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Rewatching all this content. So great

A historian by the name of Alan Jones after a 25 year study into the Arthurian legend pinpointed two king Arthurs both kings of the same bloodline in South Wales, one of which fought the Romans the other one fought the Saxons this would explain why King Arthur was said to have done so but couldn’t of because of the 200 year gap. British history is very Anglo centric so you have to take everything with a pinch of salt.

Thank you. Interesting topic.

The ring is from a sword: so-called ring swords had a loop at the pommel, to which a ring was attached. It's an ancient German, pagan practice.

Great videos thank you

thankyou. very well done . From an Anglo-Phile

Interesting that this is a lecture from a Turkish University

Beauty. Thank you very much.

One place to look for Arthur is Dyfed. In the genealogies, there is a character called Dyfenwallon, whose father was Arten ap Sysell. His great granddaughter married into the line of Gwynedd - marrying Rohdi.

The Chants at the start, what is it called?.

Many don't notice it, but Gildas probably mentioned Arthur. And the two hints to it are explained in the video without taking them together: 'Arth' means 'bear' and Aurelius Caninus held the 'Bears' Stronghold'.

37:27 The accounts of the battle of Hastings by Gaimar and Wace describe Alan Rufus’s prowess in nearly Arthurian terms. The Bayeux Tapestry depicts Alan Rufus and his Breton cavalry overrunning the forces of Earls Leofwine and Gyrth. Stephen Morillo considered that the death of the Earls was the turning-point of the battle, after which Harold lacked an intact chain of command and therefore was confined to a defensive position.

King Arthur was Welsh. He was the King of Glamorgan and Gwent. Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett documented and wrote many books on this subject. Artorius Rex is an informative book for anyone looking for history on King Arthur 🤴 🗡

Great lecture - shame there was no time to cover the Cornish

Thank you

Am I right in thinking that a hoard is different to grave goods and that the former is a deliberate placing or storing of goods, rather than being buried as a funerary ritual.

Is there any video from him about the other side? The welsh brythonic kingdoms?

When Elvis surrendered he said, "Have Mercia!"

Dumnonia, Bill Bailey's dog on a string mob have got a lot to live down with that one. Proper job!

Given that it's off of what looks like the type of stuff you'd loot from a battlefield, is it possible that it was battle loot that a victorious army planned to grab on the way back... and didn't make it?

An Arthur is also mentioned in 'the Gododdtn' poem probably 6th/7th century

Great Lecture!! PS.LEEDZ FOOTBALL RULES SIR!!

7:39, Offa’s Dike, not a comment to a person’s sexuality. Hahaha thanks for the clarification.

How on Earth did you come across this lecture?!

Staffordshire hoard was collected from the dead on a battle field. Early Saxon one edged swords and British double edged swords. British force was commonly followed by a bishop or two. Note pagan damage to the cross. Dated mid sixth century.

Arthur legendary???? You mean the Holy hand grenade of Antioch may lack historicity??? HERESY!

They were Norse followers. The hoard has a very specific function after death. Everything you hoard will be available to you in the afterlife. People forget the angli saxons were pagan Norse followers almost identical to viking beliefs. Woden=Oden ect. They buried all that stuff to have it In the great hall of Valhalla. Though in not sure it the pagan Anglo-saxons called it that but it had the same function

Is witten in greek periods

The name 'Damnonia' could refer to ancestry from Strathclyde (Alt Clut) which are in the region of the tribe labelled as 'Damnonii' opposed to the 'Dumnonii' of modern Cornwall and Devon. It could link to the theory of the Gwyr a Gogledd 'Men of the North' coming down from above Hadrian's Wall to relieve the Welsh from the Irish raiders, and a Damnonian (Strathclydian) ancestor could potentially suit this, if it not the the theory Professor David suggests.

