Ten Minute English and British History #05 -The Vikings and the Danelaw
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2024
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This episode covers the beginnings of Viking activity in the British isles and the creation of the Danelaw through to its collapse and the creation of England. It covers the Danes, the Norse and their respective activities which brought great change to Britain.
Recommended Reading:
James Campbell et al. - The Anglo-Saxons (1991) - It's coverage of the Danelaw is great (if slightly dated) but remember that it won't give much context about the wider Viking world.
Ten Minute English and British History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.
Back on schedule now. Sorry about the changes. All future episodes will be released on Fridays.
Also, I'd like to thank my Patreon supporters for allowing me to buy a new mic.
I'm also starting on the World History videos again now (Thirty Years' War). I can't give a date on when it'll be out but just to let you know they're coming again.
Ten Minute History its pronounced duv lin ( as in bin)
10 Minute History of the Great Nordic War
Nice to have you back!
Barlie Checkwith hey!!!
Thanks for the hard work! Do one about the post WWII please?
And maybe about the 1968's all around the world!!
Where do you find maps of England's geography? I tried looking but I couldn't find anything, specifically a source for this: 1:38
If you have the old coastline of how Britain looked, shouldn't you keep using it throughout the video, instead of using the new map?
Effort!
it really is when understanding how the vikings managed to invade places
You ain't from East Anglia (lucky you).
@@mankytoes i am and im proud. Thomson son of Thomson
Agust Nation would look weird for someone today
That historical map really throws into perspective how much things can change in a couple hundred years.
It's more than a couple hundred, it's over 1000
@@peterhoboif you believe the 900-1800 era actually "happened", you're so dumb lol
Snottingham being renamed Nottingham is one of the unintentionally best decisions made in history.
Can you imagine being born in Snottingham and anyone taking you seriously?
Snottingham forest just doesn't roll of the tongue
I bet the Snerrif got something to do with it!?
And being referred to as a "Snotty" by outsiders would be so humiliating.
IMAGINE MAKING THAT CLAIM? HOW STUPID DOES ONE HAVE TO BE?
@@sentinal2343 Imagine yelling in caps and believe you're seriously in any way.
Snottingham>Nottingham
Threarus Camuwundra This is Shottingham, thanks you very much.
The ting goes skrappa pap...
When he first said Snottingham I didn;t know if it was a joke diss so had to google it
Some of us still call it Snottingham
Sheriff of Snottingham definitely sounds better
Snerrif of Snottingham
How did the English coastline change so much in so little time?
The east coast is mainly marsh area, especially in Lincolnshire
Treaty of Windsor thanks :)
That's still a pretty huge land area.
Now it seems more interesting to see how parts of the world looked like.
^ true
I like how the angles and jutes came from the same place to Danes came from, so the angles and jutes fighting the Danes would be like fighting your brother or cousin
And what will really boil your noodle is that the later Normans were also descendants of Danish Vikings who had been beating up the French into giving them some land and stop setting Paris on fire.
Outside _85 and the the norman duke who conquered England and became its king, William. Was a direct descendant of the norwegian viking duke of paris, Rollo lmao.
When will the fake news talk about the historical white on white crime?!
@@Paul-fl7fs Its pretty likely that he was a dane though. We dont know much about the life of Rollo, but we do know a lot about his descendants. They were all taught danish (or rather the danish dialect of old norse) in Rouen and in De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum commissioned by Richard l (Rollos grandson) they mention a town called Faxe on Zealand.
@@johan8969 Historians say he was Norwegian so I say the same.
Can’t wait till our boy Harold Hardrada shows up
Andrew Bachman then dies
Andrew Bachman yeah I mean he didn’t do that well in Britain tbh. A great guy, but his invasion of Britain basically put an end to the Viking age. A pretty big failure
Aron Johansson Spoilers
SDM zzz. Z z. Z. Z. Z
Hardrada will receive 7foot of English soil seeing that he is taller than most.
