Crazy you aren't more popular, your storytelling and the variety of topics you cover within one video are top notch!

Another thing to point out: the Angles (who we get the word "Anglo" and subsequently "England" from) were another Germanic tribe living in what's now Schleswig-Holstein and Southern Denmark, who migrated South and then came over with the Saxons. So even before the Vikings decided to give up pillaging and settled instead, there were technically already Danes in Britain.

Very interesting. Up here we're surrounded by Viking place names, and speak with accents that are an ancient echo of the Old Norse, it's easy to forget that down south things were very different!

They were called Anglo-saxons because they were Angles (from Denmark), Saxons (actually Friesians from LOWER Saxony), oh, and Jutes (from Jutland). They settled mostly in an area called Anglia after them (the eastern part still known today as East Anglia).

I totally adore your storytelling. Seemingly without effort, there is a rhythm and pace, driving me along roads and storylines I didn't knew existed just a few moments ago but now have no other choice but to follow. Thank you for the time, work and passion you put into these videos! Subscribed.

Another thing I've always heard is that ancient people never called themselves vikings but rather Norse or Dane. They would say 'they were going a viking'. Which basically meant raiding to pillage and loot not actually pirating.

This is incredibly educational and wonderfully entertaining at the same time! Bravo!

Every day is a school day....Last summer I found myself walking passed St Olavs as the rather grim mantle above the entrance gate caught my eye, and then the plaque about it being Pepys' church. What I didn't know was its Viking origins. So thanks for making me slightly less ignorant today!

Thank you ! I really enjoyed the pace, volume of information and the details. The piece about the broach was awesome

I know this was two years ago, but as a history buff, I found this to be most interesting and enlightening. Thank you, you were clear and lovely in your presentation.

Love that part about Aethelred! That's hilarious 😆 🤣 And I thought about "St. Olaf" to "Tooley" and just wondered, maybe if he was nicknamed "Olly"? "St. Olly" is much closer to "Tooley" in my mind. But I'm no historian, it's just a guess

4:32 I don't think Vikings called themselves Vikings. They referred to Viking expeditions as "fara i Viking" but I don't think they used the word as a term for the guys who did that, usually younger sons of people who stayed in Denmark or Norway. Viking as a term is more about what others called them, back then.

The biggest part of why Sweyn went SOOO hard at England after the St. Brices day massacre is his sister and brother in law the Jarl of Devon were killed in it just outside of Oxford

My alma mater in America is Alfred University. We have a statue of King Alfred on the quad and our sports teams were called the Saxons. I researched him and it only increased my pride in that school, to be at a uni named after such an incredible king.

Great video. Absolutely adore your accent. As a Dane it's always interesting to hear about one's own country's from other sources and even learn about how it have affected them. I have to find that Jellinge sten replica, next time I'm in London.

So, not to be totally random, but in 2022/23 I read Samuel Pepys' diary, 16 volumes (not counting the indexes) published in the 1890's. And when you came to St. Olave's Church, I said, "Sam's church!" and was very happy to see it, happy I recognized it and happy when you confirmed that I wasn't wrong. That totally sparked joy. It's the small things, right?

When I had a day in London, I met a friend for a brief walk during his break and ended up near the Tower. I was torn between going into All Hallows by the Tower or the Tower itself. I decided on the Tower, but I keep kicking myself for now checking out All Hallows - I bet that would have been quite the memorable experience.

You're not simply well versed, you are clearly deeply interested in your subjects. You have a lovely, melodic speaking voice with an easy and persistent flow. I don't wish to seem forward, but you are quite lovely as well. All in all, not a bad combination for presenting videos on KZfaq. Thank you so much for creating these. It is appreciated.

Even Harold Godwinson had a danish, and hence arguably viking, mother. So the difference between viking and saxon kings was pretty much gone by the 11th century.

