If anyone's brutally obsessed with Celto-Germanic history and especially warfare I invariably recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. By far the best military historical expertise available on the subject
When you are a history nerd all of them are cool. Roman, Spartan, Illyrians, Goth, Scythians and Sarmatians, Dacian, Gauls, Celtic, Norse etc. They all have cool stories and interesting cultures to read about and be amazed of the kind of life someone from that era lived.
Highly agreed. That’s why it always pisses me off whenever I hear that someone, anyone destroyed a piece of history. The burning Library of Alexandria, or that idiot mf’er that carelessly destroyed pieces of Troy. For examples
Deutsch call Hungarian-Macar-Scythians German in form of UnGar and not themselves similarly to others since Ugar,HonGri,VenGri,WanGer...Ó'ghur,Onoguri refers to Hungarian-Macar-Scythians. As for the Celt as Kelt it is a Hungarian-Macar-Scythian word reffeeing to East as to place where sun rises. So called Halstatt culture has nothing to do with Western groups like Deutsch or Danish etc.
I thought that there were/are no actual people called "Celts". It's a generic term (I thought) to describe ancient Europeans. Because there was no written record, we don't know who these people were or what they called themselves.
@@johncater7861Celtic is certainly more cultural than it is ethnic, but if it’s being used to identify ethnicity it means the Europeans west of the Rhine whereas Germanic people are east of the Rhine. This is super arbitrary, mind you, with people west of the Rhine having been mixed Celtic-Germanic since before the time of Julius Caesar.
@@Captain_Planets well I know that my own breakdown is about 60-70% germanic, 10-20% Celtic, 10-25% Pontic-Caspian Steppe Aryan, and then a very small percentage (from
To @Thor-Orion: Read all of my description below: A troll is not spiritual entities that have affect on supernatural things in our world. A troll is not a spirit that helps people with magic. A seiðr or a volva is a witch, not a troll. seiðr is a spirit that helps people with magic. Volva is a spirit that helps people with magic. Let’s be specific here, and let’s doing things in a clear defining way. It need to have a clear definition. It need to be clearly defined. What is the physical description of a tröll in Old Norse paganism? Is it a human with a long four foot nose with large hands and a tail?
The celts have always had my respect, as a Greek I view them as ancient cousins of Europe. It’s a shame that their cultural identity was wiped out from most of mainland Europe, and I hope that the Welsh, Scots, Irish, Brittons, and people of Cornwall, preserve their cultures and languages as best they can, so that one day, hopefully they are revived
There's a strong cause in Scotland right now where Gaelic Scots speakers are kinda gathering in Glasgow. It's becoming known as the Gaelic center of Scotland. There's a school there dedicated to learning Gaelic Scots.
The socalled Celts are very much alive, it's just that white surpremacist scholarship has done much to hide the fact that world history is Black history. See Anacalypsis by G Higgins. And Anna Wilkes and John Ogilvy. Shalom
Way to go brother; so many souls of European descendants feel and long for Celtic times.. it’s like this depth in the Heart-Vortex that knows I lived as a Celtic warrior before, and long for that period on Earth again. Before outsiders and usurpers came to the North, I sense life was more meaningful and whole to our people. Now ignorance is bliss, artificial over natural, people seek path of least resistance rather a life of challenge and fulfillment. Another banger, keeep it up brother
Красиво сказано. Кажется, что когда-то кто-то из моих предков был кельтом, потому что в моем сердце бушует что-то кельтское время от времени. Это генетическая память.
As an adopted bastard, I was told that my father was Irish, but I hired a researcher and genetic DNA. I am very German/ic, both my Y-DNA and MtDNA and 70 percent of my autosomal/overall. MY biological mother is mostly German and a little Swedish from the Midwest. My father is directly German, but 1/2 Scottish. In short, I love this frigin' channel. I was raised in a German-American neighborhood, which I am grateful for. I know the cultural differences in Germany: i.e. Bavarian & Black Forrest stereotypes, Westphalia spoke Dutch, etc., as well as the foods and culture. What a blessing to have grown up with my culture. Peace
I recommend listening to Dan Carlin's hardcore history podcast episode "The Celtic Holocaust" it's very interesting. No one does podcasts like him. The Celtic genocide occurred from 58 to 51 BC during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. It's a shame that Vercingetorix even though he united the tribes, he lost the revolt against Caesar. He's a hero for sure.
My family are proudly celtic in origin, but I also have some germanic and Scandinavian ancestry. The similarities we have to our nordic and germanic brethren is beyond uncanny.
The Celts were not a nordic people. The name "Celt" is not found natively anywhere in the British Isles, nor in Ireland, nor in northern France. It is only found in southern France and Iberia in items of native peoples. The northern French people and the British Islanders knew themselves probably as Belgae, as that tribe carried its name to both England and Ireland. Otherwise, northern peoples do not have any connection to the name "Celts".
At this pt I daresay most Celts are partially Germanic in heritage. The Celtic regions of Spain were taken over by Germanic leadership, the Celts of France who survived the Roman plunder were then integrated into Germanic confederations, the Belgae seem to have been a kind of inbetween people already from what I can tell, and those of us from Britain obviously had the Saxon and Scandinavian incursions.
@@Cornflakes-sr3nq The whole of Spain is between 29% and 31% Yamnaya directly from Switzerland and southwestern Germany from 2,500 BC to 1,800 BC when the Corded Ware Eastern Bell Beakers mixed with the Iberian Maritime Bell Beakers. So even the Iberians who are the "least Germanic" of the Celts are still almost a third Germanic. The others even more so as expected from being closer to Germany. Keep in mind the most Germanic people are 53% Yamnaya so that is the "upper limit" of current Europeans. Given that, 31% is not little.
Thank you, sir. I have Norwegian, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, German and Italian ancestry, though I have only recently come to learn of the latter 4 parts of my heritage. Nonetheless, I am always fascinated in learning the origins of my ancestors.
Same here somewhat in being Euro-mixed (plus some Arab). My dad's side is British (English and Scottish) and German and my mom's (Southern) Italian. Will not lie I prefer my Italian/Roman ancestry over the others and I know far more about it, but I do have a place of fondness to still learn about ancient Celtic and Germanic history/culture.
The Celtic language, Breton, is still spoken in Brittany in the French state ... despite the best efforts of the French and Jacobin to suffocate the language. Breton is a sister language of Welsh (my language) and Cornish, not as close as Dutch and German, maybe more like French and Spanish. The grammar is similar - like all Celtic languages they have mutations where the first letter of a word can mutate to another sound e.g. c => g; b => f/v etc. And many many words are similar or the same, e.e. bara (bread), byd / bed (world), bro (country), numbering etc etc. There's a strong Latin influence on the Welsh language as Brythonic (ancient Welsh/Cornish/Breton) was the language of the whole of Britain south of Edinburgh, at the time of the Roman conquest. So, over 400 years of Roman occupation many Latin words seeped into the Welsh language e.g. braich (for arm), pont (bridge), ffenestr (window), llaeth (milk) etc.
The "plumage" that Roman officers wore on their helmets was also adopted from the Celts, or so is the opinion that is held by certain romanologists. It made the leadership easier to be recognized in battle.
Please expand on the spiritual aspects of the celts. I’m 20% Scottish and 40% Scandinavian. I like learning about what my ancestors thought and believed
@@slappy8941Both of you refer to my top comment. Or just buy the book “Not In His Image”. It’s everything we need to know about the Celts and the Druids. It’s a helluva lot, by the way.
20% scottish and 40% scandinavian and most likely you are probably 1% Celtic. "scottish" doesnt mean celtic. genetics is like way more complicated than that.
Surely another good topic for a video would be about the meetings and interactions of the Germanic peoples with the Slavs. As an interesting aside, we in England had an Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Druid!
Ohhey. I am principally Celtic in background, so it is cool to have you branching out. Another factor in thr conquest of Celts and not Gauls was material culture. Archeology indicates that the Celts were much more economically attractive to the Romans than the Germanics, at least at that time, so that there was more perceived benefit to conquering them may have been a significant factor.
so many people get SO bent over the thought of men sleeping next too, being even a little intimate, or any sexual activitiy at all with another male. ESEPCIALLY when refering to the historical records. It is what it is. No reason to get offended over it. Just because your ancestors enjoyed time with both men and women, and maybe more men. Doesn't mean that you are automatically the exact same. Great video as always, thank you!
I think it's a little bit of both of his explanations. There definitely were asexual warrior initiations but Gaulish society probably just wasn't directly oppressive of gay people. I think Roman sources played this up though to encourage Roman soldiers to take Celtic Women by creating a rumor that they were all gay.
Would like to see more on the Nordic Bronze age trade and cultural connections to the Mediterranean such as Sardinia. Also any possibilities that some mercenaries from the Nordic Bronze age culture participated in the Sea People raids in the Eastern Mediterranean
In the Gaelic language we call ourselves the Gael. In Gaelic, we say "Is muidne na Gael"= We are the Gael. From my studies of ancient history, Gael is a newer form of the word Gaidheil which in turn has an etymology with the word Godhael from ancient Akkadian which meant "The great warriors".
I am a Celt who speaks a native Celtic language. I live in a part of Wales that the Romans were unable to conquer. So were the English as it happens. There was a vital highly influential trade relationship between the Celts and Scandinavians that flourished along the Celtic sea between Wales, Cornwall, Ireland and Brittany. The Vikings helped the Cornish fight against the English. When Edward 1st invaded Wales he was defeated in the battle of the Menai Straits by an army that was a third Welsh, a third Irish and a third Viking. At one point, the princes of Gwynedd in Noth Wales had a rightful claim to the thrones of Wales, Ireland and Norway, so strong were the inte-rmarital alliances and connections between the Scandinavians and the Celts of the far North West of Europe. Just for the record........there are ZERO attestations of homosexuality among the Celts of Britain and Ireland. Something that is born out by ancient Welsh traditions and laws..... .......just saying;)
No on in history ever called any British Islander "Celt" so what makes you a Celt? Linguistic academics from 1582? Who named your language "Celtic" only because he though it came from the Celtici from Spain?
@@jboss1073 With modern science your pathetic fantasies are NOTHING. The Irish will never be black or north african and you are just gonna have to DEAL WITH IT. HAH!
I wish I could agree with you on the no homo thing in the British Isles, but in at least one tale of Cu Chulainn (which I read many years ago), there was some buggery going on between him and his warrior partner. Shameful and ugly, but there it is.
North Sea Mutt here...Mostly Germanic too with a splash of Celtic DNA. I too miss the Celtic celebration days, but I feel both cultures need love with the whole world yelling at the top of their lungs that we "have no culture".... Thank you for these types of videos as its why I subbed and stay subbed!
