The Different Germanic Tribes

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    The Germanic-speaking peoples speak an Indo-European language. The leading theory for the origin of Germanic languages, suggested by archaeological and genetic evidence, postulates a diffusion of Indo-European languages from the Pontic-Caspian steppe towards Northern Europe during the third millennium BCE, via linguistic contacts and migrations from the Corded Ware culture towards modern-day Denmark, resulting in cultural mixing with the earlier Funnelbeaker culture. The subsequent culture of the Nordic Bronze Age (c. 1700-c. 600 BCE) shows definite cultural and population continuities with later Germanic peoples, and is often supposed to have been the culture in which the Germanic Parent Language, the predecessor of the Proto-Germanic language, developed.
    Generally, scholars agree that it is possible to speak of Germanic-speaking peoples after 500 BCE, although the first attestation of the name "Germani" is not until much later. Between around 500 BCE and the beginning of the Common Era, archeological and linguistic evidence suggest that the Urheimat ('original homeland') of the Proto-Germanic language, the ancestral idiom of all attested Germanic dialects, was primarily situated in the southern Jutland peninsula, from which Proto-Germanic speakers migrated towards bordering parts of Germany and along the sea-shores of the Baltic and the North Sea, an area corresponding to the extent of the late Jastorf culture.
    According to some authors the Bastarnae or Peucini were the first Germani to be encountered by the Greco-Roman world and thus to be mentioned in historical records. They appear in historical sources going back as far as the 3rd century BCE through the 4th century CE. Another eastern people known from about 200 BCE, and sometimes believed to be Germanic-speaking, are the Sciri, who are recorded threatening the city of Olbia on the Black Sea. Late in the 2nd century BCE, Roman and Greek sources recount the migrations of the Cimbri, Teutones and Ambrones whom Caesar later classified as Germanic. The movements of these groups through parts of Gaul, Italy and Hispania resulted in the Cimbrian War (113-101 BCE) against the Romans, in which the Teutons and Cimbri were victorious over several Roman armies but were ultimately defeated.
    00:00- Intro
    03:30- West Germanic Tribes
    04:37- Saxons
    05:30- Angles
    06:15- Jutes
    07:01- Frisians
    08:25- Franks
    10:10- Hermiones
    10:40- Cherusi
    11:45- Suebi
    13:10- Marcomanni
    13:50- Alemanni
    14:40- Lombards
    17:30- East Germanic Tribes
    18:05- Goths
    19:20- Vandals
    21:45- Burgundians
    24:10- Heruli
    25:35- North Germanic Tribes
    26:45- Roman Sources
    28:15- Finns
    29:30- Beowulf/English Sources
    30:40- Skandza

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  • @UnexpectedTurnOfEvents
    @UnexpectedTurnOfEvents Рік тому +701

    I'm originally from Northern Italy, and no, I don't bleach my hair. I have many blond cousins and most of my relatives have blue eyes. I now live in the US, and not one American has ever identified me as Italian. I don't think most Americans realize the magnitude of the Germanic genetic influence on Northern Italy.

    • @MrStn
      @MrStn Рік тому +195

      Most Americans have no notion of the world existing before 1776 /s

    • @rowdy9379
      @rowdy9379 Рік тому +23

      R M 269 is found in Northern Italy, how about the Waldenseins or other Celtic people's.

    • @phornthip1991
      @phornthip1991 Рік тому +57

      @Antarehs
      Your ancesters was probably Langobards (Longbeards), but this was just the name the romans gave you, not the real Tribal name.
      A part of nothern Italy is still called Lombardia after this tribes.
      Alaf Sig Runa from good old Germany.

    • @phornthip1991
      @phornthip1991 Рік тому

      @@rowdy9379
      Waldenser was not a kind of tribes, but a Christian sect who was wiped out by the jewish Vatican, caused they was the real Christians.
      www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldensians&ved=2ahUKEwjF9rPkydT4AhUyhf0HHYFTB-QQmhN6BAgVEAI&usg=AOvVaw3-5vLJG-HtxglmsMNtw5Ks

    • @drunkbee880
      @drunkbee880 Рік тому

      From where I sit you sound like you are not proud of being Italian and are connecting yourself to Germans .
      Sweetheart, Italy is the great Roman Empire .
      One of the top 3 best empires of all time .
      What have Germans ever accomplished?
      Nothing.
      In WWII which they started 60-90 million people were killed.
      That is more war dead than all wars in the history of man , combined .

  • @mb67493
    @mb67493 28 днів тому +3

    I noticed that in French:
    vandale = brutal
    ostrogoth = ignorant
    franc = honest
    XD

  • @jordanjay1479
    @jordanjay1479 3 місяці тому +7

    The Vandals were so gangster that the word vandalism was inspired by them

    • @hydoffdhagaweyne1037
      @hydoffdhagaweyne1037 3 місяці тому

      They taught Plack Beople how to luut

    • @user-rj5db6nt4i
      @user-rj5db6nt4i 3 місяці тому

      Not at all they were monotheistic Christians to whom Jésus was no God.....Thus the diffamation campaign the Trinitarian church started from the third century C.E.until today.

    • @maggan82
      @maggan82 2 місяці тому

      ​​@@user-rj5db6nt4ithey saw Jesus as gods son, but denied the Trinity, so the Catholics hated them.

    • @user-rj5db6nt4i
      @user-rj5db6nt4i 2 місяці тому

      @@maggan82 I don't know exactly what their " heresy" was.....but I doubt the fact that they might have considered Jesus as God's son.
      Muhammad -Peace be upon Him - send a Messenger to the emperor of then Byzantia, it said : " Surrender to the One GOD and you will have eternal Peace.....orelse you will carry the sin of the Arians or the sin comitted on the Arians"
      Sorry for my editing....but it looks like Arius who came from then Lybia ( current Tunisia and Tripolitaine) Arius grew up around Monotheistic Jews they had at least four major Synagogues in the region....and he adopted Monothéisme and considered Jesus as a Prophet.
      I might be wrong but scholars tend to overlook that lettre from Muhammad PbuH....to Herakles citing the Arians.

  • @charlieharper4975
    @charlieharper4975 8 місяців тому +42

    I studied Anglo-Saxon in college - mostly the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. What surprised me was how easy it was to learn. Also, how German/Norse it sounded. It had a sing-song lilt to it.

    • @MikeWhiskyTango
      @MikeWhiskyTango 7 місяців тому

      I think they're trying to ban Anglo-Saxon history in UK universities now. I saw some video about it.

    • @primefotoNL
      @primefotoNL 5 місяців тому +4

      Saxon sounds like German, Dutch and English for that matter. There are similar words in all three of them. And they all again also have similar sounding words in Nordic languages.

  • @curtmayer1070
    @curtmayer1070 Рік тому +156

    Brilliant summary. One hunk of evidence that can't be ignored are place names. These tend to stick through many centuries with little change and can indicate the people who lived there. Finally, my home town, Worms, is the seat of the niebelungenlied. And the end of that word is pronounced like English weed. It means song or story. I'd love to dive into the original story, which is far more ancient than the 12th century version we usually see. It's got seriously huge range, with honor, treachery, icelandic princesses, dwarves treasure, and gory revenge . Fun for the whole family

    • @janvanaardt3773
      @janvanaardt3773 Рік тому +11

      Very interesting my family has been living in South Africa more than 300 years they came from 7 countries Sweden,Denmark ,Germany ,Netherlands ,Flanders,Scotland ,France so I must have alot of different tribes as ancestors from my mother and fathers side we are mostly tall and blond I have been told I look Scandinavian

    • @janvanaardt3773
      @janvanaardt3773 Рік тому +12

      We speak Afrikaans at home a Germanic language I understand Dutch 100 persent and most of German and in writing I following the text in Swedish and Frisian but cannot understand all the words

    • @riptidemonzarc3103
      @riptidemonzarc3103 Рік тому +7

      Ich habe die "moderne" (aus dem Jahr 1827) Übersetzung des Nibelungenlieds in Verseform. Ist sehr interessant.

    • @johanvandermeulen9696
      @johanvandermeulen9696 Рік тому +15

      @@janvanaardt3773 Wij, Hollanders, kunnen alleen fries lezen met behulp van een woordenboek. Ten noorden van Amsterdam bevindt zich een dorp genaamd Schellingwoude. Schelling heeft niets te maken met schelling (engels: shilling) maar komt van het deens adskille, scheiden. In dit geval scheiding tussen woud en water. Ten zuiden van Amsterdam bevindt zich een groot dorp genaamd Watergraafsmeer of Diemermeer. Dit dorp heeft een eigen wapen: de zwaan, een edel germaans dier. Water-graafs-meer heeft niets te maken met een adellijke titel. Er bestaan geen watergraven. Graaf komt van het deens gröft wat sloot betekent.

    • @svenherrmann6096
      @svenherrmann6096 Рік тому +4

      I live near Worms😂😂 Coincidences can happen

  • @minchen_2265
    @minchen_2265 Рік тому +157

    Some years ago they found a relatively big germanic graveyard under one of our fields belonging to my village. It was quite interesting. Our small local museum was also happy :D Greetings from Lower Saxony

    • @johnbrennick8738
      @johnbrennick8738 11 місяців тому +2

      I was in the pre-history museum in Halle (Saale) in April - that's in Saxony Anhalt but is it near you?

