In German we still use the phrase "angelsächsisch" (anglo-saxon) to refer to the Englishspeaking world as a whole. So we'd say "im angelsächsischen Raum", (literally transl. in the anglo-saxon area) when we for example want to refer to differences between the English and German languages, or differences in scientific literature published in the 2 languages, differences in laws and jurisdiction etc. Quite strange, given that this term refers to the UK, US, Canada, Australia and so on, all at the same time and it's probably safe to say that there are quite a few differences between those countries as well, so to just sum them all up under the single term "angelsächsisch" seems fairly simplistic.
I had my dna done and found out that I have the Anglo Saxon bloodline, Donegal Ireland bloodline (east/west/South), and Estonian/Latvian bloodline. Thank you for making this video that explains some history of the Anglo Saxons.
I am Asian, and I admire that Anglo-Saxon have more contributions to human civilization than others, they can change the worst place into the best place, look Australia, Canada, US and new Zealand, but thank you for this video
I have to Disagree. The Anglos killed the Pictish people of Native Scotland's Kings and took over as much as they could. They were turn coats to their British cousins. The conglomerant descendants of the U.K who went and colonized the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zeland did everything they could to decimate the Indigenous populations, suck off the resources, deface culturally significant places to said indigenous and polute the land with toxins. The greatness comes from the corruptions of corporations an a supply and demand consumerism mentality.
@@NadaVerse Before the white man came here, the plains were full of wild buffalo, the streams crystal-clear and full of fish, women had a primary role in society and religion, and magic mushrooms were legal and endorsed by the authorities.
about the wood buildings: timber is a very good building material and in cooler, rainier regions there is no lack of woods and less of a fire hazard. most forests in the mediterranean died as they were cut down to make ships and such. further north there was more forest to go around and it regenerates more quickly. also old stone buildings are a pain in the ass to heat in cold winters. so the return to wood may have been for very practical reasons - few old northern european buildings were completely made of stone even later on, except things like churches or defensive buildings like castles or city walls. or defensible churches, which also existed. fun fact: apparently, early archaeologists used to think european peoples outside of the roman empire had no larger settlements, because they couldn't find any. this was because all the buildings were made of wood that rotted away, very hard to detect without modern methods such as magnetic scans of the ground.
You are correct that the Romans preferred to build with stone, but did you know of the wooden fort in Coventry? It's called the Lunt Roman Fort, it is now a museum and only a bit remains of the former size. I think they should reconstruct the rest of the former fort, to preserve the remnants in the ground they could simply build outside the foundation. I have never visited but I know there is at least one roofed building, it might be the granary (for storing grains through the winter.) According to the research all of roofed buildings inside the fort walls were wooden.
Wooden structures are warmer in winter than stone structures? Sorry, idk im from a tropical country. I thought people in the past disliked stone structures here because it would have been too hot inside, so i thought europeans chose stone because it probably warms them
Mediterranean buildings were wooden til rome grew enough and did the conquerings. Rome probably did wooden dwellings too til they copied the greeks, which copied egyptians or semites who had i suppose much less wood for construction
Good stuff, nice video. The only thing I would have added is that the main debate surrounding the migration era in Britain is how many Germanic people actually migrated: Whether the material and linguistic changes were more the result of cultural changes rather than actual population change. Good overview though.
+scholagladiatoria Thank you Matt, it's always an honour to hear from you :) Yes that would be a very interesting topic to cover, and also I will soon have a video dedicated to the Britons where I discuss about post-ice age continual ethnicity as opposed to the idea of invading Celts during the Iron age which one of my subscribers has kindly reminded me of ^^ For the point you bring up yes I would probably think they didn't have to be that many to strongly influence the natives with their culture, the Romans weren't that many compared to the locals and yet their influence was profound.
+Metatron : Although it is worth noting that there is no evidence of a British Romance language. The Romans seen to have had less influence in Britain than in Spain, Gaul, or even Dacia.
Akatsukami I have never said English is a Romance language, I have said that Latin was spoken (meaning as a second language, some people problably were even bilingual) in Britain due to the Romans being there and Latin had some efects on English. As you can see Latin makes 7,5% of English vocabulary, and French (through the Normans) composes another 30%, that's a lot, not enough to make it a Romance language but 37% of your vocabulary being linked to Romance languages is a big chunk.
+Metatron : I didn't mean to imply that you had called English a Romance language and I apologize for writing unclearly. What I was trying to say is that on the Continent Latin, and subsequently Romance languages, were spread almost everywhere that there wasn't already a well-established language of older culture (Greek, Aramaic, etc.) Even in regions where Romance was swamped by other languages, such as North Africa or the Danube valley, we have evidence that there _was_ a Romance language. In Britain it almost seems that everyone who spoke Latin decamped with Constantine III; all the relict languages are P-Celtic.
Akatsukami I think that's due to the Anglo-Saxons and their influence, if the Roman Empire haden't collapsed and the Romans had remained there, English now would be a Romance language for sure, and it would be very similar to Italian, Spanish etc. and I would say the name would have been something on the lines of "Britannico" Although this is all speculative of course ;)
My family came from Ireland, I have a lots of roots in Scandinavia....actually funny thing my great great great great great grandfather was actually a member of the royal family of Norway....my mom's name is in their book!
