Alba (High Quality)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- This flight is sailing thru the clouds
And the blue heavens
The homeland appears like a developing photo
Thru the mists as I return to land
I see the mountains of Scotland
And the empty acres
Flying low across the moorland lochs
The forests and the glens
Alba (Scotland)
Alba
Alba
Alba
Because it's a wounding and hollow sight
Here as we reach the end of the century
The beautiful soil of the people
Still in the hands of the few
I see the wheels of industry at a standstill
And the northern lands wasted
And the empty house in Edinburgh
Without authority or voice
Alba
Alba
Alba
Alba
You have laid field apon field
House apon house
'Till there be nowhere for you to be placed alone
In the midst of all the earth
But it is good for me to be here now
As I welcome the warmth
In this land that's as exciting for me today
As it was on the day I was born
Alba (x9)
❤ from 🇩🇪 👍🏻😍 so beautiful feelings
I love this video! It's great to see that the scottish goidelic gaelic language is still alive and well in Scotland! I have always had a lifelong respect, admiration and affection for Scotland and the scottish people and their heritage, culture,and languages!ALBA GU BRATH!
Thank you for sharing..This was truly beautiful.I do not speak Gaelic language or understand it but I have always loved it:).Growing up listening to Enya and other Gaelic singers it always gave me chills and I have always felt drawn to it :).I appreciate the Gaelic culture very much what I do know of it and the music speaks for its with a life of its own:).Thank you again .Take care.I love Scotland and the Highlands very much and someone that is dear to my heart that is of Gaelic culture .xxx
Free Alba-Free Alba-Free Alba
why do you guys "thumbs down" his comment, he is just expressing is opinion on the matter, which is a fair point if you ask me!
Where i live (on the north - east cost) we gave up Gaelic for Scots, a variant of English, in the 1100s
I honestly think I must've watched this video 20 times by now...
Greetings from Albania! :)
Such a beautiful and moving video. The lyrics are great. I hope to go someday. Thanks for this video.
Sam
That is wonderful! truely wonderful to see :)
great video. great post.
A great video to launch a new gaelic channel.
Nice one!
Brilliant! We can`t get back soon enough.
exellent cheers 4 sharing
Wonderful video !! Phalaïna
This video is very well executed, congratulations on a very nice job.
very nice video!******
greetings from Argentina-
Hi I love that song even though I am English thats a awesome song
From way down in NZ, I sing with you. Freedom for Scotland!
WOOT!!! o_o nice...
best Vid i've ever seen :-) . and Runrig "Our Earth Was Once Green".......
Brilliant arrangement - I hope the Gaelic speakers can keep the language going - it should be protected.
Gid auld Alba!
Wow, Mary Black & Allan MacDonald!
Gaelic should be the first language of Scotland again. Scotland must adopt a "Gaelic First" policy. Start with the first year schoolchildren and gradually ease it into the rest of Scottish society. Ireland should also do more to encourage Gaelic among the Irish people as well.
@Rmg12 The overwhelming mass majority of Scots today descend from Picts, as genetic research has shown, 'OGAP4' is the genetic Pictish haplotype found all over Scotland today, even in the Lowlands, so the heritage of those people will have ancessters that spoke Scots Gaelic.
The ancient Pictish language was partly supplanted into what's now modern Scots-Gaelic today.
Most Lowland Scots today actually came from the Highlands in the industrial revolution age.
So it really is the mother tongue.
The idea that a distinct Pictish language was perceived at some point is attested clearly in Bede's early 8th-century "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum", which names Pictish as a language distinct from both Welsh and Gaelic.
historians are saying otherwise .. the term "pict" is a celtic word "aber" is a celtic translation of pictish ... remember the picts and gaels merged in the 9th century ... so basically everything that exists of our pictish culture has been translated into Gàidhlig
Jesus said 'Father, you give Scots the finest water to make whisky. You give them beautiful mountains, forests and Glens. You've put salmon in their rivers, heather on the moors and a host of other wonderful things. Surely they are the chosen people. God replied ' Aye maybe, but wait till you see the fucking neighbours their getting!!
