Differences between Norwegian, Swedish and Danish Vikings
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Key differences in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish Vikings explained!
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00:00- Intro
00:40- Danes
06:03- Norwegians
11:25- Swedes
19:50- Conclusion
I'm half Mexican and half Danish. Essentially a Spicy Viking.
I'm a mix Danish and Spanish, we're in the same Longship friend.
Interesting combo.
A Viztec
My great grandparents were Danish. Let's get this rolling.
Im colombian and swedish
''The danes have the courage of goats''
That is not an insult, have you ever met a goat!??!! Those things have no fear.
Except the ones that freeze/faint when you scare them.
goats freeze and fall over if you walk too loud, not something to be so proud of
@@dud13 we don't have that type of goats in Scandinavia.
@@dud13 Then you also have the goats that climb mountains without a care in the world.
Right on, don't fuck with an upset and cornered goat!
As a Dane i love my Swedish and Norway brothers. I visit their contries a lot, and in my opinion Scandinavia must be the best place in the world to live.
i agree/enig :-)
Have you lived anywhere else? Just curious.
I would love to live in my ancestors' home of Norway...so beautiful and they take care of their citizens and I could watch the Northern Lights!
I’m a Dane as well and I truly agree we love our brothers!
Ya they just dislike anyone else moving to thier countries
Hi , there ..... im canadian with Italian origin, I always loved Norse history,it's amazing.... and I visited many many times Norway, Danmark and Sweden for holidays and I really really think that you 3 are the best places in Europe, you guys are open minded and speak and understand English, love you guys
Agreed, White countries are really the best places to live.
thank you very much. as a dane with a little bit of a bias, i'll have to agree.
Norway: raiding vikings
Demark: settling vikings
Sweden: chillin vikings
Iceland: still vikings
Normandy: French Vikings
@@Caine61 Gallic and Breton, actually.
Faroe Islands: Still Vikings
Lol danes settling? you mean conquerors.
@@Caine61 Danish decent
You know you're a badass when someone gets so tired of you raiding a place that they just give it to you.
I mean.... they really settled those danes as vassals, so it is more like: They get so tired of you raiding that they hire you to guard the place from raids.
@@alexandresilveira6905 When you hack the pentagon mainframe and they decide to hire you for projection.
Or your just a group of monsters.
@@WiseOwl_1408 Ja og vi elsker det ;)
More like they just picked a few clans, gave them the land against the remaining of their kin. And thus, you make those pesky raiders killing eachother
My Father that raised me was Norwegian and all of these stories I had heard from him. His Father came to America. This is an answer to my prayers Thank you so very very much!
I live in Norway, but hail from California. I married a Norwegian:) i tell my American friends that Norway does not have Wal-Mart or Costco, instead we have Denmark and Sweden for cheap shopping...
Good one! True 😂
And Danes go to Germany and Poland. The further north you go, the more expensive it gets.
As a Swede I'm sad to say that almost all of our viking era history was lost when castle Tre Kronor burned with all those books in the library there.
Yeah even though im part swedish as well. I'm still pissed about that. Everyone thinks a viking is Norwegian and Danish.
@@Ominiumshadow24 Vikings in Britain/Ireland or France very likely where few Swedes. In the east mostly Swedes though.
@@PMMagro Yeah Finland and anywhere near the black seas. At least I found out though my uncle since he search our ancestry on moms side. That I have a little lcelandic and slight Norweigan. But more swedish
@@PMMagro not true. Many swedes followed the danes to the west. One example of this would be the 'England runestones' which tells of Swedes who travelled to or were killed in England.
Wait really? holy shit I didn't know that, I feel sorry for your brother. I'd be absolutely pissed if something like that happened to us Norwegians
Hi, this is Airi from Finland. It would be great(really, really great) to be able to say that we were vikings too. We were not. If they were like 3 brothers, we were like the weird cousin who shows up at every worship, but no one knows exactly who he is
OK, I had my eye on Finland during this video. All very educational and entertaining - and one must be able to laugh at oneself to make progress. So, it seems the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bathnia really influenced different development between west and east, quite a barrier...
all around Baltic sea were sea riders / pirates, due to the nature of the area. Curonians (Kurir old Norse) now days Lithuanians and Latvians were in constant wars with Swedish and Danish sea riders / vikings and had been in military alliances with them. And they had kept they paganism... until 1387:D
The swedes in finland were vikings. The real finno-ugric people were not
Well...you have the Estonians...and by extension the Hungarians as cousins.
tää on kyl paras selitys :)
This is by far the coolest thing I have seen in some time.
My Welsh ass loved this in-depth history lesson.
😁 Hey cousin!
I’m from Newfoundland 🇨🇦 we have a Viking settlement at the northern tip of the island (L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site).
Yes, & it's called Vinland in the Icelandic Sagas.
@@WildWoodsGirl65last summer I traveled around Iceland and Scandinavia. It was amazing visiting Viking museums and sites. I have a family home in northern Germany close to the Danish boarder, and there are so many burial mounds from Viking battles.
I Love history.
@@whitenoisejosh-sleepfocusc2917 Oh, awesome! I've not been there yet, just to sites like L'Anse aux Meadows and ones in Ireland and Yorkshire, & places that one branch of family came from. There's a feeling to that I don't have words for. I love history too, and that sense of connection - to nature as well.
We Danes don't usually receive this level of credit, I appreciate the recognition brother!
Yes he does great videos. Very informative & honest. Your countries & cultures are beautiful. 👋
Born 79
@@-_pi_- because they couldn’t tell Norwegians swedes and danes apart, pretty funny actually
True, but your people deserve it.
Everyone who is interested in history of that time period should know how much impact the danish people had on the rest of the known world.
Thay left there stamp everywhere 👍🏻
Greetings from North Germany
I've always said that all of the Nordic countries should create a (fair) union.
