Proud to be Welsh! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@philhowell5267

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Ditto 👍

@leonbrooks2107

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cymru am byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@philhowell2807

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Dywedaist ti frawd

@Wolfe1966

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Proud to be Frisian😁

@pams4401

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Me toooo 😁

If you're interested in the mythology, get yourself an English translation of the Mabinogion... One of the best and most significant collections of Welsh mythology out there.

“Every Day When I Wake Up I Thank the Lord I’m Welsh” Thanks for the video E B

@hellward62

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"Every day when I wake up I wonder, how, I'm not dead"

Glad you like my flag. I'm very proud of it ❤ Thanks for another great reaction 👍 peace ✌️

The harp music in the background is a Welsh harp. Hence a national instrument of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@hellward62

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One encounter with the Celtic Harp. This is just the kinda thing musicians encounter, I was the sound guy on a concert in a Church, (St Marys in Swansea. Around 1998) There was a very talented Harpist playing a small, what she called a Celtic Harp. As a Classical guitarist, I was intrigued, so she played a few tunes, and explained where they came from and so on. Anyway, the band I was recording did their bit, recording stopped, So I went to see the pretty lady playing the Harp, (As you would), tried to say Hello and such, as she was just sitting there. I started asking about her Harp and practice routines, as musicians do. She never answered, but played a tune, then her friends turned up, said goodbye all that stuff and explained, that she was deaf. How is it possible? To this day my fear is deafness.

The actual origins of the red dragon flag are that it is believed to have come from a Roman legion of which it was their standard. It was later adopted by Cadwallader. If King Arthur existed it is believed that a red dragon on a white background would have been the banner that he would have fought under against the Anglo Saxons.

@vaudevillian7

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Specifically a Draco banner like a windsock

@hellward62

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King Arthur is buried in Bridgend mun up on the hills.

@serpentine6171

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It is also believed that King Arthurs Father (Uther Pendragon) saw a meteor in the sky which looked like a flaming dragon, who he then consulted Merlin and was told is a prophecy that he would become King of the Britons. Hence why the dragon figure stuck, but it was also helped that the Romano Britons used the Dragon standard.

Hello from Anglesey north wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿yma o hyd🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪❤️

@eamonnclabby7067

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Hello Yns Mon..apologies for the spelling...

Hey, welsh person here! Thank you so much for showing this video! Not enough people know that Wales exists let alone cares.

@hellward62

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We don't exist, we gotta stay in a sort of narnia exitance.. never forget the caves ! Sarcasm warning!

@henriettalowe4689

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My second husband was Welsh. I’m from the Bahamas and would move there tomorrow if I could. I love Wales and the Welsh people

Hello Alan. Despite being English, I have for some years now enjoyed watching the Welsh language channel on satellite TV when their national team are playing football. They play with such passion, which makes up for the population being less than my county of Yorkshire. You might want to see a video of the singing of the anthem before such a game, before the World Cup. I usually point out that Hilbert, from History With Hilbert, did a video against reactions which is funny. He is now studying Vikings, who took my part of Northumbria and replaced dragons with ravens. Another commenter now asks me how things are going in Danelaw after I recommended Hilbert's channel. The Union flag would look good with a yellow cross similar to the double cross of the Norwegian flag, in my opinion. Dragons do look good though, but my favourite was Idris from Ivory the Engine.

The reason I was always told why the Welsh/Wales is not represented on the Union flag is that Wales was a Principality whereas the other 3 are/were Kingdoms. The Cornish/Kernow flat is black with a white cross.

It's also said to be the banner of Cynstenin (or Constantine as the Romans called him) who was a Briton. Another great vid bro. As a Welshman (Cymro) myself, I enjoyed this as I normally enjoy your vids. Diolch yn Fawr, Brawd ;)

@eamonnclabby7067

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Try Cambrian Chronicles KZread for vividly told Welsh history...

As an Englishman i'd be more than happy to have Wales represented on the flag.

@hellward62

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As a Welshman, I do not want Our flag being anywhere near yours. Near the Scots and the Irish would be better.

Ok, quick story on how a Welshman deals with an Englishman, totally random, in a pub, obviously. 1990 Used to go to a guitar tech thing, about 30 of us learning jazz and other stuff. Lotta of fun. We'd come up on the train/ bus, from Swansea to London. There was a great pub near too Victoria Station. So if the train and the timing was right, I could go to this pub with my guitar , on my way to the jazz school, get a quick pint in on the way, as it were. My focus was no *unt is gonna nick my Guitar and time, about 15 mins 'till the Bus comes.. etc. So, order my pint, an English guy standing at the bar notices my Welsh accent, and asks me about sheep, as they do, I say they are too young, and I can't catch them, or something like that, he laughs and the barmaid gives me my beer, kinda smiling. Then he asks me about the caves, how do we manage, so far underground. I calmy explain that the water that comes from the caves is so warm and clean we all walk naked, and as for power we have the little water-wheels that charge our lights and keeps the Television on. This guy is looking at me as if heaven had just entered his mind, offered to buy me a pint and hear more, but yup, bus turned up, off I went. The English eh?

