The Picts: Battle Tactics and Warfare
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- čas přidán 27. 12. 2016
- Part of the Ancient Culture Analysis of the Picts, looking at their battle tactics and warfare.
Sources:
Picts - Anna Ritchie
A New History of the Picts - Stuart McHardy
Pictish Warrior AD 297 - 841 - Paul Wagner
Music:
Past the Edge - Kevin MacLeod
Rites - Kevin MacLeod
Lost Frontier - Kevin MacLeod
Fiddles MacGinty - Kevin MacLeod
Satiate Percussion - Kevin MacLeod
Minima - Kevin MacLeod
Binge incoming - I can't get enough of these videos. Honestly, excellent. Thank you!
Thank you! I'm so glad that you're enjoying my videos! It's my pleasure, thank you for the compliment!
@@historywithhilbert146 have you got a video on the north east Scottish pollished balls with carvings on them from 4000bc.
Quick point on tossing the caber, distance thrown is not very important, it's the form that is critical. The idea is to toss the caber so that it turns end over end, falling away from the tosser. Ideally, it should fall directly away from the tosser in the "12 o'clock" position (directly away from the thrower).
Thank you very much for pointing this out Mexie! That's an important distinction to make :)
Eye laddie ya nu.
Excellent work ! You cover subjects i have been wanting to learn about for a long time, but never knew where to look to find information ! Thank you !
Bravo, H! I enjoyed the whole Pict series. Fabulous work!!
I do prefer the videos to be split up into the different topics.
Great video again, I really like this videos on Celtic cultures, I don't know much about them, even though there was a celtic trade city just 10km from my home
I think I do as well actually, thank you for the feedback :) I find all cultures of the Dark Ages absolutely fascinating. After I've finished the Ancient Culture Analysis of the Picts I might move on to another Celtic culture or else a Germanic one from the same period. Might I ask which Celtic trade centre it was?
Apparently it is more a sacred place, but there were also 1500 coins found from all over europe, and there were propably a lot more since the soil is very fertile there are fields and vineyards all over the area and a lot of it was propably allredy digged up by farming.
It is the largest found settelmet by area in Austria and propably middle europe aswell and it shares a lot of similarities with Gournay-sur-Aronde in France, which seems to indicate a largely similar religion here in Austria to France.
The first Germanic people to settle in this area were Quads around 25 Bc and then after Attila the Rugier and Goths and then the Langobards and they all melted together in the Bavarians and then Slavic tribes and the Avars pushed in and then the Bavarians pushed back and so on...
www.keltenforschung-roseldorf.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandberg_(Celtic_settlement)
I haven't found more information in english.
Wow! That's pretty awesome :D If I'm ever over in Austria I'll have to make an on site video :) Thank you for all the information, and for the links :D If you have any in German that's fine too as I can read it ;) I'll delve into them now :D
If you have ever been in elite American army units , you will find a dissaportionate number of Celtic last names, especially Welsh
Fascinating!
Thanks for your work on this one, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the Picts vids.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! There's another one coming out today ;)
fascinating, thanks for all the work you put into this. I've wondered about the picts for a long time. if you get more I'd love to see it.
can watch these videos all day...love the channel
Really wonderful series. Thank you.
Enjoy your videos man! Keep it up!
Thank you very much, I'm happy to see you're enjoying my videos!
So first of all, I personally prefere a series of smaller videos over a longer one, it makes it easier to follow.
Also, I find extremely interesting all the content about Gauls, Picts, and all of those "barbarian" populations, especially regarding the period before the roman conquest. Probably because I studied the Romans in school extensively, but other people of the time were only briefly mentioned.
I hope the feedback helps, great job man!
Thanks for the feedback - I feel the same way, little less pressure to cram all the necessary information into one video this way! I agree, it was the same during my education although it inspired me to learn about those other cultures outside of school :) I'll make two or three more videos on the Picts and then after some time move on to another ancient culture :)
All your feedback is very helpful, thank you very much for taking the time to give it and for taking the time to comment!
Barbarians? To them the Romans and etc was the barbarians. Do you think mere barbarians could have defeated Rome when no one else could? It was the barbarians the Romans who was defeated
Wow you've got great content man, glad I've found you
I admire your skills. Greetings from clan Gunn Florida US.
Aut pax aut bellum!
Damn got chills ' turns out i picked up several of the traits of my ancestors before i ever looked up my clan history.
Greatly enjoyed your video so cheers 🍻 and thanks.
