Differences Between Irish and Celtic Mythology

[@mattvdh]

how is this video not more popular, it's fantastic

[@wellesradio]

Popular in what sense?

[@sophisticatedfurret5239]

This channel needs more subscribers this is the sort of channel I would waste a day binging every video.

[@irishmyths]

I wholeheartedly agree! (Although I am admittedly a bit biased). Thank you so much for watching and commenting -- more videos on the way soon!

[@dudapirc7373]

It may sound that I am exaggerating but I got to a university thanks to this video! When I was asked in my entrance exams how much we know about *celtic* myths and religion I started explaining the committee difference between Irish and Celtic myths and they had to stop me because otherwise I wouldn’t stop talking. I just cannot be grateful enough!

[@irishmyths]

This is incredible to hear! Glad this little video of mine could help and, more importantly, congrats on getting into uni! 👏👏👏

[@Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove]

No mention of Neil?

[@michealsmith4629]

But aren't most irish myths Celtic?

[@Volzotran]

what do you study?

[@sies9181]

We love when they ask for the info dump and have to stop us, it makes me feel so valid lmao

[@blacktrickstar3468]

Severely underrated video. I didn't expect this level of depth. We need a proper piece of modern media exploring this/these mythologies. And purely these mythologies. Not the ones just inspired by and/or mix Celtic myth with Norse myths. Archiving this. Well done.

[@Kaotiqua]

In Irish tradition, it was said that if you write it down... it will be forgotten. (This follows, because if it's in a book, you might not bother teaching it to your children.)

[@larrykelly-kf5pp]

Or remembering it right. Poetry carried the stories

[@danielbutlerkelly8287]

Those Irish/ Gaulish Deity names are the same. We Irish were called Hibernian by Romans other such peoples were called different things like Gauls etc. We all were called Keltoi= Hidden people by either Greeks or Romans, for the ambush style of warfare our people used. We do all come from the same roots and from the same area said to be Central Europe, via La Tene in Switzerland, and the Halstatt area.

[@john-paulgies4313]

So far so well in times of peace. For war and upheaval, have a record.

[@M.Campbell-Sherwood]

@@danielbutlerkelly8287 Ah, Keltoi. That’s an old one. You don’t hear that term thrown around much anymore, do you.

[@dudeistpreist5721]

Same as using a calculator. Or auto correct. You're secure in the knowledge that it's on something or accurate from machines that are meant to be accurate. You just forget.

[@SomasAcademy]

Small note, "Cernunnos" was originally pronounced with a hard "K" sound, though I've heard both soft "S" and "Ch" (like in chair) sounds in modern pronunciations. Also congrats on 1k subs!

[@irishmyths]

Ah, you're definitely right -- that silly soft "c" sound is too ingrained in my head! I made the same mistake with Celebrimbor (the Tolkien character 🤦‍♂) And thank you!!

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

Idk how it is in Gaelic or Scots Gaelic but in Welsh it’s a hard “C” so that’s what I default to.

[@-._A2._-]

​@@Inquisitor_Vex it's hard C in Scottish Gaelic. And in Cornish it would be too However hard C is written with a K

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

@@-._A2._- cheers, bro. I would’ve assumed Cornish had that hard c like Welsh. Nice to have that confirmed. The Gaelic stuff I’ve no clue about. 🍻

[@-._A2._-]

@@Inquisitor_Vex no worries. With Cornish im pretty sure it doesn't use the letter C at all. Which is probably why Its kernow and not Cerno. They have the sound just different letter

[@CelticSurvivalist]

Brother....THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing this video, so many things you mentioned i have been saying to people for years and they don't believe me at all. THANK YOU!

