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  1. i really enjoyed this phillum
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  2. 4/5 of my ancestry is British. I am keen on claiming both Picts & Anglo-Saxons as ancestors.
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  3. Love the accent, it really is easy to listen to. We have been to Culloden and glad we went. Our side is linked to the McLeod clan. 🇦🇺
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  4. Great video. All Europeans have Steppe ancestry. From roughly 50% in the North to 30 % in the Mediterranean. The Scots are among the highest.
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  5. hazel in America. i'd say more green but they seem to alter a bit depending - but never mistaken for brown.
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  6. Hazel eyes. Eyes will change from blue to green depending on what color I'm wearing. People will tell me i thought your eyes were green, but today they are very blue.😊
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  7. I am, or rather was a red head as it's becoming white now I'm old. I have green hazel eyes also. My family were Lancashire folk - beacause of HVIII's censuses we could track back to that time. Ancestry shows me to have Anglo Saxon, Angle, Scandinavian and Celtic DNA along with a sprinking of others. Being the Celtic fringe of England there was much mingling with Irish, and Scots through the centuries. The Vikings were driven out of Ireland and came across to the area where my family farmed and created peaceful settlements. My eye colour and hair probably stemmed from the Celtic and Scandinavian input. (I was the only one with the colouring, the others were grey, or blue eyed, brunettes.
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  8. Simply male dominance is the likely reason.
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  9. Amazing. Never heard of this find until here.
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  10.  @celtichistorydecoded  My pleasure entirely. Nice to see the forgotten celtic tribes of Britain get a mention. How different these islands could have been if Boudicca had won?
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  11.  @celtichistorydecoded  If you don't know where you've come from you won't know where you're going to.
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  12. That combo is not great in hot Australia mate😆
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  13. I have some Scandinavia dna, I have green eyes with central hetrocromea, with brown freckles in my eyes 😊
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  14. Bruce defected back to Edward I in 1302, not 1304. He was not forced: Bruce was influenced by the potential return of John Balliol to Scotland, backed by a French army. This would have ruined his hopes of becoming King of Scots. He gave not two hoots about William Wallace.
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  15. If Lindisfarne was known to be a centre of Christian religion, why didn't it have any fortifications or armed defenders? Sounds like they could afford it.
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  16. I have one daughter with strawberry blonde hair and light ice blue eyes, and she has a daughter with strawberry blonde hair but slightly darker blue eyes, both looked identical growing up. My daughters hair has darkened to mid brown as she has gotten older. We have British, Scottish, Irish, and Norwegian bloodlines. From Australia
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  17. Your videos are superb! Thank you!
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  18. God they could write in the day
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  19. Great video, thank you for sharing. These are my Scottish family members that ended up moving to Canada: My paternal grandmother is a Brodie (her mother was a Christie). My paternal grandfather is a Porter, Sept of MacNaughton, (his mother was a Weir). My maternal grandmother had parents that were from the Church and Hails families, that left Scotland for England and then to Canada.
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  20. Cool vid. Places names are like history books in of themselves. I tracked down the sources on the idea that Maeatae were Norse and its from Victorian era attempts to translate the names of northern Celtic Kingdoms, these being apparently 'similar' to a few old Norse names. However, I think this idea doesn't stand up to more modern translations with a better understanding of common Celtic word-roots. *Maeatae might mean ''the larger'' referring to a collection or unity of other tribes in a confederate.
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  21. accent of speaker is delightful.
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  22. So are you 70% English then ?
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  23. Great information again, thank you, however Alba is pronounced as Al-a ba or Al-a-pa.
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  24. I think east eurasian nomadic R1b ydna males have conquered west european lands of G2 ydna males, early european farmers.
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  25. My paternal haplogroup is weirdly R-M167, originating in the Pyrenees Mountains between modern-day Spain and France. I say weirdly, because I can trace my paternal line back to a little village on the edge of the Staffordshire Moors in the late 13th century, and my 23&Me report says my background is 92% British and 8% Scandinavian. Is this possibly derived from Celts, migrating up the coast?
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  26. Irish guy here and three percent of my DNA comes from Norway. Imagine my shock! Do I like fermented herring? No, but I plan to visit Norway and learn some phrases.