From clan: learmonth
"Spero"
Great video bro Thanks for doing them
Very much enjoyed this video, now I understand how one of my favourite people fought
Thanks very much! It was partly thanks to your comment on my other video that I started learning about some of this stuff, just goes to show that you all teach me as well as the other way round (hopefully :P ) New Pictish video coming out some time today :)
Fantastic video, Hilbert!
Love it, you and your channel keep up the great work
Thank you very much! I will do my best to keep the videos to this or a higher standard :) !!
Thanks! Yes, I'd like to hear more about the Picts.
Awesome videos! Really enjoy ancient European/British history!
Thank you for your support!
Loved it! Thank You!
really love these videos and your channles video on gauls was good as well but i really like you splitting it up into a series keep it up
10:40 Did anyone else think of the tale of "Brave Sir Robin"?
great information, great videos. thanks.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
An English (German Saxon) man talking about the Picts is beyond belief, he has also got the Picts in Kilts!!! The Picts are a warrior class way beyond the Saxons and Vikings, perhaps they might even be form Scandinavia when the the land bridge was afloat as in Doggerland.
In addition the Picts are the first to use gorilla tactics against the Roman army the had techings from the anicent Greeks and Macedonians how to use long staffs against a cavalry charge same was used a 1000 years later at Bannockburn.
More of my family history. Loving it. Thank you brother.
I'm glad! I have another about the Picts coming out today, hope you find that one interesting as well :) !
No doubt I will. I'm enjoying these Frisian, Pict, and Anglo-Saxon videos because they're of interest to my own ancestry, but I'm sure I will find others you do when you move on from the Pict series interesting also.. I like the videos showing the changes of kingdoms, empires and nations over time, many include details about politics and war, but they don't have the cultural history element like yours do. Thoroughly enjoying them.
I'm really glad to see you are enjoying them! I think videos about the Frisians and Anglo-Saxons will be consistent themes on the channel because I can honestly talk about them for days on end! Thank you for letting me know that the videos are educational and that you're enjoying them, it's a real booster for me to know that my work is well received :D Happy New Year!
Great video, very informative.
great video loved it!!!
Good video. More on the Picts please.
this was so enjoyable
Thank you I picked up some relevant points.
I enjoyed watching that, smooth at the end 👌😎
Enjoyed it. Thank you. Subscribed
Glad you mentioned the "Orkney Men" this time around. ;)
Just found your channel , excellent by the way , sub.
great vid keep up the good work
Thanks very much, I will :D !!
Thanks, I appreciated it.
Think I may be descended from Picts....this was great.
Skills admired.
Amazing
Very interesting - thanks
I think I definitely prefer this format. It adds far more detail to the individual subject matter.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback! I think I prefer it as well, allows me to really get my claws into the people I'm studying :)
I am admiring your skills, (as requested). :)
There appears to be a spear with a ball on the end of the pole that was used as I believe it's seen on the early pictish carvings , presumably it could be turned and used as a club.It would be interesting to know how the picts evolved to counter Roman tactics and be able to survive and continue to be a threat where others had been crushed.
Awesome! Split up videos with more accurate titles makes it easier to refer back to at a later point. Keep it up! ☺
great work
Takk!!
:)
Awesome to listennto to know our scottish history
Just watched and fascinated to see how much we think of Pictish warfare. I think if much of it is gleaned from Celtic and later history, then you are learning from further influence. Later clan systems were biased after so much Viking means of thinking.
May I refer to some texts that alluded that the Picts would retreat and hide, then revert to guerilla tactics. A far better mechanism against the Roman war machine, who were known for pitched battles. By no means an expert as no-one knows much about them, just another viewpoint.
@3:25 👌🤣 this made me laugh while I was in a serious mindset watching your vid :)
Thank you.
The 4-6000 natural mummies of the Tarim Basin were found with tartan. One of which is the same as one of those of my paternal line. One design the same as one of those of my paternal line. More was found in what is now Iraq.
Both areas were part of huge ancient Sumaria.
Tartan - Tartaria.
We Indo Europeans have been around :)
Ahh.. a time when life was short and glorious, the way it should be.
Yess just came across your channel and seen what videos you do. I will be watching them all. One question, were the Picts the first known modern humans to inhabit the land or were there different tribes before them?
According to his other videos, the answer to that question is still unknown, but they were most likely pre-Celtic linguistically speaking, and might have been the indigenous inhabitants. That's my head-cannon anyway, but if any evidence arises that throws this into serious doubt, I will of course change my tune :)
My ancestors are from Glasgow and Northumberland. Looks like they were tough people - that explains a lot.
lol the heavy sarcasm in regards to Braveheart which is indeed a movie inspired by medieval Scotland but is mostly modern invention.
