greeting from france, long live this wonderful country

French and Scottish have fought side by side for many battles, when I think about the Auld Alliance, I think about honor and friendship. Thanks to our scottish allies from France.

The part where you talk about what you originally learned about the Auld Alliance vs what you learned after learning a little French and reading about it from the French perspective was really cool. It reminds me of the fact that learning other languages and reading different perspectives of historical events in those languages can help us get a clearer picture of what actually happened.

I simply love listening to Bruce! He beings history alive, even engaging emotional responses to his topic of the day. Thank you, Sir, for furthering my education in such a vibrant way. 💙💙

The Auld Alliance made more sense to me when i found out Robert the Bruce's family were originally called De Bruc, And that Norman French were literally given the Stewardship of Scotland.Norman Knights who lost their lands for choosing the loosing side in a civil war(The Anarchy) and being given lands in Scotland by the King of Scotland(who was also on the loosing side).

Great video, as always. In 1385 Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France, returned from Scotland with his French knights. He begged the King of France to make a truce with England for two or three years and then "march to Scotland and utterly destroy it, for never had they seen such wicked people, nor such ignorant hypocrites and traitors". Good to see the French had changed their minds by WWWII :)

Wow! This is crazy. My head is spinning. Fabulous as always, Bruce.

Once more, superb. Why are you not on TV? And once more you allude to Scottish history as being very much more complicated (and corrupt) then we are now being led to believe.

It’s a good job you asked for coffee. If I had to buy you a pint in Norway I’d have to take out a second mortgage. History shows just how complicated politics was is the past

Très intéressant. Moi aussi j’ai appris le français à Montpellier. Comme irlandais, l’histoire de l’Écosse m’intéresse beaucoup.

Thank you! Norway has not changed It's"Modus Operandi," at all. They still operate in exactly the same manner, so thank you Bruce. This is something I knew 0% about, but it very much fits into how I see things. This episode is enough to give a guy a headache keeping track of who did what, but I am getting a feel for it and this particular video made great sense.

Bruce, the video you did about Bestie of William Wallace being, Sir John deGraham, well... you sparked my interest and I dug deeper into my Graham roots as a result. Sir John is my 19th great grand uncle! Another deeper root in Scotland. Thanks!!!! Love your videos.

What is interesting about history, is you can read it several times and get a different picture to the light of new elements you discover. Beautiful video!

I spent 5 years in high school ( Blairgowrie, Aberfeldy and Madras College); we studied English history, with a 2 week precis on Scottish history!!! You're rapidly makin up for this deficit, can't thank you enough, Big Yan. Gum bi do bheata fada.

A true teacher of history 👏

Mr. Fummey; Another great job! Sincerely

Thanks to Kevin bridges everytime I hear the word empty I think there are GETTING a party.

I know a bit of Scottish history mainly via Nigel Tranter but hasn't realised Norway's involvement in forming the old alliance very informative.

Amazing video ! Cheers from France!

Great upload as ever Bruce!

Hi french guy here. I just stumble upon your video. You're a really great storyteller ! loved the video.

Wow, that's I call a VIDEO ! I'm French and loved every bit of this. You perhaps forgot to mention that the Auld Alliance existed in an unformal way for centuries before 1295. I'm suscribing et Vive l'Auld Alliance !

Brilliant, Thankfully I have just found you and you make compulsive viewing.

Really enjoyed watching these videos relating to the auld alliance! And wow! Mind blown!! i would certainly like to know a bit more about this topic as yes it's not well known although does play quite an important part in the history of the three kingdoms of Scotland, France and England. I would love to learn more,, so much more!!

Unreal! Just fantastic education presented by a consummate professional!

Another great video. Well researched

Another gem of a video!

Brilliant video yet again!

Freedoms Sword by Peter Taquiar is a great book that covers the great cause in depth, great video Bruce!