It seems the Anglo Saxons were essentially an earlier version of the Vikings - who became Christianized. At least that's how i think of them. I'm curious to know how similar the Saxon ships were to the later Viking longship.
Well it depends how far east you go or inland. .The northern fringes are predominantly nordic. Or rather they would of been in this time period. Modern day northern germans are obviously going to be different.
You technically arent wrong, but its important to note, that the anglo-saxon settlements accross the island outside of mercia amd wessex control were often involved with many danes and spoke the same language, interpreters werent necessary for communication at all, the dialects were that similar prior to norman invasion
Thanks for this! I was researching the Anglo-Saxon migration and history and only found a bunch of really long documentaries that focused on specific times or crap music video slideshows. I like how you apply geography, language and culture to give a deep context while covering a larger timespan.
awesome video, nice to hear a clear concise history of a culture without being chock full of opinions. Very enjoyable to watch! keep up the good work I'm sure you will have a lot of subscribers in the near future!
There was no "Celtic empire", rather the Celts were a collection of seperate tribes throughout Western Europe that shared similar languages and culture. Even the Britons had many different tribes at the time of Roman conquest.
+Baya The Celts were an invention of the Victorians, there were no common cultures in western Europe, for example a similar burial practice may have been common an area, but the architecture, languages and so on would all be different.
+jaocheu No common culture? The druids were found throughout Britainnia and Gaul. The 'celts' as an idea of one people is an invention, yes.. as I clearly said they were no empire. But similarities of these tribal groups fall into one unbrella, much like how people group Scandinavians as vikings or the Germanic people's. It's an umbrella term used to destinguish very real attributes to these people that make them different from Latin or Hellenistic groups.
Baya I'm afraid the umbrella theory doesn't work. You find some Gallic and some German speaking people having cultural similarities, uniquely different from other Gallic and German speakers.
+jaocheu Please give some evidence before making generalised statements. I could say the same similarities can be found in Rome and Athens, but the history and context are all different. Many religious and traditional values were taken by the Romans from the Greeks, but does that make the Romans Greek because they renamed their gods and implemented similar architecture? ..which, by the way the Greeks adapted theirs from the Minoans, which were influenced by the Egyptians which were influenced the other civilizations in the region before that. The problem with making a general statement like you do, is that you can pretty much say that about anything. Both Celtic and Roman people had bronze technology.. This was in large part to do with trade. Groups in Europe traded and many technologies in warfare and architecture made their way across Europe. The same goes for art and culture being transferred between these different groups of people. Celtic traditions such as Druidry have their routes from Indo-European settlers.. They established themselves in Europe around 6,500 years ago. Also, the Celtic language family (a language family being an "umbrella" like that of the Germanic language family that includes English), can be found even spoken today in places such as Northern Spain, France and the British Isles. There are similarities shared among these people culturally, that identifies them and separates them from other groups in Europe.
I really like the different shots you've been taking in your videos. Creative shots like from within the cupboard keeps things visually interesting. Take care buddy.
Thank you for this video! I am currently analysing the poem Beowulf in my course English Social and Literary History and this helps me in understanding the social context in the Beowulf poem. If I may ask, is there any impact of the poem Beowulf in the social aspect or to people at that time? Would there be any changes in the social aspect which was caused by the poem itself? Again, thank you very much for sharing.
I always thought that historical dramas like Vikings tv show overplayed the civilization of the Anglo-Saxons vs the barbarity of the Norse. There really wasnt very much different in their war or material culture.
I think it would be pretty cool if you went over some notable battles throught medieval history, and like, gave us your take on it, perhaps point out ways things could have gone differently, like the battle at Agincourt.
Excellent video! Have you, however, considered a video about the effects of these major cultural shifts on areas like Wales and Scotland, seeing as they were more insulated are retained older Brittonic culture for longer. Ciao!
This was, as far as i can tell, excellent. I liked the breakdown of influences on modern english.And the point about wood-stone. One question thought. Have the archeologists confirmed more than the Sutton Ho ship burial? I heard the theory that Sutton Ho was a special case because that area of Britain had imported a ruling house from the east geatland in sweden, the Wulfings, and that this also accounted for the favourable press the geats get in Beowulf. But I dont know.Anyway, excellent video!
+Michael Mitchell There is a channel made by my mate which teaches Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons. If you're interested I can send you the link?
Heck yeah, more good work. it boggles my mind how the Romans were able to deal with Hannibal and yet let their corruption later make them fade away with German pressure.
+coalikesdesi Æthelstan was very important yes because he defeated the Scots-Norse Army at Brunanburh and therefore establishing a similar border with Scotland that would become the Anglo-Scots border.
Great video a feast for the eyes and mind, just a quick question, did they bury warriors with their horses, like Longbeards(or Winnili if you prefer) or other poulations?
