The True History Of Britain After The Fall Of Rome | King Arthur's Britain (Part 3) | Real Royalty

Finding new and previously unexplained evidence, Francis Pryor overturns the idea that Britain reverted to a state of anarchy and disorder after the Romans left in 410 AD. Instead of doom and gloom Francis discovers a continuous culture that assimilated influences from as far a field as the Middle East and Constantinople. Through scrutinising the myth of King Arthur to find out what was really going on when the Romans left, Francis is confronted by evidence that confounds traditional views of the 'Dark Ages'. There was also no invasion of bloodthirsty Anglo Saxons, rampaging across the countryside. With new archaeological evidence Francis discovers a far more interesting story.
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[@SaszaDerRoyt]

I recently worked with Dominic on a more recent excavation at East Heslerton this summer (Uni of York), fascinating to see how similar these earlier excavations were but also how the techniques have evolved, especially the digital ones. We had a fair bit of photogrammetry, Dominic was often using a drone to photograph the trenches from above. We also used 3D positioning of finds, hopefully when the research is all put together we will have an incredible spatial understanding of the site. It was a similar time period, early Anglo-Saxon.

[@SR-iy4gg]

We know the Saxons were invited in and later brought in more. They were supposed to come temporarily as an army. But they stayed and brought in their families. The DNA has shown too that the Saxons were a different group than the Celts who were already there. I don't understand why there would be any controversy now.

[@theearlofmarch]

Morwenna Trevance dude that was like 10,000 years ago. Nothing to do with Anglo saxons...

[@Vikseproducts]

WoW I only wanted to take a quick peek at this,had to watch the whole thing.Nice job :)

[@jennyr682]

It is now a widely known fact that Arthur became king because Shrek didn't want the job !

[@MrTimGJ]

OK - Ceaser said the ancient Britons were identical to the Belgae The Angles, the Jutes and the Saxons all came from the same area and were pretty indistinguishable from each other The Vikings that invaded were from Denmark - Same areas as the Angles Jutes and Saxons The Norwegian Vikings invaded Scotland and Ireland so their DNA would not be present We've been taking an input from the Frisian area since long before the Romans Surely this is multiple waves of the Same stock of people over many millennia The language shift from Brittonic to Saxon also has an explanation

[@tonytye8963]

It is also thought that a very large proportion of the great heathen army were Fresian and a lot moved family to England especially in the yorkshire area. The Danes lead the army from territory in the low countries but the troops were by no means all Danish Vikings. About this time or a bit later the fresians were all but replaced by German Saxons in the fresia region. Hey maybe lots moved to England. They had input in early, pre roman times as well as with the anglo saxons, and again with the danish army. Might explain it a bit.

[@MrTimGJ]

@@tonytye8963 Since found out a new plausible theory - The east of England looked to Northern Europe for its trade and influences which over time became predominately Saxon We are starting to find evidence of the two cultures mixing. The infrastructure that the Romans left made easy travelling across the country and the result is homogenised DNA in the east. The West of England (Britonic) rapidly reestablished the old routes down the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean - This was due to Cornwall being only one of three sources of tin in Europe (the Mediterranean peoples came to them) making the rulers incredibly wealthy. The DNA in this area did not mix like it did in the east - See kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6qQpIeAds6Xaas

[@rubynibs]

@Tim Graham-Jones Norwegians almost certainly landed in England, and possibly Wales. These were seafaring settlers, traders, and raiders -- not the sort of men to say, "Well, boys, we've landed at the tip of Scotland, and that's enough, don't you think?" But, as you point out, the Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes, and the Frisians, Angles, and Saxons were all the same stock of people. And yes, that means all these "invasions" the past 2,000+ years were just the same people coming again and again.

[@MrTimGJ]

@Shawn Vehrs mmmmmmm..........you didn't exactly major in history, did you? and Dragons predated the Saxons by a lot of time

[@kevwhufc8640]

@Shawn Vehrs America ( USA) has nothing to do with Saxons,!! USA is less than 300 years old. Tudor era was around 500 years after the Normans invaded England. Walter Raleigh set foot on what became USA af the end of the 16th century. What the hell have the Saxons got to do with USA ? Absolutely nothing.

[@martinzies2874]

This is terrible. Not a single substantial argument but merely a questioning of how hostile the Anglo-Saxon invasion was.

[@DarkMatterX1]

Not even a questioning. He flat out says it didn't happen.

[@nonyobussiness3440]

Might have not been and a military invasion. Simply an thousands of people with more resources out competing and inter marrying natives. It’s not like travel and migrations started after time left. Probably was going on before. If you were wealthy and powerful native when Rome was there, you probably left with Rome.

[@martinzies2874]

@@nonyobussiness3440 so the heptarchy just happened due to geography? And Vortigern bringing over Hengist and Horsa before betraying them was all just the tale of a creative mind? Despite the artefacts honouring them? The name Anglo-Saxons itself is the merging of two at the time foreign tribes. The battles recorded between Brits and Angles, Saxons, Frisians and Jutes all purely fabricated or if not they stopped fighting and accepted them freely? Too many holes.

[@BrianSmith-li3zs]

Amazing energy to you and to flow. We are the people. Together unstoppable.one. The Rose.

[@matthewmann8969]

Anglo Saxons often had wars with other Anglo Saxons as well as Celts, Mediterraneans, Germanics, Alpines, East Baltics, and such

[@airborneranger-ret]

Very nicely done :)

[@forearmsmcgee]

Hengist and Horsa were invited over by Vortigern and defended his territory in exchange for land. Unrest came when Vortigern proved disloyal by retreating from the battle with picts/celts once he had his land back. That's why the invasion doesn't appear hostile! Why does the host pretend he doesn't know this?! It's in like every Anglo-Saxon text...

[@523205227]

Why does not the host quote the famous sentance of Hengist "Eu nimet saxas"?? You are totaly right forarmsmcgee.

