Who Are the Welsh?

Wales occupies a beautiful place within Britain, but it also has a long and storied history. This documentary explores the origins of Wales and the Welsh people (Cymru), from the late Bronze Age to the end of the medieval period, covering some of the most important events that shaped the nation of Wales.
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[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

I’m convinced that the main reason more English speaking KZbinrs don’t cover Welsh history is that they’re terrified of the pronunciation 😂.

[@harrywalsh2104]

Yep

[@ianmackenzie6245]

All those extra vowels

[@raymondravinsky9583]

😂❗

[@John-qy9nw]

They also number a tiny 3m people and very few emigrated to the new world or Australasia.

[@Requiemslove]

Well, that and the unfortunate truth of their ancestors being essentially just mercenaries who took advantage of a power vacuum and the fragility of a still very new British state of Wales. [AKA they are the bad guys] But, mostly the pronunciation thing. [I'm terrified of it too... and I'm Welsh]

[@thegreenmage6956]

Good to see you covering this. We do like to get a mention, us Welsh.

[@hughevans4652]

Welsh is much older than Roman era. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2OngZ-cpdBlptU

[@keiraaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

me, a Welsh person who knows a lot about Welsh history about to watch another video on Welsh history due to the fact it's Welsh:

[@501sqn3]

@@keiraaaaaaaaaaaaaa yep, you sound like a typical welsh individual

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@keiraaaaaaaaaaaaaa Too cute! Irish American here, not Celtic, rather Gaelic, (County Kerry Lineage), we are of Basque origin. Welsh too, I think. (Some Irish have Germanic Influence through the invasions)

[@Ericsaidful]

I will require you to bow down now. I am, in some way related, to a Prince form the North of Wales. I do not have the name as the family tree is with my grandmother. I hope to return to reclaim what is mine in the near future.

[@oldhippiejon]

Born in England from Welsh stock the country called me far before I understood the politics, one visit to family was all it took, like meeting your true love it grew in my heart, this land were I now live is in my soul and will always be. My grandchildren are all Welsh who speak the old language, soon maybe my remains will be buried under Welsh soil and I will be part of the country again, I will rest easy of that I am sure.

[@RenataCantore]

I Love your beautiful statement. God bless you and your Family ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@sueh9138]

How wonderful!

[@V.T.1989]

That was how I felt on my first visit to wales,from America.

[@KingUsyk]

​@@V.T.1989of course you did 😂 Americans lol

[@noelfleming3567]

Well said I'm d same in my little corner good health to you❤

[@northernlion8738]

As an Englishman currently studying in Wales, I have mad respect for the Welsh. The fact the language has stood against the test of time to the modern day is remarkable.

[@BobAlong-l5y]

respect englishman from a south whillian

[@stigkrakpants3052]

do you respect the somalis?@@BobAlong-l5y

[@ljones396]

Thank you, diolch. It's refreshing to read something positive about Cymraeg for once. 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@mikemines2931]

What's Welsh for television?

[@ljones396]

@@mikemines2931 teledu

[@jaywatanabe4706]

As a Welsh descendent in Canada I’ve always wanted to know more about our roots as it was made clear by my Grandpa that we were “Welsh” folk. I have a great admiration for our forefathers tenacity, endurance and preservation of our culture against great odds - As was noted they withstood the Germanic tribes while Rome itself fell to them. And the bards, singers and great epics! Culture is a beautiful thing that is indeed worth preserving and protecting. Thanks for helping keep it alive for us far-flung Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 One day I look forward to seeing it with my own eyes

[@rhiAction.]

Croeso Jay

[@TwpsynMawr]

Cymru am Byth! You would love it here mate.. most beautiful country on earth. God's country! 💙

[@jaywatanabe4706]

@@rhiAction.diolch i chi berthnasau!

[@jaywatanabe4706]

@@TwpsynMawr cymru am byth! It does look like God's country from what I've seen in pictures and videos of those beautiful mountains and valleys and rugged coastlines. I have no doubt they don't do the real thing any justice!

[@Cariad247]

You can move away but you will always be part of us ....

[@brucemacallan6831]

Everyone needs to read up on Wilson & Blackett's research. Wales is an incredible place, and has the most amazing history. The true history of the Welsh is a problem for the British Establishment.

[@mysticalmaid]

They fear us still so our history in school stays away from English v Wales conflicts. First I heard of it was in books as a young adult.

[@WalesTheTrueBritons]

In reality the English establishment. Wales and the Welsh need to reclaim their Britishness.

[@OneEpicEric]

@@WalesTheTrueBritons In reality the Hanoverian establishment.

[@efydd]

Tribes of Israel bullshit

[@raven-wf9so]

I can assure you as a English man living in England it’s really not 😂😂

[@Rotebuehl1]

In German the word "welsch" means "non-germanic" In Switzerland the German speaking call the french, Italian, and rheto-roman speaking parts of the country "die welsche Schweiz"

[@mjograus8800]

Interesting! The name Welsh came from the invading Anglo Saxons' name for foreigners. The Germanic connection seems obvious.

[@BaneSeaxan6]

It does. Although modern Welsh are themselves 1/3 Anglo-Saxon. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784891/

[@BaneSeaxan6]

It does. Although the Welsh are themselves 1/3 Anglo-Saxon. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784891/

[@Rotebuehl1]

​@@mjograus8800😅

[@ajarnwordsmith628]

I spent more than 20 years living and working in the Orient. During my time there, I was engaged in conversation with an elderly gentleman from the USA. The pronunciation of just one word informed me, in the blink of an eye, that this American gentleman had an association with Wales, the Land of my Fathers. How so, I hear you ask? He was recounting a recent visit to a local dentist and pronounced the singular of the plural noun teeth as "tuth", not the more familiar sounding "two-th" (tooth). I paused the conversation and asked him if he had a connection with South Wales. He was struck dumb for a few seconds and then blurted out, "Yes, I was born in Bridgend (near Cardiff), but my parents emigrated to the US when I was a baby and have never been back. How do you know?" The answer, of course, is that he was brought up in the US by Welsh parents from Glamorgan, who never lost their accent and its quirky pronunciation of certain words.

[@MechanicalMooCow]

Nobody asked that

[@Carma123]

@@MechanicalMooCowI enjoyed the story because it sounds like my own grandfather. Please don’t be so rude.

[@eussii9195]

@@Carma123 me too, such a sweet comment

[@shirleyjenkins11]

My maternal family always spoke about being Welsh..cousin and I doing family history could never find a welsh birth any where. Then my cousins dna came back 23% welsh which added to our confusion. Both maternal and paternal grandparents were born in UK..one Suffolk the other Hereford. Me being an avid reader of medieval historic fiction found one series of books regularly including Hereford as in Wales on the Marches.. I decided to look up Hereford history and found it had been welsh and welsh was spoken there well into the 1800s. I looked up the origins of the surname Baynham and found it was Welsh but the maiden name of the ggranny was Evans..a clear give way. So you never can tell where one's ancestry can trip you up.

[@Halbared]

Nice! Brummies also do that ‘tuth’ thing.

[@cadarn1274]

Brilliant vid! We Cymry definitely deserve more love in the history space. On the subject of Arthur being Abrosius' nephew, this is surprisingly plausible. In Medieval Wales, a king's nephew the was the most common/ideal relation to be the "Penteulu" (commander of the Royal Household troops and chief military advisor). This could explain Ambrosius' victories being attributed to Arthur also. That said, I understand it is complicated and Arthur may just be a god figure rather than a real human. Edit: The earliest Arthur source, Nennius, says that though he was not a king, he was Dux Bellorum (war leader) of the Kings of Britain.