    • @flonkplonk1649
      @flonkplonk1649 10 місяців тому +3

      @@johnbrennick8738lower saxony is a western german state, Sachsen Anhalt is eastern

    • @cocobunitacobuni8738
      @cocobunitacobuni8738 10 місяців тому +1

      Wo genau ist das? Mein Vorfahr stammte aus Bad-Gandersheim.

    • @SamtheIrishexan
      @SamtheIrishexan 7 місяців тому +2

      Thats so cool. About an hour from me here in Texas is the Gault site. Loaded with Clovis stuff, and pre-Clovis!!!!!

  • @TeutobergForestryService
    @TeutobergForestryService 7 місяців тому +21

    I love it! This is great. For some reason, we aren’t taught our own history in school. Great job giving this information to hungry minds, my friend.

    • @KibyNykraft
      @KibyNykraft 5 місяців тому +2

      However some of the information is not quite correct.. :)
      Adogit was probably not germanic, but of the lapplanders ("sämi") or a similar group.
      The -it ending is typical for the northern branch of the finno-ugric languages like finnish and dävvi) but never used in the norse, german or the later scandinavian languages. The -it ending means that the name is in plural. So the singular in norse was either Adog, adok or áthogg ("aouw-thok"), most probably the latter ,but in a finno-ugric it would maybe be "ä-do'g".
      Adog is most certainly a latinized form as many historians of the medievals wrote in latin only.

    • @nickhass7757
      @nickhass7757 5 місяців тому

      We're not taught this because it's generalized garbage, Germanic is a specific ethnicity, most of these groups are barely German or not even a little German. They're baltic scandinavian and even confederation of scythians with germans.... this is deluded garbage

    • @BartBart22
      @BartBart22 Місяць тому +1

      The reason, you probably know, is that it's vorbotten for our people to feel pride in our heritage.

  • @europrosk-9121
    @europrosk-9121 7 місяців тому +36

    I have been very lucky to have traced my family tree, person to person, back to 1620. I found that around 1800, we were awarded the titles of Baron and Baroness. Going back further, I found our family crest dated 1280. My family name is mentioned in Rome around 400 AD. We have lived in Baveria for about 2,000 years. Bavaria was a seperate country for about 1,000 years, until 1871. My grandfather always reminded me that we were Bavarian, not German.

    • @AngeloCapra
      @AngeloCapra 7 місяців тому +4

      Bavaria derives this name from a Celtic tribe that ancient Romans calls Boi, in the first century Ac arrives in this land two Germanic tribes, they was called by Romans Quadi and Marcomanni, the fusion of these tribes with Celtics Boi tribe is the origin of Bavarians , this is the true story of your ancestors!! 👍🙏

    • @europrosk-9121
      @europrosk-9121 7 місяців тому +3

      @AngeloCapra Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. I too am a student of history and what you wrote is very correct. I wish more people knew their heritage and the history of their people.
      Linda Werlein

    • @jsigur157
      @jsigur157 6 місяців тому

      Much depends on the older generations passing on history to the extent they knew it. I know when I got interested in all this stuff my father's brother or my uncle did pass along the history to a minor extent. The parents need to treat it as an important topic and if done the right way, the younger folks will carry the mantle@@europrosk-9121

    • @achimfrankenbach7374
      @achimfrankenbach7374 5 місяців тому +2

      Every Bavarian would tell you, he is at first Bavarian but he know, that he ist German as well! Propably your grandfather told you this cause of ww1 and ww2! Greetings from germany 🙂

    • @helgaioannidis9365
      @helgaioannidis9365 5 місяців тому

      ​@@achimfrankenbach7374us Bavarians feel like we were forced to join the German state back in 1870 and forced to become part of a country we culturally don't belong to. We lost our independence and had to submit to Berlin.

  • @user-su6wy3bj4v
    @user-su6wy3bj4v Рік тому +45

    For the Finns I'd like to add that most people seem to agree that the Romans speaking of "Fenni" were in fact speaking of the Sami people, because at the time (pre-500 AD) the area of origin of what we today call the Finns was populated by a farming, cattle-raising populace, not by hunter-gatherers.
    And this area in the southwest Finland is actually still called "Finland proper" and based on the placenames from that time the people there spoke a proto-germanic or germanic-adjacent language up until some time between 500-1000 AD, and these people were heavily Scandinavian-influenced in culture and genetics even before the Kingdom of Sweden eventually expanded into the area later in the middle ages. And to this day there is still a "genetic border" in Finland that roughly splits the populace into two distinct groups: the Eastern Finns who are more isolated and have more Uralic and Siberian ancestry, and the Western Finns who are more Germanic both in genetics and custom.
    I personally find it really interesting, as most people just go "Oh the Finns are Uralic and came from the east" or "The Finns are just weird Scandinavians", but in truth Finland is like a historical borderland where these two people groups mixed together. And the further South West you go in Finland the more Germanic the people and the culture get, and the further northeast you go the more Finno-Ugric they get. It's sad that no one in that area wrote things down until late in the middle ages, because the stuff happening between these people groups and the different migration waves must've been wild.

    • @willremy5142
      @willremy5142 Рік тому +4

      I find the Finno-Ugric peoples fascinating. You have the northern branch, which ended up in modern Finland and Estonia, the middle branch from which were derived the Huns, and the southern branch which spread from modern Turkmenistan to Turkey. From one relatively small group, you have such a diaspora of peoples with different cultures and appearances. I really have only read a cursory amount about them, but would love to gain more understanding of them.

    • @DirtyMardi
      @DirtyMardi 7 місяців тому +5

      Sámi peoples also lived in most of Finland back in those days, but were then pushed further and further into the North by the Finnish tribes. It’s really a mystery how and when the different tribes developed. The Finns proper and Tavastians clearly have had Germanic influence judging by the names of the gods they worshipped. There is also a very old strata of Germanic words in Finnish language, including the word äiti, which means mother. Can’t get much more basic than that. Curiously, Estonian does not have that word, but uses the Finnic emä, which is only applied to animals in Finnish. Tho it must be said, that it’s not certain how and when exactly those words were included in Finnish. What is almost certain is that the Sámi are the indigenous people compared to Baltic-Finnic and Germanic speakers. The latter two arrived later and in different parts of the country. Finland was extremely sparsely populated during middle ages and before, with few tens of thousands of inhabitants at most. Probably due to harsh weather and lack of much arable soil. Estonia and Southern Scandinavia had both tens of times those numbers.
      In conclusion, the Sámi were here first, and at some point there were likely Germanic speakers too in the west and the Baltic Finns arrived from South and East at some point in the past 1000-3000 years, possibly in waves and assimilated the others. By that time they arrived, a lot of other Indo-European words had already been accumulated to the language. First Indo-Iranic, then Baltic and Germanic words in various parts of Finnic migrations toward the Baltic Sea. To the point that a lot of the very basic and common words are loans. Later on, there were also additions of Russian and Swedish loanwords, sometimes even basically the same words that already existed but received a slightly different form and meaning. Also, due to different influences at different points, even languages like Estonian and Finnish are not mutually intelligible.

    • @mustanaamiotto3812
      @mustanaamiotto3812 5 місяців тому +3

      @@willremy5142 You are completely wrong.

    • @Forward_comrades
      @Forward_comrades 3 місяці тому

      ​@@willremy5142 bro, the Huns did not descend from the Finno-Ugric peoples, the Finno-Ugric peoples were only part of the union of the Huns' tribes

    • @OMG1961
      @OMG1961 3 місяці тому

      Nonsense. You have deliberately removed the Elephants in the ROOM. The Sami, The Mari and the Slavs. I am so angry that you have not done any research. GO DO SOME! Finish language is a Uralic Language READ THIS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages BTW you lot have at the very min 6 to 8% ASIAN DNA! So what are you drinking. What did they teach you at school? Why the German Bromance when it does not exist.

  • @andremiguel1143
    @andremiguel1143 Рік тому +88

    Portuguese archaeologist here. I'm in love with the suebic, vandal and visigothic chapter of our history and I'm very proud of being a part of their legacy. I found out recently im descendant of the franks, and may have some visigoth and saxon herritage as well. Great video on a very underrated topic.

    • @raydawson2767
      @raydawson2767 Рік тому +14

      The first kings of Portugal were the dukes of burgundy who reconquested Portugal and they used the nights templars who escaped from France who originated from the burgundy region.

    • @andremiguel1143
      @andremiguel1143 Рік тому +6

      @@raydawson2767 That's true! There might also be some sort of connection between count Henry and the kingdom of Hungary but it's hard to say if its legitimate or some medieval legend. As far as we're concerned, what you've said is the accepted version.

    • @raydawson2767
      @raydawson2767 Рік тому +4

      @@andremiguel1143 The royals were inter related,I know that the Spanish and Portuguese royals were inter married and the Spanish royals had Hungarian royal ancestry.

