'Albion's Giants: Gogmagog, Brutus and the Conquest of Britain', with Dr Alixe Bovey

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London Fortean Society presents: 'The Haunted Landscape' (filmed at Conway Hall on 20 November 2021).
Dr Alixe Bovey - Albion’s Giants: Gogmagog, Brutus and the Conquest of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, completed in the 1130s, opens c. 1200 BC with the tale of the conquest of Britain by a band of Trojan refugees. Led by Brutus, the great-grandson of Aeneas, the Trojans made their way to an uninhabited island known as Albion, but on arrival they discovered that it’s overrun by ferocious giants. Renaming the island Britain after Brutus, they exterminated the giants, and then founded London as the new Troy. Although Geoffrey’s story kills off the giants in just a few lines, they have persisted in the myth and material culture of Britain. This talk explores the remarkable variety of giants in the visual arts - in manuscripts and books, carved into landscapes and as pageant figures - asking how and why they have survived so long and what they reveal about the monstrous origins of the British nation.
Dr Alixe Bovey is a specialist in medieval art history based at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she is Head of Research.
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@robbiecoffie5624 7 ай бұрын

My Father is from Glasgow. We have quite a few Family members over 7’. And I believe that they all had red hair. Unbelievable really.

@ianbriggs912 Жыл бұрын

Arthur 1,son of Magnus Maximus.4th c. Arthur 2,ap Meurig,6th c. Uther Pendragon, a title.

@geoffhunter7704 Жыл бұрын

Well stated Ian!😇😇😇

@dafyddaprhys4166 Ай бұрын

Arthur also a title...Arth = Bear Haern= Iron (Welsh) Iron Bear

@OPIXdotWORLD 2 жыл бұрын

thank u...great presentation...we live in a world of giant lies.

@geoffhunter7704 Жыл бұрын

There are two intakings of Troy 1st was the Mycaeneans C 1230 BC Troy V1 with its beautiful walls and C 1177 BC the City of Tenements Troy V11 badly damaged by the Sea Peoples and whose inhabitants appear to have joined with the Sea Peoples in their Invasion of the Levant and to defeat in Egypt.Then there is the huge structure found in Bush Lane, City of London walls 15ft thick going down into the earth the Excavator Prof W Grimes in 1961 was puzzled as lying on top to a depth of 3ft a mass of burnt debris which he tentatively assigned to Boudica's Burning of Londinium in AD61but to strictures placed on him he was not able to investigate further.

@leisa2054 11 ай бұрын

Love the hairy man giant. That's a lot of history for an American to revisit. I enjoyed your presentation

@Siggy_Sour Жыл бұрын

Giants are real.

@EPHZAM Жыл бұрын

Yep. The Nephilim in Bible

@Anime10Music Жыл бұрын

lol

@mamabear5287 Жыл бұрын

@@EPHZAM exactly. Yet the Royals venerate them - Makes you wonder why (although I think we know).

@19ate4 Жыл бұрын

@Anime10Music 6 months ago lol We totally are African monkeys that “evolved” you racist

@a44489 3 ай бұрын

spiritually in another realm

@hobi1kenobi112 Жыл бұрын

A brilliant lecture. Engaging, funny, insightful and entertaining... I learned loads. Thanks so much!

@christianwitness Жыл бұрын

Excellent lecture!

@garyhouston113 Ай бұрын

Egypt Troy Rome Briton

@jackieroberts7895 6 ай бұрын

The English say its a myth and the welsh says its a fact hir byw y cymreag , mae 'r duwiau'n dychwelyd i roi terfyn ar y celwyddau ❤

@dafyddaprhys4166 Ай бұрын

Wish those gods would hurry up a bit like.

@dArkmoonGoddess Жыл бұрын

41:43

@ThenorthFace-ib2yi Ай бұрын

who is the woman introducing alixe

@Qbrain169 Жыл бұрын

Was this before the Roman's conquered England?

@Arthurian_Rabbit Жыл бұрын

The story of Brutus is supposed to take place in the BCE's, around the time of Solomon.

@geoffhunter7704 Жыл бұрын

Yes the final destruction of Troy by the Sea Peoples took place in 1177 BC and there is a huge Knowledge Gap between then and 650BC where Writing and Learning becomes more common,Solomon was in the 10th C but proof is sparse but then would be near enough though earlier would fit in better and where did the County of Surrey originate?

@IamKingCraig Жыл бұрын

It wasn't England. England wasn't a nation until after the romans left britain.

@terencemagee 11 ай бұрын

Soon won't be a nation again, days of the nation-states are over including France, Germany, all of them,, we'll go back to living in regions and be happier for it.@@IamKingCraig

@johnbrereton5229 11 ай бұрын

@@IamKingCraig It wasn't called Britain or London either, in fact all the names were different. However, by using modern names helps modern people to locate these places.

@nickstebbens Жыл бұрын

nah there were two who declined

@hector-zm4sp Жыл бұрын

is gog and magog great britain and germany?

@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Жыл бұрын

Gog means goth

@budbackeast Жыл бұрын

@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Nay. Goths came from far away much later.

@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Жыл бұрын

@@budbackeast same people. Magog means greater gothia

@jeanalice4732 Жыл бұрын

Where did goths originate?

@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Жыл бұрын

@@jeanalice4732 they are sons of japheth.

@whig01 Ай бұрын

Couldn't Albion derive from Albania?

@dafyddaprhys4166 Ай бұрын

Albion derives from Albine an Assyrian princess who arrived at the now British isles in around 1500b Surrey derives from Assyria too apparently the region first populated by said Assyrians.

@user-yb2jd2bf9h 11 ай бұрын

O.Richter body*builder is 7f’t2incs and Angus.MacAskill was 7f’t9incs andboth inproporttion. Its still in thegenes of currentpopulation, so 6iants didexist.