Who Made Scottish People? ...The Scots
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- The Scottish nation are an mix of many peoples. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey looks at some of the peoples who made Scotland: The Picts, the Britons, the Angles, the Vikings and in this episode... the Scots
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
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I’m not Scottish, I’m Welsh - but I don’t think you have to be Scottish to appreciate this bloke’s appeal and the manner in which he brings history to life.
Top quality channel.
Mate, I'm English and am loving it
you're spot on..at the end of the day it's the history of the whole of these islands..we live on an island with no borders so over thousands of years the native peoples of these islands will almost definitely have original celtic English and Welsh Scottish Irish blood running through their veins
As a welsh person, can you give me any good books websites to read about what happened at 'the bridge' way back in the day between England and Whales, and why Whales is not its own country? How is the Welsh heritage being protected and preserved in modern times? I get it b/c my mom is Lithuanian, and when Lithuania was occupied by the Soviets, their language, religion, and culture was diminished. I would like to read more about the Welsh experience as part of the UK.
He’s brilliant
Absolutely I just found these. Learned more the last few days than my entire time at school about Scottish history. 😂
I’m not Scottish, but currently living in Edinburgh. You must just admire the beauty of the history and the narrative passion. Beautiful people and history
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Hello, Mr. Fummey!
I am 65 years old. Since childhood, I have felt an inexplicable connection to Scotland. That is why I visited your country in 2019 and remained enchanted by its beauty, culture and people. You are doing a great job of spreading knowledge about Scotland. And yes, I adore your accent! I send you warm greetings from the south of Europe, from the equally beautiful Croatia. Alba gu brath.
Wonderful
I'm a American Scot. I've played pipes since I was 8 and still do. Even though I'm proud of my heritage, been to Scotland and played at Braemar, I accept that I will really never 'know' Scotland. I didn't grow up or ever live there. With that said, I'm still a Macgregor!
You are a Yank (North American), not a Scot (North British). Your heritage is American, not Scottish/N.British.
@@RR-pe5oroaft man
@@RR-pe5or Take it easy champ
@tommyhoward7341 No thanks Yank man.
@@calmandtranquility9668 English?
I love that my people are a mongrel race. We came from all over and decided, without much in the way of urging, that this (at times) harsh but beautiful land was to be our home. Our Scotland.
So you wouldn't say that 'Scottish' is an ethnicity?
I'm only 20% Scot and stuck in America. I am pure mongrel. lol
@@xanadu8468 it can be an ethnicity. But what many forget is "ethnicity" is about culture, language etc., not genetics
@@KateeAngel Exactly Kate. I study sociolinguistics and that is how sociolinguists define ethnicity.
Less informed people see the word 'ethnicity' and immediately think 'nazi race ethnic cleansing aaaaa bad word', which is kind of annoying if you are trying to talk about sociolinguistic issues and have to change the terminology to avoid triggering an argument about it's definition with somebody whose only exposure to the word is from documentaries about Nazism on the History Channel
Visited forra fortnight. Found and lost pieces of my heart, there, that I didn't even know that I had. What I found, I treasure still. What I lost was never mine to keep. Amen.
My great-great-grandfather George Low is from Scotland, Kirriemuir to be exact. He came to Ohio as a young man and married a lady named Minnie, and they had a beautiful family together. He worked as a stone cutter and lived a long, fulfilling life. I even have a picture of him wearing a kilt and holding bagpipes that were his! This has always been the spark of interest for me in Scotland, her history, and her people. There's something magical about your nation and I sincerely hope to visit some day!
I am a Scottish born emigre mongrel with Pictish, Lowland, English and Irish blood who has lived most of his life outside of Scotland/UK. While I enjoy my life, videos such as these raise a yearning for my homeland, its history, its architecture and, strangely some may feel, its food and weather. I was last home just before Covid but hope to visit as soon as I can. I love the content you provide. Keep it up, sir.
Can Pictish DNA be traced?
@@hIbeRniAnfc-od2iwYes
Scots are all Irish. and the Irish were Aryans.