Skyrim belongs to the nords.
Glory to the Empire, you Dominion puppets!
Death to the false emperor! Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne!
The Jarl of Whiterun
General S. Patton Long live the Empire! Long live the Emperor!
*Talos worship intensifies*
If you have access to an accurate map of what Britain looked like at the time, why are you using a current map of Britain?
it does make it harder to understand though
@Grayson DuBose You realize that this is all because of land reclamation projects in England right
Because he'd have to keep changing it.
@Woiller- Relic ignorant man of pithy remarks.
Your beliefs don't negate documented events and scientific facts.
Jason Wheaton Climate Change wouldn’t ADD land mass
Eric Bloodaxe that sounds like a name for a awesome heavy metal band
that, or a half blind woodcutter
Halfdan's coin looked more like a CD at first. I thought he was throwing down a fire Norse-metal album, detailing his time in the Great Heathen Army.
Ivar the Boneless?
*B O N E L E S S*
pizza
Ivar Filé
Yes. I bet you can figure out why he was called that lol
ye, he had troubles getting on an erection, you know. the boner-less. you know. there wasn't any pfizer in those days. you know.
His recorded name was Ivar Beinlausi though. Boneless is a modern translation. Beinlausi can mean many things. Lack of bones, lack of legs and even restless. The Irish monks on Shetland recorded some verses about a person called Ivar Beinlausi who travelled to England and later back to Denmark and then to the Baltics. Aka a very restless man.
I really think you should go into more detail about 1:35. I literally am like "WHAT!?" And can't find any closure.
BadMouseProductions BOO!
Most of that land was marshes that was later reclaimed for settlement and agriculture. Also, this time was about the time of the Medieval Warm Period which would have most likely effected sea levels.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Didn’t know Bad Mouse watched 10 minute History.
fucking commie
Love yer vids m8 solidarity forever
So interesting to see how the British coast has changed. Thanks for the upload. Really enjoy these videos.
You think the coast has changed in 1300 years? ha ha ha simpleton, ha ha may be 13000 years ha ha
@@sentinal2343
Coming from you I don't think calling someone a 'simpleton' is a good idea, Sentinal.
@@Wotsitorlabart you think? you,re scarying me, people like you trying to think never ends well!
@@sentinal2343 scarying?
Wasn’t expecting my home town Scunthorpe to get a shout out
Same with Derby and he said it are Darby : - ).
Also from Scunthorpe!
Sources for map at 1:39 ? I can't find anything on the map being that different.
Regarding that obvious change of having a giant part of the ocean in east Anglia
MrRapidPotato plonker
Tbh this is not that accurate because most of it isn’t sea, it’s swamps and alluvium, not just sea.
Ana Paula: I guess the distinction is that it wasn’t usable land, and was very wet, like the sea. Also means there wouldn’t have to be lots of new colours on a simple map.
Be warned: Assassins Creed fans are going to invade this video soon.
No they won’t, they’re not happy with the new game because Ubisoft isn’t doing ninja stuff.
@@hoh5590 What? Why. There's plenty of sneaky stuff in the stories at least.
The overall lack of traditional honor in vikings make a perfect fit for this kind of shit.
MrSnowman I agree but that’s not what they’re saying
@@hoh5590 no clue what you are talking about, am excited for new Valhalla game.
@k10a06p2000 Still waiting for S2
The show/manga went to shit as soon as the prince came
The Great Heathen Army- "There are dozens of us!"... 🤣🤣.. I swear man, it's the little comedy in your videos that get me the most.. lol!
Meikle heaben here. Great heathen army.
WOAH now the English Coastline changed that much in 1000 years? That's actually incredibly rapid change in such a short span of time.
"Don't waste your time looking back, you are not going that way" - Ragnar Lothbrok.
The marshlands were reclaimed throughout the years.
1:40 ck3 lied to me.
