Land of Fire & Ice | The Animated History of Iceland
2020 ж. 5 Сәу.
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Iceland acted as an incubator for cultures that havent been around for centuries. Join us in uncovering Iceland's Viking past
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I love the way you don’t just focus on big countries and you show that other smaller countries also have a large rich history nice work keep it up
I love the small countries' histories. The bigger ones are too complicated.
Next he should do Burkino Faso
@@-gemberkoekje-5547 Definitely would be good to see more African countries!
He should do texas history
EneSacarification Why? Africa is literally the MOST diverse continent in the WORLD.... thousands of languages and ethnic groups. Each separate african country should have there own separate video just like this.
"Gets Kicked out of Norway for murder" "Then Gets Kicked out of Iceland for murder" "Colonizes Greenland"
"Kicks himself out of Greenland" "Colonizes Canada" "Kicks himself out of Canada"
And curiously enough, Greenland now has a very high crime rate (for such a small population)
Settles*
And named the both lands accordingly Ah wait
Sigma Grindset
“Because like... who wanna live in Canada?” Canadians: *Dude, uncool.*
*Oversimplifield has joined the chat*
Canada is the American Switzerland (as told by Europeans)
Say sorry!
Eh?
Ironically, many Icelanders (my great grandfather included) actually did move to Canada in the 1800s though
Love to Iceland 🇮🇸 From Norway 🇳🇴
🇸🇯🇸🇯🇸🇯
Love to my Arctic neighbours across the pond. From Canada.
And the same love from Iceland.
Love Norway too 🇮🇸❤️🇳🇴
Norge!
"This volcano." _Sad Eyjafjallajökull noises_
Eyjafjallajökull isn't too difficult to say with a bit of practice
@@sonuvabitch thats true I learned it in geography class in the Netherlands
Do be like dat
Hououin Kyouma I mean it’s really easy. I didn’t even need to practise. I’m “definetly” not Icelandic
Well this is a pleasant surprise.
And in 1972, Reykjavík was the site of one of the greatest battles of the entire Cold War. (Fischer - Spassky world chess championship) :)
Fischer also went on to live in Iceland for the last years of his life.
The Reykjavik Summit where Reagan and Gorbachev met during the cold war as a neutral meeting point
@@georgecaulfield8035 He was given an asylum for political and humanitarian reasons. He didn't have much choice, although he liked being here.
raven lord 😔so sad that you know that...
The cod war not cold war
Hi, Mr Suibhne, I just finished watching your "Animated History of Iceland," and I enjoyed it very much. I subscribed some time ago. Your "unarmed" characters are entertaining. I am a retired university professor (astrophysics), and an amateur historian, etymologist, and anthropologist. I'm having fun in my retirement. I have been studying the cultural, history, and language of the Nordic nations, and your video seemed perfect; it was. Thank you. Now, about your name, "Suibhne," if that is your name, it appears to be Finnic in origin. Even so, your narration of the Animated history sounds almost perfect British English. Have a great day and stay safe from the Plague. - Dr David Menke, Tucson, Arizona, USA (I am of half German, half UK ancestry).
Suibhne is the Irish version of the surname Sweeney. Jono
Based on his accent, I'd guess he's a New Zealander.
He is Australian, mate @@EmyrDerfel
The Icelandic language's similarity to Old Norse is not just from their isolation. The language also has few loanwords, with new words being made to describe foreign products or ideas. For example, the Icelandic word for "computer" is "tölvu," which means "number prophetess" and tank (as in the weapon" is "skriðdreki" or "crawling dragon"
They also purged most loanwords from Latin, English and Danish.
"tölva", actually, "tölvu" is the conjugated version. The rest is correct, and I never thought about "crawling dragon" before 😄
It's odd. I've been Icelandic for the full 45 years of my life but the word "skriðdreki" is so natural in the Icelandic language that I have never even considered how it is put together by the two words "skrið" and "dreki" which indeed mean crawl and dragon. Now that it's been pointed out to me it is as obvious as a fart in a library.
