Are the Scots Descendants of the Ancient Scythians of Eurasia?
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In the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, which was a letter signed by almost 50 earls and barons of Scotland and sent to the Pope, asking him to recognise Scotland’s independence and Robert the Bruce as King, there is a curious reference to “greater Scythia.” The declaration states that the Scots “journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain… Thence it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to its home in the west where it still lives today.” Yet can we give any credence to this origin story of the Scots? Scythia, or Greater Scythia, after all, referred to a region and the people of a region that was in central Asia, corresponding to the area around the Black Sea, Ukraine and the vast lands of Southern Russia.
Known largely as being a collection of nomadic tribes, which were fierce warriors, the Scythians built a culture and a region of influence that was prominent between 900BC and 200BC, and stretched from the Black Sea to China. Interestingly, the physical appearance of Scythians was reportedly not to dissimilar from the appearance of Scottish or Celtic people. Some of the Scythian women reportedly had fair hair and blue eyes, whilst some of the men had red hair. Certain sources also suggested that some Scythians had white hair, with these people referred to as Albani (Cowan 1984: 122). It is at least interesting to note that Scotland in Gaelic is called Alba.
Part of the reference to “greater Scythia” in the Declaration seems in part a reference to Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland and one the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Andrew is thought to have preached in Scythia, and there is an argument that he was martyred in Scythia…
Sources:
Cowan, E. (2008) For Freedom Alone: The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 (Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited).
Cowan, E. (1984). Myth and Identity in Early Medieval Scotland. The Scottish Historical Review, 63(176), 111-135.
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Years ago National Geo magazine came out with an edition on the Scythian treasures uncovered during the time of Peter the Great (singular reign from 1696 to 1725). The workmanship and design of much of the gold is similar to Irish designs seen in their illuminated manuscripts from the early Christian era and designs found on grave goods from the earlier Bronze and Iron ages. The mounds in the region of Russia where the treasures where taken from similar to the mound burials in Britain, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. A unique view of the world and the artwork most defintely influenced the Celtic (Scythian?) tribes from the La Tene era in Switzerland and Austria. The homeland of the elites of the Scythian peoples, the royal and warrior tribes (similar to the caste system in India of ancient times where the Kings came from the warrior class) was in the present day Ukraine according to several ancient Greek historians and the records of Alexander the Great's conquests. There they controlled sea trade and the best grazing lands. The early cycles of mythology that chronicle the Ulster cycle mention chariots and war outfittings much like those used in those regions and uncovered in the burials. Warlords in northern Ireland claimed ancestry to the tribes of Scotland and they regularly fought beside each other in loose alliances. Finally, the mention of the love of law by the Scythians from Alexander's time clearly shows a correlation between the peoples of Scythia and the 'Scots' - an ancient term for Ireland and that region of Scotland - where Brehon law prevailed. There is much truth in story now being proven by DNA research.
There is not a shred of DNA evidence that directly connects Scots to Scythians. You're mistaken. Similar does not equate to the same. Scythians were an early Iranic Iron Age steppe people who arose around 800 BCE from the Central Asian and Siberian Steppe. Celts and Scythians might share common ancestors (Western Steppe Herders of the Pontic Steppe from the 5th millennium BCE), but they are not the same, and there is zero DNA, archaeological, or any sort of physical evidence that Scythians migrated to Scotland or further from Thrace.
Writers in the Middle Ages confused things for us. The Scythians were long gone, absorbed into local Steppe populations, by that time. These writers referred to lots of wandering tribes, including Alans, Avars, and even Goths, as "Scythians." They are unreliable and not valid sources.
What Scots, Celts, and nearly all Europeans share with Scythians are common ancestors from thousands of years ago on the Pontic Steppe, and perhaps some steppe-wide artistic and burial practices. But not a direct DNA connection, not even close. The two-wheeled war chariots you referred to were invented by the Sintashta peoples (my ancestors) around about 2000 BCE. The chariots reached the European continent around 500 BCE, and didn't get to Ireland until about 800 CE. So, yeah, not a real or direct connection to either Scythia or the Central/Eastern Iranic steppe peoples. It's a lovely fantasy, but there is no evidence to directly connect Ireland or Scotland to Scythians. The evidence proves to the contrary. It's time for these myths to die and let facts replace them.
I'm a Gael, I belong to a haplogroup, Irish Type II, my genetic markers have also been matched to ancient Scythians remains, there are over 2,000 members of Haplogroup R-CTS6644 - I don't know if all of Irish Type II members, have some genes in common with the Scythians, but some that I know, patently do. Consequently, there is some genetic evidence, to suggest an Irish/Scotti relation with the Scythians.
I Think your talking about the Gallowglass Warriors from Scotland who were a mix of Scots/Picts/Viking blood❤
@@tlcmc6451well argued
@@tlcmc6451No chariots in Ireland till 800 AD? WTF?!?
The Scythians were an Aryan race closely related to the Tocharians. The Tamrin mummies found in China are believed to be Tocharian. They were a tall red and blonde haired people. Red hair seems to be distributed along with the R1b y-dna haplogroup. The highest frequency of red hair and R1b outside of Europe is the Russian ethnic group called the Udmurts.
I'm curious, why do people still use the term 'Aryan' to denote white caucasian people with blond hair? Isnt that literally Nazi terminology? The Aryans were ancient Indian nobles, who didnt have blond white skin, red or blond hair, nor did the term have any racial connotations, only class and cultural significance. So why are you still using a term that makes no sense in the context you're using it, unless of course you ascribe to Nazi mythology?
You have multiple misconceptions. In Nazi racial classification there were five Aryan races; Nordic, Dinaric, East Baltic, Alpine and Mediterranean. Out of these five only the East Baltic and Nordic subraces were predominantly light haired and blue eyed.
Aryan is an anthropological term that denotes an ethnic group wherein typical Caucasoid features can be presumed but it also denotes an ethnic, cultural and linguistic group. Today Indo-European means the same thing in general terminology but the proto-Aryan racial group is known as the Western Steppe Herders. Aryan is the common coined term because this is what they called themselves and this is where Iran gets it's name. This name was in use long before the Nazis ever used it.
@@exucaviera9084 I thought the term came from a French Eurocentric in the 18th century who coined the term because he misread the Sanskrit word for Aryan (which means enlightened ones) and assumed it was referring to 'lightened skin', then concluded that these Aryan rulers must looked different from darker Dravidian natives, and then made up a theory about an outside Aryan invasion from Iran into the Indian sub-continent. However later when researchers had better translated the Vadic text, they realised the mistake, and also realised there was no evidence in the endless Vadic and Persian records or in archaeological research to support the Aryan invasion theory, and so they stop using the term as racial descriptor, and started using it as a linguistic descriptor for the countless ethnicities, tribes and herders who spoke early Indo-European languages all over India and into central Eurasia. I thought it was only Nazis and Nazi inspired researchers that still use the term Aryan to denote any sort of racial identity.
Aryan invasion denialism is Indian Nationalist propaganda. They claim to be the original "Aryans" who somehow always existed in Indian rather than being influenced by a group that migrated there and at the same time have the convoluted notion that the word Aryan means noble and that's it. Completely contradictory. The meaning of a word is determined by it's common agreed upon meaning. Not by the history of it's meaning or it's etymology. Erase the word Aryan and what changes? Nothing, you just have to swap in another word that means the exact same thing. So why swap it out at all?
The Northern Indians contain a significant proportion of R1a DNA, the Aryan racial genetic signature. The Aryan invaders established the caste system, or Varna, which in Sanskrit means “color.” The Bahadgavita and the Vedas describe the gods of the Hindus as having fair skin and blue eyes. Ancient Hindu texts describe both the different and impending racial conflict of the ancients in their scriptures. In them, the leader of the the Aryans was Indra, and is described as “slaying the Dasyus,” the black-skinned people of India. “Thou, Indra, art the destroyer of all the cities, the slayer of the Dasyus, the properer of man, the lord of the sky.”
