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Its not that Wales were like "nobody is messing with us" but that Wales consisted of several Kingdoms and rulers at the time, the most powerful being Hywel Dda ("Howell the Good" in English). Hywel was actually a strong ally of Aethelstan and marched and fought alongside the English King in the campaign against Constantine II of Alba
Fun Fact: Sweyn Forkbeard was King of Denmark from 986 to 1014, also at times King of the English and King of Norway. But his father, Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson was a king of Denmark and Norway; the 'Bluetooth' technology is named after him and the 'Bluetooth' symbol/logo is made up of his initials (H&B) in a Scandinavian “bind-rune” - this simply means that it's an image made up of two runes (ancient letters of the alphabet) merged together.
Fascinating!
Sweyn Forkbeard was king of England for 5 weeks before he died, his son King Cnut reigned for around 19 years.
@@tommyxbones5126 - And he demonstrated that even he could not control 'God's' tides... Often mistakenly told as a story were he was 'trying' to actually get them to stop.
@@drwhatson - Are you talking about Cnut versus Canute ? If so, @Tommy Xbones is quite correct because Cnut is Old Norse and Canute is the English spelling...
@@stewedfishproductions7959 yeah I thought everyone with a reasonable education knew that fact old chap
Carry on doing these types of videos. It’s interesting to hear your reactions on British history.
Still reckon you should take a look at more Jay Foreman, esecially "Map Men". Informative and amusing!
15:00 that top left part is Cumbria aka the lake district which is one of the most beautiful part of England
Fun fact: In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Kevin Costner and his pal walked from Dover (on the South Coast) to Loxley (in Yorkshire) and somehow managed to pass Hadrian's Wall along the way. This means they walked about 300 miles further north than they needed to, and somehow managed it in one afternoon.
Can you send me that walking route for the weekend. Will keep the kids busy
Hadrian's wall is on the border of Scotland, nowhere near Yorkshire
@@kamelionify yes that’s the point
@@kamelionify He was pointing out the movies massive inaccuracies
@@dazediss6629 yes but Yorkshire is in England so they wouldn’t have passed Hadrians wall. But even so, still impossible to do that in one afternoon
The school i went to is literally called "The Kings Of Wessex" as its built by an old anglo saxon ruin, a massive treaty with the vikings was "The treaty of Wedmore" which was about 4 miles from where I grew up 😂 our history is insane, sometimes I forget how lucky we are to have a history so rich with different things
It's pronounced 'Alba' as it's spelled, I'm not sure why he put an additional 'a' in the middle. He also says Æthelstan incorrectly, the Æ is pronounced as an 'a' sound, not an 'e' sound.
As a Northumbrian Hadrian's wall wasn't built to keep anyone out it was built as the edge of the Roman empire there was nothing to gain venturing into Scotland at that time the wall was used to keep the troops busy and to make money from trade passing through there would have been a need to keep order and attacks but it wasn't there to keep anyone out
spot on. it’s better to think of the wall as more of a trading border post rather than say the great wall of china that was used to keep the mongolians out.
@@jodu626 Agreed, It’s only about a metre (or 1.5m) high but is quite wide, but I always understood it was to regulate trade. Horses and carts had to come through the gaps in the wall that were guarded and ripe for tax collection!
@@FL-by9xz yep that’s how i understood it to be but explained it awfully. The vindolanda tablets certainly reveal that to be the case. amazing find really
What about the first wall built further into Scotland - the Antonine wall , it was deserted in favour of a new wall deeper south (Hadrian's).
@@tommyxbones5126 What about the Antonine Wall? It was built after Hadrian’s Wall, not before. Anyway, it’s irrelevant here - the discussion was about the edges of England, as covered in the video, hundreds of years after the Romans. Hadrian’s W has never been the border between E and S although, in general sense, it’s broadly representative of the general area. The edges of England were never far enough north to be even remotely close to the AW.
History reactions are awesome. I hope you do more.
Fun fact. Whenever you see England play cricket, it's actually the England and Wales cricket team. Scotland and Ireland have their own teams, but England is actually England and Wales combined.
