Thanks for watching! Please let me know your thoughts below and if you would like to vote on which video topics I make videos on, please check out my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/historydecoded Sources: Vai, S., Brunelli, A., Modi, A. et al. A genetic perspective on Longobard-Era migrations. Eur J Hum Genet 27, 647-656 (2019). doi.org/10.1038/s41431-018-0319-8 Amorim, C.E.G., Vai, S., Posth, C. et al. Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics. Nat Commun 9, 3547 (2018). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06024-4 Supplementary info. 41467_2018_6024_MOESM1_ESM.pdf Germanic Europe Genetic Groups - 23andMe Blog Suebian knot - Wikipedia Discovering Germanic European Roots with DNA and Records Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages - Hugh McColl et al. bioRxiv 2024.03.13.584607; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.13.584607 Gretzinger, J., Sayer, D., Justeau, P. et al. The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool. Nature 610, 112-119 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2 Genetic origins of the Goths Stolarek, I., Zenczak, M., Handschuh, L. et al. Genetic history of East-Central Europe in the first millennium CE. Genome Biol 24, 173 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-03013-9 Stolarek, I., Handschuh, L., Juras, A. et al. Goth migration induced changes in the matrilineal genetic structure of the central-east European population. Sci Rep 9, 6737 (2019). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43183-w Genetic history and DNA ancestry project of the Benelux & France - Eupedia A brief history of the Franks - Eupedia Krishna R. Veeramah, Andreas Rott, Melanie Groß, and Joachim Burger (2018) - Population genomic analysis of elongated skulls reveals extensive female-biased immigration in Early Medieval Bavaria | PNAS SI Appendix - Population genomic analysis of elongated skulls reveals extensive female-biased immigration in Early Medieval Bavaria pnas.1719880115.sapp.pdf p.53 Anglo-Saxons - www.saxon.surrey.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=1412&type=pdf Gretzinger, J., Sayer, D., Justeau, P. et al. The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool. Nature 610, 112-119 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2
Great video mate! I have an suggestion to make which may surprises you. When we listen to ppl we mainly look in their eye area (eyes us brows) Your Brows are unfortunately barely visible, it might aid your explanatory style of vid. If you get some minoxidil to grow them thick and dye them to the color of your beard - That would enhance this part of the face and make it easier for your audience on subconscious level to follow. I know it's sounds vain or superficial but it has real benefits especially if a lot of ppl see your face. Cheers I hope your channel will grow more. Like your style of presentation.
@@boxsterman77my first guess was Russia as it is so big and has many ethnicities. But then I remembered that my biology teacher in high school once mentioned that genitic variation is still highest in Africa. I believe modern humans are from East-Africa, so Ethiopia or Kenya could be decent guesses. Although countries like the US or Brazil have people from all over the world (including Africa) living in them. So I don't know anymore, but I think Kenya or the US.
Had to wait 40 years to hear non BBC English on official website. Thanks for the interest in history. There is much connected in Europe, much more than we think.
Sorry to hear it took so long. However, it wasn´t quite necessary as the BBC documentary Coast was (co)presented by Neil Oliver. That was, at least around 2010, probably earlier. Check out his accent if you don´t know him. I, personally, would love to talk like that!
The 1st Millennium AD was truly the Germanic Millennium. They halted Roman territorial advance at the Rhine river - arguably beating the world's premier superpower. Not just that, but they would go on to completely overthrow them. And just a few centuries later, the Vikings would sweep in and connect two hemispheres centuries before Columbus, as well as establish Russia, which would become the single largest country on earth.
The Germanic tribes are often desribed as having blonde hair. But it is well-documented that the Germanic tribe that destroyed the Roman Legions at the Battle of the Teutburg Forest had red hair. I suppose many of these "Germans"were fair-haired, but red hair is more strikingly obvious and this would catch the attention of the enemy! Also, one sees many dark-haired Germans, particularly in the South of Germany, but they rarely get a mention...and while I am here, a lot of Danes and Dutch people seem to have red hair. So, it's not just the Scots and the Irish! And the English have a fair number of red-heads... the Danish connection!
This is not well "well-documented" at all. The Roman authors didn't talk about hair colour much, and the Germanic tribes themselves were illiterate and didn't write anything at the time. Real red hair is very rare in Scandinavia today, reddish blond is however quite common. Norway and especially Iceland have more redheads because of import of Irish or Scottish people during the Viking age (slavery).
@BillyThetit It isn't as rare as you obviously think. Red-heads are all over Europe... and not just the "strawberry blonde" variety. I'm in a Black Metal band... travel all over Northern Europe... Danes, Dutch, Germans, Swedes et al. Redheads are everywhere. In fact, blonde hair - and I don't mean the mousey/light brown that dark haired people call "blonde" - is rarer than people think...what with hair dye and everything. And I have often noticed that very blonde people will often have a red-haired, brother or sister, etc. Tacitus discussing the Germans mentions red-haired Germans... and many historians in the ancient world mentioned blonde-haired and red-haired Germans. Study a little more history...
I'm from Lombardy and I have blonde hairs and blue eyes with a pale as f**k skin, people always say I don't look Italian, but Scandinavian. I took a DNA test comparing my DNA with ancient population graves. 4 on 10 closest graves to my DNA were Longobards graves. I don't know if that thing is reliable, but i find it interesting. Ciao!
Thank you for another great video. Angles is pronounced by coming down hard on the L letter just like you do in the word English. Angles is the earlier version of the same word and would be very close to being phonetic based on the time period it was first written. Based on chats with other Right Anglz and Set Squares, I am the only man in the world who knows this, so I share it with your excellent channel.
I’d love for you to do a video like this focused on Polish genetics. I know the belief that we Poles were descended from the ancient Sarmatians of antiquity was a major part of Polish culture, forming the ideology of Sarmatianism. Do genetics provide any validity to this once commonly held belief?
