Scottish Myth and Legend in The Borders
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- Scottish history and folklore often blend seemlessly together. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey takes you to the Scottish Borders to tell the story of Thomas the Rhymer
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As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
I have to admit Bruce your storytelling is unsurpassed i could listen to you all day
Ah thanks
@davidburto7466
You can listen to him all day! He has a quite extensive back catalogue of videos. All o them are fantastic.
@@happybee7725 think i have watched most of them🤣
I agree!
Hear hear!
I've always enjoyed the story of Thomas the Rhymer.
Excellent telling of the tale Bruce.
Many thanks!
Bruce, you sir, are the best! I just love your stories about Scottish history, and the way you tell them with enthusiasm and the humor you throw into the mix!
Thank you kindly
@@ScotlandHistoryTours you are most welcome!
That was another cracking story, thank you.
Ta muckle Bruce, you kept me spellbound in the telling.
I love this story. I first heard it as a song from a Steeleye Span record. Thank you for taking us to the places frequented so long ago by Thomas himself. Tìoraidh an-dràsta.
I'm now missing a Scotland I never knew when I lived there. Thank you
That was bloody good... love Scottish folklore, and also it's history....thanks big man....👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴🥃🥃🥃
Glad you enjoyed it
A Spell-binding Tale. And set in Scotland no less. Magic!
How lovely, Bruce I realize I enjoy listening to no matter what you're telling, a true talent you. Thank you.
Happy 60th birthday! One day I hope to visit Scotland:). It’s of the places I’m really looking forward to
You are incredible story teller! I love folklore and you present it so well. Thank you.
The name Thomas the Rhymer was familiar to me. I only knew him as having been taken by the fairies, but nothing of the story. Thank you for masterfully filling that gap. I’m definitely going to learn more about him.
I read a Nigel Tranter book about him. True Thomas. Then researching found out Tranter books were based on facts. Was what got me into our history. As unionist agenda wouldn't teach us our own history in schools 🏴
Awesome. I love folklore and mythology. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi, here I am, and this is very topica,l because of the ridiculous search for Nessie. Leave her alone! I don't ever want us to find her! Fabulous story thank you
Scottish borders is full of history and tales and mystery and tales - hills and rivers running through the countryside making amazing people (from a Borderer of course!)
That was a wonderful folklore story.
Bruce you can tell a story like no one else. Thank you
Came for the history. Stayed for the magical storytelling.
Well done, Bruce. Thank you.
Yes indeed, Bruce, I love your spellbinding stories. so beautifully told.
Thank you kindly
Thank you for another magical story, love listening to you and getting lost in history! ❤
Tapadh leibh, a Bhruis! A delightful story and video.
Loved the video Bruce, I have always enjoyed Thomas the rhymer. I really enjoy folktales and mythologies. Another really good channel for scottish folklore is Liath Wolf
Another great video Bruce, I love hearing your stories from the Borders.
That was a beautiful story Bruce. Thank you. You also reminded me of the song, Thomas the rhymer. By Jethro Tull, I think. Anyway I'm away to listen to it.. cheers 😊
Bruce this is such a sweet story that you beautifully told. You are a great storyteller and there has only once I have heard a story beautifully told. This was when I was 7 when I heard my teacher read the first lines of the Hobbit. It was the day that I left Ashington to go and live in London.
Ahhh, Tolkien...
I love those kind of stories. Second sight and mysticism.
Thank you Mr Fummey. Another awesome story. 🖤
That was a beautiful story! I love the Legends of historical figures as much as the recorded histories themselves. There is sometimes more truth in the blending of the two because it brings the dynamism of experience & perception into everything. ❤️♾️❤️
Bruce, you are the best storyteller! So full of knowledge and our past ancestors! Happy 60th birthday, May this be your best year yet, until the next! 🎂🥳
🙏🏻♥️🕊️🌹📿✨✨👑👑🎶♾️☀️🏝️🌊🌙🗺️
Wow, thank you
Morning Bruce, I could well believe that happened as I have always believed in things that perhaps we're not meant to see, like the fairies and the elves. Folk might think I'm daft, but hey-ho, I don't care.
Always love your videos! You caught me off guard today tho. 60?!?! Here I was thinking you were 45. Ah Scottish youthful exuberance is a very good thing indeed! Stay awesome Bruce!❤️🏴
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Yep. Too much Haig and Haggis will do that to you! The old lady always looks so much better after a good feed and a wee dram! 😱😈🤣🤣
Came to find this comment, I too was amazed at his age.
Loved the story. Your voice and accent is mesmerizing. It's like the soul of Scotland 🏴 come to life. Makes me long for a place I've never been but always wanted to be.
Happy 60th Birthday. 🎉
P.S. Don't ever lose your Scots language.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the story of Thomas the Rhymer!!
I loved it Bruce, as I always do. You Sir are one great tale teller. ❤️🏴
Was cracking to meet you last night in Inverness. Looking forward to any little ideas you pick up while in the area, I may have a vested interest as I wrote the Wiki page for nearby Nairn and its castle is greatly underappreciated. Folklore in Scotland really is unsurpassed in it's depth and connection to the real roots of the culture of story telling.
