Brilliant, we can get a chant going. I have T-shirts now you know scotland-history-tours.creator-spring.com/listing/let-me-tell-you-a-story-hoodie?product=373
As a Northumbrian I have spent the last 18years living in Argyll and have only recently been enlightened about the links between the two areas. Although a Halliday my grandmother was born a Johnstone both surnames originating from the Dumfries and Galloway area. Two of my namesakes being part of the Covenanters and shot on the spot are buried in Balmaghie churchyard. Loving your channel 👍
Hello! I am an American here on pilgrimage to Iona and Lindisfarne. I have just discovered your channel while trying to learn more about both places. I love your storytelling and videos. Thank you!
It was so nice to meet you at Lindisfarne on Saturday mate! And it was even funny to speak Gaelic with you. We have both to improve our speaking skills :-). Love your channel and hope to see you soon. Cheers by an Italian who lives is Scotland, regards himself as a Scot and speaks Gaelic.
Well, sitting down with a good glass of Rioja, celebrating that a disabled friend who's been out of work for a long time has just got a good job, and to round it off, another wonderful upload from Bruce! I went to Durham to study history from the south west, about as long a journey as you can do in England, and being surrounded by the history of the saints of the North East this brought back my mediaeval history days. I had no car, but managed to get to Lindisfarne and Bamburgh, studied the documents in the Cathedral Library and even had the joy of a visit from the Lindisfarne Gospels (with a huge Byzantine influence). So a double thank you! The Venemous Bede certainly had his agenda! The Church of St Oswald was on the road up to the library, his head was buried in the same chapel as St Cuthbert, and everywhere you went, you had a sense of a place apart, although the Northumbrian countryside reminded me of English Wales - the bit around Pembroke from which my ancestors were probably expelled to play around with the sheep of the Preselli mountains. It took me a long time to understand Geordie though, and I never quite got used to the fresh air from the Siberian steppes that whistled over the sea. Thanks again Bruce, another episode of Scottish generosity!
As a descendent of a Reiver family I am fascinated by the history and culture of the borderlands, so distinct from the rest of England or Scotland. You tell the story so beautifully. How I wish you’d taught me physics!
Well my family are all Armstrongs, Halls and Robsons and clearly, as a PhD Physics and FInstP and Northumbrian, I can clearly teach you Physics and History better if he thinks we are bloody geordies. Geordies live in Newcastle!! We are agricultural Cheviot people (I was brought up in Wooler the capitol of the Cheviots) we are Northumbrians, we even have a different dialect - winks
@@Linz0440 doesn't surprise me, we have more in common with border Scots than Newcastle, my family were all cheviot sheep farmers; brought up on our wullie and the Broons. Northumberland is a softer dialect than Scots but otherwise similar.
I am eternally grateful to the algorithm for pointing me in the direction of this channel. Every video thought provoking, insightful and entertaining. Bruce is a true treasure. For all the depressing arguements we are exposed to (some important, some petty, some imagined), the fact that UA-cam brought me to this channel fills me with joy. I pay my £5 per month with pride
Great video, especially your opening comment about us Geordies! I've always considered myself Northumbria and not English, and have more in common with those north of the border than those south of the Northeast.
I was told this story….. In 1603 when King James moved down to London , he found he couldn’t get a decent pair of shoes so he sent a message back to Scotland saying he wanted 200 pair of brogues . By the time the message got to Scotland people thought he wanted 200 pair of rogues so the Scots rounded them up and made them start marching towards London. It wasn’t until they got to Newcastle that the mistake was realised and the king said stop them right there! It was brogues I wanted! And that my bonnie lad is how Geordies came about :)
Well I'm not sure about the Georgie's story here but I was born and bred a Northumbrian and sure as hell, I am not a Georgie but pure Northumbrian of Italian decent.
@@skg8268 Geordies are Northumbrians too. The southern border of Northumberland was always the River Tyne and no amount of government meddling will override that. Moreover, the wider region of Northumbria goes down to the Tees and encompasses Durham too.
I've lived in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glenrothes, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and South Shields. Only two of those places are outside of Northumbria at it's height.
@@catherineandpaulfuters2523 It was never the capital of Northumbria, only the most northerly stronghold. The name goes back to Din Eidyn, the capital of the region of Eidyn in the kingdom of the Gododdin who were defeated by the Angles in the year 600. The fact that there was a King Edwin had nothing to do with it.
Thank you very much. I am South African but have three Scottish grandfathers. I visited Lindisfarne recently and did a bit of reading in preparation. I love the Celtic tradition and feel drawn to these saints of old. I sometimes think, were Celtic Christianity allowed to remain true and authentic to its roots, would there ever have been a reformation?
the Celtic church said mass in Latin, using a version of the Roman rite, they were part of the wider Latin church. The Irish church, in particular, was in fact a massive contributor and a driving force in the western church at large. The Irish church were the lads who came up with private confession, the canon law codified by the monks at Iona was their proudest achievement. Read the actual liturgies we have, like the Stowe Missal, you'll see the clear roman influence. My point is that really at the base of it churches in celtic speaking regions were part of the western church, the traditions that made them unique probably wouldn't have stopped a reformation.
