Hello everyone, Sorry for the late upload! I didn't want to put out a video on Halloween to maintain the illusion of a social life... From time to time, I'm going to make longer and less-edited videos so I can really focus on the research and education part - I hope you guys still enjoy these videos. If not, no worries, the other formats will be back quickly! Also, I received a few complaints about the moving head so decided to keep it still until I find something better to do with it. Any ideas? I'm considering just getting rid of it. Thanks for watching my friends. Cheers, This is Barris!
@@Moochers I liked it too! But the people have spoke Mooch, the people have spoken. No I'll just work on it more and find something - I think it's just a question of, as you say, leave it from time to time but also slow it down.
I feel like Gauls, and Celtics people in general, are finally being given the place that they deserve in History, having being considered for so long as a "lower" civilisation.
I agree. For too long they've been painted as uncivilized and uncultured, which is a travesty. I hope this video helped educate some about how wrong that is. Thanks for watching and merde!
That’s true. Many people, even in France, believe that the romans brought civilization to the gauls. They brought roman civilization, that’s not the same
@@marc-antoinerave2572 No. The Romans brought Greek civilisation since The Tomans became fully Hellenized after their conquest of Greece in 146 BC. In my opinion The Romans culture is actually Greco-Etruscan culture and Romans only spreaded it to the Celtic lands.
"...the Britons, who, much like today, were always kind of backwards..." Yes! You maintain the balance in the Anglo Frankish rivalry. Glad to see a Frenchy firing back in the fun and games :)
The myth that their names always ended in "ix" is because a large amount of their leaders had names ended in "rix", which is a suffix that means "king". But even some gallic leaders, like Brennus, Divico and Boduognatus, didn't have names ending in "rix"
In Wales there are a number of us still speaking the ancient language of the Gauls. Despite many attempts on its life, the language and its unique perspective still exists.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that. I really wanted to make a parody of Asterix' usual intro but I was scared it'll be too long since people tend to leave if you don't dive right into the subject, but it seems to have worked out fine!
I meant the Britons as in those who live in Bretagne! But I guess that also works as a British joke, too haha Thank you mean, I'm glad to hear that. I look forward to your next videos.
I was looking for someone who actually knew what they were talking about and wasn't just regurgitating wikipedia! You have my deepest respect and gratitude.
@@ThisisBarris I have a question that you might be able to answer. I'm curious about regional mythology that would be uniquely french. Besides the Lycanthrope, who's popularity speaks for itself. I was wondering if you knew of any regional legends or tales that heavily influenced culture. Everything I find online forcibly labels it all "Pagan" and "Celtic" but we both know that's wrong.
I adored the hell out of these comics, but of course never never really took to them for historical accuracy... But even so, I wouldn't have thought someone could make such an incredibly educative video out of it! This video, along with the rest of your videos uploaded thus far, have been incredibly entertaining! You definitely deserve more viewers with the amount of wit and effort you throw into these videos, so I really look forward to seeing more of them! :D
Thank you man! I'm embarrassed by how much I learnt making these videos, I don't think it's so much because of Astérix but also their overall depiction in media/children history books etc. I still love Astérix but I'm glad to see that I was able to break some of these myths in this video. And thank you very much! I put a lot of heart into these videos so always happy to see others enjoy it, too. I really look forward to seeing more of your great videos because you definitely deserve more viewers!
Merci, Barris! My ancestors came from France and my family name is the same as the tribe located on your map just south of where Calais is today. It is not easy to find information about my people's past whether they were Gauls, Romans, Basques, or Franks. Thank you so much for your video. A plus tarde!
I either always learn something, laugh or both with your videos! Love the content and missed it while you were off travelling the world bro! Glad you're back with a bang :)
Hello Pooj, Thank you for watching the video! I'm glad to hear that I'm able to do both, that's what I aim for although this video focused more on the education part. I am definitely back with a bang! And you should expect more to come soon! Looking forward to your next review :)
@@ThisisBarris I look forward to them then! My fiance got home a little while ago - I'll let her know you've got a new video on, she loves educational ones!
Thank you! Let me know if she enjoyed it, too. And that's awesome of him - I love it when big UA-camrs help out smaller ones and I hope to do it too once I become significant enough.
Well it’s a very new channel still so it’s gonna take some time for it to grow into something which I’m hoping it will his channel is promising. Wish him the best!
Hey Tommy, Sorry, I just saw your comment, UA-cam doesn't notice me for every one of them, unfortunately. You're absolutely right, I'm just too small right now to expect any kinds of view but I'll keep working and hopefully one day! Thank you for your support, it really means a lot and helps tremendously.
I'm here to mention as of today, the newest expansion to Civilization 6 will feature the Gauls as a playable civ. The leader hasn't been announced yet, but signs point to Vercingetorix.
Everyone should ask his grandlaremts who have rural origins how often they themselves or their parents ate meat. My grandmother usually ate fresh meat once a month, and she came from a rural middle class family. There were no refrigerators, most meat was cured. If our grandparents didn't eat so often, how does one expect who lived thousands of years ago to eat meat constantly.
Exactly. And hunting wasn't a common thing back then but only reserved to nobles really. I think we don't appreciate enough how modern our abundance of meat is. Thank you for watching Mystery Man!
@@ThisisBarris I have both Gaelic and Aztec ancestry, and trust me, here, they even dare to depict Aztecs as savages and naked warriors. I am so proud of my heritage, and i don't know if one of my ancestors was truly a warrior, i just hope he was. Ní Fraincis mé, ach tá sinsearacht cheilteach againn.
That's a pretty awesome mix. My ex was Zapotec so I definitely loved learning about her heritage - I find that Latin/meso-south-american culture and history is fascinating and had a great time when I went to Mexico and Peru. And I do agree that I hate when they depict Aztecs or Gauls or anybody as savages. It's just plain wrong.
The issue is that some Celts did take pride on fighting naked, at least according to Roman sources, they also enjoyed dying their hair blond for some reason (racial prejudice?) and this seems to have been more common among the Picts (who many think were Celts, although it is still an open debate AFAIK). Their military was never as good as that of Romans in any case (except the cavalry, which was better) largely because they lacked the state military mindset of the Romans, who were very unique in this in that age anyhow. Also Romans had some prejudice against Western peoples in general that has permeated into modern historiography, at least the pop kind, so they differentiated between urbs and oppidum, even if some or even many Celtic (and other Western) fortified towns were rather sophisticated and large towns. We have thus inherited the idea that they were "tribal", when in fact they were in a less advanced stage of the formation of city-states (of course clannism/tribalism did still play a major role at such stages). Vencslas Krutas, who may be considere "the father of modern Celtic studies" considered that it was this "civilization" of La Tène Celts which aided Germanic expansion against them, because Germanics at that time were indeed still very tribal and uncivilized and they just destroyed the Celtic "oppida", and with them the Celtic socio-economic and political stability.
Wishing well: I wish for a video on the period between Artenacian (late Chalcolithic) to before La Tène (arrival of most celts to "Gaul", and those backward island offshore of it). I think it's a crucial period for the prehistory of France and of much of Europe and I can barely find anything online, not even in French (which I barely understand with great difficulty). I realize it's a long period (around 2000 years) but, considering the scarcity of data available, even a synthesis would be of great help.
That's a great idea Luis, although as you said it's a long period with scarcely any data. Right now, I don't think I have the knowledge and resources to discuss it (especially since I don't have a historian background) but in the future, when I have the resources to travel to archeological sites in France, interview specialists and hire a historian for fact-checking, then I hope to discuss some pre-Gallic French history. I hope that's alright.
@@ThisisBarris - Fair enough, I was just wishing and hoping: you're the only French historian (amateur as you may be, that's fine with me) who produces in English that I know but I understand it's challenging. I know what happened in the same period in Iberia but re. Gaul I only have a basic knowledge: Artenacian seems very important in all the West but I don't know enough on how it changes gradually (more individualist burials maybe) and what cultural groups can be defined afterwards until La Tène. I'm also intrigued re. Auvergne and the formation of the Arvernes, who claimed AFAIK to be the oldest of all Gauls of Gaul, which I suspect is very much parallel to that of Celtiberians further South (i.e. they might be derived from the Urnfields-Hallstatt early migration along the Rhône and Mediterranean coast and then pushed towards the mountains with the "Iberian (and Ligurian?) reconquest after the foundation of Marseilles). Other issues: Bell Beaker (I know some but mostly for the Rhône-Provence area), conflicts between Gauls and pre-Indoeuropeans (Ligurians, Iberians, ill-defined Alpine tribes) in the SE, even the chronology of La Tène penetration itself; I know the rough dates but I'm sure it was not a blitz: it must have taken a couple of centuries to consolidate such a large conquest, even in Caesar times we see the Helvetii attempting to expand it apparently into Aquitanian territory, so it was still at that time an ongoing process to some extent. Just an outline in case in the future you dare to study some of all this. Thanks for replying in any case.
