RocketNothing: and the Vikings of Norway and Iceland have significant Celtic (Irish and Old British) ancestry, too. No, not just because the Norse took slaves: the Celts sometimes led the Vikings.
I really wish that the Brits would learn to use a dictionary for pronunciation help. The incorrect speech makes it hard to listen to some of the very interesting videos they record
@@cumbdunt7139 Worse is a lie, but however, they were treated as bad as blacks throughout the new world. Especially in the Carribean where they were the heavy slave power of the British.
Even further east for origins of Celts, like Middle East and Ukraine. They moved west bringing farming techniques to hunter gatherer cultures eg in the British Isles. Very recent genetically based research. But who knows findings like this are often overturned or superseded rather quickly.
I enjoyed your video. 1 spot of contention, the Y chromosome DNA for the "Celtic peoples" starts in the middle East, follows a path through Turkey, Greece, northern Italy, down around the Iberian peninsula back up to finish in the British Isles.
The Brythonnic Celts - The Welsh,Cornish and Bretons,even the Devonians.All and each are always overlooked in the Celtic identity.And,the Celts were said to have migrated up from Celtic Iberia.The Basques and Gallicians have very close links to these islands,dna wise.
That's all been shown to be incorrect. The all grew out of Bell Beaker culture and no Basques and Galicians are not very close dna wise to people like the Irish, Scots and Welsh. The Bretons are but not the Basques or Galicians.
@@jackieblue1267 you so wrong mate bell beaker culture started in jambugal in lusitania 20.000 years ago , at that time England was a frost fishing plateau
@@jackieblue1267 ho man you need to be born and grown in the area to know about your ancestry , you can trace your ancestry perhaps back 10.000 years because of the ice age i can trace mine 20.000 so i know about what i'm talking about , just got to beaker of zambujal , in lusitania it will shed some light about bell beaker
I agree with your statement that the Welsh (me), Cornish, Bretons and Devonians are overlooked when the Celtic identity is spoken about. I got so fed up I moved to Spain :-)
I am glad you showed your sources for the most part, though I do find it funny that you stated the Celts were headhunters, while citing an article that said there is still debate about that.
11:00 I'd say it's more like calling a Comanche a "Native-American". A pre-19th Century Comanche would have thought of himself as that, not a "Native-American"
Anyone born in America is an American. Are you talking about the first tribes? Because calling the first tribes native Americans is a misnomer. Besides we're all immigrants whether we came 30000 years ago by land bridge on foot, or by 747 two years ago. We're all immigrants and descended from immigrants.
People know what we are talking about when someone says "Native American" and make the distinction between first peoples and European settlers. The population of pre colonisation used words best translated as ""the people" rather than some geographic term for their nationality and identified by their tribal affiliation. It doesn't become relevant to have a word for it until outsiders are noticed
Actually calling a German a German is highly generalized. The nation of Germany wasn't around until the 1800s. Germans were also multiple tribes and peoples united by a culture and language, similar to the Celts.
Italians likewise. Romans, Latins, Sabines, Etruscans, Umbrians, Neapolitans, Syracusans, and many more, all had separate identities. To a degree, many still do.
Also Julius Caesar conquered Gaul so quickly, because the Gauls were already civilized, with roads and towns throughout. So he just had to default the Gallic tribes at Alesia and he had the whole country in the bag. This was in stark contrast to Germanic tribes of the time across the Rhine, who did not have an urban culture and lived in scattered and decentralized homesteads in dense forests. Very difficult to conquer; Battle of Teutoburg Wald.
They survived for a quite a long time,in fact if i am not mistaken there is a part called as "galatians" in bible,which refers to these people.Look it up,they had quite an advanture in anatolia and were a major power and well known mercaneries until Roman empire finally embraced them as a whole.but of course as the times passed like it happened to everywhere they merged with the other ethnic groups and contributing from their culture and their heritage they took their place in ERE,Ottoman empire and finally todays Turkish republic.And still in Todays Turkish Republic there are places named after them like "Galata Kulesi,Ankara(again if i am not mistaken it means Ancyra in celtic and that means "Anchor") etc.),Galatasaray etc.".As a Turkish i do appriciete those people as i am appricieting other anatolian cultures as well. Sorry for my english,tried my best :)
This. And the fact there were quite a lot of female druids mentioned by roman sources as envoys, diplomats and various other dignitaries. The "females in roles of power" were mostly druids or, more rarely, the noble daughters of heirless kings. Druids were really important in gaulish society at least, they basically served as the legislative and branch of tribal government, and part of the judicial branch too.
According to several books I have read, the Druids were simply the ruling class, some of whom oversaw the religious aspects of life. They consisted of men and women and one became a Druid simply by proving one's intelligence.
thank you so much for this video on the Celtic people. I have been preaching about some of their achievements since college but I did not know they made roads that predated Rome. I do know however that our system of writing most of the way we live now did not come from the Romans and all but the Etruscans and the Greeks. And the joy that we have about modern forensics in anthropology, we can find out who made what and when so much for history being written by the winners told somebody proves otherwise.
Simon, you are absolutely the heart❤️and soul of this channel! I appreciate the zeal n joy you bring to your presentations! Your sir, are truly entertaining and are a pleasure to behold!
Gerald Grenier was it even an ethnic group or was it a cultural group? European isn't really an ethnic group, but it is a macro cultural group. i don't know I'm asking.
The Celts also had a ruling system similar to that of the Roman Senate. Instead of having a king, some Celtic tribes formed a sort of semi-democracy where the leaders of individual tribes convened to make decisions together for all their tribes.
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They didn't start showing up in Britain until around 500 bc, mostly in dribs and drabs, refugees from the expanding influence of Rome. There was already a very gold rich culture here before the Celtic influx. Apart from having a few modestly productive goldmines, the reason Britain thrived so well in the Bronze age, was the tin deposits in the South West. Tin was (Still is, really) pretty scarce, and there were only two or three sources of quality tin, in the amounts needed to make weapons grade bronze, and Cornwall had by far the largest deposits, of the best tin ore. 'Celt' was just a Roman term for any of the barbarian tribes in the West of the Empire, whether they had any cultural connections with one another or not. Celt / Gaul / Gael, they were all the same to Rome. They didn't care what the savages called themselves, as long as they kept the Pax Romanus. Britain was the only Roman Province that needed a full Military presence for the whole period of occupation, mostly because by the time Rome got here, there were generations of migrants here who had fought Rome, and fled as far West as they could, many of them still actively aiding mainland resistance against Rome.
Hello all! thanks so much for all you do here on your channel, I look forward to everything you put out. I just learned more about the "Celts" I. the last 11&1/2 minutes than I had learned in the last 35 yrs! You are the BEST! BRIGHTEST BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL IN ALL YOU DO, ALWAYS! Watching daily from North Central Arizona....
Pretty much the opposite of Vikings. Seems you Americans only have room for Vikings, Celts, and Romans to float around in those toilet bowls you call brains.
5:11 Reminds me a lot of the Aesir and Vanir exchanging people as a peace negotiation, then afterwards those who were traded becoming part of the new family.
The Gaels were Celts, albeit different to the Britons who spoke a differen branch of Celtic, furthermore the people of those islands would not had called themselves Celts, that is a Roman word ( Keltoi ) So does he think these islands were empty when they arrived ? he forgets the stone age people's who were cut off after the English channel thawed . The Picts have been described as an ancient aboriginal people by many respected texts and there is so little we know of the painted one's.
Nothing is clear that far back. Celtic (or now insular) Celtic people are broadly divided into two groups; Gaelic and Brythonic speakers, but this is a generalization. For example, not being a linguist, I am not sure where the Manx language falls into which group? Possibly the difference between the root words and syntax of Gaelic and Brythonic languages and dialects are more different to each other than modern English is to German.