I'd love to buy you a pint and a pie and pick your brains on all the topics you always brush against but never talk of in your videos. So happy we have a great channel like yours on here. Many an hour has been spent on this channel
Last November I wrote a piece for my parish magazine about St. Colman of Lindisfarne and the Synod of Whitby in 664AD. He took over St. Finan as the bishop of the abbey at the time and he was the leader of the Celtic faction in their disagreements with the Roman rule changes. The reason I wrote about him was that after he resigned he eventually came back to the West of Ireland and established his last monastery at Mayo (which is about a 5 min drive from my house). His Lindisfarne predecessor St. Finan also established a church on an island in the middle of a lake about 10 mins from me. His church has been renovated several times since then but it fell into disrepair in the 1400s and was finally renovated again 25 years ago using only the original materials. The gable end of the church is said to be the original built by St. Finan. It's a lovely tiny medieval church and is a great visit during the summer when the water level comes down enough where you can drive your car onto the island. A funny coincidence that Lindisfarne also shares. Sorry for babbling on too much 😂
There are schools named after St Columba here in New Zealand. Didn't know any of the story until watching this, but that was because I never chose to go and find out!
In 1603 when King James moved down to London , he found he couldn’t get a decent pair of shoes so he sent a message back to Scotland saying he wanted 200 pair of brogues . By the time the message got to Scotland people thought he wanted 200 pair of rogues so the Scots rounded them up and made them start marching towards London. It wasn’t until they got to Newcastle that the mistake was realised and the king said stop them right there! It was brogues I wanted! And that my bonnie lad is how Geordies came about :)
Definitely true what you say about the link between Scots and Geordies. My family are all from Northumberland, and every summer we went on holiday to the same village on the coast of Aberdeenshire. My dad was chatting with a fisherman who he'd got to know quite well over the years, and he started ranting about "bloody English tourists" coming up in the summer. My dad laughed along and said we were also "bloody English tourists", and the bloke replied "oh I don't mean you; you're not English, you're a Geordie!"
I love "Let me tell you a story" too. Then I settle down for a good watch. At the end, I say, "Cheery un drasda, Bruce!" "Cheers! And I'll see you on the other side"? (That's what I hear and it's my African version of Gaelic.)
I can see the battle site where King Ethelfrith died from where I'm sat. Aiden's my favourite saint, because he blessed the sea otters he saw playing on the beach at Lindisfarne. But let me get this straight, accounts of the Battle of Heavenfield were written by Bede and Adam Ant?
Always mobbed, Lindisfarne. But a fun drive over the causeway if the tide is in. Must admit though I prefer Bamburgh Castle a short drive away. I was there as a nipper when they were filming Spaceman & King Arthur which gives my age away.
@@skg8268 Hmm. Interesting. Just down the road from Bamburgh too, it seems you're correct. I just remember looking down and the whole place was covered in Medieval tents and the like. It must have been in the same trip as Bamburgh and Lindisfarne.
I had a Geordie friend many years ago who used to say that Geordies were "Scots with their heads bashed in." He played guitar in a Scottish inspired band for renaissance festivals.
What do you say at the end of your video and how do you pronounce it I am trying to learn it, Thanks? By the way, I am in County Durham, not far from where you've been
My family already knew a bit about our ancestry, but because of this channel I decided to look a little further into it on the Scottish side. Assuming my information has been correct, I traced our family line back to early 1500's Waltness, Shapinsay. Thank you for what you do, sir.
Can't imagine how you do it - every video better than the last, and every one excellent. Only downside for this Yank: Needing Googling "Geordie," "Scouse," "Blaydon Races," et cetera. But that just brings in better context, So Thanks Very Much!
Love it..maybe you do one about the "Synod of Whitby"?...when Aswold only accepted the Roman church ,because his wife was a Roman Catholic,lol...one of the fundamental difference between Irish Christianity and Roman Christianity,was the Irish church allowed divorce,which the Roman church didn't...so you could say that Henry v111,could have got his divorce,which would have changed the course of history,as we know it?..
Have you done, or thought of doing, something about Arran? They tell me the place is full of history but I don't know any of the stories, other than what they tell about St Molaise on Holy Isle.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours please keep the Iron Lady comments coming. During Queen Margaret's reign, we in the states heard how wonderful she was. I like the diversity of opinion.
3:30 worth noting that at this point the reference to "Scots" at this time refers more to Irish Gaels than the later people who would become known as Scots, slightly misleading. Also saying Oswald spoke "Gaelic" is inaccurate, the Gaelic language spoken at this time is referred to as Old Irish. The dialect of the Goidelic tongue referred to now as Scots Gaelic did not become a distinctive language until the early modern period. Good video, but I fear that some information which should be designated to the medieval Irish has been quite anachronistically portrayed as something Scottish.
I've spent my life living in Northumberland and most recently on the Eastern tip of hadrians Wall yet my mother was born and raised on the Aberdeenshire coast. I spend much of my free time visiting Scotland, and although I've no connection to spirituality, I feel 'spiritually' at home up there where my tree roots itself. I especially love the North West Ullapool to Lochinver have my heart. I'd likely fight for Scotland if we were to battle the English again. 🤣
love your knowledge of history great story teller you make it so interesting but I'm English i do have Scottish ancestry also born near the river Tyne near Jarrow so maybes that's ok ....
It's a well known story and you're entitled to your opinions. But given the antagonistic history between Northumbria and Scotland I reckon that any fellow feeling between Geordies and Scots is a pretty recent development. Do Geordies not see themselves as English then? I'd love a source for that. According to the 2011 census the North East had a higher percentage of people who identified as 'English only' than any other region in England.
We see ourselves as English but our English identity exists alongside a strong regional identity too. We’re proud of our cultural distinctiveness and more informed people are aware of our many similarities with Southern Scotland and our shared heritage in Northumbria, but at the same time people here don’t wish to define ourselves as a separate nation from England.
