The People that compromised Dal Riata were the Scoti Clans, who x amount of their Ancestors portrayed in the Declaration of Arbraoth (like all Ross' of Scottish Origins Ancestor the Chief of the Great Clan Ross the Earl of Ross was 4th to Seal) that we are Sycthian and had 113 (130?) Scoti Kings of an unbroken line and leaving off with stopping there and Simply Citing the Story of our People basically for more. The Scoti Clans invaded that tip of Northern Ireland, coming from Spain which they migrated too x amount before, and than from there to their holdings in the North Western Low Lands and South Western Highlands, eventually with the Picts crushed between them and the Vikings and with the Scoti Clans absorbing the Picts, and finally subduing to intergrating the Vikings by the time of the once War Master of Scotland, Chief of Clan Arias (Anrias/ soon to be the Great Clan Ross), Husband to the Queen of Mann, Cousin to the Laird of the Isle and King Malcom, the 1st Earl of Ross Fearchar, the Son of the Priest, who as War Master (Thane) and his personal Army and Personal Armada, and his Cousin the Kings Troops took out the Viking Lairds in and around Scotland taking their lands and gold, expanding Ross-shire the Earldom of Ross and making who would be known as the Ross' the most richest and power Family in the Highlands for Generations. We are not Irish because you so Fancy it, and you will not over turn the History of the Scoti for Irish Vanity and a long standing Grudge!
Let me clearly explain something, Kings on Average have more kids surviving to adulthood than Septs, Commoners to the Conquered and the whole bit, same with the offspring of Kings and their offspring, so when in the Declaration of Arbraoth the Scoti Leaders are telling you we had 113 Kings, that's allot of people in the end, why you have Clan MacGregor Moto as Royal is my Race, because they are all the Descendants of Kings, and since there was 113 of them, and all there kids have kids, and so forth, it becomes a fair amount of people and the Hierarchy of the Orginal Invading Scoti Clans. So when all those Earls (like the Earl of Ross my and other Ross' of Scottish Origins Ancestor because the 1st Official Ross was the Chief of the Great Clan Ross The 4th Earl of Ross Hugh Ross 1st to take on the Surname once protected by law) and Barron's signed the Declaration of Arbraoth, all those of Scoti Origins, were basically also saying without saying those our are Ancestor, and when it says we crossed the Red Sea with Moses, you know what I'm not going to tell you everyone in the Scoti Clans did that because we adopted generics from Ireland as well I assume all the places before, but we should know the Bloodline of the Sycthian Kings did, who the Declaration of Arbraoth is saying are the Scoti Kings (less than 20 years a Kingship to the Beginning of Sycthia) or are an offshoot from which one would assume starts count if that was the case at the Sycthian Prince that Married Egyptian Princess Scotia. And since the people on top back in the day had higher Population Growth than people on the bottom, a far amount of people orginating from the Scoti Clans litteraly crossed the Red Sea with Moses or come from the exact Kings in Question. And see there was a cited of Scythia in Israel or Judea that was Destroyed, selectively by the some other empire, I forget which, and right after that the Sycthian Empire was formed, from Royal Sycthia to the Pacific! And you are not going to tell a bunch of Ancient Egyptians who became the Scythian Kings who became the Scoti Kings who make up a fair enough portion of the part of the Scottish Population that were the Orginal Scoti Clans, that we are Irish in Origin, as you erase our History directly told in one of the most pivotal Historical Documents!
@@randyross5630 As a Hungarian I have a genetic connection to specific Irish and Scottish Royal Clans just as my wife and probably other HunGerians where our ancestors traced a Hun-Han Sian-Scythian descendant which land was pretty much Hungary,Ukrain and Russia so it’s a strange thing to see such a genetic connection since in current Greeko-Roman history there is nothing that would explain such a connections. Is there some written Scottish or Irish traditions that one can read ?
I read in an old history book many, many years ago that the Romans took an entire clan from around the Falkirk area, and re-settled them in northern Wales and used them as a kind of UN peacekeeping force.
@@randyross5630 My guess would be the Sycthian blood would have been brought to the British Isles as a cohort of Rome, whose barracks would have been in Alt-Clut (modern Dumbarton) my hometown, which after the Romans left was the capital of Dal-Riada and I assume not all the Sycthians left and being left in such a defensible place, became the overlords of the area. The Vikings did, much later, take the Rock of the Britains (Dun-Britain/Dunbarton).
@@krashd If you have mainly Welsh, Irish or Scottish ancestry which goes back many thousands of years on the British isles and which most people do have in Britain today, and if you are a mix of these three plus some Germanic, then your indigenous to the British isles.The English (Anglo Saxons who were a Germanic tribe) have been here for one thousand seven hundred years now so they're not exactly new arrivals.
Ancestry from Danish Vikings cannot be calculated, as they were genetically indistinguishable from the Angles, Jutes and Saxons, all originating from the same geographical area. Norse ancestry can be differentiated, as they do differ genetically from the Danes.
Thanks, great point. I touch on that reality in my video What Did Vikings Look Like and What Was Their Genetic (DNA) History? ua-cam.com/video/UzajCj_jEPg/v-deo.html
This also makes it almost impossible to tell Normans from Danish Vikings from Anglo Saxons genetically. More advanced DNA techniques might show differences, for example the North French, likely Frankish, admixtures to the originally Danish Viking Normans. I also understand the Danes (so Danish Vikings) are not quite genetically identical to the Jutes and Angles they substantially displaced from the Danish Peninsula. One theory is the Jutes invaded Kent not from Jutland, but from the Frankish Coast opposite Kent, where they had been staying after being pressured out of Jutland by Danes from further east. Any thoughts, Danish friends?
@@thearab59 that's interesting. I did read a theory years back that states the same as what you said. The Angles and jutes were pushed out of what is now Denmark by the Danes and the majority of their respective populations moved into what is now northern,eastern and central England whereas the Saxons were not pushed out of their lands by anyone but basically "colonised" what is now southern England. Don't know how true this is but I was interesting non the less
I had my DNA test and found out that I'm 60% Scottish and Welsh, 20% Anglo-Saxon and 20% Native American. I didn't know any of this because I was adopted. But, I feel like visiting the British Isles and hanging out!
Samezies. The 23 and me report categorizes it this way 70% british and irish / 6% scandanavian / 4% native american. And while that's good in a general sense, I want to know more! So this video is really good to understand the nuances of the different groups and common ancestors.
My DNA results show 100% British Isles. Mostly NW Scotland but some Irish and Welsh, and a wee bit of English for good measure. The English part comes from a part of the East Midlands that is, for some unknown reason, 92% of Celtic origin- very few Anglo Saxons. I’m not surprised by the findings though as I can trace my ancestry back to 1230 , generation by generation with full names and dates of birth, marriage and death thanks to church records and the happy fact that they mostly lived and died within a small area. From the early modern period onwards,a few men from each generation emigrated to the New World and I have a large number of fairly distant cousins in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US.
@@robrees8501 The Britons are not Celts, the Britons are the original inhabitants from before Celts arrived here, the druids that built all of the henges and neolithic barrows were Britons. The last remnants of the Britons are thought to live in Wales though, that is true.
@@robrees8501 Have you done a DNA test? Because I think its wrong to assume you are majority native Briton simply because you come from the modern-day country of Wales. That being said those DNA tests online dont differentiate between British and Germanic DNA.
I had my DNA tested some years ago. I'm 99% Celtic 1% Saxon/other. I had further testing and that finally worked out at 96% Celtic and a mix of Norse/Norman and Saxon. Apparently.
Thank you for sharing! Very interesting. I live in USA. I have 48% England and Northwestern Europe, 18% Sweden and Denmark,16% Scotland, 9% German, 4% Ireland, 2% Wales, 2% Norway, and 1% Baltics.
You’ve pointed out an increasingly common but unfortunate misunderstanding of the term “indigenous”. It doesn’t simply mean people who can traced back their ancestry to a particular place. Anyone can do that. “Indigenous” is used correctly in the context of colonization. As in the indigenous people of the Americas, Australia or Palestine. People with a long history in a place and a distinct culture who were subject to the invasion and colonization by a different, more powerful people, and are still struggling as a result of this colonialism. In other words, the First Nations people of Canada are indigenous. Ireland was colonized, and so the Irish at the time of the Plantation period can be referred to as indigenous. “Indigenous British”? No.
@@angus7278 all I heard was bla, bla, bla. Cause what you describe has been going on for thousands of years. They got conquered and I’m not gonna feel sorry for them. One my civilization will be conquered. It is what it is
I'm English and very proud of that my surnames is Johnston Scottish did a Ancestry DNA test and it come back I'm 42 % Irish 35 % English 13 % Scottish 6 % Germanic Europe 4 % Sweden and Denmark.. love the videos pal keep em coming great stuff. 👍
@@randolfmacdonaldstudies they are both nationalities and peoples. they have their own languages and culture like every other ethnic group in the world
The Johnstons were one of the Border Reiver clans. I recommend The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser which gives a very interesting history of the English Scots border Reiver 14th to 16th centuries.
Cool video Steven, Thankyou. My family tree and ancestry, dna, is England (including north western France & Belgium) Wales, Scotland and Norway. I’ve already traced my Dads Welsh side back to The House of Mathrafal, and way further back to Afallach, the son of Beli Mawr. My Mother still insists on the story that my Nan passed on, that we are descended from Sir James Douglas of Lanarkshire, which I haven’t found a trace of yet. I love my Ancestry so much, its fascinating. Your Norway info, might be a lead I need to look into…but I’m not sure I’ll find a Viking in any records Lol 😆
@@celtichistorydecoded I wouldn’t bother paying for the dna test, it didn’t help me build my tree, not one bit. You find some really cool people, some criminals and some funny ones (The funniest name I found was Mary Christmas Lol) P.S. you got some spammers here in the comment section. Cheers to you Steven.
@Stella I'm from Devon where alot of my more recent ancestors came from but my dna profile is very similar. Something like 68% England/France/Belgium, 25% Welsh, 6% Scots, and 1% Norway. Of course much of my ancestry is unknown but we've managed to trace some of it, via known royal lineages, to the Normans and Franks, Anglo Saxons, and ancient Britons (300ad). On my dad's side also alot of Welsh ancestry.
@@celtichistorydecoded after watching you talk with your hands in this video. I would not be surprised that you find a healthy dose of Mediterranean dna in your test 😂
Hi I’m just about to do a MyHeritage dna so excited but just wanted to say to Stella I’m from north Lanarkshire my mums mum my gran was a Douglas also from Airdrie just waiting for my results now 🤞
My four grandparents came from Lancashire (England) Anglesey (North Wales) Ayrshire (West Scotland) and Perthshire (East Scotland). The English one's mother was from Galway in South-West Ireland. So, I think I'm a bit of a British mixture.
I live in the northern half of Scotland, and Finnish DNA is very common. Scotland was under ice, the first settlers were Sami hunters that came across an archipelago now under the North Sea. A group of us did DNA tests for North American clan societies. Celtic and Finnish being dominant
The last migration you mentioned (from France in the bronze age) is the likely point where the researchers hypothesized Celtic language was brought to Britain. Itll be fascinating too see what further research shows on that issue.
