Were The Ancient Celtic Warriors Really Barbarians? | Warriors Way | Odyssey
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- According to the Romans the Celts were little more than mindless barbarians, but was that actually the case? In this episode we take you to the Celtic golden age to find out if what the Romans say is true, or if there is actually a lot more to this diverse group of people.
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If fighting a lot makes you a barbarian, then we, as a species qualify.
Somebody peed in our gene pool
Never a truer word/s spoken 😌
This was a terrific answer!
The Celts were barbaric and the Romans were cultured and refined?! Look into what the Romans did to Queen Boudica and her family, and then tell me who the barbarians are.
The Roman's were also barbaric.
That was just the times for them all!
Good point. And what went on in the Coliseum, and all the regional arenas of the Romans, speaks for itself. Also, no culture that makes art as beautifully as the Celts did can be legitimately call barbaric. They were, however, quite brutal, and weird, in a number of ways.
The Romans were soldiers. The Celts were warriors.
A solider is just a type of warrior. They were all warriors.
No, discipline and tactics DEFINE Soldiers. In Celtic society, a Warrior's Honor was predicated on INDIVIDUAL prowess.@@Andy_Babb
@@Anaris10 And that's why they were eventually conquered
@@johndorilag4129and yet we are still here today and the roman empire fell centuries ago. So the soldiers lost ultimately to the warriors.
@@derrickguffey4775 Bro 31% of world religion is Christianity and 17% of that is Roman Catholic. The Vatican and its churches is worth 30 billion USD.. the Roman Empire never fell lol.. it just expanded and modernized
Forge = to sing makes sense because you can hear the ring of the heated metal and know if it’s heated enough or not
The skulls were trophies, and according to some sources certain heads would be preserved in cedar oil so they could be kept and taken out to display for longer periods without rotting. Which just takes the practice to a whole new level of dark.
... might not want to study english history... they had a practice ov pickling heads and displaying them on pikes outside market squares.
the case you mention was to display personal valor and remember a enemy/battle.
the case I mentioned is to scare the serfs into obeying 'lest this be you'.
to add to your fear ov mortality... in the wild west times ov 1900s they used to do death mask ov executed prisoners, now days we print photos ov people on their graves.
yeah... whole new level ov dark there....
The Picts were never defeated by the Romans, like this documentary suggests.
the picts wiped out there 9th,legion,,,,that was there sas,, not 1 survived,,mabey they eat them,,,,,
Back when man was free, before the empires took over everything. The last defenders of individual freedom and independence.
That is what we were told and to made believe it is true. And since the - ancient - Celts had nothing written down, there was for many years nothing to prove it otherwise.
Huh? Are you saying the Celts weren’t real? I hope not. That wouldn’t be a very uninformed statement.
@@Andy_Babb i did nowhere say they were not real. The only thing i said that they had nothing written down. So - we - had to rely mostly on writings from the Romans. And for them ANYTHING across the river Rhine was -barbaric.
And on the lighter side, and hopefully not taken to seriously, we all know -Asterix and Obelix-, and thy showed that they were not barbarians.....
Always depends on who tells the story. According to Rome everyone that fought them were barbarians...same with wars in other places. I think the Folks referred to as Vikings were also called barbarian as were Saxon, Angle and Jute tribes. All depends on perspective. Historically it is listed in the bible as well...Galatia was full of "those barbaric Celts"....LOL!
I suppose it would be rather interesting to see a whole bunch of could be naked folks with tattoos and a screaming instrument known as a Carnyx.
Why were the Celts, the Vikings, and various other peoples always fighting amongst themselves? Why didn’t they try to unify themselves the way that the Romans and the peoples of the Italic peoples did?
Right? If I were a Roman solider I’d totally have gone AWOL to go native and become a naked Celt.
@@jmwilliamsart Rhetorical question...Why do groups of people in present times fight with each other over nonsense that doesn't matter? Why do "tribal groups" fight one another over resources, belief systems etc....One would think humans would have learned not to do those things by now.
@@Andy_Babb 🤣🤣
There is only one instance and description of "Naked Celts" and that's the Geasatae warriors in the Po River Valley. Not too informed are you?.@@Andy_Babb
Is it so hard to imagine the Celts letting the head rot to the bone before tying it to their belts. It just went from 10 lbs to 2 or 3 and who said they tie 20 to their belts 🤔
I was about to type the same thing. Or like did they even consider the Celts draining the blood and removing the brain first? This doc all sounds like a load of BS and just a bunch people going "well this is what i would do, so its probably what they did"
“They granted their women more rights… and all that” lol wow okay 😂
True
😂 I was doing some work and I had to back it up to make sure that's what they said. Kelly deVies has short hair now but still at Loyola 5 years ago so this documentary is at least 7-10 years old. Liberals haven't really sank their teeth into every nook and cranny of society yet
The word barbarian was used to describe anyone that's different
Yep anyone that is not them. Great point
I have a feeling "forge" and "sing" have the same origin because of the way they would make the metal "sing" when hammering, not because they sang while forging
Just saying if I was an ancient person I would’ve definitely been a barbarian doing weird shit in the woods wearing… wearing animal skins. lol 😅
*posted from an iphone so we can validate his statement on being a woods dwelling weirdo
Some of us were just born in the wrong time, my guy.
So you're a Furry eh?