[@ellen4956]

In Michael Wood's "In Search of Arthur" he speaks with a man who found very old burial stones on his land and one of them was for someone named Arthur. There was a story that he and his brother were sons of a local king, and Arthur was killed in battle but he fought bravely. The stones were from the right time period, but there were probably other people with that name. Michael Wood said it could have been part of many pieces woven into the legend.

[@Fredmayve]

@@ellen4956 it more of less is the legend. Funny thing is that when I grew up Arthur was not a common name, although one of my uncles was one and we were not told or taught that Arthur was Welsh. "Knights" to us were the Norman invaders.

[@Fredmayve]

@leekenyon8705 True. But we beat the Romans in one great battle in South Wales and we kept our language alive and spread it to Brittany in what is now France. We have a devolved Welsh parliament and increasingly aspire to Independence.

[@Fredmayve]

Preedieval do you think? Iron Age ?

[@Fredmayve]

@leekenyon8705 I'm not expert. I'll look into it later. But perhaps a real person who resisted the incomers from the continent,. Oral history usually has a kernel of truth.

[@WelshAmericanChannel]

Hello from the Welsh American Channel. Just want to let you know that we Welsh Americans are also interested in what is going on in Wales and its rich history. Cymru am byth!

[@kelseycoyote6576]

Fantastic oration and content! As a person of Welsh descent I am impressed by how you have arranged the massive amount of content. The Welsh never gave in, never gave up, and were able to preserve language and cultures where others were completely overwhelmed and lost. Thank you

[@simonidastankovic2627]

I entirely agree with one honus remarc: author has absolutely perfect pronunciation of the Welsh Celtic tongue; one can tell immediately0 that he is deeply involved in linguistics, philology, ethimology.....let alone history and mythology.

[@meilir.ap.emrys420]

Centuries ago my ancestors were forced to renounce their traditional Welsh names and adopt the name ‘Roberts’ as a more formal, more proper English surname. That all ended on October 12th, 2003. The day I was born, Christened as Meilir Ap Emrys, son of Emrys Roberts. There is nothing in this world I will ever be more thankful for than my name, no matter how hard people may find it to pronounce, because it represents the tenacity and endurance of my people, and how we have overcome everything thrown at us. Thank you for sharing the history of my cyndeidiau so eloquently and with so many people. Our history is one that has inspired countless world-famous works of fiction, and the truth is worth telling and sharing. Diolch yn fawr, fawr iawn, gyfaill. Cymru am byth.

[@suzanneself7037]

My ancestors are welsh, from Llandudno area and my last name is Roberts. Does this mean originally we weren't Roberts also. I've never heard if the Welsh having to change names before until I saw this comment. Any information you have I'll be thankful for! X

[@meilir.ap.emrys420]

@@suzanneself7037 so every Welsh person would’ve had either ‘Ap’ (if they were male) or ‘Ach’ (if they were female) preceding their father’s name as what would today be called a surname. Very similar to Mac/Mc in Scottish and O’ in Irish. The reason that the change for us was so widespread was because at one point in time Wales was considered to be a part of England. We had to adopt surnames to fit in with English culture, but weren’t allowed English surnames as we were deemed to be second class citizens so they made up some new ones for us (how considerate of them). So although both our families are from north Wales (I live on Anglesey, as have both sides of my family for thousands of years) and have the same last name, I would highly doubt that we would be related simply due to the fact that every Welsh person got given the choice of a handful of surnames (Jones, Hughes, Evans, Williams, Roberts and a few others I’m forgetting). I hope that’s been informative!

[@suzanneself7037]

Wow, I had no idea! Makes sense why it's so hard doing your family tree as everyone has these names! So we can't find our original names I'm guessing then? I'd love to read more about the original culture as I'm English I don't know much. Thank you for your reply❤

[@jeromemartinez5603]

We can keep alive our ancestors stories, our family name has changes only 3 times in 723 years and goes back 700 years prior in Spain, I see it awesome that you have retained your heritage, traces back to Franks in Spain, wear your name proud.

[@WellFedProductions]

@@meilir.ap.emrys420 Very Interesting. My 4th great grandad was John Evans born in 1807 near Llanerchymedd, Anglesey, Wales. He had several children there and then uprooted the whole family and immigrated to New York in the US in 1839. They settled in Remsen, Oneida which apparently had/has a substantial Welsh population and descendants. I was born in Central America and had no idea about any of this until recently when I did a DNA test and discovered 17% Welsh ancestry. Thank you so much for the insight into the Evans name.

[@jrjhughes1233]

Whilst I’m English my grandfather was from Abersoch so I spent much of my childhood growing up in Wales, and it is so underrated. Proud of my Welsh heritage and absolutely love the country.

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

As a Yorkshireman I love god's own county but I must admit Wales is just as beautiful. Iv been to Pembrokeshire and many places in north wales including Anglesey. I was in Llandudno not long back and really enjoyed it. The northern Welsh folk were nice aswell

[@ronaldogarcia7194]

Is it True that HOLLYWOOD's 🎭🎬📽️🎞️ Actors GERARD BUTLER🧔🏻 & CHRISTIAN BALE 🧒🏻 a Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❓❓❓

[@Scar-jg4bn]

Completely wrong. Gerard Butler is Irish and born in Scotland and Christian Bale is English and born in Wales. The internet is free to use to fact check you know...

[@chriscarey1478]

Many believe Arthur is fictional because of accounts of him fighting both Romans and Saxons- some 400 years apart. Wilson and Blackett have shown with good evidence, that there were two Arthur's, one directly descended from the other, and that they were both very real.

[@deanmorgan7011]

Spot on they were 250 years apart and that often causes confusion, but yes your 100% right my friend.

[@Halbared]

I learned about the two Arthurs watching Britain's Hidden History. I have read books by Lomas and Knight inn then 90's that talked about one Arthur, the one from north britain.

[@BaneSeaxan6]

King Arthur wasn't real. Good myth though.

[@chriscarey1478]

@@BaneSeaxan6 Strong evidence shows otherwise if one looks for it. It's still extant in writing, and geography.

[@ashton1952]

Amazing. There's no smoke without a fire

[@halmillett5448]

My Grandmother spoke Welsh, taught to her by her grandfather who told her to remember she was Cymry.

[@timbayliss4153]

It is actually pronounced Cumry, but you always write it as Cymru.

[@-._A2._-]

​@@timbayliss4153they are using Cymry which is the people of Wales in Welsh, Cymru is the country.

[@timbayliss4153]

@@-._A2._- Diolch fawr am dy hoffech. I am used to seeing Cymraeg or the word Nheulu for people, you see.

[@lunabranwen]

Amen ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@codychurch5920]

No...I understand Cymraeg, but I don't u derstand a lick of Hebrew​...The reason being, they are not related at all, and biblical geneologies are bunk.@@MaacMaliceMMA

[@ccsmooth55]

My last name (Craddock) is derived from the Welsh name Caradog. Im proud to have Welsh heritage!

[@joemeyers4131]

Interesting possibility is Caradog is in a likeness to a very ancient wording , Middle Eastern Karduch- to words of today even Kurd- .. just a little idea .

[@noneofurbusiness5223]

@ CC Smooth Interesting. Craddock is a burrough in city of Chesapeake VA

[@MalakhimTarot]

I am Maddock from Madoc / Madog 🙌🏼 A couple of years back I randomly become obsessed with Arthurian myth and completed a diploma in it. Then I came across Madoc and was like 😮

[@joemeyers4131]

@@The_Welsh_Jordanian reading your response thanking you .

