Hi everyone, just a quick correction and clarification to a question that has been raised a couple of times: “Couldn’t you just sell your cat for more/less?” The answer is yes, although this is my fault for misunderstanding the rigidity of the values presented. Their value is based on the price of compensation, and does not HAVE to be their buy/sell price, although several laws are tied to their buying and selling value, not just with cats, but with several animals (i.e. the qualities they need to be of full value, the refund entitled if they are deficient etc), you absolutely could buy/sell for more/less. So due to my own misunderstanding, the chapter about the value of the animals needs to be clarified that it is based on their stated value of compensation. And the final chapter needs another assumption, alongside the generous assumptions that the laws reflected local differences, and that you could buy and sell infinite geese and cats, we will assume that their legal value represents the general price you could expect, which in my opinion is a fair assumption for the nature of that chapter! Sorry for the mistake, and thank you to the kind and knowledgeable commenter who corrected me! Thanks for understanding.
@@c.powell8472 I’d read a portion of the Welsh laws ages ago, and actually misremembered a bit: I thought there was a tax where you had to give 1 kitten per litter to the king. No idea where I got that from lol
They particularly enjoy defying gravity. Or, deploying the laws of gravity to get attention. My cat can always find some object to knock off a table or shelf in the early mornings. The thud wakes me and he knows he will be fed then. Clever little moggy.
Tried to sell my cat in Gwent and was forced to give back a goose and a half when the seller saw it wailing at the moon one night. Absolutely absurd. Dull Gwent has gone too far, all these regulations are destroying the cat industry. At least I can try to make some of my money back by selling all my worthless milk to the Saxons.
A couple of years ago, I was sitting on the couch, my (now departed) cat snoozing next to me. And I heard a little sound, as of something eating. And I looked round to see a mouse eating food out of my cat's bowl... She'd have been worthless in medieval Wales, but she was priceless to me.
@@tosehoed123 Because cats hunt instinctively, and show every indication of enjoying it. My cats still kill any mice that find their way into our place, and one of them has the amusing habit of leaving the little rodenty corpses right next to his (half full) dish.
The "worthless milk" thing sounds very much like they made a law that applied to animals that provide milk and some enterprising Welshman saw a loophole and milked their cat, dog, and/or horse to claim its benefit.
Perhaps refunds on animals that 'provide milk' were limited, because the new owner was assumed to have extracted value during their ownership before the refund. Then somebody tried to claim this clause applied to a mammal not typically kept for its milk, and that passage was added to the law?
The situation is not as far fetched as it sounds. If you were a cat breeder, and you found a kitten abandoned or otherwise distressed, your nursing cat may accept the additional kitten. Given this, raising a kitten to a cat increases its value, in a dispute someone may claim the nursing mother cat was more valuable. This law appears to clarify that it is not.
I am not sure what they had against horse milk though, the Mongolians loved that stuff and even turned it into alcohol. Cat and dog milk sounds a lot less appetizing but if you can milk cows and goats, why not horses?
Diplomat first visiting a Welsh kings court. Unimpressed by the relative lack of wealth compared to the English and french courts. Huge muscled, heavily scarred man walks through the room. "Is that the the kings champion? Or executioner?" The diplomat asks. With a chuckle a courtier responds: "Nay, that's the cat holder-downer".
I may be American, but I recently started living and working on a rural piece of undeveloped farmland, and the owner said he had a terrible vole and mouse problem and to bring my cat. My one cat was nowhere near sufficient for the magnitude of voles entrenched in this 80 acre plot of near-wilderness, which I was expected to farm somehow. …I’ve since adopted four additional cats and am expanding the cat “barn” (a well-modified shed) for more. It is literally impossible to keep seedlings in fields growing or grain stores untainted without an army of cats doing passive pest control. Impossible. I tried everything short of using chemical pesticides (it’s an organic farm, not an option), it was like throwing chili powder and garlic at a tidal wave of rodents. Humanity would have starved without cats. They are _every_ bit as important to humanity’s historic survival as dogs were, but never get any credit. So here I am, an actual farmer, saying that we need cats to keep our food growing, and to keep us from catching things like the bubonic plague, which was spread by rats.
@@FelipeJaquez Even very small villages depend on stored food like grains and root vegetables to survive winter. Rodents love to eat and defecate in grain stores and root cellars, and once the food is defecated in, mold and viruses begin to rot the food. Even just a single family living on an isolated homestead needed a way to keep their stored food free of rodents.