The Rig Veda continues to describe the Dasyu and uses the term “black” in the course of the reference: “Indra, the slayer of Vrittra, the destroyer of cities, has scattered the Dasyu sprang from a black womb.” The Rig Veda describes in detail the light-skinned nature of the Aryan worshipers who have “frays that win the light of heaven.”
Funny, I have been listening to traditional Latvian music lately and noticed that they use the same instruments (bagpipes and drums) and honour the same things in nature, such as groves of oak trees, as the Scottish do. My grandmother hails from Faulthouse, Scotland (I’m Canadian), so I began to wonder if there was a link between Latvia and Scotland and they must be descended from the same group of people. Thanks to this popping up on my TH-cam out of nowhere, I now see the possible Scythian connection. That explains it. Thank you for your great presentation. 🙏💕
bagpipes are/were used in basically every traditional music in Europe. It's just that in some countries the tradition is more alive than in others.
My Scots-Irish side does have links to the Baltics, so it's definitely possible. They had druids that were similar to the druids of Ireland/Scotland. Their rituals also lasted until the Northern Crusade of the Teutonic Knights. The similarity could be a Celtic one.
Bagpipes are found from ireland to Arabia and beyond. It would be hard to find a European pagan culture which didn't worship the oak.
Bagpipes were introduced to Britain and Ireland in the 13th century, and there's no evidence they existed anywhere before the 13th c.
I have a Canadian-born Scottish-heritage father and a Canadian-born Lithuanian-Latvian mother who met in Toronto which was once known as "the Belfast of Canada".
I have come to learn that there is a lot of Yamnaya blood in both groups.
Once again more questions, or puzzles?
Thank you for this video, thank you for your research & your generosity.
You're a born teacher!
It says so in the Declaration of Arbroath 1311.
Such good presentation; I could listen to you for hours on this fascinating subject.
Maybe because I am a Pashtun and I also got 15% Scottish,Irish and welish. About whole Pashtuns have Scottish Irsih and Welish DNA in their DNA Heritage test results
Note: Pashtuns are the Decendants of Schythian tribe
I mean how well can they accurately calculate what percentage you are? Which test you take I'm really curious about my history and due to having to last names of scottish decent.. I'm really just trying to find myself so that's why I'm asking
Very fascinating, they must be identifying you as Scots-Irish/Welsh due to the prevalence of those genes in those areas (and not as much sampling from Pashtun populations). We are probably far off distant relatives.
@@noahpollockmiller2090 It was Heritage Test Results (I think) you can order Sample Online then after 1 month less or More they will deliver you the Results
You can do it By Putting the Pin In Your Nose Or Your Mouth And their are Others ways also like hairs etc
Am
30% South Asia (Due to Afghanistan lies In South Asia as well as But It was Afghan Region When I clicked on that And Also Indo-Aryans were Cousins Of Schythians while They were Iranic People)
28% West Asia (Iran Turkey Armenia Azerbaijan etc)
24% Central Asia
15% Irish Welish and Scottish
3% Scandinavian
@@Native_Creation Majority of the Pashtuns Have It I got it in very High %age 15% being too Away From the Scottish welesh And Irish Region.
but Some People have it in High %age while some have Low %Age
and with except of a little population in whome It is absent.
While It also Spreaded By Pashtun To Some Parts Of India Due to Schythian Invasions And later On Multiple Afghan Invasions And Empires,Kingdoms,States in India Dominating Entire Subcontinent Some Afghans Migrated And Stayed Their For Centuries.
What You think About That?
Very interesting content, thank you.
Thank you.
Herodotus says the Scythians own name for themselves was *"Scoloti".*
but the name scotland was not the original name of scotland , the picts were there before that and it was called caledonia after the caledonii , it changed to scotland after the scotti tribe invaded from ireland ,
there was scythians tribes names serboi and chervates the ancestors of serbs and croats and all slavs. we all have common ancestors in Evropa.
@@skitotrachia3361 there's many Scythian-Sarmatian tribes if you start digging deep, there's way too many of them, Scythian and/or Sarmatian is a very broad term to refer to nomadic tribes, possibly(very, very likely) direct descendants of ancient indo-europeans.
If you start tracking the lineages, the most direct descendants of Scytho-Sarmatians would be the old Prussians which got absorbed by both Russians and Germans as they got wiped out... After them, the rest of Balto-Slavic peoples follow as the closest link in the chain, so you are correct! That's why blond hair and blue eyes are still prevalent in those places and it's not just a Nordic people thing. :)
@@smallfeet4581 which happened to be the name of a certain egptyian princess.
@@muradbegovicadnan7087 Sarcasm is always the awnsers to truth about the slavs...
Love the videos, keep them coming.
Thank you Milos
True Fact ... The entire Balkans were heavily populated by Celts,
Mødern Balkan people carry varying degrees of Celtic DNA, with Serbs having the highest frequency. There is an ancient Celtic fortress smack bang in the middle of Belgrade.
Very interesting comment Vince Majestic. I never knew about that but after a quick search I found more Celtic-Balkan connections - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singidunum for instance. I may do a video on this topic in the future. Thanks, Steven.
That Wikipedia article also points out the connection between the Celts & Scythians
... So you are absolutely correct
All carry indoeuropean
Otherwise they wouldnt be here
It doesnt make them celts
@@veronicalogotheti5416 Nobody said they were Celts - simply pointing out that many Balkan people have Celtic genes
St. Andrew has been the patron saint of Scotland has been honored in Scotland for over a thousand years.
I love particularly the last part "not knowing where myth ends and history begins. If you are familiar with the Irish historical myth of the "bagmen," you have notice the similarity of their travels and the travels of Herakles (Hercules), Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey and both Aeneus and Diomedes in Virg's Aeneid. Not saying there is any connection it is interesting especially since the Etruscans believe, or so I read, they has also travel from what now is Asia Minor.
Interestingly points - I had never heard of the bagmen myth, but I just looked it up - very intriguing. Thanks for the info.
Oh my god, my ears feel like they've been dragged down a dirty pub laiden, spittle covered, london alley.
Same :D
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I know who my brothers are our tongues may be confounded but our appearance never is. There's a war coming no more brother wars unity is strength.
I believe that the redheaded Yamnaya (3,300-2,600 BC) from north of the Black Sea became the Sythians.. Thank you for your work.
Thank you Bill
wrong
neither the Scythians nor the people of the Yamnaya culture were red-haired, and there were millennia between them
@@user-kv6tq9rq3r please enlighten us with your wisdom thank you
@@bacobill
What wisdom? shrug
What I am saying is well-known things - Yamnaya is a culture of the Eneolithic, that is, the Copper Age of the South Russian steppes, the Late Copper Age and the Early Bronze Age. It occupied the territory from the southern Urals in the east to the Dniester in the west, from Ciscaucasia in the south to the middle Volga region in the north. Her people were either blond or light brown in terms of hair pigmentation, judging by the study of their remains.
The Scythians were migrants from Siberia of the early Iron Age who spoke Iranian languages, they settled throughout the great steppe from western China to almost the territory of modern Hungary
The Scots are a Celtic-speaking people living in the north of Britain. As far as I understand the ancestors of the Scots are the people whom the Romans called "Caledonians" as well as migrants from neighboring Ireland who moved to the territory of modern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Scythians, Scots, the population of the Yamnaya culture - these are 3 completely different groups of people, obviously. The distance between them is thousands of kilometers and they lived at different times. What difference does it make what kind of nonsense is written in which medieval source? In some English chronicle of the 12th century (I don’t remember the name), it was stated that the Saxons completely destroyed the entire Celtic population of Britain. An obvious lie.
About pigmentation
there is no gene for red hair, red hair is dark hair close to brown hair, for example, there is no gene for green eyes, green eyes appear when brown and blue are mixed - that is, one of the ancestors was blue-eyed and the other brown-eyed.
Judging ethnic origin only by pigmentation is simply ridiculous, no one believes that blacks suffering from albinism have anything to do with Europeans, despite the fact that they have fair skin. In their case, it is simply a disease and a deviation from the appearance of the population to which they belong. The fact that person 1 has the same hair color as person 2 from another nation does not mean that they are related. They just have one similar external feature but no more.
