Age of the Vikings Evolution of the Viking Longship #2 (750-975)
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There were 3 major groups that settled the Netherlands:
1 The Frisians came in along the Northern Coast and settled mostly in what today is the province of Friesland and the area West Friesland.
2 From the east along the river rhine came the Batavians, a Germanic tribe settling in what is now the provinces of Groningen, Drente, Overijssel, Gelderland, Utrecht, Noord Holland en Zuid Holland.
3 From the south came the Franks, they settled in Belgium and the Dutch provinces of Zeeland, Noord Brabant and Limburg.
It amazes me that ever since there was a DNA discovery that the Scots and Frisians share some DNA that every english history teller thinks the whole of the Netherlands where made up by Frisians. Yet the Frisians where a small band of refugees on the run from the Goths settling in a swamp area where only their boats could travel.
The Frisians upto today were never really a part of the Netherlands at any point in time but in name only. They still remain their own ways and language.
If we need to consider the major ancestor to the Netherlands, it's the Batavians who settled more than halve the current country.
You're welcome.
Date: 2022-09-10
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Larry
This is soooo educational!
I don't understand at 12: 58 you reference La Doga, which is present day St. Petersburg, and show on your map a Volga River heading mostly due east out of there. I cannot find such a river east of St. Petersburg, and the river currently called Volga appears to begin at a city called Rybinsk, which is about 300 miles south east of where you show your Volga River beginning at La Doga.
How did the vikings get their boats from La Doga down to the actual Volga? I do see a route from Izboishchi (which is about 200 miles from La Doga as the crow flies) through Kharlamovskaya to Rybinsk, which appears to be the northern most point of a river called Volga.
But how to get from La Doga to Izboishchi?
edit. Oh, I found one way to get closer at least. from Staraya La Doga, down the Volkhov river to Kirishi. but that still leaves them 130 or so miles from Izboishchi to eventually access the Volga.
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This is soooo educational!
I don't understand at 12: 58 you reference La Doga, which is present day St. Petersburg, and show on your map a Volga River heading mostly due east out of there. I cannot find such a river east of St. Petersburg, and the river currently called Volga appears to begin at a city called Rybinsk, which is about 300 miles south east of where you show your Volga River beginning at La Doga.
How did the vikings get their boats from La Doga down to the actual Volga? I do see a route from Izboishchi (which is about 200 miles from La Doga as the crow flies) through Kharlamovskaya to Rybinsk, which appears to be the northern most point of a river called Volga.
But how to get from La Doga to Izboishchi?
edit. Oh, I found one way to get closer at least. from Staraya La Doga, down the Volkhov river to Kirishi. but that still leaves them 130 or so miles from Izboishchi to eventually access the Volga.
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Bretton
If Charlemagne was fighting Scandinavian Pirates in the late 700s, why do they say the 2 attacks on England in the 800s were the beginning, the first viking raids? Before the two raids on England they weren't Vikings, they were bands of Scandinavian Pirates? I'd guess it has more to to with the raids being closer to when the Viking raids became constant and unrelenting in the 900s, and those two raids being written down in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. So later entries in the chronicle referred back to those first two raids, but not the raids on France in the 700s which the writers may have not even been aware of. Then in more recent times when people had access to the multiple accounts from multiple countries over multiple centuries and read about Scandinavian Pirates raiding prior to the first two viking raids, nobody ever corrected the accepted history of when Viking raids started.
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If Charlemagne was fighting Scandinavian Pirates in the late 700s, why do they say the 2 attacks on England in the 800s were the beginning, the first viking raids? Before the two raids on England they weren't Vikings, they were bands of Scandinavian Pirates? I'd guess it has more to to with the raids being closer to when the Viking raids became constant and unrelenting in the 900s, and those two raids being written down in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. So later entries in the chronicle referred back to those first two raids, but not the raids on France in the 700s which the writers may have not even been aware of. Then in more recent times when people had access to the multiple accounts from multiple countries over multiple centuries and read about Scandinavian Pirates raiding prior to the first two viking raids, nobody ever corrected the accepted history of when Viking raids started.
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Dave
climate change? centralization of power? its just as likely, if not more likely, that the Vikings set out not only to gain treasure, but mainly to respond to the christian take over of their lands? I mean the saxons, the franks, the germans, etc, all turning christian, and they were becoming surrounded. What does something do when surrounded? They either die, or fight. Maybe they wanted to protect their culture, their traditions, their memory. Not let their world die out to be taken over by a (how they would prob see it) a simplified and pussified version of their own religion, one that turns men into sheep and women into slaves. Seriously. We cant look at other cultures through an ethnocentric lense. They werent monsters; they were very smart and had big hearts, look at the Germans and Norwegians now. They are a kind and respectful people.