Catching mice was really important back in this age. Surviving outside the harvest season relied heavily on keeping your food preserved, and the cool thing about grain is that it preserves essentially forever so long as it's dry and has no pests in it. Keeping it in a storehouse will keep it dry, but basically nothing will keep the vermin out except cats. Rats can chew through most anything given enough time, and they will smell your grains before they even see them.
@@soaringvulture Ahem... excuse me, that would be Goddess. Bastet,whom originally was Sekhmet, a goddess of war. Her claws got pulled, and she became Bastet.✌️😸
@@DrMFoster7 they don’t even have to smell the grains, I had a friend on a farm who had some mice chew through a cupboard wall that only contained soap!
We have molasses to feed to our milking cow, and it's in a stainless steel barrel with a stainless steel honey tap because our old plastic molasses bucket had a plastic tap and the rats ate through it. Makes an awful mess on the ground!
Daffyd probably had the most wicked scars in the kingdom without ever seeing a battlefield.. I cannot imagine trying to hold down a practically feral barn cat lmao
@@davidbrennan660 imagine, it's just a never ending loop of weird calculation methods for the people who are injured in the process of holding the cat down for the fine. "ohhh he ripped daffyds eye out... now we need Artur to come hold down the cat to calculate a new fine"
"... being able to have kittens, but also not to eat them; a quality that I think more people should seek in their potential partners." *me, secretly a male preying mantis* wow that's rude it's not like I have choice or anything
Your dream partner doesn't eat the eggs which would be the kitten equivalent, so you're complaining about nothing. For a given value of the word, you're safe to go after your girl.
I've had two cat's that have been the sole surviving kitten of the litter, 1st one had to be weened by hand he was a Bengal, enough said... Second my current moggy was taken in by a surrogate cat that just had a litter..
This video haunts me. It feels like a fever dream from another universe, the editing combined with the topic is just off kilter enough to be unsettling even through the humour. Top notch, 10/10, have watched 5 times now.
I do not have particular interest in Welsh history, but I got this video suggested by UA-cam and decided to watch it because of a funny thumbnail. Whole video is edited as the funniest shitpost, but it also has high educational value. I enjoyed every second of it. Thank you and have a nice day.
It's also a very long Welsh tabloid story headline, not quite as snappy as "Freddie Starr ate my hamster". "Masnachwr cathod Dyfed canoloesol yn yfed llaeth cath i'ch twyllo allan o'ch ad-daliad amdano yn udo wrth y lleuad"
“The Welsh lore grows deeper” he says as he’s 3 weeks into discovering that King Cadwallon I’s horse was fabricated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and then later propagated by 19th century British historians
We are so inundated with high quality YT videos that relative beginner are looked at askance... How lucky we are to be so blessed! It must have been quite different in the past - cats and dogs were just another aspect of farm living a thousand years ago...yet one guesses that the more domestic species were appreciated for their cosmopolitan aspects....have you made a similar video on canine breeds? Thank you kindly for the video....cheers!
now I'm imagining a medieval legal clerk bracing themselves, heaving a big sigh, and then soldiering on with the explanation of the "worthless milk" clause
this is the greatest masterpiece that has been produced, thank you cambrian chronicles. and you're welcome for the statue and the name. i'll give you a discount down to 3 geese on your next purchase of one of my cats
Instructions unclear. Acquired infinite cats through work as a Rhingyll but fell in love with each and everyone and therefore became incapable of selling them. Have had to sell all of my meat, butter, flax, corn, and hens just to feed and house all of my cats. Did not profit.
Medieval Wales greatly undervalued the three legged farm cat, which could not catch a thing, but was able to teach our young cat to catch rats very efficiently, amazing to watch circa 1975, and amazing to watch your video deal with such a serious subject. 🐱🐈
Alternative ideas for time-traveling cat enthusiasts: - found the Welsh Cat Merchants Guild - become the Welsh Ea-Nasir of cat merchants - attempt to sell cat milk as something else that isn't legally worthless, such as snakes milk - door-to-door direct sales cat MLM
i love the idea of a cat being declared worthless if it screams at the moon like when you open up a mint condition comic book and all the value was in its sleeve
Those first 10 seconds is probably the funniest shit I've seen in quite some time. It's probably not quite as funny to someone unfamiliar with your channel, but it's truly like being in history class and having the teacher stare out at the room for a solid 5 seconds before just going "Meow", and starting the lesson.
It's actually just something called arbitage in finance, good large-scale example is the reselling of Western luxury goods in the post-Soviet states after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
That's how trading worked in history and still does today. You buy low in one region where a good is cheap and common and sell high in another where that good is expensive and rare.
