They wore tartan kilts just like the Irish kings. They lived in round houses just like the Irish and Brits. They had a q Celtic language like the Irish. They had the same kingly gold throne caps like those found in the bog of Cullen in tiperarry. They had the same bronze halberds weapons like the Irish. There's plenty more than just that . I'm writing a book on the Irish Spanish origins at the moment.even their tribes are called Tudo like the Irish Tuatha. "As they set sail gallantly from the sunny land s of Spain" 🍀🍀🍀🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 Irish and Spanish are brothers 👏👏👏
@@jgappy5643 Yes, I have always felt that connection too. I have met many galicians who look very similar to us as well. Freckles, pale skin, red hair.
@@caolanmaher5907 I'll have to dissapoint you in this. I got brown hair, brown eyes, but pale skin. I guess you always need someone to go against the current😀
Greetings from a Galician Puerto Rican, we came from the Pueblo of Piñeiro, Galicia. Funny enough, I had an Irish grandfather who came to Puerto Rico to serve in the Spanish army against the US when they invaded my island. One of my Galician grandfathers was also a soldier who went all the way up to Flanders, France to serve the Bélico Monarquía Hispánica. I had to search up this history on my own, that and my family history.
Scottish and British? There are many British Tribes in southern Scotland, its only in the North of Scotland (or Central) that he Picts existed until Roman left the door open then they attacked Hadrian's Wall and moved into Northumbria so Scottish-British-Picts is much the same and the Scotti from Scotia todays Ireland existed on the west coast.
@@101MRSPICE they share Celtic ancestry those tribes . That the ancestry they share , I know what you mean about they too have ancestry with roman , Germany ect . And Celtic part of Spain it’s in the north .
@Hannah Fernandez Oh ok , thanks for the extra information I didn't know it.Yes thats true , The Celts went almost in whole Europe but idk .I think they are not spanish ...I don't know for sure ...especislly catalons and basques
@Hannah Fernandez Well , my friend , may I am wring but I searched the topic , I asked , they told me , Greeks were living over there , made colonies but they are different than the Greeks , maybe they are a mix of many nation went and lived there.What about the Aragon Kingdom though?Was it Spanish?
Galician language gave origin to portuguese hence the difference between Castillan language and Portuguese. Portugal and Galiza are what remains of the iberian celtic culture. Portugal means "The port of the Galicians"
Celtic languages existed in the whole Iberian peninsula and Galician and Portuguese do not have more Celtic remains than Spanish has. In fact, the main pre-Roman language in what is now Portugal was Lusitanian, which is considered not to be a Celtic language, and some believe Gallaecian was in fact related to Lusitanian too.
@@Tim_Morder funny that scientist came with a new theory (not as new anymore) that perhaps celtic culture evolved in Iberia and not in central europe. In any case, an interesting view on the matter.
@@Tim_Morder lol I've notice on every vid I see about Galicia or Austurias there's always a Portuguese person trying to prove some connection to them while trying separate themselves from the rest of Iberia...like dude at one point wasn't all Iberia celtic
According to the results of a study that has analyzed the DNA of 10,000 Britons, it suggests that the Celts who became the dominant tribe in the islands originated from the Iberian Peninsula. Bryan Sykes, a professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford, led the study and publishes his conclusions in the book "Blood of the Isles." His theory is that 6,000 years ago, these inhabitants of the peninsula developed boats capable of crossing the ocean and reached the British Isles. The territory was already inhabited, but these people were assimilated into a larger Celtic tribe.
I have long thought that there has been trade routes along the west coast of britain, (wales/ireland/cornwall) with brittany northern spain and portugal for far longer than historical records show
Thank you so much for spreading word of our Galician heritage so eloquently. I Hail from Galicia and Asturias where Celtic Roots run deep. I certainly hope that by openly educating others about our common heritage we may realize the deep kinship between our respective lands. I hope it spurs us to continue a lively mutual collaboration to inform ourselves and others of our Common Celtic heritage and to spark deep interest leading to the re-awakening of our culture.
Wondeful to see this video on galicia. Have friends from there. Good to educated the British especially who think that spain is just beidorm and the costas. Spain has a varied culture.
Alot of British go to spain to go to english or irish pubs, get drunk and never know the real spain. Thankyou for this film showing an unknown and beautiful part of spain. Hope that more people Will go there now
My grandfather used to speak Galician. Don't know much about the language, but I am fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, I can tell you that I could understand it pretty well. It sound like if someone speaking half Portuguese and half Spanish.
Galicia had a Celtic population during the Bronze Age until the Romans, but they should not be confused with the culture of the forts, small fortified citadels. Galician is not a Celtic language in the first place because it is a Romance language, derived from Latin and secondly because the Celts disappeared before the Romans arrived and they did not know how to write, neither here, nor in Ireland, nor in Scotland nor in Wales. Celtic was a Germanic tribe from southern Germany and as a culture they are all the peoples who lived near the Atlantic in Europe until the Iron Age with some similar customs, certainly not meritorious, including Icelanders. Therefore there is nothing Celtic left in Galicia, nothing, nor is it the cradle of the Irish. All of these are myths invented by nationalism during Romanticism. Gauls have passed since then, hence the name Kalekos in Greek, Gallaecia in Latin. Swabians, Visigoths, 50 years partly of Arabs (racial mixing was prohibited) Visigoths again, East Germanic people who are the Spanish genetic base.
My maternal grandmother's maiden last name was Braga. I remember growing up around great aunts who were born mid 1880s and them reminding me I'll always be a Braga no matter my dad's last name 😅 Trying to track down the Braga side of the family. ❤
Ancient Celtic settlements in Galicia and Northern Portugal are very visible today and they form a tapestry of the many peoples who make up the Iberian DNA.
Quizás sea la cultura Atlántica pero, yo al estar en la costa oeste de Irlanda me ha sentía como sí estuviese en Galicia: acantilados, el carácter de la gente, el color verde, los muros de piedra, las tierras pequeñas con patatas,.. una forma de vida, paisaje y carácter Atlántico de la gente.
Yo estuve en la costa atlántica francesa, debajo de Bretaña y sentí lo mismo...como estar en casa. Si hasta había cruceiros, zuecos y gallos de colorines. Los puertos parecidos, las casas de piedra, el ambiente de la gente, las playas, las piedras de la playa, etc.
@@MiloManning05 ustedes descienden de los antiguos españoles, todo lo que es Irlanda y demás islas británicas descendientes de los Celtas del norte de España. Así que es al revés, ustedes lucen a los españoles del norte.
Asturias, Galicia and Cantabria are three regions of Spain that have strong Celtic influences even to this day. You can especially here it in the music. You listen to their folk music and, unless somebody tells you, you might think it comes from Scotland or Ireland. The pipes sound like something in between a Hulian and a bagpipes. And there’s lots of redheads. That Gene is so strong that it even crops up from time to time in their descendants in Latin America that are mixed with the native population. You sometimes get an olive or darker skinned child with a patch of fiery red hair right smack in the middle of his black or brown haired head. My grandfather had it and my son has it. At least, he did when he was a baby. It’s darkened to Brown now. His Scott’s Irish descended mother thought it came from her until I showed her pictures of some of my family. No redheads in her family but she naturally thought it came from her side at first because, well, she’s a white person and I am more of a bronzy sort of fellow. I look most unceltic. 😆
You are 100% correct! My Mexican family is mestizo and have both Spanish and Indigenous ancestors. At least 4 of us have red hair, and if you look up Irish-Mexican related videos (there’s one of an Irish comedian talking about the San Patricios) you’ll see numerous comments by people saying the same about their Mexican families/red hair. It’s a cool thing to see such an ancient connection in modern times.
The ancestors of the Galicians called themselves Calaicos. Cala is Celtic Gaelic for port. Calaicos means nothing else than "port people". That's why Portugal is called that. Both peoples, Galicians and Portuguese, are very closely related. Portcala is the Latin word and at the same time the Celtic translation for port. In the transition from the Celtic to the Latin language, it was customary to put both translations together in one word so that both speakers could understand it. Translated into English, Galicia means "Portland" or you could also say Portugal or rather Old Portugal.
@@mercy1459 This is not about Celtiberians, but what the name of Galicia means. Incidentally, the Celtiberians spoke Celtic. It is irrelevant whether they were half Iberian. When the Normans conquered England in 1066, they spoke French. They had long since forgotten their own language. With two languages, one will be increasingly dominant and will prevail. The other language will be forgotten.
something I picked up on was the language. Galician for I love you is apparently Querote, in Welsh it's Caru ti. There are no other similar expression for I love you, when you look at European languages as a whole.. definitely at least a slim linguistic connection there.
My whole life I've been taught to hate the white man as a hispanic however when I did my DNA testing I found a decent amount of Irish and Scottish DNA. Along with the very large 27% Spanish and 8%Portuguese and 59% native Mexican. Now that I find out all of this history from Spain and all the things that happened there with the ancestors of the Irish and Celtics in general it all makes sense its so amazing the world must've been so crazy back then. I would KILL to hear them speak.
You were taught to hate the white man, do to that you are more Mexican, in my case, I was born in Cuba, to all Spanish blood line, Galicians and Basque's. My great grands which were Galicians and Basque migrated to Cuba, and in Cuba, it was a custom to keep marrying your own people, it was more like a Tabu if you didn't. The difference between Cuba and the rest of the American continent be it North, Central and South America was that the Spaniards wiped out 98% or more of the natives. Cuba today is a whole different country, not even close to what it once was, within the last 63 years of communist strong hold, the Castro's destroyed Cuba, culturally, physically and economically, Cuba is not a speck of what it once was.
