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I’m a Texan. My grandad was a Buchanan. My DNA says UK 60% and 20% Scandinavian. I have red hair, blue eyes and an angular face. What grandad use to call a Viking face lol.

A Norwegian friend said to me "Ever wonder why those high keeps are there?" "No", said I. "That's so you girls had time to put on your makeup and get down to the strand" "Really! What makes you fellers so hot?" "Well we were the only men in Europe who Bathed!" He had me there.

And up on the hill above the ‘beach house’ were abandoned crofts. Over 1200 years between them, but very little to separate them. The Vikings knew a thing or two.

My Mother’s Grandmother came from Sanday, Orkney. Her Grandfather was from Edinburgh. They immigrated to the US in 1889. Some day I’d like to see the Orkney’s. My daughter took me to Scotland in 2016. It was fabulous!

Incredible! I really enjoyed this lesson, what a wonderful choice for this fine Saturday morn. I've always been fascinated by the Viking era. Thanks again Bruce my friend and good morning from America.

Really starting to love this channel. I'm born in Ayrshire, both parents are Scottish. As a Scot, I had more pride in what Scotland had contributed to society: Great engineers, modernity philosophy, medicine etc Then lived in US. They're obsessed with where they came from. Never had that in Scotland. If you're poor (most were) Nobody travelled. You know where you came from! But as I've gotten more interested, you see the family names in the area. My father is from Dundonald, many Frasers, Kilmarnock has Boyd. Loads. Enjoying seeing you put everything together.

Loving these shows, very professionally presented. They could easily be on TV. The presenter's enthusiasm is infectious!

Your enthusiasm knows no bounds, you were like a wean in a sweetie shop, keep up the great work

Fascinating. Many thanks for this, Bruce. I have observed the similarity of the Shetland place names with those in Norway and the Faroes, e.g. Sandvik, Leirvik, våg (the same as Voe) and so on. One can see the continuities between Shetland and the other Norse lands so clearly. I love it!

Bruce, ANOTHER excellent video. You do such a good job bringing history to life!

This one was very interesting for me. My Dad's side of the family is from Scotland (Name is McAllister, maybe some day we'll all agree on how to spell it). My Mom's side is Swedish. It would be great to be able to go the Shetland Islands and see them. Hopefully the native Norwegian Scots won't mind to much if an American Swedish Scot Tourist shows up.

Thank you for another brilliant, enlightening video from a region worth discovering. But holy cow - a three-camera shoot, multi-channel audio - the production values are off the chart! You three have done a heckuva job.

Thanks again, Im watching your latest before my first cuppa. The fall season has started at the higher altitudes here in Colorado and the chill is working its way down hill. Your good nature is a welcoming start to the day. Thanks for all your you do.

having a shared heritage for a lot of cultures of the North Sea i'm surprised the Shetlands aren't more of a tourist hotspot? I mean i know the weather isn't perfect but damn it looks beautiful!

Ahh, Shetland. How mesmerizing, this video, this ship and this subject. So interesting. Beautiful beach too!

Aye Bruce...thank you so much for the wondereful presentation. the rich history of our ancestors is alive in all of us if only we look and reach out to our past! Bravo Mate!

Another great video Bruce, went to school in Haraldswick when family lived on Unst,at Burrafirth. could see the building from yr first longhouse site,but now its a community centre. Haraldswick did hold its own ' up helly aa' back in the day was a massive community knees up. Keep up the good work.

I can’t help but notice the Highlanders rugby jersey at 8:40 - apropos for a Scotsman to wear, bravo! I live in NZ, although my ancestors on my mom’s side all came from the Shetlands. Very cool video, makes me really want to visit sometime.

Love the videos,just got it in Australia look forward to your brilliant info on our great land Please keep it up

I am a descendant of Scottish Vikings, myself. Thanks for the great information. Cheers!

