American Reacts to Top 10 Fictional Brits Everyone Thinks Are Real!
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- Today we delve into the world of fiction and folklore! These are the top ten fictional Brits that have captured the imaginations of people around the world while fooling some into thinking they are actual people!
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I was amazed to find out that Albert Einstein was a real person. I always thought he was a theoretical physicist.
He was a relative.
I was going to laugh but then I remembered the gravity of the situation.
Well that's your theory.
😅 @@WinstonSmith19847
I suppose you are uncertain if Heisenberg existed too
JJ, you're looking at the modern Sherwood Forest, which is a tiny, tiny fraction of what it was in the 1200s. See if you can find a map of it in the day, when it covered hundreds of square miles.
Also people either stayed in their own villages or hamlets, or walked if they had no transport. NB the Canterbury Tales. Your own US history shows how far people were willing to travel.
The nearest scholars have got to ratify the Robin Hood legend strongly suggests Robin's stomping ground to be in the forests surrounding Wakefield in Yorkshire.
@@RalphWigg1We've always known where he's from. Loxley in South Yorkshire.
@@RalphWigg1 I would imagine there were many people like Robin Hood, throughout the country.
@@happinesstanThere were. The peasantry in those days, the 12th & 13th centuries, were so poor that the menfolk were forced to steal & poach to feed their families. Once discovered they would invariably escape to the relative safety of the huge swathes of forest that covered much of the land.
Robert Newton used an exaggerated version of his natural West Country accent when he played Long John Silver. This then became the accepted accent for most pirates portrayed on screen.
Oooooh, so that's where that comes from?! Amazing!
@@JJLAReacts The West Country Accent was also featured in Hot Fuzz. As used by the eccentric gun collector.
Arr Jim Lad!
@JJLAReacts. King Arthur is pure fiction. It comes from the book Morte D’ Arthur. Said to be written to help motivate the Saxons against the Norman conquerors. I live a short journey from Tintagel, the fabled castle of Arthur. It was a trading settlement for Duke Richard of Kernow (Cornwall) and his ‘holiday home.’ His seat was at Dunheved Castle which is now Launceston. There are lots of videos about Tintagel and it’s importance as a trading settlement. Maybe worth a look. 😊
@@BadMoonandStars
I came here to say something similar... "Ah! Jim lad, you beat me to it" - 😂😂😂
Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries) is Australian and she (the character)is the 'housewife superstar' from Moonee Ponds in Victoria... not the UK! She once threw me a gladioli and it hit me in the face 😅
No 'WatchMojo' vid would be complete without at least one howling inaccuracy :D . Does no-one fact-check these things?
You were late to the show, weren't you?
Was... Barry is now deceased.
@@brigidsingleton1596yes..should have said was 😢
@@garyscholes9567 I have a theory about this sort of thing, spelling mistakes and historical inaccuracies lead to more people commenting or reacting. "Engagements" are a big part of the whole popularity metric that gets videos and social media posts trending.
You mis calculated on your sherwoond forrest/ Nottingham calculation.
Sherwood Forest in England covers an area of about four hundred and twenty acres.
Back in the time of Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest was much larger, spanning several thousand acres. It was a vast woodland covering a significant portion of Nottinghamshire.
It went beyond Notts, into Derbyshire and parts of what is now South Yorkshire. Robin of Loxley came from Loxley which is in Sheffield in Yorkshire and according to some historians this fell within the Nottingham Forest area. People do not know whether Robin Hood existed or not but it is likely that the legend is based on some level of fact.
Loxley is in Yorkshire and that's why the airport that was in Doncaster was called the Robin Hood Airport when it first opened.
...and Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, covering a massive area as far north as Barnsley, which is where Little John came from.
I strongly suspect the Robin Hood tales might be a romanticised version of the harrying of the North.
That huge forest would have been an ideal hideout for the dispossessed Anglo-Saxon refugees the Normans called 'outlaws'.
There's also a Loxley in Warwickshire
Which Robin Hood are we talking about? There seem to have been several who used that name, like the one who had a last stand on Hood Hill below Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire. In fact most mediaeval characters who wish to remain anonymous used the name Robin, eg the rebel Robin of Redesdale in the Wars of the Roses, who we know to have probably been Sir John Conyers.