We are the descendants of King Fénius Farsaid, one of the seventy-two heroes who built the Tower of Nimrod (Tower of Babel). The Irish language was born when his grandfather Goidel Glas took it as one of the seventy-two languages into which the world was divided with the fall of the tower. He joins Scota, daughter of the Pharaoh of Egypt and, as in the times of Moses, they begin an exodus of four hundred and forty-four years, at the end of which they arrive in Galicia. One of his descendants, Breogán, founded the city of Brigantia there and built a tower there from which his son Ith could see Ireland. The Brigantia of the Irish legend, located in the Iberian Peninsula, would be identified with La Coruña or Betanzos, so that the Tower of Breogán would be none other than the Tower of Hercules. Not only that, but the current king of England is crowned on the stone of destiny, which is one of our relics and was sent from Brigancia to Ireland to crown one of the sons of Míl Espáine and later sent to Scotland (which It receives the name of the Pharaoh's daughter) and from there the English stole it (although they returned it and it is in a museum). The stone is the one that Neemrod climbed to give his speeches to the people. The English king needs our relic to validate his lineage.
Good video, and I watched you on Medieval Irish Channel. Subscribed. I grew up,as a kid, in Greenock, but was raised in London. The world you describe I'm familiar with historically and personally.
Thank you for this video as it was very informative. I took an ancestry test some time ago and have come to know after long and continuous research, I have a lot of family ancestors from Galicia. I hope to visit soon and finally meet Galicians!
This is a great video 😁 thanks for sharing! My great grandfather on my paternal grandfathers side is from Melón Ourense, Galicia, Spain 🇪🇸 and my 3rd great grandfather on my paternal grandmothers side is from Asturias, Spain 🇪🇸
It could be cool a video about the Tuatha Dé Danann and the sons of Míl Espáine invading Ireland, is a very interesting "conection" between galicia and ireland. :) Great video
I'm a Hispanic American and at first I saw on my ancestry dna that I had 3% Welsh and 1% Scottish but now it says 3% Welsh and 1% irish lol. But irish makes more sense because of the Spanish armada thing.
I am aware of my Galician heritage as my family hails from there. In a recent DNA test 14% of my DNA hails from what is now county Kerry in Ireland. I am very proud of both my Galician and Celtic heritage.
You cannot talk of the gallaeci and leave Northern Portugal blanked out from the maps. Gallaecia included both and the name comes from Northern Portugal Cale. Braga, which was shown in images and trough Nabia's temple, is in northern Portugal. It's one single ethnic region that just happened to split due to medieval scuffles between cousins. In fact, the largest hill forts known to this day are in northern Portugal. The total amount of hill forts between modern Galiza and Northern Portugal is believed to be around 5000. The sheer density of sites and the ridiculous amounts of jewelry, torcs, statues of warriors and all sort of stone work found within this are is absolutely unchallenged in Europe. The Castro Culture is criminally forgotten by European history. It was a fantastic civilization that can still be visited today in hundreds of sites. I had the pleasure to lead a group of Irish enthusiasts trough the site if Briteiros in Northern Portugal and then to the museum of the hill fort culture in the city of Guimarães and they were mesmerized by the dimension of the site and the findings in display.
@@gabkoost i pure kallaico here full genome 10 autosomal tests , not shared dna to galiza spain , my dna is only shared with people from guimaraes , porto aveiro coimbra viseu , that areas are the areas the most pristine portuguese dna , demonstrating that galegos , are irrelevante as Herodotus said kallaico were tribes in porto, santo tirso penafiel vizela amarante eurogenes k12 b, is a good calculator to match dna to iron age portugal ande see who is the carrier of kallaico genes 50% of my dna is austriaca Germanic bronze age halsttat
My Cuban grandmother's father's father's last name was Kelly. They were from Lugo in Galicia. My dna shows 12% Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Plus a lot of Basque and Portuguese. Mostly all Northern Spain . 1% southern Spanish
Im finding it all fascinating, i have a photograph of my irish Great Great Grandmother dressed in Gallician dress and lace taken 1800s im wondering if it was a nod to her Gallician lineage ...i dont know her name sadly.
You can hear irish in some Galacian too which makes sense considering gaels have Galacian genetics as explained good video man not alot know all of that
I just have one sugestion, try to say the words reading then with the sounds of the remaining celtic languages, not modern english, or at least with the sounds of old english, that would bring pronuntiation far closer to the real one. Also in portuguese, not in galician, they still use "an", the simbol ~ above "ão" means you should pronunce it as "an". So about "gaita" I'm very curious about how it sounds read in gaelic. You did a very good job by the way. My compliments.
One could say that Galicia historically has always been not a "single thing" but a varied mixture which shaped a unique creation. Yes, it has a solid original Proto-Celtic/Celtic base but such is not the only one and these ones evolved through time. Estimations indicate the galicians, the irish/welsh/scots/Bretons along others shared same pre roman migration flows and cultural racial/ethnic affinity but still a deep matter of debate. Pure ethnically celts there first mixed with Iberians & other local groups, then romanization arrived (which was inevitable) and it did brought improvements and civilization. Rome falls, and germanic tribes (Suebi/Visigoths and even exiled escaping peoples from the british isles from the norway/danes pre vikings, however these last ones seem to didn't leave much of a proof trace) establishing the opposite of what the romans did completely in both positive and negative ways for 200 years, yet they mostly conformed the nobility and privileged strata while the rest of population remained mostly post roman. Then The north african berber Amazhig group conquers the whole South managing to "pass by" Galicia but left rapidly by simple reasons (winter & mountains). The christian kingdom of Galicia is formed and finally absorbed by kingdom of Leon, awaiting later for Castille to oficially inaugurate Spain itself as a country during early 1500s. From here you got what it is Galicia today, the thing is the original celt language was lost and hasn't been spoken since middle age and most cultural tangible proof is still too scarce besides all already said. Nevertheless, it is UNIQUE and beautiful!
There are still Celtic words in 🇵🇹 we don't not even know what they coukd be. There's a town in NW 🇵🇹 called "Paredes de Coura", meaning "walls of Coura". Town is know for it's beautiful stone walls that go all around delineating plots of land, houses, etc. They are made of a river dark stone and are ancient, just like the same type of walls found all over the fields of 🇮🇪. Nobody knows what a "Coura" in Portuguese means, but the local accent in the area to this day opens the vowel sounds of any word quite wide, so much so that a "Cora" sounds like "Coura". It just so happens the word "Cora" in Gaelic is not just a woman's name, but also the name given to a type of stone used to build small river dikes! Well the river Coura has these rocks and runs alongside this village. It is easy to see understand why it was named so, and how the "Coura" pronunciation cud have ended up un the northern isles becoming "Cora"! Some people also thing the word "xaile" in Portuguese may have originated from "cailleach", and not from Persia. It means a head scarf still used by our older women of the countryside of Portugal, looking just as "Cailleach" is illustrated nowaday, head wrapped by a "xaile" to ward off the cold. Fascinating stuff
The Scotii arrived in Hibernia via Iberia via Austria is this correct, the Scotii lived in Scotia ie northern Ireland but we're never an Irish tribe having been washed up on the shores of Hibernia
Regarding the Breton language in Brittany there is a THEORY that when the British immigrants arrived in Amorica they encountered the remnants of the Gauls who lived there. Speaking related languages and being cultural similar helped these peoples assimilate and not lose their Celtic identity. Brittany was originally isolated from much of France by huge dense forests which tended to help people living their keep a separate identity much the way the Scottish Highlands, the Welsh mountains and the Irish Sea helped protect the Celtic languages in the British Isles
@@rosacasal4585amigo la mayoría de cornualleases ni siquiera lucen así jaja. Aunque si hay gran cantidad de gente "loura" en ambos lugares es porque ambos recibieron múltiples invasiones germánicas
@@samvel_mmiiiBásicamente sí, a veces me da un poco de vergüenza cuando parecen hacerse pajas con el nordicismo cuando la mayoría de británicos ni siquiera encajan en ese fenotipo y son indistinguibles de la mayoría de españoles. Un moreno jamás sería confundido por extranjero en Irlanda y ningún rubio lo seria tampoco en mi pueblo. Yo por aquí no sé si alguien es guiri hasta que lo oigo hablar
it´s a myth that the celts were just in galicia, they were in half of the iberian peninsula, actually, the bigges celtic "castro" is "Castro Ulaca", in the province of Ávila in the autonomy of Castilla y León, pretty close to Madrid
Very interesting ! Although I must state that the peoples I have met and seen from Galicia look no different to the people of Southern Spain . Only lighter due to the weather .
There is obvious differences between the people on the north and south of the iberian peninsula. In the south people tend to be darker and with bigger noses due to Mediterranean and north Africa migrations. In the north people tend to be lighter skinned due to Goths and Suebi migrations.
Jajajaja, eso es no tener idea de lo que fue Galicia. Antes había mucha gente rubia con ojos azules, en las aldeas prácticamente todos eran así a raíz de la guerra civil española Galicia se empobreció mucho y muchísima gente tuvo que emigrar y ya hubo mezcla de razas por eso ahora hay menos rubios de ojos claros. Galicia fue ,Celta mal que le pese a muchos y no nos importa haber Sido el Reino Suevo de Galicia. No fue una invasión, fue un acuerdo con Roma, orgullosos de haberlo Sido. No problema. Para saber sobre Galicia Celta tienes que leer un libro de un catedrático británico que estudi9 y se documentó y descubri9 que Galicia fue la que les llevó la cultura Celta a ellos, no al revés. Se estudia en la universidad.
