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As you can see, we spent the first thousand years getting invaded, and then spent the next thousand invading everyone else.
Actually it was about 500 years after the Romans we were constantly invaded, and we didn't invade everywhere, we were very late to the idea of colonisation. The French and British didn't empire build until long after the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese had setup their own empires, and they were very good at it, they discovered America and Australia and settled in, then when we had wars with them we took their territories.
First the French shoehorned themselves into the Americas, then we took it from them - due to one of the many wars we had with them, check the Anglo-French wars and their dates and check why the American revolutionary war ended in the treaty of Paris, in Paris, France, which is why the French aided the British in America to breakaway, they no doubt had ideas of taking it back afterwards. Later realising an ally is better than a friend so they continued to aid you rather than take it back. The Spanish retreated in South and Central America whilst the Dutch and French moved inland past were the British were comfortable extending their sea power.
Canada remained British, holding their own in any border disputes that the newly formed USA took it upon themselves to empire build, and failed, so they headed west in a scorched earth march west that decimated the native population. You know the rest, I assume.
@@daveofyorkshire301 Yes, I know that, it was half joke and half very broad fact. We were invaded for over a thousand years by the romans, the Normans and the Vickings, among other things and then only began invading other countries properly after about 1400.
Reparations lol
@@daveofyorkshire301 Good answer my friend.
Lighten up Dave🙄
"Wales was just chilling" - During this time, Wales was having its own civil wars and internecine battles. In Wales, the law said that when a king died, his kingdom had to be split up and shared by all of his sons (instead of just being inherited by the oldest son), so they had loads of wars of conquering and annexing each other all the time. If anything, Wales was much more kerfufflious and contrafibularitative than England was.
Lol.
Blackadder.
If you have Netflix, you might enjoy a dramatised version of what was going on between the Danes (Vikings), the ancient British (Welsh & Cornish), and the newly arrived Anglo-Saxons. It is contained in the reasonably historically accurate series The Last Kingdom. It's a great action adventure based on a series of books by Bernard Cornwell. There are 46 one-hour episodes over five series.
I was just about to recommend that myself. I think he would love it.
love that series!
Did the Last Kingdom go to Netflix or anything similar as I watched the first two series on BBC then it vanished.
Yes Netflix .
@@anthonyg4671 Thanks Anthony.
I live in a town almost slap bang in the middle of England. One of the most efficient things about the Viking/Danish longboats was that they could sail across very dangerous seas and then row on rivers so the Danes came here by crossing the North Sea (regarded as one of the most dangerous seas in the world, even today) and then they kept on rowing until they got to the end of the river. Lots of villages round here have names derived from the Danish. The Danish Vikings and the Norsemen didn't just do raids, they intermarried and settled here. As a result, a lot of British people have Viking blood.
In addition, the Vikings raided and settled in a lot of places in mainland Europe. At one point, they were causing so much grief in what is now France that the king gave them some land in the north in return for which they'd stop causing trouble for him. They called the land after themselves - Normandy, land of the men of the north. It wasn't long, one-two hundred years or so, before one of them crossed the English Channel - we call him William the Conqueror.
It’s so interesting to look back at history I’ve got a bit confused when you said mainland Europe but I know you mean like France and Germany and so on I was like Okay I’m confused as we are a European country
According to an ancestry test I have Danish & Swedish from my English mum's side, but also Norwegian from my dad's side. He's from Algeria😂
the Norse were incredibly explorative people: and not always as these murderous vikings the media likes to portray.
The letter “E” or ‘ead’ was common in names at that time, it means “prosperity” “riches”. Edmund begins with ead and then we have the word “mund” which means “protection”. In those days people didn’t have surnames, sometimes they were called a second name because of the colour of their hair etc. or after a famous father eg. Peter’s son. In the Doomsday Book which was a census and tax record introduced by William the Conqueror people were assigned surnames relating to their trade etc such as miller, Cartwright, smith etc.
In the case of Eric Blood Axe it was a name that probably struck fear into his enemies, it described his valour in battle, Bloodaxe.
Most commonly Eð or Æð which can be pronounced eth or ed hence the majority of those names, from Æthelflæd to Edmund
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@@gwpcs Not sure that the letter 'eth' was ever pronounced as a 'd', although it does look like one! Edmund was formerly spelled as Eadmund.
My great-grandma from Suffolk was Meadows, from Meade or whatever. Supposedly it goes farther back than around 450AD. I just assume that my entire lineage from that line were just a bunch of happy fairies prancing in meadows...
Yup, the origin of the Scots was Northern Irish. Pretty much all Scottish people have a mix of Pictish, Irish and Scandinavian DNA. You find higher levels of Danish DNA in areas close to or under the Danelaw, higher levels of Norse in the far north, which were colonised by the Norse until the 15th century, and higher levels of Irish in the West where Northern Ireland and western Scotland were the Gaelic kingdom of Dal Riata. But there’s a LOT of variation, because the Danes and Norse also had a presence in Ireland, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria reached into southern Scotland (the Doric Scots language is derived from the Northumbrian dialect of Old English), so Scottish people feel a lot of kinship towards Scandinavia and Ireland. Not so much to England, but that’s mainly due to post 1707 issues.
the Scott went all over the world. making babies.
