Scotland’s Origin Story - What You Never Realised about The Declaration of Arbroath

The Declaration of Arbroath is Scotland's origin story and declaration of Scottish independence rolled into one, but Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey takes you to Arbroath Abbey to think about it in a way you probably never have before.
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[@johnstuartkeller5244]

If you study history and you aren't uncomfortable, you ain't studying history. Well, done, mate!

[@guyanaspice6730]

so Bruce you like science. You claim the Declaration of Arbroath is JUST a story; a scottish myth: propaganda. You Stress these points. why? please read the following that counters your arguments that it is scottish myth - based on DNA and more. (maybe you did not know; if you did not know, then i hope you change your 'Propaganda') You ignore Dr. Mark Jobling's genetic migration research tracing scottish dna migration from anatolia(today's turkey) along the mediterranean sea coast to scotland. of course, the land dna CAN be traced, but the sea route can NOT be traced(europe coast; not north africa coast) ? my point about the migration by sea not being traced is because Greater Scythia is thought to be on North coast of the black sea. there is a sea route through the black sea to the mediterranean sea(long history of trading via sea). so dna specific to greater scythia may not be traced. also, there could have been a focus on dna from the greater scythia area. also, anatolia and scythia are close to each other. long history in that region. more amazing in this dna migration research is that this migration dates back to 7,000 BC. yes, that's BC; that's a lonnnnng time in scotland. now, there were many white caucasians like scottish in North africa as were many of the egyptian pharaohs(pharaoh mummies; dna; and art) until the kushites(who ruled only 70 years; however, their rulers were not the same as sub saharans today). there is dna research that shows scottish dna traces to the same region in North africa where Amazighs(berbers) live (let's just North West africa coast). in regard to stories on the stone of destiny, there is verbal history; as to which story is correct, i don't know. i wasn't living then. but verbal history should never be taken so lightly as you repeatedly expressed. i hope this helps in understanding scotland's history.

[@natekelly6435]

@@guyanaspice6730 my man's has obvious bias not to point elbows

[@guyanaspice6730]

@@natekelly6435 is this another wise crack comment? is anyone serious online? so if nobody is serious on here, then why take what Bruce says as such truth? i don't understand what you are saying.

[@tommygun5218]

Another cracking video, only thing wrong is that their wont be an indy2, nobody wants it especially the snp.

[@natekelly6435]

@@guyanaspice6730 no no. I agree with you. We know who descended from the Scythians. I'm implying ol' brucey has a touch of the woke.

[@Toontex]

Wonderful to listen to a true Scot telling the story of Scotland in a old fashioned story telling way,as the bards of old did.I suspect with a wee bit more truth involved.Love your work.Thanks for all your efforts. From a Northumbrian who has a love hate border hating mindset.Complicated rules apply here which you make less complicated by offering facts that change everything into a pleasing shade of grey(payne’s grey or indigo in it’s finest shades)rather than the vulgar black and white that I was taught at school. Bravo should I ever by chance meet you I shall buy you your drinks

[@alethearia]

Bruce, the way you tell stories is at once very entertaining, but also so comforting.

[@wendyhay1302]

Thank you so much, Bruce. I love your channel. I am one of the diaspora Scots living in South Africa. I am simply going to say that science might feed our quest for knowledge but it is storytelling that feeds our soul.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

What a lovely phrase

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Quite agree, my Scots cousins who all grew up in Fort William ,have all emigrated abroad ,same story for me growing up in Northern Ireland ,lovely scenery but not much in the way of jobs, best wishes from the wirral.