Yeah, on average sure. But you can find plenty of variety within Galicians, Spaniards, Irish and Scots anyway, it's not like they all look the same is it?
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@@asturiasceltic3183 after hundreds of years of Spain existing as a country, and due to the fact that most of people inside a country (in the last hundreds of years) marry people from the same country (specially more recently because easier mobility) I guess almost all the spanish people have moor dna. But those stories about celtic migrations etc. happened before Al-andalus existence, so mostly people in iberian peninsula looked very similar than the rest of europeans, even more when the germanic people invaded the falling roman empire and the ostrogoths settled in noth italy or visigoths in the iberian peninsula, because this continent is the origin of the white race (AFAIK) like in, f.e., china there are mostly ethnically chinese people, or in sub-saharan africa black people. In the past only white people in Europe and probably the only mix with "alien" dna happened when moors invaded the iberian peninsula and in the east (bulgaria, greece, romania) because invasions, or at least they try, of persians, ottomans etc. As a curiosity I'd say one of the goth people that settled in the iberian peninsula when the fallen of the western roman empire were the alans who pushed by the huns invaded the ex roman empire with the goths and after settling for a while in some areas of the iberian peninsula and in north africa, they finally return to the black sea area and today they live in north ossetia-alania (southern russia).
@@nigermant6347 You are not smart. 14,000 Moors will not make an impact on 14 million Iberians who found them repulsive to this day. You are talking about European Christians from celtic and Germanic and Iberians tribes in a crusade with non-European Muslims. THEY WERE IN A CRUDADE, HUN..NOT A LOVE FEST. MOST OF THE MOORS WERE IBERIAN CONVERTS who converted to avoid taxes. The Moors were a ruling TINY miniscule elite. You might want to go to Masaman's videos to educate yourself that says NO Iberians are not mixed with Moors.
It could be more for the immigration. Spain has got millions of immigrants in the last 4 decades. Europe has changed a lot. When I went in the 90s for example, you rarely could see African blacks for example. Now, there are much much more. So the demographics for sure are totally different now than some decades ago. Just imagine centuries ago
Northwest Spaniards are celts. You need to get it out of your head that celtic means red haired and square features. Many Northwest Spaniards are from Celts near Bohemia/ Bavarrian border near Austria. People from Austria use to be known for longer heads. These people have an oval or longer head shape. Celts were known to be darker and shorter. Also what does looking like a Spaniard mean? Spain is regional and have different phenotypes according to the region. These people don't look like they are from Malaga like Antonio Banderas or Pedro Almodavar from Andulucia.
Their music and dance looks very similar to what you see in Ireland in my opinion. Perhaps celtic tribes did emigrate north then subsequently pushed back after the fall of Rome. Who knows?
The Celtic presence in many places in Europe has been mythologized to truly absurd limits. Galicia is one of those cases like quite a few others. The population of Celtic origin that arrived here was a culturally and metallurgically more advanced minority, which adopted an aristocratic role over a larger population that was previously in the territory. This pre-Celtic population was the one that built the megalithic monuments long before the arrival of the Celts and that over time they would end up merging into a single population, in the same way that centuries later would happen in exactly the same way and for the same reasons. with Romans, Suebi or Visigoths.Thinking that we are Celts is an idea as absurd as thinking that we are Romans or Swabians, because we are nothing and we are everything at the same time. Which is a nuance of difference that changes everything. Therefore, focusing on Celtic, trying to stick only with that origin, either because it seems very attractive to us or because it is fashionable and we buy music that is incorrectly called "Celtic" or because of an excessively romanticized idea of a past that we have idealized around the idea of Celtic, it doesn't make much sense and is also historically inaccurate.
Totally agree! I have met misguided people claim to be "Celtic" and therefore they can behave badly. I may be a pale skinned person who only speaks English but by having some vague Irish heritage I can get horribly drunk on St. Patrick's Day and shout pro-IRA slogans! You can't inherit "Celtic language skills" - some distant ancestor came from Wales but that won't help me learn Welsh more easily. My Scottish heritage won't guarantee me inheriting a castle in the Highlands either!
The Atlantic Celts migrated Eastwards. Professor John T Koch of the University of Wales has proven this theory. He has written 3 books on the Celts of the West.
He's not claiming Celts originated in Iberia, that some tribes crossed over from Iberia. There's a difference. Also he's accent is fine. I don't have a problem understanding him and I'm Spanish. All indo Europeans or Aryans originate from the same stock of ancient Aryans who entered into Europe from Mesopotamia, Levant, Anatolia the Caucasus Iran ect so does it really matter? th-cam.com/video/QRHsnLzFRZk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/XXL09iWJrfs/w-d-xo.html Also I find it interesting that the Wikipedia page on Atlantis is locked. And every single mainstream documentary that I've watched on Atlantis has either tried hard to convince me that Atlantis was only a myth and Plato wasn't anyone to take seriously, or they search for it everywhere but where Plato said it was located... The Atlantic Ocean th-cam.com/video/WhM5lvLa11c/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/34Ok-56LUP8/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/TQdTfMnIzeM/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/4SRSWTkjfiQ/w-d-xo.html
THAT'S JUST YOUR OPINION. YOU WEREN'T AROUND THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. SO YOU CAN'T REALLY KNOW, WHERE THE CELTS ORIGINATED FROM. MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE, THAT THE CELTS CAME FROM FROM NORTHERN SPAIN. THIS ISN'T HARD TO BELIEVE BECAUSE MANY SCOTS, IRISH AND WELSH PEOPLE ARE DARK, WITH BLACK HAIR AND DARK BROWN EYES. MANY OF THEM HAVE VERY CURLY TO FRIZZY HAIR, JUST LIKE THE MOORS, WHO CAME TO SPAIN FROM NORTHERN AFRICA. THE DARK LOOKING CELTS FROM SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND WALES, DO NOT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE A RACE FROM NORTHERN EUROPE.
I know you don't remember me but Hey I member you. Still trolling videos on Spaniards after all these years. Your persistence and dedication is impressive I'll give you that. Too bad genetics debunks your sadistic bias. Still can't work out whether you're one of those "native" mestizo from Latin America who hates Spain because muh colonization or a jew. Or both. Don't stress to much over Spaniards mate. See you on the next video on Spaniards. th-cam.com/video/DxkTPXQ4Y44/w-d-xo.html
@@TecumsehSherman36 HAHHAHAHA, I look like the man in my avatar and people say he obviously looks very European and looks like Hank Williams Sr or Emilio Estevez.
@@TecumsehSherman36 You’re stupid. Most Spaniards have over 70% of R1b (mostly of it is actually R1b-z11) that stems from the original celts, this is also the subclade they share with most Western Europeans. Much like Suebi and goths, the moors didn’t leave a lot of admixture with the most being 10% on average (this is almost the same as the Suebi/gothic admixture that’s mostly concentrated on the northwest of the peninsula), this is due to the kingdoms of the north repopulating lands and expelling most of the moors. Also, Arabs didn’t stick around the peninsula long enough, the Berbers did though but they were mostly subsequently kicked out, and just like the goths and Suebi, were a minority. This is also apparent on how Iberians have the most ancient European dna than all of Spain. Don’t ever call Iberians Arabs ever again, you sound like a dumbo.
@@nomeimporta1327 I’ve always done research into this topic. The Northwestern region of Iberia is very Celtic, and it’s even been discovered that the Irish are genetically closest to the northern Iberians
Galicians like to be identified as Celts. Sorry, but that doesn't make them more Celtic than the French, the central Turks or northern Italians. I believe it is today more a romantic sentiment, which was born during the Galician national awakening mid XIX century. (Rosalia De Castro). Traditions and culture as well as the language are strongly Roman and apart from some archeological findings, today there is not much more. Celtic festivals and bagpipe music doesn't make Galicia more Celtic, because it is more a modern sociological phenomenon in Galicia. Also I would argue, that some linguistic and cultural traits are even more influenced by the later moorish culture than by the very old and few tribes that once inhabited the Galician region. Celts left very little heritage visible in today's Galicia. Similar to other parts of western and Central Europe. Galicia was once Germanic (Suebi) and even moorish, but they don't like to be associated with that, do they? ... even though it is more recent in history than the Celts.
