The Kingdom of Mercia, Medieval Wales and King Arthur

In this lecture we discuss a variety of topic ranging from archaeology such as the Sutton Hoo and the Staffordshire Hoard, historical chronicles and political entities. We watch as the Kingdom of Mercia, Early Medieval Wales and the mythical figure of King Arthur come into view.
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Attribution:Lecture 7 (2009-10-01)
The Staffordshine Hoard, Arthur & Wales
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  • @RichMitch
    @RichMitch5 жыл бұрын

    Nice big 50 minute video. Can't tell you how much I appreciate the lack of adverts

  • @thejmoneyshow

    @thejmoneyshow

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same bro, l lay in bed listening to these. So glad its ad free!

  • @RichMitch

    @RichMitch

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@thejmoneyshow 🕺🏻

  • @manlikebow5662

    @manlikebow5662

    4 жыл бұрын

    Justin McClure haha, same here! 😂😴

  • @sophiegirl752

    @sophiegirl752

    4 жыл бұрын

    LLOOOOVE these videos!! Such good and meaningful information! Thank you 🙏🏼!!

  • @mrmarmellow563

    @mrmarmellow563

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thejmoneyshow TOTES..❣️

  • @matthewhale2464
    @matthewhale24642 жыл бұрын

    A historian by the name of Alan Jones after a 25 year study into the Arthurian legend pinpointed two king Arthurs both kings of the same bloodline in South Wales, one of which fought the Romans the other one fought the Saxons this would explain why King Arthur was said to have done so but couldn’t of because of the 200 year gap. British history is very Anglo centric so you have to take everything with a pinch of salt.

  • @mrdarren1045

    @mrdarren1045

    Жыл бұрын

    No that was the work of Alan Wilson and his parter and was just summarised by the rest. Wilson did the vast majority of the research and found two arthurs. Both King's of gwent.

  • @thinkinaboutpolitics
    @thinkinaboutpolitics2 жыл бұрын

    Rewatching all this content. So great

  • @johnrohde5510
    @johnrohde55103 жыл бұрын

    The ring is from a sword: so-called ring swords had a loop at the pommel, to which a ring was attached. It's an ancient German, pagan practice.

  • @theblackswordsman9951
    @theblackswordsman9951 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting that this is a lecture from a Turkish University

  • @history_maven9800
    @history_maven98004 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Interesting topic.

  • @oldranger649
    @oldranger6493 жыл бұрын

    thankyou. very well done . From an Anglo-Phile

  • @leonardlerario8180
    @leonardlerario81804 жыл бұрын

    Great videos thank you

  • @hiccacarryer3624
    @hiccacarryer36243 жыл бұрын

    Great lecture - shame there was no time to cover the Cornish

  • @ismayilarifoglu6226
    @ismayilarifoglu62262 жыл бұрын

    Beauty. Thank you very much.

  • @zoetropo1
    @zoetropo14 жыл бұрын

    37:27 The accounts of the battle of Hastings by Gaimar and Wace describe Alan Rufus’s prowess in nearly Arthurian terms. The Bayeux Tapestry depicts Alan Rufus and his Breton cavalry overrunning the forces of Earls Leofwine and Gyrth. Stephen Morillo considered that the death of the Earls was the turning-point of the battle, after which Harold lacked an intact chain of command and therefore was confined to a defensive position.

  • @mrdarren1045

    @mrdarren1045

    3 жыл бұрын

    I had always thought the Anglo Saxons fought a defensive battle from the start.

  • @FireInTheSoul
    @FireInTheSoul3 жыл бұрын

    King Arthur was Welsh. He was the King of Glamorgan and Gwent. Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett documented and wrote many books on this subject. Artorius Rex is an informative book for anyone looking for history on King Arthur 🤴 🗡

  • @rhythmstic

    @rhythmstic

    2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent book, English historians should read it if they want to actually learn some proper history.

  • @barnsleyman32

    @barnsleyman32

    2 жыл бұрын

    no, he was definitely made up in the middle ages, this isn't even a debate among historians lol

  • @FireInTheSoul

    @FireInTheSoul

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@barnsleyman32 he definitely wasn't. And I am an historian. Maybe do some real research before you make such bold statements

  • @deanmorgan7011

    @deanmorgan7011

    2 жыл бұрын

    Actually there is evidence of authority being king of gwent and glamorgan, you will find his name in church records and many stones in brittaim written in ancient coelbren state Arthur bring a real person, the reason historians will not recognise this is because they follow the same old rule and will not strsy from that, we know the brittons were a powerful race of people not living in mud and crawling out of holes like hobbies, and those same records many historians use but refuse to see what is actually written,, Arthur fought the saxons at badon...in maesteg there is a place called mynydd badon and you can go there and see the ditches and ramparts which are still there...there are tons of evidence about Arthur and the brittons but people refuse to see it, if you make somebody a myth or legend you get rid of them and people end up thinking it a dairy tale...tell me why not one artifact of the brittons gas not been found we know they existed why is everything roman saxons or Norman, its total bullshit brittans history has been hidden in plain sight, and its all there in church records for all to see and now even those records have been hidden, try getting one from the brittish archives tell them your researching Arthur....they will not give them to you and the national library of wales will not let you read certain books written in the 600s....