Atbret Judeu - a ransom paid by Oswy to Penda which was divided by Penda between the British Kings who went with him to the city of Judeu (St Davids ? A British Christian Church ? Wall by Lichfield ?) There was a battle during this event in which only the king of Gwynedd survived (Cadafael) by decamping in the middle of the night before the battle with his war band. The similar style throughout, of the garnet and gold cloisonee work, both arms and Christian crosses suggest the atbret was the military uniform of one kingdom, a Christian British kingdom, who perhaps wore scarlet cloaks and helmet crests, descended from a Roman military tradition such as was the family of Arthur and Aurelius Ambrosius.. The cloisonee technique with underlay of reflective foil was used by the Merovingians, Goths and Visigoths of central Europe in the 5th century. Prob not made in Britain.

So from there the prince of wales in viking

took me while too figure the young Turks are the students-interesting

People using overlays and whiteboards well into the 21st century!

Historians currently just don't want to believe Arthur existed 😆. There are literally sources, multiple sources, who Mention Him By Name. He existed.

Penda Is Very important Because he was the last pagen ruler bar Arwald !!!

ALAN WILSON is the BEST man with the TRUE version of BRITISH HISTORY , no doubt about it . ARTHUR 2nd was KING of GLAMORGAN and GWENT , a well known fact in WELSH books and WELSH history .

My take on the Staffordshire hoard is as speculative as any but does make sense I think. Its almost certainly battlefield booty. The craftsmanship is Anglian and contemporary to Sutton Hoo, so its about the same period. It would obviously be a Christian king hence the crosses, which were not treated with respect post mortem. One battle fits this period and the broader geographical location. This was Maserfelth. Oswald, the Christian King of Northumbria, was defeated and killed by Penda, the pagan King of Mercia and its identified as being at Oswestry. The hoard though, was discovered near Tamworth, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Mercia. I could say more but I think that's enough for people to consider.

Perhaps it was some kind of ransom horde?

I was instinctively going: "Please don't pick me!" when he went ini mini miny moe.

The cistercian monks moved to staffordshire in 1214. I wonder if that gold etc was buried by monks or by welsh who would raid in that area. My ancestry is thru hugh de Whelok during henry ll reign. What's now called Chester was whelock. That was right after william the conqueror. Anyway everything was under control of the Normans but they still were dealing with the welsh problem. Henry ll also had become ruler of ireland but I'm not sure about wales. In any event Chester was a crossroads between wales, ireland and anglo saxons. Staffordshire is bordered by 7 different counties so it's perfect for burying treasure from that era. Roads lead in every direction. I would guess that hoard has some connection with the french normans.

I think Bilkent University is in Kent, probably close to Portland Bill.

They mean the Kingdom of Wessex. Which was never part of Mercia, Mercia became part of Wessex after the Danish and Saxon wars

north umbria!

Arthur = Dux Bellorum = Lord of Battles

Kinda sounds like 'merica

Things were left underground as that is where our ancestors reside, so these items were given into the care of the ancestors.

Was King Aurthur a Roman/Briton? A count some kind Baron? …

TO THINK OF WHEN PPL HIDE THINGS... some inductive kind of kingdom shedding spoils to convince the inland ppl that he still is on as them

The gal anxious to answer, with The Same Answer as the previous student really bothered me. Professor was kind to let her keep talking. Honestly he had more patience than I did listening to her.

Is Penda a pendragon? The serpent and the dragon. Wonder if this evolves in to what would subdue "The land of the plumed serpent" moving the new world with european undesirables.

Art og young art

7:34 I lol'd

This was before the vikings

32:00 The medieval ‘King’ Arthur is a composite literary figure inspired by real-life military commanders from Riothamus, through Alan Rufus to Arthur de Richemont, all of whom were (really or allegedly) members of the same, very influential, family. How influential? Monarchs, aristocrats and certain public institutions that can trace their genealogy or history to that family use ermine in their ceremonial gowns and coats of arms in honour of it.

Uther and Arthur are Breton names attested in 9th century legal documents. Alan Rufus visited Monmouth around the time a fellow Breton founded the priory. Geoffrey of Monmouth based the names of King Arthur’s family on Alan Rufus’s: Uther Pendragon = Eudon Penteur, Igraine = Orguen, Hoel = Hoel, Guanhara (Guinevere) = Gunhildr of Wessex. Ambrosius Aurelianus’s alleged death by poisoning is like that of Alan’s paternal uncle Alan III, Duke of Brittany (and guardian of Duke William) when besieging the rebel Roger I of Montgomery. Pendragon? On the Bayeux Tapestry, a Breton ship is depicted with a dragon’s head on the prow and a gryphon’s on the stern. Below the prow are two white shields, representing the brothers Alan Rufus and Brian of Brittany.

