Celts vs Germanic Tribes: Origins & Earliest Sources
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Unveiling the Past: A Comparative Journey through Ancient Celtic and Germanic Cultures
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Tacitus Germania & Aricgola
Julius Caesar Gallic Wars
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Dio Chrysostom, Oration
Hecataeus
Herodotus
Diodorus Siculus
Dionysius
Polybius
00:00- Intro
01:30- Origins
03:30- Archeology
07:50- Greek Sources
10:40- Roman Sources
12:00- Warriors
15:10- Appearance
16:30- Country?
18:00- Social Class
20:00- Women
23:45- Gay?
27:00- Conclusion
Dive into the depths of history with us as we embark on a riveting journey comparing the ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples. This enlightening video "Unveiling the Past: A Comparative Journey through Ancient Celtic and Germanic Cultures" explores the fascinating similarities and differences between these two influential groups.
🛡️ What's Inside:
Celtic vs. Germanic Warriors: Explore the fierce warriors of both cultures. Understand their warfare tactics, weaponry, and the profound respect they had for their fighters.
Society and Hierarchy: Delve into the societal structures, from the Druids and knights of the Celts to the chieftains of the Germanic tribes. Discover how these systems influenced their world and ours.
Religious Beliefs and Mythology: Uncover the rich mythology and religious practices that shaped their worldviews. From the enigmatic Druids to the Norse gods, learn how these beliefs drove their societies.
Cultural Artifacts and Influence: Examine the stunning artifacts left behind and understand how their art, language, and culture still influence us today.
🔍 Ancient Celts, Germanic Tribes, Celtic Culture, Germanic Culture, Druids, Norse Mythology, Ancient Warriors, European History, Cultural Comparison, Historical Artifacts
📚 Further Reading: Check out the description for links to books, articles, and other resources to expand your understanding of Celtic and Germanic histories.
#AncientCelts #GermanicTribes #CulturalComparison #HistoryExplained #Mythology #AncientWarriors #CelticvsGermanic
When you are a history nerd all of them are cool. Roman, Spartan, Illyrians, Goth, Scythians and Sarmatians, Dacian, Gauls, Celtic, Norse etc. They all have cool stories and interesting cultures to read about and be amazed of the kind of life someone from that era lived.
It's all fascinating to me, awesome history, all of it
Im a history nerd but only just realizing lol!
If anyone's brutally obsessed with Celto-Germanic history and especially warfare I invariably recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. By far the best military historical expertise available on the subject
❤ Duely noted!
Merçi beaucoup
Just watched the video I think you were referring to yesterday.
WHO THE FUCK IS SCHWERPUNKT. ANSWER ME. SOMEONE ATLEAST LINK ME THE VIDEO. IM TIRED OF HEARING OF THIS "SCHWERPUNKT"
Is it in English?
The celts have always had my respect, as a Greek I view them as ancient cousins of Europe. It’s a shame that their cultural identity was wiped out from most of mainland Europe, and I hope that the Welsh, Scots, Irish, Brittons, and people of Cornwall, preserve their cultures and languages as best they can, so that one day, hopefully they are revived
There's a strong cause in Scotland right now where Gaelic Scots speakers are kinda gathering in Glasgow. It's becoming known as the Gaelic center of Scotland. There's a school there dedicated to learning Gaelic Scots.
The socalled Celts are very much alive, it's just that white surpremacist scholarship has done much to hide the fact that world history is Black history. See Anacalypsis by G Higgins. And Anna Wilkes and John Ogilvy. Shalom
@@thetjdman that’s good but I’ve heard Glasgow is quite high in criminal activity unfortunately
To Norse magic and belief: A troll is a ogre, not a giant, so be more specific in categorization of Old Norse Paganism mythical creatures?
@@taylorfusher2997 bro no one said anything about Trolls or giants
Being of 99% Germanic and Celtic ancestry I really appreciate learning about the similarities between the cultures. Can't wait for the next video!
Deutsch call Hungarian-Macar-Scythians German in form of UnGar and not themselves similarly to others since Ugar,HonGri,VenGri,WanGer...Ó'ghur,Onoguri refers to Hungarian-Macar-Scythians. As for the Celt as Kelt it is a Hungarian-Macar-Scythian word reffeeing to East as to place where sun rises. So called Halstatt culture has nothing to do with Western groups like Deutsch or Danish etc.
I thought that there were/are no actual people called "Celts". It's a generic term (I thought) to describe ancient Europeans. Because there was no written record, we don't know who these people were or what they called themselves.
@@johncater7861Celtic is certainly more cultural than it is ethnic, but if it’s being used to identify ethnicity it means the Europeans west of the Rhine whereas Germanic people are east of the Rhine. This is super arbitrary, mind you, with people west of the Rhine having been mixed Celtic-Germanic since before the time of Julius Caesar.
