What is the Spirit of Scotland? | Feat. 

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As a Scot….the connection to the land is uncanny, the closeness to the ancestors and the timelessness of the landscapes is something I’ll never take for granted. I’m so happy you have found your calling here ❤️ Feel free to reach out if you end up in the southern Hebrides. Drams on offer 💪🏻😅

I have lived in the one locality all my life. Sixty years. I have visited other landscapes, and some of them are beautiful, but they are not *mine*. Whenever I return, the closer I get to home, the more "right" the land looks. The colours, the shapes, the trees, the contours and tge wildlife. This is my land. My sweat, my blood and the bones of my family are mixed with its soil. It has my loyalty. I have no other.

So my Norse Pagan world and my HEMA world on RU-vid are coming together Breathtaking ❤

Very beautiful. As a Dutch who lived in the UK for over 10 years Scotland left a special place in my heart. The worst thing about Scotland is to drive back to England. Would love to come back more often.

Amazing and Important documentation! We need to have more of these conversations with family about ways we can preserve our identity as Westernkind, and all of our heritage gifted from our ancestors hard work. 🤍 Love from Australia 🇦🇺

Amazing video. Tom and his sister are doing important work.

Scotland is a place I’ve always wanted to visit. Such an interesting place! Hope there is a push for planting and allowing the forests once again return.

Keep up the great work in Scotland. The first time you went there and felt at home, your words took my breath away as I've always wondered what it would feel like to feel that. Since you moved to Scotland, you seem so much more alive and full of energy and happiness than in your previous videos before moving there. Congrats Jacob! What you are doing is so important!! Here's to figuring out our ancestry and spirituality!! ❤

Hearing the word "dùthchas" was like hearing my grandmother's maiden name and knowing it was my own, too. It is not a word I grew up hearing, but it fit, like finding that perfect walking stick, and feeling it land perfectly in your hand, like the destiny of the tree or bush it came from and yours have been, inexplicably, forever intertwined. It is something I have always known, since the days I knelt my scrawny knees in the mud and identified the friendly plants from the defensive ones by scent and (sometimes unfortunate) feel while playing hide and seek with my other friends, but that I didn't have the name or other means of expression for. I must say, though, as a member of the Scottish Diaspora and a Canadian, I'm saddened to learn that there are no plans to reintroduce natural predators of deer, such as wolves and lynx, to Scotland. This has been done successfully in Yellowstone National Park, where it was found that balance was greatly restored on reintroduction of the deer's natural predators. Yes, there is risk to livestock. However, there is a great deal more risk to livestock and the people that rely on them if nothing is done about the state of imbalance we as people have wrought upon our lands. I do hope Scottish authorities will reconsider that position.

I’ve never felt more at home than I did living in Scotland. Don’t get me wrong, I live to ranch but Texas has a way of making you bitter. I love this film, and the rich history y’all have been so kind to share. Thank you.

I always say how important ancestor work is

This was spectacular. Thank you Jacob!! I just keep having chills as your videos bring me closer to my ancestors. It's the info I've been searching for. 🤗

Beautiful video. I love Scotland. It’s easy to leave a piece of your heart in the landscape. Can’t wait to visit again! ❤️

I got emotional when you said you felt at home! Brilliant video... Your work is so needed right now!!

I've not the smallest part of scottish ancestry, but travelling to Scotland a couple of years ago touched me in a way i will never forget. God bless the people of the Black Isle.... And donate to the Trees of Life Foundation who bought acres of land west of Loch Ness. Help rewild and support the planting of trees! Friede sei mit euch allen

This was absolutely beautiful. I recently found out that I have about 20% scottish blood in me. My maiden name is Montgomery, after tons of research and family tree building, I have tracked my paternal grandfathers family to Scotland and even back to France. I have a lot of ties to that beautiful land and hope to visit there soon.

Jacob Toddson, Your videos always brighten my day, so I subscribed!

Thank you for a great set of interviews. I was just posting in the pagan group I run that it’s essential to avoid removing ourselves from the conversation about nature. And how we can’t consider ourselves an ultimate evil because it attempts to resolve us from our responsibility to the earth. Y’all are amazing, thank you!

Loved the video! I was so captivated I didn’t notice it was almost over, the video could’ve been an hour.

I’m English but have scottish ancestry too and I ❤️ Scotland. Lovely video

This was a fantastic documentary Jacob! Thank you for sharing this. My wish for all mankind is that everyone everywhere will return to the land and love it. ❤

Id love to see Scotland some day. Ive never even flown in a airplane at age 38. I grew up poor in Tennessee. I will save for it. This was a beautiful video.

I feel like every person, specifically Americans of Celtic descent can feel it in their bones, indeed their DNA when they return home to the ilses. I know I did when I visited Ireland. Beautiful documentary!

I would like to share a very personal experience with this channel after watching this video about fairies and Celtic heritage, I live in southern Indiana and seven months ago began practicing journeying, which is a part of shamanism. There is a tree in front of my apartment window, a southern magnolia that is beautiful and tall and majestic, which I'll sit under daily, even in the wintertime. Early this spring, while I was sitting under Belle meditating, I stood up from myself in the Middle Realm and immediately was whisked away by what looked like a green tree sprite. She was beautiful and smiled and silly, and she whisked me away with her wings. There's more to the journey since she took me to a place, but my point is that before then, I never even thought about fairies. It never even occurred to me that they might be real. So I absolutely believe in them. I'm getting to know one.

incredible video! back when i visited scotland myself, i can relate to your feeling of returning to my ancesteral home. scotland is truly a magical place and i hope to return again one day. What an incredible thing it would be to see their native forest regrow and return to the land. hopefully efforts to rebuild the forests and ecology of the land will prove fruitful one day

This needs to have more views

This video hit home. I live in FL but have been heavily involved with the Celtic societies and Clan heritage societies/communities for a while. I’ve found it’s my purpose to help preserve the Scottish & Celtic culture. I’ve been working at festivals, fundraisers, and Highland Games and I want to do more. Thank you for sharing and for everything you do!