  • @FireInTheSoul

    @FireInTheSoul

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@deanmorgan7011 it's appalling what's been done to welsh history.

  • @fraso7331
    @fraso73312 жыл бұрын

    Many don't notice it, but Gildas probably mentioned Arthur. And the two hints to it are explained in the video without taking them together: 'Arth' means 'bear' and Aurelius Caninus held the 'Bears' Stronghold'.

  • @hardlo7146

    @hardlo7146

    2 жыл бұрын

    AFAIK Caninus was an insult, as Gildas was oft to do when speaking of other British kings and peoples

  • @michaelbindner9883
    @michaelbindner98832 жыл бұрын

    One place to look for Arthur is Dyfed. In the genealogies, there is a character called Dyfenwallon, whose father was Arten ap Sysell. His great granddaughter married into the line of Gwynedd - marrying Rohdi.

  • @legolasgreenleaf1961

    @legolasgreenleaf1961

    Жыл бұрын

    Arthrwys ap Meurig is the only 1 crowned by st dyfrig, in south east wales.......where his caerleon court is

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman4 жыл бұрын

    Dumnonia, Bill Bailey's dog on a string mob have got a lot to live down with that one. Proper job!

  • @dgetzin
    @dgetzin3 жыл бұрын

    When Elvis surrendered he said, "Have Mercia!"

  • @elizabethsmith4556

    @elizabethsmith4556

    Жыл бұрын

    It seems Elvis has left the building

  • @kingminos1993
    @kingminos19935 жыл бұрын

    7:39, Offa’s Dike, not a comment to a person’s sexuality. Hahaha thanks for the clarification.

  • @schmozzer

    @schmozzer

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was unbelievably dumb.

  • @irenejohnston6802

    @irenejohnston6802

    Жыл бұрын

    Younger people arent interested in word etymology. Otherwise the Lecturer would'nt have found the need to clarify what Dyke means. Ditch ON diki influenced by middle dutch. A watercourse, low embankment, etc.

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @robertjones-yo4ql
    @robertjones-yo4ql2 жыл бұрын

    ALAN WILSON is the BEST man with the TRUE version of BRITISH HISTORY , no doubt about it . ARTHUR 2nd was KING of GLAMORGAN and GWENT , a well known fact in WELSH books and WELSH history .

  • @myimorata7678

    @myimorata7678

    Жыл бұрын

    Caps aren't needed. Those who are interested in your comment (as I am) don't need it. Those who don't care for your comment, don't pay any intention.

  • @vonhapsburg2700
    @vonhapsburg27003 жыл бұрын

    The Chants at the start, what is it called?.

  • @mrmarmellow563
    @mrmarmellow5633 жыл бұрын

    Great Lecture!! PS.LEEDZ FOOTBALL RULES SIR!!

  • @elizabethsmith4556
    @elizabethsmith4556 Жыл бұрын

    Atbret Judeu - a ransom paid by Oswy to Penda which was divided by Penda between the British Kings who went with him to the city of Judeu (St Davids ? A British Christian Church ? Wall by Lichfield ?) There was a battle during this event in which only the king of Gwynedd survived (Cadafael) by decamping in the middle of the night before the battle with his war band. The similar style throughout, of the garnet and gold cloisonee work, both arms and Christian crosses suggest the atbret was the military uniform of one kingdom, a Christian British kingdom, who perhaps wore scarlet cloaks and helmet crests, descended from a Roman military tradition such as was the family of Arthur and Aurelius Ambrosius.. The cloisonee technique with underlay of reflective foil was used by the Merovingians, Goths and Visigoths of central Europe in the 5th century. Prob not made in Britain.

  • @owentaylor9884
    @owentaylor98842 жыл бұрын

    Staffordshire hoard was collected from the dead on a battle field. Early Saxon one edged swords and British double edged swords. British force was commonly followed by a bishop or two. Note pagan damage to the cross. Dated mid sixth century.

  • @nicholasjones7312
    @nicholasjones73122 жыл бұрын

    Am I right in thinking that a hoard is different to grave goods and that the former is a deliberate placing or storing of goods, rather than being buried as a funerary ritual.

  • @dannyalex5866
    @dannyalex58663 жыл бұрын

    Is there any video from him about the other side? The welsh brythonic kingdoms?

  • @mrmarmellow563

    @mrmarmellow563

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Danny who is 'him' by Name! Most of these s shockers the professional talking about are Welsh sources Kay;?

  • @dannyalex5866

    @dannyalex5866

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mrmarmellow563 obviously the professor

  • @mrdarren1045

    @mrdarren1045

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes it's called sheep shagging for the enthusiast

  • @MadMax-bq6pg
    @MadMax-bq6pg3 жыл бұрын

    Arthur legendary???? You mean the Holy hand grenade of Antioch may lack historicity??? HERESY!

  • @avalonkerr8332
    @avalonkerr8332Ай бұрын

    Historians currently just don't want to believe Arthur existed 😆. There are literally sources, multiple sources, who Mention Him By Name. He existed.

