Mysteries of Gala Glass - Medieval Dead - S03 EP04 - History Documentary

[@safeysmith6720]

This is well timed for me as I’m currently really interested in early and medieval Irish history.

[@orionxtc1119]

Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland is older than the great pyramids of Egypt

[@johnjonhson1289]

They have no idea how old the pyramids are or how they were made in fact most of history we learned in school was BS

[@theeddorian]

That word is "gallowglass" not "Gala Glass." Also the gallowglass was not a "warlord." They were soldiers, often mercenaries, and many were actually Scottish immigrants to Ireland.

[@theeddorian]

@@ManImJustSomeDude I'm stuck with an Irish surname (even though, oddly, the tiny trace of DNA matching Irish descent is on my mom's side; the tests says dad's side is scotch where not English), so I focused on the Irish spellings. All are variations of "galloglass" with varying numbers of "l"s and "s"s.

[@jamesmacpherson1182]

@theeddorian it's scots not scotch that comes in a bottle

[@theeddorian]

@@jamesmacpherson1182 You didn't know my dad.

[@richtravis9562]

Whoever did the youtube titles for this series seems to have serious spelling issues.

[@Declan-uncheckedsavage]

😂 gallòglaigh !!!

[@wingmanhoy3999]

Very much appreciated and enjoyed, my ancestors Hoy, Hoay, Hoey, Tuatha De Danann Clanna Dedad, The Darini, Red Branch knights, and Hoy Island Orkney Island, Old Norse Haey, traced my descendents of the Galloway, amazing looking back tracing my heritage and culture, and the world we live in today, we have all come along way.

[@richardjohnston3359]

Im English love history great video ive never heard of the Gallowglass Love it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👋🏻

[@tifu3274]

Thanks, i love this series. Very interesting!

[@eddiemccabe4585]

Swords were often made on the continent imported and the pommels added localy, German steel was a popular choice.

[@redcruben]

Great insight into the medieval warfare, what about an update on the archeological

[@FreeFallingAir]

This is fantastic, thank you.

[@JCOwens-zq6fd]

Just b/c one is using a giant sword doesnt mean they wouldn't still need a single handed sidearm. The really big ones are akin to pole weapons. They wouldn't have carried them everywhere they went. Hence the smaller side arm.

[@alexwilliamson1486]

It was their primary use of weapon? As was the long handed axe?

[@chrisgibson5267]

​@alexwilliamson1486 The axe ( Sparth) was the weapon that they were known for, although some are known to have carried a spear. A sword or dirk would serve as a secondary weapon and carried on the belt. The large swords were carried rather than slung on the back.

[@jonnylumberjack6223]

The smaller side arm would be the skean, not the lightweight fighting sword that was replicated here.. Don't think anyone would carry a giant sword and a lightweight one?

[@StRaphael-we9qn]

Hi there, weapons were carried everywhere. Big ones and small ones. Self defence is key 🔑.

[@mathewthomason8397]

I think the larger swords were battlefield weapons, the one handed swords were sidearms, as were most swords throughout history.

[@deeppurple883]

How word's travel through time. I'm Irish. The word Gilly we used in Dublin inner city when I was younger, I'm 60. We used it in a derogatory way, like calling someone a fool. I was way of the mark. A big difference in meaning. Young and ignorant. Gilly, a person that work's for a soldier, he carries the Arms or simlar for the Warrior. ✌️☘️

[@jbearmcdougall1646]

The Gallowglas were Norse Who settled in the west of scotland and the Islands, They married some locals, and the irish/Scots of the western isles… those people became the gallowglas. Norse/Scots/Gaels…

[@jacktravers5049]

Scots=gaels

[@constancerenton5173]

This was fascinating!!!❤

[@robingallagher8605]

Galloglas, or Galloglaich, please

[@IainMcGirr]

My fathers family name is McGirr one of the last Gallowglass kicked out and two parts of the clan split at the clearances .. some came to Antrim.. others stayed in lower Scotland... ... yes really .. .we are strong when we are strong in mind..

[@eamonanzuc4102]

Fascinating stuff,

[@maryjoyce7520]

Nice work. ❤

[@billyshane3804]

GALLOWGLASS

[@jameshenderson5385]

Doubt if you will find any medeval weapons or artifacts in by gone battlefields . Weapons were expensive and coveted items that were not letf lying around after a battle!