Lots of natural resources, industry and such + also add tourism to it. Everyone produces stuff, send it to the Danes and they design it... and as always been a pretty good trading nation, sell it twice as expensive. 💲🤑💲🤑💲
Love how you define Scandinavians as brothers. It is a true depiction. Squable and fight amongst themselves, but band together if attacked. Very like any family.
Ive recently learned a lot about what led up to WW2. Who knows how accurate the info is, and it's a complex issue. With that understanding, and absolutely no judgement here, the Scandinavian countries could of done things differently. As all of our countries could of. ❤
@@bruhmcchaddeus413 tough life ?, bad day ?, small dick syndrome ?
All germanics
These ain't regular families. When have you ever heard a Human described as a blue blood? Vampires!
@@AverageAmerican you have zero clue
im a Chilean living at Denmark, like 10 months ago and I been discover new stuffs and history here its a real treasure, love the Nordics but also I been able to visit Norway and Sweden, with all of them are amazing people and countries ... ver nice video for me its a new discover and huge respect for the land im living . cool video
Velkommen
I keep giggling at your description of Swedes because my dad’s side immigrated from Sweden to Texas in the 1890s. Three generations later, those Swedish characteristics are still hanging on! He’s so Swedish! 😂
It warms my heart to hear you speak of us as brothers.
Norwegian here, så klart :)
Er truly are,!
@@ScavengerMerchant we are need to understand that there is a war against us all. We cant be cowards and let us be all be extinct
Danes here, og altid ;)
hahahahaha
UBBE RAGNARSON = UBBI FRISKI leader of the frisian army!
UBBI FRISKI had a Frisian Mother! I have 100's of kings in my bloodline.!
and yes i'm VAN Norwegian, VAN Swedish and VAN Danish, VON SAKSEN, WESTFALEN, VON Beieren, VAN GRONINGEN, VAN FRIESLAND, VAN HOLLAND, MAGNA FRISIA!
But i live my hole life in MAGNA FRISIA/HOLLAND
CALL ME A FRISIAN BESERKER!
WHO THE FUCK ARE U!!!!
As a Mongolian, I find the age of Vikings fascinating in the way they look, fought, raided, settled and civilized. Also you Scandinavian Vikings look bad ass with blonde hair, blue eyes and beards while wielding dope looking axes and painted round shields. Hope to visit all of Denmark, Norway and Sweden someday. Skol!
Temüdjin Borjigin (Genghis Khan) was a real badass tho 😅
My dna-test at ancestry, 23andMe, ftdna and myheritage says i’m approximate 90% Finnish and 10% Central-Asian, Mongolian and very little Scandinavian. I’m a Saami from Norway.
Hahaha blue eyes and blonde hair haha whats wrong with brown eyes and black hair? As a Mongolian, i like my brown eyes and black hair!
I wish Mongols fought with vikings i wanna see who would win 😜😜😜
@@haraldsigurdsson1232 No. Slavs are Europeans, I don't see any Asian features in us.
@@zigi5432 Really?! There is even saying “you scratch Russian back and Mongol skin will appear” jokes aside, Whats wrong with having some “mongol” in you? Having some color allergy are we?
@@haraldsigurdsson1232 Agree! We would have made great allies! Vikings and Mongol/Huns were both pagans and raiders and valued merit and equality
Just recently found your channel; I must say I am very happy and impressed with your work. I'm 2nd generation American of 3/4 Danish and 1/4 Swiss (Italian) stock. My parents always made it a point to teach and remind me and my siblings where we came from, and who we really are from the Scandinavian side of things. To not let our ways and culture (the old ways, as they both called it) be stamped and die out in terms of culture and religion. It is pretty obvious that they have been trying to get rid of us for a long time; now it's just blatant. I thank and salute you.
Thanks for the shortcut.
I really appreciate how you broke it down straight to the important parts.
Having worked with goats on farms, I can say that "The danes have the courage of goats" Is a compliment rather than an insult.
They eat fucking everything
@@adrianmaxim4808 I really don't see what you mean. well Bacon yes anything with good tender meat on yes. mushrooms oh hell naw tastes like fucking dirt in my opinion
@@ExGoFX goats eat everything...i had one eat a shoelace
From what I've seen, goats are the brain trust of the barnyard.
We have a saying in the USA, "if it can't hold water it can't hold a goat"
Danish Vikings: "Where's the nearest village I can conquor?!"
Norwegian Vikings: "Where's the nearest village I can raid?!"
Swedish Vikings: "..Where's the nearest stone I can engrave?"
LOL
U do know that norway is only a country because sweden allowed them to be independent right?
I swear ur the kind of guy to watch hbo's "vikings" and think its accurate to real life
@@Inaresco Eller så tar du det för vad det var, ett skämt. Dessutom rätt roligt.
@@boboah1 skämt eller inte folk skrattar åt vårat land o jag tänker inte ta det
@@Inaresco Calm down Kim, people laugh at other countries all the time. Don't get too butt hurt because it's sweeden this one time. Don't act like people don't clown on Norway/Denmark in the same way. Not to mention US, UK, italians, french people and so on and so on and so on. Stop being so ass mad, it looks bad and it can't be fun to get upset by so small things as well.
Very informative. Have Norwegian heritage but lived in southern Denmark for awhile so it's nice to hear another perspective on the differences.
Love the brothers analogy! I watched the show Vikings and always wondered where they came from especially when they were moving around to different “Vikings” places. Thanks for clearing that up.
Hehe as someone from here, it wasn't really all that great knowing where the different places were located since I obviously knew better than the creators of the show. There were plenty of times I sat there thinking "oh, so he flew there. That's impressive" 😂😂.
I wonder if England’s desire to explore and expand their empire was partially inspired by the Vikings that used to raid them.
I think it's more of just a built in desire for living organisms period. "Life itself is will to power, nothing more." -Friedrich Nietzsche
@MarkstrosityA hive/mob mentality does seem to be a common social behavioral occurrence along the homo sapiens species. Noted. Great point. But animals kill each other like a muthafucka!