[@joegroves1519]

Well said! 🤙🏼🥃🍻

[@Fire_And_Iron]

I don’t know if I’ll ever make it back to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, but if I do I’d be honored to get to know you on a personal level. I’ve become addicted to your videos and appreciate your passion for Scottish History!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

My wife says to assure you the shine comes off quickly 😂

[@mrmervinjminky1536]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Tbf Bruce, everyone’s wife is like that 😂👍

[@teemo8870]

@@mrmervinjminky1536 yeah, but sometimes they're right about their husbands! 😄

[@martinlindores8161]

Bruce it’s nothing to do with this video but I live in Bannockburn and I had never been to bannockburn house till I seen ur video on the Prince Charlie and now I work there and I’m loving it thank too you and the knowledge u gave me

[@martinlindores8161]

Next time ur at the house I would love to meet u and say hi

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah ight, now that other comment makes sense 😂

[@conkadonk4976]

❤

[@bridgethuggett5602]

I love the fact you give a very measured, dialectic analysis of something so important to scotland. Nothing is simple, everything has its reason as to why it was created. Very grown up!

[@ClarenceCochran-ne7du]

Bruce, you are a gifted Seanchaidh. One of the best.

[@neml5755]

Brilliant vid. I’ve lived in Arbroath all my life and now I work in tourism. I take great delight in sharing info about our Declaration of Independence and how it is said to have influenced their own founding fathers

[@chungus_khan]

Thaaaat's pretty damn SWEET how science & "myth" can sometimes overlap!

[@bryanmccoy6527]

There is truth to this part of the story however. There was an invasion of Porto-Scythians into Europe around 3,500 BC. These were the people from which the Celtic language and culture comes from. Not the ice age Neolithic peoples. There were celts in Spain that sailed to Ireland and became the Gaels. That is widely accepted as fact due to the language difference between the celts of mainland Britain and of Ireland.

[@missfeliss3628]

Myth means a story that the culture believed was nothing but fact

[@djegg3210]

Quality vid once again. Love the way you tell these stories. Learned so much about our great nation from your content 😊

[@Olderdingo]

G'day from one of your Aussie viewers. I don't have Scottish heritage, but my wife's heritage is from the Isle of Skye. I love the way you present the history which is why i keep watching. Cheers Mate.

[@raydawson2767]

If your mrs is blonde then she probably has Viking ancestry,they settled the islands around the mainland and the north,if she has red hair the she is of Scottish ancestry that came over-from Ireland,if she has dark hair she is of calidonean ancestry who were the actual original popualation.

[@texntaxes3404]

I was scrolling through KZbin and saw my hometown! What a shock 🥰🥰 We learnt about the declaration of arbroath in school, and went on school trips to the Abbey, it was super weird to leave arbroath and find out hardly anyone knew about it

[@ADi-HiDef]

"Lubed up with holy oil" Haha! spot on Brucey!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

It's the only way to go to a party😎

[@johnshorten6877]

Sheer Brilliance! Thank you!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you sir

[@StoatingaboutScotland]

Bruce your presenting skills are world class mate.i could honestly see you present a program on bbc or history channel ect. Im from glasgow and im honoured and proud that you are explaining our rich history to the world. Iv learned so much about my motherland just from your videos and it just makes it that bit more special when im doing my munroe bagging to know the history of my ancestors is all around me and For that i thank you brother. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⛰️🏕️

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Interesting and amusing, as always. Thank you for the insights!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

My pleasure!

[@Original50]

Hit the nail on head there Bruce. Your postings are filling-in the gaps that the SCE curriculum quickly skipped-over when I was at the Academy. I find your pre-placation of the 'Yeh-Butters' highlights something deeply Scottish; the enduring, visceral, honest tribalism that ensures someone, whether best pal* or someone on the street, will tell you you're talking pish, whilst simultaneously preventing the rise of any demagogues or 'unifying dogma'. Imagine Christ coming back in Scotland?! That would be a Ken Loach masterpiece. Irony warnings at the box-office!

[@darriendastar3941]

"When does an arachnophile get a break in this town?" At that point, my laughter scattered the pigeons outside the window. Thank you so much for that (and all the other fascinating information).

