How Did the Viking Age Start in Frisia? | History of the Netherlands c. 700 - 810 AD

The Vikings are famous for their raids in Britain and Ireland, making places like Lindisfarne and York, Dublin and Wexford famous names for people into shows like Vikings on HBO and The Last Kingdom on the BBC/Netflix. But somewhere that doesn't get a lot of attention in the Viking Age is the Netherlands, known as Frisia during this time, even though they have a fascinating Viking Age History of their own from Holland to Friesland. In this video I'll be looking at how the Viking Age started in Frisia, what the situation was in the Low Countries in the Migration Era and the Frankish Conquest over King Redbad's pagan kingdom and how this spilled over into the Viking Age with Danish King Godfred's first raid on Dorestad in 810.

This video is being made in connection with the Leeuwarden Cultural Capital 2028 Project and is part of a series on the Viking Age in the Netherlands that will be hosted here on my channel History With Hilbert.

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Central Because Liminal: Frisia in a Viking Age North Sea World - Nelleke IJssennagger:

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Nelleke IJssennagger & John Hines - Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours

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[historywithhilbert]

Thanks for watching everyone, hope yous enjoyed the video! Be sure to check out my other videos on the Vikings and Frisians and their history if you found it interesting and give me a thumbs up or considering subscribbling if you're new!

Hi! If you enjoyed this video and want to find out more about, or perhaps even learn to speak Frisian, why not check out "Frisian with Hilbert", a brand new channel that aims to do just that:

*Frisian with Hilbert*

Where is Frisian Spoken?

What is West Frisian?

[andreispurim]

I really like Mount & Blade: Viking Conquest storyline for adding Friese and this subplot of Viking influence in the region

[hoegild]

From Belgium, through Holland, Holsten, Slesvig and the southern part of Jylland the landscape is basically the same, and the culture quite closely linked. And this goes back well before the Viking age, probably all the way to the bronze age. In a time, when land travel was difficult, and sea travel easy, this coastline is basically Europes highway.

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[ivanstrydom]

As an Afrikaner of South Africa, I love doing research on the history of my ancestors. Having French and Dutch ancestry, both in the Frankish Empire of Charlemaign is truly mind blowing to me. And then to see the interactions of my ancestors with the Danish Vikings is so epic. My surname Strydom means 'Stryd om ' (To fight for). It was given to my family because they had "'n Stryd om hulle plaase en landed te beskerm van die Viking aanvaller.) They had to fight to retain their lands from the in crouching Viking conquests of that region. My families army was successful at defending their lands, hence why my family crest is a lion wielding a sword.

I love history.

[cyan]

Having ancestors from Nord Friesland, I've always been fascinated by the fact that so much of old Frisia is now under the North Sea. In Roman times the coastline was much, much further out. Didn't the Frisian coast experience a huge loss of land during the 5th and 6th centuries? Even the old maps of Heligoland show a large island with many towns and pagan temple sites.
I would love to know how the sinking of old Frisia affected the history of the area and it's relationships to other nations. Conflicts must have arisen as people were forced to move inland when their homes and towns sunk under the waves.
I don't know if you made a video about it, if not, please do. I'm very interested!
Thanks so much

[kmmndr_kn]

@History With Hilbert I just want to say I absolutely love your meme of showing that picture and the music every time the Netherlands gets mentioned. I actually only gets better over time, so thank you! (I'm not even remotely Dutch lol).

[XyryuHyota]

Every vid about Fryslân makes mr learn more about my people and even more of a proud Frisian.

[whispersinthedark]

Thank you for making interesting and educational videos on my families ancestral history in english. Many of our families came to the US and no longer speak the language and this is an awesome way to drop bits of our history into my son's day, and mine.

[ladyliberty]

Thank you Hilbert for this informative on
Netherlands Vikings, so much more to learn, it’s a good thing!! I appreciate everyone here on this channel who seem to know so much, more videos would be awesome 🙋🏻‍♀️❣️

[ElynevanOpzeeland]

i love the smooth transition from english to dutch and back. It's flawless!

[alanbrady]

This channel and simple history are my go to favourites for learning history. Much appreciated

[alpharius]

I also find it kind of interressting that Friesland serfed as a kind of preceder to normandy in a sense that the frankish kings would give parts of frisia as a fief to vikings ruler

[gregoryviper]

Everybody gangsta untill the commentator starts talking Dutch/Fries. Goed accent maat!

[TheFreshEC]

I'm from Zeeland, Middelburg and my area was heavily raided by Vikings to the point that the Vikings started to use Walcheren as a base to plan raids on England since most of the settlements were abandoned. Middelburg, Souburg and Domburg also saw their origins during these times, burg stands for a fortified position and the fundament of these positions are still visible from air as they were build in a circle.

[ecurewitz]

The Netherlands, not the Nether World or the Nether Regions. Those are different

[MWM]

The history of the “Old Saxons” would also be a very interesting topic. The village I live in in northern Germany was the site of a battle between Pippin of Francia and the Saxons in 758 (The village is called Sythen or Sitina in the old texts) and really little about these events can be found on the internet. The majority of sources about this battle and the Saxon fortress that once stood here actually come from books written by people of my village. But also there seems to be quite the lack of information about the Old Saxon culture after the height of the migration era in general, apart maybe from Widukind. You also mentioned them as being in the middle between Danish and Frankish spheres of influence, yet little is said about the Saxons themselves. Would you consider making a video about them as well?

[npcsjw]

They should add this to vikings. And they should add a series about grutte pier

[AlvarM]

Genetically iberian and Sardinian, Spanish and English speaker and Dutch student. I recently found your channel, I'm of course subscribed now! What an amazing job you do. Also damn, your pronunciation in almost every language I heard you is excellent!

[cornelkittell]

Hilbert, I really appreciate all you do to make the history of Frisia available to the world. As a Frisian-American (Cornelius Hiemstra until I was adopted) I was surprised to find that I was 11% Scandinavian. I was not aware of the extent of Frisian and Viking interaction. Keep up the good work.