The origins of the Goths is now well known: Stolarek et al. (2023) and Antonio et al. (2022) both sequenced genomes from the Wielbark culture Goths including samples from multiple sites all over the territory of the Wielbark culture in large numbers. The results are in alignment with archaeological findings, burial practices, isotop analysis etc All strongly suggesting that the Wielbark culture formed through migration from Southern Scandinavia. A large majority of the Wielbark culture samples autosomally carry predominantly Scandinavian Y-DNA haplogroups. The most common Y-DNA haplogroup among the Wielbark individuals was Y-DNA haplogroup I1-M253, characteristic of the Nordic Bronze Age in Southern Scandinavia,
E-v13 is almost non-existent in North Africa and completely absent in SSA, including East Africa. In fact, E-V13 is almost exclusively European. Moreover, the Lombards cluster with Scandinavians.
Thanks for this very interesting video, I am mostly a descendant of the franks through the Flemish people. I love your accent, it reminds me of my time in Scotland. I rarely meet a more warmhearted and welcoming people than the Scots. Such a beautiful country
Humans are such an incredible mix of genes 🧬. So many migrations over many thousands of years. What a journey!!! Thank you for your research & video!! 👏🏻
I'm of northern Italian heritage, Lombard, Goths came up on my genetics and German cherusci besides a ton of Gaul Although I dont have the typical blonde blue eyes look Hence I spent living my entire life thinking I was Roman.. Instead It was anything else that fought against them 😂
Im three quarter English, and England born and I have Germanic DNA and Scandinavian DNA, most of my English family are on the blonde or (lessor) red haired, blue eyed, spectrum, presumably this comes from Saxon and Viking heritage.
I'm from Lombardy and I have blonde hairs and blue eyes with a pale as f**k skin, people always saying I don't look Italian, but Scandinavian. I took a DNA test comparing my DNA with ancient population graves. 4 on 10 closest graves to my DNA were Longobards graves. I don't know if that thing is reliable, but i find it interesting. Ciao!
No no no you got totally wrong....The blonde ,white hair ,blue eyes ,white skinned Finnish people inhabitated Europe long before ( at least 40 thousand years) the arabs etc came here and got mixed with the original europeans, the finns.
Ole aivan oikeassa suomalaisen ovat maailman vaalein ja sinisilmäisin kansa ja varmasti Euroopan alkuperäis kansa germaanit ovat tulleet idästa kaikki muu on paska puhetta 🤔
Its is believed that gives blond hair came from somewhere around the Black Sea , it was a genetic mutation but not many have it i think it was less then 4% in the world.
I’m blonde and green eyes, but am short (4’10”) athletic in my younger years, still very active now. Don’t know if my stature is genetically predisposed or if it’s because I was a premature baby. Everything works, though 😂😂😂😂❤
@ I trained in Kung Fu and Chin Na for quite a few years and know leverage is my friend ; when you’re below your opponent they usually don’t know what to do with you, OR think they have the upper hand. WRONG 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@lisasuhr6433 I trained in and taught European Martial Arts as well as doing a bit of Aikido. Unfortunately I had the sort of job where being able to send somebody quickly to the floor was a prerequisite (as a last resort of course !) Height and reach are no longer an advantage when you get a foot closer. I now avoid anything that looks like its could turn nasty. I only meet people I want to meet, which is far more civilized. 🙏🏻
@@mihaiilie8808 Wouldn't "Balkanic be I2 ? I mean Croats and Slovenes and Serbs I thought brought in the R1a ? and Croats and Slovenes are of now are pretty much a mix of I2 and R1a with very little R1b
My half Italian / half Spanish wife actually looks Scandinavian. Most likely a lot a Goths and Lombards in her ancestry. I know her mother's Spanish side was descended from Spanish Noble Families, and her father of 100% Northern Italian ancestry has very light skin and blue eyes.
There was a study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Granada, Spain. On eye colour of Spaniards. The full title of the study is "Iris colour: validation of a new classification and distribution in a Spanish population-based sample." Here are the complete results of the study. 28.5% of Spaniards have Brown eyes. 52.2% have Hazel-Green eyes. 16.29% have Blue--Grey eyes.
They say that like 75% of the world population has brown eye's. That's not true the majority of the world population (non Caucasian) has really dark brown eyes where the iris is barely distinguishable from the pupil. Proven by eye colour polls on UA-cam. Last one I voted in had around 77,000 votes. Black 75% Brown 10% Blue 5% Green 5% So the majority of people pick black when they have the option to pick brown. Why? because their eyes are really dark and look black. Just like hair colour. So really dark brown eyes shouldn't be in the same category as brown and light brown eyes. I'm Spaniard of Galician heritage, I have brown eyes but when I look in the mirror I can see the pattern in my iris, and there's a dark ring around the perimeter of my iris. More than half the people on both sides of my have either Blue, Green or Hazel eyes. One of my brothers has light green eyes. My other brother has Amber eyes like my father. My maternal grandmother had dirty blonde hair and blue eyes.
They say that like 75% of the world population has brown eye's. That's not true the majority of the world population (non Caucasian) has really dark brown eyes where the iris is barely distinguishable from the pupil. Proven by eye colour polls on UA-cam. Last one I voted in had around 77,000 votes. Black 75% Brown 10% Blue 5% Green 5% So the majority of people pick black when they have the option to pick brown. Why? because their eyes are really dark and look black. Just like hair colour. So really dark brown eyes shouldn't be in the same category as brown and light brown eyes. I'm Spaniard of Galician heritage, I have brown eyes but when I look in the mirror I can see the pattern in my iris, and there's a dark ring around the perimeter of my iris. More than half the people on both sides of my family have either blue, green, or hazel eyes.
Have to find out what parts of Spain and Italy. Northern Italy would be more likely to be Lombards. There's also the possibility of Nori/Helveti Celts in Italy or Celts/Celt-Iberians in Spain.
