What would your patrilineal ancestors be doing 1,000 years ago?

Idk. What was Lesvos like 1000 years ago?

>Which food would they eat?
Fish
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Celtic or roman gods
>Which language would they speak?
Celtic or latin
>Where would they live?
Northern Spain and northern Italy
>Where would they sleep?
In a shithole
>What clothing would they wear?
Nothing
>Who would they be at war with?
Trees
>Who would be their masters?
the emperor Tiberius

holy shit, i read 2000 years ago, not 1000, sorry amigos

>What would your patrilineal ancestors be doing 1,000 years ago?
Farming rice, building huts, thatching the roof for winter, drinking rice liquor
>Which food would they eat?
Rice, kimchi without peppers, salt fish, lotus roots, silkworm cocoons, assorted greens, eggs, quail, the occasional beef or pork or chicken
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Official religion of the state was Buddhism and Neoconfucianism but the village folk practiced shamanism and nature worship
>Which language would they speak?
Medieval Korean
>Where would they live?
The very southeast of the Korean Peninsula, right near modern day Busan
>Where would they sleep?
In peasant huts constructed from wood and earth, with thatch roofs for passively growing melons.
>What clothing would they wear?
Cotton garments with roughshod wool jackets, shoes made from woven straw
>Who would they be at war with?
The Goryeo-Khitan War would be drawing to a close and the northern borderlands would be ravaged and destroyed after more than a decade of war
>Who would be their masters?
The relatively newly established Goryeo dynasty, the Wang (Wong) clan.
>Pic unrelated
Pic related

Farming most likely
>Which food would they eat?
Salmon, rye bread and root vegetables, also milk
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Ahti, Tapio, Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen, Liekkiö and Turisas and others
>Where would they live?
Central Finland
>Where would they sleep?
Mattress stuffed with straw or maybe on top of a warm oven
>What clothing would they wear?
Probably coats of fur and sheepskin in winter, linen pants and tunic in summer
>Who would they be at war with?
Sweden, Novgorod and Karelians
>Who would be their masters?
Themselves

Mostly fish and wheat products.
The Norse ones.
Scanian.
In Longhouses.
Next to the stables.
Mixed garments.
The Swedes
The Danes

Seeing as how Im black probably raping a black woman.

>1000 years ago

Farming in Finland and doing nothing much, spoke Finnish

>2000 years ago

Probably had ancestors that arrived to Finland recently and spoke a Germanic language

>3000 years ago

Being proto-Germanic somewhere in Scandinavia

>4000 years ago

Being even more proto-Germanic

>5000 years ago

Being pre-Indo-European and either belonged to a farmer or a hunter group. This level would be the common ancestor of every single haplogroup I1 male on the planet.

>the same shit modern English folk eat
>the lord Jesus Christ
>Ænglisc (i.e. Old English)
>Kingdom of England
>in a comfy little hut
>a tunic and wool trousers
>they would have just lost the Battle of Assandun against Cnut and his men
>the Danes

Making and fixing carts in feodal France.

I can trace my line back as far as 1709, to a German farmer in the Rhineland. He fled the War of the Spanish Succession and eventually ended up in Limerick, Ireland.

So assuming his ancestors had lived in Germany for the previous ~700 years, I can only guess that they were probably also poorfag farmers.

Same

Haplogroup I1. According to my great grandfather Fritzy we were merchants in the Netherlands. He moved to the states to be a railway engineer because he loved trains. According to the internet Haplogroup I1 is a branch associated with the oldest populations in Europe. Generally it's concentrated in Sweden. My most distant ancestors were painting caves and hunting in post glacial Europe.

They'd be eating Kosher food
They'd be worshipping G-d
They'd probably speak Yiddish
They'd be living somewhere in Eastern Europe, perhaps in modern-day Poland or Ukraine
They'd sleep the same way all peasants did, I guess. Not sure what this is supposed to mean
They'd be wearing a tallit under their normal peasant clothes
They'd be at war with... I mean, they personally would've been at war with pretty much everyone around them, in a sense.
Their masters would be the Christian community. They could do what they pleased to the Jews, and it's not like anyone would care.

Indo European is predominately R haplogroup related though.. Isn't it? I1 is mostly Swedes, Finns, Dutch, and about 1/3 of the Germans.

I1 started expanding around the same time as Indo-Europeans took over Northern Europe.
While it's very unlikely to be originally Indo-European, it became incorporated into them very early.