[@devinlawton2390]

Just have to say, as a Cymro living in Wales, I congratulate the heck out of your pronunciation. It was very accurate with very few exceptions and you handled the extra vowels and unfamiliar consonants well. An unfortunate majority of modern Britons lack the exposure or interest to try, and at worst, make fun of the language.

[@carolwoodhouse8493]

I'm visiting North Wales soon for the first time so enjoying this look at its impressive history. I'm no linguist but hope to make a good effort at please and thank you by the time I go.🙂

[@mikimeadows]

His Welsh sounds like he has a bad lisp

[@cuntman7411]

@@mikimeadows tbh i agree, his attempt is very admirable but his pronunciation of welsh is way too breathy and overdone in the case of things like caernarfon

[@Al-AI]

Loved this. Have you read Alan Wilson and Baram Blacket - Arthur King of Glamorgan. It's very interesting.

[@AlMondO93]

Cymraeg, not Welsh. We are not strangers in our own land. Cymru am byth!

[@wyverntheterrible]

You will be if you keep voting Plaid Cymri and importing Third Worlders like its going out of fashion

[@jasonwhite7677]

Not the best translation 😂

[@dibdap2373]

@@jasonwhite7677 lmao.

[@danielburger1775]

The indigenous British are today called "English" or "Lowland Scots". The Welsh are just that...foreigners.

[@magicsdolbear19]

I'm all Welsh and i love when people know that wales even exists I grew up un Tenby and South mid Wales has got to be some of the nicest places to live in the world. Everyone is so nice sandy beaches castles shops easy to get around and Hardy no crime at all

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

I'm a proud Yorkshireman and I love god's own county but I must admit Wales is equally beautiful. Iv been to Tenby and many places in north wales including Anglesey. I was in Llandudno last year and found the local Welsh to be very nice people. I want to go to the Brecon beacons in the future as I have never been there

[@johnmorgan8868]

@@lightfootpathfinder8218 don't forget to take your waterproofs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@exploreseafaring]

Fantastic to hear such a well put together history. I've lived in North Wales my whole life, speak the language and my family tree is rooted deep here. I still struggle to put dates to names and people in places. I pass castles and ancient tumulus just to go to the supermaket and it breaks my heart to be powerless as I watch and feel Wales turn into something it shouldn't be.

[@somniumisdreaming]

@@Rabbelrauser How so?

[@lucasgarrett2107]

@@somniumisdreaming I believe everything is just being capitalized on so heavily. Politics plays a big role as well. I’d say the people are changing. Wants and concerns are beginning to rule over necessity and logic.

[@LumiSisuSusi]

@@Rabbelrauser the difference here in Wales is that we have had to fight to this very moment in time to keep our language and culture alive. The Westminster government in England has done their best to destroy our culture and language. We still face issues, even recently our language, one of the oldest on the island was listed as a foreign language and English as the native language which is wrong. We have had our education controlled to hide our history. When I was growing up our parents were told NOT to educate us in Welsh as it will retard us - I'm not kidding. That was the stigma we grew up with. So despite having my roots in Wales for hundreds of years on both sides, we were bullied out of speaking it. I did my best to learn it I school but one else's every 2 weeks does not allow for any skills. As OP said we barely know our history, in my school we learned about the English, the Romans and the Normans etc. But NOT our own people and land as Westminster government controlled that. Things have recently changed in the last year or so and now all children will be educated on our history. Hopefully, we will regain our language and culture, just like the Finn's did from the russians and Swedish, and everyone will speak Welsh and English fluently. There's a reason why Wales has the most castles per km of any country - we fought hard to defend our ways of life and still are. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@stigkrakpants3052]

@@LumiSisuSusi youll be speaking pashtun or somali soon haha

[@stigkrakpants3052]

@@LumiSisuSusi those castles were built by the conquering english, superior cultur ealways wins, the english vikings crushed the celts, the muslims will crush the europeans

[@Votebritish]

Here's a thought. Wales are now an ethnic minority in the UK. English ,Scots ,Pakistani ,then Welsh. However, if you put down Asian then both Wales and Scotland are moved down the line. African runs close to population of Northern Ireland. Demographics from 2011. Wonder why 2023 can't be found?

[@ericcloud1023]

I'd been checking your channel every other day just hoping for a new video, you have really piqued my interest in my Irish ancestry. As a Californian as distant as currently possible from the emerald isle, something about the clawing back bit by bit of Pre-roman/pre-christian Gaelic/Welsh/etc really speaks to me. I've always been absolutely enthralled by history. As a kid instead of Saturday morning cartoons I'd watch history channel documentaries (when they still had credibility) and I've never dropped it as a passion, but I never studied my own people's heritage. Funny isnt it? Much love from California

[@JackRabbit002]

It's nice to see the Nation of Wales get some attention of late! It's weird I was born in Brum (Birmingham, England) but my family on both sides go Welsh going back like! I think the story of my heritage is just following the river Severn Lol

[@davidjones535]

In the early 1880s a Welsh miner took his wife and three children and move to the United States they had four more children one of whom was named Samuel born in 1889 who became a pipe fitter in the Steelmill married a young woman born In Germany the same year and who had moved to Ohio in 1898 , they had seven children the youngest son name Charles who in turn married a young woman who is half Irish and half northwestern Scottish, they had four sons whom I am the third born .

[@fuchsiafuture]

Well done for keeping track of your ancestors.

[@uttaradit2]

visit wales

[@robertgrey6101]

@David Jones Heretige / Ancestory. How beautiful !!

[@Dandelion0962]

You got book and verse inscribed on that ?

[@creekyknee]

I have a red car.

[@markthompson5481]

There was an arthur, but it was a nickname that warlords often had. His was the bear art in early welsh yr for artyr the bear. Gildas mentions him as die ursa. He was based in Wroxeter if this is true. His father's war name was the terrible head dragon- urthur pen dragon

[@markthompson5481]

@Lee Kenyon The celtic culture of course or at least the la tenne, not sure of the exact pronunciation originated in switzerland. There are Arthurian cycles- Siegfried in German, Roland in France, it's entirely possible that the whole thing may be part of some romantic original story that has been modified over time by different populaces. Fascinating speculation though. Die ursa met his end fighting his nephew according to the welsh annals and was buried in Baschurch, who knows the truth?

[@nimblehorse]

"You can take any SENTENCE in HEBREW and change it into GAELIC, word for word, WITHOUT ALTERING the ORDER of a single word or particle, and you will have the correct GAELIC idiom in every case. You cannot do that with any other language in Europe. HEBREW has a rule which is known as "ASPIRATION." which applies to certain consonants when they follow a vowel. It means the same consonant has two different sounds, according to its position. GAELIC has the SAME rule and applies it in exactly the same way. Even words borrowed from other languages are at once modified in sound according to the HEBREW rule of ASPIRATION. Does any other language use this rule? We don't know of any. Ancient MEDIA,where the ten tribes were taken captive, is where the language of SANSKRIT developed. SANSKRIT has a more elaborate rule for modifying the consonants, called "SANDHI" under which every consonant may have as many as four distinct sounds, according to its position. Dr. Pritchard in his book The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Races has shown that WELSH alone of all living languages, has preserved the rule of SANDHI entire. He proves from this and many other similarities, including words in such common use as the whole paradigm of the verb "to be," that the ancestors of the WELSH must have lived among the people who spoke SANSKRIT. These people were ISRAELITES in MEDIA. He also shows that GOTHIC is the link between ancient SANSKRIT and modern TEUTONIC."

