The Celts: The Mysterious Dark Age Masters Of Europe | Lost Treasures | Chronicle
Published 2023-12-27
The Celts lacked a sense of national identity and lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, leaving behind simple homesteads. Despite being illiterate in their own languages, the Celts survived into modern times, with their languages persisting in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany. Often portrayed as barbarians, the Celts were organized, sophisticated, and technologically advanced, known for their courage in war, flamboyant style, and lack of interest in building empires.
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All Comments (21)
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This program makes me feel closer to me Irish, Scottish and Welsh roots.
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🍀My family came to the US from Ireland, I recently started studying my ancestry and learned that my last name "Cannon" is old Gaelic for "cub of the wolf". I train horses just as my forbearers did and I never knew how much I had in common with my Celtic roots.
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For some reason I am fascinated by the history of the Celts since my college years. Thanks for this upload ☺️!
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I'm half welsh and live on the English/Wales boarder as my historic families have done for hundreds of years. So the more I learn about this whole period of history stretching from pre Romana right up into the early modern, the more fascinated I am by the degrees of movement of people and things. Thank you for this video. Very interesting.
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Very interesting. What the programme, and many like them, often miss is the legacy of the Celts in Brittany, north-west Spain and northern Portugal where there is a very rich Celtic ancestry and culture. Who knew that? I would haved enjoyed this more seeing something of the Celtic history in these regions of Celtic influence, rather than this being so UK-centric.
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RE: the role of women in Celtic Society: In the Iron Age there was a famous Military Academy on the Isle of Skye between Scotland & Ireland run by a woman named 'Scáthach' (sounds like Skaw Hawk), from whom the island derives its name, that attracted students from far and wide!
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I love how close the opening lines are to “In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history”
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Excellent production and narration. As an Irish Celt, I can clarify that the festivals are pronounced Bee-owl-tana (Bealtaine/Beltane), Sow-inn (Samhain, rhymes with now-in), and Loo-nasa (Lughnasa/Lammas)
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How could the Celts borrow the dragon motif from the Vikings? The Celts were at their height culturally long before the Vikings came around. Isn't it more likely that the dragon motif is an ancient symbol, and the Celts used this symbol because it was already a part of their culture.
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34'37" - "Fíbula de Bragança " found on Northen Portugal where are hundreds of hillforts with round houses and jewelry with celtic art.
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I wish History Hit would list the full title and production date of the documentaries.
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I took an extra curricular college course while in high school on Celtic Mythology, and have always been fascinated with the Celts.
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I have seen some of their wonderful jewelry pieces in Stuttgart, Germany. The name of the museum is Das alte Schloss am Schlossplatz. Many churches were built over the sacred places of the druids. So was Notre Dame in Paris, France.
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My family is a mix of Scots and German (Celtic and Teutonic). I have been fascinated by Celtic culture since an aunt was able to trace the Scots side to the mid 900's, primarily by inheritance records, both oral and written. Rome so thoroughly distorted our view of them its hard to winnow out the truth. You did a stellar job with this video. Thank you.
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Wikitongues is a very interesting youtube channel where you will get to hear many northwest European languages being spoken, such as Cornish, Manx, Shetlandic, Gaelic, Icelandic - and all the rest. There's also that guy Simon Roper who speaks Old English but he's often talking to people who speak other tongues and dialects ... like a guy in France speaking Gaulic for instance which was particularly interesting for me. I didn't know Gaulic was a thing.
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Well, I think you have done a wonderful job. Especially since they were illiterate and all you have are these old videos of them.
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The narration is perfect.
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pretty good, proper 90's
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Great documentary thank you😊
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Nice documentary, well put together, but I’m not sure when it was made? Celts were and are a Indo-European / Neolithic Farmer people with hunter gather admixture. Neolithic Farmers originated in Anatolia and took two routes into Europe, one around the Mediterranean and into Iberia, and the other through the Balkans before meeting again Central Europe. The Indo-Europeans originated north of the Black Sea. The Indo-European dna found in Persia and India is do to a back migration of The Corded Ware people from North, East and Central Europe. There are also earlier migration from the Yamnaya culture (A major fountain head of IE culture and dna) that travelled east. Thanks for the video:)
