How was the talk? I enjoyed his book on Adrianople.

@@ThersitestheHistorian loved it,! But I'm a bit partial to him,he's good at explaining complex concepts to lay audiences,when he talks he does so with a passion that is really difficult to ignore. I also read the Adrianoples book! I managed to have it autographed and was really happy about it!

Speaking old Norse and Icelandic, and being able to read some old High German/Lombard, I can tell you something more: the name Bernasconi comes from Bernaskáney, where Berna is inflected Ber, italian "orso", and Skáney was the ancient name of the region of Scandinavia known in Italy as "Scania"; Skàney later turns in the Swedish Skåne and in the Icelandic Skáni, basically vocalized as Sconi, with Á being A that turns in O. From the inflected Bernus comes the old Norse Björn, because of a process known as rupture: E followed by U breaks in two sounds closer to U: J and Ö; they are not I and O because they needed to know that they were mutated vowels. The name Beretta, as the Berretta, is made of Ber Hatt, "orso" e "cappello", as english bear hat, and it develops as the word Berserkr, "orso" e "maglia", bear shirt. The italian languages uses words and verbs from old high German languages: The italian "Tu mi guardi" can be translated in the old Norse "Þú mik varðar", guardando is "varðandi", guardato is past participle "varðat", with different inflection if the adjective form is used; Words like "guanto", "wantæ", "ricco", "ríkk", "gatto", "köttr", plural "kattar", "colle", "holl", and many more. Actually also latin shares some word with old German languages, like "pater", föðr, feðr, faðir, "frater", broðir, or surprisingly even subjects: "Ego", for example, is old Icelandi "eg", that comes from Ek and before that from "ik" and "ih". While it is often said that "Deus" and indian words like "Dyaus" are of the indoaryan root "Diw", "light", I would say that the actual base of the word is old Norse and Germanic Ljós, "light": with emphasys on the first part of the word, as old German rule, you can notice the birth of D between L and J: Ljós turns into L-D-jós, so Djós, like Deus, while Jupiter, Ju-Piter, literally "Deus Pater" keeps the J. However, J is generally a mutated sound, and probably the origi al word coud have been with U sound, like Lú or something, similar to the Celtic Lugh.

wich part of italy your familyt comes from joe? u found byDNA test?

Never knew much of the Lombards, as my family came from Cornwall and Nothern Norway, and I was surprised that my DNA came back as being in relation with the Lombards and Swiss. I-L22 and 328 Neatherthal traits. I find this all very interesting.

Me as well! Aistulf King of the Lombards was my 37th great grandfather. Any information on other living descendants in Lombardy? Thank you

So you are not a true Roman but a barbarian?

@@BRAgamer every european is descended from the same people living in the 9th century, which means that we're all descended from both Charlemagne and the lowest of the peasants in his empire.

The Franks won because they had a century of advantage. In France, the process of assimilation of the Franks with the rest of the population was completed by Charlemagne's grandfather, Charles Martel, that accepted them in the army. That process was still at the beginning in Italy (that had been invaded by the Lombards a century after the beginning of the Merovingian kingdom in France), where the Lombards were still a Germanic tribe separated from the Italics and the German remainants of the previous invasions, that were their subjects, and couldn't fight. That way the Franks could assemble a far greater army than that of the Lombards.

The Franks by and large weren't like the Lombards who inherited a land through outright conquest and subjugation of the populace in Italy. When the Lombards gained Italy somewhere in the late 6th century to the early 7th century, the country had already been wasted by 2 centuries of constant warfare and plague. It was like a sprint race of riches to rags. The Gothic war between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantine Romans left Italy in a shambolic state, with Rome dwindling from her height of almost a million population to numbering tens of thousands. This is pretty sad state of affairs when the Lombards rolled in. There was no more infrastructure and bureaucratic order. As for the Franks, they were always the best barbarian Friend of the Romans, particularly their contributions to the Gallo Romans in Gaul, by protecting their lands and actually becoming Romanized in the late Roman army system. They held positions in the imperial military and dressed to their best to Roman uniforms and some even becoming adopted Romans. When they took over most of Gaul, they did not find the country to be in the state of despair like Italy. The systems of Gallo Roman governance was there, learned men and skilled Roman craftsmen were there to learn from. Hence these Franks admired and wanted to immerse themselves to become Romanized with the Gallo Roman population. Which they did, building upon Roman innovations, adopting most of their military technology, building their Churches, walls and forts etc..... Hence the more intact Gallo Roman province gave the tolerant Franks the right platform for economic, military, political growth than the Lombards who suffer from the lack of a unifying figure in some periods of their history. These two factions of the Franks and the Lombards would become the premier factions of the dark ages and after the Arab invasions, the Franks with a much more powerful military would crush the Lombards in Italy and would become their rulers

