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Cambrian Chronicles
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Cambrian Chronicles is the number one Welsh and Brythonic history UA-cam channel 🏴
I make animated videos covering all aspects of the history of Wales and the Britons, from ancient Celtic Britain to the Roman conquest, from the medieval Welsh kingdoms to the modern country of Wales.
I aim to provide entertaining, informative and, most importantly, factual videos on a topic that rarely gets covered, with high quality, accessible sources in order to increase the wealth of knowledge about my home country.
Email is for business enquires only. If you have a question, feel free to leave a comment, diolch.
I make animated videos covering all aspects of the history of Wales and the Britons, from ancient Celtic Britain to the Roman conquest, from the medieval Welsh kingdoms to the modern country of Wales.
I aim to provide entertaining, informative and, most importantly, factual videos on a topic that rarely gets covered, with high quality, accessible sources in order to increase the wealth of knowledge about my home country.
Email is for business enquires only. If you have a question, feel free to leave a comment, diolch.
The Man who Tried to Fight a Shark with a Sword
This is a story about dogs... "sea-dogs" to be exact.
This is also a story about bravery, courage, and laying your life down to protect someone else.
This is one of the most dramatic, and tragic stories ever lost to Welsh history. This is the story of Griffith Owen, or how a man from Wales tried to fight a shark with a sword.
Chapters:
0:00 - Griffith Owen
1:42 - Sea-Dogs
4:08 - Shark vs Sword
6:35 - Diwedd
Sources:
Original story:
Tywi, M.G. (1842). Cariad Mabaidd. Yr Iforydd, 2(13), pp.14-15.
journals.library.wales/view/2205484/2205932/13
Mentions of previous shark encounters in Wales:
www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1580436
www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1562561
R.G. Williams's autobiography:
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Thrilling_Experience_of_the_Welsh_Evange/4AoFAAAAYAAJ
On sharks:
Florida Museum (2018). Species Implicated in Attacks, 1580-Present. Florida Museum. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/factors/species-implicated/.
Neff, C. and Hueter, R. (2013). Science, policy, and the public discourse of shark ‘attack’: a proposal for reclassifying human-shark interactions. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 3(1), pp.65-73. doi.org/10.1007/s13412-013-0107-2.
NOAA (2013). Do sharks eat people? Noaa.gov. oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sharkseat.html.
Y. Hara et al. (2018). Shark genomes provide insights into elasmobranch evolution and the origin of vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(11), pp.1761-1771. doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0673-5.
Humans:
Wood, J.N., Glynn, D.D. and Hauser, M.D. (2007). The uniquely human capacity to throw evolved from a non-throwing primate: an evolutionary dissociation between action and perception. Biology Letters, 3(4), pp.360-365. doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0107.
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Music courtesy of the UA-cam Audio Library:
Crimson - Sextile
Gas Giant - I Think I Can Help You
Germ Warfare - Jeremy Korpas
Deep Space by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: audionautix.com/
Wolf Mother - Loopop
Beginnings (Intro) - The Tower of Light
Torture - Coyote Hearing
Fortress Europe - Dan Bodan
Underwater Exploration - Godmode
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Images of, and from:
'Surfacing Great White Shark' - Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
All other images are public domain, via the British Library, The National Library of Wales, the Yale Center for British Art, the New York Public Library, and the Rijksmuseum
This is also a story about bravery, courage, and laying your life down to protect someone else.
This is one of the most dramatic, and tragic stories ever lost to Welsh history. This is the story of Griffith Owen, or how a man from Wales tried to fight a shark with a sword.
Chapters:
0:00 - Griffith Owen
1:42 - Sea-Dogs
4:08 - Shark vs Sword
6:35 - Diwedd
Sources:
Original story:
Tywi, M.G. (1842). Cariad Mabaidd. Yr Iforydd, 2(13), pp.14-15.
journals.library.wales/view/2205484/2205932/13
Mentions of previous shark encounters in Wales:
www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1580436
www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1562561
R.G. Williams's autobiography:
www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Thrilling_Experience_of_the_Welsh_Evange/4AoFAAAAYAAJ
On sharks:
Florida Museum (2018). Species Implicated in Attacks, 1580-Present. Florida Museum. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/factors/species-implicated/.
Neff, C. and Hueter, R. (2013). Science, policy, and the public discourse of shark ‘attack’: a proposal for reclassifying human-shark interactions. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 3(1), pp.65-73. doi.org/10.1007/s13412-013-0107-2.
