If anyone's brutally obsessed with Celto-Germanic history and especially warfare I invariably recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. By far the best military historical expertise available on the subject
When you are a history nerd all of them are cool. Roman, Spartan, Illyrians, Goth, Scythians and Sarmatians, Dacian, Gauls, Celtic, Norse etc. They all have cool stories and interesting cultures to read about and be amazed of the kind of life someone from that era lived.
Highly agreed. That’s why it always pisses me off whenever I hear that someone, anyone destroyed a piece of history. The burning Library of Alexandria, or that idiot mf’er that carelessly destroyed pieces of Troy. For examples
The celts have always had my respect, as a Greek I view them as ancient cousins of Europe. It’s a shame that their cultural identity was wiped out from most of mainland Europe, and I hope that the Welsh, Scots, Irish, Brittons, and people of Cornwall, preserve their cultures and languages as best they can, so that one day, hopefully they are revived
There's a strong cause in Scotland right now where Gaelic Scots speakers are kinda gathering in Glasgow. It's becoming known as the Gaelic center of Scotland. There's a school there dedicated to learning Gaelic Scots.
The socalled Celts are very much alive, it's just that white surpremacist scholarship has done much to hide the fact that world history is Black history. See Anacalypsis by G Higgins. And Anna Wilkes and John Ogilvy. Shalom
Way to go brother; so many souls of European descendants feel and long for Celtic times.. it’s like this depth in the Heart-Vortex that knows I lived as a Celtic warrior before, and long for that period on Earth again. Before outsiders and usurpers came to the North, I sense life was more meaningful and whole to our people. Now ignorance is bliss, artificial over natural, people seek path of least resistance rather a life of challenge and fulfillment. Another banger, keeep it up brother
Красиво сказано. Кажется, что когда-то кто-то из моих предков был кельтом, потому что в моем сердце бушует что-то кельтское время от времени. Это генетическая память.
As an adopted bastard, I was told that my father was Irish, but I hired a researcher and genetic DNA. I am very German/ic, both my Y-DNA and MtDNA and 70 percent of my autosomal/overall. MY biological mother is mostly German and a little Swedish from the Midwest. My father is directly German, but 1/2 Scottish. In short, I love this frigin' channel. I was raised in a German-American neighborhood, which I am grateful for. I know the cultural differences in Germany: i.e. Bavarian & Black Forrest stereotypes, Westphalia spoke Dutch, etc., as well as the foods and culture. What a blessing to have grown up with my culture. Peace
Im from westphalia, some of us close to the border to Netherlands speak dutch and the dutch speak German on their side of the border. At the end of the day we are blood brothers.
I recommend listening to Dan Carlin's hardcore history podcast episode "The Celtic Holocaust" it's very interesting. No one does podcasts like him. The Celtic genocide occurred from 58 to 51 BC during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. It's a shame that Vercingetorix even though he united the tribes, he lost the revolt against Caesar. He's a hero for sure.
Thank you, sir. I have Norwegian, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, German and Italian ancestry, though I have only recently come to learn of the latter 4 parts of my heritage. Nonetheless, I am always fascinated in learning the origins of my ancestors.
Same here somewhat in being Euro-mixed (plus some Arab). My dad's side is British (English and Scottish) and German and my mom's (Southern) Italian. Will not lie I prefer my Italian/Roman ancestry over the others and I know far more about it, but I do have a place of fondness to still learn about ancient Celtic and Germanic history/culture.
Deutsch call Hungarian-Macar-Scythians German in form of UnGar and not themselves similarly to others since Ugar,HonGri,VenGri,WanGer...Ó'ghur,Onoguri refers to Hungarian-Macar-Scythians. As for the Celt as Kelt it is a Hungarian-Macar-Scythian word reffeeing to East as to place where sun rises. So called Halstatt culture has nothing to do with Western groups like Deutsch or Danish etc.
I thought that there were/are no actual people called "Celts". It's a generic term (I thought) to describe ancient Europeans. Because there was no written record, we don't know who these people were or what they called themselves.
@@johncater7861Celtic is certainly more cultural than it is ethnic, but if it’s being used to identify ethnicity it means the Europeans west of the Rhine whereas Germanic people are east of the Rhine. This is super arbitrary, mind you, with people west of the Rhine having been mixed Celtic-Germanic since before the time of Julius Caesar.