St Magnus the Martyr church at London Bridge/Monument is dedicated to a Norse saint - St Magnus of Orkney (Orkney having later been given as a dowry to Scotland by Norway).

You are brilliant at storytelling. Thanks.

Smart, funny, well read and charismatic. Also not overwhelming flashy in her presentation. I love it :)

I met and hung out with Paul McCartney in New Orleans at O'Flatory's Irish Pub and sang Irish Folk songs with him. It was so cool. This was about 24 years ago.

Please make more of vikings and anglo-saxon contents, I enjoy your videos 😃

My English history classes, I am Australian , I remember as hot days with blowflies buzzing in the windows and trying to stay awake. Your presentations are an absolute delight and so enlightening, thank you

Even if I can't afford to visit your fair country and go on your tour, I can enjoy your amazing delivery of history. I am glad I found your channel. 😊

I just found this, thank you! I'm from a town in the midlands that was once under the Danelaw. There are echoes in some of our street names, and slang words still. I accidently found out, that places that were under the Danelaw tend to pronounce "Scone" to rhyme with "Stone". I don't know if its a linguistic thing or a coincidence. It's just interesting.

I need to visit old England while I still can (I’m getting old). My ancestors from 1630 were born in Mitton, Lancashire. I’m in a city (Seattle, WA) that celebrates Leif Erikson and has a Nordic Museum, which I enjoy. I suspect we have Viking ancestors due to the red and blonde hair in the family along with the light blue/gray eyes. ⚔️

This was my first of your video's. You're so passionate, it's amazing, and full of entertaining and well presented information. Time to binge watch the other 32 videos. Keep up the good work.

1st, having recently stumbled upon your bits, I must say I think you are a great orator. Regarding vikings I never looked for them in London but always assumed one could given the history. Having them all around me in Sweden, cairns, stones, place names, I now feel rather spoiled. I can only imagine how it must be for someone over in the states f ex, how it must all be rather academic, abstract even. It's not fairy tales, it's not even that long ago really. But it is at the frontier as far as historic records go and that makes it so intriguing, being in the borderland between myth and reality. An age of legends for sure.

Here's some more info regarding the Anglo-Saxons. They're called such because of another tribe that came over from what's now Northern Germany and Denmark: the Angles. There were of course more than just these 2 groups, namely there were also the Getinges and the Jutes, but from what I remember they were involved in England to a much lesser extent.

we have a “Goldthwaite” Texas a very small rural town and I used to work for a Cajun company called Postlethwaite. I have always wondered what language the “thwaite” originally derived from because it is such a weird word or suffix to a word or surname or whatever, even for English. Welp there you have it… Old Norse!😅 haha I always assumed like, French or something because of all the Cajuns and Louisianans I used to work for.

You are mistaken about angles. Angles where the Germanic tribes from southern Denmark south of the Jutes north of the Saxons. It is true England did get the name From Angeland meaning land of the Angels. But the Saxon and Angles where both going to England and that is why it is Angle Saxon because it was combining both tribes. If you don't believe its a simple Google search.

I really enjoyed this video. Your way of story telling is very nice to listen to! I love this subject matter as well.

This is fascinating. (And fwiw, I think what you do works better here than on TT. There's enough detail, & your enthusiasm for history still goes over just fine.)

I live in London nowadays so I’ll definitely keep an eye out for these little echoes of Viking history! I’m originally from South Wales and I think most of our Viking links come from the Norwegians, loads of the islands in the Bristol Channel and further along the Welsh coast have names like Skomer, and Flatholm or Steepholm 😁

Actual modern day Dane here. 💁 I live 15 minutes from the Jelling stones and have seen them often. That whole area is filled with history from that time. It is truly magical to go for a walk there. There are great burial monunds right beside the old church, and a big palisade wall used to surround the city. Some of it has been recreated, and the rest of it has been marked by stone landmarks, so you can go for a walk around the old wall of the city. Fun fact, the Vikings didn't call themselves Vikings. That's just what we call them today. Viking was actually their name for the raids they went on. To "fare i viking" meant to "go on a raid".

