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I recently purchased the osprey publising book on post roman kingdoms of gaul and britain. They show what they believe king arthur would have looked like as well asy gododdin and cadwallon ap cadfan. All are wearing late roman armour and I was wondering how accurate is this?
@@lacybookworm5039 yes. All surviving Celtic languages are in the Goidelic and Brythonic branches; the former includes Irish and the latter includes Welsh, so they're about as different as modern Celtic languages can be, but they're closer to each other than either is to the language of the Celtae, the tribe living in modern Belgium that the family is named after.
""Hello from the Welsh American Channel. Just want to let you know that we Welsh Americans are also interested in what is going on in Wales and all things Welsh. Cymru am byth!"""
As a side note to the River Avon meaning it’s really called ‘the River River’, England also has Torpenhow Hill which means ‘Hill hill hill Hill’; one can only assume there’s a hill there. 😜
It's probably a joke. "Which hill?" "The tor" "The Tor? The tor of that hill is the tor?" "Aye that's the hill, the tor at the pen of that how" And so on and so forth
Yes, Jim, as a Scotsman (originally from Edinburgh, educated in Glasgow), I'd _love_ you to do more on Welsh place names and language, and Scottish/Irish associations. I found this fascinating 👍
My English teacher at school was Welsh, and my French teacher was Breton. And they could understand each other if they used their respective native tongues.
A friend of mine is Welsh and lives in the Bretagne. He told me he has no problem speaking Welsh to his neighbours who still speak Breton. BTW, both his daughters learn Breton at school.
My one French teacher was Welsh, and apparently everyone she met while living in Wales thought she was Breton. I was the only kid in class who understood what she was talking about because I used to live in deepest darkest rural Brittany on and off, where most people in our hamlet didn't even speak French.
I would love a video on Welsh pronunciation - I'm studying Irish now, and it's funny how much Welsh does feel like, "Ah, yes, this is clearly the cousin of the language I'm studying," but of course the pronunciation is totally different. Also thought you'd appreciate that my Irish teacher starts every class with a log ainm (place name).
Bím ag éisteacht leis an físeán seo agus caithim a aithint tá an blás Breatnach Bheaga saghas cosúla an blás Mhannanach, agus muna fhios agat tá teanga Gaelach ar an oileán sin chomh maith, Gaelainn Mhannanach nó "Gaelg" sa teanga sin.
Firstly, to quote the late lamented Victoria Wood, “it’s all spelt ‘Ecclefechan’ and pronounced ‘Kirkcudbright ’”, and secondly, yes, I for one would love an episode or two about Welsh pronunciation!
There's one in Tennessee, too. The Appalachians were heavily settled by Scots and there's no stretch of the imagination to think there were Welsh there, too.
The title of the channel is "The Welsh Viking", so I expect to hear about Welsh and Viking both, probably in a medieval context. I think this video is right inside the expected scope of sujets for this channel.
On a side note Jimmy. I studied French (have an MA in French and German). Anyway, when I lived in France as part of my studies, I lived in Brittany (place called Lannion). One of the other British students there was Welsh. She spent most of her time not speaking French but speaking Welsh precisely because it is still mutually comprehensible with Breton. Not just was, still is.
Wonderful. I'd like to hear what their folk tales are like - I'd have thought that there'd be quite a body of tales about their migration from the Isles.
Oh more welsh centered topics please . I was raised in an area with a toe on the english side of the Northern Marches ( west of Shrewsbury) and Welsh culture fascinates me .
Honestly, as an older Canadian lady, I would love to learn everything about Wales or Cymru! I find history fascinating and you have a natural way of teaching, so share ALL of your knowledge!!!!
That's made me remember the Avon lady who went door to door with cosmetics in the 80s.... She suddenly takes on cool Brythonic mythic connotations being the 'river' lady... 😂
I'd love a Brythonic language video by the way... I'm actually putting my Welsh learning slightly on hold whilst learning Cornish (as I keep mixing them up as they overlap so much 😅) but am very very keen on learning more about Brythonic languages/etymology in general... ❤
Personally, I'd love as much Welsh language & culture content as you're willing to make. It's not like we're not going to get plenty of history along with it... 😄
Very interested in more welsh language videos! USAmerican viewer here in the Northeast and I've been surprised by how many words/place names I know in my area are welsh (thanks colonization). Nevertheless, I think making our idea of the UK less generic helps teach critical understanding of how what we consider "normal" or even unremarkable came to be there.