Dude, this video is phenomenal! The history is spot on, you avoided the infamous "we named it Greenland and Iceland to trick people" confusion and I couldn't find a single grammatical error in the translation! Serious props to you! Extremely nice to see our history handled so professionally and I can't wait to see more!
But… greenland was literaly named to trick people lol
@@burgerking2783 yea iceland wasnt so...
@@bird-war are you saying there is no ice in Iceland? If so you are mistaken and there is ice so its not terribly named
@@burgerking2783 no im saying that there is no green in greenland so that was a scam. Iceland wasn't
When Iceland was settled by Scandinavians, up to 40% was covered by forests and woodlands. Not exactly a frozen wasteland
Thats an old myth that wont die..
@philip Trevor True enough, but that's not the case in Iceland. Settlers cut down a lot of trees for their houses, their fires, and new boats for raiding, but trees there grow verrryyy slowly, so it was too much (much like what happened on the Easter Island).
All tall trees in iceland were planted there or brought from other countries, when iceland was discovered the trees were really tiny and the only mammal that lived there was the artic fox witch had presumably drifted there from an iceberg.
After a few decades the Icelandic people ran out of wood and and got colder which was are to grow anything at all and had to give up there Independence to Denmark in the first place , but today they have big greenhouses to produce enough food for themselves , raise good amount of sheep and goats to provide skins, meat, milk and wool to make warm clothing etc, and have a big fish industry and have big hot springs to provide hot water and to relax in and hot springs have rich minerals in it to help with natural health to the people and get free electricity from the geothermal heat from the volcanoes etc and have discovered metals etc for more industry providing more jobs and economic growth
when i was in Iceland it was explained to me that the climate used to be very temperate and had massive forests when it was settled. But during the little ice age that followed some time after it was settled, the climate changed dramatically. the Vatnajökull ice cap was formed and its glaciers have carved up the landscape ever since.
Hey everybody is Leif Erikson’s Day! Dinga kinga kurging!
Hinga dinga durgen**
Happy Leif Erikson day! Yager, hinger, dinger!
Klasse 👍
Eva Mailen Steinsvik There was not really a distinction between Norwegians and Icelanders back then so difficult to say that Leifr Eiríksson was Norwegian not Icelandic. Especially seeing as he was born in Iceland.
@@evamailensteinsvik713 No he wasn't. He was born and raised in Iceland. He just had a Norwegian father.
My grandparents came from Iceland in the last wave of Icelanders who settled in the communities of Gimli (Manitoba), Moutain (North Dakota), and Miniota (Minnesota). These three communities are well-known for their Icelandic heritage and Moutain celebrates "August the Duce," which is known to western Icelanders (called "Vesturíslensk" in Icelandic) as Icelandic Independence Day.
Hello fellow 'Western Icelander' my grandmother's parents settled in Stoney Point, MB and my great great grandmother's family settled first in Icelandic River (now Riverton) and then moved to the Glenboro area.
@@Caprabonethat explains the North Dakota connection in my family. We're predominantly German and Icelandic (some African, but mainly the first two). I always wondered how come they were over there.
Last time i was this early greenland was still green
😂😂😂
😯😯😯😯
Stick around. With the way the climate's going, it should be green again soon!
Around 1300 it was much warmer than today. So warm Southern England started take over France position as the largest wine producer. and back then, Iceland probably had a lot of wood and timber, now they have very few and small forests. In most of the Iceland there is no fores= no birds= shitloads of insects. They all die in the winter, but if you're visiting Iceland in the summer and plan to go outside the most urban areas, make sure you bring one of those face mask that goes over your entire head, with mini holes so you can see and breath. In some areas they are absolutely essential.