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climate change? centralization of power? its just as likely, if not more likely, that the Vikings set out not only to gain treasure, but mainly to respond to the christian take over of their lands? I mean the saxons, the franks, the germans, etc, all turning christian, and they were becoming surrounded. What does something do when surrounded? They either die, or fight. Maybe they wanted to protect their culture, their traditions, their memory. Not let their world die out to be taken over by a (how they would prob see it) a simplified and pussified version of their own religion, one that turns men into sheep and women into slaves. Seriously. We cant look at other cultures through an ethnocentric lense. They werent monsters; they were very smart and had big hearts, look at the Germans and Norwegians now. They are a kind and respectful people.
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Diana
If they had of taught history thru this kind of method, instead learning irrevelent dates etc, I would have been a straight A student, I had THE worst history teacher ever, a big fat woman that sat on her rear and read from a book none of us had, she had a monotonous low voice that was just abover a mumble and then had us spew it back to her in the form of exam questions, Now almost 70 I am still learning stuff I should have known decades ago, Mrs Martin you know who you are, frightful teacher.
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If they had of taught history thru this kind of method, instead learning irrevelent dates etc, I would have been a straight A student, I had THE worst history teacher ever, a big fat woman that sat on her rear and read from a book none of us had, she had a monotonous low voice that was just abover a mumble and then had us spew it back to her in the form of exam questions, Now almost 70 I am still learning stuff I should have known decades ago, Mrs Martin you know who you are, frightful teacher.
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JETWTF
Excellent documentary, entertaining as well as educational. This exact video style could be done in a classroom by a teacher and teach far more than boring lectures the kids will forget 5 minutes later after the class ended. Allot of people say history is boring. No history teachers are boring, history itself can be fascinating with epic tales that exceeds fiction when it comes to entertainment.
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Excellent documentary, entertaining as well as educational. This exact video style could be done in a classroom by a teacher and teach far more than boring lectures the kids will forget 5 minutes later after the class ended. Allot of people say history is boring. No history teachers are boring, history itself can be fascinating with epic tales that exceeds fiction when it comes to entertainment.
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Bill
So, I was pretty certain that aside from a passing familiarity with Norse culture and history that I knew jack squat about it. After having watched just a couple of your presentations I was informed that I knew way less than jack squat about Norse culture and history. :P That's my very backward way of saying, Great job. I look forward to seeing more of your work. Thank you. Peace.
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So, I was pretty certain that aside from a passing familiarity with Norse culture and history that I knew jack squat about it. After having watched just a couple of your presentations I was informed that I knew way less than jack squat about Norse culture and history. :P That's my very backward way of saying, Great job. I look forward to seeing more of your work. Thank you. Peace.
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bouncingdude
I'm half German and half Swedish. I had a Swedish mother and lived in Sweden for several years. I speak the language. When I hear Old Norse I can understand a little. I can also understand some Old Saxon when I listen to it. Icelandic is basically a continuation of Old Norse. It's interesting how languages have developed over the centuries.
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I'm half German and half Swedish. I had a Swedish mother and lived in Sweden for several years. I speak the language. When I hear Old Norse I can understand a little. I can also understand some Old Saxon when I listen to it. Icelandic is basically a continuation of Old Norse. It's interesting how languages have developed over the centuries.
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Joe
I posted a question in the video preceding this one. You state that the artistic tradition of the Oseburg Ship illustrates a connection to the Ordos and Schythian cultural tradition. However, I think the the curvo-linear knot work and abstract animal representations look more to be Celtic in their origins than from the Central Asian Steppe.
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I posted a question in the video preceding this one. You state that the artistic tradition of the Oseburg Ship illustrates a connection to the Ordos and Schythian cultural tradition. However, I think the the curvo-linear knot work and abstract animal representations look more to be Celtic in their origins than from the Central Asian Steppe.
