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“God, save us from the plague, the fire and the Curonians." This was found inscribed on a Danish church, dated to the 11th-12th centuries.

As a Lithuanian I am deeply greatful to you for making this video. Since baltic pagan religion and history is so obscure and most of our older history is only found in sources from other cultures and countries, we ourselves miss out on alot of it. I always used to be really frustrated at how much of our ancestor's history and culture went unrecorded in any way, but your video has made me realise that there is so much more invaluable pieces of information left to discover than I first thought, it's just that they are all scattered across other cultures. Now I'm hell-bent on searching for it.

During my father's travels across Europe when he was in his 20's, he came to a monument in northern Denmark saying:"God save us from the storms, and the Kurs(Kurši)" (EDIT: This prayer is alluded to in 7:50 of the video!) It makes me proud to be descended from one of the only peoples that the Vikings not only couldn't conquer, but downright feared for their ferocity. Lai dzīvo Baltija!!🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹🤝🇪🇪

🇱🇹🤝🇱🇻 Real viking descendants.

The word viking has become a brand of pirates from skandinavia to a degree that people forget that pretty much every nation around Baltic sea practiced piracy. Scandinavians just practiced it most extensively.

Im from Kurzeme, modern name for the land of Curonians. There is an old saying of Kurši putting up cut off legs of invaders on sticks on the Baltic sea shores. Most invaders thought it was a warning to stay away from these lands, but actually the warriors were drying up the legs in the seashore winds and sun to be able to pull off the fine leather boots from the cutoff legs.

I'm Lithuanian and I'm so happy that I found this video. Instant subscribe, our history is so scatered around the Europe. It is really hard to find such information. Video is great from the begining to the end. That background music creates amazing atmosphere, you just dive yourself into the past...

In 1183 a force of 186,000 Curzeme and fellow Latvian and Baltic tribes had enough of Swedish Viking raids on our shore of the Baltic Sea. We raided, sacked their capital Sigtuna marched across to Norway and gave them some payback to!! So frightened were they that Norway converted to Christianity for help from the Pope. And in Sweden all Christian masses up to the 16th Century ended with the prayer. God save us from the Cur! God save us from the wrath of Latvians. We Latvians and fellow Balts are Deeply proud of our Pagan Identity. While the rest of Europe gave up their gods an goddesses

My name is Kuhr. My ancestors were driven away from their home during WW2 but I can trace my roots way back to the Kuren (how we call them in German).

When the whole world feared the Norse, the Norse feared the Kurs.

The similarities in warfare that the Baltic peoples had with the Norse reminds me of how the Mongols frequently fought Turkic and Tungistic peoples who also practiced warfare in a manner similar to themselves.

Great video! My maternal grandmother is from Lithuania (fled in 1950), & I love learning more about our ancient Baltic ancestors & teaching this to my children and eventually my grandchildren. Would love to see more on the Balts & I look forward to seeing more of your content.

Worth mentioning that not all of the Curonians were conquered. The most Southern parts of Curonia joined the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and ended up assimilating into the neighboring Samogitian tribe. This includes the aforementioned Apuolė hillfort. It's believed to be the reason why the local dialect/language is so different from the rest, due to the Curonian influence.(e.g word for duck is Pylė, believed to be a curonianism and not seen in any other Lith dialect, they preserved the diphong ei instead of the diphong ie, which was only done by western balts etc)

One of best videos about Curonian tribe.

*The Curonians from the Land of Amber* are one of the most interesting ancient peoples that I've learned about. Thank you for the video.

Lithuania was the last pagan state in Europe. Almost 1,000 years after the official conversion of the Roman Empire facilitated the gradual spread of Christianity, the Lithuanians continued to perform their ancient animist rituals and worship their gods in sacred groves. By the 13th Century, modern-day Estonia and Latvia were overrun and forcibly converted by crusaders, but the Lithuanians successfully resisted their attacks. Eventually, the state became Christian of its own accord: Grand Duke Jogaila converted to Catholicism in 1386 in order to marry the Queen of Poland

I just found out that my father is mainly Lithuanian. This explains a lot about me and things I am drawn to. Thank you so much for this!