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@guyanaspice6730]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours so you like science. You claim the Declaration of Arbroath is JUST a story; a scottish myth: propaganda. You Stress these points. why? please read the following that counters your arguments that it is scottish myth - based on DNA and more. (maybe you did not know; if you did not know, then i hope you change your 'Propaganda') You ignore Dr. Mark Jobling's genetic migration research tracing scottish dna migration from anatolia(today's turkey) along the mediterranean sea coast to scotland. of course, the land dna CAN be traced, but the sea route can NOT be traced(europe coast; not north africa coast) ? my point about the migration by sea not being traced is because Greater Scythia is thought to be on North coast of the black sea. there is a sea route through the black sea to the mediterranean sea(long history of trading via sea). so dna specific to greater scythia may not be traced. also, there could have been a focus on dna from the greater scythia area. also, anatolia and scythia are close to each other. long history in that region. more amazing in this dna migration research is that this migration dates back to 7,000 BC. yes, that's BC; that's a lonnnnng time in scotland. now, there were many white caucasians like scottish in North africa as were many of the egyptian pharaohs(pharaoh mummies; dna; and art) until the kushites(who ruled only 70 years; however, their rulers were not the same as sub saharans today). there is dna research that shows scottish dna traces to the same region in North africa where Amazighs(berbers) live (let's just North West africa coast). in regard to stories on the stone of destiny, there is verbal history; as to which story is correct, i don't know. i wasn't living then. but verbal history should never be taken so lightly as you repeatedly expressed. i hope this helps in understanding scotland's history.

[@guyanaspice6730]

also, i am not involved with the politics of scotland and uk. i'm an american. no, i wasn't born in scotland or married to a scot, or ...

[@FYCH45]

@@guyanaspice6730 When you challenge Bruce, or anyone, on the basis of "science", and make some rather contentious assertions, you ought to give a link to the scientific papers which support your assertions. Which of the various publications of Professor Mark Jobling supports the narrative you have given above? In the meantime, I refer anyone interested to: JOBLING, M.A., Rasteiro, R., and Wetton, J.H. (2016) In the blood: the myth and reality of genetic markers of identity. Ethnic Racial Stud., 39, 142-161, where the authors point out the pitfalls of making strong assertions, of the type you are making, about ancestry etc. I quote from one paragraph from this study "The degree of general shared ancestry is not widely appreciated. We are all related to each other: ...even when we consider the markedly non-­‐random mating habits of our fellow humans, a simulation-­‐based study suggests that a common ancestor in the family trees of all 7 billion humans on the planet lived only 3400 years ago (Rohde, Olson, and Chang 2004)."

[@conkadonk4976]

@@guyanaspice6730 Aww nice one, Whilst you're here can you tell us why tartan is tartan Mr Murica

[@jaystewart5487]

Thank you for helping those of us with little knowledge of the history of Scotland, gain a greater understanding of where it is some of my ancestors came from. You have been most helpful and I appreciate the content

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Fires755]

Richardson here!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

[@jasonjasonson1517]

Bruce fumey has a gift that can unite people

[@charlesmorgan8440]

Another superb video, thanks Bruce. The mediaevals were a slippery bunch (not least the chronicling monks) but the Declaration of Arbroath is an extraordinary document. Beats Magna Carta with all its odd bits, but for the stuff that captured the imagination of later generations. This is bringing back so much of what I (inadequately) studied at university so perhaps when I find my old books I'll have another dig through it all!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

There's a task

[@NationsKicks]

I'm from arbroath, I've been watching you for a while and I'm so glad you came!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Me too

[@davie7967]

I watch your videos when I go to bed there great always fall asleep before you finish keep up your little stories so I can get a good night sleep

[@L3Arm]

Love the unexpected turns your stories take as they open back onto themselves, revealing something significant underneath

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

One tries dahling😜

[@chipsterb4946]

I never knew about the first Papal blessing of a king. Very interesting stuff! The cave paintings at Altamira are fabulous!

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Early Banksy...

[@danpictish5457]

You're the best Bruce for Scottish History.

[@teemo8870]

I agree, I wish there were more Bruce's telling the histories of other countries as well, but I haven't found a Bruce clone for Mexico, France, Ireland, USA, Basque, Spain, Portugal from where my own ancestors come, and who knows what else. Hands down, Bruce is the best storyteller of all with his intelligence, originality and extraordinary sense of humor. Very engaging. There are a bunch of Bruce addicts on this channel 😄

[@Henngist]

Whenever we find correspondence between myth and science, it’s very exciting, which is great and dangerous.

