Did The Roman Empire Conquer Scotland?

The Roman Empire in Scotland. Were we conquered? Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey takes you to a Roman turf Fort and a Pictish hillfort and the Antonine Wall to talk about the Romans in Britain from a Scottish point of view.... and Who Were the Picts?
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

More about The Picts in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/epyTdGhtrNSjorM

[@kaikito2348]

Instantly deleted? Well, you glorified pub bore, the walls and the battles are all Picts. Scots only began to arrive here from the 5th century onwards.By the time they had their first king - in the 9th century - they barely constituted 10% of the population. WE HAVE SOD ALL TO DO WITH THE ROMANS; WE ARE, BASICALLY, IRISH. Okay?!

[@NorrinRaddNorrinRadd]

That title is a bald faced lie, because when the Romans were in the British isles there was no such place as scotland, because the area known now as scotland only became scotland when the Ulster tribe of Scot’s(that should’ve been scoti) invaded the far north of Britain, and created what became scotland…………. And the term Picts is a Roman term for the most northerly of the British tribes, who painted woad pictures (or possibly tattooed pictures, depending on the Roman source that you are reading, but some tattooing was used for pinpointing acupuncture points that were needed, at least five thousand years ago(which is 2.5 to 3 thousand years before the chinese supposedly invented acupuncture) which was shown to be a fact when they investigated the body of Oetzi who died five thousand years ago) all over their bodies instead of being totally covered in woad, and they were not a part of the tribe from Ulster who were the original and only Scots(scoti)…………

[@NorrinRaddNorrinRadd]

And the scoti invaded from the 5th C to 7th C, which is where the term scotland comes from, and the confusion is caused by the use of the term latin scholars, who are just roman catholic priests who were basically lying to cover up the reality of their invasion………….

[@wgrady222]

I'm really interested in the Picts , I live in Dundee. I love your stories

[@Dinaw77]

@@NorrinRaddNorrinRadd I find the use of woad by the Picts debatable. Romans may have equated the paintings and tattoos with their use of it.

[@waynekerrgoodstyle]

Excellent story telling Bruce. You actually sounded like you'd been there and experienced each and everry event that you described.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@waynekerrgoodstyle]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I did, Thank you Bruce👍

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours A Bard for the modern age....

[@okiwatashi2349]

Nah, he’s not a day over 1467.

[@carolinepercy1216]

✌\m/🌞

[@WeBreakGTi]

It’s been said before but you should be narrating history programs on tv. Keep up the great work!

[@pjmoseley243]

Bruce is a great story teller.

[@yorky9585]

Why who watches TV anymore ?

[@matty6848]

Who even watches regular TV anymore? Streaming services are the future. Netflix, KZbin, Amazon prime, Disney plus are the future, the likes of the BBC, ITV days are numbered..

[@yorky9585]

@@matty6848 exactly what I thought Matt

[@pjmoseley243]

@@matty6848 I watch TV and I live stream as well. got to take you tube with a big pinch of salt lots of fake stuff on you tube.

[@fearthekilt]

That was one of the best vids Bruce! I enjoyed that immensely. Loved the historical monologues, very entertaining. Thanks for the wonderful story and good morning from America.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

Nice username.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah I'm delighted

[@Bhartrampf]

I loved this also, great job Bruce

[@jameswilson3991]

good morning from scotland

[@artfuldodganz9037]

Never thought I would have seen an Otago Highlanders jersey on this channel, great content as always, keep it up mate. Chur from New Zealand.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

It's ma doon under team

[@zeesup]

Chur bol

[@MrValentineful]

Bruce, you are truly something special. I appreciate your hard work more than I know how to express.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Wow, thank you

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Seconded

[@trenae77]

As a former educator I LOVE the narrative timeline format. Taking events and timelines and converting them to eras lived and the true people who occupied them. This is why historical preservation is such an important endeavor for all people and places. It’s one thing to read it in a book; quite another to dig through diaries, oral histories, study archaeological research and bring the voice of the past into the present.