Rich and powerful people trying to carve up the world, encouraging their citizens to fight for them, in other lands and telling them to do it for 'their country'; telling them that their woes are because of those other people and getting them to wave their flags and be proud. Thank goodness all that kind of thing doesn't happen today!

Ya blew my socks off with this video .

Love the knowledge.

a wee country like ours must be really special by the way I Ken it is everyone wants a piece of her or is it the children she has given birth to and adopted great vid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🤓

Thank mate

PS - love your work brother... great videos correcting a lot of rubbish ideas about Scotland’s history

Great video as always 👍🏻

Nice and salty on this one Brucie 👍

Funny, charismatic and educational. You're wasted baby. Keep it up. Brilliant

Great video. Thanks!

Comme le disais un célèbre poète de l’époque "L'Auld Alliance n'a pas été écrite sur un parchemin de peau de brebis mais gravée sur la peau d'homme, tracée non par l'encre mais par le sang" - Alain Chartier XVème Siècle ." 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Another great video.

Wait. What? As an American with Orcadian roots I'm torn tween emotions here. Damn you, Bruce!!

This... Was... Awesome...!👍✨👀

Wit Th Eff! Th Norwegians! Another stunner of an episode.....Loving your productions....defo some of the best broadcasts on youtube!

I just want to take you to dinner and listen to you tell stories for hours... :) Thanks so much for making these.

Interesting and thank you for sharing . Cheers from Denmark 🇩🇰

Great vid. I hadn't realised that either.

Lmfao, thank you for making me laugh, and yes, I have been somewhat slightly aware of Norway's sneaky involvement, almost as much as knowing that it was never really the "English" who invaded both Wales and Scotland despite almost a thousand years of blame for it to this very day, and that it was in fact the "Normans". Look at it this way, the Normans invade England and take over the place, the English are the victims, the Normans turn to Wales and invade Wales "forcing" what's left of the English armies to go along with them, Wales blames the English not the Normans and yet who controlled England? The Normans invade Wales and try to take over the place, the Welsh are the victims this time, the Normans turn to Scotland and invade Scotland "forcing" what's left of the English and Welsh armies to go along with them, Scotland blames the English not the Normans and the Welsh never get mentioned as they were just victims themselves, and yet who controlled England? Not the English for sure, no, they were also victims of the Normans too! Anyway, many years later, a different age and a different dynasty, but all descended from the same bastard Normans, and England and Wales finally gain control of Scotland, and again the machine marches forth, this time to Ireland, and this time the descendants of those Norman bastards take what's left of the Scots armies along with them along with the Welsh and the English armies. It is the same thing over again, this time though it is the Scots who are seen only as victims in this action, again the Welsh don't even get a mention, the Normans are long forgotten about (but it is still the same ruling families under different assumed names), and yes, again it is the English who were the original victims of the tyranny of the Normans who get the blame. Next stop, "The World"! Yes you've guess it, the descendants of those pesky Normans have decided to expand their realms once more, conquering new lands in New Worlds and beyond, divided we fall, but together we stood, English, Irish, Scot and Welshmen alike, all under the one banner and all obeying the hierarchy that was the Aristocracy descended form those Normans. And yes, the whole World wide blames the English, the Scots Welsh and Irish never get mentioned, and those twatting Normans are still and even longer forgotten about, nope, rule happens in London, London is England's realm, it is those fucking English cunts again, blame them. it's all their fault! In fact, I shall agree, it is England's fault, it is England's fault that it all happened, and all because England lost on a green field somewhere near Hastings back in 1066AD, you can be sure that had England won under Harold Godwinson, none of those invasions would ever have happened, and all of our four home countries probably would have ended up united eventually in a more peaceful arrangement of marriage between our ruling monarchs and none of this would be an issue today, and the English wouldn't be seen as being bastards in the eyes of the Gaelic cuntries!

You tell the best stories.

Well I never. But surely, sticky toffee pudding will always win out over cheesecake, surely?

