When my brother was an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy, he was assigned for one year to a patrol boat of the navy that was involved in fishery inspection on the North Sea. One day they were at a Scottish fishing town where the local population spoke a language that nobody could understand, except for two Dutch sailors onboard who were... of Frisian descend! 😃

It's sad to witness the demise of a thousand years old culture.

The intro was a nice big "don't cancel me" disclaimer.

We are all Germanic - The Scandinavians, more than half of the english people and almost 3 out of 5 of white americans

You kind of skipped over the Frisians, whose language of the time (Old Frisian) was distinctly differant than Alt-Saxonish, and is in fact the closest relative of Old English. The Frisians lived in the coastal regions of the Jutes, Angles and Saxons, and still do to this day.

We Anglo Saxon came from Southern Denmark and northern Germany that where are ancestors came from and I'm proud of that fact Germanic till I die

As an (east) Fleming, I can confirm that the West Flemish dialect has similarities with Frisian. With which I do not claim that they are 100% similar, but to me it is clearly audible that there is a Frisian influence in the West Flemish dialect. History also teaches us that the Frisians traveled along the North Sea coast as far as Dunkirk, present-day French Flanders.

As someone of English ancestry, it feels awesome to learn about my ancestors, just wish we had more sources and a better understanding of the Anglo Saxon period, especially pre-christianity, I wanna see just how similar our ancestors' beliefs were to their cousins across the North Sea

I'm Dutch but my sister had one of those dna test done and it showed we were 33% northern European and 43% English. This pretty much explains why, they are both from the same area

Equally British? If I emigrate to the US, can I be equally Native American?

bro, even as a slavic person, when i hear the saxon word "sek", i think of the russian (and probably in other slavic languages) the word "sech" which also means "to cut". It is truly crazy how this is either a large coincidence, or, and what I believe to be more accurate, is that our european roots are not as different as we really think...

Engle is plural for Angle so to use the word English for ancient Anglians is perfectly fine.

I’m not sure that people whose families have been on this island for less than 50 years can claim to be equally British as those who have called it home for over 1000.

@4:07 it's worth pointing that the most likely correct pronunciation of the 'Jutes' would be 'Yutes' as the Germans pronounce the letter 'J' with the 'Y' sound

When you refer to the German state of Saxony ( Sachsen) which is a lot further south than the original homeland of the Saxons, it's may be interesting to know that there are 3 states in modern Germany which are called Saxony. ( Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony ) The latter two span all over northern Germany and are more or less identical with the historic duchy of Saxony and cover also parts of the original homeland of the early saxons.

In England when I was growing up we learned about the Angles and Saxons but never really were taught about the Jutes (as far as I remember, maybe a small mention), this period ended in 1066 when William the Conquer beat Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings

So basically when the Vikings invaded and begun to fight the Anglo-Saxons, it was just northern scandinavians vs southern scandinavians lol

I'm English, British, with 17% Iberian, and they were in Britain before the Anglo Saxons.

Didn't also a bunch of Frisians migrate to Great Brittain?

The Saxons, Frisians, Jutes and Angles are sometimes collectively called the 'Ingaevones' and this may be a derivative of Angles. Some sources have even claimed that there is an island near southern Denmark called Anglen where the Angles originated from.

Cool video - I've always wondered what my genetic makeup actually is. DNA results just show 99% Western European and 1% Finnish. It was unsurprising as I have always deeply loved steam rooms so it was just verification some Viking snuck in at some point

I live in the German state of Saxony (Sachsen). Some people around here think that means the Anglo-Saxons had some connection to this region. And they find linguistic examples to make it sound possible, such as the fact that "water" is said here in the local dialects instead of "wasser" (from high German). There are many other examples. Some of it is about the accent, such as the vowel pronunciations. .

great video, I am looking forward to part two

Britain is Greater Denmark.