[@tomhenderson2575]

Wow! The best of the many history lessons from Brice Fummey.

[@georgefuters7411]

Bruce, you've surpassed yourself with this one. Immersive and engrossing, informative and inspirational with just a soupcon of humour. An educational brain feast to take us out of our contemporary woes! Love it... it's even better on second and third viewing. T'apu leibh, duinne beag! 😉

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks George

[@ianlaw6410]

The best analysis of how the Caledonian tribes managed Roman aggression that I have seen. We know from the behaviour of invaders and defenders throughout history that those who flee advancing armies join with those who resist the invaders. Alliances are built and resistance strengthens. Invaders' supply lines get cut, trading ceases and occupation becomes untenable. If the Caledonian's had wanted to be Roman, north of Hadrian's Wall would have been indistinguishable from south of it. The fertile central lands of what are now East Lothian, Fife Angus and Aberdeenshire would have seen generations of Roman farms with villas, temples and baths. The old tribes said "no" to that, and with good reason. If they hadn't stood together, there would have been only one invasion and one long occupation of Caledonia. They clearly had a firm concept of "the north", held and shared by many clans, as being a single entity, when it came to defending it.

[@buckieloon]

A fantastic production Bruce and great story telling as always ! Very well done 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you kindly

[@melissavancleave8686]

You are a true tribute to your beloved Scotland.

[@maddog.mcewan]

2nd Gen McDonald McEwan living in South Africa.... LOVE yer channel Bruce!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks Greg

[@chodgon1981]

I live on the Antonine Road and the wall runs behind my home through the Cleddans farm. Also a druids temple at knappers farm in clydebank with ancient artifacts found in the area as well as a Roman distance slab now on display in the Hunterian museum.

[@melvynblunt]

The best ever. Great story, even greater story telling. Thanks Bruce.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah Mel, you are a gentleman

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Hard to disagree with that statement....E

[@pollyduron674]

This way of telling the story was genuinely moving. Your words as actual people made it hit home. This was one of my favorite videos so far. Excellent!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks

[@johnedmond9469]

Really well put. Can remember sitting by the coal fire before bedtime and saying, or asking, " Dad, Scotland is the bestest country in the world, isn't it?" " Of course Son , bedtime."

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😁

[@whitleybayman123]

Niether was Northumberland, my home county which was on Scotlands side of the wall which is always forgotton and why we in Northumberland feel like the Scots our brothers

[@Scampi141]

Bloody hell this was amazing. Gave me goosebumps

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks

[@AlaskanFrost98]

This was a great video, I always love hearing how Scottish tribes came together to fight off an impending invasion from army’s who came from overseas and took a foothold in the south to take us

[@nollem41]

lived on the island of Unst for 2 years and I am sure there are many viking burials untouched on that Island.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

We'll hopefully touch that island next week

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours That sounds intriguing..

[@elijahduncan4131]

Love the Highlanders rugby top. As someone who is from dunedin people are very proud of our scottish history. Great video

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Elijah, here's the link for Dunedin live shows. I'd be really grateful if you'd help by spreading the word far and wide Let's fill this place www.dunedinfringe.nz/events/stories-of-scotland

[@elijahduncan4131]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Yup of course. Told my Grandma and she said she'll be there and she's telling all of her friends.

[@junestewart5098]

Brilliantly done Bruce ! Loved the different generational characterisations that brought their lives very much alive !

[@01karmacop]

A true Scotsman keeping it alive. Watching from Scotland peace and love to all

[@nancyM1313]

Wonderful video Bruce. Love your passion for History. If I close my eyes I believe Iam listening to first hand experience. Stay safe and have a great weekend. ❤🕊❤

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Wow, thanks

[@arrowflyer5544]

Such a good story. One of your best. Wife & I loved it.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

brilliant

[@TheSuperTrickey]

Really enjoyed this one, thank you very much as always. English born and living in Shropshire but currently enjoying your content from the not so sunny Isle of Benbecula! Scottish culture really is my passion and I continue to enjoy my daily viewings of your videos!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Awesome, thank you!