I don't know why, but I've always associated Lindisfarne Abbey with Ireland for some reason. Crazy I know. And of course it's most famous for being invaded by Vikings.
@@MrSummerblade Yeah, I know, but for whatever reasons, I've always associated the Lindisfarne Abbey with being in Ireland, not Northumbria, for some bizarre reason.
It is associated with the people of Ireland. Ireland was the original Scotia. Scot meant Irishman for many centuries. The French were still referring to the Irish and Ireland as Scots and Scotia long after the English had stopped. He refers to the church of Columba a few times. This is of course also an Irishman, known in Ireland as Colmcille.
It's worth noting that scot didn't mean Scottish as we know it today, Scotti applied to the entirety of Ireland not just dal raita. King Oswald was of course of Irish ancestry. The Monks in iona were of course Irish not scottish as we know it today.
Hang about. It's important to history that Oswald's contemporary Bede, mentioned in the video, invented the term English. And he made it clear he wasn't one, he was a Northumbrian. The English wouldn't property exist for another 200 years.
@@catherineandpaulfuters2523 well St oswalds died in 642 and St bede was born 672. So not far out, and underlines even more that St Oswald could in no way be described as English.
This one was interesting . Looking at the time period , and talking about England and Scotland ? 870AD is Alfred , but what do’s our Island look at at this time, those nice Geordies? It’s full well Vikings ( or should that be Danes ?) . At this point there is no English state and well there is a Scottish king ? But how much of Scotland did he rule? The point is we have an Island where various tribal people’s are vying for control , some pagan some Christian and whats the attraction of Christianity ? . I mean Yule looks a lot more fun than Christmas . But a pagan lord only has his sword where a Christian King has god saying he is in charge … So perhaps that’s part of the story you haven’t touched on , about the expansion of Christianity . In the British library in the treasure’s room there are bibles from Lindisfarne from that period . They are very ornate , but what is really human , in the margins are notes made by the monks . They are little pencil notes and it gives a wonderful humanity to an ancient text .
Bruce can you do me a huge favour if you havent already , can you do some research on the Battle Of Homildon Hill or as its now known Humbleton Hill just outside my town of Wooler as there is very little info on youtube about it , also there is or was a castle of fortification in Wooler called the Tory which i who have lived here nearly all my life no very little about , that would be fantastic if you could ......Shaun.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Cheers Bruce your a legend, and I hope you enjoyed your trip to the Island !!!!.... Shaun. p. s I've been stuck on there once lol
@@ScotlandHistoryTours For me, in the first segment there is only one audio channel. The right is present but the left is silent (assuming I have my earbuds on correctly). Beginning at the cut at 2:19 and for the remainder of the video, both channels are present. I suspect Paulc’s phone has a problem with one of its audio channels.
Only one issue, maybe personal bias, you keep referring to everyone south of the border as English, think the Viking, angles, Saxons, Danes and jutes , Normans, Plantagenets and Anjevins were all active after the Romans buggered off. They all played a massive and bloody part in the formation. Maybe Flodden still hurting. Other than that, good video.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours some time labels are applied because it's so confusing as to when the English actually became English. " English" became a coverall for the lands in South, it's easier that way as most people have no knowledge of the history. Maybe your appellation took the easy route , another joke is , how do you tell a well balanced Scot, chip on both shoulders. Visit Middleton church on the outskirts of Manchester, only place in England with a memorial window for Flodden or the battlefield where there is a memorial to the deaths of both sides. Also political jokes don't fit , remember that after the act of Union, Stuart idea, the bastard English got the Scots out of a hole after the failed Darien ( New Caledonia) fiasco. Just a thought
Bede saw these guys as English. I chose the English/Anglian appelation to try to bridge. I get really frustrated with the lazy politicing and deliberate misrepresentation on Darien, but I don't have time to argue with every Tom, Dick and Harry
Oswald was a Bernician Prince, Not a Scot, he was born in England and died in England. Anyways, he is still popular today in parts of Austria and Hungary.
@@mattsmith4536 Aye, he was Bernician, which is a Welsh/Brythonic name, and Bernicia was a kingdom of what is now mostly Northumberland and SE Scotland. Like our Guide says, he spent many formative years in Dal Riata, so only natural that he picked up the ways of the Dal Riata Scots, along with their language and religion. The Northumbrian kings had a habit of sending their children to be educated in Ireland and were known to give military aid to the High King on occasion. The 'English' and 'Irish' only became enemies with the coming of the Normans. Caused a lot of trouble those lads...
I KNOW THAT THEIR ARE LOTS OF BRILLIANT PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, SOME IN PLACES I'VE NEVER HEARD OF ,OR KNOW NOTHING ABOUT, BUT I THINK THAT SCOTLAND HAS PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED MORE TO MAN KIND THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. YES , NO.
I discovered this and I am in no way that my heritage is a sketchy one but who's isn't the term for Scott Irish but someone mentioned could be Ulster scot and they associate this with all the bad in the world I've never liked anything tied to it it saddens me to think those I might like it I don't, the term hillbilly is tied to William of Orange calling them hillbillies showing loyalty my loyalty has been one to the human race.
@Cornbreadfed Kirkpatrick. The term "hillbilly" is an American invention. Do a bit of research on it. Apparently it first appears in a US newspaper some time in the late 1800s. It has nothing to do with William of Orange. And "Ulster Scot" is also a fairly modern invention in Northern Ireland. It was never used at the time when people were emigrating from Ulster to the American Colonies.