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  27. Atilla and his Huns were notorious for keeping fermented dairy products in leather pouches on their horses (and they would use horse milk). Kumis and arkhi were two main products. I wonder how a culture's specific microbiome - practiced over 100s of years - relates to tolerance? I like milk, cheese, yogurt et al but milk can def make people fatter (a benefit for babies and such). In hot climates where foods spoiled quickly I can see where avoiding milks was a wise thing
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  28. I’m from Devon but my ancestry DNA shows 51% Cornish and 42% Welsh.
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  29. My paternal ancestors were from Scotland, surname Scott. Some moved to South Africa, where I was born but I don't know when, my grandfather had a book on the family of the South African Scotts, he also had the crest and tartan but I have no idea where those are now. I would love to find out more about my Scottish ancestors and I am currently waiting for my DNA results 🙂
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  30. I believe I am maternally related to the Cameron of Lochiel Clan. I'm sure there are others too, I think I heard some Campbell connection too. At my school we had 2 people who hated each other based solely on the fact their last names were Campbell and MacDonald lol.
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  31. I haven’t seen anyone respond with the clan I trace back to, which isn’t on your map either: Oliphant. I know that clan is supposed to be of Norman origin. Since I just found this channel, and you may have covered more clans since this video was released, I’m going to take a look at some of your other videos for them. 👍🏻
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  32. Great video
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  33. DNA has really helped us to understand the history of the British home nations. While some haplogroups are too general to furnish ties with particular tribes, others can still provide some insight. I'm no expert, but most of the research papers I have seen implied that the 'average' English person is about 38% Frisian (and Dane Viking), 30% Brythonic Celt, 20% Northwest European (N.France & W.Germany), 6% Norwegian Viking, the remainder is mainly Iberian derived. This is pretty similar to the average Lowland Scot. Interestingly, the Brythonic and pre-Brythonic population is higher in Cornwall and Devon, but still very similar to the English average. Also noteworthy, there is much more diversity between the acknowledged Celtic nations, which would seem to support more of a cultural link. Useful video!
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  34. Hi mate is the Johnston clan foreign ??
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  35. Clan Bruce, same as Robert the Bruce. My branch left Scotland for America in the 1700s, so my connection is distant but I still take some pride in it. Love from across the pond!
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  36. Guthrie. Thanks for the History!
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  37.  @celtichistorydecoded  second to the new Anglo-Saxon study, a Britanny study came out this year which is really good.
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  38. I am like the ancient Celts in that my hair is artificially enhanced to a blonde colour, but not with limewater, with bleach.
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  39. There’s a great Docu-Series with Neal Oliver and Alice Roberts all about the Celts. They have an episode about Boudicca and the Britons.
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  40. Great video 👍🏻
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  41. Interesting puzzle is my dad, we did his dna with 23andme in 2020 to try and find the identity of his mystery paternal grandfather. Dad's ancestral breakdown was: 100% northwest european 96.1 British and Irish 2% French and German 1% Scandanavian 0.9% Broardly Northwest European His Y DNA haplogroup though was confusingly R-Z93 hardly any native british men with this and far more common in the middle east and the subcontinent. This comes directly from the man who was his unknown grandfather. Dad was a slight man, with brigh ginger hair and freckles. We lost him last year but would still love to know the answer to this puzzle.
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  42. Very well made for less than 100k subs! Wishing you the best 🎉
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  43. Enjoyed the explanation. I love the mystic loar.
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  44. I have Hazel eyes closer to green. I have Tatar roots between the Volga and Western Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. And apparently I'm not alone. I also think that yamna pastoralists are not accidentally described as light/inermediate skin and variable aye color some with blonde hair.
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  45. Blue green eyes here, dark brown hair, lots of Irish in me, my grandparents came over as young adults..
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  46. Your channel is a vault of wonderful knowledge. Everything is going to my novel.
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  47. I have very proud origins of Clan MacDonald and Clan Stewart on my fathers side. I love your videos and learning more about my ancestors.
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  48. I hope not.My son has reddish hair and blue eyes .
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  49. You all have such exciting dna. I did a test that confirmed that i was about 94% northern Norwegian with a dash of Finland😅 I guess my ancestors liked staying home😂
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  50. If they adopted the culture and Gods of the Gaelic inhabitants then doesn’t it imply that they were not really invaders but rather migrants?
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