Thank you for all that information. It's really great stuff and should give me a heads up for when I eventually discuss that very subject. Another thing that could be interesting is how this parallels with the Basque tribes and regions whose language is nothing like any other language in the world, which is pretty fascinating. I would suspect they were the oldest of all Gauls as opposed to the Avernii - unless you can't consider them Gauls as they spoke a non-Celtic language. It's something worth looking into.
@@ThisisBarris - They should not be considered Gauls, Gaul = Gael = Gallus = Celtic. Romans certainly used the term in that sense and IMO Gael or something similar was surely the most common endonyme for the wider ethnic group. Initially for Romans Gallia included North Italy and there are at least two other Celtic inhabited areas which carried similar names: Gallaecia (NW Hispania) and Galatia (in Asia Minor), this one was named by Greek speaking peoples, who otherwise tended to use the word "Keltos/-oi" (from which "Celt"), and who contracted them as frontier mercenaries after the La Tène invasions of the Balcans (via Serbia, where they probably left more obscure offshoots). Also it's well known that Irish (and by extension Scots) traditionally call themselves and their languages Gael(-ic). The naming of "Greater France" as "Gaul" (Gallia) was a process: first the name was generic for all Celtic regions, then the provinces of Gallia Cisalpina (North Italy) and Gallia Transalpina (Provence and Occitania) were created (soon after the 2nd Punic War), then Caesar had his war and conquered "all Gaul", which included two distinct specifically Gaulish provinces: Gallia Lugdunensis and Gallia Belgica and another non-Gaulish one: Aquitania (roughly Gascony and the Northern Basque Country, later Augustus would arbitrarily expand it to include Celtic areas as well). After Gallia Cisalpine was fully incorporated to Italy (the Roman "metropolitan nation", the non-province, where most free men were Roman citizens since the Social War), the term Gaul (Gallia) was more commonly used only for the continental region between the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rhine and the Ocean but it would not be until the Gallic Kingdom (which included Britain and sometimes Spain) when the term acquired a more definied political-administrative sense for a brief period, otherwise there was never a political Gaul. My take (conjecture) on the term "Celt", root: "Keltos" (Massilian Greek), is that it might be in origin a despective term from Vasconic origin (Iberian or Ligurian), probably something like modern Basque "keldo" = uncouth, dirty (other words in kel- are also insults), whether it was also a wordplay on "Gael" or even if the kel- family of despective words originated in the bad, hostile, relation between the older Vasconic peoples and the Celtic newcomers (since c. 1200 BCE in the Catalonia-Languedoc-Rhône corridor area of Urnfields culture) I can't say for sure, but it may be a natural extension of the previous hypothesis. In any case, of the three ethnicities involved in this linguistic formation the Greeks are the lattest arrival (c. 600 BCE) and their arrival is strongly correlated with the re-iberianization of Catalonia and Languedoc, which cut Iberian Celts from the continent, so Greeks should have adopted the word from the natives of the region. If they would have adopted it from the Celts, the logical outcome would have been Gallos (just as Latin produces Gallus), but instead they produced Keltos, why? As they seem to have worked closely with Iberians and Ligurians, I think that it is from these from which they took the ethnonym, hence "Celt" is an exonym, while "Gael" or "Gaul" is an endonym. They may still be related but via Vasconic reinterpretation, to put it mildly. So, conclusion, in any case Aquitanians were not Gaulish (Celtic) but Vasconics of the Basque or proto-Basque subtype. When the Helvetii attempted to migrate it seems they were set to invade yet another chunk of Aquitaine with local Gaulish aid, when Crassus the Younger conquered Aquitaine, the natives had no Gaulish allies, instead they got help from Iberia, with very unspecific "Cantabrians" being mentioned. Caesar's narration of the Aquitanian War ends mentioning that some of the most remote nations did not give hostages as agreed, taking advantage of the upcoming winter, however he lists the tribes that did give hostages and they reach all the way to the Pyrenees and the Adour, so my interpretation is that he meant "Aquitanians" from beyond the Adour, who would only be conquered later in the obscure conflicts that are prelude to the Cantabrian War (several proconsuls of Hispania Citerior "pacified" the province and held triumphs, at least one battle site is known from archaeology, Andagoste, not far from Vitoria-Gasteiz, and is dated to some years before the Cantabrian War).
Wow. Thanks Luis, this is terrific information. Like really. It's a level of detail and professionalism I couldn't hope to reach. Is it already if I use it as a basis for any videos on the subject? I'll make sure to give you a mention.
You really helped me understand this a lot better and it really feels breathtaking to find out who inspired the romans. I know this might not fit with the subject of your channel (being historically accurate), but could you explain the lore behind Asterix and Obelix for the next video? I really want to understand it more..
Thank you! I'm really glad you learned something. Unfortunately, that is outside of the scope of my channel. I hope you enjoy my other videos and merde!
Thank you, have been digging around my DNA, my mother's side is from Galway, Ireland but DNA says we are Gaul...also have a Greek father and that's full of Roman blood as well...I am proud of my Celtic heritage...I've always said I look Greek but have an Celtic heart...
It’s the ultimate irony: some « cons » are so proud of their stereotypes that they become the norm. Caricature becomes manifesto. To be clear what Barris was saying: Goscinny and Uderzo, the authors of Astérix, knowingly and consciously used every stereotype about the Gauls to make the adventures funny. But sometimes a joke comes back to bite you in the butt. Sometimes mockery doesn’t eliminate a stereotype but reinforces it. The authors were henceforth punished by having to eat overcooked wild pig at parties thrown for them.
great video. I made a presentation debunking Gaulish myths 2 years ago for my final exam. There were some informations in the videos I didn’t knew myself. Could have been very useful for me back then. :D
For that I’m not the best at talking in front of people it ended up being pretty good. Probably one of my best presentations. Preparing it was my favorite part tho. Went into many museums and bought a lot of books for gathering the informations.
Ahhhh I had all of these comics back in the day and though I loved them I did have my suspicions over some of their historical accuracy haha. Love me some history mate and this was well put together!
Thanks man! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. I loved these comics too - I literally have the entire collection until Uderzo's retirement. I inherited many of them from my mother so love them a lot. Well, I didn't expect a comic book to be historically accurate tbh haha but the truth is that many of these stereotypes aren't second-guessed or even shown in serious contexts like paintings/sculptures!
For me, the legwear shown here (3:52) is far more believable than in most of the reconstructive art today. I highly doubt the Gauls had the hanging trousers worn today, but perhaps I'm wrong.
Haha I actually meant to dig at the people from Brittany, but mistranslated it. But I think it turned out to be a good dig at the Britons too. Thanks for watching and subscribing Maya and merde!
Nice video, with lots of interesting info. I must say however that I recently saw the latest Asterix live-action movie (first time), and it was vastly more accurate than any recent documentaries in years, so it's okay in my book! 😅
I never took Asterix as a "real" depiction of History. After all authors mostly used it to comment on more contemporary events in France. And other parts of it's history. I only read Asterix in Polish - but to be fair, translations were done in wonderful way. And they always had long entries at the beginning explaining history, Latin phrases and inaccuracies.
Oh, me neither! It was just a cheeky way for me to spin this video. As I've said, I absolutely love the Astérix comics and grew up watching them. I don't remember the long entries though, I'll have to have a look again. Very interesting if they included that. Thanks for watching Jan and merde!
@@ThisisBarris Yeah. A lot of "Additional" entries (they didn't change the story or anything) - probably came from translators. And they were quite good and informative.
The fact that the Gauls had fortified cities with stone walls totally explains why Julius Caesar had to rely on diversion to conquer Alesia. Sure, the Romans had siege equipment, but building those took time, which Caesar didn't have. So he lured the main Gaul army away from Alesia, buying himself time to choke the city, forcing Vercingetorix to surrender.
Well I didn't say necessarily cleaner, but they were definitely not dirty barbarians as they are all too often depicted. Thank you for watching and I'm glad you enjoy it!
Its Wednesday today buddy. Guess what that means. NEW UPLOAD and today is the day you get your 100 subs!!!!! Wooooooooooooooo ! I'll congratulate you officially on your next video :)
*pressure intensifies* Thank you!!! I should have it out by 6PM EST and yeah, I think it's going to be an awesome vid ;) quite different to what I've done so far. I sure hope so! And I look forward to celebrate your 100th subscriber!