@@badfairy9554 Yup, I’ve got family in Canada, the US, Mexico, Switzerland, Angola, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Wales. And only the Welsh side of the family came to Scotland, the rest all left.
@@badfairy9554 Shipped all over the world mate ..read up about the highlands and lowland clearance.
@@scotinternationalist1373 sounds cool
The stereotypical "irish", red hair, blue eyes, easy to drink and fight etc. is because something like 86-87% of irish men living today can trace their genetics back to norway specifically, a bunch of mostly fighting gingers over a thousand years ago..
They started with the lettter Æ which is not often used now. eg Æþelwulf is now written as Ethelwulf. We lost 6 letters when the printing press came in. Eth (ð) Thorn (þ) Wynn (ƿ) Yogh (ȝ) Ash (æ) Ethel (œ) The US lost the letter U in a lot of words for the same reason
I'm sure you're right about the old English but the letter U was added in England not removed from North American spellings.
@@drcl7429 Noah Webster, an Amercan, removed it in 1828.
When I was in infants school in the late 60's, I think that there was some kind of experiment with learning English, as I distinctly remember books having the "ash" and "ethel" letters. Confused the hell out of me :-) Wikipedia has informed me that the weird alphabet was called the "Initial Teaching Alphabet".
The 'oe' and 'ae' spellings were used while I was in school in the 1960s. Haemophilia, paediatrics, etc.
The 'th' thorn sign was the origin of the 'ye old pub' nonsense as well. Early printers did not bring that sign with them from Europe, as it wasn't used, so they substituted the 'Y' for the thorn for a time.
There is a similar history to the needs for umlauts describing the use of certain mixed vowel sounds in German as well. Hermann Goering, for example.
Would love to still have it written like that.
and this is why the Game of Thrones got written....lol
Side note about the Picts: That was the Roman name for the inhabitants of the North because they were well known for painting themselves. This is the root of the words Paint and Picture.
I'm really glad you've seen this. There was much reference to Aethelstan, and his brother Edmund I, who got assassinated. Did you realise that Edmund's descendants have held the English throne mostly ever since? William I, the Conqueror, stated he had a better right to the English throne than Harold II he defeated, since his wife was descended from Alfred the Great, and his son Henry I married the daughter of the last Princess of the line of Wessex, descended from Edmund. So our Queen Elizabeth II is a direct descendant of Edmund I, and it is Aethelstan's throne she really occupies.
Edgar the Peaceful had our first Coronation ceremony, in 973 in Bath Abbey. The ceremony then is still the basis for the present one.
Alfred the Great (the grandfather of Edmund I), who saved Wessex, was colossal; not only was he a great warrior and military organiser, he was a great scholar, who encouraged learning andwas able to translate at least something from Latin. All this while fighting the Vikings!
And his daughter Aethelflaed was quite something too - did you see that she saved Mercia, and expanded it? Aethelstan also thought learning was very important.
Before the different kingdoms united a terrific historian, the Venerable Bede ( died 734) wrote a history which to be honest is quite difficult to read, because he tries hard to get the complicated story - of everybody invading everybody else - properly right. To do this he brought in the idea of putting all the dates as "since the birth of our Lord" - Anno Domini in Latin - A.D.
A lot of the place names in the UK come from Roman and Viking times. London comes from the Roman name for the area Londinium, and York comes from Viking Jorvik (pronounced Yorvik)
General rule of thumb is:
* Any place name ending in "by" is Norse/Viking and has a costal bay or port... Grimsby.
* Any place name ending in "gate" is Norse/Viking and has a major road from 1 main town to another... Watlingate.
* any place with Ben/Pen/Tor in its name is Celtic and has a massive hill or small mountain nearby... Ben Nevis, Penrith and Glastonbury Tor.
* Any place with "hurst" or "dene" is Saxon and is in a valley. Crowhurst, Eastdene.
* Any place ending in "caster", or "chester" are Anglo-Saxon and built on an old Roman fort.
* Any place with "bourne" in it is an Anglo-Saxon settlement at a river mouth... Bournemouth, Eastbourne. BUT a "mouth" in it is Norman!
There's a few others I learnt off of a archeo-linguist (a university lecturer I know who studies the archeological records of a place through the names around it, like kinna like Time Team experts that don't wanna dig with Mick and Frances *glares pointedly at the geo-phys team*)!
Jorvik comes from the saxon Eoforwic which comes from the Roman Eboracum however so it isn't entirely a viking name in the sense that Grimsby or Derby are
@@Tarantio1983 Just to add that a bourne is a seasonal river, common in the south due to the chalk
Cornwall wasn't part of England until at the least the middle of the eleventh century.
Technically still isn't part of England as it was never formally annexed.