Well I1 and I2 - I'd read that I1 went up into Scandinavia via France as the ice retreated but I don't know - plus the originally peoples of the region that Croatia inhabits were the I2 peoples Dalmacians ? Dacians ? the Croats Serbs and Slovenes I am pretty sure were R1a peoples - so it's really a misnomer to call that region Croatia - it should be called Croatian Damatia or Dacia (not sure which) - I watched a Swedish video of a band where it sounded a bit 'un European' - like I could see the Balkan connection - look at old pictures of Sweden and Norway - they dress a bit different Scandinavian's are also very mixed with R1a and R1b - so even there they are like Balkan peoples - a balanced mix of I and R
The idea that peoples of the past had more uniform and stereotyped appearances than modern peoples is just plain wrong. The English of today have very significant amounts of North Sea Germanic ancestry, but they are overwhelmingly heterogeneous in appearance, and are characteristically brown-haired in the main - blond and red hair being in a definite minority (especially fast blonds, blonds that remain blond into adulthood). My ancestry derives largely from the Danelaw area of England (especially Yorkshire and Lancashire). My Y haplotype is R-Z19, a sub-group of R-U106, that originated in Southern Scandinavia in the Nordic Bronze Age. My DNA is 67% closer to ancient DNA from Viking Age burial remains than those of other modern people, and is closest to Viking Age remains from Denmark and Sweden. I was very blond as a small child, but this darkened to a deep mid-brown by my teenage years, I have very dark hazel eyes. My Germanic ancestry seems quite strong, but my appearance is nothing like the stereotype you present.
@@4further.information If you ignore the spread of Neolithic farmers across Europe, then the Bronze Age migrations of the Yamnaya and the Beaker People, then the migrations of the Cimmerians and the Sea Peoples. Then later the spread of the Phoenicians and the Greeks throughout the Mediterranean, the Greco-Macedonians into Egypt, Syria, Iran and as far as India, the Celts sweeping into Italy, the Balkans and Asia Minor. If you ignore all these, then yes things were stationary.
@@BillyThetitwait, why do u care about physical traits? I mean if u want better policy for immigration then that’s fine but the motivation should never be racial.
The Catholic Church was Rome's final curse against the Germanic peoples. The forced conversions of Germanic derived nations into Catholicism drove a wedge between these nations and the root Germanic population that still followed the Old Ways. Rome itself was doomed the minute that violent religious zealots from the Middle East took control of their society. After the forced conversions of the pagan Roman population by Catholic emperors, Rome began to decline and only lasted another 2 centuries.
You're not wrong. When me and my sister were flying to New York about a decade ago the flight attendant thought we were German (even though we're Scottish). I'm 6' 3" as well, she is 5' 1" though :)
@ Blond Hair and Brown Eyes are found in the Ukraine. The Thing is that in Scandinavia and Northern Germany the Ratio of People with Blond Hair and Blue Eyes are significantly Lower as in Finnland Estonia and the Petrograd Region of Russia. Maybe Finn Ugric Men were more attractive to Blond Women.
this is not correct. Finland has a population of 5 Millions and Estonia of 1 Million. Germany, Austria and German speaking Switzerland togehter have more than 90 Million people, not to speak of the Netherlands with 18million mostly blond people, adding the Flames of Belgia, some million blond French, some million blond English. You have at least 20 Million blond people in western Europe. And with Denmark, Sweden and Norway some more million blond people.
@ It is about the Percentage of the People. Russia, Ukraina, Poland, Latvia Tchechia, Slowakia and Lituania and the USA also have many blond haired blue Eyed People. But the South of Finnland, Estonia and the Region of Petrograd has the highest Percentage of blue Eyed Blondes. I know many „Teutonic“ Peoples will believe in their Exclusive Blue Blond Germs.
Not true. The netherlands, Denmark and the United States of America are all predominantly from the germantic tribe people and have blonde hair and blue eyes
Visigoths the best goths, Ostrogoths and Gepids are romanians with I2a, not I1. I1 are Suebi the swedes. Suebi were civilised by the south goths with I2a.
Both Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties ware Frankish and thus Germanic. Even the emperor Charlemagne and his immediate descendants were still Germanic speaking in the 9th century AD.
read a history book to get correction, both were Franks and thus germanic. The Franks are still inhabiting Germany. They are called FRanken and they speak Frankish and many of them are blond, me including. They live in the Northern half of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in regions called FRanken. One part of the Franks stayed in France, giving their name to the country which is mainly gaulish.
Not necessarily true, not even exclusively. There are particular subclades of broader NW European that are exclusively Germanic. I haplogroups are simply WHG lineages, whereas R1 haplgroups are simply Indo-European lineages. You can’t really associate particular culture or population groups of particular historical periods without going downstream subclades, anyways. Base haplogroups are prehistoric
@@iainmc9859 Looks like origins of first Arians where on Ural mountains from haplogroup R1a and when exatly mutation in haplogroup R1a1 ocured i dont know ...All the best my friend no ofence
Probably not. Genetic variation originates in populations, but they probably do not correspond to these much later labels from the last 3,000 years or so such as Celt or German. Most of these mutations go back much further. Many of the Vikings had brown eyes, but did have genetic mutations for dealing with local endoparasites in Scandinvia for example.
It's a joke. But seriously I think it was the BBC that made a statement like that. Not about Germans, but about the British people having dark skin thousand years ago.
Historical tidbit. Lombards in Old English is spelled as Longbeardan. Literally the tribe of the Longbeards. They established an English quarter in Rome shortly after our conversion to Christianity. We were buddies!
the suebis - a latin word- are still living in Germany. Their name in German is Schwaben. They live in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. Caesar fought against them and pushed them back over the Rhine where they later got the name Allemani out of which the French called all Germans Allemands. A part of the Schwaben moved to Spain and built a kingdom there.
