Journey to Gnezdovo: The Industrial Giant of Viking Rus'

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The most prominent portage on the eastern trade route is the one between the river Kasplia in the north, and the great Dniepr in the south. The Kasplia is a tributary of the great Daugava, directly connected to the Baltic sea. The Dniepr could be reached from the north via portage from the Lovat, directly connected to Lake Ilmen and Ladoga. It is no surprise then, that a settlement would appear on the portage between the Kasplia and the Dniepr, running along the banks of the latter. It is in fact, the largest archaeological site discovered in the region and has proven a virtual treasure trove - it is comparable to more well-known locations like Novgorod or Kiev, and some have even argued, that it was the most important settlement on the route to Byzantium. Nowadays it is called: Gnezdovo.
Sources:
Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages(500-1300) - Florin Curta
GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL ISSUES OF THE UPPER DNIEPER - WESTERN DVINA RIVER REGION (WESTERN RUSSIA): FIELDTRIP GUIDE
gnezdovo.com
GNEZDOVO ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX - M. V. Bondareva, A. S. Mironova, A. A. Rudenko
Horse remains from the Gnezdovo archaeological complex, Smolensk Region, Russia - Irina V. Kirillova, Natalia N. Spasskaya
Landscape and historical conditions for the emergence and formation of the city of Smolensk - V.A Nizotsev and N.M Erman
Symbols of Faith or Symbols of Status? Christian Objects in Tenth-Century Rus´ - Fedir Androshchuk
The Technology of Manufacturing Glass Beads at Gnezdovo, Smolensk Region - O.P Dobrova
The Varangians - Sverrir Jakobsson
Viking-period pre-urban settlements in Russia and finds of artefacts of Scandinavian character - Tamara Pushkina
Viking Rus - Wladyslaw Duczko
Music credits:
Skyrim Solstheim OST - Jeremy Soule
Too Cool - Kevin Macleod
Featuring photographies of Gnezdovo kurgans by Mikra72
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
4:52 Geographical situation
9:52 Industry
16:16 Jewelcrafting
20:28 Town and hillfort
24:48 The cemetaries
35:16 Rise of Smolensk
#vikings #history #russia

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@balticempire7244 Ай бұрын

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@romantrojanowski7782 24 күн бұрын

Gnezdovo sounds similar to polish Gnezno.

@georgthesecond 21 күн бұрын

As a russian with some interest in old slavic and norse cultures and history, those several videos connecting them were very interesting, thank you :)

@hondacbrification 21 күн бұрын

Varangian nobility where a Hungarian-Swedish offshoot of Hungarian A Vár nobility that got rebranded as KiJEWISH RUS by Orthodoxy just as many others. Slav-Slöwen a Indo-Iranian people with such genetics converted local Hungarian-Macar-Scythian population like other to they language,traditions...via forced religious conversion which is how they rebranded Catholics as well and Ostrogoths or Eastern Gothic people become Slav-Slöwen or Indo-Iranianised like in case of Ostrogotski Manastir or Deutsch-Dutch-Dutchian-Dacian to Dečanski Manastir....

@ButterDog42069 25 күн бұрын

5:25 small correction: The word Svinetz does not mean Swine River, it literally is just a word for lead. As in the metal. So it could be interpreted as being called the Lead River. Interestingly tho, the word svinetz in itself does in fact come from the russian word for swine - swin'ya. So in russian lead is literally called "pig metal". No idea why

@zeytelaloi 24 күн бұрын

Could it be related to its use for plumbing?

@mikipublikum8362 24 күн бұрын

Svinetz - “svinjac” in serbian means mud where pigs bath

@DVXDemetrivs 23 күн бұрын

This is the result of a language change. The word "lead" and "pig" sounded similar, but different enough to be different words in general in ancient Russian.

@hondacbrification 21 күн бұрын

@@mikipublikum8362It is where the pigs are kept rather then bathed something that none was doing at all.