The English did massacre 10% of the population, but forgot to do the paperwork 😁
Important info the video leaves out:
Alfred the Great had his daughter, Æthelflæd married to Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. Æthelred was that ealdorman that was made ruler of Mercia by Alfred. His successor, Æthelflæd, was his wife and Alfred’s daughter.
Alfred himself was succeeded by his son, Edward. After Æthelflæd died, her daughter from Æthelred would become the ruler of Mercia for 6 months, after which Edward abolished the Mercian Witan(king’s council) and took full control of the kingdom.
I live in York, the vikings really left there Mark here, lots of place names and street names still use the viking name today, we also have week long Viking festival which a battle reenactment each year. Its a beautiful place to live, I can see why they liked it so much.
Yes York is gorgeous, I love anything about the Vikings being a Yorkshire lass my self.
But it didn't end there. England still kept going back and forth between Saxon kings, Viking kings, Saxon kings, Viking kings. Until, plot twist, in 1066 William the Conquerer comes over from Normandy, takes it off both of them and holds onto it first time. :) We've now had nearly a thousand years of Norman descendants ruling. (Incidentally, William was descended from both Saxons and Vikings, so you could argue both sides kinda won as well as neither.)
Er, actually King William 1st (or William the Conqueror) was a Norman, these were people who, although they spoke a dialect of French had their foundation in one King Rollo, a Norwegian (Norse) Viking!
So, technically, king Harald (an Anglo Saxon king) beat a Norwegian army under Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire, then marched his army south to (only just) be beaten by a Norman (Norse) army at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Complicated isn't it?
@@robertjohns7010 Ah, actually, I got it a bit wrong - he was descended from the Vikings, via Rollo, however, his claim to the English throne was through the Saxons. King Ethelred the Unready married Emma, William's great aunt, in 1002. Ethelred's son, Edward the Confessor, since he had no sons, supposedly (according to the Normans), promised to make William, his cousin once removed, his heir. Yes, it is complicated. :)
William's wife had (distant) Anglo-Saxon ancestry but he himself did not. His entire claim was based on his Great Aunt being married to two Kings of England and therefore being cousin to Edward the Confessor (His great aunts son)
This goes a good way to explain how the English language ended up like it did too. A good dash of German, Norse (which is also Germanic) and a bunch of French for good measure. You can still tell which areas of England were occupied by each group the longest with the local dialect.
For example up in the Newcastle area we'd all a child a bairn where the Norwegian word for child is barn. I'm teaching myself Norwegian atm and there's a lot of crossover with words (man in English is mann in Norwegian, cat in English is katt in Norwegian and a *lot* more) and being from where I am, my accent ties in with a lot of the pronunciation too. Interestingly, Geordies would say "yem" for home ("I'm gannin yem" (I'm going home)) and the Norwegian for home is hyem which is pronounced the same.
You can also look at a map of people in the UK with blue eyes and they're a lot less common in the south of the country where the angles and saxons had more influence and higher in the celtic/areas more influenced by Vikings areas.
In Some Essex Dialects they used the word Tack or Tak as a short hand way to say thanks now this may not be historical and purely accidental but Tack in Swedish and Danish means Thank you.
Very interesting comment 👍
Or words imported from the native languages of the countries which Britain incorporated into their empire, bungalow from India for example, "cup of cha" as used in some areas of the country for cup of tea came from China, English is quite a hotch-potch language. Do wonder whether Northumberland's proximity to Scotland where youngsters are called "bairns" is more of a reason than it's use than it's similarity to Norwegian word for child, also let's face it bits of modern day Northumberland were part of Scotland till not all that long ago add to that the fact that there must have been a fair amount of cross border re-settlement on those occasions the spread of terminology across that border must have happened, let's face it lots of people who live in Edinburgh will tell you that if you want to hear English spoken with perfect grammar you should listed to a well spoken Edinburgh dweller.
Many people don't think about Iceland when thinking about England, but a lot of our words are not just similar, but exactly the same as in Icelandic, like egg, in Swedish, Norwegian, etc, it's more commonly 'agg', but in Icelandic it's just egg, and a lot of their names for nuts are the same as ours but with additions on the end. I'm learning Icelandic and Swedish.
@@tyegerjak Historically speaking if you were a trader you generally also were a raider meaning you would have had some contact and understanding of the language and contact with peoples.
You should do a video like this on wales now it has some pritty good history to
I have learned more about England in the last 13 minutes, than in the last 62 years. Thank you!!
I am half Welsh, half Scottish - but born in England. We truly are a Friendly lot...
Same as me mate, done me ancestry and lived in England all my life got 0% english in me. 53% irish Scottish Welsh 27% scandinavian 13% balkan and 7% North West Europe ie France German Dutch 😀
@@cickymain6585 Mother found out she has Zero English, she has Celtic and Asian Indian ancestry her family was truly a product of the Empire
As he said, before all that, Britain had hundreds of years of Roman history and it also had thousands of years of ancient Britons. We go back a long way and all of it is exciting stuff.
Yes does make you wonder whether people are worried about immigrants taking over the UK is because it was their ancestors who were the last to do exactly the same thing!!!