@@weejackrussell Nope Sherwood Forest is entirely in Nottingham. The thing is there are stories that put Robin Hood else where like in Barnsdale Forest near Doncaster.
As the name it clearly from robber in a hood.
In London you can visit 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes’s house. It’s a wonderful museum for this fictional character and it shows some of the letters that you were talking about. But let’s not forget the residence of the world’s greatest secret agent who lives in the post box directly outside 221B Baker Street….. Danger Mouse.
I bloody love Danger Mouse and Penfold !! ❤
The Sherlock Holmes museum is at the fictional address of 221b Baker Street wedged between nos. 237 & 241, Danger Mouse's secret hideout is 'near' 221b Baker Street, but is actually on the corner of Melcombe Street. Probably of more interest to JJ is the opposite end of Melcombe Street, just off Melcombe Place is Boston Place and Marylebone station where the opening scenes of A Hard Days Night were filmed,
I once visited "Rose" at 38 Baker Street around 40 years ago and paid my £10 and found out she was very real...as did her next "client"/"punter".
I never went back but, now, "Melissa" around the corner was worth many return visits...
Good Grief Penfold 😂
@@bruffmeister1 " Crumbs, you beat me to it"! 😊
Interestingly, Sherlock Holmes was based on a real person, namely Dr. Joseph Bell who was a professor of Edinburgh Medical School
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I have a theory that Miss Marple was the world's most prolific serial killer. Every time she showed up somebody died.
How many innocent people were sent to the gallows because of that evil old hag.
OMG I've been saying this for years. Jessica fletcher has also killed hundreds but nobody noticed 😂
@@Gismo-ih7gi Yep, and pinning the blame on someone else when they came to "investigate". Clever.
She had a week end cottage in Midsomer. Her neighbours were the Barnabys.
If I saw Jessica Fletcher checking in to a hotel I would be checking out immediately.
Dame Edna introduced herself as just a housewife from Melbourne!!! Strewth cobber 🤦♂️
Seriously who the fek ever thought Dame Edna was real ^^ My grandad did a great impression where he wore my grandmas skirt and blouse and danced and... wait
Sherwood Forest today is a tiny shadow of what it was, which was vast. Most of Britain was covered with dense forest, but longer - we turned it in ships!
I shall have to remember the underpants and pencils, when the war starts! Not to forget saying "Wibble"!
"Just look at how he has those pencils in his nose with such commitment!"
Mr. Rowan Atkinson has received numerous prestigious accolades throughout his career, and this particular recognition stands out as one of the most significant and esteemed honors ever bestowed upon him.😂
Sherwood Forest used to (in the time when king john was on the throne) cover an area from Leeds to Northampton which is around 140 miles
There are things drawn from the wars of the Roses, even the main names!! War of the roses was the lancasters vs the Yorks, game of thrones was lannisters vs starks! Also, the red wedding was based on a similar event in Scottish history...
Joan Hicks was the best Miss Marple ever. Hercule was based on a doctor Christie worked with during WW1.
Agatha Christie based the character of Miss. Marple on Joan Hickson
She was the quintessential Miss Marple. She looked and acted exactly like Agatha described her.
Some scholars do believe there is some truth in the Arthur legend. Arthur, meaning 'bear' was a nickname. The current most plausible candidate is 5th century chieftain named Owein Dantgwyn. (Owein of the white teeth), Prince of Powys, Wales. His father was called Einion Yrthr (Uther). They were descended from a tribe who moved from Scotland , and are connected to the Edinburgh area. The hill overlooking Edinburgh is called Arthur's Seat. Owein was overthrown and killed by his own nephew, Maelgwm. (Mordred?). Camelot may have been Iconium (modern day Wroxeter). But Colchester was known as Camulodunum in Roman times. Some of the tales of Arthur may have been written by French men, but don't forget that many Britons escaped to Armorica in Gaul when the Saxons invaded, which is why it became known as Brittany (Little Britain). It's a fascinating topic. I was going to say something about Robin Hood, but I think I've gone on long enough. These are real legends, not made up by an author like Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin. (Not the Beatles producer).