@@user-kv6tq9rq3r Thank you dear friend for your response.. My initial response to you was a bit tongue in cheek.. More times than not when I see the word "wrong" I get both defensive as well as believing that the response is based on some sort of fundamental belief system.. I was indeed 'wrong' in both cases.. You were coming from a place of research well beyond my own.. Thank you for plucking my heartstrings with a sense of joining rather than separation.. The world needs more of such connecting and understanding.. Peace
With the treachery of Scone, it reminds me of the story how Hengist and Horsa of the Saxons murdered the British nobility under Vortigern during a feast by hiding their daggers in their shoes.
If I'm not mistaken, it's also widely acknowledged that the Phoenicians were apt sailors who traded with Britons in Cornwall for tin, a component of bronze. Not sure if this seafaring people also harbored in the Black Sea, but one can imagine a trading vessel getting off course and ending up somewhere on either shore of the Irish Sea. Would be interesting to pursue this origin story with DNA samples, that is to say if we know where to look for the remnants of original Scythian DNA.
On another note: if it can be proven to be plausible, it makes claims to a certain piece of land somewhat random. If we dig deep enough it will show that all ancestors were bloody foreigners or even invaders to another people that were there before them. That's not to say that the desire of independence isn't genuine, but when it leads to exclusion on the one hand or privilige on the other (or worse) I think we've learned very little since our original story began.
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The opening paragraph from Alfred The Great's Anglo Saxon Chronicle from the 1st century AD says
The Island of Britain is 800 miles long and 200 miles broad. And there are in the Island 5 nations ; English, Welsh (British), Scottish, Pictish and Latin. The 1st inhabitants were the Britons (Welsh), who came from Armenia and peopled Britain Southward. Then happened it, that the Picts came South from Scythia, with longships, not many, and landing 1st in the North part of Ireland, they told the Scots that they must dwell there. But they wouldn't give them leave, for the Scots told them that they could not all dwell there together ; "But", said the Scots, "we can nevertheless give you advice. We know another Island to the East. There you may dwell, if you will, and whosoever with standeth you, we will assist you, that you may gain it". Then went the Picts and entered this land Northward. Southward the Britons possessed it, as we before said. And the Picts obtained wives of the Scots, on condition that they chose their Kings always on the female side ; which they have continued to do, so long since. And it happened, in the run of years, that some party of Scots went from Ireland into Britain, and acquired some portions of this land. Their leader was called Reoda, from whom they are named Dalreodi (or Dalreathians).
I have also heard tales that an Egyptian princess called Scotia went to Ireland or Scotland which were both considered Scottish at that time and lived out her life there. And that her Burial site is in Ireland. Apparently the Egyptians called Brigit's Isles ; The Isle of the Dead because it was always covered in mist and exceedingly cold
The Scythians did not originate in the Ukraine/Russia. They came from the Northern part of the Israelite's province's and were part of the 12 tribes and in probability came from Scythopolis before they made their mass exidos and eventually made their way to the Slavic countries and spoke a Slavik Yiddish. Before going further North into Sweden and West into Scotland. They were on average the 6ft tall, blue eyed, and blonde haired Ashkenasi who brought with them their skills in fine metalwork. Before they were Israelites they came from Turkey and Iran and they were Aryians.
You are featured on one of Robert Sepehr"s (anthropologist) youtube videos entitled Secret History of the Scythians & Lost Tribes 😁
Absolutely enjoy this video & topic. It’s being proven more & more that “Academia” has gotten many many things wrong with modern science (DNA, Dating techniques, & modern discoveries). What really trips me out is that ancient “mythology” is more correctly being proven ancient history. I wasn’t there & neither were any of these “academics” they are nothing but theories they’ve deemed as fact. So I’m glad to see that science is proving “mythology” wrong. When multiple multiple ancient civilizations have similar if not identical written & verbal histories passed down for thousands if not tens of thousands of years that were considered fact & truth up until 100-300 years ago then “science” deemed them all allegory & myth to control & indoctrinate the masses. Since the allegories are being proven as actual historical events big academia is big mad. We deserve the truth & we deserve better as the human beings that populate this planet! Their systems of control are breaking down & they’re wiggling & squirming to bury the truths!!
Do you think there is any relationship to the Hyksos? My family came over from Scotland, England and Saxony. The tradition is that they are highlanders to explain moving into Appalachia but I am sure it is wishful thinking.
I'm not sure to be honest, I will need to look into it.
Absolutely. The Hyksos(Shepherd Kings) ruled Northern Egypt. When they were expelled one of their princesses was princess Scotia.
And those Hyksos were almost certainly related to Scythians before they invaded Egypt in the early bronze age.
Seems rather unlikely to me. Just a legend. Similar to the legend of Brutus of Troy who supposedly discovered and founded Britain.
@@hardywatkins7737 it only seems unlikely to you because you are not well-read.
Years ago National Geo magazine came out with an edition on the Scythian treasures uncovered during the time of Peter the Great (singular reign from 1696 to 1725). The workmanship and design of much of the gold is similar to Irish designs seen in their illuminated manuscripts from the early Christian era and designs found on grave goods from the earlier Bronze and Iron ages. The mounds in the region of Russia where the treasures were taken from are remarkably similar to mound burials in Britain, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. A unique view of the world and the artwork most defintely influenced the Celtic (Scythian?) tribes from the La Tene era in Switzerland and Austria. The homeland of the elites of the Scythian peoples, the royal and warrior tribes (similar to the caste system in India of ancient times where the Kings came from the warrior class) was in the present day Ukraine according to several ancient Greek historians and the records of Alexander the Great's conquests. There they controlled sea trade and the best grazing lands. The early cycles of mythology that chronicle the Ulster cycle mention chariots and war outfittings much like those uncovered in the burials. Warlords/chieftans in northern Ireland claimed ancestry to the tribes of Scotland and they regularly fought beside each other in loose alliances. Finally, the mention of the love of law by the Scythians from Alexander's time clearly shows a correlation between the peoples of Scythia and the 'Scots' - an ancient term for Ireland and that region of Scotland - where Brehon law prevailed. There is much truth in myth now being proven by DNA research.
Great points Biddy the Bard, thank you
DNA study?
It would explain a lot !🌞😁
The country name of Russia(‘the men who rowed’) is in honour of a redheaded Viking by the name of Rurik. The name Rurik is accepted to be a form of the Old Norse name Hrærekr. This has been taken as evidence that Rurik was in some way ethnically Scandinavian. The only similarly named figure described in the Carolingian Annales Fuldenses and Annales Bertiniani was Rorik of Dorestad (also spelled Rørik, Rörik, Roerik, Hrörek, etc.), a Germanic king from the royal Scylding house of Haithabu in the Jutland Peninsula. Since the 19th century, there have been attempts to identify him with the Rurik of Russian chronicles. Scylding - Old English Scylding (plural Scyldingas) and Old Norse Skjöldung (plural Skjöldungar), meaning in both languages "People of Scyld/Skjöld" refers to members of a legendary royal family of Danes, especially kings. Skjöldr (Latinized as Skioldus, sometimes Anglicized as Skjold or Skiold) was among the first legendary Danish kings. He is mentioned in the Prose Edda, in Ynglinga saga, in Chronicon Lethrense, in Sven Aggesen's history, in Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin abstract of the lost Skjöldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Under the name Scyld he also appears in the Old English poem Beowulf. Scyld Scefing is the legendary ancestor of the Danish royal lineage known as the Scyldings. He is the counterpart of the Skioldus or Skjöldr of Danish and Icelandic sources. He appears in the opening lines of Beowulf, where he is referred to as Scyld Scefing, indicating he is a descendant of Sceafa, Scyld son of Scef, or Scyld of the Sheaf. In the Skjöldunga saga and the Ynglinga saga, Odin came from Asia (Scythia) and conquered Northern Europe. He gave Sweden to his son Yngvi and Denmark to his son Skjöldr. Since then the kings of Sweden were called Ynglings and those of Denmark Skjöldungs.
the Vikings Knew the Rus to their east
My theory of the origin of the Germanic Norse people is they were the Ass, or Aesir, or the Sarmatians, the same tribes would be the origin of the Alans(anglosaxons) and goths.