They started with the lettter Æ which is not often used now. eg Æþelwulf is now written as Ethelwulf.
Æ and æ is still used in Denmark
I'm sure I can remember books in the sixties with æ still being used within the English language? And not just with Cæsar? I suppose it's still used in Latin text and that's why we occasionally still see it when incorporated into English?
Unless anyone knows otherwise?
Wow didn't realise how much of this I already know. They taught me well back in history class!
The Last Kingdom is another good series about this moment in history. Particularly about the Saxons in Wessex, but the Danes have a big part in it.
currently watching now on season 3 its so good you need to watch this @jt
Watching this at the moment, really good series but is fictional in some parts
Theres a film coming out to carry on the story since season 5 is the last of season they are making...think its called 7 kings must die
Yes the last kingdom is a wonderful series can’t wait for the film to come out
Scots originated in ireland incase thats what got confused about scots imigrated from north ireland into pictland and took over forming scotland
The Scots were originally the "Scotti", a Latin name for the Gaels. Simply put, they originated from the very North-East of Northern Ireland. @ 500AD they allegedly began moving to the West coast of what became Scotland.
Yes, they were all celtic druids
@@annother3350 LOL. Does that mean the Irish Scots today are druids? The druids were all destroyed trying to defend their most holy place the Island of Anglesey. Or the English isle in northern wales.
@@thetruthhurts7675 Lol -- do you honestly think because the irish and scots pronouce 'celtic' differently that they're different words?! They are all related. Only the major druids with the ancient knowledge were slaughtered.
Watch Michael Tsarion - Irish origins of civilisation -- he's one of the finest minds of our time
@@annother3350 What? Where did I claim this? The Druids were killed off by the Romans defending Anglesey, that was what I replied with, but you m,ade this stupid thinmg about what I didn't say at all!! I was simply making fun of your claim that the Irish Scots were all druids!! but because of your stupidity with your repky here we go :
The only place in Europe they, the druids, collectively tried to defend, was the English Isle in Wales called Anglesey.
Irish actually has closer ties to Indian languages than to European. Urdu for example replaces most Irish words with the letter Y for a U. Now that you have started this, with a tirade from nowhere, I will finish it. In Scotland they have ALWAYS spoken a form of English, indeed Scottish English is closer to German than English is. The Beaker people who came here from Germany and Switzerland introduced their Germanic Proto (as spoken in Newcastle upon tyne) English 4,500 years ago. They settled the whole of the islands The Celts only arrived 2,500 to 2,750 years ago, so 500 to 750 years before that mythical religious figure. So most of England and Scotland have always spoken a very similar language to English, only Wales, and Ireland where the Celts managed to get a major toe hold has any link to Celtic, but from Northern Portugal, and Spain.
@@annother3350 We don't pronounce Celtic differently.
"Vikings!" Thank you JT for you reaction but the Vikings were a mid-age fight from the historical point. The first recorded battle for control of England (Isle of Briton back then) was when we defeated the Roman Army being led by Julius Caesar himself in 54BC (around the time that Jesus' great-grandparents were young and alive) Unfortunately they came back around a century later with a far more MASSIVE force to overcome us a second time. However back then the Roman historians recorded that the Britons were at war with the Gaul (French) which just proves that the English and French have been fighting for over 2000 years and only stopping because of the 'German' issue in the 20th Century.
And that 'German' issue was because we supported Belgium. The French were invaded to prevent fighting on two fronts...thinking a knockout blow would prevent continuing fighting in the west while Germany got on with their aim of invading Russia...oh...that is twice 🤣Because the Germans invaded France through Belgium we had to join in.
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Pre Roman era, "Britain" was populated by Brynthonic Celts (modern day equivalent Welsh, Cornish, Brecon etc.) After the Romans left around 440AD the Anglo Saxons (modern day English) invaded and drove the indigenous population to the west (Wales, Cornwall). The Welsh and Cornish are analogous to the native American tribes and the English to the colonial settlers. Indeed King Arthur is not a figure from English Mythology but from Welsh Mythology. In the mabinogion he actually fought against the anglo saxons.
I'm glad that there was a mention of the Battle of Brunaburgh in 927 against Strathclyde (Britons), Irish Danes and Norse as well as king Constantine of Scotland, the battle that enabled king Athelstan to truly lay claim to be the King of the English.
There are a growing number of historians and archaeologists who believe that this battle took place in the area known as the Wirral, a peninsular between the rivers Mersey and Dee, north west of the city of Chester.
I’m a brit and even I didn’t know (or didn’t remember for school) all of that- just parts of it. I find English history fascinating.
I also love Egyptology (Egyptian history). I too find it fascinating.
Did you know the original irish settlers were Pharoahs from egypt?
