Capturing William Wallace
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- William Wallace was one of those to lead Scotland’s battle for freedom from England after King Edward I of England declared himself Lord Paramount of Scotland in the late 13th century. Wallace was finally caught on August 5, 1305, and brought to London for trial and execution. From the 15th century minstrel “Blind Harry” to modern times with the blockbuster film “Braveheart” (both accounts being wildly inaccurate), William Wallace’s acts to try to free Scotland have captivated people for centuries. But what really happened?
It doesn't matter if the movie was inaccurate. It helped the world realize who William Wallace was.
The best comment of this movie and I 100% agree with you
I am also a Scot and apart from his pronunciation of Scottish place names, I think everything he said was historicaly accurate. Keep up the good work Simon.
Still he never mentioned anything about the 'Picts'.
Thank you Simon for driving yet another red-hot nail into the coffin of Hollywood's version of history.
But, muh, FREEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOMA!
But he even says most of the story of william wallace is made up. So you prefer a made up story from 500 years ago rather than one from 20. Also I didn't really hear any differences.
@@edwhite7078 lol that's true.
An people lose track of the scope of a film even today films need to have a limited scope an a real story with flow.
The story form history is usually interesting as it already is and yet Hollywood like to apply their bullshit spin on it even make people act like they have modern moral standard
@@USSAnimeNCC- you mean bullshit spin like adding women and colored folk into prominent roles
Not saying that never happened. Just pointing out the ridiculous standard where either the history is racist and sexist or that just maybe. Maybe throughout history even today. A valid argument holds wait. Regardless of whomever speaks it
I love the way Simon mangles the pronunciation of Scottish place names with such absolute confidence. He often puts health warnings at the start of videos containing his attempts at pronouncing names in languages in which he is not fluent, I think it may be prudent to do the same with his videos on the subject of Scotland too ...
Just commented the same thing 🤣 his pronunciation of Scottish names and places is terrible
😂👍 yep
The biggest crimes here have to be the mispronounceation of Berwick and Lanarkshire
BURWICK you mean?... LOL
No Ayrshire was the worst.... I didn’t even realise that’s what he was saying at first 🤷♀️😂😂😂😂
Ayrshire and Falkirk got butchered pretty badly too.
and Murray
This has to be the worst misspelling of mispronunciation I have seen! (But I agree that he mangles place names!)
Best murdering of Scottish names ever
Ahahahaha. Brilliant comment.
He's not Scottish... So why would he adopt an accent for certain names or when talking about a place..
😂😂😂😂
To be fair I would make an equally poor job of English place names; and as for Welsh...would you even bother?
Berwick is Northumberland js
I'm a fan, but is Simon attempting a record for mis-pronunciation of Scottish place names?
His Scottish places and names crack me up.
@@kaiying74 Do you think he's dumbing down for the yanks or does he just want to be one?
Yes.
Er....he pronounced Scotland right. (got every single other name wrong though)
That was about to be my comment. Thanks for saving me the bother.
Simon murdered the pronunciation 😂🤣😂
I love you Simon. But I am Scottish. You are walking a fine line here son.
RIP Sean Connery. Your favorite scotsman's favorite Scot!
Aye that pronunciation of Scottish cities and area's was enough to make me feel sick. The English colonised us long enough that they might be able to learn these things. I think we will be independent after the next referendum and Europe has already said they will Welcome Scotland with open arms.
@@johnkidd797
Well, it'll go down in history that Simon caused this, as it appalled the Scots that after 300 years, they still can't pronounce Scottish names right :P
@Easy Cummins
I'm not Scottish. None of my ancestors AFAIK is Scottish. Why you'd tell me I willingly joined the Union (which I'm assuming is the one from 1707) puzzles me.
I was just making a joke at the expense of both Simon and the Scots.
@Easy Cummins
No worries
I’m Armenian 🇦🇲 and even I was cringing at his pronunciation lol.
Hello to Scotland 🏴 from Armenia.
Simon, if you make any more channels I am going to have to change my Facebook status to “In a relationship”
I am going to need to put in leave soon to catch up😅
He has had this channel for a couple of years. It was dormant for a while and it's only in the last month or so that he continued this channel again.
Then came Side Projects
LMAO! You funny bugger. Agreed
Bonus bonus fact. There’s a little churchyard in Scotland that some nice monks buried one of Wallace’s parts, (his arm). Allegedly. It was secretive, for obvious reasons, but as soon as was feasible, there’s a little stone marker there now. I tend to think it may be true, because there hasn’t been any kind of brouhaha about it, and the stone is obviously old, and very small. Not that I’m a Wallace scholar, but I’m was surprised that the moniker Braveheart was given to Robert the Bruce originally!
