I've always enjoyed the story of Thomas the Rhymer. Excellent telling of the tale Bruce.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
9 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
@JaneArtsyOtternutKirkwood
Жыл бұрын
Ta muckle Bruce, you kept me spellbound in the telling.
@frankhancock2881
10 ай бұрын
Bruce you can tell a story like no one else. Thank you
@superladyloraine
9 ай бұрын
Bruce, you are the best storyteller! So full of knowledge and our past ancestors! Happy 60th birthday, May this be your best year yet, until the next! 🎂🥳 🙏🏻♥️🕊️🌹📿✨✨👑👑🎶♾️☀️🏝️🌊🌙🗺️
@ScotlandHistoryTours
9 ай бұрын
Wow, thank you
@lisa-r4w
7 ай бұрын
Loved the story. Your voice and accent is mesmerizing. It's like the soul of Scotland 🏴 come to life. Makes me long for a place I've never been but always wanted to be. Happy 60th Birthday. 🎉 P.S. Don't ever lose your Scots language.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@jameshorne9351
9 ай бұрын
I loved it Bruce, as I always do. You Sir are one great tale teller. ❤️🏴
@MrStinkpot64
Жыл бұрын
The best coffee , a number on your best chair ......and listen.and the world's not such a bad place.....thank you so much sir❤
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
😘
@northernlight8857
Жыл бұрын
Awesome. I love folklore and mythology. Thank you for sharing.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@beachdog67
Жыл бұрын
Came for the history. Stayed for the magical storytelling. Well done, Bruce. Thank you.
@darkred83
Жыл бұрын
Tapadh leibh, a Bhruis! A delightful story and video.
@davidburton7466
Жыл бұрын
I have to admit Bruce your storytelling is unsurpassed i could listen to you all day
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Ah thanks
@happybee7725
Жыл бұрын
@davidburto7466 You can listen to him all day! He has a quite extensive back catalogue of videos. All o them are fantastic.
@davidburton7466
Жыл бұрын
@@happybee7725 think i have watched most of them🤣
@mejonesop
Жыл бұрын
I agree!
@SunnyCalifornia2023
Жыл бұрын
Hear hear!
@sharenerobertson5574
Жыл бұрын
Incredible whole video of the Scottish folklore and borders history... With absolutely no mention of the gypsy travaller community or their part in Scottish history!!
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
You're not serious are you?
@gerryphilly53
Жыл бұрын
The name Thomas the Rhymer was familiar to me. I only knew him as having been taken by the fairies, but nothing of the story. Thank you for masterfully filling that gap. I’m definitely going to learn more about him.
@sheronasims6783
Жыл бұрын
I read a Nigel Tranter book about him. True Thomas. Then researching found out Tranter books were based on facts. Was what got me into our history. As unionist agenda wouldn't teach us our own history in schools 🏴
@stevewatt4819
Жыл бұрын
been watching a while, this one made me comment. You, sir, are a gift! Thank you for this tale and keep on tellin' me a story!
@fionatinker23
Жыл бұрын
That's a very beautiful retelling of this story, Bruce ❤
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly
@lelleithmurray235
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating Bruce. You are our modern bard!👍
@Davefacestation
Жыл бұрын
Was cracking to meet you last night in Inverness. Looking forward to any little ideas you pick up while in the area, I may have a vested interest as I wrote the Wiki page for nearby Nairn and its castle is greatly underappreciated. Folklore in Scotland really is unsurpassed in it's depth and connection to the real roots of the culture of story telling.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Aye, I'll need to get back up. I did a video about Jock MacGregor up there
@CynthiaMurray-q5v
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. I grew up in a small farming community in New Brunswick, Canada, called McNairn. Many of the residents were Scottish immigrants or descendants thereof.
@georgefuters7411
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the Cawdor Inn is still there, I can vaguely remember starting to drink each of the whisky's along the bottom shelf of the biggest malt whisky collection I'd ever seen. Woke up in a nearby byre the next day with a rather disgruntled Frisian cow and two other comatose Lochaber loons. Forty years ago and I still get flashbacks 😉😆😂🤣😂
@reynardthefox
Жыл бұрын
ahch...a great story,Bruce , Thanks
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
You are very welcome
@happygrandma5637
Жыл бұрын
The story telling and tale is great, and I loved it all. Never head of Thomas the Rhymer, Looking forward to more. I love a history story that starts in a restaurant, specially one with currant scones and jam (but you walked away without eating it - hmmm).