+Marco Gasparini Hope you don't mind if I answer. The Anglo-Saxon burials were very like Viking burials because their religions came from the same root. Now if you think about it, on the continent in Northern Europe the tribes traded and lived very similar lifestyle to each other. If you lined up an Angle, a Dane and a Frisian in 400 AD it would be ny impossible to tell them apart in both appearance, language and manner. So when these Germanic people started crossing the North Sea and settling in Britain in the 5th century, they would have been pretty much identical to the ancestors of the Vikings. But because the missionaries from Ireland and Rome converted the Anglo-Saxons almost a hundred years after they came, their whole culture and belief, even language that had been so similar to the one used by the ancestors of the Vikings, changed. So when the first Norsemen set foot on the sands of Lindisfarne in AD. 793, they were now very different to their once close cousins :)
Something interesting about how early Medieval Europe distinguished Irish traders from English traders was that the English would speak their own language and French, whereas the Irish spoke almost exclusively Latin on the continent.
I got a question I've been frantically trying to find the information to, maybe you can answer it for me or point me in the right direction. Would the mainland saxons during the 9th and 10 century have had similar architecture and weapons/armor to the Anglo saxons of Britain? And I know that the carolingian sword also called the Viking sword was commonly used by both the franks, Anglo saxons, Scandinavians and more but would the Vikings and the franks, specifically the east franks (germans) have used similar axes as well like the mammen axe for instance. And would the furniture (chests, beds ect) have been similar between the vikings, franks and Anglo saxons? Thanks.
What's cookin, Metatron? I found this video to be of great value in my quest to piece together the history of the United States, by way of its British beginnings. Can you recommend some other resources, (preferably visual), that would be helpful? And, do you have any advice about how I can be more effective in my search? Thank you for your time and again, for this video! Have a wonderful day!
+Tony Reale nope, I only choose the duration but not what they show. What they show is normally based on you IP adrees, if you google sunglasses often than you'll see sun glasses commercials, that's how they do it.
Lovely video. I am writing an essay for my English course @ ASU and I'm trying to figure out how/when Christian influence came into the Anglo Saxon period. Who first brought the faith into the area? And what domination did it reflect (i.e. Roman Catholic)?
Recently they did a genitic survey of great Britain and they found that the actual vast majority of males ( high 80s%) still had a Celtic bloodline the actual Germanic bloodline was very small , leading it to be thought the Saxons mainly just co-opted the rule of the land more so than settled it on mass , Being the rulers they like the Romans before them transposed their customs over the top of the allready existing systems of the indiginous poppulus .When a country is left without an effective defensive army all you need is a not particularly large army yourself to take it .
+woofalot13 These genetic studies say different things depending on who makes them. One should be a little suspicious of studies that end up very close to the ruling paradigm.
Martin Andersson You have a point about sceptisim but the study i mentioned kind of go's against the ruling paradigm in England as the English see themselves firmly as Anglo Saxon and it realy does fit all the rest of the evidence . Britain was left without a warrior class after the Romans left all you needed was a few ships of warriors and you own it . No huge migration . Just exactly as the Norse did across the channel around the same time in soon to be Normandy . Ofcourse they brought wives and famillies but the genetics don't show a huge migration in the largest and most extensive study ever made in the UK . (study late 90's documentary made about it might be ,Meet the ancestors ,but not sure now :) or a spin off ,made by world leading archeologist for what that is worth ?
+woofalot13 It goes against popular perception. However, it closely follows academic dogma of the last decades."Genetic study says" sounds final. But genetics are tricky and multilayered. And different studies come to different conclusions. So, continued scepticism is a good thing in this. Notice how Metatron wisely stays clear of this quagmire.
+Metatron : I love your videos, and this one's really good. But the population replacement theory has taken quite a pounding -abundant genetic evidence for Celtic continuity, scarcity of archaeological evidence for invasion, and indications of prolonged peaceful coexistence of Germanic tribespeople and Romanised Celts tell a story that's quite different from Hengist and Horsa (or the conflict their myth symbolises. I think it was rather a story of Germanic auxiliares having their families come over and exerting a growing cultural influence -at least in many areas of South and East England, expanding out from there. More so once the Romans left. And once they did, unpaid leftover auxiliares would be a likely group to replace the elite. I mean, there definitely were raids, old Britannia did ask for help. But when help against the pirates didn't materialise, those who had come as auxiliares and their sons, defending the land, could very quickly have become a ruling warrior class. My thoughts based on documentaries and a bit of reading, not much more. But still...
Wait, they found a great collection of valuable grave items together but no grave nearby? A theory that instantly came to my mind is that they simply found the loot of some grave robbers...
The English is majority Germanic.....Anglo Saxon with Norse blood (Danish and Norwegian), the little Norman essence and Celtic that was only in the parts of the south east of England
Frisian As Gustav Meeuwenfiaster noted in a comment to Diego Hernandez's answer, Frisian is the closest to English. Dutchand Afrikaans come next. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are also quite close. These are all Germanic languages and share a common (long extinct) ancestor.
