The Jutes landed and started in my home area, called Thanet (in Kent) which was a island at the time. We got taught in school about Hengst and Horsa, the two Jutish kings who started Kent, and are pretty much legendary in the history books. We Also got a present from Denmark which was a longboat in the 1950's which was sailed to Thanet, and remains there to this day on public display. Pretty happy my small home area has so much historical significance :)
But doesn't Kent's shield bare the Saxon horse? Saksen Ros in Dutch. Because I clearly recognise that same horse on the flag of Twente, wich is East Netherlands. Saxon Netherlands. There are even regions in North-West Germany that have exactly that same horse. .. Now let that be Nieder-Sachsen.
As a Dane from Jutland I'm intrigued by this story that it was Jutlanders who started Kent, as you say. If one looks at the map it seems a little strange that the Jutlanders would choose to go to the very southern tip of England instead of just crossing over the North Sea from their native Jutland and settling in Northumbria? The Southern cost of England would have been a shorter boat trip for the Saxons who lived near the channel. Is there any archeological evidence that Kent was in fact started by Jutlanders?
@@bartgielingh2212 the White horse was the banner of Horsa. There is a huge white stone (can't remember exactly where) in Kent and legend says that Horsa was slain in a battle near the stone and his brother Hengist laid him on it. His blood ran over the white stone and that is where the flag of Kent comes from, the white horse on a red background. Not sure how much credence there is to the story but still, explains the flag. I always thought the story might have been rubbish but it was featured on a walking through history episode with Tony Robinson so if its good enough for him, it's good enough for me ha ha
I'm from Thanet too, a seriously underrated place for history, there is so much here! Just a note though, Hengest and Horsa didn't start Kent. Kent is named after the Celtic tribe who inhabited the county, they were called the Cantiaci or Cantii. Hope that helps if it comes up in a pub quiz!
A great job of explaining this subject concisely and clearly. As an American who finds studying history so much more engrossing than entertainment TV, I thank you.
I’m also American. I have seven different European ethnicities. But the largest amount I have is English. Almost a quarter of me is English. 23 percent. I’m trying to learn everything I can about my heritage. I also have French, Dutch, German, Irish, Scottish and Finnish. I took a ancestry dna 🧬 test. That’s how I know
irish with small percentage of French and German. also western African eastern Indian (belive this to be that old legend , true story of scotia, Egyptian princess in Ireland and queen of alba, Scotland). Also the first King of England was French and there is 132 French and English words that are spelled and mean the same thing German is Dutch. . English Is galeic and French
As a Frisian, I did some research on this and learned about the same as you're saying. This video contains helpful information for everyone who's interested in this subject.
I believe the Frisians lent a huge amount of words to the Ancient English Language which shows they had a significant role in the settling of Britain. Also the Vikings took a particular dislike to Frisians as they did to Saxons in England which shows me a sort of rivalry between them and those south of Denmark.
So did they get on better with the Angles than the Saxons . The Wessex Saxons certainly were a more formidable and unified foe in the long run culminating in 1066 . When both sides finally met their match in a roundabout sort of way ?!
I'm of English heritage and the Frisians were our ancestors. Old English or Anglo Saxon language was very much related old Frisian. As the Saxons and the Angles plus The Jutes were Germanic or Teutonic
I am German and a native Saxon from Westphalia northwest Germany I feel very much connected to England... they are our closest counterparts.... our natural partners Anglo-Saxon as we are one tribe... should stick together forget Brexit🏴🇩🇪❤️🤗
@@micha8255Germans are not Low Saxon. They speak very different languages and one is an Elb Germanic and one is North Sea Germanic English, Frisian and Low Saxon are North Sea
Well spotted! Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone. He was Belgian, so a genetic 'Saxon' link is not implausible. And 'angle' meaning 'hook-shaped' or indeed 'angled' an other old germanic word could well be used for both the 'angel-shaped' instrument and the historic homeland of the Angels in modern day Schleswig between the cities of Flensborg and Schleswig. An area still called Angel (Danish) or Angeln (German)!
Looking into old genuinely european names is extremely interesting - for (basic) instance, a name like "Alric (Alaric)" meant 'All's ruler/Ruler of all'.
My family name back then was Hygges or Hygg, meaning Courage. Not sure if we were mixed with tribes from other areas though. I think we were from the Kent region.
No, it wasn't a Roman emperor who likened Angles to angels. It was Pope Gregory I, who saw some handsome Angle slave boys for sale in the Roman slave market. And he was punning, which shows that the name 'Angli' (Angles) already existed.
William Cooke Right you are, I want entirely sure who said it, only that it took place in a slave market in Rome which left me with it either being a Roman Emperor or a Pope. I'll correct it with a little note on the screen tomorrow, thanks for pointing out to me :)
im american but I took a DNA test and I carry 35%, Anglo saxon, 30 percent Norwegian and 30 percent Danish and 5 percent german. is this normal for a American to be mixed like me and
Probably. I'm Canadian and about 1/8 German. My DNA test also gives me a large 'Scandinavian' component, but I reckon that came down mainly from Danes who settled in Yorkshire, and Norwegians who settled in the Isle of Man, in the 'Viking Age'.
The vast majority of all of us have many different genes due to interbreeding of the past, compounded by time. It's no secret that English und German are cousin languages and if it weren't for the Norman invasion, our vocabulary would be much closer to German than it is now. I read that there's a movement called Anglish to replace Greco/ Latin based words with Germanic root words in common talk. For example "rainshade" for "umbrella" or "waterstuff" for hydrogen. So getting back to genetics, one would need to look at both a regional sample and an overall sample.
Cotton Mather the people of my county Gwynedd (Wales) are 82% Celtic, Welsh is our first language, and all schools are Welsh speaking only, making us one of most unmixed races in Europe. (Unfortunately not so much in the south of Wales, but they are catching up)my name is actually Llewellyn, but on this account I go by my Irish second name "Gerard" as Llewellyn is to much of a tongue twister.
This is pretty interesting, as my wife is English, specifically from the Berkshire region of England. Most of her family have always been in the south, but she has some people who have moved down from the Yorkshire region (don't know which area exactly). As far as she knows, apart from that Yorkshire connection, everyone else can be traced back to the South East, specifically around the Reading/Ascot/Bracknell area of Berkshire. She is pretty short, has red hair, and looks very typically English facially. She did her test through a ancestry website as she was always keen to know her background, seeing as there is so much conflicting information based on tribes, race and culture within England itself. What we found is that according to her test she is around 40% Great Britain, and 49% Scandinavian (there is also around 11% Italian. She was absolutely astounded and thinks she definitely has some possible Norse ancestry from the Yorkshire region. We don't really know, but she seems happy to have a rough idea of what she is now.
Does the 40% Great Britain mean Brittonic i.e. Celtic Briton, or does that include Anglo-Saxon/Jute/Frisian/Danish/Norse as well? That's a confusing result to me. On the face of it, if the 49% Scandinavian means Norse from Yorkshire, then she has no Anglo-Saxon DNA and the side of the family from the SE are Brittonic dating back pre-Roman times with no admixture.
Norse and Scandinavian is the same, Norse is a modern English word for the Scandinavians, that said there can be a lot more Scandinavian (Danish) and also Dutch in the 40% British due to Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings who dominated in England was Danes(look up Danelaw), there were however also a few Swedes, in Scotland and Ireland it was Norweigian Vikings
Very interesting. Especially the last bit. My surname is Friskney, originating in Friskney, Lincolnshire. The name is mentioned as far back as the Domesday Book c. 1066ish but I’ve often wondered where it came from beforehand and whether it was connected with the Frisians. Thx for the videos. I look forward to more.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friskney ... The place-name 'Friskney' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Frischenei. It is recorded as Freschena circa 1115 and as Freschenei circa 1150. The name is Viking, meaning 'freshwater island' (Old English Frescan ēa).[3] Danish: frisk = fresh ø ['oe'] = island, OE eo- / oew-land (!)
I recently discovered my great grandmother's my grand father's mother's side comes from Wartling, Sussex last names Mittin around 1746 that's all I have found. My grandmother and her family side is Reid I think it's Scottish. This type of history is very important to me and I am still searching for more.
Reid is the Northumbrian English spelling of a word that in West Saxon English was Read, both mean the colour red. It is a Northern English variant that became widespread in Scotland. The earliest recorded version is in the name of Leofwine se Reade (Leofwine the Red), who petitioned King Cnut in 1016.
This was not one year ago, but on January 2, 2018. I'm an amateur historian and linguist, and enjoy your vids. I'm a retired college professor of physics and astronomy. Many of my ancestors are from AngloSaxons.
DrDave Menke: Very interesting. However that makes you like me a modern day Anglo Saxon. Therefore you should be very proud of that. And you do not owe anyone an explanation or an apology.
@@unhooked25 There is no such thing as a "modern day anglo saxon". Anglo-Saxons were a medieval tribe and have heck all to do with the modern world. They left only a miniscule genetic influence on British DNA.
@@WallStwizkid No such thing as a modern day Anglo Saxon? Yeah says who? Under what modern day law? Don't give me that modern day gibberish, because since when can you go making up modern day ideas on your own accord? Why does the name itself make you think of The Mississippi Burning?... We are Anglo Saxons and we couldn't be prouder, if you can't hear us now, we'll yell a little louder and we don't owe you or anyone a modern day explanation or an apology.
Thumbs up if your ancestors are Anglo Saxon Wtf?!? You all took what I wrote was joke but I was just saying thumbs up if your ancestors are Anglo saxons on video about Anglo saxons because i found out that those are my ancestors!
Sometime I'd like to do a DNA test and see what it comes out with. My wife is a Dane from Southern Jutland & I'm English. It would be interesting to see which one of us comes out most Danish.
Thanks for covering the Frisians. I'm doing my genealogy research right now, and a quarter of my ancestry is Frisian, so it's really interesting to see part of their history in the colonization of England along with the other, more well known groups.
You hit the nail on the head. Germany, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc. are modern concepts they were simply Germanic tribes back then. They had loyalty to Tribes/Clans. No one had these modern identities back then.
@widhbnw efDwdwDW I think this man hit his head after falling over a cliff. How come so many Brits come out with quite a lot of Scandinavian DNA in ancestry tests? My wife from England is 60% Scandinavian so there goes your theory.