  • @free_gold4467
    @free_gold4467 Жыл бұрын

    An Arthur is also mentioned in 'the Gododdtn' poem probably 6th/7th century

  • @mikeroden213
    @mikeroden2135 жыл бұрын

    They were Norse followers. The hoard has a very specific function after death. Everything you hoard will be available to you in the afterlife. People forget the angli saxons were pagan Norse followers almost identical to viking beliefs. Woden=Oden ect. They buried all that stuff to have it In the great hall of Valhalla. Though in not sure it the pagan Anglo-saxons called it that but it had the same function

  • @mercianthane2503

    @mercianthane2503

    2 жыл бұрын

    We do not know if there was a Valhöll in the anglo-saxon mindset or beliefs. However, with the continental saxons we do have information they believed in a heavenly field, not the christian one, but a heavenly location similar to the Folkvangr of Freyja.

  • @urseliusurgel4365

    @urseliusurgel4365

    2 жыл бұрын

    Waelheal.

  • @danielhall3766
    @danielhall37664 жыл бұрын

    Penda Is Very important Because he was the last pagen ruler bar Arwald !!!

  • @zoetropo1

    @zoetropo1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Daniel Hall: if he was pagan. Christians have a way of calling each other harsh names.

  • @j.t.lennon177

    @j.t.lennon177

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@zoetropo1 I agree that christians do have a bad habit of insulting each other with faith based terms , but Penda never converted.

  • @eamonnclabby7067

    @eamonnclabby7067

    2 жыл бұрын

    Penda, s granddaughter Werburgh is venerated in the Wirral and Chester ..

  • @mwarkantony7514
    @mwarkantony75147 ай бұрын

    The name 'Damnonia' could refer to ancestry from Strathclyde (Alt Clut) which are in the region of the tribe labelled as 'Damnonii' opposed to the 'Dumnonii' of modern Cornwall and Devon. It could link to the theory of the Gwyr a Gogledd 'Men of the North' coming down from above Hadrian's Wall to relieve the Welsh from the Irish raiders, and a Damnonian (Strathclydian) ancestor could potentially suit this, if it not the the theory Professor David suggests.

  • @corporalsoletrain2132
    @corporalsoletrain21322 жыл бұрын

    Given that it's off of what looks like the type of stuff you'd loot from a battlefield, is it possible that it was battle loot that a victorious army planned to grab on the way back... and didn't make it?

  • @oldranger649
    @oldranger6493 жыл бұрын

    took me while too figure the young Turks are the students-interesting

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman4 жыл бұрын

    People using overlays and whiteboards well into the 21st century!

  • @rpm1796

    @rpm1796

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hear some people still, even read books!

  • @Go-Dawgs
    @Go-Dawgs Жыл бұрын

    The gal anxious to answer, with The Same Answer as the previous student really bothered me. Professor was kind to let her keep talking. Honestly he had more patience than I did listening to her.

  • @southerneruk
    @southerneruk2 жыл бұрын

    They mean the Kingdom of Wessex. Which was never part of Mercia, Mercia became part of Wessex after the Danish and Saxon wars

  • @thomaszaccone3960
    @thomaszaccone39605 жыл бұрын

    Arthur = Dux Bellorum = Lord of Battles

  • @kentallard8852

    @kentallard8852

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Then in those days Arthur fought with the kings of the Britons against them but he himself was the commander of battles"

  • @thomaszaccone3960

    @thomaszaccone3960

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kentallard8852 le Morte D' Artur - Sir Thomas Mallory or Nennius?

  • @kentallard8852

    @kentallard8852

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thomaszaccone3960 Nennius. He wasn't called a king until Geoffrey of Monmouth.

  • @thomaszaccone3960

    @thomaszaccone3960

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kentallard8852 Dux bellorum

  • @simonpayne8252

    @simonpayne8252

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kentallard8852 that's probably because he wasnt actually the defacto King when he fought the Battles as his dad lived to an old age

  • @avidaviator8580
    @avidaviator858011 ай бұрын

    How on Earth did you come across this lecture?!

  • @callummason6589
    @callummason65895 жыл бұрын

    Things were left underground as that is where our ancestors reside, so these items were given into the care of the ancestors.

  • @jwadaow

    @jwadaow

    3 жыл бұрын

    It seems like they took the valuable ornaments from some items and stashed them.

  • @woodspirit98

    @woodspirit98

    2 жыл бұрын

    So is poop and pee.

  • @eddiefarmer4857
    @eddiefarmer4857 Жыл бұрын

    My take on the Staffordshire hoard is as speculative as any but does make sense I think. Its almost certainly battlefield booty. The craftsmanship is Anglian and contemporary to Sutton Hoo, so its about the same period. It would obviously be a Christian king hence the crosses, which were not treated with respect post mortem. One battle fits this period and the broader geographical location. This was Maserfelth. Oswald, the Christian King of Northumbria, was defeated and killed by Penda, the pagan King of Mercia and its identified as being at Oswestry. The hoard though, was discovered near Tamworth, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Mercia. I could say more but I think that's enough for people to consider.