The poets of the greeks

But..were there coconuts?

I always thought king Arthur was adapted from Alfred the great. Were these battles arranged in those days? Or did they all merely commence whenever the Anglo-Saxons encountered the Brits and vice versa?

Willian wallace was from there Wales

❤itranslated to ancient hebrew and its an eyeopener.especially who was here before.welsh is similar to hebrew.i got 'marching gents.' languages changed.

Taking and hiding hordes (valuables ) from one source to another and that someone dies and hen lost?…

Hey, hey you you get Offa my clow-yed

For thirty years I lived in between Caerleon & Abergavenny . When I discovered the Penguin classic ' Gerald of Wales ' , I realised as I sat reading it one day , that I was on the very road ( old Roman road from Caerleon to Abergavenny ) that I was reading about .

You have gold silver cooper poets and iron

i love history and comedy. And the noted distinction between Offa's dyke and someones sexuality delivered in full :D

Did King Offa make his gold dinar because he was influenced himself by Muslim religion, or were that coins only for diplomatic purposes or international commerce? They're very similar to Abbasid Caliphate's ones. Guess if they were internal currency in the Kingdom of Mercia.

Why would they NOT think of time capsules? Folks have been building monuments and reciting epics forever. Same impulse, no?

The Staffordshire Hoard does not bode well for eminent Anglo-Saxon Personages. It appears their favorite garnet inlaid sword fittings were ripped from their scabbards and thrown together by whom but the Vikings? For whatever reason, including perhaps that they had ruined the trade value of the goods by deforming them, they stashed their loot for later and then went away to die.

...an offering or tribute to a ruler... which didn't make it to it's destination.

Mitologia

Some heresies about Arthurian Legend for you. a. There is no mention of the Arthur story before Monmouth and Oxford in 1135. Gildas, Bede and others do not mention King Arthur, let alone the rest of the legend. b. The great hero of Arthurian Legend is Joseph(us) of Arimathaea, who is said to have been a knight working for Commander (Emperor) Vespasian. c. Several of the manuscripts (especially in the Vulgate Cycle), say that Arthurian Legend was written by Josephus Flavius in the 1st century. Troubling, eh? The answer to all this can be seen in that Arthurian Legend only appears with Monmouth and Oxford, after Crusaders and Templars arrived back in Europe from the Crusades. And note that the First Crusade went to Antioch-Edessa, Beyond the Euphrates, before it went to Jerusalem. What is the connection here? The Answer is that the Crusaders knew there were gospel secrets in Edessa, that had remained hidden behind the velvet veil of the Council of Chalcedon and the iron curtain of lslam, ever since the 5th and 8th centuries. That is why Eschenbach’s Parsival starts its Arthur story in Mesopotamia under King Barus (King Agbarus, the 1st century of Edessa). That is why High History says that Perceval was the nephew of the gospels’ Nicodemus. That is why Perceval’s father owned the donkey that had belonged to the gospel Nicodemus. All very troubling, eh? The answer is that Arthurian Legend is actually a secular gospel, about the historical Jesus as a real, secular, 1st century king of Edessa. But it was dressed up as a 5th or 6th century story of Britain, to evade Church censors (and Church funerary pyres). In reality the Galles (the Welsh) refers to the Eunuch Galli priests of Galilee and Syria. Which is why Jesus asked for his disciples to become eunuchs in Math 19:12. That is why Simon was called Peter-Kephas, the stone, because the Holy Grail of Arthurian legend was a sacred stone - the sacred omphalos-elagabal stone of the Galli priests of Syria. The stone that Scottish Templars claim they still possess x the Stone if Scone. There is much more to this story than meets the eye. See the book ‘The Grail Cypher’ Ralph Ellis

❤they didnt have banks.so hid underground.it happend all over unstable world at that time

TINTAGELL IS AN CORNISH SITE NOT ANGLO/ENGLISH OK!

