The Different Germanic Tribes

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

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  • @UnexpectedTurnOfEvents
    @UnexpectedTurnOfEvents2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrStn

    @MrStn

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @rowdy9379

    @rowdy9379

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @phornthip1991

    @phornthip1991

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @phornthip1991

    @phornthip1991

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @drunkbee880

    @drunkbee880

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @curtmayer1070
    @curtmayer10702 жыл бұрын

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

  • @janvanaardt3773

    @janvanaardt3773

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @janvanaardt3773

    @janvanaardt3773

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @riptidemonzarc3103

    @riptidemonzarc3103

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johanvandermeulen9696

    @johanvandermeulen9696

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @svenherrmann6096

    @svenherrmann6096

    2 жыл бұрын

    I live near Worms😂😂 Coincidences can happen

  • @charlieharper4975
    @charlieharper497510 ай бұрын

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

  • @MikeWhiskyTango

    @MikeWhiskyTango

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @primefotoNL

    @primefotoNL

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @jordanjay1479
    @jordanjay14795 ай бұрын

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

  • @hydoffdhagaweyne1037

    @hydoffdhagaweyne1037

    5 ай бұрын

    They taught Plack Beople how to luut

  • @user-rj5db6nt4i

    @user-rj5db6nt4i

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @maggan82

    @maggan82

    4 ай бұрын

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

  • @user-rj5db6nt4i

    @user-rj5db6nt4i

    4 ай бұрын

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

  • @religionisatragedy8537

    @religionisatragedy8537

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@user-rj5db6nt4i that whole story was completely made up as propaganda

  • @user-su6wy3bj4v
    @user-su6wy3bj4v2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @willremy5142

    @willremy5142

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @DirtyMardi

    @DirtyMardi

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @mustanaamiotto3812

    @mustanaamiotto3812

    7 ай бұрын

    @@willremy5142 You are completely wrong.

  • @Forward_comrades

    @Forward_comrades

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @OMG1961

    @OMG1961

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @Non-Serviam300
    @Non-Serviam3002 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gadpivs

    @gadpivs

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @AlexD-mz4eg

    @AlexD-mz4eg

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @teeheeteeheeish

    @teeheeteeheeish

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @slappy8941

    @slappy8941

    2 жыл бұрын

    I really hate the mainstream take on European history.

  • @Non-Serviam300

    @Non-Serviam300

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@slappy8941 I hate the mainstream take on everything

  • @mb67493
    @mb674933 ай бұрын

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

  • @LtheLord1

    @LtheLord1

    2 ай бұрын

    it's almost the same in portuguese, except that part about "ostrogoth". And our equivalent to "vandale" (vândalo) means "someone who makes a mess", but our equivalent to "franc" (franco) means "honest" too

  • @mountainadventures7346

    @mountainadventures7346

    2 ай бұрын

    The Romans named these tribes.

  • @CarlesPerez77

    @CarlesPerez77

    Ай бұрын

    goth(visigoth) in old frankia also catalan and languedocian...

  • @therealmcgoy4968

    @therealmcgoy4968

    Ай бұрын

    Vandal in English is a criminal but one who vandalizes or destroys or defaces something. Goth is a style lol.

  • @PlasmaPhoton-kt6jr

    @PlasmaPhoton-kt6jr

    Ай бұрын

    @@mountainadventures7346 TRUE not their original names

  • @TeutobergForestryService
    @TeutobergForestryService9 ай бұрын

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

  • @KibyNykraft

    @KibyNykraft

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @nickhass7757

    @nickhass7757

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @BartBart22

    @BartBart22

    3 ай бұрын

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

  • @minchen_2265
    @minchen_22652 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnbrennick8738

    @johnbrennick8738

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @flonkplonk1649

    @flonkplonk1649

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @cocobunitacobuni8738

    @cocobunitacobuni8738

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @SamtheIrishexan

    @SamtheIrishexan

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @andremiguel1143
    @andremiguel11432 жыл бұрын

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

  • @raydawson2767

    @raydawson2767

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @andremiguel1143

    @andremiguel1143

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @raydawson2767

    @raydawson2767

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kongvinter33

    @kongvinter33

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lvr5266

    @lvr5266

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lowiq3409
    @lowiq34097 ай бұрын

