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[@gillenmanos283]

Fun fact: the Stone of Scone was once stolen from Westminster Abby by Scottish college students.

[@Ross-zs4zt]

There's a film about this called Stone of Destiny

[@shaggjones4854]

and broken by them, good job

[@richardprocter8012]

An the real stone was never returned 😘

[@tomfrazier1103]

They were rich kids in the early '30s, one of them had a small car they got away in.

[@nathansteinfromarkham7109]

And as soon as they realized what was happened they instantly smelled Celtic shenanigans and said "shut it down."

[@OriginalXVeris]

I'm really looking forward to you reacting to more OSP. They have a LOT of good stuff, not even just history. They even have a video about Cleopatra's family tree. Yeeesh.

[@Martydavsi]

very good video.

[@Eyllena]

The best part about that video is that it's purely Blue going "I just sat through a class on this insanity, and I need to do something with the information before I lose my mind".

[@benjaylehman]

He hasn’t done another video from them since :(

[@lollypopking100]

Sending love from the scots! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Would look forward to you researching your family ties here more. Two suggestions for you, the Glencoe massacre or the highland clearances. Very interesting moments in our history.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Glencoe is already on our list of places to go for sure!

[@kathyastrom1315]

If you travel to Scotland, be sure to head up to Orkney-it’s an amazing place! When I was in Britain for the first (and so far only) time, Orkney was my favorite place after Rievaulx Abbey. Just tons of history and prehistory to explore, from 5000 year old tombs, temples, and villages, to Renaissance castles and a WWII POW chapel that is a gorgeous gem made out of two Quonset huts.

[@personalpersonal5483]

I got that place in eu4 from Norway as Scotland

[@thomassugg5621]

Looking forward to this, I’m English however my great great grandmother was Scottish, she was born in Glasgow in 1900 and passed away in 1986. Her name was Mary Anderson.

[@samiam619]

How young are you? My Grandfather was born in 1900 and I’m 64. What are you, 18-20?

[@thomassugg5621]

@@samiam619 I’m 22

[@stargirl2477]

I was waiting for this one to be done. I love learning about history and the different cultures. I also did an ancestry test with my relatives and found out we are part Scottish! (up until then we thought Irish.) Not related to anyone particularly famous, or infamous as far as I know. But I am related to someone from Germany who founded a town in Michigan.

[@JHarris533]

6:03 - Yep you are correct. When Alexander died he left behind a pregnant wife - Queen Yolanda who would sadly miscarry; leaving 1 other decedent of Alexander, his daughters daughter, the 3 year old- Margaret Maid of Norway. Numerous claimants to the throne rebelled at this time and skirmished ensued which made Eric II of Norway reluctant to send his daughter to Scotland; 4 years later when he finally did consent to her journey (to england) she died on the travel as a result of food poisoning.

[@7Seraphem7]

More OSP is always awesome! And as much as you bring up the Ptolemies, just waiting for you to do Blue's video on them. And yeah he's good at making thing interesting and fun, but also educational and well informed.

[@voteZDLR]

Denzel is playing Macbeth? I swear to God if he doesn't do that trademark smirk/laugh followed by "My man" at least once in the movie, then it failed.

[@dbach1025]

Anything short of a parallel of sorts with Training Day and I am protesting. Signs and all.

[@Cruithneach]

I'm dubious of the notion of the French "protecting" Scotland - French involvement was, let's be charitable, minimal during the First War of independence - the significance of the Auld Alliance was the message it sent to England. Intriguingly, by comparison, Scottish involvement in the Hundred Years War was salient enough to influence the outcome

[@AimeeJLDB]

Went on a trip to the Scottish Highlands 2 weeks ago and was absolutely blown away. One of the most beautiful places, if not THE most beautiful place I've ever been to. I'm so fascinated by its history now and can't wait to learn more about it, so this video came at the PERFECT time. I'd love to see you do more on Scottish history please 😃

[@wingdings_1738]

Imagine how different Scotland would be without tennis balls.

[@Hardrada_1066]

Just finished re-reading a classic German drama by Schiller "Maria Stuart" and can only recommend reading it if you're at all interested in the tragic story of her exectution. You can easily read it in a couple of hours.

[@ScotsmanDougal]

Great video, my only gripe is the fact that at the start, he shows the Scottish Saltire but shows the Union Flag to represent England. This is annoying due to the fact that it was a Scottish King who actually united the 2 countries and commissioned the Union Flag. He get's it right later in the video though.