So ... Rørik was Dutch ?
Yes, I believe so ... Many historians agree
Beowulf is part of the Bear's Son Tale even king Arthur Legend even the word Arthur It is believed to be derived from the word "artos," meaning "bear." As experts differ on its precision origin, the name can also mean "Thor, the eagle" and "strong man
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I did an Ancestry DNA test, it mentioned Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England and NW European..
In mine it didnt mention Pict, I dont know you find that out. Or how you designate Pictish DNA from other Celtic area Gaelic dna results.
Culturally speaking, there "seems" something more Russian about the 'Skotts' than say, English. Also, Σκοτια/Scotland means dark in Greek; hence Scotland's patronymic as 'the Dark Island'. The Romans, (it is said,) had a Scythian/Sarmatian garrison stationed along the wall, keeping the Picts out.
A sibling of mine, growing up, was obsessed with Scotland (and Spain.) I can readily see why now. Of equal interest re the country's Greco-Roman-Caucasian connections, is the Hamitic-Semitic ones. In fact, Scotland, like Ireland, is where the Maghreb meets .. Scandinavia.
Did you know that etymology speaking the Latin name for Britain, *Albiōn* (Middle Welsh Albbu, Old Irish Albu), is from Proto-Celtic *Albiū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós *(“white”),* whence also Latin albus (“white”).
An inversion if anything between Dark and White.
@@barbarossa5700 : the proto-"Albanian" Latinic Illyrians - distantly related to the dark Celts of tribal (regal) Rome, from Alba, (town on the River Tiber,) whom were said to have made their way to the Isles via Etruria/Tuscany and 'France' and sojourned amongst the newly-arrived Celts there, (the Parisii in particular,) not far from the borderlands of Albany/Scotland, and prior to their return to the Balkan peninsular via the same route, did in fact give much of this nomenclature you supply above, to the regions visited and settled; as for example: Ilva (Elba), Albis (Elbe River) and the Alps (Alpes).
Stop calling for the love of sake the Russians as the Scythians. The Russians are Slavic ug to it people who always hid in the forests of modern Poland. They were pushed by germaanic tribes fairly recently to the modern Russia. The Scythians are the TURKS of central Asia!!!
@@becksigizmund4549: The Scythians were indeed the proto "Turks" of central Asia; however, nowhere have I suggested that the Russians are "Scythians"! You'll notice that I have categorically stated a "cultural semblance" and NOT an ethnic affiliation. Ethnicity and culture are NOT mutually exclusive, but are fluid phenomena. The "gene pools" of peoples, like their cultures, (languages included) have always been in "a state of flux." That the Scandinavian-Slavic Rus themselves were not immune to foreign influence is a given; and became therefore as Russians, a "fusion" of various elements is commonly held to as fact both within and without Russia today.
Nords who claim to be descended from Odin are also of Scythian descent, the saga of the Scylfings contains the story of "the mad god"s migration from Scythia. The Geats would have their origin in Scythia as well, back to a schism with some migrating east and settling in India, becoming the Jats.
There is an interesting book I stumbled upon during my Skcythian research, called:
"An enquiry into the history of Scotland: preceding the reign of Malcom III. or the year 1056. Including the authentic history of that period. In two volumes. By John Pinkerton"
The author was an Anglo and quite supremacist toward the Celts. Don't wanna offend anyone. But the book was quite interesting in regards to this topic.
I made the mistake of reading all of the comments for this video. Im more confused about the Scottish and Irish celts than ever before. And I’m supposed to believe that the Scott’s were descended from of all groups the Pharaoh’s of ancient Egypt. Granted I’m totally ignorant of ancient foreign history. But it was very interesting and confusing in reading all of the comments. Thx for all of your input
Comments are something else. Some,with Scottish names, but American, are saying they were always attracted to Russia because (allegedly) the Scots come from there. Others, above you, have have felt at home among the Pyramids' because a supposed kinship between Celts and ancient Egypt. At least, it is a lesson in snipping the romantic yearnings we all have with our dead past.
scottish irish descend from the celts look at their language
In the traditional histories of the Welsh, the Picts were never regarded as Britons were seen as newcomers from the east who came by sea, and where granted the right to settle in Caithness. They could not claim the rights of the ancient British until the 9th generation after their coming. For a supposedly 'Celtic' people they were very peculiar. Use of heavy tattooing, unique symbolic pictograms, construction of Brochs and Matriarchal decent. There is also the interesting issue of about a dozen inscriptions in the Ogham text on standing stones in Scotland that have no apparent obvious Brythonic or Irish translation. Bede states clearly that the Pictish language was distinct from British (Brythonic) and St Columba needed a translator to converse with them. That said, place name as well as personal name evidence is overwhelmingly Brythonic is substance.
Personally, I think the Picts' ancestors were Britons who had migrated into an area so isolated from the rest that they "went native", marrying into the pre-Celtic native peoples and adapting their customs, so that eventually even their language became incomprehensible to outsiders.
@@baraxor Its all possible. From a material and archeological view the Picts have all the signs of being a radically different culture than the Britons. Differing architecture, art and religious practices, but the evidence linguistically (what little there is) is not so strong. Its possible the Picts were originally non-Indo European, probably left over from the Atlantic 'bell-beaker' people and who were either conquered or assimilated by the Britons, whose new ruling elites imposed their language onto them, which was imperfectly received or creolized. The Welsh traditions remain clear though, the Picts were never Britons and constantly made alliances with their Irish and Saxon enemies, the first Anglo Saxon Kingdoms in Britain were actually 'Scottish' funnily enough. Academia though just says the Picts were odd Celts who remained rustic being so far from the 'light' of Romanization. Its a mystery.
Apparently Scandinavian area was called something similar sounding as scythia so
@@rhzyo Yeah i've heard that also.
The Welsh are the Britons. Picts are the Scythians. Enjoy the following video where DNA proves it; th-cam.com/video/j617mImHVvk/w-d-xo.html
why would you sail by scotland and land in ireland if coming from the east or north east , 'eh luck at thon big land mass wullie , should we no land on it and see whit its like , nah well sail roon the other side an see if theres a wee'er island '
Scytians were Euro-Asians but they were Not ASIANS but Blond and red haired blue-eyed people.Some how i am related to them and it is a great honor.
Ghengis Kahn had red hair and grey eyes but they depict him as Asian now. The mongols learned how to ride horses and use the bow and arrow from the Scythians.
The answer is no. They are not from Russia.
Do you think that the hyksos might have some relationship to the scythians? The hyksos were probably aramaians that took power in Northern Egypt for a time until they were kicked out. The Aramaic language grammar is very similar to Celtic grammar.
The Hyksos used Aramaic script for their records when ruled middle east - it was a lingua Franca of the region. They spoke Turkic languages as their names and recorded words are all Turkic
All the Indo-Europeans (Nomadic Horse breeders, ancestors to tall, fair haired clear eyed peoples of today) come from modern day Russia/Ukraine to begin with, Kelts, continental or islanders are no exception.
Scythians are one of the first recorded tribes from the regions Indo-Europeans inhabited and their culture was the same as that of ancient indo-europeans, it seems to me that previous to Attila the steppe culture was more homogeneous(Mostly based my opinion on archaeology documentaries in which Kurgans, burial mounds/barrows of the Scythians in the Altai mountains were opened to reveal nobles of European ancestry with no mongol admixture[which made the locals super mad])
If you pair that with the other type of ancient people, this time in western europe, the much stockier, shorter in stature and dark haired people from Nuragic cultures(south-western europe), the tower/castle builders you get a good idea of where the classic figure of europeans building stone castles and mounted knights comes from, also perhaps the red hair? red hair is produced by mixing a fair pigment with a darker one, so when indo-europeans moved west perhaps they mixed with nuragics and thus came the red-haired kelts of western europe? so much especulation to be made here and it only yields more questions....
What was that song at the end of the video
East to West vice versa makes sense from early hillfort locations during the iron age!
Dude, all us whites came from there.
