battle Axe cultures. Norway literally has all 4 Haplogroups. The Scandinavian languages are literally in the North GERMANIC language group, and the ancient religion of the Norse and the Germanics is the same.
@amanb8698 Жыл бұрын
@@alfredoalejandro87 England is a mixed bag, but the Scandinavians and West Germanics share a common origin in what is now Denmark and Southern Sweden. So much so that the East Germanic Goths came from Götland in Sweden. The Angles and Jutes came from Jutland and the Angles from Angeln. Yes DNA changes with admixing doesn't change the source of the culture and DNA of those who brought the languages and cultures into Mainland Europe before they crossed over into the Isles.
@dangerdan25926 жыл бұрын
Very informative! I subscribed. It was really interesting, I like how you laid out where they came from in mainland Europe.
@joeweatherley78113 жыл бұрын
Really good article and well presented. I've always been interested and read a lot about this part of our history. My surname being made up of Anglo Saxon elements has played no small part in this. Also, I have my old English teacher, " Archie Smith " to thank for sparking my interest in how the English people came to be. I agree that the theory about a Roman describing Germanic people from modern Denmark as being angel like is a bit thin. The fishing hook theory is really interesting but would the Angles have known that their coastline was thus shaped? Im not sure how advanced their cartography would have been. Also the idea that the Huns were involved is really intriguing and I've not heard that before. Im going to watch this again to get the name of the person who postulates this and read what they say. Again, thanks for a great vid 👍
@srenhasselagerhvorslev39987 жыл бұрын
Its nice to learn about possible my ancestors. i live in Denmark so i might be related to the jutes. by the way really good video
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Nice, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! It's likely indeed that you do have some ancestors who had relatives and friends that crossed the channel to drive out the Britons :)
@mrtrollnator123 Жыл бұрын
Apparently, the jutes that stayed in jutland and didn't migrate got assimilated by the Danes when they arrived in jutland
@richardpcrowe3 жыл бұрын
Great video - I love the history of this era... I can trace my ancestry back to Angle-Saxon times with Ethelred the Unready as one of my ancestors...
@johnweeden19543 жыл бұрын
im trying to work mine out. weedon beck is as far as i have got really.
@irenejohnston68022 жыл бұрын
Aethelraed, Noble Counsel..unread no counsel. A play on words. Suffered from being advised badly by his counsellors probably
@SarahGreen5234 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! This was the explanation I've been dreaming of!
@scrubs4everr6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Video and well presented! Thank you
@balthazarriviere60365 жыл бұрын
Great! Thank you. I learn more abou the origin of England.
@300warrior3007 жыл бұрын
No, Angle is probably from the word for a Barbed Spear, or hook. Related to the term Angling for fishing. So it's possible the name meant they were the "Fishing People." or like the Germans, a "Spear People" Pope Gregory was simply making a pun on the word.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Quite possibly, I've heard several theories about the origin and etymology of the word and the name, though I don't think we can be completely sure which is correct. "Spear People" Could certainly relate to Woden who is often associated with the spear as his symbol. It's an interesting question, thanks for the extra information :)
@weisthor08157 жыл бұрын
spear people because the germanic spear was called "ger"
@panatypical6 жыл бұрын
History With Hilbert Try the fact of the angular shoreline at the mouth of the Elbe river, the Anglish homeland being primarily located on the west facing shore at the foot of the Jutland peninsula. The tribal name is a place name, as many surnames among the Anglo-Saxons were.
@carolgebert78336 жыл бұрын
Yes, I agree. The "Angles" were likely the fishing peoples of the North Sea, with settlements from Frisia to Briton, during Roman times. Old English adopted several Latin words, which is evidence the Angles and the Romans were in close contact, well before the Saxon invasion.
@MichaelFay636 жыл бұрын
Modern Historians at least have a go about the Angles. In the past Historians while chatting pleasantly enough about Saxons gave up on the Angles,usually with a shrug! Obliged!
@ceawlinofwessex66077 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation, and great channel; what a find!
@koeneman7077 жыл бұрын
You've got a very interesting channel here with very nice topics. And man I've got to say, your Dutch pronunciation of names is the best I've ever heard.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, I'm really glad you're enjoying my content :) Haha well I cheat because I am Dutch so that's my secret ;)
@koeneman7077 жыл бұрын
Dan andersom, je spreekt erg goed Engels. :P
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
koen Bedankt, maar hier speel ik weer flas omdat ik al jarenlang in Engeland woon ;)
@koeneman7077 жыл бұрын
Ok, groeten uit Utrecht dan. keep them coming en Fijne Kerst!
