The Baltic Vikings: Curonians

Dont know much aboit them, but most history enthusiasts and lithuanians should be proud to be the last christianized people in europe.
Few could resist continous christian raids to convert. The baltic people were really strong but another factor were the thick baltic forests.

The Curonians from the Land of Amber are one of the most interesting ancient peoples that I've learned about. Thank you for the video.

I got a tattoo of Vytis on my upper arm. Now getting a tattoo of a curonian on my lower arm. Baltic ancestry - almost like a timeline in honor of it. It's so hard finding details on their armor since the crusaders destroyed so many historical references.

I found out I have Baltic and Celtic DNA. However it's hard to tell what parts specifically. I hope it's Irish and curonian. Badass mix.

I'm Lithuanian and I'm so happy that I found this video. Instant subscribe, our history is so scatered around the Europe. It is really hard to find such information. Video is great from the begining to the end. That background music creates amazing atmosphere, you just dive yourself into the past...

We still have our pagan traditions, we know the religious beliefs and gods, even if we don't believe it so much, but we have pagan celebrations like Jani where we dance around fires and so on. Also some Curonian language pieces still exist just not completely. My grandma was from Kurzeme (Curonia) and she spoke some words that were very unique to Latvian.

Surprisingly there is nothing about Ragnar Lodbrok having been beaten by curonians twice in famous THE VIKINGS serial movie.

Im from Kurzeme, modern name for the land of Curonians. There is an old saying of Kurši putting up cut off legs of invaders on sticks on the Baltic sea shores. Most invaders thought it was a warning to stay away from these lands, but actually the warriors were drying up the legs in the seashore winds and sun to be able to pull off the fine leather boots from the cutoff legs.

I’m glad I came across your video. I found out I have Baltic DNA as well as Swedish and Germanic. I enjoy learning about my heritage. Thank you.

Do oselians video also please.

Vikings are originally from Skandinavia. In this video we see desigs of Viking drakkars of Norway and Denmark. Axe designs from same countries and all the other hardware. haha Funny video.. Vikings of Scandinavia had Viking kings. It is the center of our culture and history. Can anyone show me the family trees of these Vikings in Estonia? And if they were from Scandinavia ? The word Viking only stems from Scandinavia.

All my ancestors got from the northern region. From sweden to lithuania, up to northern poland my ancestry is from

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hell yeah,great info

It’s really sad and unfortunate how European tribes lose their native identity after Christianization.

Kurši= Kurshi

Amazing video. One mistake that I think you mentioned was that the Curonians were the last to be conqered by the Brother of the Sword (Livonians). In fact, the last of them were the Semigallians, neighbors of the Curonians. These 2 tribes were both enemies and friends on many occasions. If I remember correctly the attack on Daugavgrīva monastery in 1228, which you mentioned, was conducted by both the Curonians and Semigallians.

I just found out that my father is mainly Lithuanian. This explains a lot about me and things I am drawn to. Thank you so much for this!

you say it wrong its kurši and its kurland in latvian kurzeme.

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Curonians and baltic tribe... maiby not. The Curonians were part of the Livonians, it means Balto-Finnic people. Related to Estonians, Seto and Fins.

I am from Sweden

My grandmother used some words in her language which were curonian origin and her family home was close by Apuole. We are still here just under different names.

Curonians .. Kujonerne? meaning the cowards? kujon / curon ... as a danish guy it kinda sounds the same.. :D by the way .. they wasnt vikings ;)

Can you post some of your sources 🙏 I would love to read more on thistopic

DEUS VULT!!! DEATH TO NORSE BARBARIAN INFIDELS AND BALTIC BARBARIAN INFIDELS!!!

LOL!!! VIKINGS(NORSE) AFRAID OF OTHER VIKINGS(BALTIC)!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Norse pagan trash rats were scared of Curonian infidel savages so bad that they got their Norse asses kicked!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Seems like those Viking savages are only effective against defenseless Christian monks!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Worth mentioning that not all of the Curonians were conquered. The most Southern parts of Curonia joined the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and ended up assimilating into the neighboring Samogitian tribe. This includes the aforementioned Apuolė hillfort. It's believed to be the reason why the local dialect/language is so different from the rest, due to the Curonian influence.(e.g word for duck is Pylė, believed to be a curonianism and not seen in any other Lith dialect, they preserved the diphong ei instead of the diphong ie, which was only done by western balts etc)

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But last pagans is Semigalls not Curonians. I proud with my ancestors. Im Latvian!