@@robertrobski1013 Nah. Many Scandinavian Germanics have Haplogroup I1, R1b, and R1a as well as N via intermixing with Finno-Urgics in Scandinavia. I1 is the earliest, and R1b and R1a became prominent after the rise of the Yamnaya on the steppes, and Bell Beakers, Corded Ware, and Battle Axe cultures. Norway literally has all 4 Haplogroups. The Scandinavian languages are literally in the North GERMANIC language group, and the ancient religion of the Norse and the Germanics is the same.
@@alfredoalejandro87 England is a mixed bag, but the Scandinavians and West Germanics share a common origin in what is now Denmark and Southern Sweden. So much so that the East Germanic Goths came from Götland in Sweden. The Angles and Jutes came from Jutland and the Angles from Angeln. Yes DNA changes with admixing doesn't change the source of the culture and DNA of those who brought the languages and cultures into Mainland Europe before they crossed over into the Isles.
In the north of Germany is a town called Kappeln which sits on the Schlei (a fjord of the Baltic Sea). The part from Flensburg to Schlei is ANGELN (yes, the name still lives!) and the side from Schlei east is called SCHWANSEN. The saying was: A guy from Angeln never takes the last piece of cake and never drinks to the last drop in the cup. Coming from eastern side, I took the last slice and explained: "Well, finally I am not ANGELITER but SCHWANSENER."
No, Angle is probably from the word for a Barbed Spear, or hook. Related to the term Angling for fishing. So it's possible the name meant they were the "Fishing People." or like the Germans, a "Spear People" Pope Gregory was simply making a pun on the word.
Quite possibly, I've heard several theories about the origin and etymology of the word and the name, though I don't think we can be completely sure which is correct. "Spear People" Could certainly relate to Woden who is often associated with the spear as his symbol. It's an interesting question, thanks for the extra information :)
History With Hilbert Try the fact of the angular shoreline at the mouth of the Elbe river, the Anglish homeland being primarily located on the west facing shore at the foot of the Jutland peninsula. The tribal name is a place name, as many surnames among the Anglo-Saxons were.
Yes, I agree. The "Angles" were likely the fishing peoples of the North Sea, with settlements from Frisia to Briton, during Roman times. Old English adopted several Latin words, which is evidence the Angles and the Romans were in close contact, well before the Saxon invasion.
Modern Historians at least have a go about the Angles. In the past Historians while chatting pleasantly enough about Saxons gave up on the Angles,usually with a shrug! Obliged!
Kevin Stroud gives a good explanation as to how the modern English word angle relating to a hook (as in angling for fish) has a Germanic root, where as angle in geometry comes from Latin via French. See episode 28: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians @06:05 mins. It has a good map as well. historyofenglishpodcast.com/2013/08/06/episode-28-angles-saxons-jutes-and-frisians/
Yes, we also have the word "angle" ( with an open a: [Ang-le] ) in Danish today - meaning "to fish", but also in a wider sense "to catch" ( trying to catch someone's attention for instance ). 😉
According to AncestryDNA’s most recent update I am 78% Anglo-Saxon, 10% Celtic, 8% Swedish and 4% Norwegian. Great video my man, you answered a lot of questions I had about my ancestors.
and yes Anglo-Saxon and Celtic are new categories they changed/added for whatever reason. So instead of it saying England/Wales/Northern Europe, it just says Anglo-Saxon. Or Irish/Scottish to Celtic respectively.
Erm didn’t they move away from the Huns ? , Huns are north Asians Huns and Mongolians ! lol Islam gets its form of covering women from the Mongolians .
George Havenhand w They were the Saxons not the English The Wngkish came with William the Conquerer they were the Normans they were French Speaking but later spoke English
ODIN In other words, the so called "60% Celtic" Britons were used by their French (i.e., Norman) overlords to subdue and conquer their Celtic neighbors...what a bunch of assholes.
ODIN No they were NOT "invited." Dairmait MacMurchada, solicited help from Henry II because he was DETHRONED by the other Irish kings. They (The Normans) were not invited. Get your facts straight, you appear uninformed or choose to make up your own history.
the East-Frisians and Low Saxons in Lower-Saxony/ Germany have the same/ familar genetic code with native Anglo-Saxons in Northumbria and East-Anglia. I'm a native East-Frisian living between East-Frisia and the Saterland. I'm speaking Sater-Frisian and East-Frisian Low German dialect ( both are languages of Frisians and Low Saxons), High German ( Saxon) and Modern English and I have a west-frisian second name. The East-Frisians had only leaders or chiefs instead of Kings. The High German word "Friesen" for Frisians means free-sons with a rudimental democratic structure. The free-sons / Frisians elected their leaders by votation. The Frisians fall often back behind the eastside of the river Ems between Netherlands and East-Frisia as a natural border against Romans and Franks from the west. Also new modern theories said, that the Frisians were more people like vikings or sea-nomads. The word Frysk for Frisians is similar with the swedish Tysk for "Deutsch"/German and also Dutch. The problem is, that Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and UK have all different theories about the Frisians for their national identity.
Wow! Awesome! As a Kiwi with a Scottish grandparent, a Kiwi grandparent of English origin, and two Dutch grandparents with a Frisian surname, this video is highly interesting to me. It's the story of my family. I already knew some of this, mainly about the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, but I didn't really know the Frisians had jumped the channel too.
Sorry this has taken me so long to respond to, it appears to have slipped through my notifications! That really is quite the mix, wow! Yes it will be indeed :D The role of the Frisians in the Anglo-Saxon Migrations is much debated, being as they were at this time period often hard to separate from the Saxons who had mingled with the Frisii to form the people later to be named Frisian. I'm writing a dissertation on the topic, very interesting topic indeed :D
Hilbert, an excellent video, saving my friend, William Cooke's remark (Hello, William!), and the fact that you neglected to mention that the Jutes also settled the Isle of Wight and Southern Hampshire, whence my people came. I'm rather proud of my Jutish ancestry!
Thank you very much! Apologies I forgot to mention it, although Kent is the biggest and best known one, I'll be sure to mention it when I make a dedicated culture analysis of the Jutes.
My problem with the angles as a fishhoook thing is kind of dumb. Because they saw this on what map? Yeah. Maps would have been a rare commodity, especially accurate ones.
GilgameshEthics regional maps in the past were fairly accurate if the area is small. Maps in the past were only fucked up when they incompass large areas like whole continents.
@@mongolchiuud8931 But would the average joe know that? And naming a group of people after the shape that they live in is super weird, because I don't recall any instance of people naming a group of people like that today. They name them by the race or city or facial features etc.
@@DeagleBeagle "But would the average joe know that? " Just because you didnt know doesnt mean other people are just as ignorant. " And naming a group of people after the shape that they live in is super weird, because I don't recall any instance of people naming a group of people like that today." Weird or not if they decided to name a country or people after a shape then it is what it is. there are no rules on how to name "Anything". lol "They name them by the race or city or facial features etc." And what group of people are named after a "Race,city or facial feature?" this is the first time I heard of this. lmao (I have a feeling you dont know the difference between Race,Ethnicity and Nationality...)
Fair to say what we today know as Denmark has left a clear footprint in Britain in either the form of Jutes, Angles (partly) and not the least Vikings and the Norman’s who descended from the Vikings
I'm a native English speaker being American. I also have a Norwegian first name and German last name due to having that heritage among many other European lineages. Now when I took German I would say hmm this is a bit different but related so let's see pulled up Dutch and it's as if Dutch is midway between English and German. Infact Dutch people find learning both English and German easy. Whereas English speakers have to study German more, and German speakers have to study English more. At times Dutch sounds like a mix mash of German and English. Then you have Frisian which is said to be even closer to English and sounds like Dutch mix mashed with English to an English speaker. Now English was influenced by Norman French so changed a bit and lost its gender cases. However connections can still be found. For instance. To say I speak. English = I speak, Dutch/Flemish = Ik spreek, German = Ich spreche. That I spe-ek, spre-ek part tells you the common Germanic origin. Infact when we listened to Old English from Beowulf in High school I could sort of pick it up a small bit, due to studying German.
Nice, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! It's likely indeed that you do have some ancestors who had relatives and friends that crossed the channel to drive out the Britons :)
The Angles get their name from the area they were said to have come from in southern Jutland, known as Anglia (Angeln), in present-day Schleswig-Holstein.
It's important to remember that the Angles settled all the way up to the Firth of Forth in what is now Scotland. The Anglian kingdom of Northumbria included the Lothians and Scottish Borders.
It's not in Jutland and not a town. it's a landscape south of Jutland that used to be the center of Angles. Today this region is still called "Angeln", as it was 2000 years ago. This region is today located in Germany in the state of Schleswig-Holstein between the cities of Flensburg, Schleswig and the Baltic coast. In this area is also the former Viking town of Hedeby.
@@folkestender2025 it is part of the jutland peninsula though. It was under the Danes control for 1500 years since the angles got conquered, but yeah its been german the last 150 years
@@TheBarser Yes, but Denmark did not yet exist at the time of the old Angles. The first ancestors of today's Danes came to Jutland from what is now southern Sweden in the 6th century, where they mixed with other West Germanic tribes living there or drove them away. Many displaced Angles therefore emigrated to the British Isles. At the same time, many Saxon tribes also emigrated from what is now Holstein and Lower Saxony because they were threatened by the Franks from south.
@@folkestender2025 why I said the Danes control and not Denmarks control. The Danes came from scania and Zealand area, and shortly after the migration to the British Isle the Danes took over the jutish peninsula
@@TheBarser Yes, without the Angles, the Saxons and the expansion of the Danes in the north and the Franks in the south, there would be no English people today. Probably the British Islands would later have been occupied by the Normans and and all there would speak French today.
I have an idea about the name Kent: In modern Danish the word for the kind of cliffs you see around Dover is "Klint". Maybe they just named the area after its most visible feature as seen from the sea?
It's an interesting idea, but if true it would probably have been called Klent :-) I'm still looking for an answer to why the Jutlanders would sail down to occupy the very southern part of England and not just go straight across the North Sea and occupy the northern part of the island?
@@LarsPallesen Simple, I think. SAILS! They had not yet been funcionally put on the rowing boats of that time. A mast and sail would twist boards of the boat apart and make it leak. Or break. It was not until the invention of the keelson (kølsvinet) what would spread the torque of the mast along the ENTIRE keel what you had a true sailboat. They know more about this at Vikingeskibsmuseet in Roskilde. One of the skippers of 'Havhingsten' (The Sea-stallion of Glendaloch) told me in person. Dejligt at møde endnu en dansker?
