We Welsh people always fell back on one of three explanations when we encountered remains from the Iron Age or earlier. "The Giants did it", "King Arthur did it" or "the Irish did it".
I feel like Wales is incredibly lucky to have you, as considering it's small size and online prescence, without you there would be much less information known about the history of some random tiny king who ruled over a few villages available for the average internet goer to obtain. There are probably many places which are even less known than the Welsh history you talk about. For example, I would love to be able to learn about obscure Irish history without spending ages looking through obscure texts written a hundred years ago or that are constantly contradicting with one another.
Hi CC! I'm truly glad you're back. I've been waiting for you to come. I'm a 17 years old Korean student interested in Welsh history, and I became a fan after watching your video while I was looking for material. And now I'll be posting my research on poetry translation and bard on Welsh history on my blog as soon as possible. With unlimited respect for you and the art of your country. Thank you always ❤
As a Welshman myself, this is lovely to hear! I'm glad that our culture and history have such a reach, and l hope that it inspires you further. Pôb lwc i chdi!
@@CambrianChronicles...my great uncle served in the Royal Ulster Rifles on the river Imjin in Korea,survived being a POW and made it back to Ireland.....E
@itssafeinthecity I think it's a red herring and he's pulling our leg. CambrianChronicles(Chronicler?) has been started dripfeeding us personal 'lore' lately. For my money the divorce is real but the son is not, and CC is about 33 years old. This is the first time he's mentioned him in 33 years.... because he doesn't exist 😊. The alternative is that CC is 66 years old and a deeply negligent father. The fun bit is you get to decide.
You say something interesting regarding the power of old folklore and how these memories can continue to thrive within the people, even as they become blurred and forgotten by the historical record. Of course we need to take these stories with a grain of salt, but there is often kernels of truth to be found in place names and old stories. That you even took geography into it to show further plausibility is admirable.
Thank you, I definitely agree there are often elements to truth to myths, even if they can’t easily be trusted! Stories very rarely seem to be invented in isolation
@@CambrianChronicles Aye, it's like how some scholars are now claiming the story of "Theseus and the Minotaur" is a echo of a oral story of the Athenian ancestors defeating the Minoans but got radically mutated over time. How valid or true or incorrect this is, is another matter
Your video style is one of the most unique on youtube, and I am absolutely in love with it. A mixture of dry humor and a creeping sense of being haunted that works incredibly well. If J. E. Lloyd is the father of Welsh history, you're the favorite uncle who shows us how to pick locks and open beers without bottle openers. A new video is always a delight. Thank you for kindling an interest in this section and time of the world!
if you like this style, check out jon bois (the OG, he covers sports stories) and bobby broccoli (who covers scientific scandals)! this is one of my favorite styles of youtube video essay - it takes a lot of work and it always looks great- so i really love seeing it spread to different genres/topics
I personally agree with your point at 22:36. My immediate thought upon hearing Serygei was that it's gotta be related to Sergius/Сергей. I wonder if it's an oversight or what led modern historians to discredit the Serygei-Sergius connection. Especially with many of the monuments labelled as "Irish" being Roman or pre-Roman Briton monuments.
Fair question. Given Sergius/Sergii-derived names are found literally everywhere within the former Roman empire but also well beyond it as well and in cultures that hated the Romans and vice versa, it is probably important to figure out if we're looking at a truly ancient etymology. Or merely the consequences of more classical warlording. Overall there seems to be a missing academy akin to prosopography and linguistics to study the factual, historical transmission of names across culture, time and space. For example to the best of my knowledge there is precisely one woman responsible for bringing the name Agatha to Britain. (And then we can debate Margaret and David and Cristina, which may have come and gone and come again, via Agatha, ie discretely.)
As a native Irish speaker, a lot of very ancient Irish first names are still in every day use here, and I can almost guarantee that Serigi isn’t a Gaelic Irish first name.
Seriously, my favorite but super specific channel. I love how in depth you get about one topic, how you focus primarily on Wales, and how amazing the quality of work is!
Are we sure Gwyddyl always meant specifically "Irish"? In Slavic languages and Hungarian, the exonym Niemc/Nemec/Német is used to mean "German", but its root means "mute" and was a word used originally to just mean "Foreigner" ("one whose speech cannot be understood"). This name was used for many unrelated people, but it was the German to whim it just "stuck". Perhaps Gwyddyl had a similar purpose originally, describing a person who was foreign to these lands. The various Irish huts scattered around Wales could be a remnant of an Iron age people who the Welsh recognised as not having been their own people/ancestors and thus gave them the name "Gwyddyl". Looking at the etymology, the word goes back to a Celtic word meaning (and is cognate with English) "Wild". Maybe Gwyddyl was used to mean "Wild men", i.e people removed from society. Which society? The Welsh. A people of foreign custom who did not fit into Welsh society. And then this term becomes extended to other peoples, such as the Irish, and its use specifically to mean "Irish" slowly overtakes the original meaning and shifts meaning to only be "Irish". Serygei could have been a non-British person from mainland Europe. As ridiculous as it sounds, it wasn't actually uncommon for people of the past to travel such large distances in the past. It would allow for a lot more options regarding his name which isn't found in Wales and Ireland. Perhaps a Frenchman with the name Sergiu (from Latin Sergius)
Given the time at which the battle is supposedly having taken place, whether the Sergius-derived name was from somebody from France, Ireland or elsewhere probably wouldn't have made much difference since the names wouldn't have diverged so much (presumably).
