The Celts: The Mysterious Dark Age Masters Of Europe | Lost Treasures | Chronicle
Published 2023-12-27
The Celts lacked a sense of national identity and lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, leaving behind simple homesteads. Despite being illiterate in their own languages, the Celts survived into modern times, with their languages persisting in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany. Often portrayed as barbarians, the Celts were organized, sophisticated, and technologically advanced, known for their courage in war, flamboyant style, and lack of interest in building empires.
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All Comments (21)
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Very interesting. What the programme, and many like them, often miss is the legacy of the Celts in Brittany, north-west Spain and northern Portugal where there is a very rich Celtic ancestry and culture. Who knew that? I would haved enjoyed this more seeing something of the Celtic history in these regions of Celtic influence, rather than this being so UK-centric.
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I love how close the opening lines are to “In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history”
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🍀My family came to the US from Ireland, I recently started studying my ancestry and learned that my last name "Cannon" is old Gaelic for "cub of the wolf". I train horses just as my forbearers did and I never knew how much I had in common with my Celtic roots.
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For some reason I am fascinated by the history of the Celts since my college years. Thanks for this upload ☺️!
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Excellent production and narration. As an Irish Celt, I can clarify that the festivals are pronounced Bee-owl-tana (Bealtaine/Beltane), Sow-inn (Samhain, rhymes with now-in), and Loo-nasa (Lughnasa/Lammas)
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I'm half welsh and live on the English/Wales boarder as my historic families have done for hundreds of years. So the more I learn about this whole period of history stretching from pre Romana right up into the early modern, the more fascinated I am by the degrees of movement of people and things. Thank you for this video. Very interesting.
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I took an extra curricular college course while in high school on Celtic Mythology, and have always been fascinated with the Celts.
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34'37" - "Fíbula de Bragança " found on Northen Portugal where are hundreds of hillforts with round houses and jewelry with celtic art.
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I have seen some of their wonderful jewelry pieces in Stuttgart, Germany. The name of the museum is Das alte Schloss am Schlossplatz. Many churches were built over the sacred places of the druids. So was Notre Dame in Paris, France.
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I wish History Hit would list the full title and production date of the documentaries.
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RE: the role of women in Celtic Society: In the Iron Age there was a famous Military Academy on the Isle of Skye between Scotland & Ireland run by a woman named 'Scáthach' (sounds like Skaw Hawk), from whom the island derives its name, that attracted students from far and wide!
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My family is a mix of Scots and German (Celtic and Teutonic). I have been fascinated by Celtic culture since an aunt was able to trace the Scots side to the mid 900's, primarily by inheritance records, both oral and written. Rome so thoroughly distorted our view of them its hard to winnow out the truth. You did a stellar job with this video. Thank you.
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I am Scandinavian and Celtic and the comments on here prove what a sense of humour people that are of Celtic descent & people INTERESTED in Celtic origins, have. Some of the funniest people I have ever met are of Celtic descent.
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The narration is perfect.
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Wikitongues is a very interesting youtube channel where you will get to hear many northwest European languages being spoken, such as Cornish, Manx, Shetlandic, Gaelic, Icelandic - and all the rest. There's also that guy Simon Roper who speaks Old English but he's often talking to people who speak other tongues and dialects ... like a guy in France speaking Gaulic for instance which was particularly interesting for me. I didn't know Gaulic was a thing.
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amazing thank you so much, i've read that celt priests had an important role in the advance of christianity through europe at some point, and I think it makes sense giving the fact that the holy trinity as a symbol adapts very well to the way that celts had a view of live that involved three perspectives of things.
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I came here because my ancient DNA test showed me closely related to the Celts, Gaels, Celtic Britons and Danish Vikings. They matched me to some of the ancients bones that have been found. Such a cool site!
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For those who want to learn about the most important aspects of the Celtic peoples and their lost civilisation, read the book “Not In His Image” by John Lamb Lash. It’s a must-read for everyone, really, but especially the Celtic people themselves..
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Great documentary thank you😊
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👏 Bravo, content creator! This video is fantastic! 🙏