I’m so glad to have found your channel, it’s fascinating and you are an excellent storyteller. Thank you!

Thank you! I recently had to plan a lesson on the Vikings in Britain, and I can't begin to tell you how useful this would have been then.

Found you recently and I love your well research stories. Plus, that cloak broach rocks. (I make those from copper, electrical wire works great as raw material in certain weights.)

I usually prefer to read over listening because hyperacusis and some spectrum stuff etc, but you have nice pace in your talk and no annoying background music or sounds.👍Also subscribed, keep up making good content to us history buffs!

What an amazing video! It makes me want to visiti London again. Perhaps revisit the Sutton Hoo stuff in the BM. Definitely visit those churches.. we have a Jelling stone copy in Utrecht if I’m not mistaken. But would love to see the London stones. Gosh.. thank you!!

You're really fantastic and bring immense joy, at least to me. I hope this humble offering pleases the algorithm and subsequent KZfaq gods.

I love the way you talk about history. Your voice has such reverence and love for the subject.

Astounding! I've always been a bit of an amateur historian and for the United States. In the past few years I've begun to find the Norse and the Anglo-Saxons absolutely fascinating. Last year, I found out that British isles are the majority of my heritage with a smattering of Danish and a pinch of Continental European. Thank you for a wonderful peek into this part of London's history.

Love your stuff JD. Your presentation is clear, expressive and engaging, please post more long form stuff.

I really loved *Kanyor North's* song *"Vaikings in London"*

You got the Angles wrong, though... They were a people from Angel, the narrow lower part of Jutland that's now the border region between Denmark and Germany (though mainly in Germany). So Anglo-Saxon is the mix of Angles and Saxons that arrived in what was to become England. Apart from that, I love your videos. Cute, fun. accessible little history lessons - and don't we all need those from time to time?

I'm an American interested in all the places my forebears came from. I recently learned that my great-grandfather's first and second names were Harold Rollo, two very classic Viking names and I've become much more curious about whatever I can learn about Vikings. Was raised being taught that I was Anglo-Saxon, German and Dutch. I've come to realize that probably includes a fair amount of Viking heritage. Love your videos!

I've been a long-time follower of your TikTok but only found this channel today! Incredibly well made and educational! Thank you for the great work and this channel deserves more views!

I know I am late to the party but I love these. This is one of the few channels I watch where the first thing I do is thumbs up, and I am never disappointed. I will likely never get to travel and see these things or here these stories otherwise, so I truly appreciate your time. Thanks from across the pond!

I am from a place near Liverpool called Huyton-with-Roby so it looks like a bit of a mishmash... They found a Viking longship when they were digging out the Liverpool to Manchester railway in the 19th century.

Thank you so much! I’ve been looking for a clear and concise lesson about this for sometime. Seriously, I’ve been trying to figure out exactly what a Saxon is for decades. No matter how much I’ve read…I ended up more confused. Thank you for explaining this bit of history in a fun and simple way.

Outstanding content. There is no end to London's history and when I return it will be to admire the past. Greetings from Spain.

Excellent video. I was born and raised in Yorkshire and you're right about all the Scandinavian street and place names.

I was a young New Zealander working in London in the 1980’s. I worked at St Mary’s W2, there was a plaque dedicated to Alexander Fleming. I thought this was very 😎 cool. I loved Londons history and I love your channel.

I'm 'later in life!' but how I wish I went to English schools where History was so much more interesting. Our school here in NSW Australia, touched on Captain Cook, Federation and The World Wars.

Simply, thank you for your videos! Especially this one of personal interest. I hope to connect with you before my next (not yet planned) trip to London. I love your presentation style! Filled with facts and info yet also a wonderful interest-provoking and sustaining manner filled with a delightful levity. Hurrah for your greatness.