@@Captain_Planets well I know that my own breakdown is about 60-70% germanic, 10-20% Celtic, 10-25% Pontic-Caspian Steppe Aryan, and then a very small percentage (from
To @Thor-Orion: Read all of my description below: A troll is not spiritual entities that have affect on supernatural things in our world. A troll is not a spirit that helps people with magic. A seiðr or a volva is a witch, not a troll. seiðr is a spirit that helps people with magic. Volva is a spirit that helps people with magic. Let’s be specific here, and let’s doing things in a clear defining way. It need to have a clear definition. It need to be clearly defined. What is the physical description of a tröll in Old Norse paganism? Is it a human with a long four foot nose with large hands and a tail?
The Celtic language, Breton, is still spoken in Brittany in the French state ... despite the best efforts of the French and Jacobin to suffocate the language. Breton is a sister language of Welsh (my language) and Cornish, not as close as Dutch and German, maybe more like French and Spanish. The grammar is similar - like all Celtic languages they have mutations where the first letter of a word can mutate to another sound e.g. c => g; b => f/v etc. And many many words are similar or the same, e.e. bara (bread), byd / bed (world), bro (country), numbering etc etc. There's a strong Latin influence on the Welsh language as Brythonic (ancient Welsh/Cornish/Breton) was the language of the whole of Britain south of Edinburgh, at the time of the Roman conquest. So, over 400 years of Roman occupation many Latin words seeped into the Welsh language e.g. braich (for arm), pont (bridge), ffenestr (window), llaeth (milk) etc.
My family are proudly celtic in origin, but I also have some germanic and Scandinavian ancestry. The similarities we have to our nordic and germanic brethren is beyond uncanny.
The Celts were not a nordic people. The name "Celt" is not found natively anywhere in the British Isles, nor in Ireland, nor in northern France. It is only found in southern France and Iberia in items of native peoples. The northern French people and the British Islanders knew themselves probably as Belgae, as that tribe carried its name to both England and Ireland. Otherwise, northern peoples do not have any connection to the name "Celts".
At this pt I daresay most Celts are partially Germanic in heritage. The Celtic regions of Spain were taken over by Germanic leadership, the Celts of France who survived the Roman plunder were then integrated into Germanic confederations, the Belgae seem to have been a kind of inbetween people already from what I can tell, and those of us from Britain obviously had the Saxon and Scandinavian incursions.
@@Cornflakes-sr3nq The whole of Spain is between 29% and 31% Yamnaya directly from Switzerland and southwestern Germany from 2,500 BC to 1,800 BC when the Corded Ware Eastern Bell Beakers mixed with the Iberian Maritime Bell Beakers. So even the Iberians who are the "least Germanic" of the Celts are still almost a third Germanic. The others even more so as expected from being closer to Germany. Keep in mind the most Germanic people are 53% Yamnaya so that is the "upper limit" of current Europeans. Given that, 31% is not little.
Please expand on the spiritual aspects of the celts. I’m 20% Scottish and 40% Scandinavian. I like learning about what my ancestors thought and believed
@@slappy8941Both of you refer to my top comment. Or just buy the book “Not In His Image”. It’s everything we need to know about the Celts and the Druids. It’s a helluva lot, by the way.
20% scottish and 40% scandinavian and most likely you are probably 1% Celtic. "scottish" doesnt mean celtic. genetics is like way more complicated than that.
Surely another good topic for a video would be about the meetings and interactions of the Germanic peoples with the Slavs. As an interesting aside, we in England had an Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Druid!
Would like to see more on the Nordic Bronze age trade and cultural connections to the Mediterranean such as Sardinia. Also any possibilities that some mercenaries from the Nordic Bronze age culture participated in the Sea People raids in the Eastern Mediterranean
I'm old enough to remember when he cultural zeitgeist was ancient Egypt, ancient Greece & Rome. (The Eagle, Last Legion, The Mummy, 300, Gladiator, Troy) i believe it's the deep astrology at work, planetary retvrn transits for each civilization.