[@kevinpreston5590]

Hengist and Horsa are semi mythical. They were wrote down long after the events were supposed to happen

[@johnpatrick5307]

@@kevinpreston5590 Made up by monks....

[@TheHiddenHistoryChannel]

Hengist and Horsa are unlikely to have ever existed. They’re facsimiles of the Indo-European divine twins myth.

[@simpsonmark]

Those two were made up after the event.

[@lebeaulabuschagne9608]

Interesting 😊

[@aprilmitchell7541]

It's good to understand East Heslerton in relation to West Heslerton and gain a better full understanding. The archaeological dig as an Archaeology student at York allowed for a mix of time periods to be seen.

[@delavalmilker]

"There was also no invasion of bloodthirsty Anglo Saxons, rampaging across the countryside." Well----so much for that liar Gildas and his hysterical polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae.

[@DarkMatterX1]

The same Gildas he was praising in the last episode.

[@spiritof6986]

Exactly.

[@D.A.99740]

I really wish these Francis Pryor videos would stop getting uploaded to KZbin. His theory that there were no Anglo-Saxon migrations has been so thoroughly and utterly discredited that his "documentaries" hold basically no educational value whatsoever.

[@thaloblue]

Aw damn. I just wasted 3 hours listening to this crap

[@mattrishton]

Pryor cannot explain the wholesale change of nearly all the place names and the the very language of England itself. He is an Anglo-Saxon denier, I suppose he will say the Vikings didn't exist either.

[@carolmorris404]

I agree. He seems to prefer to think that once the Romans withdrew from Britton and the locals had more land and paid less tax, that they had the ability to stop any kind of invasion. Were the locals suddenly able to mass populate to also have the numbers to avoid any invasion. Damn, they must have been able to produce children, like rabbits, did.

[@DarkMatterX1]

I draw the same conclusion. Outside Wales, basically all brythonic language disappears to be replaced with what is essentially Frisian dialect early Germanic. Where'd it come from if it didn't come over on boats with the Jutes and Angles?

[@annychest718]

These are just words with etymological history based on politics and kings.. History cascades

[@annychest718]

@@carolmorris404 B.E. (before electricity) The nights and the winters were long

[@annychest718]

@@DarkMatterX1 Welch language isn't Brythonic it's Celtic..that's Greek..Prits had their own ancient language..but yes the Ingles also had influence

[@chrishaugen8648]

.... and then a dark shadow fell upon the Shire and the potatoes grew no more...

[@BrianSmith-li3zs]

Gratitude

[@jasminenwhitaker9717]

Beautiful

[@claudia.k.g.1271]

what about the language, - how come old English was so dominated by Anglo-Saxon roots? What about Essex and Sussex and local names like Herfordshire or Birmingham? The whole documentary is a really narrowminded peace of propaganda.

[@RTannamal]

Using his theory, the entire population just voluntarily decided to adapt the culture and language of a very small immigrant group instead of merely being influenced by it. A thousand years from now, his ancestor will argue that the Native American lands were not invaded by Europeans....they just decided to adapt their culture.

[@claudia.k.g.1271]

@@RTannamal​ @RTannamal Oh, I do hope is, that a thousand years from now there is a time machine, that will make historical documentaries and historians superfluent.

[@523205227]

@@RTannamal Indeed so. Like the superstition that Greenland was an Inuit land from the beginning.

[@gazza2933]

Yes God forbid that people called the English should live on this island and have Germanic and Scandinavian ancestry. He talks about 'We'. I'm not quite sure who 'We' are He is trying to rewrite history to get some kind of celebrity recognition. Probably paid a fortune for this nonsense and will go on to write a book. I for one won't be buying it I certainly don't 'buy' this! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@squirepraggerstope3591]

Ffs! If there's one thing I detest, in history as in everything else, is some tit who calls himself a researcher yet practically admits at the outset that he already has reached his own preferred conclusion and everything thereafter will then be aimed at forcing fact and evidence to support it, irrespective of how many hoops they're obliged to jump through in the process.

[@brendajoycewhite5747]

Hum. This comment pertains to only what you have just said, not about the History of English people and DNA .Squire Praggerstope I Feel the exact same way about Darwin's theory, he did everything he could, twisted, stuffed, emagined and brought to life as the true thing. Said it enough that people began believing it. Even taught it in schools, as fact. The documentry about Noah's Ark and the flood. Gave a true science about our earth, the sea, ice age, what happen to the animals then, animals and the orgins of mankind . my opinion I came from these people not apes. They still remain apes, man still remains mankind .

[@denisejkillick8591]

Try looking at Lewis B. Leaky and his discovery of Lucy for the real & unfettered scientific discovery in Africa of the origins of all humankind. National Geographic is a great place to start and it's available at a local library near you. Back issues are searchable as well and can be borrowed using inter-library loan services depending on where you live, work and play. Happy searching and reading.

[@squirepraggerstope3591]

@@denisejkillick8591 Errr? Lucy's an Australopithecus Afarensis iirc. So a progenitor of the earliest members of our own genus, Homo. Which indeed arose in Africa. Afaik no one disputes that so I'm not sure what point you're making, but thanks for the comment regardless.

[@ElinT13]

That argument that the ladder settlement does not show any signs of invasion is contraproductive, because the Romans invaded for sure. So if you cannot see that invasion, there is a possibility that you can't see a later invasion, either. And absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. So this alone is no good argument.