The celts came from north of the Danube in Serbia That is why they found 1500 old Serbian words from the Balkan language in the old Gaelic language they were called gety or gets warrior tribes This is known by Serbian academics
Around 300 BC the Celts in Ireland began to write - but not in the way we think about writing. They carved with their iron tools on tall, narrow stones. Their writing was called Ogam or Ogham - pronounced 'Owem'.
Galway in Ireland, Galicia in Spain, Portu-gal, France was Gaul, Galatia in Turkey, Gal-ilee in in Palestine. Still have bagpipe instruments in all these lands. Celtic mummies 4000-1000 years old found in China. They had the plaid pants, long blond and red braided hair, weapons and jewelry. We influenced the whole world.
@@yahcovedyahudim9592 "But the hair was bleached to be red." - please cite a source for this as they were not "bleached" in my understanding. Red hair is natural to Europeans and was prevalent in a much greater proportion back then. The Tocharians in China circa 2000 BCE were a proto-Celtic people from Europe who, over centuries, gradually expanded East all the way to China. Ramesses II (the Great), pharaoh of Egypt (1300 BCE) had red hair; this has been proven to be natural and not dyed or bleached. If you look up an Egyptian mummy known as 'Ginger' you will find a red haired mummy from pre-Dynastic Egypt (3400 BCE). Blonde and red hair is thought to have been common among pre-Dynastic Egyptian mummies, there are multiple examples.
I'm Asian,from Thailand,and I've gotten interest at celtic culture since i knew king Arthur.Though,in asia,they are not as popular as roman or viking,they used to be one of the most superior kinds in europe.Thanks for this video,I can learn about them more. I love celtic culture.If I have a chance,I wish I could visit Ireland once.
how does not knowing about ancient people groups not of your country make you stupid? that's like Americans calling you stupid for not knowing about Native Americans/Amerindians.
@Ryan Jones - Of course they were Celtic and no they weren't Basque. That's an outdated theory. They were Celts because they spoke Celtic languages. Even in this video they quoted Brehon laws as an example of how Celtic society worked and the Brehon laws were Irish.
I've heard that they did have a written language (mixture of Greek and their own symbols)but that they simply didn't write down their own legends and stories (the Druids had to memorize because it was more intimate or something). I bet they had it for trade reasons. They also had one of best calenders of all time and Romans had the worst. The Celts were fantastic with their maths.
Why would they have a written language but not write anything down? Because they did write things down but it all got destroyed when they were forced to convert to Christianity. And I think that they were threatened and forbidden by the new Christian law to write stuff down that was Celtic related afterwards. I'm sure at least one of them secretly rebelled and wrote stuff down. There is probably some treasure of Celtic stuff hidden some where.
Great video. One thing you left out is, yes they didn't purposely leave written records, they still were literate. There are some examples of inventory and attendance lists, found when a tribe moved from one place to another. The list included who was in the group and what inventory (food, tools, weapons, etcetera) they had with them. And some Eastern tribes had a very advanced calendar, vastly superior to the Roman calendar for accuracy.
They used Ogham symbols for writing, but most of their history was communicated verbally, which was the job of the bards. Hence, they had exceptional memories.
I can confirm fact #2 and #3 and to add on, people even into the 21st Century still worship the traditional Gods and Goddesses from the Celtic polytheist past. There are no set standards on how the ritual should be made since no written records were kept.
(opinion) Thrace, Macedonia, The warriors of the immortals (Persian not celt unless made of of north turkey Galica troops), and Greek later society all had tendency's. Its covered up by modern biblical societies. Look for the three wheel boot or red hair (RN1 DNA) you will know where Celts have been. I reference far east because they had more early writing's on Celts then Rome did. The dyeing Celt statue exists for a reason.
I give you kudos for saying what we know of the Celts is from their enemies. Yes, the winners of history do not give credit where it's correctly due. I would say based on the information you are able to gather today this is the most fair assement of one's understanding of the Celts. Keep learning! Thank you for the video.☺🙏
I've never heard these things such as the Celts fought naked! Just like the Scots never painted their faces blue. But I have never heard the quote myths of the Celtic peoples.
The ancient Suebi of southern Germany were Celts: their king was Marbod, a name that occurs in Brythonic, for example Marbod of Rennes (1035-1123) who was an archdeacon and schoolmaster in Angers (capital of Anjou, where the Plantagenets came from). Speaking of Plantagenets, the Counts of Anjou originated in Lower Brittany. England’s been ruled by many Celtic dynasties.
That's terribly inaccurate even if it's phrased more positively, the dominant narrative is given by the dominant power. There were survivors of nearly every culture and that is why history gets revised
The English have this bad habit of forgetting the Celtic people they put under their colonial boot. We're still here, and many of us still speak our languages, despite their best efforts to wipe us out.
@@ryannoodle1 what celts are you talking about? If you mean Welsh, the Welsh are a mix of anglo-saxon and native, but mostly Anglo, as the originals (natives of Britain, aka the picts and bretons)were swarthy skinned much like the Spanish, albeit darker (not African American black though, as they were NOT Africans) and since DNA tests have shown, while they still have descent of native blood, they have alot more Anglo blood in them. The Irish are actually more like the Normans of Ireland, as their blood is actually nordic, with little of the Gaelic people in their blood, even less than the wales. Cornish are Englishmen who adopted a recreation of the cornish language, so it is not known what original cornish sounds like. That leaves the bretons who mixed with the gauls to some degree, thus having more of the breton blood that's NOT mixed with Anglo saxon blood then Wales. Are modern celts aren't pure bloods.
@@SuperiorGamerNathan yes, the old Welsh and modern welsh have mostly Anglo-saxons blood in them. I am sorry that you can't comprehend that, but that's the truth. Heard of the silures? Or the ordovices? Yeah, those guys didn't have light skin/white skin, or spoke with the accent the modern Welsh do. Modern & medieval welsh are mutt bloods.
Fun fact: My family is Norse-Irish ancestry and my wife is from Dublin with Celtic ancestry..... same area my family is from yet I'm of Norse decent and she isn't..... History.
This breakdown was fantastic. I very much value the caveats regarding the veracity of different points informing the listener in effect; "here's the information we have on this bit of evidence." Bravo!
Check up on the history of Casear's campaigns in Gaul and Britain, it reveals a lot about how disunited the celts were, especially when you get to the parts where some tribes are indifferent to roman invasion and others seek out an alliance with rome to help protect them or gain an advantage over other tribes.
@@NEIGH6699 The English are descended from the Angles and Saxons, Germanic tribes. The term England comes from Angle-land. All the British Celts were pushed into what is now Wales and Cornwall by the Anglo Saxons and the Gaels. The Dal Riata, an Irish tribe from the north of Ireland invaded what is now known as Scotland in the 7th century and pushed out the British Celts. The area was previously known as Alba it took the name Scotland from the Irish who were called Scoti by the Greeks and Romans. Latin sources often referred to the inhabitants of Dál Riata as Scots (Scoti), a name originally used by Roman and Greek writers for the Irish who raided Roman Britain. Later, it came to refer to Gaelic-speakers, whether from Ireland or elsewhere.[3] They are referred to herein as Gaels, an unambiguous term, or as Dál Riatans.[4]
I am decedent of the Gaelic Celts. And I thank you for this video. Thanks for pointing out to me that we were much more advanced than what mainstream archeology said that we were.