I found out I have Baltic and Celtic DNA. However it's hard to tell what parts specifically. I hope it's Irish and curonian. Badass mix.

Curonians went to fight with Vikings with Sweden and Denmark and stayed on Gotland Island

One thing to keep in mind is that in Northern Curonia lived Finno-Ugrics - Curonian Livonians. Outsiders might have not distinguished between Northern Curonians aka Finno-Ugrics and Southern Curonians aka Balts. It were probably the Northern Curonians who used to go on raiding trips along with Saaremaalased (Oeselians) since they both were Finno-Ugrians and spoke very similar languages.

Balts are not cousins to slavs. We're nowhere close to even being similar in any way whatsoever. Besides that, great video.

I’m glad I came across your video. I found out I have Baltic DNA as well as Swedish and Germanic. I enjoy learning about my heritage. Thank you.

My grandmother used some words in her language which were curonian origin and her family home was close by Apuole. We are still here just under different names.

Germanic/Nordic people were obsessed with trying to conquer, exterminate or assimilate the Baltic lands. Which is Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, etc. What attracts Germans and Scandinavians into this land? The Eastern Baltic sea I mean.

That Baltic Bloodline runs deep in my Veins!!

In official sources it is stated that Kuronian language disappeared early, but I have read in literature not connected to linguistics, that between World Wars some fishermen in Kuronian spit Lithuania still spoke Kuronian. Or at least some Baltic dialect unintelligible for Lithuanian speakers.

There were other tribes, mostly slavic which had similiar tactics as the Vikings. On the Island of Wolin (in present day Poland) were Wolinians en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolinians also knowns as Chąśnicy pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chąśnicy (this article needs translation from polish).They have plunder the Kungahälla, Roskilde near Copenhagen and Lübeck.

Great video. I German with East Prussian ancestry. Some of my ancestors came from the Curonian Spit and were amonst the last speakers of the Curonian language in the 1940s.

So nicely made. Enjoyed every second of it! 😃 Try some time to make something about Estonians or ancient Estonians. Maybe even about the Oesaelians. 👍😊

In Lithuania Curonian descends used and worshiped pagan traditions till 19th century!

Dude this video looks amazing! 🔥

Would love to see a video about the Vendel age, it holds many epic legends in Sweden, thanks for this awesome video.

I remember reading a 1950s book about this, in the general library of the University of Auckland, NZ, in about 1990. Wish i could remember the author.

Nice to see you're developing your style. Well done!

Great video make more video about Prussia or Curonians or any baltic tribes. I think they should be more promoted not many know anything about it

Hehehe! Good to see something about my tribe as well! Thank you! :)

Thank you. I really enjoyed how informative and well made is your video.

Thank you. Very interesting video. I really enjoyed your video. I

🤘💪💙⚔️🪓⚔️💙💪🤘 hell yeah,great info

I like this video finally some good content about my people

Love this video bud. Great research, great content. Took me a bit to get to it(working) but man what a treat once I did. Great job buddy. Check out the Oeselians more. Deep dive on them would be great. Dude I love it yes! The battle of Bravellir!!!

Very well made video!

Enjoyed the history.... I'm addicted to listening...

Hyvä! Jatka samaan malliin! ;)

I have a homestead in north-eastern Lithuania. The village of Kuršiškii is nearby. Historians claim that it was founded by the Curonians who fled to Lithuania fleeing from the Teutonic Order when they lost to it. I jokingly tell men who have taken wives from that village that their wives are not Lithuanian. They are surprised, angry, but when I tell the whole story, they laugh and say that it was a long time ago. The villagers do not remember anything about their origins.

It’s really sad and unfortunate how European tribes lose their native identity after Christianization.

Subbed easily

Can you post some of your sources 🙏 I would love to read more on thistopic

Fascinating! Shows how monotheism has been the misfortune of the world.