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Trust me, I came back
@emom358
Жыл бұрын
Enchanting story! You have a wonderful way with words!❤
@rksnj6797
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Bruce! I really enjoyed this story!!!
@whoarewe7515
Жыл бұрын
You legend opening up your birthday celebrations.
@Prel8
Жыл бұрын
A beautiful story, well told.
@mwilliamson8072
Жыл бұрын
What a fabulous story teller you are! ❤️ A goody portion of my ancestry is Scottish, so your history and stories are particularly fascinating to me. Sure wish I could have joined you on your birthday tour. 😢
@nancyholcombe8030
Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful story Bruce! As a singer of your wonderful folk music (known as Celtic music in the States) I do believe in the magical folk! I will have to look up Thomas the Rhymer! He sounds fascinating! Speaking of dreaming, I wish I could go on your 60th birthday tour but I don't even have the money to be a patreon member so I'll just have to wish on a star for now. I saw that you're coming to Canada. Hoping you'll get close to Atlanta Georgia with your tour one day. Hope your coming days are as magical as the story you told!
@trevorkirkpatrick1574
Жыл бұрын
Mesmerizing. Thanks!
@charlesmcmasters
Жыл бұрын
What an amazing story. You had me enthralled the entire time! Definitely the highlight of my day! As much as I love history, these tales add the color and meaning to the bones and stones from whence we came! Oh, and belated Happy Birthday! 🎉 I will also be turning 60 next September! If I win the lottery I will definitely join you on your Birthday tour. If I don't win...then I better start rowing across the Atlantic next spring. 😂
@melissamybubbles6139
Жыл бұрын
That's a beautiful story.
@randysuarez3993
7 ай бұрын
Very good shows! Happy birthday!
@FairnessFobe
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful story. Thank you.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@patrickmarks5640
Жыл бұрын
I loved this story - and I especially love the way you tell it. My best to you on your birthday - wish I could afford to join you but while my heritage is from Scotland, it's a long, long ways from me now...
@hapitoons1515
Жыл бұрын
I remember that story of Thomas and the Queen of Fairie I bought an audible book of Scottish Folktales and that was the first story of that book My favorite story of that book was about a living cake avoiding an entire village trying to it
@BoomerSooner1966
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic story enhanced by the accent and the visuals.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks!
@jacquelineelsner5120
Жыл бұрын
Bruce, your understated delivery suits this story perfectly. Gorgeous. Thank you, sir.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@toniomalley5661
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this I have always wanted to know about him thank you 😊great storytelling as usual
@jimmythejock4376
Жыл бұрын
Lovely story and beautifully told. I would love to enter your celebratory travelling competition but I'm sure there are more people worthy of it than I. Now don't get me wrong, my wife and I have been blessed with owning our very own motorhome and we take inspiration from your videos on where to visit and what to see. For that I thank you. Maybe we'll bump into each other somewhere, some day.
@anarchodolly
Жыл бұрын
Proper enjoyed that story like. :-)
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for listening
@systemSkynet
Жыл бұрын
This new tour is just a cheeky way to get as many birthday drinks as you possibly can. You, Sir just out-jocked all the jocks.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
I am a Jock
@systemSkynet
Жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours yeah but now you're the jockiest of all the jocks.
@stufromoz8164
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@arlenesobhani8739
Жыл бұрын
Steeleye Span: Come, come, come, come along with me, Thomas the Rhymer. As with most of their songs I have no idea what it's about.
@deelight3469
Жыл бұрын
Leaving the cafe without touching your food.....feels like i'm watching Neighbours!
@JohnWaters-vu7qq
Жыл бұрын
Thankyou for ALL your stories, Bruce. But none more so than this, of Thomas the Rhymer. Thomas’ story has always been a major favourite but I’ve never heard the entire story told so completely and so sensitively (right down to the wild Haggises running about on the Road to Elfland) before - not as a folk tale; though I have Nigel Tranter’s novel ‘Thomas the Rhymer’ in my library - I’ve only heard or read fragmented or précised versions and yet your tale of True Thomas of Ercildoun shall take pride of place in my mind just as the folk song rendition as performed by Steeleye Span has been and always be my favourite folk song. Again, Thankyou for your wonderful rendition, your brilliant storytelling and I shall continue to listen for and be delighted by “let me tell you a story “ to start each one. Slainte.