An other example I just remembered is that Greek barbaros originally just meant a non-Greek foreigner. Then this word got expanded to specific groups, such as the North African Tamazigh, and has become their Endonym, Berber. So if Gwyddyl is a case like this too, then saying Serygei was Irish would be like saying the Gothic barbarian leader Odoacer was a Berber. It illustrates how the shift of meaning in the word could cause such a mistake to happen.
Very valid point. I'd also point out that Gwyddyl should more accurately be translated as Gaelic. It's sort of like referring to Julius Caesar as Italian, or the Italian conquest of Britain. It's not factually wrong, but applies modern concepts of identity to ancient people.
@@r4kung Lucius (Anneus) Sergius (Seneca), the Wicked (bewildered) Priest. His opponent (and superior, buddy) would be Drusus Germanicus the teacher of rightiousness (Andrew the elder, James the Just, Santiago, Zebedee the twin-father). The Twin are James the Less and John the baptizer aka st. George. I suppose a welsh version from this (first century) in origin roman story ; Huqoq elephant mosaic shows a depiction of the battle. The army of elephants defeated by a 'flock of birds' is also in the muslim quran book.
I heard the Irish lived in Wales before anyone. The place was for Irish that werecwild or sent there. Yes the Irish were eventually defeated by an opposing force. The true kings of Ireland were just across the irish sea and their name was O'caighm. The Irish were descecrated and little trace is found. I am an O'Keefe and there is nothing more worse to satanist British royalty than a divine right king today.
Man, you've been an inspiring force in my life, among other authors and historians you are one of the persons who helped me decide to study history at uni, give a few years and I'll join your ranks presenting history on youtube to the masses, keep up the good work
How proud I would be to know that 1500 years after my death, my bones long disintegrated into the ground, that people still cared about me and my story. This is what history is all about, the eerieness of what is lost and what remains, the ruins of great men and stories which persevere after so long. You do a great service to your people and ancestors, Cambrian Chronicles.
@@cramer4506Not probably, definitely: the "Russian" name comes from the Roman name. Which is ironic because the latter Russians hated the "Latins" being aligned/married to the "Greeks" in ERE.
I completed my dissertation on the hill just north west of Cnicht, Yr Arddu. The area had Cytiau’r Gwyddelod all over the maps we used to plot our data and I must have written it down hundreds of times as a landmark in my notes to place where I’d found what I had. I even think one of the guys I worked with named one of his rock units after the term as it was found close by. We did find huts covering the hillsides but never really looked into it. Funny to see this come up this much later, and funny to think we named it ‘Irishman’s Dolerite’.
Being Irish, I can assure you that we haven't been secretly plotting to return to Wales to regain our lost kingdom and that this plan that absolutely doesn't exist wasn't derailed after the Norman conquest and subsequent colonisation of Ireland. My impending journey to Wales with a hundred thousand drunken Irish men is not, I repeat NOT an invasion army. We are however going to invade Scotland...I'll cop to that one. 🤣
Where I lived in Merionuydd, Irish were the Welsh who swam away. Or was it that the Welsh were Irish who couldn't swim. And there's always tale of Bran and Branwen in the Mabinogi. Not real history but the memories of of who we were. Diolch, CC.
god i adore these deep dives into relatively obscure, interesting, tantalisingly unsolved and perhaps unsolveable history mysteries the stories and journey matter a lot, and context paints an intriguing picture 10/10 keep finding weird historical oddities and pouring them into the youtube timeline it's great
I love this channel so much! You start with such a simple premise... "Who does this obscure name belong to?" and unfold it into a beautiful web of myth, legend, and extremely obscure historical recounting. Every single video you make leaves me with this delightfully weird feeling deep inside my chest... almost like an HP Lovecraft story. It's like you're bringing us along with you to peek into a vast, ancient, and unknowable eldritch past with only faint snippets and scraps of clues to guide us. It's hard to describe and all I can say is never stop making these videos and I'll never stop watching them.
I'm so grateful you're still doing content, I got a bit worried with the long gap! Thank you for this wonderfully informative video! Your channel always brings a smile to my heart.
Our present for Halloween was another mentioning of "THE Stone Shack" and your apparent amnesia surrounding it, delivered in, I must mention "again", a very spooky way! Beautifully done video!
I know you must hear this often, but I really like your videos! I found you from the medieval cat laws video (I've rewatched it like five times now lol) and I've been liking your other videos too! :] I'm not anywhere near Europe, but I've always been interested in history and mythology around the UK since I was little because of things like Arthurian legends, and watching your videos has been quite a blast because it answered and opened more questions about things that have always fascinated me. Not to mention your editing, humor, and narration style is really enjoyable to watch, and I love seeing how many sources you went through for each video and how you also use number referencing in the captions! Sorry if I sound a bit sappy lol keep up the good work! I'm looking forward for more videos from you! :D
I love how all of your videos are “I found an ancient story that’s a single line long” followed by 20 minutes of exploring every other source about the story and an ultimate conclusion of “yeah that single line is kinda all the details there are”. Great channel. Gonna sub.