The Welsh are Britain’s most ancient people on the island! Many Welsh remain genetically distinct from English and Scottish people, with a genetic mutation present from the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago. This mutation is the same as those hunter-gatherers who left Spain and France and travelled over to Britain when things got extremely chilly. Whilst most English people are more genetically similar to the Danish and the Germans, due to historical relations the Welsh managed to use their geographical position in the far west (after Anglo Saxon colonisation) to avoid as much intermarriage and mixing with Danes, Germans / Anglo Saxons. This has largely continued to this day due to continuous oppression of the Welsh language and culture. The early settlers of Wales are believed to be descendants of the Beaker culture, mixed with immigrants coming from what is now Ireland and the Basque country in Northern Spain. The Romans didn’t have too great an effect on Wales, so when the Romans left, the Welsh and Cornish continued to speak the native language of Brittonic over the entire island. The version of Brittonic spoken in Wales was developed and recorded into Old Welsh and forms the foundations of what is now the Welsh language. The term “Welsh” was given to the people living in these lands by the Anglo-Saxon settlers, meaning “foreigners” further proving their pre-existing unique identity and culture. The Welsh however have always called them selves the “Cymry” and the land (island of Britain pre colonisation) “Cymru”.
Thanks fascinating video. I moved to East Yorkshire from Brazil when I was a kid, and the East Yorkshire people always looked like Vikings to me and I just assumed I was living amongst the descendants of the the Danelaw settlers. Turns out I was wrong! Although Anglo-Saxon and Norse were themselves cousins, so easy mistake for a South American to make!
I'm from south Yorkshire but whenever I go into the Yorkshire dales a lot of the rural community do look and to an extent speak like Danes lol. As a fellow Yorkshireman even I can spot certain differences to myself
I’m not sure that this vid is entirely correct because I watched a video, in which it was claimed that there are certain towns in Yorkshire that when a transplant is being sort, Scandinavia is a better bet than than the UK, and that there are towns that are still mostly a Scandinavian ancestry.
I got 60% Northern Irish/Southwest Scottish and I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Quite hilarious how I have more Irish and Scottish, guess the lads and lasses came doon for a bit of wee fun 🤣
@@christianwithers7335 On the PCA plot it shows Northern Irish and Scottish DNA samples to be closer to Irish samples, also English populations are shown to be much closer to the Ancient Britons making up to 50-70% of the English genome. The people of the Isles have hardly changed genetically over the years, they're still the same old people (well except for they speak a Germanic language now and are less mobile then their ancestors).
I've noticed a lot of northeasterners call kids 'bairns' like we do in Scotland (outside Glasgow anyway, where they call them 'weans'). Remember hearing it for the first time watching Byker Grove as a kid in the 90's, "Alfee, man, let 'im go - he's just a bern!" 🤣
i know you've done a video on Cornwall, its quite frustrating that Cornwall and the Cornish are frequently omitted from videos like this.. along with the Welsh the Cornish are native Britons.
I feel they might have omitted us from the video, since the consideration of Cornwall as a Celtic nation is still seen as ridiculous by some. So probably, doesn't know or wanted to keep the peace or has that belief himself.
@@gw7624 Can I ask for the source? But yeah that makes sense considering history. Our trade and relations with Wales was far weaker than with England so much more opportunity for interaction with the English than the Welsh.
It's a shame you didn't speak about Cornwall - Always forgotten yet one of the longest histories and languages. I suppose that was the intention of the Anglo-saxons, sad. I identify as Cornish and count myself among Celts equally to Wales or Scotland
Hi Andy, I made a separate video on that - What’s the Genetic (DNA) History of Cornwall and Devon? The Celtic Origins of Cornwall Revealed… ua-cam.com/video/Jym7zTS0qZ4/v-deo.html Thanks
@@drewwilliams6888bro… I’m Cornish have lived in Cornwall and the south east and there is still little difference between the cultures. Do you know how problematic and impractical that would be too?
Makes sense. The Welsh also still speak the indigenous language of Britain i.e Brittonic which became Old Welsh and ultimately modern Welsh. All the indigenous mythology of Britain is to be found in the earliest Welsh literature.
This is true but what are the Welsh? North Welsh who speak the Welsh, are they the Welsh? Or the largely southern English population who emmigrated to Wales in the past 200 years?
I’ve traced my surname back to Scotland, one of two two families who have used it, no way to tell which family originated the name. One of the families that used the name was a Norman who settled in the land some time before/after the battle of Hastings, he took on a new last name, the other family was of royalty and actually contested the name as there was a dispute over land and the king gave it to the eldest of the two claiming the name. Next I’ll need a DNA test to see which family I connect too.
Many of the later peoples who came to England were already racial mixed. The Normans were a mixture of Viking and local French people. The Norman invaders took with them many Breton horsemen with and consequently added a small imput of Celtic DNA to England in the 11th century. Later people known as Flemings immigrated to Britain from parts of Netherlands. These people spread through parts of England, Wales and Ireland, they lost their indentity but would have added their DNA which would have been similar the earlier Saxon people.
@@christianwithers7335 It's even more remarkable when you consider that its estimated by historians that only about 8000 Normans settled in Engand after the conquest. Even William the Duke of Normandy himself didn't bother to take up residence for any length of time. He returned to Northern France where he continues to live most of his life & he eventually died there. Over time some English people would have acquired Norman surnames because they were vassals of Norman housholds but they were not of Norman descent themsleves. In addition history only records the names of 21 Norman noblemen who accompanied William at Hastings. The names of those in the rest of his army are unknown and are lost to time. Unless one can show a realtionship to any of those 21 known names claims that one's ancestors arrived in England with William are dubious.
This was a great! Through a D.N.A kit I just found out I'm 35.4% Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Being Adopted this info was fascinating, and your video was a perfect introduction. Thank you!!
Australian here with a somewhat relevant DNA test, my mother's area (Surrey and Hampshire) traced back generations, 45% England and Northwestern Europe, 5% Denmark/Sweden. Fathers side who migrated earlier, 14% England and Northwestern Europe, 18% Wales, 15% Scotland, 1% Denmark/Sweden , 2% Ireland...... assumed the Danish on both sides was reminants from Danelaw?
I guess, that'd be more recent. If 5% of that Danish admixture comes from a single ancestor, it'd most likely be from one of your great-great grandparents, they were likely around in the mid 19th century, assuming you're in your 20s. Danes started settling in England in the 8th and 9th centuries. It must be noted that the Danes were wiped out (justifiably) in East Anglia in the St. Brice's Day massacre of 1002, for encouraging Viking raids. And the last remnants of the partial Scandinavian population in the North got wiped out during the Harrying of the North, under William
Have traced back to the early 1800's, that 2% Irish for instance on the paternal side may have come from a singular immigrant (3rd great grandparent)... I guess if my mother was to take a DNA test that would make for more interesting reading. As for the indigenous population they didn't fair very well, say compared to the more war like Maori. Perhaps romanticising a bit but it was a beautiful culture.
@@kaikwa4160 The massacre in East Anglia was in Cambridge. The one in Oxford failed when the city governor refused to obey the king. The one in London failed too. We can trace them because they named their parishes after St Clement. He’s the patron saint of those who travel by sea, because he was the first pope after Peter, and took ship from Alexandria. Hence St Clement Danes. The nobles of England chose to replace Aethelred with Sweyn and then Cnut, so the genocide seems exaggerated.
@@Joanna-il2ur Oxford had numerous sites of massacres, wdym? Mass graves have been discovered there, suggesting that the massacre did succeed in Oxford as well. Sven - albeit being baptised early in his life had a lot of sympathy for pagans, he never had the approval of English nobles, however, Cnut did. Cnut's popularity in England could be directly attributed to the love he had for the English nation and culture, not only did he learn to speak English, but he was also seemingly influenced by the culture, especially of England's literary tradition which was reflected in Denmark and Norway with the rise of literature and writing as a common practice (but not in Sweden yet, since they had little connections with England, and other Western European countries with proper literary tradition) The majority of Cnut's time as a King was spent in England, and the christianisation of Norway and Denmark accelerated under him. He barely brought settlers from Denmark, allegedly fearing yet another massacre. The domsday book doesn't have records of Anglo-Scandinavian communities that far down south, in the North, however, there was a rebellious Anglo-Scandinavian community that likely got wiped out during the harrying of the North. If there's anything that's overexaggerated, it's the degree of Scandinavian admixture that people think is common amongst the English. It's very rare, and the tiny minority that carries it have a rather recent Scandinavian ancestor (it wasn't rare at all for European intellectuals to migrate to England, German Kingdoms/Germany and France between the 18th and 20th centuries) it's extremely extremely extremely rare for minority admixtures from 40 generations ago to be strongly persistent to this day, nearly 1200 years later, and account for 5-6% of an individuals ancestry.
@@kaikwa4160 Sites of massacres? Collocation is not causation, as they say. How are the bodies buried? In graves? Just bunged in? The dead of St Clements would usually be buried in that parish, just east of the Cherwell, at the foot of Headington Hill. Any signs of trauma injuries? Otherwise it sounds like a cemetery. There were other massacres, such as the anti student riots that closed the university for twenty years. Plague could equally be a cause. I must admit those tiresome yanks who have had dodgy DNA samples that proclaim them x% of this and y% of that are a bit desperate to find legitimacy. As I keep saying, you are not your DNA.
Our Mums folks immigrated from Derry & Our Da from Nova Scotia. According to 23 & Me we are “95% Ulster/British Irish” …. Utterly broke many a family Tale
My Ancestors were the Gallowglass fae Dal Riata on ma Da’s side who settled in Donegal after fighting the Normans in Ireland having been deposed from their land after fighting on the losing side of the first Wars of Independence in Scotland.and French Scots on ma Maw’s side as her family were brought into Scotland via England to sort out Taxation. We are all the sons and daughters of immigrants ultimately as this chunk of land was under a huge sheet of ice thousands of years ago and uninhabited by humans as a result.
The POBI project was very useful but it has largely been superseded by ancient DNA findings made in the last few years. Therefore the only major point of difference I would make is about the Welsh .They definitely don't resemble ancient British hunter gatherers genetically more than any other Brit. That was speculation on the part of the POBI , before we fully understood the enormous genetic impact farmers and then steppe folk had on the Isles. They , like other Britons , are a mix of hunter gatherer , neolithic farmer and steppe people. They are much like the Irish and Scots in that they more closely resemble British Bronze and Iron Age people than the English who have a lot more Germanic ancestry, although the amount varies across regions .As for the Celts , well that seems to be more of an elite migration . I would definitely urge you to check out the new paper on Anglo-Saxon DNA and migration which is very interesting.
Thanks for the notice of the new paper, which is fascinating. It effectively confirms the traditional histories of the mainly post-Roman Anglo-Saxon migrations, showing ca. 70% DNA components from exactly the areas which would be expected. I wonder what Francis Pryor, and other revisionists who have claimed, on very little objective evidence, that no such migration of people actually happened, will make of it. Challenging accepted norms is laudable, but it should be based on exceptional evidence, not partly on wishful thinking.
I’m Black and according to the DNA test, besides my 71. 7 of Sub-Saharan African ancestry… I have 25.4% British and Irish (West Midlands, United Kingdom) 0.3% Scandinavian, and 0.9% Broadly Northwestern European. Not to mention the 1.4% East Asian and Native American, Unassigned 0.3%.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 No, I would describe myself as being Black here in America. My ancestry is not just from Africa but Europe, and Asia as well. Black is basically saying a mixture of cultures but predominantly African ancestry.
Thanks for the video. Although a little out of date now, the 2006 Oxford University study found that, in England, 64% of people are descended from Celts, outnumbering the descendants of Anglo- Saxons by about three to one.
