A three-day journey through Brittany, France with geologist Charles Frankel unearths mysteries and legends throughout the region. The perfect budget trip for family fun...with your host, Alexa Sita
Lol majority breton doesnt speak breton actually. Breton were forbidden in school and kids who spoke were punished during 1900 1960. For example, my grand parents spoke breton naturally and learn french at school. They spoke to their kids in french and little breton sometimes. So now 3th generation we doesnt speak just some words who are used. One hundred years for kill a tongue.
@@bretagnejean2410 I am from America, so please pardon my ignorance about the region, but I have read where parts of Brittany still want to be independent from France? Is that true? Also, do most of the locals living in Brittany identify themselves more as Celtic or French? (Yes, I know technically Britanny is part of France, but I get the feeling there is a fierce independent nature in the locals to consider themselves Celtic, etc., first, and French second.)
This really made me want to visit Brittany; not only scenic, but much less touristy than I imagined! I was surprised and pleased to hear that Breton is still being spoken. My ancestors were originally from that area but walked to Britain way back and spent several generations there before being shipped off to Australia as prisoners of her majesty. Would love to see you do a "Little Known Travel" downunder sometime. Nice job.
go in the third and last weeks of August, a lot of tourists have returned home by then, the sea has had a couple of more weeks to warm up, so is even better (not on the Atlantic coast, try the Bay of Douarnenez).
That's interesting Fiona. My ancestors on My Mum's side are from Brittany. My father's side is Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English - came to Oz as free settlers. My Mum migrated to Oz on the free 1968 boats.
Lovely video! I was born in Brittany, then moved to Australia at a young age. Had goosebumps for the duration of the video! Love this part of France at it's medieval forests!
I was born in Paris but my Mum and her ancestors are from Brittany - I only speak French and English. I grew up in Australia from the age of 10. I never learnt my Mum's Breton and regret it. On my Australian side (Father) we are Welsh, English and Scottish. So it seems my culture divide was not so divided historically. My Mum never learnt the Breton-Celtic history at school - she was only taught French history ect. So the more I dig the more interested I become.
Vraiment! M Frankel doesn't have a clue. Irish and Scots Gaelic are dialects of the same language, and both are closer to French and English than they are to Breton. Breton, Cornish and Welsh are related languages, and are from a completely different branch of the family of Celtic languages from Scottish and Irish
Welsh is mostly plagiarised dark age English Gealic (Ann-Gealish) spoken by Germanic (Norman, Danish) settlers who moved to Wales (land of the foreigners/Germanics) after the 1066 Germanic Invasion. Most of them arrived from Denmark in the 15th and 16th centuries CE. FACT.
@@ClwydEnComu You're right. It's more likely a mixture of proto Old English, mid Gealic but largely it's Platendütsche rough flemish from the mass migration of French Calvinists or Huegenots into North and Mid Wales in the 17th century. They make up upto 85% of the modern Welsh population in most rural areas. No English would fight in William of Oranges army back then so they took the troublesome religous fanatics off of their Norman brethrens hands. And they've had an endless 5th column of intergenerational cannon fodder for hire ever since.
@@theshamanarchist5441 @The Shamanarchist this is totally revisionist. 'English' Gaelic didn't exist, largely because the concept of England as an entity is a more modern invention - there was a P-Celtic language in the highlands of the island (in the far west and the North) and we can demonstrate that through place names throughout time. If this language was spoken in the lowlands (East of Shropshire and South), we'd expect to see similar histories of P-Celtic names in these places, but we don't. Instead we see these more germanic names. The old P-Celtic language was spoken in much of modern England but has since retreated to the highland in the west, that we now call Wales and Cornwall, and we have remnants of that language still in the places it was spoken (Penrith for example, Avon, etc). The notion that the modern day Welsh language was created by a Dutch influx of people that overtook the native population is utterly revisionist and baseless nonsense. There are remnants of a mix between Welsh and a form of Dutch in Pembrokeshire Welsh, and the older generations still speak this hybrid, but that is the extent of that - and it can be difficult for a Welsh speaker to understand the dialect fully. But the idea the Dutch arrived en masse in the 1700s in Gwynedd and Clwyd is ahistoric nonsense. The reality is the precursor to Welsh was spoken in England and retreated and evolved into Welsh, rather than Welsh being an artificial construct of the language spoken in England and Dutch (jesus, honestly???). Full of it you.
Love this! My mothers French Canadien family came from Brittany over 350 years ago. Even though they spoke French, they always claimed to be "Celtic", and different.