@@goldenhorde6944Another example of arbitrage is in sports betting. Say one bookie gives you 1:1 odds for team A vs B, you bet $10k on B. Another bookie gives you 2:1 odds for A so you bet $7k. Now if team A wins you net $10k - $7k = $3k. If team B wins you net -$10k + $14k = $4k.
i love this topic idea so much, you should totally do more obscure topics such as this. Really enjoyed it and your transitions are iconic and make me laugh and I just need so so much more of the silliness and education.
A video about the history of Welsh cat laws ending in a time traveling paradox of which came first, the video or the time traveling cat salesman, not what I was expecting at all! A welcome jaunt, though.
On a serious note, this video is genuinely some of the greatest content I have seen this year. I wish I could erase it from my mind to re-experience it until I rot. I don't know what makes this video so good, but I can only hope it gets matched or surpassed by future videos on the channel. Wish you success!
1:26 specifying that the cat must not eat their kittens is actually a decent rule, as cats do eat their kittens when under stress (nutritional or mental). A cat who eats their kittens may be the sign of a cat who isn't a good hunter. very interesting video! :) I watched it with my cat.
Only if you can obtain land and then convince the King to give you a royal title. In the medieval era, one of the prerequisites for practicing law was to be landed, and then receive (or already have) the title of Esquire. That's why, to this day, attorneys append "Esquire" to their name.
I watched this with my fluffy floppy excuse of a cat who does not know how to hunt or climb a tree, and we were both enthralled by the video. Thank you.
just wanted to say that I think you use interstitial music really well. A lot of youtubers don't really know how to use it without it being obnoxious or distracting. you're a nice change of pace.
I like to imagine they were part of an elaborate inter-kingdom conspiracy where all the Rhyngyll would secretly plot to wage a Forever War so that the supply of cats was kept high
love that the beginning is like a documentary zooming in on a globe so we know what part of the world we're in, except you're zooming in on a cat orb which does not yield any actual information whatsoever
Abut the "one third of four ceiniog" thing: my understanding is that in medieval times most people never actually used these coins. They were just units of account, keeping track of debts that would most likely be paid in grain, animals, crafts, etc. So it's not a huge problem to owe someone one and one-third ceiniog.
This is the first of you're videos I've watched. I'm most certain I needed to know all of that, especially that I'm currently living in 2024, in the southeast United States, with no way to get to Wales now OR of 1000 years ago. Thank you.
I like how the video title implies that these aren't laws for cats during the medieval age, but laws that specifically apply to cats that are "medieval"
Never mind he was clearly a defective cat (He even meowed at the moon after this!) so I tricked someone into selling 4 geese to me for him instead thanks for the advice though!
Of all the Jon Bois-ology of this channel, this is the Jon Bois-est. Fantastic editing and style, utterly bizarre and obscure yet universally interesting subject matter? This absolutely RULES.
Hi everyone, just a quick correction and clarification to a question that has been raised a couple of times:
“Couldn’t you just sell your cat for more/less?”
The answer is yes, although this is my fault for misunderstanding the rigidity of the values presented. Their value is based on the price of compensation, and does not HAVE to be their buy/sell price, although several laws are tied to their buying and selling value, not just with cats, but with several animals (i.e. the qualities they need to be of full value, the refund entitled if they are deficient etc), you absolutely could buy/sell for more/less.
So due to my own misunderstanding, the chapter about the value of the animals needs to be clarified that it is based on their stated value of compensation.
And the final chapter needs another assumption, alongside the generous assumptions that the laws reflected local differences, and that you could buy and sell infinite geese and cats, we will assume that their legal value represents the general price you could expect, which in my opinion is a fair assumption for the nature of that chapter!
Sorry for the mistake, and thank you to the kind and knowledgeable commenter who corrected me!
Thanks for understanding.
meow :3
Infinite Geese and Cats...
Meow
How did you even find out about this book of cat laws!?😦😆
@@c.powell8472 I’d read a portion of the Welsh laws ages ago, and actually misremembered a bit: I thought there was a tax where you had to give 1 kitten per litter to the king. No idea where I got that from lol
"Cats aren't exactly known to follow the law."
Including the laws of nature and physics.
Cats are their own state of matter, able to select properties of both solids, and liquids.
They particularly enjoy defying gravity. Or, deploying the laws of gravity to get attention. My cat can always find some object to knock off a table or shelf in the early mornings. The thud wakes me and he knows he will be fed then. Clever little moggy.
Cat in the wall eh? Now you’re speaking my language..
@@chadreese9501 I came here to post this.
@@iratepirate3896 @chadreese9501 Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.
The video starts with a meow: excellent, no notes, 100/10, perfect.
