Bizarre punishments from ancient Ireland (part nine)

[@deckingston]

So nobody is talking about the fact that being unable to bring a good harvest is more outrageous than straight murder?

[@CantusTropus]

It might seem odd, but remember that in those days a failed harvest could mean the deaths of a lot of people. If the harvest failed for two or three years in a row, it was a very real possibility for civilisation to go extinct in that area almost completely.

[@deckingston]

@@CantusTropus Thanks for the explanation! However, I feel that a crime that does not originate through malicious intent should still not receive a far worse punishment than one that does. But hey, I suppose those times were still rather barbaric anyway despite having a "civilized" society.

[@foxymetroid]

1 death vs potentially hundreds. Though itau have been less about punishing the farmer and more about trying to appease some spirits or deities.

[@ProfX501]

@@deckingstonIt’s not about the intent of the crime or even so much about the punishment. The point in that case is a human sacrifice to try and appease the gods to ensure a good harvest. Being the offending farmer simply makes you a good candidate to be the scapegoat over someone else.

[@SALTrips]

​@@deckingstonPlease do not apply 21st century milk gutted values to that era.

[@CantusTropus]

An important reminder about the "Bard" thing - in pagan times, Bards were more than just propagandists and historians (though both were important roles). People believed that their poems had magical properties, so being insulted by a Bard was more akin to a supernatural curse than "just" slander.

[@safalparajuli]

What is Pagani?

[@nekoavocado8491]

​@@safalparajulipagan?

[@safalparajuli]

@@nekoavocado8491 yea

[@salemsweets9644]

​@@safalparajuliPaganism, in a nutshell, is a religion that's not considered a "Main world" religion- Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Catholicism, etc. Are "main world religions" meanwhile Hellenism, Celtic religion, Wicca, and other religions that revolved around worshipping deities that are now considered obselete or little praised in comparison of a "main world religion", would be paganism!

[@safalparajuli]

@@salemsweets9644 Judaism is not a major world religion. You missed out on Hinduism BTW. It is the progenitor of Buddhism. (Lord Gautam Buddha was born as a Hindu Crown Prince in my Country Nepal.)

[@kingace6186]

Murder: "Meh" Failed Harvest: "KILL HIM!!"

[@christopherearth9714]

Less people=More spare food Less food=Worse people weird, but it makes SOME sense...

[@memedwithmemes3917]

I mean you doom the entire village if you fail harvest

[@gothicavictoria1341]

Well, the thing is if you're banished from all support systems like your own clan or family, that is pretty much a death sentence. And seeing as how other clans would probably not accept you, that makes survival doubly hard. Not to mention wolves were still in Ireland, so somebody could get attacked while living in the wildness after being banished

[@karebushmarebu233]

@@christopherearth9714 That's not the reasoning though, because they didn't sacrifice normal people or even farmers, the bog bodies are the bodies of kings. Ion there were multiple bad harvests it was literally the king that was blamed and sacrificed, not a bunch of random farmers and peasants.

[@christopherearth9714]

@@karebushmarebu233 oh? that drastically changes what I first thought

[@mackdog3270]

Strange as it sounds, considering the era, their laws seemed pretty lenient.

[@evilPatric]

In what way?

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

How? Getting killed by bog for a bad harvest is a tad extreme don’t you think?

[@qualityqueenbiteszadusto]

​@@pyrrhusofepirus8491eh, when you learn of babylon laws, suddenly celtic ireland laws sound pretty lenient

[@fionnmcaleer4830]

Brehon laws are what theyre called. They were actually ahead of their times. Protection for women and pretty sure there were laws similar to copy write.

[@aarush4205]

@@pyrrhusofepirus8491 this is mild compared to the hammurabi code

[@Brob3rt]

"This next song's called Tim (the douchebag who wouldn't give me five bucks) in C minor."

[@Ami-jc2oo]

Bards: "Write that down! Write that down!"

[@nancyholcombe8030]

Yep! As somebody who used to sing a bunch of the old Celtic folk songs, you're actually right! However, not being able to travel a larger region due to your standing being halved meant that you did your best to tell the truth about the news from other towns or you didn't eat! Honestly, most good people who could, actually paid the bards so folks in other towns would trust them in trade and those that didn't were usually bad to others besides the bard, so you generally got what you deserved!