I can believe that there was a prehistoric connection between Celts and Scythians originating at a very ancient era when the Indo-European tribes were spreading eastward and westward across the Eurasian Continent - we're talking tens of thousands of years ago.
But the Scots were Gaels originating in northeast Ireland, who gradually spread into northwest Scotland and the Hebrides over 2 thousand years ago -
And the Picts were Britons, whose culture was spread throughout Britain for possibly ten thousand years before the formation of Scotland.
It's not exactly rocket science.
If you look at historical migrations of people's proto celtic group's and scythian group's originate from the same regions.
The ossetians who's capital is called Alania after they're Alan ancestors feel an affiliation to the scythians and Scottish who they consider distant relatives of sorts.
no the Picts were not Britons, Bede said they were separate
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'The group of tribes that later became known as the Picts were essentially similar to the Britons living to the south of the Hadrian's Wall. It was just that they were not Romanized.'
www.wondriumdaily.com/the-origins-of-the-celtic-picts/
'The term "Pict" originated around the 3rd century AD as a generalised exonym used by the Romans to describe those Britons north of the Forth-Clyde isthmus.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts#:~:text=The%20term%20%22Pict%22%20originated%20around,of%20the%20Forth%E2%80%93Clyde%20isthmus.
@@ajrwilde14 separate clans Bede wouldn't marry redheads
@@ajrwilde14 Bede only separated them because the romans had conquered the Britons in England. ADNA of the picts shows them to be celtic and bede gives us a pictish word and it sounds very similar to a Brittonic word.
Ivar the boneless is related to Alex Ferguson. Ivar started Ui Imair dynasty that merged and later the kings of Scotland including Ferguson were direct relatives.
Tokharians were looking similar to the Celts and wove Tartans.
Unbelievable accent, which part of Scotland is it ?
i'm a celt today , my dna ----- 50% halsttate 50 ,% thraco illiryan bronze age IBERIAN
@@robertolang9684 You seem satisfied of the ce result, but don't you bear a jewish name ?
@@pascalheimbach861 no , my name nothing to do with jews , we worshiped nature bandua , godelicos untill the romans come and shifted jesus christ into our ass in name of god and progress , taking us loving freedom people into slavery , today we all slaves because of Romans
@@robertolang9684 Where do you live Roberto ?
Surprisingly, Lang is beared by fab folks of israelite faith.
Fritz Lang the german movie director who fled from nazi Germany and former french minister of culture Jack Lang, as two examples.
Jesus was a good guy, but the Romans chose the nicean christanity to cement the Empire and
you seem to regret the previous Nature whorship. How about that in your life now ?
@@pascalheimbach861 if Noah ark is from month nebo , is obvious that we all share names to Jews , to Arabs to gypsy also we are all from the same motherfuckers , some did not survived until today fall in the way ,
I'm confused about the word 'Pretani'. Is it what the britonic celts called themselves, - what the romans called the britonic celts, - or what the britonic celts called the picts?
none, it was what the Greeks called the Britons in the Bronze age
Interesting I'm Macedonian Canadian was born and raised in Toronto Ontario Canada but would like to know more about Macedonia
Read a book..?.!
@Subutay Kartal okay thanks for the info
Macedonia was Ancient Greek Kingdom (where Alexander the Great hails from), the region has shifted over centuries, but it's predominantly Greek in origin - Macedonian Greek, it would've been mixed with Pontic and Thracian Greeks. They are also considered Slavic.
The Scots originally come from the region around Cambuslang.
Scotland translates to land of the Irish
then they met the great tribe of wee njaffs from glesga and a great battle arose and there was woe in the land and knashing of wallies
Scots are absolutely Scythian descendants. But, so are all Europeans to different degrees. The Scots and Irish and Germans, and possibly others, directly mention their Scythian ancestry though.
@PHX Swan Gonna have to soon though. Used to be that Europeans fought mostly against other Europeans, largely just due to geography, the fact that we were all so close to each other. But now that people outside our broad group are here in Europe in huge numbers, and largely see us all as the same "oppressive" White force against them, even when they choose to come to us, we might as well start seeing each other as the same as well.
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It all connects very nicely 😊. Sythian/Spanish eyes, Russian/Ukraine blood, Scandinavian hair. So where on earth did I get the short, stubby legs?
Havn't watched it yet but i've always thought the red hair came from that direction.
After a recent dna test my mothers Mt DNA ancient origins are said to be from Georgia. Apparently her Haplogroup N1 is very rare and very old in Britain .2%. She is a McGregor by birth with her recent ancestors coming from the Loch Lomond area. I've wondered if this ancient Georgian ancestry can be related to the Scythian family tree?
I believe anything the story is an allegory for the original movement of the Celts from out of the step down into Europe archaeology shows that they were closely in contact with the Scythians and learned horsemenship from them. Then it would of been combined with the Irish origin story of Milesios and the coming of the Gael to Ireland. Interestingly enough when the eastern migration of the Celts of the 3rd century bc ended it was probably as far east as southern russia. And there is a Galicia in Ukraine to this day
It would be interesting to compare the stories together Scotland and Ireland are of one people even the picts
Irish origin stories are even weirder, they talk of Egyptian princess settling in the south.
Picts aren't the same as Irish and Scottish which are the same people (gaels also known as Milesians ) although not all of the Scottish are gaels, they had Britons, Anglo-saxons, picts and vikings that all mixed. Its general knowledge though that west Scotland are the descendants of the Irish gaels who invaded and conquered.
@@qetoun Scotia is the name of the Egyptian princess who was married to Milesius king of "Spain" who was the ancestor of the gaels who conquered Ireland and repopulated it they were the final race Scotia was killed and buried in Ireland. A lot of Irish clans lead back to him.
@@sully8317 do you seriously believe that tale?
Sort of true. When the Scythians dispersed, they went in every direction except South to escape a plague. Since they intermarry with locals you'll find their influence everywhere. A Scythian warrior-princess trained Cuhulain in Irish legend. Some people among the Uigher in Central Asia, also call themselves Scythians. I suspect there is AScythian influence in Japanese culture. The arms and weapons of early Japan are very similar to Scythian arms.
I think it was Herodotus who said that among the Scythians were worshipers of Artemis. The Japanese founding Goddess is Amaterasu, who is also a Sky Goddess. To Western ears, that name is pronounces "Amatras", a very close match to Artemis.
This also speaks to the Founding of Celtic Ireland through The Sons of Mil.
Known to the Romans as Miletus, a Celtic General, who married the daughter of a Scythian war lord with whom he was employed at the time. They have sons and she dies, he moves his army to Egypt employed by a Ptolomy Pharoah and marries SCOTA...has more sons.
HE dies and Scota with two sets of sons befin the conquering/settling of a celtic culture in Eire.....albeit with some other cultural influences.
Cool story.
Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov are distant cousin.
Dagestani's are not Scythians lol
Dagestani's are a Caucasian language speakers and mountaineers with Ydna G.
Scythians are a East Iranic language speakers and lived on the steppes/grasslands of central asia with Ydna R1a1a. lol
@@teovu5557 they are to all Eurasia scityans hunic tribe
Yes
@@teovu5557 Look at Celtic cultural dance and Caucasian dance, they have similarities. Even ballet evolve from it.
@@kureed79 So using your logic...I guess Mongolians,Manchurians and Scythians are related too right kuz they both were nomadic horse archers who lived in tents? lol
Btw Caucasian people are dont even have the same DNA as Scythians or scotts.
Scythans are YDNA R1a and R1b as are all Indo-European people while Cauasians of the caucasus are Ydna G. Scythians speak a Iranic language and scots are celtic speaking which are both Indo-European language family while caucasian is a completely unrelated language family.
lol So yeah, your knowledge is hilariously lacking on the subject. Excuse my English grammar as it is not my first language.