[@Fighting_Irish184]

The Macleans came to Ireland as Gallowglass. Katherine Maclean countess of Argyll married firstly Calvagh O’Donnell of Tyrconnell then left him to marry Seán O’Neill (the proud). Her father came to her wedding accompanied by Gallowglass. After Seán O’Neill was killed by Sorley Boy McDonnell in the Glens of Antrim. Seán O’Neills children were fostered by the Macleans on Mull and were raised as Macshanes (following the Scottish clan system). When they tried to reclaim the earldom of Ulster the MacClean’s supplied 3000 Gallowglass warriors to assist.

[@johnhayes8557]

Is fior duit! My grandmother was descended from Shane. Mac Aodha Bhuidhe, a rare name.

[@johnhayes8557]

Sean an tUabreacht or An diomas. The Proud Man. Ireland' s Gaels began to dwindle when he fell.

[@NightShooter87]

I love this type of stuff. I always love Geophys as well. This could be, maybe, possibly, probably, might be, next sentence, we couldn't ask for better results, comedy Gold 🤣🤣🤣

[@GregGreen-e8l]

The swords came from the MacCabe family into Northern Ireland with tremendous military successes.

[@robingallagher8605]

None of the tomb effigies look anything like Durer. Swords were probably sidearms, the main weapon being a two-handed axe.

[@tonyharpur8383]

Exactly!

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

I would've had chain mail underwear. I would've looked like a hardware store clanking into battle 😂

[@gradyratliff2034]

Ultimate...badassery....😊

[@raymondfink9580]

The Scottish Sgian Dubh was a sock knife, not the dirk it compares it to.

[@br1472an]

Thought The Galloglas were Scottish Mercenaries employed by Irish and Scottish chieftains , not Warlords

[@22grena]

They started off as Norse Scottish but became Irish in time.

[@Dishfire101]

Mercenaries from Highland Scotland 12th to 13th century a mixture of Scots/Viking blood, employed by Sweden, Norway, Irish chieftains they are not Irish.

[@vestty5802]

@@Dishfire101the gallowglass in Ireland after at least 100 years was an Irish unit through and through and many gallowglass were fully Irish in heritage

[@MrBakedDaily]

Wheres the wizard's yelling :Lightingbolt!

[@mickeencrua]

The name is Gallóglach. They were Scottish and Irish mercenaries. Gala Glass is an English corruption of the correct word. Gallóglach was a single individual. The plural was Gallóglaigh.

[@22grena]

Not really Scottish. They came from the Hebrides which was part of Ireland the time.

[@brucecollins641]

@@22grena the hebrides were viking, nothing to do with ireland..

[@brucecollins641]

@@22grena type in......the origins of the irish and scots as revealed by their dna - you tube........the hebrides or any other part of scotland was never irish......listen carefully to every word he says.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

​​@@brucecollins641 Your a loyalist mouth peice with no evidence to that claim Irish took the highlands in 760 ad ending pictish rul.e

[@brucecollins641]

@@user-ze8yy8jg1f lol, am no into this polititcal nonsense, but a do like facts. no irish colonized scotland. irish annalists were very adet at taking other nations histories and adapting them to suit ireland. the area in the west of scotland is about ten times the size o the one in ulster and also looks very suspiciously as the same area the vikings once ruled. there is absolutely zilch,zero,nothing in any area of scotland to suggest any false made up claim to say it was colonized from ireland..there is from the viking era. show me one piece of archaeological evidence from ireland. .....no irish invaded scotland, evidence suggests the other way round..

[@ologallchoir6291]

In Irish it's Galloglach, "Gall" means foreign and "Óglach" means warrior. The town of Milford in Donegal is called Baile na nGallóglach, Town of the Gallowglass

[@Ned-e9o]

'The multiplying villanies of nature/ Do swarm upon him--from the western isles/ Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied' Shakespeare's Macbeth Act 1

[@jayhuxley2559]

Does the jogo do pau or fight with a wood stick also existed in medieval Ireland? In Minho Portugal is a symbol!

[@robflange]

I believe my ancestors were galloeglass One ancestors cut down the tree the Malachy kings of Leinster were crowned hence our coat of arms My ancestor was a Templar on the first crusade who earnt a knighthood and lands Our family coat of arms was issues in 1215 I think Our motto is Certavi Et Vici We have fought and conquered I can trace my family back to @900 ad My coat of arms is on my arm permanently

[@hollyingraham3980]

But ... But ... First Crusade was 1098-1099. Templars weren't founded until 1119. He had to be 140 when he became a Templar.