I heard that most settlements along the Irish coast were all started by Vikings, and I wouldn't be surprised if Scotland had a lot too. My own ancestry is 25% Swedish, 25% Scotch, and similar amounts of Irish and English. I take after the Swedish, so I'm thinking my Scandinavian heritage is more than 25%, plus I got the name. Would have been Leif if my dad had his way.
@@dtvjho cool. There's this weird romanticism nwith Vikings. Like I get it, the show was kinda cool and they were great explorers and all. Additionally, some my favorite bands are Swedish but, there's nothing wrong with being Celtic or Slavic or anything else. The Irish don't have much Norse DNA. The Irish stopped any outside people's from impacting their R1b L21 dominated genetics much. I think the Irish are the coolest/nicest people. Well, when they're not drunk mean. The Scots have quite a bit more Norse ancestry than the Irish.
More likely because of the fact that an island is only so big, and they were overpopulated. Also, because of it being an island, they developed fantastic ships and sailors. Scandi blood is just circumstantial, but probably beneficial if one believes in genetic pre-disposition to trait in certain areas..
Norway was also overpopulated although it is not an island - but might as well have been for the lack of arable land vs. mountains. The only way out was to sail.
I'm swedish and my grandpa was huge into reading about scandinavian history, and according to him Denmark was the shield, Norway the sword and Sweden the body. Funny enough it makes sense with what you said in your conclusion of the video.
Nowadays Denmark is the belly, Norway the loo and Sweden the brain.
@@HockyOne not really, unless the scandinavian briain is braindead
@@alexanderludvigsen1893
Briain? Braindead? I think you mean brain, and brain-dead.
Nice try, norrbagge.
Norway's main contribution to technology: the cheese slicer.
@@HockyOne hey, the cheese slicer is awesome.😄🧀
Keep being divided
Much love from Canada 🇨🇦
Sir, you are by far, the best and most interesting to listen to. Thank you.
You are an AWESOME storyteller! Please keep them coming and thank you very much for sharing
It’s so weird. From fearsome Vikings to essentially the most chill peoples on the planet. Who knew?
Yup, it’s fascinating how peoples change over time. Look at the romans, it’s a mystery to me how they organized a huge empire but Rome is a logistical nightmare nowadays 😂, I guess the hordes of Japanese tourists were too much for them
@@circulati Rome still lives. Especially where I am. The U.S. is founded on Roman politics. Even time seems to be founded on the names of Roman gods. Days of the week and months of the year. Heck, even the year proper is roman numerals. Rome hasn't gone anywhere.
@@Truthster772 yes, totally agree. my people as they are today and my language wouldn’t have existed if not for the Roman conquest (I’m Romanian). But I wasn’t referring to their legacy, I was referring strictly to their organizational abilities, unparalleled in ancient times and which seem to have taken a back seat in more recent history. It’s a mystery to me how you go from keeping together a huge empire for hundreds of years with the best road system, administration and urbanism to the mess Rome is nowadays 🤷🏻♀️
@@Truthster772 The months, yes, but not the weekdays. Thor's day e t c.
Its the whole been there done that mentality, what can I do now kind of thing.
The relationship between the Scandinavian countries is similar to that of three siblings. We mess around and make fun of each other endlessly, but we're all good mates in the end
well its a bit difficult to understand what the danes are saying, but i get what you mean
@@zTeaTheCoffee oi leave us danes alone we just really loved farming for some reason
@@adog2706 Grabbar tat lungt, vi kan alla hålla med om att finnarna lnte är skandinaviska.
@@edrosfelt9381 Precis! 😂
And if someone outside of our brotherhood interferes or trying to participate in our quarrels, we got each others backs
Thank you for taking the time to give your unique perspective! Very nice!
I thoroughly enjoyed that and you have a lovely lilting speaking voice. Thank you for sharing 🌞
This man seems like he would be a really fun and engaging history teacher. Not like the type who told us to open books to chapter 7 and read.
Indeed. Had I had this guy as a teacher I would have been at class half an hour in advance.
Could tame his language a bit.
@@debraforthofer3943too many swears for ya Debra?
I was thinking the very same thing, I don't know what they teach in school today but this approach would be a good asset for learning history to our kids because it is really important
my history teacher is hella lazy, id way rather have this guy.
Haha, As a swede, I love the picture you paint about our countries. As all siblings, we tease and fight each other but as you say. Deep down we share the same heart.
True 🇩🇰
NEVER. AS A PROUD NORWEGIAN I REFUSE.
We don't share the same heart!
(To be honest I'm not very proud, Norway is flaaaawed maaan, also this is a joke about Norway being the "crazy little bro")
Im a swede🇸🇪
Yeah...I joke alot about
norway being dumb
Denmark being...well how do I put this, Danish...
But I have to admit... I love you guys, my brothers
This video is completely wrong about Sweden though. The lack of historical and archelogical knowledge is astounding. Swedes weren't in England? Laughable. Is that why all the anglosaxon coins are found in Sweden and so are the Runestones that describes the journeys there
@@LordOfSweden Nestor's Primary Chronicle...we have written sources as well. Michael Psellos, Miskaway, Ibn Fahdlan and many others.
I thought I was 100% English after doing ancestry DNA test I found out most my DNA is Scandinavian! So I'm starting to learn more about my old roots and Norse paganism. Great video 👍
How big is your Scandinavian DNA percentage?
Most English people don’t have 100% English DNA. We are a mix of DNA from past invaders along with native Brits.
No my nan is 100 English so Ur well wrong with ya comment
@@andrewbloomer1163 did you do her DNA test? I was born in England and most English people have a mix of Scottish, Welsh, english and the rest of Northern Europe. I’m not wrong, it’s a fact. Even my parents who are 100% English back to the 1700’s have a small amount of other than English. Facts are facts no matter what you think.