The French Connection (ha ha) came a lot later and has nothing to do with the original Arthurian tales. BTW: gog to google translate abd choose English to Welsh, then in the English box type 'Bear' to see what it's translated to.
@@DekkardBryon No surprising - it's Arctos in ancient Greek and will have spread across the continent in evolved forms.
Don't forget the city and old county of Carmarthen ("Merthin's Castle") and the suggested link between the names Merthin and Merlin.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 In google translate, enter Of the Bear and see the result.
Game of Thrones was based on the Wars of the Roses. But written by an American.
Dame Edna: Not real, also not British! She was famously from the suburb of Moonee Ponds in Melbourne.
Hilariously, when my youngest son was two, Dame Edna came onto the telly and my son pointed and declared 'Nanny!'..lol...he wasn't far wrong!! 😁✌🇬🇧
I certainly believe the Knights that say Ni are real
Kit Harrington's ancestors were Robert Catesbury and John Harrington were part of The Gunpowder Plot.
Dame Edna isn’t a Brit. 😂 Great research, Watch Mojo
But she made her name here.I think she started out on the Frost show.She was supposed to be an Aussie housewife with British pretentions.
@@bwilson5401 Still not a fictional Brit. She’s a fictional Australian.
@@bwilson5401 No she was already famous in Australia.
Robert Newton was amazing as Long John Silver, he was born for the role.
The Wars (plural) of the Roses - they continued on and off down the generations!
They only lasted for about 100 years and weren't refered to as "the wars of the roses" until the 1800s. The time they were actually happening they were called "the cousins war" because so many people involved were related.
Just to let you know Direwolves did exist. Latin name; Aenocyon Dirus. Alive during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene epoch. 🤔
The tales of Robin Hood are attributed to several men of the period.
The Legend of King Arthur is believed to have been adapted by King William the Bloody, AKA William the Bastard, AKA William the Conquer, to give legitimacy to his claim on the British throne as he claimed to be a descendent of Arthur. (Its origin is speculated about, but unknown.)
Many of these tales have been changed and adapted through the years, making it hard to find their true origins.
Christopher Guest from Spinal Tap, though born in New York, is actually Lord Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, so a British Lord.
It doesn't help that there's a plaque up on "his" Baker street apartment flat, erected in honour of Sherlock Holmes, which is normally only put in place as a marker for real famous people on properties they lived in or were born in or attended at some point in their history.
The same as the Robin Hood statues for promoting Nottingham tourism... Just saying. 😅😅😅
@@stewedfishproductions9554 at least there was (sort of) a Robin Hood, as, although most of the tales about him were made up, they were based on , possibly, an amalgamation of, the exploits of actual real people, combined over the years in to the one person, Robin. So it does have a tiny bit of truth hidden in their somewhere. It's basically olden days entertainment, their equivalent of watching a Movie in a cinema, they would probably sit around of a night, round a campfire in the village and listen to collective tales, and their would be a hero and a villain, the stories would come from a few sources, so e if them first hand knowledge of real people, buts would get added here and there, and over a few hundred years after many retellings these stories to those villages, would be seen as factual, whether they were or weren't. Then we get to the modern era, and those stories get disneyfied and rumoured as fact because it brings in the tourists etc as a kid growing up learning about robin hood in junior school, I don't remember being told specifically that he was real, but I do know we weren't told that he was fictional either.
But yeah, being on the top deck if a bus going down baker street and seeing that sign up made me laugh! I will say, that in smaller writing it does state he was fictional and that this was the flat be would of lived in bad he been real, but again in such small writing compared to the rest of it stating he lived there between xx date and xx date. Again all to get tourists in.
There's one for Danger Mouse on a pillarbox in London
Couple of fun facts, the Inn at the beginning of Treasure Island, "The Admiral Benbow" is real and still open to customers. There's another Admiral Benbow pub in my home town, where I used to drink, It's the birthplace of the real Admiral John Benbow, and is as far away from the sea as you can get in the UK! Kit Harrington (John Snow), was in a production about the Gun Powder Plot, of 1605. I think he played the man best remembered for the plot, Guy Fawkes,. One of the ringleaders was actually an ancestor of his called John Harrington.