I have always been proud of my Germanic heritage mainly but grew into my Celtic lol. In the seventies the Germanic surrounded me but once i started doing genealogy i was opened up to the Celtic. Mind you we didnt have internet in the early eighties so all of my research was done the hard way. The two sides of my family represented a perfect microcosm of the blending of cultures with all the problems each could bring to bear and yet all the similarities, much like your presentation here suggests. Well done presentation i look forward to looking at your take on the religious side which has always been my main interests as well, more the Nordic/Germanic than the Celtic but their are still so much alike. Grimm's Teutonic Mythology was a great eye opener to alot of that, such a great resource.
I'm old enough to remember when he cultural zeitgeist was ancient Egypt, ancient Greece & Rome. (The Eagle, Last Legion, The Mummy, 300, Gladiator, Troy) i believe it's the deep astrology at work, planetary retvrn transits for each civilization.
I agree with that feeling about the astrological influence for collective memory. Those movies where my favorites when I was younger and it did seem like there was a collective global interest of those time periods back in the 90s and early 2000s, now it feels much like the bronze age and much more ancient times are speaking to us in these times
@@shawnm2405 That’s a good question, I’ve mostly read information online, but I really want to try and find some good books. There’s this one guy I talked to that said he was writing a book on the subject, I could ask him. In the meantime I could send you some links so you can read some information. I have a lot of ancestry from Portugal too, so I know what it’s like trying to find out more about our ancestors
Search for Freddy Silva, Roger Crowley, Alexandre Herculano, Veríssimo Serrão, Marco Neves, José Hermano Saraiva, Fernando Rosas or Simon Sebag Montefiore etc. There are lots of books. If you speak portuguese: youtube - you can see "A Alma e a gente", "Horizontes da Memória", "História de Portugal" (José Hermano Saraiva) or Impérios AD ou Portugal Paralelo.
@@luiznuness Portugal and Spain are not descendants from the moors nor gypsies, that is completely false. We are pure blooded Europeans, and we are proud to be White
My father is Danish & my mother is from northern England so my heritage is both Norse & Celt. I’m interested in the pre-Christian culture & beliefs of both sides of my ancestry, so thank you so much for this video. I’m happy to hear there will be more.
Gnostics 100pecent read book of the dead aka kolbrin Bible there's reasons for pelagus Brit who faught for roman Christianity to be written a certain way druids aka magi brahmans all link to ancient folks an uk was homeland of the teaching remember when Romans nailed the main man to a cross then wrote an revert oringnal one thing Germanic northern eu got in common we never surrender to rome 1300 years of being banned from reading bible in own language knowledge would be lost
Similarly my mother is from Copenhagen and my old man is the stereotypical Yorkshireman so like you I am also a Engelsk Danske but with the maternal and paternal the opposite way round. Halfdan and proud. *There is a good website called We Are The English and somewhere on the site is an essay on the Saxon Gods and Demi-Gods and also traditions and important dates in the calendar. Remember the days of the week that are named after the Gods: Tuesday is Tyrsdag, Wednesday is Wodensdag, Thursday is Thunorsdag and Friday is Friggasdag (or Freyrsdag?) The Weekend stayed Roman, Saturn and the Sun with Monday named for the moon (I don't know without checking if Monday is Saxon or Roman?) Easter is a Christian corruption of Eostre, the fertility Goddess of the Anglo-Saxons. Another interesting and little known Anglo Saxon celebration is Modraniht (Mother's Night) Dec 21st Winter Solstice.
Do keep in mind... English people are Germanic people's, not Celts. Brittons were Celts, but we're subsequently replaced entirely by the Angles and Saxons. That being said, I sincerely do not think a "pure" Celt or "pure" Germanic person exists in the modern world. These two cultures existed so closely, and descended from the same originating culture, and have mixed and migrated so prolifically, effectively all Germanic people have done Celtic ancestry, and all Celtic people have Germanic ancestry.
Grimfrost and Wolflund are two online resources for Viking but also old Celtic goods and clothes. Both are rooted in Northern (Germanic) and Eastern European (Slavic) pagan and historic goods: clothing, jewelry, arms, statues of old dieties, etc. I think it was Wulflund that (at one time - I haven't checked lately) imported woven wool material (some with proper tartans) from Scottish, Irish, Channel Islands, etc sources. Worth a look.
With genetic studies, it's now known that the steppe people spread throughout Europe bringing use of horses and proto celtic languages. They mixed with the different local women ,developing slightly different cultures as they progressed, such as the cordware and beaker people. So later various norse, germanic and celtic tribes evolved from them and therefore have similarities .
i very much enjoy this chanel as a fair and accurate historical source guide. that said i believe this particular episode, for whatever reason may have presented some facts incorrectly. this through absence of historical material or misinterpretation of historical material albeit in error or on purpose. i prefer to believe it to be by error as this content creator is one of he best all around in his pursuits. the 2 main points that fell lightly were the similarities between celt/germanic peoples and their mutual commonalities and the acceptance of neighboring/conquering people's social/civil lifestyles. overall i continually respect and regard this chanel as an excellent and accurate source of european history.
Thank you for such very clear analysis. As someone born in England of 100 percent Irish ancestry (my mother was born in Limerick) it is hard to find out just how Viking/Celtic the folk of the main Irish ports were or indeed still are. Anyhow do keep up the great Celtic/Germanic work!
Nice work. Love the scholarly objectivism and concise presentation. I came looking for info about continental Germanic and Prussian cultures, so that's what I would find nice to hear about :-)
My moms a red headed Scott and my dad is half Apache and half Thuringii German so I could blend in from ancient America’s to ancient Northern Europa. Love your channel brother :)
I have a hard time believing that an entire culture was homosexual. The culture would have collapsed if there had been no babymaking. We talk about this today in the West when we talk about replacement levels. Every couple needs to have at least 2 kids to maintain the population.
They had a lot of kids but they generally tolerated homosexuality. After Christianisation they absorbed hebrew culture which was hostile against homosexuality
More likely is that many more of them were what we would call bisexual today, but labeling *people* as "homosexual" or "heterosexual" (etc) instead of individual *acts* is a relatively new concept. The Romans were speaking of homosexual *activity*, which does not mean that all the men engaging in sexual acts with other men while on the road were strictly only sexually attracted to other men and never reproduced with women while at home. Idk, it makes a lot of sense to me that if the women had such open views about sex as to feel their culture was superior for broader sexual selection with less shame around it, I doubt that openmindedness about who is permitted to have sex with whomst happened in a vacuum that somehow only pertained to the women of their culture and not the men.
Excellent video! My dad’s people came from the Scottish Hebrides and we have both Scandinavian and Irish DNA. I’m also curious about the Scottish Picts who might’ve descended from the Pictones tribe in ancient Gaul.
For your dads peoples you might want to try looking at the Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada). A joint kingdom between Ulster Scotti and the Picts who went on to become the Scotish Peoples. It is here that many find their "Irish" DNA..
That is an interesting point about the Picts. I was told that they were native to the British Isles and were surplanted by the Celts. Then came the Romans, then the Saxons, Danes and then Vikings.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367and yet isn't it weird how recorded history disagrees with your political narrative but you are allowed to continue repeating it.. I wonder why ? Perhaps you deny the existence of an entire peoples due to the cancer that is communism that infects the nationalist agenda here.. The Marx disease rotting at your heart.. who knows..
I think it's more likely a case of their being cousin tribes - obviously they were all cousin tribes but you know what I mean. You could think of it like the Dutch-Deutsch, or the Gauls and Gaels (Ive wondered if Galician is also cognate?) Gael-ician, could be wrong though) or how you see the same phenomenon occuring in the east Mediterranean of very similarly named cities/tribes that you can find what could very easily be a common origin or one having been founded by the other. Same way when we would colonize new lands it was always "New ____" and names hearkening back to Britain & the continent & the Saints.
There is a nearly dead celtic language from galacia in NW Spain and there are cultural similarities, along with Bretons who are recorded as having came from Britain after Rome withdrew from the area.
I have read recently about Celts in greek literature of 360 AD that Celt's origin is Rhine river. So, every person that was close to the rhine river was original celt while the rest people which were far from the river were just different germans.
On the polygamy issue, yes, the high status men probably did have multiple wives just based on that, but it was also a way for the tribe to take care of the widows and their children. You can't paste modern day society atop of one from 2 or 3 thousand years ago, and say that the women were going to be independent after the husband died, tribes just didn't really work like that for the most part. Which isn't to say that a wealthy widow necessarily needed to remarry, there are always a lot of complexities in any society that encouraged things to conform to their own tradition and to making the tribe strong.
The English are pretty much a 50/50 mix of Celtic and Germanic ancestry, so it’s an interesting synergy to look at from the perspective of an Englishman.
Finally🎉 thank you for makin videos comparing Celts nd Germanic people's,I have been wondering about these two for a long time,including what they thought of each other Please continue with these vids,you have cleared my doubts
The most important book (in my opinion, for everyone on the planet) regarding the Celtic People and the truth about their lost spiritual traditions and wisdom, their lost civilisation, is the lifeworks of John Lamb Lash; the book “Not In His Image”. Incredibly important, incredibly educational & life-changing read. The truth about the Celtic civilisation has been entirely covered-up by the Christian empire, and they’ve spent literally 2000 years wiping out all traces of the most important teachings. Look at the book’s reviews. It’s a mind-blowing read; infuriating, enlightening, beautiful & enchanting, etc. Words fail to describe..
@@sonnyb7612 Makes no difference-the same group is at the top. America was founded by a rag-tag mixed bunch of intellectuals and freedom fighters who wanted to build a world away from the European aristocracy which they wrote had been completely taken over by “that group” via the authority Christianity had given them. All European royalty and aristocracy is now completely compromised by “that group” because they were given power and status via Christianity, which they used as a means to intermarry into the European nobility, co-opting their power. The Flavius Caesars were part of that ethnicity & they manufactured the religion. Christianity is ‘Master Race’ ideology in disguise. Most devout Christians are universalists/anti-racial and completely subservient to that particular group.
@@AfricanWildDog54 Because we’re not made in “his” image for he is not our father, but an imposter and a demented pretender. Each racial group of the Human Species is made in the image of our specific individual niche-by the Gods, Mother *and* Father.