@milanpracek2931 19 күн бұрын

Svinets doesn't come from Swine or Lead it is connected to slavic word that describe something curved, it simply means river with a lot of curves a curved river. In today Slovenian languague there are several examples: Svitek - english means Scroll S often change o Z for example Zvin- english Twist, than for example Zavoj - english Turn and so on. That S - Z exchange is quite common in slavic language grammars, the spoken sound is almost the same. There is a nice example of river name with english meaning Bend it is river Sava that floats from Slovenia to Croatia and then to Serbia and in Serbian and Croatian language Saviti means exactly that - To bend. And the slavic word for Lead metal - Svinec is also connected to slavic word root Sav - Zav, it simply means the metal that bends easily or better is prone to bend or to be curved. All this old slavic etymology is easily understandable for slavic language speakers.

@nicktrueman224 24 күн бұрын

I built a Slavic warrior impression from the finds at Gnezdovo and Czarnaja Mogila. I still have this kit as well as a Magyar impression. I based that of the book Ancient Hungarians which is one of the best books I have ever seen for those interested in early Magyar history and those who have silversmithing and blacksmithing skills and wish to make a Magyar kit. Another good book is Europus Mitte Um in German but allot of english descriptions.

@hondacbrification 21 күн бұрын

He literally rebranded Hungarian-Macar-Scythian as Slav-Slöwen a Indo-Iranian group similarly as how Orthodoxy have done accross the lands.

@monkelord7730 16 күн бұрын

En välgjord video för ett väldigt intressant ämne? Perfekt.

@whocares7633 22 күн бұрын

Thanks a lot for an exciting and well done video! I especially liked that you went over reasons for placement and actual findings from that location

@DieLuftwaffel 25 күн бұрын

"Oooohhhhh Raaaaaaaah!" 😂

@SB-qm5wg 19 күн бұрын

Excellent video. TY

@ButterDog42069 25 күн бұрын

My CK3 brain is happy

@TheQuallsing 23 күн бұрын

Very good video, thank you.

@trwsandford 25 күн бұрын

Cool stuff!

@okancanarslan3730 23 күн бұрын

very informative documentary

@Willy_Tepes 25 күн бұрын

It was quite easy to find these grave mounds on satellite images. There is a group where the 120 road crosses the Dnieper.

@omar0bin0thabit 29 күн бұрын

Beautiful

@LuisAldamiz 23 күн бұрын

Amazing! Sure: it's just Smolensk being born and growing up... but you explain it sooo well and in such great detail, that you'd deserve a prize if there was one to documentaries without budget.

@yourreflection2536 21 күн бұрын

They forgot to mention that typical Scandinavian-type burials contain remains identified as Baltic Slavs. It is also known that in the undoubtedly Slavic Rugen, there are burials in boats with iron rivets. Which clearly indicates borrowing from the Scandinavians.

@TheSapier 25 күн бұрын

your a great historian, superb vid

@GAIVSCALIGVLA 25 күн бұрын

Great video, seriously.

@Purple-durple 23 күн бұрын

is this your first sponsor?

@AdamPortugez 24 күн бұрын

Super 👍

@HEALTHYFOODGOOD 14 күн бұрын

Can you make a video about Volga Bulgaria? Are there any evidences that a significant number of Scandinavians stayed there to live? The thing is, I am Tatar, and I recently took a genetic test which revealed that I am 40% North-Western European with ties to Sweden

@ZS-rw4qq 25 күн бұрын

Question for the east Slavic brethren - would you translate Bezdonka into English as bottomless?

@marcusaurelius4941 25 күн бұрын

judging by my first instinct (without delving deeper, because there are surprises in etymology where things are a lot more complicated than they seem) - yes I would

@ZS-rw4qq 25 күн бұрын

@@marcusaurelius4941 we also have a place called Bezdan near some water Also Bez - without Dno - bottom

@yozhleszy 24 күн бұрын

Безъдъна -- bottomless. Безъдънка -- a small bottomless.

@ChirkunovIvan 24 күн бұрын

Yes that's it.

@user-wb1yb6hd9o 24 күн бұрын

Do you have any idea what GDNEZDO means in slavic. And how absolutely nothing GNEZDO means in germanic languages.

@user-ez7pt1by6i 22 күн бұрын

Gnezdo means nest in slavic languages.