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

  • @Broooski

    @Broooski

    2 ай бұрын

    Probably dutch because of colonization

  • @alisonhaughton987
    @alisonhaughton98710 ай бұрын

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

  • @nightowl679
    @nightowl6792 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BELLA-mf6hb
    @BELLA-mf6hb2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HarrySmith-hr2iv
    @HarrySmith-hr2iv8 ай бұрын

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

  • @tuolumnemeadows7226
    @tuolumnemeadows72264 ай бұрын

    „Don‘t mess with the Suebi😂!“ My family comes from the area around Stuttgart…and we are „Schwaben“ (Swabians or Suevians or Suebi). We speak a very distinctive German dialect and are proud of it. Based on the dialect you can mostly identify from which area a German comes from - and roughly to which ancient tribe his or her ancestors belonged to. Years ago I was in Norway and was able to read and understand a Norwegian brochure. Many European languages are related to each other. Thank you for this report.

  • @gnvinternationalambassador925
    @gnvinternationalambassador9252 жыл бұрын

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

  • @philtoonen6338

    @philtoonen6338

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gnvinternationalambassador925

    @gnvinternationalambassador925

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @rjvanloon4769

    @rjvanloon4769

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @denniscannon769

    @denniscannon769

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @badgerboops

    @badgerboops

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gadpivs
    @gadpivs2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @thesomberlain8053

    @thesomberlain8053

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gadpivs

    @gadpivs

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @brittakriep2938

    @brittakriep2938

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tylercounts3005
    @tylercounts3005 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @coryhirsh4119

    @coryhirsh4119

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @antondavidoff150
    @antondavidoff1507 ай бұрын

    about half of the so called germanic tribes are slavic tribes, being "fact checked" by Vatican and the simillarz

  • @KibyNykraft

    @KibyNykraft

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes and the Adogit is not a germanic name, but finnougric

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Acquisition1913

    @Acquisition1913

    3 ай бұрын

    Deliberate bc of middle eastern ideology

  • @MeisterMixes
    @MeisterMixes2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Forward_comrades

    @Forward_comrades

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @jhonnydiamond
    @jhonnydiamond7 ай бұрын

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

  • @europrosk-9121
    @europrosk-91219 ай бұрын

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

  • @AngeloCapra

    @AngeloCapra

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @europrosk-9121

    @europrosk-9121

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @jsigur157

    @jsigur157

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @achimfrankenbach7374

    @achimfrankenbach7374

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @helgaioannidis9365

    @helgaioannidis9365

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @nocaption5562
    @nocaption55622 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnaleman4723

    @johnaleman4723

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kev1734
    @kev17342 жыл бұрын

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

  • @aynatmirg
    @aynatmirg Жыл бұрын

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

  • @donald2665

    @donald2665

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @scrabbymcscrotus7481

    @scrabbymcscrotus7481

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Jayla-dj2gj

    @Jayla-dj2gj

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scrabbymcscrotus7481 Why were you expelled??

  • @pommes0078

    @pommes0078

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey im a schwabe too greetings from Baden Württemberg

  • @amy27ro

    @amy27ro

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @rachelrose9268
    @rachelrose9268 Жыл бұрын

    This is probably my favorite video that you have made!

  • @Ravishrex1
    @Ravishrex12 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mikeblei6870

    @mikeblei6870

    2 жыл бұрын

    You damn right it's Frisian ;)

  • @MrEnaric

    @MrEnaric

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @beefcakeii

    @beefcakeii

    2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome to see other people of Frisian ancestry here 👊

  • @dgray3771

    @dgray3771

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @aldosigmann419

    @aldosigmann419

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @rayvenblackfeather8612
    @rayvenblackfeather86122 жыл бұрын

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

  • @denbodg9311
    @denbodg9311 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mr.midnight23
    @mr.midnight23 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lieberfreialsgleich

    @lieberfreialsgleich

    6 ай бұрын

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

  • @corytucker6668
    @corytucker66682 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kenhart8771
    @kenhart87712 жыл бұрын

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

  • @uptown_rider8078
    @uptown_rider8078 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Vulfheim

    @Vulfheim

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @uptown_rider8078

    @uptown_rider8078

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @Adventures_with_nick

    @Adventures_with_nick

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @ricardoj3456

    @ricardoj3456

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @uptown_rider8078

    @uptown_rider8078

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @tenbroeck1958
    @tenbroeck19582 жыл бұрын

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

  • @erskerbobbles
    @erskerbobbles2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @knechtgottes9109

    @knechtgottes9109

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Thor-Orion

    @Thor-Orion

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @Lee-jh6cr

    @Lee-jh6cr

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @IrishinFinland
    @IrishinFinland2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sleepyviking1723
    @sleepyviking1723 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Geko2006
    @Geko20067 ай бұрын

    Now I realize why our teacher called us Vandals ahahah

  • @davidnoot4995
    @davidnoot49952 жыл бұрын

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

  • @DMIwriter

    @DMIwriter

    6 ай бұрын

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

  • @beefcakeii
    @beefcakeii2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Ravishrex1

    @Ravishrex1

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tyv5887

    @tyv5887

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @tristar333333
    @tristar3333332 жыл бұрын

    Great video ! Big thanks.