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
koen Hartstikke bedankt, groetjes en wensen voor een vrolijke Kerstdag vanuit Northumberland :)
@Erdath917 жыл бұрын
Your Dutch pronunciations are good. What connection have you got to The Netherlands?
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much :) I'm from the Netherlands originally which is why I can speak Dutch :)
@milanbouwman22527 жыл бұрын
Waar kom je vandaan in Nederland als ik vragen mag?
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Mijn vader uit Amsterdam en Friesland en mijn moeder uit Edam :)
@milanbouwman22527 жыл бұрын
Grappig ik kom zelf ook uit Amsterdam!
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Oh leuk! Amsterdam is een prachtige stad :)
@GilgameshEthics6 жыл бұрын
My problem with the angles as a fishhoook thing is kind of dumb. Because they saw this on what map? Yeah. Maps would have been a rare commodity, especially accurate ones.
@mongolchiuud89315 жыл бұрын
GilgameshEthics regional maps in the past were fairly accurate if the area is small. Maps in the past were only fucked up when they incompass large areas like whole continents.
@DeagleBeagle4 жыл бұрын
@@mongolchiuud8931 But would the average joe know that? And naming a group of people after the shape that they live in is super weird, because I don't recall any instance of people naming a group of people like that today. They name them by the race or city or facial features etc.
@mongolchiuud89314 жыл бұрын
@@DeagleBeagle "But would the average joe know that? " Just because you didnt know doesnt mean other people are just as ignorant. " And naming a group of people after the shape that they live in is super weird, because I don't recall any instance of people naming a group of people like that today." Weird or not if they decided to name a country or people after a shape then it is what it is. there are no rules on how to name "Anything". lol "They name them by the race or city or facial features etc." And what group of people are named after a "Race,city or facial feature?" this is the first time I heard of this. lmao (I have a feeling you dont know the difference between Race,Ethnicity and Nationality...)
@Laubasss4 жыл бұрын
Nice!! As an old student of Old English, it,s nice to watch these vids!
@bethbartlett56926 жыл бұрын
I commend the conscious personal goal of logic applied when ego overwhelming is, and ethic towards the promotion of facts rather than the overwhelming self-serving edits made to history for the goals of ego, argument, and control of others. Wisdom of Mature-minded, with values, over Adolescent Ego-Minded oozing self-satisfaction and prejudice. Truly apparent to all with Conscious thought. Well done - respectfully. 🏅
@garychynne13777 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU GARE
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
No problem at all, thanks for watching!
@grothartiligan76207 жыл бұрын
good job good sir
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thanks Grothartiligan, I'm glad you're still enjoying the videos :D !
@geraldherald11247 жыл бұрын
deffenitly deserved a like, i hope you grow fast!
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :) With your support I'm sure the channel will grow in due time to its destined heights. Thank you for your feedback, I hope your joy my future videos as well :)
@dukeon5 жыл бұрын
I wish these videos were a lot longer! I’m working my way through your channel and it’s quite interesting. Guess I’ll have to get more detailed information from books (well I do anyway, and also from Wikipedia as well as academic sites and journals). Your videos are interesting though and remind me I need to stop watching Netflix and get back to my study of history 👍🏼
@afoaa6 жыл бұрын
I have an idea about the name Kent: In modern Danish the word for the kind of cliffs you see around Dover is "Klint". Maybe they just named the area after its most visible feature as seen from the sea?
@LarsPallesen5 жыл бұрын
It's an interesting idea, but if true it would probably have been called Klent :-) I'm still looking for an answer to why the Jutlanders would sail down to occupy the very southern part of England and not just go straight across the North Sea and occupy the northern part of the island?
@noifurze63975 жыл бұрын
Kent I believe was named after a Celtic tribe called the centi
@ulrikschackmeyer8484 жыл бұрын
@@LarsPallesen Simple, I think. SAILS! They had not yet been funcionally put on the rowing boats of that time. A mast and sail would twist boards of the boat apart and make it leak. Or break. It was not until the invention of the keelson (kølsvinet) what would spread the torque of the mast along the ENTIRE keel what you had a true sailboat. They know more about this at Vikingeskibsmuseet in Roskilde. One of the skippers of 'Havhingsten' (The Sea-stallion of Glendaloch) told me in person. Dejligt at møde endnu en dansker?
@ulrikschackmeyer8484 жыл бұрын
@@LarsPallesen I have stated above that it is believe that the explanation of a Jutish name should be that Kent is at the egde of the ocean. 'Edge' being 'kant' in old Norse, and NOT Ecke/edge as in German. Thus: kingdom at the edge of the sea: Jutish Kant= Kent! Da-da🤩. That is IF the Cantii are not older AND lived in the area ? Hilbert, we need you!
