The Ancient Pathway Between England And Wales | Ancient Tracks | Odyssey
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- Tony walks Offa's Dyke, an earthwork pathway that runs along the border between England and Wales named after the Mercian King. Along the way he talks about William Wordsworth, takes in the reputed resting place of King Arthur and brings to life stories of the Welsh dragon.
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Great episode. But when Tony is doing voiceovers the background music is drowning him out.
Did you watch this episode on your phone er on a T.V.?
Crappy CZcams compression algorithms. Voice tracks are often drowned out by music tracks.
@@XNTexn Tablet in my case and it's the same, volume goes up and down even without music.
I've noticed this on almost every episode😔 sometimes I can't hear Tony at all
Just as I was about to say.... fade the music a bit, please.
I wish the sound was more balanced also.
Background music largely drown out Tony's narration.
It is August 2023 and I am watching from Las Vegas, NV. I have never seen anything more beautiful than the scenery in this program. I love history and not knowing anything about King Offa I can't express how much I enjoyed every bit of the documentary. Looking forward to watching many more like this. I like Tony a lot he seems to bring everything together in a satisfying and very enjoyable story. Thank you Tony, Absolute History, Odyssey, and most of all, the lovely people of Wales and England. I will never have a chance to visit in person but today I felt I was there 'Boots on the Ground' as they say. From your American cousin thank you so very much!
This has been a fantastic series for me to discover. I would love to do one of these walks.
I did Offa's Dyke and don't remember many of these things along the path... Many are side-trips. Although I did go through during the Hay book festival, which meant there was absolutely NOWHERE within 20 miles to stay overnight. So I had to miss the section between Kington and Pandy and take a bus to bypass it all. (I stopped in Hay for the book festival to see what the big deal was, but couldn't say I was as impressed as I would have been being able to find some place to stay so I wouldn't miss effectively 40 miles/2 days of ODP)
@@thepeanutgallery1699 Hello, King Offa speaking from the stone albatross. I have the handle. You now take it. We have the gardening dibber tempestery and peace and knowledge thou donstonrenham.
I think it's a Shame there's such Incredibly poor sound quality!
Great documentary. Music too loud unfortunately. Why is that? It spoils the beautiful images and you can't hear Tony speak
I'd certainly rather hear the narrator than the background "noise."
When the background music becomes the foreground noise... anyway, it was a very enjoyable programme. Thanks indeed.
It's like the Odyssey people were loaned the video and multitrack audio media for the program, remixed it for themselves and got the audio tracks swapped. Background music blaring and Tony's voice in the background.
Not a great sales example for their subscription history video service, is it?
Oh my goodness..I so enjoyed this video....and the sound was fine! Love it ❤️ thanks for sharing it!
I could only watch about a third of this video. Someone needs to do a sound edit, soften the sound, put it in the background and even out the audio.
I love a nice walk
I wish the sound was balanced - sounds like someone ripped it from a movie theater- half loud, half barely audible…kind of painful - like a silent form of abuse.
I wish sir Tony had more humility and took less credit for being a Crack archeologist. The ego is healthy
Mine sounds perfect
Love this but the background music is way to loud.
@Odyssey so do you guys post all the exact same videos as Timeline, or will there be anything different? Thanks
This Kiwi so envies Briain its ancient pathways that are freely available for anyone to walk and enjoy. Thank you for posting this
You also have ancient pathways in your country as do we here in the US, created by the original inhabitants. Look for them, ask about them. Walk, listen and learn. Every nation has it's own wonderful places and stories.
I'm American but my lineage as a Llewellyn is Welsh. I've always wanted to visit there and see the landscapes so whatever time of year this was filmed looks like it would be ideal!
If it's not Scottish, it's crap !
June, July or August ... the rest of the year is sheeite
My linage is Welsh too. My ancestors came from sgjvnbrgivjbviursvhiwaerfgberakjfbaerifbasrjkfgbawesfgasekjfgbarskjgbarskjgbaerskjfbarskjfbaserkjfbaewrisgbaerskjvbskvbwersgkvjshefgksedhvksjdbvskedjvhsekdhvskdjvbsdkjvhsdvhsdkjvbsdkjvs`bdvk jasrhvkjsadhbvksdhvsldjvbndskjvbdskxjchvbds`kxjvbsadkvbs`dkjvb`dskjvbdskvbsdkjvbdsfkvb
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Pops used to say our last name came from our forefathers being Dyke builders. However, he always thought we were Dutch. As such, we just thought we were descended from Dyke builders in Denmark.
Well, after his death I began to search for the truth. It turns out we are Scottish, welsh and English, mostly. In fact I was able to trace our namesakes all the way back to Chester England, the last Dicus/Dykus, not buried in the Americas, circa 1650’s.
