A History Of Scotland - Episode 4 - Language Is Power (1/6)

[fesbahn]

ive always preferred burger king myself

[TheDavePod]

I am a Stewart. Not only does this documentary tell me of my ancient family, but it also tells me the wider story. long live Scotland

[GreatScot161]

@gentlysqueamish without Scotland and it's people, the world would be minus a lot of inventions and discoveries.That Sh***y little country that you dare to call it, has contributed more to the world than any other. I don't have enough time or space here to list them. Maybe if you had been educated in Scotland, you wouldn't be so stupid!!!!!

[MegaProjectpat]

flagged shitty little rocck comment as spam :P

[hitthatperfectbeat]

@gentlysqueamish Well, seeing as you're not Scottish, i'm not sure who would expect you to "love" Scotland. One would only expect to find a sense of Scottish patriotism in actual Scots. However, it seems a bit lame of you to prowl youtube videos specifically about Scotland just to vent your spleen and inflame the tempers of righteously proud Scottish people. Seems like you should get a life and stop worrying about the place where your dad was born.

[celtichugs123]

"It's the first language we all had" WRONG!

Before English, yes. But far from the first.

[winnemuca]

neil is hot! looks a little like a native american lol

[zeldaofarel]

On Skye I saw a Gaelic language program. Ah, I miss Skye.

[TheLoyalOfficer]

Lots of dripping blood drops in this series...

[narsplace]

I have a friend from Scotland who speaks Gaelic, I would love to speak Gaelic to her one day.

[Hobgoblin1975]

I have a scottish friend I play an online space war game with. I get him to say "She can't take any more captain!" whenever I can. He is a good sport about it .

[andinoble]

Gaelic arrived from Ireland 500AD in the West.Anglo-Saxon(English) arrived in the East the same time.The people of "Scotland"then spoke British(ancestor of modern Welsh(&Cumbric))&Pictish(perha­ps a branch of British).Gaelic was dominant till the 13/14th century when the Kings&nobles of Norman/French/Anglo-Scots became dominant,"decided"to call"Inglis""Scots" and Scottish(Gaelic)"Erse"(to say it´s foreign).A power/language Coup d´etat. Scots have(always had)a"laissez fair" attitude to language:-)

[GrooveDoctor77]

Scotland and Ireland both have a mystical beauty ,all my life I have wished to travel there

[ZaychekTheBunnyman]

@GrooveDoctor77 They are nothing like each other, the only similarity is in the mind of Hollywood

[Ronika14]

@GrooveDoctor77 Just DO it, then! Like I did. I just packed my bags and went to Scotland. It's breathtaking

[sudhar10C]

jesus christ @1:05!

[hardtoresist100]

wonderful place to live and study

[TheBighairyfart]

i don;t think the picts spoke gaelic, so its not the 1st language in scotland

[seonidh]

@TheBighairyfart look at the names the pictish kings had

Conall son of Tarla

Bruide mac Bili

Drest mac Domnal

from the 6th century they had gaelic sounding names therefore gaelic is scottish



[TheBighairyfart]

@seonidh gaelic is not scottish as such. Both picts and scots are from ireland originally. Not sure about the gaels.

[seonidh]

@TheBighairyfart gaelic in the modern sense of Manx, irish and scotthish gaelic are from those places not just ireland. You may as well say Czech and Ploish are Russian! Also Picts are not irish at all the picts immigrated TO ireland and called themselves the Cruithne not the othe way about.

[TheBighairyfart]

@seonidh Nope the Picts are from northern Ireland. Also scottish is scots english if anything. Gaelic is much more distinct to scots.

[seonidh]

@TheBighairyfart the Cruithne were not from ireland they are mezolithic peoples tthat are native to britain

[TheBighairyfart]

@seonidh Say I believe you, what would you say are the distinct features of Picts or Cruithne? Also what seperates Beaker people?

[seonidh]

@TheBighairyfart the picti were culturally similar in a lot of ways to the other peoples of britain and ireland. However in some ways they were different. Culturally the carved stone balls or towie, broch builders, the first cranogs and also most strikingly St Columba needed an interpreter to communicate with them. The stylish pictish symbols are not seen in other parts of the UK and Ireland.

[TheBighairyfart]

@seonidh Physical features as well?

[seonidh]

@TheBighairyfart not having met a pict from 2000 years ago i couldnt say

[Thetruthofman]

I love Scotland and Iwent there in may 2010:) Its amazing!!!!

[ummagumma00]

my band wants to record our EP in scotland....in a fookin castle!!

[StellandBlood]

Who placed the commentaries below,its a fucking retard.

[goldensassenach]

Gaels originate from the Spanish Celts but wasn't there around 3-5 waves of tribal Celt immigrations from Europe (France,Germany,Netherlands,Be­lgium) over a couple of hundred yrs? And weren't the Bretons who later became the Welsh part of the early immigration? Didn't the Picts become the dominate tribe out of 6-8 small groups? Anyone know the original tribes of Scotland?