@@Captain_Planets well I know that my own breakdown is about 60-70% germanic, 10-20% Celtic, 10-25% Pontic-Caspian Steppe Aryan, and then a very small percentage (from
To @Thor-Orion: Read all of my description below: A troll is not spiritual entities that have affect on supernatural things in our world. A troll is not a spirit that helps people with magic. A seiðr or a volva is a witch, not a troll. seiðr is a spirit that helps people with magic. Volva is a spirit that helps people with magic. Let’s be specific here, and let’s doing things in a clear defining way. It need to have a clear definition. It need to be clearly defined. What is the physical description of a tröll in Old Norse paganism? Is it a human with a long four foot nose with large hands and a tail?
Both groups had some fascinating similarities. Beautiful groups that we Still need! Keep Ancestry ALIVE! 🔥💯
You knocked it out the park covering Celts and Germanic peoples. Please keep then coming 10/10 👏🏻
Way to go brother; so many souls of European descendants feel and long for Celtic times.. it’s like this depth in the Heart-Vortex that knows I lived as a Celtic warrior before, and long for that period on Earth again. Before outsiders and usurpers came to the North, I sense life was more meaningful and whole to our people. Now ignorance is bliss, artificial over natural, people seek path of least resistance rather a life of challenge and fulfillment. Another banger, keeep it up brother
I view it as the effects of deep astrology
cringe
@@Einarr_Norge Tell me you're a Brown man without telling me you're a Brown man
The Celtic language, Breton, is still spoken in Brittany in the French state ... despite the best efforts of the French and Jacobin to suffocate the language. Breton is a sister language of Welsh (my language) and Cornish, not as close as Dutch and German, maybe more like French and Spanish. The grammar is similar - like all Celtic languages they have mutations where the first letter of a word can mutate to another sound e.g. c => g; b => f/v etc. And many many words are similar or the same, e.e. bara (bread), byd / bed (world), bro (country), numbering etc etc. There's a strong Latin influence on the Welsh language as Brythonic (ancient Welsh/Cornish/Breton) was the language of the whole of Britain south of Edinburgh, at the time of the Roman conquest. So, over 400 years of Roman occupation many Latin words seeped into the Welsh language e.g. braich (for arm), pont (bridge), ffenestr (window), llaeth (milk) etc.
I'm singing in a Welsh choir and I get a "remedial Welsh" (Welsh for idiots) lesson every Thursday night.
Romanised brits fled to Eastern wales as well, to powys.
@@terranaxiomuk Yeah they bought up the good hoiliday properties and left the Cymru to the hills and dales.,
I recommend listening to Dan Carlin's hardcore history podcast episode "The Celtic Holocaust" it's very interesting. No one does podcasts like him. The Celtic genocide occurred from 58 to 51 BC during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. It's a shame that Vercingetorix even though he united the tribes, he lost the revolt against Caesar. He's a hero for sure.
yes, these are great, he also has a newer 2 part series for free on his site, about vikings.
Thor's Angels and Twilight of the Aesir yep awesome chapters I'm a big a fan@@Gracchi
As an adopted bastard, I was told that my father was Irish, but I hired a researcher and genetic DNA. I am very German/ic, both my Y-DNA and MtDNA and 70 percent of my autosomal/overall. MY biological mother is mostly German and a little Swedish from the Midwest. My father is directly German, but 1/2 Scottish. In short, I love this frigin' channel. I was raised in a German-American neighborhood, which I am grateful for. I know the cultural differences in Germany: i.e. Bavarian & Black Forrest stereotypes, Westphalia spoke Dutch, etc., as well as the foods and culture. What a blessing to have grown up with my culture. Peace
My family are proudly celtic in origin, but I also have some germanic and Scandinavian ancestry. The similarities we have to our nordic and germanic brethren is beyond uncanny.
Same, except reversed. Scandinavian/Germanic with some celtic
The Celts were not a nordic people. The name "Celt" is not found natively anywhere in the British Isles, nor in Ireland, nor in northern France. It is only found in southern France and Iberia in items of native peoples. The northern French people and the British Islanders knew themselves probably as Belgae, as that tribe carried its name to both England and Ireland. Otherwise, northern peoples do not have any connection to the name "Celts".
Scandinavian is Germanic... So why do you differentiate between them as if they're not the same?
At this pt I daresay most Celts are partially Germanic in heritage. The Celtic regions of Spain were taken over by Germanic leadership, the Celts of France who survived the Roman plunder were then integrated into Germanic confederations, the Belgae seem to have been a kind of inbetween people already from what I can tell, and those of us from Britain obviously had the Saxon and Scandinavian incursions.
@@Cornflakes-sr3nq The whole of Spain is between 29% and 31% Yamnaya directly from Switzerland and southwestern Germany from 2,500 BC to 1,800 BC when the Corded Ware Eastern Bell Beakers mixed with the Iberian Maritime Bell Beakers. So even the Iberians who are the "least Germanic" of the Celts are still almost a third Germanic. The others even more so as expected from being closer to Germany. Keep in mind the most Germanic people are 53% Yamnaya so that is the "upper limit" of current Europeans. Given that, 31% is not little.