[@pamelakuz4709]

My mom always said her grandmother from wales said that the welsh were one of the lost tribes of Israel

[@juditrotter5176]

My Grandmother was a pioneer in the US State of Montana. She was the oldest of five. Her father was killed by her brother in a hunting accident and the following year 1917 her mother died in the great flu pandemic. When I was growing up (from 1948 on) she would say “Now, don’t put on airs we are just Welsh miners.” When I’ve visited Wales I can’t say that I found a pronunciation gene. One interesting happening for me was my first trip to Wales was with my son Colburn(Colby). We were so interested and happy to see how much his beam appeared as place names. His Dad and I had no idea.

[@jillybe1873]

My mum said exactly this too ❤

[@angelalewis3645]

What a sweet, wonderful lady!

[@kellyhawkes3191]

My daughter's boyfriend is from Cwmbran, his surname is Colburn.

[@DrJamesFeelgood]

@@kellyhawkes3191I don't think Colburn or Coburn are Welsh.

[@nre1553]

The French call Wales, Land of the Gaul's, Gales and Wales may have the same root, a Germanic name to describe the Welsh as Gaul's.

[@martyngittins1274]

Wales is a very significant part of Our UK which arguably it pioneered c/ o Henry Twdwr’summarily ending the ‘Wars of the Roses’- much welcomed by the English let alone the Welsh!

[@Caerdydd]

diolch yn fawr

[@mdcclxxvl5790]

Welsh Americans in the United States should use the Wales flag more and celebrate Saint Davids day

[@cynthialevy4839]

I display my flag and wear my St. DAVIDS t shirt every St. PATRICK day. I also remind everyone that Patrick was actually a Welshman.

[@trayccox8223]

Wow that was an amazing history lesson..as a native born English from Scottish/Irish parents..I'd never heard Welsh history before and always wanted to.. thank you so much what a gorgeous language..and amazing history poetry x

[@addammadd]

Could someone please explain the me the utility of ‘native’ in the phrase "native born English from Scottish/Irish parents?"

[@masterchefbaker723]

As a Welsh Draig can I also just point out we by far have the best flag too date.

[@FortressofLugh]

Absolutely agree

[@M1ggins]

Mozambique have an AK47 on there's, pretty badass.

[@masterchefbaker723]

AK cannot fly, dragon wins

[@Halbared]

As a rule, I like symmetry for flags, but dragons are terrific.

[@PBRJOHN684]

Yes we bloody well done 👍

[@Paul.Morgan]

The Welsh house of Tudor held the English throne from 1485-1603.

[@DLLW93]

And the early Tudors did much to emulate the symbology of Arthur's court

[@Halbared]

Tudor was an anglo-welsh house.

[@irenejohnston6802]

The wives of Kings were all continental until Edward IV married widow of Earl Grey, Elizabeth Woodville. The King couldn't marry one of his subjects.

[@intothewild5045]

The tutors were Welsh?

[@Halbared]

@@intothewild5045 It's what we were taught!

[@rasputin3263]

I'm proud of my Welsh ancestry. I have the dragon tattooed on my arm and I got to visit Wales when I was a kid. It's beautiful and green.

[@rhianyddsian9518]

Yeah most welsh people have the dragon tattooed on them all my brothers do also

[@josephkolodziejski6882]

There is a linguistic nitpick I'd like to point out - if one looks up the origin of Welsh words online, there are an awful lot of Latin origin words alongside the decidedly Celtic ones with the asterisks. as well as most of the earliest figures of Welsh history. For example: "Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru" comes from *Gario iator Prim- Schol- Com- *mrog(i)(a) with "gario" and "mrogi/brogi" being the Celtic words -One name example: Padarn Beisrudd ap Tegid > Patern Peis-Rut map Tacit > Patern(us) Pexa- *roud(os) *makw(os/i) Tacit(us) -Juvencus Three manuscript example: niguorcosam nemheunaur henoid >> *ni (=non, no) *wor- (=super, uber) cons(eo) nem(os) medio(n) (h)ora sen(ior)-noct(em) mitelu nit gurmaur >> Mi(hi) *tego- *-slougos nit *wiros *magros mi am [franc] dam ancalaur >> Mi(hi) am(bi) "(a) Frank" *do-ambi ante-caldar(ia) ...cet iben med nouel *Cit(u) *? med(ia) (=mead) novel(la) mi amfranc dam anpatel (My Frank) *do-ambi ante-patel(la) seems like "Romano-British" and "Welsh" may functionally be the same thing.

[@JakeSmith-vm4iq]

I'm so glad the anglo Saxons took all that Celtic land so they could fill it with immigrants and put license requirements on everything truly a wonderful race

[@andrewlove3686]

That probably has more to do with Europeans losing ww2.

[@MiloManning05]

@@andrewlove3686thanks to England

[@masonmccarty7837]

Dont just blame england we Americans are responsible to​@MiloManning05

[@spikeyapplesseashells9233]

I wonder if the Welsh have their own records of history instead of hearing it from a Greek. I'm sure they do. Alan Wilson shows it in his videos..

[@jasongage1596]

It called the Mabinogion, the earliest book in Britain

[@grahamfleming8139]

We in the Scottish Borders are well aware of our Welsh bloodlines and proud of it,names like peebles, Lee pen ,white coomb,Ettrick pen, Ancrum, lauder still survive today . Both lands are proud of 🏉 rugby and if Scotland is no playing we back the boyos.

[@garrywynne1218]

Yes. It was the Hen Ogledd (Old North) were names still reflect this (pen - top or head) Glas (Green /Blue) Aber (estuary) Lanark ( Llanerch - glade) . The area spoke Cumbric which was a derivative of Old Welsh or Cymraeg. All very interesting as a history and shows we have more in common than we are led to believe.

[@grahamfleming8139]

@@garrywynne1218 in England it extends to Carlisle from the Welsh and gaelic too for seat,the pen ines and penrith, to everyday penquins

[@garrywynne1218]

@@grahamfleming8139 I never thought of Penguins to be honest ? Thanks

[@philhawley1219]

Brecon and Brechin?

[@grahamfleming8139]

@@philhawley1219 in gaelic breac is a trout or spotted, connected?brock is a badger

[@Dav1Gv]

What a great video. I was born in Yorkshire but my great grandfather came from Merthyr Tydfil, I spent most of WW2 as a child in Aberdare and I've lived in the Vale of Glamorgan for fiflty years but your Welsh pronounciaton knocks spots off mine. You might be interested to know that there is a legend that the Normans, like the Saxons in England, were invited in to fight for one of the Welsh princes and then did a 'hostile' takeover. When he died the soul of the man who made the deal, Einion ap Colwyn, was sent into the body of a fox for his great sin which meant that the fox could speak (Welsh I assume). Hundreds of years later someone who had come into the Vale to buy cattle was 'benighted' in Porthkerry Woods (near where I live). Sitting in the rain by a smoky fire he heard a fox talking in a nearby bush. He spoke to the fox which told him the story saying he was the lineal descendent of the original fox so he too could talk. (Source is Marie Trevelyan's book of Welsh legends)

[@501sqn3]

.....you've been in Wales far,far too long, time to pack up and go home lad.

[@Sielffo1]

Aberdare too

[@Dav1Gv]

I remember my mum going off to the Rheigos plant to make sten gun bullets and seeing the Yanks training on Ogmore Beach when we went on holiday there - presumably 1944@@Sielffo1

[@SchwarzenVolk]

No such thing as Celts. Invention of history. Welsh from Troy, from Egypt of Judah. Irish from Esau.

[@random2829]

Well done! 😀❤ Welsh on the paternal side and - mostly - French Celt on the maternal side. I did enjoy my trip to Wales a few years ago - well worth the visit!