[@k9wolf07]

Great vid, also thank you for that chart of the parallels between the different Celtic gods, it will come in handy for reference. A lot of Celtic gods seem to be very similar, regional variants, clones or fragments of the big main gods of the pantheon and one can easily slip down a research rabbit hole or iceberg. one I've come across is that the Irish god of the underworld Don might actually be a goddess, but they actually might be Domnu goddess of the deep, the twin sister of Danu and mother of monsters and the Fomorians but actually might be a Welsh or Brythonic goddess of mines and caves but actually is just Danu, their all Danu lol

[@letusplay2296]

Great video. But I'd strongly recommend you look up how these names, titles and place names are pronounced. It would make it a lot easier to listen to as an Irish person.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

As a Breton who grew up (in Paris) being told the tales of Merlin and Morgan La Fée, i was so surprised when i moved to the UK to see that the Brits thought that story was theirs, and theirs only 😂 I’m very grateful that for once, you spoke about Brittany and Galicia as those 2 Celtic cousins get so often forgotten in the English speaking community when mentioning the Celts.

[@irishmyths]

So happy to read this comment...especially since I will be visiting Brittany this summer!!

[@MrReedEnt]

I miss my nights in Dinan, hearing the elders speaking in Celtic and enjoying apple cider.

[@internetual7350]

Can you speak Breton?

[@crow4936]

You never met I... I do know Lancelot is not native to the British Arthurian myths. Makes sense to me we live close so it makes sense our stories got mixed.

[@isoldatraducoes]

But Galician has more latin culture today even the Celt is in the deep.

[@johnnzboy]

Over 1000 subscribers now? Congratulations! These informative and highly entertaining videos certainly deserve a wide viewership.

[@irishmyths]

Thank you so much, John!

[@V.R.CoryArt]

This is fascinating, thanks for the video!

[@CalOShaughnessy]

Tuatha Dé Danann is more like 'too-aha day dahnen' and they weren't so much a pantheon of gods as they were a race of magical beings that inhabited the land before the Milesians came to Ireland. They were god-like and depending on the era, not gods at all. at least not in the traditional sense.

[@talideon]

Eh... that's partly down to the medieval watering down of Irish mythology to deny their status as deities. Compared to the other pre-christian pantheons, they're really no less godlike. What's interesting about them is that (a) they weren't the first ones here and (b) we banished them to the otherworld. Then again concerning this last one, the existence of the Milesians itself is likely a medieval invention too.

[@user-fl8yv7rz6f]

I'm not going to criticise all the mangling of Gaelic words and names, I will only say that I live in Ireland and underground rivers are a common phenomenon here, a wall was built near near my family home and in digging the foundation they hit bedrock very early and caused a fissure that water immediately started rising from it took them a full month to plug it up and the wall was moved slightly to avoid the spot, twenty years later a contractor was building maybe thirty foot from the spot and did the same but made an actual hole, the water bubbled up furiously and they couldn't stop it, they tried filling it with concrete, tons of the stuff and quick setting, but the water kept coming, six months of trial and error followed with the pumps going day and night to prevent flooding before eventually they managed to stop it, so a lake appearing from nowhere is not mythology it's a risk you run if you dig in the wrong place.

[@thatguy3287]

I love watching these as a worldbuilder bc it's such good inspiration, no wonder the best used the real stuff

[@TheArcturusProject]

YUP. All real world accounts are WAY wilder than any fiction I’ve ever read. Like the account of Cortez meeting the Aztecs. WHOA. I clicked on this to get inspiration for my DnD OSR IP ruleset I’m working on

[@thatguy3287]

@@TheArcturusProject the siege of the Aztec floating city of Tenochtitlan, so good

[@TheLindarosewood]

That image of Lugh as a Golden Child is by Maud Gonne, created for “The Coming of Lugh” by Ella Young.

[@KomodoKebab]

Growing up in Ireland it often frustrated me that Roman, Greek and Norse mythologies get all the representation in modern media and Irish/Celtic and other nations'/regions'/people's mythologies don't get any attention. So thanks for giving then some focus. Also some of your pronunciations are hilarious. 😂

[@xXHollyLeafXx]

This was both very informative and entertaining to watch. I have Irish ancestry on my mom's side of the family so I love learning about stuff like this, and thinking of becoming an Irish/Celtic pagan. Thank you for the wonderful video.

[@irishmyths]

Thank you so much for watching (and for this thoughtful comment!) I love hearing that people are finding these videos helpful/enjoyable!