Here, I have some evidence that the picts came from Cezkoslovokia . Im not 100% on this though, because the report said Northern Scottish. The Northern Scottish is almost 70%. I couldn't make any sense of it at first. Then I checked out check land. 36% Celt. So if by Northern Scottish they mean picts then there's evidence that they came from CZ. The mystery may be over.
The state of the comments on here. I know it's youtube but I wish people would read a book about the subject they're commenting on, so they're at least giving an informed opinion.
A Geordie is a Scotsman with his testicles removed. Or vice versa. So I’m told.Having the blood of both in my veins, I resent that,dammit. Been to the twin villages of Ford and Etal? Worth a visit. Also Lanercost might be an interesting subject for a vid.
I heard this a very long time ago, a wealthy lawyer had a terrible dream he was a dog and was beaten and he told a friend, the friend replied you must have been a really bad person in a past life.
Find out about the Scots of Dal Riata here ua-cam.com/video/cbGYytd85h0/v-deo.html
BooTube cut the Volume......
They suck
Hey the volume is back.
I was just thinking that too the other day
Lan3 lif to es An3lum and thaet horde frum se North land 3ehaten Scotia Wes Hal to the min scotisc freond beo 3esunde!!!!!!!!!!!
How this channel isn't mainstream is beyond me.
The content is always interesting and educational.
I thank you, though I'm not entirely sure an endorsement from Sweaty Kim Jong Un is going to take me mainstream 🤣
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It's a daft fitba nickname.😆.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Bruce, love watching your vids from Lancashire. What’s your favourite place/s to visit when your down here in the south?
Definitely a lot better than that plumb Neil Oliver
Could not agree more Sweaty Kim 🙂
There is a big load of us all look forward to these every week!!
I love it when you say “let me tell you a story.” I say it with you every time.
Brilliant, we can get a chant going. I have T-shirts now you know scotland-history-tours.creator-spring.com/listing/let-me-tell-you-a-story-hoodie?product=373
@@ScotlandHistoryTours looked them up, I need to buy one.
And who doesn't love to hear a well told story? :)
@@susanfarley1332 absolutely 👍
As a Northumbrian I have spent the last 18years living in Argyll and have only recently been enlightened about the links between the two areas. Although a Halliday my grandmother was born a Johnstone both surnames originating from the Dumfries and Galloway area. Two of my namesakes being part of the Covenanters and shot on the spot are buried in Balmaghie churchyard. Loving your channel 👍
Hello! I am an American here on pilgrimage to Iona and Lindisfarne. I have just discovered your channel while trying to learn more about both places. I love your storytelling and videos. Thank you!
It was so nice to meet you at Lindisfarne on Saturday mate! And it was even funny to speak Gaelic with you. We have both to improve our speaking skills :-). Love your channel and hope to see you soon. Cheers by an Italian who lives is Scotland, regards himself as a Scot and speaks Gaelic.
Yay, thanks for taking the time to say hi
Well, sitting down with a good glass of Rioja, celebrating that a disabled friend who's been out of work for a long time has just got a good job, and to round it off, another wonderful upload from Bruce! I went to Durham to study history from the south west, about as long a journey as you can do in England, and being surrounded by the history of the saints of the North East this brought back my mediaeval history days. I had no car, but managed to get to Lindisfarne and Bamburgh, studied the documents in the Cathedral Library and even had the joy of a visit from the Lindisfarne Gospels (with a huge Byzantine influence). So a double thank you! The Venemous Bede certainly had his agenda! The Church of St Oswald was on the road up to the library, his head was buried in the same chapel as St Cuthbert, and everywhere you went, you had a sense of a place apart, although the Northumbrian countryside reminded me of English Wales - the bit around Pembroke from which my ancestors were probably expelled to play around with the sheep of the Preselli mountains. It took me a long time to understand Geordie though, and I never quite got used to the fresh air from the Siberian steppes that whistled over the sea. Thanks again Bruce, another episode of Scottish generosity!
You have been a physics teacher and now a history teacher…impressive dedication to education!
Every day's a school day
As a descendent of a Reiver family I am fascinated by the history and culture of the borderlands, so distinct from the rest of England or Scotland. You tell the story so beautifully. How I wish you’d taught me physics!
He is that good at physics, he’s teaching history now!
Was St Bridget's dad a druid? She was a disciple of fr Columbkille.
Well my family are all Armstrongs, Halls and Robsons and clearly, as a PhD Physics and FInstP and Northumbrian, I can clearly teach you Physics and History better if he thinks we are bloody geordies. Geordies live in Newcastle!! We are agricultural Cheviot people (I was brought up in Wooler the capitol of the Cheviots) we are Northumbrians, we even have a different dialect - winks
@@vicibox Do you know that at one point the Northumbrian language was listed on the Unesco website as a dialect of Scots? (runs for cover...)
@@Linz0440 doesn't surprise me, we have more in common with border Scots than Newcastle, my family were all cheviot sheep farmers; brought up on our wullie and the Broons. Northumberland is a softer dialect than Scots but otherwise similar.
I am eternally grateful to the algorithm for pointing me in the direction of this channel. Every video thought provoking, insightful and entertaining. Bruce is a true treasure. For all the depressing arguements we are exposed to (some important, some petty, some imagined), the fact that UA-cam brought me to this channel fills me with joy. I pay my £5 per month with pride
Yay!
Well done! Lindisfarne has been on my bucket list for 4 decades, and it was wonderful to both see it and hear about its story at the same time!
As a Geordie myself I also don’t know why we always lose at football, another thing we have in common I suppose. Great vid.