I enjoyed it I want more
I have a whole playlist on the Picts just here ;) :
czcams.com/play/PLWHb-MbcZ9kouDPymw9zeG6ek7yrByvyL.html
are there any books/articles you would recommend checking out regarding this topic?
great videos! great channel!
I'm currently doing a project on the Picts. Just in case my teacher asks if I quote these videos as a source, what qualifications do you have? Awesome video by the way!
This is all garbage, study archaeology and you'll be warned not to make any suppositions re. the Picts , because no one knows anything about them
Near the end of Pictish society before their integration with the Scots, do you think these tactics were more like other viking age combat types? Did their gear change??? Thanks!
LOL! Duly noted...skills admired sir.
Great video ! I always wondered how many languages do you know? Since you're able to provide quick references and links between languages.
Thanks for watching!
Well I speak English and Dutch fluently. My Dutch makes it easier to understand bits of Flemish, Afrikaans and German for example and I've learnt some of the basics in the latter two so I have a decent understanding of them.
I'm currently learning Spanish and Western Frisian and would say I'm conversational in both. I know a smattering of Norwegian, can get by with difficulty in French and know bits and bobs of Old Norse and Old English as well :)
I Love this videos Hilbert! Do have any videos about the pre-Indo-European Britain?
Harrison McDonald the Picts are celts
Great
I wonder did they use schiltron formations like in Braveheart? I ask because of the spearman in the stone monuments
Where can i get the colletion of those nice pictures at 1:21 depicting different tribes?
Yes
Fascinating! I would be interested in seeing a similar study on the Irish (although you touched on them a few times here)
Thank you very much! I'll certainly be doing a video series on the Irish in the future - a very interesting people for sure, thanks for the suggestion!
I Enjoyed this: May I suggest a book ? 'FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE"
The picts definitely have the coolest shields ever made imo.
I prefer the Germanic and Norse shields but I'm biased ;) They do have pretty cool shields to be fair :)
History With Hilbert Well Norse shields do make me wet indeed
They are certainly aesthetically pleasing. I think the Germanic and Norse shields would have been more practical, however.
It depends on purpose and how they fought. The Norse and Germanic way of fighting was mostly the shieldwall where they were great for linking up and protecting the body, whereas the Celts concentrated on one-on-one champion style situations where their smaller shields wouldn't weigh the down like a Germanic round shield would.
How would you know? The coolest shield ever found was the Battersea Shield, found in the River Thames. Certainly not belonging to a Pict, but more likely a Celtic warrior from the Catuvellauni,. This guy here is talking shit, He is just putting forward his own ideas, which have no basis in reality
What do you think about Lindybeige's video on Berserkers?
I saw it a while ago when he uploaded it and think he makes some good points about how the modern, Hollywood image of the Berserker is most likely not accurate, although I know from my own studies how important totem animals and taking the strength from animals, as well as the Bear Cult that there must be some layer of truth behind them as is described in the Sagas.
Continuing your series. Where’s the first video?
Were the picts the original warriors who wore the blue war paint?
Sir Kukalot Woad
No, most pre romanised insular celtic warriors wore woad, practiced even after romanisation too, this was generally a celtic practice as a whole, Gaelic and Brythonic
At or around 8:20 it is suggested that there were Christian Druids, a quite interesting transitional phase. worthy whole series of videos unto itself! Furthermore new sects could arise, or be discovered ...
Great idea! Also, if the Picts were matrilineal and worshipped a goddess, wouldn't some of the Druids have been female?
YOUR SKILLS ARE ADMIRABLE.
HAVE FUN GARE
Thanks very much Gare, and thank you for watching my videos :D
Here is a question: what's with the obsession with the Picts? What was so special about them to distinguish from the neighboring tribes?
Because so little is actually known about them, they've taken on a enigmatic air so to speak, which is very alluring.
Wee Jay Pictish Warrior "Holy"?
Arguably the fiercest ethnic group that ever lived...
most well done Hilbert. i'd be very interested on your take of the irish gaels. you've done great work on the britons, picts, scots, welsh, saxons, gauls, and norse. thank you very much.
Thank you very much for the feedback and your suggestion! A lot of people have expressed an interest in a video or a video series on the topic of the Irish Gaels and as such this will likely be my next Ancient Culture Analysis :) It's my absolute pleasure, I hope you continue to enjoy my videos!