[@lesleymcintyre7137]

Both

[@guyanaspice6730]

dr. mark jobling dna migration research. scottish dna migration is traced from anatolia(today's turkey; but could be all around the black sea via sea) to scotland approximately 7,000 BC. that's BC. lonnnnng time ago. so declaration of arbroath is based on science; it is not based on 'STORIES', 'MYTHS', 'PROPAGANDA' as bruce claims. the other stories may have truth based on this research.

[@shaunsteele8244]

most myths have an element of truth to them... they didn't just spring up out of nowhere

[@Bhilithinn]

Hey now, as a wee Canuck lassie I'm offended! Not really....I actually laughed so hard I almost spat my tea out.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

I have but not at this that was awkward.

[@richardglady3009]

Extremely informative and wide ranging. Great video. Thank you.

[@gingerspice5336]

I love this guy. "I've just offended half of you; but don't feel left out, I'll offend the rest of you soon enough." He sounds like a fun guy to randomly meet up with in a pub.

[@jamesbrunton9507]

I listened to this on a set of headphones and all the audio after 04:38 comes solely from my left earcup. Thought it best to pipe up, something you may want to check on in future, keep up the awesome work.

[@Hiltok]

Not just you. Me too. But still loved it.

[@TransRadioUK_Andrea]

So wonderful to see you in my home town, the hame o the Reid Lichties and the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath. Keep up the excellent work of telling Scottish history. So good to hear it being told as it was never taught in schools back in my day.

[@brentwallace7096]

I enjoyed your presentation again as usual..you make learning Scottish History a pleasure. thank you, Bruce.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank YOU

[@thefastandthedead1769]

Well said, Bruce!

[@elendil7]

Excellent! Thank you, Bruce. Keep shaking things up.

[@andylanigan3752]

Great video...too few Scots know anything about the Declaration of Arbroath,that the Unicorn is our national animal,that our Stewart dynasty ended up ruling of of the UK,etc etc...great that you are out there putting it right.

[@NothingHumanisAlientoMe]

Eating porridge while watching this, I'm sure that is pure coincidence. Excellent Presentation of what I wish I was taught at School.

[@joolz880]

Your just a wee breath of fresh air where our history is concerned. Love watching your videos as it gives us all the insight to our true history through the ages. Your comment re the use of the Declaration in 2014 is also a very important part of political history but , again, you're right we don't need it for the future as we have so many more reasons and truths to use in the future. Great work Bruce! Saor Alba Gu Bragh

[@douglassey8887]

Hugely enjoy listening to your animated videos.....cheers Bruce

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you like them!

[@jacobsgranddaughter]

❤️❤️ Very interesting, entertaining and informative!

[@nickthegreek6276]

Absolutely tremendous. Love this guy. Just stumbled upon these videos.

[@andrewmckay9899]

Your videos are great mate. Scottish history is truly amazing.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Many thanks!

[@Blu-ray]

I love when I see Arbroath in videos, Council must have done some cleaning though normally that park is full of litter

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

It's like the Queen coming when I arrive in town😂

[@OcculiMortis]

Great video, amazing personality, awesome history lesson. Thank you Bruce.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Very welcome

[@peterblood50]

Informational and entertaining as usual. I love the channel.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

The channel loves you

[@SecretscotlandTours]

Love your presentation style. Great work.

[@thomasmoore5949]

Great analyst! Love hearing his perspectives.

[@ianwhitecross4196]

I really enjoy the stories and humour. Keep up the great work.

[@theanointedfarm5037]

As a descendant of a long line of Kennedy’s thank you for this explanation of the document. I just found my massively huge Scots ancestry. When my family came to the states it was forgotten somehow. I greatly enjoy your videos and I am very grateful. Thanks.

[@carolynjohnston6078]

Thank you so much for this. I only read the full version of the Declaration recently and was struck by the origin story. One of the leading archaeologists on the Celts has postulated that they did not move across the land mass of Europe but did so by coastal Mediterranean settlements and landed in Spain before migrating onwards to the western reaches of the continent. That so clearly chimed with our origin story that I had a “eureka” moment. Keep delving into our past, it is really appreciated.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Seconded

[@darlenewood9657]

Same! Maybe you are referring to Bryan Sykes and his excellent book, Saxons, Viking and Celts. He does a great job of tying DNA evidence to natural history.