[@TheAuldBob]

Oh! Come on! There is evidence of the Roman invasion all the way from the Channel to the north of Scotland and also evidence the Roman invasion did not succeed in north Britain as evidenced by the Gask Road and Gask Ridge. and d the later Hadrian's Wall. Furthermore the very good reason there is no evidence of the Anglo Saxon invasion is because there wasn't one - they were invited to settle in South Britain, just as they had been invited to settle in what is now, "Normandy, (Noresman Country). This was in effort to stop the Viking and Norsemen raids. They were given lands to settle in and did settle and take over in South Britain, and established, "Angleland", now England. As to the King Arthur, "Myth", ask yourself why there is Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh an just along the road a wee bit there is a place called, "Camelon" , now part of Falkirk. The language Brythonic was spoken right up the British West Coast into Strathclyde and well north of Glasgow.. I also read a theory, (no idea of the full facts), that the story of the, "Round Table", cannot be true as the technology of the day could not have constructed a table large enough to seat all those knights around it. The article claimed that the ancient words for table and for round house were only one, very similar, letter different and in fact the houses of that time in Scotland were indeed of round construction. So I have never discounted the theory or the many other ones. What is true is that the Vikings, Norsemen, Angles, Jutes and Saxons were all the Germanic Tribes who settled in South Britain and many people have never made the connection between Norseman and Normans who invaded South Britain and all these Germanic Tribes came more from Scandinavia than what is modern Germany. including the Vikings.

[@ElinT13]

@@TheAuldBob You have some good points there. And I am not saying that the Anglo Saxon invasion did or did not happen, but that I don't think that there is enough clear evidence for either side. I am just saying that if this ladder settlement did not show any disruption from the iron age up to the late middle ages, then that does not discount an Anglo Saxon invasion, since you should be able to see a disruption through the Roman invasion, but there is no evidence for that, either. Yet we are sure that the Roman invasion happened. In short: if you cannot see the Roman invasion, the same could be true for a (possible) Anglo Saxon invasion. I think that genetics will prove some points or theories in the future.

[@daveystayn9284]

@@ElinT13 the genetics has filled the gap in all of this, the people of the british isles project is the largest dna project of its kind ever taken, results came out in 2015, 10 years after this programme, look it up!

[@ElinT13]

@@daveystayn9284 Thanks! Didn't know that since I am not British. I will check it out.

[@daveystayn9284]

@@ElinT13 here is the link: www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/

[@GRIMSBONIAN13]

Castles were brought by the Normans. The Anglo Saxons did not wear armor like the Normans did

[@Grenadier311]

Saxon Huscarls and Thains wore the same style of maille ("chain") hauberk (shirt/tunic) the Normans did at Hastings. There's much evidence, including the Bauyex Tapestry which supports this. That Norman skill for stone fortification construction is what some historians believe led Harold to rush so quickly to intercept William in the South, with only 6000 tired men, when he could have gathered 30,000 in another week or two. They didn't want to give the Normans an opportunity to build castles and dig in, as I read the narrative. Big mistake, in my opinion, but that was so long ago that even hindsight can't be 20/20. At the very least, Harold shouldn't have brought every☆ one of his heirs to the same battlefield. Yes, it was 1000 years ago, but Hastings still bothers me, though it shouldn't, given the profusion of Middle French I enjoy writing within my English :D That being said, the average Englishman before the Normans was tall, healthy and had good teeth, until the imported compulsory Feudal diet stunted the serfs after 100 years of Norman rule. Some nasty MF's, those Normans were, but they did end chattel slavery. Que sera, sera.

[@sdrtcacgnrjrc]

@@Grenadier311 I'm curious what you mean by the imported feudal diet, and what you think they ate before that time?

[@Wsaetre]

My recent trips to London and the UK in general have convinced me this documentary represents the past. certainly NOT the Britain of today. Brave, you say? Hardly. It's over for what was once a great nation.

[@claudesantolini6335]

We are the chosen race. Our incredible humanity and intelligence has made us what we are. Unfortunately 50 years of bad government leadership has now destroyed us and our children's future.

[@stanleyshannon4408]

It is all so very sad. A people who sacrificed so much to stop genocide, meekly and willingly submits to its own.

[@tyronekelly2462]

Ang yet in England's second city Birmingham, 58,000 of Birmingham's inhabitants cannot speak a word of English!!!!!!!! Yet the people of Britain, English , Welsh, Scots still find reasons to have animosity with each other, just as London announces that White Europeans are the racial minority! !!!!!!!!!!!!...... Will we never learn

[@claudeusgothicus6453]

@@tyronekelly2462 - hum.. and my mind immediately goes to the desire for a policy requiring the removal of everyone unable to speak English

[@daveystayn9284]

Please don't visit London, it is not an English city. Go to the countryside and market towns right across the country,

[@patstokes3615]

At 11:57 he makes this statement "in actual fact, it may have been used for a different purpose. How can something be " an actual fact" and "may have been" at the same time in the same sentence. An actual fact if a FACT, and "may have been" is a statement that leads to an element of doubt. But somehow they can put a statement together like that which only leads people to believe what ever see being said.

[@erikm8372]

Pat Stokes what do you mean by “see being said”?

[@erikm8372]

Saying “in actual fact, it MAY have been,” is simply a speculative statement on the potential truth/fact. He’s not claiming to know the actual fact, but has a good idea.

[@rachaelskibbe7899]

@Pat stokes. I was reading this at the exact same moment he was saying this....mind =💥💥💥

[@THEtodd_83]

Just spotted a crt monitor, this has to be an old episode. Still very interesting though.

[@UncleMort]

Robin Cook, who appeared in this died in 2005, so makes this 15 years old at least.

[@sclif54]

Robin Cook may well be correct. Since quality had also made its' way across the pond and became a key aspect of the development of colonial America.

[@mqblues]

Interesting and well done series that raises many questions about cultural diversity and national identity.

[@gnupf]

Also compare the crests of Lower Saxony, Westphalia (both Germany), Twente (Netherlands) and Kent (England).

[@mistymoor7114]

A good program, would not have thought so if the early British Christianity had not been identified so well dine pity Robin Cooke spoilt it with his comments about diversity at the end!! What tje program showed overalk is that we are a very ancient and highly developed unique culture !

[@oldgysgt]

I love the way modern scholars almost totally disregard the works of early chroniclers when those ancient accounts disagree with what the modern scholars WANT to believe. The modern scholars are so arrogant that they really believe they know more about what happened 1,600 years ago than the chroniclers who lived in those times knew. That kind of reasoning is referred to as Revisionist History, and in the end it is usually found out to be total BS. Many aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture, language and legal system have found their way into English society, along with Northern German DNA. How did that happen? If the British writers of the 5th century claim they were invaded by Anglo-Saxon peoples, who is Francis Pryor to say that were lying?