  • @greenpeppermint7518
    @greenpeppermint75183 жыл бұрын

    Kinda sounds like 'merica

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    Is witten in greek periods

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    This was before the vikings

  • @woodspirit98
    @woodspirit982 жыл бұрын

    The cistercian monks moved to staffordshire in 1214. I wonder if that gold etc was buried by monks or by welsh who would raid in that area. My ancestry is thru hugh de Whelok during henry ll reign. What's now called Chester was whelock. That was right after william the conqueror. Anyway everything was under control of the Normans but they still were dealing with the welsh problem. Henry ll also had become ruler of ireland but I'm not sure about wales. In any event Chester was a crossroads between wales, ireland and anglo saxons. Staffordshire is bordered by 7 different counties so it's perfect for burying treasure from that era. Roads lead in every direction. I would guess that hoard has some connection with the french normans.

  • @Oldiesyoungies
    @Oldiesyoungies3 жыл бұрын

    north umbria!

  • @NelsonDiscovery
    @NelsonDiscovery2 жыл бұрын

    I was instinctively going: "Please don't pick me!" when he went ini mini miny moe.

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    So from there the prince of wales in viking

  • @jennycoffey1443
    @jennycoffey14432 жыл бұрын

    TO THINK OF WHEN PPL HIDE THINGS... some inductive kind of kingdom shedding spoils to convince the inland ppl that he still is on as them

  • @darthex0
    @darthex04 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps it was some kind of ransom horde?

  • @sandraswift3489
    @sandraswift3489Ай бұрын

    ❤itranslated to ancient hebrew and its an eyeopener.especially who was here before.welsh is similar to hebrew.i got 'marching gents.' languages changed.

  • @zoetropo1
    @zoetropo14 жыл бұрын

    Uther and Arthur are Breton names attested in 9th century legal documents. Alan Rufus visited Monmouth around the time a fellow Breton founded the priory. Geoffrey of Monmouth based the names of King Arthur’s family on Alan Rufus’s: Uther Pendragon = Eudon Penteur, Igraine = Orguen, Hoel = Hoel, Guanhara (Guinevere) = Gunhildr of Wessex. Ambrosius Aurelianus’s alleged death by poisoning is like that of Alan’s paternal uncle Alan III, Duke of Brittany (and guardian of Duke William) when besieging the rebel Roger I of Montgomery. Pendragon? On the Bayeux Tapestry, a Breton ship is depicted with a dragon’s head on the prow and a gryphon’s on the stern. Below the prow are two white shields, representing the brothers Alan Rufus and Brian of Brittany.

  • @kentallard8852

    @kentallard8852

    2 жыл бұрын

    He was using the old names and events as a vehicle to comment on contemporary people and events?

  • @tor5234
    @tor5234 Жыл бұрын

    7:34 I lol'd

  • @kevindoom
    @kevindoom Жыл бұрын

    Art og young art

  • @joelnorton9742
    @joelnorton97424 жыл бұрын

    Is Penda a pendragon? The serpent and the dragon. Wonder if this evolves in to what would subdue "The land of the plumed serpent" moving the new world with european undesirables.

  • @LordNeckBeard

    @LordNeckBeard

    3 жыл бұрын

    The pendragon or Draco, is in reference to now new information of Roman army regiments remaining in Britain with the traditions and heritage being inherited roles and functions for family's instead of public voluntary positions. The draco standard and the pendragon is in mentions of the late Roman army standard being the sign or banner of the commander or Roman army. And thus the pendragon or Constantine III being the father or Uther and Ambrosius Aurelianus. Having his men and his military force carry the draco and inflict multiple defeats upon the Saxons and British rebels allying with the Saxons earned him the name. The pendragon or Riothamus- leader or great king instead of a name is simply the positional role. Of the person.

  • @LordNeckBeard

    @LordNeckBeard

    3 жыл бұрын

    Penda isn't. Penda in Welsh means terrible. Or the terrible like the vlad the "impaler" So it's more Uther or Ambrosius or Constantine pendragon! The terrible dragon- in line with mentions of signalling his arrival I.e sighting on the standard which is at that point legendary and infamous to any who feared it. Etc. The role and function of also the draco is the noise. The draco standards make 2 houses with 1 the wind sock making a hissing sound and with internal wind whistles making a wooing scary noise that can be heard for 200 yards in any direction with other noises also being made. On a quiet day or with no noise you can hear it approaching from a mile away. And a late Roman or sub-roman army of the Britons carried the. For infantry and cavalry. And cavalry was something the Saxons never utilised. Only used as transport to and fro combat as they never used cavalry in their original countries. The cavalry role which was retained and perfected by the British was due to the majority of cavalry regiments leftover from the late Roman army after the magistrates of 410 were evicted. Many of the military legionary forces remained along with the 280k "local" limitanaeii garrison troops.

  • @celtspeaksgoth7251

    @celtspeaksgoth7251

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LordNeckBeard Never heard the word 'Penda' and I can speak Cymraeg/Welsh. Pen = head and da = good so it might mean good head.

