What Was Life In Dark Age Britain Really Like? | King Arthur's Britain | Complete Series | Chronicle 

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Seems to me a lot of speculation and not much proof. And you British historians keep ignoring that there were 2 arthurs several 100 years apart. And until you come to terms with that , all the history you write is bad history. In my opinion the whole lot of you fail to mention the suppression of Welsh history That occurred in the early 1920s. And until you reconcile And resurrect true Welsh history British historians are going to continue to stumble through with the sentence," we we just don't know.." I have little sympathy for modern British historians particularly when they watch a modern war on TV and then rail about oh my God the history and culture of those people is being destroyed. Yet with a few beguiling Tricks the British government destroyed Welsh history In the very early 1920s and because of that None of British history starts to fit until 1066. I am not Welsh or British. The dark ages, what what a phrase, would be better applied to modern historians. But please feel free to keep using the phrase " We just don't know." Always makes me smile.

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Netflix is rubbish. 🗑

I'm with you on that.

SERIOUSLY!

Why ? It would just be full of more lies about things that did not really happen by people who most likely did not even exist,... Right youtube ???

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They ran into issues when they couldn't come to an agreement with Tony. They searched and we are not pleased with their 'replacement'. I prefer Francis, he knows of what he speaks (most of the time)

They were a bit deceptive though - They were talking about ‘Cadbury castle’ and Shropshire whilst showing images of Portchester castle, which is in Hampshire. They were also bigging-up the locals as creative and not reliant upon the romans for building stuff, but Portchester castle is a Roman building. Don’t be too impressed by this programme, it’s a bit contrived.

I'm not so sure about that. The video's title is "What Was Life In Dark Age Britain Really Like?" but they do not, for a single second, talk about how life for somebody back then was like.

The Truth is . . These were really dumb Barbarians . . who lived day to day . . did I mention . . Uneducated Barbarians . . 🥁 🥁 . . 🍔 🍟 🥤 . .

Glad you find joy in our rich History...I do too..but have deep concerns for its future. Much love

Don't set to much store by. this very good series . It is very. much Frances Pryor's own view and as such rather biased . I think it has some credence , but he tends to twist things to his own theory and doesn't mention what is probably the most important thing , namely , Anglo Saxon place names and the almost 100% lack of Celtic/ British place names in England.. Yes Bede was writing 200 years after the event , but Frances is writing 1500 years after the event. The Venerable Bede gets my vote.

English history is American history America didn’t just appear one day

I'm Canadian but it intrigues me as well b/c my heritage is English/Welsh on my dad's side and Scottish on my mom's side. I am only 4th generation Canadian so my collective family is very new in Canada in the grand scheme of things. Britain holds most of my genetic history and prior to that, Scandinavia on my mom's side and Spain on my dad's side but that part of my ancestry is a VERY long time ago.

_"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell _"Thanks to the teachings of the Qur'an and its emphasis on the cultivation of knowledge... Different scientific disciplines were derived from the Qur'an and spread across the world by Muslim thinkers. The world was illuminated with the light of the Qur'an and the culture of Islam."_ - Rev. Bosworth Smith

Rome owned the shit out of ancient Britain. Same way America owns them today. 🥴🤷‍♂️

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Gotta watch Philomena Cunk then! You can thank me later :)

"It's Ritual, Tony!"

@@morrigan191 I haven't been watching the return of TT. How good can it be without Phil?

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@@amymack1954 And Tony. I appreciate the fact that a lot of the original team is back but the camaraderie is not the same.

He's going on 80 years old now and retired. cheers

I’m waiting on Part 2. 📻😁

Your country's proud history of surrendering? I was taught as a child that could spot your Military by their sunburnt armpits from having their hands above their heads more often than not . just like with Britain, U.S had to stand up and carry the Allies in WW2, can't NOBODY fuck wit America. This time tho those commie fuckin chinks are gonna fuck around and find out

Bet your sorry now you moved here..

I had my DNA done and im only 95.3% 4.7% iberian

Thank you! Was trying to place him.

