Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Fire of Learning" channel.

  1.  @MissMarasita  : No Barbaren is of greek origin! You confused Romans and Greeks.
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  2. After the 30Years war , the german writer Grimmelshausen wrote a novel , Simplicius Simplicissimus'.
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  3.  @sturlamolden  : Barbaren is a greek word , Bayern ( or older Bajuwaren) is a germanic tribe name.
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  4.  @Rouxgarou96  : Carlo from german Karl, Federico from german Friedrich, Ildebrando from german Hildebrand ...also spanish Rodrigo is german Roderich. Some names in current romanic language countries, dating not back to Roman Empire are in reality of germanic origin.
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  5. Marhalasc is is in current german Pferdeknecht or Rossknecht. Mähre is still the german word for an old or otherwise bad horse.
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  6. The plural of Reich is Reiche, not Reichs!
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  7. As a german i do not agree with all facts of this video. At first, we do not know in which year Germany started! Was it in 843(?) when the carolingian empire was divided , and one part became the east franconian empire? Was it in 911 when the last east franconian king of the carolingian family ( Ludwig, called ,the child') died? Was it in 919 when the first non-frankonian king Heinrich (Henry), the duke of saxony was elected as king (the king between Ludwig and Heinrich, Konrad I, was a franconian and could have been a very last carolingian)? Then i do not like it, when Karl der Große is allways called Charlemagne. Also the franconians are not french! The Franken, as this tribe calls himself in german, is one of the tribes which are now united and are known as ,the Germans', other tribes are for example the saxons, the bavarians or the swabians. The Franken are still alive in the states of Hessen, Saarland, Rheinland -Pfalz, the south of Nordrhein-Westfalen, the north of Bayern and Baden-Württemberg, also in Luxemburg and Lorraine. The truth is, that this tribe conquered the area which is now france, the german name for france is Frankreich/kingdom of the franconians. But i think the number of franconian settlers in nowadays france was not so high, but they became the upper class/nobility.
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  8. His name was Karl der Große !
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  9.  @srsrikndadje448  : Karl!!! I don' t know a german mens name ending with ,us'.
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  10.  @TheGladbacher2011  : Aix la chapelle ;-)
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  11.  @vincentb9827  : The mens names is in this case Wilhelm ( William/ Willem/ Guillaume/ Guglielmo), while Canaris, if you mean the german intelligence officer of wwll, is a family name. Some germans have foreign names, because their ancestors had been, for example, french. In second half of 17th century a lot of protestantic French persons had to flee and moved into protestant german regions, a neighbor of me has the family name Jourdan. Also, especially in 16th century educated non noble germans translated their geman family name into greek or latin. So a Hans Bäcker ( Baker) became Hans Pistorius, which was possible in those days. Arminius is the name, how Romans called this historical person, but even still today some midaged german men have the name Armin, i doubt that this is really a germanic mens name, it was either a ,romanisation' ( in german : Verballhornung) of a similar sounding germanic name, or could be a kind of translation , because german mens name parts have often a ,manly' meaning, so perhaps Arm... is a translation of a germanic name , containing ,weapon'. Also womens names contain sometimes ,military ' words, Brünnhilde for example , contains Brünne ( shirt of mail- or scalearmour).
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  12. In Germany we have different tribes, and you find persons with names like Sachs/ Sachse, Frank/Franke, Schwab/Schwabe, Beyer/ Bair etc.. So the ancestors of those people had been members of the namegiving tribe who moved to another region of Germany. Or the former US Minister Kissinger, meaning in german: the man from Kissingen, a town with this name exists, same with former german chancellor Adenauer, meaning: the man from Adenau, there is a town Adenau.
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  13.  @Ekphrasys  : There is an old document writen in latin language in monastry in todays Germany. The monk had some problems with latin words, so he wrote some words ,en theodisc'( in the language of the people). Later theodisc became teutsch and , after 1800 , deutsch.
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  14.  @jenniferpearce1052  : The german dialects are in heavy decline, but still spoken. Even today, most Germans know, to which tribe they belong.I am a member of the Swabian/ Allemanic tribe. So Allemagne, the french word for Germany or Alemania is simply the name of my tribe. The Alemannen had been, for french or spanish persons, the next Germans. In Finnland Germany is called Sachsa, because for finnisch people the Sachsen( saxons) are the next Germans. The tribal name Alemannen means in current german ,Alle Männer' ( the tribe of the Suevi/ Schwaben, noted by Julius Caesar, united with smaller tribes ,clans vor families)
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  15.  @Snizz_9  : Adolf was formely a common name, also a swedish king in 17 th century had the name Gustav Adolf. Now the name of Adolf is nearly out of use , only in a region called Nassau the name is sometimes given to boys as a second firstname, to remember Adolf von Nassau, am important count in middle age ( the same phenomeon you can find in Norway with the name Vidkun- Wittukind in german). The family name Hitler ( Hittler, Hüttner etc.) means , a poor man living in a hut (hut is in german Hütte, but in the different dialects some sounds are pronounced differenty spoken).
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  16. Karl der Große was neither German nor French. He was a member of the frankish tribe. Those descendants of frankish tribe, who moved to current France speak today french, those descendants of frankish tribe who live in current Germany, are still called Franken, and they either speak fränkisch dialect or Standard German.
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