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  1. I have no Irish dna whatsoever, nor in my family tree. My Welsh ancestors were from north east Powys, around Meifod, Mochnant & Mechain, which were cantrefs around the Vyrnwy. What surprised me the most was that it was not the English, nor any other foreign invader that killed our royal house of Mathrafal, but that of Owain Gwynedd, another Welshman. Roedd o’n gas. I curse him! I believe my Welsh ancestors were there from the year dot…you can go back and back and they’re still Welsh!
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  2. Lactose tolerance the real reason for the dispersal of the Yamnaya culture and proliferation and dispersal of the Proto Indo European languages?
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  3. An evil spell cast over Ireland causing the men to go to war among themselves “The whole place has gone nuts.”
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  4. Who ? Škordići ? That Serbian family Is still there. Great clan, been in War with Rome , lost in Macedonia , moved north in today's Bačka region. I've read about them in a book "Analae ", writen by Franciscan monk at early 1700's.
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  5. A really overlooked topic, and a great history, essentially swept under the carpet. The people of England are just as 'british' as any welshperson, and even today the Welsh still refer to England as Lloegr, the ancient name for the areas east of the severn, and south of the humber. The people were the Lloegrwys or Lloegrians, and were of the same ancient stock as the Cymry. When you consider that before 1700ad there was no celtic or even saxon consiousness in britain, you have to wonder what happened to our original histories, that celebrated victories over the Romans for example. Now the Romans are placed on a pedestal, everything dug up of any importance is immediately labelled Roman. NEVER British.....really strange....especially when a so called 'Roman' villa lies unexcavated in south Wales. This place is known to have been built for a British king 'in the roman style' and is dateable to around 200ad. Which is awkward, as we are supposed to be uncivilised 'celts', stomped over for 400yrs. Fishbourne roman palace gets funding and a visitor centre, Caermead gets turfed over. Skullduggery is rife in academia it seems🤔
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  6. Lots of Celtic influence in Asturias and Cantabria as well. They even play the pipes.
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  7. I got 60% Northern Irish/Southwest Scottish and I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Quite hilarious how I have more Irish and Scottish, guess the lads and lasses came doon for a bit of wee fun 🤣
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  8. The migrations of the Boii all over Italy to Germany to Gaul show that nothing is clean cut and tidy, instead very mixed and interrelated. After all Bohemia, Bavaria and Italian city of Bolognia are all named after the Boii.
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  9. My ancestors are from Veryan in Cornwall. They are buried in the church yard, the name is Trounce, the family tree goes back to 1575, and even records a marriage into the Carter family (Carter family of King of Prussia). Thank you for your interesting channel. I have subscribed and liked. Let me know if there are any more Trounces out there!
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  10. The Battle of Teutoburg Forest is one of my favorite events in history. The Germanic tribes, including and especially the Vikings, were often very clever.
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  11. Thanks for all this research. You are doing an incredible job. It just proves that it is early days for DNA studies and as soon as we stick a label on any 'culture' we discover there's far more admixture than our tidy minds would like to make of it. I'm sure I've see that Yamnaya guy sitting in the Clutha Bar down the Broomielaw of a Friday night 😁
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  12. I’m almost 1/2 Swedish. Have red hair and Hazel eyes that turn green and gold sometimes.
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  13. My Cuban grandmother's father's father's last name was Kelly. They were from Lugo in Galicia. My dna shows 12% Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Plus a lot of Basque and Portuguese. Mostly all Northern Spain . 1% southern Spanish
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  14. Some ancient bodies discovered in Ireland were DNA-traced to the Pontic-Caspian Steppe. This (sort of) made sense, as I have occasinally observed people from Ukraine, etc. who look vaguely Irish. The individuals in question had slightly darker skin and black hair. (I am slightly disturbed at the possibility that in 3,000 years' time, archeologists could dig me up and ask: "What's this?")
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  15. I think the lack of research on hazel eyes is simply because they are defined by what they are not (blue, grey, green, brown) rather than what they are. They also have a greater ability to look different in different levels of light due to iris size; so they are just more difficult to nail down. To be honest I think the difference between amber and hazel is just semantic rather than melanin relative.
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  16. I was taking a zoom lecture for archaeology in University College Dublin when the lecturer claimed that the Celts never existed. That was the day i discovered Celtoscepticism, or as i like to call it, Celto-denialism. His argument was that they never referred to themselves as Celts, and that they were never united. I argued that if those were the reasons to denie their existence, then you have to deny the existence of other language families and culture groups like Bantu, Polynesian, Micronesia, Melanesian, Mayans, Turkmen, and many others if you have to apply that logic to the Celts. Instead of coming up with a good argument, he just went on about how culture and ethnicity has caused some of the worlds greatest atrocities (i would argue religion has done just as much). Seems like he's putting an agenda before facts and logic.
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  17. Blonde hair and green eyes, Irish man saying hello.
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  18. Very fascinating and brilliantly presented! Congrats on getting a sponsor too. 🙂
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  19. My grand mother , mom , and my older brother all had red hair and light blue eyes . When they were very young had freckles too .
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  20. The Portuguese today still call themselves Lusos. Also Portuguese genetics comes from Galicia. The genetics flowed south in all Of iberia. My last name traces back to the 200ad and maybe further to christian saint in Spain and to a saint in Portugal. Proud of my celtic Iberian roots. We gave hell to the romans. Took them almost 200 years to concur and subdue the peninsula 🤘 Força iberico. Thanks for the great video
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  21. You actually answered questions I was wondering about. I was wondering about the origin of blond hair, what Scandinavian Hunter gatherers looked like & the origin of the nordic race.