[@fuzielectron5172]

Great video Mr Fumey, I hugely enjoyed it, living within a mile of the preserved section of the Antonine wall I was surprised by how so few of my school friends knew about it. Perhaps my advantage was that an unpreserved section ran along the boundary line of my Grandfathers back garden, being curious to the purpose of this abandoned strip of land he explained the story of the wall to me and if I walked a few miles I could see the preserved section. Game on. A couple of years later a family friend took me shooting for the first time I was twelve and while walking up birds he asked if I was interested in history and knew about the local Broch, I don't know what was more fun that day, shooting the guns or walking on the rim of the remains of the at that time unvandalised Broch, thinking about it's location and the nearby Roman wall

[@liampaterson3424]

Yes it's an amazing piece of history. My father also lived near the wall (Dullater) and we were always going for wanders up and down it.

[@fuzielectron5172]

@@liampaterson3424I'm glad our predecessors took the time to protect some of the better sections for future generations. The section I'm familiar with is just outside Bonnybridge running alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal. Those Romans had big ideas.....

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@fuzielectron5172 indeed this is a story all about that section, maybe more tales to come..? Thank you and Liam for sharing this with us all,best wishes from the wirral peninsula bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E

[@fuzielectron5172]

@@eamonnclabby7067 more stories I hope so.. I cycled and walked all over that area growing up and it has lots of history. Between your lot and our lot it must have been a miserable posting for a Roman Legionnaire lol. I used to walk to Torwood and for years wondered what the Blue Pool was about, it could be seen from the footpath path, thanks to the internet I found out about it's purpose about a decade ago.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@fuzielectron5172 look forward to seeing your stories...cheers/slainte...E

[@redhorsburgh..2345]

My grandmother was a MacMaster clan MacDonald loved watching this.

[@hotelsierra86]

Incidentally,a friend of mine was coming back from a night out with her boyfriend ,when they decided to pull up in a lay -by a little outside Coldstream,as I recall,to “discuss politics “ It was a dark winters night. They “discussed politics “for mebbe ten or fifteen minutes when they became aware of a whole Roman Legion marching past. This was in the 60s.Curious,but she swears it is true.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

👻

[@kariannecrysler640]

My deepest thanks to the supporters of this channel! 💚💙🍀💙💚👍👍

[@fenixfp40]

Interesting fact: The Emperor Vespasian traveled on a two wheeled chariot from Penzance to to Gretna Green in the year 200 which he called a Vespa 200 (cc). He reckoned the distance to be 1001 miles and so named the route the M1.😀

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

He gave me a backy 😜

[@jeffreyelliott713]

If any of those wonderful videos have taught me anything, it's to get out of Glasgow and see the countryside. So much history in our soil.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yeah man

[@pamelaadam9207]

Ah ken at Broch took a load of Girls Brigade quines there in the 90s. They did not appreciate it one iota. Heathens fae Aibirdeen

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂

[@waynekerrgoodstyle]

🤣😂😅

[@angussoutter7824]

😂😂

[@martynneeson5668]

I was born and live in Shetland. The broch of mousa is amazing I've had the privilege of working on its restoration a few years back. If you travel to the village of mossbank and walk down to the lighthouse you will find the remains of another broch upon which the lighthouse was built a number of years ago. The south end of Shetland and lerwick is bursting with well preserved ancient buildings, but as you travel north you will find that the local authority cares very little for preserving the past. It would be greatly appreciated if you made reference to this.

[@helenswan705]

the broch features in one of the Ian Rankin stories, and also in a recent edition of Radio Scotland's Out of Doors.

[@GaryGlass-DriftwoodTurner]

This for me is the best video you have done so far Bruce, I couldn't take my eyes or ears off it, simply love the format of this one. Almost felt like we were there with the characters you were portraying. Excellent!