@AndrewwarrenAndrew

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Londoners anyway lol

@hellward62

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@@AndrewwarrenAndrew But why do they ask about Caves?

@MakoyUnggoy

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Maybe he was just the pub simpleton!

@hellward62

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@@MakoyUnggoy Yeah, there's usually one, at least. :)

Owain Glyndwr who was mentioned in this video is a very interesting character in Welsh history and well worth looking up the story of Owain Glyndwr and his rebellion.

@eamonnclabby7067

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John Lennon in addition to his Irish roots, was a descendant of Owain Glyndwr...

Diolch (thanks) for doing this. The reason there is a Welsh community in Argentina is because of immigration back in 1875, due to a lack of work in the coal fields, which ws the largest employer. 600 people went over at the invitation of the Argentinian government. There was also an earlier influx of us Welsh into the USA and 2 towns there were originally Welsh settlements, Utica in New York and Scranton, Pennyslvania. Pennysylvania still has lots of Welsh names scattered around it, Bryn Mawr for example.

@eamonnclabby7067

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Plenty of Welsh influence on Merseyside too....

@hellward62

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@@eamonnclabby7067 Hmm as in , you steal our water and flooded villages to do so, but the Beatles were ok.

Proud to Welsh, proud of my country & proud of my flag. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Diolch yn fawr iawn (means thank you very much).👍

Yep, you've got to admit any flag with a freaking Dragon on it deserves respect . So a quick question to you all..... What mythological creature would you like to see on your own countries flag ?

@papalaz4444244

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A Dalek

@catherinewilkins2760

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Hog in armour.

@papalaz4444244

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@@catherinewilkins2760 OK "This channel doesn't have any content"

@MakoyUnggoy

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Motorhead's 'pig skull'

@hellward62

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If you met a Dragon, what would be your first question?

The mythology of Ireland is also interesting. The Celtic nations have some really cool characters and heroes/heroines. JRR Tolkein used some of them as inspiration for his characters and story-line of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Welsh gold is used in the wedding rings of all British royal brides. There is a link between theese gold rings and the dragons of Middle Earth...notably Smaug.

THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS EPISODE!!

@mariamerigold

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I've been appreciating these reaction videos recently too 😭

Cymru Am Byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Very glad to be one of your subscribers. Great channel.

Learned some stuff from this. More flags than I knew about. Thanks. Be well.😉

Warms my heart to see Wales being mentioned in this way. And yeah, we love the flag too :) Cymru am byth. (Wales Forever)

proud to be welsh. and yes we certainly do have the coolest flag in the world.

Balch o fod yn Gymro 👍😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@philhowell5267

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Fi hefyd brawd

@cymro6537

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@@philhowell5267 🤝

The welsh used to use a heraldic naming system abit like when someone is referred to junior. We get Tomos ap cydifor(tomos son of cydifor) And Tangwystl ferch cydifor (tangwystl daughter of cydifor) This was later banned and abolished by the english lords who defeated the last forms of resistance led by teulu men and women. This is he reason why owain glyndwr is named in such a way, following the naming style used by the englisj

Still hanging in there Cymru Am Byth

Thanks for covering this! Yma o Hyd!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

This a yet again an English perspective on Wales. The flag in reality comes from the House of Bran in the south of the country. They in part descended from the Romans via The grand daughter of Caratacus and Linus, the first Bishop of Rome. Also from Magnus Maximus and Constantine the Great via St.Ellen.

Waiting for the video I requested 👍

Without you Alan doing the videos on mic righteous I would never have met Mr joey edibles aka square table Degenerates podcast so the last few days have been technically down to you I cannot be anymore grateful as he was just about the most respectable human beings I've ever met... I know you have been looking at getting over here well I'm going to maybe arrange something on that for next year..... Hope you have an awesome day buddy and as always...... PEACE!!!!

i love mythology too, but im not very good at remembering it all so it's defiantly my "Hurcules ankle"

Wales is so underrepresented in global history. We have a lot of history and mythos and it's fascinating. Cymru am byth

Thanks Mr E.B.

I agree. Our flag is absolutely the best 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@hellward62

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As Bill Hicks would say, it's just a rag on a stick.