Isn’t modern day Denmark was where the anglish were located and beneath that was the saxons
I’m American but most of my ancestry is of Danish and English descent. I’m very intrigued lately in learning more about how my Viking ancestors lived!
This was a great video!
Danish is Germanic, the same people as the Anglo Saxons
Perhaps your ancestors were thralls, not jarls.
@@theonosehair6416 I’ve started to get Dupuytrens as well. Not happy about it
"A hundred Swedes ran through the weeds, chased by ten Norwegians..." I remember that one from childhood.
Yeah, yeah I remember that tune, written about when the 100 Swedes conquered Norway and the Norwegians chased them because they didn't know how to manage their country. I understand the emergency.
and I don't cuz I'm not swedish or norwegian
@@dracopticon7788 We probably had had too much smalahove and needed some of our fellow vikings to eat it.
American here. Most of family trace back to Norway. My Grandpa would tell me that little poem and laugh his ass off.
I know someone whose father came from Oland, Sweden, who told it this way, ten tousand Svedes ran tru da veeds, chased by one Norvegian.
I'm a Danish Historian and I approve this message.
That's cute 😆
I know next to nothing about Nordic History but I enjoy learning!
@@susanbeckham9586 SOOO CUTE!! ^-^*
Dette burde ha vært en reklame 👏😂
Norway is better
Fantastic, this is fascinating and I love the way you explain it all. Im in the UK and want to go and see the Viking museum in York now. Very very well done, Im a subscriber now.
As a Swede I would say that I did not take any offence from your video. As you said, we are like brother, and as I have 2 older brothers, I know how we behaived to each other when we grew up. To all the Scandic people, pure love to you all. ❤
im norwegian, and i can certify this person is a true viking himself
It’s just too sad that there’s no legitimazy to those claims. Seeing as you didn’t live 600 years ago
where is the ship?
@@raditicat The Sami have it way up Nord... where the vessel style came from.
@@GoddessPottery vikingr as the word itself says, there must be a ship. That's what I mean.
@@raditicat vikingr is Norwegian for Vikings in the plural. The ships themselves are crafted in the style of the Sámi Nordland boats near the Arctic Circle, but were much larger. It is the Indigenous Sámi that have the ship style. I wish I could upload, we have an actual Viking ship, intact, where I live. It's small, but was sailed from Norway through the St. Lawrence Seaway to Minnesota with a crew of 6 I believe. Relics from the Iron Age show activity attributed to the Vikings. My family is from Loppa Municipality near the Arctic Circle in Finnmark. The ships are all over up there, but we, the Sámi, have the original style of the Nordland vessel.
Sweden - "did stuff in the east"
Raided, traded and settled cities and kingdoms throughout eastern europe, the most important was the city of Kiev settled by swedish vikings from Roslagen which became the Kievan empire or the Kievan "Roos/Rus" which was a huge and important empire. The swedish also went far, became the Varangian guard in the Eastern Roman empire and went about the mediterranean.
Besides, Much of South and western Sweden went with the Danes on their raids and settling.
Exakt så!
Was about to write this...
South western Sweden is basically Denmark out on loan ;) Heja Skåne!
Not really.
@@ElMakz No, of course not really. It was obviously a joke :) But joking aside, I do know a hell of a lot of people in Skåne who feel a lot more connected to Denmark and Copenhagen than to Stockholm.
Really enjoyed the video my guy. You explain stuff really well
Thanks for this---a great presentation. You did a good job in the right mix of fact and humor, I truly appreciate this and sent it on to my brothers.
My family (grandfather and younger brothers) emigrated to Alaska from a farmstead east of Kristiansund during the Klondike Gold Rush era. The oldest, who also got in on the gold rush, went back to take over the farm and the rest became halibut and salmon fishermen out of Petersburg, named after the town's founder, Peter Buschmann, another Norwegian. The town still retains its name of "Little Norway."
As a child, I cried when I learned berserker was no longer an occupational choice. I still stare wistfully at the horizon when I think of it.
One day... One day ;p
😂😂
Just be a cop
Soldier/police
*Little Dark Age plays in background*
As a swede, i just love the fact that us scandinavians can make fun of eachother in a loving way. Its rly wonderful. In sweden we mostly make fun of norwegians (and pretty much danish ppl too) but its all out of love
Imagine being a swede, lmao
-your friendly norwegian
@Skånerost hey man, thats unfair:(
It's okay, we all know Norway is like the stupid little brother that Sweden had to take to work with them and tolerate for an entire day because "it's a phase."
@@lunaaa8060 :(
@@lunaaa8060 vi kan kjøpe hele sverige om vi vil!!!
Fascinating information. Thank you for presenting this!
A quick note on the dna makeup of scottish and irish as you mentioned at 2:30. Alot of both irish and scottish have part norwegian ancestry. Dublin was founded by a norwegian viking lord, and Norway had a large viking colony in the orkneys in scotland that resulted in scots also having part norwegian ancestry. But yes, celtic dna might be the most prominent. Great video!
He wasn’t Norwegian, he was Anglo Norman (modern day English man)
Love you too Norway. Don't tell Sweden I said so.
Ojojoj, hur vågar du!
@@Nattereven69 maybe he did that for us who are Danish-challenged?
First the danes totaly fuck up the norwegians language, and then you write in english.
Tratior!
Sverige håller med om att Norge är det bästa skandinaviska landet
If only all history was passed down in such a delightful manner.
Man I truly enjoyed this clip! Thanks.
Brilliant!! Wonderful explanations and totally entertaining. Time went by and I did not even notice. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
One mute Swede, one deaf Danish and one paralyzed from the waist Norwegian in a wheelchair was out in the forest and came to a cave with a sign with "Go in and wish what you want and it will come true!".
The Swede went in and later came out shouting "I can speak!".