Ancient people had no conception of race or nationality. They grouped together in pursuit of common material interest, not their history or complexion, and developed new languages to bridge, not propagate, their cultural differences. They were not inbred: genetic investigation of ancient "vikings", "normans", "celts" etc consistently finds mongrel genetics. Thus every "tribe" was genetically mixed (except in very extreme cases of geographical isolation) and no tribal label is truly ancient. Using "haplogroups" to try and prove racial continuity is tautological - because haplogroups are defined in the first place as gene clusters that are exceptional for being persistent over time. Tribes were usually named by others after the languages they spoke, thus "the Franks" were anybody who spoke Frankish and the "Angles" was anybody who spoke Anglish. The "Scots" are a bit of an anomaly, considering the ancestral language of most of todays "Scots" was English. Edinburgh was the first major city in Britain where English is recorded, having been adopted in the course of its Baltic maritime trade. I suspect the word "Scot" was extended to anyone from the northwest who couldn't be understood by their neighbours. Just saying.
I must say, this is the most correct comment regarding human populations and our collective past on this video. Anceint people have been mixing with eachother since the very beginning No human group has remained static. Whenever I hear someone say " I want to preserve my race" I say from what period ?
If you knew three words of a Slavic language and were a little inclined to think, you would understand that the name of the Prussians says that they are Slavs.@@EnglishShieldwall
If only there were a feature where you can choose a slower playback speed. But even if there were such a feature, do you think morons would ever catch on to it?
Thanks for watching! Please let me know your thoughts below and if you would like to vote on which video topics I make videos on, please check out my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/historydecoded
Sources:
Vai, S., Brunelli, A., Modi, A. et al. A genetic perspective on Longobard-Era migrations. Eur J Hum Genet 27, 647-656 (2019). doi.org/10.1038/s41431-018-0319-8
Amorim, C.E.G., Vai, S., Posth, C. et al. Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics. Nat Commun 9, 3547 (2018). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06024-4
Supplementary info. 41467_2018_6024_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
Germanic Europe Genetic Groups - 23andMe Blog
Suebian knot - Wikipedia
Discovering Germanic European Roots with DNA and Records
Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages - Hugh McColl et al. bioRxiv 2024.03.13.584607; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.13.584607
Gretzinger, J., Sayer, D., Justeau, P. et al. The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool. Nature 610, 112-119 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2
Genetic origins of the Goths
Stolarek, I., Zenczak, M., Handschuh, L. et al. Genetic history of East-Central Europe in the first millennium CE. Genome Biol 24, 173 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-03013-9
Stolarek, I., Handschuh, L., Juras, A. et al. Goth migration induced changes in the matrilineal genetic structure of the central-east European population. Sci Rep 9, 6737 (2019). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43183-w
Genetic history and DNA ancestry project of the Benelux & France - Eupedia
A brief history of the Franks - Eupedia
Krishna R. Veeramah, Andreas Rott, Melanie Groß, and Joachim Burger (2018) - Population genomic analysis of elongated skulls reveals extensive female-biased immigration in Early Medieval Bavaria | PNAS
SI Appendix - Population genomic analysis of elongated skulls reveals extensive female-biased immigration in Early Medieval Bavaria pnas.1719880115.sapp.pdf p.53
Anglo-Saxons - www.saxon.surrey.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=1412&type=pdf
Gretzinger, J., Sayer, D., Justeau, P. et al. The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool. Nature 610, 112-119 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2
Great video mate!
I have an suggestion to make which may surprises you. When we listen to ppl we mainly look in their eye area (eyes us brows) Your Brows are unfortunately barely visible, it might aid your explanatory style of vid. If you get some minoxidil to grow them thick and dye them to the color of your beard - That would enhance this part of the face and make it easier for your audience on subconscious level to follow. I know it's sounds vain or superficial but it has real benefits especially if a lot of ppl see your face.
Cheers I hope your channel will grow more. Like your style of presentation.
Its the genetic of war losers, pedophiles and cruelty lovers
what is the origin of R1b-u152->R1b-L2?
And nowadays this disgusting globalist multicultural agenda is destroying the beautiful homogeneity and diversity
Dear Mr. McMillan, thank you for your work. It's the first time I watch one of your videos. Already subscribed.
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European natives are a very diverse and beautiful people.
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Spot quiz. Which continent features, from a genetic standpoint, the most diverse peoples?
@@boxsterman77 Not your people cause they all look the same.
I mean they are different races of people not an ethnic group. It's the same with Africa.
@@boxsterman77my first guess was Russia as it is so big and has many ethnicities. But then I remembered that my biology teacher in high school once mentioned that genitic variation is still highest in Africa. I believe modern humans are from East-Africa, so Ethiopia or Kenya could be decent guesses. Although countries like the US or Brazil have people from all over the world (including Africa) living in them. So I don't know anymore, but I think Kenya or the US.
Thank you for these amazingly detailed videos!!
Thank you
Had to wait 40 years to hear non BBC English on official website.
Thanks for the interest in history. There is much connected in Europe, much more than we think.
Sorry to hear it took so long. However, it wasn´t quite necessary as the BBC documentary Coast was (co)presented by Neil Oliver. That was, at least around 2010, probably earlier. Check out his accent if you don´t know him. I, personally, would love to talk like that!
if we are not educated in this
Please make videos about the genetic history of Finland, Estonia and the Baltic countries
Will do
Im German, love your accent
I'm Dutch, me too
I’m American, me too. I was just thinking that before I came upon this reply.
Thanks
HE HAS A VERY SCOTTISH ACCENT.
@RS-ln3ns he sure has
The 1st Millennium AD was truly the Germanic Millennium. They halted Roman territorial advance at the Rhine river - arguably beating the world's premier superpower. Not just that, but they would go on to completely overthrow them. And just a few centuries later, the Vikings would sweep in and connect two hemispheres centuries before Columbus, as well as establish Russia, which would become the single largest country on earth.
Before all that the Cimbrian wars changed the path of the roman Empire.
The Germanic tribes are often desribed as having blonde hair. But it is well-documented that the Germanic tribe that destroyed the Roman Legions at the Battle of the Teutburg Forest had red hair. I suppose many of these "Germans"were fair-haired, but red hair is more strikingly obvious and this would catch the attention of the enemy! Also, one sees many dark-haired Germans, particularly in the South of Germany, but they rarely get a mention...and while I am here, a lot of Danes and Dutch people seem to have red hair. So, it's not just the Scots and the Irish! And the English have a fair number of red-heads... the Danish connection!
