THE WORLD'S OLDEST FLAG

[@donaldsneddon5480]

Just what Scotland needs, a Scottish Channel that promotes Scotland as an independent Nation. Keep up the good work. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@iainmcgill1]

The Scottish Channel “ Keeping The Flag Flying “. Keep up the good work. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@triciaslater4783]

Excellent programme!

[@jimso771]

Great channel, so many interesting facts about our beautiful country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@kevinrolink197]

I have been in the doocot, a wonderous place, enlightening history lesson, and had given a donation to keep the flag flying, all the info hits you right in the heart, makes us proud tae be a Scot, would make it my intent too visit again.

[@jeranemo5504]

That’s awesome, well done David Williamson. Very interesting and impressive story, loving the history. Makes me very proud of our country. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️ 👏 love the content 👍

[@peterlamont8167]

Great to see and a lot of info. Regardless of arguments from all the historians out there, it is brilliant. Well done, and I like the Scottish input of music and local birds singing. It brings back pride in our nation. It is eerie and makes you think of what has gone before. Fantastic!

[@peem1244]

Brilliant video about our national flag. My own saltire is hanging in the spare room window so is unlikely to get battered by the lovely Scottish weather. :) The doocot looks amazing after its restoration. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the god work. PS. I thought the music at one point almost drowned out Aileen's narration. 🧔👍✌

[@SeanWalsh-Irl]

Very good and yes been hard of hearing it was impossible to hear the narration with unnecessary music! Editor needs a "slap" 😂

[@Muscleguy-k2l]

Another excellent production and a most enlightening story. I knew the bones of the history but the centre is now on my must see list.

[@nerjadude]

Excellent vidjo. Thanks you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

[@firebyrd437]

Our dovecot has been made into a small house in our small town, and I really preferred it in its natural state. Not far from our town is a magnificent dovecot in its natural state in a large field, and it's really impressive. I hope it's maintained enough to stop deterioration as these are rare historical heritage remnants of the by gone times in Scotland

[@richardkidd8825]

excellent to see.....

[@stubbsieshorse327]

Interesting that the patron saint of Russia is also St Andrew. Their Sr Andrew's flag (flown from their ships) is an azure cross on a field of white - opposite to ours. Why? I'm not sure! Also in maritime communication the St Andrew's cross denotes the letter "M" and that a ship is not moving. Great site - keep up the great work.

[@macjim]

Another good programme and an informative one too.The earlier music was overpowering the spoken word but after that it was okay.. Looking forward to the next video 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@gordonmackenzie4512]

I went to a Tenerife home game. Great football match and atmosphere. The strip and badge were very much the saltire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@hughreed621]

At school in Glasgow we were never taught Scottish history -it was considered too controversial -I hope this has changed - I think a visit to Athelstaneford for any school group would memorable for life.

[@Klochrie]

Music is a wee bitty too loud. Great vid though. 👍

[@Oyou812-b1x]

Excellent!

[@Bert_Dundee]

Someone have a word the sound engineer. Music is far too loud when speaking.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

Comments noted Bert. Sadly, the sound engineer, cameraman, script writer is just me and I am still learning. I had never made a film before February, so it had been a steep learning curve. Bear with me though. I will get this right.

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

Use captions then. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jeranemo5504]

Thanks Scotland Channel, great work and keep building. Your work is greatly appreciated. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@alisdairmclean8605]

I think it is perhaps best not to have any music so that viewers/listeners can listen to the narration. I have hearing difficulties and I find it very difficult to deal with narration and music combined

[@ChristopherMckissack-e2y]

🎉🎉🎉pmsl😮😅😅😅

[@georgeross9834]

Fantastic

[@martinanderson4721]

There's more historical / religious/ biblical provenance for the Saltire than the Danish or English flags.

[@AndrewForbes-f8h]

Scotland has not been conquer by the Romans or the England and Scotland has the oldest national flag 832 AD an Denmark national flag is 1748

[@mandymorris3341]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♥️

[@LVPAcharn]

l would have loved this more had to music not been so loud . l still gave it a like and subscribed :)

[@TheScotlandChannel]

Thank you for your feedback. Bear with me, it's been a steep learning curve, but I have taken this on board for future films.

[@alancrowe7406]

Would be better without the music drowning out the commentary at the start.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

That is to say, the oldest national flag.

[@petreaneilands9012]

I’ve Been Aware Of The Story Of How And When Scotland’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Flag Came Into Being For Many Years..More Recently I Discovered How And When England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Adopted The St.George’s Cross..It Happened In 1190 When England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Rented The Flag From The Doge Of Genoa To Afford Protection To English Ships On Entering The Mediterranean When Going To And From The Crusades In The Holy Land..Prior To This They Had Been At The Mercy Of Pirates..