[@annasaylor3566]

Through your telling of this story; I felt the pain, distain and anger of the characters involved. It also made me feel all of those things. Thank you Bruce. 🌹🦋❤️☮️

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks

[@howler6490]

Grand show bruce...liked the step style... Ah think it's time to get a wheen o' roman brickies ower here tae fix up that wa' at the solway...ah've a feelin' that wa' will be needed in the near future...

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂

[@tabriff3832]

The blood is stirred! Need to listen Clanadonia next.

[@johnmacdonald1878]

I lived just north of Roman Road and walked along Antonine Road on the way to school. Almost 50 years ago in P7 we joined in and took part in excavation of a Roman Fort and Bathouse across from the School. I think I found some early twentieth century broken pottery and glass. It’s was an interesting afternoon. I have been back and stood in the Old Roman Bath with my Canadian kids who had never seen anything older than about 150 years. We also visited the Antonine wall for a walk. I always just figured the Romans Came, Saw, Decided the place was to much bother and Left.

[@lynnemurphy114]

Loved it 💚👌 Narrator....you were them in sprit.Bravo Mr Bruce ☘️👌

[@Ganjusan]

Some of your finest work here! I live in Bridge of Earn and coincidentally went up Dron Hill the other night to visit the Roman fortress that remains up there for the first time. It was great to finally see it but your storytelling here has given it an even deeper meaning!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I should go up there

[@marksadventures3889]

You're the history teacher we never had Bruce, to be fair, Mr. Davis, Brynn, was a good history master and would regale us with tails of daring do by Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, even the Welsh kings and I think made some mention of the Celts of the North and Ireland. He wasn't keen on the English so as part Scot I was safe, especially being from the Gales and the other side of Kernow, the Kernowek closer relations of the Cymraig. I used to be able to speak quite some Cymraig as a boy. This section of Scots history I knew some of but not enough, thanks for filling in my gaps. I really liked the quotes as the descendants of past kings, it brings it all to life. I'm very thankful for the videos you bring us and when back on my feet and back to work soon, I'll not forget thee and send a few sheckels - Dinari? Talent?

[@isabelstokes4042]

As a proud Scot, this makes me feel very proud, but the humorous style of narration is what keeps me riveted. I'll be a frequent watcher from now on!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Welcome

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours🚬😎 i’m a huge fan

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

im already in so much trouble it doesn’t even make any difference.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

yep they deleted it .

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

Elizabeth we go way back 🔭🐥

[@SMac86]

Really enjoyed this! You had me laughing with the singularity bit at the beginning. How interesting to think that Rome helped define future boarders and unite peoples into the beginnings of future nations. There is also a parallel between the Roman incursions into the North and future English invasions…no wonder the Scots have such tough bones and enduring spirits.

[@resourcedragon]

Very interesting thank you. I'd always imagined the logistics of conquering Scotland had defeated the Romans. They had good, fast transportation and communications for the time but the lands we now call Scotland, Ireland and Scandinavia were just a little bit too far for them.

[@ChristophersMum]

Bit off a little more than they could chew...

[@ellentronicmistress4969]

Exactly. Just not cost-effective,

[@praisethelordpig1212]

Absolutely

[@systemSkynet]

I really enjoyed this episode

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Delighted

[@VinDieselS70]

Then there is the legend of the Roman legion "Legio IX Hispana" the 9th Legion Hispana that went into Scotland up to Portmahomack and Tarbatness to never return. The Legend of the Eagle rock. Without the Romans, Scotland would never be what it is today. The way you told the stories from different time perspective is like the icing on the cake, just phenomenal presentation.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours you probably know this already, Rosemary Sutcliffe's novel ,The Eagle of the Ninth was pretty good...

[@noahlogue]

Your channel asking me to be a patron is the first time I ever really wanted to.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yaaaay😁

[@ericbess9141]

As always a great telling of a story thank you for the education

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks for listening

[@seandrew7837]

Best wishes from Wallsend 👍

[@williammorrison5678]

Glad you're here. Thanks!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Our pleasure!

[@angusdrummond6719]

Very well done Bruce. Loved This!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you kindly!