The word Aryan referred to the Nobility and their Lanuages
Aryan was changed to Proto-Indo-European
Aryans ruled the world in the Age of Aries.
Go look up the etymology of Scot or Scottie and see for yourself? THEY ARE ALL IRISH !!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad to see the subscribers at a much more respectable number Bruce, testiment to all your hard work, onwards and upwards, you bring our Rich History to life like no other, thanks for all your hard work 👍
And some adventurous camera work, Galdo man keep it up.
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Keep up the amazing work! Love this stuff. Fergus was killed by crashing into rocks near by Antrim Coast. Today's Carrickfergus castle, Carrick means rock in Irish.... Fergus Rock or Carrickfergus.
carrick = craig
@@elingrome5853 and craig is a derivative of the irish: carraig = rock. If you consider the example of "Limavady" makes no sense in English because it was anglicised from the Gaelic Leim an mhadaigh = the dogs jump
I was born and raised in Kintyre, we were all brought to footprint by our parents. We all placed our bare foot in the depression. It as more than a tradition to us.
My family left about 300 years ago. But we still feel a deep love for Scotland. Luv from Arkansas.
In the early 1960’s and well before it was protected by a clear cover I did the same thing and my grandfather proclaimed me king of Dalriada! RIP Charlie MacKellar. I now live on the other side of the Atlantic in Newfoundland Canada.
Columba’s footprint at Southend cemetery on kintyre, points towards the pub.
Im in Canada & climbed that hill and also toured the area of my Mac/McTavish maternal ancestors. Loved the area! My foot was a perfect fit in that indention! 😊
I love watching You and seeing Scotland. I've never travelled out of Australia but Scotland is the place I really want to go.
I have always felt Scotland to be my spiritual place. Even though I am also not a Scot.
@@pjmoseley243 I'm Aussie but only Our Indigenous Peoples are originally from here, the rest of Us are from all over the place. Turns out I am Scottish, My Dad was adopted and his Mum was Scottish and his dad Scandinavian. Maybe why I've always liked the bagpipes!
@@pascalswager9100 really Interesting reply, I love to hear about the origins of man and apparently we all descend from the rift valley in Africa, if that's truely the case no one is in their original place what ever we think our origins are, it fascinating subject that's for sure.
@@pascalswager9100 outside the cities ,the world is calm,Scotland cities are only a mile or so from nature and not many miles from the ocean.ideal really.
You will love it, but the weather is diabolical… however it is the weather that makes it what it is. I live in Perth WA now, but I lived in Helensburgh for almost 10 years, my Mum lives in Portknockie and my in-laws are in Ayrshire.
Another great video! I highly recommend Sally Foster's book to anyone who's interested in learning more. I did a research project on the Picts when I was in undergrad and her book was a life-saver in trying to demystify such a mysterious and interesting people.
We think we read that book too, but we've absorbed so much of our ground in history its always food to foster the ppl
This is another fabulous video and very interesting history. The drone shots are gorgeous! Thank you Bruce and team!!
Love the channel. I find it invaluable when teaching Scottish history to my Shropshire based students. My mum's Scottish, as is my dad's mum, so whenever I can sneak this in, I do. One of my students has decided on ASNaC at Cambridge because of you, so thank you.
Beautiful
In Scotland, we were taught about the English feudal system 😂😂 Good on you!
Amazing information.
Inspiring.
Thorough.
With literature references to back it all up! 💪🏻
Another Great Video.👍🏻
This was awesome, and the connection to the Stone, amazing. Thanks for the story!
I always like this part of Scotland's early history the forming of 5 peoples over time.
It's really only two, or even one depending on how you look at it because the groups differed mostly in language, the Scots were also Indo-European (that's where the word 'Scot' came to be), from the native British appellation of 'Y-Scot' from 'Scyt' from 'Scyth' from 'Scythae' from 'Scythia', the Scythians also called themselves 'Scoloti'.
