the genetic can say the truth on the number of Frank or viking and burgond in France. Haplogroup Y DNA I1 is a typical scandinave or german haplogroup. the Germany have 20% of I1, England have 14% and France have 11% of I1. So the french have lot of germanic blood perhaps 50% or little less. the genetic don't lie
The flemish (i'm onf of 'em :D) descent from what is believed to be germanic ancestors but not only franks like in West-Flanders (where i live :D) there's believed to be it was saxon terretory thats why if you speak our dialect in some place in Norway (dunno where) they can understand us (no crap learned it in school)
@JimmyReptile1 The Franks was never conquered by Rome, but the Celtish Gaul become that. But the Franks started the settle the area around 300 AD. The Franks was first enemy of Rome but later on they become allied with Rome.
The Franks adopted Latin after the Romans probably since they were so closed allied.
Is there any documentary about how did Franks lounched the hatred from the north wrath of God Wotann(ođinn) on europ? As for Christianity is the aruin of Rome !!!
Great editing. Now I am only hoping for a video on the gepids, their exodus from Västergötland, Sweden around year 0, to nothern Poland and later to Ukraine and Pannonia ackording to archeological comparisons of cheramics, traces of migration from V-götland, stone-ring monuments(domarringar), ornaments and burialtraditions by Ingemar Nordgren.
@joonte1010 The Franks are the Ancestors to the modern day Flemings(Dutch speaking Belgians) and the Dutch and to some Germans, a not the French :) Since they were Germanic, they of course have worshipped Wodan/Odin and the others ^^
@BirkaViking True, but only 2% of the population of Gaul were Frankish. So the Germanic influence on France is really small. The Germanic influence is larger though near the borders of Germany, of which Lotharingen actually is German, and French Flanders, which is actually Flanders, but stolen :P
@Metaldude1945 Where do you get that the Germanic tribes only make up of 2 % of the French population if I may ask? Then you have the Vikings that settled in Normandy also.
It seems really strange that they only would make up of 2 % of the population?
@BirkaViking Not the Germanic tribes all together, but the Franks only made up 2% of the population of Gaul. I got that from my professor who teaches at my university here. His name is Youri Desplenter. But the same kind of stuff happened with the Vikings in Normandy,they were an elite who got control, but did not form the ethnic majority. That's why they assimilated, and started to speak the Language of the local people, the 'vulgar' latin which became French later on.
@Metaldude1945 Well I have very hard time to believe in that a so many tribes plus the vikings would only made up of 2% of the French people. It sounds very very strange and are probably only propaganda if you ask me.
And I hardly think no one can say for sure how much of the population are of Germanic origin.
@BirkaViking No no, i was merely talking about the Franks, i don't know how much the other Germanic tribes like the Bourgunds or the Vikings made up in France. But the Franks were only there for 2%, the most of the Franks just resided in Germany or Belgium and Holland, where they formed the majority, and out of their language came Dutch. It's not propaganda, what makes you think that? It is said by a very renown and reliable professor...
@Metaldude1945 Yeah I understand what you ment, but how is it possible for anyone to know that the west Germanic tribal coalition called the Franks only make up of 2% of the modern French people?
I doubt that anyone can say for sure about that and that so many tribes that included the Franks also conqured whole Gaul sound even more strange about that calculation.
@BirkaViking I don't know how my professor did it. But i'm sure there are some possibilities. Written sources, archeological findings,... If you want to know, you can always try and contact my professor. As i said, his name is Youri Desplenter from the university of Ghent in Belgium.
@Metaldude1945 Thanks for the info but I dont believe in that at all for also good reasons. Its not possible that so many Germanic tribes would only made up of 2% of the French population. If so the Franks must by fare been the best warrios in history to conquer whole Gaul if they were so few. And What I know of there are no one who can say for sure how big only one of these tribes were.
@BirkaViking It's hard to know, but I've had the impression that the Franks made up more like 10% of the population of Gaul. At least in what is now Belgium they seem to have settled in large numbers. Elsewhere they seem to have intermarried with the old Romanized Gaulish aristocracy, at least once they became Christian.