Ciao Metatron! Stupendo video! Ho spesso pensato che ci fosse una similitudine tra Italia e Inghilterra, per quanto riguarda la variabilità di popolazioni, lingue e costumi che hanno dato origine ai questi due moderne nazioni! Molto di più rispetto a paesi come la Norvegia o la Svezia che hanno subito meno migrazioni se così si può dire! Una curiosità: come si chiama il brano che inizia al minuto 5 circa? L'ho sentito in altri tuoi video e vorrei scaricarlo da qualche parte se possibile! Grazie e buona vita! 😉
Great video as usual. I can tell your main interests are European and Japanese history and warfare. But are you familiar with Chinese history/armor/weapons at all? Or the history and warfare of peoples in the Americas, Africa, and wherever else? Can we expect videos on these subjects in the future?
+Silver Seto Yes I have takend many exams at univesity about Chinese history from pre-historic times untill 1995 and it will eventually reach my channel
A history of the Phoenicians would b a great vid, if u haven't already. I really appreciate ur work man & they still to this day have such a strong impact on our world. Most ppl dont resize this, & is also y this world b a great topic. I mean they r the 1's who created the alphabet and commerce system. & tho the way they have implemented this is sad & unfortunate since it makes us all a slave to their system. Example is y our license, passport & birth certificate is spelt with all caps in a dog latin text. Making us by their law not actually individuals with souls, but a dead... none exist. Its a mockery to us as individuals with souls. I dont want to get to into this, but im sure u know what im talking about. But they r responsible for our system more than anyone to this day, so their history would b a great topic
Dear Metatron have you heard of professor Allen Frantzen and should you like to hear from him if so he was on Honey Badger Radio on two shows already he is a medieval historian.
This is when everyone was on the move, the Hun, the Goths, and several others. There had been a period of harsh winters. Þissum treo bist... This is true. Ān twā þry feowor fyf the vowels are closer to Italian aeiouyæ (ø) ā=å (oa)
In German we still use the phrase "angelsächsisch" (anglo-saxon) to refer to the Englishspeaking world as a whole.
So we'd say "im angelsächsischen Raum", (literally transl. in the anglo-saxon area) when we for example want to refer to differences between the English and German languages, or differences in scientific literature published in the 2 languages, differences in laws and jurisdiction etc.
Quite strange, given that this term refers to the UK, US, Canada, Australia and so on, all at the same time and it's probably safe to say that there are quite a few differences between those countries as well, so to just sum them all up under the single term "angelsächsisch" seems fairly simplistic.
Raum would mean “room” in English, in the sense of realm.
So much history in one word.
I had my dna done and found out that I have the Anglo Saxon bloodline, Donegal Ireland bloodline (east/west/South), and Estonian/Latvian bloodline. Thank you for making this video that explains some history of the Anglo Saxons.
I am Asian, and I admire that Anglo-Saxon have more contributions to human civilization than others, they can change the worst place into the best place, look Australia, Canada, US and new Zealand, but thank you for this video
I wouldn't say those places were 'the worst', i would say they just had very different and arguably more primitive societal structures.
American here this place was way doper before The White Man but I try and love my mother California
I have to Disagree. The Anglos killed the Pictish people of Native Scotland's Kings and took over as much as they could. They were turn coats to their British cousins. The conglomerant descendants of the U.K who went and colonized the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zeland did everything they could to decimate the Indigenous populations, suck off the resources, deface culturally significant places to said indigenous and polute the land with toxins. The greatness comes from the corruptions of corporations an a supply and demand consumerism mentality.
@Logan Strait In what way?
@@NadaVerse Before the white man came here, the plains were full of wild buffalo, the streams crystal-clear and full of fish, women had a primary role in society and religion, and magic mushrooms were legal and endorsed by the authorities.
about the wood buildings: timber is a very good building material and in cooler, rainier regions there is no lack of woods and less of a fire hazard. most forests in the mediterranean died as they were cut down to make ships and such. further north there was more forest to go around and it regenerates more quickly. also old stone buildings are a pain in the ass to heat in cold winters. so the return to wood may have been for very practical reasons - few old northern european buildings were completely made of stone even later on, except things like churches or defensive buildings like castles or city walls. or defensible churches, which also existed.
fun fact: apparently, early archaeologists used to think european peoples outside of the roman empire had no larger settlements, because they couldn't find any. this was because all the buildings were made of wood that rotted away, very hard to detect without modern methods such as magnetic scans of the ground.
You are correct that the Romans preferred to build with stone, but did you know of the wooden fort in Coventry? It's called the Lunt Roman Fort, it is now a museum and only a bit remains of the former size. I think they should reconstruct the rest of the former fort, to preserve the remnants in the ground they could simply build outside the foundation. I have never visited but I know there is at least one roofed building, it might be the granary (for storing grains through the winter.) According to the research all of roofed buildings inside the fort walls were wooden.