Barris! What happened to your mouth! Have you caught a virus? Great video my friend. I cant point out exactly what it is but this video is 10x better than your last. It's amazing really. Glad to see the shout out you gave Mercenary. I'm a fan of his as well. But in my opinion they DID wear winged helmets and you CANNOT take that away from me! With much love, MERDE!
Scaramucci! I just spent too much time trying to make it right and got sick of it so just let it be haha Thank you so much, my friend, it's always great to hear your comments. I think you enjoy it 10x more because, contrary to the previous one, you actually understand it xD but for real, I'm glad -- I was scared the slower, less-edited pace would bore people. And yeah, his video was great and it basically covered the points I was going to make it, so why repeat? It's also important to support each other as small channels! Exactly! That's the spit - just ignore any negative info. For example, I'm still convinced that Indiana Jones 4 never happened and nobody will change that. Thank you again Mooch! With much love, MERDE À TOI AUSSI!
The PARISII coin has the Macedonian king Phillip on it. He traded with them and showed them how to produce coins. So the Parisii put his face on their stator as a form of homage
Vercingetorix was pronounced wer-kin-ge-to-rich. The "g" being hard like in "gold", and the "ch" at the end there is pronounced like in German. Ver - Over, Superior Cingeto - Warrior Rix - King Great Warrior King
Obelix was in original OBILICH/OBILIĆ (traditional Serbian lastname) as were ALL LAST NAMES ENDING WITH -X or -IC/IS (-ich/-ić) because original GAULS/GALI were SERBIAN-SLAVIC PEOPLE who were in contact with CELTS, but they were the Old Europeans/Aryans/Serbs mixed with asiatic MONGOLOID R1B invadors of Europe from 3000-2500b.c. Serbian-Slavic warrior social class was named GRETI-GETI after serb. noun Greti-to go, as warriors who go to war. Synonims of Greti/Geti were GALI/GALS/GAULS, GOTI/GOTHS, HETI/HITTITS(middle east), HIKSI/HIXI(egipt) and KETI/CETI/CELTS so Old Europeans/Serbs/Aryans mixed with R1B MONGOLOIDS took the warrior name GETI that in time and their language that was mixed with Serbian-Slavic-Old Serbian language in time became KETI-CELTS. GAULIC LANGUAGE was changed after R1B mongoloid CELTINIZATION and later the biggest influence was it's LATINIZATION with VULGAR LATIN BY ROMANS and after that LATINIZATION with MODERN LATIN BY VATICAN and Catholic Church. ORIGINAL GAULS WERE SERBIAN/SLAVIC but till today Gaulic language still possesses thousand of SERBIAN-SLAVIC WORDS that official linguistics can't explain.
Yes, of course although a lot of that depended on where you lived - for example, sea villages would largely rely on fish and other sea products in their diets. However, hunting is a time consuming activity and when most of your time is already spent raising crops and taking care of animals (for wealthier individuals) then you don't really have time to hunt too. Cheap and readily available meat is a fairly recent luxury. Thank you for watching!
No, I don't think there is any proof of that - they minted a lot of coins! As I discussed in the video, these ideas come hand in hand with their wrong image of living in the forest and being one with nature, you know? I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm checking out your channel now
Wait: The Druids _forbid them from writing?_ Is there a source for that? I'm not necessarily trying to contradict you, but it is a very important cultural restriction and I had never heard anything about this. Granted, I haven't studied anything about Druidism except for a book on Celtic legends I read a decade ago; but I think it would be something that would be talked about them even more than their association with mistletoe and oaks.
Okay, so this was an overly simplification from my part that I meant to clarify on another video on the Druids that I never had the chance to make in the end. Maybe one day. Basically, the Druids, who were, among other things, Celtic scribes, were forbidden from writing down their own knowledge and had to transmit it in an oral manner - as such, we don't really have any texts describing their culture, history, and all from a Celtic perspective. The general populace couldn't really write either so we don't have texts from them either. It's also important to remember how diverse Gaul was - for example, in Southern Gaul, which had a large Roman and Greek influence, we have found many Gallic texts written in Greek, although once again, none of which discusses Druidic knowledge (as far as I know, although I will admit that I am no professional). I hope this clears things up. Thanks for watching and merde!
@@ThisisBarris I see; I understand the concept of a mystery religion whose tenets are forbidden from being transmitted to the uninitiated, of course (see the Eleusinian Mysteries or, until recently, Freemasonry). I suppose that if the scribes' guild is also the college of mystery priests, you'd have some difficulty getting someone to write _anything_ down for you... Thanks for the clarification!
This is Barris! If you’re ever tried of touching wiener and need something else I actually wouldn’t mind on seeing a video why Canadian and France French are so different. If you could get enough content for it of course
Yeah, I'll definitely a video about it one day but I already have a pile of themes to go through before that! Until then, though, I think Langfocus did a video on it, too. Thanks for the suggestion man!
Hum I don't know, sometimes I pronounce some names in French for that French touch haha and yes I know about the Celt pronunciation but when I made that video, I didn't and in French, we pronounce it selt. I've been corrected since and I'll make sure to pronounce it correctly from now on. Thanks for watching and merde!
Since the pre-conquest Gauls didn't write, they wouldn't have an orthography to follow, so the ones who _did_ write their names down, the Romans, would use their own conventions. Therefore, the right pronunciation would be something very close to /wɛrkɪŋˈɡɛtɔriːks/ which is how Caesar would pronounce the sequence VERCINGETORIX.
This happens so much in history. People get this image in their head of a history of a peoples, then they go their entire life thinking that image in their head is right. The on and tell others the same thongs, right or wrong... Happens all over the place. Another good example is how people dont teach or realize how celt tribes, like the gauls, inhabited large swaths of iberia aswell, and when a society is that large it has to impact the culture...yet you never hear people talk about it, theres like some romanticized image of those peoples. etc you get what im sayin, ppl crazy.
Yes, I agree! People often forget how extensive Celtic presence was in the Iberian presence. Or simply how extensive Celtic presence was allover Europe. Thanks for watching Jonathan and merde!
@@ThisisBarris When visiting spain, and examining local culture... ALL OVER the place its so obvious. You hear it in the music all over the country. Northern Portugal aswell. Alot of those people know their history, but the rest of the world gets tought a different version of history. This goes on all over the world though. I have alot of puerto rican friends for instance, and if you tell them that spanish came from "white europe" and that they probably definitley have that blood in them, they will argue with me. We live in a weird world. Just like i know dominicans that are clearly african, but they will argue till the sun goes down that they arent lol
Indeed, Vercingetorix is not in a vey good shape on that coin. And despite all roman civilization his cell doesn't look like a sutable place for having a six year long rest. I'm sure my face would have been even worse after such a vacation. And it's funny to realise that a lot of people still think that gauls were something like primitive savages, who run in the woods with naked butt. Great video, my friend! There was a lot of new information for me.
Yes, he lived in truly horrific condition. The prison cell was below another prison cell which itself was below ground. The cell was just above the sewers. Frankly, it kinda broke my heart to read about - I can only imagine how he felt having failed to save his people from the invaders and then stuck six years in that cell just waiting for his execution. It's just one of the many tragedies of the Conquest of Gaul, and why this event and Caesar's military "genius" shouldn't be acclaimed like they regularly are these days. What do you think? And yeah, people have a ridiculous image of them. As I said, I understand why I just think that they deserve a more accurate and less degrading depiction. I hope my video helped do just that in some way. Thank you my friend! I'm glad you enjoyed it - how did you find the pacing? I was scared it would be too slow/boring since I wanted to focus on research/educating. I also hope you enjoyed my shoutout to your video on horns. Thanks for watching and I look forward to your next video.
Because as always, winners can't be judged. But indeed he's broken a lot of lifes there and destroyed the entere civilisation. But it's war history and nobody would blame victors, especialy such popular as Caesar. In my humble opinion your video was fast and sharp as always. You have your own dynamic rythm and I like it. And I really appreciate that you've mentioned my video, thank you, my friend. And by the way. You should post your video on "reddit". There are plenty of historical communities there, you will get a lot of viewes.
I agree, I just think it's a shame. I find that too easily we ignore the causalities of these "leaders" - they look like mere numbers and since it happened hundreds of years ago, it's hard to sympathize. But if you think about it, they are still humans that didn't ask for anything. I just think it's a tragedy. Thank you, I'm glad to hear that then. It's taking time but I think I'm starting to find my own pace. And of course, always happy to support a friend. I posted this on /r/history and got my dumbass banned haha even though I made a 1,000 word essay about the subject. It's a shame they don't make the difference between spamming link and actually contributing to the sub. I'll try other ones though. Thank you!