[@sidgriffith1592]

I visited North Wales January 2020 before all the lockdowns. The Welsh are very nice people. I've done a deep dive into my Y-DNA. My ancestors originated from this beautiful land. Anglesey is very nice. I spend a few days exploring the island. I wish more Welsh men would do their Y-DNA. I have several other Griffith men that we have a common ancestor in Wales in the early 1600s. Maybe one day we will figure out who he was.

[@Vesnicie]

Someone named Griffith in Wales? No way!

[@iriscollins7583]

My maiden name is Griffiths, my great great grandfather, grandfather was born in Anglesey, possibly a great, grandfather on my mother's side. ( Still searching ). Had my DNA tested, am 96% Welsh, ( North, West. South). 2% Cornish, Devon, 2%, Scots.West.) Cymru am Byth.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@ellen4956]

@@iriscollins7583 My Hughes branch is probably from there but I haven't figured out exactly where. They came to America (early 1700s) and in Pennsylvania founded a town called Gwynedd. It's still there.

[@joshbates9015]

No way! I was traveling North Wales in January of 2020 as well! Came to Liverpool from Canada for my father's wedding and decided to spend a week doing a circuit from Llandudno to Betws-y-Coed to Porthmadog to Caernarfon. First time I heard about covid spreading in Wuhan was actually when I was sitting at the bar at the Black Boy Inn in Caernarfon. I still remember thinking at the time that it was a whole lot of fuss about nothing and would blow over within a month lol.

[@Randrew]

@@ellen4956 My father's side immigrated from Wales just after the US Civil War and settled in Pennsylvania for a while. Apparently my ancestor did some mining there, as he'd done back in Wales. Later they joined with a Welsh immigration society which bought railroad land in Kansas to form a town they named Bala - it's long a ghost town now. The two sons of my American patriarch participated in the big land run into Oklahoma - the one covered in the Tom Cruise movie "Far and Away" in 1992 - and homesteaded there. I don't know from where in Wales my great-great-grandparents came, but they left at a time when the mining business was suffering.

[@susanbell8270]

I am Welsh born and bred, Welsh to my core, and proud to be. For those of you reading this who are not Welsh it's easy to understand us once you accept that we are a proud nation, loyal to our heritage; many have tried to oppress us and beat us down. It will NEVER happen. As the great Bill Beaumont said when playing rugby against the Welsh 'Wales have never lost a match, we just score points against them'. However I am not a rabid Plaid Cymru supporter. Wales and the Welsh nation is well able to survive without creating aggression and division. It will go on regardless of fanatics who do not serve Wales well.

[@mk_gamíng0609]

as Englishman from Cumbria well said , you can be proud of your heritage without causing more division

[@Chris-ve8xw]

Well said. I'm Welsh and I love our English, Scottish and Irish brothers and sisters, the last thing we need right now is more aggression and division.

[@joannerichards5481]

Of corse being welsh born and bred I totally agree

[@Halbared]

@@Chris-ve8xw Very true. I have some misgivings about where Britain is going.

[@Jamestele1]

Diolch yn fawr for mentioning that the Welsh exist.

[@johncopeland3826]

Origins of the Welsh ! Well ,they certainly are not English... Are they !

[@phillipcarlroberts4640]

You did a great job pronouncing that Welsh place name and I am fluent. simply asking where Llanfair P.G is will get you there if you are asking for directions, our Celtic language is older than Latin...obviously the Scottish and Irish have their own version of the ancient Celtic language but the Welsh are the only Celts to have a recognised language. I will explain how determined our people are with this I think. There was a rule back in the days of old where if you spoke Welsh in class you were exposed by the teacher and you had to hold a *Welsh Not* sign on you for the rest of the class, and when I say exposed I mean they had to stand in front of everyone in the class wearing that sign for the rest of the class....the big problem the English had is that we still spoke the language to each other but they could not understand a word of it, you can see how stupid the English actually were by trying to banish Welsh now because the Welsh are generally fluent in both languages. I will explain the flag too. our flag has a dragon for good reason...let me explain, the white on the flag represents Christianity, the Red dragon on the flag means fellow man and the green represents Welsh land...that's the flag and we appreciate the help we got from our Celtic allies.

[@dlewis2446]

The Welsh knot(as in knotty piece of wood) was a wooden sign worn around a childs neck who was caught speaking welsh. The child was encouraged to tell on other pupils who were speaking welsh so that the sign was passed to whoever was the most recently caught. At the end of the school day, the child wearing the knot would be caned by the head teacher in front of the school. One child, per day, beaten/caned for speaking there native tongue. This practice all but wiped out the Welsh language, particularly in the city's and towns.

[@phillipcarlroberts4640]

@@dlewis2446 Yn hollol.

[@brentdallas2855]

They are the Khumri, House of Omri, king of Israel when they went into Assyrian Captivity. They are part of the Lost Sheep of Israel. They are Israelites.

[@trailingarm63]

I'm from North Wales and I compare aspects of our history and geography to that of Afghanistan. A colourful tribal culture prone to internal squabbling, only ever united by a common enemy. Resistance to powerful invaders made possible by reckless bravery, a capacity for exceptional endurance and suffering, and a harsh, mountainous terrain affording opportunities for refuge and ambush. However, our love for the arts and the (relative) freedom enjoyed by women are probably points of departure. Good film, and a very fair assessment imo.

[@goodsoup301]

It’s so nice to hear proper Welsh pronunciation from outside of wales. I never knew people found ‘ll’ hard to pronounce, it just seems so easy and natural for me. I suppose it’s like rolling your ‘r’s, some people can do it naturally and some people can’t.

[@amberkat8147]

How is it supposed to be pronounced? I don't even know. I assume it's not the y sound of romance languages or it would be easy.

[@codexamalgam5939]

It's not "doing it naturally" it's whether you grew up needing to use that sound. And Amber, a combination of L, G and H is the best way to describe it. It's pronounced in the video a lot at the start of Lleu and Llewellyn in particular.

[@goodsoup301]

@@amberkat8147 uh… the easiest way to describe it is to grit your teeth, and open your mouth so you kind of look like this emoji 😬 and push the tip of your tongue against your teeth. Then, open your teeth slightly as if you were about to just say the letter ‘L’ but don’t let your tongue slip through. Then lastly, push air through the side of your teeth, and you’ve got it! The easiest way to practice would be to do those steps and at the end add an ‘oo’ sound, just doing it as you would as if you said ‘you’ but replacing the ‘y’ with that ‘LL’ sound. Oh, and keep the back of your tongue off the roof of your mouth, the sound won’t work if it’s there.

[@custink22]

Am currently learning the Welsh language. Grew up reading Welsh mythology, history, etc, despite my family being German/Irish because i was a huge fan of Arthurian legends and expanded from there... also learning those languages... but spent a day in Wales during a TDY to Endland, and found it enchanting. Theres something... magical... about Wales, which inspired me to want to learn the language and want to name my first son after Myrddin Wyllt. That being said, Welsh is a rather difficult language for someone unfamiliar with it, especially someone who has grown up speaking American English. But its a beautiful language that i enjoy learning and hope to one day speak well enough to be understood by a native speaker.