Go for it regarding changing from English back to Welsh - and the name of Wales to Cymru. I'm an Aussie of mainly Welsh descent and in Australia MANY place names are from the language of the various first nation/indigenous groups/ 'mobs'. We think nothing of it and take those names for granted , and sound and spell them correctly even if they are complex or' tongue-twisters' eg. Woolloomooloo, Carraragarmungee, Eurobodallah, Yarroweyah, Ngangalaba, Kalkarindji, Yoongarillup, Boomahnoomoonah, Cadibarrawirracanna and Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya, etc. More are being changed back to their original names.
Yes, please a course on how to pronounce Cymraeg (Welsh) words would be wonderful, especially how to get Ll correct plus the R. I do have an ulterior motive for this. The Brother Cadfael Chronicles of Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) was a well loved series of mysteries for my deceased mother, which I also like. I would love to correctly pronounce the names of the Welsh characters and locations that appear in a number of the books. Also, she mentioned various places and people including Viking Dublin. Historical mysteries with romance, what is not to love.
From the wikipedia page on the river Lune: Several elucidations for the origin of the name Lune exist. Firstly, it may be that the name is Brittonic in genesis and derived from *lǭn meaning "full, abundant",[2] or "healthy, pure" (c.f. Old Irish slán, Welsh llawn).[3] Secondly, Lune may represent Old English Ēa Lōn (ēa = "river") as a phonetic adaptation of a Romano-British name referring to a Romano-British god Ialonus who was worshipped in the area.[4]
I always love learning more about place names, history, and Welsh. One thing I'm very interested in are false etymologies -- where a story has been created over the centuries to explain why some place is called something, but research shows the traditional explanation isn't right!
I would love the basics of the Welsh language. My great-grandparents came from Wales and I really want to connect with that heritage. So glad I found your vlog!
As a selected Cumbrian (of Devon heritage) living in Carlisle, but raised in North Wales for a time, and an archaeologist I really REALLY enjoyed this video. Diolch yn fawr ❤ (my Welsh is poor forgive me if it's spelled wrong). Yes to more Welsh content!!
I'd love some more about Welsh history.... everyone knows about the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons but few would know anything about the Welsh kingdoms of the time... And the relationship of Gwynedd with Dublin is particularly interesting. Oh - and something about a possible Irish invasion or settlement of Wales in the very early medieval period would be good... I've heard about this but can't find out much about it.
Yes please, more videos on welsh, anything welsh! The language is beautiful and fascinating. A deep dive into the stories of the Mabinogion would also be very interesting!
I’m a big fan of the Welsh language and culture, and considering the near-disappearance of Welsh in history, seeing you do videos about Wales and the language and culture would he, in my opinion, essential to helping preserve the Welsh language and culture.
YES PLEASE MORE WELSH CONTENT! Only, could you maybe add more maps for those of us who have no idea where all those lesser known British places are? :)
On Glasgow's origin, if we take element 'cau' as 'hollow or depression' rather than just field. Immediately East and behind the city's cathedral, where Kentigern's church once stood, there is a dip between the cathedral and the steep hill that the city's western Necropolis is on. This is quite possibly the 'Green hollow' that gave the city its name. Even after many centuries and a road being built through it, the hollow is still there and is still flanked by trees.
We have a lot of celt/brittonic place names in Yorkshire, especially in the area of the old kingdom of Elmet. We even have Cumberworth which was named so because it was a settlement of celts who remained in the area (who identified as being from Cymru)
Yorkshire bloke living in Perth, Western Australia here. A tributary of the Swan River here in Perth is called the Avon, but interestingly here it's pronounced the old way with a short "a" as "Avvon". Back in my old part of the world, in Yorkshire, there is a hill called Pen-y-ghent, from Cumbric meaning head of the border, perhaps. Love your videos Jimmy, greetings from Western Australia.
a little skip of joy when you mentionned the beautiful village of my fathers, where my own father unknowingly re-patriated (though there is quite a bit of family in the area), where he now preaches in Welsh, and where I found there are generations of our family in the graveyard: Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant.