Slightly semantics but "Anglo-saxon" ancestry would include both the Germanic and Celtic ancestral components, because the people who came on the boats weren't Anglo-Saxons yet, but that Ethnic group would form a couple hundred years later on once they'd taken on some ancestry from the Brythonnic Celts. So If you're 60% Celtic and 40% Germanic, you'd actually be ~100% Anglo-Saxon.
To make an accurate account of this you would have to analyse DNA from before the agricultural workforce collapse 150 years ago. The UK's DNA would be distorted with the millions of Irish who came over in the last two centuries, or Welsh and Scottish people moving into London for example. You should only test DNA from those who know that all of their great grandparents were born in their county. Then a map showing DNA of distinct places such as Cornwall or Northumbria would be accurate and fascinating.
Very true. Scotland shows a "Irish population" and Northern Ireland a "Scottish population" but that is a more recent event. You can't really compare industrial areas.
The twenty year study from which this derives accounted for such things. People had to be able to trace back to their great grandparents at least, I believe.
@@jamesmason8436 Yeah but millions of Irish emmigrated in the early 19th to mid 19th century. My grandmother born in 1960s is now a great grandmother. If you went back to 1850 you could have great gretat great great grandparents
All that would tell you is what the DNA of people whose families are static. Huge numbers of people migrate both internationally and intranationally. This study is massively skewed because it took DNA from volunteers and therefore isn't random. But we know for a fact that millions of British people have immediate ancestors born overseas and this isn't represented at all in this genetic map. It's a self selecting picture
Mine were descendant of the Romans (specifically, the Roman Auxiliaries of the Balkans). Our paternal Y-DNA is E-V13. I understand this group settled mostly in northern Wales, Cornwall, and the area around Cumbria and along Hadrian's Wall.
I am from Liverpool with Welsh ancestry. My DNA is 33.8% Scandinavian, 32.2% Welsh, Scots and Irish, 29.3% English, 2.9% Italian, .9% Iberian, .9% West Asian (Turkish area).
@@chesterdonnelly1212 hi, I think the females in the family really liked the Vikings, I can only think that the Italian is from the Romans, both were in this area. I dreamt about being part both of these, but didn't expect it to actually be true.
I’ve gone back 200+ on paper and it’s all English in both sides then I did my DNA and it came back 74% English 6% Norway 20% Denmark/Sweden. So I’d like to say I’m originally from the Viking saga in our history.
@@theshamanarchist5441 No but not all Nordic people are 😂😂 you need to stop watching Hollywood films. Vikings weren’t 6”9 with long blonde hair and beards.
One thing the map does not do is seperate the English / British DNA in eastern lowland Britain. But since that part of England is 10-40% germanic, 60-90% of that genetic story is either not told by the map, or there has been such total integration between ancestral populations there that it is no longer possible to separate them. The Danes who lived in central England may have had Western Germanic DNA from Jutland, as modern Danish DNA may originate like the original Danes themselves from further East.
Oddly I never seen the Romans as Brits or the Normans. But Celts, Pre -Celts, Picts, Anglo-Saxon yes. And kind of not surprised re the Vikings apart from Yorkshire and wow my favourite Orkney 🙂👍 ( did research in Orkney folk music, dance, drama)
Hi, My Name is Sherry Morrison I did my DNA, and I found out that I have 68% of England, Wales & Northwestern Europe and 28% Ireland & Scottland Plus, 5% Sweden and 1% European Jewish. So, I was excited to hear you talk about the land. Thank You
"American" here of English and Swedish ancestry. My English side is from Essex and East Anglia respectively. We were actually right smack on the Danelaw at one time. Literally living on the border. My family held minor nobility until the Norman conquest. My aunt got her DNA done (Father's twin sister) and she had 41% Anglo-Saxon dna and 15% "Old Danish" whatever that means. Which lines up perfectly with family lore as to where in England we lived and when. I find that fascinating.
Listen. If , at weddings, you saw your grandmother dancing around her handbag she was DEFINATELY an Essex girl!!! 😂 (I'm Essex born and bred, father was Scottish, mother English. The handbag thing is a looooong running joke about Essex girls. As in how can you tell if a girl is from Essex , they'll be dancing round their handbags. And I gotta say they bloody DO! I dont know why!! Probably cause theyre canny enough to know if they dont some light fingered Essex bloke will knick their purse. Many a villians family moved to Essex 😂) 0:02
Incidently my Father had his DNA tested and he was 99% Celtic!!(a scottish and itish blend i think it is, though it was explained i forget the exact description, needless to say it was very Scotland centric) Trace amounts of two other types I can't recall but we were astonished he was so non mixed! You'd think over thousands of years there would be loads of mixing with danish/german/french/ Norwegian etc but it seems certain parts of Scotland stayed very genetically stable. I guess it changes with my blood as my Mum comes from southern England. I would love to check the bloodline for the other half of my blood. Must do it one day.
@gonebzrk1835 spray tan and fake nails is your generation not mine or his grandmothers. When this was the stereo type there wasn't any spray tan! You had to get a cheap week in Spain and sit in the sun for real to get brown in our day!! The Girls have EVOLVED.... (But not very much!!) , his gran should recognise the stereotype more than the modern one
@@hazed1009 It appears this was a stereotype prior to my birth by nearly a decade XD That being said we have no idea when their family moved from the UK, could easily of been 200 years ago!
Yea they seeded the foundation for the isles that’s for sure . And the rest of the invasions contributed a small portion. The portions associated with Spain is from the basque region.
It’s nice for someone to come out with some actual historical facts and as you correctly say we’re that intermingled through various migration no mater if it’s war,trade,migration or any other reasons .Just for fun some years ago the BBC did a program about a skeleton they had found in Wookey Hole in Somerset and they did dna tests on the children from the local school but needed one more to make up their numbers and so a school teacher volunteered and it turned out to be a match for the person who died all those millennia ago and the best example I can think of is Edinburgh for years it was fought over by both Scotland and England and then it was decided that we should share it with each country taking a turn to govern it but to prove your point that the peoples would marry and have children and in turn their genetic ancestry would mix to also include their various ancestor’s from over the generations,as for myself I was left a medal and while checking it in the library I found an antique book on surnames and found that the good bit was that we were one of the oldest names in the English language but the bad bit is that we were deported from Dorset during or prior to the 10th century but it did not say where to or what for ,so lord only knows what my ancestory is (lol) but thank you again for an honest none biased view of our peoples history
Of course we do. You see, unlike the author, who clearly does not understand the difference between the UK and the British Isles, we understand that the British Isles is a geographical reference. Yet the author titles the video " The British Isles", yet leaves out the South of Ireland. Its a common mistake made by the British, who's knowledge of Irish history is thin at best.
Paul you are obviously right that 'British Isles' is a geographical term. ButI have seen many posts on other topics from Irish people who object to the term 'British Isles' as it seems (to them) to imply that Ireland is somehow being claimed by Btitain. So we do struggle a bit knowing what to call this group of islands without giving unnecessary offence.
This helped me understand my DNA results. I'm Welsh. I did a DNA test recently and found that I'm 41% Scottish, 38% Welsh, 11% Irish, 5% English, and 5% Norweigan. All the results were what I expected, except having more Scottish than Welsh lol. I'm guessing the Norwegian is from my Scottish side as no one in the family knows where it came from haha.
Didn't see much info for Cumbria. Some say there is a strong celtic signature, though I've seen tv. pieces that talked about Norwegian viking settlers.
Wouldn't the Danelaw/Danish vikings have left an impact as part of the Jutes settling? I can imagine those people were incredibly similar. There is also some debate around whether the Saxons and Danes were actually the same people. I'm from the East Midlands and 40% of my DNA is Scandinavian (55% British and Irish). This is a typical mix for this part of England. All of the place names where I'm from were influenced by the Danelaw and Danish settlement.
Probably more so from the Danish/German angles who settled in that area as part of the Anglo-Saxon invasions, with the Saxon half of the Anglo-Saxon’s been more influential in Southern England. The Jutes settled in Kent and the Isle of Wight. That being said, although the Viking impact might not have been that great genetically, I think most researchers still understate it even though it was more significant (in England) than that of groups such as the Romans and Normans. I think I read somewhere once But I think I read somewhere once that researchers can’t actually seperate the Angle DNA from Danish coming because the two are so similar. All that being said, yes, Denmark did have a significant impact genetically on that area of England (My great grand father came from Derby and I score between 10-20% Scandinavian with all the main DNA testing companies, although haven’t done 23 and me, despite having no known Scandinavian ancestry)
I don't know about the Midlands but the North has much less norse DNA than it really should due to the harrying of the North by William the conquerer which was pretty much a genocide of anglo-danes
The people Bede called Jutes are in Kent with a small outpost in the Meon valley in Hampshire (inland from Portsmouth). They didn’t call themselves Jutes though. They called themselves Wara, and Canterbury was Kant-Wara-Byrig.. The people of Wye called themselves Wyewara, while the outpost in Hampshire were the Meonwara. They faced a brief Viking incursion near Borough Green, but then asked to be put under the protection of Wessex, escaping the worst.
I've recently had my DNA done and I was shocked with the results. So shocked I called the company to question it but was assured they are as correct as they could be. My DNA make up is 92% English (specifically Northern England), 7% Irish and 1% Iberian Peninsula. I thought it was nigh on impossible to have that percentage for English and I was disappointed, I was hoping for more diversity. As an aside, I and my family still live in North England. We're so bloody boring!
Im a proud Pict from N.E Scotland where my ancestors were farmers and still are to this day although the farming is now being wiped out. My family name is all over Fraserburgh area, as are my extended family although I'm now in Aberdeen.
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes came to Britain from in and around Denmark. So would it not seem more likely that the genetics of the Danes were practically indistinguishable from those, than that the Danes made practically no genetic impact?
I hate the claim that the Danes had "no" impact. That's impossible. The Anglo-Saxons and Danes were genetically indistinguishable. I can't here someone say they're the same than say they're not detecting Danish dna therefore no Danish dna. That doesn't make sense. How would they know? Anglo-Saxons and Danes were undetectable in difference and identical in origins.
@@IrishCinnsealach The Saxons were not from the modern East German state of Saxony. They settled it in the same way they settled England. They were likely originally from southern Denmark/Northern Germany. Around where Schleswig Holstein is today. As someone else further up mentioned, it's likely the Jutes, Danes and Saxons were, by and large, the same people.
@@andreashessler838 Old Saxony" is the original homeland of the Saxons. It corresponds roughly to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, eastern part of modern North Rhine-Westphalia state (Westphalia), Nordalbingia (Holstein, southern part of Schleswig Holstein and western Saxony Anhalt (Eastphalia), which all lie in northwestern Germany Saxons had been raiding the eastern seaboard of Britain from here during the 3rd and 4th centuries
@@IrishCinnsealach Yes, which includes Schleswig Holstein. The Saxons spread all the way through what became Germany to the South. Read further down that very Wikipedia page that you copied and pasted. It tells you the origination. "Some of the Saxons left their homelands of Holstein in the 3rd century". In all fairness, everybody in England (whether they were Dane, Briton, Saxon, Jute, etc) became 'saxon' when Aethelstan united England in the early 10th century.
