I have to admit Bruce your storytelling is unsurpassed i could listen to you all day

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

@happybee7725

7 ай бұрын

@davidburto7466 You can listen to him all day! He has a quite extensive back catalogue of videos. All o them are fantastic.

@davidburton7466

7 ай бұрын

@@happybee7725 think i have watched most of them🤣

@mejonesop

7 ай бұрын

I agree!

@SunnyCalifornia2023

7 ай бұрын

Hear hear!

That was bloody good... love Scottish folklore, and also it's history....thanks big man....👍👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃🥃🥃

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I'm now missing a Scotland I never knew when I lived there. Thank you

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!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

@IrishPotato86

7 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours you are most welcome!

@Sweetlyfe

7 ай бұрын

That was another cracking story, thank you.

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.

Ta muckle Bruce, you kept me spellbound in the telling.

How lovely, Bruce I realize I enjoy listening to no matter what you're telling, a true talent you. Thank you.

A Spell-binding Tale. And set in Scotland no less. Magic!

You are incredible story teller! I love folklore and you present it so well. Thank you.

Happy 60th birthday! One day I hope to visit Scotland:). It’s of the places I’m really looking forward to

I've always enjoyed the story of Thomas the Rhymer. Excellent telling of the tale Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

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

Awesome. I love folklore and mythology. Thank you for sharing.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Another great video Bruce, I love hearing your stories from the Borders.

That was a wonderful folklore story.

Fantastic story, well told. Cheers Bruce.

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.

@sheronasims6783

7 ай бұрын

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thank you for another magical story, love listening to you and getting lost in history! ❤

Fascinating Bruce. You are our modern bard!👍

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!)

Came for the history. Stayed for the magical storytelling. Well done, Bruce. Thank you.

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! 🎂🥳 🙏🏻♥️🕊️🌹📿✨✨👑👑🎶♾️☀️🏝️🌊🌙🗺️

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

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

What a beautiful story and a grand telling of it Bruce! Thanks!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening

Well done sir, I’ve always loved Thomas the Rhymer and you handled him with your inimitable style. Ta much!

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❤

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

😘

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 😊

I loved it Bruce, as I always do. You Sir are one great tale teller. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I love those kind of stories. Second sight and mysticism.

Thank you Mr Fummey. Another awesome story. 🖤

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!❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@theoztreecrasher2647

7 ай бұрын

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! 😱😈🤣🤣

@craigix

7 ай бұрын

Came to find this comment, I too was amazed at his age.

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.

@brandyjean7015

7 ай бұрын

Ahhh, Tolkien...

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

Yes indeed, Bruce, I love your spellbinding stories. so beautifully told.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

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!

Tapadh leibh, a Bhruis! A delightful story and video.

Thank you Bruce! I really enjoyed this story!!!

Bruce you can tell a story like no one else. Thank you

I could listen to you all day and night. What a gift you have

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

Love the story of Thomas the Rhymer!!

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.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Aye, I'll need to get back up. I did a video about Jock MacGregor up there

@user-gz7wv4kh7f

7 ай бұрын

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.

@georgefuters7411

7 ай бұрын

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 😉😆😂🤣😂

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.

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!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

You're not serious are you?

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. ❤️♾️❤️

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.

Oh dear, Bruce, you've opened a can of worms there! Scottish myths, legends and folklore could keep you going for years, especially if you look at Celtic, Scots, Norse and Gaelic folklore. Ever come across Scotland's only dragon (Ballahulish...Beinn a' Bheithir!) or the Cu Sith, or the Glaistig, or the Urisk, brownies, kelpies, redcaps... better not get started😱😉😆😂🤣😂

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

Do more Scottish Folklore!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!! This was so interesting and entertaining I loved it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I've heard many a version of Thomas's tale, but I think this is the best yet. Thanks Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

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.

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.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

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!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

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).

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Trust me, I came back

That story was amazing!❤

That's a very beautiful retelling of this story, Bruce ❤

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

Leaving the cafe without touching your food.....feels like i'm watching Neighbours!

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!

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

Beautifully told, I was mesmerised

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it

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!🖖🎃🐈‍⬛📚🫖🧚‍♀️😉✨️

ahch...a great story,Bruce , Thanks

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

You are very welcome

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!

@happybee7725

7 ай бұрын

@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.

Thomas sounds like a crackhead with these stories 😂 only kidding. Brilliant video bruce! You should have your own Scottish history show on Netflix with how good your storytelling is

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.

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. 😂

You legend opening up your birthday celebrations.

That's a beautiful story.

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. 😢

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😁

Goodness, that was wonderful! Thank you so much.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Great story! Thanks, Bruce!

A beautiful old yarn, me lad.

Saw ur show in Inverness last night Bruce. Amazing night

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for coming

Excellent as always Bruce!