This is not well "well-documented" at all. The Roman authors didn't talk about hair colour much, and the Germanic tribes themselves were illiterate and didn't write anything at the time. Real red hair is very rare in Scandinavia today, reddish blond is however quite common. Norway and especially Iceland have more redheads because of import of Irish or Scottish people during the Viking age (slavery).
@BillyThetit It isn't as rare as you obviously think. Red-heads are all over Europe... and not just the "strawberry blonde" variety. I'm in a Black Metal band... travel all over Northern Europe... Danes, Dutch, Germans, Swedes et al. Redheads are everywhere. In fact, blonde hair - and I don't mean the mousey/light brown that dark haired people call "blonde" - is rarer than people think...what with hair dye and everything. And I have often noticed that very blonde people will often have a red-haired, brother or sister, etc. Tacitus discussing the Germans mentions red-haired Germans... and many historians in the ancient world mentioned blonde-haired and red-haired Germans. Study a little more history...
We put the religion ninth.Legion is buried somewhere in scotland by the celtic
@@jeanmackenzie4781 Scots, a call to arms... wha hae!
Love his accent!
Thanks
I have a friend from Glasgow and she sounds just like him. So I guess it's Glaswegian ❤
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I prefer listening to accented English than a generic AI voice.
Thank you for the lesson. As always, I enjoy your videos.
I'm from Lombardy and I have blonde hairs and blue eyes with a pale as f**k skin, people always say I don't look Italian, but Scandinavian. I took a DNA test comparing my DNA with ancient population graves. 4 on 10 closest graves to my DNA were Longobards graves. I don't know if that thing is reliable, but i find it interesting. Ciao!
what kind of dna test did you do?
@@fabiansaerve I initially did MyHeritage (modern populations DNA results) and then I uploaded the results on Mytruancestry (ancient populations).
@@FSMI91 oh thank you! Mytrueancestry sounds interesting
@@fabiansaerve you're welcome! It is indeed...
Thank you for another great video. Angles is pronounced by coming down hard on the L letter just like you do in the word English. Angles is the earlier version of the same word and would be very close to being phonetic based on the time period it was first written. Based on chats with other Right Anglz and Set Squares, I am the only man in the world who knows this, so I share it with your excellent channel.
A-cute!
I’d love for you to do a video like this focused on Polish genetics. I know the belief that we Poles were descended from the ancient Sarmatians of antiquity was a major part of Polish culture, forming the ideology of Sarmatianism. Do genetics provide any validity to this once commonly held belief?
The origins of the Goths is now well known:
Stolarek et al. (2023) and Antonio et al. (2022) both sequenced genomes from the Wielbark culture Goths including samples from multiple sites all over the territory of the Wielbark culture in large numbers. The results are in alignment with archaeological findings, burial practices, isotop analysis etc All strongly suggesting that the Wielbark culture formed through migration from Southern Scandinavia. A large majority of the Wielbark culture samples autosomally carry predominantly Scandinavian Y-DNA haplogroups. The most common Y-DNA haplogroup among the Wielbark individuals was Y-DNA haplogroup I1-M253, characteristic of the Nordic Bronze Age in Southern Scandinavia,
Not only by Y-DNA, but also by autosomal DNA the Goths were Scandinavian and the Vandals too.
Even E1b1b is almost 100% made of E-v13, which is almost the only one and exclusive european sub-haplogroup from the entire E tree haplogroup.
Haplogroup E was brought into Sub-Saharan Africa by Caucasoids from Southwest Asia.
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E-v13 is almost non-existent in North Africa and completely absent in SSA, including East Africa. In fact, E-V13 is almost exclusively European. Moreover, the Lombards cluster with Scandinavians.
@@sammydasilva6152 I think we are saying the same thing.
Great video
As an Englishman, I am proud to be Germanic
It's great.
Thanks for this very interesting video, I am mostly a descendant of the franks through the Flemish people.
I love your accent, it reminds me of my time in Scotland. I rarely meet a more warmhearted and welcoming people than the Scots. Such a beautiful country
Totally. Great people.
Top content!!
Thanks
❤❤ awesome!
That was awesome thank you 🙏
Thank you
Thanks, very interesting
Humans are such an incredible mix of genes 🧬. So many migrations over many thousands of years. What a journey!!! Thank you for your research & video!! 👏🏻
I'm of northern Italian heritage,
Lombard, Goths came up on my genetics and German cherusci besides a ton of Gaul
Although I dont have the typical blonde blue eyes look
Hence I spent living my entire life thinking I was Roman..
Instead It was anything else that fought against them 😂
Im three quarter English, and England born and I have Germanic DNA and Scandinavian DNA, most of my English family are on the blonde or (lessor) red haired, blue eyed, spectrum, presumably this comes from Saxon and Viking heritage.
I'm from Lombardy and I have blonde hairs and blue eyes with a pale as f**k skin, people always saying I don't look Italian, but Scandinavian. I took a DNA test comparing my DNA with ancient population graves. 4 on 10 closest graves to my DNA were Longobards graves. I don't know if that thing is reliable, but i find it interesting. Ciao!
@@FSMI91 at least your DNA makes sense matches the looks..
Mine are from Veneto, next to yours
I blame climate change :D
According to several DNA studies the ethnic Lombards genetically cluster with Scandinavians not only based on haplogroup but also on autosomal DNA.
No no no you got totally wrong....The blonde ,white hair ,blue eyes ,white skinned Finnish people inhabitated Europe long before ( at least 40 thousand years) the arabs etc came here and got mixed with the original europeans, the finns.
Haha, no.
Ole aivan oikeassa suomalaisen ovat maailman vaalein ja sinisilmäisin kansa ja varmasti Euroopan alkuperäis kansa germaanit ovat tulleet idästa kaikki muu on paska puhetta 🤔
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Finns are in reality albanians 💪🇦🇱👍
Its is believed that gives blond hair came from somewhere around the Black Sea , it was a genetic mutation but not many have it i think it was less then 4% in the world.
