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Please be more careful with these extremely speculative and unnecessary European-style etymologies for "Denmark". FYI "Dan" does not mean flat in Danish, and "mark" does not mean borderland. Lexicalist etymology is seen as highly dubious by many Danes and is not appreciated since, unlike genetic ancestry, it cannot be substantiated. Otherwise great video.
There are a few dialects in Scotland that sounds like the danish dialects spoken in the northwest of Denmark. And common Scottish words like Hus(house) is the danish word for house as well and with the same pronunciation
It's because the Scottish (old Northumberland English dialect) is related to the SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES. So these language are very closely related and therefore similar. Scottish is similar to Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. Although the Norwegian influence was greater in Scotland and the Danish influence happened in southern and west England. Scottish English is a Germanic langue not to be confused with the Scotts Garlic
The family story passed to me is that I had Norwegian ancestors. I did some family tree research and found out I actually have ancestors from Denmark (surname Nielsen). It was interesting to me to find out where he was born and then do some reading about the history of the region. Appreciate the upload!
Nielsen means son of Niels , in the past people didn't have surnames in Scandinavia but the parent's name was used with "dottier" or "Son/Sen" in the end of daughters as sons (still used in Iceland) at one point it was decided all children should be called the same surname through the male line, so at that time there was a Niels in your family
Interesting video as always! I'm from Jutland - Denmark and have 13,9% Scottish/Irish DNA markers but no known relatives from either of those countries, so one would immediately (like many do) think that must have to do with the "Viking age" which was my first thought too, but once I looked into it I had to realize that 1000+ years have gone by since the "Viking age" filled with lots of historical events between the British isles and the Scandinavian countries like migrationperiods and war! In moste of the wars between Denmark/Norway and Sweden thousands of Scottish mercenaries were participating and often on both sides as they were rivaling clans. In Jutland we have a place named "Skottenborg" after the Scotsmen who settled the area as weavers and peddlers. The "Vikings" brought their DNA to the British Isles but it is obvious that the Scotsmen brought their DNA to Scandinavia as well. Lots of negative comments on your accent, I like it and actually understand it much better than some of the westcoast dialects spoken here in Jutland which actually have a similar flow/soundscape as your accent.
Your videos are very interesting! I also like it that you let us know where you got your information from so that everyone can search things out for themselves. Good job!
Holy shit, do you know how few people actually get it right that the meaning of "Dan" is "flatland"? Kudos to you! You were so close with the meaning though, but I'll still give you the point-even though "Denmark" actually means "the borderlands of the flatlanders."
I'm born in 82, a Dane. 37% of my heritage is British Isles. If I recall it says 17.4% Irish, Scottish, Welsh. And then 15.5% English. The rest is "Scandinavian focus on the north of Denmark.
Jeg har også skots / irsk i mit dna , og ingen anelse om , hvem af mine forfædre det stammer fra . Men da min farmor er fra Island , har jeg tænkt , at det kunne være fra hende
Thank you for the video! My mother is 3/4 Danish and 1/4 early USA migrations from 1600 to 1750 from father. Her mother is 100% Danish. Yet, her mitochondrial DNA is R1 from India. So i imagine her Koefod ancestors were busy in worldwide trade and probably brought a slave or spouse from voyages. My DNA is 50% Scandinavian and out of 3 DNA tests had less than 1% from India, but there were a few hits from India. My father is mainly British from very early USA migrations including Drake ancestors.
My ancestry is the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, with a bit of mix from Northen Germany, Normandy and Wales. The Wales part surprised me.
It is interesting to see that many Danes here have more in common/DNA with the Irish, the Scots and the English than with the Germans, as we are landlocked with Germany or in a geographical sense are closer to Germany. Myself is half danish. Det er interessant at se mange danskere herinde har mere DNA tilfælles med irerne, skotterne og englænderne end tyskerne, da vi jo er landfast med Tyskland eller i geografisk forstand er tættere på Tyskland.
Very interesting. I am a Dane who recently did a DNA test and found out that I had 3% Baltic (around Belarus area) and 12% Balkan (around Greece) DNA. Never knew that, but understood 'the look' of my family better. My father had very dark, curly hair and brown eyes - mine are green, but my hair is also very thick, dark and do not resemble the usual fair hair of Scandinavians.
One thing is sure,the norrønt culture and ways of living is still a puzzle and theres alot of missing history because theres no written text from that time, besides runes/elder futhark,so what we know is from archaeological founds mostly,but it is sure that Danes was really good at building boats that could sail really long distances before most others, therefore was able to explore and go places far away from home,the bad roumors was that Vikings was raiding,but we need to remember every cultures back then was raiding each others back then,the Vikings came to new lands,made trades,love and fights with many different cultures and tribes, therefore Vikings have spread there dna wide around,theres founds here in Denmark from Roman and Greece cultures like coins, amulets and materials wich indicates that there was a connection between the Nordic Vikings and Roman and other Mediterranean cultures. We are a great example of that even small areas with harsh and cold weather in winter time,can achieve greatness and travel far,the found of runestones and Viking boats and graves many different places is a prove. Theres not really any pre christian tribes that did travel so far and made such a big and historical impact globally,hate it or love it,thats the truth. Besides that we had shield Maidens and womens was allowed to get divorced. So that indicates that Vikings was not that savage or bad as some people tries to portrait it. Theres also founds of hair grooming tools and hygienic tools,wich indicates that Vikings was not as dirty as some may think, probably also the reason for the wide spread of genes all around. 🧙♂️🍄⛵
Denmark and the rest of the Nordic countries plus Britain is actually all Europe , what you mean is Denmark is the interception between the British isles and central Europe and Northern Europe
@@andriandrason1318 keep in mind that Europe is not really a 'continent' anyway, rather a political/cultural/vague geographical sphere. One can say that Greenland belongs geological/geographical rather to America although it is neither part of the American continental plate nor Eurasian one, but politically/culturally rather to Europe. But its also a bit more complicated since North America, especially Canada/US is also culturally close to Europe anyway (the 'West'). Its one of those many things which depends on the context - a bit like the 'center' of Europe, also not so easy to define if one takes a closer look ...
@@scottcates It is. It's a complicated place, but can kinda be broken into a few categories The British Isles count what is today The United Kingdoms, and Ireland, with some 6000 surrounding islands. The UK is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. The UK and Britain are not the same. The UK is a country in the Archipelago of Britain, as is Ireland. Great Britain is the largest Island, where most of the UK, apart from Northern Ireland, The Overseas Territories and the Crown dependencies, lie.
Good spot, thanks. Sorry I misread it when I was making the video and only noticed it after I published unfortunately. Apologies. It was meant to be "were bought in" according to the study, so make what you will of that. Thanks.
Thank you, living in 'the Marches' Shropshire I never realised it meant borderlands. P.S. 78% Welsh 12% Danish/Norwegian (Denmark feels like my second home)
I'm skeptical of the "British DNA" being found in Denmark from the Viking Age. From what I've heard, the Angles (from Jutland) were genetically very close to the Danes, and therefore a lot of pure Anglo-Saxon DNA from back then can easily be confused or miscategorized. The recent studies even show that the Danish viking genetic influence in Britain was minimal and that it's been historically over-estimated (though their cultural influence, i.e. place names, did have a lasting impact).
I have a recent ancestor with last name Ellinghaus. DNA tests also repeatedly show 3-7% Danish ancestry, although that could be my English ancestors in the Danelaw, Anglo-Saxons from the same region in ancient times, or even my northern German or Dutch ancestors due to the genetic similarities between the Danes and the Angles, Jutes, and Frisians. Seems that Ellinghaus has something to do with an earl/jarl's house, though. They lived in Friesland on the German side and other parts of northern Germany. Makes me wonder if the last name has a Danish Viking origin (Erlingr-hus).