A survey was carried out recently and 23% of British teenagers when asked thought that Winston Churchill was a fictional character
The character of Long John Silver was, as the narrator suggests, based on a real person - the English writer and poet, William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), who is probably most famous now for his poem 'Invictus,' which Nelson Mandela cited as inspiration whilst he was in prison in South Africa. Henley was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of 12 and whilst under the care of Jospeh Lister at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary was visited by Robert Louis Stevenson, with whom he became a long-time friend. As a consequence of the tuberculosis, Henley's lower left leg was amputated and he was given a wooden leg. Thus was Stevenson inspired to create the one-legged character of Long John Silver. Henley was also well-acquainted with H.G. Wells and J.M. Barrie and the character of Wendy in Peter Pan is based on Henley's daughter, Margaret Henley, who had a speech impediment such that when she tried to address J.M. Barrie, it sounded like 'Wendy' rather than Barrie. Henley lived the last 18 months of his life in Woking, which was where H. G. Wells had prviously lived for 18 months. When Henley died in 1903 at Woking a special train came down from London with mourners including J. M. Barrie and H. G. Wells. The service took place at Brookwood Cemetery and Henley was subsequently cremated at the Woking Crematorium (where, years later, the Dorset author Thomas Hardy was also cremated).
The narrator was not entirely accurate as far as Spinal Tap was concerned, as Christopher Guest is British-American and is better known (now) as Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, who holds a hereditary peerage in the House of Lords. His father was Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat, who later became the 4th Baron Haden-Guest. Christopher Haden Guest has been married to Jamie Lee Curtis for over 40 years and is therefore otherwise known as Lady Haden-Guest!
Sherwood Forest isn't a singular point on a map you know... it's an area (clue's in the title!). It used to cover a quarter of the entire county of Nottinghamshire, and would therefore, of old, have actually technically started (or finished!) WITHIN the boundaries of the modern day city limits of Nottingham itself. That 7.5 hour walk is to the more recently defined - and far smaller - Sherwood Forest Country Park & National Nature Reserve, which, admittedly, does contain the wonderfully ancient Major Oak!
06:20 that Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) was Agatha Christies own choice to play Miss Marple, but she did after Christies had died.
Never realised that so many people could be so gullible
Robin Hood: I grew up in Mansfield / Forest Town, just a few miles from the Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre. In medieval times, Sherwood Forest covered a large part of the east midlands, so would have been just outside of Nottingham, and all around it. We've subsequently chopped loads of the trees down because people forget that there was basically a 'wooden age' when wood was the main material of civilization - from fires to ships to houses. Loads of it is now open farming land, which it wasn't back then. By the way, the 'castle' of Nottingham is now a 17th century French style villa, which really disappoints tourists, especially just after the two RH films were released. Last time I visited the 'castle' I bumped into the actor Brian Glover, who played Andrews, the prison governor in Aliens 3. Small world. 🙂 (He died 26+ years ago...)
My biggest shock was that the Spinal Tap members are American pretending to be British, they had done the most convincing British accents, similar to that of the English rock bands of the 70's and 80's (that all seem to come from Birmingham) that I have ever heard.
Their brilliantly done accents are London/East London/Estuary English. That's my area, and they convinced me when I first saw the film!
Whilst a lot of great 1970s hard rock and metal bands did come out of Birmingham and the Midlands (Half of Led Zeppelin, plus Black Sabbath, Slade, Judas Priest), Spinal Tap are based on a number of 1980s metal bands. Those bands were from all over but primarily Iron Maiden (London) and Yorkshire (Def Leppard, Saxon)
I can't remember exactly, but I seem to recall reading that some of the Spinal Tap crew went on tour with Saxon to get some ideas. There's at least a couple of things in the film they got from seeing Saxon, but of course a lot of the other things were based on real things/incidents that really happened to other bands (and exaggerated for the film!)