@@dragonofhatefulretribution9041 Could "in the image of the Father" not be used to mean a reflection of reality? All existence is a reflection of something else
Like most folks on here I have Celtic and Germanic ancestry. I absolutely love that you are diving into the Celts history. It would be awesome for you to dive into the Celtic Druids and religion. I myself am a Christian but love learning about my Pagan Brothers and sisters beliefs and spirituality. Sadly the Church caused most of our Ancestors history to be lost and I like most people wish it wasn't as we have to scrounge up whatever is left. Anyways love the Channel and content brother! Shout-out to all our European Kinfolk from 🇺🇲❤️🧬🌳 and all of my Pagan folks too. God bless! 💪🏻
A lot of us find our way between the Christian God and old gods, I find importance in both sides of my ancestral spirit. Paganism seems more attractive because of the errors of the church throughout history, as well as because of my own psychedelic experiences with mushrooms etc it's hard to believe in a theological religion with strict rules when you finally feel free of the shackles of a limited experience. Who's to say Catholicism didn't lead me to taking them? Perhaps God allowed me to experience the gods. Hard to know the fate woven for us regardless of what you believe, but I believe aligning your spirit will allow you to align yourself with your destiny.
@@nathanielanderson4367 I totally agree. I also like that you brought up Mushrooms. I have not done any mind/consciousness altering substances but, it is very intriguing when folks use these substances they usually all record seeing either the same beings or entities in the same fashion. Usually there are in a positive light as well. As me and my sister are Christians we love conversing about theology and Philosophy within our own religion and our ancestors. Even some like the Hindus which we have no blood attachment to. There definitely are differences within all of human spiritual practices but the similarities are there and should not be ignored. IMO it would be ignorant to think those people were lying or whatnot about their experiences and there's just one thing or way for us to be in tuned with our spiritual self. There definitely is good and evil and a spiritual aspect to the human consciousness as well as nature. Heilungs Opening Ceremony mantra is one I like to think about with spirituality and religion is that we are all connected. Hope you have a good new year to. 💯💪🏻🙏🏻
It's the opposite in a way, the reason we have so much knowledge on Celtic religion was from christian scholars (Not gildas though fuck him with a rusty spoon)
I fully enjoy watching your videos! I've been following your channel since the beginning and every time you make a video I have really enjoyed it and all of your hard work of research in authenticity.😊❤
The kiel word is very interesting. Any ties to the modern use of keel? I’m fairly certain boats were integral to the Bronze Age trade so it would be interesting if there were a tie.
the word Germanic is a derogatory term used by Romans referring to their unclear origins ( meaning they are a people who just germinated somewhere like fermented foods )
Grateful of both my German and Scottish heritage. Was always told growing up that we had more Scot in our blood until there was more digging into the records. Would love to see some more videos on the Celts, similarities in the gods and specifically their widely popular tree and land veneration
I’ve often wondered how much of my ancestry was Celtic vs Germanic. It’s not as easy to determine as one would think as waves of migration happened throughout history and it’s hard to know if the migration was that of a ruling elite like the case with the Frank’s ruling what’s now France or a larger scale migration like that of the Anglo saxons migrating to Britain. I’m still doing family research on my mothers side, from what I know it’s Swiss German, English and welsh. My fathers side Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English, German, Dutch, Irish, and welsh. His results came back 29% Scandinavian, 25% Germanic Europe, 25% English and the remaining portions a mix of welsh, scottish, and Irish.
@@parislisbon8187 no need to be a cunt. My comment was perfectly relevant as it has to do with celts and Germans. If you look through the comments you’ll find plenty similar to mine as it’s fairly typical on channels like this.
It's almost as though most people are a mix of a lot of different origins, and it's not very meaningful to attach some sort of strong cultural significance to one's individual ancestors. All of us have many ancestors. All of our ancestors made children until the present day, or we wouldn't be here. Everyone alive has made it through the years by having extremely skilled and hard-working ancestors. We should respect all of them, not just cherry-pick the ancestors that fit a narrative currently being pushed in the world. Anyone going too deep into Germanic or Celtic pride, or any other individual heritage for that matter, is just being weaponized for political gain by other people with influence.
@@StoufSto I 100% agree and understand that. I was simply curious given the videos subject. I don’t think one is better than the other or have any political motivations behind my comment. I’m very proud of my American heritage and have a copy of my great, great, great, great grandfathers journal where he documents traveling from Pennsylvania to Ohio, to Missouri, to Utah, to California, etc.
The English are from the Anglo-Saxons, which are Germanic people and the Scandinavians are also Germanic people, so that would make your dad 79% Germanic.
In Portugal you still see a lot of Q-Celtic heritage specially in the north that probably came from the Lusitani and Callaeci tribes or maybe from the germanic Suevi or Visigoth tribes. You can specially see this in the Caretos pagan festival (and some other festivals we have here).
My paternal ancestry can be traced back to the Celtic tribe of the Boii who lived alongside the Romans in northern Italy but who originated in present day Slovakia.
11:00 - Julius Caesar is not the most detailed source of the Celts by far... he was peddling on disinformation according to his closest allies who wrote as much.
I enjoy all of your videos and find them very well informed. This is the best way to soak up history! It looks like these ancient peoples were moving about a lot, going forward to settle in new lands. It’s difficult to keep them all straight! I look forward to more from you.
My mom was "fresh off the boat" from Donegal Ireland, and my dad's mom was first born here in the States from a primarily Swedish ancestry. My wife was able to trace my dad's dad's side was to when them immigrated from Donegal Ireland in the early 1800's
That was a funny start. Scythian influence on Kelts, Germans, and Slavs is an important aspect rarely mentioned. I’ve often wondered about Etruscan cultural influence during their losses to early Rome. They “escaped” into the Kelto-Teutonic interphase around the Alps. The Scythian connection to India as well makes it a great cultural messenger between them all. Even the story of the brother kings in Herodotus repeats creation story myths and a cultural intermixture between warrior cults, typically sexually ascetic, and farming cultures with sexual ritualism. It’s an amazing story that Herodotus says depicts that culture’s aggression toward foreign things. The ironic part, however, is that both brothers adopted foreign practices. The one who desired an empire accepted that he had to sacrifice his nomadism. The one who kept the nomadism, however, adopted “Eastern” sexual ritualism due to supposed victory it granted (a typical justification of adopted cults). His promise to perform the sexual ritual in the woods upon his return was punished as his brother shot him in copulation. Ymir was killed “because he was evil” but when we extend the mythic themes we see the Zeus/Io, Minotaur, and Tejas myths justify that the “evil” was sexual promiscuity…also a noticeable quality in Etruscan culture. We could even see the Abrahamic self-circumcision as a Semitic expression of the theme, along with Moses negating the “golden calf” cult. Tacitus mentions a priestly group with bells on their skirts and describes them as effeminate, but this could be a misinterpretation of steppe shamanism where Thunder skirts, with metal “mirrors” that would reflect the sunlight like lightning, are worn. Any shamanic possession might have been considered effeminate by some of his sources, but in the Bagua in China Fire is a daughter and water is a son of Heaven and Earth. Fire makes us more Yang and Water makes us more yin. The Medicine Buddha is blue/Black like Water, expressing the yin nature of compassion for healing intentions. This Bagua association matches Germanic genders of the Sun and Moon, linking as well to the Shakti-Shiva cults in India where Shakti is the “Shock” of energy that dances upon the waist of the blue corpse (Shava) of Shiva when Prāna enters him. Prāna means “forth-breath,” again having a Semitic correspondence when God breaths animus into Adam. Chinese medicine says Heavenly qi enters a baby with its first breath and its last breath is when its spirit leaves at death.
I heard Viking and Celtic people were actually from Africa and South America,European cultures just appropriated it😮 this is true, because my feelings matter😢
Wtf please use that fone to research ffs modern northern eu peoples come from the middle east rb2 farmer genes funny how maps never show that celt dna is same as Armenians apparently homeland of farmers
Hypothesis The etymology of the name Kelt being associated with bring hidden or from the underworld may actually simply be a derivative of the idea that the people came from “ The Land” .
Not only is the area around the Danube in Western Europe the "home" of the Celts, it was the Celts who named that river for all time. According to the Wikipedia article for the Danube: "Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic 'danu' or 'don'[17] (both Celtic gods)..."
12:38 - "Romans conquered almost all of Celtic lands relatively easily" - No, only Gauls was easy (8 years). Iberia was hard (200 years) and Strabo and Siculus also noted as much.
@@gandolfthorstefn1780 The Silures and the Picts were possibly the two farthest people from the Romans; no wonder they could not beat them; this is hardly to their credit but rather a large component of this is due to their remoteness and their poverty which was not interesting to the Romans.
The major difference between the trajectory of the northern Germanic and Celtic cultures, is that the northmen not only were quite unaffected by the Roman imperium, but also prospered thanks to it. Many took jobs as lifeguards or soldiers in the Roman imperium. The Celts, on the other hand were handled quite heavily by the Romans.
Thats because the terrain in northern Germanic lands made it difficult to campaign. In the Germanic lands that were open and like other parts of Europe the Romans conquered and decimated Germanic tribes.
Proximity itself played a big part, and one of the parts that isn't emphasized is that the Romans took the "civilized" tribes into their imperium, so throughout all of these conflicts you have to remember that Celts were fighting on the Roman side as well - not unlike what happened later with the Germanic tribes, same deal.
I have been watching a lot of historians talking about lost people's and they skirt the subject but I think the ancient people's used the appearance of acceptance of homosexuality in a society as the appearance of weakness. At which point they would invade kill the men and sexually enslave the remaining population. I think that the eastern Roman empire understood this and used the migration of the Turks and the emergence of the Varags to deepen their gene pool and extend the length of their rule.
I'm very proud of and still very much into my, Celtic/Gaelic decent. "Irish and Scots." And all that pertains to it. I read somewhere, not too long ago that, the Thuatha De' Dannan is to have at one time, intermingled with the Scandinavian Gods and/or the folk. Something leading to a connection of sorts.
The Irish and Scots are not Celts, they never called themselves Celts, and this only started linguistically because George Buchanan in 1582 decided to call Irish and Scottish languages "Celtic" because he thought and he said those languages came from Spain where the Celtici lived. So the only reason The British Isles have anything to do linguistically only with the term "Celtic" is due to their supposed connection to Spain.
@@jboss1073 Used as it's intentions. An umbrella term. And yes, I know they never called themselves Celts. But to say the Scots and Irish Gael didn't mix with the, "Celts." If you say so.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367 "The term British isles is problematic." I understand that, however Ireland was indeed called "Britannia Minor" by the Romans, so the name "British" does belong historically to Ireland. Compared to Ireland's inexistent historical relationship with the name "Celt", the name "British" at least was used to refer to the Irish historically. And if you really think British Isles is problematic then please from not on refer to the Iberian Peninsula as the Celtiberian Peninsula - there aren't just Iberians there.