Unni Håvås nah dude, this is so untrue. Forests were gone by 1100 or at the least 1200. And what makes you think that there are no birds in Iceland? Sure there are some insects but only at lakes and other large bodies of water are there massive amounts of them.
Hello from Faroe island :)
Høgni Wang Sigurðsson Elska Færeyinga 🇮🇸❤️🇫🇴
I’ve been, your islands are beautiful
Komdu sæll!
**This is me making fun of you for living in a country that is smaller than Iceland cause we don't wanna be bullied but being small anymore** 👁-👁
Hi back from the hebrides! 🏴🏴🏴
Your animation style is so genius it makes me happy by just looking it.
Love my Iceland brothers, from Scotland
Same
I love Scotland to from Iceland
Im from iceland :3
@@RunnerRB halló íslendingur
seal boy hæ hæ
7:37 "Who'd wanna live in Canada?" As a Canadian, I find myself quite perturbed by this, ree All kidding aside, great video. Cool to see such a small country get some attention
Ah, another Canadian!
It's pretty ironic actually since Canada has the largest Icelandic population (ancestral) living outside of Iceland. The town Gimli not far from where I'm from has been having a massive Icelandic festival annually for the last 100 years
@@lukeh2556 where are you from
Which of the Provinces and Territories are y'all from? I'm from a small town (around 4,500 inhabitants) right outside of Ottawa.
@@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375 I'm from a small french canadian town in manitoba around 1 hour west of winnipeg roughly 600 people
Icelanders has a very interesting way of naming people. The kid’s surname will be the father’s name plus “son” or “dóttir”. Example: father is called Hjálmar Vilhjálmsson, his son could for example be Jón Hjálmarsson.
It's so nice to see you uploading more often! Keep up the good work!
Everybody: British: What if we invade first.
okay do you guys also watch you tubers with these meme i know this channel isnt going into big history because some channel talk about that and go into poltical stuff which this channel isnt doing is like ibx2cat he has a minecraft channel but also has a one about life and dont get me started on the channel with those countries with those faces and make their own history attack
British: what if WE get invaded first? British: GLORIOUS!
An excellent overview of Icelandic history. I did notice one error, though. Iceland did not gain home rule in 1874, it gained home rule in 1904. In 1874 Iceland gained its own constitution. It is also worth mentioning that the Act of Union that Iceland and Denmark signed in 1918 expired in 1943 and that is the main reason for the referendum which was held in 1944 and led to Iceland becoming a republic.
Also Sveinn Björnsson did not form a wartime cabinet in 1940. The wartime cabinet (Þjóðstjórnin) was formed in April 1939 by the Icelandic Parliament and was headed by prime minister Hermann Jónasson.
What is Iceland's attitude towards NATO? Do they view it as sort of a continuance of an occupation?
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music Some people, mostly left leaning folk were very against american presence in Keflavík, and an annual demonstration march was held against NATO and the US base, but politically, most people do not have a problem with NATO.
@@Secteer Thank you for your reply. Hope everybody in Iceland doing well; Australia has not been much affected by COVID-19 so it may be a good time to be an island.
KEEP CALM and PLAY SOCCER IN YOUR PAJAMAS KEEP CALM and PLAY SOCCER IN YOUR PAJAMAS I agree with what Eiður said, it’s mostly people leaning to the left, our current PM said during elections that she wanted us out of NATO, she hasn’t mentioned in months. Must have seen what good NATO does. I myself support NATO and wish to remain in NATO. Hope everything is good with covid, cheers mate 🇮🇸🇦🇺
This is really cool. I’m from Orkney, and grew up thinking I was a bit Scottish and a bit Norwegian (with some Welsh and Spanish thrown in to counteract all the inbreeding), so I was really surprised when an ancestry test said my Scandinavian side was most closely associated with Iceland. Thanks for teaching me more about my ancestral cousins!