These were some of the best English/London accents I've ever heard done in a movie by US actors.
Now there is a 'JJLA' t-shirt idea right there - _'Paul McCartney is a psychic medium'_
Some Arthurian stories are in the Mabinogion - a collection of early medieval Welsh stories.
I expect Sherwood Forest was bigger back then.
Massively so.
Shouldn't laugh at people thinking fictional characters are real - some people build their whole lives around thinking god and Jesus are real...
Not mention a multi-billion pound business.
Many atheists concede Jesus was probably real, it’s just a question of him being who he claimed to be - that’s the tough part to buy.
So, you're claiming Doctor Who and the Daleks ad the Cybermen aren't real either?
@@carolinemcnulty6169 Where did anyone say that?
@@carolinemcnulty6169 - now you're just being ridiculous. Of course they are.
Dear JJ in the 12th century Sherwood Forest was immense so would have been a lot nearer Nottingham than it is today.
This makes me realise how gullible people really are 😂
that's obvious, they believe in gods and vote for trump. That takes some double think.
Sherwood Forest and other forests are generally taken to have been much larger, such forests being felled in Tudor times. Henry VIII wanted a new navy...a quick check says Sherwood extended to Worksop nr Sheffield.
Sherwood itself is only a few miles from Nottingham city centre. The forest used to extend all the way there, but has obviously been destroyed over the years due to building roads, houses etc.
It was mainly down to Henry VIII wanting a more superior navy than the French and Spanish. But house building etc probably did play a part too. Plus a lot of the forests would have joined with each other as well.
Many of the Sherlock Holmes short stories were originally published in a magazine, not actual books, some likely found it hard to separate fact from fiction.
Most depictions of the knights of the round table show them in full armour, There was a TV series in the UK which had costumes that were more realistic to the historical era that he actually might have been from (LEATHER AND FUR). I think it was called Arthur king of the Britons?
I read somewhere that as Arthur would have been alive around when the Romans left Britain and therefore more likely to have worn a toga than full metal armour that hadn’t been invented yet! 😊
It's been strongly suggested that Robin Hood was sort of a marketing character for the merchants guilds of that period, particularly textile sales. The characters often have descriptors related to their clothing, and his stories came about around the time the feudal system was fading out and a wealthier middle class was appearing and establishing itself. You could say he was representing that class struggle, moving away from serfdom to financial independence
Re Eleanor Rigby, try Googling your own name, you'll find loads. I had two fictional characters, a historical author, a musician from the 70's, a pro wrestler, and a murderer. Plus a lot of other people as unnoteworthy as me. So it's not surprising you can make up a name that already exists.
Robert Newton is the reason we belive ALL pirates speak with a west country accent... his native Bristol accent was used for the film and entered the zeitgeist...
But all Bristolians speak like pirates.
A big coincidence with Spinal Tap is The Comic Strip Presents made Bad News a year ealier and is on a very similar story line.
The two were made in complete ignorance of each other.
Robin Hood was based on a number of characters including The Earl of Huntingdon and his son Robert who died young, He fell out wuth the Sherrif of Nottingham after coming back from the Crusades and supporting King Richard whilst The Sherrif supported his brother Prince John.
The Earl of Huntingdon connection with Robin Hood was an invention a few centuries after Robin was supposed to have lived.
Yeah, the train one. We know what you mean.
("Murder on the Orient Express", to be precise, and prove that, yes, we really do know what you meant.)
Except Poirot was played by Albert Finney in the film, rather than David Suchet in the TV Series
There was a real life Sheriff of Nottingham known for being rather villainous. Robert Newton died just a few short years after his famous role,and if that's Bobby Driscoll, playing Jim Hawkins,he met a tragic end in the 1960's
The forest once covered most of Nottinghamshire, there’s still an area called The Forest on the city edge. The landscape has changed unrecognisably in the last 1000 years. Could you tell then that I got a bit annoyed that my childhood hero was dismissed by a man looking at a map who didn’t even know where the place he was making the judgement about was?
David Suchet starred as Poirot in the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 1989 until June 2013 and did everyone of the Poirot stories 70 episodes
Here in England, we really, really want King Arthur to be real!