They fought the vikings and franks

Ok, audience questions were a bad idea.

cu nedda nedda's hound

SACRIFICED.....TREASURE

The real King Arthurs, both of them are extremely well recorded. The reason so called experts can't find them is because they don't want to. Weird how people fall for Arthur being English, when he fought those that would become English. House of Bran are all too regularly avoided. People who know Welsh history know exactly why! Btw, Ogham is actually Coelbren. English person saying Welsh history is unreliable! Well, what a surprise! They place Arthur at Tintagel becuase Cornwall now belongs to England, which they feel gives them the right to pass Arthur off as English.

King Arthur was probably never a king. If he existed at all he was a sub Roman British warlord not Welsh but located in the west British lowlands and died long before what would be wales was separated by the Saxon conquest of Cirencester from dumnonia.so British not welsh as wales didn't exist anymore than england at this time and he was probably dead around 500AD about 70years before the battle of Cirencester 577AD. Early welsh tradition didn't seem to like him a lot and apparently the Church in wales didn't either as he's portrayed as hostile to the saints. Later welsh sources are very dubious . unless some new material appears ie in the archaeological record to support him we are on very shakey ground saying much more. I doubt the Welsh genealogies mean much. No where is he explicitly mentioned and similar even the same name without context mean nothing and the sources are both to late and suspect. I'm very dubious about all the king Arthur lived just down the road material which happens from Strathclyde to Yorkshire and Cornwall most of these arguments are driven by local romantics who believe studying very debased late sources validate their preconceptions of who they would like a possible Arthur to have been rather than who he was . we just don't know for sure. I like Arthur and he lived in my county is not a valid argument and thats about all we can really state for now.T

PENDA....STATUE AT LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL

A few tentative but disappointing steps forward into the contribution of Welsh history to our island story. As tax payers the Welsh nation deserves far better value than what the current historians seem able to achieve. The truth is they have barely tried at all. How can we hope to hold the nations of this island together unless we respect all our histories and blend them into our island story. This is not a trivial matter. Our rights and freedoms in law are ancient and stem from our common heritage. I do hope that over time real Welsh history will emerge to be taught again in Welsh schools at least. Heddwch. (btw.. Arthur was not killed at Camlan, he was badly wounded.)

TIN MINES

Maybe it was a case of "After we loot the Anglo-Saxons we all bring all our loot together and divide it equally." But Olaf thought he was a clever guy and buried most of his loot. His buddies thought he was cheating when he showed up with next to nothing. End of Olaf. :)

Ok. It looks like the failure of the British to build their population, develop economically, and organize effectively at the outset of the fifth century was decisive in their falling to the barbarians as did the Gauls, Spaniards, Italians, and North Africans.

MIRSNA ? Mir - Peace , Sna( from San)- Dream, also Mirsna as Smelling Good. I believe that Kelts are related to Slavic people.

gwyn nedda white Ned

Not even the frisians

That little lesbian joke would see him lynched these days 😂

They didnt fight the english they found out

MERCIA.....MERCHANTS..=...MERCURY...=...TUI...DEITY

It’s extraordinary to think that when humankind makes first contact with Extraterrestrials, the first thing we’d show them is a photo of Prince Charles.

Kin dominion ------> kingdom. Just tribal rulers. The was no Roman invasion, or Empire. Dr Anatoly Fomenko, "History: Fiction or Science?".

MIDDLE.....MERCHANT...ADMINISTRATION...!!

What does Anglo Saxon mean I mean your either English Anglo or your not are they immigrants because queen boudica the Celtic warrior was the original Briton

HOSPITALER

The students seem completely ignorant.

TINGTAGEL Is CORNISH NOT ANGLO/ENGLISH GET IT RIGHT Proff Please!!

The names of the kings of Mercia are transcribed in an illiterate manner e.g. OFFA : offer and what the speaker writes on his blackeboard is not leggible. So please control and correct the transcription of all proper names of our anglo saxon ancestors.

Love the topic but this guy has the charisma of a paper bag