While the Angles in South-East Scotland were not English as England did not exist at that time for another 3 centuries after the Angles were in South-East Scotland, and when they were there they only constituted about 5% of Scotland. The Same with the so called 'Gaels' (a modern word not historically in common use before the 16th century), Dàl Riata was an early maritime kingdom that only made up a tiny portion of Scotland and Brythonics were just the Romanised part of Scotland that later led to the seperate Strathclyde kingdom before it was re-swallowed up again by the dominant Kingdom of Alba.
And the Picts? Just a name the Latin speaking Romans used to refer to the early pre-Christinised Scots of the land, first coined by the Roman writer - Eumenius, when he wrote a congratulatory letter to Tacitus that year and casually mentioned them, however they were of the same general Indo stock as the rest further back via Scandinavia, meaning the Scots as a whole are a nation of people who largely started from the east.
@@PredatorUpHill ..well in Eire anyway the Gaels were known long before 16th century..there were people called Gael-Goill who existed long before the Battle of Clontarf in 1014..marriages between Gaels n Vikings were common
@@PredatorUpHill So who are the two or even just one you mention then?
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@@darkstarr2321 The Scots are largely an Indo origin people, the very word Scot derives from Scythia, which though does share a common line with Saxon (from Saka), it has it's seperate distinct etymology, such as the ancient native British appellation- 'Y-Scot' which was preserved in what today would later be renamed as 'Old Welsh' as it is today, Y-Scot is also where the Romans got their form from (which was Latinised into 'Scotti') to describe the Northern British North of Hadrian's Wall (prior to referring to them as Picts after 297, starting with Eumenius). The Term Y-Scot - from Scyt, Scyth, Scythae, Scthia and Scythia, all these names relate etymologically. The ancient Scythia also called themselves by this word - 'Scoloti'.
What you're actually talking about are the Angles from Northumberland (an old defunct Kingdom that was right next to Scotland) which for a brief period of history extended past Hadrian's wall, past Berwick upon Tweed and up to Prestonpans and Southern Edinburgh (though this was not the Scottish capital at that time), the Angles in the South-East of Scotland only accounted for 4% of the population, before they were eventually incorporated into the Kingdom of Alba (Scotland) and out-bred again.
It's worth remembering also that while in England, the Angles and the Saxons were considered the same people, in Scotland they were not, the very word 'Sassenach' in the old Albannach language of Scotland came from the word for 'Saxon', but further back the Saxon word was closer to the Scottish word than what the Angle word was - which, is where the word English later derived from - Anglo - Anglaland - EAnglaland - Angland - England.
Hypnotic video, and great drone footage. I learn so much here.
I've only just discovered this channel and this is utterly delightful. Always wanted to know more about the history of my adopted homeland. Easy subscribe.
Excellent site. Very well done and researched. I greatly appreciate the sprinkling of humor amongst the information.
Stellar as always, and what an intro!
Another great history lesson ever think off covering links about the Irish and Scottish connections in history and if their is many ? Would love to hear that bit of history and keep up the videos
Interesting idea. Let me add to the list of suggestions, but it's a long one
Robert Bruce tried to drive the Norman French from Ireland that’s a fine bit of history, if he’d managed British politics would have been very different, Wales would have been next on his list, we’d all likely be speaking a different language today, maybe,
This is is very well filmed and presented, good job mate.
Quality content and film set, i am excited of what's more you will yet told.
Nice one cheers Bruce 🏴
Story is even better hearing you telling second time, Bruce
Exceptional quality. Knowledge and detail all wonderfully woven and excellently presented.
These videos are amazing.thank you for your precious time kindest regards tam
Craig phadraig in Inverness is an incredible bronze age vitrified fort with a view for miles in every direction. I'd love for Bruce to do a segment on it.
Thanks as always, Bruce. A wonderful bit of education you provide for all who seek it. Many thanks to your helpers that surely must also exist. I hope to one day be affluent enough to visit Scotland and perhaps even wealthy enough to entice you and yours to a personal tour.
Let's both hope for it mate
This is genuinely my new favourite channel, what an amazing idea for a video
Yay!
Thanks for another great, informative video. And thanks for the book references. I've added them to my wish list (still working my way through The Hunt for Rob Roy).