  • @McPocalypsus
    @McPocalypsus Жыл бұрын

    An excellent and informative video, thank you.

  • @jamesvandemark2086
    @jamesvandemark20862 жыл бұрын

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

  • @peterdammeliusosterode3424
    @peterdammeliusosterode34242 жыл бұрын

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

  • @phornthip1991

    @phornthip1991

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ShermanistDruid

    @ShermanistDruid

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @phornthip1991

    @phornthip1991

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Leira-et9bw

    @Leira-et9bw

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @christiano2444

    @christiano2444

    Жыл бұрын

    Sounds pretty Dutch to me, your name

  • @danne51172
    @danne51172 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @thomasnewsom7570
    @thomasnewsom7570 Жыл бұрын

    Great presentation. Obviously well researched.

  • @heressomestuffifound
    @heressomestuffifound2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cocobunitacobuni8738

    @cocobunitacobuni8738

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @icxcnikasrb

    @icxcnikasrb

    9 ай бұрын

    You are all Slavic descendants

  • @cocobunitacobuni8738

    @cocobunitacobuni8738

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @icxcnikasrb

    @icxcnikasrb

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @iubk1247

    @iubk1247

    8 ай бұрын

    Actually its the exact opposite way 🤒@@icxcnikasrb

  • @forrestwilkes4093
    @forrestwilkes40932 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tyv5887

    @tyv5887

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @forrestwilkes4093

    @forrestwilkes4093

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @rasputin1909
    @rasputin1909 Жыл бұрын

    your knowledge is enormous

  • @amymiller7189
    @amymiller7189 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @deadcatbounce3124
    @deadcatbounce31242 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hedylus
    @hedylus7 ай бұрын

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

  • @robertolang9684

    @robertolang9684

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @hedylus

    @hedylus

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @sisselhansen3915
    @sisselhansen3915 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @user-jp9js9th8o
    @user-jp9js9th8o2 ай бұрын

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

  • @airborneranger-ret
    @airborneranger-ret2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @willremy5142

    @willremy5142

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Emilyb21-dm3bf

    @Emilyb21-dm3bf

    4 ай бұрын

    Old English sound Icelandic

  • @thormusique
    @thormusique2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tatamitani
    @tatamitani Жыл бұрын

    Such a great video!

  • @batissta44
    @batissta443 ай бұрын

    Great, informative video.

  • @mandalorianactual1215
    @mandalorianactual12152 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kogoromori30
    @kogoromori302 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cascarrabias397

    @cascarrabias397

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kogoromori30

    @kogoromori30

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cascarrabias397 FernandeZ+HernandeZ are the Spanish versions though

  • @peterkralt2478

    @peterkralt2478

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @cascarrabias397

    @cascarrabias397

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jaif7327

    @jaif7327

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cascarrabias397 holy schizophrenia

  • @dragonrider9051
    @dragonrider9051 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @georgejackson3570
    @georgejackson35702 жыл бұрын

    Really interesting video. Thank you.

  • @Epsillion70
    @Epsillion702 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Nate-dj9nt

    @Nate-dj9nt

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @irenejohnston6802

    @irenejohnston6802

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Nate-dj9nt

    @Nate-dj9nt

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Emilyb21-dm3bf

    @Emilyb21-dm3bf

    4 ай бұрын

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

  • @tigerland4328

    @tigerland4328

    3 ай бұрын

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

  • @denni7173
    @denni71732 жыл бұрын

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

  • @juni_pearl_9591

    @juni_pearl_9591

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @phornthip1991

    @phornthip1991

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lillemy4260

    @lillemy4260

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sámi are also from Inuit tribes

  • @lillemy4260

    @lillemy4260

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or Lappisk they came from LAppland

  • @phornthip1991

    @phornthip1991

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @igor-yp1xv
    @igor-yp1xv Жыл бұрын

    Nice video, thank you!

