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  1. Interesting-- Sardinia looks beautiful to visit!!
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  2. I'm leaning towards the light theory.
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  3. Swede here, who has a lot of family from around Finnerödja (which literally means Finn-cleared land) in central Sweden, named so from the forest Finns you mentioned briefly, who were brought in by the king (of Sweden and Finland at the time) from economically depressed eastern Finland (maybe Russia today?), to turn unproductive forestland into more productive agricultural land, thus broadening the tax base, etc. I believe the immigrants who settled in Sweden were provided with some startup capital and tax exemption for a few years. Sweden's best strawberries come from the area, but maybe I am biased.
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  4. I descended from the lairds of Clan Campbell. My father also found our connection to the MacGregors, Stewart , and he found we directly descended from Robert the Bruce.
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  5. Thanks fascinating video. I moved to East Yorkshire from Brazil when I was a kid, and the East Yorkshire people always looked like Vikings to me and I just assumed I was living amongst the descendants of the the Danelaw settlers. Turns out I was wrong! Although Anglo-Saxon and Norse were themselves cousins, so easy mistake for a South American to make!
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  6. so italians and celts are related. no wonder the celts picked up latin so easily
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  7. the zed rod - a scythe maybe? The grain being attached. Fertility? The four points - Four cardinal directions, the sun in the seasons in transit? That they used such complicated symbolism says a lot about the depth of their belief system (to me!)
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  8. Red hair and light eyes are common among the Tatar people of Russia.
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  9. Quite a fascinating film around the psychology of the human condition. The paradox of beauty and the beast. And how nature is ever beautifully present in spite of the morass of the mind, with all its belief systems, and superstitions. On a small island, the collective human consciousness is illustrated so well
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  10. Thanks for a very interesting video which shows that our roots are deep here in England. In fact, right back to the end of the ice age.
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  11. Conquered and held by the same single legion that was wiped out in Scotland? Those Italians wouldn't have lasted in Ireland, it'd be too damp and cold for them even in the summer.
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  12. Thanks, very informative. As a Dutchman I had to watch this of course 🙂. From a Mormon herritage database I traced a herritage line back to Charlemagne (39 generations back) as well as Alfred the Great (35 generations back). So I should at least have some Frankish and Saxon blood I guess. But considering if you go back 38 generations you would potentially have 270 billion ancestors, which is obviously impossible, since there were only a few million people in all of Europe then, so I sometimes half jokingly say that every European probably has a line back to Charlemgne somehow.
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  13. I traced my lineage back as far as my parents, who were livid. Otherwise, I could watch these videos all day. Excellent work yet again, sir.
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  14. Auburn hair here, with hazel eyes. Mostly Scottish and Irish ancestry (though Welsh and English on my dad's side). Interestingly enough my dad had black hair and blue eyes (a rare combination) and Mom's hair was black and she had hazel eyes. So obviously both my parents were carriers of the relevant recessive genes. Thank you for this video! Love from Minnesota.
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  15. My whole life I've been taught to hate the white man as a hispanic however when I did my DNA testing I found a decent amount of Irish and Scottish DNA. Along with the very large 27% Spanish and 8%Portuguese and 59% native Mexican. Now that I find out all of this history from Spain and all the things that happened there with the ancestors of the Irish and Celtics in general it all makes sense its so amazing the world must've been so crazy back then. I would KILL to hear them speak.
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  16.  @celtichistorydecoded  very interesting different places same people love from Wales to Brittany 😍
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  17. Excellent short summary. A minute or two of information on local customs and identity would have rounded it off. Looking forward to one of these for every region mentioned. Don’t forget to include Galicia as a Celtic tribe. Cheers.
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  18. Hi I am Spanish with grey hazel eyes. My grandma (Spanish also) had light grey eyes ( some people said blue, but in fact they were grey). One of my cousins has light grey eyes also... In my family there are all eyes colours: brown, hazel,green, greys and blues. We are all Spanish. My DNA is 80 percent North Spain and Southern France + 20 percent NorthWest European ( Denmark, Dutchland and England) Best regards! ! UN Abrazo! ! Saludos!
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  19. It says so in the Declaration of Arbroath 1311.
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  20. Thank you for explaining the folklore in the movies. I watched it yesterday an have been deeply impacted. I thought Colm knew (of intuitively felt) he was nearing his death. The sense of despair that the priest asks him about could be linked to that. Colm knew how deeply Paedric is connected to him, how he almost could not survive without their friendship. And Colm decides to break up the friendship before death takes him away, so that it’s less painful for Paedric. Colm probably knows he is running out of time, and instead of cutting his fingers one by one, he does what he does. He deeply cares for Paedric, which is obviously when Colm himself is so upset when the donkey accidentally gets killed - an unintended consequence of Colm’s action. He is happy to see that Paedric becomes stronger and more independent through anger - the scene at the pub when he warns about setting Colm’s house on fire. Colm knows Paedric is ready to keep on living when he himself passes on. Colm doesn’t try to put out the fire as he no longer needs his earthly home. The last scene, when Mrs McCormack (banshee) sits in Colm’s chair near his burned house waiting for him - it’s his time to go and he knows he can do it now.
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  21. Cheers. I`m R1b-M269
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  22. Western Switzerland was part of the burgundy region of France,the Burgundian’s became the Spanish and Portuguese royals and their people settled these regions after the crusades and in the Middle Ages,the Burgundian’s were originally from Sweden but moved down after the break up of the Roman Empire.
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  23. Cool that my 1/4 Filipina granddaughter has that combination. Stunning with her Asian shaped eyes.
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  24. Proto-Celtic culture should be differentiated from Celtic language. Celtic language is a branch of the Indo-European language tree. The spread of Celtic language aligns quite well with the spread of Y haplogroup R-M269.