I only did a DNA test to find out my ethnic blood. Here is my result. 100% European in terms of racial category so 100% white. English/Irish/Scottish 63.5% Irish regions my blood is closest to:County Cork,County Dublin,County Kerry,County Mayo,County Galway,County Waterford,County Donegal,County Clare,County Limerick,County Sligo,Belfast. English regions my bloodline is closest to:Greater London,Greater Manchester,Merseyside,West Yorkshire,West Midlands,Tyne and Wear,Lancashire,South Yorkshire. Scottish regions my bloodline is closest to:Glasgow. French and German 20.4% German regions my bloodline is closest to:Hessen,Rhineland Palatinate,Canton of Bern. French regions my bloodline is closest to:Pays de la Loire. Finnish 0.9% Broadly North Western European 3.9% from Sweden and Norway Greek and Balkan 10.3% Parental Haplogroup group E-V13 that is DNA that originates in The Middle East and Western Asia but people of that group migrated into Europe 4500 years ago yet the ancestor of that group of people E1b1b1a originates in The Middle East and is around 22500 years old. Maternal haplogroup J1b1a which is DNA that is between 4600 and 12000 years old that originates in Anatolia 60% more Neanderthal DNA than the average person.
@@DanBeech-ht7sw just because some of your earliest ancestors come from Anatolia does not mean you are a Turk think of the migration from the Indo-Europeans.
I care little how I am "made up" genetically. These BRITISH Isles are my ancestral homeland and inheritance; bequeathed to me by my ancestors, deceased recently, or hundreds of years ago. Everyone has an ancestral homeland: they simply need to recognise that. The BRITONS are pale-skinned Northern-Europeans. Those - like Humza Yusaf, the First Minister of Scotland - who are not pale-skinned Northern Europeans MUST have an ancestral homeland which lies elsewhere. I do not mind them 'adopting' my ancestral homeland; provided they do not - as a Muslim - seek to dismantle it for ISLAM.
So interesting.. I’m from Durham northeast England but waiting on my dna test results. My whole family for many yrs come from the north but we will see 😆
Britain is named after Brutus who cam from Troy. It would be interesting to see if there was any link between the ancient Britons / Welsh and Turkey and Greece.
I love my father's northern Welsh (Gogs), and my mother's Potatoe Family McGees and Murphy lines. Diolch yn fawr for such a great video. I did my Ancestry DNA, and I'm a Celt through and through, but DNA does not really matter ultimately. I took in and raised an African-American kid, who is now my other son. Peace
I came across this a few days ago - A Briton, one of a people inhabiting Britain before the Anglo-Saxon invasions beginning in the 5th century AD. Although it was once thought that the Britons descended from the Celts, it is now believed that they were the indigenous population and that they remained in contact with their European neighbours through trade and other social exchanges.
A lot of the beliefs that the Britons were Celtic comes from graves that contained Celtic jewellery and the like. Before DNA testing people were led to believe this ment the Britons were Celtic. But like you said DNA technology seems to indicate they were not. They just liked Celtic jewellery lol
Irish are not Celtic either for the same reasons. Earliest reference to the Irish as Celts was 18th century linguists seeking to group the non-English languages of Britain and Ireland, which are one family. They imported designs and metal working techniques from the continent in the same way we Irish of today have jeans from the US or a phone from China. There are however noteworthy genetic ties with Europeans up and down the Atlantic seaboard, which makes sense.
@@gearoiddom Yes I agree. After all, who did the Anglo-Saxons etc invade if there was no one in these Isles? We as peoples were already here and as you say we are all family.
Ireland does have a close relationship with Scotland since the gaels came from Ireland and probably from the northern Ireland in the first century and created Down. Call riada in scotland But the plantations in ireland from the fifteen century is more lowland scots and english
Just for advice, they constantly update the results and if you went with the same company, you would see a totally different result. Also, if you're 97% Scandinavian, it doesn't mean she wasn't from an English family, you inherit both sides. And, the Vikings became part of the English. Go to York, they married into the local population, they're English.
@JackSonEFla2 No, they didn't. Anglo Saxon is the term to describe the native people of England and Scotland who breed with the Germanic tribes from Western Europe.
well done . Early texts in Wales treat many of us as picto -Iberians , a mixture of early settlers . The Iberian connection is tenuous though as it was based on the supposed dolmen super highway theory , but we may have just been over the way where the sea is now .
I’m from the Lothian’s near Edinburgh and started looking into my ancestry. I just thought I was Scottish, turns out my mums side are from Norfolk going back to the 1500s at-least from what I’ve found out so far Scotland 46% -Scottish Central Lowlands -North East Scotland & the Northern Isles England & Northwestern Europe 38% Norway 9% Wales 5% Ireland 2%
My family have lived in and around the east end of London for over 200 years, my DNA 53pc English, 22 Scottish, 11 Welsh, 7 Irish , 5 Norway, Sweden/Denmark 2, all very good !
Same I've traced my male linage back to the 1700s all from bermondsey in South London. My ancestry results came back as 92% Welsh 4.5% French and German and the rest NW Europe
www.oum.ox.ac.uk/settlers/ Genetic journeys and cultural connections Between the end of the last Ice Age, around 11,600 years ago, and the Norman invasion in 1066, settlers arrived in Britain from various locations in Europe. The objects they left behind show that they brought with them cultural changes such as agriculture, metalworking and new languages. The genetic data from the People of the British Isles study, combined with the archaeological evidence, gives a more complete story of how society changed. In some cases there is a clear genetic signature associated with cultural change. For example, the genetic data suggests a large movement of people from Northern France into England and Scotland between 6,000 and 3,000 years ago, at about the same time that agriculture began to be widespread. In contrast, the Norman invaders, who greatly changed the language and government of Britain, have left little genetic legacy. Agriculture, trade and technology Throughout the Neolithic (New Stone Age) and Bronze Ages, from around 6,000 to 3,000 years ago, people continued to pass back and forth across the English Channel, importing their distinctive styles of pottery and metalwork. The genetic study revealed a pattern of DNA dated to around this time that is shared by people now living in northern France and those in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, but none of those in Wales. It looks as though substantial numbers of people took the opportunity to cross the narrow Channel, and spread through most of the country. These people may have included the first farmers at the start of the Neolithic Age. Or they may have been some of the ‘Beaker people’, who introduced characteristic decorated pottery, developed copper working and traded metal with other parts of Europe.
Ireland is not a British Isle/lsland. It is 2023 explain how Ireland can still be called a British Island. It's an absurd outdated and Possesive term that is insulting to the Majority of Irish citizens living in Ireland.
@@themanftheworld8439Geographically Ireland is a European Island. Explain how it is a British Island. Typical British Cakeism Just like the Russians who think Ukraine is part of Russia.
My married name means Danish settler. My husband, his siblings and our daughter have auburn/ blonde hair. He has a stereotypical trait of the Danes , he can not bend his little fingers and toes as the skin is so tight the joint can not move. Here in East Yorkshire there are many with Viking family names and it may be a euthamism that Yorkshire has a strong Viking heritage, but thus far there would seem to be a lot of evidence to support this.
I’ve got 66% NorthWestern English 19% Scottish 7% Norwegian, 6% Irish & 2% Swedish & Danish DNA. I have no DNA linkages to France, Germany or Anglo Saxon ancestry.
Please let me know your thoughts below and any articles you've come across on this broad subject... Thank you.
The People that compromised Dal Riata were the Scoti Clans, who x amount of their Ancestors portrayed in the Declaration of Arbraoth (like all Ross' of Scottish Origins Ancestor the Chief of the Great Clan Ross the Earl of Ross was 4th to Seal) that we are Sycthian and had 113 (130?) Scoti Kings of an unbroken line and leaving off with stopping there and Simply Citing the Story of our People basically for more. The Scoti Clans invaded that tip of Northern Ireland, coming from Spain which they migrated too x amount before, and than from there to their holdings in the North Western Low Lands and South Western Highlands, eventually with the Picts crushed between them and the Vikings and with the Scoti Clans absorbing the Picts, and finally subduing to intergrating the Vikings by the time of the once War Master of Scotland, Chief of Clan Arias (Anrias/ soon to be the Great Clan Ross), Husband to the Queen of Mann, Cousin to the Laird of the Isle and King Malcom, the 1st Earl of Ross Fearchar, the Son of the Priest, who as War Master (Thane) and his personal Army and Personal Armada, and his Cousin the Kings Troops took out the Viking Lairds in and around Scotland taking their lands and gold, expanding Ross-shire the Earldom of Ross and making who would be known as the Ross' the most richest and power Family in the Highlands for Generations. We are not Irish because you so Fancy it, and you will not over turn the History of the Scoti for Irish Vanity and a long standing Grudge!
Let me clearly explain something, Kings on Average have more kids surviving to adulthood than Septs, Commoners to the Conquered and the whole bit, same with the offspring of Kings and their offspring, so when in the Declaration of Arbraoth the Scoti Leaders are telling you we had 113 Kings, that's allot of people in the end, why you have Clan MacGregor Moto as Royal is my Race, because they are all the Descendants of Kings, and since there was 113 of them, and all there kids have kids, and so forth, it becomes a fair amount of people and the Hierarchy of the Orginal Invading Scoti Clans. So when all those Earls (like the Earl of Ross my and other Ross' of Scottish Origins Ancestor because the 1st Official Ross was the Chief of the Great Clan Ross The 4th Earl of Ross Hugh Ross 1st to take on the Surname once protected by law) and Barron's signed the Declaration of Arbraoth, all those of Scoti Origins, were basically also saying without saying those our are Ancestor, and when it says we crossed the Red Sea with Moses, you know what I'm not going to tell you everyone in the Scoti Clans did that because we adopted generics from Ireland as well I assume all the places before, but we should know the Bloodline of the Sycthian Kings did, who the Declaration of Arbraoth is saying are the Scoti Kings (less than 20 years a Kingship to the Beginning of Sycthia) or are an offshoot from which one would assume starts count if that was the case at the Sycthian Prince that Married Egyptian Princess Scotia. And since the people on top back in the day had higher Population Growth than people on the bottom, a far amount of people orginating from the Scoti Clans litteraly crossed the Red Sea with Moses or come from the exact Kings in Question. And see there was a cited of Scythia in Israel or Judea that was Destroyed, selectively by the some other empire, I forget which, and right after that the Sycthian Empire was formed, from Royal Sycthia to the Pacific! And you are not going to tell a bunch of Ancient Egyptians who became the Scythian Kings who became the Scoti Kings who make up a fair enough portion of the part of the Scottish Population that were the Orginal Scoti Clans, that we are Irish in Origin, as you erase our History directly told in one of the most pivotal Historical Documents!
@@randyross5630 As a Hungarian I have a genetic connection to specific Irish and Scottish Royal Clans just as my wife and probably other HunGerians where our ancestors traced a Hun-Han Sian-Scythian descendant which land was pretty much Hungary,Ukrain and Russia so it’s a strange thing to see such a genetic connection since in current Greeko-Roman history there is nothing that would explain such a connections.
Is there some written Scottish or Irish traditions that one can read ?
I read in an old history book many, many years ago that the Romans took an entire clan from around the Falkirk area, and re-settled them in northern Wales and used them as a kind of UN peacekeeping force.
@@randyross5630 My guess would be the Sycthian blood would have been brought to the British Isles as a cohort of Rome, whose barracks would have been in Alt-Clut (modern Dumbarton) my hometown, which after the Romans left was the capital of Dal-Riada and I assume not all the Sycthians left and being left in such a defensible place, became the overlords of the area. The Vikings did, much later, take the Rock of the Britains (Dun-Britain/Dunbarton).
It's nice to know our ancestors have been on these islands for thousands of years.
Little will be left in 100 years.
@@marcgraham412 Nothing will be the way things are going.
Depends who your ancestors are, if you are English then there is a large chance your ancestors have only been here for 900 to 1100 years.
@@krashd There's also a decent chance our ancestors have been here longer than that.