Can't trace that line further back than 1814 or so, when my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather was born. Belong to haplogroup E3b, they probably came from N. Ireland, and then before that either Scotland or England. Either way they would likely be original from Northern England or Lowland Scotland, so it's quite likely that the male line is Scandinavian in origin. However E3b is a fairly rare type for the area, so maybe it's from a Jewish or North African source

lIt is thought to have arrived from the Middle East as haplogroup IJ sometime between 45,000 and 50,000 years ago, and developed into haplogroup I approximately 40,000 years ago. It has now been confirmed by ancient DNA test that Cro-Magnons, the first Homo sapiens to colonize Europe 45,000 years ago, belonged to haplogroups BT, CT, C, F, IJ and I.

The I1 branch is estimated to have split away from the rest of haplogroup I some 27,000 years ago. I1 is defined by over 300 unique mutations, which indicates that this lineage experienced a serious population bottleneck. Most of the Late Glacial and Mesolithic remains tested to date belonged to haplogroup I* or I2. It is not yet clear in which part of Europe I1 originated. It has been speculated that I1 evolved in isolation in Scandinavia during the late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, when hunter-gatherers from southern Europe recolonised the northern half of the continent from their LGM refugia. The oldest attested evidence of postglacial resettlement of Scandinavia dates from 11,000 BCE with the appearance of the Ahrensburg culture. However, five Y-DNA samples from Mesolithic Sweden, dating from c. 5800 to 5000 BCE and tested by Lazaridis et al. 2013 and Haak et al. 2015 all turned out to belong to haplogroup I2.

If anything we were the original inhabitants of Europe and were negatively effected by Indo European invasion.

Yes it was in all likelyhood a local genetic marker but it expanded along with the Indo-European newcomers.
If there was a sizable population of I1 men before Indos showed up they all "mysteriously" died except one man because old I1 subclades don't exist anywhere. Maybe some day they will be found but maybe not.

I1 isn't super common. I wonder if it ever was super prevalent. It is weird to know that I share a major Y Haplogroup with Cro Magnum.

I'm a mix of countless European ethnicities, like most white Americans.

>Pottage, wild game, fish, cheap grains.
>They're Christians.
>Gaelic.
>Southwestern Cork.
>Some mudhut, probably.
>Whatever it is medieval tradespeople would wear.
>Nobody.
>Some Norseman, probably.

i dont care, not interesting at all.

>no lineage
>family doesn't remember their past and traditions
>doesn't care about people with strong families

>Which food would they eat?
Northern English food
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Jesus
>Which language would they speak?
Some form of English probably maybe Gallic
>Where would they live?
Kingdom of Northumbria (maybe Kingdom of the Strathclyde)
>Where would they sleep?
Tiny ass shack
>What clothing would they wear?
Idk
>Who would they be at war with?
Vikings
>Who would be their masters?
Wessex

The Saxons would be thrashing snow niggers by this point though.

>probably a bastard

In 1016...
>Which food would they eat?
Bread and fish.
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Jesus Christ
>Which language would they speak?
Frisian or some Germanic tongue.
>Where would they live?
The modern day Netherlands or nearby.
>Where would they sleep?
I hoped they slept in cozy homes with straw roofs.
>What clothing would they wear?
Wool cloth and clogs?
>Who would they be at war with?
From what I can gather Holland, Normandy, and vikings.
>Who would be their masters?
Baldwin the IV, Count of Flanders.

mate, you know they was shit flinging picts before they worshiped Jesus

Too bad the normans butt raped the saxons

Descendant of William the Conqueror here. Descendant of William Longspee here. Too busy boning nobility to listen to pleb saxons.

>Which food would they eat?
Frankish meals.
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Quinotaur.
>Which language would they speak?
Vulgar latin.
>Where would they live?
Francia
>Where would they sleep?
Early Medieval housing/Huts
>What clothing would they wear?
Early medieval European dress.
>Who would they be at war with?
Whoever the Franks were fighting at the time.
>Who would be their masters?
Frankish kings.

>1016
>pagan Picts in Northumbria/Strathclyde
No

Who do you think they were before 1016? Do you think they just grew some christians out of English soil?

I think there was already hundreds of years of heavy conversion going on. Most Vikings were even Christian by 1016.

Just saying that in truth your descendants were more than likely shit flinging picts. Just think farther back in your lineage. That, or they were piss drinking saxons.

Farming dirt in Southern Germany under Henry II HRE.

Literally nothing wrong with being Pictish/Saxon. We BTFO the whole world eventually.

