The Picts! - an Overview of Scotland's Ancient Ancestor Tribe
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- Though used generally by the Romans to refer to any peoples north of Hadrian's Wall, “Picts” specifically describes the Celtic people dwelling in what is now northern and eastern Scotland. Originally a disorganized group of tribes, the Picts united into a confederation in the face of Roman expansion. Little is known about this great Celtic people. The name we know them by translates to “The painted people” and is not what they called themselves.
The Picts would fight non-stop against Roman rule and go on to help form the nation that would be called Scotland. Called savages and brutes by their would-be conquerors, the Picts were actually far more complex.
Unfortunately, the Picts did not keep extensive written records of their history. We have to rely on outside historians and storytellers to piece together an idea of who they were and how they lived.
We do know that they had their own language - a unique dialect of the Celtic language group used across Britain. The Picts were also accomplished artists. Most of what we know about their material culture comes from silver jewelry artifacts and carved standing stones and crosses across Scotland.
As with most episodes in history, there are multiple sides to the story of the Picts. Known as accomplished warriors, the Picts were much more - a complex people with a rich unique culture.
*** To learn more about the Picts, try one of these books:
The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson
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In Search of the Picts: A Celtic Dark Age Nation by Elizabeth Sutherland
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Many are called, but few are Pict.
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The bloodgroups here in North East Scotland disagree 1/5 still have pictish blood cmon the cruthnie
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I think I get the “picture”
Hadrian's Wall = Proof that good fences make good neighbors! When the Picts could no longer free-range raid upon Roman
Britain; they decided that they would rather trade. Thx for the mini history lesson . I like your channel. 😊
I really appreciate you didn't make the mistake of mentioning that the Picts died out. Rather, the data suggests that how they were referenced by outside people changed dramatically at the same time the Pictish culture was changing due to the outside influence of constant invaders.
Exactly buddy, they merged with the gaels to create Alba then Scotland. The DNA of North East Scotland is still markedly different from the rest of Scotland
Nice video. I come from a town called Monifieth , an area steeped in Pictish history.
Always wondered about this group and who they were. This video is a great primer on the subject. Also, the reference to various dates in history is very helpful. Thank you for another interesting talk.
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Great job. I enjoyed your take on a very under appreciated history and culture. Thanks for your time.
That was very well done . It has taken years to learn what you described in 8 minutes
Thank you for your informative video of the Picts. We would like to know more about this.
Scotland forever, Semper Fidelis, Oorah Carry On and Beyond ‼️‼️‼️‼️💥💥💥💯💯💯‼️‼️
I am Scottish and have been interested in the Picts for many years. Your video is one of the best short videos about the Picts that I have seen. However, I think that too much is made about the "wildness" of the Picts. We know (often from documented personal names) that the Pictish nobility intermarried with the nobility of their neighbouring kingdoms, i.e. the Scots, the Britons and the Angles. It was also common for nobility to spend time as exiles in the courts of neighbouring kingdoms when it was not safe for them to be in their homeland because of dynastic feuding there. They would often return to their homelands bringing foreign influences back with them. Also, recent archeological finds have shown that there was extensive trade networks between the Picts and their neighbours, and even with far distant lands. Consequently there was a large amount of cultural, and material exchange between all of the kingdoms in northern Britain. As such the Picts would have most likely had the same level of civilisation as all of the other peoples of their time and would not be the wild "savages" as claimed by some.
King Henry the eighth’s dissolution of the monasteries is Probably the biggest reason we don’t know much about the Picts as those monasteries acted as libraries and hospitals of the time and King Henry had any codexes with gold, silver and gems on their covers that were considered non essential burned.
0:10 Savage people north of the wall... who else here says the Wildlings should have been Scottish?
Picts
Pict family where u at ??? ❤
They made a video game about them, called Hell Blade: Senua's Sacrifice, you should do review on how accurate they were.
Yup. Played it, love it. 💪🏻
For real?
I used the Pictish Beast motif shown at 7:37 on the face of a home made sporran. I wondered as I rendered it if this was an elephant ... not an eyewitness illustration of an elephant but perhaps a drawing of a description of an elephant handed down over generations. Where would the Picts have encountered elephants? Perhaps during Septimius Severus's ill fated shock and-awe invasion of Caledonia with his 40,000 man army. Did they have war elephants? Could be....
It's a water beastie because bodies of water were sacred this is known hence Nessie and later Kelpies lol the people here never left we remember.
Well done Eric.
Very interesting video.👍🧐
How could the Picts be "gaulisized" if they already were Celts?