[@chg1264]

My Mothers’s side is Scotch Irish and her DNA shows this perfectly. Mostly Scott , Irish, then a bit of Spanish, NorthAfrica , Turkey, German.

[@Musick79]

@@darlenewood9657- That’s what I’m am looking for- DNA should show in the route they took. I’ve seen some are claiming the Scots are Viking- which doesn’t match the story.

[@hattyfarbuckle]

"stop you're nonsense".. a valid but underused phrase in today's online communities

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

...and the House of Commons

[@eamonnclabby7067]

The taxpayer funded paid house of...not fools....that is insulting...the house of corruption..sorry ..had to say it ..peace and love from the wirral..E

[@deananthonygarystewart7831]

Gaberlunzie “the declaration of Arbroath” is a brilliant song also tells the story on how we won our independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@clarabebo6958]

Omg.. I ve just discovered your vlogs.. Absolutely love them.. I Love how passionate you are.. Like the oral story tellers off the pass.. You actually reminded me of my gran and my mum who loved to tie the past, present, and future together

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I may look like your gran, but welcome on board 😂

[@clarabebo6958]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours thank you.. 😂 😂 Well actually.. You do have a look of my granny Betty..😂 😂 I love history.. But even more so when Brought to life with such enthusiasm and even better when you are sharing your own with others.. Cant wait to make my way through all the vlogs..

[@anneedge3627]

Dear Bruce I really enjoy this channel and your very interesting stories about Scottish history. My mother, a Canadian with a lot of Scottish ancestry, always said the origin story was that the Scots were the lost tribe of Judea. That when the Jews were expelled from ancient Judea one tribe ended up in Scotland. She has no idea where she heard the story. Now she is now too old to remember its origin. I always thought it was rather intriguing.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/poSqlo2cgLZ6isk

[@paulgavin2267]

Great video, learned more from this than I did in school. I go through to Arbroath most weeks. Also, I saw a poster of yourself on a lamppost where I live today 🙂

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

What? What was the poster for?

[@paulgavin2267]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I think it was for a comedy thing, I just had a quick look but you were on it with a few other guys, recognised you right away. It was on a lamppost near the Montrose Golf Course 🙂

[@iainlennon]

I was having a pretty stressful day but watched this while I was having my lunch and it cheered me up. Cheers big man!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yay!

[@DJPaleRider]

Great video,lovely to see my town in the sun! You got lucky with the weather haha

[@inyourfacespacecoyote1061]

Excellent video mate. 👊🖖

[@wexfordgirl1]

Just started my day with this and so glad I did. Good Morning All Fummies! (that's the name I've coined for the followers of this particular Bruce).

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

🤣

[@hengis73]

Your self awareness and bants are awesome as always.

[@thomaspaterson7081]

Great video Bruce !!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks 👍

[@tim_fox_elgin]

Love learning the histories of Scotland. I have followed my family back to Banff and proudly carry the name Elgin. I would to see some history on Elgin and the Cathedral.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@SlapInTheFaceForMora]

Been a long time since I last saw Arbroath Abbey...though I don't ever remember the sky being so blue in the three years I lived there...

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂 We had to go every day for a fortnight

[@wexfordgirl1]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Oh wow really.a

[@Sighhhh]

Another funny, interesting, & great video. I'm happy I subscribed right b4 your channel began to grow substantially. I hope you can hit 100k soon!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I hope so too

[@willhqAUS]

As an Irishman I find these videos both entertaining and educational... you're a great story teller, Bruce. Regarding the Irish monk who created the spin job for the Pope to anoint Christian kings, I wonder was he the guy who became Charlemagne's tutor... Johannes Scotus Erigenus (literally John the Gaelic speaking Learned Person)? Scotus was the latin term for those who spoke Gaelic (Ireland)/Gallic (Scotland), which distinguished them from the Norman/French/English speaking lowlanders in Scotland, I believe.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_of_Salzburg

[@bluegrassboy2448]

Why you are not on the BBC or some other big network etc. I'll never know. You are TALENTED! Man, you had me engaged from the start. You have a great way of presenting this history with passion and it shows. You are passionate in teaching because you simply are a human wanting to share what you know to others so we as a world can be a better place.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm also a scruffy, foul mouthed non-conformist... which probably answers your question😂

[@bluegrassboy2448]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours good point. That Scottish nonconformist gene still runs rampant here in Appalachia haha.

