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  1. According to my DNA test I am about 75% native Dutch and about 18% Scandinavian. Yet, I have no direct Scandinavian relatives up to 6 generations in the past on either side. The only plausible explanation that I have is that either DNA technology is not able to distinguish between Frisian and Scandinavian DNA, or there is little difference in DNA between those regions.
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  2. Cheers thanks for the video
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  3. Here's one you can have for nothing ... the areas of the world with the greatest resources (oil/coal/food etc) have the greatest variation in eye colour over time.
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  4. A slight Christianisation of an old story to be sure. Although it is reminiscent of the actual Indo European migration. Scythian was used as a catch-all term for nomadic cultures which the Scots certainly came from when you look back far enough.
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  5. Did you like the movie Centurion mate? Pretty Pictish
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  6. 23andme said I was 95.2% British isles and Ireland.
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  7. I really believe that without the Scottish courage, America wouldn’t be…….it takes guts and the Scottish have plenty of it.
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  8. just when i thought you'd do a video about the genetics of north africa after finishing europe you aploaded this
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  9. The books are great. BBC and Netflix just kept making it more woke and side lined what the fans wanted for uninteresting moments. The books tell you from the start the cattle raids between the Saxons and Scots. The old Britons in Strat and so on. In the books you also explore Cornwall and Wales too.
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  10. My dad is 50/50 Frisian/ Hungarian, my mother is 100% Czech... everyone in my family has blue eyes, except my mom and brother, they have bright green..
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  11. Interesting information Ste, which I did not know about. Congratulations on your store, I hope you sell lots 😊
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  12. My mother had jade green eyes. Shes 100% Danish. My dad had clear sky blue eyes—he’s half Russian Jew, 1/4 Bavarian German, 1/4 Scottish/irish/english. Their eyes never changed color. Mine are a combo of amber/green/blue (inner to outer) and the proportions change according to the light. But by now, in my 60s, they’ve turned most grey, except on sunny days or by the ocean.
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  13. I live in Canada but my bloodline comes from Orkney
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  14. my son looks like his great great grandfather on his mothers side which in turn is my fathers side of the family my daughter has looks of my mothers side of the family so it looks like my 3 kids have more facial features of there mothers side of the family but they all got blond blue eyes and im dark hair green eyes there father blond and blue eye
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  15. How this channel isn't bigger I've no clue! This is fantastic content. Yours truly, A Sassenach at the foot of the killsyth hills. 😂
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  16. I think the bell beaker culture is very interesting unfortunately there is relatively little information publicly available about them.
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  17. I did some of those dna tests and my paternal haplohroup came back RL-121/R-DF 13 branch. And it claimed most prevalence Ireland, Scotland, wales. I’m American with roots going back to colonial times. People in my region claim Scots-Irish descent. I guess that’s the name they give for people coming from that Northern Ireland plantation area. Pretty interesting stuff!
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  18. My 4 grandparent eyes were blue, my 2 parents eyes are green and mine are darker brown and each generation was born further north than the previous one. I think genetic is a little more complicated than that.
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  19. I'm Canadian. My maternal grandfather was a Craig and his parents came from Blair Atholl. There as a story passed down through the generations that we were somehow related to Charles Gordon (Chinese Gordon). I don't know much about the family at all but a DNA test confirmed that Scotland is in my blood.
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  20. Tack så mycket!
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  21. The role played by Robert Wishart, Bishop of Glasgow, William Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews and David de Moravia, Bishop of Moray is crucial also. Whilst they were fighting to preserve the autonomy of Scottish Churches (who were threatened with coming under the Archdiocese of York) the wars of independance would probably not have happened without them and the political dimension kept the threat of French invasion and Papal forgiveness (post the Bruce's excommunication) in play for Scotland. Not as glorious as battles but a story worth telling.
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  22. The Templars were all over these isles especially in the area of Knaresborough / Wetherby. There is a relief sculpture of a Templar outside the entrance to a cave chapel in Knaresborough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Crag ; it is not beyond the realm of possibility that they supported the battle.
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  23. I always believed the Scandinavians were leaving to raise cows, and sheep. I think they farmed animals like herders and stuff. I believe they were livestock farmers Not Crop farmers.
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  24. culdean monks and Saint Brendan's navigation
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  25. Lost my Ma last year ,made me want to find out more,joined Ancestry recently. 72% English.. I Traced my father's paternal line from London back 5 gens to late 1700s to the Romney Marsh .all farm workers Mum's paternal line from London back to her Grandparents in Stroud,Gloucestershire to 4 generations around Cricklade Wiltshire to early 1800s 14% Irish (Cork,Kerry) Maternal Grandma 14% Iberian This one surprised me,! No known Spaniards or Portuguese in the family but apparently could be connected to Spanish Armada ships ending up in Ireland or also a more ancient migration. Is fascinating what you can find,and reading the Cencuses of your forebears! Now need to visit some of the places to see if I can find some gravestones!