Fantastic video! Thanks for this. I'm really looking forward to more about the Celts.
The "plumage" that Roman officers wore on their helmets was also adopted from the Celts, or so is the opinion that is held by certain romanologists. It made the leadership easier to be recognized in battle.
It was adopted from the Greeks. Stop lying
The sea peoples were with plumages long before this
"plumage" are you for real? man up for God's sake
Hittites had plumes about 1000 years before romans did
I saw a Neanderthal once and he was wearing feathers.
Thank you, sir. I have Norwegian, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, German and Italian ancestry, though I have only recently come to learn of the latter 4 parts of my heritage. Nonetheless, I am always fascinated in learning the origins of my ancestors.
Same here somewhat in being Euro-mixed (plus some Arab). My dad's side is British (English and Scottish) and German and my mom's (Southern) Italian. Will not lie I prefer my Italian/Roman ancestry over the others and I know far more about it, but I do have a place of fondness to still learn about ancient Celtic and Germanic history/culture.
Dude, Norwegian, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon are Germanic. Or do you mean German?
@@Combat-Mindset yes, I suppose I do mean German. Thank you for pointing that out.
Super fascinating topic and video! I’ll be on the lookout for the rest of the series
Thanks for your work and time ❤
I’m happy I came across you. Passionate and well informed. Much love from a ginger Irish celt!
Man I love your new intro and your new background. Suits you well!
Possibly my favorite video you've done to date.
Never too old to learn something new.....well done
Please expand on the spiritual aspects of the celts. I’m 20% Scottish and 40% Scandinavian. I like learning about what my ancestors thought and believed
It's pretty much all speculation, because most of Celtic culture was destroyed or subsumed into Christianity.
Vikings stayed in Scotland 🏴 ❤
@@slappy8941Both of you refer to my top comment. Or just buy the book “Not In His Image”. It’s everything we need to know about the Celts and the Druids. It’s a helluva lot, by the way.
@@pAThomies as a minority
20% scottish and 40% scandinavian and most likely you are probably 1% Celtic. "scottish" doesnt mean celtic. genetics is like way more complicated than that.
Fascinating information! Thank you!
So glad I found this video. Love your passion for this. Made it even that more interesting~! Thank you!
Surely another good topic for a video would be about the meetings and interactions of the Germanic peoples with the Slavs. As an interesting aside, we in England had an Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Druid!
Was that the poet?
Thank you so much for this video. I really appreciated all the detail.🙏 Would love to hear more about the religion and most especially the Druids.
I fully enjoy watching your videos! I've been following your channel since the beginning and every time you make a video I have really enjoyed it and all of your hard work of research in authenticity.😊❤
You have my thanks for another great vlog.
In the Gaelic language we call ourselves the Gael. In Gaelic, we say "Is muidne na Gael"= We are the Gael. From my studies of ancient history, Gael is a newer form of the word Gaidheil which in turn has an etymology with the word Godhael from ancient Akkadian which meant "The great warriors".
I'm old enough to remember when he cultural zeitgeist was ancient Egypt, ancient Greece & Rome. (The Eagle, Last Legion, The Mummy, 300, Gladiator, Troy) i believe it's the deep astrology at work, planetary retvrn transits for each civilization.
excellent presentation. Making sure my many grandchildren see this.
Ty for continuing your amazing videos my friend… I hope life is treating you very well 😎 ✌️ ❤️
Would like to see more on the Nordic Bronze age trade and cultural connections to the Mediterranean such as Sardinia. Also any possibilities that some mercenaries from the Nordic Bronze age culture participated in the Sea People raids in the Eastern Mediterranean
Also, Nordic mercenaries fir centuries fought for E Roman (« Byzantine ») empire.
@@samaval9920 a couple of thousand years later and known as the Varangian Guard
Ohhey. I am principally Celtic in background, so it is cool to have you branching out. Another factor in thr conquest of Celts and not Gauls was material culture. Archeology indicates that the Celts were much more economically attractive to the Romans than the Germanics, at least at that time, so that there was more perceived benefit to conquering them may have been a significant factor.
The celtic knot was used by the suevi germanic tribe that settled in what is now Portugal.
Outstanding work!
Thanks for the info. Really enjoyed it.
Thank you for doing this! I’d love a video about the Celtic religion and the Druids.
In Iberia we’re proud of our Celtic and Germanic roots, and the Suebi and Visigoths especially left a big impact on the peninsula
Do you know any good books? My family from northern Portugal but sometimes finding anything to order from the US can be difficult.