It's funny how you associate yourself with an ancient ethnic group that has been largely assimilated with ALL other ethnic groups that have flooded Europe since. Yes, you probably do have some Celtic 'blood' in you but so do most Europeans, as most Europeans are relatively closely related. But really? Identifying yourself with this ancient group of people? This sounds a bit naive.
Gaels are not an ancient people that have died out. Simply the singular of for an irish person or nowadays it has come to mean a supporter or member of the Gaelic Athletic Association.Yes scottish highlanders are considered gaels as well,but because it was used first for the irish we have the first claim on it
+makouras The only thing that is naive is denying or attempting to deny another person their ancestry and origin, which is what you have tried to do, indirectly, through your comment.
The Welsh Celts were in Wales well over 10 thousand years ago, thats 7 thousand years before the Ancient Egyptians built their pyramids. We've found structures to prove it. Also there's been many large scale wide spread DNA testing that shows we are far different from Europeans and Germanics etc etc.. Everybody knows that the Welsh were the original Britons who were the first Celts here.
Only after doing research today have I learned that other people associate the Celts with Ireland most?? I've grown up in the southwest of England, and I've associated them mostly with Scotland, but I know that they were all over Europe. My family has had many pagan influences, I have a Scottish Irish and English heritage and we've all been very traditional by trade; saddlers, archers and I myself am a carpenter, but my fiance had peaked her interest in witchcraft a few years ago so we've been looking into paganism and the Celts ever since
The "progressive" references to Celtic warriors participating in homosexual behaviour, comes from Roman anti-Celt propaganda. It was homophobic slander rather than an honest description of Celtic warrior culture. The Romans had no problems with raping boys, but were fairly bigoted when it came to adult male same-sex relationships.
LittleLordFancyLad . Greeks and other races were no better. It's the human condition. Btw the ' elites' of any culture seem to be best at that sort of thing....idle hands, etc.
What are you talking about? The Romans were perfectly accepting of homosexual relationships so long as the man of higher social standing took the penetrative role, and in the case of younger (free) men the permission of the father was required in addition to the young man in question. Celtic homosexual behaviours *were* actually recorded by other groups (such as the Greeks) who spoke specifically of marriage between men, and in a positive light.
@@dianaekman7161 Homosexual behavior among the Celts was observed by Roman and Greek writers who lived centuries apart. This sexual expression didn't have anything to do with only the idle elites as you've so snidely suggested. Having wealth and spare time has never been proven to influence someone's sexual orientation.
Any time you say 'some people say', I understand that your writer/editor has cherry picked some theory which is clearly not in the mainstream but a) either fits into their personal preferences or b) sounds far better and more shocking for clickbait or c) both. It lacks credibility.
they where wealthy because they did not had a goverment ho was out for there money like today. evrybody was more equal, compare that to the rich and poor in the roman empire
There are some inaccuracies in this video. Here are some facts. The Celts are of Indo-European origin. The Celts in Ireland had a system of law called Brehon law. Under Brehon law, nobody was executed. If a man killed a married man, depriving the wife and children of his labour and support, then the murderer of that man had to work for that man's family for a long time. He was not a slave or even a prisoner, it was a very practical and humane law. The reasoning behind it was that in working with the family every day, the murderer would see for himself the grief that his actions had caused and be truly repentant and that he could atone for his crime by working for the family as long as they needed his labour. If he had a family of his own, he had to work for his own family and the family of the man he had killed. The Celts were not 'head-hunters' but a custom once existed that when there was a fierce battle, and a warrior killed his enemies, after he had killed them he would chop off their heads and these heads would be tied together and worn around the neck of his horse until he got home. This had nothing to do with religion. The heads were 'trophies' to show how great a warrior he was. One of the reasons the Celts were such great warriors, as well as the fact that they were extremely brave, is that the Celts both male and female were extremely skilled in horsemanship. You also didn't mention that the Celts were wonderful musicians, poets and storytellers, that we elected our kings and queens, that we have always shown great respect for the dead and reverence for our ancestors, and there are very many other things you didn't even mention. In fact, this was a very poor video.
Alexander Nilsson goths r called jatt in india...i m a jatt.. we live mostly in state punjab india...bro goths or jatt is martial race...we r here landlords and do agriculture and keep animal like cows and bufflows...it is said that we cam from middle asia..sm ancestr cam to india and sm went to europe...we defeatd alaxnder the great and romans....we nevr surendr...
Fascinating ! I had my DNA done and totally surprised to see I had Irish in me! And it came from the Celtic line in britangne . I always said I had Gaul in me and it did confirm that. Keep up with your bits of history. I would love to see something on the native tribes of northern Mexico. Thank you.
The moment you realise there's 2 ads in one ad break that are both longer than the whole video you're watching.... I like to watch the ads to help the creator but it's a bit unfair having 24 mins of ads on an 11 min video... WTflyingF is that about youtube, come on. -.-
12th-century sources state that Scota was the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh, a contemporary of Moses, who married Geytholos (Goídel Glas), the founder of the Scots and Gaels after being exiled from Egypt.
You missed the most fascinating fact about the Celts, that is that they are still amongst us, and surround you in your daily life. If you know the features to look for you can see them walking down your high street.
The whole of Britain was made up of Celtic tribes, even in the land we call England, not everyone ran away or were wiped out when the Anglo Saxons invaded, that theory has been blown out of the window many times now. England got its name from the angles, who were the biggest group of them all, hence engla land, which is Denmark, they were the ruling elite at that time, many of the celts who stayed adopted the ruling elites ways, for a peaceful life etc. So they may have lost their Celtic culture/language, but they are still the same people who were celts before invasion. Also Cornwall is in England, yet they are classed as Celtic, yet their language had died out, so how come they are still classed as Celtic? Yes now they are reviving their language, is that why ? Maybe those in England should revive their Celtic roots as well, especially considering the majority of Celtic tribes were in England (today terminology) in the first place.
@@seeyouanon2931 you were mostly right, Cornwall is NOT in England it is illegally occupied and I can give you exact legal references that prove the point, Cornwall along with Wales are native britons to Britain and predate the creation of England.. people in England can't revive their Celtic roots unless directly related to family they deem Celtic.. they have a massive identity problem as to call themselves "British" but rarely defend anything truly British like things to do with Wales or Cornwall etc..
Cornwall is an administrative county of England, there are 27 counties in England, I agree the celts pre date the creation of England, but my point is, many of those celts stayed in England when it was created, so therefore they are the same people as the celts who pre dated the creation of England. Not everyone in England was wiped out and replaced by the Anglo Saxons. And not everyone in Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland etc. Are all 100% pure blood either, being Celtic is culture and language, but yes many people in England have very strong ancestral ties to Britain, hereford has a Celtic revival going on and I think Cumbria has as well,
What is more interesting is that in the Arthurian legends, the sword Excalibur was given to the Lady of the Lake. This is no mere Chaucer fantasy. Casting weapons and war gear into water was a long pagan religious practice that has been discovered by piles of rusted swords, spears, shields etc. In lakes and rivers from Switzerland to the British Isles.
Apparently it’s to go with bronze swords being cast in one piece, in rock rather than a stone sword. Iron swords are beaten iron rods so don’t fit the narrative.
Gaul = foreigner in Latin Some Gauls called themselves Celtae, others Belgae, others (Basques) Aquitani. The Irish word for foreigner is also gall, so it shows the similarity between Irish and Latin (Italo-Celtic branch)
I am a Pathan/Pashtun and had an ancestry DNA test done recently. I got around 12% Irish, Scottish, Welsh (Celtic). I have seen the same for many other pathans having Celtic and Nordic DNA and the percentage is fairly high. What happened somewhere within the last 700 years that many Irish and Nordic tribes came to settle in modern day Afghanistan?