Sorry if i'm annoying :)

[BromTown]

My grandmother was Scottish, woo hoo!

Asides from her, I'm %100 Australian... but then we're mostly descendants of Gaels and Celts anyway!

[timotimekvej]

@BromTown Scots are cool!

[AndrewJimScott]

gaelic and welsh and french turns me on

[XeIpherpolis]

Where's Sheamus in this documentary????

[kenallenone]

@XeIpherpolis He's Irish, not Scottish

[darkpassenger09]

@XeIpherpolis : He's Irish. Not Scottish.

[iamdiva]

Oh and this video stops at about 7:01, and won't let me continue. Just to let you know. Made me sad :(

[Sommorex]

zo veel indruk op mij gemaakt... I love scotland.......

[VietFood]

@Sommorex kan je me helpen? ik moet een presentatie over schotland maken..

[fifimsp]

This narrator is too adorable for words. Get documentary. I'm American but have Scottish in me and didn't really know much of their history, so this is good to watch.

[alanheath]

@fifimsp He also helped with a British series called Coast examining the coast of the UK. Very impressive there too!

[fifimsp]

@alanheath Interesting. I like watching documentaries. Especially history since I was a history major. As I said. I have Scottish in me. Welsh too. I'm basically northern European ancestry. He also did one on Cleopatra. I just think he's adorable as all hell. Even my husband agreed. I don't think he's fine or anything. Just adorable.

[alanheath]

@fifimsp There is a new word I learned recently - infoholism. It is a problem I have. I keep wanting to know more and things like this just add to it!! I think this presenter is brilliant, one can feel how he really gets to it. He adds to so much feeling to what he is doing!

I have a degree in linguistics - but history is my big interest!!

[fifimsp]

@alanheath OOOOooo. Linguistics. So you are unemployable too huh? Just kidding. I do have a degree in special ed also so I do have a job. Yeah, I watched a very good documentary on the history of the English language. It was by the BBC as well. Very good. Like 8 hours long. Yeah, I have the same disease. You are probably like me too. You remember everything. My friend once told me I'm a walking encyclopedia. LOL.

[alanheath]

@fifimsp Yes, quite, unemployable!! I only did linguistics because I thought it would be something I could sell. I was originally going to do history but I realised there was no way I could sell it. Linguistics + translation theory and one can translate for a living. That is why I publish a magazine on the packaging industry!!

However I do a lot of history research - and I publish it here on you tube - hopefully someone else might write it down!!

I am also a walking encyclopedia!!

[allexx1212]

I haven't yet seen more beautiful documentary!

[simonbath]

beautiful landscape, beautiful. why we need overgloss in the shots of the programme host each time,thinning hair blowing, scarf overfluffed, colour coordinated clobber, cornea halo..i dont know...oh, its the bbc. of course. 

[MrMetalheart10]

Im the only Scot who acctualy still wants scotland to be an independant nation but am not acctualy biggoted?

[mcnailler93G]

I find the Gaelic history of Scotland fascinating. Apparently my direct paternal line descends from Norse-Gaels. There have been a few DNA tests that back this up as well.

[Glgebhrste]

I find the debate on how "native" Gaelic is to Scotland amusing. The fact is yes Pictish was dominant in Scotland before Gaelic, but Gaelic became the dominant language and culture around the same time Scotland became unified. It was the dominant language of all Scotland for about 300 years. (something this programme does not highlight). Saying one is more "native" to Scotland depends how you define Scotland - you can't say either was "first" without some qualification.

[RYANKOKO]

cheers

[forfaraway1]

the young king in Gaelic...

all the way back to" Iber the first Scot,son of Gaithel Glas.son of Neoilus,king of Athens,begotten of Scota,daughter of Pharaoh Chenthres,king of Egypt."

Chenthres is Ramesses II Pharoaoh of the oppression.

It

[HarryJackson1]

Pytheas called the picts the Pretanaki.

Scotlands history began arround AD 843.

Before that DATE Scotland did not exsist...

[seonidh]

@HarryJackson1 actually no nation in these islands existed before Scotland. If you want to split hairs Irish history would begin in the 11th century, English in the 9th with a unification into a country. If the unification of a nation is the start of a history then Scotlands is the oldest in these nations pre-dating the English and Irish nations.

[HarryJackson1]

@seonidh Yes but NOT Pretani.

[seonidh]

@HarryJackson1 Pritani as in brythonic britain (eg wales) or the Picts?

[HarryJackson1]

@seonidh I believe one and the same. Also Carnac in France were once part of the same peoples but have changed through what id call Roman and Egyptian thenic cleaning and turned into the modern UK,A satilte of Pharoah,as is the US.

[seonidh]

@HarryJackson1 I agree the brytonic celts and picts were one and the same people. But the Picts or Prytyn were never in the Roman Empire and they kept the older indigenous traditions lost to the brythonic celts. By the time of Hen Ogledd in the south of Scotland south of the antonine wall Rhygedd, Strathclyde and Gododdin thought they were similar byut somehow different. I suppose Rome had its influences.

