The German Vikings: Saxons & Schleswig-Holstein

Sources Below 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. Online shop www.norseimports.com TOP suggested books to learn more! https://www.amazon.com/shop/norsemagi... Insta   / thormmadj   Patreon   / norsemagicandbeliefs   United Homesteads https://www.unitedhomesteads.com/ Sources Ptolemy, Geographia US/CA: UK/EU: History of Bede US/CA: UK/EU: Tacitus, Germania US/CA: UK/EU: Prose Edda US/CA: UK/EU: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum Two Lives of Charlamagne US/CA: UK/EU: Carmen de conversione Saxonum Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae Lex Frisionum Lex Saxonum Annales Xantenses Heimskringla US/CA: UK/EU: Hrólfs saga kraka US/CA: UK/EU: Gesta Danorum US/CA: UK/EU: Al-Tartushi 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.