>>Which food would they eat?
Mansaf and stuff.
>>Which god(s) would they worship?
The Holy Trinity. They'd be Nicene Christians.
>>Which language would they speak?
Arabic and Greek.
>>Where would they live?
In the Levant -- around what is now Jordan.
>>Where would they sleep?
Anywhere they could set up. They were nomads.
>>What clothing would they wear?
Ragged animal skins and crude fabrics, most likely.
>>Who would they be at war with?
Nobody.
>>Who would be their masters?
The Islamic authorities of the time.

Eat haggis.
Worship Christ, probably.
Speak Scottish Gaelic.
Scotland.
On the ground, in a hut.
Kilts.
The English, I suppose. I don't think there was a war at the moment, though.
Kings.

Kilts were actually a later style. Medieval scots wore a similar sort of cloth but it was longer and called something else

>Which food would they eat?
Pork like good Catholics.
Which god(s) would they worship?
Catholicism
>Which language would they speak?
Galician and maybe Leonese
>Where would they live?
Galicia, Spain
>Where would they sleep?
farmhouse?
>What clothing would they wear?
farming clothes?
>Who would they be at war with?
muslims
>Who would be their masters?
Most likely Su Majestad el Rey Sancho III of Navarra

Just trying to add but maybe also
ate wheats such as barley, berries, tree bark, mushrooms, occasional rabbit or a bird, eggs and rarely livestock

Agricola wrote a summary of their gods but who knows. Maybe they had always been humanized, maybe not, so might just aswell have worshipped rocks like the sami or something

Coastlines most likely but might have been inland in some small riverside village near a hillfort

Houses? Or barns, saunas, shacks, tents innawoods

Most likely wear something like the vikings did at the same time, from potato sacks to fine clothes

War well maybe more like constant and generally disagreeable raids in all directions with a few larger battles here and there. But hey, it was the times

Masters were propably the village's or clan's elder men [spoiler] or kings [/spoiler] but the swedes were just about to take over anyway so whatever

Sauages
Either Christian or pagan
proto-finnic
somewhere on the northwest coast
same as where they live
fur
other finns
eventually swedes

patrilineal means your fathers fathers fathers etc

Well not sure, maybe they were chilling in northern Germany, or in Scandinavia

my patrilineal ancestor would have been an irish peasant eating potatoes and doing riverdances.

>Which food would they eat?
Some sort of what products, mostly fishes and red meat though
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Finnic paganism
>Which language would they speak?
Proto-finnic-early finnish
>Where would they live?
Western coast of Finland
>Where would they sleep?
In a tribe with a wooden hillfort at the centre and wooden loghouses around it
>What clothing would they wear?
Same shit as the vikings most likely, learnt to do it themselfs and before that traded for it with vikings and other passers by
>Who would they be at war with?
Tavastians, Novgorodians and the random viking raid now and then
>Who would be their masters?
Themselves.

Oh hi.

2 possibilities since where I live seems to have been weird going off the place names

bryniech cumbrian
>probably speaking Celt and shagging sheep
>second class to there Saxon overlords
>live in shitty upland area
>always fucking raining

northumbrian saxon
>Getting raped by the Norse
>on the bright side still get to fuck with the Celts
>comfy coastal land good for farming
>always fucking raining

I don't fucking know. I'm an American with one of those common English surnames in existence, "Gibson."

>>Which food would they eat?
fish grain and meat
>>Which god(s) would they worship?
i want to be edgy and say celtic/germanic but they'd be Christians by that point
>>Which language would they speak?
>>Where would they live?
>>Where would they sleep?
>>What clothing would they wear?
id imagine wool theirs little else you could in dark age Britain
>>Who would they be at war with?
vikings before they got raped
>>Who would be their masters?
vikings

who /R1b L-21/ here?

>Gibson

You're the decedent of a Norman from either England or scotland

>fucking around praying to their pagan voodoo daddies
>oats, bog butter, steamed beef, seaweed, root vegetables, depression
>fuck if i know
>gaelic
>the island which would eventually be known as "potatoland"
>rags n shiet
>themselves, nords, danes, etc
>the biggest beefiest boy, and in a few centuries the eternal (((((((anglo)))))))

i have a norman surname but a typically irish haplogroup. other people with the same irish-norman name have been shown to belong to I1 and are more likely to be the descendants of actual normans. so it means irish peasants or whatever took on the norman surname. so having a norman surname doesnt necessarily mean you are patrilinealy descended from normans.

Some irish lad in the middle of bumfuck marsh land Cork.

IDK because i am an argentine with some french surname (Buffet).
Only thing Im certain is that he came here on a boat lol.