@@krashd If you have mainly Welsh, Irish or Scottish ancestry which goes back many thousands of years on the British isles and which most people do have in Britain today, and if you are a mix of these three plus some Germanic, then your indigenous to the British isles.The English (Anglo Saxons who were a Germanic tribe) have been here for one thousand seven hundred years now so they're not exactly new arrivals.
Ancestry from Danish Vikings cannot be calculated, as they were genetically indistinguishable from the Angles, Jutes and Saxons, all originating from the same geographical area. Norse ancestry can be differentiated, as they do differ genetically from the Danes.
Thanks, great point. I touch on that reality in my video What Did Vikings Look Like and What Was Their Genetic (DNA) History? ua-cam.com/video/UzajCj_jEPg/v-deo.html
But don't forget, the Scandinavians brought over more Welsh DNA as they had been raping and stealing Britons for years
@@celtichistorydecoded so by that fact why was it said in the video that so much Anglo Saxon DNA is in Britain and barely any Danish?
This also makes it almost impossible to tell Normans from Danish Vikings from Anglo Saxons genetically. More advanced DNA techniques might show differences, for example the North French, likely Frankish, admixtures to the originally Danish Viking Normans. I also understand the Danes (so Danish Vikings) are not quite genetically identical to the Jutes and Angles they substantially displaced from the Danish Peninsula. One theory is the Jutes invaded Kent not from Jutland, but from the Frankish Coast opposite Kent, where they had been staying after being pressured out of Jutland by Danes from further east. Any thoughts, Danish friends?
@@thearab59 that's interesting. I did read a theory years back that states the same as what you said. The Angles and jutes were pushed out of what is now Denmark by the Danes and the majority of their respective populations moved into what is now northern,eastern and central England whereas the Saxons were not pushed out of their lands by anyone but basically "colonised" what is now southern England. Don't know how true this is but I was interesting non the less
I had my DNA test and found out that I'm 60% Scottish and Welsh, 20% Anglo-Saxon and 20% Native American. I didn't know any of this because I was adopted. But, I feel like visiting the British Isles and hanging out!
Samezies. The 23 and me report categorizes it this way 70% british and irish / 6% scandanavian / 4% native american. And while that's good in a general sense, I want to know more! So this video is really good to understand the nuances of the different groups and common ancestors.
I'm in exactly the same position, exiting
@@sarahracheal8878 Absolutely 💯
You stay where you are……😂
My DNA results show 100% British Isles. Mostly NW Scotland but some Irish and Welsh, and a wee bit of English for good measure. The English part comes from a part of the East Midlands that is, for some unknown reason, 92% of Celtic origin- very few Anglo Saxons.
I’m not surprised by the findings though as I can trace my ancestry back to 1230 , generation by generation with full names and dates of birth, marriage and death thanks to church records and the happy fact that they mostly lived and died within a small area. From the early modern period onwards,a few men from each generation emigrated to the New World and I have a large number of fairly distant cousins in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US.
It’s good to hear that the ancient Britons weren’t completely left behind in the genetic markers in England 💯✌️
10-40% Anglo-Saxon...so that means 60-90% Briton/Celt for the English? Interesting.
I’m over 90% Celtic family being welsh , Britons ( ie celts ) pretty much are the oldest group in Britain
@@robrees8501 ha ha ha. You're pure Viking boyo lol
@@robrees8501 The Britons are not Celts, the Britons are the original inhabitants from before Celts arrived here, the druids that built all of the henges and neolithic barrows were Britons. The last remnants of the Britons are thought to live in Wales though, that is true.
@@robrees8501 Have you done a DNA test? Because I think its wrong to assume you are majority native Briton simply because you come from the modern-day country of Wales. That being said those DNA tests online dont differentiate between British and Germanic DNA.
I never get sick of this subject for some reason.
I had my DNA tested some years ago. I'm 99% Celtic 1% Saxon/other. I had further testing and that finally worked out at 96% Celtic and a mix of Norse/Norman and Saxon. Apparently.
Thank you for sharing! Very interesting. I live in USA. I have 48% England and Northwestern Europe, 18% Sweden and Denmark,16% Scotland, 9% German, 4% Ireland, 2% Wales, 2% Norway, and 1% Baltics.
Lol that doesn't make sense
My family was in eastern Kentucky for many generations 4:33
52 england 26 scot Wales and German 6 Ireland and Norway 3 Finland and Sweden 1
English are celtic, did you learn nothing from the video?@penderyn8794
Mines almost identical cept a few % indigenous north america
Thanks Steven. Another fascinating video from the best channel on YT.
Thank you, I really appreciate it.
So in short the British people are the indigenous population of the British isles.
thats a very loose way of putting it lol.
@@neilevans4352 it's a very accurate way of putting it.
You’ve pointed out an increasingly common but unfortunate misunderstanding of the term “indigenous”. It doesn’t simply mean people who can traced back their ancestry to a particular place. Anyone can do that. “Indigenous” is used correctly in the context of colonization. As in the indigenous people of the Americas, Australia or Palestine. People with a long history in a place and a distinct culture who were subject to the invasion and colonization by a different, more powerful people, and are still struggling as a result of this colonialism. In other words, the First Nations people of Canada are indigenous. Ireland was colonized, and so the Irish at the time of the Plantation period can be referred to as indigenous. “Indigenous British”? No.
@@angus7278 all I heard was bla, bla, bla. Cause what you describe has been going on for thousands of years. They got conquered and I’m not gonna feel sorry for them. One my civilization will be conquered. It is what it is
@@angus7278 also the British people in Britain are indigenous by you definition.
I'm English and very proud of that my surnames is Johnston Scottish did a Ancestry DNA test and it come back I'm 42 % Irish 35 % English 13 % Scottish 6 % Germanic Europe 4 % Sweden and Denmark.. love the videos pal keep em coming great stuff. 👍
Thanks mate, great stuff
English and Scottish are nationalities not peoples
@@randolfmacdonaldstudies they are both nationalities and peoples. they have their own languages and culture like every other ethnic group in the world
Wrong. They are ethnicities. British is the only nationality
The Johnstons were one of the Border Reiver clans. I recommend The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser which gives a very interesting history of the English Scots border Reiver 14th to 16th centuries.
Great video, good detail. Subbed.
Thank you
Well said many people have little understanding of the truth/facts, well done!
Cool video Steven, Thankyou.
My family tree and ancestry, dna, is England (including north western France & Belgium) Wales, Scotland and Norway. I’ve already traced my Dads Welsh side back to The House of Mathrafal, and way further back to Afallach, the son of Beli Mawr. My Mother still insists on the story that my Nan passed on, that we are descended from Sir James Douglas of Lanarkshire, which I haven’t found a trace of yet. I love my Ancestry so much, its fascinating. Your Norway info, might be a lead I need to look into…but I’m not sure I’ll find a Viking in any records Lol 😆
Thanks Stella. Amazing, I will need to do my ancestry at some point, it's fascinating.
@@celtichistorydecoded I wouldn’t bother paying for the dna test, it didn’t help me build my tree, not one bit. You find some really cool people, some criminals and some funny ones (The funniest name I found was Mary Christmas Lol) P.S. you got some spammers here in the comment section. Cheers to you Steven.
@Stella I'm from Devon where alot of my more recent ancestors came from but my dna profile is very similar. Something like 68% England/France/Belgium, 25% Welsh, 6% Scots, and 1% Norway. Of course much of my ancestry is unknown but we've managed to trace some of it, via known royal lineages, to the Normans and Franks, Anglo Saxons, and ancient Britons (300ad). On my dad's side also alot of Welsh ancestry.
@@celtichistorydecoded after watching you talk with your hands in this video. I would not be surprised that you find a healthy dose of Mediterranean dna in your test 😂
Hi I’m just about to do a MyHeritage dna so excited but just wanted to say to Stella I’m from north Lanarkshire my mums mum my gran was a Douglas also from Airdrie just waiting for my results now 🤞
Really interesting topic, thank you.
Maybe move the camera in a bit so we can't see the hand gestures which were a bit distracting?
My four grandparents came from Lancashire (England) Anglesey (North Wales) Ayrshire (West Scotland) and Perthshire (East Scotland). The English one's mother was from Galway in South-West Ireland. So, I think I'm a bit of a British mixture.
Just British.
I live in the northern half of Scotland, and Finnish DNA is very common. Scotland was under ice, the first settlers were Sami hunters that came across an archipelago now under the North Sea. A group of us did DNA tests for North American clan societies. Celtic and Finnish being dominant
Do you mean haplogroups or autosomal DNA? Scotland has extremely little ancestry from before the Bell Beakers which is what we are
As for the Sami hunters, that is just not true. They're Chinese. You believe Marxist lies to disinherit us from our homelands.
It's fascinating.
The last migration you mentioned (from France in the bronze age) is the likely point where the researchers hypothesized Celtic language was brought to Britain. Itll be fascinating too see what further research shows on that issue.
Thanks Angel Pup - I made a previous video discussing that subject ua-cam.com/video/uR_499NQWb0/v-deo.html
@penderyn8794 That's a straw man, no one said there was a modern france back then
The Welsh are Britain’s most ancient people on the island! Many Welsh remain genetically distinct from English and Scottish people, with a genetic mutation present from the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago. This mutation is the same as those hunter-gatherers who left Spain and France and travelled over to Britain when things got extremely chilly.
Whilst most English people are more genetically similar to the Danish and the Germans, due to historical relations the Welsh managed to use their geographical position in the far west (after Anglo Saxon colonisation) to avoid as much intermarriage and mixing with Danes, Germans / Anglo Saxons. This has largely continued to this day due to continuous oppression of the Welsh language and culture.
The early settlers of Wales are believed to be descendants of the Beaker culture, mixed with immigrants coming from what is now Ireland and the Basque country in Northern Spain.
The Romans didn’t have too great an effect on Wales, so when the Romans left, the Welsh and Cornish continued to speak the native language of Brittonic over the entire island. The version of Brittonic spoken in Wales was developed and recorded into Old Welsh and forms the foundations of what is now the Welsh language.
The term “Welsh” was given to the people living in these lands by the Anglo-Saxon settlers, meaning “foreigners” further proving their pre-existing unique identity and culture. The Welsh however have always called them selves the “Cymry” and the land (island of Britain pre colonisation) “Cymru”.
Very good video, well explained i enjoyed it.
Thanks fascinating video. I moved to East Yorkshire from Brazil when I was a kid, and the East Yorkshire people always looked like Vikings to me and I just assumed I was living amongst the descendants of the the Danelaw settlers. Turns out I was wrong! Although Anglo-Saxon and Norse were themselves cousins, so easy mistake for a South American to make!
I'm from south Yorkshire but whenever I go into the Yorkshire dales a lot of the rural community do look and to an extent speak like Danes lol. As a fellow Yorkshireman even I can spot certain differences to myself
I’m not sure that this vid is entirely correct because I watched a video, in which it was claimed that there are certain towns in Yorkshire that when a transplant is being sort, Scandinavia is a better bet than than the UK, and that there are towns that are still mostly a Scandinavian ancestry.
@@supertuscans9512 I'd bet that there are places in Yorkshire (at least north Yorkshire) where the majority of the population are of danish decent
But what do danes look like that is different from anglo saxon?@@lightfootpathfinder8218
Great video 👍🏻
There was also a large Celtic migration to the British Isles between 1400 - 870 BC acoording to one genetic study.
I got 60% Northern Irish/Southwest Scottish and I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Quite hilarious how I have more Irish and Scottish, guess the lads and lasses came doon for a bit of wee fun 🤣
Ha class!