[@SchwingleImage]

Rolling through KZbin while suppressing a headache in bed, and I find this scholarly channel. Well done! Great work, New subscriber.

[@irishmyths]

Thank you so much! Welcome aboard!

[@Alasdair37448]

This is the best explanation I've seen on this topic thus far great video!

[@shadician]

Really interesting. Would love to hear more ln the differences between Irish and Scottish mythology, as my understanding is these are quite different but definitely share similar roots (like the languages).

[@cipherx6334]

Lots of work went into this vid, thanks.

[@irishmyths]

thanks for watching!

[@coleconrad2543]

This was so fascinating! There was so much information I feel like I could never keep track of it all let alone learn it. Thanks for making my St. Patrick’s Day a little more magical and I can’t wait to check out all of your other resources 🍀☘️🇮🇪🍺

[@conormcmullen6437]

Awesome video, very well researched and delivered. Looking forward to watching more.

[@Lis762]

Thank you so much. Your explanation is perfect

[@NEWBkiller646]

The creation of Lough Neagh has another myth about it too. Fionn mac Cumhaill grabbed a chunk of land to throw at a sea monster he was fighting. Where that land settled is said to be the Isle of Man. Fionn is often depicted as a giant, like in the story of the Giants Causeway.

[@eamonlyons8318]

Rockall has similar legends about it. It's a north Atlantic island that is barely big enough to land on but is strategically and economically important due to oil and gas but it's supposedly a rock that Fionn Mac Cumhaill tossed it northwards.

[@NEWBkiller646]

@@eamonlyons8318 Ireland should use that the next time Scotland, Iceland, or the Faroe Islands try to press their claims 😅

[@kiramccain6310]

Beautiful and concise presentation! I thoroughly enjoy your videos and the hard work that goes into these! Thank you for making some of this information much more accessible. Ive had trouble knowing where to start to learn in this sea of information available to us. Do you have a video or article to promote on maybe a top 10 starting places or favorite sources on these topics?

[@thealastair9047]

why do people insist on pronouncing the "c" as a "s"? it was pronounced as a "k" if at all. it's not necessarily a big deal but it always just rubs me the wrong way, ya know?

[@machanrahan9591]

I and E are soft, female vowels. A, O, U are hard, male vowels. So the pronunciation depends on the following vowel. E.g. we say pro-nun-see-ay-shun, not pro-nun-kee-ay-shun. So, yes I agree, it upsets me too when people say "keltic" but spell it "celtic."

[@gabbyb9418]

Because it can be pronounced either way as long as you aren't talking about the sports team. Neither is wrong.

[@broomhilder]

If this is in reference to Celebrimbor, I’ve heard its pronunciation almost exclusively with the ‘k’ consonant sound. Hearing “sell-ebrimbor” made me low-key flinch 😂

[@gcanaday1]

Because it was derived from the Latin alphabet, and since the English have issues pronouncing their own language, as well pretty much all others, they confused the c with the ç, which the Franks have generously supplied us. And then it stuck. See "et cetera" for the most grating example. Caesar is another one, being pronounced like the Germans spelled it - Kaisar.

[@thealastair9047]

@@gcanaday1 but even latin didn’t make the “s” sound back then

[@JelliBee-xh4ql]

It’s starting to become apparent why as a child I was obsessed with JR Tolkiens work. It’s because I already knew a large deal of Irish mythology and stuff and I guess Tolkiens work just helped the pieces connect in my brain

[@coreytripp9939]

at time stamp 2:23 there is a perfect example of a work being halfway done, and could also explain why some artifacts we find are very basic carvings, they potentially could have been carved even more intricately and detailed more but something happened to the artist/town/people forcing the artist to stop. Just as we can see here this gaulish sculpture of cernunnos and epona was stopped halfway because of any of those three aforementioned scenarios (especially the roman invasion enslavement and eradication of the gauls and their culture entirley).

[@RoisinMallonArt]

Brilliant! Thank you for sharing this - it's so interesting and very well explained.

[@shadowyblackness]

So they're different, yet intertwined with each other, fascinating😲

[@MackerelCat]

No the Irish are celts.