[@maiidegeese5052]

Those Scots got around. I'm Salish Indian on my father's side and always figured I was fully indigenous but was surprised to find a Scottish ancestor there. He was an agent for the Hudson Bay Company and was sent into the North West territory with his wife a Mohawk woman. They settled in what is modern day Montana and their family line blended into the local tribes. This was early to mid 1800s.

[@ayeready6050]

5:28 Scots is not derived from Norman French at all. Scots is a Germanic language derived from Northumbrian Middle English. Part of Northumbria was incorporated into Scotland in the 12th century and from there the language spread. It is distinct from modern English precisely because it was less influenced by Norman French than other dialects of English further South. How can they claim to have researched Scotland and yet get things like that so wrong? This video is terrible.

[@ayeready6050]

@@nathantibbitts6415 There's numerous mistakes and of course the cringey "freedom" references. Less than 30 seconds into the video, it uses the Union Flag to represent England 🤦‍♂️ Fire of Learning's video is so much better

[@GLADIATORVT]

His Scottish accent is something that makes me want to cry, but I do enjoy the video, a good summary I think. If you want to see some really interesting Scottish information I'd check out kzbin.info He is very knowledgeable especially about old Scotland, and provides some great shots. Love your stuff, hope you make it over here some point soon.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Yes, I'm a big fan of that channel. Just discovered him recently.

[@CosmosJack]

My great grandfather "Scotty" (clan Hay) from Aberdeen hopped a ship to America in 1906. He burned his clothes which had become lice-ridden and took a train westward. He made it as far as Wyoming and decided he'd had enough travel, and became a cowboy then and there. "Hay" derives from the French word for "hedgerow," as his clan originated from the Norman Vikings. The clan motto translates to "keep the yoke" -- the legend goes that a Danish invasion was repelled because a Hay father and his two sons grabbed some farm equipment and rallied the fleeing Scots. The Hay clan was rewarded with land encircled by the flight of a falcon, which is featured on the clan crest. What is your clan story?

[@jackmacbrayne6101]

As an Aberdonian myself I’m curious, what made your great grandfather decide to emigrate all the way to Wyoming?

[@ericbyo9472]

Nobody in Scotland considers you Scottish or gives a flying fuck about what clan you are. What is it with Americans appropriating a culture they are in no way a part of?

[@TheRextinguishedGentleman]

@@ericbyo9472 America is a mixing pot culture, an immigrant nation. Many trace their lineage to countries outside of America. Heritage is celebrated in America because of this. People in Europe are confused by that because in Europe homogeneity is high. Also please look up what ''appropriation'' is, as what Jack did is not appropriation...

[@CosmosJack]

@@ericbyo9472 I don't consider myself Scottish either, but thanks for the Y chromosome ;)

[@CosmosJack]

@@TheRextinguishedGentleman Ericbyo was probably just setting up a joke about the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. It's true though about heritage being celebrated in America, the 2020 census asked people to report what they consider their background.

[@JAY-ep7df]

Wow!, Your reacting to my countries history!, During advanced higher history we all learn about the Treaty of Union 1707 between Scotland and England, I think its a interesting topic, because their was lots of interesting reasons for passing the act, such as corruption, economic reasons, shared king, however their was also lots of reasons against it, and understanding these will help you understand modern scottish politics with the independance vote too. Love watching your videos 😃

[@JAY-ep7df]

If you type in my hometown 'Lanark' in google maps you will find a church with a large william wallace statue, then if you take a left turn you will also see a podium with nothing round it which states this was the exact place he was raised from a young age, their is also a 20 minute walk from here from a place called 'new lanark' and if you go towards the waterfalls, you will find a hidden cave with scratchings of freedom and names scratched into the stone, this cave is one of the locations William Wallace hid from the English, if anyone wants photos, I can show you.

[@richardprocter8012]

Everyone always forgets “the alien act”

[@drumkommandr9779]

@4:59 The hapsburgs: *COME AGAIN*

[@pheezus]

I'm not that into European history but I always found Scottish and Irish history pretty fascinating. Outlaw King is one of my favorite movies that came from Netflix btw, I also loved their Henry V movie

[@TheDraconnian]

The Outlaw king also did an incredibly good job with the details related to the weapons and equipment of the time. I hope to be able to visit Scotland someday. That is my great wish.