@@CelticHound357 "Used as it's intentions. An umbrella term. And yes, I know they never called themselves Celts. But to say the Scots and Irish Gael didn't mix with the, "Celts." If you say so." Why use an umbrella term? Just use their own name. They had their own names. The Irish called themselves Gaels, Goidels, Hibernians, Fenians, etc. No need to go stealing the name of western Iberians and southern French just because you like it and then acting like they can use that name because they might have mixed with the Celts. Don't do that. Let each people have their own name. The people who called themselves Celts in their own names as inscribed in their own personal pottery and tombstones lived mostly in western Iberia with colonies in Narbo and Massilia. Everywhere else, other tribes had their own names that did not use the word "Celt". The Greeks knowingly generalized the name of the Celts to all Galatians as Strabo explains in Book 4.
Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy 'The Warlord Chronicles' got me so hyped on Celtic culture. It is set in post-Roman Britain and has many representations of Celtic culture, religion, superstitions, and warfare. It is single-handedly my favorite set of novels ever. Conversely, the Saxon Chronicles, (of the Last Kingdom fame) also by Bernard Cornwell, are an insanely deep look at Germanic culture, as both the Saxons and the Vikings, though so incredibly different by that point, all came from the same ancestry. The Vikings literally were the same "barbarian" invaders that the Saxons were 300 years earlier to the Britons.
Julius was close to not conquering Gaul. Vercingetorix had united much of Gaul and at that point the tide could've shifted either way. It took years of struggle before they conquered Gaul. The Romans were brutal towards them committing near genocide. I think it was every 1 in 3 Gauls that were killed during Julius's conquest. Highly recommend checking out "The Celtic Holocaust" by Dan Carlin on his podcast "Hardcore History." He goes into great descriptive detail throughout 6 hours of podcast on the fall of Gaul to Rome. One of the best history podcasts at least when it comes to entertainment value.
While I can entertain the idea that Celts that got caught up in high 'civilization', or romanized society might have been more susceptible to homosexuality and promiscuity, its very silly to think that this would have been common in their tribal world. I have come across this theory of Germanics being somehow distinguished in this regard, but if you really think about it that doesn't make much sense. The Celts were the main agitators and adversaries of rome, of course they would be subject to more propaganda and mired into historical spectacle. Like you explained these two are very very close genetically and its unlikely the Germanics would have intermarried so much with these groups if they had normalized decadent behavior. Many of their customs and traditions are very similar, why would this be any different? There is also the strict survival aspect of why honor and temperance aspects like monogamy was more important than anything to these people. You needed trust, and you needed people you can rely on in order to survive in such a climate. Purely psychologically, reducing that trust and commitment is disastrous and society only maintains cohesion by removing the survival aspect and putting humans in an artificial environment with distractions. Like the one we have today.
I do believe it was some sort of warrior rite of passage. It existed in many civilisations. The Greeks did it, even the samurai had this kind of rite of passage. Probably to establish a brotherly interdependence. Doesn’t make them necessarily homosexual although some probably were. It has always been the case in every society.
@@jp16k92 It didn't happen. The Romans were engaged in negative propaganda against its adversaries. This is widely known. Almost none of the Roman accusations against the tribes they deemed barbarians has any historical validity.
@@jp16k92 Absolutely nothing about laying with another man is included in warrior cultures. In fact, the majority of warrior cultures world wide believed it to be unmanly Sleeping in a bunk or dorm together, that is common, sleeping in a bed together naked and intimately, no.
mother viking and father celt from the British Island,emigrated to Scandinavia in the middle age around 1150-1350. His dna signature are common in Wales.
I've been fascinated by Vikings more than Celts since I was a baby and picked up an Usborne Medieval and Viking book. I didn't like the tv show. Didn't like the shaved heads. Didn't like the characters. Didn't like how the Anglo-Saxons were portrayed as weak and stupid, which has become a stereotype. Didn't like the overall atmosphere.
From what I have been researching, it seems like the Celtic people are likely more of a linguistic and cultural (and maybe religious) group than a genetic one. It seems likely it was a culture and language that spread from Central Europe among pre-Existing Indo-European peoples, perhaps with a number of elites on trading routes. But probably not a mass-migration and/or series of invasions akin to the Germanic migration era. For instance, the ancient DNA record in Britain and Ireland shows no sudden massive influx of new DNA to coincide with the appearance of what we recognise as Celtic material culture, in distinction to what we see into England with the Anglo-Saxon migration 1000 years later, or even more so with the arrival of the Bell Beaker people into Britain and Ireland 2000 years earlier (we actually have no idea what language the Bell Beakers would have spoken, other than that it would have been Indo-European). It seems more like the arrival of Celtic material culture, and likely Celtic language, in these islands was accompanied by a small and slow trickle of DNA over a prolonged period. But overall, the genetics of Celtic era Britain and Ireland is pretty much the same as it was in the pre-Celtic Bronze Age.
Great video, thanks for the respect 🙏 i often wondered why the germanics never expanded into the celtic lands before the roman collapse. Probably because of such a similar lifestyle. Do you think the gemanic lands were not taken as much due to overstreching of the romans at that point also? Like scotland? Maybe it wasnt worth the hassle
I also think 'it wasn't worth the hassle' and one has to consider the logistic effort for such hugh deplacements of power in an area with little to none open spaces for their legions to roam. As allready mentioned 'the Celts' were more organized than those 'Germanic tribes' , probably living in larger communities, had their cavalry and thus no match/no fear for their 'Germanic neighbours'. A point mostly overlooked is the fact how organised those 'Celtic tribes' could be . Nice example were ' the Belgae' which habitated now called Flanders and across the channel south-mid England and likely the Island of Wight. Building vessels for commerce,transport of any kind , keeping rules and law on both sides of the channel into their community would be no sinecure.
They did in what is modern day Germany, Austria & Switzerland! Germanic Marcomanni killed Celtic Boii tribe and absorbed the rest of them later on and another example is the coalition of Germanic Cimbri, Teutoni, and Ambrones which killed the large Celtic Helvetii tribe.
I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the similarities between the Celtic and Germanic peoples, and there really wasn't that much difference. Even more so today, we're so mixed we might as well consider ourselves one people.
Yeah, when Braveheart came out everyone wanted to be Scottish. The celtic highland games became real popular post 1995. Then when the series The Vikings came out everyone wanted to be Scandnavian.the funny thing is that it was the English who literally conquered the 4 corners of the earth so if your ancestors came from England 🏴 you should feel the real coolness factor. My ancestry is 40% Britain 40% Nordic and 20% Celtic, so I appreciate all of their history and heritage.
Our peoples have interesting history regardless which angle you look at it from. It would be awesome to be able to follow one's family line back to origin.
If anyone's brutally obsessed with Celto-Germanic history and especially warfare I invariably recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. By far the best military historical expertise available on the subject
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Duely noted!
Merçi beaucoup
Just watched the video I think you were referring to yesterday.
WHO THE FUCK IS SCHWERPUNKT. ANSWER ME. SOMEONE ATLEAST LINK ME THE VIDEO. IM TIRED OF HEARING OF THIS "SCHWERPUNKT"
Is it in English?
When you are a history nerd all of them are cool.
Roman, Spartan, Illyrians, Goth, Scythians and Sarmatians, Dacian, Gauls, Celtic, Norse etc.
They all have cool stories and interesting cultures to read about and be amazed of the kind of life someone from that era lived.
It's all fascinating to me, awesome history, all of it
Im a history nerd but only just realizing lol!
Highly agreed. That’s why it always pisses me off whenever I hear that someone, anyone destroyed a piece of history. The burning Library of Alexandria, or that idiot mf’er that carelessly destroyed pieces of Troy. For examples
Being of 99% Germanic and Celtic ancestry I really appreciate learning about the similarities between the cultures. Can't wait for the next video!
Deutsch call Hungarian-Macar-Scythians German in form of UnGar and not themselves similarly to others since Ugar,HonGri,VenGri,WanGer...Ó'ghur,Onoguri refers to Hungarian-Macar-Scythians.
As for the Celt as Kelt it is a Hungarian-Macar-Scythian word reffeeing to East as to place where sun rises.
So called Halstatt culture has nothing to do with Western groups like Deutsch or Danish etc.
I thought that there were/are no actual people called "Celts". It's a generic term (I thought) to describe ancient Europeans.
Because there was no written record, we don't know who these people were or what they called themselves.
@@johncater7861Celtic is certainly more cultural than it is ethnic, but if it’s being used to identify ethnicity it means the Europeans west of the Rhine whereas Germanic people are east of the Rhine.
This is super arbitrary, mind you, with people west of the Rhine having been mixed Celtic-Germanic since before the time of Julius Caesar.
@@Captain_Planets well I know that my own breakdown is about 60-70% germanic, 10-20% Celtic, 10-25% Pontic-Caspian Steppe Aryan, and then a very small percentage (from
To @Thor-Orion:
Read all of my description below:
A troll is not spiritual entities that have affect on supernatural things in our world. A troll is not a spirit that helps people with magic. A seiðr or a volva is a witch, not a troll. seiðr is a spirit that helps people with magic. Volva is a spirit that helps people with magic. Let’s be specific here, and let’s doing things in a clear defining way. It need to have a clear definition. It need to be clearly defined. What is the physical description of a tröll in Old Norse paganism? Is it a human with a long four foot nose with large hands and a tail?
The celts have always had my respect, as a Greek I view them as ancient cousins of Europe. It’s a shame that their cultural identity was wiped out from most of mainland Europe, and I hope that the Welsh, Scots, Irish, Brittons, and people of Cornwall, preserve their cultures and languages as best they can, so that one day, hopefully they are revived
There's a strong cause in Scotland right now where Gaelic Scots speakers are kinda gathering in Glasgow. It's becoming known as the Gaelic center of Scotland. There's a school there dedicated to learning Gaelic Scots.
The socalled Celts are very much alive, it's just that white surpremacist scholarship has done much to hide the fact that world history is Black history. See Anacalypsis by G Higgins. And Anna Wilkes and John Ogilvy. Shalom
@@thetjdman that’s good but I’ve heard Glasgow is quite high in criminal activity unfortunately
To Norse magic and belief:
A troll is a ogre, not a giant, so be more specific in categorization of Old Norse Paganism mythical creatures?
@@taylorfusher2997 bro no one said anything about Trolls or giants
You knocked it out the park covering Celts and Germanic peoples. Please keep then coming 10/10 👏🏻
Way to go brother; so many souls of European descendants feel and long for Celtic times.. it’s like this depth in the Heart-Vortex that knows I lived as a Celtic warrior before, and long for that period on Earth again.