@@LarsPallesen I have stated above that it is believe that the explanation of a Jutish name should be that Kent is at the egde of the ocean. 'Edge' being 'kant' in old Norse, and NOT Ecke/edge as in German. Thus: kingdom at the edge of the sea: Jutish Kant= Kent! Da-da🤩. That is IF the Cantii are not older AND lived in the area ? Hilbert, we need you!
The Northfrisian (Germany) and Westfrisians (Netherland) have many villages with the ending um, tum, or sum. For example in Nuurðfriisklön': Keitum (Kairem), Archsum, (Arichsem), Husum, Borkum, Rantum, Borgsum, Utersum etc. Westfrisian: Rottum Dokkum, Hallum, Marrum, Britsum, Berltsum etc. . Um, sum, -tum, ton, sum, and town means home, im german it means Heim.
I’ve not heard that phrase before though it sounds like how the later Vikings were sometimes viewed. In relation to the Anglo-Saxons it would probably be because they were invading the former Roman Province of Britannia or possibly the because the Anglo-Saxon migration was seen as having a negative impact on the Christian Ancient Britons already living in these territories.
Yes, the Angles and Saxons still had their pagan belief in the Norse gods, while the British/Celtic indigenous population had already been christinized. With the new immigrants they lost their Christian faith again. Perhaps it means that because of this, God wrath toward Britain. There were two Cristianizations in Britannia. The first around 450 and the second around 587. In the intervening period, Britain had become pagan again.
@@folkestender2025 it wasn’t the Norse gods it was English paganism for example instead of Odin we had Woden which is where we get the name of the day Wednesday or another instead of Thor we had thuner which is where we get the word for thunder.
This was awesome, so great job and you've gained a new subscriber.. also do you take suggestions, if so I would love to learn more about the ancient germanic tribes.
Thank you very much! I'm really glad you enjoyed this and decided to subscribble to the channel :) Of course :) I have a series called "Ancient Culture Analysis" where I look at a different ancient culture each time so I'll be making ones for the Angles, Saxons, Frisians, Jutes, Franks etc in due course :) Welcome to the channel!
Really good article and well presented. I've always been interested and read a lot about this part of our history. My surname being made up of Anglo Saxon elements has played no small part in this. Also, I have my old English teacher, " Archie Smith " to thank for sparking my interest in how the English people came to be. I agree that the theory about a Roman describing Germanic people from modern Denmark as being angel like is a bit thin. The fishing hook theory is really interesting but would the Angles have known that their coastline was thus shaped? Im not sure how advanced their cartography would have been. Also the idea that the Huns were involved is really intriguing and I've not heard that before. Im going to watch this again to get the name of the person who postulates this and read what they say. Again, thanks for a great vid 👍
King Alfred's lineage is in the Saxon Chronicle and is traced all the way back to Adam through the line of Seth. They were Isaac's Sons, Saxons. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
My grandmother is Kosovo Albanian and got almost 7% English DNA. When I did my research I found out that in Kosovo there were Saxons working in mines in some parts of Kosovo. So maybe that's why my grandmother got the english DNA, because Saxons and Anglo-Saxons are the same
Nice, succinct video. Great, rare mention of the small town of Frizington in Cumbria and its toponymic root as a ton of the Frisians! Grew up near there, very bleak but beautiful part of secluded Cumbria. I did my undergraduate dissertation on the 'kingdom of Rheged', which possibly existed around those parts.
Nice video. Small point, the Batavians lived in the Betuwe in what is now the Netherlands. They predate the Franks, probably an alliance of Germanic tribes. The Salien Franks were allies of the Romans and lived from the Ijsel to the North of France. In fact Dutch comes from old Frankish. You wil know Clovis, first Christian king of the Franks, born in Doornik, now Belgium, the king who started the long lasting empire of the Franks. Also, the word ton is the same word as "tuin" in Dutch, so not village, but garden I guess.
I don't think the Dutch lenguage in it's entirety comes from Frankish. Infact; The Frankish aswell as the Saxons wore a union of diffrent ( Germanic??)tribes that had different dialects an perhaps even lenguages. I really think we should not exclude the possibility that our language is of Frisian/Saxon descendence. Take in count the mass migration that took place during the 4th and 5th century. Hell! I even dare to think we sprang from a South Scandinavian people that flead from floods, and hunger during that period! Again. Nothing's really certain about this topic.
There are other places with names that indicate a Friesian origin, for instance Frieston near Boston in Lincolnshire, and Friesthorpe, also in Lincolnshire (at least, that is the etymology given in Ekwall's Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, 4ed).
The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to the 5th century settlement of incomers to Britain, who migrated to the island from the North Sea coastlands of mainland Europe.
Cool video, and on the whole well informed. Regarding the Angles, the small peninsula now in Schleswig-Holstein, nothern Germany, between Flensborg, Schleswig and Eckernförde is still called Angeln. So that's the general area you could probably place them in. The etymology of the area could refer to Latin inspired word for a fishing hook, as you say, or be from a Germanic root meaning narrow (as in modern German "eng", and related to the obsolete Danish word "angel" for the tang of a knife, i.e. where it narrows). Schleswig, or Slesvig as it called in Danish, is placed at the one end of the great eathwork known as Dannevirke, that was the traditional border to Denmark, the other end being the rivers Ejderen and Trenen. This was the narrowest defendable point of the Jutlandic peninsula. The earthwork is much newer, but the Angles would have known the topography. Finally, regarding inaccuracies on the map, Denmark was "smaller" back then - the Scandinavian peninsula is lifting and pulling northern Denmark with it causing water levels to have fallen since that period. Depending on the size of the population, the size of the country could have affected the Jutes' decision to settle in Britain. And certainly the Danish Frisian islands are drifting slowly towards the mainland, so they would have looked different then. Liked the theory about the Huns. The whole thing (Rome's collapse, Germanic migrations and the Huns) are indeed all related.
Wow! Love your comment. I'm from New Zealand, and we have a town named Dannevirke here which I knew was named after somewhere in Scandinavia, but I never knew of the Danevirke. It's great to learn of, because I did know that Schleswig was part of Danish kingdoms for many centuries, and have been saying for a while that the Dano-German border should be further south. I think this makes the perfect border. But I'm also a weird fuck. I think a sliver of Lower Saxony including their Frisian islands should be given to the Dutch, and that Belgium should be split up among the Dutch, the French and the Germans. Along language lines, obviously. But if we know ze Deutsch, zey won't like Eastern Willonia and Luxembourg in exchange for this sliver of Lower Saxony and Schleswig.
The borders have changed a lot over the years. As Hilbert did a good job of demonstrating, the distribution of peoples in this part of Europe were very different ca. 450 CE than they were 500 years later (when Denmark officially became one nation under Harald Bluetooth, annexing Norway at the same time), and kept changing until very recently. The duchies of Schleswig/Slesvig and Holstein/Holsten were very important parts of Denmark until they decided to become a part of the federation of German states around the time of the war between Denmark and this federation in 1864. At this time, the Danish border had actually reached to Hamburg. Germany itself didn't exist as one nation until 1871, and the present border was decided upon by the population of these areas through democratic vote after WWI, remaining unaltered since 1920. As Hilbert also mentioned, the western side of North Germany is still known as Ostfriesland (East Friesia as opposed to Friesia proper to the west in the present day Netherlands), and the traditional Friesian territories reach into south west Jutland. The Friesian language has had an effect on various north German and Jutlandic dialects, and the present Friesian dialect is actually intelligible for at least southern Jutlanders when spoken slowly. It seems from the video, that this people never really had their own country to themselves, no matter which period you look at or even where they geographically found themselves - whether it be on the mainland or on Britain! Unfortunately I don't much about Belgium's history, but as far as I know it is a pretty new country from 1830 or so. The creation of Belgium from several areas certainly inadvertently lead to WWI turning into what it did. But as mentioned, borders have changed a lot through history. We think of the world geographically as being a pretty set place, but borders will almost certainly always change - as long as there are people to change them.
Exactly. Recently I saw the Dutch and the Belgians agreed to swap some land to make the borders a bit better. But, my point is, that in Belgium they don't speak Belgian, they speak Dutch, French and German. The Netherlands seems to be the nation that has formed out of this rather informal, yet "doe normaal", group of people, that have history dating back to the Frisian tribe that predated the first Roman empire, and seem to be influenced and further garrisoned by the Flemish cultures in the south. Either way, they speak Dutch, which is obviously the closest to Frisian. They have a distinct culture. Belgium was created via aristocratic bullshit. As for Schleswig-Holstein, I think the reason they democratically voted for those borders to be that way, was probably only due to Germans influencing the culture in the area so that such democratic processes turned out in the greater German favour. It would seem to me that Danevirke presents the most logical border. It seems strange that anyone who even remotely has roots in the area, would see the border to really be anywhere else.
Looks like I'm going to have to read up a bit on Dutch/Belgian history when I get the time, as I simply just don't know enough about their history to be able to comment. But the whole thing - also the Danish/German border part - seems to to be a localised version of world history. There's always been cultural exchange between neighbouring regions (and even non-local regions) leading to rather diffuse cultural heritage in the borderlands. For the issue of the Duchies of Slesvig, Holsten and Lauenborg in the 1860's, there were three political ideas in Denmark. The conservative elements tried to retain the area, the early liberal movement wanted to keep just Slesvig, and the Duchies wanted to go with the Germany Federation, who themselves welcomed the idea. The population were a cultural mix of German and Danish with German being the prevalent (official) language, and always had been.There are to this day Danish minorities south of the border and German minorities north of the border that have seemingly always been there. Trying to put that kind of cultural jumble in one or the other box simply isn't easy and hasn't worked anywhere ever in the long run - as has been seen multiple times in our own era. Even an island nation like the UK (going back to the video) has had, and in many ways still has, problems unifying all of the cultural elements. Population movements (often due to climate change - re. the Hun theory in the video) through history have complicated the matter even further, and is something we're witnessing in the present day. Both locally and internationally it's the same story - we're all a thorough mix of cultural and genetic backgrounds, and unless you happen to come from the Rift Valley and your ancestors always had done, we've all got a lineage that has come from somewhere else and imposed itself on new areas - often intermingling with, if not displacing, another population.
