Between the bro code: Don't sleep with another man's wife, and the "F**k all y'all. She's my wife." Pwyll is quite possibly the best mythology MC ever.
23:22 Considering how Rhiannon was with the horse… she could probably give those maids a whole week of head start and still kill them all on the eighth day.
Pwyll is well loved in the OSP fan community. He's not the brightest bulb, but he does care about other people and has good morals. I also love that he stands by his wife for the entire time she was accused, and didn't believe the accusations once. He couldn't do anything about the legal system punishing her, but I'm pretty sure his belief helped Rhiannon through those hard times before Pryderi was returned.
19:30 funny you should say that, Because red is being very clean in this retelling. In the myth the maids murdered multiple puppys and spread their blood and bones upon rhiannon as she slept!
So instead of worrying about if a magical creature stole the kid (which is an actual problem to consider in this mythology), and instead killing puppies and setting up a crime scene?!
@@FubukiTheIcyKing That'd involve admitting they fell asleep on baby-guarding duty. This way, they could claim that they known magical fairy queen did evil fairy queen magic shit.
@@brigidtheirish At that point lie and say you were enchanted to fall asleep. I'm doubting the giant horse eating monster could've gone unnoticed otherwise. Why am I so offended by this?!
You might be surprised by how many folktales give most of the agency to the woman. I grew up on folktales and most of them start with Our Hero doing something heroic, say, breaking into a giant's castle to rescue a princess, and then the princess being all "it's about time you showed up" and telling him exactly what to do for the rest of the story.
Pwyll might be the biggest "true gentleman" from anything. Dude seriously knew how to treat women, with respect. Note: Guy did not take advantage of the fairy king's wife while enjoying her personality and stuck to his wife loyally. Suck it, Greek Mythology!
@@Bezaliel13 Triple H and Shaun "The Heartbreak Kid" Michaels were 2 of the founding members of the pro-wrestling stable D-Generation X. I just used the Greek letters Delta for D and Xi for X. They would shout out, "If you ain't down with D-Generation X, I got 2 words for ya! Suck it!" They'd chop at their groins while saying suckit and the audience would shout along.
The funny part about Welsh is that while the spelling seems entirely alien to an English speaker, its actually pretty much phonetically one-to-one (one letter for one sound), making it easy to pronounce any word once you learn what each letter represents. The issue is that a lot of the letters are pronounced entirely differently from their English usage. The best examples here are Welsh 'w' which makes the sound of English 'oo' or 'u', while Welsh 'll' makes a unique phoneme that doesn't exist in English, called a lateral fricative. Its basically an English 'l' with air blown past the sides of your tongue, which makes it sound a bit like a weird English 'sh'.
Pwyll, one of the biggest real ones in all of myth, meanwhile, Zeus is sweating bullets as Hera asks him why he can't NOT sleep with other men's wives behind her back
Look they work on the honor kill system, if you do overkill instead of killing something it instantly heals them so you have to be exact on your damage scale! Basically if your short strikes do two damage, and your opponent always has three health that means you have to figure out a way how to do one damage in order for that opponent to stay down!
The island between Ireland and Britian is the Isle of Man, It has it's own Flag and parliment. It's one of 3 islands that are allowed to self govern off the coast of Britian, the Isle of Man is easily the most famous of them tho. They technically aren't part of the UK or classed as UK overseas territories but they have the offical status of "territories for which the UK is responsible"
Just for clarification, both Jersey island and Guernsey island are British territories. Also as an aside, the international stock exchange is located on Guernsey, and both islands were the only British territory to be under German occupation during World War Two.
Not gonna lie, massive respect for Pwyll's self-restraint. If somebody tried framing my wife for eating a baby, I'd be murderously furious; especially if they were later revealed to have done so to hide the fact that they lost said baby. Also, there is at least one story that heavily features Welsh Celtic myth that almost every film geek knows: The Black Cauldron. Yes, Disney's The Black Cauldron: "Lost to Care Bears movie" Black Cauldron, "Edited down for being too dark" Black Cauldron, "largest bomb for Disney at the time" Black Cauldron. It was actually based off of a Welsh series of fantasy books called the Prydain Chronicles, which is basically Welsh Lord of the Rings.