@BirkaViking The Franks must have been fairly numerous to have had such a strong influence on medieval French culture. The medieval aristocracy mostly used Germanic names, and French adopted many Germanic words, some for quite common concepts (nord, sud, est, ouest). The French crusading nobles and knights certainly *believed* they were the descendants of the Franks.
"If so the Franks must by fare been the best warrios in history to conquer whole Gaul if they were so few."
They were tremendous warriors,as they proved some centuries later,but not really because of conquering Gaul,roman authorities in Gaul were very fragmented,and fragile,even hated,there are records of gaulic romans that freely joined the franks,and other tribes,to escape the oppression and taxes of the roman provincial oligarchies,it was relatively easy.
@StellandBlood Yes thats true but I doubt very much that the Franks would only made up of 2% of the French peopel. That sounds extremely strange when there hasent been any other major invasion from other people either later in history.
@BirkaViking Gaul was very after the fall of the Roman empire, so the Franks only had Gaul for the grabs. And the Franks in fact were very good warriors! But the most Franks still resided in Belgium(especially Flanders), the Netherlands and Germany. Later on, a lot of Franks sent their children to the north, since they couldn't speak their language with the local people. These Franks that went north were mockingly called 'Walloons', which means non germanic people.
@BirkaViking You can still see that in some Flemish surnames like Dewaele, Dewael, Vandewalle, Vandewaele,...etc. They weren't non-germanic people, they were just germanic people who moved back with the other Germanic people. Something alike happens with black americans returning to Africans. The locals call them "Whites", but they aren't of course. You can also see that there is a very low number of germanic placenames in France. And the capital of the Frankish empire always changed northwards.
@BirkaViking I know it's just wikipedia, but type in: "French people". Go to "history", and then look what it says there. There are some Germanic influences in the north, such as Alsace, but that is actually Germany. And French Flanders, which is basically Flemish. The rest of the people are Gallo-roman. The Franks and the burgunds were just a ruling elite. If they were the majority, they would probably still have spoken Frankish, or at least something close to Dutch and German.
@Metaldude1945 In this documentary you actually have real experts on the Franks no one claims in this documentary that they were an small ruling elite. Becuase the simple fact that no one say that for sure. The Germanic king Clovis demanded his people to become Christians. He or other Frankish kings can also demanded that they would speak Latin. You should know that it was many Germanic tribes in the south that started to speak Latin in stead of the Germanic languages.
@BirkaViking But that would be strange, since he did not ask the "German" and "Flemish" Franks to speak latin? Otherwise Flanders and Germany would have spoken French as well. The Franks were a very small ruling minority, and assimilated with the local Gauls. There is nothing else that shows they were a majority, or a very large percentage of the population. I'll try and find some DNA-research to figure out what the French people are, if there is. The Flemings were proven to be Germanic.
@Metaldude1945 Yeah I understad your point of view but as I say no one can say for sure how many the Franks was. There are simply no sources on how many they were.
@BirkaViking The Germans call our country the Kingdom of Franks ''Frankreich"? so yes. Moreover, in French school we learn that Charlemagne is our great hero like Vercingertorix, Johan of Arc, Louis XIV, Napoleon, de Gaulle...
After the die of Charlemagne, Europe became different countries, who don't share the same culture, language, (Germanic, latin or Slavic language) not the same relgion the North (Protestant) the South (Catholic) not the same identity, sometimes not the same way of life...
@minhounou I know, in Dutch we call France Frankrijk. You can not deny there was some Germanic presence in France, but France overall still is pretty Gaulish, being celtic. You have to just know that the most Germanic tribes in France just had an elite status, meaning they were a very small minority, with a lot of power. Like Bourgogne or lombardia in Italy, but the regular population is still of indigineous origin, which in France's case, is Celtic.