Same story with that /history :) Better try this /fascinating /HistoryNetwork /MedievalHistory /WorldHistory They are much more democratic and friendly. •
Also they weren't a homogenous group either. They originated around modern day Austria, south Germany and Switzerland and expanded from there. By the time they reached Britain and Ireland it was only an elite replacement.
Yes. Unfortunately that's often the case and the fact that we have to rely on Roman/Greek sources, rather than Gallic ones, doesn't help. Always happy to see your comments Sagesse.
It's just a cheeky way to discuss myths about French history. As I have said repeatedly, I love Astérix & Obélix. Also not very nice calling my accent awful.
Wings on helmets are pretty equal to the Horns on helmets myth. Equally impractical in war-time, and probably only existed in the realms of written myths or ritual ceremonies (if it did exist.) But, that being said, both are such unique and fascinating images. You almost want it to exist. It's also such a nitpick that the question "so what if it existed or not and does it really matter?" always comes to my mind. If you're a Historian: Yes, be as historically accurate as possible, please. If you're in The Realm of Fiction: I don't see it being that big of a deal surrounding yourself with mythical images, myths surrounding our history should be kept alive too.
Yes, I totally understand what you mean and I agree, horns on helmets is just something that adds to the Gallic character but the thing with myths is that they can embellish as much as they tarnish. For example, that the Gauls were filthy barbarians that were uneducated and all. If I want to break those myths, it seems like I need to break them all. I can't just cherry pick what I like and dislike, no? Thank you for watching!
Oh I definitely agree! As I've mentioned, I absolutely love Astérix. I was just cheekily pointing out its mistakes and use that as a way to (hopefully) teach something about the Gauls. Thanks for watching and merde!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed. I'm just saying, if you make a cover of the Asterix against Ceasar theme, I'll love you forever: ua-cam.com/video/1ElPTXAOrIg/v-deo.html
Once you know the rules, you're free to brake them! Besides, history provides us with the ingredients. The recipe is up to the imagination of the artist, and the proof is in the pudding for the reader, as they say.
DISGUSTING !!! Barris just DESTROYED my Childhood !!! I gonna sit in the corner reading my Vintage Pif Gadgets 😭 rocking very slowly .... (Well done Barris for such a Well researched Video !!! ❤️)
You're right! It was just the way I decided to frame the video. Also, Astérix is one of the few times people will learn about the Gauls so I think it's important for people to remember that it's not accurate and why. Nevertheless, I still love the series. Thanks for watching and merde!
Oh my!!! Did you know Barris that Ducks, Dogs and Mice do not speak either live in a town like Duckcity, etc, Like Donald Duck, Goofy or Mickey Mouse. ;)
@@ThisisBarris hahaha, I love to see that. You are a tribute to a little sarcasm trown at you. My compliments. I had to laugh hard about your reactions. ;)
Pretty much destroyed the fantasy of these ancient folks being gallic/celtic versions of germanics. They were actually genetically, culturally and linguistically closer to Italics like the Latins just a bit more Yamnaya ancestry.
Since when is the historical accuracy of a comic book important at all ? Did Superman live in Smallville or Metropolis ? There is the accuracy a major subject.
@@ThisisBarris Cacophonix was gagged and bound to a tree trunk in the end of each chapter with creative manner, in order to prevent him from singing his terrible lauds and songs. He's regarded as a mascot of the comic series Asterix. Thanks for informing the original name.
A Ster Rix Means king of the North Star. It is Belgium/Dutch. Ster is Dutch for Star. Rix means King. Let me start the vid and see if I make it to the end of it.
Obelix carries his manners. (menhir./manieren/mijnheer) with him. Principles like a rock. Holy rock. Besides that it is actually surprising accurate. The lifting on the shield is a hint that there is a Germanic influence in the actual village.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 from the Bible ❤
In France, we spell Celts with an "s" sound, not a "k". Since then, numerous people have pointed out that pronunciation mistake and I will make sure to not do it again.
Almost no sources, you're just spitting some random facts. And what aggravates me most - countless items in our history were invented multiple times in different places, so Gauls are among many other cultures that “invented” barrels or soap. It's not like they were the source of those inventions for the whole world.
Hello everyone,
Sorry for the late upload! I didn't want to put out a video on Halloween to maintain the illusion of a social life...
From time to time, I'm going to make longer and less-edited videos so I can really focus on the research and education part - I hope you guys still enjoy these videos. If not, no worries, the other formats will be back quickly!
Also, I received a few complaints about the moving head so decided to keep it still until I find something better to do with it. Any ideas? I'm considering just getting rid of it.
Thanks for watching my friends.
Cheers,
This is Barris!
I like the talking head lmao!
But yea, maybe he could come back and leave from time to time. Dont remove him completly!
@@Moochers I liked it too! But the people have spoke Mooch, the people have spoken. No I'll just work on it more and find something - I think it's just a question of, as you say, leave it from time to time but also slow it down.
@@ThisisBarris let HIM decide !
if you use after effects theres a plugin to automatically lip sync a image to audio haven't used it yet but seems good
I don’t care about the real facts when it comes to Asterix. It is fun reading and watching. vibe La Gaul!
I definitely agree! Asterix is my whole childhood but I still think it shouldn't shape your actual belief of Gauls.
So true
We don’t care...leave our beloved Asterix alone.
I feel like Gauls, and Celtics people in general, are finally being given the place that they deserve in History, having being considered for so long as a "lower" civilisation.
I agree. For too long they've been painted as uncivilized and uncultured, which is a travesty. I hope this video helped educate some about how wrong that is. Thanks for watching and merde!
This is Barris! pareillement 😂🤣👍🏻
That’s true. Many people, even in France, believe that the romans brought civilization to the gauls. They brought roman civilization, that’s not the same
@@marc-antoinerave2572 roman gave them acqueducts, even if they were still a culture for sure the romans made them better
@@marc-antoinerave2572 No. The Romans brought Greek civilisation since The Tomans became fully Hellenized after their conquest of Greece in 146 BC. In my opinion The Romans culture is actually Greco-Etruscan culture and Romans only spreaded it to the Celtic lands.
"...the Britons, who, much like today, were always kind of backwards..." Yes! You maintain the balance in the Anglo Frankish rivalry. Glad to see a Frenchy firing back in the fun and games :)
Hahha I actually meant Britons from Brittany, but I'll allow it ;) Merde!
The myth that their names always ended in "ix" is because a large amount of their leaders had names ended in "rix", which is a suffix that means "king". But even some gallic leaders, like Brennus, Divico and Boduognatus, didn't have names ending in "rix"
Wich is similar to the latin "rex" maybe a common indoeuropean root?
@@arx3516 Yes it is cognate of rex
@@justinnamuco9096 this could mean that ancient gaul language had composite words like modern german.
@@arx3516 it did! Check out Steve Hansen's work
In Wales there are a number of us still speaking the ancient language of the Gauls. Despite many attempts on its life, the language and its unique perspective still exists.
I still like the mythical gauls.
Oh yeah, me too! I'll always be a fan of Asterix. Basically my childhood. I hope you enjoyed the video nevertheless.
Well atleast they still have the magic potion . Lets see how you debunk that
There is nothing to debunk since the magic potion is France's secret weapon! Thanks for watching Sagnik and merde.
You know what you do the best? It’s the little preview and intro into the main video. It’s so engaging and well done
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that. I really wanted to make a parody of Asterix' usual intro but I was scared it'll be too long since people tend to leave if you don't dive right into the subject, but it seems to have worked out fine!
Oh man that British joke cut me deep at 3:00 lol. Great video though, your editing is getting much better!
I meant the Britons as in those who live in Bretagne! But I guess that also works as a British joke, too haha
Thank you mean, I'm glad to hear that. I look forward to your next videos.
@@ThisisBarris In English it is spelt Breton and pronounced Bree-ton.
I was looking for someone who actually knew what they were talking about and wasn't just regurgitating wikipedia! You have my deepest respect and gratitude.
Thank you Leon! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Merde!
@@ThisisBarris I have a question that you might be able to answer. I'm curious about regional mythology that would be uniquely french. Besides the Lycanthrope, who's popularity speaks for itself. I was wondering if you knew of any regional legends or tales that heavily influenced culture. Everything I find online forcibly labels it all "Pagan" and "Celtic" but we both know that's wrong.
I am an amateur historian from America. Louisville, Ky to be precise... And I LOVE your videos! Great content and enjoyable to watch! Thanks!