Food for thought. My own DNA says around 93% Scandinavian and 7% Finnish. My mother is Danish (her father from the west coast of Jutland, her mother from Vendsyssel, top of Jutland), my father is Norwegian, and his mother - in particular - is a descendant of Forest Finns, who immigrated from Finland to Sweden and Norway 4-500 years ago. Could be interesting to know how much Jamnaya and how much original European I am. Nevertheless I'm 100 percent Nordic in today's terms.
The Nordic Bronze Age is a major turning point in the genetic history of Denmark, it's a shame you didn't mention it. Hadn't it been for some extremely violent movements from Scania across Denmark, I1 would have been a minor Y-DNA lineage in Denmark.
My (late) mother was VERY interested in ancestry/family back in 2019 i took a ancestrial Dna test .... was VERY supprised to have 14,2% English Dna in me coz my family has ZERO English Ancestors in Christian times atleast ... 🤔🙄🤨(Rest Scandinavian) Im from Denmark..... ua-cam.com/video/yCm0MPg1SpQ/v-deo.html
Halfdan is a name for someone who is a half Dane.... Usually half Dane half Saxon due to the clise relationship to the kingdom of Wessex. (West Saxon people).
I have a question; 'Are Visigoths Scandinavian anscetory ? If so the Visigoth Kingdom has anscetory from the 'Goths' and Hispania. Ingvavones, Gutones, Teutones, Cimbriens... Did you say Yamnaya culture and Beaker culture also ? Why is it that Shell Mounds were found in Ertebølle culture and even are similar in Brasil. Almendres Cromlech culture in Portugal indicates that stone rune structures 'Menhirs' also something similar with Scandinavian culture. And I think the 'Menhirs' Stones in Argentina may have anscetory of ancient things to do with maybe Germanic anscetory. Why are the Maori people similar to Vikings with waka ships and Moai stone culture. Why can no one decipher orongo script, Amapa stone henge and Inga stone. Why does people say Vikings also went to South America and why do they say that the Peabiru stoneroad could be by even Vikings. Brasil were a Island near Ireland thats interresting. Percy Fawcet tried to find a Greek Roman city in the Amazon. I am just curious to know if 'Celtic Pagan' culture reached Indigenous America since the Berengia Strait theory. Clovis theory ect. Why does Niede Guidon says that Brasil were settled by humans 100 thousand years ago. How to even explain Rodenia theory. Is it true Scandinavia were beside Amazon. Did the Vikings meet the Phonecians and if so did they travel to Brasil. Why is it possible by Thor Heyerdahl to travel with boat from Scandinavia to South America? I just Wonder if there is more evidence of European influence before year 1500 in Brasil. 80 % of the Brasilian genetics is said to be European anscetory. Why do people have Morton toe DNA genes in Brasil ? Why do some say that Pedra de Gavea is maybe inscriptions from Scandinavians. Er der mere mellem himmel og jord derude. Jeg vil gerne forstå forbindelser og sammenhænge. There must be some connection or interaction in early history. Sambaqui Mounds is very interresting very similar culture almost identical to Ertebølle Culture. Og er Egtved pigen fra Syd Tyskland og hvorfor Solvognen i Danmark af guld og hvordan kan det være at Kong Kivik er fra år 1.200 B.C. Gravballemanden og ect. Scandinavian så rigt og vikingerne sejlede hele Europa rundt endda til Færøerne, Island, Grøndland og Nordamerika. Og Kong Rollo var i Nord Frankrig og vikinger I England osv. Det ret spændende Roskilde Vikinge Museum. Havhingsten er vidst 30 meter lang og Oseberg skibet I Norge er just wow. Tag og besøg Danmark Somente Deus que sabe. Gud bevare Danmark Kongemose kultur spændende :)
Strange to show pictures from Copenhagen in southern Sweden, that wasnt even founded before 500 years after the viking age ended. Center of Viking age Denmark was the mainland and the islands were not included then, and Harold Bluetooths famous capitol was Aarhus, then called Aros. Aros was the center and first danish city allready in the 700 years. Per in Denmark 🇩🇰😎
Don't know where you are from. Sounds like Scottish or Irish. But yes there is something about our lack of vitamin d, and a genetic sickness we risk be hit of. Don't remember it in this moment. But it seems to that it kill us... My own situation is that I'm forced to take this vitamin every day. So I don't know what ti think for survival🥴 anyway, thanks that you actually engaging yourself in it👍
Nice accent you have... you actually speak English with a Nordic accent. When I sailed from the Faroe Islands and came to the Shetland Islands, the people spoke English exactly with the accent you have. Nice accent. Love it. Thx for inspiring channel... only have to say that the homeland of the Danes was Scania (the south of Sweden south of Vænern), Zealand and the surrounding islands. Jutland and Anglen are conquered areas and thereby the Danes orchestrated the emigration of the Anglers/Jutans to England and North Jutland emigrated to and settled in southern Norway. This conquest of Jutland is believed to be the cause of partial enmity between Danish and Norwegian Vikings. However, an on and off enmity and later the emigration to the British Isles took place between the Viking tribes. The tribes of Scandinavia were now and then forced to cooperate during the battles in Britain, but yes as I said on and of... he he it is still like that.
Speaking of that - can you possibly explore My True Ancestry and let us know how accurate you think it is to ancient populations, the specific samples they use, generally what you think? Thanks.
Im from Brasil but Danish. Prince Mauricio Nassaus mother was a Danish Princess names Princess Margrethe Nassau. Prince Nassau was wearing Danish Elefant Order and he was the Regent and Govenor of Dutch Brasil. Norwegian Danish Jens Munk went to Brasil in year 1592-1598. Peter Wilhelm Lund famous in Brasil. And Queen Silvia from Sweden has Brasilian roots. Princess Ragnhild from Norway lived in Brasil. Queen Maud Land famous. Nordic Scandinavian Brasilians. Many Scandinavians went to Americas. The portuguese Empire are Danish since year 1200 with her Majesty Queen Berengaria of Denmark.
It is the other way around man, the ancestors of that queen (Berenguela) were from Portugal (father was the king of Portugal) and mother was daughter of the kings of Aragon. Both kingdoms in the iberian peninsula.
@@pedrofmc0000 The Danish Dannebrog National flag history. Queen Berengaria from Portugal married with Danish King Valdemar Sejr of Denmark. Queen Berengaria was the Queen of Denmark since year 1200. They are barried in Ringsted Church in Denmark. They had several children who also became part of the Danish Kingdom. Denmarks National Flag history therefore has Portuguese anscestory too.
@@Joe4four You've edited your post and, even so, you've made a mistake again. You can't say "the Portuguese empire ARE Danish". You'd have said "was" and also, that marriage didn't become the Portuguese empire in "Danish". It's a ridiculous statement...
@@pedrofmc0000 Whatever to discuss something from year 1200 that is the National history of Denmark and even Portugal. Yo Pedro try instead of coming with continues negative answers. Try understand how I as a Danish Citizen, with even Brasilian Portuguese anscestory study things. I also went to Lissabon in Portugal and have travelled 10 countries in the world. Where are you from I dont know if you are Portuguese, Danish or even American Brasilian. Its just amazing and ridiculos to discuss things if you arent agreeing or aware but just arguing. Nonsens is not to recognize the fact that Portugal also are Danish heritage in Monarque history. Why even bother. I live 35 years in Scandinavia and dont understand why not go and visit Ringsted Church. Have a Nice day. Ive tried to explain clearly. Dont waste time. The world are connected not separated. Peace. Portugueis e Dinamarqueis tambem dez de ano 1200. E a galera ate falava Latino nas antigas. Sei la irmao estuda Proto Indo European or deixa pra la cara. Na verdade e simples. Vasco da Gama, Barthelome Dias, Pedro Alverez Cabral ect ne tudo somente uma viaje. E Vicente Yanez Pinzon ate de Espanha quer dicer tem muita historia por ai. Visigoths Kingdom e tudo Hispania. Mais e tudo coisa das antigas meu velho. Deixa pra la. Va viver a vida esquesi o passado. Viver no momento e melhor ne. Paz e Uniao
Mark betød grænseland i middelalderen. Det stammer fra Proto-Indo-Europæisk Mereg (lyder bekendt, ikke?) og mange sprog har ord for grænseland der lyder tæt derpå, Margo på latin, Marz på Persisk og Marko på Proto-Germansk Kigger man på engelsk historie, ser man det Angel-Saksiske kongerige Mercia, hvis navn har samme oprindelse
How does one differentiate male-dominated migration with imported females , from all the local males were wiped out in battles and it is their local females that passed on their genes?