[@themadcountrywoodsman.7101]

The clash comes after the Christian faith started to understand the key difference between Islam and the Christian faith. Oil and water. Just another story changing the big picture using nonbinding factors. No talk about the fighting.

[@oldgysgt]

@@themadcountrywoodsman.7101; sorry but i don't see what Islam has to do with the Anglo-Saxon takeover of most of England. None of the people involved were Muslim.

[@daveystayn9284]

It is just bull and analysis for the sake of analysis. Apparently Pryor knows better about what happened even than the people writing about it at the time, the change in place names, burials, linguistic evidence, and now the genetic evidence, actual science as well, I mean come on. Pointless academic over analysis for the sake of it

[@webbzeit]

Examine yourself and your assumptions.

[@oldgysgt]

@@webbzeit; Bill, you should try taking your own advice, (Physician, heal thyself).

[@grahamgreene4141]

King Arthur was a Celt and a Briton not a Saxon.

[@grahamgreene4141]

@François Miville most likely half Roman Patrician and half Celt, and ethno genesis propagandist of the era probably rightfully made him full Briton Celt. It's a natural progression of human development.

[@tonytye8963]

@@grahamgreene4141 A celtic leader at the time was the prince of one of the main brythonic kingdoms now in Wales but then also western England. Their warriors had war names, on such warrior had the war name great the dragons head ( in brythonic the came after the word, not, 'the great' but 'great the'), this translates to Uth er pen dragon, his heir who did most of the fighting had the war name the bear or 'Bear the', in Brythonic welsh that is Arth ur. They lived in the late 5th century and the bear died in battle with his cousin the ruler of a rival kingdom, actual name Morgan. The battle was fought in shropshire near a massive stone fortress left over from the Roman period, the near by river/stream is still called the Camel. The whole legend is bullshit with lots of later fantasy additions, but there is some basis in truth i believe. I think the source was contempary, St Gildas.

[@tonytye8963]

@mc danny No part of that reply had any relevance to my comments or made much sense.

[@tonytye8963]

@mc danny Probably as much as you care about making sense, which is very little.

[@hickster222]

You just had to be there man.

[@sandercurtis1847]

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, many Britons settled in western Armorica, and the region started to be called Britannia, although this name only replaced Armorica in the sixth century or perhaps by the end of the fifth.[14]

[@walterulasinksi7031]

With the consideration of the pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague in the sixth century that killed at least a third of the entire European population including Britain, having come in from south western ports that still traded with the Mediterranean, the population was at greater risk from the pict tribes from the north. So by integrating populations that had suffered a greater effect from the volcanic fallout of 535 and 542. It increased a common security. That some became “Kings” was a. Natural result of populations trusting individuals with a greater prowess in their fighting abilities and providing safety for their populations.

[@garry8592]

I wonder which side of Brexit he supports.

[@claudeusgothicus6453]

You have to ask?

[@squirepraggerstope3591]

Gotta be a puling Remainer.

[@rachaelskibbe7899]

The right side

[@jmitterii2]

Wooppeee no taxes... I'm more prosperous... Wait... where's everybody to sell my shit to? And hmmm nobody seems to agree on how to go about this... barter freaking sucks... nobody wants my excess bog shit. And my wheat. Wait... someone does... Oh, I see how they're bartering for it... knife to my throat... oh here's your wheat... but let us keep enough so we don't starve this winter... no... okay... looks like we're going somewhere else. Wait I'm feeling rather not well... peeing out my ass... this ain't good... I'll all have to get up and go when I'm feeling better... if I do start feeling better... with no food. Oh they burnt the hovel down... At least I don't have to pay any taxes! Oh the prosperity is killing me!

[@huntergray3985]

Have I got this right? Ancient Briton, many of whom spoke better latin than the Romans, one day decide that they are all going to speak German; the English haven't really got a culture; and England was built by immigration.

[@webbzeit]

Watch again.

[@judirokk8628]

I agree with Graham Green

[@JJSPARROW1978]

I much prefer my systems of government determined by some watery tart throwing swords at people.

[@vannjunkin8041]

Ha! Too funny!

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

What about a Moistened Bint lobbing a scimitar?

[@DarkMatterX1]

@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Well, then you'd be an emperor.

[@williamh123456789]

Strange women laying in ponds distributing swords is no base for a system of government

[@DarkMatterX1]

@@williamh123456789 Of course not. Supreme executive power is derived from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony.

[@dylanwylde4093]

Nice try

[@vaughnblaylock6069]

My ancestry is traced back until the time where everything becomes myth and legend, including Odin himself. What's interesting is that my main lines of ancestry contains lineages almost exclusively in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, and Normandy. Imagine my surprise when the three DNA tests I have taken show exactly the same trend - nothing but Scandinavian, UK, and Norman ancestry.

[@stanleyshannon4408]

Why would there not have always been a close genetic link between north central Europe and southeastern Britain going back thousands of years before the Anglo-Saxons?

[@britopia1341]

Of course there is. Any one with a brain knows that’s the case. Anglo-Saxon DNA is found in its highest form in the East of England at 38%. 62% of their DNA came from earlier inhabitants :)

[@TheAuldBob]

Have you ever heard of, "Doggerland", Stanley? Come to that have you heard of the dig at Howick?

[@alysencameron361]

You are correct, Stanley Shannon, there has always been a link, from DNA to cultural, between Europe and the UK islands.

[@honeylambb9864]

@Stanley Shannon - The DNA link is so close that Ancestry DNA tests now groups England, Wales and Northwestern Europe as one DNA group. They group Ireland and Scotland together as the second DNA group of the British Isles.