Brilliant Bruce. Very informative. I wonder if Bjorge Lillelien had some knowledge of historic Norwegian frustration with England when he made his famous rant in 1981. 😁

thanks man love it

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This video was a mindf**k! Imagine the land of Magnus Barelegs playing three other countries like a Thunderbirds puppet! What’s Norwegian for sleekit? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷🇳🇴. Whatever the politics, I have always felt very welcome in France, to the extent that an auld French couple put me up for the night when I was cycling there and couldnae fun a hotel. The old boy (Michele) nearly pulled my arm out of its socket when he found out that I was Scottish, and shook my hand.

I learnt new stuff from this, I am mostly Scottish but live in England (not all English are so bad lol)

Wow you really are cool...u actually travel and learn to get the whole story. Nice job

Gosh..glad I chose Sweden and no Norway! Really interesting. What do Shetlanders know of this I wonder? I hope I can travel soon again. Cheers.

Thanks

Hillarious Dude :) I would like to buy you that coffee in person.... it would be my pleasure.... :)

The thing that stood out to me when I read about the alliance was that the Scots were required to go to war with England whenever England and France went to war, whoever started it, but France was under no obligation to go to war with England should England and Scotland go to war with each other.

Chust brilliant!

hi Bruce, I am a Scottish stand up comedian, i am currently on road trip and staying Bailleul "the town" where john family was from. I live in Norway in Bergen. so this was hilarious to hear while sitting in france before i head back to Norway. I live in Bergen in Norway. the door is always open for you mate, if you ever want to video over here, happily put you up, feel free to message me. :)

Surely the oldest alliance still in existence is the one between England and Portugal?

I forgot about the Norwegians. And it is hard to remember sometimes that boundaries were not clear and that there were many vested interests both sides of the channel. Most of the ruling powers were Norman and they had lands in England, France and anywhere else they could get their mitts on. However, it was Scotland after all that paid the piper. Because they offended an enemy on their doorstep and Edward's retribution (as you rightly say) was swift. It would have been a different matter to sail over to Norway and beard King Erik. So when you ask 'whose side' - well my response is pragmatic not cultural because I would never offend King Edward as he no doubt would rip my arms and legs off. Great posting, thank you. Are you doing a TV series?

10:20 so this is where I get my insult hurling. The funny thing is, after throwing 12 insults in 1 breath, they're not even mad 😂😂😂. I'm gonna call this my "scottish charm"

1295 is one year AFTER the England/Portugal alliance was started.

Once again Scotland doing what its good at picking the loosing side they have a cannae knack for this always let there heart's rule there head. And I speak as one.

HOWEVER! It blew my mind too! Thought I was. student of history? Stood my thinking up-side-down! Should be history newly examined. How did this happen? Tell me a story - Well Done ✔! PS - Alexander III last Celtic king of Scotland by upbringing - Meg of Norway tragic loss to history!

I knew about the Norwegian portion... watched the video just to see if you mentioned it 'cuz if you didn't I was going to.

The difference is, you COULD always choose both puds, it's just inadvisable.

Love your work, thank you! But if he did not have children, how did he have a grand daughter?

10:40 Laughing my arse off!

Strong ending :D And the answer is always sticky toffee pudding. Cheesecake can't compete, as long as there's custard.

Binge watching yer stuff Bruce, quick question what are you saying at the end of the video? Gaelic?

Listing accomplishments and making them sound like insults must be a scottish talent 😂 excellent video. Could never quite wrap ma heid around that bit of history. Still a bit confused tbh!

This is absurdly proffesional

I'm sure you've read it, but if not, this involvement of Norway sounds like a continuation of The Orkneyinga Saga - The History of the Earls of Orkney (circa 1200, translated by Hermann Palsson & Paul Edwards)

Darn Pirates!