@gothmamasylvia4624 жыл бұрын
In the Jutland peninsula, about where you said the Angles came from, on the eastern coast, is a town called Angeln.
@folkestender20253 жыл бұрын
It's not in Jutland and not a town. it's a landscape south of Jutland that used to be the center of Angles. Today this region is still called "Angeln", as it was 2000 years ago. This region is today located in Germany in the state of Schleswig-Holstein between the cities of Flensburg, Schleswig and the Baltic coast. In this area is also the former Viking town of Hedeby.
@TheBarser3 жыл бұрын
@@folkestender2025 it is part of the jutland peninsula though. It was under the Danes control for 1500 years since the angles got conquered, but yeah its been german the last 150 years
@folkestender20253 жыл бұрын
@@TheBarser Yes, but Denmark did not yet exist at the time of the old Angles. The first ancestors of today's Danes came to Jutland from what is now southern Sweden in the 6th century, where they mixed with other West Germanic tribes living there or drove them away. Many displaced Angles therefore emigrated to the British Isles. At the same time, many Saxon tribes also emigrated from what is now Holstein and Lower Saxony because they were threatened by the Franks from south.
@TheBarser3 жыл бұрын
@@folkestender2025 why I said the Danes control and not Denmarks control. The Danes came from scania and Zealand area, and shortly after the migration to the British Isle the Danes took over the jutish peninsula
@folkestender20253 жыл бұрын
@@TheBarser Yes, without the Angles, the Saxons and the expansion of the Danes in the north and the Franks in the south, there would be no English people today. Probably the British Islands would later have been occupied by the Normans and and all there would speak French today.
@Mykil474 жыл бұрын
According to AncestryDNA’s most recent update I am 78% Anglo-Saxon, 10% Celtic, 8% Swedish and 4% Norwegian. Great video my man, you answered a lot of questions I had about my ancestors.
@Mykil474 жыл бұрын
and yes Anglo-Saxon and Celtic are new categories they changed/added for whatever reason. So instead of it saying England/Wales/Northern Europe, it just says Anglo-Saxon. Or Irish/Scottish to Celtic respectively.
@speakingwithshadows7 жыл бұрын
Hilbert, any chance of a podcast some day? I do two 3 hour commutes each week and this would be ideal!
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
That's a good idea! Though I'm not sure if I'll be able to any time soon, although I am working on a longer project at the moment... ;)
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
I've actually started livestreaming on Fridays, not sure if that's something you could download and listen to as the last one lasted for over 2 hours :)
@animeAJproductions4 жыл бұрын
The Angles get their name from the area they were said to have come from in southern Jutland, known as Anglia (Angeln), in present-day Schleswig-Holstein.
@exsistentialis7 жыл бұрын
can you make on the suevi also?
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Certainly in future :)
@jerry23576 жыл бұрын
There are other places with names that indicate a Friesian origin, for instance Frieston near Boston in Lincolnshire, and Friesthorpe, also in Lincolnshire (at least, that is the etymology given in Ekwall's Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, 4ed).
@historywithhilbert1466 жыл бұрын
There are quiet a few actually when you get looking, really makes one wander :)
@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi47332 жыл бұрын
Watched a couple of your videos now and I came to find this one.
@CristoMorelli7 жыл бұрын
Nice video, are you familiar with Widukind?
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you! No, I don't believe I am?
@CristoMorelli7 жыл бұрын
A pagan Saxon leader and the antagonist of Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars, the Germans have a statue of him in Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
@drdoener5354 жыл бұрын
@@CristoMorelli But he was born in Enger and probably died there too.
@duwang84994 жыл бұрын
@@historywithhilbert146 Did you ever hear the tragedy of Widukind? I thought not. It's not a story the Franks would tell you. It's a Saxon legend.
@ZolidSnakeSS45 жыл бұрын
-ton sounds like it comes from "town" which means village.
@WCiossek4 жыл бұрын
The Northfrisian (Germany) and Westfrisians (Netherland) have many villages with the ending um, tum, or sum. For example in Nuurðfriisklön': Keitum (Kairem), Archsum, (Arichsem), Husum, Borkum, Rantum, Borgsum, Utersum etc. Westfrisian: Rottum Dokkum, Hallum, Marrum, Britsum, Berltsum etc. . Um, sum, -tum, ton, sum, and town means home, im german it means Heim.
@asmahk764 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the video a lot!
@Nkwenkl187 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@Dorschtl17 жыл бұрын
Great vid! You might want to start a facebook page with notifications about vids, interesting arcticles and pictures ;)
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! I'm in the process of making one, though I'm having some issues with it at the moment, hopefully I'll have it sorted soon :)
@zhannaibrasheva81676 жыл бұрын
Lol, Kent in Kazakh means a settlement, village.