@xZxOxVx 20 күн бұрын

This is just another anti-Slavic channel , unsub from me

@milanpracek2931 19 күн бұрын

Gnezdo or Gnjazdo in slavic languages means Nest as Birds Nest or maybe Wasp Nest. There is a possibility that by indigenous population it was seen a Nest of foreign invaders. In germanic languages Gnezdo ot Gnjazdo doesn't have any meaning. Like for example name of German capital Berlin it doesn't refer to Bear but to Marshes in old slavic language Brlja means marshes and Brljin simply meand a town in a marshland.

@user-wb1yb6hd9o 19 күн бұрын

@@milanpracek2931 od course it does Milane.

@rvd5014 15 күн бұрын

The name of the excavations is given according to the modern names of nearby cities, this is normal, this does not mean that this was the name of the settlement in ancient times, it means that it was found near the modern village of Gnezdovo

@savannahshepherd2283 25 күн бұрын

Nice to see the more obscure history 😊 alot of yt same stuff 😢

@cold1895 25 күн бұрын

3:23 The subliminal message worked. I was so confused to hear what the sound in the background was, and now I'll never forget Arua.

@DieLuftwaffel 25 күн бұрын

You already forgot how to spell it 😂

@SamLeutzNaturalBodyBulding 19 күн бұрын

What id do to go back in time.

@milanpracek2931 22 күн бұрын

31.46 : Etymologically You can connect the inscription on a vessel GOROUŠNA to GORNYI that means UPPER or AT THE TOP or to a word GORKY that have several meanings one is BITTER and the other is WARM or BURNING. It could simply mean that the content of a vessel was bitter or containing a liquid that burned the throat. So probable the vessel belonged to a slavic warrior that liked a drink that burned the throat. Connection to Mustard is total etymological fail, most of so called slavic experts in the west dosn't know a single word of slavic languages.

@balticempire7244 22 күн бұрын

The connection to mustard comes from Slavic sources listed in the video description lmao

@milanpracek2931 22 күн бұрын

@@balticempire7244 If You translate Mustard it literally means Gorčica, but Gorćica - Mustard or beter Mustards seeds is Mediteranian spice also used by Romans and I don't see any connection with it regard to ancient Slavs or old Scandinavian Germanic tribes or nations. Slavic source means nothing, entire south Slavs history doctrine lays on old pangermanic Vienna history doctrine. Basically someone misunderstood word Gorko - Bitter, or Goreče - Burning with modern day Mustard spice and I don't think he was well versed in old slavic language grammar whoever he was. But this are just minor linguistic and etymological remarks. Keep up the good work. Regards. Milan

@balticempire7244 21 күн бұрын

Gnezdovo had trade links with the Mediterranean and Romans/Byzantium

@milanpracek2931 21 күн бұрын

@@balticempire7244 Ja probable it had, but I don't think the mustard seeds or mustard sauce would be a commodity worth of such a journey. Keep Up the Good Work. And By the way Gnezdovo comes from Gnezdo or Gnjazdo, that is Nest like Bird Nest in English. Regards Milan

@AlexBeau9 17 күн бұрын

@@milanpracek2931it's mustard and it's not exclusive to the Romans. Mustard plant (Sinapis) grows all over Europe. It could have been mustard seeds for production of mustard oil or something like that. Also, you seem to mix up different eras. We're not talking about "ancient" times, but the middle ages. Gnezdovo is just the name of the village where this site is found today, it's not the original name of the town. It's believed to be the original place where Smolensk was founded. Which later was moved a little further east to where it is located today. The name Smolensk derives from the Russian word smola, meaning tar. It was the place where they tarred their boats.

@DerekDickinson-jd3gv 25 күн бұрын

The good old days before mosquito repellent.

@jussikankinen9409 20 күн бұрын

They used plants

@jussikankinen9409 20 күн бұрын

Vodka was first used repellant

@user-nm4oe4zp8d 21 күн бұрын

мне понравилось.Многие русские сами не знают кто они и откуда.А здесь столько новой информации.Спасибо.

