Did the Celts Reach the Americas Before the Vikings? 

Colombus left a diary, in it he claimed the Irish sailors of Limerick were the best in the world and told him of lands far to the west - this was before he landed in the west

Just a heads up, Ogham is mispronounced here. It's tricky to pronounce Irish words for most people who didn't grow up here. It is pronounced more like "Oham" without the "g" sound.

There was a 500+ year old indigenous village dig around Toronto Canada that they found a piece of wrought iron dated to that age. And a Norse settlement up on Baffin Island that is very old.

It was the Irish told the Vikings about the big land of America.

It was the Welsh that were here

This likely originated from the Norse that set up a settlement on Greenland around 1000 CE. There is evidence that they traveled at least into Canada and possibly further. It was memorialized in the several of their sagas. There’s a Norse settlement that was found on the Island of Newfoundland and Labrador that is now called “L’anse aux Meadows.” considering a lot of old Norse Vikings had settlements on Ireland, the tales would have been merged with Celtic folk lore. It would not be unreasonable to think that some Irish ancestors and other Nordic/Celtic communities were on these expeditions. Coins of the Viking era are found quite far south on the eastern coastline of the USA, some being turned into jewelry. Either their people brought it down, or it was used in trade with the Native Americans who traded it further south. The Mississippian Culture was quite extensive and traded with other large cultures that were inexistence from around 800-1600, stretching from the Great Lakes down to the top of Florida (as far as we know.) A Norse coin and symbols could have traveled through those regions. In Greenland, there were settlements near Brattahlid with some 400 known farm. Another near modern Ivigtut with at least 20 farms, and another at modern Godthåbsfjord. The “Vinland Sagas” describe the Newfoundland, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as far as northeastern Brunswick. There geography of the area was written about by Adam of Bremen, Galvano Fiamma in 1075. Sigurd Steffanson created a map, which placed Vinland either in the Chesapeake Bay (VA), Cape Cod, or St Lawrence.

Ogham is said to be made by the god Ogma of the Tuatha De Danaan and they built Newgrange 5000 years ago. It was mostly written on tree branches which of course we have no record of.

Tim Severin's book "The Voyage of the Brendan" is a great read if you can find it.

I need to look it up, but there was a mention of white(ish) Christians ALREADY on the Canadian mainland in one of the sagas. It was called something like "Hritmanisland".

Bog bodies in North America are in Florida and are Celtic peoples. The are the oldest people's ever found in the archeological record in the US. So, I'll take the tales and legends of my people as fact and add to it that we were here first until someone else has older bodies in the sedimentary layers. Also there us a reason we are Cauc-Asian peoples. Our people were quite literally here first, according to Yurok Indian leader Lucy Thompson who said our people were in Northern California when they showed up from Mexico.

Naomh Breandán, Áthair Saoirse, guigh orainn. 🙏☦️

Great video and I totally agree with this. The proof of evidence is important and should be the staple of proper archeological research but I wonder if say Mal Dunn or St. Brenndan did actually sail over to the Americas what archeological evidence would there be? Instead of setting up an outpost like the vikings they came in and camped a bit before sailing back they would be no traces of them being there after several centuries. One of the most frustrating parts about historical research.

Have you heard of the Upton chamber? It doesn't match colonial root cellars and resembles Irish stone caverns. There's also evidence in the Greenlander and Vinlander sagas that Dal Riata Gaels (named Haki and Hækja) were brought to Canada as foragers.

Highly recommend The Farfarers, by Farley Mowatt. It details his theory that Albans from northern Scotland( the Orkney Islands etc) traveled west to north America in search of walrus ivory as it was very valuable and was getting scarce in Europe. He details evidence of them around Hudson Bay and other locations in Labrador I think. Been quite some time since I read it.

We can't be sure when ogham was invented; it appears to be earlier than he believes. The 'Celts' who made the sea voyages were in fact Phoenician-Irish. We have conclusive evidence that Gaelic speakers were living in the Faroe Islands and Iceland when the Vikings arrived. Also Latin and Continental Celtic were hardly two languages; they were mutually intelligible. Even Gaelic, which is a step away is still close to Latin. 'The man hits the horse in Old Gaelic is 'bulis for ec' in Latin it is via equum pulsat All the words are the same. You can't talk about loan words from Celtic to Latin or vice versa. They were basically the same language. When Caratacus was taken prisoner to Rome he became a famous orator - not easy in a 'foreign' language.

There's a possibility that one of the lost ships of the Milesian Gaels that left Ancient Gallaecia to Ireland eventually landed in America. Just a thought.

Ogham predates Latin. Saying that Ogham wasn't invented until the 5th century CE is Anglo-Propaganda.

I come from Celts down the family tree. From Alabama

I have an open mind regarding the idea. I even kind of want it to be true. However, it's going to take more than a literal handful of artifacts which kinda-sorta might be suggestive of Gaels.

Très intéressant!