Goed om te noemen dat de kusten 1500 jaar geleden heel anders waren. Ik heb een aantal geïllustreerde geschiedenis boeken waarin ze zonder commentaar de moderne kustlijn gebruiken met IJsselmeer en alles! :-O
Yeah, part of that changing of the coastline is kinda really relevant to one mistake that this video makes, though: The reason why the Saxons and the Frisians are often hard to tell apart isn't due to them 'mixing'. It's due to the fact that the Frisians *were* Saxons. You see, one of the big changes to the Dutch coast happened around 250-300CE, when pretty much the entire western coast from modern Belgium up to the southern end of modern Denmark was completely flooded and not really liveable. The original Frisii, being a Roman client state, moved out during this time and were spread out (either voluntarily or by force) to other areas of the Roman Empire (some of these original Frisii, coincidentally, ended up on the British Isles long before the Anglo-Saxons got there, specifically in Kent). The Frisians that this video talks about were the 'new Frisians': Saxons who settled in the old lands of the Frisii after the waters receded and the area became broadly inhabitable again. (There were a couple of Frisii villages that persisted and merged into the population of these Saxon immigrants, but ironically pretty much none of those were in any of modern Frieslands, neither West, Ost- nor Nordfriesland). Thing is, though: At the time when the Angles and the Saxons crossed over to the British Isles, the Frisians still called themselves Saxons, they were only called Frisians by others (mostly by other Saxons further north). So it's not just likely that Frisians crossed the sea to be mercenaries and later rulers in England, the linguistic similarities between Old English and Old Frisian and the differences between both those languages and Old Saxon actually suggest the possible most or even all of the Saxons who went to England were Frisian Saxons. Which would also explain why the Danes, for instance the writer of one of the knútsdrápa, would later refer to the people of England as 'Frisians'.
Basically Danes who got kicked out of Denmark by even more Danish Danes only to get invaded by the same Danish Danes centuries later. Simple. Also, the Jutes came from Mid-/Western Jutland (Midt-/Vestjylland), Angles came from Southern Jutland (and the lost territories of Schleswig & Holstein) - people from Northern Jutland (north of the Limfjord) were Cimbrians (I've met a few who still identify as such) - yeah, yeah the Cimbrians migrated south and Rome yadayadayada.. some did, sure.
@8:45 In Germany there are 3 Saxon-States: 1) Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) in the Northwest, wich would be the original "Old Saxony" 2) Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt), in the south-east from Lower Saxony, where Saxons and Thüringer/Thuringian settled, also some Elbe Slavs. 3) Sachsen / Saxony in the (today!) East Germany. This area is just Saxon by name and has nothing to to with the Saxon tribe. The title went east by medieval Lords (to make it short).
The Juted also settled on the isle of wight and south hampshire, the whitwara and Meonwara respectively. There was also probably the Ytene in the New forest.
One day i was in class reaserching king tut so i decided to look uped averill meaning wicht is my dads name and it means born in april in anglo saxon and he was born in april wow lol
You've got a very interesting channel here with very nice topics. And man I've got to say, your Dutch pronunciation of names is the best I've ever heard.
My last name's Welsh, means nothing since my dad took his adopted dad's name, I'm from East Anglia and probably pretty Anglo Saxon or even Viking but my dad was ginger which suggests Celtic roots.
Could you do a video on the History of Hungary, and not just on the Magyars but also the people who inhabited the carpathian basin before then. I am very interested in the history of Hungary because it is a very interesting country in Europe.
The term Anglo-Saxon is somewhat misleading because it is a term that reflects several different Germanic tribes. Remember a lot of our information comes from sources like Bede and earlier late classical sources. These people were not Anthropologist.
As I saw in a 1930's encyclopedia that another little known way that the map is not accurate for that time, is the coast of England wasn't the same. There was more land, which has eroded away, into the sea. The article showed a map of England with those sections of land.
That was great thank you! I struggle with timelines but you laid it out very simply n factually. It also filled in some blank spots in my family history
8:50 there are actually 3 states in Germany still called "Saxony" - Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony in the east. West Frisia is in the Netherlands and East Frisia in Germany nowadays.
Only Lower Saxony is the real Saxony. The other Saxonies inherited the name because the clusterfuck that was the HRE allowed noble families to inherit lands hundreds of miles away and they just called them all Saxony.
@@cynwraeth1943 Actually, the western parts of Saxony-Anhalt were also part of Old Saxony. Not to mention that most of Saxony-Anhalt is in the Low German/Saxon part of Germany.
Was the flooding caused by global warming? Sorry for being ironic. Interesting video.
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Yes. During the last ice age, you could walk to England from Europe. Much of the current English Channel was dry land then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-thawed-the-last-ice-age/
I know that there are Frisian place or town names in the East Midlands. Also, Batavian auxiliaries were heavily instrumental in Rome’s conquest of Britannia
I commend the conscious personal goal of logic applied when ego overwhelming is, and ethic towards the promotion of facts rather than the overwhelming self-serving edits made to history for the goals of ego, argument, and control of others. Wisdom of Mature-minded, with values, over Adolescent Ego-Minded oozing self-satisfaction and prejudice. Truly apparent to all with Conscious thought. Well done - respectfully. 🏅
No problem at all, glad you enjoyed it :) I've been interested in this area for a while and as such have accumulated a rather impressive collection of books on the subject area from which to draw information. However there are many books now completely digitalised as well as there being really useful sites and information on the internet that with some caution and research into where it has come from can be incredibly useful to would-be historians like myself :)
Grace Lewis That seems to be the case with a lot of people I've talked to and it's a real shame we don't learn much about this era at school. Ah okay, interesting :)
I wish these videos were a lot longer! I’m working my way through your channel and it’s quite interesting. Guess I’ll have to get more detailed information from books (well I do anyway, and also from Wikipedia as well as academic sites and journals). Your videos are interesting though and remind me I need to stop watching Netflix and get back to my study of history 👍🏼
Gotta tell you, the video leaves allot to be desired I mean common, from 0:48 to 3:50 its just one plain blue and white image with you talking in the background.
The Jutes landed and started in my home area, called Thanet (in Kent) which was a island at the time. We got taught in school about Hengst and Horsa, the two Jutish kings who started Kent, and are pretty much legendary in the history books. We Also got a present from Denmark which was a longboat in the 1950's which was sailed to Thanet, and remains there to this day on public display. Pretty happy my small home area has so much historical significance :)
But doesn't Kent's shield bare the Saxon horse? Saksen Ros in Dutch. Because I clearly recognise that same horse on the flag of Twente, wich is East Netherlands. Saxon Netherlands. There are even regions in North-West Germany that have exactly that same horse. .. Now let that be Nieder-Sachsen.
As a Dane from Jutland I'm intrigued by this story that it was Jutlanders who started Kent, as you say. If one looks at the map it seems a little strange that the Jutlanders would choose to go to the very southern tip of England instead of just crossing over the North Sea from their native Jutland and settling in Northumbria? The Southern cost of England would have been a shorter boat trip for the Saxons who lived near the channel. Is there any archeological evidence that Kent was in fact started by Jutlanders?
@@bartgielingh2212 the White horse was the banner of Horsa. There is a huge white stone (can't remember exactly where) in Kent and legend says that Horsa was slain in a battle near the stone and his brother Hengist laid him on it. His blood ran over the white stone and that is where the flag of Kent comes from, the white horse on a red background. Not sure how much credence there is to the story but still, explains the flag. I always thought the story might have been rubbish but it was featured on a walking through history episode with Tony Robinson so if its good enough for him, it's good enough for me ha ha
I'm from Thanet too, a seriously underrated place for history, there is so much here! Just a note though, Hengest and Horsa didn't start Kent. Kent is named after the Celtic tribe who inhabited the county, they were called the Cantiaci or Cantii. Hope that helps if it comes up in a pub quiz!
Remember that Kent was never conquered INVICTA brother
A great job of explaining this subject concisely and clearly. As an American who finds studying history so much more engrossing than entertainment TV, I thank you.
Thank you so much for your compliments, really makes it worthwhile spending the time making these videos :)
I’m also American. I have seven different European ethnicities. But the largest amount I have is English. Almost a quarter of me is English. 23 percent. I’m trying to learn everything I can about my heritage. I also have French, Dutch, German, Irish, Scottish and Finnish. I took a ancestry dna 🧬 test. That’s how I know
Yes, history is the best‼️
irish with small percentage of French and German. also western African eastern Indian (belive this to be that old legend , true story of scotia, Egyptian princess in Ireland and queen of alba, Scotland). Also the first King of England was French and there is 132 French and English words that are spelled and mean the same thing German is Dutch. . English Is galeic and French
@@starwarsfannumber "Legend," and "true story" are practically oxymorons. Just saying.
As a Frisian, I did some research on this and learned about the same as you're saying. This video contains helpful information for everyone who's interested in this subject.
I believe the Frisians lent a huge amount of words to the Ancient English Language which shows they had a significant role in the settling of Britain. Also the Vikings took a particular dislike to Frisians as they did to Saxons in England which shows me a sort of rivalry between them and those south of Denmark.
So did they get on better with the Angles than the Saxons . The Wessex Saxons certainly were a more formidable and unified foe in the long run culminating in 1066 . When both sides finally met their match in a roundabout sort of way ?!
I'm of English heritage and the Frisians were our ancestors. Old English or Anglo Saxon language was very much related old Frisian. As the Saxons and the Angles plus The Jutes were Germanic or Teutonic
I am German and a native Saxon from Westphalia northwest Germany I feel very much connected to England... they are our closest counterparts.... our natural partners Anglo-Saxon as we are one tribe... should stick together forget Brexit🏴🇩🇪❤️🤗
You mean... "forget Marxist European Union". Wake yourself up.
Yeah... Forget about Germans bombing London.
@@micha8255Germans are not Low Saxon. They speak very different languages and one is an Elb Germanic and one is North Sea Germanic English, Frisian and Low Saxon are North Sea
Hear hear
Anglo-Saxons. Angled Saxophone. Coincidence?
It was probably the Kosovo-Albanian black Moslem-Jews.
Well spotted! Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone. He was Belgian, so a genetic 'Saxon' link is not implausible. And 'angle' meaning 'hook-shaped' or indeed 'angled' an other old germanic word could well be used for both the 'angel-shaped' instrument and the historic homeland of the Angels in modern day Schleswig between the cities of Flensborg and Schleswig. An area still called Angel (Danish) or Angeln (German)!
Angl Saxo
I think not!
My great grandmothers maiden name was Frostick, apparently the name of an abandoned Frisian village in Norfolk which is where I live now
That’s very interesting, need to look into that!
Looking into old genuinely european names is extremely interesting - for (basic) instance, a name like "Alric (Alaric)" meant 'All's ruler/Ruler of all'.
Sebastian keep that heritage going if you have kids. That's pretty cool.