Same profile pics 😂
Love the videos and even the music, but I find it a bit too loud, therefore it's distracting. May I recommend keeping the music, but toning it down a few notches. Maybe not end the video so abruptly and letting it fade out once you stop talking and the music volume can then increase shortly.
Mac also could mean “to make” “mag” ... magic, mason, math, master... all falls under the same. But hey, it’s been 5 years since this video, you may know already.
On further re-watching, I find it kinda dubious that a Pict with a big gold bit of bling around es neck could be killed in battle and the assailant would just leave that bit o bling right where et lay.
Maybe et's just an ornate, intricate game of horseshoes.
It looks like the Romans couldn't deal with the long spears that the Picts used.
No it's because the Roman engineers looked at the terrain and decided bollocks head back south, we'll never build a straight road around here.
More so that rome wanted the gold in the land but the picts faught hard for there land and the terrain there just made it harder but also the fact rome was fighting so many other people at the same time which made it yet again even harder
Wolfgang Shrenk The Picts were tall, very muscular and long limbed. Very determined 'do or die' attitude, tough and hardy.
The titchy Romans would have messed themselves and ran at the very sight. Lol.
I have studied Germanic warfare, culture, religion and technology (that is very underestimated,) especially with the Norse and somewhat quite a lot with the Saxons. I have also been "skirmishing" knowledge on the ancient Celts and Slavs. It seems to me like we really underestimate just how much impact these old cultures have on our modern society, we just give all the credit to the Romans who did nothing but destroy culture (leaving behind Christianity as their stain to finish off the job!,) copy culture, rape and enslave masses of people, create war, copy technology, build large buildings that were mostly knocked down later on anyway and techniques from other cultures and expand them across Europe into one (which probably inevitably would've happened at some point anyway,) and build some roads. Perhaps all of this is just bias, because I appreciate the nature filled beautiful of these ancient civilizations that have heavy and dismissed inspiration to civilizations many centuries later.
The more I learn, the more I come to understand who the real "barbarians" of Europe were.
Anyway, I really am enjoying this series and will watch more of your videos on other cultures, as I am trying to make myself a tank of historical knowledge.
By the way, you taught me some about the Fianna, which has only emphasised how much Celtic and other cultures of Albion have close cultural connections with the Germanic, Slavic, Mongolian (I can see similarities personally,) and somewhat Mediterranean cultures.
And as you can see I like writing long comments...
Christianity was initially oppressed by the Roman Empire. It spread through the slaves, and it became widespread, because slaves were the drivers of the economy.
I liked the true scotsman joke in there👍😂
No ''t Wilhelmus' this time? Perhaps the Flower of Scotland instead? Especially when mentioning Bannockburn. 1314 CE by the way 💋
My dna was traced back to the picts .im in us and was born here but m6 family is from scotland / ireland
Same here mate look up my last name -the sellars Origin the Picts were the forefathers of my ancestors on my fathers side on my mother’s side my ancestors were Anglo Saxons
I am on the toilet.i take a crap.but i say Onestly this vids are very interesting
Hm... I always thought "schiltron" means "hedgehog". Thanks!
Please do gaels
I did read some where , the romans ,soldier or officers , where warned not to take on , any pictish , soldier , one on one as u would probiy lose , the fight
Darude Sandstorm is a very traditional pictish battle tune
Who were the Original Inhabitants of today Britain.? I have read that they actually were of Spanish stock?
The first inhabitants were Neanderthals.
I made a video about this actually if you're interested :)
czcams.com/video/CeOcBRsiiG8/video.html
0:53 1:24 Is that a Dutch accent?
Hold ... Hold ... NOW!
*TOOOOOT TOOOOOOOOOOT*
Hallucinations with Hilbert. This is almost completely speculation, based on non-contemporary sources. And see the pre-eminent archaeologist Barry Cunliffe on the almost meaningless term, 'Celtic'.
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Bannockburn was 1314
The Picts spoke a language of their own, different to the languages spoken by the other people of Britain. They kept no written records of their lifestyles, beliefs or heritage, their language has now all but disappeared. The only sources that can give vague clues as to its nature are some of the carved inscriptions they left, place names and certain accounts of Pictish names written by external sources at the time. As with all things Pictish there is a total lack of concrete evidence about anything, yet this guy is going to discuss Battle Tactics and Warfare, hilarious.
6:22 is that Dave Grohl?
It's his ancestor Angus MacGrohl
100% strategy, 40% armor.
It was 1314
kilts are from the 17th century and not pictish