[forfaraway1]

@seonidh d.They were the natives, not the foreigners,and they resisted the label of welsh and wales for a long time. As late as the 12th century they knew themselves as the Brythoniaid

[aolser10]

hi from ukraine

scotland is in myheart

[Apetite4Destruction]

Oh Scotland, how I love you. One day, I will visit you.

[aolser10]

oh my god very nice firsrt time i hear gealic i want more pls love u very much

[chickenspadge]

@Apetite4Destruction You're not Sean Connery by any chance?

[Apetite4Destruction]

@chickenspadge Nooo? Why?

[iamdiva]

@Apetite4Destruction Same.

[JenseninBrizo]

Thanks for these videos. My tv is working for SBS on Sunday nights when this is on and their website doesnt have these episodes only a trailer.

[shikesan]

scotland always looks beatufull to me, my dream is to travel there one day!

[acerb45666555]

4:46......the Norse gave everything to Scotland! better swords, axes, chainmail, helmets, improved ship building, layed out towns on a grid pattern, and new clans because of all the intermarriages! Camerons come from Danes! MacDonalds began as Norwegians i believe. so did Clan Gunn.

[McAndy89]

Bro, when does it say that?? The Norse didn't give everything to the Scots. There's a huge Irish, and Norman influence to. Look at Gaelic in Scotland, that came from Ireland.

[themanbearpig]

gaelic came from the celts who came from central europe, the most stupid thing about your point is that scots gaelic came from ireland, that doesn't make sense since both scots and irish gaelic developed at the same time! the norse and norman invasions happened at totally different peroiods in time. gaelic came from the celts who came from central europe.

[McAndy89]

Accually Scots gaelic originally came from Ireland, as the Scots are originally from there, and hence why the languages are quite similar. Also Gaelic did not come from the celts of central europe, it came from the celts in Ireland, as the Gaels were the celtic tribe which inhabited the island, and who spread into Scotland and the Isle of Man.

[themanbearpig]

i doubt that very much. the scotti where supposedly an irish tribe. but i'd rather not claim irish heritage, however faint. Im sure the normans, norse, saxons, angles, and picts had a far greater influence on scottish genetics than the tiny population of BC ireland.

[McAndy89]

What's to doubt, its fact. The Scotti were an Irish tribe. The Scots from Ireland aren't the main genetic pool of the country. The Picts were the original tribe inhabiting the land, and were there during the Roman period. The Gaels came over from Ireland after the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain. If you see epidsode one of this series it explains it. It explains why Gaelic, with its connection to Ireland, became the main language of Scotland, until the development of Broad Scots

[McAndy89]

And what are you basing your arguement on?? You'll find in any history of the Scottish Gaelic language, it has it origins from Old Irish Gaelic, as the Scots are originally from Ireland. The Picts were the native tribe of the land but their language died out.

[gaelscot]

@McAndy89 The Picts were a confederation of Celtic tribes living in what was later to become eastern and northern Scotland from before the Roman conquest of Britain until the 10th century, when they merged with the Gaels. They lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde rivers, and spoke the extinct Pictish language. we can argue all day long, i dont care who came first, the chicken or the egg, we are one gaelic tongue and one celtic culture, its the proddy english cunts i hate

[McAndy89]

@gaelscot Dude, what was my original comment? I haven't been on here for a while.

[TheScottishRocker]

@McAndy89

Scottish Gaelic does originate from Old Irish Gaelic but we weren't originally from Ireland.

Scots are originally from what is now Spain. He already goes through this in the documentary.

Too bad we can't play footie like them..

[StellandBlood]

@TheScottishRocker

Of course you can play like them.

[murphycline]

There's a difference between genetics and culture.

[tnb35]

@murphycline you say genetics with out even understanding what it means

genetically all humans are the same, Anglo-Saxon, Gaelic, African, japanese, Russian, Arab, Jewish, Indian

it's only culture that makes us different!

[gaelscot]

@McAndy89 ohhhh fuck off ya leprachaun. read up on your history. and the celts of ireland were descendants from spain.

[Bighairyfart]

anglo saxon infuence as well thorugh bernica, scots dialect is drawn fromn there as well

[McAndy89]

That's true Anglo saxon did influence the development of Scots dialect. Where's Bernica??

[Bighairyfart]

i think its sort of in both scotland and what northumbria were at around the 8th century not too sure, but its seems to have been split across the border as we know it

[bohemianwriter1]

Normans are of Norse descent mate. Hence the name Norman.

[acerb45666555]

yes, much thanks for posting!

[crescentcityarts]

Awesome series. Many are indebted to the effort taken to post this.

[alejandromatheson]

gaidhlig gu brath!

[crawfordfanatic]

but it is still very good

[crawfordfanatic]

he could have gone much deeper like simon schama

[crawfordfanatic]

yeah wow he totally jumped the gun on this documentary

[crawfordfanatic]

awesome!!!! TYTYTY for posting this