Last name Smith here. An anglo saxon name been around since 975 ad. Proud of my heritage :)
My family name back then was Hygges or Hygg, meaning Courage. Not sure if we were mixed with tribes from other areas though. I think we were from the Kent region.
You are of jewish descent.
Fuck England
@@swansea_loyal1115 fuck you.
@@UstashaMe84 ouch that hurt
No, it wasn't a Roman emperor who likened Angles to angels. It was Pope Gregory I, who saw some handsome Angle slave boys for sale in the Roman slave market. And he was punning, which shows that the name 'Angli' (Angles) already existed.
William Cooke Right you are, I want entirely sure who said it, only that it took place in a slave market in Rome which left me with it either being a Roman Emperor or a Pope. I'll correct it with a little note on the screen tomorrow, thanks for pointing out to me :)
Thanks for the extra information!
im american but I took a DNA test and I carry 35%, Anglo saxon, 30 percent Norwegian and 30 percent Danish and 5 percent german.
is this normal for a American to be mixed like me and
Probably. I'm Canadian and about 1/8 German. My DNA test also gives me a large 'Scandinavian' component, but I reckon that came down mainly from Danes who settled in Yorkshire, and Norwegians who settled in the Isle of Man, in the 'Viking Age'.
William Cooke thanks so where me ancestors Vikings or just farmers
Ironic.
CZcams suggesting me a video about the Anglo-Saxon while I’m binging The Last Kingdom.
Vypren same bro same
same
That’s not irony though...
Big brothers watching, and listening.
Yeah same, but maybe because I'm logged into Netflix and CZcams via gmail so Google takes my user history to recommend the stuff that suits me best.
The vast majority of all of us have many different genes due to interbreeding of the past, compounded by time. It's no secret that English und German are cousin languages and if it weren't for the Norman invasion, our vocabulary would be much closer to German than it is now. I read that there's a movement called Anglish to replace Greco/ Latin based words with Germanic root words in common talk. For example "rainshade" for "umbrella" or "waterstuff" for hydrogen. So getting back to genetics, one would need to look at both a regional sample and an overall sample.
Cotton Mather the people of my county Gwynedd (Wales) are 82% Celtic, Welsh is our first language, and all schools are Welsh speaking only, making us one of most unmixed races in Europe. (Unfortunately not so much in the south of Wales, but they are catching up)my name is actually Llewellyn, but on this account I go by my Irish second name "Gerard" as Llewellyn is to much of a tongue twister.
if its true what u think you may have to wait another 1000 or 2000 yrs for that to develope.
Cotton Mather talvisota
If it weren't for the Normans, we would be speaking a much nicer and mor sophisticated language.
Umbrella comes from the Raj... It's an indian word originally
This is pretty interesting, as my wife is English, specifically from the Berkshire region of England. Most of her family have always been in the south, but she has some people who have moved down from the Yorkshire region (don't know which area exactly). As far as she knows, apart from that Yorkshire connection, everyone else can be traced back to the South East, specifically around the Reading/Ascot/Bracknell area of Berkshire.
She is pretty short, has red hair, and looks very typically English facially. She did her test through a ancestry website as she was always keen to know her background, seeing as there is so much conflicting information based on tribes, race and culture within England itself.
What we found is that according to her test she is around 40% Great Britain, and 49% Scandinavian (there is also around 11% Italian.
She was absolutely astounded and thinks she definitely has some possible Norse ancestry from the Yorkshire region. We don't really know, but she seems happy to have a rough idea of what she is now.
I would think “49% Scandinavia” answers the Norse question for you.
Does the 40% Great Britain mean Brittonic i.e. Celtic Briton, or does that include Anglo-Saxon/Jute/Frisian/Danish/Norse as well? That's a confusing result to me. On the face of it, if the 49% Scandinavian means Norse from Yorkshire, then she has no Anglo-Saxon DNA and the side of the family from the SE are Brittonic dating back pre-Roman times with no admixture.
Norse and Scandinavian is the same, Norse is a modern English word for the Scandinavians, that said there can be a lot more Scandinavian (Danish) and also Dutch in the 40% British due to Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings who dominated in England was Danes(look up Danelaw), there were however also a few Swedes, in Scotland and Ireland it was Norweigian Vikings
Very interesting. Especially the last bit. My surname is Friskney, originating in Friskney, Lincolnshire. The name is mentioned as far back as the Domesday Book c. 1066ish but I’ve often wondered where it came from beforehand and whether it was connected with the Frisians. Thx for the videos. I look forward to more.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friskney
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The place-name 'Friskney' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Frischenei. It is recorded as Freschena circa 1115 and as Freschenei circa 1150. The name is Viking, meaning 'freshwater island' (Old English Frescan ēa).[3]
Danish: frisk = fresh
ø ['oe'] = island,
OE eo- / oew-land (!)
I recently discovered my great grandmother's my grand father's mother's side comes from Wartling, Sussex last names Mittin around 1746 that's all I have found. My grandmother and her family side is Reid I think it's Scottish. This type of history is very important to me and I am still searching for more.
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Reid is the Northumbrian English spelling of a word that in West Saxon English was Read, both mean the colour red. It is a Northern English variant that became widespread in Scotland. The earliest recorded version is in the name of Leofwine se Reade (Leofwine the Red), who petitioned King Cnut in 1016.
@@urseliusurgel4365 that's very interesting can you tell me the origins of Kane and Thompson those are also surnames of relatives of mine.
Anglo , Angland , England
Anglo , Angland , England pronounced Ingland.
Angleland
AngloArabia now
AngloArabia
pretty cool if the region (southeren denmark) as i am in, has named england after that spot:b
This was not one year ago, but on January 2, 2018. I'm an amateur historian and linguist, and enjoy your vids. I'm a retired college professor of physics and astronomy. Many of my ancestors are from AngloSaxons.
I’m half Frisian (fries)
And many of my ancestors
are every one of those
DrDave Menke: Very interesting. However that makes you like me a modern day Anglo Saxon. Therefore you should be very proud of that. And you do not owe anyone an explanation or an apology.
@@unhooked25 There is no such thing as a "modern day anglo saxon". Anglo-Saxons were a medieval tribe and have heck all to do with the modern world. They left only a miniscule genetic influence on British DNA.
@@WallStwizkid No such thing as a modern day Anglo Saxon? Yeah says who? Under what modern day law? Don't give me that modern day gibberish, because since when can you go making up modern day ideas on your own accord? Why does the name itself make you think of The Mississippi Burning?... We are Anglo Saxons and we couldn't be prouder, if you can't hear us now, we'll yell a little louder and we don't owe you or anyone a modern day explanation or an apology.
Thumbs up if your ancestors are Anglo Saxon
Wtf?!? You all took what I wrote was joke but I was just saying thumbs up if your ancestors are Anglo saxons on video about Anglo saxons because i found out that those are my ancestors!
My ancestors are only saxon, does that count?
@@duwang8499 no
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Sometime I'd like to do a DNA test and see what it comes out with. My wife is a Dane from Southern Jutland & I'm English. It would be interesting to see which one of us comes out most Danish.
PingiMan that is impossible you idiot
Thanks for covering the Frisians. I'm doing my genealogy research right now, and a quarter of my ancestry is Frisian, so it's really interesting to see part of their history in the colonization of England along with the other, more well known groups.
You hit the nail on the head. Germany, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc. are modern concepts they were simply Germanic tribes back then. They had loyalty to Tribes/Clans. No one had these modern identities back then.
Scandinavian have completely different DNA learn a little
@widhbnw efDwdwDW I think this man hit his head after falling over a cliff. How come so many Brits come out with quite a lot of Scandinavian DNA in ancestry tests? My wife from England is 60% Scandinavian so there goes your theory.
england had the identity of englishness since unification
@@robertrobski1013 Nah. Many Scandinavian Germanics have Haplogroup I1, R1b, and R1a as well as N via intermixing with Finno-Urgics in Scandinavia. I1 is the earliest, and R1b and R1a became prominent after the rise of the Yamnaya on the steppes, and Bell Beakers, Corded Ware, and Battle Axe cultures. Norway literally has all 4 Haplogroups. The Scandinavian languages are literally in the North GERMANIC language group, and the ancient religion of the Norse and the Germanics is the same.
@@alfredoalejandro87 England is a mixed bag, but the Scandinavians and West Germanics share a common origin in what is now Denmark and Southern Sweden. So much so that the East Germanic Goths came from Götland in Sweden. The Angles and Jutes came from Jutland and the Angles from Angeln. Yes DNA changes with admixing doesn't change the source of the culture and DNA of those who brought the languages and cultures into Mainland Europe before they crossed over into the Isles.
That was a very interesting video, thanks for effort you've put into this!
Thanks very much for your kind words!
In the north of Germany is a town called Kappeln which sits on the Schlei (a fjord of the Baltic Sea). The part from Flensburg to Schlei is ANGELN (yes, the name still lives!) and the side from Schlei east is called SCHWANSEN. The saying was: A guy from Angeln never takes the last piece of cake and never drinks to the last drop in the cup. Coming from eastern side, I took the last slice and explained: "Well, finally I am not ANGELITER but SCHWANSENER."
No, Angle is probably from the word for a Barbed Spear, or hook. Related to the term Angling for fishing. So it's possible the name meant they were the "Fishing People." or like the Germans, a "Spear People" Pope Gregory was simply making a pun on the word.
Quite possibly, I've heard several theories about the origin and etymology of the word and the name, though I don't think we can be completely sure which is correct. "Spear People" Could certainly relate to Woden who is often associated with the spear as his symbol. It's an interesting question, thanks for the extra information :)
spear people because the germanic spear was called "ger"
History With Hilbert Try the fact of the angular shoreline at the mouth of the Elbe river, the Anglish homeland being primarily located on the west facing shore at the foot of the Jutland peninsula. The tribal name is a place name, as many surnames among the Anglo-Saxons were.
Yes, I agree. The "Angles" were likely the fishing peoples of the North Sea, with settlements from Frisia to Briton, during Roman times. Old English adopted several Latin words, which is evidence the Angles and the Romans were in close contact, well before the Saxon invasion.
Modern Historians at least have a go about the Angles. In the past Historians while chatting pleasantly enough about Saxons gave up on the Angles,usually with a shrug! Obliged!