@bartgielingh22125 жыл бұрын
Now that would be a good start ;)
@vancehawkins95245 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I'd like to learn more.
@frerg83636 жыл бұрын
Very accurate video well done!
@TheModernHermeticist7 жыл бұрын
Solid channel good sir - I'll put it on my recommended list over on my channel page to see if I can drive some traffic over here.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
I'm finally able to view this comment :D Thank you very much, I'm very grateful for your support!
@friesensdiecastcollection27345 жыл бұрын
the East-Frisians and Low Saxons in Lower-Saxony/ Germany have the same/ familar genetic code with native Anglo-Saxons in Northumbria and East-Anglia. I'm a native East-Frisian living between East-Frisia and the Saterland. I'm speaking Sater-Frisian and East-Frisian Low German dialect ( both are languages of Frisians and Low Saxons), High German ( Saxon) and Modern English and I have a west-frisian second name. The East-Frisians had only leaders or chiefs instead of Kings. The High German word "Friesen" for Frisians means free-sons with a rudimental democratic structure. The free-sons / Frisians elected their leaders by votation. The Frisians fall often back behind the eastside of the river Ems between Netherlands and East-Frisia as a natural border against Romans and Franks from the west. Also new modern theories said, that the Frisians were more people like vikings or sea-nomads. The word Frysk for Frisians is similar with the swedish Tysk for "Deutsch"/German and also Dutch. The problem is, that Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and UK have all different theories about the Frisians for their national identity.
@vingerhoedskruid16 жыл бұрын
Nice video. Small point, the Batavians lived in the Betuwe in what is now the Netherlands. They predate the Franks, probably an alliance of Germanic tribes. The Salien Franks were allies of the Romans and lived from the Ijsel to the North of France. In fact Dutch comes from old Frankish. You wil know Clovis, first Christian king of the Franks, born in Doornik, now Belgium, the king who started the long lasting empire of the Franks. Also, the word ton is the same word as "tuin" in Dutch, so not village, but garden I guess.
@Aim4sixmeals6 жыл бұрын
Jelle Alkema De Batavieren
@hallodaar87025 жыл бұрын
The Salian Franks have their origin in the region east from the ijssel which is still called Salland.
@bartgielingh22125 жыл бұрын
Makes sence
@bartgielingh22125 жыл бұрын
I don't think the Dutch lenguage in it's entirety comes from Frankish. Infact; The Frankish aswell as the Saxons wore a union of diffrent ( Germanic??)tribes that had different dialects an perhaps even lenguages. I really think we should not exclude the possibility that our language is of Frisian/Saxon descendence. Take in count the mass migration that took place during the 4th and 5th century. Hell! I even dare to think we sprang from a South Scandinavian people that flead from floods, and hunger during that period! Again. Nothing's really certain about this topic.
@paulingvar5 жыл бұрын
The word "ton" is also behind "town". In Scandinavian languages "tun" is used- once meaning fenced area
@deemor50134 жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation. Thank you.
@desGsicht7 жыл бұрын
Geat video!! Could you do a follow up video about how the transition from Roman/Celtic to Germanic was?
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Saurer Hey thanks for getting in touch! Although there are a few more Anglo-Saxon videos planned, I'll be moving on to some others soon because I've done rather a lot about them recently. I think the topic you mention is a much debated topic, with some sources and DNA evidence pointing to a mass genocide or apartheid of the Celtic peoples by the Anglo-Saxons and others suggesting a simple change in culture spearheaded by a few hundred Germanic settlers. I personally subscribe to a theory that combines the two, that there was a large killing off of Celts but that some remained and mixed with large numbers of Germanic settlers. Hope this answers your question with the information you were hoping to receive :)
@FedorSteeman7 жыл бұрын
Goed om te noemen dat de kusten 1500 jaar geleden heel anders waren. Ik heb een aantal geïllustreerde geschiedenis boeken waarin ze zonder commentaar de moderne kustlijn gebruiken met IJsselmeer en alles! :-O
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Man dat ken ik! Ook hier in Engeland als ze een "ouwe" kaart hebben met gewoon het Afsluitdijk en de Flevo Polder er op ;)
@davidoberholzer77576 жыл бұрын
I guess the coastline has been changed over time and it would be more accurate to use a map of that time.