[@Ewen6177]

Ref the photo, yes it is Edinburgh. You know I'm Scottish and yes he got it right. Fun and informative, just a few wee errors here and there, nothing to big to get Angry about. Hang on I'm Scottish, thats it, wife where's my sword and Targe, i'm off to fight someone. Cheers great content as ever time for a wee dram or 2.

[@adsventuresome7511]

OSP is kind of like, my college major and minor combined into one channel. And I'm Scottish. So I'm all for this.

[@dbach1025]

Outlander is a pretty entertaining show. Not completely historically accurate. But shows how brutal and random life seemed for 18th century looking forward to new season dealing with American Revolution My wife keeps threatening to take away my man card. Maybe she has a point.

[@ayeready6050]

Love that you're checking out the history of Scotland. Just wish you went with Fire of Learning's video instead because I think his is much better. I mean, less than 30 seconds into the video creator uses the Union Flag to represent England 🤦‍♂️

[@Thomas.Wright]

I love Overly Sarcastic Productions. Their ongoing series on _Journey to the West_ is my favorite. I first discovered them because of Red's commentary on H.P. Lovecraft.

[@nathansteinfromarkham7109]

They are great informative channel. Except for the one about Lovecraft, that one I'm mixed on.

[@ItsAweeb]

I love that series too, its a shame it updates so daaaamn slow, but evertime there's new episode the wait has always been worth it

[@johnclayden1670]

I love Scotland and the Scots and have worked with many of 'em over the years in many countries. I hope they stay in the Union.

[@maryavatar]

I can’t find it on KZbin, but there’s this great video of a guy walking around the National Museum of Scotland, looking at the inventions & discoveries area, and going “f*** me, so Scottish people just invented every bloody thing, didn’t they?” then he turns around, and sighs, “oh look, antibiotics”. It’s hilarious.

[@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian]

RALLY ALL THE CLAAAAANS! ENGLISHMEN ADVANCE!

[@terryhiggins5077]

BLOOD OF BANNOCKBURN! POINT OF NO RETURN!

[@greulich9635]

Qixir, a irish youtuber has a vid on the theft of the stone of scone and why it has a crack in it

[@isabelstokes4042]

I am a native Glaswegian (or Weegie) and although I love the documentary, I am begging on my bended knees, please do not try to imitate our accent unless you are prepared to be run through by a claymore! If you must then go to Edinburgh (Glaswegians are not too fond of the people who live there and vice versa!) Don't miss out Glasgow though. It never gets the credit it deserves for being the beautiful historic city that it is. By the way, one piece of advice - NEVER say these two words - Margaret Thatcher. They are swear words here. If you want to take the risk, don't say you weren't warned!

[@bertrandklermannb2k768]

Margaret Thatcher

[@isabelstokes4042]

@@bertrandklermannb2k768 I'm coming to get you!!!

[@Vitruvian_Person]

Do a Reaction to Overly Sarcastic Productions Videos on India

[@charliederrick1583]

I'm generally not a fan of overly sarcastic because he makes a lot of mistakes, he is clearly biased e.g. in this video and he doesn't include a lot of things in his videos because he knows they will harm his agenda of portraying England as the baddies something you can see in his Ireland video as well. He stated that England Treated Scotland like a colony after 1707 which is really false the British banned the clan system and a lot of things in the highlands but after 300 years of infighting you can understand why. Lets not forget he completely ignored the part where the scots invaded northern England countless time during the 100 years war they pillaged and burned in fact the village I live in was raided by the scots as well as many castles nearby me. P.s I'm half northern Irish which means I'm allowed to criticise Scotland as I'm only half English. extra p.s my mother is northern Irish and of Scottish descent which is extra criticization points

[@obliv529]

Im from Inverness the capital of the highlands few miles from loch ness and I can confirm that many do not have the kindest words for the noisy neighbours up here. Also yeah we don’t pay taxes in the highlands. Is what it is

[@Ross-zs4zt]

Finally a video about Scotland, love to see it. Hi from Edinburgh! PS check out the channel Scotland History Tours. He does videos about various historic events and people throughout Scottish history, would love to see you react to some of his stuff.

[@crimsonwizard2560]

Subscribed, thanks for showing off my country.

[@krookednkryptik4727]

the duke of wellington is lucky if he gets more than a full day before a new cone is put up there

[@richardprocter8012]

Fun Fact…. I’m from Oban (Scotia) and just 6 miles up the road fae me resides one of the guys who retook our stone, a wonderful man called Ian Hamilton QC.