I'm from cymry and honestly can not work out where your accent is from😅 I want to say north of amanford. But that is purely because you look and sound similar to someone from amanford. Obviously this doesn't matter in the slightest, im just happy I've found another Welsh history channel.
I’m from Bangor, so yeah, I’m from way north of it it seems. I actually had to Google Ammanford (because Cymru is significantly bigger and more full of places than many people think) and have never been anywhere even close apparently! 😅
@@TheWelshViking that makes sense, I've never been to Bangor, I'm from Swansea (probably should have said that initially). The furthest north I've been is caernafon, mostly cos it takes so long.The significant north south divide is really bad. It takes longer to get from Swansea to Bangor than it does from Swansea to London. Although I i was still technically correct that you're from north of Ammanford, as almost everything is north of Ammanford.
Aaaw YES to the etymology of toponomy!!! As someone who did a double major in history and geography and before that studied linguistics, this sounds like my absolute dream 🤩🥹 And another definite YES to a basics of welsh pronounciation video! This video was fascinating, too, btw! 😅 And I didn't find it slow but easy to follow, so... do with that information what you like 😁
Maol Rós is "bald hill of the headland/promontory" in Irish and Scots Gaelic as well. There's a lot of cognates bouncing around between the Brytonic and Goidelic languages. Stratford from Stratford upon Avon is from OEn *Stræt-ford*: A ford on the Street (being a Roman road). The Avon in question isn't borrowed from Cymraeg, but is thought to be a survival from the Brythonic spoken before the Romans turned up and the Saxons replaced it. "British", if you will. My understanding of Cambria and Cymru is that they were different Brythonic kingdoms in the pre-Saxon days, and that one was Latinised Cambria (thus Gerald of Wales, *Geraldus Cambrensis*), and the other Cumbria, but by the time of the Normans it was an even bet which name was used for which area. Come check out the SCA College of Heralds some time. Historical Onomastics is kind of our jam.
Fascinating! I lived in Chirk for a while and I always wanted to live in Wales and now I live in Cumbria (not far from Penrith) so I have nearly achieved my dream.
I live in Portugal and I've been learning Welsh as a hobby. And it's interesting to find names that have Welsh cognates. Like, Aveiro is related to Aberystwyth and other Aber-placenames, river Douro (Dūrius in Latin) is related to dŵr, and we have a river Ave in Vila do Conde is cognate of afon. (And Évora is cognate of Efrog and its English name York, which is related to the plant of efwr apparently?)
While the subject was specifically Welsh place names in the British Isles, I've long been fascinated by the Welsh names of towns where I grew up, and have now come back to, decades later. I grew up in Wyndmoor, and went to school in Wyncote. Nearby there are the towns of Wynwood, Bryn Mawr, and possibly my favorite ('cause I had a PO box there for a while): Bala Cynwyd. I love to joke that Welsh uses all the letters other languages left behind. Even the spelling of my name has an unnecessary "Y" in, although I don't think Kathryn is actually a Welsh spelling (please! Someone tell me if I'm wrong!). Great video, Jimmy! And yes, please, more Welsh language content!
As a Czech who knows roughly how Welsh spelling works, I always find this attitude towards it, well... funny? Don't get me wrong, Welsh is great. But to a Czech hearing it, it actually can have the beauty of a less consonant-heavy language. 😂 So that popular joke that Welsh has no vowels... no, they just spell vowels with letters English-speakers think of as consonants. It's just spelling. Czech? We actually have syllable-forming consonants. We can construct whole ass sentences without _pronouncing_ a single vowel. (Also I love that Welsh, unlike Gaeilge, is pretty predictable in how things are pronounced!)
Absolutely love etymology content! I recently read a book about the etymology of place names in Somerset (because I’m cool) and growing up there too there’s a lot of places with Coombe in the name because of the Welsh cwm. Also just the name Somerset can be broken down into ‘summer settlement’ - because it used to flood every winter - and in both Welsh and Cornish it is called gwlad yr haf (spelling may be different?) which means the land of the summer
Yes!! Definitely do a video on welsh language and pronunciation and definitely included places around where u live! (not like ur home specifically, but like historical sites that you've been with interesting names, places you've explored, etc.) Welsh and the history of the country is so ignored everywhere outside the UK and it's genuinely a treat to learn about the diversity of that island that we're often made to ignore or erase!!