@jussikankinen9409 20 күн бұрын

Hope hemp replace trees, can make toilet paper, ethanol, houses, ropes, even car and forest saved

@mitkodimitrov8396 25 күн бұрын

hah this name sound so bulgarian.Gnezdo(гнездо) in bulgarian mean -nest and most villages in Bulgaria finish,with vo.Is this land bin part of Old great Bulgaria,or Volga Bulgaria?Healt and happynes

@Admin-gm3lc 25 күн бұрын

This is obviously one of shared Slavic words, and the Gnezdovo site is named after the village nearby which appeared in the 15th century.

@user-qx5mu8nf6k 25 күн бұрын

in russian this is also a nest

@00700A 25 күн бұрын

In polish similar

@aleksandarnikolic2743 25 күн бұрын

😅AND SERBIAN👍

@ZS-rw4qq 25 күн бұрын

I think Volga Bulgars were more to the east

@stuartjsmith3927 21 күн бұрын

Do ever consider the Bock Saga?

@user-po8ke5vh2e 25 күн бұрын

svinec means metal - LED

@atideskvo 21 күн бұрын

Its called Gnezdovo like Nest.🕊️

@samoljubesic6275 20 күн бұрын

G-nest-ovo

@shegeley 25 күн бұрын

aura aura aura

@user-sk3yz9kr1t 19 күн бұрын

Well, since you have already started talking about Novgorod, Ladoga, Gnezdovo and the origin of the princes of Rus, it would be important to note the literary sources on which your theory is built. And this, as I understand it, is the "Tale of Bygone Years". The source itself is very doubtful, since for many centuries no one has seen the original and there are doubts about its existence. At least, archaeology has not confirmed its reliability. The legend of Rurik was inscribed in the text even later than the writing of the probable original source and not earlier than the second half of the 12th century, in the time of Monomakh. Historically, the person of Rurik is no more a fact than dragons, fairies and elves. He was invited to a city that did not exist at that time. So, the whole scheme with the genealogies of subsequent princes collapses. No, there were princes, but, they had a different origin and the history was somewhat different

@markotosic6823 22 күн бұрын

Gnezdo is home for litle birds that was home for Slavic Rusians not norsman..... Serbian songg Gnezdo Orlovo!!!!!!!!!! 🇷🇸❤🇷🇺☦️

@hondacbrification 21 күн бұрын

@markotosic6823 20 күн бұрын

@@hondacbrification That name was give to our people from pope and Germany the ultimate enemy of Serbs. First was genocide and asimilian Serbs from Germany, now try to kill us all on Balkan and always. Serbs are oldest name for Slavs and we are the first people in whole Europe, we are indians of Europe. We are been the Guardian of Europe many times. We are been stupid. We should let Turkish ottomans army to Europe, but no more after 1999 , next time we are the first on west doors like we in many times, now when Russia will rise again we will rise and many free people's will rise against west beast

@markotosic6823 20 күн бұрын

@@hondacbrification it's inaf of Western lies !!!!!!! ;!!! 🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇸🇷🇺

@markotosic6823 17 күн бұрын

@@hondacbrification And Var and Kijev are SrbRus words,.GostiVar, VukoVar, TamishVar, PetroVar, BeloVar,VarVarin, Kijevo , Kijevski,Kijevamet, and so on.............

@rvd5014 15 күн бұрын

@emilianozapata2530 25 күн бұрын

Western authors and historians love to say how first Russian state was founded by Vikings,like somebody from the ,,WesT" had to come and show them how to do so. Slavic culture at those times still based on one generation telling stories to the next one,and by ddoing so they would carry the information and legacy of their past for their future generations. This empty space is often used by west to manipulate history of Russia and try to control its future in that way. This is a recepy that is well known to us in Balkan,best regards from Serbia!

@marcusaurelius4941 25 күн бұрын

what's your point and how is it relevant to the video?

@emilianozapata2530 24 күн бұрын

@@marcusaurelius4941 it's relevant because half of nowdays Germany was once Slavic,only due to the long process of germanization they became what they are today,so to be able to grasp Suebians were you need to know history a bit better than average youtuber.

