Irish Mythology: The Arrival of the Celtic Gods - Complete - The Tuatha Dé Danann - See U in History 

Tolkien always denied that insinuation, claiming that he actually had a "distaste" for Irish mythology. It's in one of his letters. In another letter he said that he only wished to extract the "fairer parts" of the elusive thing called "Celtic."

I think he took more from the Norse beliefs, which if you go far enough back - are all related.

Not too tough to find out some if you want to. I was just researching one branch of my ancestry and found the Annals and other translated books. I got merrily distracted looking into them! Great stories!

@@easttowest7839 you can find in a collection of Irish tales “the tragedy of the sons of tuirean” Tuirean is pronounced Turin, one of the biggest heroes of the Silmarillion. Helm of Helm’s Deep is greatly outnumbered at his death, after killing off most of his enemy, he ties himself to a standing stone to keep himself upright so he can continue fighting. Even after he finally dies, he does not fall and the enemy is afraid to approach him. This is exactly how Cuchulainn, one of the great Irish heroes, dies. All the elves in Tolkien are basically the Tuatha De Danaan. It isn’t covered in this video but after the Tuatha invade Ireland, the Milesians invade and defeat the Tuatha. They agree to get half the Island. The Tuatha get the half below ground. They live in the hills. The Tuatha live forever, they are immortal. As it says in the video, they are beautiful. They also live on islands over the sea to the west Tir Na Nog and Hy Brasil. If you know the Hobbit, Legolas’ people live underground in Mirkwood. In the Silmarillion, the elves live underground in Menengroth and Nagarothand. Tolkien took from many sources, not just Norse mythology. He didn’t want to make a carbon copy of Norse myth. There is Roman history, Christian influences like Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dante’s Inferno, Greek myth, Finnish myth and lots more. People hear that he took the names of Gandalf and the 12 dwarfs in the Hobbit from the Eddas and say “Norse”. There is a huge Celtic influence whether he would admit it or not. I believe Tolkien had a bit of a bad opinion about Ireland because through the early part of his life they were fighting, and succeeding, at leaving the United Kingdom and as someone who had a great love of England, he probably did not like that.

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Sadly, a lot of records. Written about them is either lost to time or never written down or destroyed.

@@77wolfblade I think you might be surprised by how much exists. Compared to other countries a lot of this stuff is incredibly well documented or kept in the form of artifacts. If you look into it on the book side of things we have a lot of preserved books that are over 1000 years old. As for buildings and artifacts, we have so many that they aren't considered special here by a fair amount of people. When you live in a place where ruins are just everywhere it's not as weird to you. Like just in terms of the Tuathe De Denann, there's Newgrange which is over 5,000 years old and believed to belong to the Dagda. There was also bones of a body inside which they sequenced the genome of. They studied and gave incredibly insightful data on the kind of group said person would've come from based on his dna. Then beside Newgrange you have Knowth, also over 5000 years old. A place so full of stone age stone carving art that of the over 900 pieces of stone age carving art in Europe, over 600 of those are in County Meath Ireland alone and a fair majority of that amount is just in Knowth.

@@77wolfblade If you ever feel in the mood to read some irish books can find pdfs online to read The book of the dun cow (dated to be made before 1106 because that's when the author was killed, so at least 916 years old), the Book of Kells (dated to the year 800, i.e- at least 1200 years ago) and the Annals of the Four Masters published in 1636 which aimed to cover all of irish history. Online you can find pdfs of the legit originals, so to read them you just need to translate with an aid or be able to read the language/find someone who can. That's irish for Dun Cow and 4 Masters, latin for book of kells I believe. There's other books out there but these ones spring to mind as a starting point.

@@77wolfblade I agree that a lot of records are gone, which is sad and really sucks, but we frankly do have way more to go off than most countries and I see that as a blessing. Like you can outright just go inside Newgrange. You can go to the any variety of castle, round tower, ruin.. and some are well protected, maybe even requiring tickets to go in like Newgrange does (but it literally costs you 10 euro to go inside) but most of these things are just around us in Ireland we considered normal. Like on the way out of my village there's a lot of ruins along the way with signs that say stuff like "Old ruins. Don't touch. Dangerous" etc Our history is still surrounding us. It's pretty cool.

When I was younger, there was Hercules and Xena on TV. Both series visited Ireland and introduced their mythology to folks. One reason I loved both series was the way they went into myths of so many nations!

Interesting how the language seems to go more back to egyptian/polynesian/austronesian vowels and sounds

tribe of daniel put its mark everywhere

They sound like Danes

@@GODHATESADOPTION It's not Daniel it's danu

@@mtavsen the tribe of dan put their mark all over

That passes me off. It seems like European and Scandinavian myths are never taught. They are just as important as Greek and Roman myths. In fact, I think they are more important.

i feel it’s because those myths were from the societies who dominate culture today. Europe being a leader of western culture - and america another leader being originally from europe.

Influence!

​@@chrittyThis doesn't make any sense. By that logic, non-Greek European and Native American myth would be more popular than Greek and Egyptian myths.