[@Pizza23333]

It's an ok overview, but it tends to get some details wrong in the summaries that give the wrong impression. Calling the Jacobite rebellions independence wars and suggesting Scotland was treated as a colony are two big ones. Edit: He also loses points for inserting his own assumptions of "Scottish context" around people like Adam Smith, who were very much pro-Union with England.

[@angoose2515]

Yeah, the Jacobite rebellion was to try and return the house of Stuart to the British throne because the scots (mostly highlanders) didn’t like that parliament invited Anne’s distant german relative George of Hannover to be the new king and didn’t see him as legitimate.

[@drs-xj3pb]

@@angoose2515 First cousin once removed isn't all that distant.

[@kgkhcsnc]

Can you react to history of japan made by bill wurtz

[@kineuhansen8629]

man i love scotland and would love to visit someday

[@charlihamilton4379]

If you do come visit Scotland I'd recommend you visit Skye, the entire island is absolutely stunning and the fairy pools are amazing if it's sunny.

[@gguy3600]

@@charlihamilton4379 Honestly I'd recommend most places along the west coast, but yeah you're right Skye is amazing.

[@JacquesZeWhipper]

I can’t recommend OSP enough.

[@TDB2509]

21:30 I live in the apartment on the bottom right of the screen lmao

[@bigfrankfraser1391]

scotsman here: Is toil leam an-còmhnaidh Ameireaganaich fhaicinn ag ionnsachadh mu ar dualchas Albannach pròiseil. Tha mi am measg an aon sa cheud de luchd-labhairt dùthchasach na Gàidhlig ann an Alba, cha toil leam Beurla a bhruidhinn. ma tha thu air am beachd seo eadar-theangachadh, is math a rinn thu, bhidio sgoinneil

[@richeybaumann1755]

6:05 Margaret, Maid of Norway. Died of "seasickness" at age 7. Was queen designate for 4 years but never crowned. She was actually the granddaughter of Alexander III. His daughter, Margaret, Maid of Scotland, died aged 22 from childbed fever. She was the wife of the Norwegian king Eric II.

[@johanmilde]

For more context on the young heir and the succession crisis after 1286: After King Alexander III of Scotland died unexpectedly in 1286, the only direct heir to the throne was his granddaughter Margaret, the 3 year old daughter of King Eirik II Magnusson of Norway. She remained in Norway for the next few years, as her father, the Scottish regency council and King Edward I of England arranged for her to be betrothed to Edward’s son - the future Edward II. The summer of 1290, the now 7 year old Margaret was supported to sail from Norway to Scotland for her inauguration at Scone. The English had sent a lavishly outfitted ship to fetch the young Queen, but it was sent away by the Norwegians and they chose to transport her with their own ship - there are several possible explanations for this. Although the Viking age was long gone, Norway was still a proud seafaring nation who might have seen the offer as an insult - and/or it might have been a bit of paranoia on King Eirik’s part about entrusting his only child to the English. Perhaps because of said Viking roots, the Norwegian ship sailed straight across the North Sea instead of a longer, safer route along the coasts - and straight into a storm. When the battered ship finally found its way to Orkney, Margaret was so affected by the journey that she died shortly after coming ashore. The contemporary explanation was that she died from seasickness, a more modern explanation is some sort of food poisoning - it is very easy for food and water to go bad on a ship, even easier when everything is thrown around during a storm. And the result was a succession crisis, major diplomatic issues and everything that followed.

[@veel60]

Thank you for that amazing write up!

[@nathansteinfromarkham7109]

I hope you react to more OSP in the future.

[@abramcooke5496]

CK3 Scotland series!?

[@timhare9867]

Interesting side note regarding the Picts. There is a theory that far from being another Celtic group, the Picts are the ancestors of the original inhabitants of Britain before Celts migrated over from Europe around 1000 BC. The Celts pushed the native inhabitants to the costal regions of northern Britain, and dominate the island for next 1000 years until the Romans came. Then Septimius Severus came over around 208 AD and almost exterminated the Celtic Caledonians , weakening them so much the Picts subjugated/absorbed the remainder into their own cultural group. That’s why the Picts don’t appear in Roman sources until around 300 AD, and the Romans seem to class them as a different group to the Caledonians.