NOAA (2013). Do sharks eat people? Noaa.gov. oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sharkseat.html.
Y. Hara et al. (2018). Shark genomes provide insights into elasmobranch evolution and the origin of vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(11), pp.1761-1771. doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0673-5.
Humans:
Wood, J.N., Glynn, D.D. and Hauser, M.D. (2007). The uniquely human capacity to throw evolved from a non-throwing primate: an evolutionary dissociation between action and perception. Biology Letters, 3(4), pp.360-365. doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0107.
----------
Music courtesy of the UA-cam Audio Library:
Crimson - Sextile
Gas Giant - I Think I Can Help You
Germ Warfare - Jeremy Korpas
Deep Space by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: audionautix.com/
Wolf Mother - Loopop
Beginnings (Intro) - The Tower of Light
Torture - Coyote Hearing
Fortress Europe - Dan Bodan
Underwater Exploration - Godmode
----------
Images of, and from:
'Surfacing Great White Shark' - Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
All other images are public domain, via the British Library, The National Library of Wales, the Yale Center for British Art, the New York Public Library, and the Rijksmuseum
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I think it means "old fashioned something" but thats just to watching the video
My Mum in Northamptonshire always used the word 'staise' for what is nnormally called a girdle. Staise I found out was a Celtic word. Also the area of Northamptonshire we live encompassing Rushden, Raunds, Stanwick Irthlingborough was said to have its own unique dialect as compared to the rest of Northamptonshire. Sadly dialects are dying out now and the old shent(shall not) cent(cannot) and ent(ain't) is fast vanishing.
We’re all Celtic so it’s no shock. And st Patrick was Welsh so we’re all friends till the 6nations 😂😂
This feels like a title given based on one's character, mainly their ideals, specifically those that were considered to have a way of thinking or manner of upholding themselves that was reminisance of an earlier time. Perhaps they valued traditions of the past. It would explain why anyone of any rank could have this title and why the older generation would have it more so than the younger, as their children likely were embracing new ideas of a new world rather than being "country like" and sticking to the traditions of the past. It may also explain why some could lose or gain the title at different point in their lives when their ideals either came in line with this way of thinking or shifted away from it. It could also apply to others, such as outsiders or people from another country that may display similar ideals and virtues that are in line with what people considered to be "country like".
Man still is leggo
One of my good friends is Welsh. And I hate him for it hahahaha
Definitely not a tiger…. They like warm water.. describing the shark as breaching it was more likely a white
That must be where my keys are.
Imagine if gwledig meant something like an alcoholic, glutton or maybe womanizer.
Thank you very much for this very interesting video about this topic !!!
it feels like a title only given posthumous... something like an honored ancestor bound to the land 🤔
Sounds like they were calling them hillbillies to me
I might be crazy but prehaps it means a rural lord like a "king of the county"
This reminds me of that one greentext that's like >"heavy objects fall faster than light ones" >no one bothers to check if this is true for 2000 years
GRIFFITH!!
I knew a lad named Dafydd at secondary school I heard he suicided himself after his girlfriend was with another lad really a shame bless him
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Could it mean country-like in the sense that they were so influential that the country became like *them*? That's a mark of greatness, but not one limited to the violent (hence the courtiers getting it), and it's inherently got a time lag to it, hence the age correlation. It's also one that you wouldn't expect to be applied to every person in some category, even ones who'd be "the great" in other epithet systems, so the missing ones seem more explainable than with most of those other theories. (This is a total shot in the dark, but it's fun to speculate.)
Has anyone bothered to look at navigation charts? One could surmise based on an underwater topographic map where you might find a high spot with a rubble pile on top of it
Porbeagle Shark
The giant?
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nice vid
wow, nice vid, (cause searching for all this and explaining it is cool)
I edited a wiki page once. Was ban from editing. Apparently someone thinks they know more because they read a book somewhere.. I live in the Ozarks. My family has been here eight generations. 😂
That was very interesting!
Best story telling and delivery on UA-cam. Thank you
"Im from the uk so I must Infest the shores of Spain" 😂 too true! At least youre learning the language with the locals will absolutely appreciate.