What a wonderful story!!

Enthralled from start to finish tapadh leat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Sgoinneil

@jamesconnolly3827

7 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours bha, bha e dha-rìribh.

There’s another story about him residing under the Eildons with King Arthur and his sleeping knights. The borders author Alistair Moffat wrote a book suggesting that if there was an historical Arthur, that he was maybe based in the borders, perhaps at Newstead as a Sarmatian cavalry man at the end of Roman occupation here and stayed. Surprisingly similar to the character Clive Owen played in the 2004 film. The postulation being that Arthur was more likely to be the warlord of a ‘lost’ Celtic kingdom, like the Borders than the places that Britons remember him. Of course all of that is just myth and conjecture. Entertaining but lacking much evidence.

@grngeene2714

7 ай бұрын

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@GoBlueGirl78

7 ай бұрын

He's a fantastic writer. I have most of his books.

@georgefuters7411

7 ай бұрын

Earliest recorded reference to Arthur comes from a 603AD poem called "Y Gododdin" written by an East Lothian monk. The "Welsh Chronicles " like the Red Book of Hengest, Black book of Aneiren were handed down from bards from Strathclyde, Dunbarton and Cumbria in Brythonic not Cymric Celtic are the source of the legend but it has been over romanticised by French and English authors over the centuries. There is some evidence that the warlord Arthur (dux bellorum= leader of battles) had based in Roxburgh and Carlisle used the old Roman roads (which Long Shanks used 700 years later!) to advance rapidly across the country to intercept the invading Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Frisians. When the monks of Glastonbury "found" "King" Arthur's grave with a metal plaque stating "here lies King Arthur and his wife Queen Guinevere", Guinevere had only been written into the Arthurian legend a few decades earlier... still, they ended getting all the money they needed to rebuild their crumbling monastery 🤔🙄🥴🤣😂🤣

@grngeene2714

7 ай бұрын

@@georgefuters7411 imagine you're finding your own truth and others just try to make fun of you for trying. Says more about you, imo.

@georgefuters7411

7 ай бұрын

@@grngeene2714 reference Prof. John Vietch, Alistair Moffat, Tom Elliott and others When I first moved from the Highlands to the Borders, I was amused by all the Arthur references as they don't exist back home, I'd accepted all the usual tales of "King" Arthur and Camelot from such erudite sources as Hollywood and Elstree. There is an area at Roxburgh castle originally known as Merchidun (the horse fort) bounded on three sides by the rivers Tweed and Teviot. Arthur's first battle according to Nennius was at a river called Glen. 12 miles from Merchidun is the river Glen, 8 miles north of Yavering Bell, the seat of the royal house of the Brynnich,later defeated by the Danes and moved to Bamburgh. Other of Nennius battles are thought to be Rothbury (Northumbria), Peebles, Lincoln, Douglas, and Carlisle...all places linked by Roman roads. Ignoring the ludicrous French and English romances of the fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries (round table, Camelot, Guinevere, Lancelot etc) and stick to the Welsh Chronicles and contemporary accounts the legendary Arthur become more accessible and less mythical. Too many preconceptions lead in circles and end up nowhere... certainly not in Glastonbury or Tintagel (though Tintagel would have a better claim being the last Brythonic outpost in England)🤔🙄🥴

Thanks for reminding us of Black Agnes, I suddenly understood RObert Howard's inspiration for his character Black Agnes of Chastillon ;-)

Love the tale beautiful as always

Haggis roaming free 🤣🤣🤣 🙌🏼

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

😜

Enchanting story! You have a wonderful way with words!❤

Can’t believe I missed this video Bruce. It was absolutely enchanting 😊

A beautiful tale well told. Cheers Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

5 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

Proper enjoyed that story like. :-)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening

I have chills. Beautifully told.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you

Love your storytelling.

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

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Wow! Nightmare

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 👍🏻

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

Always loved the story of Thomas the Rhymer. Especially as he did exist, which is unusual in folk tales. Some versions have him little more than a village idiot/ musician before he meats the Elfin queen. Either way, I always like to think of the story being a 100% true. That he dis vanish to the other world for 7 years, and then returned to his beloved queen, where he is still now

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 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)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I was mesmerized by this entire story. Thank you!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

6 ай бұрын

Brilliant

That was absolutely delightful!

A beautiful story, well told.

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.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

I am a Jock

@systemSkynet

7 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours yeah but now you're the jockiest of all the jocks.

Mesmerizing. Thanks!

I need more stories like that plz

I loved this story - and I especially love the way you tell it. My best to you on your birthday - wish I could afford to join you but while my heritage is from Scotland, it's a long, long ways from me now...

Fantastic story enhanced by the accent and the visuals.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

no one is better than you Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

7 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

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.