Wooden structures are warmer in winter than stone structures? Sorry, idk im from a tropical country. I thought people in the past disliked stone structures here because it would have been too hot inside, so i thought europeans chose stone because it probably warms them
Mediterranean buildings were wooden til rome grew enough and did the conquerings. Rome probably did wooden dwellings too til they copied the greeks, which copied egyptians or semites who had i suppose much less wood for construction
Outstanding video and well presented. I'm amazed at how little knowledge of this important pre-Norman age many modern British have.
this video is so dramatic xD it actually makes it really interesting and I love it!! I can tell you worked hard, thank you :)
Good stuff, nice video. The only thing I would have added is that the main debate surrounding the migration era in Britain is how many Germanic people actually migrated: Whether the material and linguistic changes were more the result of cultural changes rather than actual population change. Good overview though.
+scholagladiatoria Thank you Matt, it's always an honour to hear from you :) Yes that would be a very interesting topic to cover, and also I will soon have a video dedicated to the Britons where I discuss about post-ice age continual ethnicity as opposed to the idea of invading Celts during the Iron age which one of my subscribers has kindly reminded me of ^^
For the point you bring up yes I would probably think they didn't have to be that many to strongly influence the natives with their culture, the Romans weren't that many compared to the locals and yet their influence was profound.
+Metatron : Although it is worth noting that there is no evidence of a British Romance language. The Romans seen to have had less influence in Britain than in Spain, Gaul, or even Dacia.
Akatsukami I have never said English is a Romance language, I have said that Latin was spoken (meaning as a second language, some people problably were even bilingual) in Britain due to the Romans being there and Latin had some efects on English. As you can see Latin makes 7,5% of English vocabulary, and French (through the Normans) composes another 30%, that's a lot, not enough to make it a Romance language but 37% of your vocabulary being linked to Romance languages is a big chunk.
+Metatron : I didn't mean to imply that you had called English a Romance language and I apologize for writing unclearly. What I was trying to say is that on the Continent Latin, and subsequently Romance languages, were spread almost everywhere that there wasn't already a well-established language of older culture (Greek, Aramaic, etc.) Even in regions where Romance was swamped by other languages, such as North Africa or the Danube valley, we have evidence that there _was_ a Romance language. In Britain it almost seems that everyone who spoke Latin decamped with Constantine III; all the relict languages are P-Celtic.
Akatsukami I think that's due to the Anglo-Saxons and their influence, if the Roman Empire haden't collapsed and the Romans had remained there, English now would be a Romance language for sure, and it would be very similar to Italian, Spanish etc. and I would say the name would have been something on the lines of "Britannico" Although this is all speculative of course ;)
Anglo Saxon over here and proud of it!.....no white guilt over here!
My family came from Ireland, I have a lots of roots in Scandinavia....actually funny thing my great great great great great grandfather was actually a member of the royal family of Norway....my mom's name is in their book!
The book (forgot what it was called) recorded all the descendents since the disestablishmebt of the royal family rule.
+Luke Jacks Why inject identity politics into this, sigh. You're no better than an SJW.
+Luke Jacks good to remember you ancestors mate
***** The idiot brought up "white guilt". White pride is racist bullshit. English pride, Irish pride, Welsh pride, French, whatever, is cool.
It seems the Anglo Saxons were essentially an earlier version of the Vikings - who became Christianized. At least that's how i think of them. I'm curious to know how similar the Saxon ships were to the later Viking longship.
Anglo saxons & vikings were both norse.
@@nedsteven4622 north west germanic tribes are nordic.
Well it depends how far east you go or inland. .The northern fringes are predominantly nordic. Or rather they would of been in this time period. Modern day northern germans are obviously going to be different.
@@nedsteven4622 yes of course the heartland of the angles. The whole area of the Netherlands were nordic.
You technically arent wrong, but its important to note, that the anglo-saxon settlements accross the island outside of mercia amd wessex control were often involved with many danes and spoke the same language, interpreters werent necessary for communication at all, the dialects were that similar prior to norman invasion
Thanks for this! I was researching the Anglo-Saxon migration and history and only found a bunch of really long documentaries that focused on specific times or crap music video slideshows. I like how you apply geography, language and culture to give a deep context while covering a larger timespan.
These are such high quality videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks I will!
awesome video, nice to hear a clear concise history of a culture without being chock full of opinions. Very enjoyable to watch! keep up the good work I'm sure you will have a lot of subscribers in the near future!
Could you do a video about the Celts, and their Empire throughout Europe before Rome and even during the Roman Empire?
There was no "Celtic empire", rather the Celts were a collection of seperate tribes throughout Western Europe that shared similar languages and culture. Even the Britons had many different tribes at the time of Roman conquest.
+Baya
The Celts were an invention of the Victorians, there were no common cultures in western Europe, for example a similar burial practice may have been common an area, but the architecture, languages and so on would all be different.
+jaocheu No common culture? The druids were found throughout Britainnia and Gaul.
The 'celts' as an idea of one people is an invention, yes.. as I clearly said they were no empire. But similarities of these tribal groups fall into one unbrella, much like how people group Scandinavians as vikings or the Germanic people's. It's an umbrella term used to destinguish very real attributes to these people that make them different from Latin or Hellenistic groups.
Baya I'm afraid the umbrella theory doesn't work. You find some Gallic and some German speaking people having cultural similarities, uniquely different from other Gallic and German speakers.