[@AdamBechtol]

:p

[@CarbonatedCondensation]

😂

[@alex.2327]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sarafagin3967]

Suddenly the actions of the husband in the beginning of the Rapunzel tale make a lot more sense.

[@DonnaMarie-dm]

PFFFT

[@mrsbobanna]

That crossed my mind too

[@RoseKB22]

The Rapunzel story is not based in Ireland though, I think it's based in Germany

[@FullMoonOctober]

@@RoseKB22 Eh, close enough the cultures could easily have influenced each other. That's the reason a lot of similar myths happen across countries.

[@LetsGoCatchUsSomeFISH]

@@FullMoonOctober Celtic and Germanic cultures aren’t similar at all, maybe a few germanic copycats.

[@ninazagorova4194]

Roman women: can be starved to death by their own husbands Irish women: Give. Me. *Food!*

[@neverstopschweiking]

No, they couldn't. It would have been considered as torture and murder.

[@penelopeslays]

@@neverstopschweiking*cough cough* pater familias

[@neverstopschweiking]

@@penelopeslays Yeah, that one had the responsibility to take care of the family. Starving a wife to death was a horrible crime back then, same as it is now. It was mentioned as a horrible crimes of emperors in political propaganda aimed at them that they mistreated their wives. Roman law was very protective of family, especially after reforms of Augustus.

[@penelopeslays]

@@neverstopschweiking the pater familias could literally sell his family members into slavery and you’re telling me it was a good structure??

[@MarkelMathurin]

That's why we remember the romans

[@Ht9ehtoom]

Honestly Celtic Ireland sounds pretty based

[@kevinrwhooley9439]

It wasn't too bad compared to the rest of Medieval Europe. There were laws in place with the aim of protecting those with mental health issues. Women were relatively better off under the law, with them having the right to inherit land and divorce. And Ireland was one of the few places where the dea*th penalty was only used for the worst of crimes. Under the Irish Brehon/Britheamh laws, almost every crime was compensationable with a fine being given to the wronged party. But if you had committed m*rder and you or your kin were unable to pay the fine, you would be handed over to the family of the victim, where they can decide you fate.

[@kevinrwhooley9439]

It was also one of the few places in medieval Europe where being gay was at the very least tolerated. One of the set reasons a woman could divorce her husband was if he was sleeping with men instead of her. The issue with the man doing this, according to the law text, was that the husband was cheating on his wife and ignoring her (as another set reason for wife to divorce her husband is if the husband took a second wife without the first wife's consent. (Thats right, polygamy was practised here too)) not that him sleeping with the same-sex was seen as inherently wrong in this society. And not too long ago they discovered a medieval manuscript which records a story in which a woman goes to a king to discuss her being pregnant despite not sleeping with a man for a very long time. The king asks if she had slept with any women, and the woman said she recently slept with her maid, and the king concludes that the maid must have been pregnant, and had passed the pregnancy onto her when they slepted together, somehow. (Isn't Medieval medical knowledge great)

[@Goblin10532]

@@kevinrwhooley9439 why are you censoring death and murder like they are slurs

[@kevinrwhooley9439]

@@Goblin10532 i've read of youtube sometimes removing comments with those words in the past. Just want to be safe.

[@Death_Vail666]

​@@kevinrwhooley9439yes censoring. 9ne day everyone will have no more freedom because everything we do or say will all slowly be banned until that freedom is gone forever making us HAVE to do and say as the system wants you to be and say so no more speaking your mind no more even peaceful protesting because you'll be saying the banned words and for being banned words and doing certain things the sports will also be taken away because it would only keep us wanting to act in certain ways they don't like, no more drinking no more smoking no more racing no gambling no activities that have anything to do with yelling or anything so eventually our very free will will be taken away making us do and say and act as the cooperations who will by then be running the government in the open as they've been running it from the shadows but by then no more will be making all the rules much harsher because they would want to run everything as a communist country as it's the only government that would help their pockets. The banks already are on their side and it's only a matter of time before they're in the open and lays the final hammer down and KZbin is one of the cogs in that mechanical wheel as they're owned by one of the worse companies that will jump right into that communist band wagon with all other shady cooperations because it's in Google's blood to do so. We're inching closer to that realization every year. Don't believe me? Where does most of all corporations do the majority of their business now days?? That's right, communist China where they make more money off the cheap labor of the Chinese governments own poor people! It WILL get worse!