I can't stop coming back to this video.

I'm always a little astonished at how much history I learned through childhood reading for fun. "Mist Over Athelney" was a favourite - English children held as hostages by the Danes, who escape to join King Alfred! Exciting stuff, it was.

The Angles came first, from Anglia round about the early-400's (when Rome was in the process of "falling"). Within a century or so, the Saxons started moving in from Germany. Hence the expression "Anglo-Saxon", a merger so to speak of two very different cultures.

I’m so glad the Museum of London is still around. I visited it decades ago (as recommended by my trusty Lonely Planet Guide to London) and it was hard to find and empty of tourists. But I loved it and spent most of my day there - albeit a lot of that was getting to and from it and hunting for the building as not many people knew where it was who worked in the area.

Bravo! Such great variety, brilliantly presented. Love the long form videos.

Excuse me if I have misunderstood something but if I remember correctly the angles were not a subgroup of saxons but actually one out of the three peoples who settled in 'England'. Namely the angles, saxons and jutes.

Thanks for another awesome video! I watch them and daydream of a time when I’ll be able to travel and see so many of those cool sites and markers 😁

I'm 21. I never found history engaging in School, it was a subject I never did well on. But your channel is hugely insightful, I absolutely love it so far and I have only watched about six of your videos. Hope you gain a bigger following!

Born in London, now in North Yorkshire. I was Viking-mad at primary school, and remain fascinated by them. I love that can walk in ancient places that bear Old Norse names.

I love following you, you bring history together in such interesting ways - and speak so clearly.

Very interresting! As a Dane I've learned broad things from our invasions/settling of england, but it's always a delight learning about the finer details :D

Well, now I guess I know where the term "going beserk" comes from!! Your channel is really so good, I've watched a couple and feel I've learnt loads 😁

I am native Dane and I’ve used bersærk in my day to day language my whole life. I’ve never thought about its origin 😂 just verified it with the danish dictionary and you’re absolutely right. I mean, I’ve used it correctly, but I’ve never thought about it. You usually just used it when someone go crazy, they go bersærkergang. Sorry, I just found this really funny and eye opening. Thank you 🙏

Just an awesome presentation. No doubt I will revisit it since I know I've missed a bunch even with periodic rewinds. Thank you!

I am so grateful for your excellent work. I admit I found this interesting because I played Assassin's Creed Valhalla and always wondered how it really was with the Vikingr coming over. Turns out the game is quite accurate. Now I know about these place names. So cool! Thank you! Oh and love the costumes and the funny sketch! 😂

I enjoyed this video. One thing didn't sit well: the way it's phrased, it sounds like the Saxons came to England without and conflict with the existing local people. This is not supported by the sources I've come across. I wouldn't mind the skimming over this, except the Vikings are then positioned as a violent invading force when their general settlement behaviour appears to be similar to the Saxons themselves. The perception of the Vikings as only violent raiders and Anglo-Saxons as only farming victims is a narrative that thankfully has been changing as better understanding of trade and settlement within scholarship.

I came for history, stayed 'cos you speak so clearly, even without closed captions I can understand all you say, even being a non-native English speaker. I love u'r storytelling.

The Angles actually lived to the North of the Saxons around the present day Danish / German border region - in what is today Slesvig / Schleswig and the most Southern Jutland region of Denmark. There is even a peninsula there just South of the D-G border facing the Baltic Sea to the East, which still carries their name: Angeln.

Wow,I can't believe there are records of all these Vinland Saga characters in museums. I'm a bit disappointed to find out I won't meet any Vikings in London,but it seems there are still a few reasons for going there. Very informative.

Small reminder, the Angles (the Anglo in Anglo-Saxon) came from Jutland in present-day Denmark, driven out by warring tribes coming over from Sweden. It's partly what inspired Tolkien to write of the Elves heading West over the oceans as well.😉

You are a born teacher, utterly engaging. Top marks 🙂

I remember when the Coronation chair was not behind glass, I think I was 8 or 9....I was surprised by all of the graffiti. You are correct about seeing an object without the case around it. Like when one tours any of your National Trust Estates, it is not just about a beautiful interior, it is that it was lived in, preserved...