Thank you!
Purrfect*
@@NihlusKryik I wish I had thought of that.
@@CambrianChronicles....the cats of deepest Prenton thank you...oh no they've wandered off....again....😅😅😅...E
Wait til you reach the end! It'll blow your mind
Tried to sell my cat in Gwent and was forced to give back a goose and a half when the seller saw it wailing at the moon one night. Absolutely absurd. Dull Gwent has gone too far, all these regulations are destroying the cat industry. At least I can try to make some of my money back by selling all my worthless milk to the Saxons.
This is one of the best YT comments ever 😂.
You would sound unhinged if taken out of context, but after seeing the video it makes sense 😂
Come on mate, stop trying to sell your waily cats to us in Gwent! Easy!
I had luck selling my milk to the Basques, their regulators are very friendly to business.
Not doing a lot for the goose industry either. How many eggs can a half goose lay?
@@johnbaker1256 Well, you'd do best with the egg-laying half of the goose....
I can't get over the powerpoint transitions. 😂 The crane killed me
My professor used it in class once and I was the only one who laughed at it 😭
after i saw it i immediately ran to the comments its SO FUNNY
🎉😅😊
4:47
The delivery of the whole video is so funny 😂
I like that while the husband is only permitted ownership of one cat, the wife can enjoy an unlimited cat collection
Maybe this is the true origins of the ‘crazy cat lady’
A couple of years ago, I was sitting on the couch, my (now departed) cat snoozing next to me. And I heard a little sound, as of something eating. And I looked round to see a mouse eating food out of my cat's bowl...
She'd have been worthless in medieval Wales, but she was priceless to me.
Ah but being priceless to you in the modern day is far more important!
Why would it hunt when it has infinite free food 😅
Had a dog that let a mouse share its bowl, and the mouse would sometimes be found fast asleep on the dog. Very annoying.
@@geradkavanagh8240Just adopt the mouse
@@tosehoed123 Because cats hunt instinctively, and show every indication of enjoying it. My cats still kill any mice that find their way into our place, and one of them has the amusing habit of leaving the little rodenty corpses right next to his (half full) dish.
That slide folding itself into a bird and flying away makes me giggle every time.
Lol thank you, this is like the third time I've used it but I find it so funny
same lmao
Man, I love PowerPoint.
0:50
@@CambrianChronicles you have the best transitions ive ever saw
I had no idea that I wanted a video like this, but I'm all for it.
History of Welsh cat laws when?
Can I buy you for 4 Cainiog? ☺️
tigerstar jumpscare 😲
Map time
Thank you, I’m very glad you enjoyed it!
this video is both batshit insane and also very calm at the same time and i love it
Something I think more people ought to value in a partner
More like catshit
"we will be like two washing machines placed opposite each other" is the most ethereally optimistic thing i've read all week
Beautiful 🥹
Wow that was romantic ❤
minecraft beds be like
The "worthless milk" thing sounds very much like they made a law that applied to animals that provide milk and some enterprising Welshman saw a loophole and milked their cat, dog, and/or horse to claim its benefit.
If you find a cat that lets you milk it you are indeed very lucky
Perhaps refunds on animals that 'provide milk' were limited, because the new owner was assumed to have extracted value during their ownership before the refund. Then somebody tried to claim this clause applied to a mammal not typically kept for its milk, and that passage was added to the law?
@@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709 Perhaps it was to prevent accidents.
The situation is not as far fetched as it sounds. If you were a cat breeder, and you found a kitten abandoned or otherwise distressed, your nursing cat may accept the additional kitten. Given this, raising a kitten to a cat increases its value, in a dispute someone may claim the nursing mother cat was more valuable. This law appears to clarify that it is not.
I am not sure what they had against horse milk though, the Mongolians loved that stuff and even turned it into alcohol. Cat and dog milk sounds a lot less appetizing but if you can milk cows and goats, why not horses?
A bold decision to start the video with "Meow", and I approve wholeheartedly.
Haha glad to hear
Catboy Chronicles
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And ending 😂
Is "Meow" a Welsh word? Seems like one to me.
Diplomat first visiting a Welsh kings court.
Unimpressed by the relative lack of wealth compared to the English and french courts.
Huge muscled, heavily scarred man walks through the room.
"Is that the the kings champion? Or executioner?" The diplomat asks. With a chuckle a courtier responds:
"Nay, that's the cat holder-downer".
Also "one-eyed".
lol
lol
lol
lol
I may be American, but I recently started living and working on a rural piece of undeveloped farmland, and the owner said he had a terrible vole and mouse problem and to bring my cat. My one cat was nowhere near sufficient for the magnitude of voles entrenched in this 80 acre plot of near-wilderness, which I was expected to farm somehow.