  • @legolasgreenleaf1961

    @legolasgreenleaf1961

    Жыл бұрын

    Penda was of Vandal ancestry, like all the early mercian kings. Welsh, english and probabaly irish history shows a massive army coming into britain via ireland from north africa in the 6th century. For some reason this has fallen out of favour, even though 166,000 AFRICANS are said to have devasted britain, and came via invitation of the saxons. If this is true, then the most powerful kingdom in early england derives from the vandals.😳

  • @patrickrose1221
    @patrickrose12212 жыл бұрын

    For thirty years I lived in between Caerleon & Abergavenny . When I discovered the Penguin classic ' Gerald of Wales ' , I realised as I sat reading it one day , that I was on the very road ( old Roman road from Caerleon to Abergavenny ) that I was reading about .

  • @TheAlmightyAss

    @TheAlmightyAss

    Жыл бұрын

    Mad innit? Lots of interesting history around this way. If you go to Caerwent you will know there are two of only three mentions of a deity Ocelus, who was perhaps a Siluran or British deity linked with or comparable to the Roman Mars. That's so crazy to me.

  • @patrickrose1221

    @patrickrose1221

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheAlmightyAss not to mention the sas officer murdered on the top of Pen Y Fan with the Insulin injection to the arm-pit. He was one of the ' Clinics ' victims according to Raif Fiennes.

  • @sallyreno6296
    @sallyreno6296 Жыл бұрын

    Why would they NOT think of time capsules? Folks have been building monuments and reciting epics forever. Same impulse, no?

  • @ChronicaMortalis
    @ChronicaMortalis2 жыл бұрын

    Did King Offa make his gold dinar because he was influenced himself by Muslim religion, or were that coins only for diplomatic purposes or international commerce? They're very similar to Abbasid Caliphate's ones. Guess if they were internal currency in the Kingdom of Mercia.

  • @danielcarson5692
    @danielcarson56922 жыл бұрын

    Was King Aurthur a Roman/Briton? A count some kind Baron? …

  • @danielcarson5692

    @danielcarson5692

    2 жыл бұрын

    How Welch?

  • @kayharker712
    @kayharker7124 жыл бұрын

    I think Bilkent University is in Kent, probably close to Portland Bill.

  • @krisfenner4922

    @krisfenner4922

    3 жыл бұрын

    It sounds like it would be, but it is not. If one Googles Bilkent University.....it is in Ankara, Turkey!

  • @kayharker712

    @kayharker712

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@krisfenner4922 ha ha - thanks - words can be misleading. I learned with interest this week that the term 'inflammable' does not in fact mean that something is not flammable. The word does not follow the same negative rule as other words prefixed 'in', such as inaudible, insatiable, indiscreet, etc. I also burnt my arse cheeks quite badly.

  • @ggkitchener1122

    @ggkitchener1122

    3 жыл бұрын

    Portland Bill is in Dorset

  • @eamonnclabby7067

    @eamonnclabby7067

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kayharker712 cheeky...!!!!

  • @LetsSeeYourKungFu
    @LetsSeeYourKungFu Жыл бұрын

    i love history and comedy. And the noted distinction between Offa's dyke and someones sexuality delivered in full :D

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    The poets of the greeks

  • @weilandiv8310
    @weilandiv83102 жыл бұрын

    Hey, hey you you get Offa my clow-yed

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    Willian wallace was from there Wales

  • @jackieroberts7895

    @jackieroberts7895

    2 жыл бұрын

    William Wallace is Scottish and king Arthur is welsh

  • @danielcarson5692
    @danielcarson56922 жыл бұрын

    Taking and hiding hordes (valuables ) from one source to another and that someone dies and hen lost?…

  • @sandraswift3489
    @sandraswift3489Ай бұрын

    ❤they didnt have banks.so hid underground.it happend all over unstable world at that time

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    You have gold silver cooper poets and iron

  • @zoetropo1
    @zoetropo14 жыл бұрын

    32:00 The medieval ‘King’ Arthur is a composite literary figure inspired by real-life military commanders from Riothamus, through Alan Rufus to Arthur de Richemont, all of whom were (really or allegedly) members of the same, very influential, family. How influential? Monarchs, aristocrats and certain public institutions that can trace their genealogy or history to that family use ermine in their ceremonial gowns and coats of arms in honour of it.

  • @Fatherofheroesandheroines
    @Fatherofheroesandheroines2 жыл бұрын

    But..were there coconuts?

  • @lpegnato
    @lpegnato8 ай бұрын

    ...an offering or tribute to a ruler... which didn't make it to it's destination.

  • @benziescha5438
    @benziescha54384 жыл бұрын

    I always thought king Arthur was adapted from Alfred the great. Were these battles arranged in those days? Or did they all merely commence whenever the Anglo-Saxons encountered the Brits and vice versa?

  • @LordNeckBeard

    @LordNeckBeard

    3 жыл бұрын

    No Uther, Arthur, vortigern, Ambrosius Aurelianus, Constantine are all a good 3-400 years before Alfred. They're Romano British people.

  • @jwadaow

    @jwadaow

    3 жыл бұрын

    Arthur was someone who resisted the coming of the Saxons.