I am shocked that you didn't mention The Strand, which means "beach". The Thames had a sandy beach at this place, back then; and it was probably the best place to haul your ship out, which is what you would do with a hull of that shape, to stop it being carried away by the tide. Also the most convenient place to unload your trade goods.

I don’t know about your description of the great migration, but the video was informative all the same

not you just blowing my mind with an incredible saxon outfit while im watching this sewing my first tunic.

Thank you for the great video! I enjoyed it a lot, it's very well balanced between entertaining and educational and the lengh is just perfect

Great video, with a really warm, approachable style. Liked this a lot.

You look tremendously good with black hair! I don't know if you've ever considered it, but you might try it out full time, especially if you're ever considering growing it a bit longer for a spell. Of course, you might just be good at hair, since you wear short hair quite a bit better and more stylishly than most women can manage! Anyway, the color is quite nice.

Your videos are really interesting. I'm going to ask you to do one (but not in the East End vernacular way)... about Warwick Lane/Paternoster Square. Charles Dickens wrote that he could see the roof of the Mutton Market from the chapel in Newgate Prison. My great great grandfather was the Mutton Market Manager in the former College of Physicians (there was a cutler's there too) on the site of the Cutler's Hall. He lived in Phoenix Court, on the corner of Cheapside. He is rumoured to have had the contract to supply meat to the prison, which is ironic because he had been condemned to death at Warwick for stealing sheep (commuted to Transportation to Bermuda - to build the dockyard for the Africa Squadron to fight the slave trade - he got parole). His wife survived him and the market, living at the Warwick Arms, where she died from bronchitis (a victim of a smog) shortly before it was demolished. Few records remain of this market, unlike the Metropolitan Meat Market across the road in Paternoster Square. German bombs destroyed Phoenix Court. Anyway, these markets were one reason for the founding of the RSPCA, and cited in Parliamentary debates leading to animal protection legislation. The Mutton Market was a few yards beyond the reach of the Met Meat Market's inspectors, so it might have been particularly gruesome. And as a convict, my g-g-grandfather could never practice as a butcher across the road. Anyway, a topic for you to consider.

I wonder how big your team is... You're so talented. I wouldn't be surprised if it was 5 of you behind the camera. If there's anything you need help with, I'm a TFS Alumn and would love to help with any larger projects you may have.

Even including the bits that are truly not clear today, you are an outstanding storyteller of history. Thank you!

As a Swedish person this is interesting in many ways. I found out new things today, Thank You!

1:38 the four main germanic peoples who migrated to Britain were the Frisians, the Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes. The Anglian kingdoms in Britian, of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia, were conquered by the Danish vikings in the 9th C, but were later freed from the Danelaw by the Saxonic kingdoms of Essex, Sussex, and Wessex in the early 10th C. The Saxon and Anglian kingdoms married in 927, thus proving the name Anglo-Saxon. TLDR: the Anglo part of anglo-saxon, comes from the Angles (modern day most northen region of Germany), and is the derivation of the name England. P.S. the 1:49 map is way to recent, Westphalia didn't exist until 1815.

Just to clear up a misconception. Viking was a profession, not a people.

I can’t overstate my pleasure listening to an English speaker who speaks English so well.

Love your voice, and your artful pauses. Very informative and relaxing.

That was super interesting, but can you do one on when the early Britons lived there (Welsh) and when the Anglo Saxons Jutes started coming in?