We are a tall bunch, all of us. I stand 6’5”. I can’t help but think those bones are those of a builder. Kind of how the Great Wall of China is littered with the bones of its builders.
@Celto Loco Seems like the next logical step is a dna test, well within our capability.
Biggus Dicus...Monty Python
Yeah, I had one. That’s what helped me.
Yeah, I had one. That’s what helped me.
Yeah, I had one. That’s what helped me.
Sound balancing could have been better for the narration parts - hard to pick out Tony's narration over too-loud music.
Wonderful Documentaries. Thank you.
Here in Maryland we can't escape English names. The Severn River is one of many that empties into the Chesapeake in the middle of the western shore and the Wye River is a beautiful sanctuary that empties into Eastern Bay.
English attempts to write Native American names mix with names of the old all over.
That was awesome. So very evocative of the beautiful region. I must go see this area for myself.
Even now, the acoustics in the Abbey are something that can take the breath away.
Just imagine how beautiful the music would have been when it was fully intact.
The melody and theme for this series is absolutely beautiful. Does well with the scenery and Tony's engaging personality.
Nice video about pathways between British & Willis which recorded different aims of several passenger's groups and natural of their expanded thanks which created amazing legends and literature matters in human minds share
Fascinating!
For those who enjoyed Hay Books Festival, there is another one in summer in Redu in Belgium in the area of the Ardennes. You can find books in French, English, German, Dutch, Esperanto....
That would be a dream hike! Maybe see the Forest of Dean too.
"Who wouldn't be inspired by it (Tintern Abbey)?" Perhaps, the psychopath Henry VIII.
Oof. Yeah, so many amazing things ruined just for his personal pleasure & political dominance 😖 When watching Time Team, so many incredible sites that have been lost or trashed always end up tracing back to the dissolution era... And yet many English people when recounting their history seem to consider him a good king?
no - lumps and bumps - this time. though still a great episode with Sir Tony!
I wish there were more of these
Would live to hike this …
I love Tony and his walking shows, it's such a pity that the sound balance of the voiceovers in this one is so off that he's almost impossible to hear
Excellent show. I visited the Tintern Abbey and White Castle on my trip around Wales. There's a great little overgrown church, Church of St Mary, walking distance from the abbey.
Tony always walking everywhere
I remember this one when it was on the tv
I keep myself up at night wondering if the abby would be more beautiful restored or if it's beautiful the way it is.
Yes.
The audio is hard to hear, Tony's volume much lower than the background music.
Thank you ❤love your channel
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But can you please make a video on Skanderbeg?
Time Team needs to dig this cave
Pls update us on the E II R forest. Hope it didn’t get chopped down, even if that meant “returning it to natural state” didn’t happen. Great series. Thank you from Central Texas.
love watching Tony Robinson, unfortunately, there's something wrong with the audio file on this video you have uploaded. Narration is too low compared to the audio while interviewing guests
The Abbey...a national treasure, protected and cared for. Yet it lay in ruin slowly eroding away. I just cannot understand why they do not restore it. As always they speak beautiful words from on side of thier mouth and greed from the otherside.
rebuilding in the USA cost 1.5 times than a tear down and a complete rebuild from what a contractor told me so a lot of volunteer is needed to rebuild an original versus building a replica. Of course nobody wants a replica as nobody wants to clone a wife.
I want to slap Tony for interrupting Horatio while he's telling a great story. Though I find him Horatio to be a fascinating speaker. Would love to hear more from him. Can't wait to read his book!
The sound guy must hate this dude.
I need to go back to Wales 😃
Sound! Sound! Sound!
The background music is really loud
Love the series. The video sound, however, is too low, then too high in places.
King Offa is mentioned in the poem "Beowulf."
beowulf is older isnt it?
Isn't there a day once a year to keep the pathways open by walking them?
Nice to see all the redheads - my wife's ancestors are from the area
I hate having to depend on CC due to the poor audio!!!! Edit: I hate _not_ being able handling watching the show and reading the CC with the Loud music . I can't read and walk at the same time either. Would have been a nice to to watch. bye.
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The book is in many ways the ultimate human invention. By them generation speaks to generation; thinker to thinker. By marks on wood pulp, vellum or papyrus, imaginations take flight, old things are remembered, new things are made and we are made one humankind.
Hard to listen too, because if the music, had to stop
13:45 - Subtitle says 'Choir singing in Latin'. Unless I miss my guess, it's actually Welsh.
one thing I feel was overlooked about the 6ft and 12 ft skeleton, is even at 6ft thats quite tall for the time
crappy sound
The one who did the sound editing should be punished.