I agree with that feeling about the astrological influence for collective memory. Those movies where my favorites when I was younger and it did seem like there was a collective global interest of those time periods back in the 90s and early 2000s, now it feels much like the bronze age and much more ancient times are speaking to us in these times
In the Gaelic language we call ourselves the Gael. In Gaelic, we say "Is muidne na Gael"= We are the Gael. From my studies of ancient history, Gael is a newer form of the word Gaidheil which in turn has an etymology with the word Godhael from ancient Akkadian which meant "The great warriors".
North Sea Mutt here...Mostly Germanic too with a splash of Celtic DNA. I too miss the Celtic celebration days, but I feel both cultures need love with the whole world yelling at the top of their lungs that we "have no culture".... Thank you for these types of videos as its why I subbed and stay subbed!
mother viking and father celt from the British Island,emigrated to Scandinavia in the middle age around 1150-1350. His dna signature are common in Wales.
There is a nearly dead celtic language from galacia in NW Spain and there are cultural similarities, along with Bretons who are recorded as having came from Britain after Rome withdrew from the area.
i very much enjoy this chanel as a fair and accurate historical source guide. that said i believe this particular episode, for whatever reason may have presented some facts incorrectly. this through absence of historical material or misinterpretation of historical material albeit in error or on purpose. i prefer to believe it to be by error as this content creator is one of he best all around in his pursuits. the 2 main points that fell lightly were the similarities between celt/germanic peoples and their mutual commonalities and the acceptance of neighboring/conquering people's social/civil lifestyles. overall i continually respect and regard this chanel as an excellent and accurate source of european history.
Excellent video! My dad’s people came from the Scottish Hebrides and we have both Scandinavian and Irish DNA. I’m also curious about the Scottish Picts who might’ve descended from the Pictones tribe in ancient Gaul.
For your dads peoples you might want to try looking at the Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada). A joint kingdom between Ulster Scotti and the Picts who went on to become the Scotish Peoples. It is here that many find their "Irish" DNA..
That is an interesting point about the Picts. I was told that they were native to the British Isles and were surplanted by the Celts. Then came the Romans, then the Saxons, Danes and then Vikings.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367and yet isn't it weird how recorded history disagrees with your political narrative but you are allowed to continue repeating it.. I wonder why ? Perhaps you deny the existence of an entire peoples due to the cancer that is communism that infects the nationalist agenda here.. The Marx disease rotting at your heart.. who knows..
I think it's more likely a case of their being cousin tribes - obviously they were all cousin tribes but you know what I mean. You could think of it like the Dutch-Deutsch, or the Gauls and Gaels (Ive wondered if Galician is also cognate?) Gael-ician, could be wrong though) or how you see the same phenomenon occuring in the east Mediterranean of very similarly named cities/tribes that you can find what could very easily be a common origin or one having been founded by the other. Same way when we would colonize new lands it was always "New ____" and names hearkening back to Britain & the continent & the Saints.
My father is Danish & my mother is from northern England so my heritage is both Norse & Celt. I’m interested in the pre-Christian culture & beliefs of both sides of my ancestry, so thank you so much for this video. I’m happy to hear there will be more.
Gnostics 100pecent read book of the dead aka kolbrin Bible there's reasons for pelagus Brit who faught for roman Christianity to be written a certain way druids aka magi brahmans all link to ancient folks an uk was homeland of the teaching remember when Romans nailed the main man to a cross then wrote an revert oringnal one thing Germanic northern eu got in common we never surrender to rome 1300 years of being banned from reading bible in own language knowledge would be lost
Similarly my mother is from Copenhagen and my old man is the stereotypical Yorkshireman so like you I am also a Engelsk Danske but with the maternal and paternal the opposite way round. Halfdan and proud. *There is a good website called We Are The English and somewhere on the site is an essay on the Saxon Gods and Demi-Gods and also traditions and important dates in the calendar. Remember the days of the week that are named after the Gods: Tuesday is Tyrsdag, Wednesday is Wodensdag, Thursday is Thunorsdag and Friday is Friggasdag (or Freyrsdag?) The Weekend stayed Roman, Saturn and the Sun with Monday named for the moon (I don't know without checking if Monday is Saxon or Roman?) Easter is a Christian corruption of Eostre, the fertility Goddess of the Anglo-Saxons. Another interesting and little known Anglo Saxon celebration is Modraniht (Mother's Night) Dec 21st Winter Solstice.