Aye, I'll need to get back up. I did a video about Jock MacGregor up there
Interesting. I grew up in a small farming community in New Brunswick, Canada, called McNairn. Many of the residents were Scottish immigrants or descendants thereof.
I wonder if the Cawdor Inn is still there, I can vaguely remember starting to drink each of the whisky's along the bottom shelf of the biggest malt whisky collection I'd ever seen.
Woke up in a nearby byre the next day with a rather disgruntled Frisian cow and two other comatose Lochaber loons.
Forty years ago and I still get flashbacks 😉😆😂🤣😂
been watching a while, this one made me comment. You, sir, are a gift! Thank you for this tale and keep on tellin' me a story!
That's a very beautiful retelling of this story, Bruce ❤
Thank you kindly
Well done sir, I’ve always loved Thomas the Rhymer and you handled him with your inimitable style. Ta much!
That story was amazing!❤
Goodness, that was wonderful! Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
I've just sat, entranced. Thank you. If I'd had recordings of your stories when ma bairn was wee, it would've saved me hours each night of lullabyes.
The best coffee , a number on your best chair ......and listen.and the world's not such a bad place.....thank you so much sir❤
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What a beautiful story and a grand telling of it Bruce! Thanks!
Thanks for listening
You are a terrific storyteller! I recently discovered my Scottish ancestry-my grandmother and her sisters told stories in the same manner, with the same pauses, mythical elements, suspense, focus on one character and his experiences, etc., so the Scottish ancestry makes sense. They could create an epic tale about going to pay a water bill. I'm descended from MacDuff and MacIntosh. Got some Comyn in there, and Bruce as well. Solid Scot. Would love to visit Scotland one day. Thanks for posting!
@calicomist9213
Where do you live niw buddy if you don’t mind me asking?if you do mind feel free to tell me to f- off.
Incredible whole video of the Scottish folklore and borders history... With absolutely no mention of the gypsy travaller community or their part in Scottish history!!
You're not serious are you?
Fascinating Bruce. You are our modern bard!👍
Saw ur show in Inverness last night Bruce. Amazing night
Thanks for coming
I could listen to you all day and night. What a gift you have
Ah thanks
Fantastic story, well told. Cheers Bruce.
Proper enjoyed that story like. :-)
Thanks for listening
Do more Scottish Folklore!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!! This was so interesting and entertaining I loved it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have chills. Beautifully told.
Wow, thank you
Bruce you are unrivalled for your story telling Scotland should put you on a petastol I have a love of Scotland only wish I could of bumpt in to you as I travelled around that stunning countryside
I was mesmerized by this entire story. Thank you!
Brilliant
I've heard many a version of Thomas's tale, but I think this is the best yet. Thanks Bruce.
Wow, thanks!
Love the tale beautiful as always
Excellent as always Bruce!
Thank you Bruce! I really enjoyed this story!!!
A beautiful tale well told. Cheers Bruce.
Thank you kindly
For a year prior to my visit, I started watching your videos and absolutely love the history. Your videos helped me feel like a tour guide as we worked our way from Edinburgh up to Inverness, through Cairgorms to St. Andrews and back to Edinburgh. The two highlights of my trip were swimming in Loch Ness and climbing to Prince Albert's Pyramid. Thank you for all you share and show!!
Great to hear!
Enchanting story! You have a wonderful way with words!❤
What an amazing story. You had me enthralled the entire time! Definitely the highlight of my day! As much as I love history, these tales add the color and meaning to the bones and stones from whence we came! Oh, and belated Happy Birthday! 🎉 I will also be turning 60 next September! If I win the lottery I will definitely join you on your Birthday tour. If I don't win...then I better start rowing across the Atlantic next spring. 😂
What a beautiful story Bruce! As a singer of your wonderful folk music (known as Celtic music in the States) I do believe in the magical folk! I will have to look up Thomas the Rhymer! He sounds fascinating! Speaking of dreaming, I wish I could go on your 60th birthday tour but I don't even have the money to be a patreon member so I'll just have to wish on a star for now. I saw that you're coming to Canada. Hoping you'll get close to Atlanta Georgia with your tour one day. Hope your coming days are as magical as the story you told!
What a fabulous story teller you are! ❤️ A goody portion of my ancestry is Scottish, so your history and stories are particularly fascinating to me. Sure wish I could have joined you on your birthday tour. 😢
ahch...a great story,Bruce , Thanks
You are very welcome
Love your storytelling.
Beautiful
Thank you
Beautifully told, I was mesmerised
Glad you liked it
I remember that story of Thomas and the Queen of Fairie
I bought an audible book of Scottish Folktales and that was the first story of that book
My favorite story of that book was about a living cake avoiding an entire village trying to it
A beautiful story, well told.
Thank you, Bruce! That's the best I've ever heard that story. And well, and I can believe it.