  • @RalphEllis
    @RalphEllis2 жыл бұрын

    Some heresies about Arthurian Legend for you. a. There is no mention of the Arthur story before Monmouth and Oxford in 1135. Gildas, Bede and others do not mention King Arthur, let alone the rest of the legend. b. The great hero of Arthurian Legend is Joseph(us) of Arimathaea, who is said to have been a knight working for Commander (Emperor) Vespasian. c. Several of the manuscripts (especially in the Vulgate Cycle), say that Arthurian Legend was written by Josephus Flavius in the 1st century. Troubling, eh? The answer to all this can be seen in that Arthurian Legend only appears with Monmouth and Oxford, after Crusaders and Templars arrived back in Europe from the Crusades. And note that the First Crusade went to Antioch-Edessa, Beyond the Euphrates, before it went to Jerusalem. What is the connection here? The Answer is that the Crusaders knew there were gospel secrets in Edessa, that had remained hidden behind the velvet veil of the Council of Chalcedon and the iron curtain of lslam, ever since the 5th and 8th centuries. That is why Eschenbach’s Parsival starts its Arthur story in Mesopotamia under King Barus (King Agbarus, the 1st century of Edessa). That is why High History says that Perceval was the nephew of the gospels’ Nicodemus. That is why Perceval’s father owned the donkey that had belonged to the gospel Nicodemus. All very troubling, eh? The answer is that Arthurian Legend is actually a secular gospel, about the historical Jesus as a real, secular, 1st century king of Edessa. But it was dressed up as a 5th or 6th century story of Britain, to evade Church censors (and Church funerary pyres). In reality the Galles (the Welsh) refers to the Eunuch Galli priests of Galilee and Syria. Which is why Jesus asked for his disciples to become eunuchs in Math 19:12. That is why Simon was called Peter-Kephas, the stone, because the Holy Grail of Arthurian legend was a sacred stone - the sacred omphalos-elagabal stone of the Galli priests of Syria. The stone that Scottish Templars claim they still possess x the Stone if Scone. There is much more to this story than meets the eye. See the book ‘The Grail Cypher’ Ralph Ellis

  • @celtspeaksgoth7251

    @celtspeaksgoth7251

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hmm..I live in Carmarthenshire - the county town Carmarthen = Caerfyrddin which is Caer (fort) Myrddin (Merlin). So Arthur might be some Briton chieftain. The most 'troubling' aspect (for the Pope) of what the Crusaders picked up from the Middle East was the 'Aryan' heresy.

  • @alwaysinprayer900

    @alwaysinprayer900

    2 жыл бұрын

    Stone of Scone=Grail?

  • @elizabethsmith4556

    @elizabethsmith4556

    Жыл бұрын

    Arthur was mentioned in the Welsh Annals twice and also by Nennius. It is probable that his exploits were conflated with those of his Uncle Aurelius Ambrosius and his father Uther Pendragon. They came to rule Briton from Brittany after the slaughter of Salisbury Plain and defeated the Saxons and Vortigern at Hereford and ruled for about a hundred years between them. Written out of history by the Saxon Roman Catholic monks because they were Orthodox British Church but remembered by the people and by the Bards.

  • @irenejohnston6802

    @irenejohnston6802

    Жыл бұрын

    @@elizabethsmith4556 I lean towards this story. Having read Mary Stewart's trilogy 45 yrs ago. The Crystal Cave The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment. The author drew on many sources but not mediaeval such as Mallory etc.

  • @Tipi_Dan
    @Tipi_Dan2 жыл бұрын

    The Staffordshire Hoard does not bode well for eminent Anglo-Saxon Personages. It appears their favorite garnet inlaid sword fittings were ripped from their scabbards and thrown together by whom but the Vikings? For whatever reason, including perhaps that they had ruined the trade value of the goods by deforming them, they stashed their loot for later and then went away to die.

  • @thomasmccarthy9758
    @thomasmccarthy97582 жыл бұрын

    King Arthur was probably never a king. If he existed at all he was a sub Roman British warlord not Welsh but located in the west British lowlands and died long before what would be wales was separated by the Saxon conquest of Cirencester from dumnonia.so British not welsh as wales didn't exist anymore than england at this time and he was probably dead around 500AD about 70years before the battle of Cirencester 577AD. Early welsh tradition didn't seem to like him a lot and apparently the Church in wales didn't either as he's portrayed as hostile to the saints. Later welsh sources are very dubious . unless some new material appears ie in the archaeological record to support him we are on very shakey ground saying much more. I doubt the Welsh genealogies mean much. No where is he explicitly mentioned and similar even the same name without context mean nothing and the sources are both to late and suspect. I'm very dubious about all the king Arthur lived just down the road material which happens from Strathclyde to Yorkshire and Cornwall most of these arguments are driven by local romantics who believe studying very debased late sources validate their preconceptions of who they would like a possible Arthur to have been rather than who he was . we just don't know for sure. I like Arthur and he lived in my county is not a valid argument and thats about all we can really state for now.T

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    They fought the vikings and franks

  • @rickydicky5889
    @rickydicky58895 ай бұрын

    Ok, audience questions were a bad idea.