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That would make far more sense to my dna! My highest deep dive match to an ancient sample is that of a Scythian warrior dating to 1813 BC. My dad is 52% Scottish, 12% Irish and 5% Welsh the rest being North Western Europe. I'm 48% Welsh, 12% Scottish and 11% Irish, the rest again as North Western Europe 😁
Yeah, I was very surprised, my grandmum is part of a 'founding population' probably of the variscian tribe from the Bohemian Forest (most of her bronze-age matches are from the Prague-region, so pre-slavic locals) we live in hills with loads of 'celtic' gravemounds attribuited to the Eastern Hallstatt-culture, and fortified Hill-settlements that were also supposed to be Celtic and that were used and reused all the generations down into the roman age. - And the closest ironage deep-dive matches: 68% Skyths and 22% Belgae - and only 1% Celt and 2% Gaul (the rest were pre-saxons and goths) - and we all went WTF?! - Hey, that can't be, get more Ironage-samples! - Obviously it might be very true.
@@MagnaMater2 when britain was joined to europe by the doggerland i think a lot moved about , i know ones from the east moved west , maybe conflict made them move or seeking newer pastures
@@smallfeet4581 Yes, people moved about a lot, it was highly underestimated: In my dad's DNA (he's from the middle-alps) I saw a mesolithic skeleton - they didn't give a name, but from the age it must be the swiss mesolith-hunter that tragically got killed while killing a bear, his dna-sample was taken, and I saw him show up in both the genes of a spaniard and an Irish and a cornish/welsh who did an online-video on my true heritage, and they - given by their other samples obviously ar relations of my dad's.
They also share those irish neolithic skeletons that made it into the news for having been found buried beneath a pub.
Those pub-graves give a whole new facet to the custom of 'ancestral libation offering': Whenever somebody dropped a beer in there it fed the spirits... :P
@@MagnaMater2 🤣, an irishman dropping his pint , now thats funny , yes i read there were tin mines in cornwall area and tin was used with copper to make bronze , the only other place to get tin was aghan mountains , tin had to be distributed about for sure , i certanly think there was much moving about of peoples , the beaker people were from europe and in britain and ireland at one time , someone i know with irish scots family found they had dna from east black sea area among other dna
You are viking
R1b haplogroup
80% ireland 80% wales 80% (celtic people)
70% spain and portugal (assimilated celtic people)
50% north italy (italic)
40% germany (germanic)
30% armenian
25% gilan province (north of iran).. iranic
25% lur ( iranic people who live in zagros mountains )
20% in turkey (turkish people are assimilated anatolians)
20% in assyrians people (semetic )
where celtic people come from????
most pure indo europeans ? +85% R haplogroup??
I once read that it was the Picts that came from Scythia, not the Scots. - That the term 'Scot' came from the 'Scotti' of Ireland and that Scotland didn't exist until the Picts merged with Dal Raita under Keneth MacAlpin.
- Jeez, i feel woefully under-educated on these topics! 🤣
Ok i've watched the vid and i can understand why you call Dal Raita 'Scots'.
They both came from Scythia as did the Irish
@@realitywins9020 Oh i don't believe they ALL came from Scythia.
Irish gaels and Scottish gaels are descended from the milesians, who made their way to the Isles by way of Egypt and Spain. Míl of the milesians was said to have ancestry from scythians and at one point travelled to scythia and became a military official, so I heard.
@@hardywatkins7737 all the people that ever set forth to UK are the same family.
I have a Scythian beer bottle opener I bring with me everywhere; (Irish-American folk band "Scythian")
In *Highlander* the Scot, Conor MacLeod has a buddy from *Spain/Egypt* ; like a *Milesian* ; or descendant of *Scotia*
*BUT CONORS ENEMY*
was depicted as a *RUSSIAN* - *KURGAN* - much like the Kurgan/Dolmen standing stone, burial sites..?🤔 Around Europe.
Just strikes me as funny the film producer literally covered the Spanish Egyptains (Sean Connery as the Scoti/Milesian Ramirez) & the Russian Scythians (big ugly guy as Kurgan) ; tying them into the scenery & plot located in Scotland; after learning about Scotia, the Milesians, & Scythians (Declaration of Arbroath) I've been able to make a connection to all three characters, besides them being "immortal"; whereas as a child I had *no idea* what buisness an Egyptian/Scoti - Spaniard/Milesian & Russian/Scythian had to do with an Immortal Highlander.
Just thought that was cool, re-visiting the film after learning of the legends, tales, & myths from antiquity. 🔥🔥🔥👍🏽👍🏽
according to irish legend and the Bede who was in contact with the Northern British tribes the PICTS are a mix of scandinavians most likely norway on the male side and Gaelic women and settled in Scotland and Pictish Kings could only come from the women
Kenneth MacAlpin son of Alpin King of the Picts
Scottish men belong to haplogroup R1b with some I mixed in thanks too the Vikings. Russians mostly belong to R1a with some I (Rus Vikings) and N (Uralic) mixed in. R1b and R1a separated (at least) 15,000 years ago.
So your answer is a confident NO. Scots DO NOT directly descend from Russians.
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Who the f.ck was talking about Russians? The Scythians are the modern Turkic people such as Bashkir who are 80% of R1b
@@becksigizmund4549 first.... bashkir people are assmilated indo europeans ..(their language changed). second . scythians were indo europeans who spoke western iranian language. i have a question. are irish people germanic?? No ? so why they speak english??
And white skin is approximately less than 8,000 years old according to pigmentation genetics. So they'd have to be pretty dark R1 brothers at that time.
@@becksigizmund4549 No, their closest descendants are western and northern Euros (who are also closest to the Yamnaya too). Also 80+% r1b, but also have the phenotypes present in the true Scythians, the ones who were distinguished before some moved further out eastwards and mingled with more asiatic peoples. The ones who were known to be "ruddy" in tone with red and blo nde hair and blue and green eyes. Traits that are low single digits in percentage arius the world and high doubles in western Europe. People from the Scots to the Germans and Irish and Norwegians have written history directly mentioning their ancestry of them as well.
Sounds like a myth based on another myth used to lay claim to lands that don't belong to you.
Oh great, now Putin is going to try and annex Glasgow
A Scythian journey to Britain is not that far fetched. Apparently, Strabo and Herodotus recited that the Scythians had invaded southward through the middle east until they reached Egypt in the 7th century BC. Meaning that they would have controlled the major coastal trading city of Tyre. It is well known that the middle east was trading with Britain via sea routes to purchase British Tin for use in Bronze production. A Scythian diplomatic expedition along these trade routes to let the Britons know that there was a new player in the middle east is feasible.
Great points Qetoun, excellent comment.
Poor point. With already established trade between middle east and whom then? The Scythians traded with the ghosts who had already established culture to trade internationally??? And some of the merchant shepherds of just small invading tribe of Ishkuza moved with the trade missions to Scotland to replace already established nation? Why the nomad people bother to migrate in ships? How many ships that would require? May be they hired the modern fleet? Or 50 merchants went to Scotland killed thousands of men and elaborated thousands of women? The nomads had always had a straight passage to Europe via Carpathians and they always used it from the great Steppe
@@becksigizmund4549 I never said that the Scythians invaded Scotland. I just said that the Scythian control of the trade routes enabled communication between the two parties.
Scutae or Scuzae was a self-name of Saka-Scythians . it means Archer in iranic languages. very possible that Scots name stem to Scythian Scutae. also ancient Cimmerians of Black Sea region were likely a proto-celtic people. (compare Welsh Cymrag). but they were not eliminated by iranic Scythians (as Herodotus claimed) but merged with them. interesting that modern ossetian language -considered by academic linguists as the only surviving descendents of Scythian language,-share with celtic languages some features. for example- plural suffix T, (which is absent in other iranic languages.)
The claim you refer to is straight from Leabhar Gabhala Éireann (The book of Invasions/seizures of Ireland) where the Irish claim to have come from the North of Spain and herald from the area you mention. The Scots themselves claim (at least partial) descendency from the Irish and it is this Gaelic connection that Robert The Bruce was pushing at the time.
(Gaels which are Milesians) are the last people who invaded "Ireland" conquered and fully replaced the tribes living there some then Invaded "Scotland" and conquered the picts who lived there today its mostly the west of Scotland which are the descendants of the Irish gaels who invaded the same people who got the name Scoti by the Romans. They came from Spain which the lived among tribes for a time before leaving for Ireland. Galicia is the place they lived and formed before this they came from Northern Africa where they had business and it leads back to kings of Scythia. A lot of the big Irish clans O'sullivan, O'neils, McCarthy Murphy etc are blood descendants from a Scythian king called Fenius Farsaid.