@@shawnm2405 That’s a good question, I’ve mostly read information online, but I really want to try and find some good books. There’s this one guy I talked to that said he was writing a book on the subject, I could ask him. In the meantime I could send you some links so you can read some information. I have a lot of ancestry from Portugal too, so I know what it’s like trying to find out more about our ancestors
Search for Freddy Silva, Roger Crowley, Alexandre Herculano, Veríssimo Serrão, Marco Neves, José Hermano Saraiva, Fernando Rosas or Simon Sebag Montefiore etc. There are lots of books. If you speak portuguese: youtube - you can see "A Alma e a gente", "Horizontes da Memória", "História de Portugal" (José Hermano Saraiva) or Impérios AD ou Portugal Paralelo.
Portugal and spain descends of mouros Marroquinos 🇲🇦 and gypsies Are you proud of that too?
@@luiznuness Portugal and Spain are not descendants from the moors nor gypsies, that is completely false. We are pure blooded Europeans, and we are proud to be White
Very interesting video as always.. Reminded me of a lot of stuff I need to look into and learn more about.
Great video!!
thank you! could you make a video about the Druids please?
There is a nearly dead celtic language from galacia in NW Spain and there are cultural similarities, along with Bretons who are recorded as having came from Britain after Rome withdrew from the area.
Celtic languages in Spain have been totally dead for more than 2000 years.
@@ConontheBinarian Vettonian
I appreciated this lesson. TY for the great work
Thanks so much! Your content, herein. is professionally presented, and at a university level. Subscribed to see more.
so many people get SO bent over the thought of men sleeping next too, being even a little intimate, or any sexual activitiy at all with another male. ESEPCIALLY when refering to the historical records. It is what it is. No reason to get offended over it. Just because your ancestors enjoyed time with both men and women, and maybe more men. Doesn't mean that you are automatically the exact same. Great video as always, thank you!
False nuke
I think it's a little bit of both of his explanations. There definitely were asexual warrior initiations but Gaulish society probably just wasn't directly oppressive of gay people. I think Roman sources played this up though to encourage Roman soldiers to take Celtic Women by creating a rumor that they were all gay.
@@GAMER123GAMING the fuck that mean
@@I_hate_roads probably
@@Jeudaos dey wuz gaaaay n'sheeeeet i swear!!!!!!!!!!!! Obsessed a tad bit too much perhaps?
Hello, good video, as for spanish celts and celtiberians, the romans had to expend 200 years to conquer the Iberic Peninsula.
Glad someone has made a video about this. I've been interested in this subject since the 80s.
I enjoy all of your videos and find them very well informed. This is the best way to soak up history! It looks like these ancient peoples were moving about a lot, going forward to settle in new lands. It’s difficult to keep them all straight! I look forward to more from you.
Irish and Danish, I got both covered 😆
The most important book (in my opinion, for everyone on the planet) regarding the Celtic People and the truth about their lost spiritual traditions and wisdom, their lost civilisation, is the lifeworks of John Lamb Lash; the book “Not In His Image”. Incredibly important, incredibly educational & life-changing read. The truth about the Celtic civilisation has been entirely covered-up by the Christian empire, and they’ve spent literally 2000 years wiping out all traces of the most important teachings. Look at the book’s reviews. It’s a mind-blowing read; infuriating, enlightening, beautiful & enchanting, etc. Words fail to describe..
Christians or jews?
Can you give us a rundown on some of the eye opening things he talks about? Why is it called "Not In His Image"
@@sonnyb7612 Makes no difference-the same group is at the top. America was founded by a rag-tag mixed bunch of intellectuals and freedom fighters who wanted to build a world away from the European aristocracy which they wrote had been completely taken over by “that group” via the authority Christianity had given them. All European royalty and aristocracy is now completely compromised by “that group” because they were given power and status via Christianity, which they used as a means to intermarry into the European nobility, co-opting their power. The Flavius Caesars were part of that ethnicity & they manufactured the religion. Christianity is ‘Master Race’ ideology in disguise. Most devout Christians are universalists/anti-racial and completely subservient to that particular group.
@@AfricanWildDog54 Because we’re not made in “his” image for he is not our father, but an imposter and a demented pretender. Each racial group of the Human Species is made in the image of our specific individual niche-by the Gods, Mother *and* Father.
@@dragonofhatefulretribution9041 Could "in the image of the Father" not be used to mean a reflection of reality? All existence is a reflection of something else
Awesome video. Thank you for sharing.
Very interesting, thank you for your knowledge and time .
My paternal ancestry can be traced back to the Celtic tribe of the Boii who lived alongside the Romans in northern Italy but who originated in present day Slovakia.
Excellent video! My dad’s people came from the Scottish Hebrides and we have both Scandinavian and Irish DNA. I’m also curious about the Scottish Picts who might’ve descended from the Pictones tribe in ancient Gaul.
For your dads peoples you might want to try looking at the Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada). A joint kingdom between Ulster Scotti and the Picts who went on to become the Scotish Peoples. It is here that many find their "Irish" DNA..
That is an interesting point about the Picts. I was told that they were native to the British Isles and were surplanted by the Celts. Then came the Romans, then the Saxons, Danes and then Vikings.