[@larswetterstrom7209]

With the boat graves I see similarities with Vendel times in Sweden about 5-600 AD which was before the viking ages. Vendel is small area 35 kms NE from Uppsala which is a cradle of the Sueonians. A Saxon/German connection Vendel-Sutton Hoo?

[@tommyandersson7093]

Practically identical finds. Valsgärde people and Sutton Hoo people relatives?

[@pglanville]

There is an agenda here.

[@alnorman4802]

Toward the end the host says " We must an eye on the past and if we discard our history , we will be like people with no memory, who will not know who they are" And that is true to today. This BBC documentary makes it is quite clear that these Celtics and Anglo Saxons and North islanders are all the same race, they never fought in large skirmishes but their DNA shows that were one nation before they came together, to me the Lost Sheep are found, too bad we (they) will not recognize that.

[@annlouiseorgan3775]

Some people seem to confuse the Anglo Saxons with the Nordic invaders (Vikings). Legends tell of the Saxons being brought to England as mercenaries. They didn’t have to invade. They probably came, a few at a time, to see what opportunities were in Britain after the Romans left. The Vikings were much more organized .

[@rachaelskibbe7899]

Bernard Cornwell. The King Arthur trilogy.

[@indyjohn59]

I find it amazing that there was a written history before 410 AD, then nothing for 500 years, Did the Romans take the ability of the people to write with them when they left? Chop off everybody's hands??? Steal all the paper and pens??? Or... was the written history destroyed like what the Egyptians did when they decided they didn't like a previous Pharaoh???

[@steveamsden5250]

Makes you wonder doesn't it

[@claudeusgothicus6453]

Whether the Egyptians were the progenitors of that strategy or simply among those who understood and employed it I have no idea. However, what I do know is that in the world today it is still understood and very much employed by a particular group of people who do the same attempting to wipe out the history of those whom they overtake. As someone who loves history, how I feel about the use of this tactic... is something beyond my ability to contentiously express.

[@raydawson2767]

I do recall Boudicci’s army burning Colchester/camulodunum and St Albans/ verulamium and londinium to the ground,so that might explain why there were no written records,and it was roman scribes who wrote down information,so when they went back to Rome they took there writing materials with them,most of the remaining romanised celts,were to busy farming or fight the Saxons or other tribes that were invading.

[@Bcfcuklhpwalker]

In 410 region Rome re write an force a pope onto UK after long history of people from lavent settling in UK these books were gnostic txs banned for Hersey an targeted by Rome for years books like kolbrin a king of England burnt Glastonbury down not a random fire they were centers of learning an in Wales cornwall the re writing completely changed how faith was seen no longer god's In all men but one alone like others faiths from the east who love control

[@cynthiaestrada8318]

Of course when Rome collapsed, there was a power vacuum

[@neillhames3912]

How does he account for the welsh?

[@denisestevens2540]

Wow what a find. Vortigern was a legendary King from the 5th Century. His daughter St. Materiana married the ruler of Dyfed = Ynyr ap Dyfnwal ap Ednyfed her name was St Madrun ferch Gwerthefyr. Iddon ap Ynyr (480 - 490) Caradog Urien and Penda are also mysterious and Legendary Kings who ruled in the 500s 6th Century. Uriens fortswere marked by special carved Rocks or "Arths". His son was Owain. The designs on those artifacts are very Celtic but appear to be influenced by the Byzantine as well. Uriens forts spanned to Scotland.

Oh for the days of 'Real Royalty' and not the bloody Windsor mob leeching at the public purse

[@tonytye8963]

They did change the name from Saxa coberg. Which was a Saxon region royal house. And the queen mother was related closer to Alfred the great than the king was, although both can trace lineage to him. The queen holdings profits in london, and other royal estates go straight to the treasory, the take from that is more than the Royal family gets from the tax payer in the royal grants, they get about 15% of the profits from royal estates, the government gets 85%. Never mind other less tangible profits, due to tourism and some trade deals. I do think the whole minor royals should be dropped off it though, apart from the monarch and direct heirs.

[@NeutralNinetails]

I'm sorry but weren't like all your kings sort of a sham? None of them are even from there.

[@tonytye8963]

@@NeutralNinetails Hardly any european kings are really purely the nationality of their country, it was all inter marrage for alliance reasons, you probably cant name a european monarch that is wholely from that country.

[@claudeusgothicus6453]

@@NeutralNinetails - That's a simplistic way of thinking about a complex subject. Perhaps you're not familiar with the long history of the island, or only thinking of 'kings' in a modern context? Either way, I'll stick with the short answer and say, that the idea and your statement is incorrect.

[@silvergalaxie]

What little l got on this, release date(s) Sept2004. Surely, Shirley, 16yrs of enlightening updates....

[@loyalsmith4096]

My name can be dated back to the Anglo Saxon.

[@stefke5862]

Mine too

[@daveystayn9284]

'leading edge archealogy' is a format on its way out, genetics is the missing part of all this, naval gazing by archealogists is just academic circle jerk stuff, both the mass invasion guys and the pure acculturation stuff is both wrong, truth is in the middle, which is confirmed by genetics, 30% anglo saxon dna, 40% in east England, 50% in York,

[@berjastkjuklingur1914]

Exactly.

[@timstarkes173]

Thursday ... Thor's Day Wednesday... Woden's Day. Why would they just start worshiping Pagan God's ?

[@stargo2931]

👑 Queen Boadicea laughs in your general direction. LoL😂🍀

[@Jonathan-et7wm]

The queen who fought the romans, rebelled, and killed herself. What does that have to do with something that happened centuries later?

[@DAEDRICDUKE1]

She lived and died as a joke lol

[@sandercurtis1847]

Well if there wasn't a reduction in the English population after the collapse of Rome, then how did that section of France called Brittany receive that name?

[@Ronkyort0dox]

In the end: DiVeRsItY iS oUr StReNgHt

[@wor53lg50]

Yeah it aint really working another year on is it...