Is this talking about the same black cauldren that brings the dead to life but mute, and shows up in the story with bendigeidfran, branwen, nisien and efnisien? Or is there another black cauldren im unaware of?
I was mind blown when I realized that the Chronicles of Prydain was based on Wales. It's not actually a Welsh series though. It was written by an American called Lloyd Alexander, who was stationed in Wales during WWII and was very inspired by Welsh Folklore. Welsh folklore is tied into a lot of "English" stories as well, as a lot of the Arthurian lore is directly lifted from Welsh mythology. Other notable books that mention or use Welsh Folklore to some extent are "The Dark is Rising" sequence has settings that are also based on locations in Wales. Diana Wynne Jones also has at least two books that reference Wales. In the book Dogsbody, the characters encounter magical "underworld" hounds described as white with red ears - a reference to Arawn's hounds in the Mabinogi. The characters even mention the name Arawn in reference to the character they counter, though it is unclear if it's actually meant to be that character from myth. In the book "Howl's Moving Castle" - as a note: the later Ghibli movie has an almost completely different plot - the titular character Howl is actually from Wales and has come to a magical realm to be a badass wizard. I believe there were aspects of Tolkien's work that were also inspired by Wales - or at least by the Welsh language - as Tolkien was reportedly very fond of the language and has said "Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; and Welsh is beautiful".
4:09 it's pronounced Aber ystwyth ... It's my home town. Aber means mouth of the river. Although, it'd be as accurate to call it Aberrhidol as both merge in the harbour before hitting the sea.
So basically the celtic nations are. Scotland ireland wales cornwall brittany and the isle of man the island thats berween britain and ireland. (That could be the isle of wight tho i always get those 2 mixed up.) Jersey is one of the channel islands the reside in the english channel. They arent part of the uk since they dont have MP's in parliament but they are property of the crown like gibralta and or the falkland islands. Jersey is also a tax haven so lots of rich people say they live there for tax evasion reasons.
Channel Islands (and Isle of Man (which is the one between Britain and Ireland, Wight is just south of England, around the middle of it from east and west, right off the British coast)) are "Crown Dependencies" which is a distinct status from "Overseas Territory" (formerly Crown Colony) like Gibraltar and Falklands.
Always had a soft spot for Hafgan and his ridiculous double tap rule, i just thought that was such a cool unique power and it was a shame he only appears once. "Haha! Im immortal but only if you punch me twice!" I feel like there could have been potential in various stories of the insane and clever ways he'd have to utilise to trick people into hitting him twice once they've already been warned about it. Like "aha! Actually the beggar woman you bumped into this morning was me in disguise! So this knife in my chest doesnt count!" Or forcing the hero to not face him in single combat but instead amidst a field of arrows, so while struggling to didge them yourself youd lose track of how many had hit him. Maybe equipping his assistants with some sort of magical shield that'd reflect all damage done ti them into himself, so youd keep accidentally reviving him while fighting these other dudes, and the only way to stop would be to let them hit you without fighting back. Or plans to still come back even after you do indeed successfully kill him, having agents working behind the scenes for years trying to trick you into hitting his long dead bones again. Maybe in the end the one who succeeds was disguised as the chef all along, and got the hero to help with a "recipe" that wasnt soup but secretly poison! So pouring this on Hafgan's grave counts as "the hero dealt him a second killing blow". And then he comes back as a cool lich or something and you get an even more badass rematch! Hafgan would honestly work great in superhero comics, haha
PILE omg! I always get so surprised seeing how non-Welsh people pronounce our stuff, its funny to realise "yeah actually, it IS kind of unusual how double LL is more like ch" I dont think you need to apologise for your mispronounciations, its just fun to hear other perspectives!