Brest was the only french speaking town in Brittany, the rest of Bretons spoke either Breton or Gallo until 1902 when France banned Breton and Gallo from being educated to children. So your ancestors probably spoke Breton or Gallo too !
a person who speaks irish will not be able to understand a person who knows breton. breton is much more closely related to cornish and welsh, while gaelic (scotland) and irish are closely related to each other but not nearly to the others.
"ur smelly" nah, that's the dirty sanchez on your upper lip. "as much culture as my left testicle". sure enough, that's a lot of culture, but I'd go further and include your right and sideshow hairy hanger, Chaz McBono.
Uprated. He mispronounced Celts. Favorited, shared. I am so lucky to have Breton inlaws, difficult as they may be. This is a hugely overlooked big part of France and well worth a long visit. I adore Quimper and the family place is in a nondescript area near Guer and yet there are megaliths and all kinds of cool Gallo-Roman, Roman and early Christian things there, and more. Greetings from Paris via the USA. Good job -- you must have been overwhelmed!
I love your video! Thank you for the information. My family and I recently got back from a 3 week vacation in Europe where we stopped in France and visited the country town of Belleau Wood and the city of Paris. There is so much to see and do. We can't wait to go back and explore more of France! :)
Chiar acum o saptamana m-am intors din Bretagne. Este a doua oara cand am mers in aceasta parte a Frantei, care oricum e minunata!Anul acesta a fost Coasta de smarald, cu Saint Malo, St. Brieuc, Dinard, Dinan,Cap Frehel, Saint Suliac declarat in 2014 cel mai frumos sat din Franta. Am fost si la Comburg, unde circula "fantoma" lui Chateaubriand. Acolo s-a nascut si a patrecut copilaria si o parte din adolescenta, in castelul familiei sale. Destinul sau a fost sa devina parintele romantismului in literatura dar in aceeasi masura si om politic foarte important in Franta secolului 19. Nu mai vorbesc despre Mont Saint Michel, aceasta minune care rasare din apele marii si care este de fapt in Normandia, dar pe care l-ar vrea si bretonii. Nu mai vorbesc de gastronomia locala! Cine adora fructele de mare, ca mine, va fi supra satisfacut! Si prajiturile bretone sunt delicioase. Dar , ce sa mai povestesc, astea toate trebuie vazute pe viu. Veti trai clipe minunate.
To those saying he is mispronouncing "celtic" and saying it like the US basketball team, do bear in mind that it does begin with an "s" sound in French. So not necessarily excusing him saying it that way, but just be aware of that.
Yes but he's not saying it in French, is he. If you're going to make an info video, you should be accurate and know how to pronounce it in that language.
Great clip, but a few inaccuracies; Brittany was a nation was it not? And the celtic languages came well after the ice age, and they are separate languages - there are some similarities between Welsh and Breton, but the Gaelic of Ireland and Scotland are quite different, but with some occasional words overlapping... more than just 'dialects' of some supra celtic language!
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Charles Frankel is a planetary scientist (specialist Mars) and science writer. He teaches geology of Mars at Middlebury College in the USA. He is also the author of Earth Vineyards .- maybe he should stick to talking about mars.
Merci de l'info, je me demandais pourquoi ce breton parlait si bien l'anglais...Mon père est né à Huelgoat, et les plages bretonnes sont très belles. Have a good day 😀😏🤗🇨🇵🇨🇵
Brittany is beautiful, and yes I have spent many years there..but they do not speak Breton, its been pretty much dead since the early 19th century. Bretons are descended from celtic 'britons' that were pushed out of mainland britian with the arrival of the anglo saxons after the fall of the roman empire. This man, should probably get his facts straight. also, only seltics i ever heard of are some kind of sports team form the US..
The fall of breton language is actually more recent, it was the main language in half the territory until the beginning of the 20th century (the other half spoke gallo since like a millenium). Between the last native breton speakers and the first billigual primary school, there is just one or two generations. I'm not sure the language will survive, though.
ManaPeerfr Correct. Even as late as WW2 many Breton soldiers only spoke Breton. Eventually schools discouraged it and often punished children for speaking it. Its having a resurgence now as many local politicians are encouraging its use.
@@lmnll2742 The word gallo means, foreign, Gallic, French. The Gallo patoi is the French patoi comprising according to linguists the most words of Gallic origin, it is spoken in the east of the Morbihan department. The west of Morbihan where I live spoke a Breton a little different from the rest of Brittany. It is actually mixed with gallo. So some words that I thought were Breton are sometimes Gallic. For example the spade is called pigel here, and this word is Gallic. In a way we can say that Brittany is doubly Celtic :).