If you, like myself, love hearing somebody rip Braveheart a new one I highly recommend history Buffs as he is very good at picking out the severe inaccuracies in that movie
Now, why did I just read your comment in Simon's voice and accent? Clearly, brain broke.
@art bell nice bit of misogyny there instead of rebuffing her point, you make a sexist remark.
Braveheart is an appalling inaccurate and an incredibly biased movie that PRETENDS to be accurate to the source information. No one expects "perfect accuracy" from a hollywood movie, but SOME accuracy would be good, seeing as it's supposed to be a movie about William Wallace and the English/Scottish wars.
Why don't you try actually watching the History Buff's video that rips Braveheart to pieces for its MANY inaccuracies and flat out lies. You might learn something for once in your life.
I'll give you a head start, William Wallace never wore a Kilt... bcos they weren't invented for another 300+years!
@@RichO1701e I love the fact that you didn't just call out the misogyny but also proved a well thought point. Thank you.
Only watched braveheart for the blood and snot screw the historical lesson !
@@goddam9925 ok....
You know, as obsessed as I am over accurate history, I got to be honest, if I had never seen Braveheart I'd of had no idea who William Wallace was. It has great performances, Sophie Marceau looking hotter than you'd think possible in Medieval dresses, and it ultimately inspired me to seek out the real true story. Wallace's Scotland is also one of the inspirations for my current Medieval realistic fantasy project. Let's give credit where it's due.
Plot twist: Simon gets drawn and quartered in this comment section for mispronouncing words.
Does show a lack of basic Scottish knowledge though? Don't you agree?
@@version736ha2 sure
Another good one but, eh... pronunciation.
Elderslie = elders lee
Arrshar? Ayr shire (or air shire)
Lenark? Lah-nark.
That aside, top marks :)
Well done for treading into a right minefield of myth and myth-history.
Also got Falkirk wrong
And put an extra "r" in Robroyston
To quote my long passed grandmother from Ayr who immigrated to the new world in 1896 for a better life than poverty under the English rule; "Pro Libertate. She was Marion Wallace, born in Kilmarnock in 1887. She raised me from the age of four in her home in Vallejo, California. She never lost her love of Scotland; the Scots and all things Scottish. Bugger the English.
The movie was called 'Braveheart', because it is actually about Robert Bruce, even though the storyline focussed on Wallace's deeds. The reason for the apparently misdirected focus was to portray what influence William Wallace's attitude and the roles of all of the other characters, had upon Robert in his journey to becoming king. I suppose it would be more accurate to call the movie; "Braveheart 1- Wallace", as there is plenty more to Robert Bruce's story to warrant a continuing cinematic saga.
Anyone else notice the vampire skull in the background?
Mr. Whistler: Yup, another good show. I will tune in. Thank you again.
Warmly Yada, Yada, Yada
The chair is the master stroke.
Bro. I was thinking the exact same thing!
That chair is blazin bro!
Good storytellers need a good chair..
It is interesting that it basically took 700 years for Scotland to be afforded freedom from England, which they very recently voted against!!!
Good morning! Can you please spirit-level the wee map behind you? It is so distracting! Thank for all the progs over the many sites. VBW Glenn x
idea for a future Highlight History episode ; Eighty Years' War (the Dutch invaded by Spain ) :-) THANKS IN ADVANCE !! :-)
Are you actually British Simon or just an American that can do the accent?
In a lot of your videos you mispronounce just about every place name in the UK apart from London.
Grew up abroad maybe?
Business Blaze
Love all ur channels but one thing I've noticed is the pronunciation of basic Scottish names and places is awful 🤣
I went to my Scottish mates wedding. Knowing that I loved history, discussing & debating, he pulled me to the side and said don’t talk to my mother about the history of Scotland..... she thinks Braveheart is a dramatised documentary. So naturally I held my tongue..... Jesus that was a painful but also amusing experience 🤦♂️ 🤷♂️🤣
For decades we've suffered people claiming that fake violence in movies, games, cartoons, etc. are "causing violent youth." For perspective, consider that public executions WERE considered good family fun through most of human history. Does anyone really think fake violence has more of an impact on young minds than witnessing such horrors?
Dumbarton castles still standing and a really cool spot
To anyone who says Braveheart was an anti-English movie, look up the massacre on Berwick-Upon-Tweed. It happened during Sir William Wallace's lifetime (year 1296), was one of the most brutal massacres in British history, yet wasn't in the movie.
