History Summarized: Wales

Wale, Wale, Wale(s), what have we here? I'll tell you! A look at the oft-forgotten history of Britain's secret third country Wales, where the population is about 50% bards just by sheer cultural osmosis.

SOURCES & Further Reading: "A Concise History of Wales" by Jenkins, "A History of Wales" by Davies

Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.

[whitherwhence]

Fun fact: the author of the Witcher series used random Welsh words for magic things, so Welsh speakers were surprised to hear Yennefer mention sewers for no reason

[MatthiasPendragon]

On Wales feeling older:

"Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; and Welsh is beautiful." - J. R. R. Tolkien.

[charliegrist]

As a welsh teenager this makes me smile, wales is a beautiful country with alot of history as well as a semi-large mythos.

[joedredd]

"Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; and Welsh is beautiful." - J.R.R. Tolkien

[wizardtimelord]

As a Welsh person, this video makes my heart sing. No sheep jokes, great attempts at pronunciation, a real respect for the people and culture. We are so used to being shat on. Diolch yn fawr iawn!

[tompugh]

Oh no he's found out we exist, Damn I kinda liked being the stealth nation 😂😂

[nathanaelsadgrove]

"Welsh sounds like the language dragons would speak" - never thought about that, but actually true.

[owenscull]

I live in Wales and they also have Welsh speaking schools. My son is 4 and he can speak both Welsh and English fluently. The Welsh language is wales is going from strength to strength.

[michaeldonahue]

"A red cross on white, for St. George!"
"A white saltire on blue, for St. Andrew!"
"A red saltire on white, for St. Patrick!"
"DRAGON!!!"
"Dammit Wales we said no dragons"

"A rose!"
"A thistle!"
"A shamrock!"
"LEEK!!!"
"*Dammit* Wales..."

[InquisitorThomas]

“Wales drew the shortest of the imperial sticks.”
**Cries in Cornish and Manx**

[thesphericalbeanbag]

Am Welsh, can confirm that we are run by dragons.




Seriously though having my country not lumped in with England for once is amazing.

[sienaedmonds]

i’m a welsh gal, and it’s so good to see wales finally being talked about in an educational manner without being made fun of for once!

[bookflix]

As a Welsh person my favorite Welsh history fact is that time when French soldiers surrendered to some Welsh women thinking they were the English because they wore red

[XainRussell]

“And I know better than to disrespect the dragon lords.”

This man gets it.

[shogun]

I got oddly...emotional watching this video. Honestly it's so nice for someone to actually talk about Wales as if it's it's own country and not just lumped in with England.

[nutkja]

I took a trip to Northern Wales a few years back and it was absolutely amazing! Everyone there seemed pretty shocked to see a family of American tourists lol. But I had been researching Wales for years and its history just fascinates me so much. We were all also so surprised at how much Welsh we heard being spoken. I’m so glad that the language has had such a resurgence because it is such a beautiful language!

[TheGamingBDGR]

Blue said "our first indication Wales has Big Eldritch Energy" but the never listed what other indications there are. I demand a video all about Wales' Big Eldritch Energy.

[thomascooco]

Love the fact you actually put effort into pronouncing the welsh words right when 90% of British media don’t bother

[beep]

I'm Welsh and my bampi (grandad) was a coal miner - love this video! It's taught me so much! We don't even have our own history taught here as it's mainly based on English GCSEs but it's amazing to hear the history and learn new things!

[AhmedAli-hisi]

Ay Welsh the forgotten ones that everybody knows but no one talks about