>Which food would they eat?
Turnips and beef mostly
>Which god(s) would they worship?
The J-Man himself
>Which language would they speak?
Irish
>Where would they live?
County Offaly
>Where would they sleep?
In a roundhouse
>What clothing would they wear?
Something like pic related
>Who would they be at war with?
Vikings
>Who would be their masters?
The Kings of Uí Failghe

>tfw 8% nig 8% nig indian
>tfw 100% spanish fathers father fathers etc..

>Which food would they eat?
Fish, bread
>Which god(s) would they worship?
God or Allah
>Which language would they speak?
Greek or some form of Latin
>Where would they live?
Sicily or some part of Italy
>Where would they sleep?
In a shitty house by the sea or on some crappy feudal plot of land
>What clothing would they wear?
Sack clothing
>Who would they be at war with?
Probably no one at that point
>Who would be their masters?
The Muslims

Pickled herring
Odin or god if they were cucks
Norse or early version of swedish
Western Sweden
in a shack probably
Tunics and shit?
The danes most likely
Some jarl/king

Farming was just becoming the thing, main food source was still fishing. And even then it was barley, rye became common in around 15th-16th century.
And Novgorod didn't even exist back then.

>mushrooms
No. Mushroom dishes were completely unknown in Finland, even after the second world war East-Karelian refugees were seen as oddballs for eating mushrooms. It was traditionally almost a taboo even if trying it crossed someones mind.
>occasional rabbit
There weren't any rabbits in anywhere in northern Europe.

Probably being forced to do shit for Spanish colonizers

Flying around and tormenting landfolk prolly
>Pussy
>Lol
>Telepathy
>Underwater
>Seabeds, lol
>Flowing robes, flippers, SCUBA
>Everyone on the coasts
>the ocean

lol select all images of sushi

I don't know my exact heritage but if I take the general mix.

They would eat a lot of sheep,they would either be muslim or tengriist, they would live somewhere in iran or mesopotamia until the battle of manzikert, they would live in a comfy yurt, they would probably wear wool clothing,they would fight against the byzantines and they would probably live under chieftains and the seljuk sultan.

>Be Zdeněk z Řeznic
>be born in Bohemia, torn in civil war between three brothers
>join the side of the youngest one, Oldřich, and win the war
>together with Oldřich massacre the house of Vršovci to stabilize the situation
>later accompany Oldřich on wars with Poles who took Bohemian land during the war

>have noble wife home in Řeznice, but also a lover that accompanies you on your journeys
>officially be a Christian but sometimes still say a prayer to the Old Gods
>live on a wooden castle in Řeznice in middle of deep forests and swamps, taking care of the two villages hidden in the woods nearby

I guess that would be the life of the average noble back then. Describing life of a peasant feels pointless.

Picrelated, imagine it smaller and wooden and you got Řeznice

>Does anyone who isn't nobility even know that?
I dare say 95% of nobles wouldn't know either. Genealogy didn't matter all that much before lower nobility became inheritable. Only the descendants of higher nobles would have records going that far back.
For example, my patrilineal ancestry has been noble since 1297, before that there's no clear line of descent, only mentions of the surname going as far back as 1039 (actually 890, but that comes from a history written by one of my ancestors, so there's some bias; especially since the document he mentions hasn't reached the present day).
Another example would be one of the titles my father's line inherited matrilineally: that title was supposedly awarded by fuckign Charlemagne, but there's no real proof that the guy Charlie ennobled was the ancestor of the line's earliest known member other than the fact that he held the same title in 1076 (or thereabout) and if you look up how titles worked back then you'd realize the claim feels a bit fucky.

>Which food would they eat?
Meat, bread and wine. I don't know shit about medieval cuisine.
>Which god(s) would they worship?
The christian god.
>Which language would they speak?
Sermo vulgaris. The local vernacular isn't generally acknowledged as a language before the 13th century.
>Where would they live?
In a townhouse most likely.
>Where would they sleep?
In a bed.
>What clothing would they wear?
Pic related?
>Who would they be at war with?
Fucking pirates and their neighbours for sure. There most likely were civil feuds aplenty too.
>Who would be their masters?
The chief town magistrate or the bishop most likely. I wouldn't bet on either emperor or pope being paid more than lip service at that time in that area.

>Fish
>Some indian pagan God
>Tupi-Guarani language
>In a forest
>In a "oca"
>Nein
>Warriors
>The "cacique"

>Which food would they eat?
Bread, mostly
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Christian God
>Which language would they speak?
Middle Irish
>Where would they live?
Ireland
>Where would they sleep?
I don't know this should help though
irishhistorypodcast.ie/1000-1100-life-in-ireland-in-the-11th-century/
>What clothing would they wear?