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  25. This is interesting. I'm of Scandinavian heritage. From my paternal family we are 100% blue eyes. I had never given it any thought.
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  26. I have 2% Swedish ancestry which doesn't mean a lot genetically. But one of my grans maiden name was Gemmell which does have Scandinavian origins.
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  27. Dark Hazel here. French, Scottish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Bohemian, and Finish.
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  28. Please do a video about Asturias which is the other ancient Celtic nation in NW Spain. It is well known and documented that Asturias (named for the Celtic tribe - The Astures) is and has always been Celtic both culturally and genetically. My mother and her entire line were Asturian and my DNA (both Ancestry and 23 and me) links me to both modern Ireland and Scotland genetically
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  29. I lived in Honolulu for 5 years. There was a girl who worked in a neighboring office building and often I would see her walking to lunch. Her golden blonde hair was like a beacon in the sunlight and it attracted nearly everyone’s gaze. I thought the attention was a natural advantage in finding a mate.
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  30. I understand the Romans had a unit of Sammatian (related to Scythians) heavy cavalry on Hadrian's Wall. This is related to myths of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.
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  31. I have hazel eyes! Lots Scottish/english, mine look almost like there is a dark blue circle around the greenish with specks leading into the more brownish starburst center
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  32. Red hair makes women irresistible.
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  33. I have green dominant hazel eyes❤ I love them😊
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  34. I am a native Spaniard and was strange for me to find in my DNA 2% Scandinavian, 2,2% Finnish and 1,6% Baltic. I know we got some Visigoths here but the traces left are not significant.
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  35. Great video. Can you do one on Cornish genetics please?
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  36. I'm Ron Morrison 76yo Of Clan Morrison, My Fathers father was from Harris, my Dad spoke Gaelic, my mother was a Barton from Glasgow I live in Canada !
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  37. Not Vikings. Norsemen. Vikings are raiders not settlers and traders.
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  38. I’m Danish but 13,9% Scottish/Irish thanks to the vikings 👍
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  39. I have about 10% DNA from Sardinia, and my grandmother's family was Basque as well - we are from the Dominican Republic.
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  40. Watching the film again, I noticed in Colm's house a number of items (possibly folklore/myth related) from other countries, including a Japanese mask of an "Oni baba". Based on the Japanese folklore of the demon woman who causes death and misery to befall a specific person or family, essentially like a banshee.
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  41. You might have mentioned more about Randolph's stand against the English cavalry on the first day which set the scene for the next day. Also the bickering within the English camp over who should lead the charge which led to Gloucester taking the hump and riding straight to his death . The importance of the foot soldiers taking the fight forward against cavalry and infantry had never been heard of, and it was the carnage of the large English force being bottlenecked trying to re-cross the Bannickburn in panic that killed more English than the Scots.
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  42. We are 4 generations of hazel eyes as i know of but our family has been from norway for hundreds of years. This is interesting😊
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  43. Thanks very much, I watch but often forget to say thanks.❤ I have a great grandmother whose family were part of the Huguenots, Jacques.
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  44. Few points I'd like to make here, not as a criticism; 1. The origin and nature of the BB culture is now generally regarded to have emerged from central Europe, being indo-european. 2. The replacement of the Neolithic farmer population of the UK is an anomaly in Europe, as most of the similar peoples in Europe merged with the Indo-Europeans. BB DNA is actually lower in native French and German people for example. 3. The BB genetic results are probably biased in that elite burials tended to survive and be found more than commoners. Meaning the replacement rates were less than 90%. What we can say with certainty is that the high-status people were overwhelmingly BB. 4. There is growing evidence that the neolithic peoples of Europe suffered a series of disasters in the form of plagues, which may have caused rapid depopulation.
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  45. I am Y-Haplogroup I2a1b1(I-M223), our earliest forefathers have been found in Palaeolithic Italy(Tagliente,Veneto and Continenza,Trasacco). By the Mesolithic, we were spread throughout Europe and the British Isles. My mt-Haplogroup is H24a which seems to have arrived in western Europe during the Neolithic.
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  46. Good video. There is a strong connection between the Picts and the Welsh as evidenced by similar place names and from what we can glean from the poem, 'Y Gododdin' by the Welsh bard Aneurin.
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  47. genetic studies are always of much interest to me, the Scythians as well as the Cimmerian peoples migration are also interesting, the earlier migration of the Cimmerians seems to have some of them going into the area of the Hungarian plains and possibly coming into contact with the Hallstatt/proto-Celt cultures, others of them migrating into Anatolia and the southern parts of the Black Sea area.
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  48. I have hazel -green eyes - my mother hazel-brown and my daughter hazel -brown. My dads were brown along with my brothers. We have very mixed ancestry on both sides. Dads being English,Sri Lankan,German;Japanese; mums being French, Mid European, English, with other little bits from all over . My haplo group is a North African Berber tribe from 10,000 years ago… my eyes change to bright green when I cry or am angry - they have an olive green ring around the outside, a flared amber ring around the pupil and flecks of yellow and green between the two but with an overall look of green…. Lol 😂 Emma; UK
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  49. My Great Grandmother was a Cash - from the MacTavish clan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , a Highlander. ♥️💚♥️ Hello Y'all from Alabama, USA 😊
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  50. They may be gone but yesterday here in Brisbane Australia I attended the inauguration of the Celtic standing stones in Auchenflower, it was organised and finally implemented after many years of persistence by the Celtic council of Australia ( Scots, Cornish , Manx, Irish, Bretons, Welsh and Galations) with many Aussie Scots who’s forefathers were from the clearances and have pride in and never forget there Scottish/ Clan heritage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗡️
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