The War that Changed the English Language - MiniWars #3 - OverSimplified Reaction

Alright, today we have a new

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, let's go straight to this one, but before we do, I'm getting really close to YouTube, partner, I need 800 more subscribers, so if you can subscribe to the channel , will mean everyone, let's get into this one. This video was made possible by Skillshare, an online learning community with over 17,000 classes on almost anything you can imagine. Keep watching until the end of the day, you can get your first one. two months free england in the middle ages the birds are singing the children are playing in the town square what a wonderful time to be alive hey, you're dying and we're also being raided by vikings what a terrible time to be alive the year 900 is.

Europe is a wet dream for the Vikings. Raids galore, yes, you want to go raiding in Paris. Okay, that particular raid didn't go very well, but King Frank said you guys are pretty tough and scary. How about we give them land in northern france and in return you protect us from other vikings and it was agreed that the vikings established the duchy of normandy and then converted completely french to christianity, learned the

language

and had babies with the locals. England had a good number of Vikings. Trouble in the 800s. The Danish Vikings had conquered most of the country, but the Anglo-Saxons eventually managed to drive them out, although they left behind a group of Viking settlers.

Now this guy's king, who sucks, replaced him with his brother and he was like, "Hey, honey, how?" You were leaving and you had a son and then he turned around and said, Hey honey, how are you? and you had another son and then he died and no one was sure which son to make this king because he's older, not if I have anything to do with that. that works for us too wow and he grew up and married the daughter of the Duke of Normandy and had a bunch of kids, remember this one, it's important, so his advisors came to him and said, hey, all those Viking settlers that They live here they could join. and kill you well, so why don't we kill them first?

This angered the Danish king who launched an invasion and the Vikings conquered England once again, then the Anglo-Saxons conquered it and the Vikings reconquered it, oh my god the king's family had to leave. into exile, including Edward, remember, he went to Normandy, where he lived for 30 years, he and his brother Alfred tried to return to England to take back the throne from the Vikings, but they were betrayed by why most of the people in At that time they were called Alfred I. I swear that every time you watch a history program or a program about Vikings or something, someone from England is always called Alfred, so I will always, my friend, take you to London, where all the nobles are waiting to make you king, oh. don't look red hot poker in the eyes, I can't see and therefore you can't be King Edward, then he escaped back to Normandy just after the Viking kings came and went, one finally died gasping for air and Edward was called back to England where he became king and that is where our story begins.

This is what happens with becoming king in the Middle Ages. Often your entire country does not support you at first. You may be vulnerable to rebellions and it is up to you to take control. Fortunately for Eduardo, it already existed. a super powerful guy who had a lot of control over england and if edward could get his support then england would be his who is this guy, i don't care, he's the guy who gave my brother the red hot poker in the eyes after a awkward moment where Edward exiled Godwin from the country and finally had to relent and let him keep his earldom, possibly after Godwin gave him a bunch of gold and said he was very sorry.

King Edward also married Godwin's daughter, then Godwin died and his enormous fortune was passed from father to son. For his sons, who became earls, in particular, he became the new Earl of Wessex. harold godwinson was now brother-in-law to king edward, he was a close advisor to the king, a brave warrior who had proven himself in battle against the welsh and in many ways he was almost like a co-king uh oh edward grew old and in his deathbed possibly for religious reasons or perhaps because he was not happy about having to marry her, he did not point out his wife and as a result he has no children, which means there is no obvious heir to the throne, which means that I'm going to be king, he has a great nephew, it could be him, no, let's go with me, just one problem, I mentioned that Edward's mother was Norman, Edward grew up in Normandy and had many Norman friends the current Duke of Normandy was William the bastard why they called him bastard one day his father was running away from his castle when his advisor asked him where you went to the tanner's shop why get a tan but that was a lie, first of all, because the tanners give you leather, not tans, and secondly, because he was really going to see the tanner's daughter, one thing leads to another and out comes baby William, born out of wedlock, therefore an absolute bastard, his father died when William was seven or eight years old and became the new juke, he spent most of his childhood narrowly avoiding murder, which probably made him the big tough guy you remember, since today in 1051 he tried to rebel against him and the people of the people beat dead animal skins as an insult to their commoner mother.

He and William responded by saying: "Well, let's just say it wasn't pretty, that's the kind of person we're dealing with here. William and Edward were good friends and Edward supposedly promised that William could have the English throne after him a decade." Afterwards, Howard Garwinson even visited William and swore an oath over the holy relics, promising that William could be the next king of England, although Harold may only have done so because William was holding his family hostage, so when Williams He found out that the king was on his deathbed, he said Hooray now you have two extremely powerful men who think they are about to become the next king, wait this guy is the king of Norway He spent most of it. of his life as a hired warrior fighting for whoever gave him the most gold you can name a place where he probably fought a war, then Poland, yes, Estonia, yes, against pirates in the Mediterranean, yes, the Holy Lands. , Sicily and Bulgaria, became very rich and was swimming in gold, then he returned home and became king, one of the previous Norwegian kings.

He had made an agreement with one of the Viking kings of England saying that when that Viking king died, the king of Norway would get the English throne. Hardrada felt that because of this agreement he now had a right to the English throne and was also eager to go on one last great conquest that would make him a legend, so when he heard that Edward was on his deathbed, he thought he was going to invade England and then I'll be king, so now we have three extremely powerful men who think that you're about to become the next king of England and that means someone is probably about to get hurt in England.

Harold Goblinson is caring for the dying King Edward, suddenly he comes out with it. I'm very interested in how this

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the English language. You know what I mean, I'm very interested to see what's going to happen here announcement Hello, everyone gather together, that's it, come closer, don't be shy, okay, then I have bad news, the king is dead, I know, very sad. but good news, he said I should be next, okay, so hooray for me and oh yeah, he said if he once told anyone else that he could be king, he doesn't like them anymore and they should stay in Normandy and also. he said no one should ask any more questions, okay, good talk, go do whatever you do.