The mitochondria is inherited from the mother. As such, Mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA, can be used to trace maternal lineage. Y-DNA is the same, but for the paternal line. If mtDNA is largely from the in-group, and Y-DNA is largely from the out-group, it indicates that the out-group was mostly male
very good video , a few extra points , the hunter gatherer in Scandinavia were a mix of Eastern hunter gatherer and western HG, their dna became "Scandinavian hunter gatherer" although there was a turnover of dna when the farmers arrived in Southern Scandinavia mainly Denmark (through the male line), the Scandinavian hunter gatherer dna turn up again later, media articles don't mention that and the study just say they need to do further study , in other words the HG didn't disappear from Northern and eastern Scandinavia and was later mixed in ,modern day Danes do actually have quite a large amount of Scandinavian HG dna around 42%, Norwegian higher 46-48% and Swedes the highest 50% on average , some historians believe the HG went to the mountains for a while, there is no mountains in Southern Scandinavia to hide in , the eastern HG were carriers of blond hair and the highest concentration of Blond hair is in and around the mountains and in Sweden in general , the Southern dna during the Viking age came from Southern Germany or Northern France, there was a lot of connection between Normandy and Denmark back then so probably from there, the study also revealed that majority of Danish Vikings actually had red hair , media don't tell that part they just write "not all Vikings were blonde" well that's no surprise as there have never been a point in history where all Scandinavian were blonde and it's no surprise either they mixed with Brits, Poles, Finns, Sami and others as the written sources already told us that, I found the part about the red hair very interesting though because that is how we tend to see Vikings in Denmark portrayed not with blond hair, the historian Saxo Grammaticus wrote back in 1180-1200 in his story of the Danes that they had red hair, and modern historians saw it as a myth but now we know he was right , the Danes could not have gotten their name from Halfdan as that mean "half a Dane" so Halfdan would have to have gotten his name from having one parent being Danish , there are two legends 1 is tht the first King was called Dan , another that Danes come from the tribe of Dan , Saxo Grammaticus write about both , Denmark means "borderland of Dan" in old Norse, in modern Danish however mark ,means field so "field of Dan"
What will throw off some people doing DNA research or ancestry research, is that the Danes did take Thralls from many cultures and ethnic groups in Europe. The migration of the teutons and cimbrians was a consequence of the Jutes getting stronger and expanding and assimilating the other tribes in Jutland. The jutes are proven to have settled the kent area from Jutland as early as year 450-500. If we jump to the 12th and 13th century, we get Baltic dna mixed into the danes, as Denmark effectively conquered part of the Baltic countries..
The vast majority of thrall in Denmark were Danish. They were an entire societal class. You were born to be a slave and all it took to become a slave was being unable to pay someone something you owed or something akin to that. There were people brought in from other countries, yes, not least after the viking age started but again, the vast majority would have been fellow Danish people who in some shape or form managed to do something illegal that then dragged the entire family and lineage down with them.
@@kinuuni Actually you are a bit wrong, They acquired thralls primarily on their expeditions to Eastern Europe and the British Isles, the vast majority of thralls were not from the "Danish" tribes. This started even before the Viking Age, sure there were some local thralls, but they were just a small group.. reflecting the low population count in "Denmark" at that time And if you have the least amount of doubt you can luckily read all about it on the website of the Danish National Museum in both Danish and English 😉
@@jimmywayne983 I am a historian and I am Danish. Thralls predate the viking era and the possibility of sailing those long distances. On top of that only the Swedish vikings went east and the swedes were the primary thrall traders where the Danes and the Norwegians were primarily plundering and settling.
@@jimmywayne983 Trade was established some 100-200 years before. Are you arguing that the brits traded slaves with the norse? Or where were you going with that? Regardless, it is estimated that by during the viking age when thralldom was at its height upwards of of 25% of the population were thralls. Are you really arguing for 25% of the population being non-scandinavian? I am quite sure they would have found that during the whole recent DNA project where they did find that the DNA during the viking age diversified (though not in Norway or really places that were not coastal). Actual slave trade such as was seen in Trælleborg and the likes arguably did not come about in Scandinavia before the viking age. Du siger simpelthen til mig at du har en kandidat i historie fra en dansk universitet og af en eller anden grund ved du ikke at det kun var de Svenske vikinger der sejlede østover?
I'm not really familiar with a Danish accent but had absolutely no problem understanding the accent (without the captioning) and the sentence structure was at least as good as most English speakers. As a side note, I couldn't help but think how much of his accent was similar to a Scottish accent. Would like to hear anything related to "Danelaw" as it it existed in England before the Normans.
I find it so weird that when i watch a video about denmark 40 or over 50 procent of people in the comments are danish including me😂😂 Guess we just love people talking about us😎
'viking' was rather a lifestyle than ethnic though (and back then they also didnt call themself 'Vikings'). we talk here rather about Germanic tribes ...
I understand the social aspect versus actual genetics. I actually posted another comment asking the page creator if he could break it down further and analyze the service itself, pros and cons and if it was worthwhile. Thank you for the correction though.
During the Viking Age, there was some mixing with genes from England and Northern France. So it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that it was South European genes, - South European has only entered indirectly in the form of exchange with the Northern France.
yes it's South seen from Scandinavia though!!! but yes some people understand it differently ,they can't say if it's from Southern Germany or Northern France, but Normandy makes most sense as Danish and Norwegian Vikings founded Normandy and Denmark had relations with them for a while
@@gaynor1721 Wrong. The Vikings were a mixed bunch. In the beginning probably mostly Scandinavians, but over time they were mixed up/joined with people from the regions visited by the Vikings. And the Vikings didn't just settle in England, Northern France, etc. but also "at home" e.g. in Denmark. So the genes flowed both ways.
The article "Population genomics of the Viking world" describes i.a. that it is only during the Viking Age that southern European-like genes appear in Scandinavia, and by southern European they mean a selected population from southern Italy. For centuries, these genes have spread northward within the borders of the Roman Empire and then the Frankish Empire, and it is probably due to Scandinavia's increased contact with the rest of Europe during the Viking Age that these genes then spread to Scandinavia.
There's no such thing as Danish DNA. Denmark is like a railway station. People come from all over. But if you go to Iceland, you'll come very close to what Danes looked like 1000 years ago. Both the people and language wise.
That's not completely accurate. You can isolate certain DNA patterns that can be tied to native danes. A couple of the consumer DNA companies like AncestryDNA are doing it with "reasonable" accuracy in their ethnicity estimates. Iceland is btw no different in that respect, yes it's a homogenous group, but they also have admixtures from elsewhere that can't really be pinpointed to Iceland uniquely.
@@Matstarx25 You know Adolf Hitler was a bit soft on us in Denmark and Norway during WW2, compared to other countries he invaded. Why? Because in his view we were super Aryans. The Nazi party loved their race ideology with Aryans as the master race. So, do I buy your theory of a special Danish DNA? No, not for a minute.