Adeel, *The migration of Vedic Aryans from North West India beyond Gandhara (today's Kandahara) to Europe and Eurasia of the Druhyu tribes(Druids), the Alinas ,the Anus etc resulted in the settlement of the Celts and Gauls, Germans, Balts, Hittites and the Iranians* The truth about this migration has rarely been told, firstly because Western Indologists hardly believe them in view of their idea that the Aryans migrated to India. Secondly because of the Christian and Islamic civilizations, whatever religious ritual and mythologies remained we're destroyed as the work of the devil or as paganism that did not merit study. Namaste
The Yamnaya from around 6,000 years ago were the first Indo Europeans and the root of all Indo European languages, a steppe people who originated in central Asia between the Himalayas and the Caspian Sea. They expanded out as these nomads often do, and went South and West, and pretty much replaced the Neolithic Farmer populations of Europe. They are the ancestors of most Europeans, Iranians and Northern Indians and possibly many or most Afghans, it being geographically probable. The Taklamakan Mummies in Western China are probably these people.
Now I hate to bicker and point out some inaccuracies, cause I really do enjoy your video's, but #8 is kinda off, the Egyptians had iron weapons too and I believe they used it for some time, king Tuts dagger was made from Iron that came from a meteorite.
I would like to hear You talk more about the Celts, since You barely scratched the surface in this video . PS" when I was in Brasil I met a Celt of Spanish origin playing the pipes in the park one day, said he was Spanish , the Pipes were part of his culture . The pipes were shorter than Scottish pipes . DML
Common misconception: early iron was actually weaker than bronze but it was cheaper to produce. It wasn't until later more advanced smelting were developed that iron weapons became a stronger material for weapons. Even then bronze was more appropriate for some weapons. For example, during the Age of Sail brass cannons were superior for their higher specific heat capacity and for being less brittle and slower to rust. It was just again that bronze was FAR more expensive.
Not Who You Think I Am Picts were more less a Celtic people. Not Gaelic, who settled in Scotland from Ireland. Gaelic mythology suggests the the Picts are/were descendents of the Fir Bolg, some of the first known settlers of Ireland.
Thank You For Pronouncing "Celts & Celtic" Correctly! I'm A Huge History Buff, & HATE To See It Butchered...GREAT JOB!!! Please Do More Topics, About Them 🙏🏻 ❤️
Another fun fact: The Celts still exist.
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Not on the mainland
Really? Where? Brits have a lot of anglo saxon, norse & roman blood. Irish aren't pure celts either; they all have viking genetics in them.
RocketNothing: and the Vikings of Norway and Iceland have significant Celtic (Irish and Old British) ancestry, too. No, not just because the Norse took slaves: the Celts sometimes led the Vikings.
You missed that they were miners, and the Romans learned from them. tin, salt, gold, iron, silver - all good mined stuff.
Yes, the Celts were exceptional metal-workers.
yes that's why the romans conquered them.
I really wish that the Brits would learn to use a dictionary for pronunciation help. The incorrect speech makes it hard to listen to some of the very interesting videos they record
It was called the Iron Age, they didn't find the iron under their pillows in the morning. Of course they were miners, duh.
And that the Phonecians traded with Cornwall. And that Jonah took a ship to Tarshish, the further distance from Israel.
The Irish heard American roads were paved with gold. They got here and realized that the roads weren't paved at all and they had to pave them.
Firinne!
@@alphaplenn No...
No they weren't.
Mark Plenn yup 👍🏻
@@cumbdunt7139 Worse is a lie, but however, they were treated as bad as blacks throughout the new world. Especially in the Carribean where they were the heavy slave power of the British.
@@completely_blank9265 They were endentured servants, their situation wasn't hereditary, nor were they bought and sold as property
Even further east for origins of Celts, like Middle East and Ukraine. They moved west bringing farming techniques to hunter gatherer cultures eg in the British Isles. Very recent genetically based research. But who knows findings like this are often overturned or superseded rather quickly.
Yep, trace your Irish heritage far enough back and you are a Jew or an Arab.
I enjoyed your video. 1 spot of contention, the Y chromosome DNA for the "Celtic peoples" starts in the middle East, follows a path through Turkey, Greece, northern Italy, down around the Iberian peninsula back up to finish in the British Isles.
Yep with the oldest , purest and e heart of the migration being the Basque
My guess is Armenia.
The Brythonnic Celts - The Welsh,Cornish and Bretons,even the Devonians.All and each are always overlooked in the Celtic identity.And,the Celts were said to have migrated up from Celtic Iberia.The Basques and Gallicians have very close links to these islands,dna wise.
Also the Celts from Doggerland. Like my ancestry.
That's all been shown to be incorrect. The all grew out of Bell Beaker culture and no Basques and Galicians are not very close dna wise to people like the Irish, Scots and Welsh. The Bretons are but not the Basques or Galicians.
@@jackieblue1267 you so wrong mate bell beaker culture started in jambugal in lusitania 20.000 years ago , at that time England was a frost fishing plateau
@@jackieblue1267 ho man you need to be born and grown in the area to know about your ancestry , you can trace your ancestry perhaps back 10.000 years because of the ice age i can trace mine 20.000 so i know about what i'm talking about , just got to beaker of zambujal , in lusitania it will shed some light about bell beaker
I agree with your statement that the Welsh (me), Cornish, Bretons and Devonians are overlooked when the Celtic identity is spoken about. I got so fed up I moved to Spain :-)
I am glad you showed your sources for the most part, though I do find it funny that you stated the Celts were headhunters, while citing an article that said there is still debate about that.
Most of that list is still in debate. It's based on what others said about the Celts.
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11:00 I'd say it's more like calling a Comanche a "Native-American". A pre-19th Century Comanche would have thought of himself as that, not a "Native-American"
Native are not American and Invaders are American
Anyone born in America is an American. Are you talking about the first tribes? Because calling the first tribes native Americans is a misnomer. Besides we're all immigrants whether we came 30000 years ago by land bridge on foot, or by 747 two years ago. We're all immigrants and descended from immigrants.
People know what we are talking about when someone says "Native American" and make the distinction between first peoples and European settlers.
The population of pre colonisation used words best translated as ""the people" rather than some geographic term for their nationality and identified by their tribal affiliation. It doesn't become relevant to have a word for it until outsiders are noticed
@Alec scott America didn't exist before Amerigo Vespucci ! It was just continent previously known to be part of pangeea.
Actually calling a German a German is highly generalized. The nation of Germany wasn't around until the 1800s. Germans were also multiple tribes and peoples united by a culture and language, similar to the Celts.
The same with nearly every country tbh
With similar regional dialectical changes, look at Danish.
That's racist
Gary Daniel: the Swabians were Celts: long live King Marbod!
Italians likewise. Romans, Latins, Sabines, Etruscans, Umbrians, Neapolitans, Syracusans, and many more, all had separate identities. To a degree, many still do.
Also Julius Caesar conquered Gaul so quickly, because the Gauls were already civilized, with roads and towns throughout. So he just had to default the Gallic tribes at Alesia and he had the whole country in the bag. This was in stark contrast to Germanic tribes of the time across the Rhine, who did not have an urban culture and lived in scattered and decentralized homesteads in dense forests. Very difficult to conquer; Battle of Teutoburg Wald.
