This is excellent!... very surprising to find an American gentleman to know so much Scottish history. More than most Scots know. ( Anglicisation!! 😢) Really enjoyed! Incidentally...I'm a fan of the late Nigel Tranter. I learned more of my country's history from his Scottish historical fiction... than I ever learned in my (Anglicised) Edinburgh school. Your pronunciation is excellent also. Well done ! John Rutherford ( retired ). Kelty. Fife.
New to the channel, one video in and amazing channel! Will undoubtedly be sharing as well! Also I may have misheard but was cooking while listening and I am also an Appalachian. East TN Scotch Irish!
My ancestors. Nice vid. I decend from Macdonald's of Sleat, Ragnall, and Glengarry. I also decend from Duncan McDougall 16th clan cheif of MacDougalls. We all decend from the Islay Branch and multiple Stewart women married Macdonald clan cheifs making us decendants of Robert the Bruce, Cinaed MacAplin, and the High Kings of Ireland. It also makes them Plantagenet and Llewellyn the great decendants via Isabella of Mar wife of Robert the Bruce. I am also a MacLeod decendant as they intermarried with their rivals far more than people realize.
In my Y-DNA group, I have a bunch of MacDougalls, but also there is a branch that I am trying to figure out composed of MacNail (a misnomer of Donnell or Ragnell perhaps? ), MacNeil, White, and Lowery/Lowry/Laurie. I'm interested in trying to figure out this branch's origin. Genealogies give hints of Barra, Islay, Northern Ireland.
Awsome bro. appreciate the correct pronunciation of gaidhlig man. I would call someone who is young Og, mor means great or big but i guess hear it just means older as you say senior. its a funny language far more complicated than the english language has the capacity to describe. Aonghus is spoken like Innes, but it is the Gaelicised Angus or Angus is the Anglicised Aonghus.
My father always laid claim to descent from MacIain of Glencoe. I thought he was being fanciful until we did some research. The records held at the India Office show that my grandfather x5 was Ewen MacDonald who joined the East India Company and did, indeed, trace his ancestry back to Angus Og and down to MacIain. So we are true MacDonalds of Glencoe. Some years ago I provided my DNA to the relevant research body and it came back as a 92% match to the factually proven Glencoe Macdonalds.
Mor and Og can also be used as a bit of fun. Much like Little John was a huge man, Og of Bashan in the Bible is a giant not a normal man but for a giant he was only around 9 feet tall so a Tiny Giant. Og though taken literally should be a title like junior or the Younger.
@@thescottishclans My Y DNA has been on the Island of UK/Scotland and Wales since before 2500BC, i’m in the Campbell DNA project and can trace my Y DNA over 150,000 BC
Hang on Sean is Irish ….I’d stay away from trying to explain Gaelic naming ….you will confuse ppl ….What you might think names mean ….they don’t …… You really also might want to watch or you will start an argument on who is the senior line of Clan Donald!
you spell Graham like you just came here with william the conqueror ya maddy al argue way you, leave yank alone he's done us proud you away and have a hard think about that spelling and tread carefully yourself. @@graemehighlander9237
F*ck him bro its folk like that, thats who sided way the Sassenach. am a real rootin tootin gaidhlig speaking islander al throw him in the minch if he gees you anymore jip@@thescottishclans