The Danish went in and later came out shouting "I can hear!".
The Norwegian went in and then came out and said: "Look guys, new tires!"
As a Dane, I prefer to poke fun at the Swedes, but that was actually funny.:-D
Maybe it should be the other way around, the Dane who could speak and the Swede that could hear ;-)
@@falukropp2000 a Dane who can speak so others understand?? Funny
As a norwegian, i prefer to poke fun at the swedes
I prefer when both Danes and Norwegians make fun of us Swedes, It's more fun to give back than hitting someone in the back 😜
I been living in Norway and Denmark, travelled a lot in Sweden and speaks the three languages quite well. There's a feeling of brotherhood when ever I meet someone from Sweden or Denmark. Only hundred and fifty years has gone since we all spoke Danish in Norway, and back then we were under the rule of the Swedish king. His quote on the Norwegian coins were "broderfolkenes vel" which can be translated to something like "The well-being of our brother nation" or "The well-being of our kinfolk"
Those coins are glorious. The Nordic nations need this unity more than ever today.
guys this is so foolish... you might as well compare pokimon cards because what we see on tv and even read of the history is make belief. this is actually disrespectful to the history to follow this hollycuck stuff.
@@porkypile I think we have unity. We need to include Finland into Scandinavia and become a bigger player on the world scene if we keep investing in each other.
I will say though, I don't think Sweden and Denmark has the same respect of us as I have for them. I rarely meet them in Norge, but I love visiting them anyway.
Our cultures are very close, and we speak the same language, English!! Lol, no swede in my hundreds of times visiting have ever understood my Norwegian, lol. We are the one they liked to own, I guess I broke my first statement.
I like to have unity, but that can't just come from me.
I love my neighbors to the right no matter what, best neighbors one could ask for. Peaceful nations
@WiseWarriorsPath2 why is it always the Christians that watch and run people down? Gfsf
@@SsspraakForsskkarring "I will say though, I don't think Sweden and Denmark has the same respect of us as I have for them. "
Sweden and Denmark might be too pompous for historical reasons, but there is one thing both our countries agree on, and I really know this - we both love and treasure Norway the most 💙ni kommer för alltid vara vår älskade lillebror och vårt broderfolk (men danskarna kan dra åt he***** 😇)
This was wonderful, thank you. So informative.
I thought I was primarily Scotch-Irish. My mother did the genealogy and we were involved in the Sir William Wallace Rebellion. But for some reason or another we couldn't go any further than Scotland and Ireland. Which didn't make sense to me. I did my DNA and lo and behold it came back that I'm primarily Danish. Which kind of makes sense now. I really love listening to your little bits of History it helps put my life in perspective. Keep up the good work my brother.
"Scotch" is a drink.
As a Dane, I don't feel the least bit made fun of, and the "hold din kæft" had me in stitches, well done brother, keep up the good work!:-D
but you speak with a potato in your troth
@@theodordalva7855 Had I been Swedish, it'd have sounded like I had a potato in my mouth while trying to sing (involuntarily off-key), piss drunk, and mentally challenged, so I'd say I'm doin' pretty good, all things considered.;-)
No Habla Dane !
@@SamCreecy If you're referring to "hold din kæft" it means "shut up".
Hey, just think, every time someone saw Vikings coming, they yelled, "Danes!"
I do enjoy the simplicity of this video.
No exhausting background music, no constant amount of flashy animations.
Helped me relax when I struggled with sensory overload.
Amen to all you said. Current media is overly hyper bedazzled beyond repair. ..my roots are from edesgof by Husqvarna. In so cal. Since 1960. Born in 50s in Chicagoland. A limerick if sorts..seven swedes ran they the weeds chased by one Norwegian, the dust from the weeds made snuff for the swedes and they called it Copenhagen...skal
Same from me
Tell me about it. I was just wondering how 20 minutes passed by and my brain cells were not tired.
Remarkably well presented. Informative, interesting, humourous and entertaining.
The bluetooth symbol is something new I learned today. A long with all the other great info here.
Skål, from America.
Ubbe is on your land
@@reelfeels3542 I'm happy to have him.
@@neowolf09 Nice to see non nordic folk, use skål instead of skol. And not to make you sad or anything, but Ubba died in England.
@@hullababy123 You mean in real history? Yes it is beleived as such, but no hard evidence proves it so.
It's possible a norse man named Ubbe did in fact come to North America.
Ubbe is never directly attributed to ragnar in the actual sagas if i remember correctly.
But yes it's true that in real history it's beleived he was a general that died in battle in england.
@@neowolf09 I don't doubt the fact, that some norse named Ubbe went there.
But according to the saga, it is mentioned that Ubbe was the direct son of Ragnar, however in real life, there is no actual evidence, that Ragnar ever existed.
Excellent video! As a swede trying to explain the differences between us Scandinavian vikings to my non nordic friends, I usually say that Danes were conquerors, Norwegians were explorers and Swedes were traders. Generally speaking of course.
I think the biggest achievement during the viking age, was the discovery of North America. Now that is an adventure filled with risk!
Existing was filled with risk in the viking age lol, I get your point though just cracking a joke
Sounds like you are speaking American pretty good accent.
This trip to vinland „north armica“ can’t count as a historical fact as no one can proofe if it really happend or if it’s just a myth or saga, also no one can say for sure if vinland was in north america or somewhere else to beginn with.
@@ThrE3-GeS Look up "L'Anse aux Meadows". Pretty good evidence right there.
@@ThrE3-GeS there now is archaeological evidence. That there was at least 1 settlement.
An interesting fact, there were professional runestone engravers who traveled around offering their services. Those in the know can often see who did the work. Or rather if two or more stones were made by the same person.
Wow. I didn’t know these precise details about the scandi vikings.thank you for the insights.