Helen Geake, too :)

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Francis was fantastic on Time Team, absolutely. Always fervently passionate about uncovering (literally and figuratively) the ancient ancestors, with inspired puzzle-solving of the ancient's ritual reverence for _their_ fore-fathers, and much more. He is a gift, to be sure, a positive light who jelled wonderfully with the likes of Mick (RIP and another _gift_ as well), Tony, Phil, Helen (of course) and all the rest of that great bunch. Tempted to name them all but would take a page to do it. Best show ever, perhaps ;-) Excited to watch this!

I kept expecting to see Phil Harding and Tony come through arguing 🤣

Agree 100%. What's reassuring is not this documentary, is that so many people immediately see through this nonsense. This documentary could have been so much better if they had presented their findings within a proper context but instead attempted to force it into the contemporary mold.

Remember, these people like Pryor belong to the same institutions that now can't define a woman or think there's 57 genders. Absolutely turning everything on its head and claiming the exact opposite of reality. And he wants to re write history?

I visited Tintagel Castle, the historic medieval site, associated w/King Arthur situated on the clifftops in Northern Cornwall. It's one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places I've ever visited. England is very beautiful! 💓😊

A green and pleasant land!

Yeah, but ... wouldn't have been sheeite living then

The Bible was locked up by Roman Catholic to the public.

Of COURSE it does! What an idiotic statement.

Exactly. And why is this? Why do we have ~ 1000 years of history not documented? -While the periods before and after are very well documented. The answer is obvious, but as with many truths, they are meet with ridicule, until they will eventually become self evident. Those missing years are simply made up. Before you laugh, please do you due diligence

@@diligencehumility6971 A thousand years was made up for what purpose?

like everything else these days.... everything is subjected to the neomarxist-globalist horseshit.... notice how the narrative ends with...."multiculturalism." my DNA results just returned and interestingly enough.... the DNA is massively Kelt-Viking.... they also attempt to eradicate the term "viking" although there is more than enough evidence the term predates even the identification of "Scandinavia" as such, but now the term "viking" is supposed to be another contrivance. Bullshit... Traces back as old as runic stones held inscriptions. This documentary is actually attempting to eradicate Angle-Saxon identity as if it's the confabulation of one lonely monk is bullshit. As you have already pointed out. Where did the monk's idea come from. And riddle me this.... why isn't there anything beyond generic trace evidence of Western-European / Anglo-Saxon in my DNA, at all. Obviously my Kelt-Viking forebears were not interacting with the Anglo-Saxons, "Western Europeans" on the islands, and that for 1000s of years. No trace Roman DNA... nothing. And let's not overlook the 100s of castles.... fortifications.... weaponry.... these are not signs of a happy happy island where everyone is holding hands singing kumbaya. All bullshit. They intend to take one set of myths, that most of us have accepted as myths already, with another set of myths.... the "happy happy" multicultural bullshit narrative .....

Alot of these videos were made in the time of tony blare and it shows

That is a very good argument. Some might have invited them, some might have fought them.

@@realtalunkarku Did you mean Tony Blair?

@@HappyBeezerStudios Can’t imagine anyone inviting them. No one invites conquest.

Thank you for your valuable contraction to throw future historians and archeologists off the correct path. You my fellow 21st century human are playing the long game.

Why not swim down n pick up your tools?? Or is the water too murky?

Accept that he is LYING. Retelling Britain's history through a modern liberal lense, saying all those Viking murders and invasions and theft was just sweet, happy 'immigration'. And lying about how Britts didn't mind being wiped out in their own land by elite Anglo-Saxons who were given their land and who RULED OVER the natives, forced them to give up their language, culture and religion. It was all just happy 'migration' which people accepted. Noone suffered. LIBERAL LIES.