He's confused about Doggerland, the situation he's talking about was 18,000 years ago and it's absolutely not the reason for cultural closeness, Brittany was settled by Welsh and Cornish people about 1500 years ago.
Great vid. Though I thought that the Stonehenge was a ceremonial burial place and had nothing to do with the alignment of stars. I don't doubt that our ancestors were incredibly intelligent people and were probably able to see a lot more stars than we can, but I don't know about this...sometimes I think history might be a bit simpler than we want it to be.
Breton are from cornish and wales england. They come in armorica for escape anglo saxon invasion. I m breton and i have do dna with 23 and me. I have 85% dna british irish so more that a average english man
23andme analyse dna and have category like british/irish french/german scandinavian italian hispanic and 140 others. Angle and saxon who come in england were more french/german and scandinavian that british/irish dna. breton are celtic yes. Type breton music u ll see. The breton language is practilly the same cornish language.
Disappointing that you did not mention the Welsh/cornish as the breton people are ethnically the same as the welsh/cornish and even distantly related to the irish and scottish. Breton is part of the p-celtic languages. The same as welsh and cornish whereas irish and scottish are q-celtic. Also it is Celtic (as in KELTIC) not SELTIC.
Hello Lee James, excuse my english . you're right on a lot of points but this is not the exact origin of Breton people. All Bretons don't come from Britain, Brittany have 2 parts divised by an invisible frontier : Brittania gallicana or Upper Brittany speak Gallo and are originals Armorican, habitant of Armorica (ancien name of Brittany), and at left Brittannia britonizans called Lower Brittany who speak a celtic tongue the Breton and come from British isles (essentilly Cornish and Welsh) , the Armoricans adopted the Breton culture, the integration was done peacefully by the Armoricanus-tractus on Roman time firstly, but the two peoples known each other for a long time, through commerce, other waves of successive immigration followed during 5 or 7 centuries, the orignal Britons have created an independent kingdom who gave a lot of trouble to France . but there are also 10% of Bretons, descendants of the Norse/Vikings, a good percentage are descendents of Irish also who immigrated to Brittany fleeing the Great Famine, and before, the Cromwell reform, they were very well accepted by their Celtic Catholic brothers..but the ancient Britons or the Welsh/Cornish of today are our connection by the creation of our Kingdom that why we have for them a special affection (despite many Bretons don't know their own history, at the time of forced Francization, the history of Brittany was forbidden in Brittany's schools) yes you right, our Seven founding saints of Brittany are Welsh only Saint corentin is Cornish Saint-Malo founded by Saint Malo (or Maclou), Dol-de-Bretagne founded by Saint Samson Saint-Brieuc founded by Saint Brioc Tréguier founded by Saint Tugdual Saint-Pol-de-Léon founded by saint Pol Aurélien Quimper founded by Saint Corentin Vannes founded by Saint Paterne (or Patern), we celebrate them even today every year with the "tro Breiz", it's a Catholic pilgrimage that links the cities of the seven founding saints of Brittany.
Cougnamama Thank you for replying my friend. Thank you so much for the extra information and correcting some of my inaccuracies. Love learning new things. It is fascinating what you say. I hope my reply did not offend you. I am planning on visiting Brittany in October this year. I cannot wait.
Lee james Of course not, I am not offended, I find very interesting that persons of the same ancestral people were separated each lived their destiny and became what we are, the English, leaving you your own identity as a nation ,have respected you more than we Bretons, with the French who forced our Francisation and their agressive jacobism sometimes with a rare violence ,that explain why we keep a strong identity and definite ourself Breton before to be French.. but as legend says our King Arthur will reunite the two Britain and maybe we'll sing together " Bro Gozh ma Zadoù and Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" with a pint of cider, that would have been funny . You're welcome, have a nice trip in Brittany my friend , take the time to dream
Celts of Ireland are not British. What a foolish thing to say. British are saxons Irish are Celts and the only part of Britian that is celtic is Devon and Cornwall. So Please remember by implying the Irish are British is completely wrong. Irish Celts and monks saved Britan after the collapse of the Rome Empire. The Irish Celts and Celts of Brittany are a dialect of the gaelic nations. Please do not class the Irish as British you are insulting them. Learn your history.
