I think high quality movies about British figures and legends: Glyndwr, Madog, Y Mabinogi, Gwenllian, Llywelyn, etc, etc (in their native tongue) is something that the British languages desperately need. If Hollywood and other studios can make them in languages such as Nahuatl, they can make them in Welsh, Breton and Cornish with subtitles.

Got a new appreciation for David Lloyd George. Also a new understanding of the language of WWII speeches.

Welsh, and proud to be Welsh. There is no hate against each other in 2023 but we remain two nations, Wales and England.

Important to point out that most scholars consider Gildas (who was certainly very critical of the British) to have been British himself, albeit a highly educated one who wrote in Latin. Bede refers to him as "their [the Briton's] historian".

If the Scott’s also spoke Cymraeg then the case for Y Brythoniaid ’ would be a lot more clear cut. The Picts and the Alt Clud Britons spoke a form of Cymraeg but few Scottish people seem to be aware of this connection between the peoples? When you understand that Gallic is not a native Scottish language and that Strathclyde and Cumbria. would have identified as ‘Brythoniaid natives and sung ‘pais Cadogan’ to their offspring then you FINALLY make that Brythonic connection to your illustrious ancient past. A past that’s been spat on and belittled ,but nevertheless Cymraeg the only vehicle/ gateway we have to understanding what it means to be truly’ British’ O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau’ 🙏👍

Enjoyed this history! Thanks!

An an Australian, born of Welsh parents, I believe that the Welsh should insist on the removal of an English Prince of Wales .Its a 'suck-you-in' job.

Even with our own Welsh parliament these truths are *still* not taught to Welsh children in schools.

Great vid as usual Ben! I watched a video the other day that said some interesting things about the picts speaking a brythonic language. Could be an interesting video to do looking at how the various historic Scottish people’s fit into this idea of ‘Britishness’. Diolch! :)

Thank you Ben, another very informative video :)

Good video. I’m English, from the north east so can’t get any further away from Wales really. 😂 I’ve been drawn to this particular period after reading Max Adams’ book about the Anglo-Saxons. Our countries have a very complex history and relationship indeed.

Wonderful! Just discovered you and think you're great! 🥰 Diolch!

Diolch yn fawr iawn am y fideo hon. Diddorol dros ben.

Excellent video. I did not know about Gildas.

Arthur was not made up of several warlords. He was King of Gwent and was named as such in the Charters of Llandaff Cathedral due to his land grants to the Church in south Wales. He is also called Arthrwys, the Welsh version, in those same charters. His father was King Meurig of Gwent, whose tomb is in Llandaff Cathedral. His grandfather, Tewdrig, was also King of Gwent and is buried at Mathern Church. Even the Bruts of ENGLAND in the Bodlian Library, Oxford, state plainly that Arthur was crowned king in Glamorgan ( which then included parts of Gwent.) it is puzzling that so many still view Arthur as a myth. It is probably down to the way he has been presented in popular culture over the past century.

Nice to see this video as Britain was the land of the Celts. The English are invaders and not native of Britain. They are hybrids of Romans, Vikings, Germans, French and Dutch.

Very clear discussion. Thank you.

Very good video

Sorry, I deleted my comment before I saw your reply (because my comment doesn't really add much once I saw the video). My comment was basically English = Anglo + German + Latin and the Brittish adopted it. You replied that there is a lot of Latin in English. Your video was much more than language so I deleted my comment. I really like the video and understanding the larger evolution of the idea - people being Brittish or being English.

Don't think demons speak yr iaith y nefoedd - but pretty sure Dragons do. Which would be why most of them withdrew from English territories and hid themselves in the hills and mountains of Wales.

Would I be correct to infer from your accent that you are from the US or Canada? I do note that your pronunciation of r and ll show Welsh influence.

I want to rebuild or learn about more British Traditions/culture because It is very important to me.

The Act of the English Parliament that legislated for the Bible to be translated into Welsh states that "The Scriptures to be translated into the *British* tongue." i.e in the 16th century the words British and Welsh were interchangeable for English people. The English called their kingdom England. It was only afterwards the English hijacked the term 'British' and altered its meaning to describe the expanding English empire (e.g. when Scotland and Ireland were finally subjugated).

The language used toward the the early welsh by the Saxons sounds very similar to what the English said about the Irish in later centuries a scar that the descendants of Eirinn still have not fully recovered from.

Outstanding.👍👍

The Aristocrat lines Are Mainly Englo saxon ....

As an Englishman it is regretful that more English don't yn dysgu Cymraeg, iaith cyfoethog, diddorol a hyfryd, but it's a trait that seems to go back a long way in English culture. And whilst English has absorbed thousands of words from other languages, it is still a bit of a mystery why English contains not enough words from Welsh/Brythonic to fill an A5 sheet of notepaper. That suggests a longstanding and conscious antipathy to British languages and culture in English society, even if some have argued, not wholly convincingly that English contains evidence of a Brythonic (grammatical) substrate influence.

you are very good brilliant

Language is still delicate subject in Nortern Ireland, based on sectarian lines. Quite recently a Unionist politician caused a stir when he refered to the Irish language as the "Leprechaun language"!

Celtic was all over Britian before wall.👌

Tell me why the Welsh use the German three feathers and the German moto ich Dean (we serve)

At 17:38 you said, "So the English adopting "British" caused Welsh and Scottish nationalism" to rise. I think you meant to say "... caused Irish and Scottish nationalism to rise." Am I right? Did you perhaps mean all 3 of them - Welsh, Irish, and Scottish?