[@goldfih]

The pregnant woman: "I want a Hamburger." The husband: "What is a Hamburger aaaa!!??"

[@safari12098]

As an Irish I shall make my husband pay me when he forgets to feed me😂

[@AutumnsRemains]

​@@safari12098 fair trade imo 😂😂😂

[@Taha632RMF]

yoo patchy pfp

[@tovemagnussen4423]

I wish I lived in thouse days... 😅😊

[@adamgerald849]

Pregnant wife: I want a flurnfbrkrjnfderder Man: that doesn't even exist! Wife: pay up or I'll ruin your crops Man: 😮

[@CantusTropus]

While the fact that you didn't get executed for kinslaying might seem odd, it's not so weird when you look at the context it existed in. This was a world where family and clan were EVERYTHING - your identity, your social status, your physical and emotional support network, and your protection from crime. Without a family, you were completely alone and destitute. In the modern day, this would be like not only being stripped of all possessions and made homeless, but also being banned from working or accessing any social supports of any kind. At that point you have no choice but to turn to crime to make a living, and since you've lost your clan, there's nobody to defend you or avenge you if someone does wrong to you. Someone can kill you and nobody will care or do anything about it. You are completely and utterly alone.

[@pavelgl5926]

Still it's not even close to good old hanging, drawing and quartering. On the other hand, the kings in those days were pretty petty (same goes for the kingdoms).

[@batbee7427]

Just a Guess: Cain murdered his brother and was exiled, not executed. Think they took the bible's lead on this one. EDIT: Cain and Abel weren't Christian. Their story is older than the Hebrew Texts also. Stop spamming me about Christianity's irrelevance to Ireland. I don't care.

[@MaraMara89]

​@@pavelgl5926it is KIN, not king killing. Killing your relatives. Killing a king would have different outcome and was much harder to do for common folk... Did they even had kings then and there?

[@gamingforever9121]

Sounds horrible also Celtic Ireland was based!

[@pavelgl5926]

@@MaraMara89 Lol, you're right.

[@itskarl7575]

"...had their social standing halved." Alright, so how does that work? "Your current social standing is 48, but since you've been found guilty, it will now be 24".

[@kindlyevilbgm]

social credit?

[@throwchampion9830]

go outside

[@roywempor8395]

you social standing score is too low you now can't access the latrine or enter a tavern

[@EMMYK1916]

Tell me you are American...without etc etc

[@johndododoe1411]

You used to be a superstar, now you're only a B-list musician and forever known as Scrooge the Greedy .

[@mirr0rmirr0r]

While being killed and tossed into a bog is extremely harsh, people were terrified of famine, which could cause many deaths and illnesses from malnutrition or starvation, so I can see why they would want to motivate farmers to take their job very seriously, though one cannot control the weather.

[@Kspice9000]

Thats the problem though. Thats why the potato famine lead to just as much if not more social chaos then fiscal or starvation. Long standing good families, now looked as nothing more then bog fodder do to a plague of mold.

[@nigelraporam6917]

​@Kspice9000 the potato famine was England's fault

[@Corvus_Clemmons]

@@Kspice9000You do know the famine was long after the days of Druidic Ireland right?

[@pavelstaravoitau7106]

That wasn't for farmers. That punishment was for kings. If a king was just and good (which meant sticking to taboos, leading the tribe in wars, being between the tribe and whatever else was out there), it would naturally result in good harvests, no plagues, victory in wars, etc. But if you're a bad king, woe betide you because you would naturally incurr famine, plagues and generally bad things, even if you didn't even do anything. The bog bodies in the Archaeology museum in Dublin are likely kings/aristocracy that were killed specifically for this. Their nipples are cut off because nipples were important kingly attributes that had to be kissed by subjects on occasion.