Thank you! I'm happy to hear that. I hope you keep enjoying my videos and merde!
I adored the hell out of these comics, but of course never never really took to them for historical accuracy... But even so, I wouldn't have thought someone could make such an incredibly educative video out of it! This video, along with the rest of your videos uploaded thus far, have been incredibly entertaining! You definitely deserve more viewers with the amount of wit and effort you throw into these videos, so I really look forward to seeing more of them! :D
Thank you man! I'm embarrassed by how much I learnt making these videos, I don't think it's so much because of Astérix but also their overall depiction in media/children history books etc. I still love Astérix but I'm glad to see that I was able to break some of these myths in this video.
And thank you very much! I put a lot of heart into these videos so always happy to see others enjoy it, too. I really look forward to seeing more of your great videos because you definitely deserve more viewers!
I think that's a really good point that younger generations have different styles than their parents, much like today!
Exactly! I think it's easy to bundle it all as the "past" but, as today, people changed over time. Thank you for watching!
great content and one of my favorite history channels. Keep up the good work!
I’m glad I found this gem Chanel!!!
And I'm glad you find it too Juanito! Thank you for watching and merde.
This is great stuff. Keep churning it out!
Thank you Latney! It's great viewers like you that give me the motivation to keep it up so I appreciate it. I hope you enjoy my future videos, too.
Merci, Barris! My ancestors came from France and my family name is the same as the tribe located on your map just south of where Calais is today. It is not easy to find information about my people's past whether they were Gauls, Romans, Basques, or Franks. Thank you so much for your video. A plus tarde!
I either always learn something, laugh or both with your videos! Love the content and missed it while you were off travelling the world bro! Glad you're back with a bang :)
Hello Pooj,
Thank you for watching the video! I'm glad to hear that I'm able to do both, that's what I aim for although this video focused more on the education part.
I am definitely back with a bang! And you should expect more to come soon! Looking forward to your next review :)
I just realized how many subscribers you've gained - congrats!!!
@@ThisisBarris I look forward to them then! My fiance got home a little while ago - I'll let her know you've got a new video on, she loves educational ones!
@@ThisisBarris Thanks re subs - a big movie reviewer I follow gave me a shoutout so I got lucky! :)
Thank you! Let me know if she enjoyed it, too.
And that's awesome of him - I love it when big UA-camrs help out smaller ones and I hope to do it too once I become significant enough.
Very cool video! Thank you Barris! I always like learning about ancient Celts!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And the Celts are very interesting, I should probably make more videos on them. Merde!
This is a seriously well done video , I don't know why it isn't more viewed
Thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I agree, it should be watched more! Haha with time.
I hope you enjoy my future videos.
Well it’s a very new channel still so it’s gonna take some time for it to grow into something which I’m hoping it will his channel is promising. Wish him the best!
Hey Tommy,
Sorry, I just saw your comment, UA-cam doesn't notice me for every one of them, unfortunately.
You're absolutely right, I'm just too small right now to expect any kinds of view but I'll keep working and hopefully one day! Thank you for your support, it really means a lot and helps tremendously.
I'm here to mention as of today, the newest expansion to Civilization 6 will feature the Gauls as a playable civ. The leader hasn't been announced yet, but signs point to Vercingetorix.
That's pretty exciting, although I hope they didn't create a historical inaccurate caricature as it's all too often the case.
Turns out it was Ambiorix, who is more a hero to Belgium, if I recall correctly.
Everyone should ask his grandlaremts who have rural origins how often they themselves or their parents ate meat.
My grandmother usually ate fresh meat once a month, and she came from a rural middle class family.
There were no refrigerators, most meat was cured.
If our grandparents didn't eat so often, how does one expect who lived thousands of years ago to eat meat constantly.
Exactly. And hunting wasn't a common thing back then but only reserved to nobles really. I think we don't appreciate enough how modern our abundance of meat is. Thank you for watching Mystery Man!
Because your grandparents didn't have Getafix's magic potion so they can hunt boars in the forest, of course!
Our ancestors were badass, not a bunch of naked warriors.
I agree! Sick of all these ridiculous stereotypes. Toujours heureux de voir d'autre français sur ma chaîne :)
@@ThisisBarris
I have both Gaelic and Aztec ancestry, and trust me, here, they even dare to depict Aztecs as savages and naked warriors.
I am so proud of my heritage, and i don't know if one of my ancestors was truly a warrior, i just hope he was.
Ní Fraincis mé, ach tá sinsearacht cheilteach againn.
That's a pretty awesome mix. My ex was Zapotec so I definitely loved learning about her heritage - I find that Latin/meso-south-american culture and history is fascinating and had a great time when I went to Mexico and Peru. And I do agree that I hate when they depict Aztecs or Gauls or anybody as savages. It's just plain wrong.
The issue is that some Celts did take pride on fighting naked, at least according to Roman sources, they also enjoyed dying their hair blond for some reason (racial prejudice?) and this seems to have been more common among the Picts (who many think were Celts, although it is still an open debate AFAIK). Their military was never as good as that of Romans in any case (except the cavalry, which was better) largely because they lacked the state military mindset of the Romans, who were very unique in this in that age anyhow. Also Romans had some prejudice against Western peoples in general that has permeated into modern historiography, at least the pop kind, so they differentiated between urbs and oppidum, even if some or even many Celtic (and other Western) fortified towns were rather sophisticated and large towns. We have thus inherited the idea that they were "tribal", when in fact they were in a less advanced stage of the formation of city-states (of course clannism/tribalism did still play a major role at such stages). Vencslas Krutas, who may be considere "the father of modern Celtic studies" considered that it was this "civilization" of La Tène Celts which aided Germanic expansion against them, because Germanics at that time were indeed still very tribal and uncivilized and they just destroyed the Celtic "oppida", and with them the Celtic socio-economic and political stability.
@@LuisAldamiz
Thanks for such information, it is really helpful.
An absolutely fantastic video, good job.
Thank you very much! Always means a lot to receive comments like that. I hope you enjoy my future videos, too.
Salut, Barris. Great content. Je suis impressionne'.
Merci beaucoup James!
Wishing well: I wish for a video on the period between Artenacian (late Chalcolithic) to before La Tène (arrival of most celts to "Gaul", and those backward island offshore of it). I think it's a crucial period for the prehistory of France and of much of Europe and I can barely find anything online, not even in French (which I barely understand with great difficulty). I realize it's a long period (around 2000 years) but, considering the scarcity of data available, even a synthesis would be of great help.
That's a great idea Luis, although as you said it's a long period with scarcely any data. Right now, I don't think I have the knowledge and resources to discuss it (especially since I don't have a historian background) but in the future, when I have the resources to travel to archeological sites in France, interview specialists and hire a historian for fact-checking, then I hope to discuss some pre-Gallic French history. I hope that's alright.
@@ThisisBarris - Fair enough, I was just wishing and hoping: you're the only French historian (amateur as you may be, that's fine with me) who produces in English that I know but I understand it's challenging.
I know what happened in the same period in Iberia but re. Gaul I only have a basic knowledge: Artenacian seems very important in all the West but I don't know enough on how it changes gradually (more individualist burials maybe) and what cultural groups can be defined afterwards until La Tène. I'm also intrigued re. Auvergne and the formation of the Arvernes, who claimed AFAIK to be the oldest of all Gauls of Gaul, which I suspect is very much parallel to that of Celtiberians further South (i.e. they might be derived from the Urnfields-Hallstatt early migration along the Rhône and Mediterranean coast and then pushed towards the mountains with the "Iberian (and Ligurian?) reconquest after the foundation of Marseilles). Other issues: Bell Beaker (I know some but mostly for the Rhône-Provence area), conflicts between Gauls and pre-Indoeuropeans (Ligurians, Iberians, ill-defined Alpine tribes) in the SE, even the chronology of La Tène penetration itself; I know the rough dates but I'm sure it was not a blitz: it must have taken a couple of centuries to consolidate such a large conquest, even in Caesar times we see the Helvetii attempting to expand it apparently into Aquitanian territory, so it was still at that time an ongoing process to some extent.
Just an outline in case in the future you dare to study some of all this. Thanks for replying in any case.
Thank you for all that information. It's really great stuff and should give me a heads up for when I eventually discuss that very subject.
Another thing that could be interesting is how this parallels with the Basque tribes and regions whose language is nothing like any other language in the world, which is pretty fascinating. I would suspect they were the oldest of all Gauls as opposed to the Avernii - unless you can't consider them Gauls as they spoke a non-Celtic language. It's something worth looking into.