@@sully8317 scots are descendants of the gaulish peoples of the frankish regions of europe....hence "gallic"in scotland. the gallic in scotland.
At a time when the sea united people, is it credible that the gaels would not populate both Ireland and Argyle at about the same time?
The Gaels spoke q-Celtic which is an older form of Celtic suggesting they were more isolated. If you follow the Irish myth of them coming from Spain, and there were q-Celtic speakers in Spain, then they'd come from the south and colonise Ireland from the south as well as Britain. Why would they colonise the area of Argyll at the same time rather than the Hebrides or the Rhinns of Galloway? Both these places were colonised/Gaelicised later but Argyll was first. It's just not a great fit for a seaborne colonisation coming from the far south.
Cruithin likely had a kingdom that spanned the North Channel. Ireland was peppered with Cruithin tribes and the Irish also called the Picts Cruithin. This kingdom was then taken over by the Gaels giving them control of the channel and a foot in Britain. It might be why no p-Celtic placenames exist in Argyll, because the culture change was gradual but thorough and names were all converted into their q-Celtic versions.
@daithimaccarthaigh.........it's no gaelic in scotland it's gallic. the galls would have entered england to escape the romans in the frankish region of europe.when the romans invaded england they then fled to and settled in scotland. the gael story originates from the bible......fiction.
In so much that Proto-Indo Europeans came from Neolith Russia then yes, but that's not the whole story.
From dna the first come from the Iberian Peninsula. The basques are the closest in DNA to the earliest British Isles peoples. They are considered the Celtic people. Northern Spain, briton, cornwall, the channel islands, Ireland and scotland are considered gallic.
Now maybe the scotts are a later group from Russia but that would mean they are not Celtic nor probably speak some form/type of gallic language.
The British Isles peoples were developing from within and from outside influence and influx. So are they a new group in mass? A few that are integrating with people already there? Or are they just an evolution of the people already there. Almost like a tree some groups evolve into many over time. I think the later with some outside influence by the Vikings.
@@theodoresmith5272the term celtic does not refer to a human population that is ancestral to the British isle but the population that introduced the a celtic language to the region. The Celtic languages are a whole branch of Indo European that back in classical antiquity from 900 BCE to 250 BCE stretched from Ireland to the west, northern Turkey to the east and most of the Iberian peninsula to the south.
While the people of the British isles do have ancestral admixture, which as stated is related to the Basque people there is very little cultural and linguistic continuity still present in their current population. Either being represented by Celtic Stratum in the Gaelic/gaeilge and the Germanic Stratum in the English.
Really should look up the etymology of the word Celtic it is quite interesting.
@@ANTSEMUT1 after the ice age people moved up from the Iberian Peninsula to the British Isles. Dna fact. Spain was then much more effected with the indo-european DNA then the British island People.
@@theodoresmith5272 ok yeah? I didn't say they didn't, I'm not talking about admixture % here but ethnolinguistic.
Their was an empire huge called tartaria now Scottish kilts have what tartan could this be a link to the tartarians whose empire stretches roughly china Russia to even to America
the scots may have come from the frankish regions of europe the gall/guals. (hence gallic in scotland) the gauls were always at war with the romans there so they fled to england but when the romans invaded england they then fled to and setttled in scotland.
No. But yes. The Scottish are not descendents of the Scythians. But they are descendents of the Corded Ware culture, who came from the Pontic Steppes cultures like Sredni Stog and Yamnaya. The Scythians are also descendents of these same people. but many thousand years later.
finally a comment who seems to know what he's talking about
The plot thickens as does the fog of time. Even genetics will struggle with the multiple mixing of peoples spreading through Europe. The stories told most often will survive.
I myself came up the Clyde in a water biscuit. FACT!
Banana boat, me.
Mmmm biscuits
@@marksmall4618 i floated here on a large bowel movement a turd of enormous proportions scientists have analyzed it as from a blue whale
@6:05 You will see a Trone of Scottland with a stone below the seat, That is the Stone of Destiny from Jaboc/Israel brought there by the Irish from Egypt. Many people believe all of Israel left with Moses but that is not true many left before they were enslaved by the Egyptians. To this day that stone is used in carnations of kings and queens of England. King Charles sat on this stone this past year when He became king.
Check out Robert Sepher.
No after Rome peoples settled here from mainland Europe, it is possible they may have come into contact with Atilla as he did make his way to Saxony, but they moved out of the way, I don't know much about the Goths, their history might hold a key.
2:04 Scotland in Gaelic is pronounced Alapa, not as it is written and interpreted by English speakers, Alba.
Actually Irish history has the Irish (Scotti) as Kelts coming from coast of Spain to Ireland after being preceded by several of almost mythic groups one a group of bag men who traveled from Asia Minor. I have read or listen to several different accounts of the Picts. One being they were Kelts forceably supplanted by the Scots after the Roman's took or left Britain. Another that the Picts were a more primitive or aboriginal people who did not speak Gaelic. There are others that seem closer to the Picts not being Kektic. It is possible to explain the discrepancies but Instead of speculation more research and discoveries need to be taken and found. Some resources claimed the word Pict means red. In this vlog the host has a different interpretation. This is interesting. Which meaning is accurate or maybe both are.
Thanks for your thoughts Tommy Blansett.
@@celtichistorydecoded Thank you for your program. Very interesting and thoughtful.. I learned more.
@@tommyblansett9254 Thank you
tommy blansett..... irish history is made up by medieval irish monks to give ireland an identity.
I have read some where that the Picts originally arrived from Scandinavia when there was a land bridge which is why the Picts/Scots have a high DNA relationship.
This was only Saxon propaganda to imply the Picts were not indigenous.The Picts,like the Cymru had an aural tradition whereby everything was learnt in rhyme and so didn’t need writing down.It was only Hadrian’s wall that divided and separated the cultures between the free and the enslaved and so likely their language was a P Celtic Old Welsh.The Scythians you mention could be the Gododdin, who are immortalised in Welsh poetry.They were used as a buffer zone against the Picts and could have well been originally from anywhere in the Empire.Strathclyde was also Brythonic and many Pictish kings were chosen from here.So Scotland isn’t made up of two cultures,but three🏴👍
@Adrian Jones - If the Pictish language was P Celtic we'd know about it.
@@hardywatkins7737 Most historians agree it was P from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth. Anyone with a basic understanding of Cymraeg gets it because their place names ‘sound’ Brythonic, or a Brythonic uninfluenced by 500 years of Romanisation. There is no evidence whatsoever that Pictish was anything but Brythonic because the Picts came from Britain, not Ireland.
@@adrianjones8060 The Britons regarded the Picts as foreign enemies, they possibly were originally Norwegian
There are no indigenous people. We are all from Noah and in those days Europe was empty, not monkey men walking around living caves.
Its not important where the Picts came from... because they are rooted in Alba.. Caledonia or Scotland.. pick a name.. it doesn't matter..
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I have taken 2 DNA tests. They are pretty much the same numbers: 41% Scottish, 38% english, 6% Norwegian, 6% Irish, 4% welsh, 3% swedish, 2% danish.... but there is a very small percentage of North African in my DNA, and i mean small... about .2%. I interpret i have some viking in my family in the distant past, but the story that you give here makes me wonder if my ancestors did travel from russia and picked up additional DNA on the way. Or if it was the vikings during their raids. definitely shows how much people moved before planes and cars.
also, maternal haplo is J... which seems to originate from the middle east.
I dont think think the Scottish or British were from scythia, but i think the beaker people, has a lot of dna from those areas, and lots of vikings did as well. As the Vikings had some international not just Scandinavians, but mostly scandi heritage.
*people look for roots...* something to grasp onto... but... man did not start moving stone around until after the ice ages... glacial till...