Dw i’n hanner Cymraes a Balch ❤

There s 4 country's the only original country that's English is England the other 3 used there own speech .But the English made all country's in the empire learn English this is why

I thought that even the ancient Celtic languages were related to Latin anyway, both being 'southern indo european'? i.e sister languages.

“England expects . . . “ (Nelson in 1805) Yes it was England and certainly it was not Britain.

So i took a DNA test, and it said i am 85% English, Wales, and Northwestern Europe/ 12% Irish % Scottish, and 3% Swedish. So....if im 85% Britton celtic...does that mean that im actually part italian since the romans came and conquered it, making the English? Im so confused, but im so curious about my ancestry, so im trying to do more research. But it's all so confusing with who conquered whom, and what became mainstream, yada yada. It's very difficult for me to keep track....😭

It's the other way around the world speaks English what's Speaking British theres no such thing . English / England . ThIs not British

The Welsh tought English people how to read

fer play di iawn

the real Brits speak a Brythonic language. The English are mostly Anglo Saxon and Norse. Not real Britons but only Brit-"ish".

Me, I consider myself to be British first and English second.

Most welsh people dont speak it either

Imo there is no such thing as a British language. To be British all you need to be is a citizen of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England. It’s not an ethnicity. Someone from India or China can be British and speak Chinese or their own language. English is what it says on the tin but it’s not the same as spoken by the Anglo Saxons but has evolved and changed over time due to various influences. Welsh has evolved too and includes English words as well as other influences. There is no such thing as a British language as different parts of Britain speak different languages depending on influences in history. The reason the English language is the main language is because England dominated in history. A bit like America speaks English ( American ) but you have many languages in America and lots of peoples speak Spanish and just the native Americans have 500 different languages or dialects. There isn’t an “American “ language either, just the one that is dominant. The reason I suspect the rulers in England tried to get rid of it is because people have this drive to make everyone the same. Instead of embracing diversity. Plus it makes it much easier for the rulers to administrate and communicate. It’s a terrible idea to strip a nation of its identity and the modern day has seen many examples of this…… like removing indigenous and aboriginal children from their families and fostering them out to adopted parents so they are brought up losing their culture. That’s happened in America, Canada and Australia. It’s all about making people the same and originally the thinkers on it thought they were bring civilisation to someone. Some awful things get done to people for supposedly their own good. It’s because diversity is often seen as a bad thing. I think it was the same with the different groups in the uk. We supposedly like people who are like us. Even being left handed can be a reason to punish. Even I can remember at school kids who were being forced to use their right hand to write instead of their left hand with the excuse it was better for them in the end and it was a right hand dominated society. It’s the same with Welsh. Everyone had to conform and speak English because those people not so long ago thought it was better for the Welsh in the long run. Like with the adoptions elsewhere I think they were wrong. I actually like diversity and think it’s ok to be different. We live in the 21st century now. We don’t need all these old propagandas and stuff from the past. They ( rulers) were ALL of them pretty horrible regardless of their nationality. I’ve looked. I’m so glad I was born in the 21st century. Your average man on the street everywhere was treated pretty badly. Some more than others. Hopefully we now live in a world where diversity can be embraced and we can move forward so people can choose if they want to live in a union. The only thing is Ben the USA is also a Union and I’m sure that wouldn’t break up without a struggle as we are all ruled up to a point. Just a little point. I am NOT an Anglo-Saxon/Norman or a Roman I’m English which is a mix of many things. Including Welsh Scottish Norwegian German French and i am none of those things. I’m a 21st century woman who is glad she wasn’t born way back, when life revolved around gentry of some sort. I don’t relate to some attitudes in Victorian Britain let alone the behaviour of the ruling classes a lot longer ago. I think we need to move forward respecting diversity and that a union of Great Britain now needs to be a consensual thing where a clear majority has to show they don’t want it, if that is the case. Clear majority as it’s a big step. All this talk of hating the English is doing no good at all. It makes people feel insecure and threatened and afraid of change. It’s ok to be different, old hatred need to be put away. Hatred of a group of people ( English) is not a good identity and it holds back open and frank discussion. The English now are not Anglo Saxons. The Anglo Saxons and their culture are now largely dead. Just like the Romans.

Do you have any evidence that a Brythonic tongue was spoken along the east coast of Britain at the time of the Roman invasion? I know that Caesar himself said that the continental Gauls were separated into Gallic and Belgic Gallic, the Belgic Gallic were essentially Germanic. Tacitus even says, on his travels, that residents of modern Estonia sound like Britons. If we look at DNA evidence of the east coast of the British isles we will find that they are not that different to the west coast. What we have is an island that faced in two directions, one facing towards the south and the other facing toward the north. The English are simply Britons who were a part of a North sea culture, and had been for centuries before the Roman invasion. There was no Anglo-Saxon invasion, the wars of the 'settlement period' were various petty kingships jostling for power once the Roman authorities left.

Get your facts straight. There were no English. They were still Angles & Saxons. There would be no such thing as an Englishman or England until King Athelstan (House of Wessex) crushed the Irish/Nordic, Pictish, and Welsh armies at the battle of Brunburgh in 937AD.

Scottish never British.

Simples. We English were around way before the British even crawled on our rock.