I really appreciate the way you draw your audience into the misty twists and turns of an uncertain history. Your research into references, your mastery of Welsh and your geographical and toponymic explorations all contribute to a narrative that is as rigorous as it is spellbinding. Thank you for this wonderful work.
This is going to sound weird, but this has become my comfort channel. Things have been rough for me lately, and binging the history of a place i want to live, told by a charismatic narrator who can make it feel like a story is wonderful. I started watching while working on a project, and now i can say ive watched every video and i need more! Keep up the good work, and thank you!
Whenever you do a video that shows a connection with Wales and Ireland I love seeing these links of our histories but find it strange I've just never been taught about them
you keep saying there's no way to know but did anyone try just asking Serygei or Cadwallon what happened? surely one of the two must know great video, I'm always impressed by how you manage to keep me engaged even with topics I wouldn't normally delve into!
Couldn't it be Lóegaire mac Néill, a 5th-century High King of Ireland? He is the only Irish King who carries the pronunciation closely related to Serygei and he did participate in some battles in wales. Also, his death is also rather mysterious and unknown.
I’m not very familiar with Irish, but the names seem to be pronounced quite differently, although I could be wrong with that It’s a possibility I suppose!
@@boru1982 the Irish kings lists document backwards far beyond when Irish people could even write, there is not much historical evidence for the early names on the lists
Before finding your channel i had no clue about welsh history. I knew small bits and pieces between 1900 and current day, but nothing more. I've never been anywhere near wales, and wasn't familiar with its geography at all. The more i watch your videos the more i want to go and see the places you mention, especially the ones that come up a lot, like ynys môn (i hope i spelled that correctly). Aaand i just realized that ynys môn is where the title of one of my favorite songs (inis mona by eluveitie) comes from... god damn I'm slow sometimes... well, time to listen to that song again 😂 Hwyl
The attribution of prehistoric sites to 'the Irish' is an interesting example of how 'folk history' develops. It's known that the Irish used to be here (in Gwynedd) 100s of years ago, these abandoned settlement sites and stone circles are obviously the work of 'the ancients', therefore they must have been built by the Irish. I've seen the same sort of reasoning in England up into even the 20th century where, until archaeology had pieced together a full chronology from the Mesolithic through to the present day, 'ancient sites' were referred to as belonging to the Ancient Britons.
Excellent un autre banger sur l'histoire du Pays de Galle ! Décidément j'adore cette chaîne Par contre je suis étonné que personne mentionne l'image creepy qui passe à chacune des vidéos, alors que y'a l'air d'avoir un mystère de fou derrière, perso j'ai hyper envie d'en savoir plus
Very waiting for Cambrian Chronicles dive into Brythonic colony of Britonia in Galicia, Spain. It is really mysterious how did people live there, and also how the colony is thought to be located only in A Coruna town, while the plcaes named "Britona" can be found across all Galicia. And also why there is a town bames "Cambre" in northern Galicia, which is literallya changes version of Cymru, the Brythonic name of Wales.
I'm currently doing a paper roleplaying game of Pendragon. Thanks to your video, I fell in the genealogies of the kings in Cambria. To do an Arthurian mythos, but with characters that are "historical". So no kingdoms with a french of english counties names, and rulers linked to Cunedda, Vortigern and Irish kings in the West, Romano-british/linked to the briton tribes in the south. Also thanks to your video on Arthur, I think that he will be a bastard of Uther in my campaign, and so to ease the tension with the kings and Dux of the Britons, he will call himself Dux Bellorum to fight against the Saxons, Irish and Picts. Continue the good work !
I just have to say that, having watched your videos over time, I've come to the conclusion that Wales has a very mysterious and unusual history. The things you've discovered are intriguing and some are absolutely mind boggling. Welsh history seems to be a complicated puzzle, that you are single-handedly trying to piece together. And, in my opinion, you are doing a fantastic job of exactly that. I can only imagine the amount of time and effort you put in to just the research alone, not to mention the recording and editing that follow. It sounds exhausting, honestly.😂 Well done Cambrian! Very well done! Best wishes and a lovely autumn to you. 🍂🍁 Oh, and welcome back. 🙂
Why do I always get the feeling that these videos (apart from being spectacularly interesting and well researched) also contain a dark and sprawling subtext that I would need a bottle of peaty whiskey and a long evening in front of the fire to fully comprehend.
Absolutely brilliant to share this info on an Irish king on Welsh soil. Epic history to learn!! One nun was named a saint after "she was beheaded, picked up her head, walked to her nunnery then died on sacred ground" Maybe they say he died twice and that's why the it says he was made a saint. 🤔🤷♀️
Thank you for this fantastic story, I always find myself transfixed whenever I listen to you, history is fascinating, especially our history in our sacred land of Cumru
Its difficult to come up with theories about the name, as we are expecting Welsh people to remember an Irish name long enough to write it down, and then it is written using Welsh orthography. So it has probably been corrupted, to say the least. However, a freeman or nobleman was "saor", old Irish "sóer". Maybe this chap kept telling the Welsh that he's not a king, just an Irish noble or craftsman, and some lad with gorilla arms decided to chase him from his round hut and kill him.