Thanks to Tom Scott, I know that Aberystwyth is a town lying at the mouth of the river Ystwyth... and that aberystwyth literally just means "mouth of the ystwyth"
Look at the bright side! With the abundance of content Overly Sacrastic has, plus you exploring Undertale, you are set quiet well when it comes to content for the next year or so! XD
Don't forget Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K! Fan isn't very fast in releasing new material (thought he has a premiere up already for tomorrow) but it'll take quite some time for Airier to catch up, in the meantime Fan might release more material. Meaning he will keep having content to react to.
I new I should have taken the left turn Aberystwyth is a looney toons buggs Bunny refrence.(buggs says ,"I new I should have taken the left turn at Albuquerque
If you really want to go in depth exploring tropes and literary conventions, then Trope Talk is a very good place to look. Red does an excellent job, but some of the videos can be a bit lengthy.
If you want to watch OSP stuff in your off time, watch their video game streams. They’re very funny for one and Red and Blue will talk off the cuff about various stuff. That’s not even mentioning when guests come on, like ludohistory who I remember traded weird Saint stories they had found in their research. Also they talk about Marvel and DC and Star Wars and lots of other stuff they watch. Considering how many they’ve done and how long they go, that should keep you busy for a while! 😆
Aww kind of a shame they didnt cover some of the crazier myths like that one random ghost who's constantly kicking three heads like footballs, or the kid who accidentally ate one drop of the Soup Of Being Beautiful and became a bardic folk hero whose name literally translates to Shiny Eyebrows. (Or the irish equivelant where it was one burned thumb's worth of juice from the Fish Of Knowledge and he became Finn McCool which is an even better name omg) But I can see why they picked this one cos Pwyll is honestly just such a sweet and good himbo, he really stands out in an era where most mythical heroes ran on "im the protagonist so my atrocities are justified" logic. (Including a lot of other welsh ones, sadly. Unfortunate amount of weird sexism and racism in some of them.)
Ive seen people write essays on Galatea and how horrifying it would be to be quite literally born to love someone, and I feel like her and Bloduwedd would have been friends if they could meet across time and space. Anyway, in conclusion I guess its just a shame that mythologies can be wildly inconsistent on their opinion on women and other social stuff, since they're compiled over centuries of a culture's existance. Reminds me of how theres such a stark divide between "loki as morally ambiguous trickster ally of the gods" and "loki as outright villain" in norse myth. Because the change also comes with Baldr basically only just being mentioned now, and everyone going on about how this proves Loki is evil because Baldr was TOTALLY always the most beloved god, trust me guys, ive seen theories that it reflects the start of Christianization trying to rewrite the myths. Its interesting how history can affect not just the lives of the real people going through it, but how their mythology gets recorded when it's like.. being done by the winners, alas. Fascinating topic but there often aren't any clear answers on a "true" version of a myth that has multiple versions like this. But haha, thanks for making this great video it totally rewakened my passion for our local stories! (And learning about other countries too!)
The only thing I found a little dumb is the second tale, because yeah, pwyll is too honourable to say no, but one of his friends could just go "ok, I also want a boon, to be able to kill this guy who is trying to steal your wife". There, done.
26:04 I recommend, if you are up to the task of editing the long video into smaller videos, is to do something similar to what you said but instead of livestream you just make one long video. You set your timer/alarm on your phone for about every hour and take a break (one hour on, one hour off or even shorter, like one video on, a few minutes off), turning the camera off at the start of the break and turning it back on when you start again. That way you can still pay attention, enjoy yourself, and you won’t get too overwhelmed or bored. You can then cut that long video into smaller videos. The only thing you really need is the dedication and maybe some editing software to cut the video into smaller videos.
Welsh is easily the Celtic language that got fucked up the hardest by the British, and that's saying something when it was pretty weird as Celtic languages go to begin with. At least it has its own BBC channel now with programming mostly in Welsh so it's paradoxically also one of the most well-preserved Celtic languages at the same time. Welsh is the most Fae of the Celtic languages that way.