We don't get taught about our history because of the lefties
I live on the literal boundary of Danelaw between Warwickshire and Leicestershire , and even today the accents are different just 3 miles apart between Nuneaton in Warks, and Hinckley in Leics. I'm on the Warwickshire side and we say things like "it's lovely" as (it's luvlee), over the border they say "it's lovely" as "it's luvleh". even the town and village names change in a few miles, you can really see the difference even now. In Warwickshire we have tons of names that end in "ly/Ley/y" like around here we have Astley, Ansley, Arley, fillongley, Willy, etc. But over the border, which just happens to be the old Roman road Watling Street, they have Danish names like Ullsthorpe, Blaby, Kirkby Mallory, Cadby, Countesthorpe.
Hey I'm from Leicestershire and our accent is I'd say very plain English so much so that alot of Scots don't understand us especially if we talk fast. Also have family in Manchester who say our accent sounds like the London accent which we don't. The town I live in and surrounding areas mainly have by on the end of their names like Saxleby, Ashby, Asfordby, Frisby and so on all have viking and saxon links. We even have viking burial mounds near by.
@@beccaboo3040 loveleh!
@@Drobium77 Ta 😘
Also, Colchester still has the big Norman castle there,haven't been since I was a kid,but the place was in amazing condition back then,considering it's nearly 1000 years old!(1076)😱🧡
Hey JT, Fyi at the time of the Roman Invasions there was about 30 Tribes of the original people of this island, Long before the Angles and Saxons arrived, going back past the stone age, to the time when the water between mainland Europe and "Britain" was lowland plains, during and just after the Last Ice age there was people here, Don't forget Stonehenge is approx 5000 years old, the birth of "England" as we know it is fairly recent in our history, but we are an old people and so are you, after all, way back down the line, your people may have come from there as well it is your History as much as ours......
Yeah the fall of Doggerland is worth a react
Just as an aside, the ‘original’ people were actually almost totally annihilated at some point between the Neolithic and Bronze Age and replaced with the Beaker Culture from the Eurasian Steppe.
York still has Vikings every year! Check out the jorvik festival. You may even see me in a few videos in costume!
The Seven Kingdoms... The basis of Whatisname's 'Game of Thrones.'
Yes, the Scots originally came from Ireland. It was the warlike Picts that were in Scotland. The Picts were the only people in Europe that the Romans were afraid of, so they built Hadrian's wall.
Scoti or Scotti is a Latin name for the Gaels (Celtic tribes) first attested in the late 3rd century. At first it referred to all Gaels, whether in Ireland or Great Britain, but later it came to refer only to Gaels in northern Britain (Scotland).
The Scotti came from northern Ireland. Scottish is Irish nickname for horsethief. As a Welshwoman, England was our curse. We had Arthur but he was only mortal so the Saxons eventually won.
The map is incorrect at the "unity of England" part. Cheshire was a separate palatinate, Powys was part of Wales, and Cornwall was barely controlled.
Alba is pronounced "Alepa" and was a Gaelic kingdom (like Ireland) and Steathclyde was a kingdom of Britons (like Cumbria (Southern Strathclyde area), Wales, and Cornwall)
Hah great reaction. Eric Bloodaxe had me in stiches lol
The Scotti were Irish.
A Scotti Queen from what is now Ireland married a Pictish (now Scotland) King, and the Picts took on gradually the name of her Tribe.
Scottish, Scotland.
If I'm remembering my history correctly, it was because the Royal line went through the female line, unlike the Picts which ran through the Male line.
Something like that.
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Hey JT, just found your Chanel and you seam genuine so i subscribed. Really like your reactions to our history amd you football comments are sometimes so funny. Be safe bra!!!! ✌️
then go forward to 1066 - when the french invaded - check out William the conqueror
French Vikings!
Thanks JT. You always cheer me up.
I know this video largely keeps Wales out of the picture but The kingdom of Strathclyde was essentially the last bastion of the Welsh/Britons in the north. In old Welsh these peoples were called the Hen Ogledd. “The Old North”.
You do make my chuckle with your reactions and mannerisms.
So so close to 100k , I've been waiting for this moment
Okay, JT, now here's something to really mess with your head regarding the 'E' names that you spoke about. They were spelled with 'Ae' at the beginning of most of them as in Aethelred - this was the Saxon way of spelling their names.
On your point about them running out of 'E' names you forgot Edward, didn't you? The last King Edward that we had here in the U.K. was Edward VIII who abdicated in favour of his younger brother George VI in December 1936. The funniest part about both Edward's and George's names is that Edward was known as David and George was known as Bertie ( his birth name was Albert ) by the Royal Family as they were growing up and they only adopted each of their royal names to keep up with Royal Family tradition and to honour previous kings of the U.K. ✌😁✌
What i love about this period of history is so many of the places mentioned still exist
That was fascinating. I never knew there were so many E names..😂
Glad you enjoyed that, JT and thank you for another very interesting and entertaining video ☺👍
E's are good
@@lindamaxwell9722 'e's Ebeneezer Goode....😂
@@Clayton-S. bang on cheesy quaver
There are quite a few castles in Wales that were there either to keep the English out or for them to try and control the Welsh
JT there is an extremely popular TV series called Viking it's mostly factual and gives good insight as to how the British became the British empire
Before the constant bombardment from the Vikings we didn't really invade externally we where just to busy trying to conquer England as one nation.