[@shamanschlong]

@@goodsoup301that's an awful description

[@vicsaul5459]

Very well presented video production, If not for Welsh folklore, the Mabinogion, the Druids, and the extensive writings of Tacitus, we would hardly know anything of their origin. For years now ihave been fascinated by the extreme north west of Wales. Dinas Dinlle , Tres Ceri , many hill forts and burial mounds all across Wales. There is the remnants of an old roman/ celtic road called Sarn Helen in Snowdonia, which leads to the coast,, where there is rumored to be a sunken castle, Caer Arianhrod , roughly off the coast west of Caernarfon. Very plausible story indeed, since the area is a almost shallow sea across the Menai Straits to Anglesey and Holy Island, the last hold out of the Druids. I look forward to seeing more of your channel, Diolch, c;👌

[@ferguspitcher7911]

I live on the west coast of Ceredigion and at certain beaches during low tide, you can see an ancient petrified forest. The land would have stretched further out to sea, makes it easy to imagine the myths of places like Cantre’r Gwaelod and Caer Arianhorhod coming to life

[@petrovonoccymro9063]

Sorry but you are wrong when you say there are no written records. You need to read Wilson and Blackett and realise that Arthrwys, or Arthur, was King of Gwent and Glamorgan and is even referred to by both those names in the Charters of Llandaff Cathedral due to his land grants to the early Church in South Wales. Baedan is still marked on the maps as Mynydd Baedan and huge defensive ditches can still be seen there plus burial mounds known as Mynwent y Miltyr, or cemetery of the soldiers. It is difficult to understand why the English are so determinedly blind about all this. Let’s be kind and say that the reality of this Welsh king has been blurred by later Romance writers in France and England so that people now actually believe he was just a legend. Not so. He was as real as you or I. His father, Meurig, is buried I believe at Llandaff Cathedral alongside his uncle St Dyfrig, Dubricius, who crowned him king at Caerleon. Geoffrey of Monmouth tells us in his History of the Kings of Britain (12th Century) that Arthur celebrated his coronation at Caerleon. Arthur’s grandfather, Tewdric, is buried at Mathern church, having been killed by a Saxon spear at the Battle of nearby Tintern. Both Mathern and Tintern are named after Arthur’s grandfather. Din Teyrn means hill of the king (Tewdric came out of retirement to fight his last battle) and Mathern is from the Welsh Dyma Teyrn, place of the king, literally here is the king. Some say the name derives from Merthyr Teyrn, martyr king, which would also fit. Incidentally, Tewdric’s body has been twice dug up, once in the 1600s and again in the 1800s, and on both occasions testimony was given and witnesses saw the hole in his skull caused by that Saxon spear. The Bruts of England at the Bodlian Library , Oxford, also plainly state that “Arthur was crownede kynge at Glamorgayne..” In the face of all this evidence it is hard to understand how people can still claim that Arthur was just a myth. It is also entirely possible that Arthur’s body was deliberately placed in a grave as obscure as possible because of his fame even during his lifetime, though some believe it was at or near St Peters Super Montem, near Baedan. Wilson and Blackett actually own the site and discovered Arthur’s gravestone there, marked Rex Artorius, Fili Mauricius plus a silver cross dated to the sixth century marked Pro Anima Artorius, For the soul of Arthur. None of the English backed museums would take these artefacts. You have to wonder why. W and B believe it is because the English elite do not want the Welsh remembering their own history, let alone the rest of the world. It would also help if you brushed up a bit on Welsh pronunciation.

[@kathyevans3251]

Absolutely great video.I love to learn more about history. This one was fascinating .Thank you for sharing it.

[@PaulMac-tj4dq]

In my opinion the Welsh people are not totally a Celtic descended population. Research has shown that a huge proportion of the population (especially in South Wales) are instead a Mediterranean descended people from the iberian population. That is why you will see a lot more swarthy looking people with typical olive complexions and dark hair and eyes. You simply don't see as many Mediterranean looking people in the other Celtic nations. For example, you will see a lot more fair skinned people in Ireland than you will do in Wales. 🧐🤔

[@welshman8954]

God I miss my homeland I moved to New Zealand three years ago but there are no oeople on earth like the Welsh I miss you Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cumry am byth🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@serviustullus7204]

The only “spoken Latin” in Britain after 180 ce were local patois versions/dialects of non-official Latin used by imported carpenters, fullers, roofers, plumbers, and civic agents of the imperial administration. Roman Britain had no “official language” other than the written language of Roman Imperial Law Edicts. Forms of spoken Cumbric were spoken in rural and urban Roman Britain along with all the kitchen-languages (Phoenician, Frisian, Greek, dialects of Latin, etc) of the skilled trades-people that the Imperial Roman Administration imported to its colonial cities (London, York, Canterbury, Exeter, Chester, so on).

[@Broski2322]

I was told I don't know how much truth is in it but Welsh people came from Syria? Thousands of years ago

[@agen5573]

I hope that this channel grows big and you get the subscribers and views you deserve! These are some really good videos!

[@walkietalkietraveller2932]

i second that, Agen 5 :)

[@TreforTreforgan]

I don’t think this word Wealas means foreigner at all, nor are it’s origins Roman or Latin. The Germanic tribes may well have copied the Romans’ tendency to omit G sounds in favour of W , mostly at the beginning of words. EG, the British tribe Y Gododdin is written as Votadini in Latin; Vs in Latin are pronounced as the vowel W. A correction to a more Celtic pallet the world Wealas becomes Gealas; hence Gaul. The Welsh have an antiquated term Gwalia they use to refer to their historic territories. This word pattern Gal, Wal, Vol etc are all pointing towards the same ethnonym, that of lands considered as Gallic. Let’s not forget that most other European countries’ languages refer the Wales as Gales (Spanish) Galles (French). The Trump card I think in debunking a Roman origin for the term is that the Irish identify with the word, as Gaelic, and the Romans hardly touched Ireland and had very little influence on their culture. I believe this ethnonym Gallic, Gaelic, Gaul etc was in use aeons before Romulus and Remus attached themselves to a mother wolf. A Welshman myself, I’m doing my best to reintroduce the name Gallic instead of the more capitulative Celtic. The name Celtic came into use as a compromise by historians who were writing amidst the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, who feared use of the more correct ‘Gallic’ would incur the Ire of the English, as Gallic was associated with the French. Celt, as most viewers of this channel probably know, derives obviously from the Greek Keltoi, and we can easily identify that the letter pattern ‘Gal’ and ‘Kel’ point to a same and single origin. I believe the word Keltoi far predates the very foundation of Rome, which is important to consider. The Gallic peoples pre Rome had no written records, but other peoples such as Greeks and Macedonians wrote things about them.

[@jameshumphreys9715]

Cymry is the word for the Welsh people in the Welsh language.

[@deeppurple883]

We Irish have also been betrayed like this, many times, this is not new. It was by one of our own, sure isn't that the way of most betrayals, one of your own 🗡️

[@3vo338]

11:39 I went to Caerleon (pronounced Ki-er-leon) for comp, as we call high school in Cymru. And the one block we had was called the Isca block or block I. This was due to the Roman fortress, baths and the amphitheater that remain to this day within the village. Isca was the name of the camp which held the fortress' guards, and the village was renamed to it's resident fort, Isca... Btw, I used to have my lunch on both the amphitheater AND the baths, it was tranquil and serene almost always.

[@LumiSisuSusi]

I love Caerleon! As a south Walian I have many fond memories of the place from my childhood. What a great place to go to school! unfortunately, I have not been since 2016 when I went there for my birthday as I adore the place. I now live in Finland so I miss Cymru so badly. The hiraeth is strong 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@3vo338]

@@LumiSisuSusi May the Hireath be strong with you, Cyru Am Byth a Yma O Hyd!!

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

Im 5 minutes up the road went to St.Julians (pronounced SayntJew-leons) for comp. Btw, I used to mooch off school to snog and finger the girls over the Dingle, smoking all.sorts ,sniffing tippex , gas, fishing stickelbacks over beechwood or making rope swings and bon fires over pernells farm .