This is pretty much nonsense. The study of ancient languages and how they evolved over time and distance is called philology. The prehistory of western Europe has been studied intensely for centuries, and the idea of one culture landing even partially intact in the extreme west of Europe after traveling from central Asia is not in keeping with the facts. Prehistory shows the influence of changes to language as one wave after another poured out of central Asia. The simple fact though, is that when one group occupied the land of another it was the invaders that eventually adopted the prevailing culture/language of the occupied people. They might introduce new words, new farming techniques and crops, etc, but they eventually became absorbed into the vanquished culture, or became a fusion of the two cultures. There was never one wave traveling east to west, it was succeeding waves separated by hundreds or thousands of years. Each wave reconquering land taken by somebody else in the past, and sometimes those occupied peoples just pushed further west and took new lands from weaker peoples. An example of this (in the historical period) is the Vikings settling Brittany and adopting/becoming and speaking French - the Normans. And then the Normans pushing into southern Britain, but eventually adopting/becoming and speaking English. And what is English but a fusion of old German, Norse, Celt, Frisian, Saxon... Words/grammar rooted in all those languages are found in modern English.
Thou art my battleaxe and weapons of war.
There are no Celtic people. Celtism was a culture that spread across ALL of Europe at one point.
The Scythians are probably the ancestors of about half of Europe.
the ones that were there to sign the treaty of arbroath were not all original scots and bruce was french , just like the basque from the east who settled in france and then demanded independence and some settled in northern spain and now want independence from spain , there are these so called basques in usa too , and recently there has been trouble in central asia between turk and armenian , armenians fled the turks , who would want all these countries for various reasons to be divided , using all sorts of reasons just to divide
That is correct.. Robert de Brus' family came over around the time of William the Conqueror. They were French Norman's who took over and became the ruling class of the island. They built the castles, and implemented their ideas on the rule of law, and their system made alot of people very rich.
I'm Frisian we come from the same area 😉
I've heard that you have the word ,taate'( father) in Frisian. Is that true?
@@nestingherit7012 No we use the word "Heit" . We use the word "Pake" which means grandfather (the A is long sounding)
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Thanx.
I repeat my comment that was deleated by You Tube bastards from " Terms of service"
They think that showing Romanian/ English/ Frisian similar words on You Tube, it violates , terms of service'
It's insane.
There's a question on Quora.
" Is Romanian "tata", Albanian "ate" Vegliot Dalmatian "tuota", Ragustan Dalmatian "teta", North Frisian "taate'", proto Slavic ,otac'( all words for father) etymologically related"
@@nestingherit7012 Yes TH-cam works in mysterious ways
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Each time I mention Cohorts I Aelia Dacorum they deleate it.
Soviet stile censorship.
Yes they are
the Great Clan Ross was Clan Arias (now Clan Ross Gentry from the Great Clan Ross) and we can be found as Clan Arias in Egypt 2000 years ago, or Spain Later. Its well known to the Royal Bloodlines that we are from a Scythian King (not Nomads, the ones the Greeks during their Golden Age wrote of as the Height of Civilization, and were a quite settled people. We keep telling you all this, why don't you listen! This is not new or breaking info, this is what others, like the English keep hidden from you, and as much of us as possible! On that Declaration of Arbroath, you'll notice my direct ancestor the Earl of Ros(s) was 4th to Sign it! And I know what I am talking about, I know my Blood Line! And yeah, I can say, the Scottish Royal Bloodlines, are from the Celtic Kings who came from a Scythian King and the most Cryptic Pharaohs Daughter! But we were never Nomads on the Steps, we were a Settle People, and everyone wants a claim to out fame, whether the Turks or Mongolians or even the Jews saying we are the 13th Tribe, but we are us, and go back much further than the real Scythia (again not the Nomads in Siberia and the sort) but to the Sumerians and Beyond, and I can tell all of you, you have No Claim to us! FYI Ross' are the Sons of Andrew! Some say his real Descendants!
complete bullshit
@@fiedelmina You do not define reality, reality does! These are Facts, what 130 Celtic Kings do you think are spoke of in the Declaration of Arbroath? With my ancestor the War Master of Scotland, Chief of the Great Clan Ross, the Earl of Ross 4th to sign it! Do the Math on were the Celtic Titles even came from, it was Scythia, who everyone likes to pretend were Nomads on the Plains, but they were a settled and advanced people, who the Greeks during their Golden Age look up to as the Heights of Civilization! A settled people, and not to be confused with the nomads they at times ruled over and had cultural sway over, the Greeks were talking about the real Scythians just North East of them, on the other side of the Mountains, and its know, by the genetic mapping that the Celtic Geno Entered Europe from the Area, and its historically known thats where all the Celtic Titles cames from and Culture! The Fact is Ross' are from the Bloodline of Celtic Kings, thats why we still even have a Royal, mee cousin the Current Chief of Ross, Barron Ross of Ross (for short). The Aryans took off from the area of Scythia before that in the past, and carved a pathway of destruction all the way to India, and destroyed ever Civilization along the way, and basically wiped them from the annals of History, its why there is Indo-European Languages, because the Scythians and Aryans came from the same place! And we can see they were very white, so don't let your inner racism get in the way of the truth, and others pretending the Scythians were a Bunch of Mongolian Step People, because that is not even close to the case! Now, since we have established that the Celtic Kings, the 130 spoken of in the Declaration of Arbroath with my direct ancestor 4th to sign! Were from the Scythian Kings, and we know the Scythian Kings bred with the Phoaroahs why the known fact of European Royals having more Genetics from the Pharaohs than anyone in Egypt! I am just extending that further and saying direct and with a firm stance the Scythian Kings came from the Sumerian ones! And No I have never read unrefutably solid sources on the last one like I did the rest, but I am telling you, it is what it is, and I know over the years I'll stumble upon that Truth as Well! We cannot deny History for the Greatness of certain people out shines yours to the point it makes you mad! And I Fall from War Masters and Trained with an Asian Master, could you imagine if you questioned me on such to mee Face!
@@randyross5630 go take your meds.
Clown Hairy Ass, that's a new one.
Ukraine has region called Galicia 😇 it is east border of European Celtic tribes
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I would safely say that the scots predate the Scythians. Its possible though. Celtic peoples once stretched from spain in the south west, Ireland in the north west all the way to the crimea and asia minor in the east and possibly as far as china.
Ahhh but the birthing story of Scotland....which was in the deceleration of independence 1320 claimed an Egyptian connection- you need to research more..all Nations have a noble birthing story, England goes as far back as, well, Windsor. Or, maybe, beheading the last true royal- because of religion.
@@marksmall4618 the last Stuart King was James 2nd, they chased him. We call him James the shithead. The French and Russians had the right idea about Royals.
Is there any toponymic evidence of this? Like the Slavic names of places in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa? I mean, if the Celts spread so far and wide as did the Vandals and the Suebi, you'd expect to see some Celtic-sounding places in Crimea, for example. Are there any?
@@CarnevalOne @Carneval going by archaeologists and historians there is but the crimea has had a lot of upheaval. Largely depends supposedly they stretched to the black sea region, also further if the sythians were celts, like celt is a very general term for a lot of very different peoples, were there even a celtic people or are they people we have lumped to together as one in modern times. A lot of the towns and cities as far as I know in crimea get their names from being founded by the hellenic Greeks, apperently the crimean region was once a very different place and the black sea and Mediterranean have only connected in the 6th century BC causing a massive flood. A lot of what we are going by of the period is what we have dug up or legend's or what little was written. It's possible but probably unlikely.
Vandals are classed as a germanic people so are thrown in there with goths, lombards, Frank's and others and it's the same with the celts with gauls, Scotti, brittons, gaels, Canergate under the term.
Follow the red hair throughout history!
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How can anyone can say “facts” about the Picts is beyond me. Nobody knows there language or religion so how can knowledge about the Picts being anything but guesses?
Fair enough point, we have limited knowledge of them but we do know some info
Yeah i tend to agree. Stating facts about the Picts is difficult.
The Jewish historians don't want you to know your history
They knew
Weren’t Scythian ppl the sons of Isaac? The Gaelic language is the closest to early Hebrew ?
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