Braverman would surely brand it as WOKE propaganda.

great reply , i aggree , and take comfort in knowing the closest i can get to te truith , is through sreaming up radicle ideas

It was horribly dark. U have no idea

_"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell _"Thanks to the teachings of the Qur'an and its emphasis on the cultivation of knowledge... Different scientific disciplines were derived from the Qur'an and spread across the world by Muslim thinkers. The world was illuminated with the light of the Qur'an and the culture of Islam."_ - Rev. Bosworth Smith

Agreed

really?! the soundtrack is the problem??!!

That’s a weird annoying soundtrack For more feeling to mess with the motions maybe to get people not to watch it

It's nothing to do with RU-vid..... It's bad editors....

@@NicTheGreek1979 I'm sure you are right!

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_"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell _"Thanks to the teachings of the Qur'an and its emphasis on the cultivation of knowledge... Different scientific disciplines were derived from the Qur'an and spread across the world by Muslim thinkers. The world was illuminated with the light of the Qur'an and the culture of Islam."_ - Rev. Bosworth Smith

Isn’t all archeology educated guess work …unless one has an actual time machine.

@@jeffgriffin9747 There are no historical documents pre 1200a.d. It's all 100 percent b.s..

Francis is pacifying history all the time. Peaceful and ritualistic interpretation of everything, even swords are basically used to throw in the lake.

@@johndoeiii9767 Amazing is the book that guided the uncivilized nomads of Arabia and Africa to unravel the physical and metaphysical dimensions of Men and the universe.

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Yessss ‼️ BRAVO ‼️

There is zero science at this point, they blew it, now everyone should know govt scientist are paid fools who know nothing! Period! Know this somehow...they lie through their teeth over and over and always have the world is not round. They are poisoning the air with geo engineering and no one has a clue it's poison to kill us. NASA is not a space agency, we've never even been to the moon.. nope.. didn't happen ...buzz even said so himself. Truth is widely available now. Wakeey upeee...

Sorry

@@colechislett4622 sorry why??

except if it's cliimate science, then the science is settled. or covid science. that's all been "modeled." modern academia has become hopelessly infected by idealogues, and the only ones unawre of it seem to be academics themselves. the only thing this documentary should be doing is highlighting that we are able to parse our historical roots with more specificity and provide a higher degree of nuance, but some of these conclusions are as assinine as the myths they purport to replace.

Well this was made in 2004, so obviously our understanding of history has moved on a great deal since then......, plus we always have Netflix to educate us now...... On a serious point though being homosexual wasn't that big a deal in the classical pagan world, the Emperor Hardian had a male lover called Antinous.

Advanced in technology. But lost the fear of God. Where's the progress?

​@@christinapsalmist4267fear of God was strongest in the Dark ages. Were they preferable to today's quality of life (and death)?

Nicola Tesla predicted that 120 years ago. TV was invented 100 years ago. Dick Tracy the newspaper comic book character had his wristwatch radio 90 years ago.

@@christinapsalmist4267 true

Yet, inversely, people are becoming increasingly stupid

Krakatoa eruption 1883?

@@johnwright7895 not that one, perhaps one much earlier in 535-536…but just look up “536 AD” and you will find much information and speculation on this subject.

Krakatoa has probably blown it's top several times. I think one of the other of Earth's pressure cookers got credit for 536. I'm not sure they have decided which one yet. I think the Central American cultures of that period were having concurrent problems.

I’ve been googling on ‘the worst year’ yesterday. Seems they don’t know yet which volcano caused the long winters. Other indonesian volcano’s, Iceland and a volcano in el salvador are suspects too. It also might have happened twice short after another, because 544 was another dip in temperature. I don’t think it was in indonesia, because it was inhabited back then, there were contacts with China and India. There would be discriptions of the disaster. I blame (uninhabited) iceland or New Zealand.

Exactly. They conveniently glance over the 100s of ruins strewn across the islands which _had_ become abandoned and _had_ suffered obvious signs of being sacked.... doesnt fit the narrative.

I always thought this attitude was by cities in the Italian heartland and major byzantine cities was a big reason why they were some of the most advanced, intellectual, and artistic cities/regions in europe until the early modern period or so.