@@ThisisBarris - They should not be considered Gauls, Gaul = Gael = Gallus = Celtic. Romans certainly used the term in that sense and IMO Gael or something similar was surely the most common endonyme for the wider ethnic group. Initially for Romans Gallia included North Italy and there are at least two other Celtic inhabited areas which carried similar names: Gallaecia (NW Hispania) and Galatia (in Asia Minor), this one was named by Greek speaking peoples, who otherwise tended to use the word "Keltos/-oi" (from which "Celt"), and who contracted them as frontier mercenaries after the La Tène invasions of the Balcans (via Serbia, where they probably left more obscure offshoots). Also it's well known that Irish (and by extension Scots) traditionally call themselves and their languages Gael(-ic).
The naming of "Greater France" as "Gaul" (Gallia) was a process: first the name was generic for all Celtic regions, then the provinces of Gallia Cisalpina (North Italy) and Gallia Transalpina (Provence and Occitania) were created (soon after the 2nd Punic War), then Caesar had his war and conquered "all Gaul", which included two distinct specifically Gaulish provinces: Gallia Lugdunensis and Gallia Belgica and another non-Gaulish one: Aquitania (roughly Gascony and the Northern Basque Country, later Augustus would arbitrarily expand it to include Celtic areas as well). After Gallia Cisalpine was fully incorporated to Italy (the Roman "metropolitan nation", the non-province, where most free men were Roman citizens since the Social War), the term Gaul (Gallia) was more commonly used only for the continental region between the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rhine and the Ocean but it would not be until the Gallic Kingdom (which included Britain and sometimes Spain) when the term acquired a more definied political-administrative sense for a brief period, otherwise there was never a political Gaul.
My take (conjecture) on the term "Celt", root: "Keltos" (Massilian Greek), is that it might be in origin a despective term from Vasconic origin (Iberian or Ligurian), probably something like modern Basque "keldo" = uncouth, dirty (other words in kel- are also insults), whether it was also a wordplay on "Gael" or even if the kel- family of despective words originated in the bad, hostile, relation between the older Vasconic peoples and the Celtic newcomers (since c. 1200 BCE in the Catalonia-Languedoc-Rhône corridor area of Urnfields culture) I can't say for sure, but it may be a natural extension of the previous hypothesis. In any case, of the three ethnicities involved in this linguistic formation the Greeks are the lattest arrival (c. 600 BCE) and their arrival is strongly correlated with the re-iberianization of Catalonia and Languedoc, which cut Iberian Celts from the continent, so Greeks should have adopted the word from the natives of the region. If they would have adopted it from the Celts, the logical outcome would have been Gallos (just as Latin produces Gallus), but instead they produced Keltos, why? As they seem to have worked closely with Iberians and Ligurians, I think that it is from these from which they took the ethnonym, hence "Celt" is an exonym, while "Gael" or "Gaul" is an endonym. They may still be related but via Vasconic reinterpretation, to put it mildly.
So, conclusion, in any case Aquitanians were not Gaulish (Celtic) but Vasconics of the Basque or proto-Basque subtype. When the Helvetii attempted to migrate it seems they were set to invade yet another chunk of Aquitaine with local Gaulish aid, when Crassus the Younger conquered Aquitaine, the natives had no Gaulish allies, instead they got help from Iberia, with very unspecific "Cantabrians" being mentioned. Caesar's narration of the Aquitanian War ends mentioning that some of the most remote nations did not give hostages as agreed, taking advantage of the upcoming winter, however he lists the tribes that did give hostages and they reach all the way to the Pyrenees and the Adour, so my interpretation is that he meant "Aquitanians" from beyond the Adour, who would only be conquered later in the obscure conflicts that are prelude to the Cantabrian War (several proconsuls of Hispania Citerior "pacified" the province and held triumphs, at least one battle site is known from archaeology, Andagoste, not far from Vitoria-Gasteiz, and is dated to some years before the Cantabrian War).
Wow. Thanks Luis, this is terrific information. Like really. It's a level of detail and professionalism I couldn't hope to reach. Is it already if I use it as a basis for any videos on the subject? I'll make sure to give you a mention.
You really helped me understand this a lot better and it really feels breathtaking to find out who inspired the romans.
I know this might not fit with the subject of your channel (being historically accurate), but could you explain the lore behind Asterix and Obelix for the next video? I really want to understand it more..
Thank you! I'm really glad you learned something. Unfortunately, that is outside of the scope of my channel. I hope you enjoy my other videos and merde!
Thank you, have been digging around my DNA, my mother's side is from Galway, Ireland but DNA says we are Gaul...also have a Greek father and that's full of Roman blood as well...I am proud of my Celtic heritage...I've always said I look Greek but have an Celtic heart...
I say hello to my gaulish sister
It’s the ultimate irony: some « cons » are so proud of their stereotypes that they become the norm. Caricature becomes manifesto.
To be clear what Barris was saying: Goscinny and Uderzo, the authors of Astérix, knowingly and consciously used every stereotype about the Gauls to make the adventures funny. But sometimes a joke comes back to bite you in the butt. Sometimes mockery doesn’t eliminate a stereotype but reinforces it.
The authors were henceforth punished by having to eat overcooked wild pig at parties thrown for them.
Hahha love the metaphor! Couldn't have put it better Frank
Merci! 😁
great video. I made a presentation debunking Gaulish myths 2 years ago for my final exam. There were some informations in the videos I didn’t knew myself. Could have been very useful for me back then. :D
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it and happy to hear you made a presentation about this. Did you get a good grade? Merde!
For that I’m not the best at talking in front of people it ended up being pretty good. Probably one of my best presentations. Preparing it was my favorite part tho. Went into many museums and bought a lot of books for gathering the informations.
That's awesome! Keep it up.
Ahhhh I had all of these comics back in the day and though I loved them I did have my suspicions over some of their historical accuracy haha. Love me some history mate and this was well put together!
Thanks man! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. I loved these comics too - I literally have the entire collection until Uderzo's retirement. I inherited many of them from my mother so love them a lot.
Well, I didn't expect a comic book to be historically accurate tbh haha but the truth is that many of these stereotypes aren't second-guessed or even shown in serious contexts like paintings/sculptures!
Hello, sorry I am late to the party. This video is well written and quite entertaining. The faster pace does wonders :)
All good man! Just happy you took the time to watch at all :) thank you!
I like the real Gauls. People don’t think of French people as Celtic.
Hello Barris. Would you one day explain the Viking-Frank wars?
Yes I definitely intend to discuss it especially regarding the Normans!
Are you telling me that the Gauls didn't actually hunt wild boars on foot after ingesting a potion of superstrength?
I feel so disillusioned...
I know, it broke my heard to find out as well... Merde!
thanks ! From France.
Ravi de voir un francophone. Merde!
'Get a fix'.😂😂
For me, the legwear shown here (3:52) is far more believable than in most of the reconstructive art today. I highly doubt the Gauls had the hanging trousers worn today, but perhaps I'm wrong.
Nice dig at the Britons there.
Haha I actually meant to dig at the people from Brittany, but mistranslated it. But I think it turned out to be a good dig at the Britons too. Thanks for watching and subscribing Maya and merde!
Nice video, with lots of interesting info. I must say however that I recently saw the latest Asterix live-action movie (first time), and it was vastly more accurate than any recent documentaries in years, so it's okay in my book! 😅
0:31 The music ?
"Summer" by Vivaldi
@@ThisisBarris Grazie monsieur !!
@@ThisisBarris Correction, it's Winter (Vivaldi).
I'll still adore the cartoons, but this video was very informing.
Oh I adore them too. They're literally my childhood. Glad you found it informing. Merde!
Excellent
Thank you Andrei! I really appreciate it. Merde!
I never took Asterix as a "real" depiction of History. After all authors mostly used it to comment on more contemporary events in France. And other parts of it's history.
I only read Asterix in Polish - but to be fair, translations were done in wonderful way. And they always had long entries at the beginning explaining history, Latin phrases and inaccuracies.
Oh, me neither! It was just a cheeky way for me to spin this video. As I've said, I absolutely love the Astérix comics and grew up watching them. I don't remember the long entries though, I'll have to have a look again. Very interesting if they included that. Thanks for watching Jan and merde!
@@ThisisBarris Yeah. A lot of "Additional" entries (they didn't change the story or anything) - probably came from translators. And they were quite good and informative.
Just found this channel, gonna subscribe in case you ever come back. Nice video!
I will! I swear! Thank you for the subscribe :)
Celts also invented the delicious omelette
That's great to know! Only makes them even cooler - thanks for watching Francesco and merde!
