American Reacts The Animated History of Scotland

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Hi everyone! I'm an American from the Northeast (New England). I want to create a watering hole for people who want to discuss, learn and teach about history through YouTube videos which you guys recommend to me through the comment section or over on Discord. Let's be respectful but, just as importantly, not be afraid to question any and everything about historical records in order to give us the most accurate representation of the history of our species and of our planet!

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[rightmunted]

You've probably heard this before but the only thing accurate about Brave Heart is that there was a guy named William Wallace who lead a rebellion against England, almost every other detail in the movie is made up. But the real story of William Wallace and Robert Bruce is super interesting, In fact Robert Bruce might actually be the most badass king in medieval history.
HistoryMarche has a good video on the battle of Bannockburn if you're interested.

[stirlingmoss]

Some ground rules on pronouncing Gaelic:

Gaelic has only eighteen letters in its alphabet, so no J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y or Z.

A consonant + H denotes a completely different sound to the same consonant without an H following it.

Gaelic has a system of broad vowels (A, O, U) and slender vowels (E, I). It’s a strange feature of Gaelic spelling that a consonant – or bunch of consonants – only ever has broad vowels on both sides, or slender vowels on both sides. So aonach and coire are both valid words, but not aonech or core. After a while, these sorts of words just start to look wrong.

When many - but not all - consonants are surrounded by slender vowels (called a slender consonant), they change their sounds to sound as though they have a Y following them. Consonants do exactly the same in English when followed by a U. Thus the initial sounds of the words ceann, dearg are the same as the initial sounds of cure, dune.

There is also a distinction that needs to be understood in certain places between back vowels (vowels that sound in the back of the mouth, that is 'aw', 'ur', 'oo', 'ow', 'aa', 'o', 'u', 'a') and front vowels (everything else).

Gaelic words are stressed on the first syllable. There, that was simple. The whole discussion about vowels only applies in stressed (i.e. initial) syllables, because anywhere else in the word, vowels only make a couple of sounds (to be covered later).

Simple vowels

Gaelic uses the grave accent on vowels, so suddenly we have ten to cope with. The use of the accent is consistent though and just signifies a longer version of the vowel.

A like in cat, or more accurately, like the first part of the vowel in cow.

À is a longer version of the above, as in father.

E like a short version of the sound in bay before the Y sets in; like French é.

È longer version of the above.

I is a short version of the sound in see.

Ì as in see.

O as in cot usually; but [8] before B, BH, G, GH, M and MH it makes a sound more like the French au in jaune.

Ò as is law.

U is a short version of the sound in food; like French ou.

Ù as in food.

These rules aren’t applicable all the time, but they’re a good starting point.

[leehallam]

Wallace was not a poor farmer, his wife wasn't killed by the English, England hadn't been occupying the place for years. He was a Scottish nobleman who did lead Scottish forces against Edward I, and had some success. The famous battle scene in the film is historical nonsense, first the blue face paint was 800 years too late, the kilts were 400 too early. Scottish troops would have looked much like the English ones, and where wax the bridge? It wax the battle of Stirling Bridge, all the actual tactics were about control of that, not a mass charge. And no he didn't have a baby with a women who was a child in France when he died, nor did he cry Freedom, which wasn't really a concept in the medieval period, as regards a free nation. Wallace is a semi mythical figure, as most of the traditional story was written long afterwards in an unreliable version, the film makers were not even faithful to that. That the date at the start of the film is wrong and you get an idea how much care they took.

[andyallan]

Ask someone from Scotland if they feel British or Scottish and they'll answer the question based on how they feel. The same can probably be said for people from Wales and N. Ireland. However, ask someone from England if they feel more English or British and you'll find a considerable number (especially older folk) don't understand the question. They'll tell you that England and Britain are the same thing. That's where the problem lies ...

[eastendbird]

Yeah, the advice should have been “DO NOT call them English!”

[magnalucian]

Scotland essentially began as two distinct cultures, the Highlanders on which all the Scottish stereotypes are based, and the Lowlanders of Dal Riata and Strathclyde, basically all the shores and islands which had far more in common with the coastal Irish, Welsh, Manx, and Cornish than with the Highlanders.

When Dal Riata was conquered by Kenneth McAlpin the Lowlander culture went into steep decline, many moved to Ireland and became the forerunners of the Ulstermen of northern Ireland. Many were later driven out of coastal and island Scotland by famine and poverty during the Clearances, and went to America, South Africa, Australia etc.

Meanwhile under English dominance Highlander culture became the quaint, safe stereotype it is today and many ancient practices and traditions were replaced with made up guff like the tartan system.

I highly recommend the Sea Kingdoms by Alastair Moffat for the BBC, to learn more.

[gavinwilson]

The majority of brave heart was fiction

[dimensionsfrancis]

Our history IS your history by virtue of quite recent blood lines. When Richard the lll was found and in a car park in Leicester they found his nearest related person in Canada.

[lindylou]

William Wallace slept with the Queen of Norway? After her grandad’s death, she became ill on the way to Scotland and died when she got there, so unlikely.

[grahammccready]

A lot of Scots settled in what is now Kentucky, Tenessee& the Carolinas. All along the Appalachian way. They were mainly highland Scots so the mountains maybe made them feel at home.

[davidmarsden]

The Romans had forts and settlements as far as Glasgow for a period. The Antonine wall is further north than Hadrian's.
There is documented archeological evidence for this. So not so thorough research by this video.

[lilyliz]

Try out Scotland History Tours, he has a ton of videos on YouTube that are interesting and he’s quite funny as well, the Scottish reformation was led by John Knox who had met Luther and Calvin

[anonhensen]

1:34 You should do one of those DNA ancestry test thinggies and then react to the results. It's all the rage!

[Dan-B]

I don’t know where people get this idea that British people don’t like being called British. Just don’t call people the nationality of a country that they aren’t from 😛

[williambranch]

We are both partly from Lancashire, so we go right back to the post-Ice Age people who brought hunter-gathering, then more people brought agriculture, even before the Indo-Europeans arrived. The majority of men in Europe are descended from those early Indo-Europeans (Bronze Age). The Celts are the Iron Age descendants of the Bronze Age people (which ended rather late in the British Isles). Lots of Celts ended up in the New World, because they were "transported" there before Canada and Australia were available as open air prisons.

[lucavignali]

Will you react to history of Italy part 2?

[johnp]

Connor, they're trying to do "History Matters" but nowhere near as well! A couple of the early statements were just plain wrong as well. More like a speeded up version of "1066 and all that". If you really want to know about Scottish History, try Bruce Fummey and his "Scotland History Tours" channel.

[Shakis]

That French princess that William Wallace bangs in the movie.... IRL she would have been at most like 2 years old or something... didn't happen

[Retrospective.]

The history of Scotland ... as told from an English perspective, Scottish Gaelic did not "die out", it was banned. And the last actual words from William Wallace where, "How can i be guilty of treason, when England has fallen to me". This is all told with a very strange slant on it, and yes, i though the sea was the land to EDIT: "bh" in Gaelic, is like a soft "V" soft.

[R_McGeddon]

President Trump's mother, Mary Ann MacLeod, was a Gaelic speaking Scottish Highlander