Hi Allen I’m a proud Welshman and love your channel check out the welsh national anthem when wales played Belgium at the Cardiff city stadium in 2015/16 game it’s awesome .

Hi again, that was really interesting I love the Welsh accent and the Scottish, The whole history around the uk, Wales, Scotland is really fascinating and interesting. Good ol new Zealand the Maori myth is that Maui pulled up my island with a fishing pole. Pretty much I think I didn't go to Maori class I'm school so Maori history isn't good..even though I'm a direct decendent to an original chief and warrior. I just learnt that. Thanks for the interesting upload

Being English I fully support the dragon being included to the Union Flag, in a similar but preferably smaller way as shown. Looks great, as well as having shared history between both England and Wales. It deserves inclusion.

Once again Allan, as soon as you can you should watch the movie called "Twin town".

@hellward62

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It Does portray Swansea in the 80's/90's, Lots of good hash, red leb, gold leb red black ,etc it is a port city so we could get almost anything. Then the dreaded 'Soap Bar' turned up, but that's another story...

I was taught that the ancient Britons always carried a flag with a red Dragon on it into battle but the Anglo-Saxons drove the Britons out of England or Anglo-land as they probably called it then? But the Britons ended up in the area we now call Wales and they still have their Red Dragon on the flag. A very simplified version of history because the whole history to my limited brain is long and complicated but Wiki explains it in detail if you are interested? The Welsh flag is by far the best flag I can think of. I live in New South Wales in Australia but sadly no Dragons on our flag but we do still have the UK Union Flag on our flag 🇦🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I wish the guy would learn how to pronounce Welsh words properly

Hi Alan, I'm probably your only 70 year old Scottish subscriber (my only claim to fame), lol. I've collated a list of inventions/innovations that Scotland has given the world. I just know it's the kind of thing that would interest you so, is there any way I can send it to you.

The Welsh Flag goes right back to the Romans in Wales. Look at something called 'The Roman Draco'. After the Romans left Wales, the welsh adopted the Draco as a symbol of power and battle. In fact the word "Welsh" is not something we ever called ourselves in the beginning. The words WALES/WELSH are names invaders gave us, meaning foreigner or Roman. We are The Cymry = The People. And Cymru = The land. If you want to go even further back than that, many historians believe the name came from the Cimmerians, from the 6th King of ancient Israel King Omri...Omri ummm sounds similar to Cymru? In Assyrian texts they referred to them as The Kumri....I could go on but this video helps explain what I'm talking about. (LINK BELOW) kzread.info/dash/bejne/fatsw9ZpaM6YZZc.html

it would be cool to have the dragon on the union jack for sure but i think england and wales were already in harmony when the union jak was drawn up and thats why there was no welsh part of it? i could be wrong on that as i don't follow it closely just what i remember from somewhere

@cymro6537

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No,Wales was annexed by England in 1536

@bujin1977

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@@cymro6537 Indeed. It was an annexation where they didn't even bother with a sham referendum.

@eamonnclabby7067

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@@cymro6537 As in Scotland and Ireland ,the Welsh language and culture was suppressed thankfully, at Eistedfods ,Feis and Highland gatherings our Gaelic and Welsh culture is flourishing...

@cymro6537

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@@eamonnclabby7067 Against all the odds,my Celtic brother ✊

@hellward62

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@@eamonnclabby7067 My Grandmother was from Treorchy she spoke Welsh to me me until I went to School, she said it's not our Welsh.

Da ni yma o hyd! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Big Welsh influence here on Merseyside aka Ukraine on the Mersey ,for Eurovision song contest..

@hellward62

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Still stealing our water though. Thanks Beatles

The Cornish flag which is mentioned is like the St. David's flag but instead of yellow it is white.

William Ulsterman here. I demand cheddar cheese and pineapple on a stick.

The reason that Wales is not seemingly represented on the UK flag is because at the time of the creation of the UK's flag, Wales had already been politically subsumed into England and so was deemed to be included therein.

@hellward62

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Come on, as a Welshman why would you want our flag related to the Butchers apron?

There are plenty of Wales in the world's oceans as well

as a welshman i dont want us represented on the british flag.

The reason the Welsh flag wasn't incorporated into the Union flag, is that Wales was considered to be a principality of England, at that time. I like to imagine a small red dragon at the centre of the red cross. Unfortunately, due to being the same shade of red as the cross, it can't be seen.

Proud to be Welsh, Balch o fod yn Gymro

@hellward62

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Why Proud? Glad maybe, lucky maybe, but what do we have to be Proud about? Our great great great great ancestors?