It is a fantastic site I’ve been there many times my mum is from Shetland my dad from the east coast of Scotland I live in Shetland as a child I was in last in Shetland this may sadly at my uncles funeral in Sandness it is an amazing place to go so much history well done great great video 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Enjoying your content, Bruce. Recently discovered your channel. I'm an Englishman, but had family living in Shetland for the last couple of decades, so visited a few times and took an immediate interest on my first visit in the Shetland Bus, which I know you've covered. My last visit was very much a flying visit. In 2017, I was the first to ride an electric motorcycle from Land's End to John O'Groats and when I told my Shetland-based brother of my plan, his reply was, "Oh, you're giving up at John O'Groats, are you?" I took the bait, so took the opportunity to visit him and family, ride up to Skaw beach at the top of Unst (to properly get to the true most northerly public road in the UK) and took the opportunity to visit Orkney too. I repeated the journey back in June this year on a newer electric motorbike (video on my channel), with rapid charging capability, and a fellow EV advocate and biker, but we didn't get chance to spend longer than the day there, before getting the Northlink back to Aberdeen. We certainly passed the boat and long house you visited here on our way up to Skaw beach though. Sadly, my brother and his wife have relocated to Italy, and their daughters work in mainland Scotland, so I don't have as strong a reason to make the journey quite that far north now, but I still have a nephew in Shetland at least, so look forward to heading back again some time for another longer visit. Lovely place. We nearly moved there ourselves back in the late 2000s, but then 2008 happened, so we stayed where we are. Keep up the great work! I can live with the English digs, because, you know, that's all part of our confused islands' rich tapestry, and you are, after all, 44% English too. 😉😀

Love this vlog. It’s so interesting and new knowledge for me and so neat to learn. Thank you, Bruce👍

I wondered where that boat went to. Lay ő the pier in lerwick for years. Used to be lots of trees in Shetland. Thus the peats

I’d love to know the pattern for Chris’ sweater/jumper! Of course it was very interesting to hear his report, but as a knitter, that was what caught my eye! Well, truth be told it was the second thing that I noticed about him, but I’d love to know about the pattern 😉

Born in shetland and moved to glasgow as a child but definitely a very proud part of my history and up helly aa is amazing to see

I don't know if I have commented on this video in the past, I know I have watched it before. My father's Scottish ancestry as far back as I can trace it begins in Shetland. He did a DNA ancestry test that surprised us with an overwhelming Norwegian percentage. Fascinated to learn more.

I live in Denmark and one of my ancestors is Scottish. He was born in Dysart in 1471 and settled with a Danish wife on the island of Bornholm. So it worked both ways :-)

Chris called the Viking house a "longhouse" and I had seen similar structures during my trip to Dublin, another Viking settlement. I grew up in Huronia, a part of southern Ontario Canada, and I remember being in a "longhouse" as it is a structure used by the local Hurons and other Iroquois First Nations. However, it was built entirely of timbers, as they would have been "up to their arm pits" in trees.

Just learned today that wer daughter is 73% Scottish, 7% Scandinavian, 6% welsh, 3%Northern English/Northern Europe, 12% African(spread across 8 countries including the Western Bantu). Shetland has jumped up our bucket list, along with a lot of other countries. I have always said that the Caribbean is the world in microcosm, and it really is. even those Viking raids in Ireland added to the mix....genealogy tests have change my understanding of our family and it;s history, profoundly. Keep the fabulous productions coming

My flatmate in 2nd year at Edinburgh Uni many years ago was from Orkney and did not identify as Scottish. She had literal white blonde hair that she wore long down to her waist, like something out of a painting, and it did not take a geneticist to know her ancestry (though she'd happily tell you about the Vikings if asked).

Surely Orkney Bruce? Thats where the Norse made their base in Northern Scotland. The Orkneyinga saga is a challenging, but informative read.

Awesome video. Wonderful filming and editing. The quality of the presentation was top notch. Makes Bruce’s presentation even more engaging.

Love your passion for the history you give us. The man and his boat love his excitement and knowledge brilliant.

On my mothers side we have a strong link to Shetland! It was the promise of work on the Forth Road Bridge that dragged them Leith. Very good video, love ya work!

Great episode. It is very informative, I would love to see it

I was in Orkney in August '22 and it was very hot. ORKNEY??!! I loved this video. THANK YOU. My motorbike rally was in Sandwick in Orkney......though I took ages to find it as it was a parish/area rather than a specific place! These Three Words wusnae invented for the norse folk!

Another truly amazing vlog, thanks Bruce.

The Viking settlements and wars are fascinating love your videos mate

It's nice to see you having fun.

Really interesting! Thanks Bruce 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💜

Another very interesting video! Loved Chris' jumpers. A video on Shetland and Fair Isle knitting perhaps?

wow that was really fascinating, I still don't understand how they navigated so well for the time.

Another great video planning my next trip definitely will get up there

Will folk please stop sticking horns on Viking headgear? Helmets were there to deflect sword and axe strokes. Horns would have stopped blades from being deflected. Okay?

This bloke obviously loves his job. Nice boat. Nice vid.

That's for showing us this. So cool

just saw the trailer for The Lost King. Congrats on being involved with the film!

Better video that’s anything I’ve seen mainstream recently. Awesome Bruce. Very interesting.

13:03 What an amazing shot this is; real art.