Good lad
Keep making these videos they are great, I see Scotland most clear days out beyond Belfast lough and know my family is spread from Dumfries & Galway, to Glasgow to Northern Ireland and much of the new world. Its a no brainer that people have been moving both ways for thousands of years.
This has been our experience throughout times as well! And we've been 🏃♂️ through all sorts hoops to claw back our own names. Blessings to you and yarn!
I’m born in Sydney, Australia. My great grandfather was from Perth, Scotland. Expelled from the family for fathering an illegitimate child and sent to Australia. I feel something for Scotland, like it’s a part of me, despite being an Aussie 🇦🇺🏴
It's called 'foreigners delusion'.
Interesting. I always feel better when I'm in Scotland. There are few places in the world that give me that sense of home except maybe the first house i ever knew. My family come from Scotland, Ireland , Wales and England.
Thanks for the Interesting video. Beautiful views to ! I look forward to the next one.
Great video man. I was born and raised in Ardnamurachan. Nice to see some of the history around the area. Defo gonna have to check out more videos.
I’m from Lanarkshire Scotland ,my summer holidays are about to start, I have 3 nights in Oban not far from Dunadd so will be making a visit.
I'm olso from Lanarkshire , I was there about 20 years ago, you wont be disappointed , it's not recognizable as a fort nowadays but it has great mystical energy about it , enjoy your holiday ,
Great video as always, not been to Dunadd for some years but I really want to return. I'm really looking forward to the rest of this series "Who Made Scottish People", I recently took a DNA test that showed me as roughly 46% Scottish 46% Irish and 8% Swedish (My mothers distant relatives), so this series is of great interest to me. Keep up the good work, Thank you.
This is a wonderful series on Scottish history, beautifully shot and brilliantly enhanced by "Paddy's" atmospheric narration! 😜😁
Like added and subscribed! 🙂
Thank you for this. I get very excited when you say, 'let me tell you a story'.
😂Brilliant. There’s mugs and T~shirts coming
Another very interesting video.
All the best from sunny Thailand
Nearly as hot here just now as with you !
Another great video- interesting to hear more about our scottish ties to ireland- i’m planning a visit over there next year!
Have fun!
Just found these videos today. With a BA and MA in Irish History and Politics I think a road trip round these places and definitely the highlands, is long over due. Fantastic presentation, scenery and information on so many levels. Credit to Scottish Tourist board Bruce! Love the wee jokes and the GIUY lol
Get yourself on the road Larry
This was amazing! Subscribed, what a find on TH-cam, thanks for this.
Delighted
Saint Columba , The Dove 🕊 in Irish , born in Gartan near Letterkenny , Donegal is the patron saint of Derry , Doire in Irish meaning Oak Grove where he built a monastery , he was said to be related to the high kings of Ireland who sat at Grianan of Aileach , not far from Derry in Donegal , at the time legend has it that they bequeathed him the land to build the monastery , after a quarrel with another monk Columba left Derry in exile to build the abbey at Iona to educate the monks and spread the Christian faith through Britain and Europe.
The stone of Destiny actually came from Tirconnell now Donegal by st colmcille/Columba, the history of western Scotland and Donegal goes back long before St Colmcille, as his Uncle give him Iona island to build a monastery as his Uncle was the king Chieftain of that part of Scotland.
nonsense...columba is a myth
charles duncan barclay. like most of irish history the tale of columba was adopted by irish monks from an earlier spanish tale. ...columba of sens...the irish tale reads word for word from the earlier one. she was a nun , he was a monk. she was of noble birth, he was of noble birth. her title columba means dove in french, the later irish columba means dove in irish. she exiled herself to france with 15 followers due to problems in spain, he exiled himself to iona with 12 followers due to problems in ireland. she had magical powers, he had magical powers. her relics are said to be buried under a church, he said he could not build a church unless there was a body beneath it.(one person volunteered to be buried beneath it), there is nothing in iona to suggest an irish monk built a church there. look up....st columba of sens...her body has never been found, his body has never been found. both mythical tales.
charles duncan barclay. you need to do some serious research. columba is a mythical tale copied from the earlier spanish one ...columba of sens..if you read its almost word for word of the later irish one.
