The Sea-Kingdom: Dál Riata & The Birth of Scotland 

History Tim

You didn't mention Carbery Riada, son of the High King of Ireland, Conary II, from what is now Cork, who started the colony in Scotland which eventually became Dal Riada. This is kind of important in the story. Famine drove him and his followers out of the south and into Ulster before they moved on to the east coast of Scotland. No doubt there was much traffic between the two regions before he arrived in Scotland but the kingdom was named after him, so he and his descendants clearly made significant inroads. It is ironic that those who returned to Ulster during the plantations whose descendants now identify as Ulster Scots, actually had Munster DNA and coud as easily be described as Munster Scots. This might not go down well in parts of Belfast, it has to be said. There's Riada DNA in the British Royal family too apparently. Imagine that. Link: www.libraryireland.com/SocialHistoryAncientIreland/I-III-2.php "The authentic history of these expeditions and settlements begins in the early part of the third century, during the reign of Conari II. (A.D. 212-220). This king had three sons, Carbery Musc, Carbery Baskin, and Carbery Riada, At this time a great famine devastated Munster; and Carbery Riada led a number of his Munster people to Ulster and to the south-west of Scotland, in both which places they settled down permanently. These Irish narratives are confirmed by the Venerable Bede in his Ecclesiastical History, where he says; "In course of time, besides the Britons and Picts, Britain received a third nation, the Scots, who, migrating from Ireland under their leader Reuda, obtained for themselves, either by friendly agreement or by force of arms, those settlements among the Picts which they still hold. From the name of their commander they are to this day called Dalreudini: for in their tongue The Dalreudini of Bede is the Dalriada of Irish history. These primitive settlers increased and multiplied and supported from time to time by contingents from the mother country, they held their ground against the Picts. But the settlement was weak and struggling till the reign of Lewy, king of Ireland (A.D. 483 to 512), about three centuries after the time of Carbery Riada. In the year 503 three brothers named Fergus, Angus, and Lorne, sons of a chief named Erc, a direct descendant of Carbery Riada, led a colony to Scotland from their own district in the Irish Dalriada (in the present Co. Antrim: see map): descendants of the Munster settlers of three centuries before. They appear to have met with little or no opposition, and being joined by the previous settlers, they took possession of a large territory, of which Fergus, commonly called Fergus mac Erc, and also known as Fergus More (the Great), was the first king. The descendants of these colonists ultimately mastered the whole country; and from them its name was changed from Alban to Scotia or Scotland. Fergus was the ancestor of the subsequent kings of Scotland; and from him, in one of their lines of genealogy, descend, through the Stuarts, our present royal family."

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@@bogbay ..Brilliant,no forced colonisation,no land clearances,no compulsory reeducation..just Columba n his few followers,who slept on beds of stone...i have ne ver read the works of "venerable Bede",or if its possible to find a copy(uncensured) today

@@bogbay the scots never came from ireland. irish mythical writings....not scottish.

Your rightbbut also is cause they just didn’t do as much fighting with each other over land that isn’t that big

It’s because they didn’t really write things down much. The Roman wrote a ton. The Saxons wrote a bit. Past Alfred the Great they wrote a lot as well, the Danes were written about by the Saxons, and the Normans also wrote a lot. These small kingdoms of the Dark Ages barely wrote anything down. Even if school wanted to teach you about these places, they really couldn’t tell you much.

Your knowledge is stunning. Yeah they do t teach enough in school about this stuff at all in school.

Michael Marleau thanks! you are in good company then

History Time I haven't had the time to go through all your videos yet, definitely working on it. Apologies if you have covered these following topics, but I want to ask: ever covered or heard of the Roman emperor Maximus Thrax? Ever done the Battle of Myeongnyang, on October 26, 1597? The battle of Cunaxa 401 bc? Battle of Anchialus 917 AD, Byzantine army is crippled by the Bulgarian Simeon the Great? 1244 the last Cathar stronghold falls, during a (technically) Christian against Christian crusade? Last question, sorry...lol...what about Antiochus III, and the battle of Panun (which reshaped the entire future history of the Middle East, and effected it religions), in 198 bc? If you'd done content on any of these please tell me...if even one of these is new to you; I think you'll enjoy them; since I'm in good company:)

Absolutely brilliant suggestions!!! I've got some reading to do! :)

History Time hell yeah! If you make it through those, send me another message here. Even if you don't make a video on them, I'd love to hear your take on some of those. I won't insult your intelligence, I completely believe that you'll see the same significance in all those suggestions that I have. Lemme know what you think of those, if you want, they each changed history all together. (in my humble opinion) I need another 1200 years to get through all the reading I need to, but hey...learn like you'll live forever, and live like you'll die tomorrow, right?