Ok so I very recently stared watching your channel and I would like to thank you for a someone odd reason : Lately, I've been watching alot of mystery youtube, primarly intrested in old internet history, ARGs, lost media etc. but, alot of the channels that discuss such topics also talk about true crime, which is a genre that can be fine, or even great, but that can also be voyeuristic, exploitative and, at least in my case, addictive. I found myself binge watching a type of content I don't like, and that has a bad influence over my sens of safety and trust, just because of a morbid curiosity mixed with the feeling that I already came across all the mysteries the net can provide (which is of course wrong, but that's the feeling I sometimes have). So, the fact you're videos are presented as mysteries that have to be solved, and that it uses the same kind of editing, the same type of voice over, and even the same music as alot of mystery youtube videos has effectivly tricked my brain into thinking I'm watching true crime, when in fact it's videos about medieval Wales!
10:32 this makes me wonder if it’s an epithet more in the category of a personality trait
I wonder if it was an earned title. Like maybe you got it when you fought off a wolf or something. That’s why some warriors and not others had it. And more older generations might have it because there were more wolves to fight off than the next generation.
What would you do if you could go back in time, and return, once? Boys: "I'd go when and where this word that's lost to translation and stuck in my head is in common use."
Those huge Stonehenge Boulders were on this earth before human form.
Wait a minute did I hear correctly? The Irish displaced the Celts to the south? Since when are Irish not Celtic?
What about the Vicious Chicken of Bristol and the Killer Rabbit of Caer Bannog?
I'm just catching up on your content after being offline for a while (again!). This is another brilliant video and I thank you so much for it, especially the help it has been in my own research and analysis of sources. When I finally found out what and 'influencer' was, I couldn't believe that people watch such channels obsessively - but, each to their own. You are my kind of influencer - someone who shows how fascinating, and revealing about both past and present, thorough research can be can be. Propaganda and 'fake news' didn't begin in the twenty-first century, nor did the art of poor referencing and 'circular citation' begin with Wikipedia (who I think are much-maligned in this regard and not as bad as the popular media portrays). On a side note, I have a ceramic red dragon here that belonged to my Welsh mother and was always moved to sit on top of the television when Wales played rugby. I'm very relieved I didn't name him Cadwaladr trying to be smart or I would feel like I'd had an intellectual telling off just now!
Shark 100 points. Wales, 0 points.
I'm getting -the elder vibes. A marker for respected & accomplished men, typically warriors, especially if their primary name is shared, or common.
For years Wikipedia had an "Austro-Hungarian flag" based on the civil ensign that was erroneously listed as the flag of the whole empire when in reality Austria and Hungary had separate flags.
I think and I'm just guessing here It could mean an older noble with a fatherly demeanor and when given to someone younger it's like calling them an old soul in a good way 2nd idea it's kinda like calling someone a patriot and is a noble and they are big/strong but I think this is less likely
Amanda Suggs
Could it be more of a descriptive term referring to traditional or orthodox ruler?
I interpret this more as someone who was loved by the land. Everyone deserves to be loved not everyone deserves to be hated but when you accomplish certain feats the people around you take notice and a title is the easiest way to remember, yeah two people can have the same job but the tasks will never be completed the same. “Country, Like” could really be “Liked by the Country” (could be a stretch but we don’t know what it meant then just what it does now) Also it would be horrid to tell your “Ruler” you think or don’t think their service was good, which is probably why many of the titles were bestowed later than sooner, sort of as a Momentos. All a theory but it makes the most sense to me 😂
As I said in a previous video, I lived in Aberystwyth for three years, and WHY NOBODY EVER TOLD ME OF THIS MADLAD? (great video, as always!)
So Mancetter might have been the meeting place possibly of the Corieltauvi and the Cornovii but the Dobunni were too far south? Always wondered if they might have moved north into Warwickshire but perhaps too densely wooded at the time Thanks again- I’ll check out your reading list
Thanks
Great video on the northern Celtic tribes and wonderful resource - I’m on the committee for the Roman Mancetter Heritage Centre trying to build a case for this site as a possible battlefield for Boudica so thanks for your insight Best wishes and thanks Mick
Could it be the opposite of other rulers who were, or became seen for their intellect or sophistication? It was applied to the lords, kings, warriors in history and myths because they were different in that they were more country-like? That is, country bumpkins, a quality that their descendants weren’t because the descendants were raised in courts or manors and therefore exposed to wider learning and became more worldly. Also, veldig in Norwegian, means very. I know the part of the Welsh word here (wledig) is spelt differently, but could it have a similar root and mean ‘very country’? As in very country like, to fit with my spitballing/complete guess above?
Love the graphics and audio!