This is really fascinating thanks. It helped explain to me why there are so many rivers called Avon in the UK. Also I was struck that Helvetica is another name for Switzerland. I checked and it comes from the name of the Gaulish tribe living in that region.
Really interesting and helpful video as an English person living less than half a mile inside Cymru. Before we moved. The bottom of our garden was Mally Brook the border of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire. My Welsh is terrible, but I do find the language, place names and history fascinating not to mention the beauty. Thanks for this wonderful video. I'll be watching more now.
Your videos about Welsh names always are making me thinking about the Sorbs and Wends (Sorben und Wenden) in Brandenburg and Saxony. They had their own bibles in their language in the Early Modern period but their culture was in decline and now we have some events, names of their towns and villages etc. and there are some attempts to save the culture. I think that the history of the Slavic tribes in Eastern Germany in the 9th-12th century is so interesting - falling exactly in your period of interest. Cheers!
Welsh is such a beautiful language that I actually browsed a few language apps to see if it was included. Nope. Guess I'll just have to visit someday! P.S. Just signed up for Nord VPN using your link. Thanks, Jimmy!
An educated opinion would say that “Welsh” is directly derived from Gallish, and “Wales” from “Galli/Galles.” The authority that says “alien, stranger” is Anglo-Saxon, and grew from the “Dark Ages. “ Cymbro=cymru=“countryshire.” Cymbro was originally a generic word, not a proper name - like “Cumberland.” Welsh people developed a regional-national identity sometime after the fall of Mercia and Cumberland to Saxon armies (8th century), and not before. All Welsh identity was originally simple “British.”
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Is Welsh a Celtic language?
I recently purchased the osprey publising book on post roman kingdoms of gaul and britain.
They show what they believe king arthur would have looked like as well asy gododdin and cadwallon ap cadfan. All are wearing late roman armour and I was wondering how accurate is this?
@@lacybookworm5039 yes. All surviving Celtic languages are in the Goidelic and Brythonic branches; the former includes Irish and the latter includes Welsh, so they're about as different as modern Celtic languages can be, but they're closer to each other than either is to the language of the Celtae, the tribe living in modern Belgium that the family is named after.
""Hello from the Welsh American Channel. Just want to let you know that we Welsh Americans are also interested in what is going on in Wales and all things Welsh. Cymru am byth!"""
As a side note to the River Avon meaning it’s really called ‘the River River’, England also has Torpenhow Hill which means ‘Hill hill hill Hill’; one can only assume there’s a hill there. 😜
It's probably a joke.
"Which hill?"
"The tor"
"The Tor? The tor of that hill is the tor?"
"Aye that's the hill, the tor at the pen of that how"
And so on and so forth
Yes, Jim, as a Scotsman (originally from Edinburgh, educated in Glasgow), I'd _love_ you to do more on Welsh place names and language, and Scottish/Irish associations. I found this fascinating 👍
Yes, please, more Welsh language.
I'm a linguist and I will watch any and all videos about Cymraeg!
More Welsh language and history please
My English teacher at school was Welsh, and my French teacher was Breton. And they could understand each other if they used their respective native tongues.
A friend of mine is Welsh and lives in the Bretagne. He told me he has no problem speaking Welsh to his neighbours who still speak Breton. BTW, both his daughters learn Breton at school.
that is great to read. :) Dw i'n hoffi Cymraeg a dw i eisiau dysgu Breton un dydd.@@seorsamaclately4294
My one French teacher was Welsh, and apparently everyone she met while living in Wales thought she was Breton. I was the only kid in class who understood what she was talking about because I used to live in deepest darkest rural Brittany on and off, where most people in our hamlet didn't even speak French.
How to Pronounce LL, DD, Y, and W: Introduction to Welsh Spelling and Pronunciation is totally something I would watch.
I'd definitely watch Welsh language videos!
I would love a video about welsh pronunciation and more about medieval Wales would be awesome!
I would love more Welsh based content, especially language based.🙂
Yes. My diasporic self would very much like more of all this. 🙂
I would love a video on Welsh pronunciation - I'm studying Irish now, and it's funny how much Welsh does feel like, "Ah, yes, this is clearly the cousin of the language I'm studying," but of course the pronunciation is totally different. Also thought you'd appreciate that my Irish teacher starts every class with a log ainm (place name).