N Irish is Anglo Saxon btw. Lowland Scottish angles and Northumbrian. Plus Anglo Saxons invited by King Malcolm added to the lowlands
No
@@christianwithers7335 On the PCA plot it shows Northern Irish and Scottish DNA samples to be closer to Irish samples, also English populations are shown to be much closer to the Ancient Britons making up to 50-70% of the English genome. The people of the Isles have hardly changed genetically over the years, they're still the same old people (well except for they speak a Germanic language now and are less mobile then their ancestors).
I've noticed a lot of northeasterners call kids 'bairns' like we do in Scotland (outside Glasgow anyway, where they call them 'weans'). Remember hearing it for the first time watching Byker Grove as a kid in the 90's, "Alfee, man, let 'im go - he's just a bern!" 🤣
Brilliant summary! I've been looking for this for a while
i know you've done a video on Cornwall, its quite frustrating that Cornwall and the Cornish are frequently omitted from videos like this.. along with the Welsh the Cornish are native Britons.
Its true but not sure if the cornish are the same people as the welsh or different…
I feel they might have omitted us from the video, since the consideration of Cornwall as a Celtic nation is still seen as ridiculous by some. So probably, doesn't know or wanted to keep the peace or has that belief himself.
Not really. DNA testing showed that the Cornish are genetically much closer to the rest of England than to the Welsh.
@@gw7624 Can I ask for the source? But yeah that makes sense considering history. Our trade and relations with Wales was far weaker than with England so much more opportunity for interaction with the English than the Welsh.
@@balls9420 Links are blocked, so use Google.
Nice summary. Thank you.
Thank you Keith
It's a shame you didn't speak about Cornwall - Always forgotten yet one of the longest histories and languages. I suppose that was the intention of the Anglo-saxons, sad. I identify as Cornish and count myself among Celts equally to Wales or Scotland
Hi Andy, I made a separate video on that - What’s the Genetic (DNA) History of Cornwall and Devon? The Celtic Origins of Cornwall Revealed… ua-cam.com/video/Jym7zTS0qZ4/v-deo.html Thanks
I'd like the media, history books stop calling Cornwall "an English county" Would rather a nation within the UK.
You identify as Cornish 😂, are you one of the people born near Cornwall with family from London but like Cornwall so try to be cornish?
@@drewwilliams6888bro… I’m Cornish have lived in Cornwall and the south east and there is still little difference between the cultures. Do you know how problematic and impractical that would be too?
@@drewwilliams6888 Sorry, Cornwall is a part of England.
Cymru am Byth. Great video, thanks/diolch
🏴 Abertawe
Makes sense. The Welsh also still speak the indigenous language of Britain i.e Brittonic which became Old Welsh and ultimately modern Welsh.
All the indigenous mythology of Britain is to be found in the earliest Welsh literature.
This is true but what are the Welsh? North Welsh who speak the Welsh, are they the Welsh? Or the largely southern English population who emmigrated to Wales in the past 200 years?
I’ve traced my surname back to Scotland, one of two two families who have used it, no way to tell which family originated the name. One of the families that used the name was a Norman who settled in the land some time before/after the battle of Hastings, he took on a new last name, the other family was of royalty and actually contested the name as there was a dispute over land and the king gave it to the eldest of the two claiming the name. Next I’ll need a DNA test to see which family I connect too.
Interesting information. I think it would be worthwhile to research the genetic history of the region by mapping predominant haplogroups.
That was very interesting . Bit of a eye opener 👍👾
Many of the later peoples who came to England were already racial mixed. The Normans were a mixture of Viking and local French people. The Norman invaders took with them many Breton horsemen with and consequently added a small imput of Celtic DNA to England in the 11th century. Later people known as Flemings immigrated to Britain from parts of Netherlands. These people spread through parts of England, Wales and Ireland, they lost their indentity but would have added their DNA which would have been similar the earlier Saxon people.
Great comment Michael
My ancestors came over with William the conquer. As far as I've been able to research. Hudleston (hudlestone)
Which became Hudson. Still digging.
Wow, so all 30'000 of your great g g g g g g g g g g ....grandparents were Norman!
@@christianwithers7335 It's even more remarkable when you consider that its estimated by historians that only about 8000 Normans settled in Engand after the conquest. Even William the Duke of Normandy himself didn't bother to take up residence for any length of time. He returned to Northern France where he continues to live most of his life & he eventually died there.
Over time some English people would have acquired Norman surnames because they were vassals of Norman housholds but they were not of Norman descent themsleves. In addition history only records the names of 21 Norman noblemen who accompanied William at Hastings. The names of those in the rest of his army are unknown and are lost to time. Unless one can show a realtionship to any of those 21 known names claims that one's ancestors arrived in England with William are dubious.
This was a great! Through a D.N.A kit I just found out I'm 35.4% Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Being Adopted this info was fascinating, and your video was a perfect introduction. Thank you!!
If your with Ancestry they match you up with genetic relations
Australian here with a somewhat relevant DNA test, my mother's area (Surrey and Hampshire) traced back generations, 45% England and Northwestern Europe, 5% Denmark/Sweden.
Fathers side who migrated earlier, 14% England and Northwestern Europe, 18% Wales, 15% Scotland, 1% Denmark/Sweden , 2% Ireland...... assumed the Danish on both sides was reminants from Danelaw?
I guess, that'd be more recent. If 5% of that Danish admixture comes from a single ancestor, it'd most likely be from one of your great-great grandparents, they were likely around in the mid 19th century, assuming you're in your 20s. Danes started settling in England in the 8th and 9th centuries. It must be noted that the Danes were wiped out (justifiably) in East Anglia in the St. Brice's Day massacre of 1002, for encouraging Viking raids. And the last remnants of the partial Scandinavian population in the North got wiped out during the Harrying of the North, under William
Have traced back to the early 1800's, that 2% Irish for instance on the paternal side may have come from a singular immigrant (3rd great grandparent)... I guess if my mother was to take a DNA test that would make for more interesting reading. As for the indigenous population they didn't fair very well, say compared to the more war like Maori. Perhaps romanticising a bit but it was a beautiful culture.
@@kaikwa4160 The massacre in East Anglia was in Cambridge. The one in Oxford failed when the city governor refused to obey the king. The one in London failed too. We can trace them because they named their parishes after St Clement. He’s the patron saint of those who travel by sea, because he was the first pope after Peter, and took ship from Alexandria. Hence St Clement Danes. The nobles of England chose to replace Aethelred with Sweyn and then Cnut, so the genocide seems exaggerated.
@@Joanna-il2ur Oxford had numerous sites of massacres, wdym? Mass graves have been discovered there, suggesting that the massacre did succeed in Oxford as well.
Sven - albeit being baptised early in his life had a lot of sympathy for pagans, he never had the approval of English nobles, however, Cnut did. Cnut's popularity in England could be directly attributed to the love he had for the English nation and culture, not only did he learn to speak English, but he was also seemingly influenced by the culture, especially of England's literary tradition which was reflected in Denmark and Norway with the rise of literature and writing as a common practice (but not in Sweden yet, since they had little connections with England, and other Western European countries with proper literary tradition)
The majority of Cnut's time as a King was spent in England, and the christianisation of Norway and Denmark accelerated under him. He barely brought settlers from Denmark, allegedly fearing yet another massacre.
The domsday book doesn't have records of Anglo-Scandinavian communities that far down south, in the North, however, there was a rebellious Anglo-Scandinavian community that likely got wiped out during the harrying of the North.
If there's anything that's overexaggerated, it's the degree of Scandinavian admixture that people think is common amongst the English. It's very rare, and the tiny minority that carries it have a rather recent Scandinavian ancestor (it wasn't rare at all for European intellectuals to migrate to England, German Kingdoms/Germany and France between the 18th and 20th centuries) it's extremely extremely extremely rare for minority admixtures from 40 generations ago to be strongly persistent to this day, nearly 1200 years later, and account for 5-6% of an individuals ancestry.
@@kaikwa4160 Sites of massacres? Collocation is not causation, as they say. How are the bodies buried? In graves? Just bunged in? The dead of St Clements would usually be buried in that parish, just east of the Cherwell, at the foot of Headington Hill. Any signs of trauma injuries? Otherwise it sounds like a cemetery. There were other massacres, such as the anti student riots that closed the university for twenty years. Plague could equally be a cause. I must admit those tiresome yanks who have had dodgy DNA samples that proclaim them x% of this and y% of that are a bit desperate to find legitimacy. As I keep saying, you are not your DNA.
Great Channel bro!
Thanks
Our Mums folks immigrated from Derry & Our Da from Nova Scotia. According to 23 & Me we are “95% Ulster/British Irish” …. Utterly broke many a family Tale
Finally some clearer answers on this! Thanks!
My Ancestors were the Gallowglass fae Dal Riata on ma Da’s side who settled in Donegal after fighting the Normans in Ireland having been deposed from their land after fighting on the losing side of the first Wars of Independence in Scotland.and French Scots on ma Maw’s side as her family were brought into Scotland via England to sort out Taxation.
We are all the sons and daughters of immigrants ultimately as this chunk of land was under a huge sheet of ice thousands of years ago and uninhabited by humans as a result.
Thank you for doing this.
Great video. but that hand, tie it down or something!😂👍
Great, love your enthusiasm
The POBI project was very useful but it has largely been superseded by ancient DNA findings made in the last few years. Therefore the only major point of difference I would make is about the Welsh .They definitely don't resemble ancient British hunter gatherers genetically more than any other Brit. That was speculation on the part of the POBI , before we fully understood the enormous genetic impact farmers and then steppe folk had on the Isles. They , like other Britons , are a mix of hunter gatherer , neolithic farmer and steppe people. They are much like the Irish and Scots in that they more closely resemble British Bronze and Iron Age people than the English who have a lot more Germanic ancestry, although the amount varies across regions .As for the Celts , well that seems to be more of an elite migration . I would definitely urge you to check out the new paper on Anglo-Saxon DNA and migration which is very interesting.
Thank you Bernicia 1140, will do
@@celtichistorydecoded second to the new Anglo-Saxon study, a Britanny study came out this year which is really good.
Thanks for the notice of the new paper, which is fascinating. It effectively confirms the traditional histories of the mainly post-Roman Anglo-Saxon migrations, showing ca. 70% DNA components from exactly the areas which would be expected. I wonder what Francis Pryor, and other revisionists who have claimed, on very little objective evidence, that no such migration of people actually happened, will make of it. Challenging accepted norms is laudable, but it should be based on exceptional evidence, not partly on wishful thinking.
As a person who's family comes from Orkney i see this as a win.
I’m Black and according to the DNA test, besides my 71. 7 of Sub-Saharan African ancestry…
I have 25.4% British and Irish (West Midlands, United Kingdom)
0.3% Scandinavian, and 0.9% Broadly Northwestern European.
Not to mention the 1.4% East Asian and Native American, Unassigned 0.3%.
I am guessing your African American?
@@noahtylerpritchett2682
No, I would describe myself as being Black here in America. My ancestry is not just from Africa but Europe, and Asia as well. Black is basically saying a mixture of cultures but predominantly African ancestry.
@@Alien0066 oh I am sorry. That makes sense.
Very very interesting material
Thanks for the video. Although a little out of date now, the 2006 Oxford University study found that, in England, 64% of people are descended from Celts, outnumbering the descendants of Anglo- Saxons by about three to one.