I highly recommend watching this it's fantastic
for the first 2 seasons... sure... and theyve taken certain liberties such as Rollo lol
@@Gulliedoutbigup it stick to a factual structure of corse they don't know everything to recreate characters perfectly
I know what your saying though
@@madyottoyotto3055 the events happened. thats all.
participants, no.
brother rollo, no.
correct year the events happened, no.
using legend rather than fact 50% of the time, yes.
its a great series, but you dont watch it to learn lol
It's an awful series about a bunch of thieves
@@pengy4792 stop proving evolution can go backwards everyone was a thief back then
survive or die.
Can u do wales next?
Our county CUMBRIA was once part of Strathclyde ( Scotland). Glad you liked Erik Bloodaxe....try putting that on your passport!
I'm from Strathclyde, right beside the River Clyde
King Edmund was actually killed in 870ad I know this coz the bridge he was captured under after being seen by a wedding party at the adjacent hall marks the border of my in-laws land. There is a memorial there for him.
A massively important part of English history was missed out, or at least woefully glossed over. The video mentioned the departure of the Romans but not that they were here 400 years and their rule was the first to see the country significantly unified. Julius Caesar came here twice but failed to establish a foothold, leaving it to Claudius, his great-great-grandnephew (and the grandson of Mark Antony) to mount a successful invasion. England is still full of Roman sites and relics, from Hadrians Wall and Vindolanda in the north to the bathhouse at Bath and the Brading Villa on the Isle of Wight in the South.
And Rome always had to keep at least one legion in Britannia for 370 years
The Romans had no direct influence on the foundation of England. They ruled over the southern two thirds of a fully Welsh-speaking island which they named 'Britannia'. When the English invaded the island they had no use for the walled towns they encountered(often abandoned) and they fell into disrepair You are quite right to draw attention to the many scattered remnants of Rome's occupation, interestingly in most cases these are military structures like the massive 'Saxon' Shore forts of Portchester and Pevensey , there are however exceptions like the Theatre at St Albans (Verulamium),numerous villas, and the 'Old Work' at Wroxeter (Viroconium). Its a video in its own right.
One of the best preserved Roman sites in the south-east of Britain is at Lullingstone in Kent; check before visiting, opening hours can be awkward.
@@mikesaunders4775 The 'English' did not invade since the 'English' did not yet exist. There were several waves of invasions, the main groups being the Germanic peoples of the Angles and the Saxons, who then merged to become known as the Anglo-Saxons.
@@dongillan5287 Er, the English did exist. They are the people mistakenly described as 'Angles'( a direct transcription from the Latin 'Angli'). They actually called themselves Englacynn (pronounced Englashin) and their language 'Englisc',the letter C being pronounced as SH in both instances. They arrived in far greater numbers than the Saxons,although the latter were to consolidate a grip over most of the island under Athelstan.Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern term coined by later historians.
This one really cracked me up , I choked on me coffee laughing . Cheers !!
Wahey!notice Essex was the first mentioned 👀😂
Big love from Essex as always JT 💜
Yeah Scots originally referred to people from Ireland. The Scotti, a Irish clan in the north invaded the western parts of modern day Scotland.
in old English Aethel means noble or wealthy, so if you were Royalty it was pretty much a given that your name would start with that. Consider it loosely equivalent to being "Sir" something.
Aethel gets shorted to Aeth, the TH hardens a bit and becomes a D sound and the "Ae" (which is pronounced very similar to a standard E) just becomes an E and you start to get modern English names like Edward or Edgar or Edwin. Edward is obviously still a very popular name amongst royals in the UK, tied for most common monarch name with "Henry" at 8 monarchs a piece.
If you would like to know about Scottish history I highly recommend the the Scottish History Tours channel. His way of telling history through stories is great.
Back in the days of Mercia, my home town was briefly the capital, declared by then Viking King, Sweyn Forkbeard. It was also reportedly where King Canute "turned back the tide" with the Aegir tidal wave.
Unfortunately it is nowhere near as good there now!
Aethelflead & Edward aka Edward the Elder were 2 of Alfred aka Alfred the Great's children. Aethelflead married Aethelred of Mercia & after his death in 911, Aethelflead became Queen of Mercia & Edward was King of Wessex after his father died in 899. Alfwynn was Queen for a short while like 6 - 18 months after Aethelflead died in 918 until Edward took the throne because Aelfwynn was deposed. The show The Last Kingdom is based on Alfred & his family though only 2 of his children appear in it & it is the most historically accurate then the sequel movie Seven Kings Must Die is historically based on how England was formed. The narrarator is mispronouncing the old name for Scotland which is Alba not Alaba. There is also 2 other historical show called Vikings & Vikings: Valhalla, but The Last Kingdom is the most historically accurate.
What I find fucking goosebumpy is while all of this happend due to prior-during and after Roman Empire time like longer ago than most of can fathom humans, humaning around those "place names" still there either exactly or damn close to the (probably as good as it goes) orignal name of a "Clan/Tribe" from "Way back when."