Hey King boomer! I come from East Anglia, it is still a place today. Even though im not in England right now im very proud of the area i come from, would highly recommend a visit to that quiet part of the UK when you visit.
As an aside KB, if/when you head over there you MUST put York in your list seeing as you like the Viking stuff, visit the Jorvik Viking Centre.
The history reacts looks great, you seem to have great pasion for it
Yes more history content would be great, really enjoyed this one and learned something new
I for one enjoyed the video and I’m from Northumbria , England . I love history and think these videos are informative . I think the fact you show a variety of things is great . Keep em coming , all stuff you do is good , comedy or not .
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It's funny. I live right on the border of the old kingdoms or Mercia and the Danelaw, and the old roman road (Watling Street) separates my hometown in Warwickshire (Mercia) from Hinckley in Leicestershire (Danelaw) and to this day there is a rivalry and big differences between the two towns, which are only around 4 miles apart.
Firstly, the place names change from old Anglo-Saxon names on my side like, Fillongley, Astley , Arbury, Anstey, Ansley etc, all Anglo-Saxon names, yet across the road they have old place names of the Vikings like Kirkby Mallory , Ashby Parva, Odstone, Littlethorpe etc..all Danish names.
Secondly the accent changes in the 4 miles between the two towns, not much, but just enough to remind us of our origins. In Nuneaton we say things like "lovely" pronounced as "love-lee" , but in Hinckley they say "love-leh".
It’s Alba - the BBC have BBC Alba which is just a Scottish BBC channel
I really enjoyed the video, would like to see more history based ones in the future. Perhaps one about the crusades or the Knights Templar/Hospitallers? Anyway keep up the good work
Hadrian's Wall is a famous landmark... but there was another Roman Emperor after who actually tried to build a wall further north. The Antonine wall was built about 20 years after Hadrian's wall.. and tried to cut off a narrow part of Scotland. The difference between the two is Antonine's wall was built using turf, with a stone base, so it is largely eroded... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall
England is basically a mix of ancient Celtic, Saxons, frisians, Norse - vikings, all thrown into one
Have you watched the TV series - The last kingdom? Although the lead character isn't real, alot of the story and plot is based on real events and teaches you a fair bit about how England was formed and about king Alfred.
His pronunciation of Alba (Al-uh-buh) was correct - it's the Gaelic (Gah-lick) name for Scotland
I'm from Sheffield, which was in the centre of the Danelaw, I recently paid for a DNA analysis. I'm about 30% Scandinavian, 30% Germanic, 15% Celt... and then it gets weird with 3% East African etc. Anyway.. The language and dialects in UK reflect all of this perfectly, for example: The English language has about 600 old Danish/Norse words, the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire (middle of the old Danelaw) dialects have roundabout 2500 Danish/Norse words. The point is... I don't really know *lol*.. Maybe it's proof that racism is pointless, we're all the same race.
There are lots of videos on here about the Plantagenets. My favourite period of English history. Utterly insane
Does it blow your mind that there are pubs over there that have been pouring ale and serving food the same time the American continent was only discovered by Columbus?
You need to watch Vikings , both series. Until I saw your reaction I didn't realise how accurate the series are.
The Welsh built a dike the lengh of their border to keep the English out it was called Ofers Dyke , I don't know all the facts about this but might be interesting to find out. It was sometime around the 700s AD
Being from Scotland 🏴 I really would like you to do the history of Scotland 🏴 . You'll be blown away. Please grovel grovel. Stay safe and sane from Scotland 🏴 x
Angleterre is French for "England" The Angles, East Anglia etc
11:53 that’s because nobody wanted it! 😂
The old name for England is Albion , which is still used in poems and songs etc
From Europe they can see the white cliffs of Dover , so Albion ment white land , The Irish also knew the land to the East as Alba .....
The latern for white is Album ....
Words like Albino , Alps , and Albania derive from Album ....
There's another idea, comedy and history at the same time. Drunk History narrated by Jimmy Carr, lol.