Enjoyable video.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy my other videos too. Merde!
Merci.
Avec plaisir. Thanks for watching Peter and merde!
The fact that the Gauls had fortified cities with stone walls totally explains why Julius Caesar had to rely on diversion to conquer Alesia. Sure, the Romans had siege equipment, but building those took time, which Caesar didn't have. So he lured the main Gaul army away from Alesia, buying himself time to choke the city, forcing Vercingetorix to surrender.
What?!? gauls were cleaner than romans. What about these giant baths?
Ur stuff is amazing yo
Well I didn't say necessarily cleaner, but they were definitely not dirty barbarians as they are all too often depicted. Thank you for watching and I'm glad you enjoy it!
Nice video altough its beyond me how one recognizes clean hair on a coin.
Ha, that's a fair point! Just quoting the archeologist but definitely a fair point. I'm glad you enjoyed it thought. Merde!
In Asterix the author wanted to differentiate the gauls from the romans as much as possible.
Brennus was not a name also, but a latinized title that in celtic language means “chief” or “leader”.
Its Wednesday today buddy. Guess what that means. NEW UPLOAD and today is the day you get your 100 subs!!!!! Wooooooooooooooo ! I'll congratulate you officially on your next video :)
*pressure intensifies*
Thank you!!! I should have it out by 6PM EST and yeah, I think it's going to be an awesome vid ;) quite different to what I've done so far.
I sure hope so! And I look forward to celebrate your 100th subscriber!
The supplying
Barris! What happened to your mouth! Have you caught a virus?
Great video my friend. I cant point out exactly what it is but this video is 10x better than your last. It's amazing really. Glad to see the shout out you gave Mercenary. I'm a fan of his as well. But in my opinion they DID wear winged helmets and you CANNOT take that away from me! With much love, MERDE!
Scaramucci! I just spent too much time trying to make it right and got sick of it so just let it be haha
Thank you so much, my friend, it's always great to hear your comments. I think you enjoy it 10x more because, contrary to the previous one, you actually understand it xD but for real, I'm glad -- I was scared the slower, less-edited pace would bore people. And yeah, his video was great and it basically covered the points I was going to make it, so why repeat? It's also important to support each other as small channels!
Exactly! That's the spit - just ignore any negative info. For example, I'm still convinced that Indiana Jones 4 never happened and nobody will change that.
Thank you again Mooch! With much love, MERDE À TOI AUSSI!
The PARISII coin has the Macedonian king Phillip on it. He traded with them and showed them how to produce coins. So the Parisii put his face on their stator as a form of homage
Vercingetorix was pronounced wer-kin-ge-to-rich. The "g" being hard like in "gold", and the "ch" at the end there is pronounced like in German.
Ver - Over, Superior
Cingeto - Warrior
Rix - King
Great Warrior King
Not how we pronounce it in French and I’m French, so
I'm still heartbroken to learn that gauls didn't, in fact, carry any menhirs on their backs 😭
me too :(
Obelix was in original OBILICH/OBILIĆ (traditional Serbian lastname) as were ALL LAST NAMES ENDING WITH -X or -IC/IS (-ich/-ić) because original GAULS/GALI were SERBIAN-SLAVIC PEOPLE who were in contact with CELTS, but they were the Old Europeans/Aryans/Serbs mixed with asiatic MONGOLOID R1B invadors of Europe from 3000-2500b.c. Serbian-Slavic warrior social class was named GRETI-GETI after serb. noun Greti-to go, as warriors who go to war. Synonims of Greti/Geti were GALI/GALS/GAULS, GOTI/GOTHS, HETI/HITTITS(middle east), HIKSI/HIXI(egipt) and KETI/CETI/CELTS so Old Europeans/Serbs/Aryans mixed with R1B MONGOLOIDS took the warrior name GETI that in time and their language that was mixed with Serbian-Slavic-Old Serbian language in time became KETI-CELTS.
GAULIC LANGUAGE was changed after R1B mongoloid CELTINIZATION and later the biggest influence was it's LATINIZATION with VULGAR LATIN BY ROMANS and after that LATINIZATION with MODERN LATIN BY VATICAN and Catholic Church.
ORIGINAL GAULS WERE SERBIAN/SLAVIC but till today Gaulic language still possesses thousand of SERBIAN-SLAVIC WORDS that official linguistics can't explain.
How rare was meat anyway? Wouldn't the Gallic peoples have fish, birds, or pork to rely on? Did they really just eat grains?
Yes, of course although a lot of that depended on where you lived - for example, sea villages would largely rely on fish and other sea products in their diets. However, hunting is a time consuming activity and when most of your time is already spent raising crops and taking care of animals (for wealthier individuals) then you don't really have time to hunt too. Cheap and readily available meat is a fairly recent luxury. Thank you for watching!
but the gaul believces that money should make there mind weak right? i heard that why we could hunt pretty good especially with bows. nice video bro
eburone out :p
No, I don't think there is any proof of that - they minted a lot of coins! As I discussed in the video, these ideas come hand in hand with their wrong image of living in the forest and being one with nature, you know?
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm checking out your channel now
I love this guy! 😂😂😂
Wait: The Druids _forbid them from writing?_ Is there a source for that? I'm not necessarily trying to contradict you, but it is a very important cultural restriction and I had never heard anything about this. Granted, I haven't studied anything about Druidism except for a book on Celtic legends I read a decade ago; but I think it would be something that would be talked about them even more than their association with mistletoe and oaks.
Okay, so this was an overly simplification from my part that I meant to clarify on another video on the Druids that I never had the chance to make in the end. Maybe one day.
Basically, the Druids, who were, among other things, Celtic scribes, were forbidden from writing down their own knowledge and had to transmit it in an oral manner - as such, we don't really have any texts describing their culture, history, and all from a Celtic perspective. The general populace couldn't really write either so we don't have texts from them either.
It's also important to remember how diverse Gaul was - for example, in Southern Gaul, which had a large Roman and Greek influence, we have found many Gallic texts written in Greek, although once again, none of which discusses Druidic knowledge (as far as I know, although I will admit that I am no professional).
I hope this clears things up. Thanks for watching and merde!
@@ThisisBarris I see; I understand the concept of a mystery religion whose tenets are forbidden from being transmitted to the uninitiated, of course (see the Eleusinian Mysteries or, until recently, Freemasonry). I suppose that if the scribes' guild is also the college of mystery priests, you'd have some difficulty getting someone to write _anything_ down for you... Thanks for the clarification!
That was the most wang doodles I have ever seen in a video. Well done sir
I've realized that my hobby mainly consists of looking up drawn cocks online. As Mike Rowe says, "it's a dirty job but somebody gotta do it!"
This is Barris! If you’re ever tried of touching wiener and need something else I actually wouldn’t mind on seeing a video why Canadian and France French are so different. If you could get enough content for it of course
Yeah, I'll definitely a video about it one day but I already have a pile of themes to go through before that! Until then, though, I think Langfocus did a video on it, too. Thanks for the suggestion man!
Why do you say Vercingetorix in a french accent? Like it was the authentic way to say it? Also, it is Kelt not selt.
Hum I don't know, sometimes I pronounce some names in French for that French touch haha and yes I know about the Celt pronunciation but when I made that video, I didn't and in French, we pronounce it selt. I've been corrected since and I'll make sure to pronounce it correctly from now on. Thanks for watching and merde!
He probably said it with a French accent because he has a French accent as far as I can tell.
Since the pre-conquest Gauls didn't write, they wouldn't have an orthography to follow, so the ones who _did_ write their names down, the Romans, would use their own conventions. Therefore, the right pronunciation would be something very close to /wɛrkɪŋˈɡɛtɔriːks/ which is how Caesar would pronounce the sequence VERCINGETORIX.
This happens so much in history. People get this image in their head of a history of a peoples, then they go their entire life thinking that image in their head is right. The on and tell others the same thongs, right or wrong... Happens all over the place. Another good example is how people dont teach or realize how celt tribes, like the gauls, inhabited large swaths of iberia aswell, and when a society is that large it has to impact the culture...yet you never hear people talk about it, theres like some romanticized image of those peoples. etc you get what im sayin, ppl crazy.
Yes, I agree! People often forget how extensive Celtic presence was in the Iberian presence. Or simply how extensive Celtic presence was allover Europe. Thanks for watching Jonathan and merde!