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  26. This is interesting and enlightening. My paternal line is Welsh, great info for the fam.
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  27. My ancestors came to the US to join the Mormons and of course to evade starvation. I'm sure it seemed like a better life until they ended up in Utah. 🤣😂
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  28. It's never simple. I am definitely NOT a morning person, but my father had and I have Dupuytren's contracture, mine being mild. AFAIK I am of mostly Northern British descent. My Grandmother's brother and his two sons were all bright red-haired. My elder daughter is blonde, but her younger sister is a lovely peach blonde.
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  29. Many Roman were Cis Alpine Celts themselves
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  30. Irish man here with Gallowglass male bloodline. 97% Irish, 3% Scottish
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  31.  @celtichistorydecoded  Cheers hope we all can soon too
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  32. Greek DNK haplogroups are E1b1b 45%, J1 , J2. Haplogroup G is minority in Greece
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  33. Now you really have opened a whole can of worms. This Agriculturalist/Pastoralist origin of (Proto) Indo-European has been a big bone of contention for philologists for decades and oddly enough the DNA evidence is still patchy enough to not give a definitive answer to which group had the greatest westward influence of genetics, culture and language. You did refer to something in passing that does absolutely fascinate me. The vast genetic replacement of over 90% of the, probably very sparse, population of Western Hunter Gathers by the incoming Indo-Europeanish peoples. Evidenced by other large scale population replacements, North and South America for example, are we actually looking at the most successful genocide in European pre-history or the introduction of a virus that only affected the WHG population. Simple removal of the WHG males from the gene pool wouldn't give such an overwhelming result. In the Orkney and Shetland Isles the matriarchal Celtic gene is still strong there. The Celtic woman were not removed from the gene pool, just the men. We basically have just as much Neanderthal DNA in us as WHG. What happened to them, as far as I know nobody is doing any academic research on this ???
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  34. "We" captured the Eagle Standard😉 MULLACH A-BU!!!
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  35. I reckon its because the Romans didnt fully conquer Caledonia. The Roman thoughts of invading Ireland came from when they stood in South Western Caledonia, looking west across the narrowest point in the sea towards Ireland. Furthermore however, the Roman Empire wasnt necessarily a European one. It was an Empire based on both sides of the Mediterranean, with the Italian Peninsula in the centre. Just look at a map of the Roman Empire at its largest extent. Venturing into the Island of Britain was actually an anomaly for the Romans. Venturing further west to Ireland wouldve been even more of an anomaly, from their Mediterranean heartland.
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  36. Hello, very interesting. Do you happen to know what clan Mayes belongs to? My grandfather was from St. Monance. Thank you, Charles from Waterloo Canada.
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  37. My great great grandfather he Scotland flemish Wales England Cornwall Scotland Irish Slavic Spanish Portugal people be happy
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  38. To me, the weirdest thing is that Rameses II, pharoah of the New Kingdom in the 2nd millenium BC, was a redhead. They found his mummy.
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  39. I was wondering if you could make a short video on the variation of some names like McIntyre I really want to know more about my last names origin its original form is tSaoir and I only have my last name McIntyre which has gone through countless centuries of rewording to go off of in researching
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  40. I always thought I was Scottish because of my last name. Then I took a dna test and there was no Scottish. But 39% English and 32% Germanic. The rest was French, Netherlands, a little Welsh and and little Irish.
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  41.  @celtichistorydecoded  fair enough. my own view is what happened in england was similar to France in Italy in that German peoples became a new ruling class, eventually going ''native''.
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  42. I have hazel eyes. Sometimes, they look green, brown or gold. I'm Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland, German and the Congo, the Bantu People.
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  43. Thank you for explaining this. I have wondered about this history but the information on it was lacking. You answered the questions I didn't know I had!
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  44. Achtung. Some good beers
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  45. It's good you speak of haplotypes. It's like the game of fish. Those that match are genetic cousins regardless of the location or passed down verbal history. It's the same principle for all peoples around the globe. In theory, at least as per testing accuracy.
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  46. Good video, and I watched you on Medieval Irish Channel. Subscribed. I grew up,as a kid, in Greenock, but was raised in London. The world you describe I'm familiar with historically and personally.
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  47. Have you done a vid on RH negative blood type yet? If you haven’t you should! It’s fascinating!
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  48. I think he took inspiration from Anglo-Saxon, Old English, Nordic and possibly the Brythonic kingdoms and peoples in his works. Britain was a mishmash of all of the above, and the Irish were to and fro as well, so it is possible that LOTR was a wider amalgamation of old cultures and languages. He was big on the Anglo-Saxons though. I've seen a theory that they themselves were just another Celtic tribe (moving west from Israel) that eventually branched off and became the Saxons.
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  49. Great video, thank you!
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  50. It always amazes me how quickly the Romans built the wall. Just think of the logistics involved. We barbarians can't even dual the A9!!
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