@@daveyoung445 No such thing as the Ulster scotti, the people of Ulster were and are Irish.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367and yet isn't it weird how recorded history disagrees with your political narrative but you are allowed to continue repeating it.. I wonder why ? Perhaps you deny the existence of an entire peoples due to the cancer that is communism that infects the nationalist agenda here.. The Marx disease rotting at your heart.. who knows..
I think it's more likely a case of their being cousin tribes - obviously they were all cousin tribes but you know what I mean. You could think of it like the Dutch-Deutsch, or the Gauls and Gaels (Ive wondered if Galician is also cognate?) Gael-ician, could be wrong though) or how you see the same phenomenon occuring in the east Mediterranean of very similarly named cities/tribes that you can find what could very easily be a common origin or one having been founded by the other. Same way when we would colonize new lands it was always "New ____" and names hearkening back to Britain & the continent & the Saints.
Excellent Video!! Love it!
Thank You! Great presentation
With genetic studies, it's now known that the steppe people spread throughout Europe bringing use of horses and proto celtic languages. They mixed with the different local women ,developing slightly different cultures as they progressed, such as the cordware and beaker people. So later various norse, germanic and celtic tribes evolved from them and therefore have similarities .
Yes even language all relates when u look into it
I’m curious to see if you think there might be a connection between the Celtic gods and the Asir in Nordic traditions.
Great video dude, really makes me want to find out more about celtic culture! Dope man
Thank you! Good topic!
Proud of my Germanic heritage. And some Welsh. The coolest of the Celts 😉
Great video, thanks for the respect 🙏 i often wondered why the germanics never expanded into the celtic lands before the roman collapse. Probably because of such a similar lifestyle. Do you think the gemanic lands were not taken as much due to overstreching of the romans at that point also? Like scotland? Maybe it wasnt worth the hassle
I also think 'it wasn't worth the hassle' and one has to consider the logistic effort for such hugh deplacements of power in an area with little to none open spaces for their legions to roam. As allready mentioned 'the Celts' were more organized than those 'Germanic tribes' , probably living in larger communities, had their cavalry and thus no match/no fear for their 'Germanic neighbours'. A point mostly overlooked is the fact how organised those 'Celtic tribes' could be . Nice example were ' the Belgae' which habitated now called Flanders and across the channel south-mid England and likely the Island of Wight. Building vessels for commerce,transport of any kind , keeping rules and law on both sides of the channel into their community would be no sinecure.
They did in what is modern day Germany, Austria & Switzerland! Germanic Marcomanni killed Celtic Boii tribe and absorbed the rest of them later on and another example is the coalition of Germanic Cimbri, Teutoni, and Ambrones which killed the large Celtic Helvetii tribe.
Excellent video as always! I couldn't agree more to the point of the cultures being so close to the same.
Great video! Keep it up :D
The kiel word is very interesting. Any ties to the modern use of keel? I’m fairly certain boats were integral to the Bronze Age trade so it would be interesting if there were a tie.
@@NolanVoid-dr1ch my fortune cookie of the day?
no @@kariannecrysler640
I am a Celt who speaks a native Celtic language. I live in a part of Wales that the Romans were unable to conquer. So were the English as it happens. There was a vital highly influential trade relationship between the Celts and Scandinavians that flourished along the Celtic sea between Wales, Cornwall, Ireland and Brittany. The Vikings helped the Cornish fight against the English. When Edward 1st invaded Wales he was defeated in the battle of the Menai Straits by an army that was a third Welsh, a third Irish and a third Viking. At one point, the princes of Gwynedd in Noth Wales had a rightful claim to the thrones of Wales, Ireland and Norway, so strong were the inte-rmarital alliances and connections between the Scandinavians and the Celts of the far North West of Europe. Just for the record........there are ZERO attestations of homosexuality among the Celts of Britain and Ireland. Something that is born out by ancient Welsh traditions and laws..... .......just saying;)
No on in history ever called any British Islander "Celt" so what makes you a Celt? Linguistic academics from 1582? Who named your language "Celtic" only because he though it came from the Celtici from Spain?
@@jboss1073 With modern science your pathetic fantasies are NOTHING. The Irish will never be black or north african and you are just gonna have to DEAL WITH IT. HAH!
@@jboss1073 the words "celt" and "german" meant nothing to those peoples, we need to stop using those labels so seriously
I wish I could agree with you on the no homo thing in the British Isles, but in at least one tale of Cu Chulainn (which I read many years ago), there was some buggery going on between him and his warrior partner. Shameful and ugly, but there it is.
Only the Romans where doing gay things not celts or germanic or Norwegians
Wow I’m so glad I found your channel ❤
This is great!! Thank you
Grateful of both my German and Scottish heritage. Was always told growing up that we had more Scot in our blood until there was more digging into the records. Would love to see some more videos on the Celts, similarities in the gods and specifically their widely popular tree and land veneration
I'm very proud of and still very much into my, Celtic/Gaelic decent. "Irish and Scots." And all that pertains to it. I read somewhere, not too long ago that, the Thuatha De' Dannan is to have at one time, intermingled with the Scandinavian Gods and/or the folk. Something leading to a connection of sorts.