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 if a furry means killing and eating the animal and draping it over myself all bloody and running through the woods high on mushrooms... Then yes. Furry me the hell up
This programme non-ceasingly porttrays a very negative view of the Celtic peoples. None of the experts on celts were from their settled communities of Scotland, or Ireland, or Wales, etc. These communities had sagas/stories, made laws, were engaged in farming and commerce, made sophisticated non. military ornaments and utensils, had written words and languages, and had a mythic religious belif system.
This whole "documentary" is a load of BS and just random people saying "well this is what i would do, so it must be what they did" and trying to pass that off as fact lol
But the celts did banned writing, and damaged the Temple of Apollo, and to be pedantic, no ancient writer referred to the inhabitants of the British Islands as ''celts'.'
Who speaks Celtic today?
Most of us speak Latin or Germanic languages today
That says all
Gaelic (the Celtic language) is extremely common in Ireland so most Irish folks speak "celtic" also it is spoken in a few areas around the coast of Spain and north Africa where the moorish peoples traveled, parts of their culture were picked up by the celts and vice-versa including the Gaelic language during their stop in ancient Northern Ireland
Very cool topic
Always. Check out Neil Oliver’s multiple series’ about ancient Britain, Celts, Vikings, Scotland… he’s got a bunch of really good ones. Also a series called Britain BC & second part called Britain AD.
If anyone's interested in hard-core Celtic warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's content
Haven’t had a chance to watch any vids yet but looks interesting at first glance. Thanks!
thank you. this channel is quickly loosing any merit it once had. I'm not smart enough to poke this many holes in a documentary and I shouldn't feel smart for knowing more than what I am taught.
EDIT!!! Double thank you! low production value. slides ov actual events and items. may actually learn from this Schwerpunkt's guy
Before governments made us citizens..the creator made us men
Revenge is another thing a warrior prayed for then, and now.
Unrefined and deserved the military life? With all due respect, I beg to differ. Anyone from any military is refined in combat.
Drustan? Drustan is a British Celtic name from the story of Tristan and Isolde.
Didn't speak Greek, so yes
That’s random… you know we don’t know what you’re thinking when you leave a comment, right? 😉 lol
@@Andy_Babb answering the question in the title xD
"Before common era" so lemme ask, what defines the "common era"?
It makes it seem like the only thing the Celts ever said was, “Aaaarrrrrrrgh!”
And that’s the last sound you would hear if you were lucky!
Pirate thieves strike again
Dont forget Boudica And herDaughters were all Raped by Roman solders before she went after Rome. Having scandanavian and celt blood my family are red heads orvhave pitch black hair and most are 6' or taller. Including women. One of my aunts reminded me of Beutica!
Y’all just uploaded this series on your Chronicle channel lolol
Of course they were! Julius Caesar said so 😂
Why do the leaders in your cover art work always resemble Hollywood actors with gym workout bodies? It's silly.
… they’re cartoons?
If they fought like is depicted here, they wouldn't last for a minute on the battlefield.
According the Romans and Greek everyone who did speek like barbarbar and not Greek or Latin were barbarians. The Egyptians and Persians were barbarians.
Well they definitely didn’t speak Greek if that’s what you’re asking
Is it just me or is Alzbeta HOT?
Nothing like some European history with an American accent. 😁
They did not call themselves "Celtic" that's what the Romans called their langauges. Prove me wrong if you read this comment and disagree dont say no opinions come with facts like I did.
- In current scholarship, 'Celt' primarily refers to 'speakers of Celtic languages' rather than to a single ethnic group -
Figjting nude 😮 what a distraction...... Especially if they look like the 'Chief' 😅
Roman's had BYOB Celt strip clubs. Ride that pole.
I do not know her name but the woman contributor to this story has stolen my heart, she is not only educated , but beautiful. will I ever see her again?
History is also often written by sore losers.......
Yes, they were barbarians. Any culture engaged in human sacrifice is barbaric
😂😂😂
Not even eight minutes in and all of a sudden women are considered just as viable/likely/feasible as male warriors....
You get your girl army and I'll get my guy army and who do you think will win 100/100?
This is superficial, will tell you nothing about the Celts, and is lacking in any real value as a doc. You have been warned.
i'm a barbarian when it comes to my sex life
Usually people who make comments or say things like that are compensating for whatever the brag is 😂 jk. Sorry I couldn’t help myself.
They probably get none on the regular 😂
The Ancient Anians! Celtic is a language 🗣 CITED SOURCE: In current scholarship, 'Celt' primarily refers to 'speakers of Celtic languages' rather than to a single ethnic group.
Eliminate the Ignorance!
No, Gallic is a language. Probably what the celts spoke, or close to it.
Celtic is the name of their Culture. This Culture spans across Europe and the Islands. All of these people groups are of different Ethnicities and their Languages are slightly different, being dialects of Gaelic.
The Romans are the ones who gave Scotland it's name, as they called people who spoke Gaelic, Scoti. The original name of this area is Alba, and the people called themselves Ibre.
@@padillas4357 which is "Hebrew" making them related to the Romans. Huh
Too bad they don't check back into their comments so we can eliminate this thread
@@6offdutyninjasN1 The only thing needing elimination is the ignorance where you think I am wrong without citing any proof. Stop trying to troll people who know truth by suggesting a thought
Wow! Their Greatest Warrior was a Woman! Just like on the TV now!!😂 Pi$$ off