[@Ebergerud]

Good grief. One "expert" is confidently ending a very long lasting and tense debate about the Anglo-Saxon impact on Britain. There's a lot more theories than the one above - and if you really believe that countries shed languages easily....you should think again. It wasn't a "blitzkrieg" - the Dark Ages wouldn't allow such things. But it was part of the the huge "movement of peoples" that overturned political dominance throughout western Europe and North Africa. And evidence of a major role for force in this long process is certainly there.

[@dreday4443]

Read The Riddle of the History of Prehistoric Britain by Comyns Beaumont

[@alexevans7916]

We just don't know..got it but my idea is...

[@cmachinist]

This video is excellent. Only slightly less entertaining are all the bonkers comments from the angry yobbos.

[@lukel7660]

Where can I find part 1 and 2?

[@alexhayden2303]

That's a big mound: Where did it come from? is there a big hole nearby? Poor old Jutes don't get much of a mention?

[@JenniferVeterans4truth]

They were all related read the Bible and apocrypha book of Jasher the Hebrews were taken to Assyria and at a different time taken to Egypt the ones who were taken to Assyria became the Cimmerian/Semmerian/Scythians/saxons Saxons the sons of Isaac Iberian is Hebrew Roma Paris..Pharez... Lod=London look at the heraldry compare it to the tribes of Israel spoken of in the Bible they are all connected all this information is in documents from Scotland-British Royal documents -American Library of Congress etc... The Welsh people can usually speak to Hebrews without an interpreter

[@winstonpaul3398]

The truth is ... it doesn't really matter ! because the believers are not of this world ! and the world is about to end ... for those that are still here ... They will not be caught up. Unless they believe ... and repent.

[@KootFloris]

It's so funny how fast they skip over the similarities between Frysians and English. Perhaps not dramatic enough? Perhaps a too small current people to pump national pride into this heritage? Perhaps for a few hundreds years families lived in peace with relatives on the continent? In Frysland they often remark how similar the language is with basic English. Perhaps that story needs to be told too.

[@tonytye8963]

Fresians were in England pre roman times, during roman times, with the Anglo Saxons, coming over for 4 centuries then a large proportion of the great heathen army was fresian, they were led by danes but recruited and formed in the low countries. Those last group settled in the Yorkshire area around Yorvik, the same area this dig was although this dig was of an earlier time period. Wave after wave along with waves of Angles Saxons and Jutes all speaking a similar language and of almost identical stock, over as much as 5 centuries. Dunfries in Scotland means the hill or fortress of the Fresians.

[@wodenravens]

@@tonytye8963 And thus also explains why DNA analysis is so often unable to distinguish between 'Viking' DNA in England and Anglo-Saxon DNA -- they are basically of the same stock.

[@tonytye8963]

@@wodenravens Saxons, Angles, Fresians, Jutes, Danes, Norwegian vikings, Normans are all pretty much the same peoples who formed later tribes and moved to other regions, in fact so are the Franks, Germanic is a bit of a red herring as it was just a region named after a roman general, those peoples spread mostly from Scandinavia anyway, including the Ostragoths and Visigoths. Celt is also a red herring as they were one tribe just to the north of early Rome and lived pretty much in and around Switzerland( yet ironically they dont get to call themselves Celts like Scottish people bang on about, despite living a thousand miles away), the British so called Celts were just described as a bit like them, or Celt like at best and had similar dress and some similar architecture, all modern narrative Walter Scot rubbish, if you went back to 200 AD and called an Icini or Brigante a Celt he would probably stab you in the face for insulting him.

[@523205227]

@@tonytye8963 So good! The best of my day!

[@Schwarzkald]

Ok so your not Anglo-Saxon stop speaking English and speak Gaelic or Briton

[@ClydePRiddlesbrood]

I sense a multicultural agenda in this....hmmm

[@BobSmith-in2gn]

Spot on.

[@petereastwood7868]

Clyde P Riddlesbrood -- Absolutely! Cheddar man was black. There is no such thing as Anglo-Saxons. Diversity made us stronger. The smell of bullshit gets stronger and stronger as this video goes on.

[@grahamgreene4141]

Britain is multicultural in its founding. Britannia for a reason. Consolidated cultural ethnicities. Anglos and Norsemen the dominant species in this converging. They would win all the wars.

[@tonytye8963]

I seriously got an agenda feel all the way through, which is ironic, as its just what the bloke was accusing Bede of. They cherry pick to fill an agenda or narrative all the way through. And build up to a climax of an utter moron from the New labour libtard government that allowed millions of poor immigrant labour voters in to get a disproporrional amount of benefits. They mostly vote for the people that offer more free stuff, Labour, Liberals, Remain. Funny that eh. Multicultural incusive SJW shit crept in at the end, but i think it was the plot line all along. Some of it is true, the idea that all of Aengeland became Germanic peoples and all of the 2 or 3 Britons just left is quite rightly dismissed. The 2 or 3 million people in the area a few decades later were not all replacements, the logistics and population growth just dont add up, they were the adapted furure generations of mixed peoples calling themselves Anglo Saxon or later English. But invasions happened just not population replacement invasions but leadership and thus cultural and religious invasions. He doesn't even contemplate the obvious, many thousand warriors with tribal leaders in many different areas. All coming in no more than a few dozen boats at a time, almost like vikings, encamping and forcing control of small areas, taking the locals as serfs and bring in family when settled. Building their settlement and expanding it by force or threat and taking more serfs. These peoples would talk, dress and a have houses and weapons and religion of their new masters. This would spread from dozens of small similar sites that would eventually combine into kingdoms. This is the natural method or order and he skirted around it and made out none of it happened. A lie is not trumped by another lie, that is just 2 lies and the truth sits somewhere in the middle. Invasion or should i say multiple small invasions happened, and like the Romans before and the Vikings and Normans after, we adapted and changed.