I've now watched quite a few of your videos, they have a very odd feeling to them. I mean that in the most positive way possible. Something about the aesthetic, obviously the subjects of your content and also the presentation has a nearly... eerie feeling to them. The fact that so many of these ancient stories end up to just be 1-3 sentences of things we can reasonably deduce is sad in its own way, but that people in certain areas have cared so much about EXPANDING that story, truthfully or otherwise, is certainly worth something and remains fascinating. It feels like the rigorous work you put into connecting all these ragged and old loose threads of a story makes some connection to that past, to those people making this or that story. So as many people often say, well done, I've even shown these videos to my mother and she enjoys them thoroughly.
love your channel, i was waiting for the longest time for a good source on Welsh history and you cornererd the market, also im a descendant of Wale's first archbishop Alfred George Edwards
Strange!
This was supposed to be uploaded like yesterday, but now it’s 5am, and I have to sleep.
Good night bro
love u bro 😍😍
so close to the goal!
What is strange, are that Danish use "mur" for a wall too.
If, like many potential narcissists, Sergei named his son Sergei, then once King Sergei had been slain, King Sergei would need to be slain as well.
the powerpoint transitions go so hard
Thank you, since the vid is so long there’s like 3x as many as the last one lol
The origami bird flying away is truly goated.
@@mileshawkins1802 truee
Transistions toybox overtime detracts from the story
If only Cambrian Chronicles loved his son as much as he loves that transition where the slide turns into an origami bird and flies away
His no good deadbeat son simply doesn't have the grace or charm of the transition.
Yeah well maybe his son should think about getting better at folding himself into the shape of an animal next time he wants his father's love.
His son will think about it twice the next time he has a chance to be born as an origami
I'm not familiar enough with the channel yet to know if this is a funny or actually somewhat dark inside joke with the son or audience.
@@jtzoltanI concur. I felt no humor from the author, just an emotional aside, though.
We Welsh people always fell back on one of three explanations when we encountered remains from the Iron Age or earlier. "The Giants did it", "King Arthur did it" or "the Irish did it".
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
What happened to the giants?
The Irish happened!
@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944*looks at the Fomorians*
Actually tracks.
Wait until they find out about Giant Irish Arthur
@@CambrianChronicles the name of an old mate you go to the pub with
can't believe youtube hid this from me for 20 whole seconds
This must be that algorithm that everyone’s talking about, suppressing the videos of the little guy
Here I am, only finding out after an hour. It must be Big History trying to suppress the truth of the Isles once more!
I'm getting it 5 hours later, but that's a good thing because I was asleep at 5am when the video was released lol
I got it instantly but big hunger suppressed me so I’m only getting here now
Proof of a conspiracy
Your work sits at the confluence of history, mystery, and language: three itches that can always use a good scratch. Absolutely love it.
Thank you, that’s very kind!
Excellent, very true, it's what makes this channel so fascinating
The last time I was this early Iolo Morganwyg was still passing off his fantasy writing as Welsh history
Good to hear they had UA-cam back in the 1850s!
@@CambrianChroniclesYou mean to tell me this isn't a current events channel?
@@zachary2912 What? Donald Trump and Keir Starmer didn’t fight at Llam y Gwyddyl?
@@heijimikata7181 *Dohmnall mac Truimp
19:07 "...and Irish Joe's Cafe in Rhyl."
Actually, its Irish Joe's Cafe-y-Gwyddel.
Hopefully they’ll rename it asap
@@CambrianChroniclesIrby is still here on the Wirral
When you were about to go to sleep but Cambrian Chronicles drops another banger
A sentence that can also apply to real life, if I happened to be lighting fireworks outside your window
@@CambrianChronicles that would be equally cool
@@CambrianChroniclesConsidering the fact you released the video after diwali.
Me, too!
@@CambrianChroniclesor you happen to drop a sausage in the kitchen trying to get a midnight snack
I feel like Wales is incredibly lucky to have you, as considering it's small size and online prescence, without you there would be much less information known about the history of some random tiny king who ruled over a few villages available for the average internet goer to obtain. There are probably many places which are even less known than the Welsh history you talk about. For example, I would love to be able to learn about obscure Irish history without spending ages looking through obscure texts written a hundred years ago or that are constantly contradicting with one another.
I would be so happy to find a channel that produces content about Ireland like what Cambrian Chronicles does for Wales.
@@harkinianhyrule7825 Me too!
Hi CC! I'm truly glad you're back. I've been waiting for you to come. I'm a 17 years old Korean student interested in Welsh history, and I became a fan after watching your video while I was looking for material. And now I'll be posting my research on poetry translation and bard on Welsh history on my blog as soon as possible. With unlimited respect for you and the art of your country. Thank you always ❤
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Amazing how a love of history can bring us all together across the world. Good luck to you!
That’s great to hear, best of luck with your research!
As a Welshman myself, this is lovely to hear! I'm glad that our culture and history have such a reach, and l hope that it inspires you further.
Pôb lwc i chdi!
@@CambrianChronicles...my great uncle served in the Royal Ulster Rifles on the river Imjin in Korea,survived being a POW and made it back to Ireland.....E
That son that I hate 🗣🔥🔥
Now I’ll have to wait 33.3 years to mention him again
with any luck it'll be a long 33.3 years so you won't have to burden yourself with thoughts of him
Ouch! What did he do to deserve your hatred? No! Don’t tell. This is a strange revelation.