[@nicholasharshbarger4454]

I also have Scottish heritage (around 40%) and my mother’s side of the family is made up of members of the Buchanan and Campbell clans who had been actively feuding since the 1400s. My grandmother was a Buchanan and my grandfather is a Campbell, so we consider them as the official end of the feud.

[@cameronstuart2731]

Can’t trust a campbell

[@JHarris533]

one thing i think a lot the portrayals of the Scottish Wars of Independence fail to give enough voice to (and which 'Outlaw King' pleasantly surprised me in including) was it was as much a war waged by the church as it was by the nobles. The Wars of Independence were not led by Wallace, Bruce or Moray but Bishops like William Lamberton & Robert Wishart & David de Moravia. who feared that Scotland under the thumb of the English meant the Scottish church under the thumb of the Archbishop of York. all 3 men would come tremendously close to being excommunicated in their pursuit to keep the Scottish church free from English control.

[@PatrickStarfishman]

Check out Bruce fumey and his chanel Scottish history tours. He's a little chanel and deserves some traffic.

[@noone.3532]

Ulster is the Scotti homeland. Planters were taken back from Scotland to Ulster. "Ulster Scot" is a good term with many political implications, not least of which because they're (some of my ancestors) seperate from the other Irish tribes and from the Picts. It makes northern Ireland a much more complicated situation to consider.

[@Indigo_Roses]

Im a distant decendant of Mary, Queen of scots and my last name is Rose. Welp *as a point to add, the significance of rose, it derived from the house of tudor

[@fromthewreckage]

Speaking of 'Braveheart sucks or doesn't suck' I've love to see your reaction to History Buff's DECIMATION of that film. The rest of his content is great too but ya, he has it out for Mel Gibson it seems.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Yeah, I was not a fan of his review of We Were Soldiers. Most of his other stuff is good though.

[@fromthewreckage]

He definitely has a hate-boner for him but I think your overall positivity and particular viewpoint would be good on some of his content.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

A little sidenote from the linguistics degree in the making: We don't know for sure if the Picts were Celts. This is because the only real source for their language is place names and other sources mentioning that their language was distinct. I believe most scholars think that it was most closely related to Welsh, Cornish and Breton rather than Irish and Scottish Gaelic* and Manx (so still Celtic, but not Gaelic) because Scottish Gaelic has some grammar that is more similar to the former languages, which they believe could be a feature borrowed from Pictish. However, the most popular view a few decades ago was that it was a non-Indo-European language, so who knows, maybe the view could change again. *Scottish Gaelic came over from Ireland with the Scoti people

[@jyu467]

Braveheart is a fantastic movie. It's just not historically accurate. If we're grading films on accuracy, then pretty much any movie that's "based on a true story" fails.

[@ms_scribbles]

Welllll yes, but at the very least, some actually TRY. Braveheart didn't even try, but tried to convince everyone they did. There's historically inaccurate, and then there's *insultingly* historically inaccurate.

[@DreynHarry]

Maybe no one beat the egyptians in the case of inbreeding, but the Habsburgs tried reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally hard! :-D

[@ty811]

I really hope after my death, no-one will remark with "Oh yeah he was artillery accident" when my name is brought up.

[@sunriserose]

I'm 19% Scottish and 11 Irish. Most mine is English and Germany

[@ewangillies559]

The picture was in Edinburgh. It was taken from the top of calton hill facing the royal mile, which goes from Edinburgh castle right down to Arthur's seat (which you can't see in the picture).

[@zuivbal6951]

I'm Scottish! There is actually two walls. The Antonine wall was built much further up as another roman emperor tried to hold more of Scotland.

[@corneliaaurelli1603]

Can you do Historia Civilis' Peace?

[@JHNbazil]

Never tell a scottish person braveheart is anything more than a horrific car crash of a movie. It also always annoys me when people see alba written down and go straight for say it how it looks when it is pronounced alaba. As a proud scot i am currently learning gaelic even though i nmow live in england and aside from listening to bbc radio nan gaidhael it serves me no purpose. But if you want some specific scottish history to react to the stuff Bruce fumey does on scottish history tours is really good tioriadh an-drasta.

[@gaiusbrutus]

My family's clan home was at bannockburn and sterling. And fought agaisnt the english

[@MichaelCovel92]

Great video dude! So OSP just released a video on Sicily and it's FASCINATING! I really appreciate the historical gaps you're able to fill in for us and I'd absolutely love to hear your take on it.