[@Dark-Star63A]

​@@hollyingraham3980 probably just another yank claiming his "heritage"...😂

[@DonnaGisellaTranchel]

Thank You! Gallowglass... 💙💙💙💙💙🦩

[@kingkenny2797]

How to have your thumb sliced off in seconds from the opposing sword with that designed handle

[@cormacmcquillan828]

Gaelic swordfighting involved a lot of slashing and brute force. Precision strikes such as that wasn't common.

[@Valhalla88888]

Gallowglass were a mix of Picts, Viking and later Scots❤

[@jacktravers5049]

Nope

[@gallowglass2630]

And later irish.Most had intermarried into irish clans and they recruited large young lads from the local peasantry

[@Dishfire101]

@@jacktravers5049 Irish monks making up myths again.

[@jacktravers5049]

@@Dishfire101 The Irish part is true, the pict part is pure pish. The gallowglass were hebridean/highland who became a professional soldier class in Ireland and the ranks were resupplied with Irish Blood. It was a direct continuation of Irish tradition within a continuous Irish society that had absorbed some Scandinavian elements. Their origin in Ireland is just another merc group being brought into civil war. What they became and what is celebrated of them is an Irish thing.

[@BigTV-ke1nn]

40:30 Why would they make a handle that exposes the thumb, totally unnecessary. Quick way to lose a thumb by placing it other the guard.

[@Dishfire101]

The Galloglass were not Irish they are from Scotland a mixture of Highland Scots and Viking blood, they went as Mercenaries to England, France, Austria, Sweden, and today's Ireland.

[@NativeNordmann]

Not highland no, they came from the icelands around Scotland and where mixed whit the local inhabitants of those icelands.

[@22grena]

Scotland was invented by the Irish and the Hebrides was part Ireland at this time. The Gallowglass became exclusively Irish.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

Scotts is irish Scotland was founded by Irish.

[@Dishfire101]

@@22grena U must be heavy into the Guinness there was no country called Ireland in the 1st century it was called Scotia ie The Land of the Scots and the people were called the Scotti ie Scots that's what the Greeks and Romans called it in the 1st century.

[@brucecollins641]

@@Dishfire101 type in.....a brief history of the colonization of ireland and scotland | irish origienes-use your dna to rediscover your irish origin.......then.......ptlomey maginis map of scotland 200ad auction zip.......you will clearly se scotland mapped as scotia and ireland mappd as hiber. nowhere on any irish map is ireland mapped as scotia....... the word scotti is a later word believed to describe scottish merceneries in italy by the italians. scotia major=ireland.....scotia minor=scotland....is a later irish adaptation of the earlier roman.....megale bretannia =big britain and mikra bretannia=ireland.....little britain. no scots came from ireland....

[@douglasmachawk7436]

“The word gallowglass itself is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic word 'galloglaigh' which means ‘foreign warrior’.”

[@gallowglass2630]

the subtitles are hillarious knockdoe becomes nocto ,tabernacle and nato

[@suzannecooke2055]

I kept thinking; what do you do if you are a "surplus" son. Nothing to inherit - an older brother gets the family wealth. Nothing to offer for a wife. So what can you do but train up for a warrior.

[@Surri5809]

ROCK MacConcarraigh "Sons of St.CLair"

[@TheRampagingGallowglass75]

The Western European Samurai for over 3 centuries (1300-1600), the Gallowglass!

[@cadderley100]

I always like listening to swordsmen, when they have a shelf dedicated to what looks like an AK47 and a double drum magazine on a rack just above their swords...

[@coryhirsh4119]

They were descended from Norse& Geals ,Isles off Scotland, hired themselves out as Mercenaries. Especially used in Ireland. Quite a few Irish clans, families are descended from them McSweenys, others like McDonnalds, etc. Even English hired them. Remember they spoke Gaelic, They could understand each other, Irish,Scots. Big& Tough!! They didnt Run, Paid Mercenaries. Also called Redshanks, primarily in Ireland. Firstin ,Last Out! Plenty fighting Going On in Ireland ,Cattle Rustling, War among Different Clans, families. Half Norse, Scots Gaels from Isles of Scotland! Weilding Two handed Swords, and Axes. Claymores,Irish Ring Swords. These Guys Meant Business!!Called Ring Swords because Pommel was usually hollow,like A Ring. Quite a few Irish descended from GALLOWGLAS. 🤔 Very interesting History.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

You say rish are dendant from gallowlass even tho gaels left Ireland first.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

Scotts gael did not exist its all from Ireland They spoke archaic and old irish.