No , but the Vedic religion/Brahminical People of India is connected with Celtic gods & Denmark 👇🏼I can't confirm jat cahc.jainuniversity.ac.in/assets/ijhs/3__Thomas.pdf
There are many common surnames between jats and north europeans like gill mann dillon hayer brar kleir hans duhon etc these all are jat surnames mostly people think that Brahmins are real aryans but jats have more aryan dna then Brahmins avg steppe in jats is around 35 to 42 percent while Brahmins are 15 to 25 percent jats are present in only north india and pakistan while Brahmins are from north to south mostly Brahmins paternal lineage is ivc
yes but you will never get a modern historian to go down that road they don't dare!, that said the ancient Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus wrote in year 1180-1200 "Danes, Angles, Jutes and Teutons are brothers they are sons of Jacob" he also wrote Danes had red hair , and the dna study mentioned in the video actually showed majority of Danish Vikings had red hair , and the dna from Anglo-Saxons who were Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Frisian is indistinguishable from Danish Vikings (just like they were brothers) the tribe of Dan had red hair Saxo however also wrote the first King of Denmark was named Dan
I am Danish and I have done geneaology research of my roots. I have ancestors from Sweden, Norway, German and Holland. So I am pretty much a typical north eurooean.
I an a danish guy with black hair and brown eyes, very rare 50 years ago. My DNA tests don’t show anything other than I’m Scandinavian and Northern European. I uploaded my DNA to many sites and one show I 50% English (BS, I find my fathers family). Another show a few percent Greek and Italian/spanish. The black hair genes come from my father, grandfather, great grandmother. I have studied church books all the way back to 1700-1800 without results.
And no - black hair and brown eyes vas not very rar 50 years ago. It is true that many Danes have blond or dark blond hair, but we exist in all shades - even 50 years ago.
@@jorgenlarsen775 Im sorry to say this, but that is BS. Im from northen jutland and is 47 years old. In the town i lived in with about 25.000 people, my father and I was the only black haired, except for som new refugees from Vietnam and palestinians. If you grow up looking different than all other people, you would know. Most people were blond and more rarely dark brown hair. Im mostly into "darker" woman, so I know. Back then, black hair was super rare. Even when visitting Copenhagen, there were not many (mostly turks) and I was a teen when i saw a black person first time.
@@MKristensen Er du fra Hjørring? Only reason I ask is because I know that lots of vietnamese settled there being from Aalborg myself. Anyway brown eyes are common in Danish ancestry. Very dark hair, not that much. But brown hair certainly is. Like in my family we all have blue eyes expect my brother and grandmother who got light brown eyes which is a bit unusual that we dont have more in our family when we always hear how dominant brown eyes are. I am also the only one with red hair lol. The rest got blond or brown hair. Genetics is a bit weird like that.
@@jorgenlarsen775 yes but black hair with brown eyes are certainly not very common in Denmark! it exists sure nobody is saying that but it does not originate from Denmark , although the first hunter gatherer from the east actually had brown eyes! with blond or brown hair and pale skin, however they mixed with the western hunter gatherer and they had the blue eyes and brown hair , later migrations also had brown, blond or red hair with typically blue eyes , when a Dane has brown eyes and black hair it's from somewhere else
Yeah, Danes are the people of an institution. If you pay the tax, welcome to the club. If your postal address is here, you're a national, and if you popped into existence here, and keep hanging around, you're no immigrant.
@@FrederikEngelmand O, yeah, that's Orwellian, for sure. Next, someone will say it took a dude from Mesopotamia or some such to teach us farming, and that we didn't even have a proper written language 'til the British came here. Lies, all of it!
I have no gods but Odin believes in me If you look real close at reality you'll find it's Wednesday every day‼😁Thank you for your efforts concerning the very informative video🎈best of luck to you and yours‼
Aim danish i tog a DNA test som yeas ago i vars 75 procent skandinavisk and 25 procent Scotts and wayls it make May day i haw alvays ben fascination of Skotland 💪🤩🇩🇰🏴🏴
Hmm, I've brought some more of that "Ural" heritage to Denmark. 50% Danish and the rest is Russian ( apparently some Bashkir = steppe DNA as well ( my grandmother ))
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Please be more careful with these extremely speculative and unnecessary European-style etymologies for "Denmark". FYI "Dan" does not mean flat in Danish, and "mark" does not mean borderland. Lexicalist etymology is seen as highly dubious by many Danes and is not appreciated since, unlike genetic ancestry, it cannot be substantiated. Otherwise great video.
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Well, Kloge-Åge, enlighten us then, please...tell Us what 'Danmark' means ???
@@ninjaninna "Idiot-free zone. Leave your nonsense at home before entering".
There are a few dialects in Scotland that sounds like the danish dialects spoken in the northwest of Denmark.
And common Scottish words like Hus(house) is the danish word for house as well and with the same pronunciation
It's because the Scottish (old Northumberland English dialect) is related to the SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES.
So these language are very closely related and therefore similar. Scottish is similar to Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. Although the Norwegian influence was greater in Scotland and the Danish influence happened in southern and west England.
Scottish English is a Germanic langue not to be confused with the Scotts Garlic
The family story passed to me is that I had Norwegian ancestors. I did some family tree research and found out I actually have ancestors from Denmark (surname Nielsen). It was interesting to me to find out where he was born and then do some reading about the history of the region. Appreciate the upload!
Seee danishfamilysearch DOT dk. You can choose between Danish and English text - see top right corner near logo.
Maybe my familly on my fathers side
How many generations ago?
Nielsen means son of Niels , in the past people didn't have surnames in Scandinavia but the parent's name was used with "dottier" or "Son/Sen" in the end of daughters as sons (still used in Iceland) at one point it was decided all children should be called the same surname through the male line, so at that time there was a Niels in your family
Nielsen is the most common last name in Denmark. In Norway its called Nelson. Sen= son in danish….Son is norwegian for son.
Interesting video as always!
I'm from Jutland - Denmark and have 13,9% Scottish/Irish DNA markers but no known relatives from either of those countries, so one would immediately (like many do) think that must have to do with the "Viking age" which was my first thought too, but once I looked into it I had to realize that 1000+ years have gone by since the "Viking age" filled with lots of historical events between the British isles and the Scandinavian countries like migrationperiods and war! In moste of the wars between Denmark/Norway and Sweden thousands of Scottish mercenaries were participating and often on both sides as they were rivaling clans. In Jutland we have a place named "Skottenborg" after the Scotsmen who settled the area as weavers and peddlers. The "Vikings" brought their DNA to the British Isles but it is obvious that the Scotsmen brought their DNA to Scandinavia as well.
Lots of negative comments on your accent, I like it and actually understand it much better than some of the westcoast dialects spoken here in Jutland which actually have a similar flow/soundscape as your accent.
Tak for din fortælling . Jeg har også skots / irsk i mit dna , så der har jeg muligvis forklaringen
@@chilihansen9716 Ja, det kunne være én af dem :)
Your videos are very interesting! I also like it that you let us know where you got your information from so that everyone can search things out for themselves. Good job!
Thanks. There is sources to in the description and I mention a number of academic studies in the video
Am I the only one who put subtitles on? Thank you for this video about my clan.
Holy shit, do you know how few people actually get it right that the meaning of "Dan" is "flatland"? Kudos to you! You were so close with the meaning though, but I'll still give you the point-even though "Denmark" actually means "the borderlands of the flatlanders."
Very interesting video, with alot of good correct facts 🎉 as a true dane, that makes me happy.
Very interesting👍🏻. 👋🏻from 🇩🇰😊
My uncle did genealogy for a hobby and found an ancestor that came over to England from Denmark, no surprise really.
The hopeful episodes of Finns and Sami will probably hit hard. They always seem like the outliers in those maps.
What accent is that? Sounds amazing 👍
Scottish
@@svaffe thank you.
Proud to be Danish 🇩🇰
ja tak 💪
I’m Danish and I did a dna test . I’m 95% Nordic and 5% Kasakhstan wtf. One of my ancestors did some far from the border intimate conversation 🤓
Or raped...
Danish DNA must be extraordinary...because all the great and superior countries of the world seem to have the DNA.