Yes that is pretty much the border as we know it today, i come from Newcastle in northern England and right at the top of that map of England is Berwick the most northern English town .
Nice change of pace, KB, and very interesting to watch.
Its Alba, he's pronouncing it wrong. Alba - Scotland Albion - England
This is how wiki has it...
Albion (Alouion in Ptolemy) is the most ancient name of Great Britain. It sometimes is used to refer to England specifically. Occasionally, it refers to Scotland, or Alba in Gaelic, Albain in Irish, and Yr Alban in Welsh[1]. Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (iv.
also Albion is the name for the british isles I think so the guy may have got confuzzled :D
No, he's pronouncing it correctly (Al-u-ba). It's everyone else who gets it wrong.
Alba (pronounced Al-u-ba) is the Scots Gaelic name for Scotland. You can see it used now in the BBC Gaelic language TV channel (BBC Alba) and with the Scottish national football team who incorporate the name 'Alba' in their strips.
The yellow bits on the map are the english lake district and southern scotland.The presenter mispronounces alba.
They forgot the danish king Knut the great
I like how the history of England is basically one culture wiping out another and ruling for a while before being wiped out themselves. The Anglo-Saxons ruled for a long time before being defeated by the Normans. I think most historians agree though, that William the Conqueror and the Norman army only won because Harald and the Viking army weakened and exhausted what otherwise would have been a superior and more veteran Anglo-Saxon force.
I think Alba used to make Hi-fi systems xD
Yeah you wouldn’t mess with Elizabeth 1st she had her fathers temper lmao 🤣
King Boomer. Well spotted on the border! It’s close to the modern border but looks like Berwick, Hawick, Kelso and Galashiels were all part of England then. It’s flip flopped around many times over the centuries. Berwick switched sides 14 times!
Yes, Wales are the Britons, pushed west by the English. It remained an independent principality until the late Middle Ages.
Hadrian's wall wasn't a defensive structure & there is no archeological evidence of any battles around it.
It's thought that the wall was built as a guide to the markets at Carlisle... the Scots would head south until they reached the wall & then follow it to the town
When you make it over here and decide to visit both the north and the south of England. You will see noticeable accent and cultural differences that can be drawn at where the Anglo Saxon and Danelaw territory would be shown in this video.
They are pockets of different accents all over but the easiest way to define if someone is from the north or the south is the way they say the word "bath". A southerner would say "bahhhth" a softer "a" and more drawn out while a northerner like me would say bAth with a short sharp "A" sound.
For your own interest check the series called BBC COAST, particularly the 1st season. A really interesting history of Britain.
I live in the town that was the ancient capital of Mercia.. We have a castle, it's small but rather lovely. There are the occasional things that are reminders of that time, road names and statues of The Lady of Mercia, Ethelfleda, the daughter of Alfred the Great.
Tamworth?
@@jakiwoose568 yes, you're correct, Tamworth. It's a nice place to live.. 😊
@@stephwaite2700 it can be lot of bad areas some good
Specking to the Vikings "I see you've slaughtered the whole town, genocides everywhere, that was very disrespectful of you, a bit rude even"
The Welsh for modern day Scotland is Yr Alban.
So, it seems that England could be considered Greater Wessex, from a historical origins standpoint. Simply put, Wessex expanded, took over the rest of Britain except what are now Wales and Scotland, and changed its name to England.
The Picts were not much of a problem to the Romans. Hadrians Wall was more of the control or choke point, and was built to be defended from both sides.
Scotland is a creation of the Northumbrian English and the Irish Scoti tribes. The reason they speak English is that Northumbria, at its inception, stretched right up to central Scotland.
I've seen a similar video that explains all of this but continues to explain the formation of the United Kingdom. If I can find the link I'll post it here.
Watch Simon Schama's History of Britain for a wild ride along our historical timeline
Play Medieval total war viking invasion, you can play as any one of the kingdoms fighting the others and the Viking invaders...its hilarious..and historically pretty good.
Northumbria is literally North of the river Humber & extended as far North as Edinburgh. It was not totally taken over by the Danes as the video suggests. That's why the Scots language is separate but very similar to English.