Dear J I watched quite a few of your wonderful little videos by now. They are usually excellent. So I hope you can take a little constructive criticism. MY Danish sources would claim that the arrival of the people from their heartland in ANGEL, an area roughly between the cities of Kiel and Flensburg, and the River Slei in Schleswig-Holstein, currently Germany, are the ones giving name to Angelland- England and Angelish - English. And they HAD already arrived - along with the Saxons, the Jutes and the Frisians, BEFORE Britannia was called English! So it's NOT called 'Anglo-Saxon' to differentiate it from 'German-Saxon'. According to my sources, at least, witch is rather common knowledge among Danish historians - as Angel was Danish until the Prussians took it in 1864! Not to sound overly nationalistic, I beg your pardon, but considering the subject on this video, someone may find these (nerdy?) details interesting. The confusion about Angles/English and Saxon arose (as I loosely remember) when Victorian authors starting writing about the Norman period, e.g. Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott. In order to make the Normans (yet another wave of Danish viking ancestry coming in, this time via France) look bad - being French, after all. This or these author(s) started calling 'the original Englishmen' Saxons! This odd, 'historical ' split occured via these 19 Cent novels. The two major peoples the Angles and the Saxons were given each their 'area of dominance'. And everybody forgot about the Jutes, the Flemish - and even worse- the Celts. The Angles thus gave name to the (almost) common tongue of both people's (Angles and Saxons) - English. The Saxons were now, wrongly, written in as the SOLE source of 'the real, original, ancestral (non-French) Englishmen! The latter honour of cause should have been the various Celtic tribes, Welsh etc! Or perhaps including the /Angle/Viking/Danish people's if you're living North of Watling Street, the historical border between Saxons in the South and Angles/Danes in the North. So we have the original wave from (Danish) Angel (and Lower Saxony) In 5./6. Century. Along with the Jutes in Jutland, the neighbouring tribe, North of the Angles. Second wave of vikings/Danes (8-10th century) settling in and giving name to DANELAW (and other Scandinavian tribes/people's settling elsewhere). Noting King Knud (which the modern English call 'Ca-nute') the Great*. He had a double monarchy of Denmark proper and West-Denmark (England). Third wave was the Normans from Normandy, William the Bastard or Vilhjalmur, being a fourth generation Dane. He who the beaten Saxons and later Brits calls William the Conqueror. And if memory serves me correct the 'English' (that is Saxon) king that Vilhjalmur fought, Harald Godwinson, had a Saxon father and a mother of proud, Jutish stock from Isle of Wight, a Jutish realm. There's the Danes again (Jutland making up the major part of Denmark), what'd you know? * Speaking of the modern mispronunciation of Knud/Canute, I humbly ask Englishmen' to listen to some of their own Chauser, Canterbury tales in original Middle English, that is. (mentioning in passing that Kent was another Jutish realm). Well, Chauser speaks completely unproblematically! of k-nights and k-nives. So that is where you can listen to and practice C-nut. Actually the 't' would originally have been soft like 'the', so 'Cnu-the'. You're welcome. And, finally, Dear J, if you have sources conflicting with this, let's by all means have the discussion. Looking forward.

Wonderful, I just love history. Many thanks for sharing this .

Superb video - answering a lot of the questions I had...

There's a large Norwegian population in the state of Minnesota. There's a small town (population 300) named Saint Olaf, after the same Saint Olaf. Their most famous resident was Rose Nylund. If you do another video that includes Norwegian history, you need to include "The Great Herring War."

Hi! Dane here. 😊🇩🇰 (According to My Heritage a very, very native Dane 😂) I have to applaud your pronunciation of Jelling, you must either have been to visit or learned it from a Danish speaking person? The common pronunciation of Knut or Knud as we call him in English has always made me smile though. It really makes good sense to put that “a” in between the C/K and the N, because unlike in “know” and other English words, we pronounce both K and N, straight after each other. 😂 And yes, the largest heritage (along with the red hair and fair skin) that my ancestors left behind, is probably the language, not only place names but also quite a bit of other words. 😊 Thanks for sharing some knowledge on the Vikings in London. 😊