Nah it's just because we Danes are good lovers. ❤️😉
I'm born in 82, a Dane. 37% of my heritage is British Isles. If I recall it says 17.4% Irish, Scottish, Welsh. And then 15.5% English. The rest is "Scandinavian focus on the north of Denmark.
Jeg har også skots / irsk i mit dna , og ingen anelse om , hvem af mine forfædre det stammer fra . Men da min farmor er fra Island , har jeg tænkt , at det kunne være fra hende
Thank you for the video! My mother is 3/4 Danish and 1/4 early USA migrations from 1600 to 1750 from father. Her mother is 100% Danish. Yet, her mitochondrial DNA is R1 from India. So i imagine her Koefod ancestors were busy in worldwide trade and probably brought a slave or spouse from voyages. My DNA is 50% Scandinavian and out of 3 DNA tests had less than 1% from India, but there were a few hits from India. My father is mainly British from very early USA migrations including Drake ancestors.
My ancestry is the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, with a bit of mix from Northen Germany, Normandy and Wales. The Wales part surprised me.
It is interesting to see that many Danes here have more in common/DNA with the Irish, the Scots and the English than with the Germans, as we are landlocked with Germany or in a geographical sense are closer to Germany. Myself is half danish.
Det er interessant at se mange danskere herinde har mere DNA tilfælles med irerne, skotterne og englænderne end tyskerne, da vi jo er landfast med Tyskland eller i geografisk forstand er tættere på Tyskland.
better facts this time mate!
Very interesting. I am a Dane who recently did a DNA test and found out that I had 3% Baltic (around Belarus area) and 12% Balkan (around Greece) DNA. Never knew that, but understood 'the look' of my family better. My father had very dark, curly hair and brown eyes - mine are green, but my hair is also very thick, dark and do not resemble the usual fair hair of Scandinavians.
Hvilket firma brugte du?
One thing is sure,the norrønt culture and ways of living is still a puzzle and theres alot of missing history because theres no written text from that time, besides runes/elder futhark,so what we know is from archaeological founds mostly,but it is sure that Danes was really good at building boats that could sail really long distances before most others, therefore was able to explore and go places far away from home,the bad roumors was that Vikings was raiding,but we need to remember every cultures back then was raiding each others back then,the Vikings came to new lands,made trades,love and fights with many different cultures and tribes, therefore Vikings have spread there dna wide around,theres founds here in Denmark from Roman and Greece cultures like coins, amulets and materials wich indicates that there was a connection between the Nordic Vikings and Roman and other Mediterranean cultures. We are a great example of that even small areas with harsh and cold weather in winter time,can achieve greatness and travel far,the found of runestones and Viking boats and graves many different places is a prove. Theres not really any pre christian tribes that did travel so far and made such a big and historical impact globally,hate it or love it,thats the truth. Besides that we had shield Maidens and womens was allowed to get divorced. So that indicates that Vikings was not that savage or bad as some people tries to portrait it. Theres also founds of hair grooming tools and hygienic tools,wich indicates that Vikings was not as dirty as some may think, probably also the reason for the wide spread of genes all around. 🧙♂️🍄⛵
Denmark; the intersection of Scandinavia, Europe, Britain, and Ireland. A Dane in Seattle.
Denmark and the rest of the Nordic countries plus Britain is actually all Europe , what you mean is Denmark is the interception between the British isles and central Europe and Northern Europe
@@veronicajensen7690The Nordic Country of Greenland is not in Europe.
@@andriandrason1318 keep in mind that Europe is not really a 'continent' anyway, rather a political/cultural/vague geographical sphere. One can say that Greenland belongs geological/geographical rather to America although it is neither part of the American continental plate nor Eurasian one, but politically/culturally rather to Europe. But its also a bit more complicated since North America, especially Canada/US is also culturally close to Europe anyway (the 'West'). Its one of those many things which depends on the context - a bit like the 'center' of Europe, also not so easy to define if one takes a closer look ...
@@veronicajensen7690 Except Ireland isn't a British Island.
@@scottcates It is. It's a complicated place, but can kinda be broken into a few categories
The British Isles count what is today The United Kingdoms, and Ireland, with some 6000 surrounding islands. The UK is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. The UK and Britain are not the same. The UK is a country in the Archipelago of Britain, as is Ireland. Great Britain is the largest Island, where most of the UK, apart from Northern Ireland, The Overseas Territories and the Crown dependencies, lie.
What kind of English, Scottish, Irish or what?
Interesting how "local femals were brought in" was misspelled, using "bought" instead. Could be part of the explanation though...
Good spot, thanks. Sorry I misread it when I was making the video and only noticed it after I published unfortunately. Apologies. It was meant to be "were bought in" according to the study, so make what you will of that. Thanks.
in england there's also the danelaw.
Thank you, living in 'the Marches' Shropshire I never realised it meant borderlands. P.S. 78% Welsh 12% Danish/Norwegian (Denmark feels like my second home)
I'm skeptical of the "British DNA" being found in Denmark from the Viking Age. From what I've heard, the Angles (from Jutland) were genetically very close to the Danes, and therefore a lot of pure Anglo-Saxon DNA from back then can easily be confused or miscategorized. The recent studies even show that the Danish viking genetic influence in Britain was minimal and that it's been historically over-estimated (though their cultural influence, i.e. place names, did have a lasting impact).
Another awesome video.
I have a recent ancestor with last name Ellinghaus. DNA tests also repeatedly show 3-7% Danish ancestry, although that could be my English ancestors in the Danelaw, Anglo-Saxons from the same region in ancient times, or even my northern German or Dutch ancestors due to the genetic similarities between the Danes and the Angles, Jutes, and Frisians. Seems that Ellinghaus has something to do with an earl/jarl's house, though. They lived in Friesland on the German side and other parts of northern Germany. Makes me wonder if the last name has a Danish Viking origin (Erlingr-hus).
Are you from the Faroe Islands?
Thank you for the lesson.
Food for thought. My own DNA says around 93% Scandinavian and 7% Finnish. My mother is Danish (her father from the west coast of Jutland, her mother from Vendsyssel, top of Jutland), my father is Norwegian, and his mother - in particular - is a descendant of Forest Finns, who immigrated from Finland to Sweden and Norway 4-500 years ago. Could be interesting to know how much Jamnaya and how much original European I am. Nevertheless I'm 100 percent Nordic in today's terms.
Very epic 🇩🇰
I love your accent
Thanks
Juter and Cimbre was the two tribes in our bronze-age.
Cimbre Very similar what the Welsh call themselves in Welsh.Sounds like a celtic tribe
Very interesting ❤
The Nordic Bronze Age is a major turning point in the genetic history of Denmark, it's a shame you didn't mention it. Hadn't it been for some extremely violent movements from Scania across Denmark, I1 would have been a minor Y-DNA lineage in Denmark.
诸神的黄昏，I1是相对的胜出者
Okay you are Irish. Nice to meet you on remote😊 I should listen finish before I wrote my first reply.
My (late) mother was VERY interested in ancestry/family back in 2019 i took a ancestrial Dna test .... was VERY supprised to have 14,2% English Dna in me coz my family has ZERO English Ancestors in Christian times atleast ... 🤔🙄🤨(Rest Scandinavian)
Im from Denmark.....
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Halfdan is a name for someone who is a half Dane.... Usually half Dane half Saxon due to the clise relationship to the kingdom of Wessex. (West Saxon people).
I have a question; 'Are Visigoths Scandinavian anscetory ?
If so the Visigoth Kingdom has anscetory from the 'Goths' and Hispania. Ingvavones, Gutones, Teutones, Cimbriens...
Did you say Yamnaya culture and Beaker culture also ?
Why is it that Shell Mounds were found in Ertebølle culture and even are similar in Brasil.
Almendres Cromlech culture in Portugal indicates that stone rune structures 'Menhirs' also something similar with Scandinavian culture. And I think the 'Menhirs' Stones in Argentina may have anscetory of ancient things to do with maybe Germanic anscetory.