[@jamesdolan4042]

I never associated the gallowglass via history or myth with Ireland. I always believed gallowglas were from Scotland.

[@jacktravers5049]

Dal riadan.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Western Scotland/Northern Ireland

[@Dishfire101]

They are from Scotland a mixture of Viking/Scots blood some settled in Ireland as mercenaries

[@RolandusLuzus]

Am surprised they dont wear gloves/ gauntlets when wielding swords...!

[@johnhayes8557]

Yes, there were.

[@marymcsherry1965]

The swordmaker should have played the part of the Galloglass..

[@IvanIvanoIvanovich]

It's unfortunately simplistic and insincere to portray medieval conflicts as Anglo-Norman vs Native Irish when they allied and intermarried. Old Anglo-Norman families were partially assimilated into Gaelic culture by the later Tudor period.

[@jacktravers5049]

Exactly. We called our nobility, Norman mixed, the "old english", and they spoke Irish.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Strongbow

[@alexanderreim3145]

A really interesting topic. But can, please, someone aks the makers of this series to properly light their scenes? Every single one is as gloomy as it can be possibly made. Even the interviewed scientist faces a hard to make out in the darkness. But ahhhh, it's a medieval documentary and, as we all know, those times where dark.

[@KaiColloquoun-gt7kw]

"Galloglass" or "Galowglass" means "foreign gael" . Calling them "Irish" is just another example of cod fabricated history. "Ireland" was originally known as "Scotia" & the inhabitants were "Scots" or "Gaels", Irish, from "iar", means "Western", to distinguish from modern Scots to the east.

[@jacktravers5049]

They address this in the documentary early on. The expert says the name actually comes from a place name in western Scotland

[@brucecollins641]

@kaicolloquoun - gt7kw........ireland was never known as scotia, ptlomeys map 200ad has scotland mapped as scotia and ireland mapped as hiber. the the gallowglass were a mixture of picts/galls and vikings.....hence..GALLoglass..

[@Valhalla88888]

The Gallowglass are from Scotland not Ireland 😂😂😂😂😂

[@alisong2328]

If you watch this, they explain that they came from Scotland and settled in Ireland.

[@Johan-mp2ur]

Subtitles are horrible

[@azazel0783]

So your saying that Celts never arrived in Ireland?

[@earthling2956]

Very interesting indeed, and Thanks for uploading !! but.... "Gala Glass", really...? No, it is spelled Gallowglass, sometimes Galloglass, Gallowglas or Galloglas, all from the Irish word "Gallóglaigh" but never "Gala Glass".

[@johnhayes8557]

So, the question begging here is, why were they needed? Nothing mysterious here, but have at it, folks!

[@wilsonsofwestwicklow9149]

Too many ads!

[@johnhayes8557]

German steel especially from areas the O'Neills in writing referred to as our colonies, a much ignored subject itself

[@andrewryan8767]

Please share a reference!!!😮

[@johnhayes8557]

@@andrewryan8767 The bibliography of "The Grand Disturber" by Brian Mallon, Abbé MacGeogheghan "History of Ireland ancient and modern, memoirs and letters of Seán Mac Cuinn O'Neill

[@peggybrem2848]

A warrior would have to be very large to carry a chain mail vest down to his thighs. Thanks.👍

[@emmetsweeney9236]

The word is gallowglass. I'm descended from them.

[@lochside7647]

English propaganda-Irish warriors?: The Gallowglass were Scots from the West of Scotland mercenaries who fought for Irish Kings. Remember, the Romans never conquered the Scots, we were always warriors. Also the Irish expert should know that the Scots defeated the Vikings finally in 1263 and Robert the Bruce 's brother took an army into the north of Ireland in the aftermath of Scotland destroying the English invasions of the 14th century. The west of Scotland and the North of Ireland were related by blood for centuries .

[@CanYouHearTheWhistling]

Ireland #1 buddy

[@Dishfire101]

What is the meaning of the name Scotia? Scotia - Wikipedia Land of the Scots !!! Scots are NOT Irish as Ireland did not exist as a country in the 1st to 10th century the Romans and Greeks called todays Ireland as Scotia, later Hibernia, and in 1922 the Republic of Ireland.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

You are full of loyalist propaganda Scott's is from irish the del raids kindom spoke irish and considered ureland as the mother land this is also seen in their songs Go to be loyalist.

[@jerrymyphone5849]

The legacy of Irish warriors? When the whole video is about Scottish warriors from the western Isles 🤣

[@John-ol4eo]

You totally miss the point, then dont you sunshine. SCOTTISH AND IRISH share a culture and language that came from ireland😂. It's a brotherhood as such.