    • @kongvinter33
      @kongvinter33 Рік тому +24

      Portugal, Spain a lot like Rome, a sort of melting pot of >Europe, you will find a bit of everything, including Germanics. most Portuguese have if not most, at least a significant part Germanian blood. Hail Odin, my Iberian brother.

    • @lvr5266
      @lvr5266 Рік тому +2

      How did you find out? I would like to know my heritage too, but not through these online commercial sites preferably.

  • @lowiq3409
    @lowiq3409 5 місяців тому +11

    Afrikaner from South Africa here. DNA says 94% northern European and some southern European. Still Germanic as we come!
    My surname also comes from a town that is in Northern Germany just south of the border of Denmark. Makes me Saxon.
    My children are Lombard from their mother's side.

    • @Broooski
      @Broooski 19 днів тому +1

      Probably dutch because of colonization

  • @alisonhaughton987
    @alisonhaughton987 7 місяців тому +1

    I really love listening to your channel and this one was fantastic! Thankyou so much for all the preparation you put into each podcast.

  • @Non-Serviam300
    @Non-Serviam300 Рік тому +180

    This is great. I remember the first time I read Tacitus’ Germania and so enjoyed reading about a time where “my people” (I’m part German) were tribal and living close to Nature. Of course, when I was in school this was never even touched on, as if European history didn’t really begin until the Renaissance 🤪

    • @gadpivs
      @gadpivs Рік тому +19

      I remember having my mind blown in 12th grade English class when the teacher told us about Beowulf belonging to an actual "tribe" of early Germanic people in Sweden, and how they were connected to other "tribes" in England around that time. Before then, as a teenager, my sense of history was that northern Europeans went back into the Middle Ages, maybe the 1200's or possibly the 1100's, with knights and kings and castles and fair maidens and jousting and King Arthur, and then the next thing you know, we've gone back to the BC era and we're talking about Roman emperors and the Bible and Jesus. I remember just assuming that places like England were "medieval" right after the Bible ends, and then when I was informed that Europeans used to live in small tribes close to nature and had a different religion, I was really surprised. Like it hadn't even occurred to me that there might not have been a king of all of England in 600 AD, and that it was a land occupied by many kings and different loosely connected groups, and before then, even smaller tribes back on the continent. The idea that our own history could be similar to Native Americans or Africans was a real eye opener.

    • @AlexD-mz4eg
      @AlexD-mz4eg Рік тому +9

      The renaissance was what brought Europe out of the dark ages so it’s not surprising that you never knew about it. Pagans had their own way of living and unfortunately, Abraham if religion destroyed it.

    • @teeheeteeheeish
      @teeheeteeheeish Рік тому +29

      What a tragedy, such a colorful history has been hidden from us. Yet I know more about African slavery than my own culture.

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 Рік тому +17

      I really hate the mainstream take on European history.

    • @Non-Serviam300
      @Non-Serviam300 Рік тому +26

      @@slappy8941 I hate the mainstream take on everything

  • @gnvinternationalambassador925
    @gnvinternationalambassador925 Рік тому +135

    9:59 In the east of The Netherlands there is a region called "Twente" (Tubantes). We have a separate identity from Holland and we were historically closer to Westphalia, which isn't suprising, because we both spoke and still speak Nether-Saxon dialects. To this day we Twentenaren are pretty proud to be different :D we have a newspaper called "Tubantia" we have a small football club called Tubantes where I live and we have a big club called FC Twente, which finished fourth in the national league :D

    • @philtoonen6338
      @philtoonen6338 Рік тому +20

      Mede-nederlander hier. Het grootste gedeelte van het zuiden en oosten van nederland kan ingedeeld worden in gebieden aan de hand van oude germaanse stammen. Brabant het land van de texandrii. De betuwe van de bataven (bata betekent sterk of goed, de betuwe betekent dus wellicht goede grond). De veluwe daarentegen slechte grond dus werd minder bewoond door de bataven. Dan heb je Salland het land van de saliërs (salische Franken. Twente het land van de tubantii (een saksische stam). De achterhoek mogelijk eerder de chamaven alleen hebben daar minder culturele binding mee dan bijvoorbeeld twente als Saksen en de Brabanders als Franken. Al met al heeft Nederland een hele significante geschiedenis omtrent Germanen al helemaal als men buiten het nieuwkomertje holland kijkt.

    • @gnvinternationalambassador925
      @gnvinternationalambassador925 Рік тому +5

      @@philtoonen6338 Heel interessant! Ik wist al een beetje over de bataven maar niet over de saliërs en chamaven.

    • @rjvanloon4769
      @rjvanloon4769 Рік тому +3

      Ex-dutchie here. I (and just about my whole family) moved out of the Netherlands, but I still have family in that area. Used to read the Tubantia when I was visiting my grandmother

    • @denniscannon769
      @denniscannon769 Рік тому +2

      @@gnvinternationalambassador925 That introductory comment is so eye-catching! The English 'heel' is not only a 'hiel', but also a 'schurk/ scoundrel', so it looks like the 'backhanded compliment' of calling someone an 'interesting schurk/scoundrel'. Intentional or not, it is still quite an entertaining and well-turned phrase, so: well done!

    • @badgerboops
      @badgerboops Рік тому +3

      @@denniscannon769 in Dutch "heel" sounds like the English "hail" but means "very" so "heel interresant" is (ironically) rather mundane, meaning "very interesting".. so probably not intentional but it's always nice to learn opportunities for new puns in multiple languages!

  • @danne51172
    @danne51172 11 місяців тому +3

    Tusen takk for en så flott video om de forskjellige germanske familiene i antikken. Det er første gang jeg finner informasjon om det så didaktisk, godt forklart og stimulerende. Det er bare fascinerende! Jeg følger kanalen din med ekte lidenskap, fordi jeg er veldig interessert i germanismen, lutherdommen og spesielt skandinavismen som en historisk, politisk, antropologisk, sosial og kulturell enhet. Veldig stolt av mine forfedre, vi ses neste gang! Hilsen, Daniel

  • @tylercounts3005
    @tylercounts3005 Рік тому +1

    I love your videos! I’ve been binging them ever since I came across your channel a week ago. In college, one of my big research papers was on the distinctive identities of the Germanic tribes and how they developed over time. My professor was infatuated as they had never seen a topic ever like it and it made them deeply interested in the subject.

    • @coryhirsh4119
      @coryhirsh4119 Рік тому

      Sorry?!Saxons came over,whole tribes,families. Just released DNA research proves it. And a lot of intermarriage went on. With the previous Britons. Germanic culture won out.Look it up. Kills myth of a warrior elite, taking over.A massive influx!

  • @nightowl679
    @nightowl679 Рік тому +58

    Finally a video that covers the history of the Germanic tribes in particular, love this part of history in particular from the germanic bronze age to the migration period. Very well done! But also there are 2 eastern germanic tribes that deserve an mention and those are the Bastarnae and the Buri germanic tribes. The tribes are mentioned in the Trajan's Dacian Wars as fierce germanic tribes and lived in the parts of central Romania and north-east Romania... but archeological evidence is scarce. Great content as always!

  • @BELLA-mf6hb
    @BELLA-mf6hb Рік тому +42

    I do enjoy this era. You are well versed in the history and it shows that you enjoy this very much. Your face was lit up in happiness throughout video.

  • @rachelrose9268
    @rachelrose9268 Рік тому

    This is probably my favorite video that you have made!

  • @McPocalypsus
    @McPocalypsus Рік тому

    An excellent and informative video, thank you.

  • @gadpivs
    @gadpivs Рік тому +17

    American with half German ancestry here. My grandfather's last name (and thus my mom's maiden name) is an Americanized/modernized variant on the word Alemanni, and genealogical research has proven that this family name is for descendants of the Alemanni tribe. After the Migration Period ended, these formerly anti-Christian, pro-pagan people with a wolf warrior background were one of the last peoples on the continent to convert to Christianity (although the continental Saxons converted after them), mostly in the late 600's and early 700's, after their entire line of nobles and kings were executed as Frankish prisoners. In spite of this, the common people of the tribe continued to live in the same regions of southwest Germany (Baden-Württemberg) and northeast France (Alsace-Lorraine) where they had settled during the Germanic migrations, having previously been one of the largest thorns in the side of the Roman Empire at a time when many of the other tribes had been pacified or were looking to establish larger, more permanent kingdoms of their own.
    The area after that time was part of Frankish territory, and Alemannic German became one of the distinct dialects of Old High German alongside Thuringian and Bavarian as they all coalesced into a loose grouping of peoples who would later come to be seen simply as Germans as East and West Francia split apart and the Holy Roman Empire formed, occasionally breaking apart or allowing smaller internal kingdoms to self-govern for various periods in a complex political climate that lasted until the end of the Prussian Empire and going into the modern era. The Alemanns continued to be war-like and in favor of keeping out invaders well past their assimilation into the Frankish kingdom, and while being awarded lands and castles from the 10th century into the 15th, they more or less never moved from this relatively small region in southwest Germany for hundreds of years, with a fairly small and consistent gene pool, until the Protestant Reformation caused a large portion of them to flee the country for America, where they settled in Pennsylvania in the 1600's and early 1700's.
    Of particular interest to me has always been a sword scabbard from Alemannia around the sixth century, which appears to depict an ulfhednar in the same fashion as the Vendel plates from the same period back in Sweden, in Geatish territory (Beowulf's tribe). We of course know that the southern tribes had migrated south because of climatic concerns and the Huns to the east, but it seems that they often maintained contact with their Scandinavian kin. The Alemanni were a later confederation of tribes that probably evolved from the Suebi, or specific parts of the Suebi in particular such as the Hermunduri and Heruli, who are depicted on a map from Jordanes as living in the same region as the "Gautigoths," an early Gothic name for the Geats.
    And here I am today, having traced the Alemann lineage from my grandfather to a great great (etc.) grandfather in the early 1500's, with some evidence of a lost family tree that went back to Alemannic nobles from the 1300's. Here in 21st century America, it seems that I'm quite far removed from their history, but I like to think that I am nevertheless one of their few descendants who hasn't forgotten it.