Irish Diasporas I beg your pardon? I am Welsh and speak Welsh and in modern terms that makes me British or a Briton. Saxons are from Germany and are not indigenous to Britain. Welsh is a language spoken fluently and by many more people than is Irish. Welsh being the indigenous language (formally Brythonic) of the main bulk of Britain prior to and after the German Saxon invasion of Britain. Breton is a p-celtic language as is welsh and Cornish. Breton is certainly not a dialect of any of the Gaelic languages or nations as you put it. Irish is a q-celtic language. The ancient bretons came from present day Cornwall and wales and not many (if at all) came from Ireland. Most christian missionaries to Brittany came from Cornwall and wales. Please do not procrastinate and tell people to learn their history when you clearly do not know what you are talking about! The English are primarily saxon. The british are today collectively English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish. However, the northern irish are only British politically as are the scottish to a certain extent. So, your point that the only part of Britain that is Celtic is Devon and Cornwall is utter rubbish and clearly tells me you do not know what you are talking about! Are you from Britain by any chance?
@@leejames3148 irish people are not related to britons or britany people. Welsh and cornish are brythonic and are basically brothers with brittany folks. Irish people are from another island called ireland not from britain. The picts are extinct now but they were also britons of the north. The scots u see that speak gaelic are irish immigrants that came over a few centuries ago. I fact low land scotland is pretty germanic and the anglo.saxons and vikings were in scotland before the irish and made a language called scots. So when scottish people say gaelic is their native tongue i laugh cause its not hell scots is more native to scotland than gaelic. Also question, i know the picts and the welsh (britons) would fight a lot but were they related to each other by any chance or did they have a similar language?
@@leejames3148 hmmm I pretty much agree with you, but the Saxons had less impact on the land we now refer to as England. The Angles from southern Denmark had the most impact. Remember also that all of these countries didn't exist during the invasions. What is an English person? If we look at the genes of an average English person we will find this: Angle, Briton Celt, Saxon, Jute (in that order). Fresians seem to have little impact if any at all, which is odd considering how close the Netherlands is. If the invasions hadn't happened then the people we now call English would be speaking a Welsh/Cornish language because that's who they were before fleeing, dying or mixing predominantly with the Angles and Saxons. When I was on holiday in Wales years ago, an elderly Welsh woman served me in a shop. She said, 'Why did you give up your language so easily?' I didn't know what she meant. Then she said, 'You'd all be speaking Welsh if it wasn't for the Anglo-Saxons.' Half of my family is from Hartlepool.The other half is Londoner and Cockney. I sincerely believe that middle and northern England is predominantly Briton by blood.
British, Britain, Briton, Britanny Breton, Breiz... these words have a same origin. You make a confusion: Great Britain expecialy the south of the main land was call Britain or Brittania before Saxons and Angles arrive, and even before Julius Ceasar! Breton is britonnic language, cousin of Corrnish and Welsh. One day i show a detailled map of Brittany to an historian living in Powys. He was able to translate in English the name of small places and he didn't know breton before :).
please make him stop..the reason that myth made is to France is due to movements of people..nothing regarding Arthur took place. Its a myth. Its possible that a great king called vortigen lived in Celtic Britian and may have inspired myth. But the first Carolingian kings also had similar legends, which were common, and actually to France.
not 4000 years before christ either..how does he date this, wow, this guy actually makes a living from this..they were created by artists. They were a part of simple celtic society..this guys lack of intelligence is fascinating
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So according to Charles Frankel Bretagne has similar people than the British Isles because a long time ago there was no channel or perhaps just a river separating the two lands. He explains this is why we have similar people in Bretagne and England !!!!!! Now, this is the strangest piece of BS I have heard lately from a scientist. I forgive him when he pronounces France with an American pronunciation - education in FRENCE is not so good for languages. Monsieur Charles Frankel should learn some fresh History - I mean around 4th and 6th centuries when Bretagne got itself re-Celtisised due to inflow of Celtic immigrants from the south of England (Dumnoneans) who not only brought with them their Celtic language but also their customs and technology. Bretagne was speaking a Gallo-Roman dialect at that time when the Roman empire was crumbling to bread crumbs. Everywhere else in FRENCE the Roman language replaced most dialects and became the official language except in the western half of Brittany. (Bretagne). I am shocked at the ignorance of a so-called archeologist but perhaps he knows Mars better than Earth.
Note the spelling difference between 'Britney' and 'Brittany'. They are not the same thing nor are they the same word. Americans - please learn to read, then learn how to pronounce. It's not difficult.