The resources did not flow from Rome. It was the other way around. The leeching of British wealth from Britain to the Roman imperium stopped. The Roman roads were the arteries of that wealth extraction and the mechanism by which its armed enforcers could quickly march to co-erce that extraction. Without that infrastructure, wealth would remain local, and stay on the Island for once.

@@neilog747 You have a GDP of like $3 trillion, there's not that much wealth to leech my dude.

@Chance And how big is Italy's economy, my dude? The UK has the 5th biggest economy in the world. I'd say that's pretty wealthy.

Yea, nobody wants pure gold.

@@suziecreamcheese211 Pure gold is too soft to use for anything, even jewellery. It needs to be alloyed with another, harder metal, like nickle.

I second that ? . . If you don’t like Huckleberry Finn . . Stop Reading . . 😂 🤣 😵‍💫 😳

It is thoroughly 'new' because it is all lies. Britain WAS invaded and people were murdered, by the Romans, who came to steal the tin to forge their weapons, by the Vikings, who were murdering psychopaths and killed monks and priests in monestaries and raped women and children, and by the Anglo-Saxons, who took their land and ruled over them, ended their culture, language and religion. They did not welcome this, they were defeated, repeatedly. I suspect these British men are trying to save face now, deny defeat.

I'm the descendant of immigrant ancestors a couple of generations back, and I myself emigrated. It's lonely but you can still connect to the natural landscape if you get to know it; earth is still your home. My ancestors fled a bad situation looking for the chance at a better life, and I did the same thing. In that sense we're still connected: do your best, try to survive, be gracious and generous, do right by the people in your community, etc. I honor their motivations that way.

Seek solace in Our Lord, His Holy Catholic Church. and His divine mercy and justice. If you are young, take an older person's advice and turn away from the errors of "progress" and the slow perversion of Christian customs and traditions, and orient yourself towards goodness, truth, and beauty in service of our Lord. Then perhaps God will see you fit to marry and reestablish Christendom. You feel isolated and alone because we all are in this global, evil, usurious, greedy system that treats us like cogs in a machine instead of people. We have to reject the revolutionary evils of the Renaissance and every other sensual and prideful period that came after it (Pseudo-Reformation, French Revolution, Communism, etc) and embrace virtue through the Passion of Our Lord. Embrace the cross, it is the only way to amend your life and find comfort in this vallis lacrimarum.

@@kyrieeleison2793 Oh yes, please do seek solace in the Catholic Church.......which preys on little boys and girls.

@@kyrieeleison2793 Leave your proselytizing out of it. Matthew 6:1-6, keep your faith to yourself.

@@DeborahRosen99 Basic English, yet you've completely misinterpreted Matt 6:1-6. Keep your nastiness and envy to yourself, dear.

really?? i saw half of it and there was NOTHING THERE THERE! rarely i have seen such bullshit to be quite frank!

@@JohannBBravo huh?

@@JohannBBravo I think we’ll take Francis Pryor’s expertise and peer reviewed investigations over your online rant. Thanks though.

Paul - you’ll love his more recent work on Stonehenge. Quite a lot of it here on RU-vid.

@@stufour thats the point. there is no peer reviewed investigation going on there. when you dont see it. youre freakin blinded my friend!

Now that's a British insult. The dialogue was more of a cobbling of sounds and imaginative nonsense, too!

Wow! Mental health is a big issue these days. May want to get checked out.

@@nielgregory108 it’s called faith. 😂 No mental health issue here.

So you're into fantasy and fiction and not real history I see.

@@moonburn8156 And you're interested in low brow sarcasm concerning a person you know utterly nothing about. I see

@@thomaszaccone3960 That wasn't a shot at you, but at this video's content.

@@moonburn8156 Sorry. Actually, I don't really agree with the author's premises. You can't just disregard people like Nennius, Gildan and Bede who were closer to the events than we and may have had access to unknown original sources since lost to us. I find it hard to believe that the fortifications on the Saxon shore were constructed in such strong nature as to serve merely as storage units. At the same time the points he makes about the "Dark Ages" makes sense to me. They were in a good part,but not exclusively, dark because of a lack of records. This may have been due to viking destruction, Henry VIII's destruction of the monasteries, and the activities of Oliver Cromwell and his religious fanatics.