@@ThisisBarris When visiting spain, and examining local culture... ALL OVER the place its so obvious. You hear it in the music all over the country. Northern Portugal aswell. Alot of those people know their history, but the rest of the world gets tought a different version of history. This goes on all over the world though. I have alot of puerto rican friends for instance, and if you tell them that spanish came from "white europe" and that they probably definitley have that blood in them, they will argue with me. We live in a weird world. Just like i know dominicans that are clearly african, but they will argue till the sun goes down that they arent lol
Indeed, Vercingetorix is not in a vey good shape on that coin. And despite all roman civilization his cell doesn't look like a sutable place for having a six year long rest. I'm sure my face would have been even worse after such a vacation. And it's funny to realise that a lot of people still think that gauls were something like primitive savages, who run in the woods with naked butt.
Great video, my friend! There was a lot of new information for me.
Yes, he lived in truly horrific condition. The prison cell was below another prison cell which itself was below ground. The cell was just above the sewers. Frankly, it kinda broke my heart to read about - I can only imagine how he felt having failed to save his people from the invaders and then stuck six years in that cell just waiting for his execution. It's just one of the many tragedies of the Conquest of Gaul, and why this event and Caesar's military "genius" shouldn't be acclaimed like they regularly are these days. What do you think?
And yeah, people have a ridiculous image of them. As I said, I understand why I just think that they deserve a more accurate and less degrading depiction. I hope my video helped do just that in some way.
Thank you my friend! I'm glad you enjoyed it - how did you find the pacing? I was scared it would be too slow/boring since I wanted to focus on research/educating. I also hope you enjoyed my shoutout to your video on horns. Thanks for watching and I look forward to your next video.
Because as always, winners can't be judged. But indeed he's broken a lot of lifes there and destroyed the entere civilisation. But it's war history and nobody would blame victors, especialy such popular as Caesar.
In my humble opinion your video was fast and sharp as always. You have your own dynamic rythm and I like it. And I really appreciate that you've mentioned my video, thank you, my friend.
And by the way. You should post your video on "reddit". There are plenty of historical communities there, you will get a lot of viewes.
I agree, I just think it's a shame. I find that too easily we ignore the causalities of these "leaders" - they look like mere numbers and since it happened hundreds of years ago, it's hard to sympathize. But if you think about it, they are still humans that didn't ask for anything. I just think it's a tragedy.
Thank you, I'm glad to hear that then. It's taking time but I think I'm starting to find my own pace. And of course, always happy to support a friend.
I posted this on /r/history and got my dumbass banned haha even though I made a 1,000 word essay about the subject. It's a shame they don't make the difference between spamming link and actually contributing to the sub. I'll try other ones though.
Thank you!
Same story with that /history :) Better try this /fascinating /HistoryNetwork /MedievalHistory
/WorldHistory
They are much more democratic and friendly.
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Thank you, I didn't know these, I'll definitely check them out!
Also they weren't a homogenous group either. They originated around modern day Austria, south Germany and Switzerland and expanded from there. By the time they reached Britain and Ireland it was only an elite replacement.
In other way, the "uncivilized Gauls" was a Roman, maybe Greco-Roman myth.
Yes. Unfortunately that's often the case and the fact that we have to rely on Roman/Greek sources, rather than Gallic ones, doesn't help. Always happy to see your comments Sagesse.
How can somebody judge history based in fantasy cartoons?
It's just a cheeky way to discuss myths about French history. As I have said repeatedly, I love Astérix & Obélix.
Also not very nice calling my accent awful.
Wings on helmets are pretty equal to the Horns on helmets myth.
Equally impractical in war-time, and probably only existed in the realms of written myths or ritual ceremonies (if it did exist.)
But, that being said, both are such unique and fascinating images. You almost want it to exist.
It's also such a nitpick that the question "so what if it existed or not and does it really matter?" always comes to my mind.
If you're a Historian: Yes, be as historically accurate as possible, please.
If you're in The Realm of Fiction: I don't see it being that big of a deal surrounding yourself with mythical images, myths surrounding our history should be kept alive too.
Yes, I totally understand what you mean and I agree, horns on helmets is just something that adds to the Gallic character but the thing with myths is that they can embellish as much as they tarnish. For example, that the Gauls were filthy barbarians that were uneducated and all. If I want to break those myths, it seems like I need to break them all. I can't just cherry pick what I like and dislike, no? Thank you for watching!
is there any one who really thought (or thinks) that Asterix is anything more than just fun???
Oh I definitely agree! As I've mentioned, I absolutely love Astérix. I was just cheekily pointing out its mistakes and use that as a way to (hopefully) teach something about the Gauls. Thanks for watching and merde!
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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed.
I'm just saying, if you make a cover of the Asterix against Ceasar theme, I'll love you forever: ua-cam.com/video/1ElPTXAOrIg/v-deo.html
Once you know the rules, you're free to brake them! Besides, history provides us with the ingredients. The recipe is up to the imagination of the artist, and the proof is in the pudding for the reader, as they say.
They didn't farm before the Romans, did they?
DISGUSTING !!! Barris just DESTROYED my Childhood !!! I gonna sit in the corner reading my Vintage Pif Gadgets 😭 rocking very slowly ....
(Well done Barris for such a Well researched Video !!! ❤️)
Sorry Nick :( It's understandable - Astérix is my childhood and I was shocked as well! Thanks for watching Nick, I'm glad you enjoyed it - merde!
it's an alternative time line, it's not supposed to be accurate
You're right! It was just the way I decided to frame the video. Also, Astérix is one of the few times people will learn about the Gauls so I think it's important for people to remember that it's not accurate and why. Nevertheless, I still love the series. Thanks for watching and merde!
@@ThisisBarris It was an interesting video, I really enjoyed it. Now I'm gonna read some Asterix comics
Thank you. I really appreciate it. Enjoy the Astérix!
Brennos, not Brennus, I think.
Both pronunciations are commonly accepted. Thanks for watching Arnaud and merde!
Oh my!!! Did you know Barris that Ducks, Dogs and Mice do not speak either live in a town like Duckcity, etc, Like Donald Duck, Goofy or Mickey Mouse. ;)
I'll definitely have to make a video about that too!
@@ThisisBarris hahaha, I love to see that. You are a tribute to a little sarcasm trown at you. My compliments. I had to laugh hard about your reactions. ;)
Pretty much destroyed the fantasy of these ancient folks being gallic/celtic versions of germanics. They were actually genetically, culturally and linguistically closer to Italics like the Latins just a bit more Yamnaya ancestry.
Ohhh, dig!
Since when is the historical accuracy of a comic book important at all ? Did Superman live in Smallville or Metropolis ? There is the accuracy a major subject.
Obviously. I was joking and using it as a hook for the video. I know these comics are not meant to be accurate...
So what will you dispute about the Corsicans, did they get boneywasawarriorwayayix wrong 😂?
Poor Cacophonix.
I admit I had to google Cacophonix! In France we call him "Assurancetourix" and yes I agree, poor him. Thank you for watching Xavier and merde!
@@ThisisBarris Cacophonix was gagged and bound to a tree trunk in the end of each chapter with creative manner, in order to prevent him from singing his terrible lauds and songs. He's regarded as a mascot of the comic series Asterix. Thanks for informing the original name.
Well the idea is kinda based on the nevrii tribe
A Ster Rix Means king of the North Star. It is Belgium/Dutch. Ster is Dutch for Star. Rix means King.
Let me start the vid and see if I make it to the end of it.
Obelix carries his manners. (menhir./manieren/mijnheer) with him. Principles like a rock. Holy rock.
Besides that it is actually surprising accurate. The lifting on the shield is a hint that there is a Germanic influence in the actual village.
I am a gaulish descent.
Vercingétorix!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 from the Bible ❤
This is just common sense stuff that applies to like almost all history
this guy hates asterix 😁
Nooo I love asterix! Merde!
I think your taking this a little too seriously. It's not like Asterix was ever trying to be 100% historically accurate.
I was just joking, I love asterix and have read them all :)
@@ThisisBarris My bad.
*It's still real to me dammit!*
I want to kms every time i hear “selt”. celt comes from the greek word “keltoi”- it’s not a debate or choice, it’s pronounced “kelt”
Don't come to France, cos that's how everyone pronounces it here
@@ThisisBarris oh god
Gimme all the Stereotypes haha I'll live. Em all idc
Who in the fuck are the "selts"?
In France, we spell Celts with an "s" sound, not a "k". Since then, numerous people have pointed out that pronunciation mistake and I will make sure to not do it again.
Bah t’as quoi contre les parisiens toi !??? Lol😊
Almost no sources, you're just spitting some random facts. And what aggravates me most - countless items in our history were invented multiple times in different places, so Gauls are among many other cultures that “invented” barrels or soap. It's not like they were the source of those inventions for the whole world.