It looks to me less like the Welsh language was screwed over by the English, and more like the Welsh themselves decided to take their pain out on the Latin Alphabet. You don’t decide ‘Pwish’ should be spelled like ‘Pwyll’ unless you’re in serious need of therapy.
I do hope that all those Towns and Places in the USA with "New" first, are just the copy and paste Names of Places that existed before in the UK and somewhere else
I mean, there is a number of "new" places that are right next to the "old" places, which for me is a bit funnier than old place being on different continent than new one
And then she never covered any Welsh myths again (You could maybe count her King Arthur one because king Arthur was originally a figure in Welsh mythology, but she only covered the English version so it doesn't really count.) (Note: She did pronounce Pwyll incorrectly.) (Second Note: You actually pronounced the Welsh words surprisingly well compared to most Americans at least on youtube.)
Just sit down and watch half a year of OSP then slowly drip feed it out while you do the next half years of content meaning it would take about 20 sittings if they have a decades worth of content or you could do 1/4 of a years worth of content over 40 sittings
be careful with red early videos and when I mean early I mean the classic summarised videos with movie clips I don't know much but it is better to be careful around them.
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Between the bro code: Don't sleep with another man's wife, and the "F**k all y'all. She's my wife." Pwyll is quite possibly the best mythology MC ever.
He and Perseus are up there in terms of least problematic mythological heroes, as far as I’m aware
@@thinkingsoutherner9911 Yep true
23:22 Considering how Rhiannon was with the horse… she could probably give those maids a whole week of head start and still kill them all on the eighth day.
Oh, definitely. How was that idea the best they could come up with?
Pwyll is well loved in the OSP fan community. He's not the brightest bulb, but he does care about other people and has good morals. I also love that he stands by his wife for the entire time she was accused, and didn't believe the accusations once. He couldn't do anything about the legal system punishing her, but I'm pretty sure his belief helped Rhiannon through those hard times before Pryderi was returned.
Celtic myths in general are *awesome* about respecting women.
Pwyll's nation was being ruled by the fairy king while Pwyll ruled the fairy nation.
Pwyll being the embodiment of "I have no enemies" is my favorite part in all of this.
19:30 funny you should say that, Because red is being very clean in this retelling. In the myth the maids murdered multiple puppys and spread their blood and bones upon rhiannon as she slept!
So instead of worrying about if a magical creature stole the kid (which is an actual problem to consider in this mythology), and instead killing puppies and setting up a crime scene?!
@@FubukiTheIcyKingYup those woman were not exactly the smartest people around
Not only did they lose a Baby, they killed Puppies, Death would be a Mercy.
@@FubukiTheIcyKing That'd involve admitting they fell asleep on baby-guarding duty. This way, they could claim that they known magical fairy queen did evil fairy queen magic shit.
@@brigidtheirish At that point lie and say you were enchanted to fall asleep. I'm doubting the giant horse eating monster could've gone unnoticed otherwise.
Why am I so offended by this?!
You might be surprised by how many folktales give most of the agency to the woman. I grew up on folktales and most of them start with Our Hero doing something heroic, say, breaking into a giant's castle to rescue a princess, and then the princess being all "it's about time you showed up" and telling him exactly what to do for the rest of the story.
Ah, the prince of the Bro code. Should be a good time
The wall hanging behind Pwyll and Rhiannon basically says "There's no place like home:.
And yes, Pwyll is the best of boys
Pwyll might be the biggest "true gentleman" from anything. Dude seriously knew how to treat women, with respect.
Note: Guy did not take advantage of the fairy king's wife while enjoying her personality and stuck to his wife loyally. Suck it, Greek Mythology!
I could see an ancient Greek version of Triple H and Heartbreak Kid. "If you ain't down with Delta-Generation Xi, we got 2 words for ya!"
@@oldeskul
... I do not get the reference ngl.