This is a great video! It's very informative and to the point. It's also interesting to see you using the CK3 map and characters, I haven't seen a history video do that before but it gives it a very unique feel which I think more people need to use. It's interesting for me to see just how different modern-day English culture is to continental Germanic cultures such as German, Norwegian, and Danish, assumedly due to the Norman takeover of the Kingdom. I wonder what it'd be like if England repelled the Normans, or even if the Norwegians took over. English culture and language today would probably be much more similar to their Germanic cousins, and the language more like Anglish. (The purely Germanic form of English)

The modern German state of Saxony has nothing to do with the Saxons of ancient past. It just got the name because of some noblility which transferred the name onto this region. Only the modern day "Lower Saxony" can be called real Saxons.

A fun thing to consider is that although the word Saxon almost definitely refers to the “seax”, it’s also later the case that Saxon became a racial pejorative word in Celtic languages. Sasunnach was used by the Scots, Sasanach by the Irish, Saeson by the Welsh, and Sawsnek by the Cornish.

Love your videos! Hope to see your channel grow

Very interesting and informative video. I never heard of the Jutes and now you have sparked my interests and got a new subscriber, thanks.

Looking forward to the next one!

English very kind people,,Greetings from 🇦🇱

I was thinking about doing something similar, making a history video using imperator romes map or eu4s (eu4s so i can change borders easier).

Nicely presented and interesting video. Thanks.

Your haplogroup is: I Born between 35 and 28 thousand years ago, haplogroup I represents one of the first peoples of Europe, having several descendant lineages that spread throughout the European territory during the last Ice Age, having its maximum frequency in the Balkans. It is one of the most numerous haplogroups among European males, being the second largest paternal lineage found on the continent (second only to the R lineage). Its I1 branch is related to Nordic Europe, ancestor of Germanic tribes and Vikings, while I2 is strongly related to Neolithic cultures. Y-chromosomal Adam 160 to 120 thousand years A: Africa 140 to 90 thousand years BT: Africa 85 to 60 thousand years CT: Africa 80 to 60 thousand years CF: Leaving Africa 75 to 60 thousand years F: Leaving Africa 62 to 57 thousand years IJ: Haplogroup parent of I and J 45 to 30 thousand years I: Eastern Eurasia 35 to 28 thousand years.

This particular subject fascinates me as when I looked up the meaning of my surname I was somewhat surprised that it came up as old English/pre 7th century Germanic. My surname translates to Wulfnoth, and it means brave or bold Wolf. Up the road from where my Mum lives is a little village called Woolpit which translates to Wolf pit. Apparently these were dug by early Anglo-Saxon settlers to trap British wolves.

Thank you for showing the coastlines of my homeland (the German-Danish border region) as they probably were 1500 years ago. Floods, rising water level and human activity such as dike-building and regaining land from the sea (by catchig and withholding the silt in the water during ebb tide with bundles of twigs) have changed them so much. About the present use of the geographical name "Sachsen". In the early days of the West-Frankish and then later German Kingdom we had several territorial dukes or earls who finally came to the conclusion that one of them should be King to defend the realm against the Magyars (Hungarians) whch were then the biggest threat. Saxony was one of them. The Saxon rulers expanded their territory gradually across the Elbe river and upstream into the region that holds the name "Sachsen" to the present day. And that is why we make the distinction between "Obersachsen"= "Upper Saxony" further inland and "Lower Saxony" ="Niedersachsen" in the North German plains towards the sea. After WW II "Niedersachsen" was chosen as a name for the newly formed "Land" that had once been the territory of the House of Hanover plus other smaller bits and pieces that had become mostly Prussian territory after 1866. The state of Prussia was dissolved by the Allies after 1945 and the geographical term "Niedersachsen" was chosen instead of some historical expression. Well, and there is still "Sachsen-Anhalt" in between with Magdeburg at its capital.

Love how narrator acts like there's no difference between importing Jutes or Angles vs Haji by the millions.

great video!

What about the Bretons (now who are mainly part of Brittany, France)

I would love to see a video on the early Anglo Saxon kings and the Normans... and kings with descriptive name titles like Edward the confessor...(and the times these people lived). Early English kings are such a puzzle and fascinating I think because they are so distant from our own time

Cultural migration study is where it's at. I think we get too caught up on political bounderies. I began doing more human migration studies after I got my DNA results. I'm a Euro-Mut, but there were surprises...and I have done genealogy for 15+ years now, so they aren't *those* kinds of surprises either.