[@Corvus_Clemmons]

@@pavelstaravoitau7106 I think it was specifically for high kings since they themselves were married to Cailleach and would have to be held responsible for the lands prosperity.

[@nzs316]

I can see the farmer running in a panic for pickles and ice cream at 2am!

[@goyonman9655]

😂😂😂😂

[@VenomSteak]

These punishments seem pretty tame compared to the rest of the world at the time

[@chucknutly3290]

My pregnant wife and her food cravings are punishment enough in my opinion. She is enforcement enough

[@katrinaisalwayscorrect]

I like the not feeding your pregnant wife one 😂

[@michelehemlokhexwhite4310]

Hey chick, here's a hamberder! 😂

[@subbinbacktoallsubbs5272]

That shit still being kept alive today😂

[@JakeLawson-1998]

I mean, not feeding your wife is bad, but PAYING YOUR WIFE IS just outrageous

[@Kspice9000]

​@@michelehemlokhexwhite4310"i dont want hamberder. You are now fined for being derelict of law"

[@Zaire82]

It sounds too easy for the wife to exploit. I doubt it was fully enforced otherwise there would have been backlash.

[@karebushmarebu233]

You forgot to mention that the those sacrificed in the bogs for bad harvest were Kings, If their were multiple bad harvests the king would be sacrificed to try and turn the luck of the crop

[@NoxAtlas]

That's interesting and kind of makes sense by ancient logic. If a country is suffering due to bad harvests or other issues, the ones who suffer the most are the low classes. And who do they go after? The king who is said to be a representative of God or a descendant of one God. So it sounds like sacrificing the king is an attempt to appease a higher power because people believe he did something to anger the god(s).

[@HAIRHOLIC_1]

Damn, being a king back then was risky business 🤣

[@JokesOnJassper]

The harvest one is very interesting because they recently found a well-preserved torso of a large man in an Irish bog

[@Cutty_Bronson]

Murdering a family member: “You gotta leave now.” Not producing enough veggies: “We will see if your corpse can produce them.”

[@midbdushxxiii]

Those bog mummies they occasionally find in ireland make much more sense now

[@pavelstaravoitau7106]

A lot of them are probably kings or aristocrats that were sacrificed if things went bad during their reign. Some have their nipples cut off, and nipples were kingly attributes.

[@fleetwoodmak777]

bog mummies are awesome, there’s an entire wiki page dedicated to “bog people” around the world (as such, different environments ex: florida swamps)

[@chicky_chinchilla]

These were the most tame and normal punishment in those times

[@goranpersson7726]

The kinslaying one doesn't even sound too out of place in the modern day. Essentially was a death sentence and we still got a few places that do that

[@CasualLemmonJuice]

Besides the crop harvest this is probably the only video with reasonable punishments

[@bigsof7381]

The crop harvest makes sense,you killed like 20 pepole because they got hungry

[@blanco7726]

I hope they had more nuance to the crop rule than what was explained. Shitty years are not uncommon, just imagine killing all your farmers and the climate is still terrible next year. Yeah good luck😂😂

[@your_local_idiot2025]

and the pregnant woman one

[@jollyrot3145]

That’s what I was saying “Ah Ireland seemed rational” “-If you failed to produce a good crop you would be thrown into the bog” “Oh” 😂

[@Milly-gv2pz]

Now I understand why Rapunzel’s father stole from the witch’s garden…

[@your_local_idiot2025]

fr XD

[@cammyman32]

Most of these were actually wholesome in how into lethal they were, I guess Celtic Ireland was not that bad.

[@bigslittles5251]

‘Crime and punishment are close friends’ is what I though of when I heard the intro

[@FreddyChoppins]

Honestly? These laws seem surprisingly tame compared what what we usually see on this channel, and most of them make sense considering the time they were living in.

[@MrGeorocks]

The Irish had a fairly libertarian view and outlook on things for the time. Slavery was rare, women tended to be treated a lot better and even the laws of the land were reasonably codified by Brehons.

[@ashleemortimer175]

With the preservation punishment was anyone as presevered long enough to be found in the modern day?

