Celtic Gods in Medieval Wales with Dr Gwilym Morus-Baird

Many of the characters in Welsh and Irish myths are believed to be medieval versions of earlier Celtic gods. But did medieval audiences and readers see them in the same way? What was the medieval relationship to Celtic myth? Dr Gwilym Morus-Baird tries to answer the question.

[ioanstokowski]

I'm sorry I know very little about the subject of your video, but I still enjoyed it because I love the way you talk - your accent, inflections, pacing. It's delightful listening to you. 💙

[cloudyskies]

This makes a lot of sense, much food for thought thank you.

[amjapan]

Wow, what a thoughtful piece. Thank you, exactly what I was looking for. Very generous and much appreciated.

[Owl_of_Omens]

I think that our connection to the Gods primarily resides within our blood. So no matter how many years pass the gods end up returning and we have named them many things and placed upon the many cultural references. But yet they remain remarkably similar in all of their variations.

A more interesting question I would love to get your take on is do you believe that the Welsh goddess and the Gaulish are the same being?

[subjectd]

Here's how I think about this sort of thing; I'll use Father Christmas as my example.
If you ask a group of people who Santa is, they'll all tell you more or less the same thing. If you ask them why they tell children about this character they'll simply say it's traditional, it's just what we've always done.
But if you went back in time to say the Victorian era, only three or four generations ago, they would give a very different explanation of who Father Christmas is, but would still say that it's traditional and it's what they've always done.
The modern people don't need to know what the Victorian people believed in order to know who Santa is.
Imagine this process over thousands of years rather than a few generations!

[johnpower-mo]

A lot of the Welsh stories and myths would have come in from Ireland I believe, as many Irish clans conquered and settled in the north and south of Wales. Indeed the Druids on Anglesey crushed by the Romans may have been Irish, or of Irish origin.

[botanicalbiohacking]

How many Christian’s know the roots of the religion 1000 or 5k years earlier? How much of sun audience can grasp symbolism?

[dylpickles]

My grandma was from wales imagratted after ww2 she told me how they stopped the teaching of the language and beliefs for more Christian beliefs

[nigelsheppard]

Peidiwch ag ymddiried yn "ymchwil" academyddion y clasurwyr Seisnig. Maen nhw'n casáu Cymru a'r Cymry. Mae yna un sydd wedi rhoi "darlithoedd" mewn gweithdai adrodd straeon a gwyliau yng Nghymru (Cricieth a Thu Hwnt i'r Ffin) ac yna wedi awgrymu eu bod wedi cael eu rhoi mewn cynadleddau academaidd i gynulleidfa o arbenigwyr.

Nid yw’r rhan fwyaf o’r academyddion hynny yn arbenigwyr mewn astudiaethau Cymreig neu Geltaidd nac Anthropoleg