Usually, when half the history is false, the whole damn thing is.

👏👏👏 I agree, completely. It is the same in academia and at the best universities (which I was a part of for a decade). And I love it when they are proven wrong. But it takes a new set of eyes from a different background using perhaps previously unavailable science to prove them wrong. And they don't like being wrong, so unfortunately most things, once widely accepted, are considered dogma. The world needs more ppl to ask questions and think out of the box, like you did. A dash of creativity is dangerous to any established lie.

This man has an agenda that is driving his hypothesis rather than the facts. This is very questionable "history".

I agree. Just because the stories we tell ourselves make sense... does not mean that those stories are true and accurate.

@@delia_watercolors8186 Yes, perhaps when one holds the degrees and it is incumbent upon them to keep in the forefront and look smart, a single ring in the dirt can serve as the basis around which to rewrite history. And, I might add, I have no degree in anything. Guys like this would tend to dismiss any input or question from me entirely upon establishing that fact. They have a club to protect.

Apparently it was ceremonial in nature, part of some ritual.

It’s alchemy

👏👏👏👏 thanks for thinking critically and sharing

Swords were cast in stone. The metal contracts as it cools and can be pulled out. It’s then forged and hammered by the blacksmith becoming steel.

……..realization sets in.

@@PrincessOverDoesIt hope it gets fully baked and glazed one day

Indeed.

_"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell _"Thanks to the teachings of the Qur'an and its emphasis on the cultivation of knowledge... Different scientific disciplines were derived from the Qur'an and spread across the world by Muslim thinkers. The world was illuminated with the light of the Qur'an and the culture of Islam."_ - Rev. Bosworth Smith

And me !

Don't just believe Francis' theory, do more research and you will find other, equally logical ones.

That’s awesome. If I could go back to college now, I would major in any kind of history.

I did not go to college I find paying exorbitant cost and living in debt just to be indoctrinated excuse me learn a silly idea. I did not enjoy this documentary as it is PC revisionist history for Anglos strangely ashamed of their ancestors slaughtering of the Romano British thousands of years ago.

@@loslobos786 Well I went to college when one could still work their way through---which I did. I am probably the LEAST PC person you've ever heard of, but new technologies are proving different theories now. I think this series proves that. The Romans were destroyed by high taxes, and the invasion of the Huns from northern Europe.

@@paulakpacente good for you, however the Romano British were destroyed by the Anglo-Saxons who were invading, it's well documented the famous letter from the emperor telling them to look to their own defenses as he had no troops to send is just a small example. Also the fact that the Welsh are the descendants of these Romano British is also well documented. The presenter ignores these facts like it or not his theory is BS.

@@loslobos786- Believe what you want. I'm in the process of reading my old college textbooks, so if I find something different, I'll let you know. 1972 to 1976 is a LONG time ago. Unfortunately, I can remember those years like yesterday...

_"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell _"Thanks to the teachings of the Qur'an and its emphasis on the cultivation of knowledge... Different scientific disciplines were derived from the Qur'an and spread across the world by Muslim thinkers. The world was illuminated with the light of the Qur'an and the culture of Islam."_ - Rev. Bosworth Smith

I totally agree . I was literally crying! Crying my eyes out watching him desecrate the sacred ancient walls of Britain. I can hardly get myself together to type this but I'm donating 1,000 dollars to gofundme and raising money to build fences around the walls so this can't happen ever again.

@@josharnold7746 I don't believe you.

Weren't those walls built to be walked upon? Anything that was removable would be gone in the first hundred years. If anything is being kicked off, it is recently acquired dust and plant growth.

@@tooyoungtobeold8756 ok ,you got me. I'm actually donating only 500 but crumbling walls are a real passion of mine.

Where are you from bud?

@@cardroid8615 Ohio, Usa

@@aquastar4336 cool, glad you enjoy