Good video! I think you touched on some important points often overlooked.

So awesome to see this!

The Picts are the orginal celts in Great Britain 🇬🇧 and they arrived from Scandinavia when there was a landbridge via Doggerland 10000 years ago

I like this relaxed way of presenting, it's easier to understand, wish it was longer lol

I love how this video uses stuff from ck3

My ancestry is Anglo Saxon.

My main curiosity for the migrations of Europe is how much of it was actual genetic replacement and how much was cultural replacement. In Britain, you get waves of new peoples: Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Danes and Norse, and Normans (and how much of the Normans was still Danes/Norse?). Who were the Suebi? The Teutons? The Salians and Franks? Et cetera. Did these people become new names later or were they replaced or displaced? As far as I can tell, no one really knows.

Exelente video!!

I'm from Wexford in Ireland and we have an extinct language called "Yola" its also called the Forth and Bargy dialect, is a mix of Flemish, Welsh, Irish Gaelic, and of course, English. These influences come from the many colonists that have occupied the areas over the many centuries

The British are an AngloCeltic nation of people. It’s preposterous to call Africans and Asians British. Ethnically and culturally they are entirely different.

I'm saxon and celt and fiercely proud and demand respect for my ancestry..woden lives❤💯

Anglos created two superpowers and now dominate Europe and the world. Welldone

Not sure why Doggarland rarely comes into some of the more historical perspectives on the the peoples of Denmark and Britain.

0:06 Why did you omit the Norse/Scandinavian as part of the heritage?

Its not who "were" the Anglo Saxons, its who we ARE!

The germanic migration period is very fascinating to me do to being so speculative because it lacks written sources

Angarion isthe roman word used for the despatch riders of Germanic tribal origin who maintained the imperial postal and haulage system in Roman Britain that is where the name Angle originates These kinfolk settled in England but maintained links with the germanic tribes who were their kin. Some retired back to their kin folk in Angeln. Angeln is named after the people not the other way round

Who ARE. We're still here.

Solid video

You forgot the Frisians.

Great video

For me, being from the Northeast of England when referring this period and people I prefer to say Angle(s) and Saxon(s), but use Anglo-Saxon when referring to the culture.

Great video. Well explained

They were a germanic people simple.

Your area for where the anglos come from isn't Slesvig-Holstein, but just Slesvig, in particular you are missing the Angle region that gives them their name.

I always thought the name England came from the norrse word eng, which means meadow and land for land. So meadowland

In only a little longer than five minutes this historical lesson capsulates the absurdity when AH☠️ failed to end hostile action against England after Dunkirk. He KNEW enough that they were.. 'family'! He had the 'land'.. they had the 'sea'. "Let's settle"🤘 Coulda, Woulda, SHOULDA....

Are there parts of Britain that have the highest anglo saxon dna or is everyone pretty much mixed now? I always imagined the east coast would have higher levels.

watching this while i conquer the isles as the saxons

So when the Danes invaded England during the Viking Age, they were technically fighting other Danes.

Is an anglo saxon a kind of race?

At what point in history? For the Anglo-Saxons are still here too.

My family were Angelo Saxons from Lincolnshire Essex England United kingdom just found out Sir Thomas Holland is my grandfather way back pretty neat for a small town Kentucky boy God bless you all I'm dutch and 6'0 tall and proud of it 💪❤️🌹

Well done with the wokery, but I take exception to your facile declaration that "the past, of course, was no different... The British have a proud heritage of being made up of migratory people..." The immigration of the Angle. Saxon and Jutes totally destroyed the Celtic culture of, what became, England. The invasion of the Anglo-Saxons and Jutes was, in effect, an ethnic genocide pushing the Celts to the extremities of the British Isles. After this there was no mass immigration to the British Isles for over 1,000 years. True, there were minor settlements that included the Normans (who were, of course, Viking/Norsemen, a group that had already settled parts of the British Isles,) Huguenot French and other smaller groups up to the settlement of West Indians and people of the Indian subcontinent in the late twentieth century. But none of these peoples formed a big enough group to change the ethnicity or culture of the British Isles. My main point is that the mass immigration of the last fifteen years is of a totally different scale to anything that has happened in the last thousand years or more. It is simply not true that the "British have a proud heritage of being made up of migratory people." The culture/s of the British Isle have been settled for over a thousand years.

