The Mysterious Celtic Tribes of Britain | The South (Celtic History)

Here we are, it’s nice to see this, England is ALWAYS omitted in anything associated with Celtic culture, I’d never heard of many of these tribes.

As you tell of the ties between the Dumnonii and Brittany, I believe worth mentioning that a kingdom of Domnonia (in French, Domnonée) was founded by British migrants in the 5th, or early 6th century AD, on the northern shore of Brittany/LLydaw. Its early kings seem to have ruled over both sides of the Channel. Another kingdom, founded earlier, existed in southern Brittany, Cornouaille, in French, Kerne in Breton, related to Cornwall/Kernow. Both names, Kerne and Kernow are considered to derive from the name of the Cornovii tribe. How the Cornovii found themselves in Brittany is less documented but it is believed that they took part in a large coastal surveillance network during the late Roman Empire, aiming at preventing Frisian and Saxon raids (them, already!).

I am not from the UK but I've have always been extremely fascinated with celtic culture and history. So a massive thank you for the fantastic video!

I feel like the Silures are massively overlooked by historians and aren’t given much credit like the Picts in holding off the Romans.

Very interesting and lovely to see Celtic tribes mentioned outside of Ireland, Scotland and Wales 😊

More about all the tribes, please! Particularly the western ones, but it's all fascinating.

I wish I had learned just some of this at school in Norfolk, yet we were not even taught about the Iceni, which is ludicrous. Interesting about the southern Wales tribe. Together with Owain Gwynedd much later, these guys resisted for centuries to keep alive language, custom, culture and life itself.

Being born and raised in Devon - I'm fascinated to learn about the dumnonii tribe, the regions Celtic connections about Cornwall are well known but its Devonian ones are not so much. The shared Britany history is also amazing to find about as well. Many thanks for the video.

I feel like Celtic history is severally overlooked, thank you for this.

Thank you for this. Celtic Britain is so overlooked unless it's discussing Wales, Cornwall or Scotland. It's like people really do believe that the biggest part of the country, England (as we now call it), somehow totally missed being hit by the Celtic stick. Even though we know there are numerous fascinating tribes and peoples there that left burial mounds and monuments behind. It's great to see it being highlighted. I have yet to see all your vids so will look forward to any coverage of the Old North, esp. the kingdom of Elmet (one of the last Celt kingdoms to fall), etc.

I would absolutely be keen for more videos on the ancient tribes, both broader ones like this and more detailed ones

I'd love to see more on the Tribes of Wales, perhaps Caradog's story? More on Anglesey would be great too.

Props to you for your proper pronunciation of the Latin V🙌

As a student of this period, I find it refreshing that people are finally starting to make videos about this most fascinating period. Well done for pronouncing the names correctly. Surprised you didn't mention Canterbury when talking about the Cantii. The Combrogos 'compatriot' tribe is where we get the name Wales from today. Looking forward to the next part talking about the North. I wrote a 27 page synopsis of a new book about the timeline history of the dark ages, and sent it to Barry Cunliffe, hoping he might take the next step in his story, but so far he has declined. I don't really want to spend the next few years writing the book, as I'm not a professor, so who would read it anyway? Maybe one day something will come of it.

I'm from Northwest England but of Celtic descent (grandmother was Irish, had my mum in Wales) and I'm learning Welsh, so I find stuff like this very interesting. I hope you do more videos on Celts in Britain and maybe Ireland too, as Irish history then seems to be even less well known and covered.

After you cover the Celtic tribes of Northern Britain. Can you cover the Celtic tribes of Ireland in a 3rd video?

What I’d like is a map with the actual Celtic reconstructed names. Those names are obviously based on Latin. I don’t know if the names are lost or not, but in Ireland we’re lucky to have all the original names in Goidelic.

2:52 Facinating. Then again, borders typically develop in logical ways, such as along rivers, mountain ranges, valleys etc. So it's not too surprising that many ancient borders are still in use in some way.

I found a Celtic gold stater 20 years ago it is amazing, it has astronomical pictures, the horse as a star map and 2 moons on the other side, I found this while digging a pond near Guildford

As a fourth generation Kernow-Ostralian I am grateful to you for this wonderful description of pre-Roman Celtic Britain.