The Irish and Scots are not Celts, they never called themselves Celts, and this only started linguistically because George Buchanan in 1582 decided to call Irish and Scottish languages "Celtic" because he thought and he said those languages came from Spain where the Celtici lived. So the only reason The British Isles have anything to do linguistically only with the term "Celtic" is due to their supposed connection to Spain.
@@jboss1073 Used as it's intentions. An umbrella term. And yes, I know they never called themselves Celts. But to say the Scots and Irish Gael didn't mix with the, "Celts." If you say so.
@@jboss1073 The term British isles is problematic.
@@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367 "The term British isles is problematic." I understand that, however Ireland was indeed called "Britannia Minor" by the Romans, so the name "British" does belong historically to Ireland. Compared to Ireland's inexistent historical relationship with the name "Celt", the name "British" at least was used to refer to the Irish historically. And if you really think British Isles is problematic then please from not on refer to the Iberian Peninsula as the Celtiberian Peninsula - there aren't just Iberians there.
@@CelticHound357 "Used as it's intentions. An umbrella term. And yes, I know they never called themselves Celts. But to say the Scots and Irish Gael didn't mix with the, "Celts." If you say so." Why use an umbrella term? Just use their own name. They had their own names. The Irish called themselves Gaels, Goidels, Hibernians, Fenians, etc. No need to go stealing the name of western Iberians and southern French just because you like it and then acting like they can use that name because they might have mixed with the Celts. Don't do that. Let each people have their own name. The people who called themselves Celts in their own names as inscribed in their own personal pottery and tombstones lived mostly in western Iberia with colonies in Narbo and Massilia. Everywhere else, other tribes had their own names that did not use the word "Celt". The Greeks knowingly generalized the name of the Celts to all Galatians as Strabo explains in Book 4.
Finally🎉 thank you for makin videos comparing Celts nd Germanic people's,I have been wondering about these two for a long time,including what they thought of each other Please continue with these vids,you have cleared my doubts
Great video brother
My father is Danish & my mother is from northern England so my heritage is both Norse & Celt. I’m interested in the pre-Christian culture & beliefs of both sides of my ancestry, so thank you so much for this video. I’m happy to hear there will be more.
Gnostics 100pecent read book of the dead aka kolbrin Bible there's reasons for pelagus Brit who faught for roman Christianity to be written a certain way druids aka magi brahmans all link to ancient folks an uk was homeland of the teaching remember when Romans nailed the main man to a cross then wrote an revert oringnal one thing Germanic northern eu got in common we never surrender to rome 1300 years of being banned from reading bible in own language knowledge would be lost
Similarly my mother is from Copenhagen and my old man is the stereotypical Yorkshireman so like you I am also a Engelsk Danske but with the maternal and paternal the opposite way round. Halfdan and proud. *There is a good website called We Are The English and somewhere on the site is an essay on the Saxon Gods and Demi-Gods and also traditions and important dates in the calendar. Remember the days of the week that are named after the Gods: Tuesday is Tyrsdag, Wednesday is Wodensdag, Thursday is Thunorsdag and Friday is Friggasdag (or Freyrsdag?) The Weekend stayed Roman, Saturn and the Sun with Monday named for the moon (I don't know without checking if Monday is Saxon or Roman?) Easter is a Christian corruption of Eostre, the fertility Goddess of the Anglo-Saxons. Another interesting and little known Anglo Saxon celebration is Modraniht (Mother's Night) Dec 21st Winter Solstice.
@@eardwulf785 Thanks for telling me about that website, I’m going to look it up.
Do keep in mind... English people are Germanic people's, not Celts. Brittons were Celts, but we're subsequently replaced entirely by the Angles and Saxons. That being said, I sincerely do not think a "pure" Celt or "pure" Germanic person exists in the modern world. These two cultures existed so closely, and descended from the same originating culture, and have mixed and migrated so prolifically, effectively all Germanic people have done Celtic ancestry, and all Celtic people have Germanic ancestry.
@@brutalisaxeworth3024 Britons were never Celts - they never called themselves by that name nor did anyone else call them that name.
Thank you for such very clear analysis. As someone born in England of 100 percent Irish ancestry (my mother was born in Limerick) it is hard to find out just how Viking/Celtic the folk of the main Irish ports were or indeed still are. Anyhow do keep up the great Celtic/Germanic work!
I'm Germanic from my father's side, Celtic from my mom's side. I embrace both.
Awesome video! You’re passionate, grassroots yet academic. Kudos 🙏🏽
On the polygamy issue, yes, the high status men probably did have multiple wives just based on that, but it was also a way for the tribe to take care of the widows and their children. You can't paste modern day society atop of one from 2 or 3 thousand years ago, and say that the women were going to be independent after the husband died, tribes just didn't really work like that for the most part. Which isn't to say that a wealthy widow necessarily needed to remarry, there are always a lot of complexities in any society that encouraged things to conform to their own tradition and to making the tribe strong.