@Metaldude1945 Yes it's totally true. Moreover, France is a Latin country, we speak a Latin language and we have a border with the Mediterranean sea (cradle of many cvilizations). if you go to Britanny you will see that this region is 1 of the 6 "Celtic countries'' they speak a Celtic language there, if you go to Alscace-Loraine it's more close to German. (this territory was stole by the French in XVIII century) even without the foreign mass immigation, France is a quite mix country,
@minhounou Latin in language, but the French ethnicity is Celtic :) That's why they call France and Wallonia Gallo-Romance. But Spain and Portugal are also Gallo-Romance countries. Celtic countries, but with Latin language. The largest part of France is Celtic, but Nord-pas-de-Calais and Alsace aren't French, they are respectively Flemish and German :) I'm glad you agree on that! :D
it's the ancestor of french ...!
druisteen 5 days ago
the genetic can say the truth on the number of Frank or viking and burgond in France. Haplogroup Y DNA I1 is a typical scandinave or german haplogroup. the Germany have 20% of I1, England have 14% and France have 11% of I1. So the french have lot of germanic blood perhaps 50% or little less. the genetic don't lie
freoltic 1 month ago
The flemish (i'm onf of 'em :D) descent from what is believed to be germanic ancestors but not only franks like in West-Flanders (where i live :D) there's believed to be it was saxon terretory thats why if you speak our dialect in some place in Norway (dunno where) they can understand us (no crap learned it in school)
utubetubernub 1 month ago
@utubetubernub
Denk het niet, boven de rivieren hebben de meeste al moeite met Brabants, Vlaams of Limburgs te verstaan :v
Even serieus, omdat het taalgebied tussen Scandinavië en noord Europa heel lang zonder grenzen is geweest zijn al onze (Germaanse) talen nauw verwant.
RogierV2 3 weeks ago
France speak latin because the franks later was totally counqured by Rome.
JimmyReptile1 1 month ago
@JimmyReptile1 The Franks was never conquered by Rome, but the Celtish Gaul become that. But the Franks started the settle the area around 300 AD. The Franks was first enemy of Rome but later on they become allied with Rome.
The Franks adopted Latin after the Romans probably since they were so closed allied.
Cheers
BirkaViking 1 month ago
Is there any documentary about how did Franks lounched the hatred from the north wrath of God Wotann(ođinn) on europ? As for Christianity is the aruin of Rome !!!
WikingNordlan 2 months ago
Thanks for this fine series of videos! Very informative!
Oswulf1 2 months ago
Great editing. Now I am only hoping for a video on the gepids, their exodus from Västergötland, Sweden around year 0, to nothern Poland and later to Ukraine and Pannonia ackording to archeological comparisons of cheramics, traces of migration from V-götland, stone-ring monuments(domarringar), ornaments and burialtraditions by Ingemar Nordgren.
alarik36 2 months ago
@alarik36 Thanks but this is a documentary about the Franks so I havent editing this.
Cheers
BirkaViking 2 months ago
great video here, thanks BirkaViking :p
henkkzzz 2 months ago
Well done.
SnyderRon 2 months ago
another excellent Germanic History Video!!!!
beowulfsword08 2 months ago
A shame they had to join Charlemagne and stab the pagan's in the back...
WatchRyder 2 months ago
very interesting stuff !!!
thanks for share !,,!
RITERAMETAL 2 months ago
Very interesting, thanks for the upload
Sean175 2 months ago
Great! Awesome and cruel past. Well, a throwing the axe to the head - oh yeah! It's cool!
kenstarr2009 2 months ago
Awesome video!
Wulfia1 2 months ago
Great video ! Thank you for this! You get a thumb up as always!
narutofreak12312312 2 months ago
Great
sawyers145 2 months ago
Nice! So they were Asatro worshipers aswell?
joonte1010 2 months ago
@joonte1010 Yes thats correct :)
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking However, they betrayed their gods for christianity, While we Scandinavia were forced to worship christianity.
NordenHonor 2 months ago
@joonte1010
they called upon Odin as Wotan
EasternGateGuardian 2 months ago
@EasternGateGuardian 'W' = Double U/V so it was probably pronounced VVotan or OOotan maybe
xXDominoXx 2 months ago
@joonte1010 The Franks are the Ancestors to the modern day Flemings(Dutch speaking Belgians) and the Dutch and to some Germans, a not the French :) Since they were Germanic, they of course have worshipped Wodan/Odin and the others ^^
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 >The Franks gave France its name so of course the French have some ancestors of them since they conquerd whole Gaul.
Cheers
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking True, but only 2% of the population of Gaul were Frankish. So the Germanic influence on France is really small. The Germanic influence is larger though near the borders of Germany, of which Lotharingen actually is German, and French Flanders, which is actually Flanders, but stolen :P
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 Where do you get that the Germanic tribes only make up of 2 % of the French population if I may ask? Then you have the Vikings that settled in Normandy also.