[@blazecorp]

Really enjoyed this. Thanks.

[@irishmyths]

Thanks for watching!

[@elderswanderingcircus2341]

I have been making a mythology themed Board Game and this video possibly saved me tens of hours of research, as it gives the exact info I needed. Amazing work.

[@irishmyths]

Happy to help! And please drop a link to your game in the comments once it's finished I'd love to check it out

[@ludrodrigues9106]

Love it! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us

[@deithlan]

This was an incredibly well made video!!

[@irishmyths]

Thank you!

[@gingergandalf4869]

Fun video but for the love of sweet divine Jaysus it was painful to listen to the pronunciations 😬😖😖

[@greenkitty3355]

Please check pronunciation of Cernunnos. I have never heard it pronounced Sernunnos.

[@lightonthehill8548]

My God, yes, every name, every time was mispronounced. To pronounce Fionn, Fianna and Fenian wrong one after the other was the most egregious, but at least you've got the Salmon of Knowledge right. Last one of these I watched called it the Salmon of Wisdom. 🙃

[@brucematzen4678]

Fun as in hahahah.

[@therongjr]

Great video!

[@dudeistpreist5721]

I have heard people say the andronovo are a source for many of these myths and spread to Ireland, India, and Greece. That could explain many of the similarities.

[@talideon]

Only partly likely. India, yes, because they are thought to have been Indo-Iranians, and thus to have split off from the earlier Yamnaya culture of the Pontic steppes, which is the likely actual common origin of all these mythologies and the modern descendant languages of Proto-Indo-European.

[@dudeistpreist5721]

@talideon well, the brama caste DNA markers of the andronovo, so that is the current vest hypothesis. Unfortunately, it takes time for academia to correct the consensus

[@rileytempest666]

Thanks for the info dump. Cheers!

[@willowfarmer6550]

Really pleased you did the Star Wars crawl, because I was waiting for a reference amidst all the Tolkien talk. C'mon, an adventurous young leader with a silver (metal) hand? Nuada = Luke??

[@Venator1230]

You put in a lot of work for this video. You did a great job.

[@irishmyths]

Thank you! And I appreciate you taking the time to comment

[@Alexander_Isen]

Excellent video, thanks

[@irishmyths]

Thanks for watching!

[@ryangreen1588]

Top quality thank you very much!

[@Arnsteel634]

Just as Egyptian mythology is an umbrella term for memphite mythology, theban mythology, etc And Greek mythology has many variations from region to region and city to city. And the same thing for Slavic mythology

[@wintersking4290]

In Roman texts and especially in Caesar's work they mentioned that the Druidic religion was supposed to have been founded in Ireland and spread back into the rest of Europe from there.

[@LailokenScathach]

Well done! Great video, you earned a new subscriber and I am sharing your video - thank you for making this!

[@tomdijkstra4196]

Great video ! I love the way you explained with a wide view, but you introduced your video with Cernunnos and we don't hear about him after that, does he have an Irish equivalent ? I'd love to see a video about him, keep on the great work !

[@geoffduke1356]

You should check out the word and eponym, Turlough. A lake which appears in the Rainey season 🤘🏼 I’m not one of these people that get offended with mispronunciations and fair play to ye having a craic but if you ever want help with it I’d be happy to phoneticise it for you. It would bring another layer of polish to your already brilliant content Thanks, really enjoyed that

[@degriffon]

Love this! Thanks very much 👍

[@irishmyths]

Thanks for watching!

[@owenmcgee8496]

All this sh*t blows my mind. I think the name Balor, mentioned about 11minutes in, was the model for the name Belor, the witch, in the Welsh kids TV programme "Into The Labyrinth", which blew my mind sometime before I was ten. The pieces of my blown mind must still be floating about somewhere.

[@Andrewtr6]

Mythology is such a fun topic and I really love learning about it. I wish I could know everything about mythology and folklore, but it becomes difficult to keep it all straight the more you learn. I'm writing a comic series that uses mythology in a similar way to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan, but with more gods from different cultures. I want to portray it as accurately as possible. I'll likely come back to this video at some point. The information about the different cognates will be helpful. Personally, I like to adapt every god as an individual rather than doing what Riordan did with the Greek and Roman gods just being different personas of the same being.