They don't claim to be more Celtic than the French though. The French also claim Gaulish heritage just as much as Galician claim their Callaeci heritage. The Celtic festivals of Galicia have been present since literally before Christ (And I don't mean stuff like "medieval festivals" i mean actual celebration with pagan roots just as the Entroido, Seitura, Maios and the Magosto). You would be quite wrong in the claim that linguistic and cultural traits of the moors are more impactful, maybe that would be the case for Andalucia or Algarve, but definitely not Galicia at all, there are basically not a single Islamic, Berber or Arab cultural trait that i can think of that applies to Galicia, there is a grand total of 0 archeological presence of Islamic presence (Because unlike what most maps of Al-Andalus mistakenly portray the Moors didn't manage to actually occupy Galicia at all, it remained an isolated corner of the peninsula outside of both Moorish and Asturian control for about 20 years untill it was finally Integrated into the kingdom of Asturias.) As far as linguistic influence is concerned, all Galician words of Arabic origin are loans of the Spanish language, or are words that are simply arabic in nature in most languages, like Algebra is in English. "Very few tribes" is also a gross understatement, if we take Roman reports at face value they were able to muster armies in the dozens of thousands, this requires a population density that would greatly surpass the European average at the time. Even if we don't take the romans at face value (which we shouldn't) the massive amount of archeological evidence of Celtic settlements proves on its own that this region definitely had a substantial population. And as far as little visible heritage is concerned you are also dead wrong since Galicia actually has by far the highest density of Celtic ruins, Celtic carvings and art in the whole Europe and also the largest concentration of Celtic toponyms outside of the British Islands. Galicia was once Germanic true, although their influence wasn't very significant other than on people's surnames (Only the nobility had surnames, and the Nobility was Suebian) since the Suebians never composed more than 2% of the Galician population and quickly assimilated into the local culture, Galicia was never moorish however, i repeat maps that show Galicia under Al-Andaluz fall into the fallacy of considering everything not belonging to Asturias as belonging to the Moors, this is a gross misinterpretation of the reality of the time, there were no Muslim permanent settlements North of the Duero and Ebro rivers, the populations of that area in that particular time period between the colapse of the Visigothic Kingdom and the incorporation into the Asturias Kingdom lived autonomously without a formal state ruling over them (like most human population at the time actually). When the chronicles of the Kings of Asturias mention the conquest of Galicia they at no point mention Moors, Islam or any battles, they just said that the King of Asturias "subdued the Galicians". Yes, it is true that Galicia's interest in their Celtic heritage is a modern concept, but then again that applies to literally everyone, Romantism (taking interest into one's past) is a modern movement, I don't understand why this is used an attack on Galician identity when literally every single country and ethnicity in Europe did the same thing, at the same time.
@@FaithfulOfBrigantia simply because for some, the fact that (part of) the Iberian peninsula might have celtic roots is like having a piece of soap in their mouth. For some, celts are only found in northwest of europe (kind of William Wallace/Mel Gibson like people). Anyway, it's an outdated theory and the celtic culture can be found indeed in the northwest of Spain. Big bummer for the lads with soap in their mouth.
hahaha but how can you be so ignorant? Or are you a crazy Spanish nationalist? The Celts were all over Europe, but in Galicia the Atlantic Celtic culture is more deeply rooted. Only in Galicia there are more than 3000 Celtic hillforts! Instead there were no Arab settlements. Only before the Celts did the Oeatrimnios inhabit, who inhabited Galicia and Portugal and who probably came from North Africa, but were not yet Islamic. Our history, culture, music, traditions ... they are very different from those of the Mediterranean, to the Castilian ones and to the Andalusian ones ... I'm sorry if you don't like to see reality! 😆
Galicia is not Celt. It is so obvious that Galicia is no longer listed officially as a Celt nation. That's what happened when you build artifacts and stories about the past. No gaellic language have been spoken in Spain since early middle age. I really feel bad for the galicians because I think they have been mislead somewhere in this beliefs. There is no shame to come from Spain and being Spaniard.
Tú mismo lo dices, no sé habla gaélico desde la Edad Media porque fuimos también el primer estado nación de Europa, el Reino Suevo de Galicia. Las enormes similitudes/ iguales con la cultura celta no hay duda y cuánto más se profundiza en la cultura popular es hasta en las creencias en Galicia estuvieron varias tribus Celtas, unos de los últimos los Mil. Uno de ellos tuvo un hijo. Breogan, está en nuestro himno. Podría contarte muchas cosas muy interesantes mediante la cultura gallega Celta realicé un trabajo que he podido saber la estructura de hoy en día de los Celtas y su enorme poder en el mundo hoy, en países Atlánticos ...los Celtas también eran conocidos en la antigüedad como los Saefes...y aquí está todo dicho para el que sepa buscar. Para terminar fuimos los gallegos los que teníamos la famosa piedra del destino sobre la que ayer coronaron al príncipe Charles Iii y un catedrático británico hizo un estudio profundo hará unos diez años y concluyó con pruebas fehacientes que la cultura Celta en Irlanda, Escocia les lleg9 de Galicia. Galicia invadió Irlanda y ah8 empezó la conexión. Nuestros tatarabuelos usaban las faldas igual, las gaitas, los mismos seres que se manifiestan por las noches en los bosques, los druidas.,brujas de verdad...alta sabiduría esotérics, rituales Celtas secretos que sólo los saben gallegos. Irlandeses, escoceses, Celtas centroeropeos y a raíz de la tribu Mil que un general fue a Egipto y casó con la hija del faraón Scota, les regaló la famosa piedra del destino, volvieron a Galicia con ella. hay grabados en La Coruña que antiguamente se llamaba Britannia junto con Noia, Betanzos y algunas más..estuvo aqu8 dos siglos aproximadamente, Scota y el general de Mil tuvieron un hijo Breogan , está en nuestro himno gallego. Finalmente la piedra fue llevada ó robada a Irlanda. Aquí conenzó todo, les invadimos a los irlandeses y no solo les llevamos la cultura Celta, también una gran cantidad de rituales y creencias egipcias! Todo el primer mundo a ciertos niveles siguen estos ritos Celtas y egipcios. En Galícia también, se transmiten por líneas de sangre.
Galicia SÍ es Celta, hay estudios suficientes por parte de los británicos y uno en particular que fue catedrático de universidad escrbió un libro confirmando que somos Celtas y que les llevamos está cultura allí. Siento llevarte la contraria, pero sólo hay una verdad y es esta. Un cordial saludo desde Galicia!
Galicia is most definitely Celtic. Celtic tribes lived all over the Iberian peninsula, and had distinct Celtic culture and heritage. It was only due to the Romans that it was taken from us
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They wore tartan kilts just like the Irish kings. They lived in round houses just like the Irish and Brits. They had a q Celtic language like the Irish. They had the same kingly gold throne caps like those found in the bog of Cullen in tiperarry. They had the same bronze halberds weapons like the Irish. There's plenty more than just that . I'm writing a book on the Irish Spanish origins at the moment.even their tribes are called Tudo like the Irish Tuatha. "As they set sail gallantly from the sunny land s of Spain" 🍀🍀🍀🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 Irish and Spanish are brothers 👏👏👏
Great points Caolan, thanks.
Thank you! I am Galician and always felt connected to the emerald isle👍
@@jgappy5643 Yes, I have always felt that connection too. I have met many galicians who look very similar to us as well. Freckles, pale skin, red hair.
@@jgappy5643 Thank you J Gappy. Galicia is a fascinating place.
@@caolanmaher5907 I'll have to dissapoint you in this. I got brown hair, brown eyes, but pale skin. I guess you always need someone to go against the current😀
Greetings from a Galician Puerto Rican, we came from the Pueblo of Piñeiro, Galicia. Funny enough, I had an Irish grandfather who came to Puerto Rico to serve in the Spanish army against the US when they invaded my island. One of my Galician grandfathers was also a soldier who went all the way up to Flanders, France to serve the Bélico Monarquía Hispánica. I had to search up this history on my own, that and my family history.
Greetings from Scotland. Galician history is fascinating.
Eu tamén son galego puertorriqueño, saúdos 👋
I'M Cuban born in the US.
My Grandfather was from Piñeiro de Arcos in Ourense, Galicia.
Greetings from a Nieves a Galicians surname ... I a descendant of king naills of nine halls I'm boricua n Mexican Spanish of Celtic orgins
@@celtichistorydecoded we were always connected . It's the usurped English crown that always wanted to divide everyone !
They have done recent dna studies showing that the Irish , Scottish & British share dna ancestry with the Spaniards.
Specifically R1B-Z11.
Scottish and British? There are many British Tribes in southern Scotland, its only in the North of Scotland (or Central) that he Picts existed until Roman left the door open then they attacked Hadrian's Wall and moved into Northumbria so Scottish-British-Picts is much the same and the Scotti from Scotia todays Ireland existed on the west coast.
@@101MRSPICE they share Celtic ancestry those tribes . That the ancestry they share , I know what you mean about they too have ancestry with roman , Germany ect . And Celtic part of Spain it’s in the north .
No they don't share.. Spaniards are mostly mixed with significant Arab DNA. It's not pure white even
@@trentlandon9033 th-cam.com/video/JSYR2S6V31Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kpjvhFzKvYKV6U8W
As a galician I appreciate this video and thank you for helping spread our history.
Thank you Mateo Lopez, you are from a very interesting part of the world.
@Hannah Fernandez sim
Wait I have a curiousness, Are the Basques, Galicians and Catalans Spanish or not?
@Hannah Fernandez Oh ok , thanks for the extra information I didn't know it.Yes thats true , The Celts went almost in whole Europe but idk .I think they are not spanish ...I don't know for sure ...especislly catalons and basques
@Hannah Fernandez Well , my friend , may I am wring but I searched the topic , I asked , they told me , Greeks were living over there , made colonies but they are different than the Greeks , maybe they are a mix of many nation went and lived there.What about the Aragon Kingdom though?Was it Spanish?
Galician language gave origin to portuguese hence the difference between Castillan language and Portuguese. Portugal and Galiza are what remains of the iberian celtic culture. Portugal means "The port of the Galicians"
Celtic languages existed in the whole Iberian peninsula and Galician and Portuguese do not have more Celtic remains than Spanish has. In fact, the main pre-Roman language in what is now Portugal was Lusitanian, which is considered not to be a Celtic language, and some believe Gallaecian was in fact related to Lusitanian too.
@@Tim_Morder
Lusitanian is indeed considered a Celtic Language. It's just not a Hallstatt-derived language (but neither is Irish)
@@Tim_Morder funny that scientist came with a new theory (not as new anymore) that perhaps celtic culture evolved in Iberia and not in central europe. In any case, an interesting view on the matter.