[@wodenravens]

The BBC can't really win. If they frame the Anglo-Saxons as immigrants then half of the comments moan about the 'we are all immigrants' agenda. If they argue that the English were a mixture of Anglo-Saxons and Britons then half of the comments moan about the 'multicultural' agenda. But the thing is nothing in this programme is even remotely controversial and is pretty much accepted in academia. As finds at places like Oakington indicate, the Anglo-Saxons were a mix of Germanic and Celtic and that means the English are Anglo-Celt too. Rather than undermine national claims to England, this embeds English identity thousands of years further into British history. Don't be threatened by this. If we acknowledge our Celtic AND Germanic heritage then we can celebrate the Celtic heritage that binds us with the pre-Roman populations too. And although you might fear a multicultural agenda, it is undeniable that no British culture has ever been monocultural.

[@LooniJoose]

I like a lot of this, but not the claim that the Anglo-Saxons were invented by Bede.

[@veritas41photo]

I think this guy is way off base... He clutches on to a tiny base of pseudo-scientific sources to bolster his pet theories, but he just does not convince me. His statements are mammoth, sweeping generalities without sufficient evidence. I suppose it appears advantageous and appealing to present views totally opposite to the vast majority of archaeological and historical evidence and resulting opinions. He pursues this throughout all three episodes, but, for the most glaring example, his assertion that totally denies the Anglo-Saxon invasion appears to be so far from the obvious truth that it is ludicrous. Thus I challenge everything he says.

[@daveystayn9284]

This is a seriously outdated theory, the programme is from 2005 and since then, lots of genetic surveys that prove lots of saxons moved over, as people always believed

[@thesorrentosmoon4693]

l am actually quite insulted.

[@Darkstar-se6wc]

Genetic replacement is our strength, comrade!

[@krovopolosstechkin3467]

Produced by Diverse productions..... hmmmm wonder what the overall agenda will be there???? Then an outing for that gargoyle, ex labour mp robin cook. Yet another piece telling us that our own culture doesn`t really mater and we should just roll over be multicultural, because what does it matter anyway. Channel Four ..at it again! Makes me glad I got rid of my telly.

[@georgemurrell8464]

Actually I would say the eleventh century (1066). At the very lastest.

[@steveamsden5250]

The Romans were good customers sounds like the Brit's took the Saxton's in to replace them

[@lorenh763]

As an anglo Saxon I am offended

[@elijahhodges4405]

In the Time Team series they showed us the archeology under water. They proved that people lived and farmed on land that was exposed during the last big ice age. Isn't it obvious then? The Islands were people by those Angles, Saxons, and other Scandinavian people, Germanic, and Frankish people had ancestors who went to the Islands. The ice melted causing mass flooding all over the earth. Suddenly the English who lived were isolated. Sure it was an invasion that took time. But there wasn't anyone there when they crossed to the Islands.

[@johnwinward2421]

Time Team wan't sufficiently woke. The only history shows about Britain that can be made today need to conclude that uncontrolled immigration is hugely positive, that there is no such thing as the 'native English', and that all previous historians of the British Isles (back to Bede!) were liars or incompetent. On the plus side, at least this series hasn't claimed (yet!) that Bronze-age Britons were black.

[@laviothmartel9813]

Also the English were probably looking for there own self identification when the romans left .that’s how they developed their own styles

[@I_Wish_I_Was_Home]

what I say! when roman control leaves they can think for themselves and so why hold onto this boring old romano stigma lets create a new culture for our people that is ours! I wonder if saxon runes werent from these people trying out runes from seeing vikings use it or some or many scandinavians bringing it to the area

[@I_Wish_I_Was_Home]

but what of this old english language how'd it come about as germanic?

[@I_Wish_I_Was_Home]

maybe it was a peaceful cultural migration combined with some celtic peoples still living on

[@I_Wish_I_Was_Home]

and the celts joined with some of the germanics cause they meant peace?

[@wor53lg50]

@@I_Wish_I_Was_Home birds of a feather will flock together and even mate together..

[@alec0062]

6:54 I can't believe both the presenter and the professor, discussing this, have completely ignored the Justinian Plague, and the 536/537 worldwide volcanic event as a possible reason for the sudden collapse in population in Britain. In part 2 it has been established that a great trade with Byzantium was up and kicking in Justinian times. Come on. Easy!

[@markfarren7566]

Could it have been an Ashkenazi invasion as per Roman, Norman and obviously during the civil war?

[@Mephibosheth52]

You haven’t proved your premise

[@robertalford2257]

'The Holy Kingdom' by Adrian Gilbert recommended.

[@carolmorris404]

Jeez has Prof Mark Thomas, of College University of London, never heard of shampoo.

[@robertgrey5993]

The graphics are distracting.

[@peterbrunsden380]

Revisionist bollocks, along the lines of " there were no natives in Britain unless they were black like cheddar man". He should be ashamed of himself. Old English replaced Celtic language for a start.

[@lonneljohnston7087]

Celts andl Brits are mainly Of color they have been displaced faces covered wow geneaology shows too much, a lot of the royal lineage are of color books very descriptive of characters with paintings of light skinned people but an older book says descrition of most characters are swarty not fair dark almost black like the spanish or portugess jew hmm

[@Ken_Scaletta]

Butthurt racists are the funniest racists to laugh at.

[@peterbrunsden380]

@@Ken_Scaletta agreed

[@lanceandre9969]

i realize I'm pretty randomly asking but does anyone know of a good site to stream newly released movies online ?

[@phoenixfox9713]

@Lance Andre i use FlixZone. You can find it by googling :)

[@donnaeturner]

King Arthur was Celtic. Not Anglo Saxon.

[@Bendog300]

KING ARTHUR IS FICTIONAL MUPPET!

[@intomusic7074]

He was a grail King the last grail King the nwo do not want people to know what that means 🤔

[@tonytye8963]

@@Bendog300 Not completely but totally exagerated and added to, there was a cheiftain fighting at the time who had the war name the bear, he was Brythonic and lingustically it would be 'Bear the' in old welsh or Arth ur. His father the king had the war name 'the great dragons head' or in Welsh Uther Pen Dragon. Thats about it for the actual story, other than he died in battle against his cousin Morgan, near a large Roman fort in shropshire just north of the river Camel. Hints at a story expanded ridiculously.

