Right. But to be clear, the month Samhain was named after the festival Samhain.

Yes, the month was named after the festival

Go back far enough and everybody is from the sea.

@@rudithedog7534 really lol were homosapens lol rest of our ansesters were different humans hunter gathers and neolithic farmers lol maybe u were a fish at one pint u never know lol

Here's a bit of insight as to why I use CE and BCE: Google "when was Jesus born according to the Bible?" and see what year you get.

CE makes no sense either. It's using the very same time stamp starting point as AD. But what makes it the 'common' era. Nothing.

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Yup my pronunciation is garbage in this video (and a lot of my early ones). No excuses for that. Been spending a lot more time researching pronunciations (especially on www.teanglann.ie) and studying the language, hopefully you'll hear the improvement if you watch some of my newer stuff

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Looks like the writers of the Dindsenchas made a typo then! Just kidding, turns out “eó” could also be used to mean simply “tree” in Old Irish: en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/e%C3%B3

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Thank you for the comment, you definitely raise some interesting points. I'd counter that misty-hillside harp music and glens filled with the sound of bagpipes presents a pretty reductionist/Goidelic-centric view of Celtic culture. And in this video I make it very clear that I'm not talking about "Celtic stuff" being invented by Greeks/Romans, I'm talking about a very specific art form that has been mislabeled as "Celtic" when in fact there were multiple cultures that contributed to its creation, Celtic included. In no way, shape, or form did I suggest Celtic culture was inferior in any way. We should also remember that the Celts themselves could (arguably) be described as colonizers, as they (or at least their language/culture) would come to replace, for example, the native Neolithic culture of Ireland, which had existed for thousands of years before the arrival of Celtic culture.

@@irishmyths I agree with you completely. I mentioned the 'Celtic Twilight' airy-fairy imagery in what I hoped would be taken as 'ironic' brackets; maybe that did not come across. I can't find a smiley for 'intentional irony' however. I'm British, its how we communicate 😁 I also referred to Gall-Gaels as the direct origin of the Manx three-legged symbol, and stated they themselves are multi-cultural Celtic-Norse. You made clear there is no such thing as 'un-influenced' by others, or 'purity' in any cultural context. To which I also concur. You didn't in any way suggest that Celtic culture was subordinate to Classical culture; however it may be inferred by others that 'barbarian' cultures learn their skills from more 'developed' cultures ... (please note the inverted commas here, I don't want you to think these are my own beliefs). This cultural (colonialist) superiority has been rife in common perception since at least the C17th. That was merely the point I was trying to emphasise in the previous comment. I did also refer to the Indo-Europeans. You may infer that I am aware of the diaspora, cultural, linguistic and genetic, that the term 'Celtic', used loosely, refers to over time ... back in to the mists of time (there's that mist again, I'll just get my harp out) 😆

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Must have been a monk in your previous life.

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Ooo I need to check that out (P.S. thanks for watching!)

@irishmyths I found it in a charity shop but it goes through knots, people, animals, and letters and has references like this video to both insular and other cultures

​@@irishmythsHe put out two books on the topic that are wonderfully in-depth, check them out!