@meagera333
Жыл бұрын
Living in the borders approximately 20 miles from the Rhymer stone I've heard the story many times but that was one of the best versions 👍🏻
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Ah thanks
@thenorthriver
8 ай бұрын
I've heard this one told before, but you told it better! Thanks Bruce!
@ScotlandHistoryTours
8 ай бұрын
Ah thanks
@laceisaverb
Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful story!
@drewmck7624
Жыл бұрын
200K! Well deserved!
@patriciaMeany
Жыл бұрын
That was a brilliant story
@GordonDonaldson-v1c
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for that, Bruce. Very enjoyable. Another story worth telling -- if you haven't done so already -- is the one about Robert Kirk, the minister of Aberfoyle. Like Thomas of Erchildoune, he was away with the fairies. But he took the trouble to translate the Bible into Gaelic.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
11 ай бұрын
I've made a note
@joancampbell9157
Ай бұрын
Lermontov, the Russian poet and writer was descended from the Learmouths of Earlston. By the way we don’t pronounce it with the the T, it’s Earlson to us. The monument was moved down from where the tree was. My Dad was the person who drove the tractor and trailer with the monument down to where it is now.
@gailsears2913
Жыл бұрын
Great story!
@paulsummerside
11 ай бұрын
Am reminded of the Steeleye Span Track off Now we are six
@thecelticprince4949
Жыл бұрын
Sixty next year that's when life starts Bruce. What month. I hit that km stone this year it only gets better from here on in.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Look forward to it
@annasaylor3566
Жыл бұрын
Awsome 😊
@sarahcarnithan6771
10 ай бұрын
I hope I win the lottery so I can make it to your birthday tour!!!
@darnellsimpson4413
Жыл бұрын
GOOD STORY!!!
@jamesconnolly3827
Жыл бұрын
Enthralled from start to finish tapadh leat 🏴
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Sgoinneil
@jamesconnolly3827
Жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours bha, bha e dha-rìribh.
@lynnemurphy114
Жыл бұрын
Mr Bruce the video theyve taken ♠️Away you have to re load
@georgefuters7411
Жыл бұрын
Oh dear, Bruce, you've opened a can of worms there! Scottish myths, legends and folklore could keep you going for years, especially if you look at Celtic, Scots, Norse and Gaelic folklore. Ever come across Scotland's only dragon (Ballahulish...Beinn a' Bheithir!) or the Cu Sith, or the Glaistig, or the Urisk, brownies, kelpies, redcaps... better not get started😱😉😆😂🤣😂
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@robfut9954
10 ай бұрын
Nearly 60?! I wouldn’t have placed you a day above 50… well done!
@kierananderson5807
Жыл бұрын
This was excellent Bruce! I recently purchased a book at Cupar's Big Weekend called Fife Folk Tales by Sheila Kinninmonth. I know she works at the Ceres Fife Folk Museum and I'm yet to fire into the book. But perhaps this will be of interest to you? Thanks again.
@UNITEDJACKSONSFANS
Жыл бұрын
Haggis roaming free 🤣🤣🤣 🙌🏼
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
😜
@charlottestewart5802
Жыл бұрын
Upon learning I'm more Scottish than Mexican or English, I've become interested in tales from this sunless land of cloudy skies. I believe the summer months Her Majesty holidayed there were the only times of year the sun ever peaked out. So if you thought it was Her Majesty's presents: nope. It was the time of year. Anyway, i'm enjoyed the folk tales,, history, and current culture.
@PatchJoynson
Жыл бұрын
I would love to see a video about the gallowglass mercenaries as I found out I’m apparently descendant of one
@Sheltie01
Жыл бұрын
Always loved the story of Thomas the Rhymer. Especially as he did exist, which is unusual in folk tales. Some versions have him little more than a village idiot/ musician before he meats the Elfin queen. Either way, I always like to think of the story being a 100% true. That he dis vanish to the other world for 7 years, and then returned to his beloved queen, where he is still now
@JasonFahland
Жыл бұрын
200k!!!!! Whooo!
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Delighted
@jamesstevenanderson5771
5 ай бұрын
Thank you from james
@fugoogle9757
Жыл бұрын
theres some elves that live by me only they're called the little people or piskies... and they sure are pesky if they want t be. sometimes they'll take something of mine n i wont be able t find it at all until i plead with them t return it. n then il find the thing in some obvious place. my land is called dún, an ancient name originally meaning 'enclosure'. ive never set eyes on a piskie, but ye can feel their presence for sure. Slainté.