Before outsiders and usurpers came to the North, I sense life was more meaningful and whole to our people.
Now ignorance is bliss, artificial over natural, people seek path of least resistance rather a life of challenge and fulfillment.
Another banger, keeep it up brother
I view it as the effects of deep astrology
cringe
@@Einarr_Norge Tell me you're a Brown man without telling me you're a Brown man
Красиво сказано. Кажется, что когда-то кто-то из моих предков был кельтом, потому что в моем сердце бушует что-то кельтское время от времени. Это генетическая память.
@@blackriders3509 Black >>>> celtcel
Both groups had some fascinating similarities. Beautiful groups that we Still need! Keep Ancestry ALIVE! 🔥💯
As an adopted bastard, I was told that my father was Irish, but I hired a researcher and genetic DNA. I am very German/ic, both my Y-DNA and MtDNA and 70 percent of my autosomal/overall. MY biological mother is mostly German and a little Swedish from the Midwest. My father is directly German, but 1/2 Scottish. In short, I love this frigin' channel. I was raised in a German-American neighborhood, which I am grateful for. I know the cultural differences in Germany: i.e. Bavarian & Black Forrest stereotypes, Westphalia spoke Dutch, etc., as well as the foods and culture. What a blessing to have grown up with my culture. Peace
in the case of westphalia, dont call it dutch, they speak a low german dialect and dutch is a low german language
I recommend listening to Dan Carlin's hardcore history podcast episode "The Celtic Holocaust" it's very interesting. No one does podcasts like him.
The Celtic genocide occurred from 58 to 51 BC during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. It's a shame that Vercingetorix even though he united the tribes, he lost the revolt against Caesar. He's a hero for sure.
yes, these are great, he also has a newer 2 part series for free on his site, about vikings.
Thor's Angels and Twilight of the Aesir yep awesome chapters I'm a big a fan@@Gracchi
Yes I won🎉
My family are proudly celtic in origin, but I also have some germanic and Scandinavian ancestry. The similarities we have to our nordic and germanic brethren is beyond uncanny.
Same, except reversed. Scandinavian/Germanic with some celtic
The Celts were not a nordic people. The name "Celt" is not found natively anywhere in the British Isles, nor in Ireland, nor in northern France. It is only found in southern France and Iberia in items of native peoples. The northern French people and the British Islanders knew themselves probably as Belgae, as that tribe carried its name to both England and Ireland. Otherwise, northern peoples do not have any connection to the name "Celts".
Scandinavian is Germanic... So why do you differentiate between them as if they're not the same?
At this pt I daresay most Celts are partially Germanic in heritage.
The Celtic regions of Spain were taken over by Germanic leadership, the Celts of France who survived the Roman plunder were then integrated into Germanic confederations, the Belgae seem to have been a kind of inbetween people already from what I can tell, and those of us from Britain obviously had the Saxon and Scandinavian incursions.
@@Cornflakes-sr3nq The whole of Spain is between 29% and 31% Yamnaya directly from Switzerland and southwestern Germany from 2,500 BC to 1,800 BC when the Corded Ware Eastern Bell Beakers mixed with the Iberian Maritime Bell Beakers.
So even the Iberians who are the "least Germanic" of the Celts are still almost a third Germanic.
The others even more so as expected from being closer to Germany.
Keep in mind the most Germanic people are 53% Yamnaya so that is the "upper limit" of current Europeans. Given that, 31% is not little.
Thank you, sir. I have Norwegian, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, German and Italian ancestry, though I have only recently come to learn of the latter 4 parts of my heritage. Nonetheless, I am always fascinated in learning the origins of my ancestors.
Same here somewhat in being Euro-mixed (plus some Arab). My dad's side is British (English and Scottish) and German and my mom's (Southern) Italian. Will not lie I prefer my Italian/Roman ancestry over the others and I know far more about it, but I do have a place of fondness to still learn about ancient Celtic and Germanic history/culture.
Dude, Norwegian, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon are Germanic. Or do you mean German?
@@Combat-Mindset yes, I suppose I do mean German. Thank you for pointing that out.
The Celtic language, Breton, is still spoken in Brittany in the French state ... despite the best efforts of the French and Jacobin to suffocate the language. Breton is a sister language of Welsh (my language) and Cornish, not as close as Dutch and German, maybe more like French and Spanish. The grammar is similar - like all Celtic languages they have mutations where the first letter of a word can mutate to another sound e.g. c => g; b => f/v etc. And many many words are similar or the same, e.e. bara (bread), byd / bed (world), bro (country), numbering etc etc.
There's a strong Latin influence on the Welsh language as Brythonic (ancient Welsh/Cornish/Breton) was the language of the whole of Britain south of Edinburgh, at the time of the Roman conquest. So, over 400 years of Roman occupation many Latin words seeped into the Welsh language e.g. braich (for arm), pont (bridge), ffenestr (window), llaeth (milk) etc.
I'm singing in a Welsh choir and I get a "remedial Welsh" (Welsh for idiots) lesson every Thursday night.
Romanised brits fled to Eastern wales as well, to powys.
@@terranaxiomuk Yeah they bought up the good hoiliday properties and left the Cymru to the hills and dales.,
The "plumage" that Roman officers wore on their helmets was also adopted from the Celts, or so is the opinion that is held by certain romanologists. It made the leadership easier to be recognized in battle.
It was adopted from the Greeks. Stop lying
The sea peoples were with plumages long before this
"plumage" are you for real?
man up for God's sake
Hittites had plumes about 1000 years before romans did
I saw a Neanderthal once and he was wearing feathers.
Please expand on the spiritual aspects of the celts. I’m 20% Scottish and 40% Scandinavian. I like learning about what my ancestors thought and believed
It's pretty much all speculation, because most of Celtic culture was destroyed or subsumed into Christianity.
Vikings stayed in Scotland 🏴 ❤
@@slappy8941Both of you refer to my top comment. Or just buy the book “Not In His Image”. It’s everything we need to know about the Celts and the Druids. It’s a helluva lot, by the way.
@@pAThomies as a minority
20% scottish and 40% scandinavian and most likely you are probably 1% Celtic.
"scottish" doesnt mean celtic. genetics is like way more complicated than that.
Fantastic video! Thanks for this. I'm really looking forward to more about the Celts.
Surely another good topic for a video would be about the meetings and interactions of the Germanic peoples with the Slavs. As an interesting aside, we in England had an Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Druid!
Was that the poet?
Ohhey. I am principally Celtic in background, so it is cool to have you branching out.
Another factor in thr conquest of Celts and not Gauls was material culture. Archeology indicates that the Celts were much more economically attractive to the Romans than the Germanics, at least at that time, so that there was more perceived benefit to conquering them may have been a significant factor.
I’m happy I came across you. Passionate and well informed. Much love from a ginger Irish celt!
so many people get SO bent over the thought of men sleeping next too, being even a little intimate, or any sexual activitiy at all with another male. ESEPCIALLY when refering to the historical records. It is what it is. No reason to get offended over it. Just because your ancestors enjoyed time with both men and women, and maybe more men. Doesn't mean that you are automatically the exact same. Great video as always, thank you!
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I think it's a little bit of both of his explanations. There definitely were asexual warrior initiations but Gaulish society probably just wasn't directly oppressive of gay people. I think Roman sources played this up though to encourage Roman soldiers to take Celtic Women by creating a rumor that they were all gay.
@@GAMER123GAMING the fuck that mean
@@I_hate_roads probably
@@Jeudaos dey wuz gaaaay n'sheeeeet i swear!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obsessed a tad bit too much perhaps?
Would like to see more on the Nordic Bronze age trade and cultural connections to the Mediterranean such as Sardinia. Also any possibilities that some mercenaries from the Nordic Bronze age culture participated in the Sea People raids in the Eastern Mediterranean
Also, Nordic mercenaries fir centuries fought for E Roman
(« Byzantine ») empire.
@@samaval9920 a couple of thousand years later and known as the Varangian Guard
In the Gaelic language we call ourselves the Gael. In Gaelic, we say "Is muidne na Gael"= We are the Gael. From my studies of ancient history, Gael is a newer form of the word Gaidheil which in turn has an etymology with the word Godhael from ancient Akkadian which meant "The great warriors".
Thank you so much for this video. I really appreciated all the detail.🙏
Would love to hear more about the religion and most especially the Druids.
excellent presentation. Making sure my many grandchildren see this.
I am a Celt who speaks a native Celtic language. I live in a part of Wales that the Romans were unable to conquer. So were the English as it happens. There was a vital highly influential trade relationship between the Celts and Scandinavians that flourished along the Celtic sea between Wales, Cornwall, Ireland and Brittany. The Vikings helped the Cornish fight against the English. When Edward 1st invaded Wales he was defeated in the battle of the Menai Straits by an army that was a third Welsh, a third Irish and a third Viking. At one point, the princes of Gwynedd in Noth Wales had a rightful claim to the thrones of Wales, Ireland and Norway, so strong were the inte-rmarital alliances and connections between the Scandinavians and the Celts of the far North West of Europe.
Just for the record........there are ZERO attestations of homosexuality among the Celts of Britain and Ireland. Something that is born out by ancient Welsh traditions and laws..... .......just saying;)
No on in history ever called any British Islander "Celt" so what makes you a Celt? Linguistic academics from 1582? Who named your language "Celtic" only because he though it came from the Celtici from Spain?
@@jboss1073 With modern science your pathetic fantasies are NOTHING. The Irish will never be black or north african and you are just gonna have to DEAL WITH IT. HAH!
@@jboss1073 the words "celt" and "german" meant nothing to those peoples, we need to stop using those labels so seriously
I wish I could agree with you on the no homo thing in the British Isles, but in at least one tale of Cu Chulainn (which I read many years ago), there was some buggery going on between him and his warrior partner. Shameful and ugly, but there it is.
Only the Romans where doing gay things not celts or germanic or Norwegians
North Sea Mutt here...Mostly Germanic too with a splash of Celtic DNA. I too miss the Celtic celebration days, but I feel both cultures need love with the whole world yelling at the top of their lungs that we "have no culture".... Thank you for these types of videos as its why I subbed and stay subbed!
I'm Germanic from my father's side, Celtic from my mom's side. I embrace both.
I have always been proud of my Germanic heritage mainly but grew into my Celtic lol. In the seventies the Germanic surrounded me but once i started doing genealogy i was opened up to the Celtic. Mind you we didnt have internet in the early eighties so all of my research was done the hard way. The two sides of my family represented a perfect microcosm of the blending of cultures with all the problems each could bring to bear and yet all the similarities, much like your presentation here suggests. Well done presentation i look forward to looking at your take on the religious side which has always been my main interests as well, more the Nordic/Germanic than the Celtic but their are still so much alike. Grimm's Teutonic Mythology was a great eye opener to alot of that, such a great resource.