Why are the Maori people similar to Vikings with waka ships and Moai stone culture. Why can no one decipher orongo script, Amapa stone henge and Inga stone. Why does people say Vikings also went to South America and why do they say that the Peabiru stoneroad could be by even Vikings.
Brasil were a Island near Ireland thats interresting.
Percy Fawcet tried to find a Greek Roman city in the Amazon.
I am just curious to know if 'Celtic Pagan' culture reached Indigenous America since the Berengia Strait theory. Clovis theory ect.
Why does Niede Guidon says that Brasil were settled by humans 100 thousand years ago.
How to even explain Rodenia theory. Is it true Scandinavia were beside Amazon.
Did the Vikings meet the Phonecians and if so did they travel to Brasil.
Why is it possible by Thor Heyerdahl to travel with boat from Scandinavia to South America?
I just Wonder if there is more evidence of European influence before year 1500 in Brasil.
80 % of the Brasilian genetics is said to be European anscetory.
Why do people have Morton toe DNA genes in Brasil ?
Why do some say that Pedra de Gavea is maybe inscriptions from Scandinavians.
Er der mere mellem himmel og jord derude.
Jeg vil gerne forstå forbindelser og sammenhænge.
There must be some connection or interaction in early history.
Sambaqui Mounds is very interresting very similar culture almost identical to Ertebølle Culture.
Og er Egtved pigen fra Syd Tyskland og hvorfor Solvognen i Danmark af guld og hvordan kan det være at Kong Kivik er fra år 1.200 B.C.
Gravballemanden og ect.
Scandinavian så rigt og vikingerne sejlede hele Europa rundt endda til Færøerne, Island, Grøndland og Nordamerika.
Og Kong Rollo var i Nord Frankrig og vikinger I England osv.
Det ret spændende Roskilde Vikinge Museum. Havhingsten er vidst 30 meter lang og Oseberg skibet I Norge er just wow.
Tag og besøg Danmark
Somente Deus que sabe.
Gud bevare Danmark
Kongemose kultur spændende :)
Hvor er du fra herr kommentator??
Scotland
Is this AI or am I'm alone in the uncanny valley ?
Northern English 6’4”, blue eyes, likes a fight.
Estimating 15/20% Viking lineage. Historical family ties to York.
Your dna is just fine. Working as designed.
It will be interesting if you use the old maps when making such videos, I wonder what the names of the countries were before on the old maps?
Another great DNA explainer!! It clarifies my own genealogy reports & family history. Thanks so much! We humans have always been “migrants”!!! 😊
Strange to show pictures from Copenhagen in southern Sweden, that wasnt even founded before 500 years after the viking age ended. Center of Viking age Denmark was the mainland and the islands were not included then, and Harold Bluetooths famous capitol was Aarhus, then called Aros. Aros was the center and first danish city allready in the 700 years. Per in Denmark 🇩🇰😎
Don't know where you are from. Sounds like Scottish or Irish. But yes there is something about our lack of vitamin d, and a genetic sickness we risk be hit of. Don't remember it in this moment. But it seems to that it kill us... My own situation is that I'm forced to take this vitamin every day. So I don't know what ti think for survival🥴 anyway, thanks that you actually engaging yourself in it👍
Nice accent you have... you actually speak English with a Nordic accent. When I sailed from the Faroe Islands and came to the Shetland Islands, the people spoke English exactly with the accent you have. Nice accent. Love it.
Thx for inspiring channel... only have to say that the homeland of the Danes was Scania (the south of Sweden south of Vænern), Zealand and the surrounding islands.
Jutland and Anglen are conquered areas and thereby the Danes orchestrated the emigration of the Anglers/Jutans to England and North Jutland emigrated to and settled in southern Norway. This conquest of Jutland is believed to be the cause of partial enmity between Danish and Norwegian Vikings. However, an on and off enmity and later the emigration to the British Isles took place between the Viking tribes. The tribes of Scandinavia were now and then forced to cooperate during the battles in Britain, but yes as I said on and of... he he it is still like that.
Speaking of that - can you possibly explore My True Ancestry and let us know how accurate you think it is to ancient populations, the specific samples they use, generally what you think? Thanks.
Im from Brasil but Danish. Prince Mauricio Nassaus mother was a Danish Princess names Princess Margrethe Nassau. Prince Nassau was wearing Danish Elefant Order and he was the Regent and Govenor of Dutch Brasil. Norwegian Danish Jens Munk went to Brasil in year 1592-1598. Peter Wilhelm Lund famous in Brasil. And Queen Silvia from Sweden has Brasilian roots.
Princess Ragnhild from Norway lived in Brasil. Queen Maud Land famous.
Nordic Scandinavian Brasilians. Many Scandinavians went to Americas. The portuguese Empire are Danish since year 1200 with her Majesty Queen Berengaria of Denmark.
It is the other way around man, the ancestors of that queen (Berenguela) were from Portugal (father was the king of Portugal) and mother was daughter of the kings of Aragon. Both kingdoms in the iberian peninsula.
@@pedrofmc0000 The Danish Dannebrog National flag history. Queen Berengaria from Portugal married with Danish King Valdemar Sejr of Denmark. Queen Berengaria was the Queen of Denmark since year 1200. They are barried in Ringsted Church in Denmark.
They had several children who also became part of the Danish Kingdom. Denmarks National Flag history therefore has Portuguese anscestory too.
@@Joe4four You've edited your post and, even so, you've made a mistake again. You can't say "the Portuguese empire ARE Danish". You'd have said "was" and also, that marriage didn't become the Portuguese empire in "Danish". It's a ridiculous statement...
@@pedrofmc0000 Whatever to discuss something from year 1200 that is the National history of Denmark and even Portugal. Yo Pedro try instead of coming with continues negative answers. Try understand how I as a Danish Citizen, with even Brasilian Portuguese anscestory study things.
I also went to Lissabon in Portugal and have travelled 10 countries in the world. Where are you from I dont know if you are Portuguese, Danish or even American Brasilian. Its just amazing and ridiculos to discuss things if you arent agreeing or aware but just arguing. Nonsens is not to recognize the fact that Portugal also are Danish heritage in Monarque history. Why even bother. I live 35 years in Scandinavia and dont understand why not go and visit Ringsted Church.
Have a Nice day. Ive tried to explain clearly. Dont waste time. The world are connected not separated. Peace.
Portugueis e Dinamarqueis tambem dez de ano 1200. E a galera ate falava Latino nas antigas. Sei la irmao estuda Proto Indo European or deixa pra la cara.
Na verdade e simples. Vasco da Gama, Barthelome Dias, Pedro Alverez Cabral ect ne tudo somente uma viaje.
E Vicente Yanez Pinzon ate de Espanha quer dicer tem muita historia por ai. Visigoths Kingdom e tudo Hispania.
Mais e tudo coisa das antigas meu velho. Deixa pra la. Va viver a vida esquesi o passado. Viver no momento e melhor ne. Paz e Uniao
@@pedrofmc0000 Lad mig sige det på Dansk min ven. Danmark er Portugusisk historie siden år 1200. Der ingen diskussion det fakta.
I am Welsh and I did a DNA test and I have found out that I am sick percent Swedish.
any percent swedish is a sick percent
Viking fraternization in the 8th or 9th century in your family
Dan(den) on Serbian(Slavic) languages mean day.(Dane-male name,Danka(Danica) female name).
In free translate Denmark mean-"day land🤔😀"
We also have an island here in Denmark named Lolland!! 🤣🤣
@@mikaeljohnledet1060 😆😆
@@mikaeljohnledet1060 Not to forget we also have the city of Helved(Hell) on the island of als, us and our names... :D
@@MrSnoozo And not mentioning Himmelbjerget (Heaven mountain) at all! 😂
Mark in Danish means field, like a field of crops. Anyway, very interesting video, you gathered a lot of detailed information.