@sharktomesmiles
Жыл бұрын
I believe I am a few months older than you Bruce, a wood dragon born after Feb 13 1964 mid day time. Oh, I missed being a dragon by 10 days and 7 hours
@RavenY2K3
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to know what sort of looks you got doing a piece to camera whilst sat in the middle of a cafe full of patrons, you ought to have a covert camera facing them to catch their reactions 😳🤣
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
🤣
@stayonpoint
Жыл бұрын
The earliest Armstrong Lords were Alexanders, is their a connection?
@kurtbogle2973
Жыл бұрын
Whilst it has nothing to do with Scotland. The Zaholi dancers wear a costume similar to kilts, but shorter the common ground being dance. Tha Scottish have the Highland Fling, the Irish dance tremendous gigs with the speed and grace of the Tuatha De Dannan, but if you haven't seen this you will be fasinated. These folks must have very strong legs. I invite everyone to watch. It still blows me away.
@knyc2580
Жыл бұрын
🌞
@cyankirkpatrick5194
Жыл бұрын
Oh my I'll be 60 as well as in March so will be Nigel Farge of GB News,Jeff Bezos. Haste ye back Bruce.
@semigoth299
11 ай бұрын
Haste ye back
@mikhailabunidal9146
Жыл бұрын
@ 🏴 Scotland History Tours w/Bruce Fummey سيعة دهبية حلو معاك يا بروسي uaireadair òir snog tha Brusy agad Nice golden watch ⌚️ you have Brucy
@cullumkille2372
Жыл бұрын
✌👍
@thatsmoi7768
Жыл бұрын
Liberty Caps
@terrykennedy-lares8840
Жыл бұрын
60? Jeez, Bruce, you're getting old. You gotta get married...... LOL
@katesvensen2261
Жыл бұрын
I've read this tale, but it wasn't nearly as entertaining as your rendition. Thank you.
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@imherkhan
11 ай бұрын
🏴☠️
@kenbrown2808
Жыл бұрын
an' ye don't look a day over 59.
@kentait66
Жыл бұрын
Superb, Bruce😎👍 Much more a favourable ending than as with Coinneach Odhar, I suppose, eh... 😉 Btw, as far as 'truth-telling' - 60, my arse!🤣 ... could've fooled anyone with that🫡 (We'd better have the VAR)😁
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@IrishPotato86
Жыл бұрын
Bruce, you sir, are the best! I just love your stories about Scottish history, and the way you tell them with enthusiasm and the humor you throw into the mix!
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly
@IrishPotato86
Жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours you are most welcome!
@Sweetlyfe
Жыл бұрын
That was another cracking story, thank you.
@bookish-bedlam
Жыл бұрын
I love this story. I first heard it as a song from a Steeleye Span record. Thank you for taking us to the places frequented so long ago by Thomas himself. Tìoraidh an-dràsta.
@alanmcgill8278
Жыл бұрын
You are incredible story teller! I love folklore and you present it so well. Thank you.
@johnfromscotland1050
Жыл бұрын
That was bloody good... love Scottish folklore, and also it's history....thanks big man....👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴🥃🥃🥃
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@danielyork3406
Жыл бұрын
Happy 60th birthday! One day I hope to visit Scotland:). It’s of the places I’m really looking forward to
@rhondarandall6689
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for another magical story, love listening to you and getting lost in history! ❤
@melissavancleave8686
Жыл бұрын
How lovely, Bruce I realize I enjoy listening to no matter what you're telling, a true talent you. Thank you.
@helenswan705
Жыл бұрын
Hi, here I am, and this is very topica,l because of the ridiculous search for Nessie. Leave her alone! I don't ever want us to find her! Fabulous story thank you
@TudorSmith
Жыл бұрын
That was a wonderful folklore story.
@kathycarlson7947
Жыл бұрын
I'm now missing a Scotland I never knew when I lived there. Thank you
@Katyestella63
Жыл бұрын
Bruce this is such a sweet story that you beautifully told. You are a great storyteller and there has only once I have heard a story beautifully told. This was when I was 7 when I heard my teacher read the first lines of the Hobbit. It was the day that I left Ashington to go and live in London.
@brandyjean7015
Жыл бұрын
Ahhh, Tolkien...