@segano1 true but scottish Gàidhlig is descended from irish gaelic.... in essence most celts in the isles including ireland are all descended from the same language.
That is what the official Gaelic policy is currently in Scotland, to foster the Gaelic language in areas where it has been traditionally spoken (and for the most part still is today but much diminished). Nobody is suggesting that Gaelic be forced in non-Gaelic areas. It's mostly a fight to regain what has been lost in the last 50-100 years.
The Pictish Celts were a northern branch of the Brythonic-Britannic celts! The Picts were N-O-T Goidelic-Gaelic speakers!
It's a great video for sure.
As to Segano's comments most are pretty stupid for one thing St Patrick was actually a foreigner from what I believe was Wales or Northern England he wasn't Irish at all, secondly The kingdom of Dalrida was established in the early fifth or sixth century however communication from both cultures was pretty close given the proximal of both lands, also if you look at the Ulster Cycle and the tale of Deirdre of sorrows it refers to the sons of Uist which is the
No-one is forcing anything on anyone. If people outside the Highlands wish to learn Gaelic, then that entirely their choice. I live outwith the Highlands, I have no desire to learn Gaelic, but plenty do. And I'm happy to accept that. Witness the exponential increase in the number of Gaelic Medium primary and secondary schools in the likes of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
I really can't understand where this low level bigotry towards Gaelic from some in the Lowlands of Scotland eminates from.
Agree about the song - this is so uplifting - but hey lay off wee Lulu :)
Yes.
The song is sung in Gaelic - but Gaelic speakers can speak English too :)
Yes....
yes too great for words - have a good sleep LOL
You've glossed over what I said to imply agreement. I was merely pointing out that, in non-Gaelic speaking areas, Gaelic isn't being forced. My issue that it isn't being adequately supported in the Gàidhealtachd. There is only a fully Gaelic school in the Gàidhealtachd and several Gaelic units in English speaking schools at the primary level. After hundreds of years being repressed and abused, it still is. Gaelic is slowly being murdered in its own domain by English through neglect.
@Rmg12 Wrong! Scots-Gaelic is the national language of Scotland, as it even contains eary ancient native Pictish elements in it, (Most Scots descend from Picts) it's also the only Scottish langauge to have been used by the whole of Scotland at one time all at the same time.
Check out the new "Newsnet Scotland" site for futher details on this subject, particularly, look up Paul Kavanagh groundbreaking work on his series "A history of Scottish langauges" which can be found at "Newsnet Scotland".
The Roman word for Irishman was 'Hiberni'- completely different and separate to the Scotti who were new coming conquerors who came to what is now 'Ireland' and conquered it, giving the land Kings and brought the land into historical light.
This means that there were Scots in Scotland/Caledonia and some Scots in Hibernia/Ireland, but only the Scots of Hibernia became 'Irish' - when they had that name planted over them by Pope Leo X in the 16th century.
Whereas the Scots of Scotland remained free.
Well they say Multi-Bilingual-ability expands the mind.
ALBA
Hebrides, In some of the tales of Finn MacCool and the Ulster Cycle some of the warriors are Scottish.
as to the similarity of both cultures that much is true given somewhat shared languages and culture however they are different in many ways as well.
can someone please tell me all the places and the times they appear in this vid, i reconise glasgow, edinburgh, fife.
thanks
I don't think any are of England - I know where most of them have been taken.
What clock time(s) on video are you talking about?
Con't, St.Patrick's confession describes the Scotti as new coming settlers, whilst the Irish of that time (Hiberni) were written as the 'Sons of the Soil' - as they were older settlers to the land.
Even the real Irish of that time called the northern settlers as 'Cruithne' - they called all the Scot/Picts that name and all of Scotland as well, that's because they saw them as the same.