@@Tim_Morder lol I've notice on every vid I see about Galicia or Austurias there's always a Portuguese person trying to prove some connection to them while trying separate themselves from the rest of Iberia...like dude at one point wasn't all Iberia celtic
@@nicksix6212 asturias???
Just Galicia.
Portugueses and Galicians are the Same People.
Galicia Is The Portugal's Motherland.
According to the results of a study that has analyzed the DNA of 10,000 Britons, it suggests that the Celts who became the dominant tribe in the islands originated from the Iberian Peninsula. Bryan Sykes, a professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford, led the study and publishes his conclusions in the book "Blood of the Isles." His theory is that 6,000 years ago, these inhabitants of the peninsula developed boats capable of crossing the ocean and reached the British Isles. The territory was already inhabited, but these people were assimilated into a larger Celtic tribe.
I have long thought that there has been trade routes along the west coast of britain, (wales/ireland/cornwall) with brittany northern spain and portugal for far longer than historical records show
Thank you so much for spreading word of our Galician heritage so eloquently. I Hail from Galicia and Asturias where Celtic Roots run deep. I certainly hope that by openly educating others about our common heritage we may realize the deep kinship between our respective lands. I hope it spurs us to continue a lively mutual collaboration to inform ourselves and others of our Common Celtic heritage and to spark deep interest leading to the re-awakening of our culture.
Thank you, I agree
@@celtichistorydecodedGaita is pronounced 'guy-tah' not 'gar-tay' so you know
Wondeful to see this video on galicia. Have friends from there. Good to educated the British especially who think that spain is just beidorm and the costas. Spain has a varied culture.
Alot of British go to spain to go to english or irish pubs, get drunk and never know the real spain. Thankyou for this film showing an unknown and beautiful part of spain. Hope that more people Will go there now
The original scots came actually from northeast Ireland and settled in (nowadays) western Scotland
My grandfather used to speak Galician. Don't know much about the language, but I am fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, I can tell you that I could understand it pretty well. It sound like if someone speaking half Portuguese and half Spanish.
Galicia had a Celtic population during the Bronze Age until the Romans, but they should not be confused with the culture of the forts, small fortified citadels. Galician is not a Celtic language in the first place because it is a Romance language, derived from Latin and secondly because the Celts disappeared before the Romans arrived and they did not know how to write, neither here, nor in Ireland, nor in Scotland nor in Wales. Celtic was a Germanic tribe from southern Germany and as a culture they are all the peoples who lived near the Atlantic in Europe until the Iron Age with some similar customs, certainly not meritorious, including Icelanders. Therefore there is nothing Celtic left in Galicia, nothing, nor is it the cradle of the Irish. All of these are myths invented by nationalism during Romanticism.
Gauls have passed since then, hence the name Kalekos in Greek, Gallaecia in Latin. Swabians, Visigoths, 50 years partly of Arabs (racial mixing was prohibited) Visigoths again, East Germanic people who are the Spanish genetic base.
My maternal grandmother's maiden last name was Braga. I remember growing up around great aunts who were born mid 1880s and them reminding me I'll always be a Braga no matter my dad's last name 😅 Trying to track down the Braga side of the family. ❤
Braga is a historic portuguese city
Ancient Celtic settlements in Galicia and Northern Portugal are very visible today and they form a tapestry of the many peoples who make up the Iberian DNA.
Quizás sea la cultura Atlántica pero, yo al estar en la costa oeste de Irlanda me ha sentía como sí estuviese en Galicia: acantilados, el carácter de la gente, el color verde, los muros de piedra, las tierras pequeñas con patatas,.. una forma de vida, paisaje y carácter Atlántico de la gente.
You northern Spaniards look very Irish
They are very very similar. I do understand that feeling. I have been in both places, I know and felt that same feeling
Yo estuve en la costa atlántica francesa, debajo de Bretaña y sentí lo mismo...como estar en casa. Si hasta había cruceiros, zuecos y gallos de colorines. Los puertos parecidos, las casas de piedra, el ambiente de la gente, las playas, las piedras de la playa, etc.
Senti lo mismo!
@@MiloManning05 ustedes descienden de los antiguos españoles, todo lo que es Irlanda y demás islas británicas descendientes de los Celtas del norte de España. Así que es al revés, ustedes lucen a los españoles del norte.
Asturias, Galicia and Cantabria are three regions of Spain that have strong Celtic influences even to this day. You can especially here it in the music. You listen to their folk music and, unless somebody tells you, you might think it comes from Scotland or Ireland. The pipes sound like something in between a Hulian and a bagpipes. And there’s lots of redheads. That Gene is so strong that it even crops up from time to time in their descendants in Latin America that are mixed with the native population. You sometimes get an olive or darker skinned child with a patch of fiery red hair right smack in the middle of his black or brown haired head. My grandfather had it and my son has it. At least, he did when he was a baby. It’s darkened to Brown now. His Scott’s Irish descended mother thought it came from her until I showed her pictures of some of my family. No redheads in her family but she naturally thought it came from her side at first because, well, she’s a white person and I am more of a bronzy sort of fellow. I look most unceltic. 😆
You are 100% correct! My Mexican family is mestizo and have both Spanish and Indigenous ancestors. At least 4 of us have red hair, and if you look up Irish-Mexican related videos (there’s one of an Irish comedian talking about the San Patricios) you’ll see numerous comments by people saying the same about their Mexican families/red hair. It’s a cool thing to see such an ancient connection in modern times.
@@Duquedecastro salud 🍻
There's not even white people in Spain as there are white in the northern European countries. Redheads are super minority in Spain. Lol
I spent so many childhood summers with my grandparents playing in the Rias Baixas
The ancestors of the Galicians called themselves Calaicos. Cala is Celtic Gaelic for port. Calaicos means nothing else than "port people". That's why Portugal is called that. Both peoples, Galicians and Portuguese, are very closely related. Portcala is the Latin word and at the same time the Celtic translation for port. In the transition from the Celtic to the Latin language, it was customary to put both translations together in one word so that both speakers could understand it.
Translated into English, Galicia means "Portland" or you could also say Portugal or rather Old Portugal.
Te faltan los Celtíberos
@@mercy1459 This is not about Celtiberians, but what the name of Galicia means. Incidentally, the Celtiberians spoke Celtic. It is irrelevant whether they were half Iberian. When the Normans conquered England in 1066, they spoke French. They had long since forgotten their own language. With two languages, one will be increasingly dominant and will prevail. The other language will be forgotten.
something I picked up on was the language. Galician for I love you is apparently Querote, in Welsh it's Caru ti. There are no other similar expression for I love you, when you look at European languages as a whole.. definitely at least a slim linguistic connection there.
Querote = te quiero in Spanish, just change the order of the object pronoun and verb
Thank you for the History lesson. My last name is from Galicia spain. Our family is from Puerto rico and America
My grandmother was from Galicia,I’m 50/50 Spanish Scottish/ Native American,with blue eyes.
Very proud , thanks for this history lesson.
Fantastic description of this Celtic tribe that few know of today. Your best work yet. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Son of Hunnewell.
I love the way you speak. Never change!
Thank you Julio
My whole life I've been taught to hate the white man as a hispanic however when I did my DNA testing I found a decent amount of Irish and Scottish DNA. Along with the very large 27% Spanish and 8%Portuguese and 59% native Mexican. Now that I find out all of this history from Spain and all the things that happened there with the ancestors of the Irish and Celtics in general it all makes sense its so amazing the world must've been so crazy back then. I would KILL to hear them speak.
You were taught to hate the white man, do to that you are more Mexican, in my case, I was born in Cuba, to all Spanish blood line, Galicians and Basque's. My great grands which were Galicians and Basque migrated to Cuba, and in Cuba, it was a custom to keep marrying your own people, it was more like a Tabu if you didn't. The difference between Cuba and the rest of the American continent be it North, Central and South America was that the Spaniards wiped out 98% or more of the natives. Cuba today is a whole different country, not even close to what it once was, within the last 63 years of communist strong hold, the Castro's destroyed Cuba, culturally, physically and economically, Cuba is not a speck of what it once was.
We are the descendants of King Fénius Farsaid, one of the seventy-two heroes who built the Tower of Nimrod (Tower of Babel). The Irish language was born when his grandfather Goidel Glas took it as one of the seventy-two languages into which the world was divided with the fall of the tower. He joins Scota, daughter of the Pharaoh of Egypt and, as in the times of Moses, they begin an exodus of four hundred and forty-four years, at the end of which they arrive in Galicia. One of his descendants, Breogán, founded the city of Brigantia there and built a tower there from which his son Ith could see Ireland. The Brigantia of the Irish legend, located in the Iberian Peninsula, would be identified with La Coruña or Betanzos, so that the Tower of Breogán would be none other than the Tower of Hercules.
Not only that, but the current king of England is crowned on the stone of destiny, which is one of our relics and was sent from Brigancia to Ireland to crown one of the sons of Míl Espáine and later sent to Scotland (which It receives the name of the Pharaoh's daughter) and from there the English stole it (although they returned it and it is in a museum).
The stone is the one that Neemrod climbed to give his speeches to the people.
The English king needs our relic to validate his lineage.
Good video, and I watched you on Medieval Irish Channel. Subscribed. I grew up,as a kid, in Greenock, but was raised in London. The world you describe I'm familiar with historically and personally.
Thank you Jack
NICE VIDEOS! Thanks!
Thank you for this video as it was very informative. I took an ancestry test some time ago and have come to know after long and continuous research, I have a lot of family ancestors from Galicia. I hope to visit soon and finally meet Galicians!