  • @andrewwilson4175
    @andrewwilson41753 жыл бұрын

    A few tentative but disappointing steps forward into the contribution of Welsh history to our island story. As tax payers the Welsh nation deserves far better value than what the current historians seem able to achieve. The truth is they have barely tried at all. How can we hope to hold the nations of this island together unless we respect all our histories and blend them into our island story. This is not a trivial matter. Our rights and freedoms in law are ancient and stem from our common heritage. I do hope that over time real Welsh history will emerge to be taught again in Welsh schools at least. Heddwch. (btw.. Arthur was not killed at Camlan, he was badly wounded.)

  • @geoffreyharris5931
    @geoffreyharris5931 Жыл бұрын

    Ok. It looks like the failure of the British to build their population, develop economically, and organize effectively at the outset of the fifth century was decisive in their falling to the barbarians as did the Gauls, Spaniards, Italians, and North Africans.

  • @judithparker4608
    @judithparker46086 ай бұрын

    SACRIFICED.....TREASURE

  • @mrmarmellow563
    @mrmarmellow5634 жыл бұрын

    TINTAGELL IS AN CORNISH SITE NOT ANGLO/ENGLISH OK!

  • @AndyJarman

    @AndyJarman

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nope, not ok.

  • @judithparker4608
    @judithparker46086 ай бұрын

    PENDA....STATUE AT LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    Mitologia

  • @taffyducks544
    @taffyducks5445 жыл бұрын

    The real King Arthurs, both of them are extremely well recorded. The reason so called experts can't find them is because they don't want to. Weird how people fall for Arthur being English, when he fought those that would become English. House of Bran are all too regularly avoided. People who know Welsh history know exactly why! Btw, Ogham is actually Coelbren. English person saying Welsh history is unreliable! Well, what a surprise! They place Arthur at Tintagel becuase Cornwall now belongs to England, which they feel gives them the right to pass Arthur off as English.

  • @tamjansan1154

    @tamjansan1154

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is because they have a lot of lies to cover. Just look at the name of Kingdom how is originally written and how they changed the name completely. Mirsna ( Old Aryan letters were combo of chyrics and latinics and they have been "reformed" many times since to create more confusion) vs Mercia. Whole history needs new investigation and volults of stolen goods in Vatican and museums need to be open to public for reasearch.

  • @kernowboy137

    @kernowboy137

    4 жыл бұрын

    Taffy Ducks Cornwall will never belong to England despite people like you claiming otherwise, I suggest you inform yourself re: Cornish history, before making sweeping generalisations. On that logic you might just as easily claim that Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire belong to England.

  • @tamjansan1154

    @tamjansan1154

    4 жыл бұрын

    @gnosticnihilist I believe Welsh more than any official English source.Real name of Marilyn was Mirddin ( or Mirdan "Peaceful day") he was a true prophet before, forced christianisation and colonisation took place ! ?

  • @tamjansan1154

    @tamjansan1154

    4 жыл бұрын

    @gnosticnihilist According to ancient Slavic Aryan writtings, white race people do come in different colors of eyes and hair, naturaly.

  • @tamjansan1154

    @tamjansan1154

    4 жыл бұрын

    @gnosticnihilist If one scientist makes claim, there will be two who disagre. So let's not pretend there is superiority of so called scientific knowledge in relation to the whole truth.

  • @thomaszaccone3960
    @thomaszaccone39605 жыл бұрын

    Maybe it was a case of "After we loot the Anglo-Saxons we all bring all our loot together and divide it equally." But Olaf thought he was a clever guy and buried most of his loot. His buddies thought he was cheating when he showed up with next to nothing. End of Olaf. :)

  • @thomaszaccone3960

    @thomaszaccone3960

    5 жыл бұрын

    Arthur = Dux bellorum = Lord of Battles

  • @kevindoom
    @kevindoom Жыл бұрын

    cu nedda nedda's hound

  • @judithparker4608
    @judithparker46086 ай бұрын

    TIN MINES

  • @simonruszczak5563
    @simonruszczak55632 жыл бұрын

    Kin dominion ------> kingdom. Just tribal rulers. The was no Roman invasion, or Empire. Dr Anatoly Fomenko, "History: Fiction or Science?".

  • @Kneenibble

    @Kneenibble

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah

  • @kevindoom
    @kevindoom Жыл бұрын

    gwyn nedda white Ned

  • @free_gold4467

    @free_gold4467

    Жыл бұрын

    Or does it come from the name of the founder? The kingdom of Cunedda? Seems very likely to me.

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    Not even the frisians

  • @judithparker4608
    @judithparker46086 ай бұрын

    MERCIA.....MERCHANTS..=...MERCURY...=...TUI...DEITY

  • @tamjansan1154
    @tamjansan11544 жыл бұрын

    MIRSNA ? Mir - Peace , Sna( from San)- Dream, also Mirsna as Smelling Good. I believe that Kelts are related to Slavic people.

  • @gosiazachara2162

    @gosiazachara2162

    4 жыл бұрын

    Really??? Celts appear in Europe 1200/1000 erlier than Slavs

  • @tamjansan1154

    @tamjansan1154

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gosiazachara2162 sure tif you believe enemies of Slavs and Celts !?

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti54163 жыл бұрын

    They didnt fight the english they found out

  • @marshabonforte6963
    @marshabonforte69632 жыл бұрын

    It’s extraordinary to think that when humankind makes first contact with Extraterrestrials, the first thing we’d show them is a photo of Prince Charles.