[@Jonesy1606]

🥰🥰Scotland beautiful country I'm very lucky too live there

[@saltireeire5775]

Without a doubt you are spot on with your Scottish knowledge. Bravo man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌🏼

[@scottdobson1276]

It was Age of Empires that got me looking up Wallace and Robert the Bruce.

[@elijahvega5915]

Good luck with Audible! I love it and use it everyday when I walk my dog. Cool video 👍

[@johnmichaelchance1151]

I’ve just started on doing some research on my family history. I’ve only been able to connect the dots in family members and dates but I’ve found who my 20th great grandfather is. So far I know he had great grandchildren who lived in Worcester England in the early 1400s.

[@samlosco8441]

The oldest family information I have found so far is that my paternal ancestors were in Devonshire and Somerset in the 15th century.

[@kathyastrom1315]

I was lucky to find that one of my 10h great grandfathers came from a very well documented family line that traces back to Charlemagne. Other than that branch, I keep stalling out once I get out of North America and back to England.

[@needude7218]

It's a bit of a shock when you forget all the street names in your local area are named after battles and you hear Flodden, Culloden and Bannockburn in your headphones

[@Prussiaz]

please do more OSP, I know you have done some before, but all their stuff is excellent!

[@bradenmctavish7060]

I would really love to see your reaction to, German solider remembers ww2 by memoirs of ww2.

[@CinemaKnight]

3:45 Little addition to the Macbeth point: it's okay to say the name of the play outside of a theatre, but if you do it inside rather than saying The Scottish Play, then you've gotta run around the building twice, spit, and quote a line from a different Shakespeare play. Obviously, not everybody follows or should be expected to go along with the punishment, and most people who do are doing it half out of respect and half for the amusement.

[@Mackl0111]

Glasgow does not look like that

[@a4ron213]

I plan to visit Scotland one day

[@blaircfleming]

I'm Scottish and I'll be moving to Georgia, USA to live with my American wife. Your channel has really helped me to learn about American history. Excited to see an episode on Scotland!

[@NoMercy745]

I believe Extra Credit has a video on the spy master behind the death of Mary, Queen of Scotts.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Walsingham?

[@NoMercy745]

@@VloggingThroughHistory I just double checked and yes.

[@jonathan_8747]

I'm a simple man. I see OSP history reaction, I click

[@jemma927]

As a Scottish Person, I can say each part of Scotland has some historical significance, not just the big cities, like Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Glasgow while they do hold a lot of history so do the smaller towns or communities. For example, one of the last Witch Trials in Europe (While the UK was most likely part of the EU, not too sure about this aspect) in 1697 was held in the Town of Paisley. Also, no one in Scotland really likes BraveHeart, among my friends and family at least, we think that not only is it a poor representation of the country at that time, it wasn't actually filmed in Scotland, but rather, I believe it was either Ireland or New Zealand?? I may be wrong about the location of filming but please let me know

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Battle scenes were shot in Ireland but most of the movie was filmed in Scotland.

[@glstka5710]

James VI/I ---That's the guy whom God inspired to write the REAL English Bible which modern apostates are destroying with their new versions (This a highly sacastic jab at some the loonys I've met). Really, in order to be acceped as king about 1,000 leading Englishmen sign a petiton asking for some assurances that he was going to be nice and one thing they wanted was a standardized Bible so he got a whole bunch of scholars together to revise the Bible and they kinda mixed the Geneva Bible and the Bishop's Bible together and King Jimmy said "Good this will be the official Bible", and it worked pretty well for about 400 years.

[@maryavatar]

I can’t find it on KZbin, Bute there’s this great video of a guy walking around the National Museum of Scotland, looking at the inventions & discoveries area, and going “f*** me, so Scottish people just invented every bloody thing, didn’t they?” then he turns around, and sighs, “oh look, antibiotics”. It’s hilarious.

[@priestpeace219]

I fondly remember my experience visiting Scotland back when I was a student in Wales several years ago. During the summer, I went to Edinburgh and there was a 6 Nations Rugby going on that day. Went to the pub to see the game. The blackboard in the front read " today's program: Us vs Them scums". No need to guess who the Scotts were playing that day 😂.

[@rosaliehagart1888]

My Town Dunfermline used to be the capital of Scotland. Exactly the Auld Aliance, our pal's France. On the top of our town clock it has King Robert the Bruce

[@marionette8739]

Oh, look! Mary, Queen of the Scots from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood! My ancestor!