My mother's family were Danish until the Germans (& Austrians) invaded Schleswig Holstein in 1864. Young Danish men were sent to fight in the German army, something the men in my family did not want to do, so all five brothers took five different ships and sailed to different countries all around the world, and settled. Thus, the Danes have maintained their propensity to settle and to be skilled sailors even into the modern world!
That’s real history right there
Well they are still danish genetically,although there is very little difference between danish and northern Germans
My Danish 5x great grandad was from Bornholm and he was a ship captain. He migrated to NZ and started a shipping company. His brother was also a Sailor, and their father a ship captain 😂
okay you are not a viking brother, none of you are... none.... guys this is so foolish... you might as well compare pokimon cards because what we see on tv and even read of the history is make belief. this is actually disrespectful to the history to follow this hollycuckj stuff. ps study shows that tthe english were under the rule but they did not get taken over genetically. people of the british islands are almost entirely related to northern iberians, are actually original northern iberian natives...no they are not genetically related to danes hahahahahahahahaha
Thanks for shedding light on this, I'm half German and Nigerian but my DNA test revealed that Imt actually 3/8 German and 1/8 Scandinavian. I'm from Schleswig-Holstein so I assumed that to be Danish ancestry, and I had been wandering about the nature of the exchange.
Sweden, Norway and Denmark have similar languages
… and then there’s Finland
Edit: I know that Finland isn’t part of Scandinavia, so stop arguing
yeah germanic and uralic languages really dont fit together
se on totta
You know there are swidish talking ppl in Finlnad? they have Swedish and finish
@@robintenghult7307 well yes but on most road signs and stuff its most likley going to be in finnish
@@robintenghult7307 Yes there are Swedish Finns, 6%. In school now you can take Swedish or English. Most now days are choosing English.
Great post. I love history and learning about different cultures.
I'm a dane, and I agree with pretty much everything you said. This is a great video and a great channel in general. I subscribed.
As a swedish guy, i think you pictured the diffrent vikings in a really good way with the perspective of them all being brothers. Good job with this video and I hope you all the best
Sorry to say we wasnt brothers at all. We killed eachother for petty power. IF we united the world would be a very different place today.
Yes I do as well, loved the video. The brother part is of course a very loose use, but certainly we share the language regardless of how we fought within and outside our borders. The thing not mentioned is how why we were so fierce fighters - the knowledge or sense of our what is really the beliefs that made dying in battle something that was not feared but held high. Once there could only be one god and only one spirit that killed the fierceness and the spirit of the vikings. As it similarly did to Japan after WWIII, and so many others.
When current day people look at vikings they mostly see the crudeness and viciousness but they had some high spirited views that went far beyond killing. Like the runes which when translated are often from a spirit of play. Today humans have turned in to pussies, to quote Clint Eastwood. During the sea faring days of 1700's and 1800's people were whipped with cat o' 9 tails (whip with nine tails with hooks and other sharp objects along it) which was routine, you got your several whippin's and were soon back to work. Today you'd probably kill a person with a single hit.
To compare how people lived and died with today will be hard for most to comprehend and with that largely not understood. Now you must be politically correct and society sets its standards by the lowest common denominator. The olympics should not have winners because that means there are losers so no more pushing the limits and just settle into some low mediocre life. It does not mean life's choices are black or white, but we need to toughen up and not cry because of some petty reason. Definitely treat others the way you want to be treated and lead a life where others are happy you lived, but be strong, know the difference between right and wrong and stand for something! Be true to yourself! [I'll get off my soap box now.]
@@oliwwer Not true, they operated in the Scandinavian region as collective whole. Just go back further... the ones that went "north" probably originated from Sweden as in modern day Norway.
@@ElegantenFranVidderna no we didnt, götar and svear was enemies before we united under the three crowns just in sweden. You clearly have no clue either, norwegians had nothing north. They went to the west and britannia for the majority. East and north was rus aka swedish viking territory.
@@oliwwer You make it sound like they had NO CONTACT or interaction. North = NORway
Great insight into what Scandinavians are to each other. I’ve have visited Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, and have wondered about their commonality and differences. You’re freely spoken approach is entertaining, enlightening and appreciated. Well done! Well done indeed!
Oh man I been playing crusader kings 2 and it's amazing how the game has all of this history in it. I have gained a love of learning history.
Wow. Super interesting. Norwegian heritage here (from Oklahoma). When I was young I was inspired by the Heavener Rune Stone in eastern Ok., later supposedly "discredited" by "experts" but a huge inpression on me. Love you descriptions and understanding of the sources.
The runes are fake and it’s obvious. Why and how would norwegian vikings travel to Oklahoma
Just a reminder: If somebody is born and lives in the USA, and has heritage from Europe, they're not that ethnicity. They're just american.
Yes, I have visited Heavener runestone several times and am convinced that the runes were cut into the stone a thousand years ago. The patina in the groves matches the exterior of the stone. Two other smaller stones have been found in Oklahoma (see at Spiro Mounds Museum) and one each in Arkansas and Minnesota. Local American Indian lore has a story of blond and red haired people coming for a while.
@paldennorbu8808 incorrect. They are of that "ancestry", heritage is being misused by the comment you replied to tho. If you are 1st Gen Amefican, it could still be your heritage as well.
@@paldennorbu8808like ancestors haven’t always been important to different cultures
They’re learning about they’re genetic history wats wrong with that
I’m Mongolian and my husband’s ancestors are Norwegians. Thanks to you now I have a glimpse of the history of “his people”. Love the humorous, casual, yet easy-to-stick-to-the mind kind of history lesson!
Your children will be such an awesome mix. Think of the ancestors fame they get to combine. 💪
You may descend from the Mongolians yourself. I do.
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I am Norwegian and my great great grandfather was from Mongolia.
@@robinsinpost that’s so awesome!
Im Native American husband is Norwegian viking ancestry.. we have a son.. but you can barely tell im hos mother since he takes after his fatger with the light skin and dirty blond hair.. BUT.. he does have my nose and my eyes. Im sorry for the native American nose hahaha!!
