A History of Britain 5

This documentary goes through the history of Britain from the beginning and stops just short of the Norman Conquest.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• britain
• history
• celts
• celtic
• anglo
• saxon
• viking
• roman
• rome
• church
• bbc
• england
• scotland
• ilses
• orkney

[milehighcherrypie]

Thanks for this series; it's superb!! Great job.

[tompinoyger]

ze germans

[Rumpenstumpen97]

this is a nice serie I see it on my english lection and my teacher thinks it's great:D

[insertclevernickname]

@flameboy44English, Irish and Scottish maybe? Good question.

[gaiuskaiser]

Saxons=Issacs sons part of the 10 northern tribes of israel

[flameboy44]

@alantjost check previous post before saying anything out of place, just like you did.

[alantjost]

@flameboy44 What do you have against homosexuals, you Neanderthal bigot?

[PaganWarrior100]

Simon Schama missed out a lot of our history. What is rather sad is that he never mentioned the Arthur legend. There is a lot of evidence which can prove that an historical figure named Arthur existed around the ''Dark Ages''. In the Chronicles of England, it claims he was crowned king of Glamorgan which is interesting because there was a King Arthwys/Athrwys who was a King of Gwent who is very well recorded. The connection with South Wales and the Arthurian legend is very strong.

[Germericanboi]

@flameboy44 Germans of course. Having been converted themselves, they brought Christianity into Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia.

[flameboy44]

@Germericanboi I am also quite astonished to learn the Germanic and Nordic tribes share the same mythology. Who then invanded Scandinavia to bring Christianity there? I'm quite curious about that!

[flameboy44]

@Germericanboi Agreed, but I wouldn't speak about original culture, but original people. The English tend to forget this part of early history, because they Like the myth of the "impregnable Islands". Welsh, Cornish, Brittons and Galician, on the other hand, do keep a living memory of this fact, beeing the descendants of Britain's first inhabitants, the Celts.