[@bananapanda9805]

Fun fact! MacBeth is considered unlucky , because in theatre, if your group/theatre decides to do MacBeth, we’ll it means your group is in financial trouble, MacBeth being very low price to produce

[@hassanel-cheikh6669]

React to Epic Rap Battles of History Adolf Hitler vs Darth Vader. It’s super funny and gives some Hitler and WWII history!

[@RiteTheWrongs]

*shudders* Yeah, you mentioned the Ptolemys and I got flashbacks to OSP’s video over them. It’s an amazing video, but both Blue and most viewers have breakdowns with it.

[@Mandaiish]

What is the best way to research family history? I can only get to my great-great grandfather and only because he was a champion strongman in America at one point. Or the best DNA site? I was thinking of 23&ME and would like other peoples opinions.

[@andrewmcculloch8137]

I’m from Glasgow, The romans actually built a wall called the Antonine wall that’s the farthest the Roman Empire actually went, other than small camp from scouting missions.

[@dortmunddrums9876]

Had to watch Outlaw King just now by that recommendation, indeed a good movie! Greetings from Germany by a silent watcher for a few weeks now, slowly catching up with all those reactions 😂

[@michaelhibbard654]

Technically, blue is wrong about Malcom the 3rd, Lulach the idiot actually succeeded Macbeth. Malcom then assassinated Lulach to claim the throne.

[@chaseappleby8923]

Wow found out on ancestry I'm a descendant of an illegitimate child of James V Mary queen of Scots father, hey VTH you're my distant cousin!! Lol

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Hey cousin! Bastard descendants of the Stuarts unite!!!

[@drs-xj3pb]

@@VloggingThroughHistory That would be like half the planet, wouldn't it?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

lol. quite possibly.@@drs-xj3pb

[@russellcraft7269]

I always figure the Scots won (Stuarts)

[@catherinewilkins2760]

Love following the Politics of UK. The SNP was formed in 1934. To get independence. We have Alba Party, recently formed. We UK is formed from the 4 Countries, we love insulting each other. Although the SNP want another referendum on independence, some of the Districts in Scotland are making noises that they want out of Scotland. Shetland and Orkney have made their views known they will apply to become Crown Dependency status. So it continues. In England we also have Counties that have rivalries. Northern Ireland is the same. There is noises being made over the stopping of Stourmont, the loyalist are getting upset, not good. We have been like this for centuries. Does add an interesting aspect to our politics. No one should deny us the right to argue with each other.

[@mfzbtravis]

What you said about Shetland and Orkney is not really true. There have been discussions in the past about that but they don't have much weight. What would be much more likely is a sort of Faroe Island style autonomous region self governance within Scotland. Now of course it could happen. But tbh based on way the politics of rural Scotland are going including the Islands there is a good shot that the Islands becoming more in favour of Independence either way. I don't think they will ever vote to leave the UK in a referendum but I think it will get closer than it is there already.

[@cggc9510]

The border between Scotland and England is also a handy geological boundary between two ancient landmasses. Bedrock on one side is completely different than the other. Coincidence???

[@burmy1774]

I love your video, but I stopped paying attention when you said you don't think Braveheart sucks. pls, don't kill me for having opinions on the internet

[@JohnSmith-ww2sc]

I have a slight problem with Denzel Washington playing Macbeth, if anything is cultural appropriation that's it.

[@LewisBdrums]

friendly local scot here video was good but left out a few things. A lot of the very horrible things that happened to the scots like the highland clearings and banning of the highland culture was left out and some other things understated. and In the favour of not being 1 sided there were also a lot of Scottish raids on England at the borders that were also left out. a fun fact about the "blue paint" this was called woad and was used by the Celts but more so the Pict elite military. Woad was a plant die that the warriors would strip mostly naked and rub over them self's (this is were the myth of Celts fighting naked and painting themselves to be scary comes from. They would do this and a small group of elite fighter that would act as a kind of strike force. they used Woad as it made them slippery and harder to grab in close combat and it would also increase the chance of blades slipping that piercing straight. but more importantly it was also and antiseptic so any cuts that did occur so they did not become infected. the Pict elite were made up from only sons of noble houses/clans who would be trained as warriors from young age, the rest of common folk would not fight usually unless it was urgent. even though not much is know as a lot of written records have been destroyed the Picts are really interesting to study and there a couple really good summary video's on KZbin of Pictish culture that I'd highly recommend reacting to if you are interested in ancient Scotland.