@itssafeinthecity I think it's a red herring and he's pulling our leg. CambrianChronicles(Chronicler?) has been started dripfeeding us personal 'lore' lately. For my money the divorce is real but the son is not, and CC is about 33 years old. This is the first time he's mentioned him in 33 years.... because he doesn't exist 😊. The alternative is that CC is 66 years old and a deeply negligent father. The fun bit is you get to decide.
A strange revelation indeed. More investigation is required. I’ll be dead in 33 years so I’m interested to find out sooner
You say something interesting regarding the power of old folklore and how these memories can continue to thrive within the people, even as they become blurred and forgotten by the historical record. Of course we need to take these stories with a grain of salt, but there is often kernels of truth to be found in place names and old stories. That you even took geography into it to show further plausibility is admirable.
Thank you, I definitely agree there are often elements to truth to myths, even if they can’t easily be trusted!
Stories very rarely seem to be invented in isolation
@@CambrianChronicles Aye, it's like how some scholars are now claiming the story of "Theseus and the Minotaur" is a echo of a oral story of the Athenian ancestors defeating the Minoans but got radically mutated over time.
How valid or true or incorrect this is, is another matter
Your video style is one of the most unique on youtube, and I am absolutely in love with it. A mixture of dry humor and a creeping sense of being haunted that works incredibly well. If J. E. Lloyd is the father of Welsh history, you're the favorite uncle who shows us how to pick locks and open beers without bottle openers. A new video is always a delight. Thank you for kindling an interest in this section and time of the world!
@@sabinetronco9017 ah thank you, I’m honoured to achieve Welsh Uncle status
if you like this style, check out jon bois (the OG, he covers sports stories) and bobby broccoli (who covers scientific scandals)! this is one of my favorite styles of youtube video essay - it takes a lot of work and it always looks great- so i really love seeing it spread to different genres/topics
"Irish Joe's Cafe in Rhyl" - truly deepest lore. What else are the Welsh monarchs hiding from us?
I personally agree with your point at 22:36. My immediate thought upon hearing Serygei was that it's gotta be related to Sergius/Сергей. I wonder if it's an oversight or what led modern historians to discredit the Serygei-Sergius connection. Especially with many of the monuments labelled as "Irish" being Roman or pre-Roman Briton monuments.
Fair question. Given Sergius/Sergii-derived names are found literally everywhere within the former Roman empire but also well beyond it as well and in cultures that hated the Romans and vice versa, it is probably important to figure out if we're looking at a truly ancient etymology. Or merely the consequences of more classical warlording.
Overall there seems to be a missing academy akin to prosopography and linguistics to study the factual, historical transmission of names across culture, time and space. For example to the best of my knowledge there is precisely one woman responsible for bringing the name Agatha to Britain. (And then we can debate Margaret and David and Cristina, which may have come and gone and come again, via Agatha, ie discretely.)
I would imagine it’s an oversight really, Serygei has received very little treatment in modern times
@@irtnycthat's onomastics you're describing. And it's fascinating
As a native Irish speaker, a lot of very ancient Irish first names are still in every day use here, and I can almost guarantee that Serigi isn’t a Gaelic Irish first name.
The legend is back
Thank you, it’s been a long time and I’m glad to be uploading again
@@CambrianChronicles it’s good to have you back man
Ooh goody, another mystery involving Cadwallon.
Gonna change this channel to Cadwallon Chronicles and only talk about people named Cadwallon from now on
@@CambrianChronicles Cadwallon ap Cadfan better be next
@@CambrianChronicles..Oswald at Maserfield was really Ashton in Makerfield not Oswestry...just saying...
Seriously, my favorite but super specific channel. I love how in depth you get about one topic, how you focus primarily on Wales, and how amazing the quality of work is!
I was going to go to sleep but I need to stay up and watch this now. So happy for this upload.
Glad to hear, I hope you enjoy it!
Are we sure Gwyddyl always meant specifically "Irish"? In Slavic languages and Hungarian, the exonym Niemc/Nemec/Német is used to mean "German", but its root means "mute" and was a word used originally to just mean "Foreigner" ("one whose speech cannot be understood"). This name was used for many unrelated people, but it was the German to whim it just "stuck".
Perhaps Gwyddyl had a similar purpose originally, describing a person who was foreign to these lands. The various Irish huts scattered around Wales could be a remnant of an Iron age people who the Welsh recognised as not having been their own people/ancestors and thus gave them the name "Gwyddyl". Looking at the etymology, the word goes back to a Celtic word meaning (and is cognate with English) "Wild". Maybe Gwyddyl was used to mean "Wild men", i.e people removed from society. Which society? The Welsh. A people of foreign custom who did not fit into Welsh society. And then this term becomes extended to other peoples, such as the Irish, and its use specifically to mean "Irish" slowly overtakes the original meaning and shifts meaning to only be "Irish".
Serygei could have been a non-British person from mainland Europe. As ridiculous as it sounds, it wasn't actually uncommon for people of the past to travel such large distances in the past. It would allow for a lot more options regarding his name which isn't found in Wales and Ireland. Perhaps a Frenchman with the name Sergiu (from Latin Sergius)
Given the time at which the battle is supposedly having taken place, whether the Sergius-derived name was from somebody from France, Ireland or elsewhere probably wouldn't have made much difference since the names wouldn't have diverged so much (presumably).