You'll have to wait for the Normans to rock up in 1066 & then make the Treaty of Abernethy to see a proper Scottish border.
The type of video is essentially, just a slide show. With someone reading a script over it 😉
Early English history is very ‘Game of Thrones’.
It was fairly obvious you were portaying Hugo Weaving from the matrix on holiday in Hawaii for Halloween.
This reminds me of total war / medieval total war, they are great games, you should play!
I didnt think I would enjoy this video but I really did, very good info, btw please can u do reaction videos to the inbetweeners movies, thank you bro
I'd only heard of the King of wessex and Mercia after watching the TV series Vikings...lol.. well worth watching that TV show.. I think alot of it is based on actual events (as much as can be known obviously) but it's a really good show, had a few spin offs that are also good
You wanna watch a crazy documentary try lightning Lee Murray the u.ks first ufc fighter and bank robber.
I dont know why he said Alaba, it's Alba.
Scotland was called Alba
England was called Albion
Yeah the top right part is Berwick on Tweed, North Eastern part of England
you need to do jeremy clarksons Greatest raid of all time during ww2, brilliant, as good as how to get the VC, you will enjoy that big time
If you think the border between Scotland and England was lower down then you may be thinking of Hadrian's Wall which the Romans built which is south of the current border. Also believed to be the inspiration for the Ice Wall in Game of Thrones.
Knowledgia is fine but they don't always seem to be on top of their stuff, like they often get details wrong. Like maps, pronunciation and exact historical accuracy*. If you want a similar channel that is better researched by actual historians, I recommend the Kings and Generals channel. It might be a bit drier and more focused on military history and tactics, but I think they do a far better job at contextualising what happened, and their maps are awesome!
*for example, as a modern Dane I felt a bit overlooked when they only showed the Vikings coming from Norway, and yet they still called it the Danelaw. I know it's a term that was used to refer to all of the Norse by the Saxons, but like, there's a reason for that was the case. ;)
Good Day from A Mercian.
The romans conquered most of the known world so I highly doubt a few Picts were too much of a problem for them. They conquered the Welsh with ease as-well as all the other tribes who by that time had banded together.
The wall was built to keep the rabble out. Out of sight out of mind. Scotland had nothing to offer the empire in terms of trade,resources or blood. The people were ravenous and uncivilised and the land baron and cold.
Similar to how the Berlin Wall was designed to oppress in modern times, the wall in-Roman times had the same effect. It is also thought it was a good way to keep unruly soldiers busy during down times between campaigns. A busy soldier is a tired soldier and a tired soldier will be less likely to seek power himself 👍
Worth watching The Last Kingdom, will open you eyes. I live near the old capital of Wessex and there is a huge staute of King Alfred
I currently live in Norwich (not a local) but I did get slightly offended that he did not know East Anglia!
I use to live in Winchester. Born and breed.
I grew up in cheddar and attended "The Kings of wessex" school, we had ruins there and its just down the road from where the treaty of Wedmore happened with Alfred the Great and Guthrum the leader of the danelaw
Hello. I would recommend you watch 'The Last Kingdom' (Netflix I think) which is an excellent series loosely based on these people and times if you really are interested. First and foremost it is entertainment but with some historical truth to it. It might be an easy starting point before dipping into deep research and the like. I think the 'disrespectful' part was total disregard for the religious sanctity of England's Anglo Saxon christian institutions, the vikings still being mostly pagan at this time and being quite enthusiastic about action adventure holidays.
It was 'Alba' not 'Aliba' as well. It took the Normans (essentially better vikings (with cavalry) living in the NW dutchy of Normandy Francia (France)) to subdue Wales (after the english). Incidentally those 'funny' names beginning with 'Ea' were saxon and once the normans subdued england effectively these were generally replaced with norman names like William, Robert & Henry etc. Scotland held out much much longer. 'Norman' means north man BTW (essentially vikings). 'Viking' means pirate BTW. The narration didn't really tell the story of the Strathclyde Britons (in yellow) being absorbed into Scotland proper - I guess that is a story for another day though.