    • @thesomberlain8053
      @thesomberlain8053 Рік тому

      You forgot to mention that the Alemanni also settled german- speaking Switzerland and Vorarlberg (Austria) and Liechtenstein ;)

    • @gadpivs
      @gadpivs Рік тому +1

      @@thesomberlain8053 Sure. The comment was already running a little long, so I figured not naming every single location was probably for the best, lol. Most of my "German" ancestors were actually Swiss-German, from Berne, or some smaller towns nearby.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 Рік тому +1

      In swabian region, there are still villages/ settlements called ,Sachsenheim' or ,Sachsenhof'.

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE Рік тому +29

    A really good video I hope a lot of people really appreciate this. Most history channels just passed by this time or just pick certain subjects to review. Keep up the great work ⚔️👍🏻

    • @Acquisition1913
      @Acquisition1913 Місяць тому

      Deliberate bc of middle eastern ideology

  • @sisselhansen3915
    @sisselhansen3915 Рік тому

    Hello, I love your videos!
    Thank you, Vikingbroder!

  • @uptown_rider8078
    @uptown_rider8078 Рік тому +37

    I did a DNA test recently, and I found that a large part of my ancestry is from Northern Spain and Portugal (as well as Slavic and Baltic) and there was some Germanic and Scandinavian DNA in there as well, which comes from the Suebi and Visigoths that settled in the peninsula. It’s been very interesting to learn about our Germanic ancestors and our history

    • @Vulfheim
      @Vulfheim 8 місяців тому +5

      Haha, I'm from Spain and Portugal with a little bit of Basque, Scottish and Welsh. Nice to see someone with very similar roots!

    • @uptown_rider8078
      @uptown_rider8078 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Vulfheim It’s nice to meet you lol. It’s good to meet someone with similar roots as me, I always enjoy connecting with people and talking about our peoples heritage

    • @Adventures_with_nick
      @Adventures_with_nick 7 місяців тому +1

      My grandfather had roots from that part! He had a Germanic look to him

    • @ricardoj3456
      @ricardoj3456 6 місяців тому +1

      Where you do DNA test ? Im portuguese, from Minho and i would like to know my ancestours

    • @uptown_rider8078
      @uptown_rider8078 6 місяців тому

      @@ricardoj3456 So I personally did my test with 23&Me, and it gives you percentage estimates of your ancestry. The problem is that I’ve heard some of the bigger DNA testing companies have been known to skew the results, but it can give you an idea of your ancestry

  • @MeisterMixes
    @MeisterMixes Рік тому +22

    More tribes: Batavians and Cananefates from modern day Netherlands. Strong auxiliary forces that could swim and were great cavalry. They could even cross rivers without bridges while om horseback or simply by swimming over.

    • @Forward_comrades
      @Forward_comrades 3 місяці тому

      The Germans were excellent horsemen, the only Europeans who could compare in this with the Asian nomads

  • @rayvenblackfeather8612
    @rayvenblackfeather8612 Рік тому +7

    love your videos! I think I've learned more in the past few weeks watching your vids than I did in all my years of school 🤣 Keep it up! I love all the knowledge I can get 🍻

  • @pappapata
    @pappapata Рік тому +1

    Ja! Gillade den här väldigt mycket. Bra jobbat!

  • @mr.midnight23
    @mr.midnight23 Рік тому +17

    My family has been in the US for several generations, however doing genealogy I’ve traced many branches to Europe. A lot were either Germany or the British Isles. My direct paternal line is from Northern Germany, right along the Weser River. My surname comes from a town not to far away, in the Osnabrück district. Looking into the area, it has a long history. It was around the area where the battle of Teutoburg Forest happened. Osnabrück district was the first diocese founded by Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars

    • @lieberfreialsgleich
      @lieberfreialsgleich 4 місяці тому

      Charlemagne😂 His Name was Karl der Große! At least in german.

  • @Ravishrex1
    @Ravishrex1 Рік тому +24

    Family is from Texel. When ever I have asked what is our ancestory they always have said Frisian. Great content as always.

    • @mikeblei6870
      @mikeblei6870 Рік тому +5

      You damn right it's Frisian ;)

    • @MrEnaric
      @MrEnaric Рік тому +5

      Indeed. And with the oldest pre-viking ringford of the Netherlands as archeologists recently discovered. Groetnis freon!

    • @beefcakeii
      @beefcakeii Рік тому +4

      Awesome to see other people of Frisian ancestry here 👊

    • @dgray3771
      @dgray3771 Рік тому +5

      Went to the records of Steenwijk with my mother decades ago. And dug up on our ancestors, when going a few generations back everything is Frisian.

    • @aldosigmann419
      @aldosigmann419 Рік тому +5

      It's becoming more clear that we Frisians are a semi Scandinavian people - i got a DNA done; 33% North Germanic Dane/Norwegian....the rest West Germanic...

  • @kenhart8771
    @kenhart8771 Рік тому +45

    Tak for endnu et spændende indslag. Et relevant historisk emne, der er total overset.

  • @jhonnydiamond
    @jhonnydiamond 5 місяців тому +4

    I'm an italian living in Lombardy and I'm proud to have Lombards ancient origins. The capital was Pavia and Queen was Teodolinda.

  • @tenbroeck1958
    @tenbroeck1958 Рік тому +2

    Great summary: you really know this history sir. I'm glad someone is proud and feels affinity for our ancient roots and culture. Danke

  • @jamesvandemark2086
    @jamesvandemark2086 Рік тому +5

    In New Ulm, Minnesota there is a statue of Hermann The German.

  • @kev1734
    @kev1734 Рік тому +5

    I'm currently studying the dictionary of northern mythology by rudolf simek (at your recommendation so thank you again for that!) and the information I'm finding in there refers a lot to old roman inscriptions from proto-germanic tribes. So some of the stuff you're mentioning here I've only just learned about! I highly recommend this book to everyone as the author has done a spectacular job with this book; the layout, the references to sources and the structure. I can look up just about any old norse word and find a good chuck of info on it there; along with references to more detailed sources.
    Great video man cheers!

  • @aynatmirg
    @aynatmirg Рік тому +39

    I may be from the Suebi tribe. My family moved to Hungary which is now Serbia and we are known as Donauschwaben. Even here in America we are still very proud of our culture. Many groups, festivals and family traditions still used today

    • @donald2665
      @donald2665 Рік тому +4

      I read the War Commentaries of Julius Caesar at around 17 years of age, and recall the battle of the Legions against the sudden attack of the Suebi who initiated the battle by swarming out of the forest edge from mid-way up a large hill to attack the two Legions at work on their field fortification. The battle is well described by Caesar, and the remainder of the Legions who were on the road march arrived piece meal and engaged in the battle to its conclusion. He described the Suebi as having 100 thousand warriors rotating into the very wide border areas of their territory, and described the warriors as running along side their horses on foot while holding the horses manes practicing stamina training for battle. It was a Warrior Tribe for sure.

    • @scrabbymcscrotus7481
      @scrabbymcscrotus7481 11 місяців тому +8

      I‘m a Donauschwabe too!!!!! My family was expelled after WW2 though so we have never been back

    • @Jayla-dj2gj
      @Jayla-dj2gj 10 місяців тому +3

      @@scrabbymcscrotus7481 Why were you expelled??

    • @pommes0078
      @pommes0078 10 місяців тому +4

      Hey im a schwabe too greetings from Baden Württemberg

    • @amy27ro
      @amy27ro 10 місяців тому

      @@Jayla-dj2gj Germans were persecuted and sent to Russia as war reparations after the war, many fled, many were killed. It was abad time to be german even if you had nothing to do with the nazis.

  • @thomasnewsom7570
    @thomasnewsom7570 Рік тому

    Great presentation. Obviously well researched.

  • @davidnoot4995
    @davidnoot4995 Рік тому +12

    I came from the Netherlands to the United States as a kid. We go back many generations in Amsterdam and other parts of noord holland where my parents were from although my grandfather was from Friesland. Our family name is a Dutch branch of the Flemish vanderNoot noble family and goes back to the first vanderNoot, a Roman citizen circa 500 a.d.