[@pamelaadam9207]

You should take a show of these soliloquys on the road

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Who knows

[@fijack4290]

I really enjoyed this one, Bruce. Very informative and educational. Keep up the good work. Tioraidh an dràsta!

[@tadget0566]

Loved Blackadder’s take why is that ginger hedge moving towards us? That’s the Scott’s sir lol 😂

[@ClarenceCochran-ne7du]

Once again Bruce, you've earned the Bard title agin. Masterful Story Telling almost transports us there. Me bonnet's off to ye Laddie.

[@taniakaratau5654]

Oh that jersey!!😍 Love this episode!!💪🏽👏🏽💪🏽

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Paris fashion ...naw..more like Parish fashion, very chic...

[@jackedgorilla9799]

Great stuff Bruce, like learning the history of your country. Love from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@BocaBhoy]

Glad this video (channel) popped up on my feed randomly today, absolutely brilliant story telling! Off to the fridge for a beer while I binge watch the rest of the videos 😁🍻 mon eh Scotland!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Welcome aboard!

[@BocaBhoy]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours thank you brother! FYI all content I’ve watched since has been amazing sir thank you! When I first started watching I thought ‘hey this guy look like my uncles friend’ then into the videos I felt your character, attitude and the pure passion reminds me of my uncle himself... I can’t wait to show them the channel (I know they’ll be binge watching all content too😁) bravo Bruce! 👏🏼

[@philburns5050]

I am english and I am happy to say that I was fortunate to fall upon you videos and find them very interesting and entertaining. Thank you for opening my eyes and the eyes of your followers.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you like them!

[@thecelticprince4949]

Julius Caesar got his arse handed to him by the English the first time around, but that pales in comparison to Scotlands three times with different generals.

[@Lucius1958]

It was the British: the English didn't arrive until several centuries later.

[@The_Prophet...]

@@Lucius1958 And yet it was the Romans that called the land the English live on was named by the Romans as Britannia

[@seanhamilton4175]

@@Lucius1958 When you say the English "didn't arrive" until centuries later, I assume you mean Anglo Saxons?

[@The_Prophet...]

@@seanhamilton4175 Now yer nick picking mate ok Anglo-Saxon so is that the Scots or Alba or Caledonians call them Pics celts or Irish Scotti Clan we call them English cause there called English ffs.....Taxi 🤔

[@The_Prophet...]

@@seanhamilton4175 The Anglo-Saxon were the English here's a map for you, you might understand better Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples-Angles, Saxons, and Jutes-who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, Are English.....

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

Well a Roman legion vanished in the Caigangiorians near Glasgow Scotland, and so has other people too🥺😱🤨 the movie the Eagle is somewhat based on that.

[@paulmuldoon2321]

Not a bad film.

[@New-ye2fl]

Surprisingly a decent movie

[@philiprufus4427]

I take it by the Caigangiorans,you mean the Cairngorms and they are a long way from Glasgow. The Legion you are talking about was the 9th Hispana (origins in the name) and they were not lost in the Cairngorms.No one knows wether they were harried while not drawn up for battle by which they would have been unready when attacked. OR, - they were some myth that has quite possibly grown out of organisational irregularities in Roman admin. It is hard to beleive that a Legion of over 5500 battle hardened troops could have not at least a handfull of survivors. It is also unlikely that they were not accompanied by auxiliaries who also would have numbered in their thousands. This type of thing can be verified by visiting The Huntarian Museum in Glasgow University,who have been excavating Roman remains in Scotland for some sixty years at least.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Rosemary Sutcliffe's novel was certainly ahead of its time, I remember she also set a novel about the Arthurian era...

[@ChrisM541]

Absolutely riveting. This is so incredibly well done...it should be broadcast on TV and shown in every school.

[@ruthmclennan1914]

I really enjoyed this video today. Thanks.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

So glad!