Mr. segano1: First of all ,man, I'll have you know that my American family tree has been mostly Presbyterian for the last 100 years of it's history here in America!Second of all, the scots RETURNED to Ulster during The Plantations of Ulster period of History!The tribe of people first known as the "scotti"-sh people originally came from the old Kingdom of Dalriada which was originall in Ulster in the FIRST PLACE!
The Original "Scots" Irish people came from Ulster Northern Ireland and they spoke the old northern Irish gaelic language which is directly related to modern Scottish gaelic!The original Scots-Irish people were called "scotti" by the romans which is a latin name which means "gaelic speaker"!
Can someone tell me more details about that BBC Alba clip? Or is it somewhere available in higher quality? Thanks for any help!
@jpx08 totally agree with you , twas the english took it from you .
I like Nahoo's version better but this is pretty good.
Oh yes, and "bye the way"....ALBA GU BRATH! AND SLAINTE MHOR!
MR SEGANO1:... I NEVER SAID THAT SCOTS AND IRISH ARE THE 'SAME' AT ANY TIME DURING OUR CONVERSATION! WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT IDEA???
I quite agree it shouldn't be compulsory, but I also think the choice should be given to people throughout Scotland should they wish to learn it. We don't always all want to learn useful things. Most of all of our educational careers are spent learning relatively useless things - Trigonometry, gas theory or the works of Shakespeare.
"it's usually associated with anglophobia IMHO."
That's rubbish. There is a definite anti-Gaelic bigotry though in certain sections of society.
Come on , which parts of this vid do you think is in England ?
What does it mean?
I'm learning Gaidhlig, but the only thing I really understand is 'Alba'! Anyone able to give me the words and the English translation? Tapadh leibh!
Bring our language back to the lowland schools where it should be taught to EVERYONE!
Gaelic is a secondary language!
Well my guess and this a somewhat educated guess is that the people who became known as the Scotti had lived in the provenance of Ulster for generations. As to what some historians have said about the Scottish being a part of the northern Irish I'd take with a grain of salt since written records from the periods were non existent so we really don't know.
Thank you so much for your helpful comments! Mr. Segano has been very insulting to me!Anyway,...Do you happen to know how long the tribe of people known as the Scotti-sh lived in Ulster before they migrated to the royal rock of Dunadd in Argyll???Some historians say that the Scotti-sh people were one of the main Northern Irish tribes of people!...What do you think about this question?
@MsOneiroi77 and finno-ugric languages ( i studied linguistics :)
My name is Alba, I loved this song. I´m gonna serch more about Alba Scotland
Referendums are very tricky things because whovever's in power have control of how it is worded, and if they don't want independence for Scotland then it will be worded in such a way as to cause doubt, slight fear & worry. Thats why its so difficult to get 'yes' answers in referendums because people don't like change if they are comfortable and fear equals change. Media have their agenda too, where do you think their interest lies and their profits come from? They pamper to the masses(England).
By 2012-13, Scotland will be independent. Perhaps as a Dominion if not Republic.
Dál Riata was a Scottish Kingdom, not a Hiberni/Irish one, and it was taken over by the bigger more powerful state that consumed it after it was destroyed and serious defeats in the time of Domnell. Plus the Scottish Capital was Scone back then, which is the East coast - outside of the territory.
The Scots were the true 'Gaels', Scotland's other language, 'Scots-Gáidhlig' was properly known as 'Scottis' prior to the 16th century.
There were no Irish northern tribes, the Scots owned the north.
lol a was being sarcastic someone said in there comment why was stonehenge in a song about scotland
@TheFatalInstinct1 actually most english people call themselves english. I say british well because I don't want to be associated with just being english.,
How dare you comment about me, you have no idea about me.