    • @DMIwriter
      @DMIwriter 4 місяці тому

      Do you know if there are any genealogical databases or records accessible to the public in the Netherlands? I'm working on a patrilineal family history, and the furthest back I've been able to trace a verified ancestor was 1520 in Harderwijk. I was wondering if there's a chance that there might be older records preserved somewhere over there

  • @corytucker6668
    @corytucker6668 Рік тому +24

    I'm so glad you did this video because as I've told you a while ago this is my favorite period as well. I traced my fathers dna back to Hedmark and Oslo area. From what I can find the germanic tribe in the area was the Heidner. I found their history very interesting from what information I could find.
    cheers 🍻 hope all is well

  • @user-jp9js9th8o
    @user-jp9js9th8o 3 дні тому

    very good overview, with some insights about the backgrounds: thx a lot

  • @denbodg9311
    @denbodg9311 Рік тому +3

    What a great source of information you are. Great video, but frankly I wouldn’t know where to start. Born & live in Yorkshire, near York, my DNA denotes Anglo Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Scottish & Welsh ancestry, nowhere else. The only certainty Germanic I am 😁

  • @heressomestuffifound
    @heressomestuffifound Рік тому +55

    Excellent video. My German grandfather used to tell me the story of Arminius as well as that of Siegfried when I was a child. Sparked my interest in ancestry and our ancient roots.

    • @cocobunitacobuni8738
      @cocobunitacobuni8738 10 місяців тому +1

      You can also read about Widukind, who fought the christianizer Charlemagne. Sadly he was also eventually converted.

    • @icxcnikasrb
      @icxcnikasrb 7 місяців тому +1

      You are all Slavic descendants

    • @cocobunitacobuni8738
      @cocobunitacobuni8738 7 місяців тому

      @@icxcnikasrb that's a very unscientific statement and even if it's true, how is that a bad thing? My gedmatch metadata returned a 9.22% Caucasian (from the Caucasus) and a 0.55% Siberian. The majority of the elements were North East European and Mediterranean. I guess NE European could include Slavic? Again, saying "all Slavic descendants" is very unscientific.

    • @icxcnikasrb
      @icxcnikasrb 7 місяців тому +2

      @@cocobunitacobuni8738 I did not say that it is bad thing. Sorry I am not a scientist

    • @iubk1247
      @iubk1247 6 місяців тому

      Actually its the exact opposite way 🤒@@icxcnikasrb

  • @nocaption5562
    @nocaption5562 Рік тому +8

    One of the most anticipated videos of yours, great insight in some of the more lesser known tribes. Greetings from 🇨🇭, the descendants of the alemanni who were a subtribe of the suebi.

    • @johnaleman4723
      @johnaleman4723 Рік тому +1

      Hello people from 🇨🇭. My name is John Aleman a direct decent from the Alemanni.

  • @sleepyviking1723
    @sleepyviking1723 Рік тому

    I think this might be my favorite channel. Donar looks out for this guy. He does good work and the hammer knows it.

  • @eu-neuwagen4024
    @eu-neuwagen4024 6 місяців тому +3

    There are Icelandic written stories from around 800, that state that Odin, his family and tribe came frome a land far away in the south called Azar. I went a few weeks ago to visit archeological sites and findings in Azerbaijan, south Caucasus (other legends say that the white race in the Caucasus region, hence called caucasians). I saw my self at least 12.000 year old cave cravings of viking ships and several giant skeletons from that period over 3 meter tall! Some historians are convinced that the legends are based on reality. I also agree. It simply fits beautifully with all known evidences.

    • @christianc559
      @christianc559 Місяць тому

      Azores has plausibility here with new discoveries.

  • @Epsillion70
    @Epsillion70 Рік тому +18

    Brilliant video! On my Mothers side they have the old Germanic name of Mann! And there history goes back 700 years to York/Yorvik in the UK!

    • @Nate-dj9nt
      @Nate-dj9nt Рік тому +3

      I'm from York, and my surname is after a small local town, so I guess my heritage has remained here a while. I suppose that makes me either saxon or possibly viking, given that yorvik was under danelaw for a while.

    • @irenejohnston6802
      @irenejohnston6802 Рік тому

      @@Nate-dj9nt there's a small village called Saxton not far from York. Might it have identified an enclave of Saxons living in the Danelaw?

    • @Nate-dj9nt
      @Nate-dj9nt Рік тому

      @@irenejohnston6802 could have done, I think york was an area with alot of conflicted territory between the groups

    • @Emilyb21-dm3bf
      @Emilyb21-dm3bf 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Nate-dj9ntYorkshire has the most Saxon dna and Nordicin the country aside from peaks in Scotland who has the most Norse.

    • @tigerland4328
      @tigerland4328 Місяць тому

      ​@@Emilyb21-dm3bfit was the Angles that settled in Yorkshire. The Saxons settled in southern England

  • @kogoromori30
    @kogoromori30 Рік тому +77

    You missed an excellent opportunity to mention the Kingdom of Suebi in Portugal/Galicia, which is quite interesting considering the original location of the Suebi near the Elbe river. Portuguese still has a few words + names that are of Suebic origin. But it should also be mentioned that the impact of the Visigoth on Portuguese culture and language was a lot greater. Basically, the most known Portuguese last names like Fernandes, Gonçalves, Henriques, etc., are actually of Visigoth origin.

    • @cascarrabias397
      @cascarrabias397 Рік тому +5

      Yep, for some reason he forgot them. Fernandez and Hernandez were Visigoths origin.

    • @kogoromori30
      @kogoromori30 Рік тому +4

      @@cascarrabias397 FernandeZ+HernandeZ are the Spanish versions though

    • @peterkralt2478
      @peterkralt2478 Рік тому +3

      Perhaps that is why Portuguese understand Catalan often better then Andalusian Spanish do? Was Portugal or parts of it also part of the Spanish mark? The Visigoth Satellite state of the Frankish empire in southern France and North Spain meant as a buffer zone between the Franks and the Moorish so the Franks could concentrate on subjecting their rivals the Frisians and the Saxons first before clashing with the Moorish invaders.

    • @cascarrabias397
      @cascarrabias397 Рік тому +2

      @@peterkralt2478 The Moorish never invaded Hispania, that was a big fat lie made up.
      The reason the Vandals got so easy into the Berber territories was that they had the same religion, both were None trinitarians.
      The Germanic tribe went down to Northern African territories and stayed there, but not the Moorish(Berbers) until much, much later when the Christian scripture change from having a title for Jesus called "Muhammad"(the chosen one) to a person called Muhammad.
      The Abbasid worked hard in making their own scripture and having their own heroes.

    • @jaif7327
      @jaif7327 Рік тому +9

      @@cascarrabias397 holy schizophrenia

  • @Geko2006
    @Geko2006 5 місяців тому +3

    Now I realize why our teacher called us Vandals ahahah

  • @rasputin1909
    @rasputin1909 Рік тому

    your knowledge is enormous

  • @IrishinFinland
    @IrishinFinland Рік тому +3

    Excellent video king 🤟🏻 had to pause like 10 minutes into it and go make a coffee to enjoy it even more 😆

  • @airborneranger-ret
    @airborneranger-ret Рік тому +11

    Just an FYI, there's a school of thought that lumps "English" as a "north Scandinavian" language. The sentence structure is very close to Norwegian, not so close to modern German.

    • @willremy5142
      @willremy5142 Рік тому +5

      I agree with this. In fact, most modern English derives from the Danelaw area, where English was changed from a West Germanic syntax, to a pigeon Norse/English hybrid with Norse syntax. I think we have to look to the development of English in 4 distinct periods; the original Anglo-Saxon (Old English), the Norse influence period (??? English), the Norman period (Middle English), and Elizabethan to Modern English.

    • @Emilyb21-dm3bf
      @Emilyb21-dm3bf 2 місяці тому

      Old English sound Icelandic

  • @amymiller7189
    @amymiller7189 Рік тому +8

    Hi, this is so interesting!! I've always been interested in my Native American heritage, recently I've been researching my Norwegian heritage, my moms mother was half Norwegian and Welsh. I've learned thru Ancestry DNA that my Norwegian family is from Rogaland in Norway. Thank you for your videos.

  • @rhmendelson
    @rhmendelson 10 місяців тому

    This is great!
    Wonderful descriptions and now I’m inspired to read Beowulf again! 😏

  • @beefcakeii
    @beefcakeii Рік тому +5

    Thank you Thor for another excellent video! Always glad to learn more about my Frisian heritage.

    • @Ravishrex1
      @Ravishrex1 Рік тому +2

      Don't mind if park my Frisian as over here I have some beers.

    • @tyv5887
      @tyv5887 Рік тому

      @@Ravishrex1 my fellow tribesmen 👊🏻we should all get some beer and interrupt a baptism sometime 🍻🗡 in honor of King Redbad

  • @erskerbobbles
    @erskerbobbles Рік тому +18

    Thank You! I was always told I am "German". After much research, I now consider myself, more accurately, Saxon. My DNA shows primarily Danish./English My Polish/Italian wife actually has more "German" DNA than I. This confused us at first. Her Father was from Venice so her "German" DNA is courtesy of the Lombards (Long Beards) that invaded and controlled the city state of Venice for a time. It's satisfying to follow our own tiny little thread interwoven into this beautiful amazing complex tapestry of history!!!