[@thedarkenigma3834]

Yes, look up "bog bodies".

[@kevinrwhooley9439]

There were a good few. They were usually men who had soft hands i.e. They were of high status. They were also usually missing their n*pples. There was mention of Irish king n*pples in the irish texts, so its possible that these were disgraced kings who were sacrificed to appease the gods.

[@souei4912]

Yes, a couple. There is an exhibition about them in the National Museum at Kildare Street in Dublin. It‘s also on their website. A really famous one is Old Croghan Man

[@angelwhispers2060]

😂 that's literally the joke he was making people at the time would have had literally no idea that throwing someone into a bog would preserve them for so long. That's how most Irish bog bodies that have been discovered got there. Those that are found at sites containing other ritual offerings are assumed to be this kind of legal execution. Unless there is significant damage to the body to suggest otherwise.

[@LipeBrickStudios]

Ireland is pretty calm and soft compared to other places you mentioned in this channel

[@jamesberry3730]

As an Irishman the animation is on point.

[@hmmm5752]

The images are ai generated lol

[@thegracklepeck]

They should bring back the feeding your pregnant wife one 😂

[@JakeLawson-1998]

No, they shouldn't. You're not even funny

[@fumperdink4611]

No, no they shouldn’t

[@NAZRULISLAM-kz6yc]

@@fumperdink4611 indeed like wtf?

[@kippert8912]

I know you're joking but it's almost concerning. No the hell they shouldn't.

[@gigamad1729]

HELL NAWHHHH

[@Tvd_editsx]

Usually most Irish punishments were just carried out through fines

[@homelessgenie3366]

I immediately thinknof the marshes in LOTR when he talks about the bad harvests

[@kaylabrownell1268]

"The land wasn't fertile for my crops this year." *Gets slammed dunked into a bog*

[@AeroLazerray]

Imagine getting your money halved just because you are getting food to feed your pregnant wife

[@zoltancsikos5604]

...you get fined when you don't feed her. "Under Brehon Law, husbands could be fined if they failed to get a morsel of food for their pregnant wives when requested."

[@JosePineda-jn8jk]

@@zoltancsikos5604yeah she fined him a sucking of her butt 💀

[@Alexandraadftxr7052]

Exept the amount of money She toke was the exect same amount that she could buy food. Women were veary rately allowed to tauch money, and the things they were able to buy were limited. They were still dependent on they husbends.

[@KerrieOhanlon123]

Why would you not feed your pregnant wife?

[@explodingmicrowave.4816]

real@@KerrieOhanlon123

[@addictionsucks8848]

"Honey, please be reasonable. You know I can't get you a mango. You've never even see one before, how am I supposed to get one for you?" "I don't know, maybe you should have thought about that before the wedding night"

[@lolguy776]

The last one is honestly wholesome

[@sosueme2386]

No, its sexist

[@Idk-dc7hv]

@@sosueme2386 Why?

[@wolverinexo6417]

@@sosueme2386 No, it isn't 😭. She's pregnant you dunce

[@TatertotEater123]

?@@sosueme2386

[@seanisnotjohn]

​@kevalyarathore223 You wouldn't feed your pregnant wife 📸🤨

[@gayratlivesindasewers]

Can’t believe the celts invented diss tracks

[@Ami-jc2oo]

And the medieval norse too! At first in ancient times, it was just insults but in the medieval times, the norse started to rhyme the insults!

[@lukabaratashvili9538]

Called flyting​@@Ami-jc2oo

[@Sienisota]

All Nordics did it. Finnish legends have heroes go through rap battles, and "singing" people into swamps. Basically, good songs were considered spells.

[@Appaddict01]

They also wore dreadlocks.

[@gayratlivesindasewers]

@@Appaddict01 that has nothing to do with what i said.

[@maremacd]

A few of these sound pretty reasonable.

[@stephaniehowell1109]

"Bad crop, Bubba? Too bad. Into the bog you go...." Damn. That's harsh.