Magnificent video, loved the editing and the audio quality despite raging waterfalls in the background… would even love an extended version… well done, Jacob! 👏✨🍀

Jacob, truly one of your very best shows - this one really stands out. Many thanks and wishing you fairy luck 🧚‍♂️

Well done. Thank you.

Touch not the cat but a glove!! Clan Cattanach

This was a fantastic video! 🧡🧡🧡

Thank you for this, Jacob. 💚

Beautiful video

love the info on the Fey~

Loved this, excellent work.

Lovely film. Thankyou

Great video Jacob! Keep up the good work! SKÅL!

I really enjoyed this thank you. Jacob I like the more documentary style that you've evolved through out your own personal journey. I always find your content approachable, informative, and sincere. I wish you safe journeys. Thank you

I'm an Aussie but thanks to my family tha Gàidhlig agam. It's one of the few languages where every sentence sounds like a spell.

Well done with your video and Scotland. I particularly liked all the interviews from the different Scottish people that you met. I’ve been to Scotland a couple of times and found it to be very beautiful place especially the west coast.

Just realize why I connect to the song by Ozzy "fairies wear boots" because my ancestors are from Scotland according to ancestry. My DNA is 47% Scotland 🎉🎉

thank you from italy

This was fascinating, i recently read "the bone cave" for anyone interested in the relationship between people and land in scotland and what that means in the modern day. Really strange and worrrying to see far-right talking points in the comments though

It's a beautiful place, been up the highlands a few times in my life. Hopefully when I can drive want to go up more and connect with the land.

There is more to Scotland than the Highlands. The Lowland areas - Galloway and the Borders - are a very important and usually completely ignored part of Scotland, with their own traditions and beliefs. The Highland Clearances (for the landowners to rear profitable sheep) were the death of Gaelic and Highland culture, but more people were cleared from the Lowlands of Scotland than the Highlands, to enclose common land for the landowners to rear cattle. In both cases many people went to the industrial areas to work in factories.

Hi Jacob, thanks for your incredible knowledge and passion.. I have learnt much from your videos.. I watched your video dedicated to THOR , it's 3 years old now , I was going to leave some information for you that will help you tie some fits. I 5 years into a full-time and overtime search.. my partner and I covered over 40 thousand hours of learning etc from presentation much as yours.. I ran 8 Facebook groups and have released many free online books.. my journey ends evolving around THOR and id very much like to give you some very hard earned truth.. maybe much of what I know maybe things u might actually have concluded too but not had the evidence... I have a very unique understanding,, I didn't want to leave anything here as it wasn't relevant to the video... Keep up the great work... 🍀🍀🍀🍀 THOR LEAF CLOVER,,one to think on lol.

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Have you read The Way of Wryd? The author is part of a international group with interest of the indigenous roots of people and their cultures.

Im from clan MacLean Could you do a video on the different battles between the clans?

Great video, but the Picts were not the last pagans of Britain. We know through ecclesiastic edicts that Anglo-Saxon paganism continued into the 8th and 9th century among the common folk, and again was revived in England through the Danes, where edicts against the beliefs (then Norse paganism, not Anglo-Saxon) then continued into the 11th century before stopping. So really, the last pagans of Britain were in England and the last authentic pagan tradition in the 11th century, far after the Picts. The common folk of England held onto paganism longer than the Picts - even if we are not counting the Danelaw.

Armstrong ancestry here, my granny was Beula Armstrong.

First sentence . ❤

Slainte mhath 🍻

I am trying to reconnect to who I am and from.

I've been a longtime follower of Tom's channel, and totally agree with your vision here. Like you, I have Scottish heritage and think of it as home. Though i haven't been there yet, I feel a kinship with the land and the culture. It's awesome that you made it back and are helping to preserve our these. Hopefully, I will be able to contribute in some way, soon. I look forward to seeing more on this revival and renewal of all that is Scottish. 💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍

Because of a lack of births

The only thing I don't like about this doc is the fact that it ended. Damn good documentary. Hope you make more like this.

Anyone else noticed that the music is from CKII?

I want to learn galeic and lakota language ❤

Read the kalergi plan .

hi sir i want to know can i offer and praying god in my native language i know its stupid question but i want to know ?

I want to tell you, I am a AN american. Yea I know laugh it up. My connection to Scotland, Barra Ísland, Norway, and Ireland is extremely important to me and my family. In my house we are speaking Gaelic, I teach my kids about the poetry, how to fight, and reading about our mythologies, and what it means to be US. And they are proud of it. We even cook the foods, we talk about why it's so important to remember our ancestors. I can't jump á plane and move to Scotland. But, í can pass these traditions, culture and heritage to my children. I am covered in Norse, and pictish tattoos. I wish I could be there. Something has changed with europeans. For some reason, we aren't fighting for ourselves anymore. We aren't fighting for our lands. Europeans are just foldin up and taking whatever is being dished out. I really don't understand what is going on. Why are we not fighting?!. Why are we letting this happen?. Are we really this scared of being called Racist?. If we don't fight back, we are going to lose our roots, our lands, and ourselves. I will fight ti the end, because my ancestors would do the same.

I'm in the usa. We have lost everything here. In Britain 75 percent of the people will survive what's coming. Here in USA 75 percent will die. We have lost the skills. No thatching. No sheep... fine native america? Where is the wig wams and long house villages like the thatched cottage villages of uk?

i was in scottland for 2 weeks and i really fall in love with this country, it's just amazing there💙🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