Bím ag éisteacht leis an físeán seo agus caithim a aithint tá an blás Breatnach Bheaga saghas cosúla an blás Mhannanach, agus muna fhios agat tá teanga Gaelach ar an oileán sin chomh maith, Gaelainn Mhannanach nó "Gaelg" sa teanga sin.
Id love more Welsh! Languages are great, especially reclaiming languages that others have tried to stamp out.
Would love to have more Welsh language content!
Firstly, to quote the late lamented Victoria Wood, “it’s all spelt ‘Ecclefechan’ and pronounced ‘Kirkcudbright ’”, and secondly, yes, I for one would love an episode or two about Welsh pronunciation!
Now I'm wondering if the Cumberland Gap between Maryland and West Virginia is named after Wales!
There's one in Tennessee, too. The Appalachians were heavily settled by Scots and there's no stretch of the imagination to think there were Welsh there, too.
The title of the channel is "The Welsh Viking", so I expect to hear about Welsh and Viking both, probably in a medieval context. I think this video is right inside the expected scope of sujets for this channel.
On a side note Jimmy. I studied French (have an MA in French and German). Anyway, when I lived in France as part of my studies, I lived in Brittany (place called Lannion). One of the other British students there was Welsh. She spent most of her time not speaking French but speaking Welsh precisely because it is still mutually comprehensible with Breton. Not just was, still is.
Wonderful. I'd like to hear what their folk tales are like - I'd have thought that there'd be quite a body of tales about their migration from the Isles.
Oh more welsh centered topics please . I was raised in an area with a toe on the english side of the Northern Marches ( west of Shrewsbury) and Welsh culture fascinates me .
Honestly, as an older Canadian lady, I would love to learn everything about Wales or Cymru! I find history fascinating and you have a natural way of teaching, so share ALL of your knowledge!!!!
That's made me remember the Avon lady who went door to door with cosmetics in the 80s.... She suddenly takes on cool Brythonic mythic connotations being the 'river' lady... 😂
I'd love a Brythonic language video by the way... I'm actually putting my Welsh learning slightly on hold whilst learning Cornish (as I keep mixing them up as they overlap so much 😅) but am very very keen on learning more about Brythonic languages/etymology in general... ❤
I love this, and I think you should make whatever you want about Welsh history, language, culture, and I’ll watch it all
I'd love more Welsh language, especially pronunciation.
Personally, I'd love as much Welsh language & culture content as you're willing to make. It's not like we're not going to get plenty of history along with it... 😄
More welsh language content please!❤
Okay, yes I giggled just before you said, "Don't we're moving on." 3rd grade me then just laughed. More Welsh, please. 🙏
Good to know I wasn't the only one!
Very interested in more welsh language videos! USAmerican viewer here in the Northeast and I've been surprised by how many words/place names I know in my area are welsh (thanks colonization). Nevertheless, I think making our idea of the UK less generic helps teach critical understanding of how what we consider "normal" or even unremarkable came to be there.
More Welsh language and culture stuff, please
i seem to remember enjoying your video on ancient sewage pipes, so I'm sure I''ll be glued to the screen for a video on etymology of placenames :)
Go for it regarding changing from English back to Welsh - and the name of Wales to Cymru. I'm an Aussie of mainly Welsh descent and in Australia MANY place names are from the language of the various first nation/indigenous groups/ 'mobs'. We think nothing of it and take those names for granted , and sound and spell them correctly even if they are complex or' tongue-twisters' eg. Woolloomooloo, Carraragarmungee, Eurobodallah, Yarroweyah, Ngangalaba, Kalkarindji, Yoongarillup, Boomahnoomoonah, Cadibarrawirracanna and Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya, etc. More are being changed back to their original names.
Yes, please a course on how to pronounce Cymraeg (Welsh) words would be wonderful, especially how to get Ll correct plus the R. I do have an ulterior motive for this. The Brother Cadfael Chronicles of Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) was a well loved series of mysteries for my deceased mother, which I also like. I would love to correctly pronounce the names of the Welsh characters and locations that appear in a number of the books. Also, she mentioned various places and people including Viking Dublin. Historical mysteries with romance, what is not to love.