@PanSzawu 24 күн бұрын

But we actually have tons of archaeological sites, artifacts and linguistics that proves that the Vikings did come in and rule over the Eastern Slavs. Slavic and Germanic lands were not ever static. The Slavic tribes did rule themselves but they were in conflict with themselves, the Byzantines, Goths, Celts, Pechenegs, etc. and the Northmen were the foremost technologically and cohesive raiding warbands that terrorized the entirety of Europe culminating in the Normans. The Normans were like the Germans against the Poles in WW2, legions of hyper advanced tanks against calvary and trench warfare in a developing recovered nation. Slavs in academia suffer an inferiority complex by not accepting history where it needs to be accepted and dieing on hills over delusional self mythologizing lies. Instead of being grateful and proud for the history we do have, we choose to ignore it over the bitterness that doesn't come from being the best and fall into chauvinism rather than addressing weaknesses and adapting. Anybody with academic integrity knows what your saying is just a load of horse shit meant to make yourself feel better and it doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme, but you don't have a mountain, you have a mole hill. Lastly, Slavs are hardly a unified group since they're only unified by a loose linguistic family when Eastern and Western Slavs could not be more different from Balkan Slavs and to some degree less with each other. Its like claiming a Bavarian Herman is identical to an Anglo from York or a Scandinavian Norwegian that speaks Bokmal and even further a Faroese. They have similar elements but they are NOT one nation and pan Slavism is one of the worst concepts in history and its ironic Serbs and Balkan slavs seem to love it so much given that the region falls into an ethnic conflict every 60 years.

@emilianozapata2530 24 күн бұрын

@@PanSzawu Lol who has proves western academic societies? 😂 you weaternes never learned that we do not care much about what you tell about our own history,you will tell anything they told you to learn in your university while you were studying and serve the narrative your own country needs you to serve. You plundered 3/4 so you can fill up your own museums with artefacts and history since you were lacking your own and you dare come preach about Slavic history anywhere? German historians and academy of science has infiltrated itself in to Russian academy and they did the same in Serbia. Every war we had our enemies first bombed our libraries,not a surprise since there is a clear intention for centuries to push us out of our ancestral lands in Balkans. Half of today's Germany is of Slav origin yet nobody talks about,together with the capital that doesnt have any meaning in German but in Slavic language it does. Do not preach about history that you ain't familiar with,we have been listening to western interpretation of history for far too long.

@feudaljester7581 23 күн бұрын

facts

@MrDedushkoMoroz 23 күн бұрын

one of my grandfathers at Gnezdovo -VK273

@jugoplastika45 18 күн бұрын

Гнездово - это по сербский !

@GRANDPAWRINKLYSNATCHBREATH 15 күн бұрын

@that1metalhead792 25 күн бұрын

Yup, another Wendo-Norse classic!

@GRANDPAWRINKLYSNATCHBREATH 15 күн бұрын

@blanco7726 25 күн бұрын

It would surprise me that in the Middle Ages in Russia they wouldnt think of putting the boat on a bunch of wheels and drag it with multiple horses? Why bother with the slow inefficient log and roll method

@kremepye3613 25 күн бұрын

Boat too heavy, wheels will have too high ground pressure and will sink into marshy and muddy ground

@blanco7726 24 күн бұрын

@@kremepye3613 large wheels, spiked wheels, or just a sled. With a couple engineering parts, to add and remove as needed a sled can be pulled pretty much anywhere in any condition rather easily.

@yozhleszy 24 күн бұрын

@@blanco7726 The experience of "Leopards" and "Abrams" demonstrates otherwise.

@DVXDemetrivs 23 күн бұрын

A horse in ancient Russia is a very expensive pleasure (not every knyaz could afford a horse suitable for combat) and do you want to use a horse to drag ships?

@blanco7726 23 күн бұрын

@@DVXDemetrivs multiple horses yes. There were surely some for rent back in the day, you dont have to own it.

@user-cv2lh3wu2q 9 күн бұрын

The Baltic Empire??? Is this some kind of Papuan empire?

@FinlandS2 25 күн бұрын

Спасибо конечно, но в потоке английского русские слова звучат ненатурально, особенно "Городищще". Нельзя ли робота попросить лучше произносить славянские названия?

@marcusaurelius4941 25 күн бұрын

не знаю к чему токсичность, по моему наоборот хорошее произношение, особенно Новгород и Смоленск, видно что старался. на его акцент в английском вы также реагируете?