An other example I just remembered is that Greek barbaros originally just meant a non-Greek foreigner. Then this word got expanded to specific groups, such as the North African Tamazigh, and has become their Endonym, Berber. So if Gwyddyl is a case like this too, then saying Serygei was Irish would be like saying the Gothic barbarian leader Odoacer was a Berber. It illustrates how the shift of meaning in the word could cause such a mistake to happen.
Very valid point.
I'd also point out that Gwyddyl should more accurately be translated as Gaelic.
It's sort of like referring to Julius Caesar as Italian, or the Italian conquest of Britain. It's not factually wrong, but applies modern concepts of identity to ancient people.
@@r4kung Lucius (Anneus) Sergius (Seneca), the Wicked (bewildered) Priest. His opponent (and superior, buddy) would be Drusus Germanicus the teacher of rightiousness (Andrew the elder, James the Just, Santiago, Zebedee the twin-father). The Twin are James the Less and John the baptizer aka st. George. I suppose a welsh version from this (first century) in origin roman story ; Huqoq elephant mosaic shows a depiction of the battle. The army of elephants defeated by a 'flock of birds' is also in the muslim quran book.
I heard the Irish lived in Wales before anyone. The place was for Irish that werecwild or sent there. Yes the Irish were eventually defeated by an opposing force. The true kings of Ireland were just across the irish sea and their name was O'caighm.
The Irish were descecrated and little trace is found. I am an O'Keefe and there is nothing more worse to satanist British royalty than a divine right king today.
Man, you've been an inspiring force in my life, among other authors and historians you are one of the persons who helped me decide to study history at uni, give a few years and I'll join your ranks presenting history on youtube to the masses, keep up the good work
this night just got so much better
Glad to hear!
How proud I would be to know that 1500 years after my death, my bones long disintegrated into the ground, that people still cared about me and my story. This is what history is all about, the eerieness of what is lost and what remains, the ruins of great men and stories which persevere after so long. You do a great service to your people and ancestors, Cambrian Chronicles.
When are you gonna talk about how every British king was actually Albanian
In the inevitable Welsh History Iceberg, where I will assign them to whatever national embassy pays me the most money
@@CambrianChronicles you know you've made it when you get sponsored by a national embassy
Complete amateur here but doesn't "Serygei" sound Russian?
@@VanillaMacaron551 The Russian name, Sergei, probably derives from the Latin name Sergius. I wouldn't be surprised if the two were related that way.
@@cramer4506Not probably, definitely: the "Russian" name comes from the Roman name. Which is ironic because the latter Russians hated the "Latins" being aligned/married to the "Greeks" in ERE.
I completed my dissertation on the hill just north west of Cnicht, Yr Arddu. The area had Cytiau’r Gwyddelod all over the maps we used to plot our data and I must have written it down hundreds of times as a landmark in my notes to place where I’d found what I had. I even think one of the guys I worked with named one of his rock units after the term as it was found close by. We did find huts covering the hillsides but never really looked into it. Funny to see this come up this much later, and funny to think we named it ‘Irishman’s Dolerite’.
Being Irish, I can assure you that we haven't been secretly plotting to return to Wales to regain our lost kingdom and that this plan that absolutely doesn't exist wasn't derailed after the Norman conquest and subsequent colonisation of Ireland. My impending journey to Wales with a hundred thousand drunken Irish men is not, I repeat NOT an invasion army. We are however going to invade Scotland...I'll cop to that one. 🤣
So the thousands of Irish men that moved to the "capital of North Wales" (Liverpool) were just a coincidence eh? ;)
Where I lived in Merionuydd, Irish were the Welsh who swam away.
Or was it that the Welsh were Irish who couldn't swim.
And there's always tale of Bran and Branwen in the Mabinogi. Not real history but the memories of of who we were.
Diolch, CC.
god i adore these deep dives into relatively obscure, interesting, tantalisingly unsolved and perhaps unsolveable history mysteries
the stories and journey matter a lot, and context paints an intriguing picture
10/10 keep finding weird historical oddities and pouring them into the youtube timeline it's great
I'm commenting before I watch to let you know how very excited I am! Thank you for making content!
Thank you, I hope you enjoy it!
I love this channel so much! You start with such a simple premise... "Who does this obscure name belong to?" and unfold it into a beautiful web of myth, legend, and extremely obscure historical recounting. Every single video you make leaves me with this delightfully weird feeling deep inside my chest... almost like an HP Lovecraft story. It's like you're bringing us along with you to peek into a vast, ancient, and unknowable eldritch past with only faint snippets and scraps of clues to guide us. It's hard to describe and all I can say is never stop making these videos and I'll never stop watching them.
Man, university really burnt me out on history lately, but your content always brings me back that bit of spark. Thank you!
The amount of research you put into your videos is truly enjoyable and your humor is appreciated too.
I'm so grateful you're still doing content, I got a bit worried with the long gap! Thank you for this wonderfully informative video! Your channel always brings a smile to my heart.
I’m so happy you finally posted, you have some of the greatest Wales/Britan history content on UA-cam. I have literally watched every video
the painfully slow powerpoint transitions are nothing short of immaculate
the mysterious welsh man returns with an exciting video
Our present for Halloween was another mentioning of "THE Stone Shack" and your apparent amnesia surrounding it, delivered in, I must mention "again", a very spooky way!