It seems some of the kingdoms became our current regions/counties. Essex and Kent are counties, and I can look at Kent from over the Thames on an Essex sea front. East Anglia is an area/region.
The battle of Brunanburgh is thought to have taken place on the Wirral peninsula near a place now called Bromborough.
This is why people avoid fighting us. We haven't lost a war in a very very long time and fought most of the world and won. Our history is steeped in conflict. Our roots are soaked in blood. We maybe small but we are lions. Our military has been perfecting its tactics and strategies since the Romans invaded. We have evolved to fight, and win. Its rare to see an Englishman, Scot, Welshman or Irishman ever back down. Its not in our genetics surrender. We are a mix of the strongest surviving warriors of each army combined into the modern day British. We don't back down, we dont run. Learning our history helps to understand just how such a tiny island managed to takeover most of the planet with our empire. Love your channel my guy
Many Scots have Irish ancestors going back about 2000 years. You can read the writings of Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth if you are interested.
The Scots confusion is simply because he says Picts and Scots in the wrong order compared to the lines coming in on the map. The Scots came in from the north and the Picts ( irish ) came in from Ireland. It is also somewhat confusing because technically the "Scots" were in fact Irish Picts that had emigrated to the region that is now Scotland a couple of hundred years earlier. From that standpoint England was in fact being invaded by the Irish from both the north and the west lol
I live about 3 miles from tynemouth priory...castle where the ancient kings of Northumbria are buried and my father and his sister were evacuated away from Newcastle upon tyne to bamburgh castle in Northumbria to be safe from luftwaffe bombs in 1942 bamburgh castle is the place known as bebbenburgh in the t.v. series the last kingdom .
"I like how Wales is just chilling.'
There were a lot of incusions into Wales, which had its own system of nobility, but until Tudor times the Welsh basically just slaughtered anyone who came into their territory, even when severely outnumbered they just retreated into the mountains and ran gurilla warefare campains that could last for centuries.
It was Edward 1st (Longshanks) who subdued the Welsh hence the amazing castles. The Welsh got their own back when a Welsh family the Tudors took the throne after the wars of the roses!
*shakes fist at the sneaky Welsh
When the English discovered the large amounts of gold in Wales, was when we tried seriously to conquer them. I believe the name 'Wales' and it's citizens the 'Welsh' comes from the old Anglo-Saxon world 'welch', meaning 'slave'. That's unless I was taught incorrectly.
@@enkiofsumer8374 Close. It means "stranger", or "foreigner".
@@s.r.howell1297 Thanks for the heads up.
Vikings were not a people, viking was a part-time occupation or piracy. The people were Danes and the part of Britain ruled by them was called the Danelaw.
According to legend the first two Anglo Saxon mercenary leaders to be invited to Britain (by Vortigern King of the Britons) were Hengist and Horsa. They turned against Vortigern and murdered him - known as "the Treachery of the Long Knives".
There is a Hengist St in Gorton, Manchester.
By the time WW2 ended in 1946 Britain was broke. But the UK fended off the German air invasion leading to the US joining in even before Pearl Harbour. Wars suck all the wealth away. Britain had to rebuild its wealth while losing its empire. This was done by pure hard work of the people and also vital borrowing. Luckily the education system had provided well educated people who had the skills to grow the economy again and keep repaying the debt. The USA lent the UK money too and British workers spent many years paying for the War. The rubble from millions of destroyed buildings was dumped all over. I was walking over one dump site full of masonry and bricks about a mile long.
Britain was key to saving the world from domination by the Nazis and Japan.
Hitler was jealous of the British Empire but ended up destroying it and Germany too.
WW2 ended in 1945
@@davebirch1976 Officially 1945, but fighting continued into 1946 with military who did not get the message or thought it was fake. Some Japanese fought on in remote places for 30 years or more.
@@oldplucker1 The war finished in '45. Skirmishes by isolated units don't amount to a war. Germany and Japan both surrendered in 1945. You can't just make up dates because you like them.
@@PedroConejo1939 There are historians who think WW2 is still going on. History is a matter of opinion.
@@oldplucker1 And there are people who think the earth is flat. It don't make them right any.
Would be nice if JT had a link to the original video.
i would like to see what other history content they have.
Hey jt loving vids 👍🇬🇧
I’d love to see you do an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and/or Syndicate walkthrough! Syndicate you’d get through a lot quicker because it’s just the London area and is based at some point in the Victorian period (plus a quick trip to London in WW2) and Valhalla is based around 800AD. Both are my fav games from the franchise just because they showed aspects of the UK so well - plus being able to literally scale Big Ben and do a leap of faith in syndicate was pretty awesome. With Valhalla though it was so fun being able to explore such a HUGE map - you can literally go and see what Wessex, Mercia and so much more might have looked like back then it’s pretty cool 😁 Loving the video JT, can’t wait to see your new tattoo!