Great comment, thank you - www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/were-nearly-all-celts-under-skin-2480644
Slightly semantics but "Anglo-saxon" ancestry would include both the Germanic and Celtic ancestral components, because the people who came on the boats weren't Anglo-Saxons yet, but that Ethnic group would form a couple hundred years later on once they'd taken on some ancestry from the Brythonnic Celts. So If you're 60% Celtic and 40% Germanic, you'd actually be ~100% Anglo-Saxon.
hugely interesting a very informative.
Thank you Eddie
To make an accurate account of this you would have to analyse DNA from before the agricultural workforce collapse 150 years ago. The UK's DNA would be distorted with the millions of Irish who came over in the last two centuries, or Welsh and Scottish people moving into London for example. You should only test DNA from those who know that all of their great grandparents were born in their county. Then a map showing DNA of distinct places such as Cornwall or Northumbria would be accurate and fascinating.
Very true. Scotland shows a "Irish population" and Northern Ireland a "Scottish population" but that is a more recent event. You can't really compare industrial areas.
The twenty year study from which this derives accounted for such things. People had to be able to trace back to their great grandparents at least, I believe.
@@jamesmason8436 Yeah but millions of Irish emmigrated in the early 19th to mid 19th century. My grandmother born in 1960s is now a great grandmother. If you went back to 1850 you could have great gretat great great grandparents
@@kincaidwolf5184 the selection criteria adjusted for recent, 20th and 19th centur, migration.
They've also analysed skeletal remains etc.
All that would tell you is what the DNA of people whose families are static.
Huge numbers of people migrate both internationally and intranationally.
This study is massively skewed because it took DNA from volunteers and therefore isn't random.
But we know for a fact that millions of British people have immediate ancestors born overseas and this isn't represented at all in this genetic map.
It's a self selecting picture
Mine were descendant of the Romans (specifically, the Roman Auxiliaries of the Balkans). Our paternal Y-DNA is E-V13. I understand this group settled mostly in northern Wales, Cornwall, and the area around Cumbria and along Hadrian's Wall.
I am from Liverpool with Welsh ancestry. My DNA is 33.8% Scandinavian, 32.2% Welsh, Scots and Irish, 29.3% English, 2.9% Italian, .9% Iberian, .9% West Asian (Turkish area).
It sounds like you were created by 3 people
@@chesterdonnelly1212 hi, I think the females in the family really liked the Vikings, I can only think that the Italian is from the Romans, both were in this area. I dreamt about being part both of these, but didn't expect it to actually be true.
@@dorothysimpson2804 it is a very cool mix. Liverpool is famous for its Irish, Welsh and Scandinavian heritage.
You're the perfect scouser 😊
I find the subject facinating
I’ve gone back 200+ on paper and it’s all English in both sides then I did my DNA and it came back 74% English 6% Norway 20% Denmark/Sweden. So I’d like to say I’m originally from the Viking saga in our history.
But not English? With a 75% hit?
@@stevewilliams2691 That goes without saying I’m English but I’m just happy I’m not Irish 😂😂!
Are you blonde then?
@@theshamanarchist5441 No but not all Nordic people are 😂😂 you need to stop watching Hollywood films. Vikings weren’t 6”9 with long blonde hair and beards.
@@dean5828 Do you drink Skol lager lol?
One thing the map does not do is seperate the English / British DNA in eastern lowland Britain. But since that part of England is 10-40% germanic, 60-90% of that genetic story is either not told by the map, or there has been such total integration between ancestral populations there that it is no longer possible to separate them. The Danes who lived in central England may have had Western Germanic DNA from Jutland, as modern Danish DNA may originate like the original Danes themselves from further East.
Oddly I never seen the Romans as Brits or the Normans. But Celts, Pre -Celts, Picts, Anglo-Saxon yes. And kind of not surprised re the Vikings apart from Yorkshire and wow my favourite Orkney 🙂👍 ( did research in Orkney folk music, dance, drama)
What on earth is pre celt?
The Romans were invaders. They were not brythonic. The Romans left zero Roman DNA in the U.K.
Apparently, the Romans and Normans did not mix very much with the local populations.
@@christianwithers7335 the people in Britain before the Celts arrived
Hi, My Name is Sherry Morrison I did my DNA, and I found out that I have 68% of England, Wales & Northwestern Europe and 28% Ireland & Scottland Plus, 5% Sweden and 1% European Jewish. So, I was excited to hear you talk about the land. Thank You
Thanks for sharing
"American" here of English and Swedish ancestry.
My English side is from Essex and East Anglia respectively.
We were actually right smack on the Danelaw at one time. Literally living
on the border.
My family held minor nobility until the Norman conquest.
My aunt got her DNA done (Father's twin sister) and she had 41% Anglo-Saxon dna
and 15% "Old Danish" whatever that means. Which lines up perfectly with family lore
as to where in England we lived and when.
I find that fascinating.
Listen. If , at weddings, you saw your grandmother dancing around her handbag she was DEFINATELY an Essex girl!!! 😂
(I'm Essex born and bred, father was Scottish, mother English. The handbag thing is a looooong running joke about Essex girls. As in how can you tell if a girl is from Essex , they'll be dancing round their handbags. And I gotta say they bloody DO! I dont know why!! Probably cause theyre canny enough to know if they dont some light fingered Essex bloke will knick their purse. Many a villians family moved to Essex 😂) 0:02
Incidently my Father had his DNA tested and he was 99% Celtic!!(a scottish and itish blend i think it is, though it was explained i forget the exact description, needless to say it was very Scotland centric) Trace amounts of two other types I can't recall but we were astonished he was so non mixed! You'd think over thousands of years there would be loads of mixing with danish/german/french/ Norwegian etc but it seems certain parts of Scotland stayed very genetically stable. I guess it changes with my blood as my Mum comes from southern England. I would love to check the bloodline for the other half of my blood. Must do it one day.
@@hazed1009 from Essex as well. Never heard of anything like that. The Essex girl stereotype is fake nails and a bad spray tan if anything
@gonebzrk1835 spray tan and fake nails is your generation not mine or his grandmothers. When this was the stereo type there wasn't any spray tan! You had to get a cheap week in Spain and sit in the sun for real to get brown in our day!!
The Girls have EVOLVED.... (But not very much!!) , his gran should recognise the stereotype more than the modern one
@@hazed1009 It appears this was a stereotype prior to my birth by nearly a decade XD That being said we have no idea when their family moved from the UK, could easily of been 200 years ago!
It was really interesting. I do wish that you’d put a legend in that explained the colour coding though.
In my dna I've got 17% Iberian, and they were here 5,000 years ago..
Yea they seeded the foundation for the isles that’s for sure . And the rest of the invasions contributed a small portion. The portions associated with Spain is from the basque region.
It’s nice for someone to come out with some actual historical facts and as you correctly say we’re that intermingled through various migration no mater if it’s war,trade,migration or any other reasons .Just for fun some years ago the BBC did a program about a skeleton they had found in Wookey Hole in Somerset and they did dna tests on the children from the local school but needed one more to make up their numbers and so a school teacher volunteered and it turned out to be a match for the person who died all those millennia ago and the best example I can think of is Edinburgh for years it was fought over by both Scotland and England and then it was decided that we should share it with each country taking a turn to govern it but to prove your point that the peoples would marry and have children and in turn their genetic ancestry would mix to also include their various ancestor’s from over the generations,as for myself I was left a medal and while checking it in the library I found an antique book on surnames and found that the good bit was that we were one of the oldest names in the English language but the bad bit is that we were deported from Dorset during or prior to the 10th century but it did not say where to or what for ,so lord only knows what my ancestory is (lol) but thank you again for an honest none biased view of our peoples history
The British Isles includes the republic of ireland. But they really don't like it
Of course we do. You see, unlike the author, who clearly does not understand the difference between the UK and the British Isles, we understand that the British Isles is a geographical reference. Yet the author titles the video " The British Isles", yet leaves out the South of Ireland. Its a common mistake made by the British, who's knowledge of Irish history is thin at best.
Paul you are obviously right that 'British Isles' is a geographical term. ButI have seen many posts on other topics from Irish people who object to the term 'British Isles' as it seems (to them) to imply that Ireland is somehow being claimed by Btitain. So we do struggle a bit knowing what to call this group of islands without giving unnecessary offence.
This helped me understand my DNA results. I'm Welsh. I did a DNA test recently and found that I'm 41% Scottish, 38% Welsh, 11% Irish, 5% English, and 5% Norweigan. All the results were what I expected, except having more Scottish than Welsh lol. I'm guessing the Norwegian is from my Scottish side as no one in the family knows where it came from haha.
@jonnyneace8928 Oh I know the history of the country I'm from. I just wasn't expecting the same amount of Norweigan as English DNA in my own results.
'Celtic' is a word only first seen in the English language around 1785, applied to Britons. WHO did that?
Didn't see much info for Cumbria. Some say there is a strong celtic signature, though I've seen tv. pieces that talked about Norwegian viking settlers.
Wouldn't the Danelaw/Danish vikings have left an impact as part of the Jutes settling? I can imagine those people were incredibly similar.
There is also some debate around whether the Saxons and Danes were actually the same people.
I'm from the East Midlands and 40% of my DNA is Scandinavian (55% British and Irish). This is a typical mix for this part of England.
All of the place names where I'm from were influenced by the Danelaw and Danish settlement.
Probably more so from the Danish/German angles who settled in that area as part of the Anglo-Saxon invasions, with the Saxon half of the Anglo-Saxon’s been more influential in Southern England. The Jutes settled in Kent and the Isle of Wight. That being said, although the Viking impact might not have been that great genetically, I think most researchers still understate it even though it was more significant (in England) than that of groups such as the Romans and Normans. I think I read somewhere once
But I think I read somewhere once that researchers can’t actually seperate the Angle DNA from Danish coming because the two are so similar. All that being said, yes, Denmark did have a significant impact genetically on that area of England (My great grand father came from Derby and I score between 10-20% Scandinavian with all the main DNA testing companies, although haven’t done 23 and me, despite having no known Scandinavian ancestry)
Sorry, meant to say “can’t seperate Angle DNA from Danish Viking DNA.
The Jutes!!? They landed 4 hundred years before the Danes
I don't know about the Midlands but the North has much less norse DNA than it really should due to the harrying of the North by William the conquerer which was pretty much a genocide of anglo-danes
The people Bede called Jutes are in Kent with a small outpost in the Meon valley in Hampshire (inland from Portsmouth). They didn’t call themselves Jutes though. They called themselves Wara, and Canterbury was Kant-Wara-Byrig.. The people of Wye called themselves Wyewara, while the outpost in Hampshire were the Meonwara. They faced a brief Viking incursion near Borough Green, but then asked to be put under the protection of Wessex, escaping the worst.
I see kernow was coloured as a different region of genetics /celts yet no one on the comments has these throwbacks in evidence. Interesting.
Had my DNA test and came back 93% Scottish, 6% Irish and 1% Danish.
A strange mix for someone born in Zimbabwe.
@@krashd ??
I've recently had my DNA done and I was shocked with the results. So shocked I called the company to question it but was assured they are as correct as they could be. My DNA make up is 92% English (specifically Northern England), 7% Irish and 1% Iberian Peninsula. I thought it was nigh on impossible to have that percentage for English and I was disappointed, I was hoping for more diversity. As an aside, I and my family still live in North England. We're so bloody boring!
Don't knock it.
Typical English cuck. "I wish I want English" 😫
Im a proud Pict from N.E Scotland where my ancestors were farmers and still are to this day although the farming is now being wiped out. My family name is all over Fraserburgh area, as are my extended family although I'm now in Aberdeen.
