Bridei Mac Bili: King of the Picts

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A brief look at one of the greatest rulers of the Picts.

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[VivekaAlaya]

Thank you for the excellent video and research! I'm watching from Brazil, and though i'm brazilian I'm passionate about sccotish early history!

[vinodvarghese]

Interesting history about the birth of Scotland. Good one.

[carltonbauheimer]

Bridei, right. I know Bran mac Morn when I see him!

[AtunSheiFilms]

These videos are really fantastic, you deserve way more views and subscribers. May I suggest that you edit on Premiere Pro? You can get it for ~£10 a month and it's an extremely versatile software, and the standard among professional video editors. It could really take your videos to the next level.

[RobMacKendrick]

Grew up believing my dad's people were Gaels, for the most part. A few years ago my brother has our DNA run by a research lab, and we learn there's no Gael in there at all. Instead there's a strong line of Gauls (from the Rhine Valley; who knew there were people like that in Scotland?!?) and... Picts. Lots and lots of Picts.
I was astonished and disappointed to find we're not Sons of Niall, as I was always told. But then... Picts? We're Picts?

Bloody brilliant!

(Not heartbroken over the Gauls, either. All in all, an even trade.)

[Uhtred-the-bold]

I really wish he’d go back to making more of these type videos

[ronaldwinfield]

Thank you for that education in Pictish history.

[lembuarni]

hello I have found three place names in Scotland that have an Estonian meaning Laide (shallow sea), PoolWe (semi-water), Ullapool (Above). Continental Europe has many old place names with Estonian origins.

[Anaris]

Anything on Penda, last Pagan king of Mercia?.

[LonersGuide]

Learned recently that I'm about 20% Aberdeenshire Pictish.

[kenfox]

Very mesmerizing. Hated the video ended.

[mackpainter]

My middle name is McBryde. I had two two birth certificates one with spelling with an i and one with a Y. I liked the y spelling and used it. This is a the first time I have seen Bride, now Bridei in a historical reference.

Interesting

[a_missippian]

excuse me, did you say the Dalriada attack came from the east?

[davewatson]

Cumbria Strathclyde extended to the North of Loch Lomond, evidenced by forts and placenames and included Loch Long, llong is Welsh for ship

[MVR_]

I've heard this song before in a video game I believe.
Can't quite put my finger on it.

[lordvonmanor]

I always assumed the Celts were White until I read Geschichte Deutschen und Skythen (History of Germans and Scythians). Until then I had no idea they were Coloureds.
They were also mentioned in Mohren Bilder (Black Pictures).

[TheRampagingGallowglass]

I wonder how much Pictish blood that William Wallace had flowing through his veins. Probably not much. For the Wallace hailed from the great Brythonic Celtic regions of the southwest of Scotland, while it has been recorded that good degrees of ancient Welsh, Saxon English & Danish Viking blood also flowed through his system. He was quite the racial hybrid & genetic wonder, that legendary & mythological Scot. And no doubt the Wallace could boast of possessing a tiny degree of Pictish blood, just like most Scots, including those courageous & hard fighting Scots Irish frontiersmen who were the backbone of Washington's army & helped win the Revolutionary War. There was Pictish blood flowing in them as well!

[colinoverton]

From the pictures I see that the Picts wore tartan!!!???

[HoundofOdin]

The not actually that mysterious at all Picts are a favorite subject of mine.