Also, why didn’t you use the the coastline as it was back then for the maps?
I found this to be quite a good, simple, but straight forward description of historical events that happened in England in those times, according to historical records. As far as what the records show...... I am American, and a recent ancestry DNA test showed myself and my siblings that we are 38 percent Germanic and 55 percent from English and Scottish ancestry, which is a very common admixture among families where I grew up in the US. A recent data base update showed that my family has a small percentage of Danish and Swedish added to that in which we knew nothing about. I believe that this percentage of Scandinavian genes is directly due to this period in English history. Thank you for the synopsis..
People expects or ask for too much details from a channel that literally named "Ten Minute History" -- i mean the content is pretty much clear -- topics have to be summarized.
Dubh Linn means black pool
Comrade Bepsi Marx The second best Blackpool on the isles lol
Imagine what would have happened if they sent Fulldan instead! 😲
Hehe Snotingham
Could you provide more information on the greatly altered coastline? Links or suggested reading would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. I love your series.
most of the flooded land wasn't deep, mostly marshes and swamps, as the population increased and technology improved most of the swamps were drained and used for agriculture.
Your videos are always interesting to watch, being informative and amusing at the same time. Keep up the good work and do a similar series about France , Germany etc if you have the time.Greetings from Brazil!
He doesn,t know what he is talking about, this is "state education" you were taught at school, you weren,t bright then and nothing has changed, you still know nothing!
monk: the danes are coming
viking: I'm Swedish
monk: Swedish Danish same thing
viking: Did you just call me Danish, you gonna get extra murdered tonight
James Tang "did you just assume My village?"- Ingvar Andersson
That's nothing compared to what the Finns do when that happens
Xavier Saavedra Ride you down from atop an elk while tossing molotov cocktails on your face?
Rambard ;)
@Woiller- Relic Danes, Norwegians,Swedes, Angles,Saxons and Jutes were all genetically related.
Since I've seen vikings and the last kingdom this is really fun to watch.
I feel very cheated out of 1 second of history :(
The Germans have a word schwerpunkt meaning hammer point basically hit them hard at one area. In those times it would take at least a few days to assemble a large army
2:11
"My Lord, the Vikingr have seized the important city of Nottingham"
"Nottingham... Snottingham"
Absolutely love your content my man
2:01 Destiny is All!
are yall gonna do more series in the future? huge fan of this series
Did you get a new microphone? you sound a lot more clear than your previous videos, also I extremely like your content and I'm going to say I think in a few weeks your channel is going to quote on quote blow up.
Also, i think you should do a series on Brandenburg the predecessor to Prussia and it unifying Germany, Good Luck with more videos I love them.
he's finally a touch slower too, which helps
This man really typed out 'quote unquote'... Oh my fucking god
Why was Germany NOT unified? see if you have ANY common sense!
England: *exists*
Vikings: It's free real estate.
My God, the Robin Hood musical was correct in its Snottingham joke!
These episodes are so good! This is what youtube was made for.
Did you not go to school? this is what this is but a really POOR version which can easily be debunked on ALL points, simply hilarious!
are you doing the last kingdom just for me? thank you!
0:47 No, Norse refers to Scandinavian Germanic people in the middle ages, Danes, Norwegians and Swedes (and Gutes I think), as well as the people living in their settlements across the Atlantic and elsewhere. Danes, along with Swedes and other related peoples, eventually started speaking East Norse while the Norwegians and related peoples such as Icelanders started speaking West Norse.
.... So the main take-away I got from this video is that the Vikings beat the Snott out of Nottingham. Got it.
Im not sure about the etymology of 'Viking' since there are (scarce) sources of memorial stones to Danes 'going to/in Viking' and dying on the trip. Its quite possible that in Old English the word would mean raider or pirate (for obvious reasons), but I am under the impression that its older
One part of skandinavia/norway is Vikin, it's on western side in the biggest concave bay, so probably closest bay?. I played too much ck3 I guess.