Do keep in mind... English people are Germanic people's, not Celts. Brittons were Celts, but we're subsequently replaced entirely by the Angles and Saxons. That being said, I sincerely do not think a "pure" Celt or "pure" Germanic person exists in the modern world. These two cultures existed so closely, and descended from the same originating culture, and have mixed and migrated so prolifically, effectively all Germanic people have done Celtic ancestry, and all Celtic people have Germanic ancestry.
Grimfrost and Wolflund are two online resources for Viking but also old Celtic goods and clothes. Both are rooted in Northern (Germanic) and Eastern European (Slavic) pagan and historic goods: clothing, jewelry, arms, statues of old dieties, etc. I think it was Wulflund that (at one time - I haven't checked lately) imported woven wool material (some with proper tartans) from Scottish, Irish, Channel Islands, etc sources. Worth a look.
My paternal ancestry can be traced back to the Celtic tribe of the Boii who lived alongside the Romans in northern Italy but who originated in present day Slovakia.
I have a hard time believing that an entire culture was homosexual. The culture would have collapsed if there had been no babymaking. We talk about this today in the West when we talk about replacement levels. Every couple needs to have at least 2 kids to maintain the population.
They had a lot of kids but they generally tolerated homosexuality. After Christianisation they absorbed hebrew culture which was hostile against homosexuality
More likely is that many more of them were what we would call bisexual today, but labeling *people* as "homosexual" or "heterosexual" (etc) instead of individual *acts* is a relatively new concept. The Romans were speaking of homosexual *activity*, which does not mean that all the men engaging in sexual acts with other men while on the road were strictly only sexually attracted to other men and never reproduced with women while at home. Idk, it makes a lot of sense to me that if the women had such open views about sex as to feel their culture was superior for broader sexual selection with less shame around it, I doubt that openmindedness about who is permitted to have sex with whomst happened in a vacuum that somehow only pertained to the women of their culture and not the men.
Finally🎉 thank you for makin videos comparing Celts nd Germanic people's,I have been wondering about these two for a long time,including what they thought of each other Please continue with these vids,you have cleared my doubts
My moms a red headed Scott and my dad is half Apache and half Thuringii German so I could blend in from ancient America’s to ancient Northern Europa. Love your channel brother :)
Nice work. Love the scholarly objectivism and concise presentation. I came looking for info about continental Germanic and Prussian cultures, so that's what I would find nice to hear about :-)
I’ve often wondered how much of my ancestry was Celtic vs Germanic. It’s not as easy to determine as one would think as waves of migration happened throughout history and it’s hard to know if the migration was that of a ruling elite like the case with the Frank’s ruling what’s now France or a larger scale migration like that of the Anglo saxons migrating to Britain. I’m still doing family research on my mothers side, from what I know it’s Swiss German, English and welsh. My fathers side Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English, German, Dutch, Irish, and welsh. His results came back 29% Scandinavian, 25% Germanic Europe, 25% English and the remaining portions a mix of welsh, scottish, and Irish.
@@parislisbon8187 no need to be a cunt. My comment was perfectly relevant as it has to do with celts and Germans. If you look through the comments you’ll find plenty similar to mine as it’s fairly typical on channels like this.
It's almost as though most people are a mix of a lot of different origins, and it's not very meaningful to attach some sort of strong cultural significance to one's individual ancestors. All of us have many ancestors. All of our ancestors made children until the present day, or we wouldn't be here. Everyone alive has made it through the years by having extremely skilled and hard-working ancestors. We should respect all of them, not just cherry-pick the ancestors that fit a narrative currently being pushed in the world. Anyone going too deep into Germanic or Celtic pride, or any other individual heritage for that matter, is just being weaponized for political gain by other people with influence.
@@StoufSto I 100% agree and understand that. I was simply curious given the videos subject. I don’t think one is better than the other or have any political motivations behind my comment. I’m very proud of my American heritage and have a copy of my great, great, great, great grandfathers journal where he documents traveling from Pennsylvania to Ohio, to Missouri, to Utah, to California, etc.
The English are from the Anglo-Saxons, which are Germanic people and the Scandinavians are also Germanic people, so that would make your dad 79% Germanic.