Hello, good video, as for spanish celts and celtiberians, the romans had to expend 200 years to conquer the Iberic Peninsula.
Never too old to learn something new.....well done
I'm old enough to remember when he cultural zeitgeist was ancient Egypt, ancient Greece & Rome. (The Eagle, Last Legion, The Mummy, 300, Gladiator, Troy) i believe it's the deep astrology at work, planetary retvrn transits for each civilization.
I agree with that feeling about the astrological influence for collective memory. Those movies where my favorites when I was younger and it did seem like there was a collective global interest of those time periods back in the 90s and early 2000s, now it feels much like the bronze age and much more ancient times are speaking to us in these times
In Iberia we’re proud of our Celtic and Germanic roots, and the Suebi and Visigoths especially left a big impact on the peninsula
Do you know any good books? My family from northern Portugal but sometimes finding anything to order from the US can be difficult.
@@shawnm2405 That’s a good question, I’ve mostly read information online, but I really want to try and find some good books. There’s this one guy I talked to that said he was writing a book on the subject, I could ask him. In the meantime I could send you some links so you can read some information. I have a lot of ancestry from Portugal too, so I know what it’s like trying to find out more about our ancestors
Search for Freddy Silva, Roger Crowley, Alexandre Herculano, Veríssimo Serrão, Marco Neves, José Hermano Saraiva, Fernando Rosas or Simon Sebag Montefiore etc. There are lots of books. If you speak portuguese: youtube - you can see "A Alma e a gente", "Horizontes da Memória", "História de Portugal" (José Hermano Saraiva) or Impérios AD ou Portugal Paralelo.
Portugal and spain descends of mouros Marroquinos 🇲🇦 and gypsies
Are you proud of that too?
@@luiznuness Portugal and Spain are not descendants from the moors nor gypsies, that is completely false. We are pure blooded Europeans, and we are proud to be White
My father is Danish & my mother is from northern England so my heritage is both Norse & Celt. I’m interested in the pre-Christian culture & beliefs of both sides of my ancestry, so thank you so much for this video. I’m happy to hear there will be more.
Gnostics 100pecent read book of the dead aka kolbrin Bible there's reasons for pelagus Brit who faught for roman Christianity to be written a certain way druids aka magi brahmans all link to ancient folks an uk was homeland of the teaching remember when Romans nailed the main man to a cross then wrote an revert oringnal one thing Germanic northern eu got in common we never surrender to rome 1300 years of being banned from reading bible in own language knowledge would be lost
Similarly my mother is from Copenhagen and my old man is the stereotypical Yorkshireman so like you I am also a Engelsk Danske but with the maternal and paternal the opposite way round.
Halfdan and proud.
*There is a good website called We Are The English and somewhere on the site is an essay on the Saxon Gods and Demi-Gods
and also traditions and important dates in the calendar. Remember the days of the week that are named after the Gods: Tuesday is Tyrsdag, Wednesday is Wodensdag, Thursday is Thunorsdag and Friday is Friggasdag (or Freyrsdag?) The Weekend stayed Roman, Saturn and the Sun with Monday named for the moon (I don't know without checking if Monday is Saxon or Roman?)
Easter is a Christian corruption of Eostre, the fertility Goddess of the Anglo-Saxons. Another interesting and little known Anglo Saxon celebration is Modraniht (Mother's Night) Dec 21st Winter Solstice.
@@eardwulf785 Thanks for telling me about that website, I’m going to look it up.
Do keep in mind... English people are Germanic people's, not Celts. Brittons were Celts, but we're subsequently replaced entirely by the Angles and Saxons. That being said, I sincerely do not think a "pure" Celt or "pure" Germanic person exists in the modern world. These two cultures existed so closely, and descended from the same originating culture, and have mixed and migrated so prolifically, effectively all Germanic people have done Celtic ancestry, and all Celtic people have Germanic ancestry.
@@brutalisaxeworth3024 Britons were never Celts - they never called themselves by that name nor did anyone else call them that name.
Grimfrost and Wolflund are two online resources for Viking but also old Celtic goods and clothes.
Both are rooted in Northern (Germanic) and Eastern European (Slavic) pagan and historic goods: clothing, jewelry, arms, statues of old dieties, etc.
I think it was Wulflund that (at one time - I haven't checked lately) imported woven wool material (some with proper tartans) from Scottish, Irish, Channel Islands, etc sources. Worth a look.
there is a reason why grimfrost is called cringefrost.
With genetic studies, it's now known that the steppe people spread throughout Europe bringing use of horses and proto celtic languages. They mixed with the different local women ,developing slightly different cultures as they progressed, such as the cordware and beaker people. So later various norse, germanic and celtic tribes evolved from them and therefore have similarities .
Yes even language all relates when u look into it
i very much enjoy this chanel as a fair and accurate historical source guide. that said i believe this particular episode, for whatever reason may have presented some facts incorrectly. this through absence of historical material or misinterpretation of historical material albeit in error or on purpose. i prefer to believe it to be by error as this content creator is one of he best all around in his pursuits. the 2 main points that fell lightly were the similarities between celt/germanic peoples and their mutual commonalities and the acceptance of neighboring/conquering people's social/civil lifestyles. overall i continually respect and regard this chanel as an excellent and accurate source of european history.
Thank you for such very clear analysis. As someone born in England of 100 percent Irish ancestry (my mother was born in Limerick) it is hard to find out just how Viking/Celtic the folk of the main Irish ports were or indeed still are. Anyhow do keep up the great Celtic/Germanic work!
Nice work. Love the scholarly objectivism and concise presentation.
I came looking for info about continental Germanic and Prussian cultures, so that's what I would find nice to hear about :-)
Thank you for doing this! I’d love a video about the Celtic religion and the Druids.
57% Celt and 43% Germanic, thanks for a well-balanced presentation.
My moms a red headed Scott and my dad is half Apache and half Thuringii German so I could blend in from ancient America’s to ancient Northern Europa. Love your channel brother :)
Thanks so much! Your content, herein. is professionally presented, and at a university level. Subscribed to see more.
I have a hard time believing that an entire culture was homosexual. The culture would have collapsed if there had been no babymaking. We talk about this today in the West when we talk about replacement levels. Every couple needs to have at least 2 kids to maintain the population.
Its more like you need to have 4 children now sorry to tell you bud.
Mass migration and it's consequences.
Having kids will be the downfall of the western world of the US 😂😂 they deserve the inflation
They had a lot of kids but they generally tolerated homosexuality. After Christianisation they absorbed hebrew culture which was hostile against homosexuality
More likely is that many more of them were what we would call bisexual today, but labeling *people* as "homosexual" or "heterosexual" (etc) instead of individual *acts* is a relatively new concept. The Romans were speaking of homosexual *activity*, which does not mean that all the men engaging in sexual acts with other men while on the road were strictly only sexually attracted to other men and never reproduced with women while at home.
Idk, it makes a lot of sense to me that if the women had such open views about sex as to feel their culture was superior for broader sexual selection with less shame around it, I doubt that openmindedness about who is permitted to have sex with whomst happened in a vacuum that somehow only pertained to the women of their culture and not the men.
I am Celtic/Pictish Erinvine (Clan Irvine) on one side.
I am a 'Grandson of Iver' (Clan Iver/MacIver) on the other.
Galgael.
Canadian🍁
The celtic knot was used by the suevi germanic tribe that settled in what is now Portugal.
Excellent video! My dad’s people came from the Scottish Hebrides and we have both Scandinavian and Irish DNA. I’m also curious about the Scottish Picts who might’ve descended from the Pictones tribe in ancient Gaul.
For your dads peoples you might want to try looking at the Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada). A joint kingdom between Ulster Scotti and the Picts who went on to become the Scotish Peoples. It is here that many find their "Irish" DNA..
That is an interesting point about the Picts. I was told that they were native to the British Isles and were surplanted by the Celts. Then came the Romans, then the Saxons, Danes and then Vikings.
@@daveyoung445 No such thing as the Ulster scotti, the people of Ulster were and are Irish.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367and yet isn't it weird how recorded history disagrees with your political narrative but you are allowed to continue repeating it..
I wonder why ?
Perhaps you deny the existence of an entire peoples due to the cancer that is communism that infects the nationalist agenda here.. The Marx disease rotting at your heart.. who knows..
I think it's more likely a case of their being cousin tribes - obviously they were all cousin tribes but you know what I mean. You could think of it like the Dutch-Deutsch, or the Gauls and Gaels (Ive wondered if Galician is also cognate?) Gael-ician, could be wrong though) or how you see the same phenomenon occuring in the east Mediterranean of very similarly named cities/tribes that you can find what could very easily be a common origin or one having been founded by the other.
Same way when we would colonize new lands it was always "New ____" and names hearkening back to Britain & the continent & the Saints.
I am pretty much a Canadian. Cree, irish, scottish, french, England and northwestern European.
There is a nearly dead celtic language from galacia in NW Spain and there are cultural similarities, along with Bretons who are recorded as having came from Britain after Rome withdrew from the area.
Celtic languages in Spain have been totally dead for more than 2000 years.
@@ConontheBinarian Vettonian
I have read recently about Celts in greek literature of 360 AD that Celt's origin is Rhine river. So, every person that was close to the rhine river was original celt while the rest people which were far from the river were just different germans.
On the polygamy issue, yes, the high status men probably did have multiple wives just based on that, but it was also a way for the tribe to take care of the widows and their children.
You can't paste modern day society atop of one from 2 or 3 thousand years ago, and say that the women were going to be independent after the husband died, tribes just didn't really work like that for the most part. Which isn't to say that a wealthy widow necessarily needed to remarry, there are always a lot of complexities in any society that encouraged things to conform to their own tradition and to making the tribe strong.
The English are pretty much a 50/50 mix of Celtic and Germanic ancestry, so it’s an interesting synergy to look at from the perspective of an Englishman.
Irish and Danish, I got both covered 😆
Finally🎉 thank you for makin videos comparing Celts nd Germanic people's,I have been wondering about these two for a long time,including what they thought of each other
Please continue with these vids,you have cleared my doubts
The most important book (in my opinion, for everyone on the planet) regarding the Celtic People and the truth about their lost spiritual traditions and wisdom, their lost civilisation, is the lifeworks of John Lamb Lash; the book “Not In His Image”. Incredibly important, incredibly educational & life-changing read. The truth about the Celtic civilisation has been entirely covered-up by the Christian empire, and they’ve spent literally 2000 years wiping out all traces of the most important teachings.