Blessings on you, your family, and your home!🖖🎃🐈⬛📚🫖🧚♀️😉✨️
The story telling and tale is great, and I loved it all. Never head of Thomas the Rhymer, Looking forward to more. I love a history story that starts in a restaurant, specially one with currant scones and jam (but you walked away without eating it - hmmm).
Trust me, I came back
Man, two different people that I follow on CZcams are doing Scotland tours next year, and there's no way I can do either of them. My trips for next year are already planned. Ah well! I'm sure whoever gets to go will have a wonderful time! As for the folktales and real Scottish history: keep them coming!
Can’t believe I missed this video Bruce. It was absolutely enchanting 😊
G’day from Hobart Bruce. Loved the story of Thomas the Rhymer which I first heard told in musical form by Steeleye Span on their 1974 album Now We Are Six.
In case you were wondering I didn’t quite make it from Lands End to John O’Groats a few months back. Fell off my bike on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Rode on to Pitlochry the next day with a broken elbow but decided it was wise to seek treatment. Visited the A & E at Perth Royal Infirmary which sent me on to Ninewells in Dundee for an operation which had healed up beautifully. A big thank you to your NHS. My mate Adrian continued on solo to finish the ride which I fully intend to do one day. Will look you up then.
Cheers mate,
Pete
Wow! Nightmare
Steeleye Span: Come, come, come, come along with me, Thomas the Rhymer. As with most of their songs I have no idea what it's about.
The story of thomas the rhymer is one of my favorites and you tell it so beautifully! Great video and happy 60th birthday.
Was Thomas Learmouth an ancestor of the poet Mikhail Lermontov? Various Scots went to Russia and ended up settling there in the 17th century and Lermontov is the Slavicised version of Learmouth. It would be an interesting example of a talent remaining in a family for several hundred years.
You legend opening up your birthday celebrations.
thank you for taking us on another adventure Bruce :D you gave me CHILLS! literally! and not just because it's a bit cold and rainy today (FINALLY I have been missing the rain like my own heart)
Glad you enjoyed it!
bruce a tour of scotland would be a dream come true. i am not even going to try for it.
Robert the Bruce woudn't have got far with that attitude🤔
I am sitting here, and got totally lost in that story. It took me away in fantasy, which proves that the elderly can enjoy a fairytale as much as a child. Thank you.
Brilliant
Loved the story, very well presented. I love the mix of history ,story telling and humour. I attended your show in The Stand on Thursday , it was the best comedy event I have attended this year .thank you
Awesome, thank you!
That's a beautiful story.
What a wonderful story!!
Living in the borders approximately 20 miles from the Rhymer stone I've heard the story many times but that was one of the best versions 👍🏻
Ah thanks
Thanks for reminding us of Black Agnes, I suddenly understood RObert Howard's inspiration for his character Black Agnes of Chastillon ;-)
This new tour is just a cheeky way to get as many birthday drinks as you possibly can. You, Sir just out-jocked all the jocks.
I am a Jock
@@ScotlandHistoryTours yeah but now you're the jockiest of all the jocks.
Bruce, your understated delivery suits this story perfectly. Gorgeous. Thank you, sir.
Wow, thank you!
Lovely story and beautifully told. I would love to enter your celebratory travelling competition but I'm sure there are more people worthy of it than I. Now don't get me wrong, my wife and I have been blessed with owning our very own motorhome and we take inspiration from your videos on where to visit and what to see. For that I thank you. Maybe we'll bump into each other somewhere, some day.
Thank you for the tale, I hope my circumstances allow my wife and I to join you for your birthday celebration tour.
It would parallel our return to Germany & Italy for our postponed, due to some global thing, 25th anniversary trip. Fingers crossed.
Such a beautiful story!
Great story! Thanks, Bruce!
You forgot to eat your scone!
Great story - I met you with my sister at Croft Moraig a couple of years ago... What an amazing place😁
Am reminded of the Steeleye Span Track off Now we are six
This was a neat story. Your schedule sounds intense so don't forget to do nice things for yourself . Thanks for whtat you do.
Chills and maybe a wee bit of a tear. Such a tale. LOVED IT! ❤
Thankyou for ALL your stories, Bruce. But none more so than this, of Thomas the Rhymer. Thomas’ story has always been a major favourite but I’ve never heard the entire story told so completely and so sensitively (right down to the wild Haggises running about on the Road to Elfland) before - not as a folk tale; though I have Nigel Tranter’s novel ‘Thomas the Rhymer’ in my library - I’ve only heard or read fragmented or précised versions and yet your tale of True Thomas of Ercildoun shall take pride of place in my mind just as the folk song rendition as performed by Steeleye Span has been and always be my favourite folk song.
Again, Thankyou for your wonderful rendition, your brilliant storytelling and I shall continue to listen for and be delighted by “let me tell you a story “ to start each one. Slainte.
Fantastic story enhanced by the accent and the visuals.
Many thanks!
Enjoyed the story, and the storytelling! If there’s any benefit to my being an American 🇺🇸, it’s that I get to hear the Scottish 🏴 folklore for the first time.