[@markadams7597]

Wow! A computer voice with a heavy Scots' brogue! How very odd....

[@TheScotlandChannel]

www.thescotlandchannel.tv/use-of-ai

[@bestboythirty]

This channel needs mandatory high-quality subtitles in both English and Gaelic because the KZbin captions provided are atrocious 👎

[@420somewhereG]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@sn4rff]

💙

[@z0n0ph0ne]

I am proud to fly the Saltire along with the EU flag from my house.

[@jeranemo5504]

Same here, with the believe in Scotland and “I am European” sticker in my window. No questions where my loyalties lie. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️🇪🇺🇫🇷🇮🇪

[@Paul-hl8yg]

You do know the eu stands to rid all national flags & replace them with the eu flag only? Nationalism is to go under eu rules. Also, no eu citizen has any vote/voice over those that run/rule it, the eu commission! Be careful what you wish for!!

[@JimCrossan]

I;ve seen it...

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

Do you mean 'I've'.

[@jamesmclellan9045]

Music too loud

[@TheScotlandChannel]

See earlier replies James.

[@ascotinme]

Yes the music is way too high in the mix, possibly to cover up the emotionless AI narration. I hope you change both. One more thing, and it’s a biggie……it’s called 'The Declaration of Scottish Independence’. The BBC a puppet of Westminster mounted a very effective propaganda campaign over decades they successfully renamed the Scottish Declaration as the more benign 'Declaration of Arbroath’ which you must agree has considerably less fire & pride of state and serves to diminish the chance of inspiring a further declaration.

[@KizzieWiz]

At least the AI voice is Scottish!

[@ianmathewson4032]

Had to give up the music is to loud to hear the woman speaking

[@eleanorbarrie3527]

Love the channel, hate that voice though!

[@TheScotlandChannel]

It's the best I can do at present Eleanor for a whole stack of reasons. However, I am trying to resolve this as we speak. It will take a team of people who are able to do this for us when we need it. Watch this space.

[@eleanorbarrie3527]

I've never voiced anything but I'd have a go, and I'd do it for free, seriously! Got to support the Scotland Channel!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊

[@martinanderson4721]

Simon known as Peter, and his Brother Andrew.( Matthew.4, 18-21). There is also the idea that their Galilee fishing boat sail was the image of crossed sail against a blue sky .

[@forbesmeek6304]

Too loud, cannae hear the wummin.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

See my comment to Bert_Dundee. Hopefully this will answer your comment.

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

Do you mean you find it a little difficult to hear the narrator, oh no, why not just use the captions and put it on silent then. Saor Alba. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@patrickparsons2378]

The use of the saltire does not date from 832 AD. It wasn't officially adopted until 1384 to distinguish Scots soldiers from their French allies. There is no evidence of it bring used as a national symbol before that.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

This is debated by historians who are divided on this. However, this is a film about the origins of the Saltire based on the Scottish Flag Heritage Centre which dates the origins of the flag to 832AD. There is also no doubt that Scotland existed long before the Declaration of Arbroath.

[@angussoutter7824]

Do we have AI doing the narrative 🤔

[@TheScotlandChannel]

www.thescotlandchannel.tv/use-of-ai

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

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[@angussoutter7824]

Ah having seen the reply from The production team a fair and reasonable point, hopefully the channel will grow and we get real narrators to tell the story 👍🏼keep up the good work

[@martinanderson4721]

What's the Danish claim to fame for their flag ?

[@TheScotlandChannel]

A number of historians are taking the date when Scotland's Declaration of Arbroath was accepted by the Pope as the time when Scotland came into being. However, England, which came into existence 92 years after Scotland, clearly existed as did Scotland before the Declaration and England's existence as a country apparently did not require Rome's acceptance to be regarded as a country. So it boils down to the fact that Scotland clearly existed before the acceptance of the Declaration of Arbroath by the Pope and its flag, the saltire, represented that country having its origins some 370 years earlier than Denmark's flag.

[@Toffee8370]

Turn the music doon and get someone real to narrate.

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

They have explained about this before. Negative comments don't help, did you like the actual CONTENT.

[@eochaid5219]

I had difficulty trying to hear your commentary because of the loud music. In the end, I gave up.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

I am sorry to hear that. Will look into resolving this issue.