The goths were mostly just trying to get to Ibiza. And the rus and varjag were trying to find their way to Thailand.
Even to day we have a strong tradition to travel far in search of cheap alcohol and sunny beaches.
You're joking, but the vikings were actually in Ibiza as well.
Well, Norwegian now-christainized vikings, and not at all Goths, but funny all the same 😂
You should check out Sigurd I, perhaps the most badass person to ever emerge from Scandinavia ... and a (the first ever) Crusader King at that...
Edit: I now realize the joke may have been more educated than I thought even at first glance 😅 I assume you're thinking about the conquests in Iberia and Sicily
(Though Sigurd did go to the Balearic Islands, and beat the crap out of the Berber pirates that had been plaguing central Europe)
@@SebHaarfagre I knew Scandinavians were in Sicily but had no idea the were in Ibiza (which i think is childishly funny hi hi).
Sigurd is defenitly a guy i'm gonna check up on. Thanks for the tip.
det gjør vi også
@@jaysonlima9271 Tror till och med att norrmännen har en folkvisa om att åka till Ibiza
Very interesting. Thank you for this information. The paternal side of my Estonian grandmother came from Sweden to Estonia at some point in the 18th century.
Thank you for this explanation. I just did a DNA and it came back 65% on the viking index. It was a complete shock so trying to learn more about my ancestors. 😊
I am from a town called Grimsby in England at the mouth of the Humber River. The town was named from the Danish child king Havelok the Dane who was smuggled here by Grim the fisherman to keep in hiding as he was under threat of assassination. The town became the biggest fishing port in the world and from that came my great grandfather who was Icelandic. I am proud of my heritage as i am my many tall strong sons. Great video, very informative.
Grímsbær,
King ugly lmao
Hi Stephen.
I'm from Boston. 👍
@@gazza2933 Just down the road :)
@@stephenyoung1484
Yes. Definitely not the USA. 🤣👍
"Swedes didn't do much"
Beowulf: "yeah those monsters just killed themselves..."
Yeah apparently someone burned the records proving that Grendel existed. Must have been the Christians :D
Beowulf is a Geat my friend! Definitely not some Swede.
What Ivan said.
@@ivanfinzen6036 imagine if the Geats would have won against the Swedes, what a epic and Based world
@@ivanfinzen6036 Geatland is in Sweden - after all, the "king" of Sweden is "king" of the Swedes, Geats, and Vandals
I'm a Descendant of Harald Halfagra "fairhair"the first king of Norway of the fairhair dynasty ,his father was half-dan the black the last of the yingling dynasty
American of Norwegian and Swedish descent here. I appreciated and enjoyed this video - Tusen takk. I would suggest visual reinforcement - beyond showing Mark Wahlberg - in the form of putting the names of the historic figures that you discuss to help them stick in our memory. Your Scandinavian pronunciation of their names is 100% appropriate but would be easier to remember - for us non-native speakers - if they were written on the screen at the same time. The analogies of the different types of brothers were very effective.
I’m from Kyiv, Ukraine, and we are tightly connected to Swedes. We learn in middle school about Væringjar, in my hometown a lot of Swedish families were assimilated. And we were ruled by those clans for long time. Ukraine (Kievan Rus’ back then) was baptized by Swedes descendants basically.
That's why you're country has the smartest and most beautiful woman in the world.cheers from California.
I hope you’re staying safe there in the Ukraine! The world is watching.
I love you
Sad to say that all viking genetic heritage was killed by mongols, all the cities were 100% annihilated in winter attack
@@petergranlund7082 The great Genghis Khan destroyer of Empires :D
"I'm gonna make fun of Swedish and Danish... and Norwegians too" As a descendant of Iceland and Finland I'm just gonna sit back and laugh at the shots fired XD
Then your also a descendent of Norway cuz your icelandic?
@@noahallvall8562 and therefore probably Irish or Scottish as well.
I agree! Im Dregovich član.
THIS video Is hillarious.
@Clandestine Council yeah I know, a study showed that the Mitochondrial DNA of the average Icelander is between 60-65% Celtic in origin, whether it be Irish, Scottish, or Welsh.
Noooo. When People say Irish and scottish DNA ITS only 5-6 generations back.
Haplogroups Are further and Can determine Viking era from graves.
So we do know todays SCOTs share 10% Viking blood.
So we do know swedes share 8% Viking blood. But in Scandinavia there is Only 7% swedes.
But looking at Viking graves allower Europe. Those Viking graves of Kings were Haplogroup R.
So Scots in scotland today Are super fake! Just like swedes today. Citizens that assimilated OTHER coultures.
All prooven facto.
But ORIGIN Irish and Scots Are mostly Viking and came from Island year 380-415.
So Yes history is very messed Up with lies.
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
That's absolutely amazing. But there's always differnces from people with different opinions and ambitions.
I like in the particular about the Danes, not so much that they were raiders, but they were settlers with ambitions of peace and prosperity for themselves and the people they lived amongst. I heard an ancient story from three different indigeneous people from different regions in Mexico, the same ancient story about "Men with yellow hair and beird who came in a ship with a head like a dragon. They settled amongst the Mayo indians and brought peace and prosperity". Even today descendants of Mayo indians are born with blond hair and blue eyes and grow a head taller than the average Mexican. Interesting, if Vikings were in Mexico, but more interestingly, I think, is it that recently a small "Little Denmark" Viking like settlement has come to exist amongst farmers and Maasai people in Kenya in Africa.
Ooh wow that absolutely cool. I like the idea.
Maybe moving in Africa may change your experiences.
"friendly rivalry but deep down we love eachother"
i liked that
I was not expecting this to be a video in the perspective of someone who has actual viking heritage, this makes it so much more fun and personal, thank you!