Beautifully done video!
May i ask what the context of this "stone shack" is about? I have seen it in multiple videos and don't know what the story around it is.
I know you must hear this often, but I really like your videos!
I found you from the medieval cat laws video (I've rewatched it like five times now lol) and I've been liking your other videos too! :] I'm not anywhere near Europe, but I've always been interested in history and mythology around the UK since I was little because of things like Arthurian legends, and watching your videos has been quite a blast because it answered and opened more questions about things that have always fascinated me. Not to mention your editing, humor, and narration style is really enjoyable to watch, and I love seeing how many sources you went through for each video and how you also use number referencing in the captions!
Sorry if I sound a bit sappy lol keep up the good work! I'm looking forward for more videos from you! :D
I love how all of your videos are “I found an ancient story that’s a single line long” followed by 20 minutes of exploring every other source about the story and an ultimate conclusion of “yeah that single line is kinda all the details there are”. Great channel. Gonna sub.
I really appreciate the way you draw your audience into the misty twists and turns of an uncertain history. Your research into references, your mastery of Welsh and your geographical and toponymic explorations all contribute to a narrative that is as rigorous as it is spellbinding. Thank you for this wonderful work.
Can't get enough of these videos, the quality and presentation style are super engaging!
Cant believe youtube took 11 days to recomend me this video!! I have been subscribed for more than two years to this great channel!
your transitions are always so fire mr. cambrian chronicles
This is going to sound weird, but this has become my comfort channel. Things have been rough for me lately, and binging the history of a place i want to live, told by a charismatic narrator who can make it feel like a story is wonderful. I started watching while working on a project, and now i can say ive watched every video and i need more! Keep up the good work, and thank you!
12:27 ah, so that’s why this video took so long. understandable.
Learning to read: 3 months
Making videos: 2 minutes
No wonder there’s been such a gap
Whenever you do a video that shows a connection with Wales and Ireland I love seeing these links of our histories but find it strange I've just never been taught about them
you keep saying there's no way to know but did anyone try just asking Serygei or Cadwallon what happened? surely one of the two must know
great video, I'm always impressed by how you manage to keep me engaged even with topics I wouldn't normally delve into!
Serygei = Ananias, Cadwallon = Zacharias
You have such a gift for telling stories.
06:40 You cannot hide from me Chronicler…
Me to the medieval monk when I finally get my Time Machine to work again
@@CambrianChroniclesGet out of Llyweln’s cave, Cadwaldr.
@@CambrianChronicles Cadwaldr, get out of that cave!
@CambrianChronicles I used to check for that video every time I waited for the train before I gave up. I've watched the hills video too many times.
What is the picture supposed to be referencing?
You are the best historian
Agreed
Thank you, that’s very kind
CambrianChronicles' methods and means are truly exemplary. I can only strive to be as attentive and detail-oriented as him.
Another quality piece of work. It's always worth the wait and an inspiration for us fellow researchers.
New Video!! I'm soo exicted, I fell in love with this channel over the last few months!
I woke up and this is on top of my recommendations
Best way to start my day
Couldn't it be Lóegaire mac Néill, a 5th-century High King of Ireland? He is the only Irish King who carries the pronunciation closely related to Serygei and he did participate in some battles in wales. Also, his death is also rather mysterious and unknown.
I’m not very familiar with Irish, but the names seem to be pronounced quite differently, although I could be wrong with that
It’s a possibility I suppose!
I would pronounce Loégaire as
Low- goy - ra
That’s nothing like Serygei
also the Irish kings lists from this period are basically pseudohistory
@@aduantasthat might be a difficult theory to argue for as the Irish were the only ones that were documenting at that time.
@@boru1982 the Irish kings lists document backwards far beyond when Irish people could even write, there is not much historical evidence for the early names on the lists
Before finding your channel i had no clue about welsh history. I knew small bits and pieces between 1900 and current day, but nothing more. I've never been anywhere near wales, and wasn't familiar with its geography at all. The more i watch your videos the more i want to go and see the places you mention, especially the ones that come up a lot, like ynys môn (i hope i spelled that correctly). Aaand i just realized that ynys môn is where the title of one of my favorite songs (inis mona by eluveitie) comes from... god damn I'm slow sometimes... well, time to listen to that song again 😂 Hwyl
Another research masterpiece. Thank you
Your videos are so fascinating! It's like a lengthy search for the few threads of truth and logic woven into a tapestry of fairytales.
Excellent video, *thank you* and cheers!
Watching this video in east asia only 2hours after you posted it, it's such an experience.
yet another great little rabbit hole into welsh history
Cambrian Chronicles always makes for a good sunday
The attribution of prehistoric sites to 'the Irish' is an interesting example of how 'folk history' develops. It's known that the Irish used to be here (in Gwynedd) 100s of years ago, these abandoned settlement sites and stone circles are obviously the work of 'the ancients', therefore they must have been built by the Irish. I've seen the same sort of reasoning in England up into even the 20th century where, until archaeology had pieced together a full chronology from the Mesolithic through to the present day, 'ancient sites' were referred to as belonging to the Ancient Britons.
I love those videos. You sir are doing history a service. If only more could do what you do.
Your content is a gift, thanks a lot!