Me too there’s so much to know

Indeed, though I heard it was more that he swore never to come back until he had saved 3,000 people, to atone for the 3,000 he had killed.

@timber beast..well yes,but Columba had asked permission to copy the Gospels,according to his personal Biographer,..the Great Saint,was going blind at this stage,abd the fact that he mabaged to finish it,was an achievement in itself

Columba settled on Iona, from that base, he started to spread Christianity to Scotland……all downhill from there on. 😂

@@Fernandwinnie columba never existed. his story was copied from an earlier one from another country.

My Ancestors were the greatest

unlike hollywood...

I can see Scotland from my house in Ireland right now. 12 mikes away.

Found out I'm a descendant of some of these people. Never heard of them until just about 20 minutes ago lol.

If you're interested about how I found out, check out www.familysearch.org Most amazing family tree capabilities I've ever seen. Direct descendant of Rollo, William the Conqueror, Henry I, Henry II, William longespe, sigurd snake in the eye, even Ragnar if he existed. Also king aelfred, eckbert, etc. Pretty amazing. All on my great grandmother's side through my mom.

I watched an interview where he said he got a lot of inspiration for his books from the scottish and English monarch history, I can't remember what is was called though but yeah super interesting.

Aye I heard that miss-pronunciation too

Gaelic mispronounced . Not gay lic but gah lic

Thanks mate!

Thank's so much! Sooooo much more history to cover! I will not stop posting !

Hello, extremely intelligent quotes,?, No offence to him personally, but the narration was way off , he said the Kingdom was coalition of Gaelic tribes, the Gaelic Kingdom of Dal riada started in Ulster, Gaelic is an Irish language, culture, and ethnicity, that was his first error, also he pronounced every Gaelic word completely wrong, so much so that he made me cringe,! I understand Gaelic is extremely difficult for non speakers to pronounce words, but he should have got information and teaching on how to speak them at least somewhat coherent, he made no effort at all , so how could that be educational?, I am not having a rant at you personally my dear lady, it's just we Irish cringe when foreigners try to say Irish words, and it sounds like a car wreck, aghhhh, also his account of the war with the British king, was not untill much later, when backstabbers of Dalriada sided with British king to remove king of Dal riada because of jealousy, the Dalriada were not defeated by the British and the renegade Dal riada, but it ended up with peace treaty to appease this renegade traitor for the sake of civillians , also the Gaelic culture spread to the Highlands later, he never mentioned that, that's why Highlanders were called immigrants of Irish decent, up until the 1700 s, we Gaels brought Gaelic culture to Scotland, which includes Language, culture, surnames , ie Mac, = son of. And O`,= male decendancy, Ni` ,= female decendancy, and hundreds more , also Kilts , bagpipes,Harps, song and dance, oh and whiskey, but he never mentioned this also, there seems to be a white wash of Scottish History when it comes to any Irish influence, it's either relegated to obscurity or made to encompass a broader geographic area, it's so amusing and annoying at the same time, we Irish are very proud of our ethnicity and culture and when it's not portrayed in correct informative narration, it says a lot, it border's on racism. slainte, agus NA H eireann agus Alba go deo,/ Gu Braugh agam.

@John Kelly..ah John,i feel today that throughout history you will find that convenient alliances of royal families,was the only way?..later King Ossry of Northumbria was about to make Gaelic the official language, but for his wife,lol

Mary Queen of Scots,was for a time Queen or France,n territories..For this alliance,even tooday Scottish people can have dual nationality?..,and possibly have Irish passports too,..but maybe today,that law no longer applies?...so welcome to the e.u Scotland

Unfortunately, we know very little about them. Something of a mystery are these painted people. We do know that in 685, at the Battle of Dunnichen, they won a decisive victory over the the Northumbrians who were attempting to extend their kingdom North. Much later in 832, a combined force of Scots and Picts defeated a larger force of Saxons near Athelstaneford in East Lothian.