[@david_porthouse]

How do we view a king? The English Domesday Book commissioned by William I presents him as the ultimate landowner. What if that king were to collect a load of rent and then hand it over to Danish pirates instead of spending it on the Royal Navy? The Declaration of Arbroath indicates that we should depose him. This makes it a revolutionary document of universal significance.

[@CarlosTehJackal]

I've just stumbled across this channel while looking for something completely unconnected. Glad I did, but it does mean that I'm going to have to go through all your previous work now, though I love how you present your content and looking forward to the task.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Welcome on board Some of the very early stuff has somewhat ropey sound and production values, but that improves over time. Maybe go to the Playlists section on the channel and see which topics interest you the most

[@CinntSaile]

Interesting. Possibly Scotland's greatest mediaevalist, Prof. Geoffrey Barrow said of Bruce, he was, "no Anglo Norman fish grassed on a Celtic river bank but a potentate in the immemorial mould of the Western Gaidhealtachd". Scotland was still majority Gaelic-speaking in Bruce's time. He was raised in the Gaidhealtachd of Carrick and spoke Gaelic. He died at Cardross, also in the Gaidhealtachd, surrounded by Gaelic speaking servants (Their names are on record.). His army was Gaelic-speaking and at Bannockburn he had paraded before it the Brecbennach of Columba, the Monymusk Reliquary, containing the relics of the patron saint of Gaelic Scotland and the Scottish army, St Calum Cille, Columba of Donegal and Iona. If further confirmation is needed of the strongly Gaelic identity of contemporary Scotland, have a read of "Bruce's letter to the Irish".

[@aljam23]

Love these videos

[@judeross3875]

Thank you.

[@colinp2238]

Thanks Bruce, a massive improvement on the audio quality of this version. On the other i thought you were on the opean sea in a sailing boat.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye, I've learned a bit in four years😎

[@92redferrari]

Liking this channel immensely.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I thank you

[@gerryphilly53]

Another interesting and informative post. And interesting (and plausible) that the record of human migration may have been preserved in the Scottish origins myth

[@bigboaby555]

it's also backed up by DNA evidence apparently , you might want to watch the 2nd half of this short video , it covers how the trail mentioned in the Declaration matches up with DNA kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaLZlYWEbMyhjbM

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Another DNA study apparently traced King King Macbeth, s DNA cluster back to Munster in Ireland, maybe further part evidence of the North east migration of the scotti and attacotti gael,tribes displacing and absorbing the pictish tribes of north east Ulster and north western Scotland

[@nancywysemen7196]

love your lively language. visceral and tempting. to triumph!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you kindly!

[@donaldjtaylor5312]

I have been enjoying the history you tell of a place in mistory to most.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Mysterious us😎

[@LeeJCander]

Lucky enough to be based here in this pretty historic town.

[@johngeddes4161]

brilliant story Bruce,loved the patter,

[@eoghan-]

If you check the linguistic links between Old Gaelic and Phonecian/Classical Semetic languages you would be surprised. Personally I believe in Scota and Arbroath until disproven.

[@edwardlynch7313]

Hi Bruce, love your presentations, you have earned my respect. I was wondering could you put together a presentation on woodland clearance? After Culloden and after the clans had been broken up and sent overseas. Is it true that vast glens of primeval woodland existed and in some cases up until the end of 18th century in Scotland. Is it true that Culloden was not only the end of the Gaelic Clans but also the environment suffered due to woodland clearance on an industrial scale? Your friends across the water in Eire. Ned Bow.