[@irishmyths]

Thank you for your comment; your comic series sounds awesome! Definitely drop a link here when it's finished, I'd love to check it out

[@randomliamsquares765]

oh i just love these vids!!!!

[@irishmyths]

Thank you!

[@RagnarDollabill]

That was awesome!

[@irishmyths]

Thanks for watching!

[@debisboy]

Coming here from the Last Apprentice book series. Y'all should all give it a read!

[@danielfagan5429]

really awesome video

[@1saxonwolf]

Could you expand on the Normandy Celtic connection ? Or give a reference. Thanks..

[@talideon]

There isn't one other than the existence of the Gauls in France and the fact that the Normans invaded Ireland via Great Britain. The Normans were Norse settlers in France who went native. I guess you could point at the Norse settlements in Ireland as some kind of connection, but it's tenuous.

[@zanzatbc]

Fantastic video

[@CelticDruidTempleOfBeliefsnewa]

Macha is Epona not Morrígan Morrígan being a triple goddess was made up mostly by Wicca In Ireland she's a singlar Deity Morrígan in irish myth would be Nantosuelta and Cathubodua wife to Sucellus in Gaulish mythology pre Celtic myth Kashyapa and Krodhavasa Kali and Vinata traces of this story in Hinduism is found in Cantaberian mythology Lusitanian mythology Basque mythology etc Rhiannon is Epona Dôn is Dagda in irish myth Dagda is also called Donn and Dán pronounced Don this means the groups of god's in later myth means tribe of Donn or children of Donn in Gaulish mythology it's written by Romans Dis Peter is the father God of the Gauls so Danu though in Irish mythology as well as Hinduism and other names in celtic spectrums she wouldn't have been named after the celtic god's of later myths in fact very little information on Danu is in irish myth and written records which means she wasn't a prominent figure like her husband Dagda or Sucellus or Revo Taranis Tarañes etc

[@timsheehan1541]

Epic. Learnt a lot

[@jana8599]

This was excellent. I usually find SOMETHING to dislike. Nope. I thoroughly enjoyed this video; which I will watch again.

[@irishmyths]

Thank you so much! 🙏 Appreciate you watching (and watching again!) and taking the time to comment

[@stepdancer05afgs0000]

The Morrigan had two sisters, Macha and Badb, but they were separate deities in their own right. She's also not just a deity of battle. Great video though!

[@nessanmungovan7202]

Love this video🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@67lionsoflisbon37]

Top notch video.

[@anutahemaa7564]

The lakes moving from one place to another place is known in Balticum too.

[@MagicRing-fq2ig]

Thanks for this video. It's great to shear someone explain the differences between and overlap of these two terms (Irish vs Celtic). One question though, you mentioned that Midir's "ex" transformed Étaín into a fly (12.37) though IIRC, Fúamnach is not Midir's ex but his wife! If so, she had reason to be upset Though it seems to me that she should have taken her revenge on Midir and not on poor Étaín :). Thanks again for another fantastic video on this fascinating subject!

[@rebeccahoneycutt6558]

Subsribed Thank you.

[@yensid4294]

I believe The Greeks called them The Keltoi? Excellent video tyvm.

[@stormfallen323]

Great info lad. Thanks a mill. I know it was said, but just the pronunciations are off. I get it though. Different language, different way of moving the tongue to say things.

[@irishmyths]

Thank you so much for this. And yeah my pronunciation in these early videos is, admittedly, atrocious. I've been studying/practicing and will continue to do so! Hopefully folks will hear the difference in my newer vids. Thanks again! 🙏

[@stormfallen323]

Absolutely hi. More power to you. Honestly, I'm new to your channel, I didn't even look at how long the video is up, and you're lightyears ahead of me, in my own effing folklore lad. So, absolutely, more power to you. 🙏🤘😎

[@IdealX-fr4eg]

Thanks for putting this out and repping my ancestral home!