@@Bezaliel13 Triple H and Shaun "The Heartbreak Kid" Michaels were 2 of the founding members of the pro-wrestling stable D-Generation X. I just used the Greek letters Delta for D and Xi for X.
They would shout out, "If you ain't down with D-Generation X, I got 2 words for ya! Suck it!" They'd chop at their groins while saying suckit and the audience would shout along.
@@oldeskul
... ... I have no idea how that relates to Pwyll.
@@Bezaliel13 You joke of saying suck it to Greek mythology made me think of an ancient Greek version of D-X.
The funny part about Welsh is that while the spelling seems entirely alien to an English speaker, its actually pretty much phonetically one-to-one (one letter for one sound), making it easy to pronounce any word once you learn what each letter represents. The issue is that a lot of the letters are pronounced entirely differently from their English usage. The best examples here are Welsh 'w' which makes the sound of English 'oo' or 'u', while Welsh 'll' makes a unique phoneme that doesn't exist in English, called a lateral fricative. Its basically an English 'l' with air blown past the sides of your tongue, which makes it sound a bit like a weird English 'sh'.
And then there's the way "Cymru", the Welsh name for Wales, is pronounced with the "y" and "u" switched around.
Pwyll may not be the brightest, but he is a bro and good husband.
Pwyll, one of the biggest real ones in all of myth, meanwhile, Zeus is sweating bullets as Hera asks him why he can't NOT sleep with other men's wives behind her back
Sadly, or perhaps hilariously, Zeus would take that the wrong way and say, "You mean you want me to stop hiding it?!"
@@HBHagaprobably
Look they work on the honor kill system, if you do overkill instead of killing something it instantly heals them so you have to be exact on your damage scale! Basically if your short strikes do two damage, and your opponent always has three health that means you have to figure out a way how to do one damage in order for that opponent to stay down!
Reverse Lancelot is Zeus.Lancelot only had sex with one while Zeus couldn't control himself to save his own life
The island between Ireland and Britian is the Isle of Man, It has it's own Flag and parliment. It's one of 3 islands that are allowed to self govern off the coast of Britian, the Isle of Man is easily the most famous of them tho.
They technically aren't part of the UK or classed as UK overseas territories but they have the offical status of "territories for which the UK is responsible"
Just for clarification, both Jersey island and Guernsey island are British territories. Also as an aside, the international stock exchange is located on Guernsey, and both islands were the only British territory to be under German occupation during World War Two.
And have their own cattle breeds.
Sometimes you find a Golden Boy in myths.
My boi Pwyll is definitely one of 'em.❤
Not gonna lie, massive respect for Pwyll's self-restraint. If somebody tried framing my wife for eating a baby, I'd be murderously furious; especially if they were later revealed to have done so to hide the fact that they lost said baby.
Also, there is at least one story that heavily features Welsh Celtic myth that almost every film geek knows: The Black Cauldron. Yes, Disney's The Black Cauldron: "Lost to Care Bears movie" Black Cauldron, "Edited down for being too dark" Black Cauldron, "largest bomb for Disney at the time" Black Cauldron. It was actually based off of a Welsh series of fantasy books called the Prydain Chronicles, which is basically Welsh Lord of the Rings.
Is this talking about the same black cauldren that brings the dead to life but mute, and shows up in the story with bendigeidfran, branwen, nisien and efnisien? Or is there another black cauldren im unaware of?
@@rhianut the Disney animated feature from the 80's
@b3rz3rk3r9 honestly know nothing about that one, I have read the mabinogi and know there's a black cauldron in the second branch though
I was mind blown when I realized that the Chronicles of Prydain was based on Wales. It's not actually a Welsh series though. It was written by an American called Lloyd Alexander, who was stationed in Wales during WWII and was very inspired by Welsh Folklore.
Welsh folklore is tied into a lot of "English" stories as well, as a lot of the Arthurian lore is directly lifted from Welsh mythology. Other notable books that mention or use Welsh Folklore to some extent are "The Dark is Rising" sequence has settings that are also based on locations in Wales.