Kevin Stroud gives a good explanation as to how the modern English word angle relating to a hook (as in angling for fish) has a Germanic root, where as angle in geometry comes from Latin via French. See episode 28: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians @06:05 mins. It has a good map as well. historyofenglishpodcast.com/2013/08/06/episode-28-angles-saxons-jutes-and-frisians/
Yes, we also have the word "angle" ( with an open a: [Ang-le] ) in Danish today - meaning "to fish", but also in a wider sense "to catch" ( trying to catch someone's attention for instance ). 😉
According to AncestryDNA’s most recent update I am 78% Anglo-Saxon, 10% Celtic, 8% Swedish and 4% Norwegian. Great video my man, you answered a lot of questions I had about my ancestors.
and yes Anglo-Saxon and Celtic are new categories they changed/added for whatever reason. So instead of it saying England/Wales/Northern Europe, it just says Anglo-Saxon. Or Irish/Scottish to Celtic respectively.
Really good job mate,i’m watching your channel from some time now,and really enjoy,for person like me who is also into a history,greets grom Poland 🇵🇱
Excellent in every respect! Useful history--every time!! Thanks, Hilbert!
May our culture never fade so much that our descendants speak of us as if we were a different civilization.
Baigandine L Anglo-Saxon culture didn’t fade so much as it changed.
Anyway, all cultures change and eventually die.
Fade? What do you mean? The whole World is speaking the language of the Angels! You and me. Right now! Forgotten?
Your Dutch pronunciations are good. What connection have you got to The Netherlands?
Thank you very much :) I'm from the Netherlands originally which is why I can speak Dutch :)
Waar kom je vandaan in Nederland als ik vragen mag?
Mijn vader uit Amsterdam en Friesland en mijn moeder uit Edam :)
Grappig ik kom zelf ook uit Amsterdam!
Oh leuk! Amsterdam is een prachtige stad :)
english calling germans huns but perhaps they are huns themselves?
Erm didn’t they move away from the Huns ? , Huns are north Asians Huns and Mongolians ! lol Islam gets its form of covering women from the Mongolians .
Not all the German tribes were related to eachother, east of Germania were Alans/huns
But most Germans are Germanized Celts? How would that work
Huns are neither mongol or german speacilly not german
The Huns never invaded England that’s why
They ARE the people of England. Germanic pride!
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They were the Saxons not the English
The Wngkish came with William the Conquerer they were the Normans they were French Speaking but later spoke English
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Anglo Saxon descent - Anglican - English
I'm Anglo and Saxon ! but i look a'bit Roman
ODIN In other words, the so called "60% Celtic" Britons were used by their French (i.e., Norman) overlords to subdue and conquer their Celtic neighbors...what a bunch of assholes.
ODIN No they were NOT "invited." Dairmait MacMurchada, solicited help from Henry II because he was DETHRONED by the other Irish kings. They (The Normans) were not invited. Get your facts straight, you appear uninformed or choose to make up your own history.
the East-Frisians and Low Saxons in Lower-Saxony/ Germany have the same/ familar genetic code with native Anglo-Saxons in Northumbria and East-Anglia. I'm a native East-Frisian living between East-Frisia and the Saterland. I'm speaking Sater-Frisian and East-Frisian Low German dialect ( both are languages of Frisians and Low Saxons), High German ( Saxon) and Modern English and I have a west-frisian second name. The East-Frisians had only leaders or chiefs instead of Kings. The High German word "Friesen" for Frisians means free-sons with a rudimental democratic structure. The free-sons / Frisians elected their leaders by votation. The Frisians fall often back behind the eastside of the river Ems between Netherlands and East-Frisia as a natural border against Romans and Franks from the west. Also new modern theories said, that the Frisians were more people like vikings or sea-nomads. The word Frysk for Frisians is similar with the swedish Tysk for "Deutsch"/German and also Dutch. The problem is, that Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and UK have all different theories about the Frisians for their national identity.
Wow! Awesome! As a Kiwi with a Scottish grandparent, a Kiwi grandparent of English origin, and two Dutch grandparents with a Frisian surname, this video is highly interesting to me. It's the story of my family. I already knew some of this, mainly about the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, but I didn't really know the Frisians had jumped the channel too.
Sorry this has taken me so long to respond to, it appears to have slipped through my notifications! That really is quite the mix, wow! Yes it will be indeed :D The role of the Frisians in the Anglo-Saxon Migrations is much debated, being as they were at this time period often hard to separate from the Saxons who had mingled with the Frisii to form the people later to be named Frisian. I'm writing a dissertation on the topic, very interesting topic indeed :D
Always trust the Dutch to be where the good trade is!
came here after the Top Tenz suggestion. Great video.
Steve Reinahrt Thanks very much, hope you enjoyed it :)
Hilbert, an excellent video, saving my friend, William Cooke's remark (Hello, William!), and the fact that you neglected to mention that the Jutes also settled the Isle of Wight and Southern Hampshire, whence my people came. I'm rather proud of my Jutish ancestry!
Thank you very much! Apologies I forgot to mention it, although Kent is the biggest and best known one, I'll be sure to mention it when I make a dedicated culture analysis of the Jutes.
I'm PROUD that people remember their roots. A Jutish Dane
My problem with the angles as a fishhoook thing is kind of dumb. Because they saw this on what map? Yeah. Maps would have been a rare commodity, especially accurate ones.
GilgameshEthics regional maps in the past were fairly accurate if the area is small. Maps in the past were only fucked up when they incompass large areas like whole continents.
@@mongolchiuud8931 But would the average joe know that? And naming a group of people after the shape that they live in is super weird, because I don't recall any instance of people naming a group of people like that today. They name them by the race or city or facial features etc.
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"But would the average joe know that? "
Just because you didnt know doesnt mean other people are just as ignorant.
" And naming a group of people after the shape that they live in is super weird, because I don't recall any instance of people naming a group of people like that today."
Weird or not if they decided to name a country or people after a shape then it is what it is. there are no rules on how to name "Anything". lol
"They name them by the race or city or facial features etc."
And what group of people are named after a "Race,city or facial feature?" this is the first time I heard of this. lmao (I have a feeling you dont know the difference between Race,Ethnicity and Nationality...)
Very interesting video mate! Just keep on making such informative videos for us!!!
Fair to say what we today know as Denmark has left a clear footprint in Britain in either the form of Jutes, Angles (partly) and not the least Vikings and the Norman’s who descended from the Vikings
I'm a native English speaker being American. I also have a Norwegian first name and German last name due to having that heritage among many other European lineages. Now when I took German I would say hmm this is a bit different but related so let's see pulled up Dutch and it's as if Dutch is midway between English and German. Infact Dutch people find learning both English and German easy. Whereas English speakers have to study German more, and German speakers have to study English more. At times Dutch sounds like a mix mash of German and English. Then you have Frisian which is said to be even closer to English and sounds like Dutch mix mashed with English to an English speaker. Now English was influenced by Norman French so changed a bit and lost its gender cases. However connections can still be found. For instance. To say I speak. English = I speak, Dutch/Flemish = Ik spreek, German = Ich spreche. That I spe-ek, spre-ek part tells you the common Germanic origin. Infact when we listened to Old English from Beowulf in High school I could sort of pick it up a small bit, due to studying German.
Its nice to learn about possible my ancestors. i live in Denmark so i might be related to the jutes. by the way really good video
Nice, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! It's likely indeed that you do have some ancestors who had relatives and friends that crossed the channel to drive out the Britons :)
Apparently, the jutes that stayed in jutland and didn't migrate got assimilated by the Danes when they arrived in jutland
There is the state of Saxony in Germany, but that's not where the Saxons lived. Ironic.
The Angles get their name from the area they were said to have come from in southern Jutland, known as Anglia (Angeln), in present-day Schleswig-Holstein.
It's important to remember that the Angles settled all the way up to the Firth of Forth in what is now Scotland. The Anglian kingdom of Northumbria included the Lothians and Scottish Borders.
gotta love this channel. finding videos from 3 years ago that I've not plummeted into yet👍top lad.
In the Jutland peninsula, about where you said the Angles came from, on the eastern coast, is a town called Angeln.
It's not in Jutland and not a town. it's a landscape south of Jutland that used to be the center of Angles. Today this region is still called "Angeln", as it was 2000 years ago. This region is today located in Germany in the state of Schleswig-Holstein between the cities of Flensburg, Schleswig and the Baltic coast. In this area is also the former Viking town of Hedeby.
@@folkestender2025 it is part of the jutland peninsula though. It was under the Danes control for 1500 years since the angles got conquered, but yeah its been german the last 150 years
@@TheBarser Yes, but Denmark did not yet exist at the time of the old Angles. The first ancestors of today's Danes came to Jutland from what is now southern Sweden in the 6th century, where they mixed with other West Germanic tribes living there or drove them away. Many displaced Angles therefore emigrated to the British Isles. At the same time, many Saxon tribes also emigrated from what is now Holstein and Lower Saxony because they were threatened by the Franks from south.
@@folkestender2025 why I said the Danes control and not Denmarks control. The Danes came from scania and Zealand area, and shortly after the migration to the British Isle the Danes took over the jutish peninsula
@@TheBarser Yes, without the Angles, the Saxons and the expansion of the Danes in the north and the Franks in the south, there would be no English people today. Probably the British Islands would later have been occupied by the Normans and and all there would speak French today.
Pretty sure Mercia is the midlands and not on the East.
Much of the west Midlands was under the rule of the Cymric kingdom of Pengwern initially.
I read Mercia as 'Murica
I have an idea about the name Kent: In modern Danish the word for the kind of cliffs you see around Dover is "Klint". Maybe they just named the area after its most visible feature as seen from the sea?
It's an interesting idea, but if true it would probably have been called Klent :-) I'm still looking for an answer to why the Jutlanders would sail down to occupy the very southern part of England and not just go straight across the North Sea and occupy the northern part of the island?
Kent I believe was named after a Celtic tribe called the centi
@@LarsPallesen Simple, I think. SAILS! They had not yet been funcionally put on the rowing boats of that time. A mast and sail would twist boards of the boat apart and make it leak. Or break. It was not until the invention of the keelson (kølsvinet) what would spread the torque of the mast along the ENTIRE keel what you had a true sailboat. They know more about this at Vikingeskibsmuseet in Roskilde. One of the skippers of 'Havhingsten' (The Sea-stallion of Glendaloch) told me in person. Dejligt at møde endnu en dansker?
@@LarsPallesen I have stated above that it is believe that the explanation of a Jutish name should be that Kent is at the egde of the ocean. 'Edge' being 'kant' in old Norse, and NOT Ecke/edge as in German. Thus: kingdom at the edge of the sea: Jutish Kant= Kent! Da-da🤩.