Can't really call yourself a pict, considering the picts bred with and married into the irish tribe the Scots, where Scotland got its name from.
@@TheFightingFenian pft, zero Irish blood here.
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes came to Britain from in and around Denmark. So would it not seem more likely that the genetics of the Danes were practically indistinguishable from those, than that the Danes made practically no genetic impact?
I hate the claim that the Danes had "no" impact.
That's impossible.
The Anglo-Saxons and Danes were genetically indistinguishable.
I can't here someone say they're the same than say they're not detecting Danish dna therefore no Danish dna. That doesn't make sense. How would they know? Anglo-Saxons and Danes were undetectable in difference and identical in origins.
The angles are Germanic from Angeln Saxons germanic from Saxony and jutes.from Denmark
@@IrishCinnsealach The Saxons were not from the modern East German state of Saxony. They settled it in the same way they settled England.
They were likely originally from southern Denmark/Northern Germany. Around where Schleswig Holstein is today.
As someone else further up mentioned, it's likely the Jutes, Danes and Saxons were, by and large, the same people.
@@andreashessler838
Old Saxony" is the original homeland of the Saxons. It corresponds roughly to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, eastern part of modern North Rhine-Westphalia state (Westphalia), Nordalbingia (Holstein, southern part of Schleswig Holstein and western Saxony Anhalt (Eastphalia), which all lie in northwestern Germany
Saxons had been raiding the eastern seaboard of Britain from here during the 3rd and 4th centuries
@@IrishCinnsealach Yes, which includes Schleswig Holstein. The Saxons spread all the way through what became Germany to the South.
Read further down that very Wikipedia page that you copied and pasted. It tells you the origination. "Some of the Saxons left their homelands of Holstein in the 3rd century".
In all fairness, everybody in England (whether they were Dane, Briton, Saxon, Jute, etc) became 'saxon' when Aethelstan united England in the early 10th century.
I found Bruce was Brux family from Normandy France.
I’m related to Lady Stansill Bruce.
I only did a DNA test to find out my ethnic blood. Here is my result.
100% European in terms of racial category so 100% white.
English/Irish/Scottish 63.5%
Irish regions my blood is closest to:County Cork,County Dublin,County Kerry,County Mayo,County Galway,County Waterford,County Donegal,County Clare,County Limerick,County Sligo,Belfast.
English regions my bloodline is closest to:Greater London,Greater Manchester,Merseyside,West Yorkshire,West Midlands,Tyne and Wear,Lancashire,South Yorkshire.
Scottish regions my bloodline is closest to:Glasgow.
French and German 20.4%
German regions my bloodline is closest to:Hessen,Rhineland Palatinate,Canton of Bern.
French regions my bloodline is closest to:Pays de la Loire.
Finnish 0.9%
Broadly North Western European 3.9% from Sweden and Norway
Greek and Balkan 10.3%
Parental Haplogroup group E-V13 that is DNA that originates in The Middle East and Western Asia but people of that group migrated into Europe 4500 years ago yet the ancestor of that group of people E1b1b1a originates in The Middle East and is around 22500 years old.
Maternal haplogroup J1b1a which is DNA that is between 4600 and 12000 years old that originates in Anatolia
60% more Neanderthal DNA than the average person.
So you're a Turk
@@DanBeech-ht7sw no I am no Turk.
I am a Celt.
@@sethfrisbie3957 whose ancestors came from Turkey, lol
@@DanBeech-ht7sw just because some of your earliest ancestors come from Anatolia does not mean you are a Turk think of the migration from the Indo-Europeans.
I care little how I am "made up" genetically. These BRITISH Isles are my ancestral homeland and inheritance; bequeathed to me by my ancestors, deceased recently, or hundreds of years ago. Everyone has an ancestral homeland: they simply need to recognise that. The BRITONS are pale-skinned Northern-Europeans. Those - like Humza Yusaf, the First Minister of Scotland - who are not pale-skinned Northern Europeans MUST have an ancestral homeland which lies elsewhere. I do not mind them 'adopting' my ancestral homeland; provided they do not - as a Muslim - seek to dismantle it for ISLAM.
Irish ancestry with a Norman surname and a Norwegian haplogroup.
Who does the most accurate DNA test and are there some slightly iffy testers?
What do you look for?
So interesting.. I’m from Durham northeast England but waiting on my dna test results. My whole family for many yrs come from the north but we will see 😆
What was the result?
@@jondo553 just about 50% English 25% Scandinavian and 25% Irish, Scotland .. 😃
But the English part said northeast and southern Scotland.. sooo 🤷♀️
@@violetmoonofthenorth Awesome!
Good. English Dna = Anglo-Saxon, Briton/Gaul/Irish, Norse.
Britain is named after Brutus who cam from Troy. It would be interesting to see if there was any link between the ancient Britons / Welsh and Turkey and Greece.
I love my father's northern Welsh (Gogs), and my mother's Potatoe Family McGees and Murphy lines. Diolch yn fawr for such a great video. I did my Ancestry DNA, and I'm a Celt through and through, but DNA does not really matter ultimately. I took in and raised an African-American kid, who is now my other son. Peace
Great comment
I came across this a few days ago - A Briton, one of a people inhabiting Britain before the Anglo-Saxon invasions beginning in the 5th century AD. Although it was once thought that the Britons descended from the Celts, it is now believed that they were the indigenous population and that they remained in contact with their European neighbours through trade and other social exchanges.
A lot of the beliefs that the Britons were Celtic comes from graves that contained Celtic jewellery and the like. Before DNA testing people were led to believe this ment the Britons were Celtic. But like you said DNA technology seems to indicate they were not. They just liked Celtic jewellery lol
Irish are not Celtic either for the same reasons. Earliest reference to the Irish as Celts was 18th century linguists seeking to group the non-English languages of Britain and Ireland, which are one family. They imported designs and metal working techniques from the continent in the same way we Irish of today have jeans from the US or a phone from China. There are however noteworthy genetic ties with Europeans up and down the Atlantic seaboard, which makes sense.
@@gearoiddom Yes I agree. After all, who did the Anglo-Saxons etc invade if there was no one in these Isles? We as peoples were already here and as you say we are all family.
Yeah the Irish went over to Wales too after the Romans pulled out
Thanks Wayne
So what the locals silenced their Language.
@@Kitsylove28 Interbred eventually i`d reckon matey
Ireland does have a close relationship with Scotland since the gaels came from Ireland and probably from the northern Ireland in the first century and created Down.
Call riada in scotland But the plantations in ireland from the fifteen century is more lowland scots and english
It’s not the British isles! British and Irish isles
I was so distracted by you waving your hand around the whole time 😹😹
I know. You live and you learn.
My mother used to say our family was "ENGLISH!" But since her death in 2010 I was so happy to find out (from DNA) I'm 97% Scandinavian 😁😁👍
Just for advice, they constantly update the results and if you went with the same company, you would see a totally different result. Also, if you're 97% Scandinavian, it doesn't mean she wasn't from an English family, you inherit both sides. And, the Vikings became part of the English. Go to York, they married into the local population, they're English.
@JackSonEFla2 No, they didn't. Anglo Saxon is the term to describe the native people of England and Scotland who breed with the Germanic tribes from Western Europe.
well done . Early texts in Wales treat many of us as picto -Iberians , a mixture of early settlers . The Iberian connection is tenuous though as it was based on the supposed dolmen super highway theory , but we may have just been over the way where the sea is now .
Absolutely no African or Asian in there _ Thank God
The Celts hung around A lot longer in England than you think they had a settlement in East Anglia in The Fens for many many years
Cadwch lan gyda'r waith Dda! Celtiaid am Byth!
Thanks Mr. Welshmun
I’m from the Lothian’s near Edinburgh and started looking into my ancestry. I just thought I was Scottish, turns out my mums side are from Norfolk going back to the 1500s at-least from what I’ve found out so far
Scotland
46%
-Scottish Central Lowlands
-North East Scotland & the Northern Isles
England & Northwestern Europe
38%
Norway
9%
Wales
5%
Ireland
2%
London doesn't apply though lol
My family have lived in and around the east end of London for over 200 years, my DNA 53pc English, 22 Scottish, 11 Welsh, 7 Irish , 5 Norway, Sweden/Denmark 2, all very good !
Same I've traced my male linage back to the 1700s all from bermondsey in South London. My ancestry results came back as 92% Welsh 4.5% French and German and the rest NW Europe
Great video but you’ve gotta stop swinging your hand about , v distracting 😝
I’d like to know more about the people crossing into England and Scotland from Gaul 3,000-6,000 years ago. What study was thing info from?
www.oum.ox.ac.uk/settlers/
Genetic journeys and cultural connections
Between the end of the last Ice Age, around 11,600 years ago, and the Norman invasion in 1066, settlers arrived in Britain from various locations in Europe. The objects they left behind show that they brought with them cultural changes such as agriculture, metalworking and new languages. The genetic data from the People of the British Isles study, combined with the archaeological evidence, gives a more complete story of how society changed.
In some cases there is a clear genetic signature associated with cultural change. For example, the genetic data suggests a large movement of people from Northern France into England and Scotland between 6,000 and 3,000 years ago, at about the same time that agriculture began to be widespread. In contrast, the Norman invaders, who greatly changed the language and government of Britain, have left little genetic legacy.
Agriculture, trade and technology
Throughout the Neolithic (New Stone Age) and Bronze Ages, from around 6,000 to 3,000 years ago, people continued to pass back and forth across the English Channel, importing their distinctive styles of pottery and metalwork.
The genetic study revealed a pattern of DNA dated to around this time that is shared by people now living in northern France and those in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, but none of those in Wales. It looks as though substantial numbers of people took the opportunity to cross the narrow Channel, and spread through most of the country.
These people may have included the first farmers at the start of the Neolithic Age. Or they may have been some of the ‘Beaker people’, who introduced characteristic decorated pottery, developed copper working and traded metal with other parts of Europe.
Ireland is not a British Isle/lsland. It is 2023 explain how Ireland can still be called a British Island. It's an absurd outdated and Possesive term that is insulting to the Majority of Irish citizens living in Ireland.
It’s a Geographic term like the Balkans, Indonesia archipelago, West Indies and even GB which contains 3 nations
Island of Ireland is part of the British Isles.Always has been and always will be.
@@themanftheworld8439Geographically Ireland is a European Island. Explain how it is a British Island. Typical British Cakeism Just like the Russians who think Ukraine is part of Russia.
My married name means Danish settler. My husband, his siblings and our daughter have auburn/ blonde hair. He has a stereotypical trait of the Danes , he can not bend his little fingers and toes as the skin is so tight the joint can not move. Here in East Yorkshire there are many with Viking family names and it may be a euthamism that Yorkshire has a strong Viking heritage, but thus far there would seem to be a lot of evidence to support this.
Hey, what accent are you speaking? It’s the first I hear it. Wow, so unique.
I think everyone’s forgetting about cheddar man here
I did make a separate video on him - Who Were the Hunter-Gatherers of Britain After the Last Ice Age? ua-cam.com/video/0JNWQCzPlrY/v-deo.html
Explains the Norse-Gael appearance of my DNA report
The Orkneys were part of Norway until 1472 so it's not surprising that they have more Norwegian DNA
I’ve got 66% NorthWestern English 19% Scottish 7% Norwegian, 6% Irish & 2% Swedish & Danish DNA.
I have no DNA linkages to France, Germany or Anglo Saxon ancestry.