Also, the current Danish word for viking is pronounced the same as what this video says is the old English pronunciation.
Thanks UA-cam/Google for inundating us with more unwanted advertising. Your greed for advertising dollars is quite impressive. Well done.
Thanks for mentioning the raid on Mercia in 874. That's where and when my family name originated.
How do you pronounce it?
@@ildart8738 Ggdivhjkjl
There's a show on Netflix about this now, called the last kingdom. Follows a guy named utrid in his service to alfred
I seriously LOVE this channel. It is so informative and fun! You know, I really enjoy history and I find it pretty fascinating how small things can incite life-changing events, and how everything just simply... connects in a way.
I am truly grateful for this channel and for all your hard work; it just makes it sooo much easier for me to learn more about this world, and it just satisfies my curiousity!
Thank you man!
Another fantastic episode, mate!
Great video. Just want to note that Eoforwic is pronounced more like ‘Er-for-which’
4:09 this applied to the various jurisdictions of Scandinavia too. The lives of locals were worth more than the lives of their neighbours which were in turn worth more than the lives of more remote Scandinavians etc etc.
Its quite Greek when you think about it, which will probably piss off everyone
You explain in 10 minutes what would take me an hour.
Norse does not mean, from Norway. Norse is a common term for Danes, Swedes and Norwegians. People from Norway are called Norwegians.
Also, there very plenty of recorded raids before 790's. The raids of North men and Norse wolves and Danes were mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles and Frankish Annals long before.
Lindisfarne was just the first time recorded they went for a power center and a christian monastery.
“The great northern army” is such a badass name
1:38 umm how come? Were the sea levels higher?
"Snottingham"... this really cracked me up...
Thank you so much for this video, I had no clue what my Viking History book was talking about, this made so much more sense!
YOUR STILL IN THE SAME PLACE AS HE OBVIOUSLY AINT GOT A CLUE, YOU NIETHER, STATE EDUCATION IS A HELL OF A DRUG!
I want to go to bed, but I can't stop watching. I thought England would be united two episodes ago! Hahahah.
6:42 Scunthorpe, the city that failed to get past the filters.
Jackninja5 Does Penistone get by the same filters?
First Cynic Does Lightwater?
Snottingham. I chuckled.🤭
This helped me with my homework ty
Interestingly, about the thing you said where place names usually ended with "by" or "thorpe".
In both Norwegian and Dansih, "by" means "city". So even though it could just be a coincidence... that could probably be the reason behind it,
As he said, "by" and "thorpe" were Norse words introduced into their English territories. Also English, Danish and Norwegian are all descendants of the old Norse language one way or another, so hardly a coincidence :)
That’s also how you i.d. viking era towns in DK (feks hedeby or dalby).
0:30 Wait. "Vikingr" is Old Norse not Old English.
Phrenomythic its funny. In Swedish "viking" means "den som bor i viken" aka "he who lives in a bay"
Rough translation i know
Yeah, thought so too, as Old English lacked a 'v' sound. So the next question is: is Old English "wīcing" an approximation of the Norse "víkingr", or their own inherited cognate of it?
Old English did have "v" sound, if "f" was in the middle of end of the word. And they called Vikings "wicing" which would be pron. "wiching" ("ch" as in Chester)
SG710 Ah right, it appeared as an allophone of /f/. But it wouldn't have appeared in initial position, which suggests "viking" is originally a Norse word.
That's cool to know my family name Kerr stems from the Old Norse kjarr which means marsh dweller
the monk saying "come at me bro" was amazing
@History Matters...
I think we should separate the term Anglo-Saxon.
The fact that the Jutes, Angles & Saxons were DIFFERENT tribes fighting each other from 455-927 defines that part of this land’s history. What do you think?
You guys are great
You should have added a "Tv-Series VIKINGS SPOILER" ;)
i doubt it, vikings the tv series isn't really based on history, yeah a lot of history is in it, but it's mostly based on myths and legends.