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6Lime
i'd say that for Scandinavia, the viking age stretched into the 1100s until the whole viking lifestyle and religion changed into christianity. Thus marking the beginning of the medieval age in Scandinavia. There were a lot of revolts in response to the missionaries coming from Germany that tried to convert them to christianity
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i'd say that for Scandinavia, the viking age stretched into the 1100s until the whole viking lifestyle and religion changed into christianity. Thus marking the beginning of the medieval age in Scandinavia. There were a lot of revolts in response to the missionaries coming from Germany that tried to convert them to christianity
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Metacomet
There's an interesting larger lesson here regarding the longboats. Built to work with the sea, not fight against it, allowed the Vikings to reach further and achieve more than anyone else in their time. Maybe it's something we can remember today, not to fight a foe but somehow work with it to win greater success.
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There's an interesting larger lesson here regarding the longboats. Built to work with the sea, not fight against it, allowed the Vikings to reach further and achieve more than anyone else in their time. Maybe it's something we can remember today, not to fight a foe but somehow work with it to win greater success.
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Jamie
For anyone interested in Viking Age Swords they 'MUST SEE' 'The Viking Sword What It Was And Was Not' By Peter Johnsson Here On You Tube. In A Way Mr Johnsson's 'Performance' Is AMAZING. But, Be Sure To Read The Newest Comments Before Watching His Lecture.
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For anyone interested in Viking Age Swords they 'MUST SEE' 'The Viking Sword What It Was And Was Not' By Peter Johnsson Here On You Tube. In A Way Mr Johnsson's 'Performance' Is AMAZING. But, Be Sure To Read The Newest Comments Before Watching His Lecture.
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TheOldPP
Something new in geography of Eastern Europe. At 12. 56 river Volga starts from what is now StPetersburg: ) And Staraya Ladoga in fact us situated on river Volkhov, not Volga, and located about 100 km further East from the location shown on the map.
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Something new in geography of Eastern Europe. At 12. 56 river Volga starts from what is now StPetersburg: ) And Staraya Ladoga in fact us situated on river Volkhov, not Volga, and located about 100 km further East from the location shown on the map.
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tsjoencinema
At 12: 50 you show a map of Scandinavia, where you place the word Danes over Denmark and Swedes over Sweden and Norse over Norway. Why? If you speak of groups of people then Norse covers also Danes and Swedes.
Did you make that map?
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At 12: 50 you show a map of Scandinavia, where you place the word Danes over Denmark and Swedes over Sweden and Norse over Norway. Why? If you speak of groups of people then Norse covers also Danes and Swedes.
Did you make that map?
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education
Hilarious - not only is the entirety of Ireland ignored including the extensive viking attacks which occured on same. It is the only country not even named on the maps. Nothing like a bit of old partisan history from the usual sources
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Hilarious - not only is the entirety of Ireland ignored including the extensive viking attacks which occured on same. It is the only country not even named on the maps. Nothing like a bit of old partisan history from the usual sources
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Candace
I recently had an in-depth DNA test run and it showed several strange oriental ties. My parents were German and Danish, one from each. I've always felt like a Viking and I can see now how possible that could be. Thank you for this study.
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I recently had an in-depth DNA test run and it showed several strange oriental ties. My parents were German and Danish, one from each. I've always felt like a Viking and I can see now how possible that could be. Thank you for this study.
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Tim
Great video! One minor thing: at times you have Oseburg ship instead of Oseberg (burg being a castle in German - borg in the skandinavian languages, berg being a mountain or hill in all of them) the ship is called Oseberg. Cheers!
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Great video! One minor thing: at times you have Oseburg ship instead of Oseberg (burg being a castle in German - borg in the skandinavian languages, berg being a mountain or hill in all of them) the ship is called Oseberg. Cheers!
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McLovin
It still boggles the mind that all this happened after the Roman Empire. Rome must have seemed like the future to this world. not the past. Again, boggles the mind. Great video. Thanks for your time and effort.
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It still boggles the mind that all this happened after the Roman Empire. Rome must have seemed like the future to this world. not the past. Again, boggles the mind. Great video. Thanks for your time and effort.
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Dragon
this video makes me emotional, it's like i'm going on a tour back to a very interesting time in history, i feel somehow connected to the vikings, maybe because i'm norwegian idk, i find them to be fascinating.
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this video makes me emotional, it's like i'm going on a tour back to a very interesting time in history, i feel somehow connected to the vikings, maybe because i'm norwegian idk, i find them to be fascinating.
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Tom
HISTORY TIME, is there a connection to Mississippi river culture. Or. Connection to modern river barges like what travel on the Mississippi already? Seems this shallow draft style might have multiple origins.
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HISTORY TIME, is there a connection to Mississippi river culture. Or. Connection to modern river barges like what travel on the Mississippi already? Seems this shallow draft style might have multiple origins.
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