@callumgordon1668
Жыл бұрын
There’s another story about him residing under the Eildons with King Arthur and his sleeping knights. The borders author Alistair Moffat wrote a book suggesting that if there was an historical Arthur, that he was maybe based in the borders, perhaps at Newstead as a Sarmatian cavalry man at the end of Roman occupation here and stayed. Surprisingly similar to the character Clive Owen played in the 2004 film. The postulation being that Arthur was more likely to be the warlord of a ‘lost’ Celtic kingdom, like the Borders than the places that Britons remember him. Of course all of that is just myth and conjecture. Entertaining but lacking much evidence.
He's a fantastic writer. I have most of his books.
@georgefuters7411
Жыл бұрын
Earliest recorded reference to Arthur comes from a 603AD poem called "Y Gododdin" written by an East Lothian monk. The "Welsh Chronicles " like the Red Book of Hengest, Black book of Aneiren were handed down from bards from Strathclyde, Dunbarton and Cumbria in Brythonic not Cymric Celtic are the source of the legend but it has been over romanticised by French and English authors over the centuries. There is some evidence that the warlord Arthur (dux bellorum= leader of battles) had based in Roxburgh and Carlisle used the old Roman roads (which Long Shanks used 700 years later!) to advance rapidly across the country to intercept the invading Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Frisians. When the monks of Glastonbury "found" "King" Arthur's grave with a metal plaque stating "here lies King Arthur and his wife Queen Guinevere", Guinevere had only been written into the Arthurian legend a few decades earlier... still, they ended getting all the money they needed to rebuild their crumbling monastery 🤔🙄🥴🤣😂🤣
@grngeene2714
Жыл бұрын
@@georgefuters7411 imagine you're finding your own truth and others just try to make fun of you for trying. Says more about you, imo.
@georgefuters7411
Жыл бұрын
@@grngeene2714 reference Prof. John Vietch, Alistair Moffat, Tom Elliott and others When I first moved from the Highlands to the Borders, I was amused by all the Arthur references as they don't exist back home, I'd accepted all the usual tales of "King" Arthur and Camelot from such erudite sources as Hollywood and Elstree. There is an area at Roxburgh castle originally known as Merchidun (the horse fort) bounded on three sides by the rivers Tweed and Teviot. Arthur's first battle according to Nennius was at a river called Glen. 12 miles from Merchidun is the river Glen, 8 miles north of Yavering Bell, the seat of the royal house of the Brynnich,later defeated by the Danes and moved to Bamburgh. Other of Nennius battles are thought to be Rothbury (Northumbria), Peebles, Lincoln, Douglas, and Carlisle...all places linked by Roman roads. Ignoring the ludicrous French and English romances of the fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries (round table, Camelot, Guinevere, Lancelot etc) and stick to the Welsh Chronicles and contemporary accounts the legendary Arthur become more accessible and less mythical. Too many preconceptions lead in circles and end up nowhere... certainly not in Glastonbury or Tintagel (though Tintagel would have a better claim being the last Brythonic outpost in England)🤔🙄🥴
@roberthunter5398
Жыл бұрын
That was a beautiful story Bruce. Thank you. You also reminded me of the song, Thomas the rhymer. By Jethro Tull, I think. Anyway I'm away to listen to it.. cheers 😊
@Walker_of_the_ford
Жыл бұрын
Loved the video Bruce, I have always enjoyed Thomas the rhymer. I really enjoy folktales and mythologies. Another really good channel for scottish folklore is Liath Wolf
@tiffanyannhowe1712
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Mr Fummey. Another awesome story. 🖤
@rsh793
9 ай бұрын
Scottish borders is full of history and tales and mystery and tales - hills and rivers running through the countryside making amazing people (from a Borderer of course!)
@vallovesnature8449
Жыл бұрын
Always love your videos! You caught me off guard today tho. 60?!?! Here I was thinking you were 45. Ah Scottish youthful exuberance is a very good thing indeed! Stay awesome Bruce!❤️🏴
@ScotlandHistoryTours
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@theoztreecrasher2647
Жыл бұрын
Yep. Too much Haig and Haggis will do that to you! The old lady always looks so much better after a good feed and a wee dram! 😱😈🤣🤣
@craigix
Жыл бұрын
Came to find this comment, I too was amazed at his age.
@Kevo20
Жыл бұрын
Another great video Bruce, I love hearing your stories from the Borders.
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