  • @mrdarren1045

    @mrdarren1045

    Жыл бұрын

    We made contact with them decades ago. Do the research and the deal eisenhaur made with them

  • @irenejohnston6802

    @irenejohnston6802

    Жыл бұрын

    The enemy extra terrestial is confined to the vicinity of the Earth since 1914. He and his rebel creatures were vanquished and thrown out. The Consequence of universal rebellion, has become global war and crisis. He and all who take after him will remain for a short time. Revelation 12:7-12. Daniel 2:44

  • @NobbyWright
    @NobbyWright Жыл бұрын

    That little lesbian joke would see him lynched these days 😂

  • @raleighburner1589
    @raleighburner15894 жыл бұрын

    What does Anglo Saxon mean I mean your either English Anglo or your not are they immigrants because queen boudica the Celtic warrior was the original Briton

  • @zoetropo1

    @zoetropo1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Raleighburner15 Hynes: it means either someone speaking Old English, or a subject of a ruler whose officials write in OE. This definition is why all Catholics are Latins. 😉 My theory is that the early medieval aristocracy learnt OE from AS mothers (eg the legendary Rowena) or AS nursemaids. It’s important to bear in mind that in the existing historic documents, broadly speaking, Wessex was allied with Brittany, Mercia with Wales, and Northumbria with Cumbria and Ireland. In some cases, we know why these alliances were made: for example, the Irish brought Celtic Christianity to Northumbria. In the other cases, I suspect the underlying reason is a sense of a deep, common ethnic identity that transcends linguistic differences.

  • @rhysthomas623

    @rhysthomas623

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Saxons came from Saxony... Surely? They seem pretty German to me. Why do you think budica was the original Britton?

  • @AndyJarman

    @AndyJarman

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rhysthomas623 the cultural link is strong between the English and northern Germans, but I think you would find the same between the South Koreans and Americans. But that doesn't mean there has been a massive influx of population. When the Italians buggered off in 410 we were left trading across the North Sea. Bound to pick up the lingo. And, why is there no genetic difference east to west across Britain? The Britons the Roman's found are still here, prodding computer screens. A few foreigners have joined us, but we're 80-90% the same people.

  • @TheMogregory

    @TheMogregory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boudicca fought against the Romans. The Germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons etc.) did not arrive in England until after the Romans left. Thus she was a Briton from one of the Celtic tribes

  • @eamonnclabby7067

    @eamonnclabby7067

    2 жыл бұрын

    England came into being after the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD....

  • @judithparker4608
    @judithparker46086 ай бұрын

    MIDDLE.....MERCHANT...ADMINISTRATION...!!

  • @mrmarmellow563
    @mrmarmellow5633 жыл бұрын

    TINGTAGEL Is CORNISH NOT ANGLO/ENGLISH GET IT RIGHT Proff Please!!

  • @mrdarren1045

    @mrdarren1045

    3 жыл бұрын

    And Cornwall IS in England so he did get it right. And there is one f in prof(essor). Get it right.

  • @kernowboy137

    @kernowboy137

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mrdarren1045 I wouldn’t be so sure of your assertion the true nature of Cornwall’s status remains ambiguous in law. “The whole territorial interest and dominion of the Crown in and over the entirety of Cornwall is vested in the Duke of Cornwall”, confirming that Cornwall has a separate Head of State from the remainder of the UK. This was upheld in the High Court in 1855, during the Duchy v Crown Foreshore dispute, and again as recently as 2011. “Although Cornwall is de facto administered by England, a formal de jure joinder of Cornwall and England has never taken place.” (G.D Flather, Queen’s Counsel attached to the Boundary Commission 1988).

  • @a.westenholz4032

    @a.westenholz4032

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think he was referring to the structure, i.e the fortifications that we see, as being a later English construction, not that he necessarily meant that the place geographically wasn't Cornish. That we have little evidence of what, if anything, was there in the 5-6th cen. That may simply have been destroyed by later construction, or there may never have been anything much. It is very hard to say anything really on an absence of evidence.

  • @judithparker4608
    @judithparker46086 ай бұрын

    HOSPITALER

  • @gotrek860
    @gotrek860Ай бұрын

    The students seem completely ignorant.

  • @ezzovonachalm7534
    @ezzovonachalm75343 жыл бұрын

    The names of the kings of Mercia are transcribed in an illiterate manner e.g. OFFA : offer and what the speaker writes on his blackeboard is not leggible. So please control and correct the transcription of all proper names of our anglo saxon ancestors.

  • @ezzovonachalm7534

    @ezzovonachalm7534

    3 жыл бұрын

    I had to stop showing this video since the speaker speaks to much for saying nothing of interrest.

  • @tamjansan1154
    @tamjansan11544 жыл бұрын

    Saxon= Son of (I) saac Inglio ( Anglio) and Iri ( Irish) are referenced in old Aryans/ Slavic Vedas and are related to holy rivers and relations of light Unholy union ( Anglo-Saxon) happened, blood thirsty tribe infiltrated People of light, but they did not defeat spirit of truth. God Bless!!