Yeah, came here after some good Celtic music and I got interested

I wish I was Irish and I could look at these stories as my own but I’m like four different ethnicities so I have to just make my own connections

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Spoiler alert: the Fir Bolg and the Fomorians are one and the same. Most of the invasions describes are just retellings of the same story, altered by Christian monks to fit the Biblical timeline.

And -I’m pretty sure?- Bres doesn’t die fighting the Fir Bolg, but goes on to be tyrant king for a bit and does a whole thing with the Fomorians, who Nuada and the others fight against and overthrow.

@@disgruntledbob2812 That is quite possible. My memory on that part is a bit vague.

Seems like Greek and Norse mythology.

@@ru3nekaydaCelts are older than both those people tho since there one of the oldest people in europe

@@swaythegod5812 For real.

NOW CARRY THE STORY ON

Thanks! 😉

First bump my dude🤜

Are you kidding? He pronounced tuatha as twafa !!!

@@conneelyb I understood it, who's to say what his accent is? Only so close he can get without being Irish, I've been subscribed to this channel for years and they put effort in

He butchered Tuatha de Danann

It's very well told and presented. Pronunciation of Irish words if you're not familiar with it, is quite difficult. Tuatha dé Danann phonetically in English would be similar to "Tooha day dannun"

You're mad. This guy never bothered to do the slightest bit of research into pronunciation of irish words. Fir bolg is "feir buh-lug" not "fur bowlg". Tuatha de Dannan is "Two-uh de dah-nun" not "twa-thuh". These aren't esoteric words, they're composed of basic irish words. And then there's "Sreng", which he swings wildly with in pronunciation (as well as "dannan") like he's trying to hedge his bets. In irish "s" is pronounced like "sh", like "Sean" or "Siobhan". This is simple stuff that anyone could have figured out if they spent two seconds.

I think this is where Atreus is going next Edit: it’s a quick stop on his way south to Egypt

Hope they explore Celtic/Irish mythology in future games

Well its implied that Mimir is from the Celtic Lands and that he wasn't always a god. I like to think that he was a fae creature, eventually granted godhood and then made his way to midgard. Might explain why he has horns too

Please note: Based on the DNA, (Peer Reviewed resources available) *We Irish are Garlic, and post flood era Basque.* The Celts are likely Anglos, they are of a foggy heritage, no clear definition has been made, and thus they appear to be of the Roman named Barbarians, the Germanics, generalized Anglos.

@@bethbartlett5692 I'm garlic? Makes sense though because I LOVE garlic in anything! Lol...I'm just messing with ya!

Ooooh yes! Giving the fact that halloween is approaching

Aontaím! a Oíche Shamhna inniu 😄👌🎃👻

And the people who worshipped Danu are called the danavas.

Surprisingly few people are aware of the origin of all these mythologies. It's the same as our languages, they originate with the ancient Indo-Europeans who conquered Eurasia.

​@@swastikmishra2980 Actually Danava are children of Goddess Danu

Go raibh maith agat!

Ceart go lóir!

Setanta, The Hound of Cullen. The prototype Berserker and I guess probably where the Incredible Hulk's creator got his inspiration from.

he wont pronounce it right. He should listen to Fortress of Lugh who 's pronunciations are perfect.

Why did you leave out the "DÉ"?

whats even lazier is that irish hasnt changed its writing to reflect pronounciation lol

@@iaw7406 why would we change our language for people who won't take the time to learn it

@Grendel S Rage Fir bolg; men of the bag; na fir; Fir is fir; like Vir in Latin; meaning men (Virility; having a stiff willy) Like Fear; (man) fir (men) an fear; na fir; it's okay to mispronounce your own ancestral laguage, lotsa Americans in the same boat with ye! 🤣

@@chungus_khan "having a stiff willy" 😭🤣🤣🤣 ☠

Yup, but I watch lots of Chinese costume Dramas even when I have to translate the translation because it is awful. I still appreciate the attempt and enjoy the story. Judging by the number of hits, others agree. I am sure though they will enjoy your points and use them later. 😉

Wow, Lady G I would love you to teach me Gaelic language. It is beautiful.

@@marionstout9514 Ádh mór ( good luck ) If you really want to learn I would suggest using Babbel. It's easy also convenient for daily use I looked for a friend of mine. It really is a beautiful language I'm just upset it's not used more especially in Ireland

no. Dál riada is just one small kingdom out of 150 or so that would have existed at the same time. Nothing to do with the Tuatha

There are two versions of what happened to Bres after the second battle of Maigh Tuired: Lugh captures him and has him killed by poisoning, or released him for a ransom and exiled him

@@easttowest7839 that I know about, but that’s after the battle at Maigh Tuired with the Fomori, the video insinuated that Bres was killed in combat during the firbolg battles, which is what confused me. Thank you, though

@@arjunramakanth4370 ah yes you're right, I hadn't paid attention

I need an answer to this comment.

Take it for what it is, there are several inaccuracies.

Something else would have happened. The war was inevitable.

Lucifer and the Dagda you say?

It isn't either of those. It is "Tribe"

No, they aren't

No

Yes. Nice video but my poor Irish ears are hurting at the pronunciation here.

He's half and half.

Only if Dan was a woman😂, cause Danu was a female deity

If they had such strong magics why were they oppressed for so long?