_"When the town had been taken in this way and its citizens had submitted, Edward spared no one, whatever the age or sex, and for two days streams of blood flowed from the bodies of the slain, for in his tyrannous rage he ordered 7,500 souls of both sexes to be massacred.... So that mills could be turned by the flow of their blood._
_- Account of the Massacre of Berwick, from Bower’s Scotichronicon"_
You really need to learn how to pronounce Scottish place names !! Simon
Oh no, I got a Raid: Shadow Legends ad on one of Simon's videos! :(
I hate it when Hollywood butchers history.
Get used to it - we have, for decades now
It's not only history. viz Krakatoa East of Java. Any one with a world map knows that it is West of Java. Ignorant Hollywood marketing droids.
John, those with no history of their own always hate it when others have what they don't/can't so they butcher it every chance they get. Have you ever questioned WHY they keep doing it? Perhaps it is our fault too, we keep going to see these movies, they keep making them.
Hollywood butchers EVERYTHING. ELECTIONS, SMALL CHILDREN...
Ya know, the day after losing Connery and everything he was known for outside of acting, this just kinda feels right.
That was brief! Love your videos.... I like when they're longer. :)
All the Scots complaining about pronunciations in the video as if he doesn’t butcher all names but those of the queens English. That’s what happens when you read things but have never heard them pronounced. We all still learned and we all always know what he means. And if you see one or two have already said it why add to that. He’s not gonna remake the video
Just when I was thinking that Simon needed another channel, I found this one. My quest is to see if I can do a 24 hour SimonAthon ;)
William wallace is 12 Ft tall...Allegedly
And made of metal
@@busimagen and thunderbolts out of his arse
Shoots firevalls from his eyes
@@stevejester5658 I was going to add that if someone hadn't already taken care of it.
He got better.
RIP Sean Connery, a lover of freedom of Scotland and all
RIP Big Tam.
and massive tax dodger
@@RichO1701e Good
And of course the SNP.......
He loved Scotland so much that he did not live there probably for tax reasons.
Why can’t you pronounce place names properly?
Another thing that the movie (and most movies) get wrong, is that kilts were only worn by Highlanders or northerner. Wallace was a “lowlander”. He never wore a kilt.
also kilts of that style and most tartans are somewhat later
FREEDOM!
Christ, how many channels does this man have?
Good video but your pronunciations of the Scottish towns were terrible 🙈🙈
Had to give up listening to this, at least try & pronounce the names of the places properly ffs
1:30 that’s a very Lord Voldemort looking nose there
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 true true but I think also a lot of Hollywood is currently rocking that "nose"
Hang on a minute are you really telling me Mr Wallace was not an aussie? I call shenanigans!
It gets really weird. Apparently a recently erected statue in Scotland looks like Mel Gibson.👍👍😄🇦🇺
Aussie in US with movie about Scotland +England that somehow affects EU and fish.. ?
Cool video but you're pronunciation of Scottish place names is well funny .:D
The bonus being that Simon W can pronounce Aberdeen
Wow, little did I know that the only true fact in Braveheart was that he was Scottish.
But of Welsh descent. Wallace is an old term for a Welshman. However 500 years before his time much of North Western England as well as Strathclyde was also called Wales by the Anglo-Saxons and Scots and they spoke a language still understood by modern Welsh speakers today.
Sean Connery: Worst Russian accent
Mel Gibson: Worst Scottish accent.
A nice little informative bitesize piece. Never heard Ayreshire and Lanark pronounced like that before though. 🤣
You always mention looking up pronunciations for foreign words... please in the future regard Scotland as a foreign country... and save our winces. 🤣
To be fair I watched a video about Franco the other day and his Spanish place names were no better.
Hey, those winces are part of the package. 😅😬
🤣😂🤣
Far more accurate than your one on Nobunaga. Well done
Wouldnt Braveheart be a acurate name for the movie as it is recounted by Robert the Bruce?
Very interesting and liked the fact you mentioned the miss interpretation of his place / family name and area, only sad thing was the way you butchered the pronunciation of quite a few place names. But all in all loved it.
Are we deliberately mis-pronouncing every Scottish town mentioned in this video???
It's totally distracting from the content! At least get some right!
The pronunciation in this was terrible.
What the hell Simon?!?!
When did this channel appear? I am currently subscribed to 8 Simon-based channels. Infographics, geographics, , biographics, mega-projects, today I found out, business blaze, at least one whose name is escaping me and now highlight history. That's just off the top of my head but just to be sure, could someone give me a list of some type? I swear I'm not a stalker, just addicted to random facts on random topics delivered in the delightfully varied way that only Sinon can provide.
TOP TENZ!! That was the other one I have, Ha!!!