…I’ve since adopted four additional cats and am expanding the cat “barn” (a well-modified shed) for more. It is literally impossible to keep seedlings in fields growing or grain stores untainted without an army of cats doing passive pest control. Impossible. I tried everything short of using chemical pesticides (it’s an organic farm, not an option), it was like throwing chili powder and garlic at a tidal wave of rodents.
Humanity would have starved without cats. They are _every_ bit as important to humanity’s historic survival as dogs were, but never get any credit. So here I am, an actual farmer, saying that we need cats to keep our food growing, and to keep us from catching things like the bubonic plague, which was spread by rats.
Thank you for this public service announcement, sir. And thank you and your animal team for your service. 🫡
Cats were worshipped in ancient Egypt for this reason.
Humanity wouldn't have starved but it would have made the development of large civilizations even harder without them.
So thanks cats.
@@FelipeJaquez Even very small villages depend on stored food like grains and root vegetables to survive winter. Rodents love to eat and defecate in grain stores and root cellars, and once the food is defecated in, mold and viruses begin to rot the food. Even just a single family living on an isolated homestead needed a way to keep their stored food free of rodents.
@@smithright I’m a woman, but it’s a common mix up. Thank you kindly nonetheless. 🌾
Catching mice was really important back in this age. Surviving outside the harvest season relied heavily on keeping your food preserved, and the cool thing about grain is that it preserves essentially forever so long as it's dry and has no pests in it. Keeping it in a storehouse will keep it dry, but basically nothing will keep the vermin out except cats. Rats can chew through most anything given enough time, and they will smell your grains before they even see them.
The Egyptians figured that out long ago. That's why they had a cat god.
@@soaringvulture Ahem... excuse me, that would be Goddess. Bastet,whom originally was Sekhmet, a goddess of war. Her claws got pulled, and she became Bastet.✌️😸
@@DrMFoster7 they don’t even have to smell the grains, I had a friend on a farm who had some mice chew through a cupboard wall that only contained soap!
@@CambrianChroniclesThey might have actually been after the soap. Mice in my house have eaten soap.
We have molasses to feed to our milking cow, and it's in a stainless steel barrel with a stainless steel honey tap because our old plastic molasses bucket had a plastic tap and the rats ate through it. Makes an awful mess on the ground!
"Alright Daffyd, hold down the cat, we need to calculate a fine"
Daffyd probably had the most wicked scars in the kingdom without ever seeing a battlefield..
I cannot imagine trying to hold down a practically feral barn cat lmao
Does the fine increase when the man is bitten by the cat, or is this their own fault?
What is the cost of the Assault the Cat will have on officials of Law?
@@davidbrennan660 imagine, it's just a never ending loop of weird calculation methods for the people who are injured in the process of holding the cat down for the fine.
"ohhh he ripped daffyds eye out... now we need Artur to come hold down the cat to calculate a new fine"
@@davedavidson8208Daffyd was not trained on the method of cat squishing
"... being able to have kittens, but also not to eat them; a quality that I think more people should seek in their potential partners."
*me, secretly a male preying mantis* wow that's rude it's not like I have choice or anything
Your dream partner doesn't eat the eggs which would be the kitten equivalent, so you're complaining about nothing. For a given value of the word, you're safe to go after your girl.
@@TeknokraattiUntil consummation, of course. At that point, all bets (and heads) are off.
@@julianmorrisco That'd be the given value.
- Me, secretly a female preying mantis:
oh why hello there handsome ;)
I've had two cat's that have been the sole surviving kitten of the litter, 1st one had to be weened by hand he was a Bengal, enough said... Second my current moggy was taken in by a surrogate cat that just had a litter..
i am absolutely living for these powerpoint transitions
Thank you, they're becoming my new favourite thing to add
The Flippy jittery flying mustache transition early on was my favorite.
This video haunts me. It feels like a fever dream from another universe, the editing combined with the topic is just off kilter enough to be unsettling even through the humour. Top notch, 10/10, have watched 5 times now.
I do not have particular interest in Welsh history, but I got this video suggested by UA-cam and decided to watch it because of a funny thumbnail. Whole video is edited as the funniest shitpost, but it also has high educational value. I enjoyed every second of it. Thank you and have a nice day.
Step 1: Exchange 2 geese for 1 cat in Southwest Wales
Step 2: Exchange 1 cat for 4 geese in North Wales
Step 3: repeat process
Step 4: INFINITE geese
Walking all the way there might take a while.