The Lan in Lancaster is generally assumed to come from the river Lune on which it's built
From the wikipedia page on the river Lune: Several elucidations for the origin of the name Lune exist. Firstly, it may be that the name is Brittonic in genesis and derived from *lǭn meaning "full, abundant",[2] or "healthy, pure" (c.f. Old Irish slán, Welsh llawn).[3] Secondly, Lune may represent Old English Ēa Lōn (ēa = "river") as a phonetic adaptation of a Romano-British name referring to a Romano-British god Ialonus who was worshipped in the area.[4]
Jimmy: if you'd be interested in.....
Me: hush up and take my money!
I always love learning more about place names, history, and Welsh.
One thing I'm very interested in are false etymologies -- where a story has been created over the centuries to explain why some place is called something, but research shows the traditional explanation isn't right!
I'd love to see more Welsh language/cultural things, it's really interesting!
Yes pronunciation vid please!
I would love the basics of the Welsh language. My great-grandparents came from Wales and I really want to connect with that heritage. So glad I found your vlog!
As a selected Cumbrian (of Devon heritage) living in Carlisle, but raised in North Wales for a time, and an archaeologist I really REALLY enjoyed this video. Diolch yn fawr ❤ (my Welsh is poor forgive me if it's spelled wrong).
Yes to more Welsh content!!
3:59 - _raises hand_ maybe it’ll even stick with me better than primary school Welsh lessons have 😅
Cumbrian here, and I'm for anything that detaches us from Westminster.
I would love a Welsh 101 video!
I'd love some more about Welsh history.... everyone knows about the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons but few would know anything about the Welsh kingdoms of the time...
And the relationship of Gwynedd with Dublin is particularly interesting.
Oh - and something about a possible Irish invasion or settlement of Wales in the very early medieval period would be good... I've heard about this but can't find out much about it.
Yes please, more videos on welsh, anything welsh! The language is beautiful and fascinating.
A deep dive into the stories of the Mabinogion would also be very interesting!
you made a video about poop and we all watched it
i think we can handle some welsh lessons!
I was thinking of that video too!
Yes please, an intro to Welsh language and pronunciation! I've seen a few, but never from a first language speaker.
I’m a big fan of the Welsh language and culture, and considering the near-disappearance of Welsh in history, seeing you do videos about Wales and the language and culture would he, in my opinion, essential to helping preserve the Welsh language and culture.
Liked for "Chester, we're /coming for you/"
8:35 What about calling him "Chatty Jimmy"? 😁😁
Yes more Welsh language please. I love learning about the language and etymology
Welsh language! Welsh history! Welsh culture! Welsh content! Yes yes yes! 🖤
I'd love more language content.
Another vote in favour of exploring cymraeg and Cymru. Also Happy St David's Day/Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant Hapus
INTRO TO WELSH!!!!! YES!!! Presenter Jimmy.
YES PLEASE MORE WELSH CONTENT!
Only, could you maybe add more maps for those of us who have no idea where all those lesser known British places are? :)
My Mum was in Brittany some 60 years ago and could understand a couple of old boys in a cafe talking Breton. So in linguistic terms not that long ago.
On Glasgow's origin, if we take element 'cau' as 'hollow or depression' rather than just field. Immediately East and behind the city's cathedral, where Kentigern's church once stood, there is a dip between the cathedral and the steep hill that the city's western Necropolis is on. This is quite possibly the 'Green hollow' that gave the city its name. Even after many centuries and a road being built through it, the hollow is still there and is still flanked by trees.
Ooh childhood flashbacks. My auntie had basically that same fireplace.
We have a lot of celt/brittonic place names in Yorkshire, especially in the area of the old kingdom of Elmet. We even have Cumberworth which was named so because it was a settlement of celts who remained in the area (who identified as being from Cymru)
I'll always be keen for more welsh language content.
Welsh is such an interesting language that rarely gets the attention it deserves.
Yorkshire bloke living in Perth, Western Australia here.
A tributary of the Swan River here in Perth is called the Avon, but interestingly here it's pronounced the old way with a short "a" as "Avvon".
Back in my old part of the world, in Yorkshire, there is a hill called Pen-y-ghent, from Cumbric meaning head of the border, perhaps.