[@elimunguia347]

Amazing video, the Romans kept on coming and going like the tide. I love how you spoken about each individual experiences with the Romans and explained Emperor Antoninus' wall. What are thoughts about the disappearance of the 9th Legion?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I don't know enough detail myself but there's a really good video on here

[@robertwhite2032]

Great video, as always! I really enjoy your videos. Being of Scottish descent, I started playing snare drum with the Cameron Highlanders Pipe Band of San Diego in 1973, until 2017. There's one detail in this particular video that I believe was not brought up though. God. King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England. A Scottish king becoming king of England? He was used by God to bring the world the most powerful and popular book the planet has ever seen, the Authorized Version of 1611, though these days it is commonly referred to as the King James Version. I believe that this is a crucial part of Scottish history. Again, great video! Keep up the good work!!

[@martynneeson5668]

King James sold Scotland freedom to the English. We are still trying to free ourselves

[@robertwhite2032]

@@martynneeson5668 You are not free?

[@ewangill330]

This is superb. Big learning curve for me 🙏🙏

[@jacquelineelsner5120]

What a guy you are, Bruce Fummey! Thank you.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Praise indeed...

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😘

[@glynprice3815]

Excellent content. Been watching for a few months and this is the best.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Wow, thanks!

[@DavidFraser007]

The Romans, according to the maps, advanced through the fertile farmlands right up the North East of Scotland. The Picts made use of the mountains in the highlands which the Romans seemed to have a problem with. Seems like the Picts were well organised and had a well thought out sustainable plan that the Romans couldn't figure out.

[@Leon-bc8hm]

If the Romans really put their backs into it we all know what would have happened. They were very good at figuring other people out eventually. But Rome had troubles back home civil wars and such. Romans fought more lethal and more ruthless enemies.

[@janice506]

No danger the Scots would’ve seem em off .

[@bartstarr100]

Your enthusiasm for history is greatly appreciated.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks Jay

[@mikhailabunidal9146]

@ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland History Tours w/Bruce Fummey 2:37 أنا متشوق Looking forward 😊

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I'm sure you know this but Barbarian in Latin, has a different meaning than English, it means non Roman Strangers

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm sure you know this but there are a number of places in the video where I've mixed current language and sensibilities with ancient history😜

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Yes, it is a hard row you have to hoe on the videos. I thought of that after I sent the comment. Using different languages over 2000 years isn't easy. Please accept my apology.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours nothing like Mel Gibson...

[@kathleenferguson3296]

"Barbarian" in Latin means "hairy one" or "one who does not shave". It's where the word "barber" comes from.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@@kathleenferguson3296 It also meant one from outside of the Empire

[@nickcooke5749]

As a proud Northumbrian I must point out that we were also never conquered by the Romans ;-)

[@MrAKhiker]

Absolutely brilliant, Bruce!

[@beachdog67]

Wow. I've been watching Bruce's videos for quite some time now. I've learned a lot, and enjoyed many of the more lighthearted tales. But this one? Truly a powerful piece of storytelling.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Wow, thanks!

[@madscientistmtg]

Outstanding video! The storytelling made it feel emotional and personal.

[@Lucius1958]

A bit off topic (and I'm not sure I haven't mentioned it before), but I wonder if you've ever considered Farley Mowat's _The Farfarers_ ? His thesis is that islanders from the Shetlands and Orkneys were the first to voyage to Iceland, and later Greenland and North America, before the Norse.

[@helenswan705]

Mowat, another great storyteller, who does not shy away from emotion.

[@nollem41]

lived in a Muness Croft next to Muness Castle then I moved to Biddigarth to live in the old Muckal Flugga Lighthouse keepers croft nothing but a ruin now.

[@robertolds6178]

Wow. That was great. Loved the presentation.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks so much!

[@DJJinxC2006]

I believe the only people to escape the Roman legions was Ireland, they did not escape the Roman Catholic monks though, as always you have my thanks for another great vlog mate.