    • @knechtgottes9109
      @knechtgottes9109 6 місяців тому

      Die Germanen (Permiter) wurden ausgerottet! Vor 800 Jahren hat Gott die 12 Stämme Israel in Deutschland gesammelt.

    • @Thor-Orion
      @Thor-Orion 5 місяців тому +1

      Poland to this day has a region that was formerly called Royal Prussia within it’s border.

    • @Lee-jh6cr
      @Lee-jh6cr 3 місяці тому +1

      ​My maternal ancestors were from the Mazury area of the former East Prussia. The ethnicity of the area is Baltic Old Prussian/Galindian blended with Mazovian colonizers (colonization opened courtesy of the crusading Teutonic Knights) in the early/mid 1200s, followed by Lipka Tatars of the Golden Horde about 1400. There was a smattering of Germanics, Jews, and other settlers. After WWII when East Prussia was split between Russia and Poland, many from this district moved around Poland. As of the 1980s we still had relatives in the area. Sadly, only a few thousand identify as Mazuren, and the dialect of Mazuren (Mazovian mixed with now extinct Baltic Old Prussian) is spoken by few. In the northern and NE of the former East Prussia, the Old Prussian tribes and Lithuanians were mixed with German colonizers. Being more Germanic by culture, they pretty much split after WWII, mostly into Germany.

  • @nitzerbep
    @nitzerbep 7 місяців тому

    Superb video and great channel aperently!? 😮 Never bumped into it before now.
    A lot of knowledge squeezed into this video. Great info 👍👍🙂
    Loved the story about the burgundy connection to Bornholm, cause I have some theories on that 🌭 Mustard!

  • @hedylus
    @hedylus 5 місяців тому +3

    The German language comes from the same tradition as Greek (and Latin Greek). This is perfectly clear because of the way that only Greek and German use the case system. No other languages use the nominative, accusative, genative cases etc , in the same way. It is unique. Despite the divergence of 5000 years, the main words are all still recognisable as having the same origin.

    • @robertolang9684
      @robertolang9684 5 місяців тому

      actualy it comes from iberia , where the first runic script was found

    • @hedylus
      @hedylus 5 місяців тому

      @@robertolang9684 What does? Runic script is generic not topical and the recipients of its intellectual aspects could have been anyone from anywhere. They are obviously more spiritual symbols from ancient times and not particularly Germanic or Info-European. The German language comes from Russia along with the other Indo-European who fathered most modern European languages.

  • @forrestwilkes4093
    @forrestwilkes4093 Рік тому +13

    Perfect! I had been digging into this myself recently and here I find your video just uploaded. Stop apologizing for video length, I could listen to this with even more detail for hours on end. Thank you for your work as I know the research isn't quick or easy. Excellent job putting it together.
    As I understand it, my surname root word 'Wilk' is modern Polish for wolf. The 'es' suffix makes it "people from a land inhabited by wolves". I wonder then did it originate from a Gothic tribe? Time and study may tell, hopefully in my lifetime. Keep doing what you do brother!

    • @tyv5887
      @tyv5887 Рік тому +1

      Mine is “Vos = fox” greetings from one K9 to another 🦊👋

    • @forrestwilkes4093
      @forrestwilkes4093 Рік тому

      @@tyv5887 "Man må hyle med de ulve man er I blandt" .... One must howl with the wolves (or fox in this case) one is among 😁

  • @deadcatbounce3124
    @deadcatbounce3124 Рік тому +14

    It's like a rundown of my entire ancient family history.
    Definitely some Langobard, Ostrogoth, Saxon, Frisii, Marcomanni and then various Norwegian, Swedish and Danish tribes, since their specific tribal areas aren't too clear.

  • @dragonrider9051
    @dragonrider9051 Рік тому

    I love flow chart's an timelines in a visual format. Glad i found this channel. Thank you. My dad's Priebe ancestors from Pribislav area. My mom's side were Viking settler's in Scotland.

  • @thormusique
    @thormusique Рік тому +3

    Excellent video, thanks! Both my parents were from Poland, and according to my mother (who was an obsessive researcher), my father's family were Lugiones (the Celtic tribe) and Vandals. My mother's family were Langobardi. Cheers!

  • @denni7173
    @denni7173 Рік тому +58

    Loved this video! I'm actually really surprised you didn't make this a year ago, tbh. Hope you're enjoying the Finnish/Sami books you got. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on them, being my main area of focus😉

    • @juni_pearl_9591
      @juni_pearl_9591 Рік тому +5

      I look forward to your critique when he gives his thoughts on the Finns/Sami.

    • @phornthip1991
      @phornthip1991 Рік тому +2

      @@juni_pearl_9591
      Explicit to the Finns I recommend the Bock Saga.
      The Sami are not Caucasian-, they are Mongolian tribes.

    • @lillemy4260
      @lillemy4260 Рік тому +4

      Sámi are also from Inuit tribes

    • @lillemy4260
      @lillemy4260 Рік тому +2

      Or Lappisk they came from LAppland

    • @phornthip1991
      @phornthip1991 Рік тому

      @@lillemy4260
      That the origins of the Sami PPL are mongolian and not caucasian is clear.
      My Question is, they real related to the Innuit, approved by DNA, or still this Beringbridge Theory?

  • @peterdammeliusosterode3424
    @peterdammeliusosterode3424 Рік тому +15

    I am of Old Germanic Swedish origin. Except for a splash of Finnish blood. The latter I am very proud of as the Finns are a fantastically tough people with a great sense of humor.
    My ancestors probably never plundered the Roman Empire or were bloodthirsty Vikings. We stayed at home and were hardworking farmers. We have owned the family farm according to preserved tax lengths for 500 years now, but probably much longer than that.
    The Swedish bureaucracy only began to keep people in order in the 16th century and still does today.😆
    Ni djäkla norrmän som sitter i en snödriva och tuggar rått sälkött hela dagarna. 🤭

    • @phornthip1991
      @phornthip1991 Рік тому

      @Peter Dammelius
      The Bloodthirsty Vikings is fairytale, that they not have to explain that the same kind of tribes lived for thousends of years around the baltic sea, southern sweden, southern norway, hele danmark, england south of the Hadrian Wall, northern Germany, entire Holland and Belgium, down the Atlantic Coast to Gibraltar and into the medditerean sea.
      This was once one Empire, I will call it the Atlantean Alliance.
      The lying Archeologists call it Roman Empire.
      Search for "Bock Saga".
      Alaf Sig Runa
      From Germany

    • @ShermanistDruid
      @ShermanistDruid Рік тому +1

      @@phornthip1991 So the viking protest at Lindisfarne was mostly peaceful...

    • @phornthip1991
      @phornthip1991 Рік тому

      @@ShermanistDruid
      Who said this?
      I said the VikingRiots started at Lindisfarne.
      and was lasting about 200 years, until they had destroyed the Agressors.
      After England, they attacked for almost 100 years the Frankish Empire and burned mostly Churches and Monestaries down, for a good reason.
      Once they was going with about 1.000 ships up the Seine.
      Close to Paris they had a battle with Franks and they defeated them, caused the stupid Franks had split their army on both sides on the river.
      The Franks then started to negociate with the Vikings, caused this was their second unsuccessful battle experience with Vikings.
      They had to pay a huge compasation to the a Vikings, top a piece of Land in France, which called since and until today Normandy.
      Then the Vikings paid attention to the other big enemy in the east who was part of this plot.
      This Battles was lasting over 100 years until the finally destroyed the Capital of this Empire, Idil 969 AD.
      These Vikings (Varäger) liked this Country so much that they founded the Kiewer Rus, the Heartland of Russia.
      www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiewer_Rus&ved=2ahUKEwi2lvXhzdX6AhXwSfEDHVsPDzkQmhN6BAghEAI&usg=AOvVaw1sYbuynSSylZ9Icjjt7znf

    • @Leira-et9bw
      @Leira-et9bw Рік тому +1

      I read a book about vikings. People In GB were thankful when it was stormy wether, because the vikings didnt arrived then. 🤭

    • @christiano2444
      @christiano2444 Рік тому

      Sounds pretty Dutch to me, your name

  • @michaelbehrens1660
    @michaelbehrens1660 10 місяців тому

    Will be purchasing that arm ring forth with as my descendants are from Behrensdorf near the Dane/German border…my newest fav channel and since I can’t do Patreon as they cancel folk I support I will purchase from your shop! Thx for your channel!

  • @tristar333333
    @tristar333333 Рік тому

    Great video ! Big thanks.

  • @mandalorianactual1215
    @mandalorianactual1215 Рік тому +6

    Being from Portugal/Spain, with Swedish dna, I know I am Visigoth/goth.

  • @jodywilkes2892
    @jodywilkes2892 Рік тому +4

    Hello,
    My paternal line is predominantly from around Ketteldorf (near Nuremburg). Documented back as far as the mid-1600s, we assume they would have been there for long before. I believe this would put me in the Suebi tribe (or at least the Alemanni tribe). Haplogroup R-Z40619
    Thank you for the awesome video!

  • @achimfrankenbach7374
    @achimfrankenbach7374 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for your exploration! It was realy interesting!! Greetings from germany.

