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The Anglo-Saxon pagan equivalent of Christmas eve was called Mōdraniht "Mother's Night", and was held for goddesses called the Matres / Matronae. It was related to the Norse festival of Dísablót. It always took place during the two months of Yule.

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President Donald Trump descends from several Celtic and Germanic tribes from Germany, Britain and Scandinavia. In this video I describe the sources of his ancestry; the Gaels, Vikings Suebi and other warrior peoples who made him a fighter.

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Tour of the Hebrides https://youtu.be/bhPPG5pM4oM
Anglo-Saxon origin of King Charles III https://youtu.be/TDcupqtEgA4

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'Edited with WS'

Sources:
McColl et al ‘Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages’ 2024
Gretzinger et al 'The Anglo-Saxon migration and the
formation of the early English gene pool' 2022
Martin Martin A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (1703)

00:00 Intro
02:54 German ancestry
08:09 Scottish ancestry
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Nordic gods; Thor, Vidar, Heimdall and Loki carved on the Gosforth high cross in Cumbria, UK. Robert Molyneaux animated the mythic scenes with CGI for my documentary about medieval art in Britain.

CGI animation by Robert Molyneaux

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The South Zeal Menhir is a 5000 year old Neolithic menhir which is inside a pub called the Oxenham Arms which was built around it in medieval times!

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Music: Aaron Kenny
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Saint Brannock of Braunton was a Welsh Saint who travelled to Devon to convert the last Celtic pagans of England. He ran into some problems though!

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The church at Avaldsnes in Norway was established in the Viking age right next to an ancient pagan standing stone. Local folklore now holds that Saint Olaf turned a barrow troll to stone and if it touches the church, the world will end!

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The five bad virgins are a group of 4th century pagan standing stones grouped around a small burial mound beside the Karmøy bridge near Haugesund in Norway. They have some interesting folklore attached to them!

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Gaelic monks on the island of Iona in Scotland sent missions to convert the Scots and the English pagans. But then the monks were killed by Viking pagans.

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3D forensic reconstruction of a Yamnaya male. People of the Yamnaya culture are believed to have had mostly brown eye colour, light to intermediate skin, and brown hair colour, with some variation.

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The grand broken menhir of Locmariaquer in France is a 300 ton standing stone about 2800 years older than the oldest Egyptian obelisk and weighs more than twice as much as it too!

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