I think we forget also the Slavs of Pomerania were also know as fierce sea raider (The Wends). Using ships designed to carry horses to raid deep into danish territory even after the Viking age. Even reaching eastern Norway. With Christianity taking root in Denmark many crusaders and holy wars were needed to subdue them as they still practiced paganism into the 13 century. A stepping stone for the the following crusades that would eventually reach the baltics

I’m so proud of you for show Lithuanian some light as we really go overlooked. And you make beautiful and professional videos. I wish you a great time and hope u gain more subs and grow your channel

I am from Lithuania. I remember when I was in fitht grade we learned about this in history classes. Since Curonians lived on the shore of Lithuania they used to suffer from Vikings attacks. There was even a prayer made called "God save from Vikings" but it was really back and forth relationship between Vikings and Curonians. They would often sail to the shores of Scandinavian and commit the same kind of atrocities.

Surprisingly there is nothing about Ragnar Lodbrok having been beaten by curonians twice in famous THE VIKINGS serial movie.

Very good well done video. 5/5 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 5/5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Also could you make a video about grass snakes 🐍 being worshiped in the Baltic region? I’d like to see more videos about Baltic region in particular since there are very little videos on the Baltic region stories, legends and history, very little. And your videos are often interesting and great to listen to.

My father's childhood friend was from this region, his family fled in the war. Last name Kurse (Kursi). Gone for many years now, God bless him. 🙏

Amazing video. One mistake that I think you mentioned was that the Curonians were the last to be conqered by the Brother of the Sword (Livonians). In fact, the last of them were the Semigallians, neighbors of the Curonians. These 2 tribes were both enemies and friends on many occasions. If I remember correctly the attack on Daugavgrīva monastery in 1228, which you mentioned, was conducted by both the Curonians and Semigallians.

Northern Crusades Baltics aka "Last lagans of Europe" got crossed for what the ancestors of the crusaders did just century or two earlier (not to forget: "old habits die hard")

Explains the meaning of my given name Dain (song). I know not of Latvian or Slavic language, but the elder songs resonate my soul.

My ancestors. I'm Lithuanian/Swedish and love my nature and dogs more than people

Interesting, as usual. Do You have anything more, concerning "The Finnish" vikings, You mentioned some time ago? from a finn in Diaspora

Toponims of Curonians in Lithuania and Latvia with "- ga": Kretinga. Palanga. Neringa. Kuldiga...

We still have our pagan traditions, we know the religious beliefs and gods, even if we don't believe it so much, but we have pagan celebrations like Jani where we dance around fires and so on. Also some Curonian language pieces still exist just not completely. My grandma was from Kurzeme (Curonia) and she spoke some words that were very unique to Latvian.

This is so true everyone thinks of vikings as just Swedes or Dans or Norse and forgets about the eastern people that were raiding in the Baltics long after and were responsible for the end of sword brothers.

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Do oselians video also please.

As a Latvian from Kurzeme (Courland) I would like to thank you for making this video and being almost completely correct stating facts. I imagine it is hard to detect the exact historical facts when most available written sources have been made by intruders to the particular territories. By the way "pagans" as Christians like to call them are not destroyed. They adapted to the world of Christianity to survive. 😉

hey curonians arent dead they all live in a town called Kuršenai :D

Thank you for the english version. I saw it in lituanian, but dont understand.

If you start doing videos about nordic peoples other than just finns whose history is less know you might actually be able to increase the views on your channel significantly. The few other channels about similar topics are very often bot English speaking. There are some still existing loan words from kuronians in Finnish language but I can only remember one. Scythe-vigades-viikate. It apparently means all cutting.

Yeah boyyyy 🇱🇻

Funny thing lithuanians called vikings "žuvėdos" wich translates as "fish eaters" and Curonians "kuršiai" wich probably is a fish called "karšis" Abramis brama - common bream, that's because with the dialect vowels change and no one understood how similar words can actually be, also there is "kuršių marios" the Cronian lagoon at lithuanian coas side, and it is full of bream ,so probably Curonians were called by this fish name and viking were called fish eaters.