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🤣🤣aye it must be in our genes
Great video, especially your opening comment about us Geordies! I've always considered myself Northumbria and not English, and have more in common with those north of the border than those south of the Northeast.
Let's rebuild the wall. 🤷♂️😆👍
@@TheMickeyBloo that's a great idea, especially as I live on the right side of it!
I was told this story…..
In 1603 when King James moved down to London , he found he couldn’t get a decent pair of shoes so he sent a message back to Scotland saying he wanted 200 pair of brogues .
By the time the message got to Scotland people thought he wanted 200 pair of rogues so the Scots rounded them up and made them start marching towards London.
It wasn’t until they got to Newcastle that the mistake was realised and the king said stop them right there! It was brogues I wanted!
And that my bonnie lad is how Geordies came about :)
Well I'm not sure about the Georgie's story here but I was born and bred a Northumbrian and sure as hell, I am not a Georgie but pure Northumbrian of Italian decent.
@@skg8268 Geordies are Northumbrians too. The southern border of Northumberland was always the River Tyne and no amount of government meddling will override that.
Moreover, the wider region of Northumbria goes down to the Tees and encompasses Durham too.
I've lived in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glenrothes, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and South Shields. Only two of those places are outside of Northumbria at it's height.
So did the polis catch you?
Catherine
Look up George’s story on the Boarder Rievers and James V
You will find a thread with my name on it
David Futers
Don't mistake overlordship for incorporation.
Best craic yet. Love it! Welcome to Northumberland. Really enjoyed the video.
Brucey is pure gold during the first 40 seconds!! I hope I can see that man on stage one day. Bruce, come tour in the States!
😂Sadly I can't see that happening
Well done Bruce...thoroughly enjoyed this wee story...love from Glenfarg.
Born and bred in Inverness, love the videos, hope you're in good health man
Lindisfarne, beautiful place......and a fab wee music festival at Beal Farm in September too, you should come along Bruce 😉
Next time!
Lindisfarne is wonderful, definitely a good day trip from Edinburgh!
True
Edwin's Burh. Once capitol of Northumbria.
@@catherineandpaulfuters2523 It was never the capital of Northumbria, only the most northerly stronghold. The name goes back to Din Eidyn, the capital of the region of Eidyn in the kingdom of the Gododdin who were defeated by the Angles in the year 600. The fact that there was a King Edwin had nothing to do with it.
Ireland needs a Bruce Fummey… Love your vids, bro!
😂 I hear the Guinness calling
Thanks again for an interesting and informative story. In addition to the important Scottish history, you acquainted me with Geordies.
Good morning Bruce. I knew there was something I liked about you. I’m a Geordie! Keep up the good work 🌞
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Brilliant, real history lesson that we should all know. History teachers take note.
Greetings from Cumbria.
Stay safe and well sir.
Well done!! Thank you again, and again for all your fine videos!
My pleasure!
As always another great video . I love listening to your stories.
Loving your videos. Being a Liddle myself (and a Geordie) I love all the Northumbrian and border reiver history
I'm a Durham lass, your comments made me smile!
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I was on Holy Island the week before last! A shame I missed you. Lovely place. Another great video Bruce!
Thank you very much. I am South African but have three Scottish grandfathers. I visited Lindisfarne recently and did a bit of reading in preparation. I love the Celtic tradition and feel drawn to these saints of old. I sometimes think, were Celtic Christianity allowed to remain true and authentic to its roots, would there ever have been a reformation?
the Celtic church said mass in Latin, using a version of the Roman rite, they were part of the wider Latin church. The Irish church, in particular, was in fact a massive contributor and a driving force in the western church at large. The Irish church were the lads who came up with private confession, the canon law codified by the monks at Iona was their proudest achievement. Read the actual liturgies we have, like the Stowe Missal, you'll see the clear roman influence. My point is that really at the base of it churches in celtic speaking regions were part of the western church, the traditions that made them unique probably wouldn't have stopped a reformation.
Always find it interesting from a Yorkshire man and Leeds United fan
I'd love to buy you a pint and a pie and pick your brains on all the topics you always brush against but never talk of in your videos. So happy we have a great channel like yours on here. Many an hour has been spent on this channel
I get enough people unsubscribe with the brushing. Can you imagine digging🤣
@@ScotlandHistoryTours 🤣🤣🤣 I can imagine. Keep up the amazing work man, it's a lot better than my channel 🤣 I never put much time into it.
Last November I wrote a piece for my parish magazine about St. Colman of Lindisfarne and the Synod of Whitby in 664AD. He took over St. Finan as the bishop of the abbey at the time and he was the leader of the Celtic faction in their disagreements with the Roman rule changes.
The reason I wrote about him was that after he resigned he eventually came back to the West of Ireland and established his last monastery at Mayo (which is about a 5 min drive from my house).
His Lindisfarne predecessor St. Finan also established a church on an island in the middle of a lake about 10 mins from me.
His church has been renovated several times since then but it fell into disrepair in the 1400s and was finally renovated again 25 years ago using only the original materials. The gable end of the church is said to be the original built by St. Finan.
It's a lovely tiny medieval church and is a great visit during the summer when the water level comes down enough where you can drive your car onto the island. A funny coincidence that Lindisfarne also shares.
Sorry for babbling on too much 😂
I truly love your stories! I have been watching for just a short time. My ancestors wore kilts.
Ah welcome you beautiful person
There are schools named after St Columba here in New Zealand. Didn't know any of the story until watching this, but that was because I never chose to go and find out!
Wow! I didn't know that. Very educational and interesting as always. Magic!
Thank you! Cheers!