Look at the book’s reviews. It’s a mind-blowing read; infuriating, enlightening, beautiful & enchanting, etc. Words fail to describe..
Christians or jews?
Can you give us a rundown on some of the eye opening things he talks about? Why is it called "Not In His Image"
@@sonnyb7612 Makes no difference-the same group is at the top. America was founded by a rag-tag mixed bunch of intellectuals and freedom fighters who wanted to build a world away from the European aristocracy which they wrote had been completely taken over by “that group” via the authority Christianity had given them. All European royalty and aristocracy is now completely compromised by “that group” because they were given power and status via Christianity, which they used as a means to intermarry into the European nobility, co-opting their power. The Flavius Caesars were part of that ethnicity & they manufactured the religion. Christianity is ‘Master Race’ ideology in disguise. Most devout Christians are universalists/anti-racial and completely subservient to that particular group.
@@AfricanWildDog54 Because we’re not made in “his” image for he is not our father, but an imposter and a demented pretender. Each racial group of the Human Species is made in the image of our specific individual niche-by the Gods, Mother *and* Father.
@@dragonofhatefulretribution9041 Could "in the image of the Father" not be used to mean a reflection of reality? All existence is a reflection of something else
Fantastic presentation! Best explanation of the complex relationship between the two great people of Western Europe.
The celtic said that it was punishable by death to be guy. And to be fat. In celtic history no gays. The celts were scythans.
Funny how the people arguing the ancient world had unrepressed homosexuality always cited examples of child abuse to try and justify their arguments.
Like most folks on here I have Celtic and Germanic ancestry. I absolutely love that you are diving into the Celts history. It would be awesome for you to dive into the Celtic Druids and religion. I myself am a Christian but love learning about my Pagan Brothers and sisters beliefs and spirituality. Sadly the Church caused most of our Ancestors history to be lost and I like most people wish it wasn't as we have to scrounge up whatever is left. Anyways love the Channel and content brother! Shout-out to all our European Kinfolk from 🇺🇲❤️🧬🌳 and all of my Pagan folks too. God bless! 💪🏻
A lot of us find our way between the Christian God and old gods, I find importance in both sides of my ancestral spirit. Paganism seems more attractive because of the errors of the church throughout history, as well as because of my own psychedelic experiences with mushrooms etc it's hard to believe in a theological religion with strict rules when you finally feel free of the shackles of a limited experience. Who's to say Catholicism didn't lead me to taking them? Perhaps God allowed me to experience the gods. Hard to know the fate woven for us regardless of what you believe, but I believe aligning your spirit will allow you to align yourself with your destiny.
@@nathanielanderson4367 I totally agree. I also like that you brought up Mushrooms. I have not done any mind/consciousness altering substances but, it is very intriguing when folks use these substances they usually all record seeing either the same beings or entities in the same fashion. Usually there are in a positive light as well. As me and my sister are Christians we love conversing about theology and Philosophy within our own religion and our ancestors. Even some like the Hindus which we have no blood attachment to. There definitely are differences within all of human spiritual practices but the similarities are there and should not be ignored. IMO it would be ignorant to think those people were lying or whatnot about their experiences and there's just one thing or way for us to be in tuned with our spiritual self. There definitely is good and evil and a spiritual aspect to the human consciousness as well as nature. Heilungs Opening Ceremony mantra is one I like to think about with spirituality and religion is that we are all connected. Hope you have a good new year to. 💯💪🏻🙏🏻
It's the opposite in a way, the reason we have so much knowledge on Celtic religion was from christian scholars (Not gildas though fuck him with a rusty spoon)
I've never wanted to be a Viking.
Great work as always. Keep it up, much appreciation from a cousin Celt/Germanic in the United States.
I’m curious to see if you think there might be a connection between the Celtic gods and the Asir in Nordic traditions.
I fully enjoy watching your videos! I've been following your channel since the beginning and every time you make a video I have really enjoyed it and all of your hard work of research in authenticity.😊❤
Celts vs Germanics need to start thinking about defending their Europe again!
Germanics pretty much stole all of europe from the people.
and slavic
@@amerAsterix Yes so true.
Excellent video as always!
I couldn't agree more to the point of the cultures being so close to the same.
The kiel word is very interesting. Any ties to the modern use of keel? I’m fairly certain boats were integral to the Bronze Age trade so it would be interesting if there were a tie.
@NolanVoid-dr1ch my fortune cookie of the day?
no
@@kariannecrysler640
Super fascinating topic and video! I’ll be on the lookout for the rest of the series
thank you! could you make a video about the Druids please?
the word Germanic is a derogatory term used by Romans referring to their unclear origins ( meaning they are a people who just germinated somewhere like fermented foods )
Grateful of both my German and Scottish heritage. Was always told growing up that we had more Scot in our blood until there was more digging into the records.
Would love to see some more videos on the Celts, similarities in the gods and specifically their widely popular tree and land veneration
Possibly my favorite video you've done to date.
I’ve often wondered how much of my ancestry was Celtic vs Germanic. It’s not as easy to determine as one would think as waves of migration happened throughout history and it’s hard to know if the migration was that of a ruling elite like the case with the Frank’s ruling what’s now France or a larger scale migration like that of the Anglo saxons migrating to Britain. I’m still doing family research on my mothers side, from what I know it’s Swiss German, English and welsh. My fathers side Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English, German, Dutch, Irish, and welsh. His results came back 29% Scandinavian, 25% Germanic Europe, 25% English and the remaining portions a mix of welsh, scottish, and Irish.
Why would you think anyone cares what your family ancestry is?
@@parislisbon8187 no need to be a cunt. My comment was perfectly relevant as it has to do with celts and Germans. If you look through the comments you’ll find plenty similar to mine as it’s fairly typical on channels like this.
It's almost as though most people are a mix of a lot of different origins, and it's not very meaningful to attach some sort of strong cultural significance to one's individual ancestors.
All of us have many ancestors. All of our ancestors made children until the present day, or we wouldn't be here. Everyone alive has made it through the years by having extremely skilled and hard-working ancestors. We should respect all of them, not just cherry-pick the ancestors that fit a narrative currently being pushed in the world.
Anyone going too deep into Germanic or Celtic pride, or any other individual heritage for that matter, is just being weaponized for political gain by other people with influence.
@@StoufSto I 100% agree and understand that. I was simply curious given the videos subject. I don’t think one is better than the other or have any political motivations behind my comment. I’m very proud of my American heritage and have a copy of my great, great, great, great grandfathers journal where he documents traveling from Pennsylvania to Ohio, to Missouri, to Utah, to California, etc.
The English are from the Anglo-Saxons, which are Germanic people and the Scandinavians are also Germanic people, so that would make your dad 79% Germanic.
In Portugal you still see a lot of Q-Celtic heritage specially in the north that probably came from the Lusitani and Callaeci tribes or maybe from the germanic Suevi or Visigoth tribes. You can specially see this in the Caretos pagan festival (and some other festivals we have here).
My paternal ancestry can be traced back to the Celtic tribe of the Boii who lived alongside the Romans in northern Italy but who originated in present day Slovakia.
Man I love your new intro and your new background. Suits you well!
11:00 - Julius Caesar is not the most detailed source of the Celts by far... he was peddling on disinformation according to his closest allies who wrote as much.
I enjoy all of your videos and find them very well informed. This is the best way to soak up history! It looks like these ancient peoples were moving about a lot, going forward to settle in new lands. It’s difficult to keep them all straight! I look
forward to more from you.
The Celts in Gaul had roads, that was easier for romans to conquer thier lands
My mom was "fresh off the boat" from Donegal Ireland, and my dad's mom was first born here in the States from a primarily Swedish ancestry. My wife was able to trace my dad's dad's side was to when them immigrated from Donegal Ireland in the early 1800's
That was a funny start. Scythian influence on Kelts, Germans, and Slavs is an important aspect rarely mentioned.
I’ve often wondered about Etruscan cultural influence during their losses to early Rome. They “escaped” into the Kelto-Teutonic interphase around the Alps. The Scythian connection to India as well makes it a great cultural messenger between them all.
Even the story of the brother kings in Herodotus repeats creation story myths and a cultural intermixture between warrior cults, typically sexually ascetic, and farming cultures with sexual ritualism. It’s an amazing story that Herodotus says depicts that culture’s aggression toward foreign things. The ironic part, however, is that both brothers adopted foreign practices. The one who desired an empire accepted that he had to sacrifice his nomadism. The one who kept the nomadism, however, adopted “Eastern” sexual ritualism due to supposed victory it granted (a typical justification of adopted cults). His promise to perform the sexual ritual in the woods upon his return was punished as his brother shot him in copulation. Ymir was killed “because he was evil” but when we extend the mythic themes we see the Zeus/Io, Minotaur, and Tejas myths justify that the “evil” was sexual promiscuity…also a noticeable quality in Etruscan culture. We could even see the Abrahamic self-circumcision as a Semitic expression of the theme, along with Moses negating the “golden calf” cult.
Tacitus mentions a priestly group with bells on their skirts and describes them as effeminate, but this could be a misinterpretation of steppe shamanism where Thunder skirts, with metal “mirrors” that would reflect the sunlight like lightning, are worn. Any shamanic possession might have been considered effeminate by some of his sources, but in the Bagua in China Fire is a daughter and water is a son of Heaven and Earth. Fire makes us more Yang and Water makes us more yin. The Medicine Buddha is blue/Black like Water, expressing the yin nature of compassion for healing intentions. This Bagua association matches Germanic genders of the Sun and Moon, linking as well to the Shakti-Shiva cults in India where Shakti is the “Shock” of energy that dances upon the waist of the blue corpse (Shava) of Shiva when Prāna enters him. Prāna means “forth-breath,” again having a Semitic correspondence when God breaths animus into Adam. Chinese medicine says Heavenly qi enters a baby with its first breath and its last breath is when its spirit leaves at death.
Glad someone has made a video about this. I've been interested in this subject since the 80s.
I heard Viking and Celtic people were actually from Africa and South America,European cultures just appropriated it😮 this is true, because my feelings matter😢
Wtf please use that fone to research ffs modern northern eu peoples come from the middle east rb2 farmer genes funny how maps never show that celt dna is same as Armenians apparently homeland of farmers
Hypothesis
The etymology of the name Kelt being associated with bring hidden or from the underworld may actually simply be a derivative of the idea that the people came from “ The Land” .