In Lithuania Curonian descends used and worshiped pagan traditions till 19th century!

Baltic Amber till this day are found in the whole world that dates BC. Curonians also traded with Native Americans.

That Baltic Bloodline runs deep in my Veins!!

Yeah boyyyy 🇱🇻

Irish in Finland. I got a somewhat mythological bloodline. I'm a direct decendent of forest Finn's that decended from Viking kings and princes in northern Sweden burea and includes the Bure kinship. I can send the geneology tables I got. Like 30 pages back 1000 years.

When the whole world feared the Norse, the Norse feared the Kurs.

I love theese videos. Very informative and enjoyable!
I find ancient Baltic aswell as Finno-Ugric mythology and history very fascinating. But I think it's a bit misleading to use an Old Norse word (Vikingr) to describe a people with a very different and unique language, religion, culture and traditions. I seriously doubt that any Curonian would have described themselves or their "job description" with a North Germanic/Old Norse word (a language that is completely unrelated to their own).
Using boats to raid people in different lands doesn't turn you into a Viking in my opinion, in that case almost every civilization in the world would have had Vikings too.
The Word Viking is something deeply tied to Norse culture and it can even be found used on Runestones that are still around today, so it's quite obvious that Norse people used that specific word to describe themselves when they raided with their boats.
However, it shouldn't be that surprising that two peoples that have encountered and fought eachother numerous times (they are neighbors afterall) would have had similar weapon and boat technologies and used them in similar ways.
We should celebrate and enjoy theese unique and fascinating cultures as they are and encourage people to learn more about them. I don't think we're being fair or doing them any justice by bunching them up together with the Vikings and basically calling them Scandinavians. It's about as accurate as calling Irish, Scottish or Welsh people English.

I remember reading a 1950s book about this, in the general library of the University of Auckland, NZ, in about 1990. Wish i could remember the author.

...so that’s where my name comes from

Toponims of Curonians in Lithuania and Latvia with "- ga": Kretinga. Palanga. Neringa. Kuldiga...

As a Lithuanian I am deeply greatful to you for making this video. Since baltic pagan religion and history is so obscure and most of our older history is only found in sources from other cultures and countries, we ourselves miss out on alot of it. I always used to be really frustrated at how much of our ancestor's history and culture went unrecorded in any way, but your video has made me realise that there is so much more invaluable pieces of information left to discover than I first thought, it's just that they are all scattered across other cultures. Now I'm hell-bent on searching for it.

Lithuania was the last pagan state in Europe. Almost 1,000 years after the official conversion of the Roman Empire facilitated the gradual spread of Christianity, the Lithuanians continued to perform their ancient animist rituals and worship their gods in sacred groves. By the 13th Century, modern-day Estonia and Latvia were overrun and forcibly converted by crusaders, but the Lithuanians successfully resisted their attacks. Eventually, the state became Christian of its own accord: Grand Duke Jogaila converted to Catholicism in 1386 in order to marry the Queen of Poland

There are so many mistakes at first 45 seconds already that I can not watch it any farther. 🤕

Thank you for the english version. I saw it in lituanian, but dont understand.

Explains the meaning of my given name Dain (song). I know not of Latvian or Slavic language, but the elder songs resonate my soul.

Funny thing lithuanians called vikings "žuvėdos" wich translates as "fish eaters" and Curonians "kuršiai" wich probably is a fish called "karšis" Abramis brama - common bream, that's because with the dialect vowels change and no one understood how similar words can actually be, also there is "kuršių marios" the Cronian lagoon at lithuanian coas side, and it is full of bream ,so probably Curonians were called by this fish name and viking were called fish eaters.

Fascinating! Shows how monotheism has been the misfortune of the world.