[@michelehemlokhexwhite4310]

Fun fact: my son's middle name is Taliesin... the name of a Welsh bard. His first name means black, and his last name means white, and his second middle name is his grandfather's middle name, which all up, means his 4 names have lots of assonance, alliteration, and half rhymes. I wish my parents put that much thought into my moniker!!! Thank you for the fantastic history lessons 😊❤❤❤

[@seanisnotjohn]

"Black Taliesin Roy White" Is a hell of a name 😄

[@michelehemlokhexwhite4310]

@@seanisnotjohn lol you are close. Second middle name also starts with a W, ends in an N, and half-rhymes with Taliesin, and his first name just means black, it's not actually black lol

[@taintwasher3703]

Negro Taliesin Wilson White

[@itsROMPERS...]

Do you make a lot of irrelevant comments just to brag on how smart you are for giving your kid a "clever" name?

[@EskimoPagan]

@@itsROMPERS... She has just as much right to post her comment as you do with yours.

[@GaunterODimm2]

Was arguing with my towns bard this very morning about his scandalous prices. Cost of living crisis etc.

[@ReabetsweMorake-go4cg]

Punishment for a bad harvest is crazy!!!

[@krishnagopalan2480]

Bro they could die due to bad harvests, the irish potato famine nearly wipes out half of ireland

[@LolaTheDragonOfficial.]

Hi! Can you do One of these but for Portugal? Pls

[@callu947]

As an Irishman I can confirm we still throw people into the bog

[@RickyFSeiei]

The laws for the most part are pretty impresive.

[@alainnagriffiths9663]

I mean it is a crime to not feed your pregnant wife.

[@MarkelMathurin]

No it isnt

[@thefatman8119]

Why does celtic ireland sound pretty chill with there punishments instead of how medival Europeans used to punish you

[@madeleinesocas8647]

Isn't Ireland, you know, european?

[@thefatman8119]

@@madeleinesocas8647 originally not

[@madeleinesocas8647]

@@thefatman8119 So what were they?

[@IronLand-f3g]

​@@madeleinesocas8647celtic

[@leko8398]

Ancient ireland: Husband: "what do you wanna eat?" Pregnant wife: "i don't know..." Husband: "some nice stew?" Pregnant Wife: "no we had that last time" Husband: "...some soup?" Pregnant wife: "noo" And later he had to pay the fine or serve his sentence.

[@sophiacalon3463]

😂😂

[@stealthsniper.4636]

So you get kicked out if you Kill a family member But you Die just For Having a bad Harvest?? That's not always something you can control.😳

[@jujubeangames7607]

honestly that last one should still be a thing

[@LBCB94025]

*_PLEASE DO MORE ON CELTIC &PAGAN TIME!!_* 🙏🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻🧐🤔😳🤷🏼

[@LBCB94025]

(Like Picts?Specifically!!??)

[@XxLoneWolf13xX]

"Honey I'm hungry" "But I'm broke" "Pay up" "Yes dear"

[@Fencer_Nowa]

the harvest one is so funny. dudes farm got burned down. sorry gotta be offered to the bog

[@Federalrepublicofsprout7263]

I love how overcharging is the crime and not the bribe itself.

[@vi5692]

-Kills family member -Possessions go to said family member’s family -Wait, that’s me -Nothing’s changed

[@adamplayz12456]

Thanks for doing ireland

[@NickAndriadze]

Literal murder: Having to give your belongings to victim's family or being banished. Not managing to get a good yield because of something that might not even have been your fault, like a drought or a fire: Being killed and thrown into a place where your body would decay over centuries.

[@driftyrift7888]

i love my country's history

[@kamikaze4172]

The last one's fair, but how the hell is a bad crop YOUR fault!?

[@louvata]

Do Scotland next!

[@EthicsCommittee638]

It's hard to believe that the celtic of Ireland one of the most feared people in history

[@GAMER123GAMING]

The "Celtic" of Ireland still exist

[@eggchomp]

Boo!

[@BarrocoTarot]

Love the content and the edition, beautiful and helpful.

[@veroxid]

I always knew my last name originated from a clan of "Ancient Irish Noble Poets," but this is the first time that I heard that these people were also the inspiration behind the modern idea of "bards." One commenter even talked about how it was believed that their words were supernatural and thus the insults of a bard being akin to a curse, and I'm just sitting here thinking "Hey, that's _'Cutting Words'_ and/or _'Vicious Mockery'_ from D&D 5e," Lol.