@@goncalo33 nonsense
you have infinite geese!
tie them to you and have them fly you around
@@goncalo33 umm, use fast travel? duh.
the infinite geese glitch
"You're doing a cat and geese scam!? Today!?"
"Medieval Dyfed cat merchant drinking cat milk to scam you out of your refund for it howling at the moon" is a plausible legal scenario
It's also a very long Welsh tabloid story headline, not quite as snappy as "Freddie Starr ate my hamster".
"Masnachwr cathod Dyfed canoloesol yn yfed llaeth cath i'ch twyllo allan o'ch ad-daliad amdano yn udo wrth y lleuad"
"These are the medieval cat laws, laws for your medieval cat." *Funky robot sounds*
Checks out
Sounds like an internal instructional video for corporate & government departments...
"Give me 4 geese, and we're square" could've been a legitimate sentence in history, all taking place in my homeland. It's enough to make me cry.
Thank you, as a medieval Cat sales person my sales have gone up.
The Welsh lore grows deeper
Gonna start saying this to myself every 5 mins while writing my scripts
“The Welsh lore grows deeper” he says as he’s 3 weeks into discovering that King Cadwallon I’s horse was fabricated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and then later propagated by 19th century British historians
Bold of you to assume my felines care about the law.
"Cats do not abide by the laws of nature."
-Charlie Kelly, Bird Lawyer
Oh, they surely do care about it. How else would they have a checklist of things to defy?
Look, I know it's a joke. But I simply must point out that the literal first sentence in the video is "Cats aren't exactly known to follow the law"
@@pahko_ and I shrimply must point out: Meow.
@@ROBOHOLIC1a keen eye and an excellent point
Am I the only one who would watch an hour long Cambrian Chronicles video trying to work out the modern day value of a ceiniog?
Absolutely not
@@slwrabbits ok :)
We need it
One modern ceiniog = 1p. That’s the literal modern day translation. Ceiniog = penny/pence.
I had no idea I needed a primer on ancient Welsh cat laws.
Thank you.
Why is no one talking about the insane editing. I feel like I’m watching a middle schooler’s presentation
I was confused about the Microsoft PowerPoint ahh transition
I wish I was treated to this in middle school. I might have cared about school
We are so inundated with high quality YT videos that relative beginner are looked at askance...
How lucky we are to be so blessed!
It must have been quite different in the past - cats and dogs were just another aspect of farm living a thousand years ago...yet one guesses that the more domestic species were appreciated for their cosmopolitan aspects....have you made a similar video on canine breeds?
Thank you kindly for the video....cheers!
It was (literally) made in PowerPoint, I can tell by the transitions
Unironically better than most editing on UA-cam
I really want a video going indepth on all the strange laws in medieval Wales, the content gets better each video, keep it up
Definitely a plan for a future video!
now I'm imagining a medieval legal clerk bracing themselves, heaving a big sigh, and then soldiering on with the explanation of the "worthless milk" clause
I am so ready for this video. My two 3 month old kittens are sitting next to me watching (aka trying to chew on my phone and cord and fingers)
They are learning about their ancestors!
Update: this is my favorite Cambrian Chronicles video. Very well done!
meow
@@thederpypikachu9873 Meow.
This channel has gone down a strange path. This isn’t a complaint.
This 'Meow' at the start, I shall cherish it as my notification sound from now on.
this is the greatest masterpiece that has been produced, thank you cambrian chronicles. and you're welcome for the statue and the name. i'll give you a discount down to 3 geese on your next purchase of one of my cats
Thank you, hopefully I can sell those geese for some more cats somewhere
Hi
@@thorfinn518 hello
@@CambrianChronicles Try South Wales, I hear they only want two geese for one cat there.
Now this is peak content right here
Thank you!
The combination of your editing and deadpan delivery makes this video extremely surreal. Meow
Haha glad to hear
It really is a cool effect, as least for me. I like!@@CambrianChronicles
@@CambrianChroniclesHow do you make your videos?
@@NbNb-nl4jt The style is very similar to Jon Bois and Bobby Broccoli, the latter of which has a tutorial on making videoes in this style in Blender
@@somefosterchildIm so glad someone said it this vid comes off exactly like a bobby broccoli vid
This video is giving Philomena Cunk's EPQ presentation. Splendid. No notes. 10/10 ❤
Instructions unclear. Acquired infinite cats through work as a Rhingyll but fell in love with each and everyone and therefore became incapable of selling them. Have had to sell all of my meat, butter, flax, corn, and hens just to feed and house all of my cats. Did not profit.