I have been watching a lot of historians talking about lost people's and they skirt the subject but I think the ancient people's used the appearance of acceptance of homosexuality in a society as the appearance of weakness. At which point they would invade kill the men and sexually enslave the remaining population. I think that the eastern Roman empire understood this and used the migration of the Turks and the emergence of the Varags to deepen their gene pool and extend the length of their rule.
Excellent video
i very much enjoy this chanel as a fair and accurate historical source guide. that said i believe this particular episode, for whatever reason may have presented some facts incorrectly. this through absence of historical material or misinterpretation of historical material albeit in error or on purpose. i prefer to believe it to be by error as this content creator is one of he best all around in his pursuits. the 2 main points that fell lightly were the similarities between celt/germanic peoples and their mutual commonalities and the acceptance of neighboring/conquering people's social/civil lifestyles. overall i continually respect and regard this chanel as an excellent and accurate source of european history.
I’ve often wondered how much of my ancestry was Celtic vs Germanic. It’s not as easy to determine as one would think as waves of migration happened throughout history and it’s hard to know if the migration was that of a ruling elite like the case with the Frank’s ruling what’s now France or a larger scale migration like that of the Anglo saxons migrating to Britain. I’m still doing family research on my mothers side, from what I know it’s Swiss German, English and welsh. My fathers side Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English, German, Dutch, Irish, and welsh. His results came back 29% Scandinavian, 25% Germanic Europe, 25% English and the remaining portions a mix of welsh, scottish, and Irish.
Why would you think anyone cares what your family ancestry is?
@@parislisbon8187 no need to be a cunt. My comment was perfectly relevant as it has to do with celts and Germans. If you look through the comments you’ll find plenty similar to mine as it’s fairly typical on channels like this.
It's almost as though most people are a mix of a lot of different origins, and it's not very meaningful to attach some sort of strong cultural significance to one's individual ancestors. All of us have many ancestors. All of our ancestors made children until the present day, or we wouldn't be here. Everyone alive has made it through the years by having extremely skilled and hard-working ancestors. We should respect all of them, not just cherry-pick the ancestors that fit a narrative currently being pushed in the world. Anyone going too deep into Germanic or Celtic pride, or any other individual heritage for that matter, is just being weaponized for political gain by other people with influence.
@@StoufSto I 100% agree and understand that. I was simply curious given the videos subject. I don’t think one is better than the other or have any political motivations behind my comment. I’m very proud of my American heritage and have a copy of my great, great, great, great grandfathers journal where he documents traveling from Pennsylvania to Ohio, to Missouri, to Utah, to California, etc.
The English are from the Anglo-Saxons, which are Germanic people and the Scandinavians are also Germanic people, so that would make your dad 79% Germanic.
11:00 - Julius Caesar is not the most detailed source of the Celts by far... he was peddling on disinformation according to his closest allies who wrote as much.
I am Celtic/Pictish Erinvine (Clan Irvine) on one side. I am a 'Grandson of Iver' (Clan Iver/MacIver) on the other. Galgael. Canadian🍁
You are the best. Just the best. Thank you.
Always been proud of my heritage, I have Swedish/ Norman/ Celtic ancestors even before it was cool
The Celts in Gaul had roads, that was easier for romans to conquer thier lands
Great work as always. Keep it up, much appreciation from a cousin Celt/Germanic in the United States.
absolutely brilliant, LETS HEAR ABOUT THE DRUIDS!
That was a funny start. Scythian influence on Kelts, Germans, and Slavs is an important aspect rarely mentioned. I’ve often wondered about Etruscan cultural influence during their losses to early Rome. They “escaped” into the Kelto-Teutonic interphase around the Alps. The Scythian connection to India as well makes it a great cultural messenger between them all. Even the story of the brother kings in Herodotus repeats creation story myths and a cultural intermixture between warrior cults, typically sexually ascetic, and farming cultures with sexual ritualism. It’s an amazing story that Herodotus says depicts that culture’s aggression toward foreign things. The ironic part, however, is that both brothers adopted foreign practices. The one who desired an empire accepted that he had to sacrifice his nomadism. The one who kept the nomadism, however, adopted “Eastern” sexual ritualism due to supposed victory it granted (a typical justification of adopted cults). His promise to perform the sexual ritual in the woods upon his return was punished as his brother shot him in copulation. Ymir was killed “because he was evil” but when we extend the mythic themes we see the Zeus/Io, Minotaur, and Tejas myths justify that the “evil” was sexual promiscuity…also a noticeable quality in Etruscan culture. We could even see the Abrahamic self-circumcision as a Semitic expression of the theme, along with Moses negating the “golden calf” cult. Tacitus mentions a priestly group with bells on their skirts and describes them as effeminate, but this could be a misinterpretation of steppe shamanism where Thunder skirts, with metal “mirrors” that would reflect the sunlight like lightning, are worn. Any shamanic possession might have been considered effeminate by some of his sources, but in the Bagua in China Fire is a daughter and water is a son of Heaven and Earth. Fire makes us more Yang and Water makes us more yin. The Medicine Buddha is blue/Black like Water, expressing the yin nature of compassion for healing intentions. This Bagua association matches Germanic genders of the Sun and Moon, linking as well to the Shakti-Shiva cults in India where Shakti is the “Shock” of energy that dances upon the waist of the blue corpse (Shava) of Shiva when Prāna enters him. Prāna means “forth-breath,” again having a Semitic correspondence when God breaths animus into Adam. Chinese medicine says Heavenly qi enters a baby with its first breath and its last breath is when its spirit leaves at death.