I’m blonde and green eyes, but am short (4’10”) athletic in my younger years, still very active now. Don’t know if my stature is genetically predisposed or if it’s because I was a premature baby. Everything works, though 😂😂😂😂❤
Tall back then for a man was 5 foot 7. You'd be average height for a woman in 800 a.d. I reckon.
You hit perfection and stopped growing 😉
@@iainmc9859 You’re too kind, thank you ☺️
@ I trained in Kung Fu and Chin Na for quite a few years and know leverage is my friend ; when you’re below your opponent they usually don’t know what to do with you, OR think they have the upper hand. WRONG 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@lisasuhr6433 I trained in and taught European Martial Arts as well as doing a bit of Aikido. Unfortunately I had the sort of job where being able to send somebody quickly to the floor was a prerequisite (as a last resort of course !) Height and reach are no longer an advantage when you get a foot closer.
I now avoid anything that looks like its could turn nasty. I only meet people I want to meet, which is far more civilized. 🙏🏻
Celtic (y-dna haplogroup R1b), Slavic (i.e., Scythian; y-hg R1a) and Gothic (i.e., Accadian; y-hg I).
Gothic is haplogroup I2a, thats the only native european haplogroup, not Accadian 😂.Its balkanic.
@@mihaiilie8808 Wouldn't "Balkanic be I2 ? I mean Croats and Slovenes and Serbs I thought brought in the R1a ? and Croats and Slovenes are of now are pretty much a mix of I2 and R1a with very little R1b
I really wish Steven MacMillan added a comment about the 2024 McColl et al study about the protogermanic origins.
Great research work!
Thanks, it took forever to research so I appreciate that
"Little evil kids today" 😂 absolutely love it! Another great vid👍🏻 Thankyou.
My half Italian / half Spanish wife actually looks Scandinavian. Most likely a lot a Goths and Lombards in her ancestry. I know her mother's Spanish side was descended from Spanish Noble Families, and her father of 100% Northern Italian ancestry has very light skin and blue eyes.
Langobardigoth. Hehe
There was a study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Granada, Spain. On eye colour of Spaniards.
The full title of the study is "Iris colour: validation of a new classification and distribution in a Spanish population-based sample."
Here are the complete results of the study.
28.5% of Spaniards have Brown eyes.
52.2% have Hazel-Green eyes.
16.29% have Blue--Grey eyes.
They say that like 75% of the world population has brown eye's. That's not true the majority of the world population (non Caucasian) has really dark brown eyes where the iris is barely distinguishable from the pupil.
Proven by eye colour polls on UA-cam. Last one I voted in had around 77,000 votes.
Black 75%
Brown 10%
Blue 5%
Green 5%
So the majority of people pick black when they have the option to pick brown. Why? because their eyes are really dark and look black. Just like hair colour. So really dark brown eyes shouldn't be in the same category as brown and light brown eyes.
I'm Spaniard of Galician heritage, I have brown eyes but when I look in the mirror I can see the pattern in my iris, and there's a dark ring around the perimeter of my iris. More than half the people on both sides of my have either Blue, Green or Hazel eyes. One of my brothers has light green eyes. My other brother has Amber eyes like my father. My maternal grandmother had dirty blonde hair and blue eyes.
They say that like 75% of the world population has brown eye's. That's not true the majority of the world population (non Caucasian) has really dark brown eyes where the iris is barely distinguishable from the pupil.
Proven by eye colour polls on UA-cam. Last one I voted in had around 77,000 votes.
Black 75%
Brown 10%
Blue 5%
Green 5%
So the majority of people pick black when they have the option to pick brown. Why? because their eyes are really dark and look black. Just like hair colour. So really dark brown eyes shouldn't be in the same category as brown and light brown eyes.
I'm Spaniard of Galician heritage, I have brown eyes but when I look in the mirror I can see the pattern in my iris, and there's a dark ring around the perimeter of my iris. More than half the people on both sides of my family have either blue, green, or hazel eyes.
Have to find out what parts of Spain and Italy. Northern Italy would be more likely to be Lombards. There's also the possibility of Nori/Helveti Celts in Italy or Celts/Celt-Iberians in Spain.
Interesting how many with the I haplogroup live in Croatia as well as Scandinavia! Some ancient genetic link here?
yh just be the native hunter groups bloodlines
Well I1 and I2 - I'd read that I1 went up into Scandinavia via France as the ice retreated but I don't know - plus the originally peoples of the region that Croatia inhabits were the I2 peoples Dalmacians ? Dacians ?
the Croats Serbs and Slovenes I am pretty sure were R1a peoples - so it's really a misnomer to call that region Croatia - it should be called Croatian Damatia or Dacia (not sure which) -
I watched a Swedish video of a band where it sounded a bit 'un European' - like I could see the Balkan connection - look at old pictures of Sweden and Norway - they dress a bit different
Scandinavian's are also very mixed with R1a and R1b - so even there they are like Balkan peoples - a balanced mix of I and R
@@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st Sounds right. The I haplogroup would be the origin of I1 and I2 groups which may have separated after the ice age.
The Ostrogoths is the common denominator between Sweden and Croatia., not once but twice in ancient times.
5:10 I1-M253 most common among Goths, shared by Vikings.
Very good and intersting video, I am also I1-M253
Knows anybody a dna test wich tells the haplo Group?
I am born in Germany Bavaria with white Hair also all my aunts and grandfather's
White is the absence of color
Lombards were from Sweden
According to DNA results, the Lombards were Scandinavian-like.