You didnt address the other parts of the accounts like living off domesticed dear and having metal tools. Thats relevant to the account

Ogham is as old as 1BC made by the Gaels from Hispania now Spain when They moved to Ireland. Do to Archeological discoveries. Ogham would have been written in a different Celtic language before Old Irish when the celts settled in Ireland Ogham became written in a new Celtic languages Old Irish Gaelige, which is mixed from old Celtic Latin languages & languages taken from other settlers who lived in Ireland before them as well as Scotland where GH , DH ,TH resembles Hindi languages and it's believed it came from Scythians who migrated into the Ises and mixed with Bythonic people's and Hispanio Celto people's. and Ireland had people there before the Gaels

Why is the currach the only "boat" mentioned when this topic comes up? The Venetii, a Celtic tribe from before Ceasars time, is just one of an entire province of Celtic tribes who built massive sea worthy sailing vessels . These ships were admitted by the Romans to be so robust and able to take on the open Atlantic ,that the romans were scared to wage a naval battle against them. Also Concerning these tribes, The area in Gaul of the Venetii and others was named "Armorica". Venetii is Venetian or Phoenician . And the genetic history of the celts leads back to the levant! Irs pretty much an open secret the "phoenecians" used the Arlantic and the Americas for their playground...Is this "definitive proof"...of coarse not. But its curious as hell !! Not to mention the "debunks" of some of the more intregueing things in this video are hardly solid....

Somebody was delivering cocaine from The Americas to Egyptian Pharaohs in antiquity.

The United States has the biggest Celtic population of any nation in history.

Ok i loved the Smiths reference 😊

Gaels are lost Jews. The first king of Scythia was Hercules, AKA the Biblical Samson. The Spartans, Danish, Scottish, Swedish, and Irish have all had royal lines of Hebrew origins. Scythian heritage has nothing to do with Celtic heritage. The pillars of Hercules are the pillars of the Temple of Dagon that Samson destroyed.

Petersborough Ontario Canada King Wodenlithi written inscription in proto Ogham pre 1000 BC

I wonder did anyone ever listened to the old stories of old Ireland that is handed down through generation to generation through every Irish family. The Irish claim to have fought many people of the great land of Ireland which is today's America. There is plenty of stories from old Ireland that tells us about this great land.

The Picts had good boats perhaps they did go to America 🤔

Don't listen to the Irish monks trying to take credit for Ogham. It's faaaaaar older than 5th century Christian monks... pagan times, obviously.

just go back a few more years and they are the same people.

Ogham is pronounced o-hm btw. great vid tho

Read Conor MacDari

I believe the Celts went to America first because it would explain Florida.

The yukon in full of viking artifacts.

Celtiberians were in dna in south american natives. Galicia.

Brenda the navigator

I don't doubt it

would the Vikings have left from Britain

Africans, austrailians, giants(nephalim), Polynesians and many others were here before the irish, including romans and jews and egyptians

Mainland celts also. Gallic.

Yes they did they brought ogham writing

As I have both viking and celtic ancestry I only see wins 😂

What is ce?

thuill sé seo fo, chuir an eipeasóid in iúl dom cé mhéad duine a chreid é.

2:42 so called history channel

Ogham is pronounced, "O-AHM"

Yes we did. Amorica is the celtic word for land by the sea. The Irish shape shifter Cú Chulainn is the Myan shape shifter K'uk'ulkan, the stories of whom are the same stories told of Cú Chulainn's father Lugh.. Spanish conquistadors recorded a tribe of tall, fair skinned Indians with beards and moustaches who painted themselves with woad, a tribe of Indians named as the Duhare who farmed deer in their settlements. Folks need to stop believing His Story as written by religious fanatics and start researching actual history..

No

To borrow from my enemies way of thought, Critical Theories. Using the term C.E. is effectively erasing the history of the Christian culture!😂

Good video, but I'd use the word 'Gael' rather than 'Celt'. The Celts are a modern invention - In the early 18th century Edward Lhuyd came up with the theory and even if there was a unified European culture from that supposed Celtic period, we Irish had nothing to do with it anyway - Barry Raftery (1944-2010) professor of Celtic archaeology at University College Dublin, admits an enormous problem in justifying his subject: "there is no archaeological evidence for a Celtic invasion of Ireland". Over the period from about 450 BC to AD 450 when some scholars agreed that there were Celtic societies and civilisations in western and Central Europe, hardly any material evidence has been found here to substantiate the notion of Celtic Ireland. There is no Celtic pottery - or pottery of any kind until well into the Christian period. Only 40-50 such swords or other military instruments are extant, six decorated brooches, eight scabbards - compared to the hundreds of thousands excavated in western France alone. The Irish language is probably much older than previously thought - so labelling it Celtic as well is also misleading. In fact, what both archaeology and genetic studies show is continuity - broadly the same people who built Newgrange continuing to inhabit the island, speaking a version of the language of the Atlantic seaboard from which they had originated. The first farmers moved westwards from Anatolia (modern day Turkey) populated the Iberian Peninsula before finally moving north to Britain and Ireland. There is no evidence of any change in genetics in Ireland until the arrival of the Vikings.

Yes Irish reached America before Vikings Irish who originated from N Africa Ancestors of first Black Americans

No they got here to Australia first mate😛

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O Gam.. It's pronounced Oh - am.. Gh is silent.. 😂 It's incredible content but come to Ireland and learn the language. Please.. For your own benefit.

Yes Irish reached America first As descendants of North Africans they are Ancestors of first Black Americans

I am Australian and have to listen to this Celtic clap trap all the time from the left wing celtic occupied media.You might also like to know that celts invented the wheel,trigonometry,modern medicine,navigation,rotation cropping and flew to the moon and back in the 12th century on a Scotch bottle!