Diana Wynne Jones also has at least two books that reference Wales. In the book Dogsbody, the characters encounter magical "underworld" hounds described as white with red ears - a reference to Arawn's hounds in the Mabinogi. The characters even mention the name Arawn in reference to the character they counter, though it is unclear if it's actually meant to be that character from myth. In the book "Howl's Moving Castle" - as a note: the later Ghibli movie has an almost completely different plot - the titular character Howl is actually from Wales and has come to a magical realm to be a badass wizard.
I believe there were aspects of Tolkien's work that were also inspired by Wales - or at least by the Welsh language - as Tolkien was reportedly very fond of the language and has said "Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; and Welsh is beautiful".
4:09 it's pronounced Aber ystwyth ... It's my home town.
Aber means mouth of the river. Although, it'd be as accurate to call it Aberrhidol as both merge in the harbour before hitting the sea.
By the way the welsh myths are the souce of King Arthur and he actually appears in some of the Mabinogion myths
The only thing I will remember is “French Jersey Shore”. Thank you.
There was no time dilation, all his subjects were ruled by the fairy king so to his subjects they just saw Pwyll 10 minutes ago.
I want a buddy cop series with wu cong, Heracles, Odin and Pwyll now
Cool and cunning
Strong and a bit of a muscle brain
Odin
And really dumb gentleman
18:17 after a quick google search, it is Welsh for “There’s no place like home”.
So basically the celtic nations are. Scotland ireland wales cornwall brittany and the isle of man the island thats berween britain and ireland. (That could be the isle of wight tho i always get those 2 mixed up.) Jersey is one of the channel islands the reside in the english channel. They arent part of the uk since they dont have MP's in parliament but they are property of the crown like gibralta and or the falkland islands. Jersey is also a tax haven so lots of rich people say they live there for tax evasion reasons.
Channel Islands (and Isle of Man (which is the one between Britain and Ireland, Wight is just south of England, around the middle of it from east and west, right off the British coast)) are "Crown Dependencies" which is a distinct status from "Overseas Territory" (formerly Crown Colony) like Gibraltar and Falklands.
Damh the Bard has a beautiful retelling of the Mabonogi with songs and music and it's wonderful!
the dude that named new jersey was from island jersey, yes
1:56 "Breton" is where we get "Britain" from.
The Bretons are related to the welsh and the Cornish which means they are Brythonic
4:35 That's Wales turned on it's side and mirrored btw.
Pwyll isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he's an absolute bro. Easily one of the best mythology MCs ever.
Always had a soft spot for Hafgan and his ridiculous double tap rule, i just thought that was such a cool unique power and it was a shame he only appears once.
"Haha! Im immortal but only if you punch me twice!"
I feel like there could have been potential in various stories of the insane and clever ways he'd have to utilise to trick people into hitting him twice once they've already been warned about it. Like "aha! Actually the beggar woman you bumped into this morning was me in disguise! So this knife in my chest doesnt count!" Or forcing the hero to not face him in single combat but instead amidst a field of arrows, so while struggling to didge them yourself youd lose track of how many had hit him. Maybe equipping his assistants with some sort of magical shield that'd reflect all damage done ti them into himself, so youd keep accidentally reviving him while fighting these other dudes, and the only way to stop would be to let them hit you without fighting back. Or plans to still come back even after you do indeed successfully kill him, having agents working behind the scenes for years trying to trick you into hitting his long dead bones again. Maybe in the end the one who succeeds was disguised as the chef all along, and got the hero to help with a "recipe" that wasnt soup but secretly poison! So pouring this on Hafgan's grave counts as "the hero dealt him a second killing blow". And then he comes back as a cool lich or something and you get an even more badass rematch!
Hafgan would honestly work great in superhero comics, haha
If anyone's curious about how you pronounce "ll" in Welsh, press your tongue against the roof of your mouth and make a "sss" sound.