  • @pappapata
    @pappapata2 жыл бұрын

    Ja! Gillade den här väldigt mycket. Bra jobbat!

  • @MosaicRose99
    @MosaicRose992 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hunchbackaudio
    @hunchbackaudio2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HansWurst1569

    @HansWurst1569

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @alfreddaniels3817

    @alfreddaniels3817

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HansWurst1569

    @HansWurst1569

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @xyketh0n
    @xyketh0n8 ай бұрын

    Excellent video, thanks 👍

  • @cecileroy557
    @cecileroy5576 ай бұрын

    Thank you sooo much for this!!!!!

  • @Sheepdog1314
    @Sheepdog13142 жыл бұрын

    I am originally from Hessen, from the Taunus region which was sacked by the Romans. When I was a kid, the small towns still protected their dialect and food recipes. We even had our own types of holidays and parades, much of it with Pagan roots. That's pretty much all gone now. Not wanting to sound like a bigot, but my birthplace has been totally changed into a muslim holdout in the last 20 years. The local traditions are gone, Pagan stuff is no longer around because it "offended" the new "migrants", even the christian churches have taken down symbols of the religion as not to "offend" the "refugees". Won't be long before much of the old stuff is all gone.

  • @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger

    @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not a bigot. A realist. And an honest person. Very rare these days. This is happening all over Europe and America. You are not alone. And many of us are finally waking up to what's happening, and who is the Puppet Master in charge of making this happen.

  • @scythianking7315

    @scythianking7315

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're not a "Bigot"..... THEY are the Bigots. This would be like calling the Jews in Germany "Bigots" for not wanting to get on the trains

  • @gcanaday1

    @gcanaday1

    2 жыл бұрын

    My real reply will get me banned again. It's best to say simply that this makes me angry as hell.

  • @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger

    @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gcanaday1 Yes, because speaking the truth is now considered "hate speech" and they've been allowed to censor and silence dissenting voices. Many of us are awake to what's happening and are helping to wake up our fellow European brothers and sisters to the true reality of the Agenda. We were warriors once. We should've never stopped. Some of us did not. But most have become soft under the guise of civilization and an assault from the Abrahamic poison in our lands.

  • @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger

    @HroduuulfSonOfHrodger

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scythianking7315 Funny that you mention the Jews...hmmmmm...I wonder why all this is happening around the western world. Who are the puppet masters hiding behind the curtains? Glad you brought them up!

  • @waynehawkes9105
    @waynehawkes91052 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lynnmorrison
    @lynnmorrisonАй бұрын

    I am American with Irish, Scotland, Wales, and German Ancestry. I am heavy in genealogy which with my DNA has placed my Ancestry in all of these Countries. I love studying Old Europe history. You have helped me figure I have strong blood connecting with many Strong groups. This would make me happy to know I might have Viking blood as well.

  • @gregchaynes
    @gregchaynes9 ай бұрын

    awesome work

  • @alexhagen7046
    @alexhagen70462 жыл бұрын

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

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @denniscannon769

    @denniscannon769

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @elissalabellelabelle4819

    @elissalabellelabelle4819

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @basicinfo8786

    @basicinfo8786

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @andriandrason1318

    @andriandrason1318

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @jodywilkes2892
    @jodywilkes28922 жыл бұрын

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

  • @thedummydane9527
    @thedummydane9527 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnrihacek7879
    @johnrihacek78797 ай бұрын

    As being half Czech it is known fact that Czechs are a combination of Celt, German, and western Slavs. Past ethnic studies have found the Czechs to be more German than the Prussians ( who were originally Slavs).

  • @heartsofiron4ever

    @heartsofiron4ever

    7 ай бұрын

    I know a Czech guy named Vladislav Muller, with 0 German ancestors that he knew about

  • @fb2827
    @fb28272 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wolfganggugelweith8760

    @wolfganggugelweith8760

    27 күн бұрын

    …and from Vorarlberg in western Austria 🇦🇹.

  • @stonedape2406
    @stonedape24062 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gadpivs

    @gadpivs

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @stonedape2406

    @stonedape2406

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @InvaliDidea123
    @InvaliDidea123 Жыл бұрын

    Nicely done! 👍👍😎

  • @dianneatfeld687
    @dianneatfeld6878 ай бұрын

    I come from Sussex and learnt that the Saxons were known by the sword they carried, the seax. So Sussex is south seaxs, Wessex, the western seaxs, Essex, the eastern seaxs. History is right there with us.