It’s a little out there. Coming from a 10th generation American who still remains 55% Norse and 25% Finn. The rest is English but history covers that well ⚔️
Exactly. On the bright side the rumors circulating about me kinda provide a double edged sword. Plus, it gives me the opportunity to reinforce the point of barbaric manhood.
Scandinavian heritage* Viking is a profession, not a bloodline.
@@kusivelho4733 am i of viking decent?
@@HarleyRunner No Harley, did you even read my prior comment?
What's not to love about Nords and Scandinavian cultures? Great mythology, legendary explorers, intrepid settlers, epic adventurers. Discovered North America/Canada, settled Brittain/Baltic/North France/Russia, established a kingdom in South Italy, became the special forces/elite unit for Byzantine emperors and make damn cheap furniture!
Hi, thanks for this video, it always exciting to watch and hear about viking age. Greetings from pagans in Latvia 😊
Interesting video. I live in a historical region in Sweden called Roslagen, a vast coastal region in the province of Uppland filled with small ancient coastal towns with direct access to the Baltic Sea. In the capital of Norrtälje we have a monument to Rurik and his two brothers, Sineus and Truvor, who set out to take the Kievan Rus' in modern Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. In folklore they were called Ruser, and is believed to have set out from Roslagen to explore the vast lands in the East. This explains the Finnish name for Sweden, Ruotsi. Roslagen played an important part in Swedish viking history with its immediate position on the Baltic coast. Roslagen is also filled with runestones and burial mounds from the Viking Age. So if the tales are true Roslagen played a direct part in founding Russia, but don't tell the Russians that as they have a long and dark history with Sweden and are probably not very enthusiastic about their possible viking heritage. 🤪
Yes Sweden for sure played a huge role in the East. Just not so many written records unfortunately. But lots of little clues everywhere!
Russians love their founding story with the Kievan Rus, they referred to themselves always as Varangians and always refer back to Rurik and the Rurik dynasty. Although most of them are of slavic descend they feel connected to the Kievan Rus. Just look up some speeches of Putin about the history.
I also live in Uppland. Also, the word Rus also origin from the swedish word "ror". Fram "rorsmän" men with oars.
And the runic stones mostly tell about individuals travelling towards the black sea, to Grekland and Miklagård.
Later in Varnhem, Västergötland central sweden it is confirmed that some individuals buried there participated in the battle of Hastings, in 1066.
@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 there is some writen from Byzantine then there is arabs and the slavic them self. There is also some runestones in Sweden about east. I can also ad that house of yngling where alot of viking kings comes from is also swedish vikings and house of munsö with Björn Ironside is a part of house of yngling those all are counted as swedish people then i belive it was some in norway and Denmark also that comes from yngling and are swedish people ruling over others. And for those that want to know what varangian comes from its synonomous with vaeringar and if im not mistake me it meens the oath sworn/the oath sworn people.
@@Max1990Power yes the old name for Sweden amongst finnish, Estonians, slavic and even greek people that said Rōssía i belive meens land of rowers and later became Roslagen
My family is Swedish and Norwegian when we have our reunions we call ourselves Swedwegians. I supply the lefse, lingenberry and cloudberry jelly and honey. My cousins supply the mead and Aquavit. Lukfisk is only necessary for new comers. Love your video! I will play this at next years gathering.
Hispanic/Scandinavian dude here, so I proudly call myself Hispandinavian 😎
My family is also Swedish/Norwegian and if I were to crash your get together I would hope to double up on the Lefse and give every spec of my Lukfisk to someone else.
I thought you were gonna say Norswedgians haha
What would you call an American woman whose ancestors are MOSTLY Swede, French Canadian, English, Scottish, Irish, Native American, Dutch, and Polish? Lol
We call them Scandihoovians, a mix of Swedish, Norwegian, and Scottish, mostly hooligans.
Such an interesting Video. Thanks for sharing this. I talked to a worker of the Midgard Vikingcenter in Borre. He said that Olav wasn't really as much of a menace as they say. He said he mainly had very big promotion team that built this reputation.
Thank you for sharing, I learned a lot.❤❤
Man i like this guy he's so genuinely enthusiastic
I am proud of being a Dane and live in a country that has the worlds oldest flag! Men jeg elsker mine brødre og søstre fra Sverige og Norge! ♥
👍. I would love to visit Denmark. Lots of Dane in my blood. Family names "jenson"
heathen
@@joshuar3632, if it is *son, then it is most likely Swedish instead of Danish or Norwegian... unless it got "Englishized" in time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_family_name_etymology
@@Clare3Dx I think I was incorrect jensen
@@joshuar3632 Jensen you say? Well come visit us in Denmark brother!
How entertaining! Watched bec. I'm half-Danish, and Scottish, so more than 1/2 Danish. The characterizing of the Scandis as brothers really helped to understand the differences in their culture. Of course, the distinctions are more recent than we think as "countries" did not exist until the Middle Ages and later.
i just saw the norwegian national monument. Harald hairfairs grave in haugesund. its a tall stone monument build of stones from each of norways parts he gathered to one kingdom.
Dude you are a nice fellow, I like the way you elaborate historical events in both serious and humorous manner! Keep up the good work.
Love your way of telling - lots of facts combined with a smile, some jokes and irony. Makes it so fun to watch 💪
Apart of the Åland viking market, there has been quite many recent viking sites found in Finland as well, like the viking burial sites in Tampere (2017), Häme area and Janakkala (2013-2022) which are all deep inland that suggest there might have been more activity than just based on the older coastal sites.
Great video and a good summary of the viking era. I don't buy the AD793 date as the "start" of the Viking Age, this is the official start as chronicled by the attack on Lindesfarne but this is just the start of the "record" of the age. The sail was added much earlier than 793 to longships enabling voyages across seas like the North Sea. I will be very interested as we learn more from current research into the period 600AD - 793AD.
I love the analogies of the brothers! Thank you for adding humor into a history lesson. Well done!