Hey @theeclecticbeard, it's about time you done a reaction to the Welsh national anthem when wales beat England in 2013, 30-3! Or Yma o hyd, when wales played ukraine and qualified for the upcoming world cup.

It's funny if you click on the #RedDragon it takes you to the Hannibal Lector movie 😂

You're right. Love everyone.... but it takes a lot of work with the English 😂

I was always told the Welsh flag is not on the uk flag because Wales is a principality

Bangladesh's❤❤🙋👍

So the Welsh community in Argentina, do in fact speak Welsh, but they speak it with an Argentinian accent which is bizarre AF to hear

Love Wales, such a wonderful country. The Welsh though....Mmm..... Lol

@darkstarnh

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Speaking as someone Welsh, well... thanks.

@hellward62

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@@darkstarnh Lol, from Swansea, pretty sure it's all our fault :)

Thank you for your reaction videos on Wales! Would you react to this video of Michael sheen talking about Wales? He is Welsh and he's very passionate about Welsh culture/history. I'd love to see what you think about it! It's called "For Wales, See England - Ft. Michael Sheen". Here's the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nKiaxLKcZpDTZLA.html

Ah yes. Dragons, Unicorns and Castles. UK is a fucking magical place!

@hellward62

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(Urmm, Shithole?)

You can't have a factual video that says "I think there is still a Welsh speaking community there"? Lol.

I may be wrong about this but I believe the reason wheels is under-represented in the Union flag is because the three countries represented are kingdoms, Wales is not a kingdom it is a principality

@kayew5492

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Wales was a kingdom for most of its history. It was relegated to Principality by the actions of the English kings, most notably Edward 1st.

@thedisabledwelshman9266

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what have wheels gotta do with it? lol

@stevehurley263

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@@kayew5492 1536 it was a country rather than a principality. It was recognised internationally in 2011.

@bluesrocker91

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@@kayew5492 More accurately it was a collection of kingdoms, with shared culture, language, identity and laws but usually separate rulers and dynasties controlling them. Wales was only unified under a single ruler a few times in its history due to the Welsh law of succession, in which lands and titles were always divided between heirs. Those who were powerful enough to rule over the majority of Wales tended to be referred to as King of the Britons rather than King of Wales. Although one or two were known as King of the Welsh.

@kayew5492

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@@bluesrocker91 Thanks for the clarification, I didn't explain that very well.

You can’t incorporate the Welsh and Union flags at this point. They are both unique and they would be ruined in my opinion if any real attempt at merging them was to take place. Our flag is the coolest of all the British flags. It just is. The Isle of Man flag is unique too, but still Dragonless. Along with our language, the flag is the most obvious example of our national identity and represents that we are different and distinct. Keep things as they are I say. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@hellward62

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It is still a rag on a stick

It didn't explain why the dragon is used.

owen glendower was a twat !! He was very happy at one time , the English at the time allowed him to keep all his lands and power provided he keep the "locals" in check .. However He pissed off the Lords at the time and they then took his lands and titles... ONLY then did he rise up and start a revolt. Very recently there became a group called " the son's of Glendower " which caused a lot of problems. They would not or could not see that he was not a hero , but just pissed off because his perks had been taken away !

@PortilloMoment

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I'm afraid that's the nature of dynastic medieval politics. Not much different from today really.

@eamonnclabby7067

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@@PortilloMoment true...

@hellward62

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When Wales gets independence...

@cctvmanbob

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@@hellward62 No problem with that at all . Just pointing out the fact that he was not the hero that he is made out to have been .

@cymro6537

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Actually, Owain Glyndwr was touted as the 'Mab darogan' ,(son of destiny,/prophecy) a long time before the uprising started - he was a reluctant leader - but for a while ran rings around the numerically superior English forces.He managed to regain Welsh independence for a few years ; crucially,he was *never betrayed* by his own people.He was as much a hero to them then as he is now. Hardly a 'Twat'.

the welsh dragon should be put right in the middle of the union jack....just a thought.

@spicehedge

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Yes I agree, it's the best looking flag out of the lot

@DustyDigits

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No thanks

So many Celtic folk picking on an American, Sorry. Our history is so long, 250 yrs is just a blip.

The union flag should have the dragon in the middle to represent wales .

@MakoyUnggoy

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So what colour would you think of changing then so the dragon stood out in the middle of the flag, the flag or the dragon?

@DustyDigits

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No thanks

it makes a change, to find a american who knows about wales. born in wales, live in wales.

Cymru Am Byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Eclectic Beard Reaction, The Reason NO Welsh Dragon On the English, Union jack ??, Because They Just Ignore Us, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we don't count ,