+jaocheu Please give some evidence before making generalised statements. I could say the same similarities can be found in Rome and Athens, but the history and context are all different. Many religious and traditional values were taken by the Romans from the Greeks, but does that make the Romans Greek because they renamed their gods and implemented similar architecture? ..which, by the way the Greeks adapted theirs from the Minoans, which were influenced by the Egyptians which were influenced the other civilizations in the region before that.
The problem with making a general statement like you do, is that you can pretty much say that about anything. Both Celtic and Roman people had bronze technology.. This was in large part to do with trade. Groups in Europe traded and many technologies in warfare and architecture made their way across Europe. The same goes for art and culture being transferred between these different groups of people.
Celtic traditions such as Druidry have their routes from Indo-European settlers.. They established themselves in Europe around 6,500 years ago. Also, the Celtic language family (a language family being an "umbrella" like that of the Germanic language family that includes English), can be found even spoken today in places such as Northern Spain, France and the British Isles. There are similarities shared among these people culturally, that identifies them and separates them from other groups in Europe.
as i;m english, i have immense respect for the Anglo-Saxons, they literally made England. Were unlucky to lose at Hastings.
Loved the vid, especially the little transition "poses". Those were great. The one at 5:46 made me laugh really hard as well for some reason.
5:05 Did you just put your camera in a cupboard.... 11/10 for creativity. :)
+Vlad JMK Yes I did xD
+Metatron Nice Kitchen by the way. You definitely leave the impression of being a well put together man.
+Metatron +Makayla Walker Ēalā Hū eart þū? Spraec thu Ænglisc?? Ic Spraec Ænglisc 😛😛😛
Wow... did you just write: Hello, how are you? Do you speak English? I speak English? That's what it looks like to me.
Philip Kontos you'e right 😝
I really like the different shots you've been taking in your videos. Creative shots like from within the cupboard keeps things visually interesting. Take care buddy.
Thank you for this video! I am currently analysing the poem Beowulf in my course English Social and Literary History and this helps me in understanding the social context in the Beowulf poem. If I may ask, is there any impact of the poem Beowulf in the social aspect or to people at that time? Would there be any changes in the social aspect which was caused by the poem itself? Again, thank you very much for sharing.
I always thought that historical dramas like Vikings tv show overplayed the civilization of the Anglo-Saxons vs the barbarity of the Norse. There really wasnt very much different in their war or material culture.
I think it would be pretty cool if you went over some notable battles throught medieval history, and like, gave us your take on it, perhaps point out ways things could have gone differently, like the battle at Agincourt.
My kith and kin. +1 Metatron!
excellent job Metatron, these videos are getting better and better
very nice video Metatron, you're so laid back in this one
Excellent video! Have you, however, considered a video about the effects of these major cultural shifts on areas like Wales and Scotland, seeing as they were more insulated are retained older Brittonic culture for longer. Ciao!
i search for anglo saxons and then i find my man metatron wtf! yes!
This was, as far as i can tell, excellent. I liked the breakdown of influences on modern english.And the point about wood-stone. One question thought. Have the archeologists confirmed more than the Sutton Ho ship burial? I heard the theory that Sutton Ho was a special case because that area of Britain had imported a ruling house from the east geatland in sweden, the Wulfings, and that this also accounted for the favourable press the geats get in Beowulf. But I dont know.Anyway, excellent video!
Your presentation is as good as any professional documentary.
+Automated Mike Thank you so much!
Have you considered to make a video about Boudicca? Really loved that one, keep it up!
Great video as always Metatron.
Thank you very much!
Damn I love your historical videos keep up the good work!
I will and thank you for watching!
As always both entertaining and informative, I truely enjoy watching this , keep up your outstanding work.
Thank you again Mr. Metatron you always brighten my day good sir.
Your accent and pronunciation intrigue me. Where are you from if you don't mind my asking?
Dear god, I searched 'who were the Saxons', pick a video and suddenly the Metatron steps onto my screen with hair as wild as ever.
This was a very well done video! On par with some TV shows even, good work and thanks.
Thanks a lot man, you wrote the right subtitles.
are you gonna make a video about the older langueges, like old english ect.
+Michael Mitchell There is a channel made by my mate which teaches Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons. If you're interested I can send you the link?
Heck yeah, more good work. it boggles my mind how the Romans were able to deal with Hannibal and yet let their corruption later make them fade away with German pressure.
i think you are underestimating the germanic tribes
you missed athelstan from the time line....he made england, even though his grandfather Alfred the Great was indeed a great king.
+coalikesdesi Æthelstan was very important yes because he defeated the Scots-Norse Army at Brunanburh and therefore establishing a similar border with Scotland that would become the Anglo-Scots border.
Great video a feast for the eyes and mind, just a quick question, did they bury warriors with their horses, like Longbeards(or Winnili if you prefer) or other poulations?