[@3vo338]

@@DJ-Brownie-UK My cousin went there, said it was mental himself, mind u Caerleon was no less mental. I remember my mam giving me n all my m8's sherbet... And we when n snorted the fuckin' stuff!! One lad had to go to the hospital bc he burst a blood vessel in his eye 😭😭

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

@@3vo338 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣haahhaahhahha , made my day that hahahaha those where the best times I can recall me and my mate smoking "mixed herbs" in that thin paper from those cheap bibles you get in the 1st year of comp 😁hehheh

[@ComeRee]

Diolch yn fawr o chi'n waith brawd a rhannu ein hanes! Cariad fawr o Gymru [De] a iechyd da i chi a dy'n deulu x

[@rorydixon7326]

Glad I managed to translate at least some of that, need to brush up on my welsh!

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Despite my welsh ancestry being distant, and the recent discovery that I may be more Breton than Welsh or even Scottish, Welsh language, culture and history will forever hold a special place in my heart. The most beautiful stories and songs that make me feel hiraeth very strong, and to this day I hang a welsh flag in my home, under the constitution; the culmination of the ideas written by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. As he too was of Welsh ancestry, and he was the one who declared that humans rights were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[@rhiAction.]

We love our Breton cousins though

[@somniumisdreaming]

Oh that wonderful slave owner Thomas Jefferson, what a load of bs he wrote.

[@michmunuti968]

@@somniumisdreaming the true tragedy is that he could have helped steer the country onto the right path instead of slavery leading ultimately to empire and the American Civil War with the failure of the Constitution, which Mr Trump seems to be a reminder of that fact even now...what if Jefferson had actually acted on his words rather than making them only a partial truth and the country based on that fraudulent beginning...admitting the truth now can finally set us free...?

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

@@somniumisdreaming I know it is futile arguing against that point, but context is needed before judging people of the past. He inherited his slaves, and certainly saw it as a terrible and hypocritical thing that he had them, and yet he would not have had the money to be able to do the political work he did without that which he gained through his plantation. A hypocrite? Maybe, someone engaged in what today would be considered a grave human rights abuse? Certainly. A self conscious person who was ahead of his time for understanding that the position he inherited was terrible? Also certainly.

[@WalesTheTrueBritons]

But Bretons are just the people who were isolated from the Briton (Welsh) their roots are the same.

[@anitawilliams8240]

You should maybe add 'Yma o Hyd' to the sound track m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/n327pZlnjauWsM0 We're still here! Cymru am byth

[@jefflocke7157]

Can you do more videos on Welsh/Arthurian history and myths? I'd love to learn more

[@windsofchange31]

@jefflocke ~ See BritainsHiddenHistory Ross Channel.

[@peterharknett4695]

See work of Alan Wilson on KZbin 👍

[@coreybul]

see "the antichrist and a cup of tea" by tim cohen

[@bonnieandclyde222]

My Grandma came with her brother by horse and cart ,from Carnarvon in the 30s to Leicester, to look for work as their family's wealth diminished due to the Great depression. Her life became hard as she married my Grandad and was left looking after 4 son's as he fought in WW2. She knew no people much here. I always felt I was like her , and she had 6th sense , sadly she passed when I was 13. I feel very Welsh and not like an English, though my other Grandad was Scottish.

[@jillybe1873]

I suspect you are actually me! My grandma came from Abernant to Manchester in the 30s. She died when I was 13. I loved her. I always felt welsh, married a half-welshman and my children feel welsh and support the rugby. I did an ancestry thing and found that somehow I'm over 60% welsh.

[@meilir.ap.emrys420]

It’s Caernarfon not Carnarvon. Not much difference in pronunciation but if you want to embrace being Welsh more then use the proper Cymraeg spelling. Phob dymuniad da.

[@em6577]

I am a jones. My father was Welsh. Beautiful country.

[@kittys.2870]

I never knew much anything untill I joined ancestry. My family name was traced back to Flintshire in 1512.

[@GarrettTruesdale]

We need the Return of the King asap

[@JPJ432]

They are remnants of the Atlanteans. Prophecy is still being fulfilled.

[@welshed]

Excellent video and your pronunciation though not perfect, was pretty good. The attempt is always appreciated at any rate. Good job, subscribed :)

[@deb388]

I think you're forgetting at one point in history. The Welsh were attacked from the East be the English/Normans and from the West by the Irish. The Irish even set up their own Kingdom, the Kingdom of Dyfed. It was only with the help of the Vikings ghe the Irish were sent packing They kidnapped Welsh women they raped and pillaged. For some reason that part of history is forgotten. I have traced my family back to Hwyel Dda. I no barely any Welsh thanks to the English teachers we had in Cardiff convincing the Welsh kids in the 80s that the language is dead and with the building of the channel tunnel everyone should learn French instead. Im learning but its not great learning a language when you have autism( not for me anyway.)

[@contentcitycosmos5554]

As me and my father and my grandfather ancestry were born in Wales and as a WelshMan, I thank you very much for this education video! Cymru Am Byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@THINKincessantly]

Its looking like Wales once more is quickly becoming the stronghold for the modern natives of the island ...shame what you guys are dealing with--Sure hope yall can get a handle on those boats and reverse the trend

[@goudgio]

Welsh coes from Wallachia, meaning foreigners. They are not indigenous to the British isles.

[@skellagyook]

@@goudgio The Welsh are descended from the native Brittonic Celts. The word "Welsh" does not come from "Wallacia". They both mean foreigner in certain Germanic languages. But the Germanic Anglo-Saxons called them that when they came to Britain from Germany because they were a different and unfamiliar people from themselves, even though the Anglo-Saxons were the foreigners in Britain and the Welsh and other Brittonic Celts were the natives. (The Welsh call themselves "Cymry", and there were many Celtic tribal names there in pre-Roman times.)

[@Angenga]

@@goudgio they were called that by actual foreigners to Britain, that is not the name they gave themselves. You shouldn't make such confident assertions of half-truths...

[@AlMondO93]

@@goudgio DNA studies have shown that the Welsh are the oldest genetic line in Britain going back to the paleolithic era.

[@10hawell]

It doesn't mean "foreigner" it means "strangers"

[@davideddy2672]

Brythonic Cornish & Brythonic Welsh!

[@stompthedragon4010]

I spent 6 months in the UK and a large part of it in Wales. It was beautiful. A little over 40 years ago. Great memories. Interesting to know about ' Cambria, the county I live in is named Cambria.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Celtic ethnic group, that’s it :)

[@craigdavies1747]

Interesting. I'm a Welsh man from Swansea in South Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@rafaelsodre_eachday]

With names so elegant like the "gogogoch" thing, I wonder how on Earth the language is almost deceased. I wonder.

[@AmandaTroutman]

Bless Cymru. I'd love to see it one day

[@The_welsh_cobrachicken]

My grandmother was Welsh. She moved to Canada in 45/46 after marrying my grandfather in ww2

[@giffica]

They were foreigners. They are Cimmerians dude. How did this video get the basics so wrong.

[@Readrose8]

Wow that last couple of sentences have me unexpectedly tearing up. Thank you for all this history!

[@WalesTheTrueBritons]

The ACTUAL BRITISH!!! before it was co-opted by the Germanic English. It even annoyed Tolkien how his own People gerrymandered their way to the title at the expense of the Actual British people. He summed it up perfectly at his lecture on Celtic and Germanic languages at Oxford university. The reason why it was so successful was 1. Ban the language, which forces those who Are British to start using the English terminology, so they go from Brythonic (British) to Welsh. And 2. Make sure they learn British history from an English POV.