Thank you Anthony
Thanks very much for this information. I have roots from this area, so interested in learning more about the history.
Thank you Clifford
I definitely want to.purchase your book when that comes out!
Thanks Orgullo
This is a great video 😁 thanks for sharing! My great grandfather on my paternal grandfathers side is from Melón Ourense, Galicia, Spain 🇪🇸 and my 3rd great grandfather on my paternal grandmothers side is from Asturias, Spain 🇪🇸
Thanks Bryan - I am planning on making a video on Asturias soon also
@@celtichistorydecoded Can’t wait to see it! 😆
Well done I really enjoyed that. Thank you :)
Thank you
Thanks for sharing; take care
Thank you
Excellent Teaching.
Thank you
Oh shit this is where my moms side came from! Explains why me and other Celtics get along so well!!
It could be cool a video about the Tuatha Dé Danann and the sons of Míl Espáine invading Ireland, is a very interesting "conection" between galicia and ireland. :)
Great video
Thank you Javier, fascinating idea.
I'm a Hispanic American and at first I saw on my ancestry dna that I had 3% Welsh and 1% Scottish but now it says 3% Welsh and 1% irish lol. But irish makes more sense because of the Spanish armada thing.
I am aware of my Galician heritage as my family hails from there. In a recent DNA test 14% of my DNA hails from what is now county Kerry in Ireland. I am very proud of both my Galician and Celtic heritage.
Galicians are Celtic
I’m a Mexican who has Spanish and Portuguese ancestry. On my moms side I have Galician ancestry
Thanks!
Thank you
I am flabbergasted. This is incredible to find out.
Great!
Have you done anything about the Celtic influence in Portugal?
My great-grandmother's land
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
You cannot talk of the gallaeci and leave Northern Portugal blanked out from the maps. Gallaecia included both and the name comes from Northern Portugal Cale. Braga, which was shown in images and trough Nabia's temple, is in northern Portugal. It's one single ethnic region that just happened to split due to medieval scuffles between cousins. In fact, the largest hill forts known to this day are in northern Portugal. The total amount of hill forts between modern Galiza and Northern Portugal is believed to be around 5000. The sheer density of sites and the ridiculous amounts of jewelry, torcs, statues of warriors and all sort of stone work found within this are is absolutely unchallenged in Europe. The Castro Culture is criminally forgotten by European history. It was a fantastic civilization that can still be visited today in hundreds of sites. I had the pleasure to lead a group of Irish enthusiasts trough the site if Briteiros in Northern Portugal and then to the museum of the hill fort culture in the city of Guimarães and they were mesmerized by the dimension of the site and the findings in display.
Review the History of the Iberian Peninsula. In Roman times Portugal did not exist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallaecia
@@MarcoIglesias What a monumental revelation.
@@MarcoIglesias What a monumental revelation.
@@gabkoost i pure kallaico here full genome 10 autosomal tests , not shared dna to galiza spain , my dna is only shared with people from guimaraes , porto aveiro coimbra viseu , that areas are the areas the most pristine portuguese dna , demonstrating that galegos , are irrelevante as Herodotus said kallaico were tribes in porto, santo tirso penafiel vizela amarante eurogenes k12 b, is a good calculator to match dna to iron age portugal ande see who is the carrier of kallaico genes 50% of my dna is austriaca Germanic bronze age halsttat
My Cuban grandmother's father's father's last name was Kelly. They were from Lugo in Galicia. My dna shows 12% Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Plus a lot of Basque and Portuguese. Mostly all Northern Spain . 1% southern Spanish
my cuban grandmothers father is also from Lugo. im gonna take a dna test soon and will update u if i see anything worth of note
Fun Fact: "Cuba" is also the name of a town in Portugal.
Mi madre es de galicia y mi padre de cataluña ambos tienen alrededor de un 10% de adn celta de las islas.
@@LennyCash777 Second Fun Fact: "Fidel Castro" have Galician heritage.
Im finding it all fascinating, i have a photograph of my irish Great Great Grandmother dressed in Gallician dress and lace taken 1800s im wondering if it was a nod to her Gallician lineage ...i dont know her name sadly.
You can hear irish in some Galacian too which makes sense considering gaels have Galacian genetics as explained good video man not alot know all of that
En España habian tres grupos etnicos: Iberos, Celtas ,Celtiberos y despues grupos etnicos pequeños celtas con otros nombres.❤Por todo el territorio
I just have one sugestion, try to say the words reading then with the sounds of the remaining celtic languages, not modern english, or at least with the sounds of old english, that would bring pronuntiation far closer to the real one.
Also in portuguese, not in galician, they still use "an", the simbol ~ above "ão" means you should pronunce it as "an".
So about "gaita" I'm very curious about how it sounds read in gaelic.
You did a very good job by the way. My compliments.
One could say that Galicia historically has always been not a "single thing" but a varied mixture which shaped a unique creation. Yes, it has a solid original Proto-Celtic/Celtic base but such is not the only one and these ones evolved through time. Estimations indicate the galicians, the irish/welsh/scots/Bretons along others shared same pre roman migration flows and cultural racial/ethnic affinity but still a deep matter of debate. Pure ethnically celts there first mixed with Iberians & other local groups, then romanization arrived (which was inevitable) and it did brought improvements and civilization. Rome falls, and germanic tribes (Suebi/Visigoths and even exiled escaping peoples from the british isles from the norway/danes pre vikings, however these last ones seem to didn't leave much of a proof trace) establishing the opposite of what the romans did completely in both positive and negative ways for 200 years, yet they mostly conformed the nobility and privileged strata while the rest of population remained mostly post roman. Then The north african berber Amazhig group conquers the whole South managing to "pass by" Galicia but left rapidly by simple reasons (winter & mountains). The christian kingdom of Galicia is formed and finally absorbed by kingdom of Leon, awaiting later for Castille to oficially inaugurate Spain itself as a country during early 1500s. From here you got what it is Galicia today, the thing is the original celt language was lost and hasn't been spoken since middle age and most cultural tangible proof is still too scarce besides all already said. Nevertheless, it is UNIQUE and beautiful!
That accent, dude....awesome!✌
There are still Celtic words in 🇵🇹 we don't not even know what they coukd be. There's a town in NW 🇵🇹 called "Paredes de Coura", meaning "walls of Coura". Town is know for it's beautiful stone walls that go all around delineating plots of land, houses, etc. They are made of a river dark stone and are ancient, just like the same type of walls found all over the fields of 🇮🇪. Nobody knows what a "Coura" in Portuguese means, but the local accent in the area to this day opens the vowel sounds of any word quite wide, so much so that a "Cora" sounds like "Coura". It just so happens the word "Cora" in Gaelic is not just a woman's name, but also the name given to a type of stone used to build small river dikes! Well the river Coura has these rocks and runs alongside this village. It is easy to see understand why it was named so, and how the "Coura" pronunciation cud have ended up un the northern isles becoming "Cora"! Some people also thing the word "xaile" in Portuguese may have originated from "cailleach", and not from Persia. It means a head scarf still used by our older women of the countryside of Portugal, looking just as "Cailleach" is illustrated nowaday, head wrapped by a "xaile" to ward off the cold. Fascinating stuff
Which accent this?
Curious English accent... Where are you from?
He's scottish
Yo soy de Galicia ❤ , toda mi familia es gallega y nos consideramos Celtas de corazón y también fenotipicamente. ❤❤❤
The Scotii arrived in Hibernia via Iberia via Austria is this correct, the Scotii lived in Scotia ie northern Ireland but we're never an Irish tribe having been washed up on the shores of Hibernia
Is there a connection between the Galicians and the Galatians? Both are from Celtic origin.
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Why does the map show Cantabrians and Vascones as a single group of peoples.
Thanks mentioning the Galician Celtics….I am a direct descendant of Galician people.
Regarding the Breton language in Brittany there is a THEORY that when the British immigrants arrived in Amorica they encountered the remnants of the Gauls who lived there. Speaking related languages and being cultural similar helped these peoples assimilate and not lose their Celtic identity. Brittany was originally isolated from much of France by huge dense forests which tended to help people living their keep a separate identity much the way the Scottish Highlands, the Welsh mountains and the Irish Sea helped protect the Celtic languages in the British Isles
My parents are from there my mother did a DNA TEST and came back 60% British Isles
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I have a friend from Galicia. He looks Cornish as Cornish one can look.
Porque éramos rubios y de ojos azules sobretodo en los pueblos, ahora ya hay más mezcla .
@@rosacasal4585 Haber los irlandeses tiene el pelo oscuro y ojos marrones o azules, pueden pasar como españoles facilmente.
@@rosacasal4585amigo la mayoría de cornualleases ni siquiera lucen así jaja. Aunque si hay gran cantidad de gente "loura" en ambos lugares es porque ambos recibieron múltiples invasiones germánicas
@@samvel_mmiiiBásicamente sí, a veces me da un poco de vergüenza cuando parecen hacerse pajas con el nordicismo cuando la mayoría de británicos ni siquiera encajan en ese fenotipo y son indistinguibles de la mayoría de españoles. Un moreno jamás sería confundido por extranjero en Irlanda y ningún rubio lo seria tampoco en mi pueblo. Yo por aquí no sé si alguien es guiri hasta que lo oigo hablar
Hi to all my celt brothers 🇪🇸 🏴 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇵🇹 .
it´s a myth that the celts were just in galicia, they were in half of the iberian peninsula, actually, the bigges celtic "castro" is "Castro Ulaca", in the province of Ávila in the autonomy of Castilla y León, pretty close to Madrid
@@nifelheirn a lot of people think that
I'm a Nw celt
Very interesting ! Although I must state that the peoples I have met and seen from Galicia look no different to the people of Southern Spain . Only lighter due to the weather .