Galatians
Didn't know the celts survived in the east
They survived for a quite a long time,in fact if i am not mistaken there is a part called as "galatians" in bible,which refers to these people.Look it up,they had quite an advanture in anatolia and were a major power and well known mercaneries until Roman empire finally embraced them as a whole.but of course as the times passed like it happened to everywhere they merged with the other ethnic groups and contributing from their culture and their heritage they took their place in ERE,Ottoman empire and finally todays Turkish republic.And still in Todays Turkish Republic there are places named after them like "Galata Kulesi,Ankara(again if i am not mistaken it means Ancyra in celtic and that means "Anchor") etc.),Galatasaray etc.".As a Turkish i do appriciete those people as i am appricieting other anatolian cultures as well.
Sorry for my english,tried my best :)
Güray Günay Dude that's awesome. Always fascinating to me. Do you guys have your traditions and no problems from politics/religion.
Güray Günay you realize you modern "Turks" are barley if at all related to ancient Anatolians right?
Güray Günay Turks are 40 percent middle eastern, 40 percent near eastern/Mediterranean and 20 percent Turkic.
You aren’t really Anatolian.
He didn't mention the trinity of rulers! A Druid, a Bard and a Seer helped to guide the chieftain.
This. And the fact there were quite a lot of female druids mentioned by roman sources as envoys, diplomats and various other dignitaries. The "females in roles of power" were mostly druids or, more rarely, the noble daughters of heirless kings. Druids were really important in gaulish society at least, they basically served as the legislative and branch of tribal government, and part of the judicial branch too.
The celts didn't have "trinities", they had TRIADS, it's not the same thing
According to several books I have read, the Druids were simply the ruling class, some of whom oversaw the religious aspects of life. They consisted of men and women and one became a Druid simply by proving one's intelligence.
That makes a Gang of Four.
A proud Welsh Celt living in the former lands of the great Silure tribe!
+Brandon Lavis
*waves* Greetings from your Irish Celtic cousins across the pond! :D
leonardo decapitated haha! Always a pleasure to meet a kinsman! :D
Brandon Lavis hello, this is EnglishCuck_Old123, please do include us as many of us identify as Celts from the Eastern Roman Empire. Thank you.
Welsh is the pre-dominant ancestry of the American south, and most people dont even know it.
Frank Joseph the art work on cowboy/cowgirl boots is inspired by celtic art.
Gaels are essentially a mixture of pre Celtic and Celtic People
thank you so much for this video on the Celtic people. I have been preaching about some of their achievements since college but I did not know they made roads that predated Rome. I do know however that our system of writing most of the way we live now did not come from the Romans and all but the Etruscans and the Greeks. And the joy that we have about modern forensics in anthropology, we can find out who made what and when so much for history being written by the winners told somebody proves otherwise.
Simon, you are absolutely the heart❤️and soul of this channel! I appreciate the zeal n joy you bring to your presentations! Your sir, are truly entertaining and are a pleasure to behold!
calling them celts is less like calling a russian a European, it like call a Pole a Slav, it's was an ethnic group that had many sub groups
Gerald Grenier was it even an ethnic group or was it a cultural group? European isn't really an ethnic group, but it is a macro cultural group. i don't know I'm asking.
Not true at all... this line of propaganda has a nefarious agenda by people who like to see Celts disconnected from eachother.
i did not understand anything you just said. check your grammar fam
You have absolutely NO clue what you're talking about.
I may shock you but originally Russian are European same as Pole people. Slavic people are European.
The Celts also had a ruling system similar to that of the Roman Senate.
Instead of having a king, some Celtic tribes formed a sort of semi-democracy where the leaders of individual tribes convened to make decisions together for all their tribes.
They didn't start showing up in Britain until around 500 bc, mostly in dribs and drabs, refugees from the expanding influence of Rome. There was already a very gold rich culture here before the Celtic influx. Apart from having a few modestly productive goldmines, the reason Britain thrived so well in the Bronze age, was the tin deposits in the South West. Tin was (Still is, really) pretty scarce, and there were only two or three sources of quality tin, in the amounts needed to make weapons grade bronze, and Cornwall had by far the largest deposits, of the best tin ore.
'Celt' was just a Roman term for any of the barbarian tribes in the West of the Empire, whether they had any cultural connections with one another or not. Celt / Gaul / Gael, they were all the same to Rome. They didn't care what the savages called themselves, as long as they kept the Pax Romanus. Britain was the only Roman Province that needed a full Military presence for the whole period of occupation, mostly because by the time Rome got here, there were generations of migrants here who had fought Rome, and fled as far West as they could, many of them still actively aiding mainland resistance against Rome.
I'm from Gallia Belgea, acoordingly to Julius caesar the bravest of the gauls. We have a nice statue of our hero, Ambiorix in our country.
Also very interesting. And yes, the fighting qualities of ancient Belgians were also legendary.
The Galatian Celts in central Turkey were related to the Celts of Belgae ;) fyi
@@keptins Have you got evidences of that ?
Hello all! thanks so much for all you do here on your channel, I look forward to everything you put out. I just learned more about the "Celts" I. the last 11&1/2 minutes than I had learned in the last 35 yrs! You are the BEST! BRIGHTEST BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL IN ALL YOU DO, ALWAYS! Watching daily from North Central Arizona....
Normal people: Celts
Me, an intellectual: Land Vikings
Draco Distortion: Some Bretons even led the Loire Vikings in the early 900s.
Pretty much the opposite of Vikings. Seems you Americans only have room for Vikings, Celts, and Romans to float around in those toilet bowls you call brains.
I LOVE THIS
@Kat Murphy Murphy does come from the word sea but calling your name your clan I'm guessing you're American?
Oisin O Toole I don't think they called their name their clan. Also, how does that make someone American?
5:11 Reminds me a lot of the Aesir and Vanir exchanging people as a peace negotiation, then afterwards those who were traded becoming part of the new family.
Norse will always be the best. Irish-Norse bloodline runs strong.
The head hunting part, ie sole of a warrior, is definitely the inspiration for the highlander movies/concept..
The Gaels were Celts, albeit different to the Britons who spoke a differen branch of Celtic, furthermore the people of those islands would not had called themselves Celts, that is a Roman word ( Keltoi ) So does he think these islands were empty when they arrived ? he forgets the stone age people's who were cut off after the English channel thawed . The Picts have been described as an ancient aboriginal people by many respected texts and there is so little we know of the painted one's.
_Keltoi_ is actually the greek word. _Gallia_ is the roman word.
true and the picts didnt just inhabit scotland they stretched down into Cumbria which is also partyly brythonic.
The Picts were descendants of the Celts.
Nothing is clear that far back. Celtic (or now insular) Celtic people are broadly divided into two groups; Gaelic and Brythonic speakers, but this is a generalization. For example, not being a linguist, I am not sure where the Manx language falls into which group? Possibly the difference between the root words and syntax of Gaelic and Brythonic languages and dialects are more different to each other than modern English is to German.
@@kryts27 I read that Manx is Goedelic along with Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Welsh, Cornish and Bretton are Brythonic.
The celts came from north of the Danube in Serbia
That is why they found 1500 old Serbian words from the Balkan language in the old Gaelic language they were called gety or gets warrior tribes
This is known by Serbian academics
Around 300 BC the Celts in Ireland began to write - but not in the way we think about writing. They carved with their iron tools on tall, narrow stones. Their writing was called Ogam or Ogham - pronounced 'Owem'.
another incredible video,superbly narrated (as usual) on a topic I've always found super fascinating. well researched and the sub-topics were perfect.
Galway in Ireland, Galicia in Spain, Portu-gal, France was Gaul, Galatia in Turkey, Gal-ilee in in Palestine. Still have bagpipe instruments in all these lands. Celtic mummies 4000-1000 years old found in China. They had the plaid pants, long blond and red braided hair, weapons and jewelry. We influenced the whole world.
Mike Semon So did Mesopotamians, Greeks, Indians, Egyptian, Persians and Arabs.