Which is strange because Arthur - if he was real - would have been Celtic - who fought against the AngloSaxons.
@@docksider yea so
Not that I've ever heard of.
Speak for yourself.
I've never encountered anyone who voiced such a desire.
@@martinwoollett8468Well, he would have fought against the English 😊
I was teaching German Engineers in Bremen about 12 years ago and the subject got onto British comedies at break. I could not convince them that our then Mayor of London Boris Johnson was not a comedy character like Dame Edna! They point blank refused to believe me. They must have got a shock when he became Prime Minister!
The story’s of Sherlock Holmes was first published in the news papers because Sir Arther Conan Doyle thought they sell better as many people knows them,
So he placed the story’s in the newspaper, so a lot of people thought that he worked with the police, and later combine the story’s and then sell his books.
Sir Conan Doyle said that he had someone who looked at Sherlock who was his inspiration.
I'll never get how so many characters we get from FAMOUS NOVELS are thought to be real. Long John Silver, Sherlock Holmes etc. Like, the novels we get them from are EXTREMELY well known.
The Sherlock Holmes phenomenon is intriguing because there's a museum in London located at the exact address where he was believed to have lived. This museum, situated in an apartment on Baker Street, is filled with memorabilia associated with Holmes. Even the Baker Street tube station features Sherlock Holmes silhouettes on its tiles, further reinforcing the perception that Holmes was a real historical figure. What's particularly curious is that the Baker Street museum is predominantly visited by foreign tourists, including many Americans, who also share the belief that Holmes was a genuine person. Quite a curious situation, isn't it?
Barry Humphries was a comedy legend. Not getting to see him playing Dame Edna or Sir Les live is genuinely one of the great disappointments in my life, up there with Lemmy passing just before I was due to see him.
Saw her / him live.. she picked out my dad in the audience as a "new Australian"..kept waving her scarf at him saying he liked "colour and movement"..😅😅😅
The legendary Robin Hood stole from the rich, but never gave to the poor - he kept it. Rigby is a popular name around Liverpool, so McCartney would be familiar with it before he wrote the song. Spinal Tap are not all played by Americans (technically) - one of them is Christopher Guest, the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, though he has an American mother and was born in New York (thus his claim to an American passport).
There is actually a grave for Robin Hood at Kirklees Priory, it is caged so no one can disturb it.
Robert Louis Stephenson actually mixed with pirates in the Taverns of London, two of his characters in Treasure Island were real people, Ben Gunn and Israel Hands, Hands worked under Blackbeard.
There's a house where Sherlock Holmes would have lived with a blue plaque outside it marking it as his home. The house is now a museum. I once visited it. Pre Cumberbatch. They have a guest book. I signed it with my dead name but the surname is the same.
American tourist behind me steps up to sign it, and spots my name.
"OH MY GOD!", she exclaims. "ARE YOU RELATED?"
I freeze for a moment. And before I know what I'm doing, I spot the look of excitement in her eyes and immediately don't want to let her down.
"Yeah," I say in my thick Northern accent. "'E's me grandad."
I then get stuck in minute or so of conversation where I just fumble a lie about not being connected to the owners of the museum, but I come down every now and then to check everything runs smoothly. Family interest, that sort of thing. I realise I've spun the yarn as far as I can so tell her I'd better go upstairs and see the next exhibit. Nice talking and all that.
As I walk away and head up the stairs, her camera happy husband finally catches up to her. I see her tapping him on the arm like a giddy toddler, and hear the words: "Honey, you'll never guess who that was!" I begin to consider how quickly I should vacate the premises. 😉
You have never read Agatha Christie? Remedy that today. She will give you a lifetime of pleasure.
Parts of France were actually ruled by England for a good while so maybe that's why Arthur appears in french stories also
Lord Christopher Guest is British /American married to Jamie Lee Curtis.
Top bloke too. Husband met him at an airport and he was friendly.
"Nottingham boasts statues to Robin Hood". Well, one, as far as I can remember.
Sherlock's address was never real. But he was such a legendary character they created it and dedicated to him, thats some pretty powerful fiction.