Love your videos Jimmy, greetings from Western Australia.
a little skip of joy when you mentionned the beautiful village of my fathers, where my own father unknowingly re-patriated (though there is quite a bit of family in the area), where he now preaches in Welsh, and where I found there are generations of our family in the graveyard: Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant.
I'm from cymry and honestly can not work out where your accent is from😅 I want to say north of amanford. But that is purely because you look and sound similar to someone from amanford.
Obviously this doesn't matter in the slightest, im just happy I've found another Welsh history channel.
I’m from Bangor, so yeah, I’m from way north of it it seems. I actually had to Google Ammanford (because Cymru is significantly bigger and more full of places than many people think) and have never been anywhere even close apparently! 😅
@@TheWelshViking that makes sense, I've never been to Bangor, I'm from Swansea (probably should have said that initially).
The furthest north I've been is caernafon, mostly cos it takes so long.The significant north south divide is really bad. It takes longer to get from Swansea to Bangor than it does from Swansea to London.
Although I i was still technically correct that you're from north of Ammanford, as almost everything is north of Ammanford.
Aaaw YES to the etymology of toponomy!!! As someone who did a double major in history and geography and before that studied linguistics, this sounds like my absolute dream 🤩🥹
And another definite YES to a basics of welsh pronounciation video!
This video was fascinating, too, btw! 😅 And I didn't find it slow but easy to follow, so... do with that information what you like 😁
Penrith just reminds me of "we went on holiday by mistake!" from Withnail and I. Also, yes please for more Welsh language content!
Maol Rós is "bald hill of the headland/promontory" in Irish and Scots Gaelic as well. There's a lot of cognates bouncing around between the Brytonic and Goidelic languages.
Stratford from Stratford upon Avon is from OEn *Stræt-ford*: A ford on the Street (being a Roman road). The Avon in question isn't borrowed from Cymraeg, but is thought to be a survival from the Brythonic spoken before the Romans turned up and the Saxons replaced it. "British", if you will.
My understanding of Cambria and Cymru is that they were different Brythonic kingdoms in the pre-Saxon days, and that one was Latinised Cambria (thus Gerald of Wales, *Geraldus Cambrensis*), and the other Cumbria, but by the time of the Normans it was an even bet which name was used for which area.
Come check out the SCA College of Heralds some time. Historical Onomastics is kind of our jam.
Linguistics, etymology, and toponymy are some of my favourite topics so I'm always up for more videos on this!
This is excellent video I would be very interested to see a video of Welsh pronunciation.
I would absolutely watch more Welsh language videos! Your videos are my first introduction to the Welsh language and it’s absolutely beautiful.
Fascinating! I lived in Chirk for a while and I always wanted to live in Wales and now I live in Cumbria (not far from Penrith) so I have nearly achieved my dream.
You've lived in some very nice areas though!
I live in Portugal and I've been learning Welsh as a hobby. And it's interesting to find names that have Welsh cognates.
Like, Aveiro is related to Aberystwyth and other Aber-placenames, river Douro (Dūrius in Latin) is related to dŵr, and we have a river Ave in Vila do Conde is cognate of afon. (And Évora is cognate of Efrog and its English name York, which is related to the plant of efwr apparently?)
The Celtic and Italic language families are more closely related to each other than to any other branch of the Indo-European tree.
Hmmm, I wonder how much of that made it to Brazil.. very interesting!
19:03 Jimmy nurtures our parasocial tendencies with impeccable timing.
While the subject was specifically Welsh place names in the British Isles, I've long been fascinated by the Welsh names of towns where I grew up, and have now come back to, decades later. I grew up in Wyndmoor, and went to school in Wyncote. Nearby there are the towns of Wynwood, Bryn Mawr, and possibly my favorite ('cause I had a PO box there for a while): Bala Cynwyd. I love to joke that Welsh uses all the letters other languages left behind. Even the spelling of my name has an unnecessary "Y" in, although I don't think Kathryn is actually a Welsh spelling (please! Someone tell me if I'm wrong!). Great video, Jimmy! And yes, please, more Welsh language content!
As a Czech who knows roughly how Welsh spelling works, I always find this attitude towards it, well... funny? Don't get me wrong, Welsh is great. But to a Czech hearing it, it actually can have the beauty of a less consonant-heavy language. 😂 So that popular joke that Welsh has no vowels... no, they just spell vowels with letters English-speakers think of as consonants. It's just spelling. Czech? We actually have syllable-forming consonants. We can construct whole ass sentences without _pronouncing_ a single vowel.