It seems really strange that they only would make up of 2 % of the population?
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking Not the Germanic tribes all together, but the Franks only made up 2% of the population of Gaul. I got that from my professor who teaches at my university here. His name is Youri Desplenter. But the same kind of stuff happened with the Vikings in Normandy,they were an elite who got control, but did not form the ethnic majority. That's why they assimilated, and started to speak the Language of the local people, the 'vulgar' latin which became French later on.
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 Well I have very hard time to believe in that a so many tribes plus the vikings would only made up of 2% of the French people. It sounds very very strange and are probably only propaganda if you ask me.
And I hardly think no one can say for sure how much of the population are of Germanic origin.
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking No no, i was merely talking about the Franks, i don't know how much the other Germanic tribes like the Bourgunds or the Vikings made up in France. But the Franks were only there for 2%, the most of the Franks just resided in Germany or Belgium and Holland, where they formed the majority, and out of their language came Dutch. It's not propaganda, what makes you think that? It is said by a very renown and reliable professor...
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 Yeah I understand what you ment, but how is it possible for anyone to know that the west Germanic tribal coalition called the Franks only make up of 2% of the modern French people?
I doubt that anyone can say for sure about that and that so many tribes that included the Franks also conqured whole Gaul sound even more strange about that calculation.
So what does he base this calculation of?
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking I don't know how my professor did it. But i'm sure there are some possibilities. Written sources, archeological findings,... If you want to know, you can always try and contact my professor. As i said, his name is Youri Desplenter from the university of Ghent in Belgium.
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 Thanks for the info but I dont believe in that at all for also good reasons. Its not possible that so many Germanic tribes would only made up of 2% of the French population. If so the Franks must by fare been the best warrios in history to conquer whole Gaul if they were so few. And What I know of there are no one who can say for sure how big only one of these tribes were.
But thanks for the info anyway.
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking It's hard to know, but I've had the impression that the Franks made up more like 10% of the population of Gaul. At least in what is now Belgium they seem to have settled in large numbers. Elsewhere they seem to have intermarried with the old Romanized Gaulish aristocracy, at least once they became Christian.
Oswulf1 2 months ago
@BirkaViking The Franks must have been fairly numerous to have had such a strong influence on medieval French culture. The medieval aristocracy mostly used Germanic names, and French adopted many Germanic words, some for quite common concepts (nord, sud, est, ouest). The French crusading nobles and knights certainly *believed* they were the descendants of the Franks.
Oswulf1 2 months ago
@BirkaViking
"If so the Franks must by fare been the best warrios in history to conquer whole Gaul if they were so few."
They were tremendous warriors,as they proved some centuries later,but not really because of conquering Gaul,roman authorities in Gaul were very fragmented,and fragile,even hated,there are records of gaulic romans that freely joined the franks,and other tribes,to escape the oppression and taxes of the roman provincial oligarchies,it was relatively easy.
StellandBlood 2 months ago
@StellandBlood Yes thats true but I doubt very much that the Franks would only made up of 2% of the French peopel. That sounds extremely strange when there hasent been any other major invasion from other people either later in history.
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking Gaul was very after the fall of the Roman empire, so the Franks only had Gaul for the grabs. And the Franks in fact were very good warriors! But the most Franks still resided in Belgium(especially Flanders), the Netherlands and Germany. Later on, a lot of Franks sent their children to the north, since they couldn't speak their language with the local people. These Franks that went north were mockingly called 'Walloons', which means non germanic people.
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@BirkaViking You can still see that in some Flemish surnames like Dewaele, Dewael, Vandewalle, Vandewaele,...etc. They weren't non-germanic people, they were just germanic people who moved back with the other Germanic people. Something alike happens with black americans returning to Africans. The locals call them "Whites", but they aren't of course. You can also see that there is a very low number of germanic placenames in France. And the capital of the Frankish empire always changed northwards.
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 Yeah that maby are true but the exakt number are impossible to know. And as I said earlier the Franks was many Germanic tribes.