Also Áedán, probable that the d is lenited thus it's more Iain than Aiden. Same with Aed. Difficult if you don't speak Irish, old Irish and have only ever read the words.

'Gaelic' is a foreign word that was not a real term used before the 16th century, and the Hiberni were not called Irish until after 1542, that had that name put on them by Pope Leo X, including the Scotti settlers in Ulster and the Anglo settlers in the South. Dál Riata was also a Scottish maritime kingdom, not a Hiberni (Irish) kingdom, at that time Scotland and Ulster were considered generally Scottish and the border between the Scotti and the Hiberni (Irish) is believed to be Black Pigs Dyke in the same way that Hadrian's Wall was the general border between the kingdoms of Scotland and England in the British land. it was comprised vastly more of Scottish land than Ulster land, Antrim was the only part of it that was not of Scottish mainland, though it still only made up 5% of Scottish land overall before it was subsumed by the vastly much larger more powerful Kingdom of Alba (the ancient name of Scotland) which etymologically relates to the island of Great Britain's oldest and most ancient name - Albion. The correct names in the actual languages themselves were Albannach for Scottish. And Eirennach for Irish.

@James Furey The US is a slave to Israel which was set up by Scotsman after WWII, the UK is a Scottish created framework which was drawn up earlier than 1603 when the Scottish crown took over the English throne and its Papal possession Ireland, and became active in development of this frame work between then and 1707 when eventually the political identities were aligned. The Commonwealth is the British empire in a decentralised state, the UK is a nuclear power, with Trident - which has several times more destructive power than the Hiroshima bomb ever did, enough to wipe out every other major power several times over in the world and holds a global position that only 5 countries on earth have including India, China and Russia, and they are stored within Scotland. The US owes its special relationship to the UK through the 'Treaty of Ghent' and is beholden to it. Most Scots have never in their life worn a kilt and most likely never will, it's a Walter Scott invention and was never historically a Scottish thing like the Bagpipes and tartan etc, kilts are an English garment actually - invented by Thomas Rawlinson, while the actual traditional garment was not a waste wrap garment but a garment designed for outdoor wear that could double as camping equipment (hence where the Sporan part came from) and was worn more as a long elaborate overcoat cloak. The English version is just a waste-wrap garment that is designed more for indoor wear and the Yankee version is the least like the Scottish original, the American Yankee version is literally just a beige coloured skirt with side pockets, and only Yankee foreigners from America wear them, so Yanks literally wear skirts, English version is a waist wrap and the Scottish original is worn as a smart long overcoat cloak. Scotland modernised the world via the Scottish enlightenment, so much so, that the Yankee historian - Arthur Herman said that "the modern world is viewed through Scottish eyes". Scotsman Adam Smith, author of 'The Wealth of Nations' (1776) put codified capitalism on the map and highlighted human praxeology in relation, which the Yankees used as the blueprint for the American economy. So you are completely wrong, and have henceforth been corrected, your superiors have spoken. Now, away and greet Yankee colonial slave in your beige Utilikilt while you pretend to be what you are not (like most Yanks) and pretend that you are some significance here, you really don't understand power structure and how the global powers truly operate, you've got a lot to learn Yankee Doodle.

@James Furey if you aren’t aware that we are (our government that is) Israeli puppets, you are the one with no credibility. Open your eyes. Just look at names of our most powerful then dig into their connections, then take a look at all they do. We are slaves of Israel. All the evidence is out in the open. Israel brags about it in their newspapers as well

Thanks mate. series on the conquistadors on the way actually :)

Oakay.

@@keeganowens8949 harharhar. right on.

Not as strong as Mercia ;)

History With Hilbert Picts barbarian stronk!

@History With Hilbert Penda would like to know your location

@@HistoryTime wasn't strong for long the Viking smashed how to hand fighting we won all the time as the gaels

Not to mention all the other Gaelic names being mispronounced. But it's cool

As are mine luv

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The Picts were matrilineal.

Studies in the History of Dalriada by John Bannerman. Dunadd, An Early Dalriadic Capital by Ewen Campbell and Alan Lane.