There is obvious differences between the people on the north and south of the iberian peninsula.
In the south people tend to be darker and with bigger noses due to Mediterranean and north Africa migrations.
In the north people tend to be lighter skinned due to Goths and Suebi migrations.
@@marpagapal3312 Not really.
Jajajaja, eso es no tener idea de lo que fue Galicia. Antes había mucha gente rubia con ojos azules, en las aldeas prácticamente todos eran así a raíz de la guerra civil española Galicia se empobreció mucho y muchísima gente tuvo que emigrar y ya hubo mezcla de razas por eso ahora hay menos rubios de ojos claros. Galicia fue ,Celta mal que le pese a muchos y no nos importa haber Sido el Reino Suevo de Galicia. No fue una invasión, fue un acuerdo con Roma, orgullosos de haberlo Sido. No problema. Para saber sobre Galicia Celta tienes que leer un libro de un catedrático británico que estudi9 y se documentó y descubri9 que Galicia fue la que les llevó la cultura Celta a ellos, no al revés. Se estudia en la universidad.
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The red haired tall mummies in the Chinese pyramids wore the same patterns ........ tall red haired mummies everywhere
Tarterian empire????
Lugus looks like Lord Brahma.
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Thanks again.They just look more Spanish than Irish or Scottish.
Depends who your looking at and where,,
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Because they are spanish.
Yeah, on average sure.
But you can find plenty of variety within Galicians, Spaniards, Irish and Scots anyway, it's not like they all look the same is it?
@@FaithfulOfBrigantia Most Irish or Scots are pretty pale with light coloured eyes but
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Those galicians came from Ireland, wales and Scotland but Galicians have more moor dna than Irish, Scottish and welsh
No, the Moors did not mix in the Northwest.
@@asturiasceltic3183 after hundreds of years of Spain existing as a country, and due to the fact that most of people inside a country (in the last hundreds of years) marry people from the same country (specially more recently because easier mobility) I guess almost all the spanish people have moor dna. But those stories about celtic migrations etc. happened before Al-andalus existence, so mostly people in iberian peninsula looked very similar than the rest of europeans, even more when the germanic people invaded the falling roman empire and the ostrogoths settled in noth italy or visigoths in the iberian peninsula, because this continent is the origin of the white race (AFAIK) like in, f.e., china there are mostly ethnically chinese people, or in sub-saharan africa black people. In the past only white people in Europe and probably the only mix with "alien" dna happened when moors invaded the iberian peninsula and in the east (bulgaria, greece, romania) because invasions, or at least they try, of persians, ottomans etc.
As a curiosity I'd say one of the goth people that settled in the iberian peninsula when the fallen of the western roman empire were the alans who pushed by the huns invaded the ex roman empire with the goths and after settling for a while in some areas of the iberian peninsula and in north africa, they finally return to the black sea area and today they live in north ossetia-alania (southern russia).
@@nigermant6347 You are not smart. 14,000 Moors will not make an impact on 14 million Iberians who found them repulsive to this day. You are talking about European Christians from celtic and Germanic and Iberians tribes in a crusade with non-European Muslims. THEY WERE IN A CRUDADE, HUN..NOT A LOVE FEST. MOST OF THE MOORS WERE IBERIAN CONVERTS who converted to avoid taxes. The Moors were a ruling TINY miniscule elite. You might want to go to Masaman's videos to educate yourself that says NO Iberians are not mixed with Moors.
It isn't the Galician culture who has roots on thd Celtic cultures, its the other way around.
The celtic culture has origins in Galiza.
People in this video look more spaniards than celts
It could be more for the immigration. Spain has got millions of immigrants in the last 4 decades.
Europe has changed a lot. When I went in the 90s for example, you rarely could see African blacks for example. Now, there are much much more.
So the demographics for sure are totally different now than some decades ago. Just imagine centuries ago
Northwest Spaniards are celts. You need to get it out of your head that celtic means red haired and square features. Many Northwest Spaniards are from Celts near Bohemia/ Bavarrian border near Austria. People from Austria use to be known for longer heads. These people have an oval or longer head shape. Celts were known to be darker and shorter. Also what does looking like a Spaniard mean? Spain is regional and have different phenotypes according to the region. These people don't look like they are from Malaga like Antonio Banderas or Pedro Almodavar from Andulucia.
Define spaniard 'cause i don't understand you
This would have been a great video if the narrator did speak in such a weird way.
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UH NO!
CELTS CAME FROM THE IBERIAN PENINSULA.
YOUR INFO IS OLD AND WRONG!
True, the Atlantic Celts migrated eastwards into Europe and Northwards into Ireland.
The Celts came originally from France. They settled in Northern Spain, Ireland, Wales, England and Scotland.
Their music and dance looks very similar to what you see in Ireland in my opinion. Perhaps celtic tribes did emigrate north then subsequently pushed back after the fall of Rome. Who knows?
The Celtic presence in many places in Europe has been mythologized to truly absurd limits. Galicia is one of those cases like quite a few others.
The population of Celtic origin that arrived here was a culturally and metallurgically more advanced minority, which adopted an aristocratic role over a larger population that was previously in the territory. This pre-Celtic population was the one that built the megalithic monuments long before the arrival of the Celts and that over time they would end up merging into a single population, in the same way that centuries later would happen in exactly the same way and for the same reasons. with Romans, Suebi or Visigoths.Thinking that we are Celts is an idea as absurd as thinking that we are Romans or Swabians, because we are nothing and we are everything at the same time. Which is a nuance of difference that changes everything.
Therefore, focusing on Celtic, trying to stick only with that origin, either because it seems very attractive to us or because it is fashionable and we buy music that is incorrectly called "Celtic" or because of an excessively romanticized idea of a past that we have idealized around the idea of Celtic, it doesn't make much sense and is also historically inaccurate.
Totally agree! I have met misguided people claim to be "Celtic" and therefore they can behave badly. I may be a pale skinned person who only speaks English but by having some vague Irish heritage I can get horribly drunk on St. Patrick's Day and shout pro-IRA slogans! You can't inherit "Celtic language skills" - some distant ancestor came from Wales but that won't help me learn Welsh more easily. My Scottish heritage won't guarantee me inheriting a castle in the Highlands either!
The Celtic presence in northern Iberia is not myth, it’s clear to see in the culture of those regions
@@uptown_rider8078 I don't think anyone has said otherwise.
@@pulsarplay5808 I must have misunderstood your comment then, my mistake
According to archaeology, the least Celtic region of the peninsula is Galicia. The "Castros" are not Celtic culture.
Uhhh you’re completely wrong
Galicia is not Spain!
Agreed. Galicia should join with Portugal, and together form a new Celtic nation
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@@uptown_rider8078 No portugués, ustedes deberían unirse a Galicia, ESTADO REBELDE!
@@samvel_mmiii Não 🙃You're not even Iberian so shut your trap, wanker
But the Celtic people in Spain and Portugal have Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Jewish and Moorish blood.
LMAO
The people of Spain and Portugal do not have any Jewish or moorish blood, that is absolutely false. Our people have Celtic and Germanic blood
Celts didn't come from Spain, absolute nonsense.
Celts emigrated TO Spain, not from it.
BTW, your accent is the worst, and I'm Scottish.
The Atlantic Celts migrated Eastwards. Professor John T Koch of the University of Wales has proven this theory. He has written 3 books on the Celts of the West.
It seems the Celts originated in the heart of Europe, that is today's Switzerland, western Austria, southern Germany, north Italy and eastern France.
The Celts originally come from France.
He's not claiming Celts originated in Iberia, that some tribes crossed over from Iberia. There's a difference. Also he's accent is fine. I don't have a problem understanding him and I'm Spanish.
All indo Europeans or Aryans originate from the same stock of ancient Aryans who entered into Europe from Mesopotamia, Levant, Anatolia the Caucasus Iran ect so does it really matter?
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THAT'S JUST YOUR OPINION. YOU WEREN'T AROUND THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. SO YOU CAN'T REALLY KNOW, WHERE THE CELTS ORIGINATED FROM. MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE, THAT THE CELTS CAME FROM FROM NORTHERN SPAIN. THIS ISN'T HARD TO BELIEVE BECAUSE MANY SCOTS, IRISH AND WELSH PEOPLE ARE DARK, WITH BLACK HAIR AND DARK BROWN EYES. MANY OF THEM HAVE VERY CURLY TO FRIZZY HAIR, JUST LIKE THE MOORS, WHO CAME TO SPAIN FROM NORTHERN AFRICA. THE DARK LOOKING CELTS FROM SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND WALES, DO NOT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE A RACE FROM NORTHERN EUROPE.
They were black stop lying
Lmao you sound idiotic
They were not black, they were White
Lol don’t worry , he’s a troll
@@AR-gu2no Definitely. He’s so desperate to degrade our heritage and our culture, it’s just sad
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Troll. The Moors never conquered the Northwest.
@@asturiasceltic3183 TRUE BUT PEOPLE MOVE. WITH MOST OF SPAIN BEING ARAB...YOU ALWAYS WILL HAVE THE ARAB LOOK EVERYWHERE...WHICH IS BAD.
@@TecumsehSherman36 HAHHAHAHA, I look like the man in my avatar and people say he obviously looks very European and looks like Hank Williams Sr or Emilio Estevez.