@yozhleszy 24 күн бұрын

да пофиг же. "хоть горшком назови, лишь бы в печь не сажай".

@user-th1ci7rx9g 25 күн бұрын

A synonym for Eastern Slavs is RUS. Greetings to all Russians.

@whyukraine 25 күн бұрын

We have a special greeting for russians here in Ukraine. You should come & find out!

@user-th1ci7rx9g 25 күн бұрын

@@whyukraine It would be better if you stop the aggression against the Russian brothers, you all came from the same cradle anyway.

@whyukraine 25 күн бұрын

@@user-th1ci7rx9g As soon as they stop invading the country.

@yozhleszy 24 күн бұрын

@@user-th1ci7rx9g Светлые эльфы всегда смотрели на сие иначе. "Ewig ist der Hass des Untermenschen gegen die hellen Gestalten, die Träger des Lichtes" (с) 1942

@frankschmidt2303 24 күн бұрын

No the Rus is from Sweden

@user-sk3yz9kr1t 24 күн бұрын

Three typical mistakes of poorly educated people. Firstly, those people never considered themselves part of Rus. Secondly, Gnezdovo is a typical medieval junction on the trade route and therefore there are not only traces of Scandinavian culture, but also Finno-Ugric, Bulgar, and Rus. Thirdly, there are no weighty artifacts proving the serious influence of the Scandinavians on Rus. Unlike the Gothic influence

@user-wb1yb6hd9o 23 күн бұрын

Sorry, but there are no scandinavian influences on slavic people. It is totally otherwise.

@user-sk3yz9kr1t 22 күн бұрын

@@user-wb1yb6hd9o Before the arrival of the Slavs in the area of the Dnieper river system, the civilization of the West Goths had already existed there for several centuries, and to the west to the Carpathian Mountains and beyond them lived Celtic tribes. From here it is difficult to say what the influence of the Slavs on the Scandinavian peoples was. Except for the raids of the Slavs who occupied the southern coast of the Baltic on the Danes

@user-wb1yb6hd9o 22 күн бұрын

@@user-sk3yz9kr1t Goths are Gets and Gets were Tracians. West Goths and whatever Goths have nothing to do with germanic people.

@user-sk3yz9kr1t 22 күн бұрын

@@user-wb1yb6hd9o I heard this theory

@yourreflection2536 21 күн бұрын

Well, this is the 10th century. when the Varangians were just invited to serve the Russian princes. By the way, the author did not say that half of the Viking burials were Baltic Slavs.

@user-uk3nx8cn4u 21 күн бұрын

There was no such thing as viking anything on the continent, moreover Rus as the spoke distinctly different languages, Germanic and Slavic accordingly.

@user-qx5mu8nf6k 25 күн бұрын

Viking Rus', what is it? there was Vladimir Rus, Novgorod Rus, Moscow Rus, Kievan Rus, Tver Rus... the author makes up a lot

@balticempire7244 25 күн бұрын

you didn't even watch the video, you just get triggered over a video title, comment and then boost the algorithm for max 💲💲💲

@loshadkinloshadkin725 25 күн бұрын

Viking Rus is clearly all the lands ruled by the Rus combined

@user-qx5mu8nf6k 25 күн бұрын

@@loshadkinloshadkin725 neither in Russian chronicles, nor in Greek, nor Arabic, there is such a phrase, Viking Rus', this never happened in history, this is a fiction

@balticempire7244 25 күн бұрын

neither does "Kievan Rus" appear in period documents, it is a term invented by 19th century historians to distinguish the polity ruling the Rus' region/people during a particular period. "Viking Rus" is a similar term used by historians - you'll notice one of my sources listed in the video description using this title - used in reference to viking dominions or presence in the Rus' region. why use it? for convenience, and because most of my audience and potential audience are americans or other english speakers and westeners unfamiliar with this history - but interested and familiar with vikings

@user-qx5mu8nf6k 25 күн бұрын

@@balticempire7244 ok, now it’s clear, I wrote this because there may be a feeling that there was a Viking principality in Rus', which did not exist, although they were present in history, which is undeniable