Picts
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 The Aberlemno Serpent Stone, Class I Pictish stone, showing (top to bottom) the serpent, the double disc and Z-rod and the mirror and comb |
The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland. There is an association with the geographical distribution of brochs, Brythonic place name elements, and Pictish stones. Picts are recorded from before the Roman conquest of Britain until the 10th century, when they are thought to have merged with the Gaels. They lived to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde, 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 Dál 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.
- Related: Caledonians, Duan Albanach, Fortriu, Kings of the Picts, Mormaer, Origins of the Kingdom of Alba, Painted pebbles, Pictish stones, Picts in fantasy, Prehistoric Scotland, St Andrews Sarcophagus
| Language in Pictland (pdf) Language in Pictland (pdf) eprints.gla.ac.uk/archive/00002081/01/languagepictland.pdf - Web |
| Literacy in Pictland (pdf) Literacy in Pictland (pdf) eprints.gla.ac.uk/2461/01/PictLit.pdf - Web |
| CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts celt.ucc.ie/index.html - Web |
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| Scotland Royalty Scotland Royalty www.scotlandroyalty.org - Web |
| The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba www.arts.ed.ac.uk/scothist/booklets/sh1/documents-alba.html - Web |
| Annals of Clonmacnoise Annals of Clonmacnoise historical.library.cornell.edu/.../docviewer?did=cdl360 - Web |
| Bede's Ecclesiastical History and its Continuation... Bede's Ecclesiastical History and its Continuation (pdf) www.ccel.org/ccel/bede/history.pdf - Web |
| Annales Cambriae (translated) Annales Cambriae (translated) www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/annalescambriae.html - Web |
| Proceedings Proceedings ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/psas/ - Web |
| Tarbat Discovery Programme Tarbat Discovery Programme www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/staff/sites/tarbat/ - Web |
| SPNS SPNS www.st-andrews.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/ - Web |
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| The Picts and Scots in history The Picts and Scots in history skyelander.orgfree.com/scot3.html - Web |