Medieval Wales greatly undervalued the three legged farm cat, which could not catch a thing, but was able to teach our young cat to catch rats very efficiently, amazing to watch circa 1975, and amazing to watch your video deal with such a serious subject. 🐱🐈
Your videos get more unhinged the more you uploads, i like it, keep it going.
Thank you, they're very fun to make!
meow
Meowwwwwwwwww *wails at the moon*
Alternative ideas for time-traveling cat enthusiasts:
- found the Welsh Cat Merchants Guild
- become the Welsh Ea-Nasir of cat merchants
- attempt to sell cat milk as something else that isn't legally worthless, such as snakes milk
- door-to-door direct sales cat MLM
The Cat Merchants Guild is _begging_ to become a terrifying mafia of underhandedness committed by society’s most charismatic eccentrics
You and me are JUST like two washing machines, youre so right mr chronicles
i love the idea of a cat being declared worthless if it screams at the moon like when you open up a mint condition comic book and all the value was in its sleeve
Those first 10 seconds is probably the funniest shit I've seen in quite some time. It's probably not quite as funny to someone unfamiliar with your channel, but it's truly like being in history class and having the teacher stare out at the room for a solid 5 seconds before just going "Meow", and starting the lesson.
Finally. Someone uploading important content to UA-cam
Lol thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
I'm thinking "Do NOT Sell Cat Milk" would make for an amusing if enigmatic epitaph, perhaps because I just about died laughing watching this.
"We will be like two washing machines placed opposite one another, forever cycling, forever linked"
Absolutely legendary line right there
Thank you Cambrian Chronicles… came for the thumbnail, stayed for the ego altering, life changing information.
Cat orb meow. Liked.
Same
Thank you, glad to hear Dr. Orb made a good impression
The cat orb is absolutely sending me into fits of laughter. Thank you for making this video. I shall be grading my cats on this scale forevermore.
Didn’t expect to learn today that the Welsh invented the first infinite money glitch, I think I shall put this plan of yours into action
It's actually just something called arbitage in finance, good large-scale example is the reselling of Western luxury goods in the post-Soviet states after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
That's how trading worked in history and still does today. You buy low in one region where a good is cheap and common and sell high in another where that good is expensive and rare.
France used to have highly varied salt fees that indirectly encouraged smuggling.
@@goldenhorde6944Another example of arbitrage is in sports betting. Say one bookie gives you 1:1 odds for team A vs B, you bet $10k on B. Another bookie gives you 2:1 odds for A so you bet $7k.
Now if team A wins you net $10k - $7k = $3k. If team B wins you net -$10k + $14k = $4k.
@@Vmac1394 Forget just in trading, there are people who make a living performing arbitrage with games on Steam!
i love this topic idea so much, you should totally do more obscure topics such as this. Really enjoyed it and your transitions are iconic and make me laugh and I just need so so much more of the silliness and education.
A video about the history of Welsh cat laws ending in a time traveling paradox of which came first, the video or the time traveling cat salesman, not what I was expecting at all! A welcome jaunt, though.
On a serious note, this video is genuinely some of the greatest content I have seen this year. I wish I could erase it from my mind to re-experience it until I rot.
I don't know what makes this video so good, but I can only hope it gets matched or surpassed by future videos on the channel.
Wish you success!
Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked it, and I too hope I can surpass it someday
1:26 specifying that the cat must not eat their kittens is actually a decent rule, as cats do eat their kittens when under stress (nutritional or mental). A cat who eats their kittens may be the sign of a cat who isn't a good hunter.
very interesting video! :) I watched it with my cat.
That makes sense! Im glad both you and your cat enjoyed the video
Now all I need is a time machine and I can be a medieval cat law lawyer
Only if you can obtain land and then convince the King to give you a royal title. In the medieval era, one of the prerequisites for practicing law was to be landed, and then receive (or already have) the title of Esquire. That's why, to this day, attorneys append "Esquire" to their name.
I watched this with my fluffy floppy excuse of a cat who does not know how to hunt or climb a tree, and we were both enthralled by the video. Thank you.
13:30 Oh my god, I wasn't expecting to be a cameo in a video, but thank you very much!
Meow
We're talking Cat Law and a time travel/money making scheme involving geese in one video? That's impressive.
The cat sphere is so weird yet enticing 😂
just wanted to say that I think you use interstitial music really well. A lot of youtubers don't really know how to use it without it being obnoxious or distracting. you're a nice change of pace.
Thank you! I definitely made it too loud in a few older vids, but I'd like to think I've gotten better at it now
the transitions keep getting better
UA-cam suggested 2 am video content at 8 pm??? I'm so blessed
Great information for someone who's just getting a cat.