But any way its a very intresting subject :)
Cheers from Sweden
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking I know it's just wikipedia, but type in: "French people". Go to "history", and then look what it says there. There are some Germanic influences in the north, such as Alsace, but that is actually Germany. And French Flanders, which is basically Flemish. The rest of the people are Gallo-roman. The Franks and the burgunds were just a ruling elite. If they were the majority, they would probably still have spoken Frankish, or at least something close to Dutch and German.
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 In this documentary you actually have real experts on the Franks no one claims in this documentary that they were an small ruling elite. Becuase the simple fact that no one say that for sure. The Germanic king Clovis demanded his people to become Christians. He or other Frankish kings can also demanded that they would speak Latin. You should know that it was many Germanic tribes in the south that started to speak Latin in stead of the Germanic languages.
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking But that would be strange, since he did not ask the "German" and "Flemish" Franks to speak latin? Otherwise Flanders and Germany would have spoken French as well. The Franks were a very small ruling minority, and assimilated with the local Gauls. There is nothing else that shows they were a majority, or a very large percentage of the population. I'll try and find some DNA-research to figure out what the French people are, if there is. The Flemings were proven to be Germanic.
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 Yeah I understad your point of view but as I say no one can say for sure how many the Franks was. There are simply no sources on how many they were.
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@BirkaViking I'll send you a pm!
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@BirkaViking The Germans call our country the Kingdom of Franks ''Frankreich"? so yes. Moreover, in French school we learn that Charlemagne is our great hero like Vercingertorix, Johan of Arc, Louis XIV, Napoleon, de Gaulle...
After the die of Charlemagne, Europe became different countries, who don't share the same culture, language, (Germanic, latin or Slavic language) not the same relgion the North (Protestant) the South (Catholic) not the same identity, sometimes not the same way of life...
minhounou 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 Even in German Frankreich (France) mean the Kindgdom of Franks.
Charlemagne died in Aix-la-Chapelle (France) and he was born in Wallonia (Belgium) which is today the French speaking region of Belgium.
The Franks are part of History of France like the Normans etc..but yes if you want to say that France and the Anglo-Saxon-German are different.
Yes I'm agree with you, the mentality, the culture, the religion, the language are differents. We are not in the same cultural sphere.
minhounou 2 months ago
@minhounou I know, in Dutch we call France Frankrijk. You can not deny there was some Germanic presence in France, but France overall still is pretty Gaulish, being celtic. You have to just know that the most Germanic tribes in France just had an elite status, meaning they were a very small minority, with a lot of power. Like Bourgogne or lombardia in Italy, but the regular population is still of indigineous origin, which in France's case, is Celtic.
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
@Metaldude1945 Yes it's totally true. Moreover, France is a Latin country, we speak a Latin language and we have a border with the Mediterranean sea (cradle of many cvilizations). if you go to Britanny you will see that this region is 1 of the 6 "Celtic countries'' they speak a Celtic language there, if you go to Alscace-Loraine it's more close to German. (this territory was stole by the French in XVIII century) even without the foreign mass immigation, France is a quite mix country,
minhounou 2 months ago
@minhounou Yes the Franks adopted the Latin languages after the Romans.
The English language are west Germanic languages after the Germanic tribes ; Saxons, Angles and Jutes that come to Brittian in the late 400 Ad.
The Celtish culture wasent much left of since Romans conquerd Gaul.
BirkaViking 2 months ago
@minhounou Latin in language, but the French ethnicity is Celtic :) That's why they call France and Wallonia Gallo-Romance. But Spain and Portugal are also Gallo-Romance countries. Celtic countries, but with Latin language. The largest part of France is Celtic, but Nord-pas-de-Calais and Alsace aren't French, they are respectively Flemish and German :) I'm glad you agree on that! :D
Metaldude1945 2 months ago
Thanks for share mate ; )
Great upload ...
Svargedorath 2 months ago
Nice upload the Franks had one of the largest states in Europe especially in the time of Charlemagne.
Zorro11144 2 months ago in playlist Περισσότερα βίντεο από τον χρήστη BirkaViking
Very nice.Franks are one of the Germanic tribes with an indeed great influence on the history of Europe.
OriginalMacedonian 2 months ago
Absolutely wonderful video!!!! Thank you for the upload!
7hobbit7 2 months ago
BEAUTIFUL!
MegaMikss 2 months ago