PILE omg! I always get so surprised seeing how non-Welsh people pronounce our stuff, its funny to realise "yeah actually, it IS kind of unusual how double LL is more like ch"
I dont think you need to apologise for your mispronounciations, its just fun to hear other perspectives!
Also dd is th but also th sounds like th, that one always gets me, haha
All myth knowlege this guy has is from FGO.
I mean this in the kindest way possible.❤
@18:30, dont know Welsh but hazarding a guess it's "happy wife, happy home" or "happy wife, happy life" but not sure.
One thing overly sarcastic got wrong on pronunciation that i know about is how Annwyn is pronounced, Its actually pronounced annoon
Welsh myths are actually really good... it is in my top 3 mythology i would rather be over any greek myth
Being a king or getting married?
Not sure which is more difficult.
wait a minute Arawn and Annwn? it's Chronicles of Prydain all over again!
‘Prydain’ is just how you say ‘Britain’ in Welsh.
@@Xalerdane i know it's also a fantasy book based on welsh mythology
Thanks to Tom Scott, I know that Aberystwyth is a town lying at the mouth of the river Ystwyth... and that aberystwyth literally just means "mouth of the ystwyth"
Look at the bright side! With the abundance of content Overly Sacrastic has, plus you exploring Undertale, you are set quiet well when it comes to content for the next year or so! XD
Don't forget Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K!
Fan isn't very fast in releasing new material (thought he has a premiere up already for tomorrow) but it'll take quite some time for Airier to catch up, in the meantime Fan might release more material. Meaning he will keep having content to react to.
I new I should have taken the left turn Aberystwyth is a looney toons buggs Bunny refrence.(buggs says ,"I new I should have taken the left turn at Albuquerque
If you really want to go in depth exploring tropes and literary conventions, then Trope Talk is a very good place to look. Red does an excellent job, but some of the videos can be a bit lengthy.
8:56 _Hey hey HEY!_ It was Sir _Gawain_ and the Green Knight, not Sir Galahad!
In 2003 derek w hayes made a animated film of the myth called y mabinogi
If you want to watch OSP stuff in your off time, watch their video game streams. They’re very funny for one and Red and Blue will talk off the cuff about various stuff. That’s not even mentioning when guests come on, like ludohistory who I remember traded weird Saint stories they had found in their research. Also they talk about Marvel and DC and Star Wars and lots of other stuff they watch. Considering how many they’ve done and how long they go, that should keep you busy for a while! 😆
Jersey isn't part of UK or France. It's a British Crown Dependency. Don't open this jar of worms
Yeah, Crown Dependencies are weird.
I don’t get it.
The Detail Diatribes aren't about mythology, alas. They're mostly deep dives into particular bits of pop culture.
Aww kind of a shame they didnt cover some of the crazier myths like that one random ghost who's constantly kicking three heads like footballs, or the kid who accidentally ate one drop of the Soup Of Being Beautiful and became a bardic folk hero whose name literally translates to Shiny Eyebrows. (Or the irish equivelant where it was one burned thumb's worth of juice from the Fish Of Knowledge and he became Finn McCool which is an even better name omg)
But I can see why they picked this one cos Pwyll is honestly just such a sweet and good himbo, he really stands out in an era where most mythical heroes ran on "im the protagonist so my atrocities are justified" logic. (Including a lot of other welsh ones, sadly. Unfortunate amount of weird sexism and racism in some of them.)
Ive seen people write essays on Galatea and how horrifying it would be to be quite literally born to love someone, and I feel like her and Bloduwedd would have been friends if they could meet across time and space.
Anyway, in conclusion I guess its just a shame that mythologies can be wildly inconsistent on their opinion on women and other social stuff, since they're compiled over centuries of a culture's existance. Reminds me of how theres such a stark divide between "loki as morally ambiguous trickster ally of the gods" and "loki as outright villain" in norse myth. Because the change also comes with Baldr basically only just being mentioned now, and everyone going on about how this proves Loki is evil because Baldr was TOTALLY always the most beloved god, trust me guys, ive seen theories that it reflects the start of Christianization trying to rewrite the myths. Its interesting how history can affect not just the lives of the real people going through it, but how their mythology gets recorded when it's like.. being done by the winners, alas.