That is IF the Cantii are not older AND lived in the area ?
Hilbert, we need you!
-ton sounds like it comes from "town" which means village.
The Northfrisian (Germany) and Westfrisians (Netherland) have many villages with the ending um, tum, or sum. For example in Nuurðfriisklön': Keitum (Kairem), Archsum, (Arichsem), Husum, Borkum, Rantum, Borgsum, Utersum etc. Westfrisian: Rottum Dokkum, Hallum, Marrum, Britsum, Berltsum etc. . Um, sum, -tum, ton, sum, and town means home, im german it means Heim.
About the angles: angeln is also modern high German for fishing with a fishing rod
Another name for fishermen in English is angler.
Why Anglo-Saxon were described by the ancient historians as “God wrath toward Britain”.?
I’ve not heard that phrase before though it sounds like how the later Vikings were sometimes viewed. In relation to the Anglo-Saxons it would probably be because they were invading the former Roman Province of Britannia or possibly the because the Anglo-Saxon migration was seen as having a negative impact on the Christian Ancient Britons already living in these territories.
Yes, the Angles and Saxons still had their pagan belief in the Norse gods, while the British/Celtic indigenous population had already been christinized. With the new immigrants they lost their Christian faith again. Perhaps it means that because of this, God wrath toward Britain. There were two Cristianizations in Britannia. The first around 450 and the second around 587. In the intervening period, Britain had become pagan again.
@@folkestender2025 it wasn’t the Norse gods it was English paganism for example instead of Odin we had Woden which is where we get the name of the day Wednesday or another instead of Thor we had thuner which is where we get the word for thunder.
This was awesome, so great job and you've gained a new subscriber.. also do you take suggestions, if so I would love to learn more about the ancient germanic tribes.
Thank you very much! I'm really glad you enjoyed this and decided to subscribble to the channel :) Of course :) I have a series called "Ancient Culture Analysis" where I look at a different ancient culture each time so I'll be making ones for the Angles, Saxons, Frisians, Jutes, Franks etc in due course :) Welcome to the channel!
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Really good article and well presented. I've always been interested and read a lot about this part of our history. My surname being made up of Anglo Saxon elements has played no small part in this. Also, I have my old English teacher, " Archie Smith " to thank for sparking my interest in how the English people came to be.
I agree that the theory about a Roman describing Germanic people from modern Denmark as being angel like is a bit thin. The fishing hook theory is really interesting but would the Angles have known that their coastline was thus shaped? Im not sure how advanced their cartography would have been.
Also the idea that the Huns were involved is really intriguing and I've not heard that before. Im going to watch this again to get the name of the person who postulates this and read what they say.
Again, thanks for a great vid 👍
Love a good explanation of maps and history
Please do a video about the Alamanni or Subian people's, the ones specifically near the black forest.
King Alfred's lineage is in the Saxon Chronicle and is traced all the way back to Adam through the line of Seth. They were Isaac's Sons, Saxons. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Pre Christianity,, Anglo Saxons kings all claimed decent from Woden,
My grandmother is Kosovo Albanian and got almost 7% English DNA. When I did my research I found out that in Kosovo there were Saxons working in mines in some parts of Kosovo. So maybe that's why my grandmother got the english DNA, because Saxons and Anglo-Saxons are the same
Nice, succinct video. Great, rare mention of the small town of Frizington in Cumbria and its toponymic root as a ton of the Frisians! Grew up near there, very bleak but beautiful part of secluded Cumbria. I did my undergraduate dissertation on the 'kingdom of Rheged', which possibly existed around those parts.
Great video - I love the history of this era... I can trace my ancestry back to Angle-Saxon times with Ethelred the Unready as one of my ancestors...
im trying to work mine out. weedon beck is as far as i have got really.
Aethelraed, Noble Counsel..unread no counsel. A play on words. Suffered from being advised badly by his counsellors probably
Nice video. Small point, the Batavians lived in the Betuwe in what is now the Netherlands. They predate the Franks, probably an alliance of Germanic tribes. The Salien Franks were allies of the Romans and lived from the Ijsel to the North of France. In fact Dutch comes from old Frankish. You wil know Clovis, first Christian king of the Franks, born in Doornik, now Belgium, the king who started the long lasting empire of the Franks. Also, the word ton is the same word as "tuin" in Dutch, so not village, but garden I guess.
Jelle Alkema De Batavieren
The Salian Franks have their origin in the region east from the ijssel which is still called Salland.
Makes sence
I don't think the Dutch lenguage in it's entirety comes from Frankish. Infact; The Frankish aswell as the Saxons wore a union of diffrent ( Germanic??)tribes that had different dialects an perhaps even lenguages. I really think we should not exclude the possibility that our language is of Frisian/Saxon descendence. Take in count the mass migration that took place during the 4th and 5th century. Hell! I even dare to think we sprang from a South Scandinavian people that flead from floods, and hunger during that period! Again. Nothing's really certain about this topic.
The word "ton" is also behind "town". In Scandinavian languages "tun" is used- once meaning fenced area
There are other places with names that indicate a Friesian origin, for instance Frieston near Boston in Lincolnshire, and Friesthorpe, also in Lincolnshire (at least, that is the etymology given in Ekwall's Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, 4ed).
There are quiet a few actually when you get looking, really makes one wander :)
The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to the 5th century settlement of incomers to Britain, who migrated to the island from the North Sea coastlands of mainland Europe.
Cool video, and on the whole well informed.
Regarding the Angles, the small peninsula now in Schleswig-Holstein, nothern Germany, between Flensborg, Schleswig and Eckernförde is still called Angeln. So that's the general area you could probably place them in. The etymology of the area could refer to Latin inspired word for a fishing hook, as you say, or be from a Germanic root meaning narrow (as in modern German "eng", and related to the obsolete Danish word "angel" for the tang of a knife, i.e. where it narrows). Schleswig, or Slesvig as it called in Danish, is placed at the one end of the great eathwork known as Dannevirke, that was the traditional border to Denmark, the other end being the rivers Ejderen and Trenen. This was the narrowest defendable point of the Jutlandic peninsula. The earthwork is much newer, but the Angles would have known the topography.
Finally, regarding inaccuracies on the map, Denmark was "smaller" back then - the Scandinavian peninsula is lifting and pulling northern Denmark with it causing water levels to have fallen since that period. Depending on the size of the population, the size of the country could have affected the Jutes' decision to settle in Britain. And certainly the Danish Frisian islands are drifting slowly towards the mainland, so they would have looked different then.
Liked the theory about the Huns. The whole thing (Rome's collapse, Germanic migrations and the Huns) are indeed all related.
Wow! Love your comment. I'm from New Zealand, and we have a town named Dannevirke here which I knew was named after somewhere in Scandinavia, but I never knew of the Danevirke. It's great to learn of, because I did know that Schleswig was part of Danish kingdoms for many centuries, and have been saying for a while that the Dano-German border should be further south. I think this makes the perfect border.
But I'm also a weird fuck. I think a sliver of Lower Saxony including their Frisian islands should be given to the Dutch, and that Belgium should be split up among the Dutch, the French and the Germans. Along language lines, obviously. But if we know ze Deutsch, zey won't like Eastern Willonia and Luxembourg in exchange for this sliver of Lower Saxony and Schleswig.
The borders have changed a lot over the years. As Hilbert did a good job of demonstrating, the distribution of peoples in this part of Europe were very different ca. 450 CE than they were 500 years later (when Denmark officially became one nation under Harald Bluetooth, annexing Norway at the same time), and kept changing until very recently. The duchies of Schleswig/Slesvig and Holstein/Holsten were very important parts of Denmark until they decided to become a part of the federation of German states around the time of the war between Denmark and this federation in 1864. At this time, the Danish border had actually reached to Hamburg. Germany itself didn't exist as one nation until 1871, and the present border was decided upon by the population of these areas through democratic vote after WWI, remaining unaltered since 1920.
As Hilbert also mentioned, the western side of North Germany is still known as Ostfriesland (East Friesia as opposed to Friesia proper to the west in the present day Netherlands), and the traditional Friesian territories reach into south west Jutland. The Friesian language has had an effect on various north German and Jutlandic dialects, and the present Friesian dialect is actually intelligible for at least southern Jutlanders when spoken slowly. It seems from the video, that this people never really had their own country to themselves, no matter which period you look at or even where they geographically found themselves - whether it be on the mainland or on Britain!
Unfortunately I don't much about Belgium's history, but as far as I know it is a pretty new country from 1830 or so. The creation of Belgium from several areas certainly inadvertently lead to WWI turning into what it did. But as mentioned, borders have changed a lot through history. We think of the world geographically as being a pretty set place, but borders will almost certainly always change - as long as there are people to change them.
Exactly. Recently I saw the Dutch and the Belgians agreed to swap some land to make the borders a bit better. But, my point is, that in Belgium they don't speak Belgian, they speak Dutch, French and German. The Netherlands seems to be the nation that has formed out of this rather informal, yet "doe normaal", group of people, that have history dating back to the Frisian tribe that predated the first Roman empire, and seem to be influenced and further garrisoned by the Flemish cultures in the south. Either way, they speak Dutch, which is obviously the closest to Frisian. They have a distinct culture.
Belgium was created via aristocratic bullshit.
As for Schleswig-Holstein, I think the reason they democratically voted for those borders to be that way, was probably only due to Germans influencing the culture in the area so that such democratic processes turned out in the greater German favour. It would seem to me that Danevirke presents the most logical border. It seems strange that anyone who even remotely has roots in the area, would see the border to really be anywhere else.
Looks like I'm going to have to read up a bit on Dutch/Belgian history when I get the time, as I simply just don't know enough about their history to be able to comment. But the whole thing - also the Danish/German border part - seems to to be a localised version of world history. There's always been cultural exchange between neighbouring regions (and even non-local regions) leading to rather diffuse cultural heritage in the borderlands.
For the issue of the Duchies of Slesvig, Holsten and Lauenborg in the 1860's, there were three political ideas in Denmark. The conservative elements tried to retain the area, the early liberal movement wanted to keep just Slesvig, and the Duchies wanted to go with the Germany Federation, who themselves welcomed the idea. The population were a cultural mix of German and Danish with German being the prevalent (official) language, and always had been.There are to this day Danish minorities south of the border and German minorities north of the border that have seemingly always been there.