Another great video Bruce! 👍😊

I found you through your collaboration with Max Miller and I gotta say I'm loving the content. Your delivery is on point and you make a very likeable and interesting host

Has to be Wishaw. The women have horns growing out their heads.

Love all your videos Bruce! Reading a lot of Arthur history recently. Heard you say you might do a video about the prince one day?

Plenty of Vikings in Minnesota USA. They fight well as a team.

On my bucket list is to attend Hellya! Great video lesson Bruce.

A'reyt Bruce. I thought you were coming back to Doncaster. Only joking, but there is much in common with Yorkshire. I really enjoyed this video, as always. Especially since by coincidence Hilbert, from History with Hilbert channel, did Vikings in Normandy and said he was studying Vikings and the period you called Norse times. His video on York suggested these island dwellers could have been trading in Jorvik. They certainly settled all across the North Atlantic fishing grounds. There are remains like that building in Newfoundland. Yorkshire fishing boats still look a lot like the boat in the video and fish eating flourished in medieval England. I always thought that the knowledge was not lost of where the fish were, but you do not go telling folk where you get your revenue. I wonder if Scotland also had increased fishing and if there is evidence from the bones like you talked about as to where the fish were being caught?

Just saw your cameo in the trailer for The Lost King. Congratulations Mr Fummey! 👏🎉

Boost! Nice one big man You rock the brave heart look👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Excellent video Bruce really a masterclass of history lessons ✌️☘️

One one my favourite places to camp is Tentsmuir forest. Named so cos the vikings set their tents up on they muirs. Brilliant episode Tesm. I enjoyed this. Not buying the driftwood theory though. Haha

That was like drawing blood out a stone trying to get him to tell you were they got the wood to maintain the boats hahaha

Stunning place stunning video….thank you Chris and Bruce 👌🏻

beautiful beach

Good video and great place to visit having been

I thoroughly enjoyed this great video. Thank you.

These videos are so well done! Keep it

I met this Scandinavian beauty from the Shetlands. Her Clan went back & forth between Scotland & Denmark over the centuries. And following the 1864 war with Prussia, emigrated en massê to New Zealand's Province of the Wairarapa. There they cleared the 90 mile Bush, just outside of the colonial Capital of Wellington. Further up north their Nordic cousins established the town of Dannevirke!

FACINNATING. My DNA tests show Norwegian from my Scottish/Irish paternal side. My Scottish line comes from the Western Isles and Shetland. My paternal Irish line comes from Dublin. My guess is that the 6% Norwegian is from Viking ancestry - both in Scotland and Ireland.

Iv been to shetland many times, stayed in Lerwick for a few month's...beautiful place but i missed home 😢...i don't miss the ferry crossing that's for sure lol 😂 uphelia is very popular festival ❤

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Love it, my favourite time in history the vikings and have the ancient DNA to back it up

A great video, excellent! Cheers

Bruce, I hope your watching Norse Magic a and beliefs. I just watched his story on Scotland. It was interesting and respectful. I still think that if the two of you would maybe get together on a video or two showing the same stories from both the Scottish and Norce point of view. I believe this would add depth, and maybe make it possible to figure out things we would otherwise not be able to. If it didn't work out. Then at least you will learn something.

Raise kites in a Semaphore style in Shetland. Send a message to Norway requesting a delivery of wood. A few days later, the current and tides bring the delivery - and according to that TV show Vikings, your Chinese Takeaway.

Also... the Isle of Lewis... where the language is Scottish Gaelic... however... the place names are Norse... even In our own language today we use many many Norse words... thanks Bruce

@🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland History Tours w/ Bruce Fummey Chuir mi meas air Brus Gladly appreciated 👍 Bruce

My family are originally from the Western Isles, we look very Norse.People always think i'm a Swedish backpacker in my home town in Northern Australia, I'm shockingly caucasian.😂😂

Bruce, I don't know Scottish History, I'm not a expert on Vikings either. I have 69 years experience as the audience though. I know what I find interesting. I still can't help but think that if you, and Mike the Viking at Norse magic and beliefs. The two of you could discuss this Vikings Scott relationship as it effected each side respectively. To my way of thinking that would be wonderful. This is the last time I will mention this though. (I don't want to be a pest)

great vid Bruce, as always. My ancestors wer Ross', McCleods, Mckenzies, Campbells and Mays. Most of our Scottish ancestry, turned out to be Nordic. They were booted out, and resettled in Ulster, and then migrated to Canada, as part of The Hudson Bay company. settling in Ontario, and the present US state of Michigan. we were able to trace our Ross Clan history back to eric the Red. We also have a significant amount of 1st nations and Black Canadian, ancestry also. My Campbell ancestors, were part of the Abolishionists during slavery, and helped numerous freed slaves resettkle in Southwestern Ontario. the actual Uncle toms cabin, is a Canadian Historical site, as one of the final stops on The Underground Railway, on my Great Great great grandfather and Grandmothers Property; William and Alba Campbell-Ross. Cheers from SpoCanada.(Spokane,Washington).