@@brucecollins4729I would suggest the two most likley existed. But that their stories have *some* common elements. Both have an extensive (and in many regards) quite different bodies of lore surrounding their live in their respective countries.
Another good video, glad I subscribed.
BTW Useful Charts has just done a good video on the family tree of Scottish Kings.
I really enjoyed the drone footage. It helped tell the story! Great job man!! Love from Northwest Arkansas! 💪🇺🇸❤️
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I would really like to go there and have a pint of guiness by the stone. All those folk, my kin way back.......who I haven't a clue about. These wee videos are a soul tonic to open my eyes to my own Scottish past. I love these videos, gives me a wee idea for a motorbike trip from Ayrshire.
Na , a good malt Whisky is what ye need !
I could listen to You talk all the day!
yes me too, reminds me of those other great presenters Neil Oliver and Jeremy Clark!
@@pjmoseley243 Kneel Oliver is a clown.
@@Scott-bh2qb I respect his presentation skills. thats all, none of us are perfect. no offence, I'm too old to be offending people.
@@pjmoseley243 he’s an absolute walloper mate.
@@Scott-bh2qb I preferred Kneel when he played Frank Gallagher in Shameless.
ALWAYS loving this channel.
I learn more from your videos than I have from all the books I have read on Scottish history. I write Scottish historical novels and for my future ones I will be checking out your videos first. You bring history to life in a very concise, informative and entertaining way. Thank you.
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It was very interesting to learn about Dal Riada from a Scottish perspective.
If you dont mind me asking Where else would you learn about this matter?
@@bigredmarchingon3200 It's a part of Irish history as well. It's one of the many kingdoms and clans that competed for power during that time and is notable for giving the Irish and the Scots a historic sense of kinship that lasts until today.
@@TadeuszCantwell what happened why are the Irish and Scottish not friendly anymore?
@@bigredmarchingon3200 They are friendly now. Sorry for the confusion.
@@PredatorUpHill Nothing you've said contradicts what I said.
I love the Scottish dialect. Somehow even though my Walsh ancestors came from Ireland, I'm mostly Scottish.
I believe Walsh is from Wales came over to Ireland due to their expertise in archery needed for the wars
Dude, you're a Yank.
@@karenmanderville154Cambeo-Normans
At 7:44 you just blew my mind! I'm from the Mull of Kintyre and grew up with a foot print in the stone just like that! We always knew it locally as the foot print of St Columba! Incidentally it's really close to a really old and ruined wee church at Southend Village that looks out towards Ireland! Would love to know the story and history of that area now. Thanks for the videos Bruce, I've been binge watching them all last week.
Cannae believe i've never stumbled upon your product before Mr Fummey , Thankyou for these most entertaining and informative history presentations.
Welcome aboard!
Great video .I had a conversation about this the other week and could not seem to get it through to my friend that Scotland , unlike Wales and too a lesser extent Ireland, is culturally quite a mixed bag that would of ,at least from Roman times ,always had different languages and culturally different tribes. Great work really interesting
But through conflict we came together as one. Certain people of political idealogies want
civilisation to go backwards
My point really is because of Scotland location an never being occupied by Rome people quite often assume Scotland to be a bit of a mono culture and as shown on this video this is not the case, quite a mixed bag actually. I certainly dont mean it as a bad thing
@@jameshazelwood9433 when i say people want to go backwards, i mean that intergration is now a bad word. Not good for the future
Interesting video. What amazes me is how much people got about and often on foot in those times, I'd like to know what clothes and footwear they had. Also, the video shows how complicated the history of these islands is. Most people have a simplistic view that the Scottish, Irish, Welsh an English are all separate distinct people as if there was never any movement between them.
There is a small museam close by this location which explains just that, the boats they would have had, etc. Very interesting
Just recalled the wee town near by where museam is, is called Kilmartin
Really loving these videos. They are professional and informative and making me homesick. Also love the fact you make little effort to hide the accent.
I don't have an accent
You’re correct! It’s everyone else who has an accent.
Only recently came across your channel, great vids. My new favourite history channel.