Thig Ar Latha
Mr. segano1: The old scottish kingdom of Dalriada was a two part kingdom! One part of it was in the ancient Kingdom of Ulster the other part of it was centered upon the rock of Dunadd in present day Argyll! the Argyll portion of that dalriadic kindom expanded and grew and spread out all over the Highlands ,Islands and lowlands of the old Caledonian Pictish lands and eventually became the Kingdom of Alba ,Scotland!
At the end it's actually ten times they said alba
I believe 'Alba (x9)' indicates Alba followed by nine more!
@Rmg12 Engayland = New Pakistan!
DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN ?
a independent Scotland must ensure we preserve 1400 years plus of our Gàidhlig heritage/culture mixed with 2000 years of Pictish heritage/culture and I feel we must start using our country's first name when the Picts and the Dál Riatans (Gaels) united to form the kingdom of Alba under King Constantine II .... instead of the anglicised Scotland
As for the term 'Pict', it's nothing more than a term made up by Roman Eumenius in 297AD and put on the early people of Scotland to describe them as tattooed.
@3:18
But the entire song...
I would love to learn gaelic, even if I am swedish ^^ it sounds a bit like an old dialekt of fris/danish
There's an app for it Domingo
That's because when the vikings from Norway came over we took parts of old norsk from their language.
@ValencianWarrior You're wrong on nearly everything you've said just there, I'll start of with the 'Celt' term, the term 'Celtic' was a linguistic term only, not a people, the term was first coined by English linguist Edward Lhuyd in 1707 to group old languages from across the British isles and parts of continental Europe, the term became heavily romanticised in the 1800s, by the early 1900s, the term was hi-jacked by Irish republicans who used it as a political tool to resist Britishness.
Alba agus Erin gu bragh...
Gaelic is a gorgeous language. Make it *the* language of instruction in schools, compulsory for jobs, more great music, and Gaelic will strengthen.
Also don't put English on a pedestal- it's increasingly useless as England, N. America plummet into debt.
I work internationally, and the two languages of the future are Chinese and German- low debt/high-tech, German a Euro hub.
So Scotland could have Gaelic as the main language, and German for inter-European communication- more useful!
No they didn't, they came TO Ulster, not from.
No one recorded them there before the 4th century, Greek geographer Ptolemy recorded scores of different peoples across the island but the Scotti is not of the number, no historian or geographer makes mention of the first Scotti in to Ireland till the 4th century.
The REAL Irish of that time where the southerners called the 'Hiberni' - Latin for 'Irishman'.
Even St.Patrick makes mention of this in his 'confession', that the Scotti were new comers.
@TheFatalInstinct1 seriously have you read what I have written. I would hate to divide countries. I LIVE in Scotland and I love it alot. Saying that I'm trying to divide countries BECAUSE I'm from England is quite disgusting actually. It's where I was born, unlike you I don't have an allegiance to any nation, it's ridiculous to do that, countries are just where you're from to be patriotic I find very wrong. I see myself as british because I love Scotland and have scottish heritage.
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to mr. Segano1:... What kind of a name is "segano",anyway? Is it a scottish name?It sounds like an Italian or Spanish name to my ears!Are you sure you are not some kind of "Plastic Italian" man or "Plastic Spaniard "man???
'The Picts' were nothing more than a name put on the early people of Scotland by the Romans, the very first recorded use of the name was by the Roman Eumenius in 297AD.
It was nothing but a name to refer to the early people of Scotland as being tattooed people.
The Scots were the true 'Gaels', it is their language, not the Hiberni/Irish.
That's why in Scotland it's called Gáidhlig but in Ireland they have to call theirs 'Irish'. - Which is a different language and nothing to do with it any more.
TO Mr. segano 1 : exactly who are you ,man??? Are you a professional academic Scottish Historian or are you a professional Celtic language scholar???? And which history book are you relying upon to make your historical claims of Scottish history???
I like the girl with the missing front teeth XD
@TheFatalInstinct1 well I'm pretty sure not everyone in scotland wants to speak gaelic. I'm not to say though, neither are you.