Det har skiftet betydning gennem tiden - som mange andre ord. Borderland eller marsh er tæt på mark ;)
Mark betød grænseland i middelalderen. Det stammer fra Proto-Indo-Europæisk Mereg (lyder bekendt, ikke?) og mange sprog har ord for grænseland der lyder tæt derpå, Margo på latin, Marz på Persisk og Marko på Proto-Germansk
Kigger man på engelsk historie, ser man det Angel-Saksiske kongerige Mercia, hvis navn har samme oprindelse
Også hvorfor en Marquis var en lænsherre der vogtede en grænse.
@@visiblur Ja, det er en lille verden ;)
Land + Dan = London
I thought that "London" derived from the Roman name for the city, which was "Londonium"
@@Commenter-ib8exYes it does, londinium.
How does one differentiate male-dominated migration with imported females , from all the local males were wiped out in battles and it is their local females that passed on their genes?
The mitochondria is inherited from the mother. As such, Mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA, can be used to trace maternal lineage. Y-DNA is the same, but for the paternal line. If mtDNA is largely from the in-group, and Y-DNA is largely from the out-group, it indicates that the out-group was mostly male
100% Dane here
110% Jyde her :P
@ 100% Vendelbo her😉
very good video , a few extra points , the hunter gatherer in Scandinavia were a mix of Eastern hunter gatherer and western HG, their dna became "Scandinavian hunter gatherer" although there was a turnover of dna when the farmers arrived in Southern Scandinavia mainly Denmark (through the male line), the Scandinavian hunter gatherer dna turn up again later, media articles don't mention that and the study just say they need to do further study , in other words the HG didn't disappear from Northern and eastern Scandinavia and was later mixed in ,modern day Danes do actually have quite a large amount of Scandinavian HG dna around 42%, Norwegian higher 46-48% and Swedes the highest 50% on average , some historians believe the HG went to the mountains for a while, there is no mountains in Southern Scandinavia to hide in , the eastern HG were carriers of blond hair and the highest concentration of Blond hair is in and around the mountains and in Sweden in general , the Southern dna during the Viking age came from Southern Germany or Northern France, there was a lot of connection between Normandy and Denmark back then so probably from there, the study also revealed that majority of Danish Vikings actually had red hair , media don't tell that part they just write "not all Vikings were blonde" well that's no surprise as there have never been a point in history where all Scandinavian were blonde and it's no surprise either they mixed with Brits, Poles, Finns, Sami and others as the written sources already told us that, I found the part about the red hair very interesting though because that is how we tend to see Vikings in Denmark portrayed not with blond hair, the historian Saxo Grammaticus wrote back in 1180-1200 in his story of the Danes that they had red hair, and modern historians saw it as a myth but now we know he was right , the Danes could not have gotten their name from Halfdan as that mean "half a Dane" so Halfdan would have to have gotten his name from having one parent being Danish , there are two legends 1 is tht the first King was called Dan , another that Danes come from the tribe of Dan , Saxo Grammaticus write about both ,
Denmark means "borderland of Dan" in old Norse, in modern Danish however mark ,means field so "field of Dan"
Love to our Danish brethren 🇩🇰
Hello to all I1 cousins. I1-L22 from Finland here.
Are you norwegisch?
Very interesting - Danish ancestry.
So I have Viking blood. Only a little bit but I am a bit Swedish.
Forlåt,, Hej fra Jutland 😅
What will throw off some people doing DNA research or ancestry research, is that the Danes did take Thralls from many cultures and ethnic groups in Europe.
The migration of the teutons and cimbrians was a consequence of the Jutes getting stronger and expanding and assimilating the other tribes in Jutland.
The jutes are proven to have settled the kent area from Jutland as early as year 450-500.
If we jump to the 12th and 13th century, we get Baltic dna mixed into the danes, as Denmark effectively conquered part of the Baltic countries..
The vast majority of thrall in Denmark were Danish. They were an entire societal class. You were born to be a slave and all it took to become a slave was being unable to pay someone something you owed or something akin to that. There were people brought in from other countries, yes, not least after the viking age started but again, the vast majority would have been fellow Danish people who in some shape or form managed to do something illegal that then dragged the entire family and lineage down with them.
@@kinuuni Actually you are a bit wrong, They acquired thralls primarily on their expeditions to Eastern Europe and the British Isles, the vast majority of thralls were not from the "Danish" tribes.
This started even before the Viking Age, sure there were some local thralls, but they were just a small group.. reflecting the low population count in "Denmark" at that time
And if you have the least amount of doubt you can luckily read all about it on the website of the Danish National Museum in both Danish and English 😉
@@jimmywayne983 I am a historian and I am Danish. Thralls predate the viking era and the possibility of sailing those long distances. On top of that only the Swedish vikings went east and the swedes were the primary thrall traders where the Danes and the Norwegians were primarily plundering and settling.
@kinuuni Funny enough, i am also a historian and Danish and sailing to the British Isles does predate the Viking Age by hundreds of years 😉
@@jimmywayne983 Trade was established some 100-200 years before. Are you arguing that the brits traded slaves with the norse? Or where were you going with that?
Regardless, it is estimated that by during the viking age when thralldom was at its height upwards of of 25% of the population were thralls. Are you really arguing for 25% of the population being non-scandinavian? I am quite sure they would have found that during the whole recent DNA project where they did find that the DNA during the viking age diversified (though not in Norway or really places that were not coastal).
Actual slave trade such as was seen in Trælleborg and the likes arguably did not come about in Scandinavia before the viking age.
Du siger simpelthen til mig at du har en kandidat i historie fra en dansk universitet og af en eller anden grund ved du ikke at det kun var de Svenske vikinger der sejlede østover?
You are difficult to understand 🤔
Sure your accent is thick, but it's kinda savage of youtube too automaticly enable subtitels on your videos :D
I'm not really familiar with a Danish accent but had absolutely no problem understanding the accent (without the captioning) and the sentence structure was at least as good as most English speakers. As a side note, I couldn't help but think how much of his accent was similar to a Scottish accent.
Would like to hear anything related to "Danelaw" as it it existed in England before the Normans.
I add them :)
I find it so weird that when i watch a video about denmark 40 or over 50 procent of people in the comments are danish including me😂😂
Guess we just love people talking about us😎
haha... vi er jo ofte så overset
@@Vib.H ja 100 men synes bare det så sjovt vi interesseret i os selv🤣
All other nationalities does that too.
So nothing special about that.
I'm Danish and according to a DNA test I'm more than 99% Scandinavian which is quite rare, even here in Scandinavia.
Being dane means being 85+ % neanderthal
Norway and Denmark and Sweden and Friesland and the Franks...
My true ancestry connected me to Danish vikings at something like 5%
Sure it did...
'viking' was rather a lifestyle than ethnic though (and back then they also didnt call themself 'Vikings'). we talk here rather about Germanic tribes ...
I understand the social aspect versus actual genetics. I actually posted another comment asking the page creator if he could break it down further and analyze the service itself, pros and cons and if it was worthwhile. Thank you for the correction though.
I’m only flexing because I’m danish, try 96% danish/scandi
It is good to have 5 percent when you have diluted it over 800-1000 years. Danelove❤
I can trace my heritage ( dads side) to year 1050. I took a DNA test it came back 91% Scandinavian and 8% Germanic and 1% Finnish. I am Danish
During the Viking Age, there was some mixing with genes from England and Northern France. So it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that it was South European genes, - South European has only entered indirectly in the form of exchange with the Northern France.
yes it's South seen from Scandinavia though!!! but yes some people understand it differently ,they can't say if it's from Southern Germany or Northern France, but Normandy makes most sense as Danish and Norwegian Vikings founded Normandy and Denmark had relations with them for a while
Not in Denmark. This video is about Danish DNA, not about Danes outside Denmark.
@@gaynor1721 Wrong.