Anyone have any idea why there's no wildlife on any of these pathways? It's absolutely beautiful scenery. If you tried to hike around here in the USA, I'm pretty sure you'd run into some wildlife at some point. I haven't even really seen any birds, and I've watched quite a few of these TV shows... is this normal there?
overhunted over the centuries? idk
the only wild life you will find there is rabbit and maybe foxes. That land has been used for grazing since forever, so not many other wild life. Not many trees if you have a grazing land.
@@wewenang5167 good deal!
Sound is in and out.
you're welcome
Interesting episode, but it’s a shame intrusive, overbearing (inauthentic) music but obliterates the narrative. Does no one in the production actual
Some of your audio is very weak even turned up full blast
Interesting to hear a scientist still using AD instead of CE.
audio is disappointingly inconsistent
I wonder how many people notice that that cave of the giant skeleton forms the mouth of a face above?
Sadly the volume levels are all over the place in this video, so the one moment Tony is yelling at us and the next it's impossible to hear what he's saying. Unacceptable bad quality
Cymru am byth 🏴
'Nydd hyder ond bwa!'
I love this show but the audio is all over the place. First you can't hear it, then it's loud again, and whoever is 'micing' everyone should get another job.
Sorry, but I was so annoyed by the music drowning out Tony's voice that I gave up trying to watch. Shame, really, because i enjoy watching Tony's shows.
Arthur, was it that Arthur, on Tintagel, thought he existed immediately after the fall of the Roman empire. mid 700 ad could be him if he actually existed.
So, King Arthur actually did go west and may have ended up in Avalon after all.
There's a town in Wales that's on my bucket list,
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerchwyrnfrobwlllantysillogogogoch. Yes , I can pronounce that, I've learned the song.😉
I'm at a loss as to why you would tear down an established forest, trim the out side and thin out the middle. That wood could be used for so many purposes and still be maintained, it's open freking tundra almost as far as the eye can see, were there forest there before all the civilization?
I come from a place that forests and this is a mistake even to me, what thrives in there, eco nuts gone crazy, but backwards.....
My thoughts exactly. Britain's tree planting scheme, I may be mistaken, want to plant 100 million trees to combat climate change and they want to tear this forest down.
@Celto Loco Incorrect (technically) England is a large country on a tiny island. I grew up in England and now live in Ontario, and in my part of Ontario I'm seeing large swathes of farmland being lost to urban sprawl. You are correct that in Canada we have large forests, enough to cover Europe, hell enough in Ontario alone to possibly do that. That does not justify tearing down a forest thousands of miles away in another continent. Given also that the population of the entire UK is over twice that of Canada and much of rural England given over to farming and moorland, forests (as we enjoy) are truly rare. Copses and woods. It is also what benefits woodlands give locally (flora and fauna) that Canadian forests simply can not provide being an ocean away.
On the 12' skeleton: I'd have believed to to be Bran's of Mabinogi fame before I'd believe it was Arthur's. On the EIIR trees: now that's a shame to "remove" them so that there's nothing but grass there. Doesn't anybody over there remember *anything* about the Forests that covered the land before humans hacked it all down for farming, firewood, war engines and just plain malice?
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I'd rather watch michael wood's "In search of Offa" which is, along with all the other "in search of ancient britain" documentaries he did, which are, as it happens, on CZcams.
thusly: czcams.com/video/S8l_DX9Zjrg/video.html
The docco might be interesting, but i gave it a thumbs DOWN for the audio. I mean.... seriously.... the sound is so annoying!
This reminds me of the knights that say Ni, killer rabbits, and European swallows.
I'm part Welsh.
I understand Britain's mentality of farm land? But damn you could replant 1000,s of acres of forest. You have to stop living under that question, do we still need the farm land. If not replant your forest.
12:54 "In the early 18th century..." to describe the Romantics? Early 19th! Really basic stuff, easy to not get wrong.
Dang, Tony must be--what, seven months along??
crap sound
Please omit the overbearing, inane music. PLEASE!
Does your wife go with you on these trips?
All the giant skeletons in the US were lost by the Smithsonian. There's a world-wide history of giants in the Bible, in India, and the America's.
STOP WITH THE ANNOYINGLY LOUD MUSIC FFS
E II R ! LOL!
So Tony's a grass, innit
Can't stand the loud music and terrible audio I'm out
how can you not like the english peoole? I am so proud of them and Im not even english. drink your beers have fun watching football and be great.
cough, brexit cough cough
@@Blackadder75 so what, are people not free to choose if they want to leave or stay?
Any chance to crowbar anything ethnic, appears fetishistic
projection