Quite a lot of what is now Nottingham City has tunnels underneath it leading from several buildings through the main city in to Nottingham Castle .Most have been bricked up, but if you get the chance to visit, then you can get tours and get to see them .i used to go LARPing in the basement of ye olde salutation inn in Nottingham and it is the entrance to one of the many tunnels that used to take you directly to the castle . It's quite spacious, and it's really cool to larp in and visit.
The old story that keeps recurring is that Arthur was a Roman centurion who went native after the Romans hastily left these shores that joined his remaining troops with the Britons to fight the Angles and Saxons.
We were taught about King Arthur in school as if it was history as well as a story called BeddGelert. A common tale around Europe about a life-saving dog mistakenly killed by it's owner. Wales has a village called BeddGelert that has a memorial for the fictional canine. The area is visited by hundreds daily, mostly believing the story
I'm from Coventry, Nottingham isn't quiet in the centre of England. It's just outside Coventry, in Meridan
These days Sherwood Forest is tiny, supposedly it was much larger. That could help to explain the travel time from central Nottingham.
I live in the area of Nottingham or 'notts' as we call it and sherwood used to be bigger like a lot bigger and sherwood was just on the border of the town (city today) only 3 miles away
Eleanor Rigby's grave is in St Peter's Church in Woolton, in South Liverpool - co-incidentally the place where John Lennon met Paul McCartney during a Church Fete where John's skiffle band, The Quarrymen were performing. So perhaps that lay in Paul's subconscious all that time. She does actually have a statue in Liverpool not far from the Cavern, created by English 50's rock star and actor Tommy Steele
Hundreds of years ago sherwood Forest was huge and Nottingham was a collection of villages built around the castle. Not uncommon for many British modern day city’s. On how they developed but one common factor most all have is excess to a river. And nottingham is built on the Trent a beautiful English river.
There are 3 or 4 'candidates' for >parts< of the Robin Hood legend, but the legend as a whol:e concatenates different tales of different people from different times over a period of about 600 years. With added embellishments at every step.
There was a historical Robin Hode from (IIRC) Pontefract in Yorkshire, but it's not really known if he is linked to the Robin Hood of the stories.
Sherrwood Forest used to be a proper forest that spanned the north of England back in the day. Nottingham is only connected to Robin Hood because of the Sheriff of Nottingham.....the mythical character likely came from Yorkshire or Lancashire. Trust me, I live in Nottingham! 😉
Traitor!
Very true, Wentbridge and surrounding area.
I read somewhere that like 40% of Americans think Sherlock Holmes was a real person
Edna Everage is not, repeat NOT, British Barry Humphries and his creation Dame Edna are AUSTRALIANS. Edna has never been described as British either by her creator Mr Humphries nor by the character herself. Part of the whole reason for Edna's existence was as a vehicle for Barry Humphries to poke fun at the "Pommes" the British
Also, who the hell is SHEERLOCK Holmes that narrator needs a talking to 😂
Any Brit who thought that these characters were real, then they need to go and see a shrink. 😆
Sherlock Holmes stories were published in a weekly journal and written in the style of Watson recording events he witnessed rather than a traditional story narrative. It would have been much easier to believe the fiction than these days when they are television entertainments featuring well known actors and the stories embellished so much. In fact the opposite applies - sometimes real people portrayed in television dramas are assumed to be fictional.
Saw Spinal Tap play live at the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert at Wembley Stadium.
4:25 - Sherwood forest was rather bigger in King John's time. It's borders would've been somewhat closer to Nottingham.
That's using the word Forest in it's modern sense - ie a lot of tress growing wild. Back then, it's meaning was different. A Forest was somewhere where only the king (or those to whom he granted the privilege) was allowed to hunt - or do much of anything else. Even gathering firewood was technically illegal. This is why Robin Hood killing the King's deer is a trope in the stories. There didn't actually have to be trees at all in a "Forest." John was notorious for declaring vast tracts of land as Forest, often with no notice to the people living there. It was one of the reasons the Barons rose up against him.