(Also I love that Welsh, unlike Gaeilge, is pretty predictable in how things are pronounced!)
Sorry, Kathrn (you did say the "y" was unnecessary), but a Welsh spelling wouldn't have K, it'd be Cathryn.
Would LOVE more on place names - I find them fascinating and have a book in the car that explains a lot
Yes, Jimmy; please do a Welsh language pronunciation video!
Absolutely love etymology content! I recently read a book about the etymology of place names in Somerset (because I’m cool) and growing up there too there’s a lot of places with Coombe in the name because of the Welsh cwm. Also just the name Somerset can be broken down into ‘summer settlement’ - because it used to flood every winter - and in both Welsh and Cornish it is called gwlad yr haf (spelling may be different?) which means the land of the summer
I love that I have Welsh family & I am learning Welsh history & language
Yes please, Welsh language video! I am fascinated and would definitely watch :)
There is something so quintessentially english about getting mad over what another country decides to call one of their national parks...
Yes to Welsh pronunciation and language content!
yesyesyes to the basic pronunciation and introduction to welsh!! would love that!
Yes!! Definitely do a video on welsh language and pronunciation and definitely included places around where u live! (not like ur home specifically, but like historical sites that you've been with interesting names, places you've explored, etc.) Welsh and the history of the country is so ignored everywhere outside the UK and it's genuinely a treat to learn about the diversity of that island that we're often made to ignore or erase!!
Listening to you bellow a death lament in old welsh at York was astonishing. All for Welsh content.
Yes please! Language class, I'd love that!
Jimmy, I would totally watch more videos. Modern Welsh pronunciation, Welsh names, Viking era re-naming. I’m here for it all!
Just thinking in regards to Staffordshire. We have… Eccleshall, Cheadle, Mow Cop, Pen, Penkridge, Penkhull, Trentham, Lichfield to name a few.
I was brought up in a valley called Combs in the middle of Derbyshire- and early spellings of the place name have it Cwm!
Well I can't speak for everyone, but i know for certain I want more welsh langage and welsh cultural stuff!
This is really fascinating thanks. It helped explain to me why there are so many rivers called Avon in the UK. Also I was struck that Helvetica is another name for Switzerland. I checked and it comes from the name of the Gaulish tribe living in that region.
Really interesting and helpful video as an English person living less than half a mile inside Cymru. Before we moved. The bottom of our garden was Mally Brook the border of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire.
My Welsh is terrible, but I do find the language, place names and history fascinating not to mention the beauty.
Thanks for this wonderful video. I'll be watching more now.
I would watch Welsh language content. :)
I'd love it if you did a video on Welsh pronunciation, as well as any other Welsh language and culture you wanted.
All the places. All the changes. So interesting to hear how the names change over the years. (Kim's Convenience is so funny. Great choice)
Yes please, I would love a pronunciation guide!
Loving the Welsh deep dives!
Don't forget the Welsh community in Patagonia.
Ah, I didn’t. They’re the colonial Welsh names I mentioned at the start of the vid :)
Your videos about Welsh names always are making me thinking about the Sorbs and Wends (Sorben und Wenden) in Brandenburg and Saxony. They had their own bibles in their language in the Early Modern period but their culture was in decline and now we have some events, names of their towns and villages etc. and there are some attempts to save the culture. I think that the history of the Slavic tribes in Eastern Germany in the 9th-12th century is so interesting - falling exactly in your period of interest. Cheers!
Welsh is such a beautiful language that I actually browsed a few language apps to see if it was included. Nope. Guess I'll just have to visit someday! P.S. Just signed up for Nord VPN using your link. Thanks, Jimmy!
An educated opinion would say that “Welsh” is directly derived from Gallish, and “Wales” from “Galli/Galles.” The authority that says “alien, stranger” is Anglo-Saxon, and grew from the “Dark Ages. “ Cymbro=cymru=“countryshire.” Cymbro was originally a generic word, not a proper name - like “Cumberland.” Welsh people developed a regional-national identity sometime after the fall of Mercia and Cumberland to Saxon armies (8th century), and not before. All Welsh identity was originally simple “British.”