A History Of Scotland - Episode 1 - The Last Of The Free (3/6)

[metalandjazzare1]

i do love living here

[bongcouver]

4:19 something just doesn't seem right about the section of the carving where the celtic knotting seems to have been taken away, or not finished. as if it was broken and replaced possible?

[ChuckyDoll10]

yo yo yo

[ChuckyDoll10]

jamgilp - Thanks for posting my friend. I never got chance to watch this series when it was first broadcast by the BBC.

[cairnmont]

The introduction of christianity to the Picts was a move in a better direction, but there journey still needs to be made complete with the acceptance of monotheism (ie. as belief in the One Living Incorporeal G-D) by the Celts.

[squirell1952]

were the picts really the first "outsiders" to discover and settle in Britain?

The Welsh claim THEY were there first!

Oh. Lordy, this sound like a detective story, a whodunnit, a whowoztherefirst!!

The English, of course, were the last "outsiders" to arrive, first the anglo-saxons, followed by the Normans. Engliksh is the youngest country or culture in GB.

But, pray tell me, where does CORNWALL fit into all this?

Go on, convince me if you can. BET YA CAN'T!!

[teague67]

@squirell1952 Cornwall is the remains of Wessex.

[teague67]

@squirell1952 sorry, dumnonia.

[ADZ01982]

@squirell1952 Sorry but you are wrong. You think that when the Saxons came every native Briton ran to Wales leaving what is England now completely empty ?! No! Saxons came and settled but the majority of the population in England where natives. After a generation or two you would be unable to distinguish between a Saxon and a native. Oh and the Anglo- Saxon Kingdom of Northumbia included Edinburgh and southern Scotland for hundreds of years so Scotland hardly has a unique "culture does it" ?

[NordenHonor]

Immidiatly when i saw the sea and heard the drums of war i knew the vikings were coming.

[lamarmousse]

@WRz101

It's widely known, documented (and even heard in the Scottish Gaelic tongue as it's still spoken) that the Vikings took their cults and way of life to the Outer and Inner Hebrides when they landed there to stay, but how do you know their gods' names are implied in the modern era as days of the week?

[Infernocast]

1:34 epic battle

[MrBedlam75]

Is he going to talk about the Ruthwell cross or Bernicia, or any part of the Danelaw that are parts of modern Scotland? I guess I will watch the rest of the series and see, but it would be a shame to ignore a highly influential piece of history like that. Also, describing some peoples as "blood thirsty" seems biased to me.

[TomFynn]

The fact that they had to list all these manners of death somehow worries me...

[zeldaofarel]

I saw this stone in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. A must-visit if you're there!

[Nortrix87]

08:45 love the music of invation =P

[dhsscd]

The Vikings came to supress christianity.

[RedCastle5000]

@dhsscd Didn't the Norwegian Vikings settle the Shetland and Orkney islands, and even parts of Ireland? Where as the Danish Vikings settled England?

[dhsscd]

This christianity crap for the Picts is total PC. The cross predates christinianity. Christianity STOLE it. It was originally an equal armed cross. Rome modified it.

[foundationgood]

@dhsscd You miss the point of the cross, the cross is the chosen instrument for the sacrificial death of the Son of God, which brought man salvation from sin-These pics came to believe and found the power of SALVATION through Christ....this is reflected in the carving. If it was weed they found it would have been a splif or a Marijuana leaf. However that messes heads up Jesus changes lives by His power...it 's testimony from them and from us today...Awesome

[mcRioRemedy]

he has the best job, id love to travel every inch of scotland and get paid for it, shit id do it for free if they paid my travel

[Bankehamreogsmadre]

Odin is in fact one of the gods of war, along with Thor and Tyr.

The main difference is that Thor isn't exactly a master of tactic and trickery whilst both Tyr and Odin are sound tacticians and Odin as the King of the gods has wisdom and knowledge beyond Both Thor and Tyr

[Skadoosh417]

LAMBS AT 6:06 SO CUUUUTE

[farbehindthesun]

The "pagan" beliefs are very misrepresented in this video. Odin and Thor were not gods of war. They in fact roughly correspond to the the Roman gods Mercury(Odin) and Jupiter(Thor). Tyr was their god of war (think tyranny) corresponding to the Roman Mars. In Julius Ceasars writings on the Germanic Tribes he said that they worshiped Mercury as Wotan. These correspondences are easily seen by comparing the days of the week in say English and Spanish. ie Tuesday - Martes, Monday - Miercoles

[callofduty4eva]

@farbehindthesun Monday is Lunes. Wednesday is Miercoles.

[djskajanddjdod]

It sounds to me that Chrstianity was forced upon them. So much for it being a religion of love and peace, with respect for other beliefs, eh?

[timotimekvej]

@djskajanddjdod Chrstianity was forced upon many european nations. Those that refused to be converted were destroyed(Baltic Slavs by German crusaders), Cumanians, Huns banished. The old ways had to be rejected by european nations. Convert or dissapear.

[ragekage52]

moon day sun day

[subroto81]

Great documentary, I just wish they had shown more of pagan scotland and the different tribes.

[ragekage52]

@subroto81 me to being pagan my self

[fgwakely]

who this West Brit anyway?

[UnakaWaholi]

Since the Cherokees were about the first Native American tribe in North America to be completely converted to Christianity,just like the Gaels,I wonder what would have happened if the Cherokees tried to convert the other Natives they came in contact with.

[MrVincentR]

5:52 that lamb is takin a leak

[dark666joker]

@MrVincentR Thank you Verrrry much.

Things shouldn't pass unseen.

Gorgeous.

[rtghffdfdg]

Great stuff. Thanks for posting.

[acerb45666555]

from that carving i see the picts had hair that was long but shaved on the sides. this was common in Poland too among the nobles. and also in the north american eastern woodlands.

[MsPsychDoc]

Thank you for posting the videos, I appreciate it much. Scotland is so beautiful, the landscape actually takes my breath away. I'm hoping one day soon, I am fortunate enough to visit your gorgeous country. Much peace...

[ibuchanan82]

Cultural intergration is a trend that is re-emerging in modern christianity, where a people are encouraged to embrace the culture God has placed them in as it makes them unique unto God. The Scot's now more than ever are important to God as being a culture with a warcry that will awaken the warrior within other nations.

Personally I think it is a good practice, win/win

[acerb45666555]

4:43.......The reason Christianity took hold was that elements of the original belief system were interwoven into the new religion. until the Vatican began to interfere.

[WRz101]

Traces of other beliefsstill exists without interference from Rome:

Wednesday = Wodens day (aka Odin a/the god)

Tuesday = Tiwesday, from Old English Tiwes dæg, named after the Nordic god Tyr

etc

Thursday = Thors day (Thor the god)

[AntiGrav510]

@WRz101 Friday = Freya's Day (Freya the goddess of beauty)

[ChuckyDoll10]

@WRz101 - I knew about Wednesday (Woden) and Thursday (Thor), thanks for the Tuesday recap though duder. ;-)

[acerb45666555]

the La Tenne style seen in Gaelic art is heavily influenced by Germanic-Scandinavian art. an influence from when Gaels were on the continent. thats my theory! :D