In 1603 when King James moved down to London , he found he couldn’t get a decent pair of shoes so he sent a message back to Scotland saying he wanted 200 pair of brogues .
By the time the message got to Scotland people thought he wanted 200 pair of rogues so the Scots rounded them up and made them start marching towards London.
It wasn’t until they got to Newcastle that the mistake was realised and the king said stop them right there! It was brogues I wanted!
And that my bonnie lad is how Geordies came about :)
I'm sure I read this in a history book right enough 😜
What's the story behind Muff then?
You are most definitely my favourite history channel wonderful work
Yay
Definitely true what you say about the link between Scots and Geordies. My family are all from Northumberland, and every summer we went on holiday to the same village on the coast of Aberdeenshire. My dad was chatting with a fisherman who he'd got to know quite well over the years, and he started ranting about "bloody English tourists" coming up in the summer. My dad laughed along and said we were also "bloody English tourists", and the bloke replied "oh I don't mean you; you're not English, you're a Geordie!"
i think the videos are great as I love learning more about my country, I would like to see more ambitous transitions and some graphics
I await your cheque to fund the graphics😂
So I'm thinking about how to implement your comments. Can you drop me a line on info@scotlandhistorytours.co.uk so I can ask a bit of advice?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours yes of course
Great video! Are you going to do one about how the Geordies established the capital city of Scotland? Stay safe. ATB. Nigel.
I love "Let me tell you a story" too. Then I settle down for a good watch.
At the end, I say, "Cheery un drasda, Bruce!"
"Cheers! And I'll see you on the other side"?
(That's what I hear and it's my African version of Gaelic.)
I can see the battle site where King Ethelfrith died from where I'm sat. Aiden's my favourite saint, because he blessed the sea otters he saw playing on the beach at Lindisfarne. But let me get this straight, accounts of the Battle of Heavenfield were written by Bede and Adam Ant?
There's no arguing with Prince Charming. He'll be adamant. :-)
Adam Ant called him Prince Charming😜
You spell your favourite saint's name wrong?
@@DisturbedAidan2 Bearing in mind that names were spelled differently in different texts, your point being?
@@BigMrFirebird My point being to spell it with an “e” is highly offensive, and I question your integrity.
Well ,there you go. I learned something new today.
Thank you, Bruce! That was great!
Thanks for listening
Always mobbed, Lindisfarne. But a fun drive over the causeway if the tide is in. Must admit though I prefer Bamburgh Castle a short drive away. I was there as a nipper when they were filming Spaceman & King Arthur which gives my age away.
Don't worry, Bamburgh features on Saturday
The Spaceman and King Aurthur was filmed at Alnwick Castle, not Bamburgh. I think your age has affected your memory.
@@skg8268 Hmm. Interesting. Just down the road from Bamburgh too, it seems you're correct. I just remember looking down and the whole place was covered in Medieval tents and the like. It must have been in the same trip as Bamburgh and Lindisfarne.
Thanks Bruce. Very interesting, appreciated
Very welcome
I had a Geordie friend many years ago who used to say that Geordies were "Scots with their heads bashed in." He played guitar in a Scottish inspired band for renaissance festivals.
What do you say at the end of your video and how do you pronounce it I am trying to learn it, Thanks? By the way, I am in County Durham, not far from where you've been
I'd like ye to do a bit about Ulster as I think it's a large price of Scottish history especially east Ulster
Who knows
My family already knew a bit about our ancestry, but because of this channel I decided to look a little further into it on the Scottish side.
Assuming my information has been correct, I traced our family line back to early 1500's Waltness, Shapinsay.
Thank you for what you do, sir.
When I was a kid, I thought the Vikings raided Linda's Farm.
Aye, they did that an a'
A physics teacher giving history lessons... what a great fusion of talents.
Aye, it's a while since I taught physics, right enough
i wonder how many fans here are outside of Scotland... or the UK for that matter, i find all this very interesting but im from afar
Fan here from Singapore. His vids is I what I look for daily in my feed.
Ah, that's beautiful
Can't imagine how you do it - every video better than the last, and every one excellent. Only downside for this Yank: Needing Googling "Geordie," "Scouse," "Blaydon Races," et cetera. But that just brings in better context, So Thanks Very Much!
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Love it..maybe you do one about the "Synod of Whitby"?...when Aswold only accepted the Roman church ,because his wife was a Roman Catholic,lol...one of the fundamental difference between Irish Christianity and Roman Christianity,was the Irish church allowed divorce,which the Roman church didn't...so you could say that Henry v111,could have got his divorce,which would have changed the course of history,as we know it?..
Perfect bud. Clear and perfect and an important time in history. Nae bother!
hahaha brill as ever think you left the mike on at the end tho lol
I'm from Edzell, can you tell us a wee story about the Brechin/Edzell area... 🥃🏴
Have you done, or thought of doing, something about Arran? They tell me the place is full of history but I don't know any of the stories, other than what they tell about St Molaise on Holy Isle.
Yea for the video. It was entertaining as well as informative. Love your channel. And, not all historians have an "agenda".
🤣 I didn't speak to Boris Johnstone either
I don't know about that, but I'd say that the most readable and interesting historians definitely have an agenda
@@ScotlandHistoryTours please keep the Iron Lady comments coming. During Queen Margaret's reign, we in the states heard how wonderful she was. I like the diversity of opinion.
@@robertolds6178 She is almost universally detested in Scotland. You should look up the Poll Tax to find out one of the reasons
@@alicemilne1444 thanks for the starting point.