[@spiritof6986]

@@tonytye8963 Exactly. As is the case with all legend and myth. A small percentage of truth and a very large percentage of total nonsense spoken around the table after a few jugs of ale.

[@I_Wish_I_Was_Home]

so Cerdic of Wessex could be a Romano Brittonic descent Ancestor of ours? I mean his name is Celtic

[@avirimon1402]

Nonsenses. The Anglo-Saxons annihilated the locals.

[@peterharknett4695]

Comet of A.D 562 that hit England didn't help !

[@laviothmartel9813]

Realistically the romans would have taken all its warriors with them . Aswell as structure. It wouldn’t have been new to them to someone coming in and taking over. And without an army or a governing body they would have just let the Anglo saxons in. Basically a slow immigration . Similar to that of the development of North America

[@shelbyknauss9307]

most iconic symbol of Britton is tea from lands that they colonized and enslaved; sounds about right

[@constantius4654]

There seems to be a hint or a wish in this progamme for a multicultural success story in early Dark Age England ie migrants (Anglo-Saxons) and natives (Britons) all living in harmony. This seems much too utopian and is firmly contradicted by both Bede and Welsh historians of that era.

[@Michaelneiss]

30:35 I do not understand why people are hyping this documentary. The presentator has a clear agenda tends to cherry pick in terms of evidence. He is filling many gaps in his line of argumentation with retorics instead of science. His "experts" lack the ability to distinguish between High German and Low German (a.k.a. "Low Saxon" - i.e. a language which is currently spoken by 5 Million people across Northern Germany and the Netherlands), and they to fail to bestow us with any example of the linguistic phenomena in question. And Pryor's method to discredit the DNA results of his colleague ( 10:12) by means of back stabbing is right out disgusting ...

[@gnupf]

In Russia they might well now eat at McDonald's and drive Mercedes-Benz cars but they still speak russian. English is a west germanic language. The people in Britain before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons spoke either a Celtic language or Latin. And then the whole original population of Britannia "internally" developed a Germanic language?! Of course they did.

[@britopia1341]

The vast majority of the people of Ireland are indigenous. They previously spoke Irish as their main language but now after invasion they speak English. The English didn’t have to erase the Irish in order for them to speak English. Same difference.

[@britopia1341]

Urien Rheged Very interesting.

[@daveystayn9284]

@@britopia1341 yes but ireland is not uniformly celtic by any means, 20% of Irish dna is from the vikings!

[@britopia1341]

Davey Stayn Celtic? Half of Europe is Celtic.. Those that have “Viking DNA” today are only part Viking therefore those people are indigenous too.

[@daveystayn9284]

@@britopia1341 this is the recent Irish dna study tying in with the british one: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17124-4

[@HarrySmith-hr2iv]

I enjoyed much of this video, but it went to pieces at the very end. Chicken Masala our national dish? Nonsense. More like fish and chips or lamb chops. And tea the national beverage? Nonsense...more like beer, altho I agree some tea, or coffee, or wine is fun. I had a DNA analysis check, my DNA was analysed as Southern England, west Scotland, Ireland, Norman French, Dutch Angles, North German and Norwegian. And family name online google origin check gives Norman French. But neverltheless a very good video.

[@wor53lg50]

Chicken tikka massala is british! You went india or pakistan 30 odd year ago and asked for that, thered be wondering WTF your on!! ....look it up..british as british can get, And as far as im aware the spice roads was up and running well before the roman empire...

[@msggg9977]

But it was invented in Glasgow.

[@onenewworldmonkey]

We were invaded by the Irish during the potato famine. My ancestors left England in the late 1600s so they didn't have to go to the church of England. I guess they invaded Pennsylvania. Funny picturing Quakers invading.

[@onearmdaddy]

Not very convincing arguments but it ends just like you expect with a victory lap and a nod to the pc agenda. The explaining away of the linguistic ties to Germanic lamguages is ludicrous. People don't just completely change the language they speak to be more "cosmopolitan".

[@laviothmartel9813]

Could it have been a long gradual immigration over a couple hundred years when they noticed the romans left it bare

[@johnlandau7111]

ThNo archeological evidence?ere also isn't much archeological evidence? First you have archeological evidence? First you have extensive Roman remains, then very few remains of any kind, then extensive remains of a highly "developed" Anglo-Saxon civilization. The cultural artifacts of the Anglo-Saxons are quite different than those of the Romans. Isn't this archeological evidence?

[@madilynnsma]

Welcome to Altlantis explains the ViKings kzbin.info/aero/PLZE7HkndctTivCxGiNPOMrlU_j-nAYtqs

[@baddbeliever]

The pre-saxon angles of 1066 are an amalgamation of proto Welsh, Romans, jutes, Danes, and Vikings. Easy for an indo ethnic person to identify. No one is a "pure race". Ireland (Celts) and Iceland (Danes) are more homogenous and less diverse due to their settlements being more monopolized by similar types. Diversity does lead to success. Homogeniety eventually stagnates, as India is going through currently, but they can afford that due to overpopulation.

[@tonytye8963]

Kind of missed out Angles and Saxons from your list of who the Anglo Saxons were.

[@LynxSouth]

There's hardly a trace of the Romans, so it comes down to an amalgamation of two: Celtic and Germanic. Compared to the rest of the world, that's done very well.

[@daveystayn9284]

Yes but these people are all very closely related north west europeans in any case, not Indians or Chinese ffs

[@rvingkeepitrolling8797]

I'm English Irish and Dutch blood says I'm Anglo Saxon & RH negative blood.

[@TheEmsgirl]

I'm English, Swedish, Scottish, Irish & Norwegian. Mine also said i was Anglo Saxon and i too am RH negative

[@rvingkeepitrolling8797]

@@TheEmsgirl they say that's the area our blood type mostly found.

[@stefke5862]

My family name Dering is undoubtedly Saxon from Kent 😉