Mike Semon now you’re talking
But the hair was bleached to be red
@@yahcovedyahudim9592 "But the hair was bleached to be red." - please cite a source for this as they were not "bleached" in my understanding. Red hair is natural to Europeans and was prevalent in a much greater proportion back then. The Tocharians in China circa 2000 BCE were a proto-Celtic people from Europe who, over centuries, gradually expanded East all the way to China. Ramesses II (the Great), pharaoh of Egypt (1300 BCE) had red hair; this has been proven to be natural and not dyed or bleached. If you look up an Egyptian mummy known as 'Ginger' you will find a red haired mummy from pre-Dynastic Egypt (3400 BCE). Blonde and red hair is thought to have been common among pre-Dynastic Egyptian mummies, there are multiple examples.
@Twm Llwynog Thanks Twm, that was an interesting read.
"Without the Celts, who would build the roads?"
"We're gonna build a wall and we're gonna make the Picts pay for it"
- Hadrian, probably
Ruairí Másún lmao must be a muslim joke Hahahhaha
"Without the Jews who would live on them?"
Joshua Velasquez Mexicans
the polish...?
I'm Asian,from Thailand,and I've gotten interest at celtic culture since i knew king Arthur.Though,in asia,they are not as popular as roman or viking,they used to be one of the most superior kinds in europe.Thanks for this video,I can learn about them more.
I love celtic culture.If I have a chance,I wish I could visit Ireland once.
nobody thinks the celts originated in Ireland...
Sally Gunnell because it's based on a stereotype
Brandon Lavis what? that sentence doesn't even make sense
Yeah, I guarantee a lot of people do
how does not knowing about ancient people groups not of your country make you stupid? that's like Americans calling you stupid for not knowing about Native Americans/Amerindians.
@Ryan Jones - Of course they were Celtic and no they weren't Basque. That's an outdated theory. They were Celts because they spoke Celtic languages. Even in this video they quoted Brehon laws as an example of how Celtic society worked and the Brehon laws were Irish.
I've heard that they did have a written language (mixture of Greek and their own symbols)but that they simply didn't write down their own legends and stories (the Druids had to memorize because it was more intimate or something). I bet they had it for trade reasons.
They also had one of best calenders of all time and Romans had the worst. The Celts were fantastic with their maths.
Why would they have a written language but not write anything down?
Because they did write things down but it all got destroyed when they were forced to convert to Christianity. And I think that they were threatened and forbidden by the new Christian law to write stuff down that was Celtic related afterwards.
I'm sure at least one of them secretly rebelled and wrote stuff down. There is probably some treasure of Celtic stuff hidden some where.
How did Nicolas Cage's garbage remake become the reference when The Wicker Man comes up. The original movie is a goddamn fantastic classic.
7:38 Reminds me of Odin taking Mimir's head which he carried around to ask it for wisdom.
do one on the Picts please
Great video. One thing you left out is, yes they didn't purposely leave written records, they still were literate. There are some examples of inventory and attendance lists, found when a tribe moved from one place to another. The list included who was in the group and what inventory (food, tools, weapons, etcetera) they had with them. And some Eastern tribes had a very advanced calendar, vastly superior to the Roman calendar for accuracy.
They used Ogham symbols for writing, but most of their history was communicated verbally, which was the job of the bards. Hence, they had exceptional memories.
I can confirm fact #2 and #3 and to add on, people even into the 21st Century still worship the traditional Gods and Goddesses from the Celtic polytheist past. There are no set standards on how the ritual should be made since no written records were kept.
Aspie With Attitude @@@@1
This is the first time I've ever heard about men 'prefering other men' in native Celtic tribes. Interesting.
(opinion) Thrace, Macedonia, The warriors of the immortals (Persian not celt unless made of of north turkey Galica troops), and Greek later society all had tendency's. Its covered up by modern biblical societies. Look for the three wheel boot or red hair (RN1 DNA) you will know where Celts have been. I reference far east because they had more early writing's on Celts then Rome did. The dyeing Celt statue exists for a reason.
I give you kudos for saying what we know of the Celts is from their enemies. Yes, the winners of history do not give credit where it's correctly due. I would say based on the information you are able to gather today this is the most fair assement of one's understanding of the Celts. Keep learning! Thank you for the video.☺🙏
I love videos like this and your voice makes it so enjoyable.
i gave a thumbs up but could argue some points
SO appreciate your level of knowledge & your balanced delivery, VERY refreshing!!!!
I've never heard these things such as the Celts fought naked! Just like the Scots never painted their faces blue. But I have never heard the quote myths of the Celtic peoples.
The ancient Suebi of southern Germany were Celts: their king was Marbod, a name that occurs in Brythonic, for example Marbod of Rennes (1035-1123) who was an archdeacon and schoolmaster in Angers (capital of Anjou, where the Plantagenets came from).
Speaking of Plantagenets, the Counts of Anjou originated in Lower Brittany. England’s been ruled by many Celtic dynasties.
i love these videos Simon!!! but i prefer saying "history is written by the survivors"
The Celts still survive
That's terribly inaccurate even if it's phrased more positively, the dominant narrative is given by the dominant power.
There were survivors of nearly every culture and that is why history gets revised
Bizarre that you talk about the Celts as if they were some ancient people that have long-since died out...
The English have this bad habit of forgetting the Celtic people they put under their colonial boot. We're still here, and many of us still speak our languages, despite their best efforts to wipe us out.
@@ryannoodle1 what celts are you talking about? If you mean Welsh, the Welsh are a mix of anglo-saxon and native, but mostly Anglo, as the originals (natives of Britain, aka the picts and bretons)were swarthy skinned much like the Spanish, albeit darker (not African American black though, as they were NOT Africans) and since DNA tests have shown, while they still have descent of native blood, they have alot more Anglo blood in them.
The Irish are actually more like the Normans of Ireland, as their blood is actually nordic, with little of the Gaelic people in their blood, even less than the wales.
Cornish are Englishmen who adopted a recreation of the cornish language, so it is not known what original cornish sounds like.
That leaves the bretons who mixed with the gauls to some degree, thus having more of the breton blood that's NOT mixed with Anglo saxon blood then Wales. Are modern celts aren't pure bloods.
@@SuperiorGamerNathan wrong what?
@@SuperiorGamerNathan yes, the old Welsh and modern welsh have mostly Anglo-saxons blood in them. I am sorry that you can't comprehend that, but that's the truth. Heard of the silures? Or the ordovices? Yeah, those guys didn't have light skin/white skin, or spoke with the accent the modern Welsh do. Modern & medieval welsh are mutt bloods.
... who didn't practise slavery in some form in that era? Or any era until the last fee hundred years?
Kaseridon Rivers people still practice slavery to this day
Ever heard of human trafficking? Today, the world has the largest number of slaves ever in human history.
Coercion counts as slavery too, so what's that make most of us? We think that just because we live in the future our rulers don't rule us.
Kaseridon Rivers the slaves
Still being practiced in Africa
Government sanctioned slavery
Fun fact: My family is Norse-Irish ancestry and my wife is from Dublin with Celtic ancestry..... same area my family is from yet I'm of Norse decent and she isn't..... History.
This breakdown was fantastic. I very much value the caveats regarding the veracity of different points informing the listener in effect; "here's the information we have on this bit of evidence." Bravo!
well as some one who comes from a nation of gaels i find this highly interesting thank you!!
I like your videos and this one on the Celts was no exception. Your channel is one of the most interesting produced, keep up the good work!