[@JohnConnor-jh4xp]

History is rubbish,cinead mc alpin was never king of scotland he was king of dalrita and pictland and not the lands in the north or south, the pictish kings name was not angus it was oengus so don't know were there history comes from but it sounds english.Sick of our history being lied about and why insult the people of the east considering the greek merchants wrote what their name was before the romans arrived the worst thing is a scot saying it ,crap!

[@j.f.m5936]

Interesting … can you check your info ..wasn’t the St Andrews flag given to Scotland to make up the union flag

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Lol

[@gordonmackenzie4512]

You’re out by almost 900 years.

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

Eh!!!! Lol I kindly doubt it ya radge!

[@KizzieWiz]

NO! 😂😂😂

[@martinquinn9007]

Horrible ai voice

[@angussoutter7824]

Do we have AI doing the narrative 🤔 and sorry to sink your boat but Denmark has the worlds oldest flag, we did get second place

[@TheScotlandChannel]

Scotland existed before the Declaration of Arbroath and recognition by the Pope Angus.

[@scottw.3258]

The narration in the video is correct. The Saltire is the oldest National flag. It's over 300 years older than the Danish flag.

[@martinanderson4721]

Re French soldiers, our other proud flag , the Lion Rampant has the French Fleur de Lys - signifying the Auld Alliance ( which ceased in 1560. The Reformation.)

[@ixurlife8062]

❤ Great video Great channel 👍 Unfortunately Scotland has the Second oldest flag Denmark is 1st they're flag is 800 years old making it almost 400 years older than our own 3rd is Japan and no its not 1st could have been at 1 point but they adopted the white with red dot in 1870 as they're flag before that it was the oldest 701 AD

[@scottw.3258]

The Saltire is the oldest National Flag. Listen to the narration.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

Not necessarily. It all depends on when you think Scotland came into existence. Those who cite Denmark's flag as older, think Scotland only came into existence following the recognition of the Declaration of Arbroath by Rome even though Scotland clearly existed long before that.

[@ixurlife8062]

@TheScotlandChannel Well I can clear that 1 up for you also you see Scotland as we know it had no recorded history before 1st century around the time the Romans arrive but Scotland as we know did not even exist until the 9th century see where we are going here the Saltire earliest record is 1503 a white background with a Red Cross St Andrews Cross on the blue background was formed in 1542 it 1st ever appeared in David Lyndsay's book "Register of Scottish arms" before these 2 points Scotland had no official flag because they were all clan flags. Where people get confused is because St Andrew was crucified in 60AD but they're ain't no flag it orginated as I said in the 15th century no records of this flag anywhere before then anywhere in the world it came about much later in life.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

@@ixurlife8062 I don't claim to be an expert. I am going on the history provided by the Scottish Flag Heritage Trust. Their heritage centre is well worth a visit if you get the chance to visit it.

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

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[@scottw.3258]

The unfortunate thing is, in recent years our wonderful flag has been politicised by the SNP. That should be made illegal. This flag belongs to all Scots, but for many, the first thing they now think of when they see a Saltire, is the SNP. We cannot allow our national flag to be bastardised in this manner. Much like the Swastika having been a peaceful symbol for thousands of years, the first thing people now think of when they see one, is the Nazi's. Our flag is for the nation of Scotland, it's for every Scot. It is not a political symbol, and should never be used as one. The fact the SNP have bastardised it, shows their total lack of respect for Scotland, and her people. I would hope the Scottish Flag Heritage Trust will make moves to make the politicising of our national flag illegal.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

Unfortunately Scott, it is probably not possible to decide who can and who cannot use our flag. But, unlike the union flag which has serious negative connotations for England as being associated with England's far right, that has never been the case with Scotland as Scotland is not the same as England in terms of outlook and also Scotland is a way more inclusive and welcoming country where people are far more willing to help those in need. With the independence movement, this is a civic nationalism, not an extremist cause as the London government wants you to believe so the Saltire will always reflect the true Scotland. Sadly, the Union Jack is being flown on many public buildings throughout Scotland on a very regular basis to enforce a unionist viewpoint and is therefore a highly charged political symbol unlike Scotland's national flag that in many Scottish towns, flies just once a year on St Andrew's Day despite the fact this is Scotland.

[@scottw.3258]

@@TheScotlandChannel So you're a nationalist. I'll leave you to it.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

@@scottw.3258 I am English and pro-Scottish Scott. I take it you are a unionist, not that that has anything to do with what has been said.

[@scottw.3258]

@@TheScotlandChannel I'm a Patriot. Understand the difference. This exchange is finished. I don't associate with Nationalists. Good day.

[@TheScotlandChannel]

@@scottw.3258 To Scotland or England/UK?