Most Icelandic people has Norwegian ancestry
All those Islands were settled around the time so it likely says Iceland because their settlers left around the same time those did for Orkney. Iceland kept its language whereas Norn died out meaning that oral history was lost unlike in Iceland. You could be Icelandic or more likely the Vikings that settled the two areas were related but the Vikings on Orkney became the minority after a few generations leaving Iceland to claim that genetic marker.
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Very interesting. A great way to get a very general understanding of Icelandic history that allows one to explore certain interesting aspects in more detail. Thank you!
This was absolutely brilliant - first video I've seen of yours - really engaging - Thanks!
Thank you so much! I barely knew nothing about Icelandic history. Nobody seems to do videos about them.
I’m from Iceland and I really enjoyed this video!! Great job with the names 🙃
This seems to be a very interesting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
Love the longer videos Suibh. I loved the earlier videos anyway but getting more content is great! :) Must be a lot more work though.
Yeah but when are you gonna do Brobdingnag and Lilliput??? Seriously though, this is fabulous. "Everyone was a barbarian." 😩👌 -Benji
the novel where the land is taken over by GIANTS
Love your videos!! The art style, the music and of course the way info is delivered, congrats from Mexico! 🇲🇽 (btw, can we expect one video for Mexico?)
I only recently found your channel and subscribed. This video was quite interesting. I live in the Sonoran Desert (Tucson, AZ). I would enjoy seeing titles involving the many cultures (living and past) found in the Southwest United States. I enjoyed your animated history of Mexico. Our native cultures are diverse and colorful and deserve attention.
really enjoyed the conent. And loved your recognition of the problem we are all facing right now. Well done.
As an Icelander, I thank you for this great video :)
I had no idea Iceland had such an interesting history
This is just scratching the surface
They don't talk much.
If you are interested in learning more I would recommend reading Sturlunga saga and Laxdæla.
@@daisnrelfarsson1237 Can I get that in comic book form?
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_MusicIts online
I love you work! Thank you for the focus on smaller nation states as well. Appreciate the new content
Loved the animation's! You become better and better with each video!
icelandic sagas have been as far as writing about the adventures of Vikings in the Byzantine Empire! That's quite a thing considering the distances
Animated History of Wales would be nice since you done England and Scotland
I was in Wales, not much too see honestly 😆
@@vikingboat6347 Wales has more history and culture then England and Scotland combined. We have a civilisation that predates the Romans.
@@converter7 i was only in holyhead for one Day, maybe thats why i have this impression 🥴😆
@@vikingboat6347 Maybe. You only reached a small island of the country.
@@converter7 yesyes friend, it was only a joke. Would like to Explorer more but was there only for transit.
Great video, thanks for sharing! You earned a new subscriber!
im from Greece and i was always excited with the idea of moving to Iceland . this video was so interesting for me ty :) well done
I'm a bit stunned by the fact you spelled every single Icelandic word correctly. Most creators of material like this are lucky to manage 10% of the words correctly spelled. Surely you must have had help from an Icelander? Or are you really just this great at details? In any case, well done.
It’s called Google, and Copy & Paste Bro 😂
@@philiptucker7590 nnnnñ
@@philiptucker7590 knk
Kijkn
Jn
"This Volacano" lmao
Idk why volcano experts drill a hole in the side if the volcanoes to release pressure so it doesn't build up and explode everwhere like pompa
Love the videos mate keep it up
Thanks for making another video I'm a big fan of your channel.
For those who want more details of living life try watching Vinland Saga, it is a fictional Japanese animation but it is set in the Viking era and starts in Iceland. It is also a BRILLIANT watch and I HIGHLY recommend it.
It's 😊a excellent series.
could you do some countries in the middle east? or maybe Norway for consistency sake?.
This video was a nice birthday present, Love that you made a video about our little volcanic rock.
Excellent way to tell a story. Always like your work.
Spends 3/4 of the video mentioning how hard life was in Iceland. End Card: "As an island in the middle of nowhere they have thrived into the modern age."