Especially if you suddenly require 2-4 geese and are in medieval Wales also
Whenever you enter your home, show her some meat so that she thinks you are a good hunter!
holy shit this might actually be the best video on the planet
Glad to hear!
Doc: "I'm sorry, you only have 14 minutes left"
me knowing exactly what to invest them in
It's 2.10 am. I'm brewing cup noodle. And all of a sudden
"Meow"
You and me both, my friend.
This is one of the greatest youtube content I have witnessed
Conspiracy: the reason Wales was always at war was so the Rhyngyll could get a bunch of free cats
I like to imagine they were part of an elaborate inter-kingdom conspiracy where all the Rhyngyll would secretly plot to wage a Forever War so that the supply of cats was kept high
That would, indeed, be a bloody _and_ cute way of making money: to be a _rhingyll_ and a cat salesman at once during a war would make quite a fortune!
This goose-sale scheme has all the hallmarks of Mr. Ponzi’s international reply coupon plan.
Cat direct sales multi-level marketing scheme?
10:43 whatever you do, don’t come across a river crossing with a boat that can only carry 2 of you.
love that the beginning is like a documentary zooming in on a globe so we know what part of the world we're in, except you're zooming in on a cat orb which does not yield any actual information whatsoever
I wouldn't expect a cat video to be edited in any other way 10/10
Video editor: “How many strange visuals and trippy transitions do you want?”
Cambrian Chronicles: “Yes.”
That’s just Me talking to myself lol
Abut the "one third of four ceiniog" thing: my understanding is that in medieval times most people never actually used these coins. They were just units of account, keeping track of debts that would most likely be paid in grain, animals, crafts, etc. So it's not a huge problem to owe someone one and one-third ceiniog.
Yeah that was most of currency thru most of history
This is such an unserious video while being well researched, i love it
This is the first of you're videos I've watched. I'm most certain I needed to know all of that, especially that I'm currently living in 2024, in the southeast United States, with no way to get to Wales now OR of 1000 years ago. Thank you.
I like how the video title implies that these aren't laws for cats during the medieval age, but laws that specifically apply to cats that are "medieval"
This is your most unhinged video yet Sir Chronicles
I shall await further unhinged deep dives into Welsh history with much anticipation. 10/10
Haha thank you, many more to come!
@@CambrianChroniclesoh please, the bizarre and arbitrary specificity of these laws has me in stitches.
His other videos were hinged?
i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again: your transitions just keep hitting. so hard.
Thank you!
Absolutely delightful. Watching this with my tortoise shell calico, Abby.
Glad you both enjoyed!
I absolutely appreciate the transitions in this video. Perfect.
Until I saw this I thought that the cat mods for Anniversary Skyrim were totally random. Applause for surprisingly historically accurate mods.
This channel is a treasure
Thank you very much!
Tried the grain thing with my cat and he just scratched up my arm and bit me. How do I make my cat appreciate Welsh culture more :(
Maybe try letting him destroy someone’s flax garden so he can experience being a medieval Welsh cat criminal
Never mind he was clearly a defective cat (He even meowed at the moon after this!) so I tricked someone into selling 4 geese to me for him instead thanks for the advice though!
It is very esoteric that this is now linked to Garfield. Jim Davis, you really created a monster.
Garfield: the eternal being
this video’s editing style fucks SO hard
like. this rules
Meow. This may be the greatest UA-cam video I’ve ever watched.
Of all the Jon Bois-ology of this channel, this is the Jon Bois-est. Fantastic editing and style, utterly bizarre and obscure yet universally interesting subject matter? This absolutely RULES.
I’ve been watching UA-cam for so many years now, and I’ve never ever loved a video more
Thank you very much!
WORTHLESS MILK will now live in my head rent-free. Thank you.
Lol thank you I'm glad you liked it
Remember, it's only "useless" if they're aware it's cat milk, which is so difficult to prove 😉
Decent band name
@@krisfinley6706"I'm just pouring milk from 2 buckets into this jug, more efficient that way. Nothing to see here, occifer! No siree, no ma'am."
Not a bad name for a band.
OBSESSED wwith the powwerpoint transitions
honestly might just be one of my favourite youtube videos ever
Wild editing, origami screenwipe, 10/10
Glad to hear you liked it!
Finally, I was worried I wouldn’t find a job if I ever time traveled. Thank you, this is perfect for me.
You’re welcome!
I imagine shady medieval cat dealers, trying to pass off lazy cats with fake teeth and claws. "It's just like new!"
The editing in this video is insane, I love it