The idea that peoples of the past had more uniform and stereotyped appearances than modern peoples is just plain wrong. The English of today have very significant amounts of North Sea Germanic ancestry, but they are overwhelmingly heterogeneous in appearance, and are characteristically brown-haired in the main - blond and red hair being in a definite minority (especially fast blonds, blonds that remain blond into adulthood). My ancestry derives largely from the Danelaw area of England (especially Yorkshire and Lancashire). My Y haplotype is R-Z19, a sub-group of R-U106, that originated in Southern Scandinavia in the Nordic Bronze Age. My DNA is 67% closer to ancient DNA from Viking Age burial remains than those of other modern people, and is closest to Viking Age remains from Denmark and Sweden. I was very blond as a small child, but this darkened to a deep mid-brown by my teenage years, I have very dark hazel eyes. My Germanic ancestry seems quite strong, but my appearance is nothing like the stereotype you present.
Light blond hair in adults is actually not as prevalent as you might think in Scandinavia, darker blond is more common.
Before the migration period people in general were more stationary, tribes less genetically diverse.
@@4further.information If you ignore the spread of Neolithic farmers across Europe, then the Bronze Age migrations of the Yamnaya and the Beaker People, then the migrations of the Cimmerians and the Sea Peoples. Then later the spread of the Phoenicians and the Greeks throughout the Mediterranean, the Greco-Macedonians into Egypt, Syria, Iran and as far as India, the Celts sweeping into Italy, the Balkans and Asia Minor. If you ignore all these, then yes things were stationary.
Let's just hope the migrants don't permanently change these traits.
Of course they will.
@@BillyThetitwait, why do u care about physical traits? I mean if u want better policy for immigration then that’s fine but the motivation should never be racial.
I will guess south central England, London?
Man, those so called Germanic tribes were pretty much a counter-culture to what we got in Bohemia.
Who is Jen Attic?
The gallias germanicas
Julio Cesar invented the term
And those ones were living with the romans
Jeez- youve got a beautiful scottish accent 😊🎉
Angeles was Danes
Two different tribes, but they became Danish and now Angeln is german. But you know this.
The Danes are mainly Angles
so why do all those Europeans fight Germany? Isnt Germany the big brother?
The Catholic Church was Rome's final curse against the Germanic peoples. The forced conversions of Germanic derived nations into Catholicism drove a wedge between these nations and the root Germanic population that still followed the Old Ways.
Rome itself was doomed the minute that violent religious zealots from the Middle East took control of their society. After the forced conversions of the pagan Roman population by Catholic emperors, Rome began to decline and only lasted another 2 centuries.
You didn't give an "ancient" description of the Franks. Did they look like other Germanic people?
Yeah they would've looked like other Germanic people.
@PatrickFitzgerald88 Then why do people in former Frankish territory look different nowadays?
@@mahakalabhairava9950 Europeans are extremely diverse always have been.
At one time there were only blondes and redheads. This was before all this love crap started.
the narrator of this clip What would this germanic inhabitants look like?😅 I will say to him you don't have to go far. Just look in the mirror😊
You're not wrong. When me and my sister were flying to New York about a decade ago the flight attendant thought we were German (even though we're Scottish). I'm 6' 3" as well, she is 5' 1" though :)
The agriculture is from anatolia and they were r1b or a
Germans are not Germanic, they are mainly Turkish and Arabic
Turks are mainly greek and albanian 💪🇦🇱👍
My paternal ancestors were the Visigoths. Give me five bucks.
Most People with Blond Hair and Blue Eyes live in Southern Finnland and Estonia and not in Germanic Countries.
Indeed, strange, but they are mixt with Swedish DNA. But blond hair and blue ayes are indeed not a monopoly of Germanic people.
@ Blond Hair and Brown Eyes are found in the Ukraine.
The Thing is that in Scandinavia and Northern Germany the Ratio of People with Blond Hair and Blue Eyes are significantly Lower as in Finnland Estonia and the Petrograd Region of Russia.
Maybe Finn Ugric Men were more attractive to Blond Women.
this is not correct. Finland has a population of 5 Millions and Estonia of 1 Million. Germany, Austria and German speaking Switzerland togehter have more than 90 Million people, not to speak of the Netherlands with 18million mostly blond people, adding the Flames of Belgia, some million blond French, some million blond English. You have at least 20 Million blond people in western Europe. And with Denmark, Sweden and Norway some more million blond people.
@ It is about the Percentage of the People. Russia, Ukraina, Poland, Latvia Tchechia, Slowakia and Lituania and the USA also have many blond haired blue Eyed People.
But the South of Finnland, Estonia and the Region of Petrograd has the highest Percentage of blue Eyed Blondes.
I know many „Teutonic“ Peoples will believe in their Exclusive Blue Blond Germs.
Not true. The netherlands, Denmark and the United States of America are all predominantly from the germantic tribe people and have blonde hair and blue eyes
Romans never called the vikings arians
They had walls 9:42 9:42 9:42
At a time they got in and created
Visigoths the best goths, Ostrogoths and Gepids are romanians with I2a, not I1.
I1 are Suebi the swedes.
Suebi were civilised by the south goths with I2a.
Wrong Carolingian is not germanico
Clovis was the merovingians
Both Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties ware Frankish and thus Germanic. Even the emperor Charlemagne and his immediate descendants were still Germanic speaking in the 9th century AD.
@BillyThetit the merovingians were franks
And pepin family Charlemagne
Aldo in France most probably viking or Hun
read a history book to get correction, both were Franks and thus germanic. The Franks are still inhabiting Germany. They are called FRanken and they speak Frankish and many of them are blond, me including. They live in the Northern half of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in regions called FRanken. One part of the Franks stayed in France, giving their name to the country which is mainly gaulish.
They hibrid very fast and all that is lost
Germanico is r1b or a
The I is viking
Read more, write less.
Vikings are northgermanic.
I2a is not germanic but thracian.
The thracians are the ancestors of the celts, the germanics and the proto indoeuropeans.
I2A1 is the Balkan branch and I2a2a is generally a more germanic branch of I2
There is only one haplogroup arian
The others are mutation
Another mother
Viking
Not germanico
The germanicos are fron
Vikings are northgermanic
The real ones had blue eyes and white hair or red hair
Find it odd he never mentions red hair.
The “real” ones?!
@@boxsterman77 Inhuman monster
Could you drink a beer and try again with your narration.
Yes germanic is mainly blond.....