  • @georgejackson3570
    @georgejackson3570 Рік тому

    Really interesting video. Thank you.

  • @seinenno
    @seinenno Рік тому +10

    I love your enthusiasm when it comes to the tribes! I'm from northern Germany and my father loves his genealogy. He traced his part of the family back to Denmark in the 14hundreds. My mom's family comes from the north east, the area of Poland and because most documents in churches etc. are gone and many things were destroyed during the war, my dad couldn't find out more.
    My dad is a history nut and he told me a lot about the tribes, but there were so many you've mentioned which I've never heard before.
    Thank you for making this video. I don't mind if it was longer. Especially if there's so much to tell.
    Is there a book you could recommend about the different tribes, especially the Germanic ones aside from the sources you've mentioned? I find it hard to select a good book about this topic especially here in Germany.

    • @tymanung6382
      @tymanung6382 Рік тому

      Perhaps ancestry DNA tests might help?

  • @fb2827
    @fb2827 Рік тому +7

    It should be noted that the modern German dialects from Switzerland and the Schwarzwald are still known as alamannic

  • @cecileroy557
    @cecileroy557 4 місяці тому

    Thank you sooo much for this!!!!!

  • @waynehawkes9105
    @waynehawkes9105 Рік тому +3

    Love watching this video great history. I am Anglo Saxon from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 I love reading about my surname it tells you a lot about where you really come from looking forward to seeing more 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @alexhagen7046
    @alexhagen7046 Рік тому +66

    one of the most informative videos about our ancestors. I adore our German culture because I was cut off from it and was able to learn the languages of my ancestors (Dutch, a little German and a little Scandinavian). Breaking away from culture has allowed me to develop an identity that I cherish!

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Рік тому +2

      Exactly. My mentor Günther really had my back back in the 80’s🧐

    • @denniscannon769
      @denniscannon769 Рік тому +1

      I can understand why you feel 'Breaking Away' is 'from the culture'. Even though most still see the 1979 'Breaking Away' as a working class Indiana teen (starring the blonde Dennis Quaid) obsessed with the Italian cycling team, more and more viewers feel the film, and especially the subsequent TV series with the then wildly popular (and also blonde) Shaun Cassidy, was truly about the German team.

    • @elissalabellelabelle4819
      @elissalabellelabelle4819 10 місяців тому

      Religion cut me off from my German ancestry, culture and language. Now, after 300 years I take an interest where no one else will. I’ve posted my family tree for my child to see our ancestry. I think it’s important to know where you came from and try to learn the history understand the cultures and language. It enriches our lives to use technology to find records dated hundreds of years.

    • @basicinfo8786
      @basicinfo8786 7 місяців тому

      There is no German culture philosophy and ethics it's all stolen from Grecoromans

    • @andriandrason1318
      @andriandrason1318 5 місяців тому

      Are you talking about Germanic and what do you mean by Scandinavian?

  • @MerlinFlexer
    @MerlinFlexer Рік тому +26

    Good video. One way to also see the connection between the tribes is to look at the dialects we have today in Germany: The dialect that is spoken here in the Black Forest is called "alemannisch" and it's like a mix of Swiss-german and the regular "badisch" that is spoken in the rest of the region that the Black Forest is a part of. This part is where the Alemanni lived (also in parts of today Switzerland). West of it is the part where people speak "schwäbisch" as you also mentioned. That's the heritage of the suebians. Both dialects sound very similar to someone who isn't from southern Germany. Both dialects come from the same language family (Alemannic) along with Swiss-German and they have a lot in common like pronouncing an "st" as an "sch" ("sh" in English) and lots of special words that all others Germans find kind of funny when they hear them 🤣

    • @gadpivs
      @gadpivs Рік тому +6

      As a direct descendant of the Alemanni, thanks for bringing this up. It seems to be the case that a lot of descendants of both the Suebi and Alemanni still live in more or less the same regions, centuries later, probably marrying in small circles for a very long time and not having much outside genetic input. It's also worth noting that one of the most important tribes to later form the Alemanni were the Hermunduri, who later also became the Thuringii, and their name shares a root with Irminones/Herminones and Herman/Arminius, the leader of the Teutoburg uprising against Varus' legions.

    • @juergenernst1320
      @juergenernst1320 Рік тому +1

      Alemannisch ist Suedbaden suedlich des Fluesschens Oos in Baden-Baden, noerdlich davon ist fraenkischen Ursprungs.

    • @MerlinFlexer
      @MerlinFlexer Рік тому +1

      @@juergenernst1320 Danke für die Info.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, man. Making sure I keep up with my honey-do project😎

    • @bustavonnutz
      @bustavonnutz 11 місяців тому +1

      Same tribe that gave the French & many other nations the official name for the German nation.

  • @thedummydane9527
    @thedummydane9527 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this informational video! I have been yearning to learn more about the Germanic tribes so this video was really helpful! According to my ancestry, I can definitely say that I am Anglo-Saxon, absolutely.

  • @xykethonnohtekyx6930
    @xykethonnohtekyx6930 6 місяців тому

    Excellent video, thanks 👍

  • @MosaicRose99
    @MosaicRose99 Рік тому +2

    A recent update in my ancestry test says I am over half Scandinavian (my mother) and the rest is British (my dad). That's it. My grandmother (mother's side) was born in Denmark and my grandfather's family comes from Sweden/Denmark. I just love these videos and all of the information that you provide. Thanks!

  • @hunchbackaudio
    @hunchbackaudio Рік тому +24

    Interesting to hear the Dutch where anti-hierarchy even back then. It’s still really embedded in the culture today.

    • @HansWurst1569
      @HansWurst1569 Рік тому

      ??? What the fuck are you talking about. We’re not?

    • @alfreddaniels3817
      @alfreddaniels3817 Рік тому +1

      The Netherlands were mostly uninhabitable swamp areas between sand and sea. The people(s) who tried to make a living there were the ones that wanted or had to be far away from the civilized world of castles and armies and organized agriculture and taxes.

    • @HansWurst1569
      @HansWurst1569 Рік тому

      @@alfreddaniels3817 what the fuck??? You are terribly wrong aswell.. you both know nothing about my country…

  • @tatamitani
    @tatamitani Рік тому

    Such a great video!

  • @igor-yp1xv
    @igor-yp1xv Рік тому

    Nice video, thank you!

  • @frekitheravenous516
    @frekitheravenous516 Рік тому +21

    Vendel Era is tops for me. I would love to know the exact relationship, if any, between the Swedes and the Anglo-Saxons, East Angles specifically, during that period. There is too much similarity between Sutton Hoo ship grave goods and those of Valsgarde ship burials. It is also the age of heroes. Beowulf, Sigurd, etc.

    • @Gomorragh
      @Gomorragh Рік тому

      from my own backchecking a few tribes of the Swedish branches were given land in the 1066 norman invasion, but as part of thier settling thier names were changed and the new names installed into the doomsday book

    • @josephyearwood1179
      @josephyearwood1179 Рік тому

      Always thought that becoming wellknown Suttonhoo mask lookalikes Ipswich Town player Mick Mills.

    • @soderlund3610
      @soderlund3610 Рік тому +1

      Sutton Hoo means seventeen howes in older west geatish (Götaland, Sweden), more or less. Beowulf was a geat. The helmet and weapons are almost identical to swedish finds from the vendel era. Near Southampton there are two villages named Eling and Bitterna. These two villages also exist in Geatland

    • @adventussaxonum448
      @adventussaxonum448 Рік тому +2

      @@soderlund3610
      Southampton is in the Jutish area of Wessex, mentioned by Bede, as is the New Forest across Southampton Water and the Isle of Wight across the Solent. (The New Forest was called Ytene in mediaeval, pre-Norman English).
      I've always tentatively linked the Jutes to the Geats (especially as the initial "G" would be a "y" sound, in Old English.
      "Ing" as a suffix is common, more usually in Saxon areas, meaning "followers of" or "descendants of", as in Tolkien's Eorlingas.

    • @soderlund3610
      @soderlund3610 Рік тому

      @@adventussaxonum448 Thank you 👍

  • @barbara623
    @barbara623 Рік тому +6

    If anyone wants to help me identify which tribes left and went to Ireland that would be great. Thank you for the informative video and all of your informative material that you educate us with. I love your content and appreciate your willingness to educate us all about every part of history. Thank you!

    • @michelberube6337
      @michelberube6337 7 місяців тому +1

      A lot of Irish people are descending, at least partially, from Anglo-Normans who led an invasion of south-east Ireland in the 12th Century. Though being French Canadian, I have some Irish ancestors myself. My great-great grandfather came from the area of Waterford. He was named Powers, a name that derives from the Anglo-Norman name Le Poher, which means The Poor...So, the question we have to ask ourselves is more about the germanic origin of the Normans first living in France. An author of the 18th century mentioned that many of them were from Nordalbingia, on the east side of the Elbe river. That would correspond to a Saxon territory but also to Suebians on their east side. Hope this is of some help.

    • @alexwinter6720
      @alexwinter6720 5 місяців тому

      Check out the Dal Riata tribe operated around Dublin area and originally came over from scandanavia

  • @domeniclocalzo9498
    @domeniclocalzo9498 Рік тому

    That's very informative

  • @batissta44
    @batissta44 Місяць тому

    Great, informative video.

