'Albion's Giants: Gogmagog, Brutus and the Conquest of Britain', with Dr Alixe Bovey
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Dr Alixe Bovey - Albion’s Giants: Gogmagog, Brutus and the Conquest of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, completed in the 1130s, opens c. 1200 BC with the tale of the conquest of Britain by a band of Trojan refugees. Led by Brutus, the great-grandson of Aeneas, the Trojans made their way to an uninhabited island known as Albion, but on arrival they discovered that it’s overrun by ferocious giants. Renaming the island Britain after Brutus, they exterminated the giants, and then founded London as the new Troy. Although Geoffrey’s story kills off the giants in just a few lines, they have persisted in the myth and material culture of Britain. This talk explores the remarkable variety of giants in the visual arts - in manuscripts and books, carved into landscapes and as pageant figures - asking how and why they have survived so long and what they reveal about the monstrous origins of the British nation.
Dr Alixe Bovey is a specialist in medieval art history based at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she is Head of Research.
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My Father is from Glasgow. We have quite a few Family members over 7’.
And I believe that they all had red hair. Unbelievable really.
Arthur 1,son of Magnus Maximus.4th c.
Arthur 2,ap Meurig,6th c.
Uther Pendragon, a title.
Well stated Ian!😇😇😇
Arthur also a title...Arth = Bear Haern= Iron (Welsh) Iron Bear
There are two intakings of Troy 1st was the Mycaeneans C 1230 BC Troy V1 with its beautiful walls and C 1177 BC the City of Tenements Troy V11 badly damaged by the Sea Peoples and whose inhabitants appear to have joined with the Sea Peoples in their Invasion of the Levant and to defeat in Egypt.Then there is the huge structure found in Bush Lane, City of London walls 15ft thick going down into the earth the Excavator Prof W Grimes in 1961 was puzzled as lying on top to a depth of 3ft a mass of burnt debris which he tentatively assigned to Boudica's Burning of Londinium in AD61but to strictures placed on him he was not able to investigate further.
thank u...great presentation...we live in a world of giant lies.
Love the hairy man giant. That's a lot of history for an American to revisit. I enjoyed your presentation
Appreciate it
Giants are real.
Yep. The Nephilim in Bible
lol
@@EPHZAM exactly. Yet the Royals venerate them - Makes you wonder why (although I think we know).
@Anime10Music
6 months ago
lol
We totally are African monkeys that “evolved” you racist
spiritually in another realm
A brilliant lecture. Engaging, funny, insightful and entertaining... I learned loads. Thanks so much!
Excellent lecture!
Egypt Troy Rome Briton
The English say its a myth and the welsh says its a fact hir byw y cymreag , mae 'r duwiau'n dychwelyd i roi terfyn ar y celwyddau ❤
Wish those gods would hurry up a bit like.
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who is the woman introducing alixe
Was this before the Roman's conquered England?
The story of Brutus is supposed to take place in the BCE's, around the time of Solomon.
Yes the final destruction of Troy by the Sea Peoples took place in 1177 BC and there is a huge Knowledge Gap between then and 650BC where Writing and Learning becomes more common,Solomon was in the 10th C but proof is sparse but then would be near enough though earlier would fit in better and where did the County of Surrey originate?
It wasn't England. England wasn't a nation until after the romans left britain.
Soon won't be a nation again, days of the nation-states are over including France, Germany, all of them,, we'll go back to living in regions and be happier for it.@@IamKingCraig
@@IamKingCraig
It wasn't called Britain or London either, in fact all the names were different. However, by using modern names helps modern people to locate these places.
Couldn't Albion derive from Albania?
Albion derives from Albine an Assyrian princess who arrived at the now British isles in around 1500b
Surrey derives from Assyria too apparently the region first populated by said Assyrians.
nah there were two who declined
is gog and magog great britain and germany?
Gog means goth
@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Nay. Goths came from far away much later.
@@budbackeast same people. Magog means greater gothia
Where did goths originate?
@@jeanalice4732 they are sons of japheth.
O.Richter body*builder is 7f’t2incs and Angus.MacAskill was 7f’t9incs andboth inproporttion. Its still in thegenes of currentpopulation, so 6iants didexist.
𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓶 🤘
& Um & Um & Um & Um
Um, uh, ummmm, um, u-u-uhhh, *weird guttural “uuum”.*
Some lazy mistakes in this presentation, better research is required in order to be accurate.
To much and um....ahhh. ahhh. Umm ..studdering is annoying ,ruins presentation.......
I hardly noticed
Stuttering. Misspellings are annoying. They ruin comments sections.
Someone who is um, um, eh ehing is obviously terrible at telling lies .... stolen stories of the true Albion, which is what is now Scotland
Pelasgians -- who are they? Sarmati tribe... you are hiding things...