2:09 I sneezed as you said Snottingham
Love the Old English names.
Niweoforwic
Wait, why was it so flooded?
it was swampland and marshes that were drained later on.
The Fens are a mostly reclaimed area of land, much like the Dutch polders. Known for their flatness and abundance of cabbage
EJ Vlogs 'n Gaming have. You heard of the medical warming period in the Middle Ages a global warming occurred which helped the Vikings a lot........
He he so that's why Holland has a water problem.
Since the ice age land that used to be under the icesheet has risen. Many parts of Denmark has risen some 10m over the last 1000 years, many Viking harbors are now far inland.
Viking is not from Old English, it is from Old Norse, and indeed, is not known in English before 1807. From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online:
Origin and Etymology of viking
Old Norse vīkingr
First Known Use: 1807
But, keep up the good work! I thoroughly enjoy your videos.
totally brilliant
loved it
Im watching “The Last Kingdom” rn so this is enjoyable
Can you some day do an overview of the Vikings in America?
They always fail in the playoffs.
What?
@@DoctorX101 Fran Tarkenton.. the Great American Viking..
Always a valiant and glorious Viking!!
(He did go on a few trading voyages)
Always defeated in American Football's version of Ragnarok..
Always worthy of lifting a mug in respect and honor!!
As a Seahawk Fan 💙💚, "Skaal!!" or "Skol!!"..
Be Well Sir!! 💜💛 😀
@@michaelfritts6249 Excellent! Good ol' Fran, deserved to win one. Though not My Team™, I always sort of root for them as an underdog!
@@DoctorX101Nice part is UW Huskies purple and gold hearts were not hard to find (used quite a bit lately) and work well for the Vikings.. 😉
Be Well!! 😃
@@michaelfritts6249 You too! Not sure who to root for. Have UW and Michigan connections. 😅
I'm watching this after finishing all 6 seasons of Vikings and 4 seasons of Last Kingdom! Same years from the opposite sides!
Better than either show are the Uhtred (Saxon Chronicles) books by Bernard Cornwell.
get a life westoid
Great video keep up the awesome work
Danes were also Norse. People from Norway are called Norwegians ;)
And Dublin was one of the few cities in Ireland under Danish rule and not Norwegian.
Yes. I’m guessing confusion over the location of DK central to but not on the Scandinavian peninsula. The Danes are still Scandinavians, as well as historically a Norse people. It’s just the name of the historic kingdom that marks the place as Denmark, and the people as the Danes.
@@mrtulipeater The Scandinavian peninsula is naved after Scandinavia, not the other way around. Just like Persia isn't inside the Persian Gulf ;)
@@Carewolf Good way to explain it. A little different as the gulf is bordered on one side by historic Persia (it’s also sometimes called the Arabian Gulf).
While the DK part of Scandinavia is separated by the Baltic’s waters. I think of it as Scandinavia being the DK hand fitted in the NO and SE glove.
3:33 whiterun guard just vibing in the corner
I think Vikingr is old Norse not old English, I'm pretty sure old English didn't have the letter K.
Yes they did not used the "K" character, instead they used the letter "C". I think this hangs together with the Roman ancestry, and therefore the Latin heritage in the English language. And later, the Brittish people adapted some French words in their language too.
@@patrichausammann how did they pronounce 'king', then? did they just say 'rex' instead?
@@the_rover1 As I recall the legend of King Arthur, he was called in the mentioned grave inscription "REX". As I know, they called the king "cyning" in Old English, which is derived from the Old High German "Kuning" or the Middle High German "Künic".
If anyone asked me, I would suggest that all of these terms are "interlinked" and that the European terms could come from the East, possibly assimilated by the Goths (Got. "Kuni"). In the Celtic language, the term for king was "rigs", which seems to be a foreign word, directly related to the Latin term "REX".