+Marco Gasparini Hope you don't mind if I answer. The Anglo-Saxon burials were very like Viking burials because their religions came from the same root. Now if you think about it, on the continent in Northern Europe the tribes traded and lived very similar lifestyle to each other. If you lined up an Angle, a Dane and a Frisian in 400 AD it would be ny impossible to tell them apart in both appearance, language and manner. So when these Germanic people started crossing the North Sea and settling in Britain in the 5th century, they would have been pretty much identical to the ancestors of the Vikings. But because the missionaries from Ireland and Rome converted the Anglo-Saxons almost a hundred years after they came, their whole culture and belief, even language that had been so similar to the one used by the ancestors of the Vikings, changed. So when the first Norsemen set foot on the sands of Lindisfarne in AD. 793, they were now very different to their once close cousins :)
Thank you for visually connecting the English with ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ - the native Anglo-Saxon writing system.
Oml I am so looking forward to this one.
Something interesting about how early Medieval Europe distinguished Irish traders from English traders was that the English would speak their own language and French, whereas the Irish spoke almost exclusively Latin on the continent.
my favorite video thus far
Can you recommend any documentaries or books on the subject?
very good man i like your channel a lot
Good job 😊 I'm impressed
Then you are gonna like my next video, which will be out tonight (Italian time) or tomorrow depending on how slow I am at editing it :3
Good for start ups, beginners, appetizers, and beginnings yeah
You mentioned Sutton Hoo. What's your take on artefacts with Star of David found in there. And why did you adopt it as your own symbol?
Anglo Saxon... that's my people
Hail our people.🏴
What is the citation for the Michael Chapland quote?
I got a question I've been frantically trying to find the information to, maybe you can answer it for me or point me in the right direction. Would the mainland saxons during the 9th and 10 century have had similar architecture and weapons/armor to the Anglo saxons of Britain? And I know that the carolingian sword also called the Viking sword was commonly used by both the franks, Anglo saxons, Scandinavians and more but would the Vikings and the franks, specifically the east franks (germans) have used similar axes as well like the mammen axe for instance. And would the furniture (chests, beds ect) have been similar between the vikings, franks and Anglo saxons? Thanks.
i was looking for a spot to click the video off but ran into the end.. subscribed
Welcome to the community :)
Man, it's just my humble opinion, but you should think about just act naturally. Anyway... Your vids are really helpful and interesting! Keep it up!
What's cookin, Metatron? I found this video to be of great value in my quest to piece together the history of the United States, by way of its British beginnings. Can you recommend some other resources, (preferably visual), that would be helpful? And, do you have any advice about how I can be more effective in my search? Thank you for your time and again, for this video! Have a wonderful day!
Do you have any input as to what commercials are run on your channel?
+Tony Reale nope, I only choose the duration but not what they show. What they show is normally based on you IP adrees, if you google sunglasses often than you'll see sun glasses commercials, that's how they do it.
+Metatron
Interesting!
This helped me a lot in history in school thanks
Lovely video. I am writing an essay for my English course @ ASU and I'm trying to figure out how/when Christian influence came into the Anglo Saxon period. Who first brought the faith into the area? And what domination did it reflect (i.e. Roman Catholic)?
I'm sure this has been asked but I'm new to this channel: where did you get your Roman Legionary set?
Whats the music playing at 5:36 ?
+thisisnotanick Nvm I found it! Knights Templar 2 - Johannes Bornlöf
Your videos are really good
+Antonio Krastanov Thank you I appreciate your comment
Hey Metatron, I remember you mentioned that you teach, how many of your students watch your videos, and how do they like them?
+Kazakh Gamer Not all but quite a few do actually :D and yes those who do always tell me about it and say they like them ^^
do you have a podcast about the romano-british?
How long is this video and does he keep on talking through all of it
ma se non ci sono i sottotitoli in italiano come faccio a capire che dice?
Great video! Thanks!
Great video!
I would like to suggest a video of the Celtic period of Britain and Ireland particularly the Arthurian legend's role in the Saxon arrival
Informative
Good video
I’m supposed to be related to leofric earl of Mercia 417 , what would the be German?
realy nice video..
btw, are you interested in making video about slavic people? (not sure i missed one if you made it ;) )
Good Video!
i'm curious. What do you think about romania's history
Another great one. Thanks.
I'm glad you liked it, thanks
your camera gets way better when there's a proper light
awesome music at 5:38-5:45 :D
i'm visiting from the future, 2023. i just wanted to say, dang, you look so young.
I enjoyed it a lot thank you
Recently they did a genitic survey of great Britain and they found that the actual vast majority of males ( high 80s%) still had a Celtic bloodline the actual Germanic bloodline was very small , leading it to be thought the Saxons mainly just co-opted the rule of the land more so than settled it on mass , Being the rulers they like the Romans before them transposed their customs over the top of the allready existing systems of the indiginous poppulus .When a country is left without an effective defensive army all you need is a not particularly large army yourself to take it .
+woofalot13 These genetic studies say different things depending on who makes them. One should be a little suspicious of studies that end up very close to the ruling paradigm.
