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Your money 💰 is your money 💵 but remember you’ll get what you pay for.

Thanks for such a nice explanation of your own decision and encouragement to others to follow the best path for themselves, whatever it may be. As a person in their late 60's I wholeheartedly agree with your advice and add that there can be several points in one's life that require rethinking and re-orienting. A good fit for one's interests, motivations and mental health only remains the same for some people over a life time. But we can get caught up in thinking we have to stay the course, that giving up on something that's not working demonstrates failure or low character, that we're too invested or obligated to shift away from it, or just fear of making a change. Then we're stuck. And miserable. So, thanks again for putting your own story out there and doing that responsibly. Glad to hear you're much pleased. And surely there's inspiration in it for others.

I think I am hearing your lady love in the background laughing at your Old English impression, and she has a beautiful laugh. Or it may be your mother or just a friend. Either way please pass on to her that her laugh is like music and I hope life brings her abundant opportunities for joy and laughter

I would say that archery that means military war bows in the hands of people who are trained and practice is better than matchlock muskets ( And yes, I am expanding this beyond scope) However, when it comes to Flintlock muskets, we don’t have to manage your glowing that match, and you can have something at the ready and even shield it from the rain when it comes to ease and training and having ready spear, musket will be better than archery With one exception, if you have a contingent of archers mass together, who are highly trained and practice, then they’re on par or even superior if they deployed properly, that means they can mass fire That’s because they can shoot faster than the muskets can reload

I think I would wear something like this on the daily.

Personally, I feel like comparing a napoleonic musket to a longbow it’s like comparing a 1911 to a Flintlock. A better comparison in my opinion, would be longbow versus matchlock.

Rollo also wore clothes from Paris, not just his vikings clothes.

Ah, my favorite historical breeches, because they look like they constantly betray their master's vulgar actions. 💨

There are people who still today prefer to keep their wealth in gold and silver, rather than in paper money. I know that's a bit off topic, but it's similar.😊

Did vikings wipe their arse? What did they use ?

Re: Viking being a job description, not a culture - it just reminded me of being in Japan and learning that the Japanese call buffet dining "Viking Style" ..... Because you just go take what you want.😅

Well done, Jimmie, well done!

My dad taught me how to read welsh when I was 7. It took maybe an hour. Wish he bothered to teach me more than how to say Llanfairpwll’s full name…

Random thought on an old video: hair texture can change if you wear hair up and more specifically covered over long periods of time (months at least if not years). Hair can also stop growing if it’s consistently covered like that. I wonder how much research there has been on medieval women’s (or men’s) hair texture due to headcoverings

This was great. The more I learn about history and see the myths get debunked, the less I realise I know about the world

Great job!

very helpful thank you

This was very informative. Very shocked to learn about the truth behind counterfeit honey and mead not always actually being genuine mead

Sorry, but, how can i write "Fenrir" on runes? Because i see to differents ways on Google. Thanks you.

Just hammered a brass bracelet into a penannular brooch with flared flat ends. Pretty neat thing. Thanks for the info. Side question, does me carving small crosses into the ends make it ahistorical?

I've got a bit of confusion I'll have to dig in more as some look identical across the board (Tyr for instance) but this is excellent information thank you!

Do you need some allo mothers to get behind you, fuss at you a little, set some timelines? Basically get your ass back in gear. Maybe you do need to take a bit of time off. Don't do as I did and take 26 years to return to working for my degree. We don't regret what we've done; only what we didn't do.I was almost 40 and Sir Brian May was older still. Do I use my degree? Nope. I'm retired now but I never was a quitter but I did let life get in the way. I'm still writing papers in my head that will never see the printed page but that's ok. Take some time and see if, in time, you can't let it go.You'll know when the time is right or I come and let my booted foot come in sharp contact with your posterior.

So I take it the vegvisir is in the same category? I was about to get it as a tattoo until I watched this video, I'm kinda anti Christian 😅.

What PhDs put people through is beyond the pale. I can totally understand. I'm sure you will fill your life with awesomeness like you have been.

My dad’s from Midlands and he didn’t have an indoor toilet until the 80s… because his dad built a “hallway” to it. Still not plumbed but he said it was so much nicer than having to run outside in the cold to the privy bc you have to take a poo and put it off as long as you could

You are very pretty of course, but could we look at pictures of the jewelry for a bit longer? We can. pause the video to gaze longingly for a longer time, yes.