It usually took months of preparation to crown a new king, but Harold was quick and had himself crowned on the same day that King Edward was buried in Normandy William's advisors approached him and said: Hello, Willy , bad news, Harold Gowinson has taken the English throne and William was furious, so he sent an envoy to Harold, who said: William says you stole the throne and demands that you give it back to him immediately. Let me think. about that, no, he said no, that bastard, wait, I thought you were the bastard, uncool William immediately began gathering his armies and preparing for an invasion of England.

Now killing a king was generally frowned upon in the old days, so what was going to happen was that he Trying to be king of France and England at the same time is what he wanted because they were considered to have been chosen by God himself. , so in Normandy, William had to have God on his side and needed the blessing of the position for his conquest, so he went to the Pope and told him that Goblinson swore an oath to me about the sacred relics and then usurped the throne. Can I kill him? Why not? Then the Pope gave William his blessing, meaning that William now had God on his side.

Everything was ready to go just one problem the wind was blowing in the wrong direction and william had to wait with his army in normandy while godwinson waited with his army in the south of england they waited and waited and waited and then william said screw it and set sail towards England and was shipwrecked because the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, so he decided to keep waiting, they waited two months and the wind never changed. Wow, Winston got bored and also ran out of food for his soldiers, so he sent them all home and came back. to london the south coast was defenseless and all william could do was continue waiting while the north wind kept william in normandy carrying herdrata and his viking army to england hardrata landed near the ancient viking city of york and defeated a The regional army led by the Earls of the North and York surrendered when Godwinson learned of this.

He must have been quite upset because he had just disbanded his army and now he had to gather them all again and march all the way north. I love the Vikings. I absolutely love Vikings. Is there something to do? With that and caught the Vikings off guard and unprepared for battle, the two armies stood on either side of the river. Derwent legend says that a Viking berserker single-handedly held the only bridge across the river, dodging arrows and fending off attackers, he got under the bridge. in a barrel and gave the old spear in the jewels oh no, but because they were caught off guard, many were not wearing their chain mail and armor and the English finally defeated them killing Hardrada and with him bringing the era Viking war in England ended and set up camp near Hastings and Harold was still in York.

His exhausted army had to march south a few days after his battle with the Vikings. Harold arrived in London and considered staying there and waiting for William to return. come to him, but William forced Harold's hand by burning a bunch of villages. Howard's army set out and met Williams on October 14. Wait, I just fought, I thought I just fought, they didn't have cars back then, okay, sure, obviously. actually I had to march like that so far so hot no way no way hey king telling me to march so far no I won't stay here I'll stay here and both sides prepare their way I love Hastings the English were on a hill like that They decided to stay there because it was a good defensive position the Normans approached and the two sides probably spent a while yelling at each other William and the Normans had some tactical advantages over the English the archers went first Norman sent volley after volley of arrows at the English, who formed a shield wall in defense, then Williams sent his infantry up the hill, the English threw everything they had and the Normans could not break through the shield wall.

This woman's next tactical advantage came. Coming into play, William sent his cavalry up the hill, but even they struggled to break through the shield wall defenses. Wave after wave of infantry and cavalry arrived and Harold knew that all he had to do was let the rules run out and he would win, but then something happened a little strange, it is possible that the Normans incorrectly believed that William had been killed, perhaps Perhaps they lost the will to fight against the shield or perhaps it was an intentional deception tactic, but suddenly the Norman forces turned and fled from the English believing they had won. their shield wall and pursued the retreating Normans, who then turned and surrounded the English troops, cutting them into chaos.

After Harold Gorwinson was murdered, the most popular theory is that he took an arrow in the hallway, the English were defeated and William won, he was no longer just a bastard, now he was a conqueror. At first, the English nobles were reluctant to make him king, but William burned a few more villages and the Novels finally relented and offered him the crown while he coordinated the villagers at Westminster. He let out a shout of support, but William thought he was ariot, so he burned the village. William had to undertake a long and costly campaign to put down rebellions and burn villages across England to force people to submit and England passed. a massive transformation under their new Norman rule the English nobles were replaced by Normans they built castles and great cathedrals but one of the most interesting changes occurred within the English language the Normans brought their French dialect to England and emerged with Old English in forms that still exist today.

We live today, first of all, the Romans were obviously the ones in power, so words related to power, such as government, judge, castle and crown, come from the Normans. The words that are considered elegant are more refined, they are usually the Norman ones at first, the Anglo-Saxons probably were. It was not so friendly to the Normans, while the Normans were probably not so friendly to the Anglo-Saxons. An Anglo-Saxon might enter a room, but a Norman would enter a chamber. An Anglo-Saxon might grab a shirt while a Norman. buy a blouse and while that filthy peasant's new shirt may be fair, the Norman blouse is absolutely beautiful, the Normans actually considered some Anglo-Saxon words so crude that I can't even say them on youtube, but there are rather, ask a Anglo-Saxon what job he does and might respond with some low-level trade, such as a baker, miller or shoemaker, but a Norman has a skilled trade such as a painter, tailor or merchant, the working Anglo-Saxon farmers. in the fields he owned many cows, pigs and sheep, but once they were served at a Norman banquet they were turned into beef, pork and mutton and written down, since many Anglo-Saxons did not know how to write, the written language was idealized, your annoying friend who says the cool whip could simply be speaking an Old English dialect as originally written by the Anglo-Saxons, when, where and what, but the Normans swapped the w and the h and the long vowel in English sounded more like an o to the Normans , so you can thank them that you live in A House, Not a Ham.

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