[@thomastaylor6837]

I am actually away to go to ardoch today and put youtube on to kill time freaky🙂 🤣

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂😂😂 Brilliant

[@amandagraham4254]

I absolutely love your channel, and everyone else is right. You should be on TV. Your narration is so engrossing. Thank you 😊

[@georgeross9834]

What a great show, way better than I expected.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Oh ye of little faith🤣🤣🤣

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Alba gu brath

[@emilmckellar4932]

I enjoyed this episode a lot. Thanks, well done for an Englishman/Nigerian :) well Scotsman!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😜😜😜

[@paulmuldoon2321]

Nigerian from the waist down 😎

[@joani2824]

I agree with everyone! You’re just the greatest - hopefully you’ll think of writing a book someday and doing an audio version because you’re wonderful to listen to while I’m working!

[@williamevans5782]

I think you had fun doing this one. Scotland the Brave!

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Bruce. I wonder if someone will show this video to the Welsh before the Six Nations and point out your scorn of Romano British? "That Bruce from Scotland Pict on your ancestors! " I still reckon the Vikings made England and Scotland unite as nations to defend against them (or being from Yorkshire, should I say us) but I enjoyed the video as always.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I made it for the Welsh ! 😎😎😎

[@alansmithee8831]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Well, they did lose to Italy! What have the Romans ever done for us?

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@alansmithee8831 hello Alan, how goes it in the Danelaw..? ....or as some might say the ancestral home of the Brigantes..best wishes from the Hiberno Norse peninsula of the Wirral ...E

[@alansmithee8831]

@@eamonnclabby7067 OK here. Best wishes from the home of the tribe that gave their name to Britain.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@alansmithee8831 yes indeed, their DNA still in West Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire...

[@andrewobrien8325]

1:00 AYE everyone knows that the dinosaurs of Scotland walked around in kilts singing Loch Lomond and drinking Irn Bru....they were creatures of good taste in what sugary crap they drank

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You know it's true

[@ronaldneal1222]

Wow! you've out done yourself. An outstanding persentation .. the recital made me proud of my Scottish heritage, my Celtic roots. Born of those from the Isles and natives of America I enjoy and somewhat identify with you as mixed race.. I enjoy your gift. thanks for sharing Scotland with with all the world.

[@raydriver7300]

Wow, Bruce. That was brilliantly passionate 🌞

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you kindly

[@webkelpie]

Great video, (I particularly liked Uradech’s shirt). I have often thought - yes, history person but how would the people back then have actually considered the account you just described ? It always seemed to me to be about context; a difficult thing to get the measure of, if you weren’t actually there at the time. So, I liked this… a lot! Are the names you’ve used from historical accounts or are they names of the like that would have been found around the period in question?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

They're Pictish kings

[@webkelpie]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours, I’ll have a look - Thanks 👍

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours It is good that the Picts are acknowledged more these days..., a bit like the often overlooked influence of the Welsh here on Merseyside , , the accent from Formby down to Llandudno is so similar, unlike our neighbours from Greater Manchester...

[@radge6579]

Absolutely brilliant 👏 Nice one Bruce! You're fast becoming a living legend. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Excellent choice, still waiting for the Scots day out on the wirral peninsula at the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD ....slainte...if you do venture south ,I can show you around the battle site which is still intact...

[@alansmithee8831]

Eamonn, I came looking for your comment after your reply on mine and it was the one I had thought you would write. Back in my teenage years Michael Wood mentioned this as a possible site of the battle. There was still some debate. I had pointed out to my pal from there, I mentioned in my reply to you. He was not aware, not being a Vikings enthusiast, both of us changing from Napoleonic wargames to get games at university. He later showed me an article in the Society of Ancients magazine he signed up for. This was again debating the location, with Bromborough as one candidate of several. Has there been archeological evidence now as this was thirty five years back?