These turned out fantastic! I may need to crack open my copy of The Cut Of Men's Clothes and finally have a go at making myself some pants. They look ridiculously comfortable.

I have decided to quit phd now looking for another way to get out of this institution

According to the Genomelink website, I have 10% Viking DNA.

All of your videos are so fun, charming and informative. I love putting them on while I work on my own historical costuming (so much hemming). Keep up the wonderful work :)

You are beautiful and intelligent

Nearly all old societies inked their skin. The thawed-out caveman had many tattoos.

Appreciate the update. Was wondering how that was going. Also I am getting far less of your stuff pop up in my feed. :( Had to come searching for your videos

I would LOVE to see you teach Welsh!

Mwynhais hwn. Ti'n swinio'n mor wahanol pryd chi'n siarad Cymraeg 😅 (rwyn flin am fy gymraeg ddrwg, dwi'n ail iaith)

The best thing about medieval clothes is how long they are! In modern clothing you might wear a warm jacket and your torso is fine, but your legs are cold because you only wear a pair of jeans. But with medieval clothes you wear woollen pants, you wear leg wraps, and you wear long tunics that cover thighs, so your legs are warm as well, and that does so much for your overall comfort!

Great job on the breeches, but I found the music so distracting. Much rather listen to you.

Historical Arthur cosplay when? :D

Whatever you intend doing with the fabric after you’ve made the item (wash, iron etc.), do to it before marking and sewing! It’s amazing how much some fabrics shrink!

Jimmy! This was very cool. I enjoyed your narration immensely. The video of the inside of the keep was very well done! Please do another when you can. 👍

Even the village idiot can figure out how to stick a threaded needle through some material and poke it back through. Repeat until your bum is no longer on display. Lazy is the proper term for the re-enactor you spoke of. Even in the 20th century Navy, my brothers had to embroider their initials onto their clothes.

That length of fabric reminds me of my years with a Japanese Minyo dance troupe (I was the English-speaking presenter.) Their kimono were handsewn from 14" wide silk. Washing them involved disassembling them and shipping them to a specialist laundry in Japan.

The breeches look great! Nice job and thanks for for bringing us along on the ride. Look forward to the next steps😊

It's finally happened to me (not even in a car or plastic bag or owt, just in my room sitting on the carpet for some reason) so I'm very glad to have this video to come back to!

I am also a Welsh Viking with my mothers family being from Scandinavia and my farther being Wales with a family grave site going back over 300 years. But I am blonde with blue/green eyes at 37 years old and so are my kids are also blonde along with some 12 other children of my family. my wife is Irish/Welsh by decent with black hair and blue eyes. it still strikes me as amazing that the genetics still come out after all this time. I live in Wales and always will, the woods fields and streams are my home..I cant be anywhere else.

Does anyone else watch these videos twice? They are just so pleasant to listen to!

This feels a lot like being in sixth grade and realizing I could wipe the floor with most people at two truths and a lie if I just chose an obscure fact, used the right tone of voice and added enough surface level knowledge about the aspects surrounding it. Perversely, it also worked on the GMs, because they rarely if ever kept a copy of the reference material for themselves during the game, and could not tell which would-be rube was just very confidently telling utter hogwash about a subject they had a degree in and had spent hours preparing facts about the night before. This isn't academics being butthurt that no one will accept their theory. This is a student taking to twitter after it turns out their professor actually has access to the semi-obscure text they used to lend credence to their doctored references.

Oh wow 😂 L.o.l. you are so right and observant @puredabs, this video has the look and feel of the 60s era, like those open uni lectures they used to have on back in the day on BBC channels i think.

This guy is sage for one so relatively young he is like an old soul bursting firth full of knowledge of welsh history and that, i have been fortunate to have met him on several occasions, he is hardly susprisely a popular person to do talks and workshop's on anything related to welsh history, he brings this subject to life, and its like watching with fondness your grandfather or any other older member 🤔 of your family / family friend waxing lyrically about their favorite subject to you..

If it's fictional fantasy it shouldn't matter. Now It WOULD be nice if they made a separate series that centers around the Songhai Empire and Mali Empire as well. There is a rich history in medieval West Africa.