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  22. I would LOVE to see the Finnish DNA episode sometime in the Future. TY
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  23. Maybe when the Romans met the Gaels from Argyll, the ancestors of the gallowglass, they decided they'd rather keep their troops busy building walls across Britain instead of trying their luck against a larger contingent of Gaels in Ireland.
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  24. Thanks for the video. The Gaels of Dal Riata are my paternal ancestors. The strange thing is my surname is Perkins a Norman name but after a Big Ydna test I found out my paternal ancestors are really Scots Irish Barnetts but even further back related to Maclaren which was one of the earliest clan surnames. My Ydna is R1b-L1335 S764 744. After speaking to the L1335 dna site administrator explaining my strange situation he told me the my male ancestors are West Highland Gaels part of the Scotti tribe that originated in Hibernia and founders of Dal Riada. Crazy to think about who they were and where all of ancestors come from...
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  25. I'm a MacLeod of Lewis (the yellow tartan). My family first came from the Reef area, moving to Barvas in 1886. The croft is still in our family, with my first cousin once removed still living and working sheep there, 130+ years later.
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  26. Very fascinating! Superb as always.
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  27. So, I have Iberian ancestry. Does that make me part Celt? ( I mean I also have Irish, Scots, and Welsh, but also Iberian)
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  28. It's a culture more than a single people.
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  29. This explains how the Anatolian agriculturalists, Iron Age & Scandinavian DNA got into my Dutch ancestors !!!! Haplogroup H10e. So very interesting!!! Thanks a million!!
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  30. Ginger hair is way older than any Celtic Germanic or viking labels
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  31. My brother has pure pale grey eyes. Very striking! But dark brown hair. I guess that's the Irish/Norwegian side. Very interesting, thank you.
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  32. Excellent as always! I'm enjoying this DNA series immensely.
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  33. Proud to Be of Celtic/Norse ancestry
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  34. Because most of Scandinavia is Mountainous, hilly, and Barren. Decent farming land was in short supply. Hence why the Viking sailed the world It was to look for suitable land to farm at first.
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  35. As a redhead always find this interesting. Fun fact before World War 1, the Tsar had a unit that only had redheads, not sure how many would have been natural, but I'm sure a few Udmurts would have been in there.
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  36. Caesar's wars in Gaul also had ruinous effects on Rome and Italy in general. The huge rise in the slave population destroyed the labour market, as the labour of Freemen could not compete with the cheapness of slave labour. Especially as Gaul had been made up of sophisticated societies with many skilled labourers. Then the enormous amount of gold and silver loot dumped on the Roman economy devalued the price of these metals and with it the currency in general. Your classic money supply induced inflation. Then the huge number of demobilised soldiers, who had all been promised good land in Italy as reward, created a demand that the land market could not meet. Caesar essentially created the economic crisis that his dictatorship promised to resolve.
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  37. I actually have blonde hair with a red-beard. I am Northern English (York) on my mothers side and Scottish and part Norwegian on my fathers side. Growing up in Australia I had platinum blonde hair and I grew up thinking I would have a brown beard like my father.
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  38. Im from the isle of lewis my surname is Macdonald, and I can still speak gaelic, my dna test came back as 85% celtic, 11% norse and the rest was middle Eastern (no idea how that got in there) its fascinating stuff, btw the word gallowglass is a corruption of the old gaelic which when translated just meant young foreigners
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  39. My dad is English, my mam is Welsh so I am Anglo-Saxon and Briton. Maybe Norse or Iberian too.
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  40. Great video, thank you! Can you please do a video on the Celts of the Alps in Noricum? Likely the term Galatians is derived from Proto-Celtic *galnati (“to be able”). See also Κελτός (Keltós) and Latin Gallus, which might be from the same source. Even the name Portugal contains the same root (gal for Gaul i.e. harbour of the Gauls of port of the Celts). Even the name Britain is likely of Celtic origin. As Brittānia from the 1st century B.C.E., from Ancient Greek Πρεττανία (Prettanía), used by Diodorus, earlier νῆσος (nêsos) Πρεττανική (Prettanikḗ) or Βρεττανίαι (Brettaníai), used by Pytheas (4th century B.C.E.) of the entire archipelago now known as the British Isles. The Ancient Greek name is ultimately from a Celtic ethnonym, reconstructed as early Brythonic *Pritani, perhaps from a Proto-Celtic *Kʷritanī, *Kʷritenī, whence Welsh Prydyn (“Picts”), Old Irish Cruthne, Cru(i)then-túath (“Picts”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do”).
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  41. This was great. Cant wait to watch the Finnish DNA video. I hope you get to that one soon.
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  42. Another good one Wayne.I think the Irish and Scotland were well linked in the day.
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  43. I'm Auburn, mh mother was blonde and a girl in mh family is strawberry blonde with blue eyes. I've got green eyes and curly hair. I've got Swiss, Dane, Spanish, French, Irish, Scottish, English, and Gernanic. Melting pot. Both I and the girl in my family have negative blood. Excellent, Thankyou ✌️
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  44. I have heterochromia, so they are green and blue with gold specks in them
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  45. Spanish are Celtic too
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  46. Your explanations dissecting this movie helped tremendously in understanding the storyline; it now makes sense to me. The script is actually very simple, but the amazing acting by the whole cast and location pulled me into their world. Barry Keoghan, (Dominic), is astounding; his performance is worthy of an award for best supporting actor.
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  47. I was blond but my hair started getting darker as i went through puberty.
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  48. This man's accent is amazing.
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  49. I would suspect that the destruction of the ninth legion was what caused Hadrians campaign and the building of the wall. Roman emperors didn’t visit Britain unless there was a crisis. The sixth legion built part of the wall so they would have arrived with Hadrian as a replacement for the ninth.
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  50. we never call it the British Isles in Ireland just an fyi.
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