The Vikings were a mixed bunch. In the beginning probably mostly Scandinavians, but over time they were mixed up/joined with people from the regions visited by the Vikings.
And the Vikings didn't just settle in England, Northern France, etc. but also "at home" e.g. in Denmark.
So the genes flowed both ways.
That's what a major academic study that looked at this said, not me.
The article "Population genomics of the Viking world" describes i.a. that it is only during the Viking Age that southern European-like genes appear in Scandinavia, and by southern European they mean a selected population from southern Italy.
For centuries, these genes have spread northward within the borders of the Roman Empire and then the Frankish Empire, and it is probably due to Scandinavia's increased contact with the rest of Europe during the Viking Age that these genes then spread to Scandinavia.
There's no such thing as Danish DNA.
Denmark is like a railway station. People come from all over.
But if you go to Iceland, you'll come very close to what Danes looked like 1000 years ago. Both the people and language wise.
That's not completely accurate. You can isolate certain DNA patterns that can be tied to native danes. A couple of the consumer DNA companies like AncestryDNA are doing it with "reasonable" accuracy in their ethnicity estimates. Iceland is btw no different in that respect, yes it's a homogenous group, but they also have admixtures from elsewhere that can't really be pinpointed to Iceland uniquely.
@@Matstarx25 You know Adolf Hitler was a bit soft on us in Denmark and Norway during WW2, compared to other countries he invaded.
Why?
Because in his view we were super Aryans. The Nazi party loved their race ideology with Aryans as the master race.
So, do I buy your theory of a special Danish DNA? No, not for a minute.
@Matstarx25 Somebody at UA-cam removed my answer to you.
Well, never mind.
@@nielskjr5432M1X in letter's and nummerals to bypass the algorhitm !
the danes are north germanic.......I am a northwest german we are west germanic.....the homeland of the saxons....
I can’t listen to this speaker… I’m Danish, know when I owe from and my country’s history
Jutes of Denmark and Jats of India
Is there a link?
Vedas --- Lithuania is the Frozen North.
no :)
Jutland for the win ;)
No , but the Vedic religion/Brahminical People of India is connected with Celtic gods & Denmark 👇🏼I can't confirm jat
cahc.jainuniversity.ac.in/assets/ijhs/3__Thomas.pdf
There are many common surnames between jats and north europeans like gill mann dillon hayer brar kleir hans duhon etc these all are jat surnames mostly people think that Brahmins are real aryans but jats have more aryan dna then Brahmins avg steppe in jats is around 35 to 42 percent while Brahmins are 15 to 25 percent jats are present in only north india and pakistan while Brahmins are from north to south mostly Brahmins paternal lineage is ivc
Jats are belong to massagetae lineage massagetaes are mix of IE and bmac
Also dane here. Traced my heritage back to the first kings of Danmark. DNA test showed R1b-U106 and H3
Okease consider nalso Denmark. may also be linked to the tribe of Dan dansk poland Danube austria will show a migration route from Halstaat
yes but you will never get a modern historian to go down that road they don't dare!, that said the ancient Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus wrote in year 1180-1200 "Danes, Angles, Jutes and Teutons are brothers they are sons of Jacob" he also wrote Danes had red hair , and the dna study mentioned in the video actually showed majority of Danish Vikings had red hair , and the dna from Anglo-Saxons who were Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Frisian is indistinguishable from Danish Vikings (just like they were brothers) the tribe of Dan had red hair
Saxo however also wrote the first King of Denmark was named Dan
Jutland for the win
I am Danish and I have done geneaology research of my roots. I have ancestors from Sweden, Norway, German and Holland. So I am pretty much a typical north eurooean.
I an a danish guy with black hair and brown eyes, very rare 50 years ago. My DNA tests don’t show anything other than I’m Scandinavian and Northern European. I uploaded my DNA to many sites and one show I 50% English (BS, I find my fathers family). Another show a few percent Greek and Italian/spanish. The black hair genes come from my father, grandfather, great grandmother. I have studied church books all the way back to 1700-1800 without results.
Seee danishfamilysearch DOT dk. You can choose between Danish and English text - see top right corner near logo.
And no - black hair and brown eyes vas not very rar 50 years ago. It is true that many Danes have blond or dark blond hair, but we exist in all shades - even 50 years ago.
@@jorgenlarsen775 Im sorry to say this, but that is BS. Im from northen jutland and is 47 years old. In the town i lived in with about 25.000 people, my father and I was the only black haired, except for som new refugees from Vietnam and palestinians. If you grow up looking different than all other people, you would know. Most people were blond and more rarely dark brown hair. Im mostly into "darker" woman, so I know. Back then, black hair was super rare. Even when visitting Copenhagen, there were not many (mostly turks) and I was a teen when i saw a black person first time.
@@MKristensen Er du fra Hjørring? Only reason I ask is because I know that lots of vietnamese settled there being from Aalborg myself. Anyway brown eyes are common in Danish ancestry. Very dark hair, not that much. But brown hair certainly is.
Like in my family we all have blue eyes expect my brother and grandmother who got light brown eyes which is a bit unusual that we dont have more in our family when we always hear how dominant brown eyes are. I am also the only one with red hair lol. The rest got blond or brown hair.
Genetics is a bit weird like that.
@@jorgenlarsen775 yes but black hair with brown eyes are certainly not very common in Denmark! it exists sure nobody is saying that but it does not originate from Denmark , although the first hunter gatherer from the east actually had brown eyes! with blond or brown hair and pale skin, however they mixed with the western hunter gatherer and they had the blue eyes and brown hair , later migrations also had brown, blond or red hair with typically blue eyes , when a Dane has brown eyes and black hair it's from somewhere else
Yeah, Danes are the people of an institution. If you pay the tax, welcome to the club.
If your postal address is here, you're a national, and if you popped into existence here, and keep hanging around, you're no immigrant.
not to me, that makes you a danish citizen not a dane. we are not America, we are NOT a melting pot
@@FrederikEngelmand So, we haven't been a seafaring nation? We've always been a melting pot.
@@cn8412 oh my god, "we have always been a melting pot" some orwellian level history rewriting
@@FrederikEngelmand O, yeah, that's Orwellian, for sure. Next, someone will say it took a dude from Mesopotamia or some such to teach us farming, and that we didn't even have a proper written language 'til the British came here. Lies, all of it!
Denmark= Dan's Mark=Tribe of Dan
Vikings big slavers in general Norwegians enslaving Irish Swedes Russians etc
I have no gods
but Odin believes in me
If you look real close at reality
you'll find it's Wednesday every day‼😁Thank you for your efforts concerning the very informative video🎈best of luck to you and yours‼
Aim danish i tog a DNA test som yeas ago i vars 75 procent skandinavisk and 25 procent Scotts and wayls it make May day i haw alvays ben fascination of Skotland 💪🤩🇩🇰🏴🏴
My Mtdna is H53, like NEO943, Stenderup Hage.
Hmm, I've brought some more of that "Ural" heritage to Denmark. 50% Danish and the rest is Russian ( apparently some Bashkir = steppe DNA as well ( my grandmother ))
ANCIENT GREECE
For your beautyfull free woman i have this dna if interested 😂❤
No, “mark” means forrest. Yes Denmark today hasen’t much forrest left, but back in time it was covered with oak.
Mark, is field!
@@AbsSolut
ok, I was halfways wrong! 😃
Today we call a farmer’s field a “mark”, but back in Norse time it meant “border”.
What's that guy's funny accent?
IDK about the DNA(i kinda do) and IDC about the DNA..
What I do know is our girls looks freaking great!!
I is viking
Women south asia
Neanderthals denisovans
Cimbria and tetonic tribes were. Celtric tribes In north jutland. Ok
AI voices are irritating, - scottish AI voices are VERY annoying!
Six percent.
That is how they changed the dna
Stop pretending you're Italian or Greek i know that you're a Sub-Saharan American.