@RvEijndhoven6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, part of that changing of the coastline is kinda really relevant to one mistake that this video makes, though: The reason why the Saxons and the Frisians are often hard to tell apart isn't due to them 'mixing'. It's due to the fact that the Frisians *were* Saxons. You see, one of the big changes to the Dutch coast happened around 250-300CE, when pretty much the entire western coast from modern Belgium up to the southern end of modern Denmark was completely flooded and not really liveable. The original Frisii, being a Roman client state, moved out during this time and were spread out (either voluntarily or by force) to other areas of the Roman Empire (some of these original Frisii, coincidentally, ended up on the British Isles long before the Anglo-Saxons got there, specifically in Kent). The Frisians that this video talks about were the 'new Frisians': Saxons who settled in the old lands of the Frisii after the waters receded and the area became broadly inhabitable again. (There were a couple of Frisii villages that persisted and merged into the population of these Saxon immigrants, but ironically pretty much none of those were in any of modern Frieslands, neither West, Ost- nor Nordfriesland). Thing is, though: At the time when the Angles and the Saxons crossed over to the British Isles, the Frisians still called themselves Saxons, they were only called Frisians by others (mostly by other Saxons further north). So it's not just likely that Frisians crossed the sea to be mercenaries and later rulers in England, the linguistic similarities between Old English and Old Frisian and the differences between both those languages and Old Saxon actually suggest the possible most or even all of the Saxons who went to England were Frisian Saxons. Which would also explain why the Danes, for instance the writer of one of the knútsdrápa, would later refer to the people of England as 'Frisians'.
@ulrikschackmeyer8484 жыл бұрын
@@RvEijndhoven wow. Interesting. From a Danish perspective.
@SvartsotDK7 жыл бұрын
Cool video, and on the whole well informed. Regarding the Angles, the small peninsula now in Schleswig-Holstein, nothern Germany, between Flensborg, Schleswig and Eckernförde is still called Angeln. So that's the general area you could probably place them in. The etymology of the area could refer to Latin inspired word for a fishing hook, as you say, or be from a Germanic root meaning narrow (as in modern German "eng", and related to the obsolete Danish word "angel" for the tang of a knife, i.e. where it narrows). Schleswig, or Slesvig as it called in Danish, is placed at the one end of the great eathwork known as Dannevirke, that was the traditional border to Denmark, the other end being the rivers Ejderen and Trenen. This was the narrowest defendable point of the Jutlandic peninsula. The earthwork is much newer, but the Angles would have known the topography. Finally, regarding inaccuracies on the map, Denmark was "smaller" back then - the Scandinavian peninsula is lifting and pulling northern Denmark with it causing water levels to have fallen since that period. Depending on the size of the population, the size of the country could have affected the Jutes' decision to settle in Britain. And certainly the Danish Frisian islands are drifting slowly towards the mainland, so they would have looked different then. Liked the theory about the Huns. The whole thing (Rome's collapse, Germanic migrations and the Huns) are indeed all related.
@AholeAtheist7 жыл бұрын
Wow! Love your comment. I'm from New Zealand, and we have a town named Dannevirke here which I knew was named after somewhere in Scandinavia, but I never knew of the Danevirke. It's great to learn of, because I did know that Schleswig was part of Danish kingdoms for many centuries, and have been saying for a while that the Dano-German border should be further south. I think this makes the perfect border. But I'm also a weird fuck. I think a sliver of Lower Saxony including their Frisian islands should be given to the Dutch, and that Belgium should be split up among the Dutch, the French and the Germans. Along language lines, obviously. But if we know ze Deutsch, zey won't like Eastern Willonia and Luxembourg in exchange for this sliver of Lower Saxony and Schleswig.
@SvartsotDK7 жыл бұрын
The borders have changed a lot over the years. As Hilbert did a good job of demonstrating, the distribution of peoples in this part of Europe were very different ca. 450 CE than they were 500 years later (when Denmark officially became one nation under Harald Bluetooth, annexing Norway at the same time), and kept changing until very recently. The duchies of Schleswig/Slesvig and Holstein/Holsten were very important parts of Denmark until they decided to become a part of the federation of German states around the time of the war between Denmark and this federation in 1864. At this time, the Danish border had actually reached to Hamburg. Germany itself didn't exist as one nation until 1871, and the present border was decided upon by the population of these areas through democratic vote after WWI, remaining unaltered since 1920. As Hilbert also mentioned, the western side of North Germany is still known as Ostfriesland (East Friesia as opposed to Friesia proper to the west in the present day Netherlands), and the traditional Friesian territories reach into south west Jutland. The Friesian language has had an effect on various north German and Jutlandic dialects, and the present Friesian dialect is actually intelligible for at least southern Jutlanders when spoken slowly. It seems from the video, that this people never really had their own country to themselves, no matter which period you look at or even where they geographically found themselves - whether it be on the mainland or on Britain! Unfortunately I don't much about Belgium's history, but as far as I know it is a pretty new country from 1830 or so. The creation of Belgium from several areas certainly inadvertently lead to WWI turning into what it did. But as mentioned, borders have changed a lot through history. We think of the world geographically as being a pretty set place, but borders will almost certainly always change - as long as there are people to change them.