@@patrichausammann thanks for your hints.
Great videos really enjoying them. Irish people pronounce Dubh - Linn as ‘Dove’ Linn, the emphasis on the B as it become Dublin came later
its always been Dublin as its not your language or land, but you don,t know that do you? or you wouldn,t ,make such stupid comments like your boy has the audacity to talk Britons history as if ANY of you are Britons therefore not British!
Looking at the 250 likes + 1 (me) and no dislikes shows how amazing your channel is, thank you for enlightening me
Love these videos
I know you probably won't see this but where did you get the map for englands coast line in the dark ages
Marker for where Iona is is wrong. Currently points to Islay. Iona is a small isle off of the Isle of Mull.
Nottingham? More like SNOTTINGHAM amirite
Abdul Masaiev that was hilarious
Bit weird to make distinction between Danes and Norse, since Norse would just be a generel term for people that lived in Scandinavia and spoke old norse.
I really want to know more about how the english coastline got changed so dramatically
most of the flooded land wasn't deep, mostly marshes and swamps, as the population increased and technology improved most of the swamps were drained and used for agriculture.
This video is not 10 minutes disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't think I missed the Arrested Development reference
1:38 How do we know the coastline looked like that? I mean if true, that was presumably because the sea level was higher, but how do we know that? Anything I can find on Google says the sea level was lower in recent the recent decades and millenia
It was drained
Dutch land reclamation methods were used after the 16th century to make more farmland.
Ivar the flatpack brought over Scandinavian furniture that the anglo saxons couldn't assemble.
That's good
I would like to say that it was the kinsmen of the Danish and Anglish folks of the Danelaw that gave us the English tongue that we all speak today therefore Todays spoken English is not rooted in the Old English that was spoken in Winchester the head-town of the Kingdom of Wessex and England at the time of the Norman takeover of England in 1066. The Normans shifted the head-town back to London after taking over England and banned English from everyday speech for almost two hundred years. After the ban was lifted the Anglish-Norse speech of the Danelaw had become the everyday English speech of London and much of South East England so that it became the chosen speech of the English Kings and that of the whole land henceforward to this day. Our days of the week and our numbering are all rooted in Old Norse as are the ordering of our written and spoken words. Our laws and the word law itself comes from Viking speech, so do many thousands of everyday words such as ‘many’, ‘low’, ‘after’, ‘of’ ‘from’, ‘they’, ‘their’ ‘them’, king, Queen, till, already, almost, beg, therefore, owe, awe/awesome’ ‘take’, ‘loan’ and so on and so forth. End.
I have written the above passage to demonstrate that it is possible to write comfortably in pure 100% Anglo-Norse English (real English speech) without resorting to the french, Latin and Greek borrowings and jargons that we are thought to use in order to polish and refine our formal writing and speech if it is to be to be taken seriously. That is the legacy left by Norman feudalism on the English and how they view and use their language in different circumstances but the deluge of french, Latin and Greek loanwords didn’t start much later in the 16th century when Oxbridge scholars imported french, Greek and Latin loans into the English language in order to smarten it up from its unpolished Anglo Saxon character, and in order to sound educated and sophisticated. You can see the difference between both passages above.
The Normans did not ban English from everyday speech for 200 years - how would that be possible?
1:39 What?! Why was I never taught this before?!
Good video👍🏼
After you finish the english history could you do a video about the great moravia
Snottingham, just down the road from Poopingham.
2:09 'Snottingham'
I laughed hard!
Legend has it, when the Vikings came, they asked the locals about the name of the town and the locals, wanting to annoy them, started saying "Nottingham" every single time they met a Viking. After a while, the frustrated Vikings started answering with "Nottingham Snottingham!". And that's how the town was renamed...
Nottingham was Snottingham??? :D
That's my favourite fact of the week.
I didn't know Yorwick was renamed by the Vikings. I thought they founded it!