While I can entertain the idea that Celts that got caught up in high 'civilization', or romanized society might have been more susceptible to homosexuality and promiscuity, its very silly to think that this would have been common in their tribal world. I have come across this theory of Germanics being somehow distinguished in this regard, but if you really think about it that doesn't make much sense. The Celts were the main agitators and adversaries of rome, of course they would be subject to more propaganda and mired into historical spectacle. Like you explained these two are very very close genetically and its unlikely the Germanics would have intermarried so much with these groups if they had normalized decadent behavior. Many of their customs and traditions are very similar, why would this be any different? There is also the strict survival aspect of why honor and temperance aspects like monogamy was more important than anything to these people. You needed trust, and you needed people you can rely on in order to survive in such a climate. Purely psychologically, reducing that trust and commitment is disastrous and society only maintains cohesion by removing the survival aspect and putting humans in an artificial environment with distractions. Like the one we have today.
I do believe it was some sort of warrior rite of passage. It existed in many civilisations. The Greeks did it, even the samurai had this kind of rite of passage. Probably to establish a brotherly interdependence. Doesn’t make them necessarily homosexual although some probably were. It has always been the case in every society.
@@jp16k92 It didn't happen. The Romans were engaged in negative propaganda against its adversaries. This is widely known. Almost none of the Roman accusations against the tribes they deemed barbarians has any historical validity.
@@jp16k92 Absolutely nothing about laying with another man is included in warrior cultures. In fact, the majority of warrior cultures world wide believed it to be unmanly Sleeping in a bunk or dorm together, that is common, sleeping in a bed together naked and intimately, no.
Thank you for your content. Love and support the work you do. Please if you have time I’d appreciate a video about the vanir. Tons of info on aesir but can’t find reliable sources or info on vanir. Takk
Nice video!
I heard Viking and Celtic people were actually from Africa and South America,European cultures just appropriated it😮 this is true, because my feelings matter😢
Wtf please use that fone to research ffs modern northern eu peoples come from the middle east rb2 farmer genes funny how maps never show that celt dna is same as Armenians apparently homeland of farmers
My moms a red headed Scott and my dad is half Apache and half Thuringii German so I could blend in from ancient America’s to ancient Northern Europa. Love your channel brother :)
Awesome video. Would love to hear more about the Germanic and Celtic tribes.
Really good video and interesting. I like to take some time to learn about my dad's Celtic and Germanic heritage every now and then. My mom's side is Italian which I'm more familiar with including ancient Roman and Etruscan history/culture/religion. Thank you for sharing.
Julius was close to not conquering Gaul. Vercingetorix had united much of Gaul and at that point the tide could've shifted either way. It took years of struggle before they conquered Gaul. The Romans were brutal towards them committing near genocide. I think it was every 1 in 3 Gauls that were killed during Julius's conquest. Highly recommend checking out "The Celtic Holocaust" by Dan Carlin on his podcast "Hardcore History." He goes into great descriptive detail throughout 6 hours of podcast on the fall of Gaul to Rome. One of the best history podcasts at least when it comes to entertainment value.
I've been fascinated by Vikings more than Celts since I was a baby and picked up an Usborne Medieval and Viking book. I didn't like the tv show. Didn't like the shaved heads. Didn't like the characters. Didn't like how the Anglo-Saxons were portrayed as weak and stupid, which has become a stereotype. Didn't like the overall atmosphere.
I have always been proud of my Germanic heritage mainly but grew into my Celtic lol. In the seventies the Germanic surrounded me but once i started doing genealogy i was opened up to the Celtic. Mind you we didnt have internet in the early eighties so all of my research was done the hard way. The two sides of my family represented a perfect microcosm of the blending of cultures with all the problems each could bring to bear and yet all the similarities, much like your presentation here suggests. Well done presentation i look forward to looking at your take on the religious side which has always been my main interests as well, more the Nordic/Germanic than the Celtic but their are still so much alike. Grimm's Teutonic Mythology was a great eye opener to alot of that, such a great resource.
0:35 .... oh God! and then the river dancing! .... I gotta admit, my favorite line at my age is, "That'll wake ya up n the morning,"