Your description of the historic Norwegians... Well, I have not laughed that hard in a while. Thank you. (Edit. [Censored] auto-spell)

I want to know more about the "Clearings " my family left Scotland in the 1800's I live in Canada 🇨🇦 now

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cheese cake and sticky toffee pudding :) lol

It's unforgivable that people seem to forget that in 1066 England was conquered and the English nobility was replaced with Williams most loyal FRENCH mates, the English were stripped of their lands and Williams descendants went on to do the same to other parts of the British and Irish Isles. If the movies particularly Braveheart portrayed the kings of England in this period with French accents maybe people would start to realise that the English were the oppressed and not the oppressors. But then again that would make the French the bad guys and that's not allowed to happen, gotta feed that anti English sentiment in Scotland and the rest of the world. The French stitched both the English and the Scots up because it was the squabbles of a French Speaking King of England and the King of France that set Scotland and England at loggerheads. If people needed evidence of the Plantagenets true nationality look at the hundred years war. It was a French civil war that the French speaking kings of England waged in France for control of their ancestral lands but also to try and get the French crown they had a claim to and of a country they had more in common with.

In fairness to Edward he had no choice. He was going to outnumber and outflanked.

Now, if you read/studied asterix, you would be well aware of the viking/french connection and so realise that the "normans" were actually "northman". That the english royalty were not english speaking was always excused as french being an elegant tongue for the upper crust whereas speaking english was for peasants. Wasn't just that, french was the "house language"...for many many years. We're lucky its not german these days...

Do 1263 battle of Largs

Great video as always, but wasn't Nobel Swedish, and the prize given by the Swedish Academy?

There was no such thing as the body politic of ordinary folk, only the interplay of rich (Norman) men’s assets. The Norman families who started to arrive after 1124 with David 1st had only been in Scotland for 170 years by the time of these events. They wanted to protect the land holdings they had. After 1314, Robert the Bruce forced all Scottish nobles to relinquish titles in the south, in teh Breaking of Britain. That helped form a unique Scottish nobility, however, even that didn’t last. What broke the Auld Alliance was the truly democratic voice of the people following the reformation when Mary of Guise’s French “support” garrisoned out at Petty France near EH, started to look more like an Occupation Force than a “help” from a friendly country. Cardinal Beaton and Marie de Guise were trying to impose Catholic power in an increasingly Protestant country where grass-roots voices started to prefer to be protected by Protestant England than Catholic Frenchmen. We know that Mary Stuart had signed away Scottish independence to France when she married Francis 2nd in Paris, and France stood to “inherit” Scotland if she died without issue. Thankfully, it was the King of France who died first and Mary returned to a now Protestant country. Both the English and the French soldiers departed and we got to fight a amangst oorsels for a wee bit. A few years later the poor Protestants of France were slaughtered in the genocide of St Bartholomew’s day in 1572. That may have been the fate of Scotland too had we been pairt o France also....

But really, tell us how you feel.😁😁😁😁😅🤣😂🙂😉🥰

I've seen an auld alliance enamel badge for my bunnet ! Do you know where I can get one ?

Ok I just happen to be a NORWEGIAN and I am not a backstabber and not an oily fish eater ( little bit of a lie ) ! This is really good actually because I am a mixed up American with French, Norwegian, Scottish and English ancestry.

Now that I did not know! I won't look at the Norwegians the same again.

Dont look at me, i’m Swedish. 🤣

No way I way born in Montpellier but moved to girvan in Ayrshire when I was 12 that's crazy.

What flavor cheesecake?🤔

£7 a pint charging 😂😂😂🤣🤣

Im curious to your thoughts regarding one subject? Do you think France did not hold up their end of the bargain in supplying aid and troops in the third jacobite rising? Thanks

Mind-blowing! That Maid of Norway has a lot to answer for. And @ £12 a pint her descendants are maybe getting there money back.

Is this where the Oliphants, Scrimgeour and Farquharsons are from?

guess i should keep it to myself whenever i visit scotland that im Norwegian then xD