Trying to put that kind of cultural jumble in one or the other box simply isn't easy and hasn't worked anywhere ever in the long run - as has been seen multiple times in our own era. Even an island nation like the UK (going back to the video) has had, and in many ways still has, problems unifying all of the cultural elements. Population movements (often due to climate change - re. the Hun theory in the video) through history have complicated the matter even further, and is something we're witnessing in the present day.
Both locally and internationally it's the same story - we're all a thorough mix of cultural and genetic backgrounds, and unless you happen to come from the Rift Valley and your ancestors always had done, we've all got a lineage that has come from somewhere else and imposed itself on new areas - often intermingling with, if not displacing, another population.
Can I just say I love seeing this historical discussion ongoing in my comments section - really makes my video-making efforts worthwhile :)
Goed om te noemen dat de kusten 1500 jaar geleden heel anders waren. Ik heb een aantal geïllustreerde geschiedenis boeken waarin ze zonder commentaar de moderne kustlijn gebruiken met IJsselmeer en alles! :-O
Man dat ken ik! Ook hier in Engeland als ze een "ouwe" kaart hebben met gewoon het Afsluitdijk en de Flevo Polder er op ;)
I guess the coastline has been changed over time and it would be more accurate to use a map of that time.
Yeah, part of that changing of the coastline is kinda really relevant to one mistake that this video makes, though:
The reason why the Saxons and the Frisians are often hard to tell apart isn't due to them 'mixing'. It's due to the fact that the Frisians *were* Saxons.
You see, one of the big changes to the Dutch coast happened around 250-300CE, when pretty much the entire western coast from modern Belgium up to the southern end of modern Denmark was completely flooded and not really liveable. The original Frisii, being a Roman client state, moved out during this time and were spread out (either voluntarily or by force) to other areas of the Roman Empire (some of these original Frisii, coincidentally, ended up on the British Isles long before the Anglo-Saxons got there, specifically in Kent).
The Frisians that this video talks about were the 'new Frisians': Saxons who settled in the old lands of the Frisii after the waters receded and the area became broadly inhabitable again. (There were a couple of Frisii villages that persisted and merged into the population of these Saxon immigrants, but ironically pretty much none of those were in any of modern Frieslands, neither West, Ost- nor Nordfriesland).
Thing is, though: At the time when the Angles and the Saxons crossed over to the British Isles, the Frisians still called themselves Saxons, they were only called Frisians by others (mostly by other Saxons further north).
So it's not just likely that Frisians crossed the sea to be mercenaries and later rulers in England, the linguistic similarities between Old English and Old Frisian and the differences between both those languages and Old Saxon actually suggest the possible most or even all of the Saxons who went to England were Frisian Saxons.
Which would also explain why the Danes, for instance the writer of one of the knútsdrápa, would later refer to the people of England as 'Frisians'.
@@RvEijndhoven wow. Interesting. From a Danish perspective.
Basically Danes who got kicked out of Denmark by even more Danish Danes only to get invaded by the same Danish Danes centuries later. Simple.
Also, the Jutes came from Mid-/Western Jutland (Midt-/Vestjylland), Angles came from Southern Jutland (and the lost territories of Schleswig & Holstein) - people from Northern Jutland (north of the Limfjord) were Cimbrians (I've met a few who still identify as such) - yeah, yeah the Cimbrians migrated south and Rome yadayadayada.. some did, sure.
@8:45 In Germany there are 3 Saxon-States:
1) Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) in the Northwest, wich would be the original "Old Saxony"
2) Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt), in the south-east from Lower Saxony, where Saxons and Thüringer/Thuringian settled, also some Elbe Slavs.
3) Sachsen / Saxony in the (today!) East Germany. This area is just Saxon by name and has nothing to to with the Saxon tribe. The title went east by medieval Lords (to make it short).
Great! Thank you. I learn more abou the origin of England.
good job good sir
Thanks Grothartiligan, I'm glad you're still enjoying the videos :D !
These people were the foundation of England as a nation. And as a Canadian of English heritage that makes me Anglo Saxon, in which I'm very proud of.
The Juted also settled on the isle of wight and south hampshire, the whitwara and Meonwara respectively. There was also probably the Ytene in the New forest.
This was amazing. Thank you!
One day i was in class reaserching king tut so i decided to look uped averill meaning wicht is my dads name and it means born in april in anglo saxon and he was born in april wow lol
You've got a very interesting channel here with very nice topics. And man I've got to say, your Dutch pronunciation of names is the best I've ever heard.
Thank you very much, I'm really glad you're enjoying my content :) Haha well I cheat because I am Dutch so that's my secret ;)
Dan andersom, je spreekt erg goed Engels. :P
koen Bedankt, maar hier speel ik weer flas omdat ik al jarenlang in Engeland woon ;)
Ok, groeten uit Utrecht dan. keep them coming en Fijne Kerst!
koen Hartstikke bedankt, groetjes en wensen voor een vrolijke Kerstdag vanuit Northumberland :)
Watched a couple of your videos now and I came to find this one.
My last name is a old anglo-Saxon last name, Ballard
Same here, my name's Flegg. Very foreign sounding but it is Anglo Saxon
MINE IS TO! Rickit
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My last name's Welsh, means nothing since my dad took his adopted dad's name, I'm from East Anglia and probably pretty Anglo Saxon or even Viking but my dad was ginger which suggests Celtic roots.
Congratulations
The province or "Bundesland" you spoke about is not Saxony, but Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). The reason of the shift was Barbarossa.
Love these videos man, keep up the good work!
Thank you very much Devin! I appreciate your feedback and your positivity!
Could you do a video on the History of Hungary, and not just on the Magyars but also the people who inhabited the carpathian basin before then. I am very interested in the history of Hungary because it is a very interesting country in Europe.
THANK YOU GARE
No problem at all, thanks for watching!
Great vid! You might want to start a facebook page with notifications about vids, interesting arcticles and pictures ;)
Thanks for the feedback! I'm in the process of making one, though I'm having some issues with it at the moment, hopefully I'll have it sorted soon :)
Lol, Kent in Kazakh means a settlement, village.
Now that would be a good start ;)
The term Anglo-Saxon is somewhat misleading because it is a term that reflects several different Germanic tribes. Remember a lot of our information comes from sources like Bede and earlier late classical sources. These people were not Anthropologist.
As I saw in a 1930's encyclopedia that another little known way that the map is not accurate for that time, is the coast of England wasn't the same. There was more land, which has eroded away, into the sea. The article showed a map of England with those sections of land.
No such thing as black Anglo Saxons
That's like me saying Zulus was white no such thing
Always liked germans. Much nicer than french and Italians. I'm a london cab driver so pick up all nationalities.
That was great thank you! I struggle with timelines but you laid it out very simply n factually. It also filled in some blank spots in my family history
8:50 there are actually 3 states in Germany still called "Saxony" - Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony in the east. West Frisia is in the Netherlands and East Frisia in Germany nowadays.
Only Lower Saxony is the real Saxony. The other Saxonies inherited the name because the clusterfuck that was the HRE allowed noble families to inherit lands hundreds of miles away and they just called them all Saxony.
plus Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein
@@cynwraeth1943 Actually, the western parts of Saxony-Anhalt were also part of Old Saxony. Not to mention that most of Saxony-Anhalt is in the Low German/Saxon part of Germany.
Interesting. I'd like to learn more.
Was the flooding caused by global warming? Sorry for being ironic. Interesting video.
Yes. During the last ice age, you could walk to England from Europe. Much of the current English Channel was dry land then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-thawed-the-last-ice-age/
If you consider getting out of the last ice-age as 'global warming', sure.
I know that there are Frisian place or town names in the East Midlands.
Also, Batavian auxiliaries were heavily instrumental in Rome’s conquest of Britannia
I commend the conscious personal goal of logic applied when ego overwhelming is, and ethic towards the promotion of facts rather than the overwhelming self-serving edits made to history for the goals of ego, argument, and control of others.
Wisdom of Mature-minded, with values, over Adolescent Ego-Minded oozing self-satisfaction and prejudice.
Truly apparent to all with Conscious thought.
Well done - respectfully. 🏅
Nice video, are you familiar with Widukind?
Thank you! No, I don't believe I am?
A pagan Saxon leader and the antagonist of Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars, the Germans have a statue of him in Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
@@CristoMorelli But he was born in Enger and probably died there too.
@@historywithhilbert146 Did you ever hear the tragedy of Widukind? I thought not. It's not a story the Franks would tell you. It's a Saxon legend.
Why do people hate the English so much ??
We are successful and they resent their failures in the wars against us.
Envy, fear, media narrative, wars
Thank you! that was perfect - how do you learn about this stuff?
Looks like my Dad's family is pretty much all Saxon :)
No problem at all, glad you enjoyed it :) I've been interested in this area for a while and as such have accumulated a rather impressive collection of books on the subject area from which to draw information. However there are many books now completely digitalised as well as there being really useful sites and information on the internet that with some caution and research into where it has come from can be incredibly useful to would-be historians like myself :)
From Germany or genetically Saxons from England :) ?
History With Hilbert I find it odd that school didn't teach me any of this.
They are all from where the Saxons settled - Sussex especially.
Grace Lewis That seems to be the case with a lot of people I've talked to and it's a real shame we don't learn much about this era at school. Ah okay, interesting :)
Solid channel good sir - I'll put it on my recommended list over on my channel page to see if I can drive some traffic over here.
I'm finally able to view this comment :D Thank you very much, I'm very grateful for your support!
I wish these videos were a lot longer! I’m working my way through your channel and it’s quite interesting. Guess I’ll have to get more detailed information from books (well I do anyway, and also from Wikipedia as well as academic sites and journals). Your videos are interesting though and remind me I need to stop watching Netflix and get back to my study of history 👍🏼
We wuz Anglo Saxon kingz.
N Shieeet....
James Shidner This video is about white people's history,why are you using black slang?
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@@schmitty5461 Eatin lizards n sheiit
It’s who ARE the Anglo-Saxons, not who WHERE the Anglo-Saxons.
You might be able to find some people who are partially of Anglo-Saxon decent but you won't find any Anglo-Saxons today.
it is better to show what you are talking about! you have a map, use it. mark the places on the map while you are naming them...from the start
What do you mean who were! ! ..we still ARE !
can you make on the suevi also?
Certainly in future :)
Gotta tell you, the video leaves allot to be desired I mean common, from 0:48 to 3:50 its just one plain blue and white image with you talking in the background.
James Gordon and black
The trick is to listen rather than getting your knickers in a twist!
The Saxons faverite musical instrument is the saxophone.
Excellent presentation, and great channel; what a find!