@Rmg12 mate you say your not ashamed 0f being english, bur you just said said earlier on a post last month and I qoute "i say im british well because i dont want to be associated with being english just"
you bring a shame to engiland mate wit that, btw most people round the world just say british to mean english anyway, so when you ask them about scotland everyone internationally doesn't view them as british, which works well for the scots nationalists future independence
makes you proud to be scottish and a think that person thinks thats stonehenge at 52 seconds lol
FREE ALBA! FREE CYMRV! FREE EIRE! LET VNITED KINGDOM REMAINED ONLY FXXKING ENGLAND!
I'm so over hearing that a language "serves no purpose". All languages serve many purposes, and different purposes for different speakers. Speaking French serves no purpose if you never speak or read it. Gaelic does serve a purpose if you speak or read it. Just because some more job opportunities are open if you speak certain languages doesn't make them intrinsically more useful.
I speak French, Japanese and Gaelic with Gaelic the one I use most by a mile. So which one is more useful to me???
Wrong, The 'Celt' word and the 'Keltoi' word share nothing in common other than linguistic relation between etymology and sound, they are off different origins and by extension, different definitions also.
First, the 'Keltoi' word was an ancient Greek word to refer to continental Europe, it was not a national term, but a continental one, there was never a 'Celtic empire', that's just wishful pádraig thinking.
Second, 'Celtic' was made up in the 18th century to link old languages only.
look mate they can't even agree the origins of the pictish language because it was totally different from the celtic languagse in every way so to say every european language except from the basques originates from india is false
And before coming back here to dare debate again, I want logical scientific factual evidence, not emotionally charged opinions.
I do not take a Yank PP or their views seriously, as they all appear to be as intellectually inferior as the rest of them, but if they at the very least provide, facts and dates and references based on logic instead of emotionally charged feelings and opinions which are of irrelevance to the truth, then I at the very least would take one remotely seriously.
No, re-read my previous comments again, and you will find that I did NOT agree with you on anything you have said, your words come straight out of an RC Plastic Paddies mouth, and is nothing I haven't heard before.
The Scots came 'TO' Ulster, not from. That is based on the proven fact that no Scot was in Ireland or Ulster before the 4th century.
And St.Patrick also knew the Scots were new comers to the land, as he states in his 'confession/apology' speech, they were completely different people.
@Rmg12 is it the shame of englands past? it tht why?
im from england but i dont care bout union, nobody wants it anyway especially the scots, the union is dying mate
Gaidhlig speakers are not very breagha.
Hahahaha the gay guy fi river city lmfao
You could trust me more: because the things you're trying to prove - using level 5 and not 6 against war, against sin, instead of Christ at level 7, are using me at too weak a level of my own character; for that, of Spirit; to not even have its whole self, wasted or grown, in others, as they always try (the military does - each level is attempted to be taken, but there's no limit one way and it's just for right-wing power like that). You could share life more. There's no reason, really, not to. And there's so much more that would be grown. Restored - love, to live - and not just the emptiness of what everything around is, as having traded poor poor poor places, and set life off in its real way, out there on its own as not just oneness too; the struggle; out of consciousness in its power or lack thereof as the media/tv constantly makes us aware when it's been this long and hard as empty hot and cold in the universe for a speck of respects not be understood that the danger is a devil! - not from the beginning to start over or just chaff as material with Spirit - but of it, in the pre-destination of events. Cold, potato like as too much torture that more than taxes beyond any existence with in this universe and all its life, not even a day goes by that the devil doesn't "harvest" what there isn't enough of, using his truck; the concept of changing the mind for machines, and some of those miracles or seeming miracles have been performed, like the time my throat turned into my camera and clicked.
@TheFatalInstinct1 actually most english people call themselves english. I say british well because I don't want to be associated with just being english.,
How dare you comment about me, you have no idea about me.