@@TecumsehSherman36 You’re stupid. Most Spaniards have over 70% of R1b (mostly of it is actually R1b-z11) that stems from the original celts, this is also the subclade they share with most Western Europeans. Much like Suebi and goths, the moors didn’t leave a lot of admixture with the most being 10% on average (this is almost the same as the Suebi/gothic admixture that’s mostly concentrated on the northwest of the peninsula), this is due to the kingdoms of the north repopulating lands and expelling most of the moors. Also, Arabs didn’t stick around the peninsula long enough, the Berbers did though but they were mostly subsequently kicked out, and just like the goths and Suebi, were a minority. This is also apparent on how Iberians have the most ancient European dna than all of Spain.
Don’t ever call Iberians Arabs ever again, you sound like a dumbo.
Galicia is one of the less Celtic regions in Spain. This is a myth
Galicia is very Celtic
@@uptown_rider8078 I'm sorry but you live a legend
@@nomeimporta1327 No, we don’t. Our culture, our traditions, and our very blood is Celtic, and we are proud of our ancestors and roots.
@@uptown_rider8078 you should consider opening a book ,Soria or Albacete are much more celtic.
@@nomeimporta1327 I’ve always done research into this topic. The Northwestern region of Iberia is very Celtic, and it’s even been discovered that the Irish are genetically closest to the northern Iberians
Galicians like to be identified as Celts. Sorry, but that doesn't make them more Celtic than the French, the central Turks or northern Italians. I believe it is today more a romantic sentiment, which was born during the Galician national awakening mid XIX century. (Rosalia De Castro). Traditions and culture as well as the language are strongly Roman and apart from some archeological findings, today there is not much more. Celtic festivals and bagpipe music doesn't make Galicia more Celtic, because it is more a modern sociological phenomenon in Galicia. Also I would argue, that some linguistic and cultural traits are even more influenced by the later moorish culture than by the very old and few tribes that once inhabited the Galician region. Celts left very little heritage visible in today's Galicia. Similar to other parts of western and Central Europe. Galicia was once Germanic (Suebi) and even moorish, but they don't like to be associated with that, do they? ... even though it is more recent in history than the Celts.
They don't claim to be more Celtic than the French though. The French also claim Gaulish heritage just as much as Galician claim their Callaeci heritage.
The Celtic festivals of Galicia have been present since literally before Christ (And I don't mean stuff like "medieval festivals" i mean actual celebration with pagan roots just as the Entroido, Seitura, Maios and the Magosto).
You would be quite wrong in the claim that linguistic and cultural traits of the moors are more impactful, maybe that would be the case for Andalucia or Algarve, but definitely not Galicia at all, there are basically not a single Islamic, Berber or Arab cultural trait that i can think of that applies to Galicia, there is a grand total of 0 archeological presence of Islamic presence (Because unlike what most maps of Al-Andalus mistakenly portray the Moors didn't manage to actually occupy Galicia at all, it remained an isolated corner of the peninsula outside of both Moorish and Asturian control for about 20 years untill it was finally Integrated into the kingdom of Asturias.)
As far as linguistic influence is concerned, all Galician words of Arabic origin are loans of the Spanish language, or are words that are simply arabic in nature in most languages, like Algebra is in English.
"Very few tribes" is also a gross understatement, if we take Roman reports at face value they were able to muster armies in the dozens of thousands, this requires a population density that would greatly surpass the European average at the time. Even if we don't take the romans at face value (which we shouldn't) the massive amount of archeological evidence of Celtic settlements proves on its own that this region definitely had a substantial population.
And as far as little visible heritage is concerned you are also dead wrong since Galicia actually has by far the highest density of Celtic ruins, Celtic carvings and art in the whole Europe and also the largest concentration of Celtic toponyms outside of the British Islands.
Galicia was once Germanic true, although their influence wasn't very significant other than on people's surnames (Only the nobility had surnames, and the Nobility was Suebian) since the Suebians never composed more than 2% of the Galician population and quickly assimilated into the local culture, Galicia was never moorish however, i repeat maps that show Galicia under Al-Andaluz fall into the fallacy of considering everything not belonging to Asturias as belonging to the Moors, this is a gross misinterpretation of the reality of the time, there were no Muslim permanent settlements North of the Duero and Ebro rivers, the populations of that area in that particular time period between the colapse of the Visigothic Kingdom and the incorporation into the Asturias Kingdom lived autonomously without a formal state ruling over them (like most human population at the time actually). When the chronicles of the Kings of Asturias mention the conquest of Galicia they at no point mention Moors, Islam or any battles, they just said that the King of Asturias "subdued the Galicians".
Yes, it is true that Galicia's interest in their Celtic heritage is a modern concept, but then again that applies to literally everyone, Romantism (taking interest into one's past) is a modern movement, I don't understand why this is used an attack on Galician identity when literally every single country and ethnicity in Europe did the same thing, at the same time.
@@FaithfulOfBrigantia simply because for some, the fact that (part of) the Iberian peninsula might have celtic roots is like having a piece of soap in their mouth. For some, celts are only found in northwest of europe (kind of William Wallace/Mel Gibson like people).
Anyway, it's an outdated theory and the celtic culture can be found indeed in the northwest of Spain. Big bummer for the lads with soap in their mouth.
hahaha but how can you be so ignorant? Or are you a crazy Spanish nationalist? The Celts were all over Europe, but in Galicia the Atlantic Celtic culture is more deeply rooted. Only in Galicia there are more than 3000 Celtic hillforts! Instead there were no Arab settlements. Only before the Celts did the Oeatrimnios inhabit, who inhabited Galicia and Portugal and who probably came from North Africa, but were not yet Islamic. Our history, culture, music, traditions ... they are very different from those of the Mediterranean, to the Castilian ones and to the Andalusian ones ... I'm sorry if you don't like to see reality! 😆
@@mikeold55 The Atlantic Celts migrated eastwards.
@@GalaicoWarrior True, Galicia is the cradle of the Atlantic Celtic culture
Galicia is not a celtic country, Galician is a latin language.
They are both Iberian Spanish and also have Celtic dna. Just like the Asturians.
@@thespaceram2879 I know. I'm half from Galicia (Lugo) and half from Asturias (Navia).
@@josec.blancofernandez1895 My mom's dad decend from Asturias. By His dad's side.
@@thespaceram2879 Mi mother was from Navia, my father from Lugo. I'm half galician and asturian. Sorry for my english.
@@josec.blancofernandez1895 it's ok.
Galicia is not Celt. It is so obvious that Galicia is no longer listed officially as a Celt nation. That's what happened when you build artifacts and stories about the past. No gaellic language have been spoken in Spain since early middle age. I really feel bad for the galicians because I think they have been mislead somewhere in this beliefs. There is no shame to come from Spain and being Spaniard.
Sure, say whatever you have to say to make yourself feel better.
Tú mismo lo dices, no sé habla gaélico desde la Edad Media porque fuimos también el primer estado nación de Europa, el Reino Suevo de Galicia. Las enormes similitudes/ iguales con la cultura celta no hay duda y cuánto más se profundiza en la cultura popular es hasta en las creencias en Galicia estuvieron varias tribus Celtas, unos de los últimos los Mil. Uno de ellos tuvo un hijo. Breogan, está en nuestro himno. Podría contarte muchas cosas muy interesantes mediante la cultura gallega Celta realicé un trabajo que he podido saber la estructura de hoy en día de los Celtas y su enorme poder en el mundo hoy, en países Atlánticos ...los Celtas también eran conocidos en la antigüedad como los Saefes...y aquí está todo dicho para el que sepa buscar. Para terminar fuimos los gallegos los que teníamos la famosa piedra del destino sobre la que ayer coronaron al príncipe Charles Iii y un catedrático británico hizo un estudio profundo hará unos diez años y concluyó con pruebas fehacientes que la cultura Celta en Irlanda, Escocia les lleg9 de Galicia. Galicia invadió Irlanda y ah8 empezó la conexión. Nuestros tatarabuelos usaban las faldas igual, las gaitas, los mismos seres que se manifiestan por las noches en los bosques, los druidas.,brujas de verdad...alta sabiduría esotérics, rituales Celtas secretos que sólo los saben gallegos. Irlandeses, escoceses, Celtas centroeropeos y a raíz de la tribu Mil que un general fue a Egipto y casó con la hija del faraón Scota, les regaló la famosa piedra del destino, volvieron a Galicia con ella. hay grabados en La Coruña que antiguamente se llamaba Britannia junto con Noia, Betanzos y algunas más..estuvo aqu8 dos siglos aproximadamente, Scota y el general de Mil tuvieron un hijo Breogan , está en nuestro himno gallego. Finalmente la piedra fue llevada ó robada a Irlanda. Aquí conenzó todo, les invadimos a los irlandeses y no solo les llevamos la cultura Celta, también una gran cantidad de rituales y creencias egipcias! Todo el primer mundo a ciertos niveles siguen estos ritos Celtas y egipcios. En Galícia también, se transmiten por líneas de sangre.
Galicia SÍ es Celta, hay estudios suficientes por parte de los británicos y uno en particular que fue catedrático de universidad escrbió un libro confirmando que somos Celtas y que les llevamos está cultura allí. Siento llevarte la contraria, pero sólo hay una verdad y es esta. Un cordial saludo desde Galicia!
Galicia is most definitely Celtic. Celtic tribes lived all over the Iberian peninsula, and had distinct Celtic culture and heritage. It was only due to the Romans that it was taken from us
Nah why the f would anyone want to be Spanish. Y’all brutalize people trying to have elections 😂