It is widely claimed as one one of the earliest cases of copyright infringement ever recorded, and is still told in some law colleges in Ireland today. Colm Cille (Columba in Latin )was staying with St Finnian in his Monastery and decided to copy one of his books, when Finnian found out he was furious and the demanded the copy be given to him, Colm cille refused and the case was brought before the local Breitheamh( arbitrator or judge). The judgement he came to was " to every cow its calf so to every book its copy" ultimately finding that Colm cilllle had acted wrongly in copying it without consent and so must give the copy to st Finnian or destroy it. Colm cille refused to abide by the decision and received military backing from his Ui Neil family connections but would eventually lose the conflict and was thereby banished to convert the tribes of Alba to the Christian faith.

St. Columba was an O'Neill, of Royal Blood he was responsible for that battle which resulted in so many deaths, he had to appear in front of his superiors to answer for this, this is why he became St. Columba and to make amends for this battle he was sent to Scotland as a missionary, to Iona, which is revered in Scotland today.

It was actually king James who split the link

You and me both mate! Thanks for stopping by

I believe you may be interested in a TV series called , the last kingdom

Simone Sallad I really enjoyed this show!! The books are one of my favorites too

Simone Sallad yeah i agree the last kingdom is pretty great.If your a nerd like me the budget of the show can make you disappointed by it's small inaccuracy's.

Yes, Ewan McGregor, famous for his English accent

@@Son-Of-Gillean Take it easy man, it’s hard for me to distinguish sometimes because Ewan McGregor plays a lot of characters and I don’t listen to him in a lot of interviews.

@@Son-Of-Gillean lol

Mac indicates Gaelic not brittonic. Meaning son of, but after centuries of intermingling it’s difficult to tell now. The Surname MacBane is Pictish in origin yet has the Gaelic prefix. Hope that helped.

Most of dal riadians were a mix of gaels and pics anyway

"Mac" comes from the Irish language so it is Dál ríada without a doubt.

@@corcaighogormghus4618 where,s your evidence. mac most likely comes from the picts of scotland

@@brucecollins4729 The picts spoke a brythonic language and "mac" is gaelic. You should look more into the subject

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Siol alpine?

look up scots and irish gaels on irish origenes .

Generally they can be a mix of all above ! Some “Norse-gaels” in the Hebrides and western Scotland were sons of scots gaels who married Norse women. Many of them were also a mix of Irish Gael and Norse from Dublin who settled in Scotland and some were just families who came directly from Scandinavia. Basically any possibility you can think of probably happened. Families like McLeod come from a Norse-Gael family from Dublin and limerick who settled in Scotland

@@vestty5802 the name mcleod comes from the norse gaels who settled in the east and the northerin and westeren islands of scotland and assimilated with the picts of scotland. long before they were in ireland.

@@brucecollins4729 many Norse gael families in Scotland like the McDonalds come from Dublin and the Isle of Man. It should also be said that the Hebrides and western Scotland and south western Scotland were Gaelic not Pictish

@@vestty5802 the picts were in strathclyde. you say the picts were not in the west of scotland yet irish myth reads the scotti tribe from ireland invaded the west and defeated the picts. you are also stating the norse gaels bypassed the shetland isles and sailed right round scotland to go all the way to dublin then come and raid scotland. very highly unlikely. for years the mcniels of the hebrides thought they originated in ireland (i don,t know why) but anyhoo recent dna takes them straight back to scandinavia. type in.....the origins of the irish and scots gaels on irish origenes for a more believable account. not ancient mythical writings. for a wee country that,s tucked away behind scotland and england you seem to done well. the norse vikings in the isles of scotland 793 ad the norse vikings in ireland 795ad,

He is the real arthur

Hello cousin

There’s like 100k+ people alive rn that are related to them

"Outside of the islands, Hebrides and sparsely populated Highlands very few modern day Scots had the 'Irish' dna type of the Dal Riata" There is no real way to determine if that's true.

Actually Dna testing has said other wise a study has already been conducted if the British isles west of Scotland and highland do share a lot of Dna with the Irish. My own father born and raised on the isle of sky. His ancestry test was 72% Irish 12% Norwegian 2% Sweden and Denmark and the rest Scottish

@@siofra3819 the tale of the irish colonizing scotland is a myth created by medieval irish monks to give ireland an identity. if you want to go by dna then type .....the dna of the irish gael irish origenes...