The kiel word is very interesting. Any ties to the modern use of keel? I’m fairly certain boats were integral to the Bronze Age trade so it would be interesting if there were a tie.
In Portugal you still see a lot of Q-Celtic heritage specially in the north that probably came from the Lusitani and Callaeci tribes or maybe from the germanic Suevi or Visigoth tribes. You can specially see this in the Caretos pagan festival (and some other festivals we have here).
I enjoy all of your videos and find them very well informed. This is the best way to soak up history! It looks like these ancient peoples were moving about a lot, going forward to settle in new lands. It’s difficult to keep them all straight! I look forward to more from you.
Grateful of both my German and Scottish heritage. Was always told growing up that we had more Scot in our blood until there was more digging into the records. Would love to see some more videos on the Celts, similarities in the gods and specifically their widely popular tree and land veneration
On the polygamy issue, yes, the high status men probably did have multiple wives just based on that, but it was also a way for the tribe to take care of the widows and their children. You can't paste modern day society atop of one from 2 or 3 thousand years ago, and say that the women were going to be independent after the husband died, tribes just didn't really work like that for the most part. Which isn't to say that a wealthy widow necessarily needed to remarry, there are always a lot of complexities in any society that encouraged things to conform to their own tradition and to making the tribe strong.
I fully enjoy watching your videos! I've been following your channel since the beginning and every time you make a video I have really enjoyed it and all of your hard work of research in authenticity.😊❤
I'm very proud of and still very much into my, Celtic/Gaelic decent. "Irish and Scots." And all that pertains to it. I read somewhere, not too long ago that, the Thuatha De' Dannan is to have at one time, intermingled with the Scandinavian Gods and/or the folk. Something leading to a connection of sorts.
The Irish and Scots are not Celts, they never called themselves Celts, and this only started linguistically because George Buchanan in 1582 decided to call Irish and Scottish languages "Celtic" because he thought and he said those languages came from Spain where the Celtici lived. So the only reason The British Isles have anything to do linguistically only with the term "Celtic" is due to their supposed connection to Spain.
@@jboss1073 Used as it's intentions. An umbrella term. And yes, I know they never called themselves Celts. But to say the Scots and Irish Gael didn't mix with the, "Celts." If you say so.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367 "The term British isles is problematic." I understand that, however Ireland was indeed called "Britannia Minor" by the Romans, so the name "British" does belong historically to Ireland. Compared to Ireland's inexistent historical relationship with the name "Celt", the name "British" at least was used to refer to the Irish historically. And if you really think British Isles is problematic then please from not on refer to the Iberian Peninsula as the Celtiberian Peninsula - there aren't just Iberians there.
@@CelticHound357 "Used as it's intentions. An umbrella term. And yes, I know they never called themselves Celts. But to say the Scots and Irish Gael didn't mix with the, "Celts." If you say so." Why use an umbrella term? Just use their own name. They had their own names. The Irish called themselves Gaels, Goidels, Hibernians, Fenians, etc. No need to go stealing the name of western Iberians and southern French just because you like it and then acting like they can use that name because they might have mixed with the Celts. Don't do that. Let each people have their own name. The people who called themselves Celts in their own names as inscribed in their own personal pottery and tombstones lived mostly in western Iberia with colonies in Narbo and Massilia. Everywhere else, other tribes had their own names that did not use the word "Celt". The Greeks knowingly generalized the name of the Celts to all Galatians as Strabo explains in Book 4.
While I can entertain the idea that Celts that got caught up in high 'civilization', or romanized society might have been more susceptible to homosexuality and promiscuity, its very silly to think that this would have been common in their tribal world. I have come across this theory of Germanics being somehow distinguished in this regard, but if you really think about it that doesn't make much sense. The Celts were the main agitators and adversaries of rome, of course they would be subject to more propaganda and mired into historical spectacle. Like you explained these two are very very close genetically and its unlikely the Germanics would have intermarried so much with these groups if they had normalized decadent behavior. Many of their customs and traditions are very similar, why would this be any different? There is also the strict survival aspect of why honor and temperance aspects like monogamy was more important than anything to these people. You needed trust, and you needed people you can rely on in order to survive in such a climate. Purely psychologically, reducing that trust and commitment is disastrous and society only maintains cohesion by removing the survival aspect and putting humans in an artificial environment with distractions. Like the one we have today.