It was filled with Norwegians. Of course it would thrive.
@@Mosern1977never filled with Norwegians as our settlers were quite evenly around 50/50 between norse and irish people
"...but in the meantime we got to see what these northern babarians would do isolated so far from the rest of the world." * He 111 heading in *
Tossing in the wooden carvings also had a practical side. It showed natural currents would tend to take ships to the same beach. In the days where ships, not land, was the main mode of travel coupled with less navigation options settling where latter ships could find you is a very good idea. Other locations might have currents pushing ships away.
Bro! Thank you for doing a video about my great country. Even tho I know most of this, the video was really nice. Keep up the good work!
I love Iceland so much! Such a cool island! Their heated greenhouses are insane!
This is so cool, i love the way you show interest in the world’s most interesting countries! Please do the Baltics next!
From the Baltic, only Lithuania has an interesting history. After all, the first states of Latvians and Estonians appeared in 1918. And Lithuania has existed since 1009 (1253) years :)
Top Quality Video *keep doing this. ❗️*
your maps are amazing
How timely that I just started watching Vinland Saga as this released.
For the next one my picks are 1.) Austria 🇦🇹 2.) Hungary 🇭🇺 3.) Czech Republic 🇨🇿 4.) Norway 🇳🇴 5.) Macedonia 🇲🇰
A video about Greece would also be interesting
Jack Krause There is no country called “Macedonia”
@@sigmaalpha8698 It's called North Macedonia
@@patrickbateman1540 North Macedonia on paper, Macedonia in heart 🇲🇰♥️
Hello im from iceland and i really appreceate your work you are my favorite creater (i love history)
The only channel I'll watch to the end even through the commercial to make sure he gets the full effect of me watching the video
00:52 Who told you 'Mark' means marsh? 'Marsk' means marsh. Mark is a field or borderland. (it's not called Danmarsk it's Danmark)
I think he got confused. The English used "mark" for borderlands, too, just naming it "march" (Welsh Marches and Scottish Marches) and once had a noble title called a "Marcher Lord". Since "marsh" and "march" (archaic English for border or frontier just like in Danish) can sound similar, particularly in plural, he probably confused the two words, and thought the "mark" part in Denmark came from "marsh", instead.
A video about little old us? You do us honor sire, thank you :)
Another beautifully done video. I love it how entertaining and informative they are. Excellent to use in classes, for instance! Only one thing...: "Tiny" volcanic island...? Not quite Nauru, with all due respect... :)
Yeah I'd rather call it small than tiny.
Love your vids!
Great job! make the history of Lithuania, I think it will be interesting!
Animated History of Austria please! Would be awsome!
:3 you really want to remind the world that Austria startet two World Wars?
@@An1989di Acctually it was the Serbiens who "started it" 😅
@@knightofsvea604 Their Duke did not do the dying move, did he? ;)
@Britannia As German Province. The one that kept fckn around outside the boarders. Also the not fogotten Incestials... I mean the Monarchs. We can also remember them being owned by Prussia. Well, not too much positive in the past for Austria.
You’re literally better than the history channel. Thank you for making these vids!
Wonderful video. Liked your humour. Greetings from Canada.
Could you do The Animated History of Canada. please? Including the First nations, Vikings and french colonisation?
The goal is to have more views than the Iceland's population
Just 271.000 views to go...
Það er lítið mál ;)
Now it does lol
Was just watching the series Viking. It's showing how Floki took a group of settlers to settle Iceland. Gave you a thumbs up for that alone.
I am going to subscribe to your channel you taught me something new
Nice to see a video of my people. Just to add to the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism, the final chapter of that story is often attributed to the beheading of the final Catholic bishop Jón Arason and all his sons in 1550.
This video: exists Vinland Saga readers/watchers: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Damian Lehner Big weeb energy
Vinland Saga is the exact reason why I looked up for a video on the history of Iceland. Never knew about this interesting history until then.