[@jerrymyphone5849]

@@John-ol4eo I think I know that. I'm a Glaswegian and everyone of my grandparents hail from Donegal and when I was younger I used to holiday regularly in South Uist ( in fact my sister lived there before she died ) So I've been reasonably educated in the history of the gallowglass Scottish Gaelic/Norse mercenaries from the western Isles. Hence the Gaelic name Gall Gaeil ( foreign gaels ) as they were known in Ireland a separate class of warriors from the Irish Kern's . The title of the video should have been Celtic warriors not Irish to be more historicaly accurate!

[@Dishfire101]

@@John-ol4eo haha Irish monks making up stories Ireland as a country did not exist in the 1st to 10th century, it was called Scotia = Land of the Scots ie NOT Irish, later it was Hibernia and in 1922 the Irish Republic.

[@brucecollins641]

@@Dishfire101 irish monks wrote a lot o fabricated tales or took other nations histories and adapted them to suit ireland. ptlomeys map has scotland marked as scotia and ireland marked as hiber. nowhere on any irish map will you find it mapped as scotia..the GALLoglass were amixture of picts/viking and gaulish blood.

[@johnhayes8557]

And why were they available? They strike me as a predecessor of German Landsknecht.

[@clintonkenawell9418]

Every time place an Ting! Respects ITS warriors! Orange stands for Saftey🥶 Vin RA it Out. William I Am tig. Sing

[@michaelmonteforte37]

absolutely they were Scottish not Irish

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Families moved West and East between Scotland and Ireland for Centuries

[@mclr60]

Gallow glass.

[@jfurl5900]

If you can't get the word gallowglass right and put in gala glass then how could we believe anything else from you.

[@creativeprocessnet]

Gaelic word 'galloglaigh'.

[@ainekearney9041]

The english should keep their noses out of our countries history. Their ancestors destroyed books and records of our history. Stole our riches and then stating we dont really know. Yes because your people destroyed the records. Causing untold misery. Pontificating about our history. Calling us british isles, the government actually asked to stop referring to the british isles and of course arrogance doesnt listen.

[@MaryRose-d9x]

Poeple 5get Scotland an ireland joined at 1 time frm Scotland 2 ireland could b walked away across at this time ......

[@clintonkenawell9418]

Sinnie Winnie😂

[@kingkenny2797]

The archaeologist sure can talk up a lot of nonsense from their geophis, absolutely nothing found and I bet absolutely nothing has been done since to investigate the site. All talk

[@Ian-mj4pt]

How would you know ? You upset its all too complicated 😅

[@kingkenny2797]

@@Ian-mj4pt because I live there

[@johnhayes8557]

In the hands of a team with better equipment and methods, as well as permission to investigate the entire site, there may be significant finds. I say this although gleaners may have picked the site clean of most chunky finds. If you look for smaller items anywhere, and in areas that were "rough buchalauns and rushes, scrub brush" or have become that today, there will be finds. My great aunt Riganna hired archaeologists to do that at the site of the ruins of my family's principal keep and home, the once beautiful Acaidh Mhaoille. After battles with the turkeys, remains left by the Roundheads were given proper burial, artifacts disputed, and the turkeys tried to force her to "repatriate" family heirlooms that had survived the long centuries of Red Exile As if the Saorstat had ever been a help and comfort to us and our tuathal.

[@johnhayes8557]

Or as if they'd been old friends of our cousins the Barry's, esp Commander Tom, or to our close kin who served in the West Cork Flying Column.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

​@@johnhayes8557there were a lot of Barry's in Wexford also, Ma had Barry ancestors in Wexford

[@Bix21-z3f]

Gallowglas!! not gala

[@pekkaolavipiskunen4660]

Finland IS The Northings country Into europ SO how's r The REAL North mans? WE R NOT so called Scandinavia but WE R most North THAT nobody Else 😝

[@simonstergaard]

any docu that promotes killing is a sin !

[@jonnylumberjack6223]

Which docu are you talking about? I haven't seen many docu that promote killing. The law tends to frown on such things.

[@billyshane3804]

The wages of sin is death.

[@jonnylumberjack6223]

@@billyshane3804 Everyone dies. May as well fit a little sinning in while we have the chance 🙂.

[@Ian-mj4pt]

Go preach that in church. You lot just want everyone to stay dim so they don't gain knowledge to query the past because along the way the fairytale invisible being gets questioned and the religious lot lose following.