It is funny that in Poland "Anglo-Saxon" means a spawn of American and British culture yet it is actually a ethnic disticnion.

Excelltly explained. Even though I consider myself well educated on this part of history, there is a few facts here I wasn’t aware of.

first the name saxon don´t come from a knife its from a Axe and they still life in the same region with the Name lower saxony. The other part called saxon today is only the place where the Duke of Saxony build a new capital.

Oh dear, a woke history of Anglo Saxons that somehow includes Caribbeans😂, immigration from India and the Carribbean are recent and only a tiny part of our long history

Sad that you have to add that cringe liberal BS at the beginning

Muito detalhado. Gostei!

Thanks for this excellent, informative video.

“The past was no different” Cope. It was incredibly different. Sorry you now have Londonistan.

English are Germanic not British or Brits the original Brits are the Welsh even the Picts in today's Scotland were a Scandinavian tribe 2300 years ago. It was the Picts that raided today's Ireland in the 2nd century working with the Scotii ❤

Interesting with the word jutes is that g in swedish sometimes is pronounced as j, namely in götar (people of geats). Interestingly as well there is not only jutes and geats, but also gutes. G in gutes is however pronounced as g, but if it had not, it had sounded like ”jutes”. So maybe Jutland, Götland/Geatland and Gutland (Gotland) mean realm/lands of Jutes/Geats/Gutes (describing lands controlled by basically one but loosely coherent people), and does not originally mean a physical geographic area (so not similar to Isle of Zealand, the Scandinavian Peninsula or the British Isles).

The real British and American people!!

Equally British? Cmon

You forgot to mention the Frisians. BTW it was the Bell Beaker invasion of the early Bronze Age that was the most transformative event in English/British history.

interesting, I was always slightly confused as to why so many native brits had brown eyes and dark brown hair some even black hair but still had english sounding sirnames with no trace of Italian or spanish...it must have been so long ago when they migrated to britain like 1000 years ago as the latins are categorized as one of britians native peoples

The Jutes may have also been Geats who migrated to Jutland, before migrating down through the low countries. ". Today's Jylland was pronounced Jutland (like many dialects still do with the double l) and I heard from a linguist that the J had more like a G-sound initially. So if you think about it, the difference between Götaland, Gotland and (G)Jutland is very small." The Jutes also still kept a south scandinavian trade connection, but had a strong element of Gaulish/Frankish works due to Jutish Kent being in close proximity to Frankia, and possibly a domain of Frankia at one point.

I am Anglo, and this inaccurate and biased. We are not African or Asian or even Roman/French!!@@

The artist depiction of the Saxon holding a sword has that sword depicted wrong. The hilt is too long and is gripped wrong. The Seax depicted is a broke back seax and was found primarily only in England. The continental Saxon seax did not have that steep clipped feature. They had a more rounded back that led to a dropped down point. This presented inaccurate information as s result.

Nice job

I'm a mix of anglo, saxon and celtic. But it's just easier to say Canadian.

Born in Walsgrave on Sowe UK 1970, living in St Augustine Florida USA. I have family in Wales, Scotland & England, most living in Walsgrave, Warwickshire, Coventry. Coombes - BORN OF SAXON

Womp womp, britain for the British.

I’m full Saxon on both sides!

Niedersachsen (=Lower Saxony and Sachsen-Anhalt = Saxony-Anhalt respectively ) is the true home of the ancient Saxons; today's Saxony was more or less part of Thuringia until 1485 and its name resulted from changes/shifts in the ruling dynasties. Ethnically and linguistically they don't have much in common.

I read that possibly only 20,000 Angles, Saxons and Jutes invaded England that had a population of a couple of million. Like many invasions, it's the culture and language that is replaced, not the population.

Something I’ve been thinking about, you talk about how Britain is now home to a host of other ethnic groups as if it were a good thing, but when the britains/celts were pushed out of their home by the anglos, saxons, and jutes, it was certainly a violent process that left the natives disenfranchised. Considering this, why should we be happy about migrants replacing native Brits?