[@MackerelCat]

Whats the matter with you? Studies have shown that the English have as much celtic dna as the Welsh and Scots, who in turn have their fair share of Germanic dna. Stop trying to conjure up some imagined ethnic strife. And for your information I am welsh.

[@nutyyyy]

​@MackerelCat Bollocks. Plenty of English are mostly Anglo-Saxon, but there's absolutely a mix.

[@Halbared]

@@MackerelCat True, but I don' think people care. People are very tribal at the end of the day.

[@WalesTheTrueBritons]

It doesn’t matter if we retroactively have mixed DNA. Otherwise, finding out who founded these nations wouldn’t matter and we’d have no need of University departments that do. The fact remains that England was founded by Anglo Saxons, Wales by Britons, and Scotland by The Scoti, and potentially Britons. What exactly about that Statement isn’t Factual? Please, I’d like to know?!

[@phoenix-ultimatedumbass1276]

mae'n bleser cael fideo fel hyn ei creu ar fy ngwlad! a mae'n rhaid i fi rhoi llongyfarchiadau i ti ar sut wnaethoch ynganu rhai o'r geiriau fwy anodd. Diolch yn fawr i ti! Cymru am byth {it's a plesure to have a video like this created on my country! and i have to congratulate you on how you pronounced some of the more difficult words. Very big thanks to you! Wales forever}

[@philipgrice1026]

Iechyd da!

[@godschild3640]

@@philipgrice1026 isn’t it sad that they killed off the white people?😭

[@godschild3640]

@@philipgrice1026. So basically, they migrated into the land and then killed the people.😡

[@godschild3640]

@@philipgrice1026. IT WAS INVADED And the original people was butchered.?. before any wore a nation has to be invaded.. they don’t like to use that word invaded but hiding something is a lie😡

[@andrewmatthews-mitchell2680]

Mae'n gwych i gweld ond i'w e, pan ma' fe'n dwed "they're still here" dwi wedi fêl YMA O HYD BOI BACH! 😂

[@solomonstemplers]

Fantastic really enjoyed that and may i say for an American you absolutely nailed the language. I did learn that there is talk that the welsh originated in the middle east and were called the kymarians....(totally butchered the spelling) welsh people genetically have dark hair and green blue eyes. how much of this is truth i dont know but it would be worth looking into.

[@WalesTheTrueBritons]

Yep, something that is denied by the regime due to what it implies.

[@betsyross2.065]

Tom Jones fits that description.

[@smooth_sundaes5172]

Welsh did not all runaway. Cornwall retained their language and many were absorbed into the growing Anglicised population. Many Britons were settled in parts of Northern France in Roman times. Many who claim Welshness are not as Welsh as I am. It's as bad as so many Americans claiming Irish Ancestry when they don't have drop of Irish in them. That's without getting into the whole Viking thing.

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

If only a Hollywood (or Netflix) producer would hire this guy to consult on some cool movie/series based on Celtic lore, legend, and history.

[@DavidValdezBigWaveDave]

Would love to see a series based on the Fianna, planning their night raid with a back drop of a campfire

[@rhiAction.]

One day one day

[@vicsaul5459]

Accounts of the Welsh tribes holding back and ambushing the advancing Roman army, laced with true story of Caratacus,and his betrayal! Done well with a good screenplay would rival and be more historically accurate than Braveheart.

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

@@vicsaul5459 absolutely!

[@darrenjones1413]

​@@vicsaul5459 I'm supprised there's no movies for the Welsh I no the Romans said that Welsh women cut off there breasts and they scared the roman army in battle as basically gorilla warfare

[@TRUTHSEEKER-rv3qi]

Cymru am byth

[@serviustullus7204]

Frisian-Frankish-Saxons were invited as legionnaires into the Roman administration in Britain after the Great Conspiracies of 270 and 390 ce. Post-Roman Britain was a free settlement zone for new Germanics. The Germanic mercenaries were invited by the Roman civic authorities (c. 120-392 ce), not by British kings.

[@madit6434]

As a welsh woman, living in Wales, studying to teach in Wales, the more i am learning about our history the more i want to add History on top of my Physics education choice

[@B.A.767]

England wants to retain Wales because, it is there where metals worth a fortune. Its gold is the best around and other precious metals are to be found within the Wales. After all the late Queen Elizabeth 11 wouldn’t have her gold from anywhere else and there is still plenty buried their.

[@theviper1999uk]

Great video! As an English man, I love the Welsh landscape and language.

[@Sielffo1]

Your not allowed too boooo 😂

[@GreoGreo]

No

[@notdylan3125]

I have mostly scottish heritage but I have a good part of welsh in me too and this was very interesting

[@georginagibson9356]

I am a Welsh descendent from Canada, my last maiden name Roberts. I've always been interested in my family roots. My mother was adopted in Scotland, and I don't know much about either my fathers side or mothers. My two eldest took the plunge and did the ancestry dna test. My mother asked me before she passed to find her biological family. To let them know Thank you, it was a hard decision and I have done alright. etc. you get the point. Well covid hit and my mother and my sister 47 passed away in 2021 just 12 hrs apart. So my husband and I took the plunge and took the test. married name McCrae-Gibson. My goal now is to write a book of our family history for our children.This video helps a lot, thank you for sharing .

[@TugWanka]

The Roberts name has its highest concentration in the Conwy Valley in North Wales , which is where my fathers side of the family are from.

[@Johnathan66667]

I'm a Roberts too, from this area. With so many people with the surname Roberts in the area, it can make it very difficult when tarcing your family tree back more than 200 years. It's sad that we were forced to take up the English way of naming our children. Previously, we had an easy way to figure out our heritage. We would use our father's first name, " as our second name," then his father's name as our third name, and then so forth up to 10 names. Makes family tree finding way easier

[@stephfoxwell4620]

The Welsh are 3 dna clusters of the 14 groups who came here between 1200BC and 400 BC. Pethaps the oldest of all along with Cumbrians.

[@MonikaEscobar1965]

The re-enactors in your film do not represent the Welsh royalty in any way. The people you show represent Germans - Normans. No Welsh Emperor wore the Thor's hammer around his neck as you depict at min. 23:41. With this misrepresentation, your viewers will get the wrong idea. But thank you for your contribution to upholding Welsh history.

[@FortressofLugh]

I know, but where exactly can I obtain stock footage that accurately reflects Welsh nobility? I'm one guy who doesn't have a lot of money. If I had the funding of the BBC then sure, but without that, I have whatever footage I can get that might be somewhat related, and old copyright free images. It is either that or I just make a talking head video, and honestly I think my current format is more entertaining for people that looking at me talk for forty minutes

[@FortressofLugh]

But given how the BBC represents history these days, my stock footage is probably more accurate than what they would put together...

[@MonikaEscobar1965]

@@FortressofLugh No. Brits - Welsh had short hair, locks and dark hair. Sometimes men had a mustache. And some of them looked like "Romans". Actor Richard Harris did a good job of that.

[@bmssenjoyer]

@@MonikaEscobar1965 you have no idea what you're talking about

[@bmssenjoyer]

@@FortressofLugh its rough finding stock footage ain't it

[@littlewoodimp]

A young family member has decided they no longer want to be Welsh - apparently it's common and 'beneath'. She's ashamed of being Welsh, so pretends to be English. I don't get it. Yes we're a conquered country, several times over. But outmanned and 'outgunned' as we were, we still made them all work for it. We really made them work for it. We're still here, language and culture still with us. Tenacious little buggers we are!