>Who would they be at war with?
Vikings, their neighbors, rogue bands of landless young men.
>Who would be their masters?
Native Irish, Norse, or Norman nobles.

>Finally, after many years of subservience, I have secured myself a piece of territory for me and my fellow haplotype-sharing subjects. Even though this feat was only possible after my superior subjugators died, I consider my achievement a superhuman feat. I am a god.

I'm not sure. My dad is from the Peruvian Andes, and is part native but part Spanish, so either my ancestors would be farming potatoes or they would be fighting the Moors (or more likely, farming wheat for the knights who fought the Moors.)

>Which food would they eat?
smoked fish, pork, lotsa meat

>Which gods would they worship?
Tor, Oden, Tyr and other Norse Gods

>Which language would they speak?
Swedish

>Where would they live?
Around Värmland, Sweden

>Where would they sleep?
Longhouse

>What clothing would they wear?
Typical early medieval clothes

>Who would they be at war with?
No one

>Who would be their masters?
King Olof Skötkonung

>Which food would they eat?
Crops and beer I think
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Having been force-converted about 200 or so years ago, Christian, but with strong Germanic pagan traditions I imagine.
>Which language would they speak?
Old Saxon, the precursor to Low German
>Where would they live?
In a village most likely, probably with those long houses common to Germanic folks.
>Where would they sleep?
Hay beds I imagine
>What clothing would they wear?
Regular European medieval clothing I suspect
>Who would they be at war with?
Wends and Magyars intermittently I think
>Who would be their masters?
Otto the Great, our very own ruler

>food
Mostly grains I assume with meat, fish, fruit and vegetables as available on the English climate and season.
>gods
Jesus Christ
>language
Old English
>live
Probably in a modest but comfy farm house
>sleep
Same as above
>clothing
I would think mostly wool with maybe finery made out of linnen
>war
Celts and fucking pagan norsemen get out REEEEEEEEE
>masters
That feel when free men

I dunno, but they were probably Saxons, my surname is pretty Saxon and my family are peasants from Stoke.

>Which food would they eat?
Oats and bread with sand in it.
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Deus Vult
>Which language would they speak?
Old English with some Norse words mixed in.
>Where would they live?
Probably still the Midlamds
>Where would they sleep?
In manure
>What clothing would they wear?
Shit clothing
>Who would they be at war with?
England was pretty volatile at this time, so other Saxons/ Danes.
>Who would be their masters?
Cnut, although he had a shaky hold at this point.

In 1016, Värmland was probably vaguely Christian. Your king had been baptised at this point.

December 1016 Cnut had literally just taken over England.

>>Which food would they eat?
Cheese, sheep guts, fish
>>Which god(s) would they worship?
The Christian one
>>Which language would they speak?
"Vulgar Latin", some form of old Sardinian or old Corsican
>>Where would they live?
Stone hut innahills or by the sea
>>Where would they sleep?
Sheepskin I'd say
>>What clothing would they wear?
Wool everywhere
>>Who would they be at war with?
Arabs, Pisans, Genoese
>>Who would be their masters?
The Giudice of Loguduoro most likely

This probably.

They'd be sitting in England hoping the Vikings would fuck off.

How did that end for them

>90% of Veeky Forums posters are white
really makes you think...

One thousand years ago in 900, my Bathory ancestor was supposedly battling a dragon to win the castle of Esced. My Ghent ancestors were taking over power from their courtiers to eventually create the region known as Gent in France/Bulgaria. My Blackhall ancestor receives an estate and title for his exploits in the Norman conquest of 1066. My other English family were lords of Bridgewater,
And my Greek family was... Idk doing shit.

HAHA I'm Nobility

And look where you are now hehehe, rolling in the mud with the peasants

You have no idea of much that very sentiment has burdened my family for a whole century.

As well as it did for the Saxons

I don't fucking know, probably a businessman/aristocrat in Song Dynasty China.

Hejsan broder. Most I can trace back to is a house in Stockholm (Östermalm) and untitled nobility here

good post

terrible post

I never gave two shits about my heritage desu

>Which food would they eat?
Peasant food most likely
>Which god(s) would they worship?
Jesus, altought i'm not sure if medieval peasants had a very deep understanding of christianity.
>Which language would they speak?
Probably old castillan/aragonese
>Where would they live?
Somewhere in northern spain i guess?
>Where would they sleep?
On crappy hay beds
>What clothing would they wear?
Crappy peasant clothes, they proably weared the same clothes straight for weeks if not years
>Who would they be at war with?
Moors n' shit
>Who would be their masters?
Some random feudal lord whose descendants are probably poor fucks now.