Proud of my Germanic heritage. And some Welsh. The coolest of the Celts 😉
Not only is the area around the Danube in Western Europe the "home" of the Celts, it was the Celts who named that river for all time. According to the Wikipedia article for the Danube: "Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic 'danu' or 'don'[17] (both Celtic gods)..."
12:38 - "Romans conquered almost all of Celtic lands relatively easily" - No, only Gauls was easy (8 years). Iberia was hard (200 years) and Strabo and Siculus also noted as much.
400 years in uk an left it for the holy roman saxons love to know what made them holy
Gauls weren't easy they could never conquer that one village with the short guy and the big guy with the pet dog.
@@gandolfthorstefn1780 The Silures and the Picts were possibly the two farthest people from the Romans; no wonder they could not beat them; this is hardly to their credit but rather a large component of this is due to their remoteness and their poverty which was not interesting to the Romans.
The major difference between the trajectory of the northern Germanic and Celtic cultures, is that the northmen not only were quite unaffected by the Roman imperium, but also prospered thanks to it. Many took jobs as lifeguards or soldiers in the Roman imperium. The Celts, on the other hand were handled quite heavily by the Romans.
Thats because the terrain in northern Germanic lands made it difficult to campaign. In the Germanic lands that were open and like other parts of Europe the Romans conquered and decimated Germanic tribes.
Proximity itself played a big part, and one of the parts that isn't emphasized is that the Romans took the "civilized" tribes into their imperium, so throughout all of these conflicts you have to remember that Celts were fighting on the Roman side as well - not unlike what happened later with the Germanic tribes, same deal.
I have been watching a lot of historians talking about lost people's and they skirt the subject but I think the ancient people's used the appearance of acceptance of homosexuality in a society as the appearance of weakness. At which point they would invade kill the men and sexually enslave the remaining population. I think that the eastern Roman empire understood this and used the migration of the Turks and the emergence of the Varags to deepen their gene pool and extend the length of their rule.
Modern Europeans are a mix in various proportions in different regions of hunter gatherers, neolithic farmers and steppe people(yamnaya)
I'm very proud of and still very much into my, Celtic/Gaelic decent. "Irish and Scots." And all that pertains to it. I read somewhere, not too long ago that, the Thuatha De' Dannan is to have at one time, intermingled with the Scandinavian Gods and/or the folk. Something leading to a connection of sorts.
The Irish and Scots are not Celts, they never called themselves Celts, and this only started linguistically because George Buchanan in 1582 decided to call Irish and Scottish languages "Celtic" because he thought and he said those languages came from Spain where the Celtici lived. So the only reason The British Isles have anything to do linguistically only with the term "Celtic" is due to their supposed connection to Spain.
@@jboss1073 Used as it's intentions. An umbrella term. And yes, I know they never called themselves Celts. But to say the Scots and Irish Gael didn't mix with the, "Celts." If you say so.
@@jboss1073 The term British isles is problematic.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367 "The term British isles is problematic."
I understand that, however Ireland was indeed called "Britannia Minor" by the Romans, so the name "British" does belong historically to Ireland.
Compared to Ireland's inexistent historical relationship with the name "Celt", the name "British" at least was used to refer to the Irish historically.
And if you really think British Isles is problematic then please from not on refer to the Iberian Peninsula as the Celtiberian Peninsula - there aren't just Iberians there.
@@CelticHound357 "Used as it's intentions. An umbrella term. And yes, I know they never called themselves Celts. But to say the Scots and Irish Gael didn't mix with the, "Celts." If you say so."
Why use an umbrella term? Just use their own name. They had their own names. The Irish called themselves Gaels, Goidels, Hibernians, Fenians, etc.
No need to go stealing the name of western Iberians and southern French just because you like it and then acting like they can use that name because they might have mixed with the Celts. Don't do that. Let each people have their own name.
The people who called themselves Celts in their own names as inscribed in their own personal pottery and tombstones lived mostly in western Iberia with colonies in Narbo and Massilia. Everywhere else, other tribes had their own names that did not use the word "Celt". The Greeks knowingly generalized the name of the Celts to all Galatians as Strabo explains in Book 4.
Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy 'The Warlord Chronicles' got me so hyped on Celtic culture. It is set in post-Roman Britain and has many representations of Celtic culture, religion, superstitions, and warfare. It is single-handedly my favorite set of novels ever. Conversely, the Saxon Chronicles, (of the Last Kingdom fame) also by Bernard Cornwell, are an insanely deep look at Germanic culture, as both the Saxons and the Vikings, though so incredibly different by that point, all came from the same ancestry. The Vikings literally were the same "barbarian" invaders that the Saxons were 300 years earlier to the Britons.
Julius was close to not conquering Gaul. Vercingetorix had united much of Gaul and at that point the tide could've shifted either way. It took years of struggle before they conquered Gaul. The Romans were brutal towards them committing near genocide. I think it was every 1 in 3 Gauls that were killed during Julius's conquest.
Highly recommend checking out "The Celtic Holocaust" by Dan Carlin on his podcast "Hardcore History." He goes into great descriptive detail throughout 6 hours of podcast on the fall of Gaul to Rome. One of the best history podcasts at least when it comes to entertainment value.
So glad I found this video. Love your passion for this. Made it even that more interesting~! Thank you!
Always been proud of my heritage, I have Swedish/ Norman/ Celtic ancestors even before it was cool
American here of Celtic-Germanic-Scandinavian (Swedish-Danish)-Slavic ancestry. I’ve always been drawn to these cultures
While I can entertain the idea that Celts that got caught up in high 'civilization', or romanized society might have been more susceptible to homosexuality and promiscuity, its very silly to think that this would have been common in their tribal world. I have come across this theory of Germanics being somehow distinguished in this regard, but if you really think about it that doesn't make much sense. The Celts were the main agitators and adversaries of rome, of course they would be subject to more propaganda and mired into historical spectacle. Like you explained these two are very very close genetically and its unlikely the Germanics would have intermarried so much with these groups if they had normalized decadent behavior. Many of their customs and traditions are very similar, why would this be any different? There is also the strict survival aspect of why honor and temperance aspects like monogamy was more important than anything to these people. You needed trust, and you needed people you can rely on in order to survive in such a climate. Purely psychologically, reducing that trust and commitment is disastrous and society only maintains cohesion by removing the survival aspect and putting humans in an artificial environment with distractions. Like the one we have today.
I do believe it was some sort of warrior rite of passage. It existed in many civilisations. The Greeks did it, even the samurai had this kind of rite of passage. Probably to establish a brotherly interdependence. Doesn’t make them necessarily homosexual although some probably were. It has always been the case in every society.
@@jp16k92 It didn't happen. The Romans were engaged in negative propaganda against its adversaries. This is widely known. Almost none of the Roman accusations against the tribes they deemed barbarians has any historical validity.
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Absolutely nothing about laying with another man is included in warrior cultures. In fact, the majority of warrior cultures world wide believed it to be unmanly
Sleeping in a bunk or dorm together, that is common, sleeping in a bed together naked and intimately, no.
@@biggumstevens1784tell that to the navy or all them army fellas 😂
@@jboss1073people are people tho
They were some fruits it’s a numbers game
mother viking and father celt from the British Island,emigrated to Scandinavia in the middle age around 1150-1350.
His dna signature are common in Wales.
I've been fascinated by Vikings more than Celts since I was a baby and picked up an Usborne Medieval and Viking book. I didn't like the tv show. Didn't like the shaved heads. Didn't like the characters. Didn't like how the Anglo-Saxons were portrayed as weak and stupid, which has become a stereotype. Didn't like the overall atmosphere.
From what I have been researching, it seems like the Celtic people are likely more of a linguistic and cultural (and maybe religious) group than a genetic one. It seems likely it was a culture and language that spread from Central Europe among pre-Existing Indo-European peoples, perhaps with a number of elites on trading routes. But probably not a mass-migration and/or series of invasions akin to the Germanic migration era.
For instance, the ancient DNA record in Britain and Ireland shows no sudden massive influx of new DNA to coincide with the appearance of what we recognise as Celtic material culture, in distinction to what we see into England with the Anglo-Saxon migration 1000 years later, or even more so with the arrival of the Bell Beaker people into Britain and Ireland 2000 years earlier (we actually have no idea what language the Bell Beakers would have spoken, other than that it would have been Indo-European). It seems more like the arrival of Celtic material culture, and likely Celtic language, in these islands was accompanied by a small and slow trickle of DNA over a prolonged period. But overall, the genetics of Celtic era Britain and Ireland is pretty much the same as it was in the pre-Celtic Bronze Age.
Great video, thanks for the respect 🙏 i often wondered why the germanics never expanded into the celtic lands before the roman collapse. Probably because of such a similar lifestyle. Do you think the gemanic lands were not taken as much due to overstreching of the romans at that point also? Like scotland? Maybe it wasnt worth the hassle
I also think 'it wasn't worth the hassle' and one has to consider the logistic effort for such hugh deplacements of power in an area with little to none open spaces for their legions to roam. As allready mentioned 'the Celts' were more organized than those 'Germanic tribes' , probably living in larger communities, had their cavalry and thus no match/no fear for their 'Germanic neighbours'. A point mostly overlooked is the fact how organised those 'Celtic tribes' could be . Nice example were ' the Belgae' which habitated now called Flanders and across the channel south-mid England and likely the Island of Wight. Building vessels for commerce,transport of any kind , keeping rules and law on both sides of the channel into their community would be no sinecure.
They did in what is modern day Germany, Austria & Switzerland!
Germanic Marcomanni killed Celtic Boii tribe and absorbed the rest of them later on and another example is the coalition of Germanic Cimbri, Teutoni, and Ambrones which killed the large Celtic Helvetii tribe.
I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the similarities between the Celtic and Germanic peoples, and there really wasn't that much difference. Even more so today, we're so mixed we might as well consider ourselves one people.
That's basically what White means.
Yeah, when Braveheart came out everyone wanted to be Scottish. The celtic highland games became real popular post 1995. Then when the series The Vikings came out everyone wanted to be Scandnavian.the funny thing is that it was the English who literally conquered the 4 corners of the earth so if your ancestors came from England 🏴 you should feel the real coolness factor. My ancestry is 40% Britain 40% Nordic and 20% Celtic, so I appreciate all of their history and heritage.
I hope someone wanted to be Slavic when the Witcher got famous
The English were pretty bad ass throughout history. I love learning about the Anglo saxons.
The english are a mix of Germanic and celtic peoples, so...
That is true. They must have got all of the good genes from both to conquer the world. @@biggumstevens1784
Our peoples have interesting history regardless which angle you look at it from. It would be awesome to be able to follow one's family line back to origin.