Martin Andersson You have a point about sceptisim but the study i mentioned kind of go's against the ruling paradigm in England as the English see themselves firmly as Anglo Saxon and it realy does fit all the rest of the evidence . Britain was left without a warrior class after the Romans left all you needed was a few ships of warriors and you own it . No huge migration . Just exactly as the Norse did across the channel around the same time in soon to be Normandy . Ofcourse they brought wives and famillies but the genetics don't show a huge migration in the largest and most extensive study ever made in the UK . (study late 90's documentary made about it might be ,Meet the ancestors ,but not sure now :) or a spin off ,made by world leading archeologist for what that is worth ?
Martin Andersson Sorry ive got nothing on today :P
+woofalot13 It goes against popular perception. However, it closely follows academic dogma of the last decades."Genetic study says" sounds final. But genetics are tricky and multilayered. And different studies come to different conclusions. So, continued scepticism is a good thing in this. Notice how Metatron wisely stays clear of this quagmire.
Martin Andersson
So you have a different hypothosis , can i hear it , i mean skeptisism only, doesn't add much .
came here for information, suscribed for the house tour
+Metatron : I love your videos, and this one's really good. But the population replacement theory has taken quite a pounding -abundant genetic evidence for Celtic continuity, scarcity of archaeological evidence for invasion, and indications of prolonged peaceful coexistence of Germanic tribespeople and Romanised Celts tell a story that's quite different from Hengist and Horsa (or the conflict their myth symbolises.
I think it was rather a story of Germanic auxiliares having their families come over and exerting a growing cultural influence -at least in many areas of South and East England, expanding out from there. More so once the Romans left. And once they did, unpaid leftover auxiliares would be a likely group to replace the elite. I mean, there definitely were raids, old Britannia did ask for help. But when help against the pirates didn't materialise, those who had come as auxiliares and their sons, defending the land, could very quickly have become a ruling warrior class.
My thoughts based on documentaries and a bit of reading, not much more. But still...
Do an episode on Celts please. particularly celts of the British Isles.
Could you possibly do the Gauls?
I'll be making a video on the Gauls soon on my channel. if you're still interested :)
Wait, they found a great collection of valuable grave items together but no grave nearby? A theory that instantly came to my mind is that they simply found the loot of some grave robbers...
Can you make a video about iberians and their weapons?
The English is majority Germanic.....Anglo Saxon with Norse blood (Danish and Norwegian), the little Norman essence and Celtic that was only in the parts of the south east of England
Charlie Molko Not really, genetic studies show it's more like 20 to 40 percent Germanic while mainly celtic, but culturally Germanic.
Frisian
As Gustav Meeuwenfiaster noted in a comment to Diego Hernandez's answer, Frisian is the closest to English. Dutchand Afrikaans come next. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are also quite close. These are all Germanic languages and share a common (long extinct) ancestor.
please talk about te spatha and if it was effective
Ciao Metatron! Stupendo video! Ho spesso pensato che ci fosse una similitudine tra Italia e Inghilterra, per quanto riguarda la variabilità di popolazioni, lingue e costumi che hanno dato origine ai questi due moderne nazioni! Molto di più rispetto a paesi come la Norvegia o la Svezia che hanno subito meno migrazioni se così si può dire! Una curiosità: come si chiama il brano che inizia al minuto 5 circa? L'ho sentito in altri tuoi video e vorrei scaricarlo da qualche parte se possibile! Grazie e buona vita! 😉
+Giovanni delle Bande Nere Ciao e grazie mille. Il brano si chiama knight templar ed è una musica royalty free che prendo da epidemic sound. ^^
Trovata, grazie mille!
Great video as usual. I can tell your main interests are European and Japanese history and warfare. But are you familiar with Chinese history/armor/weapons at all? Or the history and warfare of peoples in the Americas, Africa, and wherever else? Can we expect videos on these subjects in the future?
+Silver Seto Yes I have takend many exams at univesity about Chinese history from pre-historic times untill 1995 and it will eventually reach my channel
0:06 hey Metatron
A history of the Phoenicians would b a great vid, if u haven't already. I really appreciate ur work man & they still to this day have such a strong impact on our world. Most ppl dont resize this, & is also y this world b a great topic. I mean they r the 1's who created the alphabet and commerce system. & tho the way they have implemented this is sad & unfortunate since it makes us all a slave to their system. Example is y our license, passport & birth certificate is spelt with all caps in a dog latin text. Making us by their law not actually individuals with souls, but a dead... none exist. Its a mockery to us as individuals with souls. I dont want to get to into this, but im sure u know what im talking about. But they r responsible for our system more than anyone to this day, so their history would b a great topic
It's ceremonial burial
where I live there was a Saxon king grave, (southend on sea)
Dear Metatron have you heard of professor Allen Frantzen and should you like to hear from him if so he was on Honey Badger Radio on two shows already he is a medieval historian.
Can you do a video about all the different types of barbarians and the nordic tribes and the Slavic tribes I think it will be very interesting.
This is when everyone was on the move, the Hun, the Goths, and several others. There had been a period of harsh winters.
Þissum treo bist...
This is true. Ān twā þry feowor fyf the vowels are closer to Italian aeiouyæ (ø) ā=å (oa)
Also slavs to
3:11 No one. They nations avoided the land.
1:40 Anglo saxons
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