Check up on the history of Casear's campaigns in Gaul and Britain, it reveals a lot about how disunited the celts were, especially when you get to the parts where some tribes are indifferent to roman invasion and others seek out an alliance with rome to help protect them or gain an advantage over other tribes.
Nothing changed until today.
The Celts are the true Kings of Europe and one day we will reclaim our thrones and the entire world will know who we are.
chill out mate
Haha. Keep fantazising
ArdRí na hÉireann care to share the drugs your on fella
That must be a fat line of cocaine you just did there scamp
@@NEIGH6699 The English are descended from the Angles and Saxons, Germanic tribes. The term England comes from Angle-land. All the British Celts were pushed into what is now Wales and Cornwall by the Anglo Saxons and the Gaels. The Dal Riata, an Irish tribe from the north of Ireland invaded what is now known as Scotland in the 7th century and pushed out the British Celts. The area was previously known as Alba it took the name Scotland from the Irish who were called Scoti by the Greeks and Romans. Latin sources often referred to the inhabitants of Dál Riata as Scots (Scoti), a name originally used by Roman and Greek writers for the Irish who raided Roman Britain. Later, it came to refer to Gaelic-speakers, whether from Ireland or elsewhere.[3] They are referred to herein as Gaels, an unambiguous term, or as Dál Riatans.[4]
I am decedent of the Gaelic Celts. And I thank you for this video. Thanks for pointing out to me that we were much more advanced than what mainstream archeology said that we were.
It's funny how you associate yourself with an ancient ethnic group that has been largely assimilated with ALL other ethnic groups that have flooded Europe since. Yes, you probably do have some Celtic 'blood' in you but so do most Europeans, as most Europeans are relatively closely related. But really? Identifying yourself with this ancient group of people? This sounds a bit naive.
evilwarcow Being a Celt is a way of life, not just about blood.
Gaels are not an ancient people that have died out. Simply the singular of for an irish person or nowadays it has come to mean a supporter or member of the Gaelic Athletic Association.Yes scottish highlanders are considered gaels as well,but because it was used first for the irish we have the first claim on it
+makouras
The only thing that is naive is denying or attempting to deny another person their ancestry and origin, which is what you have tried to do, indirectly, through your comment.
evilwarcow a decedent means you're dead... you mean descendant.
This is short, but fairly informative.
Pnawn da -)
Iawn de
The Welsh Celts were in Wales well over 10 thousand years ago, thats 7 thousand years before the Ancient Egyptians built their pyramids. We've found structures to prove it. Also there's been many large scale wide spread DNA testing that shows we are far different from Europeans and Germanics etc etc.. Everybody knows that the Welsh were the original Britons who were the first Celts here.
Glad they published this on April 1st.
You the man Simon! Thanks, you explain perfectly, loved it😊
@6:56 They weren't savages, but they did hunt heads.
What isn't savage about carrying severed heads?
WhatAWorld
They generally nailed the heads of enemies they killed on top of their door. IMO what happened in Roman arenas was WAY more savage.
LOL!
If it pays the bills or keeps you safe, nothing
Only after doing research today have I learned that other people associate the Celts with Ireland most?? I've grown up in the southwest of England, and I've associated them mostly with Scotland, but I know that they were all over Europe. My family has had many pagan influences, I have a Scottish Irish and English heritage and we've all been very traditional by trade; saddlers, archers and I myself am a carpenter, but my fiance had peaked her interest in witchcraft a few years ago so we've been looking into paganism and the Celts ever since
It wasnt Rome that toppled the Celts, it was the discovery of whiskey.
Love your videos, keep 'em coming!
Kelts is the correct pronounciation. There is no soft "C" (s) sound in the Celtic (Keltic) language.
*languages
There is no "the celtic language", there are 6 different celtic languages.
@@daragildea7434 A fellow Hebridean, ciamar a thà thù?
@@eamonnmacgillemhuire996 No, that's where my folks were from, I was born in London.
He did use the hard "c" except when mentioning the sports team, the Boston Celtics, which do inexplicably insist on using the "S" sound.
Absolutely fascinating 👏 thank you 😊
Look up the video: Barry Cunliffe: Who Were the Celts?
Some of this information is very outdated and thus, very wrong.
These videos are soooo interesting!
The "progressive" references to Celtic warriors participating in homosexual behaviour, comes from Roman anti-Celt propaganda. It was homophobic slander rather than an honest description of Celtic warrior culture.
The Romans had no problems with raping boys, but were fairly bigoted when it came to adult male same-sex relationships.
LittleLordFancyLad . Greeks and other races were no better. It's the human condition. Btw the ' elites' of any culture seem to be best at that sort of thing....idle hands, etc.
The evidence on human sacrifice is debatable too.
ironic how the most base and primitive human behavior are labeled as "progressive".
What are you talking about? The Romans were perfectly accepting of homosexual relationships so long as the man of higher social standing took the penetrative role, and in the case of younger (free) men the permission of the father was required in addition to the young man in question. Celtic homosexual behaviours *were* actually recorded by other groups (such as the Greeks) who spoke specifically of marriage between men, and in a positive light.
@@dianaekman7161 Homosexual behavior among the Celts was observed by Roman and Greek writers who lived centuries apart. This sexual expression didn't have anything to do with only the idle elites as you've so snidely suggested. Having wealth and spare time has never been proven to influence someone's sexual orientation.
Really enjoyed this. Thank You. (Steve Morgan from Wales) ;)
Any time you say 'some people say', I understand that your writer/editor has cherry picked some theory which is clearly not in the mainstream but a) either fits into their personal preferences or b) sounds far better and more shocking for clickbait or c) both. It lacks credibility.
Long live the people of Albian and Eire. 💚
they where wealthy because they did not had a goverment ho was out for there money like today. evrybody was more equal, compare that to the rich and poor in the roman empire
Everyone was more equal... you had the freedom to legally be someone else's slave :)
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There are some inaccuracies in this video. Here are some facts. The Celts are of Indo-European origin. The Celts in Ireland had a system of law called Brehon law. Under Brehon law, nobody was executed. If a man killed a married man, depriving the wife and children of his labour and support, then the murderer of that man had to work for that man's family for a long time. He was not a slave or even a prisoner, it was a very practical and humane law. The reasoning behind it was that in working with the family every day, the murderer would see for himself the grief that his actions had caused and be truly repentant and that he could atone for his crime by working for the family as long as they needed his labour. If he had a family of his own, he had to work for his own family and the family of the man he had killed. The Celts were not 'head-hunters' but a custom once existed that when there was a fierce battle, and a warrior killed his enemies, after he had killed them he would chop off their heads and these heads would be tied together and worn around the neck of his horse until he got home. This had nothing to do with religion. The heads were 'trophies' to show how great a warrior he was. One of the reasons the Celts were such great warriors, as well as the fact that they were extremely brave, is that the Celts both male and female were extremely skilled in horsemanship. You also didn't mention that the Celts were wonderful musicians, poets and storytellers, that we elected our kings and queens, that we have always shown great respect for the dead and reverence for our ancestors, and there are very many other things you didn't even mention. In fact, this was a very poor video.
Please do top ten fascinating facts about the Goths
Not those goths
Alfred the great
I believe there is one about the Visigoths.
Alexander Nilsson goths r called jatt in india...i m a jatt.. we live mostly in state punjab india...bro goths or jatt is martial race...we r here landlords and do agriculture and keep animal like cows and bufflows...it is said that we cam from middle asia..sm ancestr cam to india and sm went to europe...we defeatd alaxnder the great and romans....we nevr surendr...
They wear black clothes and do drugs
Great video! I learned more from this video than an hour-long documentary I watched.
