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Sep 12, 2026
Christine RutgerNARRATOR
One characteristic of the Celtic folktale I have endeavored to represent in my selection, because it is nearly unique at the present day in Europe.
Christine RutgerNARRATOR
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
Christine RutgerNARRATOR
Only the byline or hero songs of Russia equal in extent the amount of knowledge about the heroes of the past that still exists among the Gaelic-speaking peasantry of Scotland and Ireland.
Christine RutgerNARRATOR
And the Irish tales and ballads have this peculiarity that some of them have been extant and can be traced for well-nigh a thousand years.
Dion FanningHOST
Joe.
Dion FanningHOST
See, the Gaels are dividing amongst themselves.
Joe BrollyHOST
What has happened?
Dion FanningHOST
I hate to see it.
Bobbo The BardHOST
Now, no, there's mortals around, obviously, before the Iron Age, but it seems like that's kind of when the magical beings went away, when the Iron Age came along, and that's where the stories all come from, but...
Bobbo The BardHOST
It seems like there was a lot more dryacht on the land before the Iron Age and that's, you know, the introduction of the Celts and the Gaels coming to Ireland and bringing the iron.
Bobbo The BardHOST
It seemed to have, yeah, dampened the dryacht and Nadine Shee at that point went back into the land.
Bobbo The BardHOST
So here is my own new, not really a new conspiracy, I think people know about this as well, but what I've discovered is...
Pete LutzNARRATOR
One characteristic of the Celtic folklore I have endeavoured to represent in my selection, because it is nearly unique at the present day in Europe.
Pete LutzNARRATOR
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
Pete LutzNARRATOR
Only the byline, or hero songs of Russia, equal in extent the amount of knowledge about the heroes of the past that still exists among the Gaelic-speaking peasantry of Scotland and Ireland.
Pete LutzNARRATOR
And the Irish tales and ballads have this peculiarity, that some of them have been extant, and can be traced, for well-nigh a thousand years.
speaker_11NARRATOR
I shall content myself with the following short quotation from Professor Cuno Mayer.
speaker_11NARRATOR
The truth was that all the various settlements of Gaels and Wales, as elsewhere in Britain, took place in the third and fourth centuries of the Christian era from Ireland.
speaker_11NARRATOR
they were the result of those very raids and conquests of which the roman historians of that age had so much to tell them when the scots or irish and picts descended upon the coast of britain he believed no gale ever set foot on british soil save from a vessel that had put out from ireland and that the gale arrived in ireland not via britain but from the continent probably from gaul the previous inhabitants were subjugated by the gales and made to speak the language of the conqueror on which it might be supposed that they left the impression of their own speech there is not a shadow of a doubt in regard to the derivation of the welsh bardic system from ireland no serious historian now dreams of claiming a pre patrician origin for the welsh their whole system was modelled on that of the irish and as we have said similarly with the music system which however was not developed for several hundred years later for long the eisteddfod was regarded as a purely welsh institution going back into the mists of antiquity recent research is conclusive as pointing to the face of tara as the real origin of the eisteddfod we have seen that the face of tara was celebrated triennially by the head kings of ireland even before the christian era and that the last great assembly held in tara's halls took place in a d five sixty welsh critical writers cannot assign an earlier date for an eisteddfod than the middle of the seventh century or eighty six fifty nearly a hundred years after the last face of tara these triennial assemblies were held variously at aberfraw at dinevor and at mathranael merionethshire St Brecon, an Irish chieftain, gave his name to Brecnachshire, and founded close on sixty oratories or churches in Wales.
speaker_11NARRATOR
His son, St. Knog, founded the parish of Mertherknog, whilst his daughter, St. Cana, or Cain Widdiff, gave her name to the parish of Cainsham, Somerset, and Slangovan, near Abergavenny.
Brian O'ReillyHOST
And that makes sense because Ireland effectively has a shorter history than a place like Greece.
Brian O'ReillyHOST
The Gaels in Ireland have been around for less time or have been in Ireland for less time than the Hellenes in Greece.
Brian O'ReillyHOST
So, Jim not only has this direct reference, Maeve, the queen in Irish mythology, versus Maeve, the character in our story, it's actually a double reference.
Brian O'ReillyHOST
Because Mab is a name that first appears in Shakespeare, but some scholars think that when Shakespeare takes that name from somewhere, because Shakespeare steals everything, like every good artist.
Stevie Joy MossGUEST
Yeah, my people are...
Stevie Joy MossGUEST
My people are Gaels.
Stevie Joy MossGUEST
My people are Southerners in and around Appalachia.
Stevie Joy MossGUEST
My people are descendants of the California Mission System.
Roddy MacleanGUEST
And that's become modern Argyll in English.
Roddy MacleanGUEST
And so that was settled by Gaels very early.
Roddy MacleanGUEST
And people have argued about, you know, at what point did it come into Scotland?
Michael RosenHOST
So we could conjure up a picture of, say, about 2,000 years ago.
10 MINS LATER
Michael RosenHOST
I wonder if you can tell us a bit more about this, because I know this really, really matters to you.
Michael RosenHOST
So when you see the landscape of the highlands and the islands and the words, I'm guessing now, the Gaelic words come to you to describe this landscape, yes? Yes.
Roddy MacleanGUEST
Yes, I remember actually speaking to an Englishman a few years ago and he said, you know, I really envy you people, the Gaels and the Icelanders.
Roddy MacleanGUEST
And I said, well, why is that? And he said, it's because the language you speak in your home is the same language that's on the landscape outside your house.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Ga- [sighs] the Gaia-
John FieldhouseGUEST
Gaels is how it's pronounced.
John FieldhouseGUEST
I don't know if these-
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Yeah
John FieldhouseGUEST
... are the same Gaels from Ireland and, uh, Scotland.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
That's what I was wondering.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Gaels launched numerous attacks on the Hellenistic kingdoms in the Balkans and Asia Minor in the third and second centuries BC, although they were ultimately repulsed.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And in f- '58 BC, as Caesar tells us, the Helvetii wished to migrate from their homeland in southern Germany to southeastern Gaul and asked him, the newly established proconsul of, of Gaul, for permissions across Roman-occupied territory on the way.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
That's what I was wondering.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Gaels launched numerous attacks on the Hellenistic kingdoms in the Balkans and Asia Minor in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, although they were ultimately repulsed.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And in 58 BC, as Caesar tells us, the Helvetii wished to migrate from their homeland in southern Germany to southeastern Gaul.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
and asked him, the newly established proconsul of Gaul, for permissions across Roman occupied territory on the way.
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