Who Made Scottish People? ...The Britons

The Scottish nation are an mix of many peoples. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey looks at some of the peoples who made Scotland: The Scots, the Picts, the Angles, the Vikings and in this episode... the Britons
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.

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Find out more about the formation of Scotland here

[@richardmathews6236]

The place names in that part of Scotland are to a large part of old Welsh origin. Glasgow,Glas cau in Welsh - green hollow, Ecclefechan, Eglwys Ffychan - little church. Peebles, pabell - tent, Perth, Perth - thicket, Penicuik - pen y cog - hill of the cuckoo, Lanark , Llanerch - grove and the list goes on. In Welsh we call the Britons of Strathclyde or Ystrad Clyd ‘yr gwr o hen gogledd’ the men of the old north and the poem y Gododdin by the poet Aneurin celebrates them feasting at Caer Edin, Edinburgh castle before going to battle against the Angles at Catraeth - catterick

[@RobinBassett]

I love this!

[@rosfow]

I'm from Cumbria and we still have some remnants of the brythonic language in our place names and our counting system. Penrith, Blencathra, Blennerhasset, Cumrew are a few of the ones I can think of. I think Carlisle was still part of Scotland until the 12th (on and off, there was a lot of fighting over it).

[@nancyholcombe8030]

Hi Bruce, the poor churchmouse here! Yes, Welsh is a truly great and totally bamboozling Celtic language! I fought hard one year to learn a Welsh song to sing for a solo turn at our Celtic Festival. Even got a Welsh friend to oversee my pronunciation of the words so I could give the audience a truly good example of how beautiful the language is! Afterwards, I was approached by an old man with tears flowing down his cheeks. Thinking something was wrong, I immediately asked him if I could be of any help. He took my outstretched hand in both of his and said "My God, you honestly sang in Welsh! You sang Ar Lan Y Mor! I've not heard that song sung in fifty years by anybody! Thank you! Thank you so much for singing about my homeland tonight!" We hugged and I promised to sing it at my band's set the next day. The others were miffed, but I did it alone instead of the song we had practised. He stood up from his chair and started singing it with me! So very, very cool to dig that deep and actually reach someone! I give you kudos just for tackling a name. It took me six months to get an entire song right! Now, on to the second matter: so, you're not a historian just like I'm not one. Nevermind I have liked and studied history since I was a child, have to-the-ceiling bookcases full of history books, love the debate of 'what really happened here', search the internet for what I just learned about every time I have a minute and understand that the people who came before us had lives both happy and sad, humorous and tragic. I would wager you are much the same as me in this. That makes us amateur historians perhaps (that's what my friends call me) but I fear your former teaching profession makes you belittle your own knowledge. You are a student of history but so are those with PhDs. The audience you have gathered here is proof that you love and respect history no matter what that history may be, telling the whole tale from many sides with very little bias, something that most 'historians' can't or won't do. I could talk rings around most of my professors It was something that the class actually stayed awake to hear! You once told me to be a proud churchmouse. I hope you you will consider yourself to be a proud storyteller of history!

[@tonykirkbride8588]

Thanks for including Cumbria its early history is often ignored.

[@jsnedd66]

I have a Brythonic name my self and love it ... Scotland in the heart.really love this!

[@caperknight]

I am from Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, in some ways we pride ourselves in our Scottish roots more than being Canadian. We have what we recognize as our own official Tartan, you are likely to have bagpipes at special occasions or greeting tourists, and as far as place names for me to get to my friends home 15 min away I have to travel through Caledonia, Sterling, and New Aberdeen. We have even sent highland dancers over to Scotland to perform and teach.

[@ayrshireman1314]

Great stuff. As a proud Ayrshireman, IMO the Britons of Southern Scotland and the Kingdom of Strathclyde is utterly fascinating, yet criminally ignored.

[@tobiw20041]

I may be about as English as you can get, but I love what you're doing; bringing to light the history of our island and celebrating Scottish history. I've certainly learned a lot, so thank you!

[@dan38910]

We have a name in Welsh for that area it's Yr Hen Ogledd, literally meaning the old north it refers to northern England and Lowland Scotland.

[@francisfischer7620]

Thank you for your clear articulation. I'm ashamed to say it but sometimes I can't understand the magnificent Scottish dialect. I don't miss a word you say.

[@laurencemaccarthaigh1130]

Thank you for doing this video bruce. I'm half welsh half Scots from strathclyde and I feel strongly about the history and culture of strathclyde and hate that our history is completely ignored by the scottish education system and government

[@nathanbeard513]

I have to say that you do a fantastic job navigating the waters of history and explaining them in a diplomatic way.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Thanks for this. I was born in Govan, then moved to France: from the place where St. Gildas was born , to the parish named after him in Brittany---by chance!

[@Valhalla88888]

Good job Bruce, I've read somewhere that King Arthur was a Pictish King in the 5th century, born in the Aberdeen area and was fighting the Romans and the Anglo Saxons, it appears the legend of Arthur is not English or Cornish but rather a Pictish Scotii King, why the English (Anglo Saxons) portray him as English is quite weird he was fighting the Saxons who become the English😂

[@brianharris16]

My wife's grandmother was baptized in Govan Old and her great grandparents married there. They moved from Glasgow in 1928 to here in Philadelphia. We were lucky and got to visit there in 2018 and viewed all the records the staff had prepped for us for our visit. They are doing excellent work with the Govan Stones and the history of Govan.

[@shaunbryant3723]

Am a Yorkshire man but have to say I love your vids and as a lover of history and Scotland I have learnt so much more from them... keep em coming👍👌😎

[@ObservantPiratePlus]

Me and the wife love this channel! What a wonderful way to celebrate and learn more about our MacDonald heritage! And always beginning with your epic opening of "Let me tell you a story"...reminiscent of the opening lines of "Conan the Barbarian", when the wizard played by Mako uttered: "Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!". Slainte mhath!

[@irenebas]

You make me laugh! "Like GOT without the smart arsed midget" 😂