As for Robin Hood - the earliest reference to him (as Robyn Hode) is in the poem Piers Plowman by William Langland, written somewhere around 1375-80. Since this reference is a throw-away remark, it's likely that Langland expected his readers to know who Robyn Hode was, meaning that the legend was much older. And was there a real person who inspired the later legends? I like to think so.
Spinal Tap is also not the original heavy rock mockumentary. Bad News by the Comic Strip came out before it. But it is great.
In medieval times, Sherwood forest covered the whole of the English midlands , it was right up to about 2 mile from Nottingham
WatchMojo: Dame Edna is British
Dane Edna: Hellooo possums!!
I heard rhat Paul McCartney liked the actress Eleanor Bron who starred in 'Help' (the second feature film by / staring The Beatles, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron etc...)
(Eleanor Bron was also in the 1994 version of 'Black Beauty' with
Peter Cook, Alun Armstrong,
David Thewlis, etc. 'Black Beauty' was 'acted by' 'Docs Keeping Time' & voiced by Scottish actor Alan Cumming).
Sherwood forest would have been less than an hour's walk from Nottingham castle on in Medievel times. It has shrunk in the last 600 years. Today it is about 100x smaller in area.
Camelot is either in Wales or Glastonbury, England. 'Le Morte D' Artur' or 'The Once and Future King' by T.H.White.
What about Harry Flash man. Anti-hero of George Macdonsld Fraser's "Flashman" novels? When Fraser visited an American library he was staggered to find his books on the "nonfiction " shelves! The librarians refused to believe that Flash man was a fictional character.
we here in ireland are very proud of our map being half of westeros and we are also proud that iGOT was filmd here (mostly). There's a top tier GOT museum here, ive been to it, its worth a visit to ireland...
Dear old Robert Newton played Long John Silver, ahh har me hearties, Jim lad, pieces of eight! I was brought up on Robert Newton, he was amazing! On occasion he used to visit his two sisters (they were spinsters I believe) at the family home and he always had his meals in his room, perhaps he couldn't abide the chatter of women. 😉
Another thing I hate is that people think that Sherlock Holmes was written by an Englishman. I understand because Sherlock was so related to London, but Arthur Conan Doyle was very much a Scotsman.
He had Irish connections too.
And so was Robert Louis Stevenson - so two Scottish writers of two of the fictional people mentioned ! Just saying LOL 😂😂😂
If it upsets you that much, you should get "Conan Doyle was Scottish" tattooed on your forehead to spread the word more efficiently.
@@stewedfishproductions9554 Nonsense , Robert Louis Stevenson's Stevenson ancestors were from Fenwick , just like mine. Fenwick is in Ayrshire ,BTW
RLS's mother was a Balfour which family has its roots going back centuries in Fife. Whit ye on aboot?
@@auldfouter8661he must be related to half of the US then.
Hard to believe, I know, but some people believe everything they read on the interweb is real
Robbing hoods would have been a more precise term. It wasn’t one individual but a name given to bandits or thieves, the hoods because they’d hide their faces at night. Or highwaymen. So you could say it’s true if you use it for a group of people rather than a singular individual in movies lol
I have a holiday home in Central Brittany in the North West Peninsula of France. The area has great historical links to the Celts and the department of Finisterre and the Western part of Côtes D'Armor, where my house is, still speak a Celtic dialect as well as French. Many Celts from South West Britain emigrated to the area (esp. Cornish and Welsh). King Arthur, Merlin and the knights of the Round Table, Morgan le Fay, et al. are part of their tradition. There are very mystical and almost mythical forests in the area which could have magic in them, the main one being Brocéliande around Paimpol The main French population took the stories and dressed them up in Medieval Armour, which was the wrong era completely. The Celts and Gauls were fierce and warlike but didn't were a fancy armour, they came from at least 600 years earlier. The stories were taken up by a Scottish romantic Author, Sir Walter Scott who gave hem a British nationality.
I slept in Sherwood Forest with my merrie men, all dressed in green while Charles was marrying Diana. Boot camp. I think Robin was an American who visited England around 1200, but couldn't get back due to COVID minus 19.