Welcome aboard!
ind out more about people who made Scotland with this video th-cam.com/video/2rPaN3KG-1c/w-d-xo.html
Interesting re diaspora/nomadic cultures 👌
Love the pre-modern period (1st millennia and earlier. So much of the knowledge and culture from the early people's of these isles are lost and forgotten.
The more we find out, the more impressive they become.
Looking forward to the rest of the series 🙂
I'm from Limavady and study in Stirling never knew there might be a link between my wee town and the Scots
when are the BBC calling? now that Neil has joined the evil empire :) Love the channel!
There ye go noo
"If not Fergus or Reuda then who da?" Felonious scripting! Very worthy teaching, and your "production values" are going through the roof...well, at least as high as the talented Liam McNamara goes, anyway. Thanks Again!
He takes them to another level
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Another great one, Mr. Fummey. Well done, Sir.
Thank you kindly
I so enjoy your stories and definitely your sense of humor, thank you for the history it is just fascinating
You're welcome
I find these video's of yours extremely interesting. I have always been fascinated by the creation and evolution of groups of people and how we are more related to one another, than one might imagine. It's a shame that evolution of a group of people are not more studied in High School. In today's age, with the ease of migration, ethnicity or national identity or even race, is becoming more blurred. When you have people immigrating from Asia, Africa, the America's, etc, to Scotland and future generations identifying themselves as Scots, it's more of a cultural identity than racial.
As a native of Limavady (drunceatt) ,always interesting to hear accounts of the sea kingdom of Dalriata becoming Alba and then Scotland ,well done sir ,up there with Max Adam's book,the King in the North
Best wishes from the wirral, last known whereabouts of sir Gawain and the green knight...E
Nah, I saw him in the queue for the chippy on Saturday😜
The thing is was he legless or headless...delivered with a large amount of Cheshire, Lancashire and Wensleydale..and scouse...from the corner/peninsula where the myrtle grows...E
Love the way you bring history and compare it to now. Any story’s about Dunkeld !
In my thirty-two years I have never looked into Scottish history as I have since discovering your channel 😂 Incredible tone and pace, thank you!
Ah thanks James
I am a white guy in Africa. I am 6'5" and a block of a man. Many have gotten the fear of God set in them by just seeing me. Truth is I have not and will not harm another human. I have a dna mix that would make your eyes treat. I speak Germanic languages, Oxford English and some Latin. But my heart and soul is Scottish. You can take the reset and I will loose some as I grow old but I am a Mc Kellar and my family came from Argyll. To hell with what who says
So that makes you a traitor to your own native home nation in Africa and would abandon it in the attempt to pretend to be Scottish?
I'm kinda surprised that this important stone is not protected from vandalism
It may be an obvious joke given the subject matter but the Vandals while active in this time period were to be found further south lol .
@@coinneachreid8971 nice catch!
@@bigredmarchingon3200 Funnily enough given recent events (Euro 2020) seems like nothings changed in 1300 odd years lol
what is wrong with you I have take my children there and put my foot in it as did my Boys. need specs also put my finger in it there :-)
@@jsnedd66 can you re-try that sentence please?
Just subscribed to your channel you have some fantastic content on here, all the best from Ireland brother and thanks for making history enjoyable 👍
Welcome aboard!
Another great vid.
It's nice for me to see the countryside around there as it's where my maternal line goes to
(Kilmichael- Glassary). Probably the closest I'll ever get.
Fun fact. Everything looks great from drone.
Might sound cheesy but there's a very proud feeling knowing that you've got Celtic blood.
@Al Gordon Each to their own mate. It might mean nothing to you and that's absolutely fine but it means something to me.
Am I not correct in saying that Celtic is a culture that came quite “late” to Scotland or am I getting confused ?
@@cloneoffred There is a difference between Celtic and Gaelic.
You are not allowed to be proud of our ancestors. Don’t you know bigot? That’s dangerous
another job well done, Bruce. I enjoyed it. oh, I'm also a subscriber now. thanks again.
Yay
I must have been pinged in the algorithm! Glad I was! Love the content, as an American, lover of history, and living in Scotland!