[@hamishhamilton9287]

That was a very different level of interesting. I feel smarter for watching this episode.

[@Halbared]

Lovely Video. Those bloody Normans!

[@johnharvey1443]

Love your videos I'm learning loads about my next door neighbour. interesting to note that I read Native American origin myths that reflect this migration story you talk about here. The written versions of some Hopi oral histories talk about moving across from island to island before walking the 4 corners of the American continents. In a less literal way the written versions of Dine oral histories talk of breaking through the sky through different worlds to this the 4th of their worlds. Incredibly powerful stories that say so much about the people today.

[@darkmattersproject2951]

Fantastic story

[@Mancozeb100]

Wonderful.

[@nurabusnaq6367]

I love your videos!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

My videos love you

[@TheRastler]

History is the means by which you build a better future, no need to ask for apologies for the actions of individuals kings or commoners. living in different times.

[@nurabusnaq6367]

I love the humor

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@1brutaldeath]

Aww dude. Wish I knew you were in Arbroath. Would of loved to say hello, absolutely love your channel. The very first house at the end of the Abbey archway you walk through Is my uncles house. You can just see the edge of it in your shot. Although he is still renovating it just now. He used to own the Harbour nights guest house, which is a lovely guest house right on the harbour. But he's retired now and sold it to a lovely couple from England who used to be regular guests. They loved it so much they bought the place lol. Hope you enjoyed your time in Arbroath, and if you're ever back, hope I get a chance to say hi. Keep up the great work.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Been in Arbroath many times. I used to live in Brechin

[@1brutaldeath]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Ah right, I stayed in Brechin myself briefly. It's a nice wee town. Sorry, city lol. Usually signed into my Scottish metal channel when watching your channel. And usually end up binge watching your content instead of working on new songs. As a guy from a staunch Jacobite family, who grew up listening to the Corries and all that. I thought I knew everything there was to know about the Jacobite era. But watching your channel, I've genuinely learned things I never knew before. Even hearing stories like your video on the last Jacobite Peter Grant (or Auld Dubrach) was great. Actually took your advice and paid a wee visit to his grave. Which gave me some ideas to write a song as a tribute to the guy. For a Scottish history nerd like myself, your channel is an absolute treasure. Cheers.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Now THAT is brilliant. The idea that I might have sent you to a location from which you take inspiration gives me a thrill

[@violetanndoherty6872]

Thank you

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You're welcome

[@barbarossa5700]