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Wirral archeologists are still turning up weapons from the battle site, they even presented Bernard Cornwell with a dagger retrieved from the site ,he incorporated the dagger into his last novel about Uhtred of Bebbanburgh/ Bamburgh , Michael Wood has even had to grudgingly admit that something certainly happened on the wirral peninsula in 937 AD , it would be great to see Bruce here some fine day, keep well and safe over there...E

[@alansmithee8831]

@@eamonnclabby7067 I reckon I went on the right course at the right university in the end, but I did get an offer to do the archeological science course at Bradford. I would have had to have lived at my parents and I wanted to go away to study. As I commented to Bruce before, I missed out on my first choice of St Andrews, not helped by being in bed with flu for a couple of weeks before the exams. In one subject the school taught the bits that always came up before, but that year they got left out. Everyone in my class got two grades less than the mocks and over half failed. It was only because my future university course tutor knew I had flu, since I missed the tour and saw him alone, that he said I could go where I did. I did still miss out on the year in the USA that I had originally applied for there though. If not for his generosity, I might have been there digging for artefacts myself. Having said that, I ended up supervising other scientists, some of whom did do the course at Bradford, which led to some interesting discussions from my having done wargames to maintain my interest in history.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@alansmithee8831 quite an odyssey...

[@alansmithee8831]

@@eamonnclabby7067 Oh that reminds me. I forgot the year studying computing with the professor being Greek. I asked my Greek friend on the course for help with shield designs for wargames and she was amazed I knew about triremes when I said I used it as a design for an officer shield. She wondered how I knew Greek letters, but I pointed out that since we we both science graduates, they were common in that and all the maths you do to get to do science. Hearing about this another student introduced her boyfriend who had a company that made a BBC computer program for kids to design and print castles. I designed a a model village for them to go with it, based on similar models for wargames and built a castle with model Norman figures on a base supplied by my pal in Bromborough.

[@h-Qalziel]

They say history is written by the victors (what they really mean is the Romans; they'll just write that they won anyway). We only know the accounts of the 'Picts' from the Romans so this was an interesting video showing the perspective of the tribes, just as if they had written a diary. (if only they had; we would have an example of the language they spoke then, a lot more insight into their way of life, and an actual account of what it was like fighting off the Romans from their perspective). Great Video!

[@evanpenny348]

I suspect that what motivated the Romans, time and time again, was the glory of conquest, and the resultant acclaim in Rome. But what defeated them, time and time again, was economics. Scotland was just not worth conquering and occupying. The romantic idea of subduing the "barbarian" on the frontier did not pay.

[@blairrobert3438]

Scotland is a brutal terrain to try and conquer as the later invaders found out. Once you get north of the central belt it's almost impossible to hold against guerrilla war. Plus back then all the trees hadn't been hacked down.

[@philiprufus4427]

@@blairrobert3438 BULLS - - - They did not even commit a Legion at Mons Graupus leaving the fight to the auxiliaries while the Legions stood and watched. These 'Auxies' came from what is now modern Europe with France,Spain,and Germany and Holland being particularily well represented. There were probably a few Britons too,including Scots. One needs to learn about the ordbat of the armies of ancient Rome. If they left land unconquered,it was it was not WORTH farming. There's was an agrarian economy. Their experience in Scotland leads to similar conclusions of Scotland for some today.

[@blairrobert3438]

@@philiprufus4427 Gb news addict are we?

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@Tunnocks teacake N indeed, those Lead mines at Alderley edge was valuable real estate back then....before the days of Premiership footballers and WAGS...a sub tribe of their own... E

[@evanpenny348]

@@blairrobert3438 Yes, understand and respect what you say, but obviously the Scots did hold onto the highlands in the end, whereas many invaders could not even conquer it. Against this view resident Scots populations of the time had to go to war, as well as raise their crops and shelter their families, so their options for running away and conducting guerilla warfare were time limited. What this adds up to in my mind is that defense of the highlands against invasion is not a given. This is rather similar to the position of Maori in New Zealand. They generally won most of the battles but lost the war; but that's another story. In the end, however, the English did manage to subdue the highlands, glen by glen, with their absolute brutality, and with the clearances. Without taking away from the force of the views you set out the highlands obviously were not unconquerable, or unable to be held.

[@Mads_1313]

Wow! Bruce, that was incredible and completely engrossing 😍

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks

[@graemelaidlaw7588]

This is definitely your best video, really sold each character. Brilliant