The name Bell is from the Scottish borders,they were thrown out by James the first of England and came to the north of Ireland where they settled.The name Bell means mouth in Gaelic, as in Belfast,(The mouth of the sandy Ford.)So now you know.
@@brianbreen1026 "they were thrown out by James the first of England"
He was Scottish born and a Scottish king as well, who inherited the English throne. I like how you missed out that bit. James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James the first.
He united Scotland and England into one Kingdom of Great Britain. Scotland was never conquered by England.
Thank you for teaching where 'Daldrian' came from, its the name of geological period of rock formations on the Argyle coast, (Tacitus was as patchy as a drunk forth year on a school trip). My religion is eight volumes of Scottish history so i smile at 'Ordovician' as being a kind of order. Thanks again.
Argyll 👍
Where were you when I did Scottish History at uni. You make it so much easier for my adhd brain to take in.
I really wish there was an ethical DNA test which could tell me my history. I'd love to know which part of Scotland I came from. I have a real fascinations with the Picts. Great video.
North Carolina here.I just stumbled upon your video's. Thank you for sharing. Great history lesson.
Thanks for joining in
Its all so fascinating ! This period of history 👍🙂
Have you done a video on the Picts?
Many, many years ago, on June 29-30th 1996, I was part of a battle re-enactment at Scone Palace - Picts vs Scots. I was on the Pict side, and the crowd booed us! Luckily, we had a guy with us called Paul, who was Scottish, who shouted: "Cheer for the PIcts! They're our people, too!" After that, the crowd began cheering us.
Just think the Picts need a bit more love in general.
The Picts were the proto-Scots, they weren't a seperate people, they were a seperate term for what was generally the same people of the same nation, the term wasn't used before the year 297, it was first used by the Roman writer Eumenius when he wrote a letter to Tacitus that year, who was the son in law to Agricola.
Scottish academia now accepts today that the term Pict is a chronological identity of the Scots, akin to the term Elizabethan or Georgian or Edwardian is for the Medieval English, or 'Victorian' is for the British people as a whole (Scots included) who were born before 1901, so you don't say "what happened to the Victorians", that's how silly is when you use the term Pict and ask the same question.
Interesting, seems a lot of Scottish people do not realise that the Picts are the true Scots
@@darkstarr2321Well no the Scotti and Picts (so called by the Romans) are just two of the ancient tribal peoples who inhabited what is now Scotland. The Scotti and the Picts lived side by side for much of history until following a distasterous series of Viking raids, the King of the Picts and the King of the Scotti wete killed and the two came together under one King, Kenneth McAlpin. Recent genetic research shows that much of the population of Scotland has Scotti and Pictish ancestry.
@@Adaman368 Well yes, the Picts were present in Scotland from around the 3rd century AD. The Scotti didn’t arrive in Britain until around the 5th century and mostly the west coast of Scotland. I would be interested to see the research showing much of the population being scotti and Pict?
@darkstarr2321 recent evidence shows that the people referred to as the Picts and Scotti were likley present in Scotland the 1st century AD. Btw the names of both groups were those applied by the Romans were and we don't know what they originally called themselves.
Prior to that the Romans referred to the various tribal groups as Caledonii.
The Picts and Scoti were first noted by the Romans in ad 312, when a Roman writer spoke of the Picts and Scoti together. Then in ad 360 raiding Roman Britain together.
The semi mythical Annals mainly detail the rise of power of the kingdom of the Scotii from the 5th century onwards.
Btw as detailed not "much of the Scottish population being Scotti and Pict" but rather, much of the population of Scotland *has* Pictish and Scotti ancestry.
I can't link but the information is online
Cool vid
Im in Canada, however I climbed that hillfort as was advide my maternal grandmothers heritage MacTavish began there. Also read Tavish ( original name more gaelic) was a son of the high king of Ireland who came over to what is now Scotland & settled there. Thank you for this!
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Great video, thank you for the effort you put in to help people like myself to understand my race
It always amazes me for a country the size of South Carolina it has descendants all over the world. In the United States at least, you talk to people and every other person will say they have Scottish in them.