@AholeAtheist7 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Recently I saw the Dutch and the Belgians agreed to swap some land to make the borders a bit better. But, my point is, that in Belgium they don't speak Belgian, they speak Dutch, French and German. The Netherlands seems to be the nation that has formed out of this rather informal, yet "doe normaal", group of people, that have history dating back to the Frisian tribe that predated the first Roman empire, and seem to be influenced and further garrisoned by the Flemish cultures in the south. Either way, they speak Dutch, which is obviously the closest to Frisian. They have a distinct culture. Belgium was created via aristocratic bullshit. As for Schleswig-Holstein, I think the reason they democratically voted for those borders to be that way, was probably only due to Germans influencing the culture in the area so that such democratic processes turned out in the greater German favour. It would seem to me that Danevirke presents the most logical border. It seems strange that anyone who even remotely has roots in the area, would see the border to really be anywhere else.
@SvartsotDK7 жыл бұрын
Looks like I'm going to have to read up a bit on Dutch/Belgian history when I get the time, as I simply just don't know enough about their history to be able to comment. But the whole thing - also the Danish/German border part - seems to to be a localised version of world history. There's always been cultural exchange between neighbouring regions (and even non-local regions) leading to rather diffuse cultural heritage in the borderlands. For the issue of the Duchies of Slesvig, Holsten and Lauenborg in the 1860's, there were three political ideas in Denmark. The conservative elements tried to retain the area, the early liberal movement wanted to keep just Slesvig, and the Duchies wanted to go with the Germany Federation, who themselves welcomed the idea. The population were a cultural mix of German and Danish with German being the prevalent (official) language, and always had been.There are to this day Danish minorities south of the border and German minorities north of the border that have seemingly always been there. Trying to put that kind of cultural jumble in one or the other box simply isn't easy and hasn't worked anywhere ever in the long run - as has been seen multiple times in our own era. Even an island nation like the UK (going back to the video) has had, and in many ways still has, problems unifying all of the cultural elements. Population movements (often due to climate change - re. the Hun theory in the video) through history have complicated the matter even further, and is something we're witnessing in the present day. Both locally and internationally it's the same story - we're all a thorough mix of cultural and genetic backgrounds, and unless you happen to come from the Rift Valley and your ancestors always had done, we've all got a lineage that has come from somewhere else and imposed itself on new areas - often intermingling with, if not displacing, another population.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Can I just say I love seeing this historical discussion ongoing in my comments section - really makes my video-making efforts worthwhile :)
@boudicca48415 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much for a concise, factual piece about my country's history. I do get very weary of modern day teaching that is about sympathising with a Roman soldier or whatever & not about historic fact & debate. If more people really understand history we would maybe be able to live in peace without prejudice. Super presentation.
@Champions67HH6 жыл бұрын
I love this channel thank you for the great content
@hisokaswife54415 жыл бұрын
One day i was in class reaserching king tut so i decided to look uped averill meaning wicht is my dads name and it means born in april in anglo saxon and he was born in april wow lol
@gracelewis60717 жыл бұрын
Thank you! that was perfect - how do you learn about this stuff?
@gracelewis60717 жыл бұрын
Looks like my Dad's family is pretty much all Saxon :)
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
No problem at all, glad you enjoyed it :) I've been interested in this area for a while and as such have accumulated a rather impressive collection of books on the subject area from which to draw information. However there are many books now completely digitalised as well as there being really useful sites and information on the internet that with some caution and research into where it has come from can be incredibly useful to would-be historians like myself :)
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
From Germany or genetically Saxons from England :) ?
@gracelewis60717 жыл бұрын
History With Hilbert I find it odd that school didn't teach me any of this. They are all from where the Saxons settled - Sussex especially.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Grace Lewis That seems to be the case with a lot of people I've talked to and it's a real shame we don't learn much about this era at school. Ah okay, interesting :)
@lucygaming55102 жыл бұрын
thank you for everything you made
@tarasaxon43764 жыл бұрын
Amazing video!
@PunkySpunky5 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up if your ancestors are Anglo Saxon Wtf?!? You all took what I wrote was joke but I was just saying thumbs up if your ancestors are Anglo saxons on video about Anglo saxons because i found out that those are my ancestors!
@duwang84995 жыл бұрын
My ancestors are only saxon, does that count?