[@cianmurphy7451]

What’s your last name?

[@CalebAnimations3000]

A bad harvest being a crime is crazy 💀

[@baileygregg6567]

Those peat bog deaths💀🫤

[@ElMistroFeroz]

Good to know people were once held accountable for slander.

[@SullyAhern]

As an Irish person this was very fun to watch, and I’m apart of the Ahern clan

[@halrd2651]

yo im part of the A'hearn clan are you from the west?

[@SullyAhern]

@@halrd2651 originally from east moline Illinois

[@SullyAhern]

Born there

[@halrd2651]

usually the A'hearns and variants come from county Clare or Galway in Ireland, you should come sometime although not over the next few months there is a lot of stuff going on rn

[@SullyAhern]

We are from the Clare county grand father born their, and moved he was a horse farmer

[@6579kaj]

Do wales next

[@ifeeldead463]

Mrs Ma'am really did say "Fine, I'll buy my own food smh"

[@MrMusic-ct4is]

The harvest thing is literally like throwing a child into a volcano to make the gods give you rain

[@H3LLBIN]

“Bard” My mind: *DND????*

[@ZoyaNteyi]

The last one is amazing

[@Elegantytalt]

Im fine with celtic ireland

[@tktyga77]

That last law is very much understandable & could definitely be helpful to ensure healthy births

[@ryry_2720]

Being punished for not tending to your pregnant wife is pretty progressive for medieval Europe

[@deborahvaughan5231]

I am enjoying these thank you very much

[@MySweetT1]

Well that explains rapunzel, lol

[@maxblast8210]

I like that last one

[@luluMusicGamesMovies]

The pregnant wife feeding law is valid and should be reinstated

[@MarkelMathurin]

Nah

[@Joe-Ligma69]

>"Killing someone who was your kin would lead to forfeiting all your possessions to the victim's family" So... to yourself?

[@sarahmichelle5902]

We should bring back that last one.

[@mistymeaner1753]

I'm reminded of a song about Brave, Brave Sir Robin. Apparently Sir Robin's bard was underpaid in the Quest for the Holy Grail.

[@Avery_Silva]

The pregnant wife actually makes sense

[@Goldenroses930]

Based ireland

[@fardinrahman6403]

Last one makes perfect sense though!!!

[@machina5]

Weird crime: Starving your pregnant wife Weird punishment: Having to feed your pregnant wife Are you ok?

[@rico-3687]

Not one law against alcohol related debauchery... God bless the Irish!

[@rachellemar111]

The last one is totally valid.

[@FinnyTheFoxX]

that pregnant feeding crime should still be here

[@taintwasher3703]

Well nowadays they can get their own food without our help

[@thenablade858]

@@taintwasher3703 Yes, or they can order in.

[@wormwoodmain8385]

Honestly, compared to other punishments in history, this is not that bad

[@typonumber8939]

Imagine going through a famine and you straight up just get murked

[@Caprisunss]

The famine happened like a thousand years after this

[@typonumber8939]

@@Caprisunss 🤓👆 "AsKually the famine happened a thousand years ago "

[@Caprisunss]

@@typonumber8939 wow

[@channelofrandom7731]

Murder: gtfo bro Bad harvest: YOU SHALL BE SENT TO THE BOG

[@bubblebread5189]

thank you for mentioning our little countrys roots.

[@Anna_likestorun]

Hey there I’m Irish and I’m amazed lol ❤

[@PintuMahakul]

👍 An excellent and amazing video. We highly appreciate your work.

[@jelly1552]

I think I finally understand the vicious mockery spell

[@wickedchild8501]

The kinslaying punishment sounds very fair to me

[@kristieskinner819]

Wow, that's pretty harsh... 😢

[@InsaneAsylumEscapee260]

The last one is surprising.

[@Avriel_Mimiga]

imagine getting unlucky and being killed for your bad luck

[@contextlessness8826]

Killing your king = banished Bad at growing crops = MOST PAINFULL AGONIZING DEATH