[@Pjvenom1985]

Very nice video subbed up now looking forward to hearing more mythical meanders. Go raibh mile maith agat for sharing.⚔️🌅🍀

[@matthewposton3243]

Really interesting video. Irish mythology is fascinating to me. I do love how bad the pronunciation was 😂😂

[@ZEGTHEFISH]

Whats the tune at the end of your video called?

[@irishmyths]

That would be "Shippin' Up to Bossa," a jazzy rendition of the Dropkick Murphys' "Shippin' Up to Boston." kzbin.info/www/bejne/gobJhWqFZ7qGfrssi=-41jtWCqXpj0_tQm My old band, Devaney’s Goat, came up with it as a fun way to end our faithful(ish) cover of the song. (I'm the dude playing Irish bouzouki in the video above fyi)

[@caseycarroll476]

Thank you for the info, I'm trying to self-study Irish mythology.

[@ouinonoui8747]

Very good video that explain very well. Just wanted to say that Epona and Morrigan are two differents Goddess. Morrigan is the Goddess or "murder" in a type of way in war. Epona is the Goddess of horses, fertility and travel/marchant. the Goddess in Gaulish mythology that is closest to Morrigan is Catubodua Goddess of victories at war. For the relation between Sucellus and Dagda it is kind of false too. Dagd behind closer to Toutatis or a closer equivalent.

[@wintersking4290]

The similarities between Germanic and Celtic mythology is insane. I'm gonna list gods in order of their Irish, wider Celtic, and Germanic equivalents. There's a huge amount of crossover. 1. Dagda, Taranis, Thor/Donar 2. Lugh, Lugos, Woden/Odin 4. Nuada, Nodens, Njord* 5. The Morrigan, Epona**, Freyja 6. Eriu/Bandba/Fodla, the Matrona triad, and Frigg. 7. Aengus Og, Tuetates, and Tyr/Tiwaz** 8. Manannan Mac Lir, Esus, Loki *The Celtic deity takes on some of the aspects of the Norse Tyr as a King and leader of the Gods who lost an arm, but is also closely associated with the Sea and winds like Njord. **I know associating the Morrigan with Epona is not standard, but the Irish horse goddess Macha is often listed as one of the three morrigans and all three have an association with horses and battle.

[@Jay-mp7ir]

7:22 Nodens looks like another certain one-eyed God that also rides an eight legged horse

[@talideon]

You should be careful with your stress placement with Irish words. Except for specific conditions, the stress in Irish words is on the first syllable. Some prefixes doesn't cause the stress to move to them and in some dialects, particularly those of Munster, stress is attracted to the long vowel, but the general rule is that stress is initial. This is the case even when a word is borrowed into English. Thus, it's CONN-acht, and never conn-ACHT.

[@andrewmcgregor6507]

Wasn't the Morrigan something similar to the Norse valkyries? A chooser of the slain?

[@Trueghh]

Well when it comes too irish gods they usually do multiple things many times completely random stuff not related too eachother She is also said too be one who causes war and pushes men too start wars she is also looked at as someone who brings bad luck or misfortune She was originally just human since in irish and most celtic societies a man can be born too a god or be related too them.

[@NineWorldsFromDrew]

I thought you were getting at a thread of linking Sucellus with The Dagda, just as his consort Nantosuelta has been linked so often with the Morrigan? Seemed like you were dropping heavy hints, and then we didn’t get to it much. Is this something you expand upon, in a later video?

[@patrickday4206]

Great video I've learned multiple times about this on my own likw Wikipedia rabbit holes and this helps put things in a bigger picture. Can you tell me why some people call the la fail the singing stone instead of the stone of scone considering it was found broken and repaired after those college students stole it????????

[@JoeDouglas]

Awesome video! Question; are there few known Scottish Celtic myths? Whenever I read about Celtic legends Ireland is mentioned a lot by Scotland hardly ever. If both countries were Celtic, I assume few of the Scottish stories remain?

[@christopherknorr2895]

What the hell was that outro music??? Shipping up to Boston trumpet bossa nova?

[@warrnj4300]

What about the Pictish and Celts cultures and was King Arthur a Celtish king?