Nice one mate! Try this? St Ninian V St Columba? I bet Whithorn (St Ninian wins he match lol
3:30 worth noting that at this point the reference to "Scots" at this time refers more to Irish Gaels than the later people who would become known as Scots, slightly misleading. Also saying Oswald spoke "Gaelic" is inaccurate, the Gaelic language spoken at this time is referred to as Old Irish. The dialect of the Goidelic tongue referred to now as Scots Gaelic did not become a distinctive language until the early modern period. Good video, but I fear that some information which should be designated to the medieval Irish has been quite anachronistically portrayed as something Scottish.
Ok Bruce- let's see what you can do with John Duns Scotus!
I've spent my life living in Northumberland and most recently on the Eastern tip of hadrians Wall yet my mother was born and raised on the Aberdeenshire coast. I spend much of my free time visiting Scotland, and although I've no connection to spirituality, I feel 'spiritually' at home up there where my tree roots itself. I especially love the North West Ullapool to Lochinver have my heart. I'd likely fight for Scotland if we were to battle the English again. 🤣
Let's avoid future battles and you just keep visiting Rosshire
love your knowledge of history great story teller you make it so interesting but I'm English i do have Scottish ancestry also born near the river Tyne near Jarrow so maybes that's ok ....
Anything on John Blair?
It's a well known story and you're entitled to your opinions. But given the antagonistic history between Northumbria and Scotland I reckon that any fellow feeling between Geordies and Scots is a pretty recent development. Do Geordies not see themselves as English then? I'd love a source for that. According to the 2011 census the North East had a higher percentage of people who identified as 'English only' than any other region in England.
🤣You're not entering into the spirit are you?😜
We see ourselves as English but our English identity exists alongside a strong regional identity too. We’re proud of our cultural distinctiveness and more informed people are aware of our many similarities with Southern Scotland and our shared heritage in Northumbria, but at the same time people here don’t wish to define ourselves as a separate nation from England.
"We ran Their empire" .....Their? You will no doubt know Bruce that the Scots were enthusiastic Empire Builders!
😂 It's always funny to see what folk take out of a ten minute video
I don't know why, but I've always associated Lindisfarne Abbey with Ireland for some reason. Crazy I know. And of course it's most famous for being invaded by Vikings.
Scots = Irish Gaels. Our esteemed History Tour Guide emphasises the 'Scots' part
@@MrSummerblade Yeah, I know, but for whatever reasons, I've always associated the Lindisfarne Abbey with being in Ireland, not Northumbria, for some bizarre reason.
It is associated with the people of Ireland. Ireland was the original Scotia. Scot meant Irishman for many centuries. The French were still referring to the Irish and Ireland as Scots and Scotia long after the English had stopped.
He refers to the church of Columba a few times. This is of course also an Irishman, known in Ireland as Colmcille.
It's worth noting that scot didn't mean Scottish as we know it today, Scotti applied to the entirety of Ireland not just dal raita. King Oswald was of course of Irish ancestry. The Monks in iona were of course Irish not scottish as we know it today.
I'm sure I've seen Bede grave,im sure he's buired in Lincoln Cathedral,if my memory serves me right.
Durham.
@@mattsmith4536 nice one,for whatever reason I was getting the 2 mixed up as I've been to both...lol
Will you cover folklore, traditions, mythology etc?
It's certainly not the main thrust of the channel, though I have done things like ua-cam.com/video/A8j27Oqtjig/v-deo.html
Hang about. It's important to history that Oswald's contemporary Bede, mentioned in the video, invented the term English. And he made it clear he wasn't one, he was a Northumbrian. The English wouldn't property exist for another 200 years.
Bede was not contemporary with Oswald. He wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English people's several centuries later.
@@catherineandpaulfuters2523 well St oswalds died in 642 and St bede was born 672. So not far out, and underlines even more that St Oswald could in no way be described as English.
is there an issue with the sound? I don't hear anything
I stupidly recorded in mono, so it only comes out of one ear
@@ScotlandHistoryTours ahhh that explains it, i'll have to try it again later on my home computer which has stereo sound
This one was interesting . Looking at the time period , and talking about England and Scotland ?
870AD is Alfred , but what do’s our Island look at at this time, those nice Geordies? It’s full well Vikings ( or should that be Danes ?) . At this point there is no English state and well there is a Scottish king ? But how much of Scotland did he rule?
The point is we have an Island where various tribal people’s are vying for control , some pagan some Christian and whats the attraction of Christianity ? . I mean Yule looks a lot more fun than Christmas .
But a pagan lord only has his sword where a Christian King has god saying he is in charge …
So perhaps that’s part of the story you haven’t touched on , about the expansion of Christianity .
In the British library in the treasure’s room there are bibles from Lindisfarne from that period . They are very ornate , but what is really human , in the margins are notes made by the monks . They are little pencil notes and it gives a wonderful humanity to an ancient text .
I think you got a bit confused with current day at the start, as opposed to what I said in the video. Bede calls those Angles English
Bruce can you do me a huge favour if you havent already , can you do some research on the Battle Of Homildon Hill or as its now known Humbleton Hill just outside my town of Wooler as there is very little info on youtube about it , also there is or was a castle of fortification in Wooler called the Tory which i who have lived here nearly all my life no very little about , that would be fantastic if you could ......Shaun.
I'll add it to the list of things folks have asked me to cover, but as Johnny on the spot I think you'll find out long before I do
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Cheers Bruce your a legend, and I hope you enjoyed your trip to the Island !!!!.... Shaun. p. s I've been stuck on there once lol
Bruce what's wrong with the sound?, I can hardly hear a word that you're saying, it's thanks to the subtitles that I managed to watch the video.