Fascinating ! I had my DNA done and totally surprised to see I had Irish in me! And it came from the Celtic line in britangne . I always said I had Gaul in me and it did confirm that. Keep up with your bits of history. I would love to see something on the native tribes of northern Mexico. Thank you.
Patricia Rivas everyone in the entire human race is Irish on St. Patrick's day
So you got 1% Irish and think you’re Celtic now
The moment you realise there's 2 ads in one ad break that are both longer than the whole video you're watching.... I like to watch the ads to help the creator but it's a bit unfair having 24 mins of ads on an 11 min video... WTflyingF is that about youtube, come on. -.-
Representing the descendants of the CeltIberian tribes ✊🏼🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇸
Personal request for a historical review of the ARMENIAN society.
Proud descendant of the Scottish Celts.
Alba gu brath
12th-century sources state that Scota was the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh, a contemporary of Moses, who married Geytholos (Goídel Glas), the founder of the Scots and Gaels after being exiled from Egypt.
You missed the most fascinating fact about the Celts, that is that they are still amongst us, and surround you in your daily life. If you know the features to look for you can see them walking down your high street.
"Celts didn't even originate in England"... They/we predate England.. especially Cornwall,Wales, Scotland.Ireland, Manx Britanny.
The whole of Britain was made up of Celtic tribes, even in the land we call England, not everyone ran away or were wiped out when the Anglo Saxons invaded, that theory has been blown out of the window many times now. England got its name from the angles, who were the biggest group of them all, hence engla land, which is Denmark, they were the ruling elite at that time, many of the celts who stayed adopted the ruling elites ways, for a peaceful life etc. So they may have lost their Celtic culture/language, but they are still the same people who were celts before invasion. Also Cornwall is in England, yet they are classed as Celtic, yet their language had died out, so how come they are still classed as Celtic? Yes now they are reviving their language, is that why ? Maybe those in England should revive their Celtic roots as well, especially considering the majority of Celtic tribes were in England (today terminology) in the first place.
@@seeyouanon2931 you were mostly right, Cornwall is NOT in England it is illegally occupied and I can give you exact legal references that prove the point, Cornwall along with Wales are native britons to Britain and predate the creation of England.. people in England can't revive their Celtic roots unless directly related to family they deem Celtic.. they have a massive identity problem as to call themselves "British" but rarely defend anything truly British like things to do with Wales or Cornwall etc..
Cornwall is an administrative county of England, there are 27 counties in England, I agree the celts pre date the creation of England, but my point is, many of those celts stayed in England when it was created, so therefore they are the same people as the celts who pre dated the creation of England. Not everyone in England was wiped out and replaced by the Anglo Saxons. And not everyone in Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland etc. Are all 100% pure blood either, being Celtic is culture and language, but yes many people in England have very strong ancestral ties to Britain, hereford has a Celtic revival going on and I think Cumbria has as well,
Erm, they DID leave written records.... they had a form of writing called Ogham.... 20 seconds in and already thinking "stop!"
And confusing Gaels/Gauls with the Celts
the baths in sumerset where made by celts and where great road builders
So, a guy melts some rocks for his local lord and makes a sword... pulling a sword from a stone, sound familiar to anyone?
What is more interesting is that in the Arthurian legends, the sword Excalibur was given to the Lady of the Lake. This is no mere Chaucer fantasy. Casting weapons and war gear into water was a long pagan religious practice that has been discovered by piles of rusted swords, spears, shields etc. In lakes and rivers from Switzerland to the British Isles.
Apparently it’s to go with bronze swords being cast in one piece, in rock rather than a stone sword. Iron swords are beaten iron rods so don’t fit the narrative.
Thank you for the accurate depiction of my ancestral people.
Very interesting clip. Knew some of them already but still found it worth watching. Always been fascinated by the Celts.
Woman depicted at 6:06 into video: very beautiful!
A nice touch of education with an mix of entertainment elements; nice job. Later Simone
Even calling a Gaul a Gaul is pretty generalized
Gaul = foreigner in Latin
Some Gauls called themselves Celtae, others Belgae, others (Basques) Aquitani.
The Irish word for foreigner is also gall, so it shows the similarity between Irish and Latin (Italo-Celtic branch)
what's wrong with calling a celt "gallic"? It sounds strong.
Gaels.
The *Gaul* of them!
id love a deep dive full episode on the morrigan, just sayin.
I second that request 👍
"Progressive"? Why making that parallel with contemporary politically correct "standards"?
I am a Pathan/Pashtun and had an ancestry DNA test done recently. I got around 12% Irish, Scottish, Welsh (Celtic). I have seen the same for many other pathans having Celtic and Nordic DNA and the percentage is fairly high.
What happened somewhere within the last 700 years that many Irish and Nordic tribes came to settle in modern day Afghanistan?
Adeel, *The migration of Vedic Aryans from North West India beyond Gandhara (today's Kandahara) to Europe and Eurasia of the Druhyu tribes(Druids), the Alinas ,the Anus etc resulted in the settlement of the Celts and Gauls, Germans, Balts, Hittites and the Iranians*
The truth about this migration has rarely been told, firstly because Western Indologists hardly believe them in view of their idea that the Aryans migrated to India. Secondly because of the Christian and Islamic civilizations, whatever religious ritual and mythologies remained we're destroyed as the work of the devil or as paganism that did not merit study. Namaste
The Yamnaya from around 6,000 years ago were the first Indo Europeans and the root of all Indo European languages, a steppe people who originated in central Asia between the Himalayas and the Caspian Sea. They expanded out as these nomads often do, and went South and West, and pretty much replaced the Neolithic Farmer populations of Europe. They are the ancestors of most Europeans, Iranians and Northern Indians and possibly many or most Afghans, it being geographically probable. The Taklamakan Mummies in Western China are probably these people.
Now I hate to bicker and point out some inaccuracies, cause I really do enjoy your video's, but #8 is kinda off, the Egyptians had iron weapons too and I believe they used it for some time, king Tuts dagger was made from Iron that came from a meteorite.
Taijess Basnaw it said that the Celts were "among the first" to use iron. The middle east discovered and worked with iron a long time ago.
& if King Tut had Celtic DNA...
I would like to hear You talk more about the Celts, since You barely scratched the surface in this video .
PS" when I was in Brasil I met a Celt of Spanish origin playing the pipes in the park one day, said he was Spanish , the Pipes were part of his culture .
The pipes were shorter than Scottish pipes .
DML
There was no Celtic invasion of ireland. We're Gaels. Our own people. Came here from Iberia long before the mainland Celts rose to prominence.
There was later migration from Wales to Ireland, a country with Celtic influence, but you're definitely right.
Common misconception: early iron was actually weaker than bronze but it was cheaper to produce. It wasn't until later more advanced smelting were developed that iron weapons became a stronger material for weapons. Even then bronze was more appropriate for some weapons. For example, during the Age of Sail brass cannons were superior for their higher specific heat capacity and for being less brittle and slower to rust. It was just again that bronze was FAR more expensive.
Do the picts
The Picts are just a poor man's Celts, that's why there's no below average sports teams in Boston named after them.
Arthas Menethil celts are the poor man's Gail's
Not Who You Think I Am I'm already undead so there ;P
The Picts were very much like the Basques of modern-day Iberia.
Not Who You Think I Am Picts were more less a Celtic people. Not Gaelic, who settled in Scotland from Ireland. Gaelic mythology suggests the the Picts are/were descendents of the Fir Bolg, some of the first known settlers of Ireland.
Thank You For Pronouncing "Celts & Celtic" Correctly! I'm A Huge History Buff, & HATE To See It Butchered...GREAT JOB!!! Please Do More Topics, About Them 🙏🏻 ❤️