I do believe it was some sort of warrior rite of passage. It existed in many civilisations. The Greeks did it, even the samurai had this kind of rite of passage. Probably to establish a brotherly interdependence. Doesn’t make them necessarily homosexual although some probably were. It has always been the case in every society.
@@jp16k92 It didn't happen. The Romans were engaged in negative propaganda against its adversaries. This is widely known. Almost none of the Roman accusations against the tribes they deemed barbarians has any historical validity.
@@jp16k92 Absolutely nothing about laying with another man is included in warrior cultures. In fact, the majority of warrior cultures world wide believed it to be unmanly Sleeping in a bunk or dorm together, that is common, sleeping in a bed together naked and intimately, no.
I have read recently about Celts in greek literature of 360 AD that Celt's origin is Rhine river. So, every person that was close to the rhine river was original celt while the rest people which were far from the river were just different germans.
Not only is the area around the Danube in Western Europe the "home" of the Celts, it was the Celts who named that river for all time. According to the Wikipedia article for the Danube: "Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic 'danu' or 'don'[17] (both Celtic gods)..."
I've been fascinated by Vikings more than Celts since I was a baby and picked up an Usborne Medieval and Viking book. I didn't like the tv show. Didn't like the shaved heads. Didn't like the characters. Didn't like how the Anglo-Saxons were portrayed as weak and stupid, which has become a stereotype. Didn't like the overall atmosphere.
12:38 - "Romans conquered almost all of Celtic lands relatively easily" - No, only Gauls was easy (8 years). Iberia was hard (200 years) and Strabo and Siculus also noted as much.
@@gandolfthorstefn1780 The Silures and the Picts were possibly the two farthest people from the Romans; no wonder they could not beat them; this is hardly to their credit but rather a large component of this is due to their remoteness and their poverty which was not interesting to the Romans.
I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the similarities between the Celtic and Germanic peoples, and there really wasn't that much difference. Even more so today, we're so mixed we might as well consider ourselves one people.
My mom was "fresh off the boat" from Donegal Ireland, and my dad's mom was first born here in the States from a primarily Swedish ancestry. My wife was able to trace my dad's dad's side was to when them immigrated from Donegal Ireland in the early 1800's
Julius was close to not conquering Gaul. Vercingetorix had united much of Gaul and at that point the tide could've shifted either way. It took years of struggle before they conquered Gaul. The Romans were brutal towards them committing near genocide. I think it was every 1 in 3 Gauls that were killed during Julius's conquest. Highly recommend checking out "The Celtic Holocaust" by Dan Carlin on his podcast "Hardcore History." He goes into great descriptive detail throughout 6 hours of podcast on the fall of Gaul to Rome. One of the best history podcasts at least when it comes to entertainment value.
Great video, thanks for the respect 🙏 i often wondered why the germanics never expanded into the celtic lands before the roman collapse. Probably because of such a similar lifestyle. Do you think the gemanic lands were not taken as much due to overstreching of the romans at that point also? Like scotland? Maybe it wasnt worth the hassle
I also think 'it wasn't worth the hassle' and one has to consider the logistic effort for such hugh deplacements of power in an area with little to none open spaces for their legions to roam. As allready mentioned 'the Celts' were more organized than those 'Germanic tribes' , probably living in larger communities, had their cavalry and thus no match/no fear for their 'Germanic neighbours'. A point mostly overlooked is the fact how organised those 'Celtic tribes' could be . Nice example were ' the Belgae' which habitated now called Flanders and across the channel south-mid England and likely the Island of Wight. Building vessels for commerce,transport of any kind , keeping rules and law on both sides of the channel into their community would be no sinecure.
They did in what is modern day Germany, Austria & Switzerland! Germanic Marcomanni killed Celtic Boii tribe and absorbed the rest of them later on and another example is the coalition of Germanic Cimbri, Teutoni, and Ambrones which killed the large Celtic Helvetii tribe.
Hypothesis The etymology of the name Kelt being associated with bring hidden or from the underworld may actually simply be a derivative of the idea that the people came from “ The Land” .