@witty28985 жыл бұрын
@@duwang8499 no
@duwang84995 жыл бұрын
@@witty2898 F
@sbwende5 жыл бұрын
Sometime I'd like to do a DNA test and see what it comes out with. My wife is a Dane from Southern Jutland & I'm English. It would be interesting to see which one of us comes out most Danish.
@vestty58025 жыл бұрын
PingiMan that is impossible you idiot
@aperson11396 жыл бұрын
english calling germans huns but perhaps they are huns themselves?
@allmightlionthunder55155 жыл бұрын
Erm didn’t they move away from the Huns ? , Huns are north Asians Huns and Mongolians ! lol Islam gets its form of covering women from the Mongolians .
@TheWarriorArts5 жыл бұрын
Not all the German tribes were related to eachother, east of Germania were Alans/huns
@alfredoalejandro875 жыл бұрын
But most Germans are Germanized Celts? How would that work
@mirakuru72714 жыл бұрын
Huns are neither mongol or german speacilly not german
@hoggarththewisesmeagol83624 жыл бұрын
The Huns never invaded England that’s why
@elli0036 жыл бұрын
Do you have a video of Bernecia, Alba, and other pre Scotland tribes.
@johnmcglynn21256 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Very enjoyable. But a few questions: When and why did these tribes migrate? And over what length of time (5 years? 100?) Who was already in England and what was their reaction to this arrival? New subscriber here. Cheers from, San Francisco, CA (USA !)
@historywithhilbert1466 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! I'll try to answer your questions below: Tribes in Europe had been moving for a very long time. Originally most of the tribes in Europe were nomads going right the way back to the Indo-Europeans who moved into Europe from the steppes of Eurasia. Even during the Roman occupation of large parts of Europe tribes were moving for example the Goths, Alans, the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Huns etc. The general scope for the Anglo-Saxon migrations is given as pretty much the decades after the Roman's leave Britain around the start of the 5th century up until the mid to late 6th century or 7th century when the main kingdoms were established. But even this can be called into question because the Romans already on Hadrian's Wall for example had regiments of Germanic tribes, like the Frisian cohort there who may already be viewed as the first "Anglo-Saxons." Why they went is also a good question; probably a combination of opportunity, excessive flooding, other tribes encroaching on their land and possible desire for a better life as well. The people already in England and referred to as the Romano-Britons because they were the Britons, the Celts living in Britain before the Romans arrived, who had in part been Romanised and had intermingled with Latinate peoples (the Romans). What happened to them is the subject of some debate but essentially they lost power in England and were pushed into Wales, Brittany (in Northwest France) and Cornwall in the southwest of England. Hope this answers your question!
@Ampel_off6 жыл бұрын
History With Hilbert Huns were Mongols weren't they? No Germanic tribe.
@Havik996 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure Mercia is the midlands and not on the East.
@fatmanyevo62354 жыл бұрын
Much of the west Midlands was under the rule of the Cymric kingdom of Pengwern initially.
@loopzoop55084 жыл бұрын
I read Mercia as 'Murica
@adronlamb93345 жыл бұрын
King Alfred's lineage is in the Saxon Chronicle and is traced all the way back to Adam through the line of Seth. They were Isaac's Sons, Saxons. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
@j.m.waterfordasxiphanex37385 жыл бұрын
That was excellent. Thanks :D If only there were dates that were known?
@sMiLeR_thewatcher6 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video purely on Cumbria, the amount of change that happened is unreal, from Angles, to Scots to Strathclyders to Vikings to Normans and back to English. I have tested my YDNA with Family Tree DNA for ages now and I have narrowed my tests to a haplogroup that is part of the " Cumbrian Cluster " R-ZP85 (R-DF95's a positive too). After not knowing what Northern Germanic tribe I belonged for ages, even considering every other test I purchased ended in another Northern Germanic Haplogroup and the other SNP's I passed all also being Germanic and Northern, it seems to me it is more clearly Angle now, but on the flipside it could actually be Dane when they took over Cumbria. But with so much change in Cumbria, my bloodline could be crazy mixed. Please do a video on this PLEAASEEEE.
@justparcesv69113 жыл бұрын
Why Anglo-Saxon were described by the ancient historians as “God wrath toward Britain”.?
@PaulDL3 жыл бұрын
I’ve not heard that phrase before though it sounds like how the later Vikings were sometimes viewed. In relation to the Anglo-Saxons it would probably be because they were invading the former Roman Province of Britannia or possibly the because the Anglo-Saxon migration was seen as having a negative impact on the Christian Ancient Britons already living in these territories.