[@Peter-dk2ov]

Great video but please ask an irish person to explain the pronunciation of irish folk heroes and gods to you. The content is really high quality otherwise. Thank you

[@dDoodle788]

It's useless. There are a lot of different dialects and ways to pronounce Irish names. Even if he did what you asked, he'd just learn to pronounce it in one specific dialect, and the comment section would be filled with people who speak the other dialects saying that he's " pronouncing it wrong and he should ask an Irish person to explain it how to pronounce it".

[@mashroom7706]

What was that music at the end?

[@MorganRhysGibbons]

Look up Welsh pronunciations! Also how the Táin is pronounced! Your videos are wonderful, nonetheless, and I can't wait to see what else you make. : )

[@TheTimeshadows]

HPLovecraft's use of Nodens gets no mention? ;)

[@wintersking4290]

3.. 2.. 1.. Gaulish Version of Nuada/Nodens?

[@KC-cb4dr]

I’m confused about the Scottish Celtic history. Would that be part of welsh heritage that’s mentioned in this video?

[@gcanaday1]

Offshoot of Irish. Read about Kenneth McAlpine and the Kingdom of Alba for an account of the migration.

[@irishmyths]

On a related note, there's also an argument to be made that the term "Gaelic mythology" or "Goidelic mythology" should be used to refer collectively to Irish/Scottish/Manx mythology as the old stories from those cultures are rooted in a shared linguistic tradition

[@debbiegilmour6171]

There were the Cumbric speaking Strathclyde britons, closely related to the Welsh speaking Britons. Scotland's celtic history has elements of both though the Strathclydes were eventually superceded by the Goidelic Pictish kingdom after the siege of Alt Clut destroyed the power base of Strathclyde.

[@debbiegilmour6171]

Sorry for repeated comments. KZbin comments are being typically obstructive. The video doesn't do Scottish celtic history much justice, leaving it as a bit of a footnote. The answer is that there were both in the modern area of Scotland; Goidelic speaking Picts and Cumbric speaking Strathclydes. That is in addition to Gaels who lived throughout most of the Hebrides and up the West coast (Goidelic speakers themselves). Norse speakers arrived towards the end of the Strathclyde kingdom's period and were themselves involved in the siege of Alt Clut. The Strathclyde kingdom is spoken of at great length in Y Gododdin, Gododdin referring to what is now modern Lothian and Pentland.

[@talideon]

​@@debbiegilmour6171The Picts were likely speakers of a Brythonic language, not a Goidelic one.

[@BrambleWood]

Its all Proto indo european hence there are parallels in old germanic/norse myths n religons

[@irishmyths]

Agreed!

[@arinrose699]

Did you like the rings of power? Awesome video i subbed.

[@markykid8760]

If you take some basic Irish lessons, we will appreciate your improved pronunciation 🙂 it's even on Duolingo if you're interested

[@bustedkeaton]

13:55 krishna?

[@stacycoiner4206]

WOW! After finding my DNA is that of Welsh-Irish-Scot=94%, watching this video made me realize, it might take me awhile to learn about my ancestry!

[@coc_is_me]

Oisín = “usheen”; Fianna = FEE ahnah; connacht = Con acht = syllable stresses etc erc… you can find out how to pronounce this stuff easily! Táin = Toyn - otherwise good video 🙂

[@wintersking4290]

The Dagda is actually oy the father of like 4 of the other Tuatha Dé.

[@SizemoreMusic]

Didnt the Celts have a goddess named "Morrigu or Morrig?" Wouldnt that be the celtic equivalent to the morrigan? Not epona? Who would be her sister?

[@SethFreedman13]

To say that Christian monks preserved, even an impure version, of Irish mythology is unfairly forgiving. The Christian monks purposefully corrupted the original mythology for the purposes of conversion and, therefore, control.

[@halguy5745]

christianity destroyed and re-written slavic mythology and traditions as well. christianization was colonization. many different cultures were lost to christan hegemony

[@SethFreedman13]

@@halguy5745 absolutely.

[@esmeraldagreen1992]

It seems to me that the Morrigan could be considered an Irish Hecate who was a triple goddess rather than an Irish Epona.