Simon, perhaps you need to make a few Scottish friends, who can help you with the pronunciations? 😉
I’m really tired of seeing this guy on 400 different TH-cam channels.
I already knew the exact history Ive seen braveheart 27'487 times, thats 7 times a day since it's release date 26 or so years ago
...... and now you know the real history
Oh my
i don't comment much but i say use the chair in all your channels...
a Brit sitting in such a grand chair and sounding soooo intellectual really creates a new vibe and it feels right :)
Good video 👍
How many channels?
Whatever the facts may be, The Wallace is our patron & will always live in the heart & soul of true Scots. 🏴🏴🏴 The blood is strong! Alba gu bràth!
get a grip man do you think he would of given a shit about you like the royal family gives a shit about me??grow up and just live and love..no one gives a shit about you other than your family
Would love a video on Lord Byron 👍
What's the skull doing at the book shelf?🥺
Goddamn Simon another channel?
Is that the first Brain Blaze writer on the bookshelf?
LEVEL YOUR DAMN CHAIR SIMON!!
We can't really blame people for mispronunciation when we spell so many places wrong. If we spelt the names Lannack (or Lannark) and Berrick he would at least have a chance. I'm always amused when Americans pronounce borough as "burrow" rather than "burra". But I think we have no-one but ourselves to blame. Writing from Linkonsheer.
Americans often pronounce "burgh" as berg. "Edinberg" instead of Edinburgh.
He pronounced Ayrshire and Falkirk the same way as my sat nav..
I could have sworn Dankula had done an Absolute Mad Lads about Wallace but I can't find it. Did I imagine it, or get it confused with someone similar?
Did he look like Mel Gibson or not?
How could you butcher the names of so many Scottish places 😂
Came here to say this! I think the ones he got wrong outnumbered the ones he didn't 😅
@@hunterG60k at least Simon covered it, I will take that over people taking Braveheart for actual events😂
Lol, yea they're not the easiest. I still feel like Irish words/place names are harder tho. The worst I've seen is Welsh. You feel like you're having a stroke just looking at the language, forget attempting pronunciations😵😄
Why cant you say the place names properly
So Wallace was also Robin Hood?
Hi Simon,love your videos but your pronunciation of Scottish places was like broken glass in my ears.
A bit of a Lord yourself in that chair dude lol. Love your channels man ✌
Glad to see I'm not the only person bemused at mister Whistler's strange pronunciation.
I like your videos, but your pronunciation of Scottish names and places is terrible!
My personal favourite was the extra "r" in Robroyston.
Thank you Simon for pointing out the fact that King Robert the Bruce did not betray William Wallace , it always pisses me off when others mess this fact up because they believe inaccurate movies instead of doing there own research.
Wow.
Need a tissue mate?
People get it mixed up because yes, we watched a movie.. I literally just found out the truth.. are you pissed at me?
No one (but you apparently) knew the movie was historically inaccurate, I was 8 when it came out.. the internet was not a thing in 95, I couldnt just do "research" and find out.. well until 18 years later.
You're upset cause people dont research every movie we see ... Should I do research on the fast and furious? Is that not historically accurate?
Need to calm down bro, you're upset about the dumbest thing
@@devarmont87 Glad you learned the truth , It is not dumb to me .
History is written by men who've hanged heroes
please learn how to pronounce the places you are talking about.
He hid in a cave just outside my home town for a bit and there's a big stone in the next town over saying that he had been there also.
My surname is Wallace and my father always had great respect for William Wallace. The Braveheart movie betrayed Wallace as a wild clans man with blue wode painted across his face. This really upset my father as Wallace was an educated man and Hollywood license had gone a bit far. However I enjoyed the film up until the part he was being executed. I had to close my eyes and cover my ears. And I'm still unable to watch it even today.
Lol your pronunciation is better for Islamic names / places than Scottish!
Or Canadian.... 🙄🙄
Why does this chair make Simon seem smarter
I love your videos mate - all channels. But your pronunciation is terrible - Buurwick upon tweed? Laaaanark? etc etc ;)
Thanx for clarifying this. Always knew it wasn’t historically accurate.
Still like the movie though
But the elephant in the room Did he paint his face blue.
Was he actually Australian?
What a pronunciation of lanark.... ahahaha
Well, you got Dumbarton right, that's something.
you have a rather one sided description of historical events
That doesn’t look like a Vincero watch...
5:19 - Playback speed 0.25 O:)
Simon you should make a channel based around facts and boose.
FREEDOM
From mispronunciations
What language are you trying to speak?
Simon NOT BerWick but Berrick