@folkestender20253 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Angles and Saxons still had their pagan belief in the Norse gods, while the British/Celtic indigenous population had already been christinized. With the new immigrants they lost their Christian faith again. Perhaps it means that because of this, God wrath toward Britain. There were two Cristianizations in Britannia. The first around 450 and the second around 587. In the intervening period, Britain had become pagan again.
@cottagecheese24812 жыл бұрын
@@folkestender2025 it wasn’t the Norse gods it was English paganism for example instead of Odin we had Woden which is where we get the name of the day Wednesday or another instead of Thor we had thuner which is where we get the word for thunder.
@powerpunch15456 жыл бұрын
My last name is a old anglo-Saxon last name, Ballard
@Benanimate5 жыл бұрын
Same here, my name's Flegg. Very foreign sounding but it is Anglo Saxon
@hannah.r66135 жыл бұрын
MINE IS TO! Rickit
@randomname50835 жыл бұрын
Godwin
@PiousMoltar5 жыл бұрын
My last name's Welsh, means nothing since my dad took his adopted dad's name, I'm from East Anglia and probably pretty Anglo Saxon or even Viking but my dad was ginger which suggests Celtic roots.
@rohannpienaar74745 жыл бұрын
Congratulations
@b43xoit3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for being Frank (so to speak) about the uncertainties in the study of history.
@terrywilcox46847 жыл бұрын
Interesting, keep them coming.
@historywithhilbert1467 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the feedback! I will be making more videos of this type in future :)
@roterrainer6 жыл бұрын
The province or "Bundesland" you spoke about is not Saxony, but Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). The reason of the shift was Barbarossa.
@amanb86986 жыл бұрын
I'm a native English speaker being American. I also have a Norwegian first name and German last name due to having that heritage among many other European lineages. Now when I took German I would say hmm this is a bit different but related so let's see pulled up Dutch and it's as if Dutch is midway between English and German. Infact Dutch people find learning both English and German easy. Whereas English speakers have to study German more, and German speakers have to study English more. At times Dutch sounds like a mix mash of German and English. Then you have Frisian which is said to be even closer to English and sounds like Dutch mix mashed with English to an English speaker. Now English was influenced by Norman French so changed a bit and lost its gender cases. However connections can still be found. For instance. To say I speak. English = I speak, Dutch/Flemish = Ik spreek, German = Ich spreche. That I spe-ek, spre-ek part tells you the common Germanic origin. Infact when we listened to Old English from Beowulf in High school I could sort of pick it up a small bit, due to studying German.
@shadow_16163 жыл бұрын
thx i have a test tommorrow this helped thank u so much
@maximusdecimus40172 жыл бұрын
Fair to say what we today know as Denmark has left a clear footprint in Britain in either the form of Jutes, Angles (partly) and not the least Vikings and the Norman’s who descended from the Vikings
@tunnelliner.475 жыл бұрын
Was the flooding caused by global warming? Sorry for being ironic. Interesting video.
@ulrikschackmeyer8484 жыл бұрын
If you consider getting out of the last ice-age as 'global warming', sure.
@Hugh_Morris6 жыл бұрын
They ARE the people of England. Germanic pride!
@ricola95336 жыл бұрын
George Havenhand w They were the Saxons not the English The Wngkish came with William the Conquerer they were the Normans they were French Speaking but later spoke English
@Ampel_off6 жыл бұрын
FreedomMonkeyz395 Anglo Saxon descent - Anglican - English
@allmightlionthunder55155 жыл бұрын
I'm Anglo and Saxon ! but i look a'bit Roman
@chrisoleary98765 жыл бұрын
ODIN In other words, the so called "60% Celtic" Britons were used by their French (i.e., Norman) overlords to subdue and conquer their Celtic neighbors...what a bunch of assholes.
@chrisoleary98765 жыл бұрын
ODIN No they were NOT "invited." Dairmait MacMurchada, solicited help from Henry II because he was DETHRONED by the other Irish kings. They (The Normans) were not invited. Get your facts straight, you appear uninformed or choose to make up your own history.
@prepperjonpnw64825 жыл бұрын
I have to question the placement of your arrows. You have the red (Angles) pointed at Essex and other places that have Sax denoting their name. I do know that these are generalities but the Saxons were a bit more spread out than your single ochre coloured arrow presents. Great videos by the way this one turned me into a subscriber. Cheers
@jamesgordon20607 жыл бұрын
Gotta tell you, the video leaves allot to be desired I mean common, from 0:48 to 3:50 its just one plain blue and white image with you talking in the background.
@wyattmathis48546 жыл бұрын
James Gordon and black
@ulrikschackmeyer8484 жыл бұрын
The trick is to listen rather than getting your knickers in a twist!