  • @neboyshanicolich761
    @neboyshanicolich761 Рік тому +3

    From my mother's side I'm from Suebi tribe and possibly Alemmani since I'm from Vorarlberg,great video,very informative.👍

  • @varggunnar1498
    @varggunnar1498 Рік тому +18

    Being an Australian, I found this very interesting ,as I would be a mix of a lot of these tribes.My main background and interests are Scotland, Sweden and Northern Germany area.
    Picts,Angles,Saxons, Jutes to start.too many to name.

    • @willmosse3684
      @willmosse3684 Рік тому +7

      Probably more Angle than Saxon or Jute if you are of Scottish descent. The Angle Kingdom of Northumbria crossed South East Scotland and North East England. The Saxons and Jutes were more in the South of England. Though probably some mix for sure. And Picts for sure. Possibly Gaels - called the Scoti by the Romans - from Ireland? It was the Scoti/Gaels coming into Norther Britain after the Roman withdrawal that gave it the modern name Scotland.

    • @varggunnar1498
      @varggunnar1498 Рік тому +1

      @@willmosse3684 ,yes a lot of kingdom of Delriada descent,my Grandmother is a MacGillivray.Gael.

    • @thelink4492
      @thelink4492 Рік тому +5

      it really depends on what Scottish clans you are from some clans are germanic in origin from the angles which are from both English and south east Scots south west is more Gael north west is mostley Viking areas including Shetland and Orkney north east is mostly Gael and pict mix but it mostly depend on clan my Scottish ancestor was an Erskine which they where more Brythonic Celts

    • @varggunnar1498
      @varggunnar1498 Рік тому

      @@thelink4492 ,yes 100%,it's interesting isn't it.

    • @mikenuzzo3323
      @mikenuzzo3323 Рік тому

      why do Australian women want black American men? I have been there and think that I know

  • @Svensk7119
    @Svensk7119 8 місяців тому

    Love that you open in Norwegian! Hyggelig å møte deg!

  • @madsleonardholvik3040
    @madsleonardholvik3040 9 місяців тому +2

    I feel the same attraction to periods when we lived with nature in animistic unity. Thank you!

  • @stonedape2406
    @stonedape2406 Рік тому +4

    Hats off for referencing the Geatish connection with the Jutes, I do find the connection likely and interesting, with some quite convincing evidence.

    • @gadpivs
      @gadpivs Рік тому +2

      Their neighbors to the south in Jutland, the Angles, also had some descendants of the Danish king from Beowulf's time, because his wife was possibly an Angle whose kin back in Sweden, the Wulfings, were the same group of people as the later Anglic Wuffings who came to England in East Anglia as part of the Anglo-Saxon migrations. This seems to explain why East Anglia in particular not only had such a strong connection to the Beowulf epic, but also had helms in the Sutton Hoo burial mound adorned with berserker imagery almost identical to that found in Geatish/Wulfing territory in southeastern Sweden around the same time.

    • @stonedape2406
      @stonedape2406 Рік тому +3

      @@gadpivs yeah the Wulfing elite in East Anglia also share some shared archeological features of the Jutes (Geats) who settled England. For example, we find a high amount of scandinavian style Bracteates, some dedicated to the cult of odin/Wodinz, in east kent, Isle of Wight and East Anglia. Only difference with Kentish material culture is that it became frankified due to its proximity and the possibility that kent could have been under Frankish Domain. However, we still see a basic scandinavian substrate of finds in Jutish East Kent, the Isle of Wight and to a degree south hampshire.
      However, I must say as you probably know, the Wulfings were one tribe of Angles to settle Britain, and only made up an elite class in East Anglia.

  • @caolmountain8281
    @caolmountain8281 Рік тому +10

    Hohenstaufen Swabian here, thanks for the content! I've often wondered how grave turning the ghost of Caesar must have been to watch them later take the emperorship of Rome.

    • @CoachDoug714
      @CoachDoug714 Рік тому +6

      My family and yours would be neighbors. We are originally from Goppingen, one train station away from Geislingen. I've been to the Hohenstsaufen. Beautiful place, great history.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 Рік тому +1

      I am Brittas boyfriend, swabian and can see Hohenstaufen from my village. Oh , Friedrich ll was both ,Roman Emperor' of ,HRE' and ,King of Naples' , so he was regular ruler of nearly whole Italy.

    • @Philipp.of.Swabia
      @Philipp.of.Swabia Рік тому

      Sad that The castle no longer stands. :/

  • @ashleighearnest2247
    @ashleighearnest2247 10 місяців тому

    I’m loving this channel. I’ve only just found it. I was born in western tennessee in the us, and my family as lived in the US since the early settlers in Virginia so I’m only just learning where my immigrant ancestors originated. I’d love to get some idea of my more ancient Germanic, Celtic and Nordic ancestry but I can’t find a lot to really help me make any decent guesses, I love learning about this particular time period wish there were more sources from the actual tribes but we get what we get 😂 thank you for these videos!

  • @beverlykeys4330
    @beverlykeys4330 11 місяців тому +2

    Fantastic video, thank you! I'm not sure about my Germanic tribal ancestry, but I am about 1/3 Swedish, and some Dutch (Frisian?). Fortunately got to know grandparents & great aunts, etc., lots of family stories, etc. I do know on my Celtic/Scottish side, that my clan was originally mostly Pictish. I am always looking for more info on them.

  • @galenbjorn443
    @galenbjorn443 Рік тому +8

    Hope to live to see scandinavia back to there glory days

    • @Thekoryostribalpodcast
      @Thekoryostribalpodcast Рік тому +12

      Uh.....me too. But they have been overrun by outsiders. And they refuse to stand up and kick them out

    • @galenbjorn443
      @galenbjorn443 Рік тому +7

      @@Thekoryostribalpodcast more and more people are waking up every day

    • @ItsRainingBlood
      @ItsRainingBlood Рік тому +1

      @@Thekoryostribalpodcast its political which shouldn't even be allowed

    • @Thekoryostribalpodcast
      @Thekoryostribalpodcast Рік тому

      @@galenbjorn443 I know. I just can't wait to see the wave of people kicking their asses out. I'll even fly there and help

    • @stevenfair2288
      @stevenfair2288 Рік тому +1

      @@Thekoryostribalpodcast We Germanic would be an incredible force if we united this is what scare the elites .

  • @larsfromaustria
    @larsfromaustria Рік тому +16

    Herwig Wolfram - probably one of the most well respected historians when it comes to the germanic tribes - would disagree about the germanic homeland being in Scandinavia. He describes the homeland of the first germans at the time of the germanic ethnogenesis not in Scandinavia but in Northern Germany. According to him they only later migrated further north when the climate got warmer. Would be cool if you could do a video about that some time.

    • @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger
      @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger Рік тому +10

      I thought they moved through Germany, settled in Scandinavia, then the weather got too cold with the little ice age, and they migrated south for a period. Once the weather warmed up, they returned to the north. It would make them Germanic before they were Nordic, right? But either way, we are all brothers and sisters. I'm over half Germanic with about 5% Nordic, but to me Nordic=Germanic.

    • @EinDeutscherPatriot620
      @EinDeutscherPatriot620 Рік тому +7

      Yeah, that's what I thought as well. I thought they originated from Niedersächsen and migrated into Schleswig, then Jutland and Sjælland, then to Southern Sweden.

    • @petravh4711
      @petravh4711 Рік тому +3

      Ja, einverstanden

    • @petravh4711
      @petravh4711 Рік тому +1

      Ich stimme zu

    • @IIS73f0II
      @IIS73f0II Рік тому

      @@HroduuulfSonOfHrodger The "little iceage" was in the 15th century much later then the Norse history.

  • @InvaliDidea123
    @InvaliDidea123 Рік тому

    Nicely done! 👍👍😎

  • @hythekent
    @hythekent 7 місяців тому +1

    Wow. It’s so refreshing to get a calm, moderated, but learned presentation on this subject. Great to watch this and a nice change not to have to cope with other presenters over-dramatisation. Many thanks, totally absorbing. New subscriber. I’m from Kent, the county settled by the Jutes. is the only county in England with the original Celtic name. (Cantii). My DNA analyses as mother’s line back to Pays Basque and my father’s to Tyrol. A little ‘Viking’, but mostly southern England, so probably not much Brythonic inclusion

  • @Joshua2558
    @Joshua2558 Рік тому +3

    Gratefully one of my new favorite channels. I love how you speak American English, I understand not your first language, without accent and then pronounce the other languages perfectly in the same breath. I appreciate your content.

  • @albertcook
    @albertcook Рік тому +7

    My haplogroup is a Germanic one. :) Based on my last name and my male line my Haplogroup came from Anglo-Saxons

  • @HarrySmith-hr2iv
    @HarrySmith-hr2iv 6 місяців тому +2

    A brilliant video. My DNA test in England show my origin is Anglo Saxon-Celtic-Nordic.

  • @LibertyandJustice76
    @LibertyandJustice76 Рік тому

    Very informative