Skithes
The only Germanic haplogroup is I1 very very simple
Not necessarily true, not even exclusively. There are particular subclades of broader NW European that are exclusively Germanic.
I haplogroups are simply WHG lineages, whereas R1 haplgroups are simply Indo-European lineages. You can’t really associate particular culture or population groups of particular historical periods without going downstream subclades, anyways. Base haplogroups are prehistoric
You'll be telling us Germans are a pure Aryan race next 😐
@@iainmc9859 The only Arians are Ra1a haplogroup and nobody else
@@antivari100 Which of course stretches from western Europe to the Indian sub-continent, quite a diverse mix.
@@iainmc9859 Looks like origins of first Arians where on Ural mountains from haplogroup R1a and when exatly mutation in haplogroup R1a1 ocured i dont know ...All the best my friend no ofence
Not germanicos
Vikings
The Arians are from the east
Vikings are northgermanic
Not germanico ri
Vikings
No culture at all
Some were moving with. The germanicos
Vikings are northgermanic
They are germanicos
i have mainly english and german saxon blood inside me but only one 1% balkan area so my brown eyes and brown hair comes from this 1% ?!
Probably not. Genetic variation originates in populations, but they probably do not correspond to these much later labels from the last 3,000 years or so such as Celt or German. Most of these mutations go back much further. Many of the Vikings had brown eyes, but did have genetic mutations for dealing with local endoparasites in Scandinvia for example.
@@neilog747 i have done a dna test i only can say the results
German and blonde hair 😅😅😅
No no, Germans were black they just had blonde hair or was it the British 👀
You are a tiny bit confused ...
It's a joke. But seriously I think it was the BBC that made a statement like that. Not about Germans, but about the British people having dark skin thousand years ago.
@@petrbohacek They never had dark skin. All propaganda to erase Europe's identity.
Goths huh interesting I'm I1
I'm Celtic Gaul from France and i have about 30% Germanic blood..and i like Germanic history more then Celtic history
Achtung
Trier colonia
Not Germany
They were from the black sea pondio
Lower None Ross Life Forms....
The suebis were vikings nothing to do
The lombars are venetians
Historical tidbit. Lombards in Old English is spelled as Longbeardan. Literally the tribe of the Longbeards. They established an English quarter in Rome shortly after our conversion to Christianity. We were buddies!
the suebis - a latin word- are still living in Germany. Their name in German is Schwaben. They live in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. Caesar fought against them and pushed them back over the Rhine where they later got the name Allemani out of which the French called all Germans Allemands. A part of the Schwaben moved to Spain and built a kingdom there.
@rnies6849 los Gallegos
@rnies6849 the Visigoths finished them
I think he is British.😊
German is a language of the 16 century this era invented by Luther
The frigians spoke indoeuropean
Luther helped standardise modern german to its modern form of today. And that is all.
Ancient people had no conception of race or nationality. They grouped together in pursuit of common material interest, not their history or complexion, and developed new languages to bridge, not propagate, their cultural differences. They were not inbred: genetic investigation of ancient "vikings", "normans", "celts" etc consistently finds mongrel genetics. Thus every "tribe" was genetically mixed (except in very extreme cases of geographical isolation) and no tribal label is truly ancient. Using "haplogroups" to try and prove racial continuity is tautological - because haplogroups are defined in the first place as gene clusters that are exceptional for being persistent over time. Tribes were usually named by others after the languages they spoke, thus "the Franks" were anybody who spoke Frankish and the "Angles" was anybody who spoke Anglish. The "Scots" are a bit of an anomaly, considering the ancestral language of most of todays "Scots" was English. Edinburgh was the first major city in Britain where English is recorded, having been adopted in the course of its Baltic maritime trade. I suspect the word "Scot" was extended to anyone from the northwest who couldn't be understood by their neighbours. Just saying.
Sounds reasonable. But most people in these parts seem to have racial nationalistic pov's.
I must say, this is the most correct comment regarding human populations and our collective past on this video. Anceint people have been mixing with eachother since the very beginning No human group has remained static. Whenever I hear someone say " I want to preserve my race" I say from what period ?
1st
Listening to English of Scottish accent is mentally draining and very irritating.
No disrespect to Scottish people though .
Don't listen to it then
I can't stand this guy's accent
WTF, maybe where he is from YOUR accent would be hässlich, abartig, und unfassbar Scheiße. Have some respect
Man you speak Russian or something
He’s Scottish.
And proud :)
Great accent, and for me so understandible. Greetings from Germany👋☺️@@celtichistorydecoded
Remember once and for all, R1a is a Slavic haplogroup, the whole of eastern Germany is of Slavic origin.
It’s also Germanic and Iranic. Modern East Germans are not Slavs.
@@EnglishShieldwall Another smart Brit. So what are the Prussians or the Serbs from Lusatia?
@ Old Prussians were Balts and Sorbians are Slavs.
If you knew three words of a Slavic language and were a little inclined to think, you would understand that the name of the Prussians says that they are Slavs.@@EnglishShieldwall
@ shut up
Please try to speak more slowly
If only there were a feature where you can choose a slower playback speed. But even if there were such a feature, do you think morons would ever catch on to it?
@@boxsterman77 You're not very intelligent.
He’s perfect.
For a Scottish person, he is speaking slowly.
The Romans knew what "Arian" meant (adherents of Arius). They were not Aryans in the eyes of Romans. Romans knew nothing of Hindu mythology.
مردم آلمان قوم مقدس خداوند هستند ، زیرا خداوند مردم آلمان را به زیبا ترین شکل خلق کرد و درخت دانش را در وجود مردم آلمان قرار داده است.
This seems like a good video but God damn am I having a hard time listening to this guy... his accent is cacophonous.
I found his accent much better than most british speakers I heard.
@@rnies6849yeah , absolutely no.
مردم آلمان قوم مقدس خداوند هستند ، زیرا خداوند مردم آلمان را به زیبا ترین شکل خلق کرد و درخت دانش را در وجود مردم آلمان قرار داده است.