Comments by "Andy Jarman" (@AndyJarman) on "History Summarized: Wales" video.

  1. Except for the English culture. The last Englishman to tangle with a Welsh prince was Offa. The clowns that invaded you spoke Latin and French - more fool them. Ne n¯ænig pro nese weorðan
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  2.  @osmdude101  Mae gennym ein draig ein hunain yma yn Lloegr, does dim angen diolch mwy!
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  3. Or experienced the South Downs Sussex on a summer's evening, or stood in a ring of standing stones on Salisbury Plain at dawn on Beltane.
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  4. Arthurian legend is set in the dark ages, not the early mediævil period - that starts with the Norman conquest.
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  5.  @j.kaimori3848  Henry's men wore leeks in their hats and flew the dragon at the Battle of Bosworth field when we got rid of the last of the Plantagenet Normans. The Wyrme also flew at Harold's downfall in 1066.
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  6. There"s an abbey at Battle where Harold fell.
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  7. Thank God! A real Welshman, thought you'd all left and been replaced with these sorry spitefull no hopers!
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  8. Oh you poor thing. Contrast what you have 'suffered' with what the English have contended with. The English were all but wiped off the face of the planet by the Normans. For 300 years the official language in England was French. We had to reinvent ourselves numerous times. When we finally got rid of the Normans we were left speaking this dog of a language and provided you guys with your own Welsh translation well before we had our own standardised text. It's very easy to blame oppression for your failures.
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  9. Where did the idea the Irish invaded Britain come from? How does the author of the video explain Brythannic British and no Goydellic British is spoken in Britain?
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  10. Roman cultural influences were established long before Julius Caesars failed first attempt to govern the place. Many British leaders survived the invasion and appeared on coinage after the Roman legions arrived. The Roman's did not colonised by spear point. That would be like suggesting the British invaded India at gunpoint. Not true, it was a series of corporate take overs.
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  11. Borderland Marches is a tortology. Marches are borderlands, often disputed, hence the phrase 'to steal a March'. That's why armies march, they perform tours of duty in disputed borderlands.
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  12. Only 19% of the Welsh speak Welsh, not more than 33% as this video states. They have billingual everything - driving licenses, passports, road signs. Just how and where have the heroically won anything? English pragmatism has established no culture should be oppressed.
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  13.  @scottmalkinson9545  you don't need to know. It needs lots of rain and poor acid soil to grow in.
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  14.  @michael-johnhughes-diffley9770  calm down. Nobody invaded. The aristocracy suffered a coup d etat and management changed. Tens of thousands of Anglo Saxon speaking Britons were slaughtered during the first five years of the Norman conquest. Refer to Williams 'harrowing of the north'. There was no mass invasion. Even the Romans took over much like the British in India. First they bought out influential local chiefs then moved in and began outdoing the neighbours logistically. No great pitched battles or mass migrations. The English of today are the surviving Britons who have suffered as much colonialism as any, and more than most.
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  15.  Joe Public  British, it's no coincidence Hobbits are from the Shire and the uncivilised places are mountainous
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  16. England didn't have a much stronger army after defeat by the Normans. The Normans had a much stronger army. The people who invaded Wales spoke Norman French. They we Catholics. The English were a mix of indigenous Christians and Pagans and spoke Anglo Saxon.
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  17. The cultural influence of the Roman's on the Welsh was less than the English? Really? What makes you say that? Most Latin in English arrived after 1066. Before the Norman conquest, the English spoke Anglo Saxon, derived from the Germans and Scandinavians they traded with. The Normans may have not slaughtered as many Welsh as they did English, and the English occupied much wealthier less mountainous regions. Not surprising the Anglo Saxon language was wiped out and English was invented by the survivors of the near genocide they suffered.
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  18.  @Mr44andMore  Welah ydw i, ond does dim byd i fod yn falch neu'n gywilydd ohono!
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  19.  @Mr44andMore  God forbid there should be any Welsh who are perfectly happy and relaxed about who they are. Critical Theory demands we should all be tribal and angry and bitter, and hate and despise those with more money and ability eh? The UK is a marvelous palimpsest of previous eras. The Tudors were Welsh and made sure their extended family were looked after. The Welsh got the Bible in their own tongue before the bloody English. Cultural chauvinism has been the downfall of all peoples. The UK dragged itself out of petty tribalism and spearheaded the global march of progress called the European Enlightenment. Now THAT I'm proud of. Regional cultures are fine, but bitterness and internecine bickering did not make us the global power we became. Pragmatism, mutual respect, personal integrity and even handedness - the hallmarks of Classical Liberalism now that's worth chest beating about.
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  20. Unfortunately, that is how most people speak English now. They've simply outbred us.
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  21. So within a hundred years of the Normans ceasing to speak French and accepting the native English as an official language, they produced a Welsh Bible. The English don't sound very oppressive so far...
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  22. Hold on there ... how did the Scots and Irish pull the short straw? They avoided many many invasions and genocidal massacres the English suffered and got to keep their way of life much longer. This oppression narrative has got to stop. England comprised a number of so called 'celtic' kingdoms before and after the Roman invasion. It wasn't until the Norman invasion these indigenous regimes were wiped out in a series of massacres and genocidal regimes. The English language bears the scars of this ethnic cleansing. Interest in the north and west from invading regimes has been limited to the Vikings who came from equally wet, poor and cold places. The Norman French made it to Dublin but left the rest of Ireland and Scotland to it.
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  23. Giant Schnauzers are a terrific breed, but they are German. You've got the whole of Wagner's ring cycle and you name him after a Welsh word for woodland?
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  24. The white dragon (or Wyrme as we call him) still sleeps under our chalk hills. We don't forget either.
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  25. Boy, ten minutes of a half educated American lecturing you about your own country can get pretty irritating.
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  26. This video is wrong. We now know through scientific analysis, and through archeological investigation that the Angles, Saxons and Jutes did not displace the native Britons. The English ARE indigenous Britons who adopted cultural aspects of their trading partners to the east.
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