I like Christine Grahams take on it. "It is sometimes important to work back to why certain assertions are made-for example, in the claim of right, the assertion that the Scottish people are sovereign. Much slips into our everyday parlance that has a deep-rooted and substantive cultural constitutional genesis. For example, we hear Scots being reprimanded for saying “I seen it” or “I done it”. That is, in fact, grammatical language. Those phrases have survived through centuries of spoken Scots. They are not lazy or ignorant slang, but an echo from the past. That takes me to the claim of right from 1989 and the words: “We, gathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs”. That Constitutional Convention was proposed in a private members bill way back in 1980 by the SNP leader, Gordon Wilson. Where did that sovereign right come from? There is no written UK constitution, but there are fragments of an incomplete constitutional jigsaw, some of which predate the treaty of union. We have to go as far back as the declaration of Arbroath-a declaration of Scottish independence and of conditional monarchy. Talking of Robert the Bruce, it says: “Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.” That shows that he was a king who was in office by leave of those who, at the time, represented the people. They were a narrow bunch-some 51 magnates and nobles-but, nevertheless, he was on parole. The significance of those words, resonating through the centuries, is that the monarch’s power to rule was conditional on the will of the people of Scotland. That is reflected in the fact that Queen Elizabeth is Queen of Scots and not of Scotland. Therefore, sovereignty-now exercised in this democracy by various institutions-is exercised through the expressed will of the Scottish people. That takes me to why Queen Elizabeth is designed Queen of England. If my recollection is accurate, Henry VIII of the Tudor dynasty, installing himself as the head of the church, embedded the divine right of kings to rule. Sovereignty-the embodiment of which was the monarch-was absolute. However, as power was removed from the Crown and transferred to the English Parliament through the centuries, so was sovereignty. Therefore, the English Parliament was, indeed, sovereign, but that does not overrule or supersede the conflicting principle of the sovereignty of the Scottish people. Article III of the Union with Scotland Act 1706 says: “That the United Kingdom ... be represented by one and the same Parliament to be stiled The Parliament of Great Britain.” The significance of that is that that Parliament was not a continuation of the English Parliament or of the Scottish Parliament. Therefore, for Scotland, sovereignty remains as it always was-with the people. I pray in aid the case of MacCormick v the Lord Advocate, from the 1953 session cases. At that time, postboxes with “E II R” on them had been blown up, because Elizabeth was the first Elizabeth of Scotland. In that case, the following remarks were made obiter: “Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament, I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament ... as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England. That is not what was done ... The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law.” -So, why the potted constitutional history lesson? It is because it is significant to the legitimacy of the referendum, which will of course not be consultative, but will have legal and constitutional authority, as well as political authority.- In 1979 and 1997, there was no Scottish institution to provide a mechanism for asking the Scottish people a question on the constitution. In 1979, the UK Government took it upon itself to draw up a referendum. Of course, it produced the question and chose the date-1 March 1979, which was right in the middle of the winter of discontent, when snow was falling over Scotland. That was an omen, but the 40 per cent rule, which in effect counted the dead and those who did not exercise their franchise as having voted no, was the real treachery. That was compounded by Sir Alec Douglas-Home broadcasting on the eve of the poll that we should vote no for a better deal. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Now we have our own mechanism in the Scottish Parliament, but we do not need to have a Parliament. Even if the Parliament did not exist, if the Scottish people streamed out on to the streets of our towns, cities and villages to say with a clear voice on megaphones, on marches and online that they wanted an independent Scotland again, that would be a declaration of independence. No challenge from the Palace of Westminster, the corridors of the United Nations, this place or any courts could gainsay that. The Scottish people would say that they done it, and they done it their way.

[@johnfinister5011]

I'm not comfortable with the idea of those making the most noise having the right to decide the matter.

[@richardhallyburton]

@@johnfinister5011 Me neither, but if democracy is thwarted then that is the inevitable outcome. Like it or not, that is the direction of travel that we find ourselves on.

[@barbarossa5700]

@@johnfinister5011 Then you fail to understand whats been said, silence is always acquiescence. Also who's idea are you espousing as nothing written herein proports such a claim.

[@DavidFraser007]

That's my town! I lived 3 minutes from the abbey.

[@SeamusDunmaggotin]

You sir, are a joy to my curious nature

[@jeanpierredaenen1961]

Great video as always Mr.Fummey. I am no kiwi Aussie cannuck thow, but I am from the land of Pepin

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

All welcome

[@ThunderboltWisdom]

Great video. It made me think. (that's why I had to take two aspirin). I'm sitting looking at Kilwinning Abbey at the moment, thinking of the connections between Arbroath Abbey, Bernard de Linton, who penned the Declaration of Arbroath for Bruce, and the Tironensian monks, keepers of the Brechbannach (the little box that's visible over your shoulder behind the Stone of Destiny, if I got that right) that contained a relic of St Columba. These monks, who were at both Arbroath and Kilwinning, among other places, were often considered "the foremost churchmen of the (Scottish) kingdom" and bore the right to parade the sacred relic before the troops at the battles with the English, including Bannockburn. These connections exist all over Scotland and just prove that, even in our little parts of the world, everything is connected with the wider world through history. Okay, now back to my knitting. ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@offwiththefairiesforever2373]

This was amazing.......

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You're too kind

[@alanwilkin8869]

Nice one Bruce, ah good wee pre tea story, sla’inte

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@caractacus22]

You have a knowledgable following here. It’s high value. I talk to spiders. I’m upset, and not even Scottish. I’d like to see you fight Neal Oliver, man to man. Actually, that was incredibly deep, and I enjoyed it immensely. Struggling to pay you. Do the PayPal thing please ….

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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