Also that's why are castles over here are in ruins due to all battles over the years , think York been sacked 3 times in that period
England starts BELOW the white outline.
Definitely ALBA.
He is also saying ANGLE SAXON instead of ANGLO SAXON !
Or a factual book The Holy Kingdom @ Amazon, but Wales at this time where having Wars between themselves at this time until 1066 when William the Conqueror tried to quell the inhabitants of Wales to no avail till Edward the first build Castles all over Wales making it the most Becastled nation in the World, the Town I live in has five Castles within two miles one linked with King Arther which was visible from my bedroom window, but to mention your England bias map King Edmond is BlackAdder of the BBC series BlackAdder played by Mr Bean lol the writers say it's a real name taken from history but not him.. yeah
AETHELAED lady of the mercians was probebly the best queen and military leader we have ever pproduced honestly worth a look into a little deeper the setting up of the five borough's defeating the Viking armys quite remarkable really
Eric Bloodaxe? there's no way he was called that...that is historians after the fact naming him hundreds (500 maybe?) of years after. The English language was in it's infancy in this period... old English... the English of this time-period spoke a language that would be entirely incomprehensible today. Modern English is what we Scots and Americans try to adhere to... There was no Danish leader named this, so just take that with a large dose of salt.
Bottom half of the yellow section was England, Which is the County of Cumbria
There's much more detail in the following video: th-cam.com/video/Ka60jZwZdAk/w-d-xo.html. And when I say, "much"... 😮
If you like history I'm from the original 🇯🇪 jersey which new jersey was named after just off France. The king of England gave jersey the land in America which they called new jersey
A good TV series to watch about this time is called brittania abit like game of thrones about the invasion by the Romans and conflict with druids and other factions
Alba is the Gàidhlig word for Scotland. He is almost pronouncing it correctly, there is a hidden vowel there but the b is pronounced more like a p
also watch the Vikings you will hear a lot of these names lol
Scotland History Tours is educational and well worth a look
Try some Bernard Cromwell
England is basically just the parts of Britain that are valuable.
Greeting my king. I feel I must alert you to the sad fact that oversimplified make tons of vital errors. Patrick the Quinlan, your loyal subject.
3:27 King, If you've ever seen Hadrian's Wall you wouldn't be that impressed, it's about 3 feet tall, you can literally step over it. It's also pretty much on the border of England and Scotland.
9:10 Have a look for "Boudica" : Boudica or Boudicca, was the wife of a Celtic Briton king of the Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61
12:10 It's pronounced "Ala-ba", it's gaelic, the toast of Scotland, basically meaning "Scotland Forever" is Alba gu bràth (pronounced Ala-ba go bra-h)
14:50 Pretty much yeah, it's a little straighter than that, Scotland have more in the east than that image
It's 3ft tall because every town, village and farmhouse took the stones away for building materials. Hexham Abbey was built with a lot of it.
Took a second to recognise you clean shaven !
the vikings tv series covers literally EVERYTHING thats mentioned here including some of the invasions "the disrespectful ones too" and all the people mentioned are shown and its basically a realistic game of thrones and its a really good show to watch
It was known at the time as alaba not alba
@ King Boomer. 'Take an ancestry test. I bet you have some viking, English and Irish in you.
Yes that would be interesting!
A long violent history of this great nation
I live in mercia or the Midlands
I suggest you watch a series on TV called Vikings. With Ragnar Lothbrok.
Series 1 & 2 of the show Vikings on Netflix covers this era, it's really quite good.
If you want a good welsh themed film that is hilarious look for a film called Twin Town you will laugh your ass off
I believe it's Alba.
I just saw a channel were they sum up things in cartoon. Find 'Slavery Summary on a Map'. I think the channel is called Geo History. They are great - maybe they can give you tips.
It's Alba not Alaba as far as I know. There are a few inconsistent pronunciations in this vid.
I certain amount of Welsh and Scot’s want independence from the U.K. so only time will tell if the U.K. remains as it is today .