@@fidelinthepacific4127 If you want to learn more I personally recommend Laxdæla. It is written about a "small" family feud that happened sometime between 900 - 1100.
Please do History of Egypt next. There's so much there you could even do multiple parts
Amazing how their ancestors never gave up on this land, they and their legacy (the Icelanders) really deserved this place. Thank you for this video, I've learned something, and it is an honor to be here.
You should do faroe islands next 👍👍❤
I've taken this time to read the Iliad, Oddysey, the Aeneid and the Poetic Edda. What better time than now?
very well done!
Love this!
“The Thing” is what we should call parliament 😜
Iceland, Robbie Rotten's motherland. I'm sure he's watching this up there
Forever number one 🖐😔🤚1️⃣
I met him twice! Hes such a nice guy! (Im icelandic)
I see u again
@@rickyxray2712 i see him too again
In Iceland we call it "Föðurland" or Fatherland.
I love these videos
Really nice video, just one nitpicky thing from the beginning: "mark" doesn't mean marsh in danish, it means field :) You probably meant "marsk" which is technically marsh, but the more common word is "mose". Not that it actually matters but it was something I noticed, being Danish myself.
Yeah, the word mark is the origin of the word march in English, too. Also, in the name Denmark, I believe that 'mark' has a more militarized meaning, in that it has also been used to refer to a frontier territory. So, you know, 'the Danish frontier.'
@@ReallyRealBenMills do you mean in the srnde of the word "slagmark" meaning battlefield? Usually the word mark is associated with a borderland, which follows its use in olddansk/gammeldansk
Who would want to live in Canada? Well apparently Icelandic people do because Canada has the largest diaspora of Icelandic people living outside of Iceland. Like the town of Gimli, Manitoba still celebrates their heritage with a massive annual Icelandic festival
We call them west-Icelanders
There is Reykjavík, Manitoba. An interesting story behind that.
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Great video
This is awesome thank you so much.. finding out things i didnt even know before about my country. Að halfu Islands þakka þer fyrir.
Everyone: makes fun of France for falling under the nazis in a month. Denmark: gets ridiculously conquered in 6 hours and no one makes fun of them. Everyone: we don't even know where Denmark is.
to be fair, France and everyone else viewed France as a great power, so it shouldn't have crumbled like that. None of the other European countries that fell to Germany had that status. Even Hitler was surprised that they took France with relative ease. I'm sure the French people are annoyed that everyone keeps bringing this up, but unfortunately this is what happened, and the image is pretty much stuck.
Denmark send a squad on bicycles to the border to defend against German tank divisions.
12 hours the fighting didnt stop after 6 hours
Magiont line
@@kristianbager4373 oh, I'm sorry, this makes a huge difference. I will never doubt Denmark's fighting abilities ever again. 12 hours are so much different than 6 hours, when defeating a nation. How silly of me.
@6:55 "This makes the Althing the oldest parliament in the world" The Faroese Lögting is probably a bit older tho.
Já, sennilega rétt hjá þér.
No it isn't.
@@vetarlittorf1807feel like backing your claim up with any source or argument?
It isn’t i’ve searched but Alþing always comes as the oldest
@@blegh9585 what do you mean by "always"? Show me a source that compares them directly then.
Superb. Thanks.
Very nice video it's very useful video
A suggestion for a future video is the history of Lithuanian
Love from Denmark to our badass little sister Iceland! Keep being awesome.
It's badass little brother Iceland, and love right back at you Dane. :)
Hey I am from Iceland and love this video
Great job. PS Check out Collapse by Jared Diamond. They did have lumber at the beginning before they cut it all down. Also has info about the Greenland settlement.
Iceland is the best place I've ever been, I wish I could move there.
4:21 It's wet, cold and miserable. Just like home!
Love the videos! Could you please do one about Lithuania?
the best video yet
Do Austria next !