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50 miles long? Interesting 🙂

All my ancestors got from the northern region. From sweden to lithuania, up to northern poland my ancestry is from

Irish in Finland. I got a somewhat mythological bloodline. I'm a direct decendent of forest Finn's that decended from Viking kings and princes in northern Sweden burea and includes the Bure kinship. I can send the geneology tables I got. Like 30 pages back 1000 years.

Intrestingly I have 21,1% Curonian DNA and I am from Finland. And I am pension from military from Air Force 34 years. But I am also 21,7% Viking (Swedish) Now I understand why my DNA is so much in Gotland too. They did live and fight each others under 100 miles or 150km from each others. DNA is so interesteing, You can find new relatives and get info where are You really from.

Good old Harold Wartoot.

I am from Sweden

Valhalla calling me!

Ah, the Kurländer!

ngl it's funny hearing foreigners struggle with Latvian language and it's hard names of places and people

Church erased so much culture and history, especially finnish history...

Came here because I am 4.4% Baltic.

I love theese videos. Very informative and enjoyable! I find ancient Baltic aswell as Finno-Ugric mythology and history very fascinating. But I think it's a bit misleading to use an Old Norse word (Vikingr) to describe a people with a very different and unique language, religion, culture and traditions. I seriously doubt that any Curonian would have described themselves or their "job description" with a North Germanic/Old Norse word (a language that is completely unrelated to their own). Using boats to raid people in different lands doesn't turn you into a Viking in my opinion, in that case almost every civilization in the world would have had Vikings too. The Word Viking is something deeply tied to Norse culture and it can even be found used on Runestones that are still around today, so it's quite obvious that Norse people used that specific word to describe themselves when they raided with their boats. However, it shouldn't be that surprising that two peoples that have encountered and fought eachother numerous times (they are neighbors afterall) would have had similar weapon and boat technologies and used them in similar ways. We should celebrate and enjoy theese unique and fascinating cultures as they are and encourage people to learn more about them. I don't think we're being fair or doing them any justice by bunching them up together with the Vikings and basically calling them Scandinavians. It's about as accurate as calling Irish, Scottish or Welsh people English.

So they had not much to do with the Norse/Northmen, but with Goths, Svea and Danes.....

...so that’s where my name comes from

I've just discovered that I had some od Curonians DNA ( MyTrueAncestry).Very strange feeling after that video.. :)

Baltic Amber till this day are found in the whole world that dates BC. Curonians also traded with Native Americans.

Slavs in Russia and Belarus were de facto converted to Christianity only in 16th century. There is a Slavic pagan community in Balerus that were never converted to Christianity and was destroyed by the communists only in 20th century.

The germanic Vikings started it all By being the ones who attacked Balt lands first and We intern attack them

There are so many mistakes at first 45 seconds already that I can not watch it any farther. 🤕

But last pagans is Semigalls not Curonians. I proud with my ancestors. Im Latvian!

you say it wrong its kurši and its kurland in latvian kurzeme.

Vikings are originally from Skandinavia. In this video we see desigs of Viking drakkars of Norway and Denmark. Axe designs from same countries and all the other hardware. haha Funny video.. Vikings of Scandinavia had Viking kings. It is the center of our culture and history. Can anyone show me the family trees of these Vikings in Estonia? And if they were from Scandinavia ? The word Viking only stems from Scandinavia.

Kurši= Kurshi

i hope to never go there

I think you guys should stop trying to identify everyone with vikings. I sae another video called wends were the tribes vikings feared. Now i see curonians were vikings nut even vikings feared them. If every sea raiding peoples are vikings, north african berbers were really on par with vikings, not like you imagining curonians as a sea raiding civilisation. Yes they were raiders but not in the way vikings are. I think only people who menaged to raid thousands of kms away are real sea raiders. Not the one who travel 20 minutes on boat to raid. But the one who travelled for day, made camp in foreign lands, got on ships and moved on again.

idk.

Curonians and baltic tribe... maiby not. The Curonians were part of the Livonians, it means Balto-Finnic people. Related to Estonians, Seto and Fins.