Fascinating topic but there often aren't any clear answers on a "true" version of a myth that has multiple versions like this.
But haha, thanks for making this great video it totally rewakened my passion for our local stories! (And learning about other countries too!)
Jersey belongs to the UK. it's where new jersey got it's name
🎶Rhiannon rings like a bell threw the night and would you love to love her? Takes to the sky like a bird in flight and who will be her lover?🎶
Pwyll is just an awesome honest dude. Not terribly bright, but fortunately his hot wife is also smart.
The only thing I found a little dumb is the second tale, because yeah, pwyll is too honourable to say no, but one of his friends could just go "ok, I also want a boon, to be able to kill this guy who is trying to steal your wife". There, done.
26:04 I recommend, if you are up to the task of editing the long video into smaller videos, is to do something similar to what you said but instead of livestream you just make one long video. You set your timer/alarm on your phone for about every hour and take a break (one hour on, one hour off or even shorter, like one video on, a few minutes off), turning the camera off at the start of the break and turning it back on when you start again. That way you can still pay attention, enjoy yourself, and you won’t get too overwhelmed or bored. You can then cut that long video into smaller videos. The only thing you really need is the dedication and maybe some editing software to cut the video into smaller videos.
Welsh is easily the Celtic language that got fucked up the hardest by the British, and that's saying something when it was pretty weird as Celtic languages go to begin with. At least it has its own BBC channel now with programming mostly in Welsh so it's paradoxically also one of the most well-preserved Celtic languages at the same time. Welsh is the most Fae of the Celtic languages that way.
It looks to me less like the Welsh language was screwed over by the English, and more like the Welsh themselves decided to take their pain out on the Latin Alphabet.
You don’t decide ‘Pwish’ should be spelled like ‘Pwyll’ unless you’re in serious need of therapy.
I loved this video, I am surprised you didn't do a Halloween episode.
I do hope that all those Towns and Places in the USA with "New" first, are just the copy and paste Names of Places that existed before in the UK and somewhere else
I mean, there is a number of "new" places that are right next to the "old" places, which for me is a bit funnier than old place being on different continent than new one
So are they saving him for Grand Rider or What? How many Quartzes do I need to save up
Heres to hoping Puppet history the black plague is still on queue
punalixed, my new favorite adjective.
Thanks for this reaction.
And then she never covered any Welsh myths again (You could maybe count her King Arthur one because king Arthur was originally a figure in Welsh mythology, but she only covered the English version so it doesn't really count.)
(Note: She did pronounce Pwyll incorrectly.)
(Second Note: You actually pronounced the Welsh words surprisingly well compared to most Americans at least on youtube.)
... Huh, usually I just get the words totally wrong. 😯
She probably didn't cover any more of the myths because trying to get the pronunciation even close to right was giving her a headache.
@@Airier While they are still wrong, most Americans on youtube get it significantly worse.
@@brigidtheirish Maybe that's the case, but also it really isn't that difficult so she was probably being quite overdramatic.
@@AlysIThink101 It isn't that difficult? Have you *tried* pronouncing Welsh names correctly when you aren't familiar with the language?
Nice episode.
Just sit down and watch half a year of OSP then slowly drip feed it out while you do the next half years of content meaning it would take about 20 sittings if they have a decades worth of content or you could do 1/4 of a years worth of content over 40 sittings
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be careful with red early videos and when I mean early I mean the classic summarised videos with movie clips I don't know much but it is better to be careful around them.
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The pronunciation of pwyll hurts me, red’s is pretty good but not perfect but that’s fine.
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I recommend: Overly sarcastic Productions: Medea. Next!
Seconded. That’s one of the best