  • @mahakalabhairava9950

    @mahakalabhairava9950

    7 ай бұрын

    Is there also a "Nessex"?

  • @eu-neuwagen4024
    @eu-neuwagen40248 ай бұрын

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

  • @christianc559

    @christianc559

    3 ай бұрын

    Azores has plausibility here with new discoveries.

  • @donnama9374

    @donnama9374

    Ай бұрын

    Danish documentary series “Gåden om Odin” told that Odin was actually Atli or Attila.

  • @eu-neuwagen4024

    @eu-neuwagen4024

    Ай бұрын

    @@donnama9374 I don't know that, but could well be. Manny of the so called "gods" roamed different territories, must have lived for long times and were famous in different countries under different names.

  • @MerlinFlexer
    @MerlinFlexer2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gadpivs

    @gadpivs

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @juergenernst1320

    @juergenernst1320

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @MerlinFlexer

    @MerlinFlexer

    Жыл бұрын

    @@juergenernst1320 Danke für die Info.

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @bustavonnutz

    @bustavonnutz

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @wanderingwithwiedemeier
    @wanderingwithwiedemeierАй бұрын

    Great video. I'm a teacher and I like your style of teaching. Awesome!

  • @heiniodendal4772
    @heiniodendal47729 ай бұрын

    I'm from South Africa and my ancester Wilhelm came to Cape Town in 1706 from Odenthal, a town near Keulen or Cologne!! Thank you for your very informative video about Tribes. I'm, along with English and Biblical Studies a History major!!

  • @perdidoatlantic

    @perdidoatlantic

    9 ай бұрын

    I have an ancestor from Cologne. Johannes came to South Carolina in 1711.

  • @barbara623
    @barbara623 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @michelberube6337

    @michelberube6337

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @alexwinter6720

    @alexwinter6720

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @neboyshanicolich761
    @neboyshanicolich7612 жыл бұрын

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

  • @rhmendelson
    @rhmendelson Жыл бұрын

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

  • @meklootngerard1496
    @meklootngerard1496 Жыл бұрын

    Cool docu man!im from belgium half Flemishdutch half French francophone and i like the way you refer to the Frisians and Danish,cause i can understand German and Frisian a bit and hear the link to Danish and you can really hear the connection in the language really interesting,thank u

  • @seinenno
    @seinenno2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tymanung6382

    @tymanung6382

    Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps ancestry DNA tests might help?

  • @HYDROCARBON_XD
    @HYDROCARBON_XD Жыл бұрын

    2:49 a correction,it also started in northern Germany,if you look at a map of Nordic Bronze Age,it is also in northern Germany so not only Scandinavia,originally the urheimat (original home) of Germanic tribes was also a part of Germany,not only Scandinavia,and that map is incorrect,there were already frisii (frisians) in Netherlands before 100 BC

  • @michaelbehrens1660
    @michaelbehrens1660 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @williamsmith-bf2vv
    @williamsmith-bf2vv Жыл бұрын

    awesome, very informative video....

  • @caolmountain8281
    @caolmountain82812 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CoachDoug714

    @CoachDoug714

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @brittakriep2938

    @brittakriep2938

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Philipp.of.Swabia

    @Philipp.of.Swabia

    Жыл бұрын

    Sad that The castle no longer stands. :/

  • @justforfunsies5000
    @justforfunsies50002 жыл бұрын

    I can oddly trace my dad’s DNA back to the Bavarian tribe, which extended to the Tyrol region of Austria. My family is one that doesn’t move from where we plant ourselves unless the situation is life or death, so up until the witch hunts (yep, I traced that too) they were firmly planted. Earliest record of my family’s surname is from the 1300’s in Tyrol. Ancestor was a knight, and earned our coat of arms. By the early to mid 1600’s they booked ass into the Alps and then into Bavaria.

  • @hythekent
    @hythekent9 ай бұрын

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

  • @charliezelenowski2701
    @charliezelenowski2701 Жыл бұрын

    I have done so much research into my ancestry. 100's of hours maybe 1000's and the first statement you make in the first 2 minutes... I could not agree more. It's a relief to hear someone else say what you were thinking is substantial. I have never disliked anyone for reasons out of their control. I am the kind of person who looks at how someone treats people around them before I make assumptions.