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Its worth noting that a lot of people who think they have Scottish heritage, likely dont. The most common reason for this misunderstanding is from the Ulster plantations. Many assume that if their family was from NI, they have Scottish heritage, but fail to realise that as many Northern English made up the settlers.
Just doing my ancestry and found out I have Scottish roots who actually came here to South Carolina as pioneers where I live now 😃
@@tisFrancesfault you realize Irish and Scots both immigrated to the US prior the the revolution. Not just ulster planters who were a relatively small population of lowlanders and Englishmen
@@vestty5802 Pre 1840 most, but not all, of the emigration was from the Scots-Irish community (as opposed to Scots and Irish, which confuses people)
I love you, your knowledge, your channel and your sense of humour. Born and raised in America, I traced my ancestors to bonnie Scotland and is a source of pride. Thank you!
Born and raised in Dunblane, home of the Picts. But spent much of my life in north England too. Fortunate to love both as my home.
You sir are something else. Thanks for the knowledge delivered in a digestible manner. I dig history. And you seem to appreciate history as well, which makes your videos different than most. Saludos desde California!
So nice of you
I love history but it goes this back further to a time when these islands were uninhabited to when the ice age began to recede, will we ever be able to unlock it? to a time before records began to be consciously kept and read in a form we currently understand? for me its about how we understand history, I am split between history and archeology and one other topic maybe? your thoughts?
Anthropology is the bridge between the two!
Good DNA science is helping to understand migration of humans into and around Europe. I find the time of the the last ice age to the time of vikings around 900ad fascinating. Particularly the Mesolithic period and just before when ice age in europe was at its peak
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It's cool seeing my local area on here, I'm from Lochgilphead so 5m from dunadd, hope you do more videos on argyll as we have alot of cool historic locations
Kilmartin Glen to come
Looking forward to it!
Fantastic channel. Thank you!
Great video man. Interesting watch.
I `ve been ploughing through "Pictland to Alba" for some time.
It`s still very complex to me.
So ,up to now. .
Gaels are basically Irish/Scots.
Picts are Welsh/British/Brythonic but were never under the influence of Rome.
The Britons are Welsh/Brythonic who were under Rome and became distinct from non roman influenced British/Welsh/Picts.
The Angles/Saxon/Jutes etc are a bunch of Germans that kicked out the British/Welsh etc and settled well into modern Eastern Scotland.
Except of course ,according to current vogue doon south the Saxon Adventus /settlements/Invasion's never happened and it was just a handful of hooligans who managed to get the residents to change their language ,religion and every aspect of the place names .
Also of course due to the inherent racism implicit in the word Anglo-Saxon ,the word is being replaced with "early mediaeval" thus throwing off all previous timescales .
Maybe I have some of it a bit off , but the "Murky Ages" are my favourite period of history simply because who can say I`m wrong
Having just watched the finale of Loki I reckon Kang the Conqueror might have the answers .
Brilliant as ever Bruce. My faither's explanation of Scottish geneology was always that we were just Irish who learned how to swim (guess the Vikings,Picts,English and Welsh/British wouldn't have worked in the joke lol.) He also rather more contentiously claimed that Geordies (people from Northumberland) were just Scots who had forgotten they were Scottish lol. Keep up the good work mate.
I have heard the joke before, similar to Geordies are Scotsmen....... I wont repeat the rest lol oh and I'm English lol!
Also Geordies aren't from Northumberland. Northumbrians are from there as my dad is one. Geordies are from Newcastle lol
@@richardbradley5217 yeah i know makems and takems guilty of a sweeping generalisation there but in my defence i only qualified it for the sake of our colonial cousins lol
Absolutely love the videos my man keep it up!
Thanks! Will do!
My grandfather, a McBurney, used to talk a lot about the Dalriad kingdom. I think our family was part of it.
Another great video! Given the nomadic migrations and intermingling of cultures over the course of human existence, we're all mutts! Some less so perhaps, but still...
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Sound was a wee bit funny Fummie like the mic was struggling a bit. These videos have been brilliant keep it up
A very engaging walk through Scottish history, subscribed.
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