Picts - Battles Involving the Picts, Pictish Culture, Pictish People, Picts in Fiction, Columba, Saint Ninian, Pictish Language (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Battles involving the Picts, Pictish culture, Pictish people, Picts in fiction, Columba, Saint Ninian, Pictish language, Battle of Dun Nechtain, Jarlshof, Nac Mac Feegle, Origins of the Kingdom of Alba, Adomnan, Bran Mak Morn, Battle of Mons Graupius, Battle of Two Rivers, Picts in fantasy, Lunnasting stone, Taltos, Brough of Birsay, De Situ Albanie, Fortriu, Poppleton manuscript, Calgacus, Curetan, Painted pebbles, Worms of the Earth, The Bridei Chronicles, Saint Fergus, Old Scatness, Tuathalan, Galam Cennalath, Der-Ilei, Venicones, Pictish Chronicle, Kingdom of Cait, Maeatae, Dicalydones, Vacomagi, Taexali, Battle of Raith, Fergustus Pictus, Creones, Cornovii, Decantae, Carnonacae, Lugi, Caereni, Smertae. Excerpt: The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval people living in what is now eastern and northern Scotland. There is an association with the distribution of brochs, Pit-names, for instance Pitlochry, and Pictish stones. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest of Britain until the 10th century, when they merged with the Gaels. They lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde rivers, and spoke the extinct Pictish language, thought to have been related to the Brythonic languages spoken by the Britons to the south. They are assumed to have been the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes named by Roman historians or found on the world map of Ptolemy. Pictland, also known as Pictavia, gradually merged with the Gaelic kingdom of Dal Riata to form the Kingdom of Alba (Scotland). Alba expanded, absorbing the Brythonic kingdom of Strathclyde and Bernician Lothian, and by the 11th century the Pictish identity had been subsumed into the "Scots" amalgamation of peoples. Pictish society was typical of many Iron Age societies in northern Europe, having "wide connections and parallels" with nei...