Scotland has that’s much history I don’t think you can run out.

A "noost" as he calls it is called "Nøst" in norwegian. It is a small house to drag the boat into, and is still used today, both the word and boathouse. We have many were I live. Interesting how the words still are so similar. Edit: Sandy Bay. In Oslo there is a place named Sandvika. Also a surname is Sandvik. It means sandbay (sandy bay)

Very interesting, but as a Scot I have absolutely no idea why anyone in Scotland would want to celebrate Vikings, a word that translates to Pirate. They raided, murdered, raped and pillaged the northern parts of Scotland. I come from a small fishing village in northern Scotland called Cruden Bay, the name comes from a corruption of the Gallic 'Croch Den', or slaughter of the Danes. Malcolm the II knocked 7 bells out of the Viking King Kanute and his team in 1012, a lesson that they learned the hard way while trying to fight a Scottish army defending their homeland.....

Very nice! It's almost as Viking-y as York XP

I worked as a baker in California and this. Native Scot was hired and became the manager , one Derik Mann . I said you know Derik I am American Scot on both sides And he crooned and rubes his belly , and some Irish to which he continued to croon , and some English and at this he cried out “Oh Nooo laddie “!! He claimed to be a direct descendant of Olaf the Black ! Very Viking and Scot !

Maybe the second structure wasnt a house, or living space but, a place people uploaded the fish/cleaned them and left scraps behind. With the high tide, the waters barely come inside and clean the guts out, trash, and whatever else they didnt want stinking up there home. Also, a place to crash in bad weather for a few days while you fish/hunt. That's even if the high tide brings water insider. Looks like it would.

Scotland always had a long history with Scandinavia even the Viking king in Norway gave his daughter to James 3rd in 1472 Margarete of Norway. Its said that before the Vikings arrived in Scotland the ancient people of Scotland the Picts actually thousands of years ago walked over on a ice bridge from what is todays Scandinavia you can see it in the blood and DNA of the people of Scotland.

Stunning video! Can't wait to visit Shetland. 💙 Thank you, Bruce!

Good Saturday morning, Bruce. Thanks for another interesting tutorial,these are quite interesting.

On my dads side - 1/16th Viking...the rest of his half- Scottish. Robert the Bruce is my 35th or 36th Great- grandfather...amazing to me. I'm an American in Michigan...its 1.28.24 now. Thank you for your videos...😊❤

Driftwood? Seems more likely they have cut down all the trees

No trees is a valid observation!

Fantastic place . I was stationed at Saxa in the 90's , just up the road from Haroldswick. Had a work colleague that stayed in one of the cottages at this bay. Walked the beachroad a few times too

So many of the early Norse Viking settlers in Newfoundland Canada were probably Shetlanders who were actually hybridized Norse-Picts, this mixed race breed who even back then had their own unique identity & culture, a rough amalgamation of both (Norse & Picts!). And if such a mixed breed group did exist at that exact time & joined the flow from western Norway & Iceland to the New World back in the late 900s then those powerful Norse-Pictish admixtures undoubtedly possessed the fierce restlessness & sense of adventure of their Norse forebears & the famed battle ferocity of their native Pictish ancestors, thus making quite the fearsome & formidable tribe of quasi Viking seafarers, the roughest & toughest of the bunch!

Viking houses almost looks similar to the ones at L'Anse Aux Meadows National Historic Site on the Northern Tip of the Island of Newfoundland.

Interesting video. However Shetland isn't particularly Viking or Scandinavian. The island has about %20 Scandinavian DNA. That's to be expected because as you said there have been settlements there for 6,000 years with only around 600 years of Scandinavian settlement. It's still very much Scottish.

I so love your videos.

That grass topped structure was the very first Viking Little Chef.

I’m so excited to find your channel. All of the history is so fascinating to learn. I teach art history in the States, and my father’s family has been here since the early 1600’s but goes back to England and Scotland, so the Vikings on both sides as far as we can trace. He did track down a connection to three different clans, that crazy red headed blue eyed bugger. Apparently since we are descended from Thomas Dudley there are 16 ways to get to William of Normandy.