Excellent un autre banger sur l'histoire du Pays de Galle ! Décidément j'adore cette chaîne
Par contre je suis étonné que personne mentionne l'image creepy qui passe à chacune des vidéos, alors que y'a l'air d'avoir un mystère de fou derrière, perso j'ai hyper envie d'en savoir plus
it's amazing how you can take ancient welsh history and make it fascinating for common people
Very waiting for Cambrian Chronicles dive into Brythonic colony of Britonia in Galicia, Spain. It is really mysterious how did people live there, and also how the colony is thought to be located only in A Coruna town, while the plcaes named "Britona" can be found across all Galicia. And also why there is a town bames "Cambre" in northern Galicia, which is literallya changes version of Cymru, the Brythonic name of Wales.
4:16 TRANSITION IS AWESOME
I'm currently doing a paper roleplaying game of Pendragon. Thanks to your video, I fell in the genealogies of the kings in Cambria. To do an Arthurian mythos, but with characters that are "historical". So no kingdoms with a french of english counties names, and rulers linked to Cunedda, Vortigern and Irish kings in the West, Romano-british/linked to the briton tribes in the south.
Also thanks to your video on Arthur, I think that he will be a bastard of Uther in my campaign, and so to ease the tension with the kings and Dux of the Britons, he will call himself Dux Bellorum to fight against the Saxons, Irish and Picts.
Continue the good work !
Love this channel so much, you always manage to dig up some forgotten stories!
Great job as always! I love the more active editing and as usual the humor is top notch
Thank you!
Loved this one. Much love and God bless
I’ve watched a whole heap of your videos, and man do I wish I could give you a Time Machine.
I love the editing on this channel! It's so good!
Only Welsh History Enjoyers can like this comment 😎
Hopefully UA-cam implements that feature soon, so only Welsh history enjoyers can like any comment on the entire website
I love this channel man
So nice to finally hear those mysterious Welsh names properly pronounced. And to explore the ancient Irish history of the region.
I just have to say that, having watched your videos over time, I've come to the conclusion that Wales has a very mysterious and unusual history. The things you've discovered are intriguing and some are absolutely mind boggling. Welsh history seems to be a complicated puzzle, that you are single-handedly trying to piece together. And, in my opinion, you are doing a fantastic job of exactly that. I can only imagine the amount of time and effort you put in to just the research alone, not to mention the recording and editing that follow. It sounds exhausting, honestly.😂 Well done Cambrian! Very well done! Best wishes and a lovely autumn to you. 🍂🍁
Oh, and welcome back. 🙂
26:59 I don't know what unkown means, but I like it.
I can not get enough of these videos. Always so hyped for new ones. Diolch am eich waith.
finally a channel with natural cadence and zero forced publication
These videos are so amazing man. It’s like I’m learning brand new fresh off the presses
Why do I always get the feeling that these videos (apart from being spectacularly interesting and well researched) also contain a dark and sprawling subtext that I would need a bottle of peaty whiskey and a long evening in front of the fire to fully comprehend.
Absolutely brilliant to share this info on an Irish king on Welsh soil. Epic history to learn!! One nun was named a saint after "she was beheaded, picked up her head, walked to her nunnery then died on sacred ground" Maybe they say he died twice and that's why the it says he was made a saint. 🤔🤷♀️
I understand only a tiny fraction of all this, but the names are so interesting and the History is brought like a mystery story. Please go on.
Thank you for this fantastic story, I always find myself transfixed whenever I listen to you, history is fascinating, especially our history in our sacred land of Cumru
He is back!
been waiting 50 years for this drop
as soon as I saw that paper plane transition, I knew the paper bird is coming out soon
Classic combo
Good stuff, thanks for taking the time to research and tell this story.
The absolute legend, he never misses
My favorite niche historian from and about a region of the world I never set foot on yet I find intriguing is back!
Its difficult to come up with theories about the name, as we are expecting Welsh people to remember an Irish name long enough to write it down, and then it is written using Welsh orthography. So it has probably been corrupted, to say the least.
However, a freeman or nobleman was "saor", old Irish "sóer". Maybe this chap kept telling the Welsh that he's not a king, just an Irish noble or craftsman, and some lad with gorilla arms decided to chase him from his round hut and kill him.
He was a pretender, heir (abdes) killed by Longinus (longarm or just a tall man).
Great channel! Keep it coming!
been waiting for this. lets go!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Worth the wait! Keep going mate. I wish I can make my powerpoint transition like you.
Paper plane transition goes hard af
I've now watched quite a few of your videos, they have a very odd feeling to them. I mean that in the most positive way possible. Something about the aesthetic, obviously the subjects of your content and also the presentation has a nearly... eerie feeling to them. The fact that so many of these ancient stories end up to just be 1-3 sentences of things we can reasonably deduce is sad in its own way, but that people in certain areas have cared so much about EXPANDING that story, truthfully or otherwise, is certainly worth something and remains fascinating. It feels like the rigorous work you put into connecting all these ragged and old loose threads of a story makes some connection to that past, to those people making this or that story.
So as many people often say, well done, I've even shown these videos to my mother and she enjoys them thoroughly.
love your channel, i was waiting for the longest time for a good source on Welsh history and you cornererd the market, also im a descendant of Wale's first archbishop Alfred George Edwards
istg every single video is an absolute banger