Yeah, when Braveheart came out everyone wanted to be Scottish. The celtic highland games became real popular post 1995. Then when the series The Vikings came out everyone wanted to be Scandnavian.the funny thing is that it was the English who literally conquered the 4 corners of the earth so if your ancestors came from England 🏴 you should feel the real coolness factor. My ancestry is 40% Britain 40% Nordic and 20% Celtic, so I appreciate all of their history and heritage.
It's amazing how diverse the white race is, while still being pure and white. Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Latin.... Europe is one big family. Do not let the politicans divide us. We are all white, from North to South, from West to the East. We are one people.
There's no such thing as "the white race". There is such a thing as the Indo-European race. Not all I-Es are "White", and not all "white" (European) people are I-Es.
@@daragildea7434 Yes, they are. Language doesn't matter. Hungarians and Finnish people are also white, despite speaking a non I-E language. Genetics is all that matters. Both finns and hungarians have germanic and slavic influence. Non-european whites are also popular. Even in the middle-east, you can see redhead blue eyed people. If there is no such thing as "white race", then there is also no such thing as black race.... ;)
@@tyberius5615 "Yes they are" Who/what is what? "language doesn't matter" Doesn't matter to whom? What do you mean? "Hungarians and Finnish people are also white" What does that have to do with anything? People have different skin colours because they live in different climates. Lighter skin absorbs more vitamin D from sunshine, and darker skin absorbs less, that's scientific fact. "non-European whites are also popular" What the fuck do you think that means? "even in the middle east you can see redhead blue eyed people" What the fuck does that have to do with anything? "if there's no such thing as white race then there's also no such thing as black race" I didn't say there was such a thing as "black race", so what the fuck do you think your point is?
Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy 'The Warlord Chronicles' got me so hyped on Celtic culture. It is set in post-Roman Britain and has many representations of Celtic culture, religion, superstitions, and warfare. It is single-handedly my favorite set of novels ever. Conversely, the Saxon Chronicles, (of the Last Kingdom fame) also by Bernard Cornwell, are an insanely deep look at Germanic culture, as both the Saxons and the Vikings, though so incredibly different by that point, all came from the same ancestry. The Vikings literally were the same "barbarian" invaders that the Saxons were 300 years earlier to the Britons.
I am first-generation English, my paternal line is Scottish (not Scotch) and I am proud of my ancestry. I am a member of the London Caledonian Society,and next Thursday, I will be I Central London celebrating an early Burns night. The dress code for that is black tie that will translate to full Highland wear, so this weekend, I will be getting some trews, shirt and waistcoat ready. The Scottish, Irish and Manx are regarded as Gallic, sometimes called Gaels.
Good stuff. I refuse to believe my ancient British ancestors were a bunch of homos. But it is fascinating whenever I read one of those ancient accounts. As someone with some Germanic ancestry but vastly more and mostly Welsh/British ancestry, I always loved thinking about these 2 related but distinct ancient races.
BTW Very few Scots speak Gaelic or Goidelic Celtic. Even before the Act of Union in 1707 it was only in the Highlands, Hebridees and some rural Lowland backwaters that Gaelic-Celtic was spoken. Scotland's offical langauge was Lallands or Scots and this was/is a Germanic language with many words of Scandinavian origin.
My mum did her dna, and she is 2% Norwegian 5% Danish 47% Northern England celt 46%. She's also doing our family tree and has gone back to 1396 Mathew De Beanland, born in East Morton Bradford, England. My 19 times great grandfather through my my grandma's line, her name was Joan Beanland. I was born 6 miles away from East Morton Bradford.
Among the many reasons the Romans conquered the Gauls but not the Germans, not mentioned here, is the military genius of Gaias Julius Caesar. The conquest of Gaul was anything but easy and might not have been possible but for the remarkable circumstances of his proconsulship.
I have a particular interest less in the differences, but rather more about the regions like Belgium & the Swiss plateau where the two cultures intermingled & overlapped. My own heritage is predominantly Swiss-German and French-Irish & Scots-Irish, so finding a happy syncretic medium between Heathenry & Druidry would is a significant goal of mine.
Really cool video ! One interesting point is the particular case of the Belgae , the perfect transition zone between celts and Germanic peoples ! Belgae had a lot more of common points with the Germans : not so open to trading with strangers , no real unity , small villages in forests , very warlike , ..
