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High and low prestige languages is why French is spoken in Brussels today and not the native Dutch. Not many Dutch words made it into the French spoken in Brussels either, only a few such as the word for mayor.
There are a load of places, mostly islands, that are sort of but mot really part of somewhere else. The real problem's the rule of tincture. The current Welsh flag is a simplified version of Henry VII's (booo!) standard.
There is also evidence that the British and Saxon nobility intermarried which would further explain why British Celtic culture was partially absorbed into the Anglo Saxon culture as well and anglicized Celtic names of rulers
I think it means, the country man, or the nationalist, or the Patriot, denoting a particular dedication to ones country, maybe it means a particularly good ruler, especially one of the past.
I literally have no knowledge nor great interest in the history of Britain (or whatever it is even called) and yet these videos are very interesting. You tell the history and the mysteries associated so well.
Maybe as chosen/proven by their country's traditions? Country-like = traditionally proven. It might just be that there was some right of passage that rulers needed to display that was almost lost, and then had a brief resurgence before being lost completely?
maybe they all enjoyed farming or in hindsight to their own historians were the most ideal candidates for overlordship of Wales - some kind of reference to how widely they were known, loved and remembered as an example of how a Welshman ought to be; explaining why the tyrants certainly weren't included. Stories of them would have been better than youtube back then.
"If this video gets 100 likes I'll make the top 10 stupidest dead animals in Great Britain that I am glad are extinct." - the man with many thousands of likes.
Whatever it meant, it seems like it might have been something that was relevant for a time and then went obsolete. If so, it's not hard to see how a thing that was no longer relevant could come to mean "out of touch" and from that eventually "rural/country".
It's interesting to hear of folk stories passed down for so many generations. Here in Australia, the indigenous people have stories that reflect events from over 10,000 years ago. It's absolutely mind-boggling to think that campfire stories can be told for such long periods of time and not have lost all the original context.
This just reminds me of how my (maternal) family changed their surname to sound more British, since that was seen as more high-class in Canada at the time vs sounding French. If you can’t beat em’, join em’.
Glacial flooding does not have to be gradual. Glaciers can form massive dams that suddenly crumble, releasing whole seas worth of water in a day or two. ...But it's still very difficult to believe that these stories are left over from the ice age. If these stories survived 12,000+ years, wouldn't there also be stories of the brave stone-age wanderers who first repopulated the ice-locked Britain? Those stories would only be about 20% older than stories about the final melting of the ice-age glaciers.
Wait for the next periodic rise in anti French sentiment and push for the addition of black and yellow stripes so the Union Jack looks less francophilic
This reminds me of the story Dave Gorman told (on Modern Life Is Goodish) about an untruth about himself - that he knew to be untrue! - that appeared on Wikipedia. It was then lifted from Wikipedia and published in a national newspaper. When Gorman tried to get it removed, someone added the citation (to newspaper article) and he was then unable to get it removed from Wikipedia.
I always assumed the red dragon banner came from the descendants of former Roman mercenaries from Sarmatia (Germany/Poland) who were based around Hadrians Wall and post Roman became part of the Gododdin. In 600AD they were heavily defeated by the Anglians at Catterick, and the elite remnant went to North Wales, and their "cousins" of the real British. Thus the red dragon flag was part of a "no quarter" command of attack thenceforth. So, to recap, the dragon, was Sarmatian, then used by a tribe/nation in Edinburgh, then Wales, thus Cadwalladr would have also used it. None of this was written other than a poem called Gododdin.
While on deployment on an aircraft carrier, every morning you could go out to the smoke deck and see hundreds of dolphins following us. They were eating the fish that were eating our waste. Sharks were likely doing this as well.
Just stumbled on this video on my feed. An awesome analysis and a great reminder how NOT to take something at face value. At a glimpse looking at a writing from the 1800’s, it’s historical purely by its age. Yet, its content is not necessarily history but a work of fiction. That being said it would be interesting to understand the motivations for such work? Money, fame, legacy, nationalism?
I wonder if it’s a similar title to “the great” we use for some rulers today. “Country Like” could be a compliment meaning “exemplifying our country’s values” or being someone whose make their country look good. As for why it isn’t applied to everyone, well we have only a few “the greats” but tons of leaders have performed similarly to them without receiving the title-it’s arbitrary. As for why some people of higher position may not receive while others of their time do-well we expect people like Arthur to do great-he has to he’s a king, but someone going out of their way to exemplify their country who isn’t expected to is notable.
Sounds to me like I have a a cousin from about 1220 years ago. My brother would totally make something like this up and tell it to you so you can't help but believe him. It is uncanny