@@brucecollins4729​​⁠​⁠more like your in denial that your actual irish and we created Scotland witch literally comes from a word to describe Irish raider

@@swaythegod5812 maybe you should do a wee bit research......

southlander 1000 columba of iona is a made up tale copied from an earlier spanish/french one. almost word for word.

@@brucecollins4729 Hahahaha! That's funny!

@@Southlander1000 look up....st columba of sens...she was born of noble birth, he was born of noble birth...she fled spain to france due to troubles in spain,he fled from ireland to iona because of troubles in ireland. ....she had magical powers,he had magical powers...she fled with 15 followers .he fled with 12...her relics are said to be buried under a church, he could not build his church on iona unless a live person was buried beneath it. both their bodies have never been found. most likely medieval irish monks adapted this tale to iona. there is nothing on iona to suggest the st columbas presence. it,s a fairy tale. go research both.

I think you mean that Gaedlig is a dialect of Gaeilge. That is fairly true, but I would be more inclined to think that both grew out of Old Irish.

I think that the term Scotti was used by the Romans to describe the Irish, but I could be completely wrong.

@@edwardbrady5843 The more I think on it... with the spread of both Christianity as well as the use & spread of Latin that the Irish and Scottish monks used to write, pray and give their surmons with... ....I suppose that it is not too much of a stretch to see how the new converts might adapt a more Latin (and perhaps a more Christian)-sounding name like "Scotti", at least in part, to try and distance themselves from their previous "pagan" names. Hmmmmmmm???

@@VredesStall Quite possibly, I do know that during this era under discussion, the source of Christian teaching was St Finian's monastery in Clonard County Meath Ireland. Monks came to study there from all over Europe.

@@edwardbrady5843 the scotti tale is what it is...a tale written by irish monks to create an identity for ireland. a kin post you plenty links. ireland was colonized by peoples from scotland.

@@brucecollins4729 Interestingly, must look into that, do you have any idea where I might find references to this? Thanks.

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Welcome for what? Scotland is far older than Ireland is and even older than England by at least 84 years as a kingdom. Scotland also has the oldest continually used national flag in the world - which predates Denmark's by nearly half a millenium. England was 7 different kingdoms at one time partially ruled by the Danish Danelaw from the Vikings. And Ireland was a conquered colonised mess up until 1542, Ireland got dealt the worst hand in these Isles as far as the birth of these nations, so much for the 'luck of the Irish', but it all started with the Hiberni - Dermod MacMurrough - king of Leinster asking for Henry II of England's help in re-taking back his kingdom from the other rival Hiberni kingdoms, this was what eventually resulted in the Laudabiliter being arranged between Pope Adrian IV and Henry II, which led to what is now Ireland for most of its recorded history being a part of the Kingdom of England.

Lowlands are bernician

Yeah and they'll through all the Angles they reckon they're descendant from at you

Like a number of Scots they will have British, Viking, Anglo Saxon , Scotii and perhaps Pictish ancestors. Not all people who identify as Scottish are derived from the Scotii tribe.

@@robertsingleton7694, I think you can tell that by the Surnames!

@@robertsingleton7694my dna says I’m Norwegian Irish Scots and the big surprise, 7% Italian! I’m from Scotland

Thanks for dropping by my friend! And thanks for the corrections!

History Time No problem (I came here from the Caithness Broch Project btw)

Robot Turtle considering Dál Riata were Irish his pronunciation was fine.

Yeah, it's usually difficult for people to pronounce words from foreign languages, so much so that most people make *tons* of pronunciation mistakes they don't even realize are mistakes when discussing historical topics. Besides, Gaelic is commonly pronounced as "gay-lik" in English to prevent confusion with the contemporary Gallic peoples, who are pronounced "gah-lik".

Its only pronounced Ga-lik in Scotland due to regional variation and the influence of the Danes. The Scots really should say Gaelic to be grammatically correct. There is less difference between True Gaelic and the Scottish dialect than there is between English and American English, it is just less recognisable because of lack of communication between the two back then. The loss of true P-celtic culture and its replacement with Irish is one if the greatest tragedies in ancient British history, although it still survives in place names like Aberdeen.