I descend from Lombards. Very interesting history.

There was a Carolingian king of Italy called Lambert - he was well loved but died very young and greatly mourned!

Haha, I would never be able to guess based on your user name. :)

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Lumbardh is Alb.. name se facebook lumbardh is not langbeard lombard Bardh means Whit. Lum means River BOR means ''snow'' bardh means white

Rellun .a Etymology has always been litigatious . :)

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My parents surnames are Bernasconi and Beretta, and they have no meaning in Italian; only Beretta is related to a kind of hat. Beretta is from Ber Hatt, bear hat, Bernasconi from Bernaskáney; Skáney was the ancient name of the region of Scania, now known in Sweden as Skåne and Iceland as Skáni, vocalized practically as Sconi from Bernasconi, that means Scania of Ber. Bernus, inflected Ber, later turns into Björn because of a process known as rupture: E followed by U is broken in JÖ, as seen in erþu, earth, jörð.

​@@BernaskaneyTheLangobardso we have to thanks the ancient Lombards for the 92FS?

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Are you a descendant of King Aistulf? He was my 37th great grandfather.

His surname was Ajstulf. My surname has than evolved to Aistulfus( latinized later when Langobards collapsed) and now it is Stolfa.

My 37th great grand father was King Aistulf of the Lombards. Any knowledge of the modern day decendants in Lombardy area?

HeyTimmy tell me more. How were you able to trace back. How wonderful is that, wow!

They were Christians, but Arian Christians. As a typical german tribe they embraced centuries before Christianity under the theological doctrine of bishop Arius. Mainly they believe that Trinity wasn't the same "entity", but the Father was superior to J.Ch and the Holy Spirit.

Names where changed when Domes day book came out .. My Grandmothers side were Italians

Godfrey of Buillon was norman, not lombard.

Of course -- Most Italians partly descend from them...

@@alior6933 Did they mingle when they were in power or only after being subjugated along with the locals?

​@@quitlife9279they just blended in. Their numbers were pretty low and through marriages with the locals they basically blended into the rest of the population and adopted their customs.

The Byzantines were Roman. They are the eastern Romans but became Greek speaking...... nothing wrong with that. The Lombards had it easy because the Byzantines preferred to focus on Sassanids and Bulgars and Arabs who were the biggest threat

@@ConstantineJoseph The Byzantines are Greeks larping as Romans.

@@googleisafuckingjoke6855 Nope they aren't They really are Romans, citizen wise. Literally they are the Eastern Roman Empire, except that they decided to use Greek instead of Latin as their choice of language. If not everything from religion, to architecture, to Byzantine army systems and weaponry were Roman and the legacy of the Romans. They updated consistently on their weaponries and used divide and conquer like the Romans do. They are Roman

@@ConstantineJoseph No they are Greeks who claim to be Roman, genetically they are Greek and their culture was mostly Greek with some Roman influence within it. Their architecture, system and Armies were all inspired mixture of Roman and Greek culture (aka Greco-Roman) but they are still mostly Greek. And they didn't choose to speak Greek because it was their choice of lanauage they spoke it because they already spoke it and it was easier to speak a language that is native to your lands along with the fact that they never really spoke Latin after the Romans had conquered Greece similarly to how the Carthagians never stopped speaking Punic.

@@ConstantineJoseph If they were indeed Romans why did they ultimately switch from Latin to Greek? They were really Greeks and behaved as such..

Makes sense. It was the general (though not universal) rule that Germanics became Christianised as a result of settling on Roman territory.

Your avatar looks a lot like my dog, just younger.

@@J_Rees Jersey?