I cannot believe they didn’t mention King Ecgberht…he conceived the idea of a unified England way before Ethelwulf, Ethelbald ,Ethelberht ,Ethelred I, Alfred the Great,Edward the Elder and then finally the 1st King of England Ethelstan.
Although this video is brilliant and very educating I suggest diving deeper if your truly interested, and definitely do the same with pre Roman and Roman Britain,no place in the world benefited more than the United Kingdom from the Roman Republic/Empire, One small example is the creation of what is now London
Hey J.T. You say "there's no more English names beginning with E".... What's the name of our current Queen? lol. And if you ever get over here, you MUST visit York. It's an amazing city with (obviously) an amazing history.
Yorvik, Yorwick, Yorrick, Yorik, York. - and then 'New' York. Takes a long time to generate that much change.
Mate, watch the CZcams channel
'Kings and Generals.'
There are loads of great battles and history.
The English and British stuff is on there too.
Hi JT. Though these local kings and queens sounded like their names started with an E,it was often AE but that sounds the same
If u think about how America was formed its quite similar, just a continuation.. the English played the role of their ancestors the saxons and Danes by arriving by boat, conquering the native people and forming kingdoms (or 13 colonies) then had a bunch of infighting which led to USA forming just like England, but we all get along now just like us and the Danes lol
The Scots originally were a Celtic tribe, the Scotii, who were based in Ireland. They eventually migrated to the west coast of Scotland and colonised, giving their name to the entire country.
To be fair if there is a similar historical map of the US it would be a similar spread of native overtaken by British, Spanish, French, Dutch. I think the Portuguese ‘explorations’ were all further south.
You should watch a video about 1066, the last battle that we lost and the origins of the book, all from when William the conqueror came over. It’s pretty cool
Vikings tried to come through my town in mid Wales, but my ancestors fought them horned helmets off ! We do a renactment every year ! 😂
I actually live near Northumbria and visit there often and I didn’t know any of this! I swear I didn’t learn anything at school 😂
You should watch the last kingdom series on netflix and vikings on prime, both good shows and set in the era of time based on our history.
This has probably already been said, but the Scots are originally from Ireland. The "Scoti" were a Celtic group that migrated to Caledonia, the land north of Britannia. That land was later named after them. Just like how the "Angles" came from modern day Germany and founded England.
Like how JT only learned a little bit about the history of Great Britain and all history taught was about America. I suppose that's fair considering its easier to learn about 250 years than it is to learn over 2000 years of history of another country. Julius Caesar did come over in 55bc and left after a year in 54bc. 2070 or so years ago, so even further back than that.
I'm in Essex, lots of history everywhere here
Wales isn’t really chilling… this isn’t a full representation at all. The Welsh were native Briton’s that got invaded. This is a very anglicised view of history.
Eeeee by gum!! From England haha
You should remember life expectancy was around 45 years old during the 10th century AD.....
How about that Jt, your wearing a pacers top and I just watched malace in the Palace from 2004 on Netflix, Pacers v Fans
England's on the anvil-hear the hammers ring=
Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne!
Never was a blacksmith like our Norman King=
Enland's being hammered. hammered, hammered into line.
. . (miss verse)
There shall be one people- it shall serve one Lord-
(Neither Priest nor Baron shall escape!)
It shall have one speech and law, soul and strength and sword.
England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into shape!
Rudyard Kipling
Hey JT, I have been subscribed to your channel for a Looooong time. I love your enthusiasm, your keen to learn attitude....it is a channel I have recommended to many
That said, and I have told you this before, it might work better if You were in the bottom left quarter and the video you are reacting to was the main picture. I don't want to cause you offence.
I prefer the 'Eclectic Beard' approach where he is minimised and the video is maximised. Others mileage may differ. Even if you don't choose to change, I support you and your great character
Yes the Scots came from Ireland
One interesting thing JT, since the UK began giving countries back to their rightful owners which was really the collapse of the British Empire, the method we used as a country to stay strong in the world was tax free living in certain areas. What this has done is making us a money power rather than a land power. Everybody can take part from any part of the world. But British people CANNOT. UK is a tax haven for anybody in the world but UK people pay one of the highest tax rates on Earth. Tax free living for businesses and for millionaires is a real thing, We have many many many loopholes for rich people to pay nothing and it's also the reason many foreign companies, like Google, set up their Euro offices in England or Ireland. They pay no tax.
Living in Wessex we still have thing like schools named after Alfred ….. may be worth you looking at the Viking TV series not total historical correct but will give you a rough idea also the Viking did trade with Native Americans in the USA before Christopher Columbus in 1492
The more I learn about Columbus over the years, the more it comes across as if he is getting a lot of credit for things he shouldn't be.
Current Queen of England = EElizabeth 😂
My family has a surname which is found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, and it may be coincidence but a couple of my uncles had Anglo-Saxon forenames, Edward, Edgar, and a cousin is called Ethan.
So that's the secret formula to ruling a kingdom, make sure all your children's names begin with E.
I love how the welsh are just chilling no body cares and they are just thinking oh now what they doing not again will the English never Lear etc 😂😂