I think it's in mono in one ear only
is it just me or is sound not working ???
I desperately hope it' just you. What's wrong?
OK working on my tablet but not on phone ! So now you can tell me your story
@@ScotlandHistoryTours For me, in the first segment there is only one audio channel. The right is present but the left is silent (assuming I have my earbuds on correctly). Beginning at the cut at 2:19 and for the remainder of the video, both channels are present. I suspect Paulc’s phone has a problem with one of its audio channels.
Sounds fine here. Good enough for facebook haha
Only one issue, maybe personal bias, you keep referring to everyone south of the border as English, think the Viking, angles, Saxons, Danes and jutes , Normans, Plantagenets and Anjevins were all active after the Romans buggered off. They all played a massive and bloody part in the formation. Maybe Flodden still hurting. Other than that, good video.
No I don't. In fact I specifically questioned the appropriate appellation in this video
@@ScotlandHistoryTours some time labels are applied because it's so confusing as to when the English actually became English. " English" became a coverall for the lands in South, it's easier that way as most people have no knowledge of the history. Maybe your appellation took the easy route , another joke is , how do you tell a well balanced Scot, chip on both shoulders. Visit Middleton church on the outskirts of Manchester, only place in England with a memorial window for Flodden or the battlefield where there is a memorial to the deaths of both sides.
Also political jokes don't fit , remember that after the act of Union, Stuart idea, the bastard English got the Scots out of a hole after the failed Darien ( New Caledonia) fiasco. Just a thought
Bede saw these guys as English. I chose the English/Anglian appelation to try to bridge. I get really frustrated with the lazy politicing and deliberate misrepresentation on Darien, but I don't have time to argue with every Tom, Dick and Harry
Oswald was a Bernician Prince, Not a Scot, he was born in England and died in England.
Anyways, he is still popular today in parts of Austria and Hungary.
Exactly as I said😎
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Don't want to get all pernickity, but you did say "he was a Scot that wanted his English crown back".
He wasn't English, such a thing didn't exist yet.
@@mattsmith4536 Semantics.
@@mattsmith4536 Aye, he was Bernician, which is a Welsh/Brythonic name, and Bernicia was a kingdom of what is now mostly Northumberland and SE Scotland. Like our Guide says, he spent many formative years in Dal Riata, so only natural that he picked up the ways of the Dal Riata Scots, along with their language and religion. The Northumbrian kings had a habit of sending their children to be educated in Ireland and were known to give military aid to the High King on occasion. The 'English' and 'Irish' only became enemies with the coming of the Normans. Caused a lot of trouble those lads...
I KNOW THAT THEIR ARE LOTS OF BRILLIANT PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, SOME IN PLACES I'VE NEVER HEARD OF ,OR KNOW NOTHING ABOUT, BUT I THINK THAT SCOTLAND HAS PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED MORE TO MAN KIND THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. YES , NO.
Love the videos, but you need to sort your sound. It will absolutely put a lot of first timers off
I discovered this and I am in no way that my heritage is a sketchy one but who's isn't the term for Scott Irish but someone mentioned could be Ulster scot and they associate this with all the bad in the world I've never liked anything tied to it it saddens me to think those I might like it I don't, the term hillbilly is tied to William of Orange calling them hillbillies showing loyalty my loyalty has been one to the human race.
@Cornbreadfed Kirkpatrick. The term "hillbilly" is an American invention. Do a bit of research on it. Apparently it first appears in a US newspaper some time in the late 1800s. It has nothing to do with William of Orange. And "Ulster Scot" is also a fairly modern invention in Northern Ireland. It was never used at the time when people were emigrating from Ulster to the American Colonies.
@@alicemilne1444 Oh so the article from Irish central was fake thanks t.
Well next video is Stirling castle he's film just now
I've just spat me tea! 2:16
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I'm a from the free Republic of Yorkshire too and a Leeds fan but I see nationality as Scottish too🤪
Here, I have some evidence that the picts came from Cezkoslovokia .
Im not 100% on this though, because the
report said Northern Scottish. The Northern Scottish is almost 70%. I couldn't make any sense of it at first. Then I checked out check land. 36% Celt. So if by Northern Scottish they mean picts then there's evidence that they came from CZ. The mystery may be over.
Yeah I consider myself Nortbumbrian before I do English of British
Hey I live in Norfolk... wait not that one, the new one. The one in Virginia LOL
Ah, you should be OK then
First class my man...ggtthb..
Yorkshire till i die! Yorkshire independence!
Physics teacher. 👍
The state of the comments on here. I know it's youtube but I wish people would read a book about the subject they're commenting on, so they're at least giving an informed opinion.
A Geordie is a Scotsman with his testicles removed. Or vice versa. So I’m told.Having the blood of both in my veins, I resent that,dammit.
Been to the twin villages of Ford and Etal? Worth a visit.
Also Lanercost might be an interesting subject for a vid.
That's a lot of cross border reiving😂
@@ScotlandHistoryTours you said it mate, these bloody electric sheep sheers.
A pal from Yorkshire told me a Geordie was a Scot with the brains taken out and a Yorkshire man was a Scot with the generosity taken out.
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Are these the guy's Bruce that when attacking the Romans said we are the last of the FREE THE LAST OF THE FREE?
No, that was earlier
Darn! No sound Bruce!
Turns out it's only one ear. Apologies
I heard this a very long time ago, a wealthy lawyer had a terrible dream he was a dog and was beaten and he told a friend, the friend replied you must have been a really bad person in a past life.