The German Vikings: Saxons & Schleswig-Holstein

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The city's name derives from Schlei “inlet” in the east and vik, which meant inlet in Old Norse and settlement in Old Saxon. The term "Holstein" derives from Old Saxon Holseta Land.

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00:00- Intro
01:30- Origins
06:45- Pre-Viking Age
14:30- Viking Age Relations
24:00- German Territory


Old Saxony was the homeland of the Saxons during the Early Middle Ages. It corresponds roughly to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, eastern part of modern North Rhine-Westphalia state (Westphalia), Nordalbingia (Holstein, southern part of Schleswig-Holstein) and western Saxony-Anhalt (Eastphalia), which all lie in northwestern Germany. It had four provinces: Nordalbingia, Eastphalia, Westphalia and Angria. Ptolemy's Geographia, written in the 2nd century, is sometimes considered to contain the first mentioning of the Saxons. Some copies of this text mention a tribe called Saxones in the area to the north of the lower River Elbe, thought to derive from the word Sax or stone knife. was originally the area settled by the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages, when they were subdued by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 772 and incorporated into the Carolingian Empire (Francia) by 804.