The Gauls and the Celts were and are the same people. Maybe the Picts weren't Celts
Gaelicized. Celts weren't one culture and language back then anymore than they are today. It's a broad category.
@@JaylukKhan I know but Gaels and Celts are synonymous. It's like rabbits and bunnies there may be many different types of bunnies but they're all rabbits
@@tecumsehcristero no. Gaels, Picts and Britons are specific nationalities within the category of Celts. Gaels are specifically the people who speak Gaelic. Britons (Welsh) and Picts are Celts but not Gaels.
Thanks for another great video
Am looking forward to this!
Scottish History Tours give a better breakdown of this topic.
Sure, but his attempts at humour kinda spoil the content.
Really Really enjoyed this😊
The beastie carved into the stone may be none other than the Loch Ness Monster. Just a thought.
The Aglo/Scottish border is most certainly not defined by Hadrian’s wall. The Roman built system of fortifications that marked the limit of the Roman Empire exists entirely within the borders of England proper.
Definitely! Super interesting!
That was great! Thanks
Love these videos
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I've long wondered what that "lightning-stroke-with-two-disks" motif was supposed to depict (pun intended).
You look an absolute spangel in that victorian get up min lol. Fortriu was not the largest pictish settlement it was Tap o noth right beside Mons Grampus battle we call it bennachie learn more min.
Ireland was know as Scotti, which meant raider or riever. The current clan crests which have ships on them, Campbell's as an example, were originally from Eire or Norse mixed. They raided from Dublin to the west of now Scotland........
bob bieschke.......what you have posted is a load of utter rubbish. campbells 100% a scottish name. rievers were scottish and english(the boarder reivers) the norse who invaded shetlands of scotland mixed with the indigenous picts. they then went to the orkneys where they assimilated with the indigenous picts and the galls who colonized the west and east coasts of scotland having come from the frankish region of europe. then the norse galls went right round scotland to the hebrides down to galloway then eventually dublin. type in....campbell last name meaning and origin|ireland reaching out|........ the mcdonalds/macdonals/odonnels / mccabes /mccoys/ campbells and many more were scottish galloglass hired by irish chiefs to aid in the fight against the normans in ireland. o'donnell just means ....of the clan donald. in scotland we never use the letter f in of likewise the d at the end of donald. you need to research the mythical tale of the "scotti". created in the 1400s by irish monks to give ireland an identity. start with this one.......type in......book of invasions -mythical ireland -ireland calling.....type in......the warrior galloglass surnames of ireland a letter from ireland........type in .....history of galloglasses in ireland scottish warriors your irish .com.......you will notice it's GALL-oglass not gaeloglass. he mentions irish scotti colonizing scotland. like a wrote a myth ......you can also type in......ireland and the celtic culture in search of ancient ireland........if anything any colonization was from scotland to ireland. you might want to type in the scottish redshanks also mercenaries from scotland again hired by the irish.....then the plantation of ulster. there,s more.
Well im afraid i have to say at least some of what you said, is a load of shit, as you would say. The Gaels from Ireland did invade Scotland , there is even one or two towns in Scotland , their names Gaelic names for the town or place name translates to mean , Irish . Speaking of language, the Scots Gaelic language is actually Irish , brought over to Scotland by invading Irish Chieftains, and when hundreds of years had gone by , the Language in Scotland diverged into something different, although most words in Scot Gaelic is the same as Irish , i think there is about 3 hundred words that are different than Irish. Now we don't know much about the Picts in Scotland or The Tuatha de Dannan in Ireland.
@@michaelfoley9904 no mythical gaels invaded scotland. it's written and pronounced "gallic" in scotland. before you mis-educate the world on scotlands history you must first educate it on irelands . so, explain to the world the origins of the mythical gaels ireland. from where/when and how did they get there?
@@brucecollins641 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, are you a scot ? If so , shouln't you know the history of your country. Pretty sad if you don't. One of Irish kingdoms was called , Dalriada, which took in the western part of Scotland. Go look it up, read some history books or something
@@michaelfoley9904 am a scot fer sure.there was no irish kingdom called dalriada in scotland. there may well have been a dalriada but one that spread from scotland to ireland. if you are irish then surely you will know the origins of the gaels in ireland 3 simple easy to answer questions from where/when and how did they get there?
I'm a bit confused. I was always under the impression that during the Pictish era, Scotland was known as Caledonia?! True? False?
Pictavia was the home of the picti or Cruthnie ie the people Caledonia was Roman and Alba was Celtic.
@@sanderson9338 ahh thanks for the clarification
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Abernathy is my 2nd highest clanship they were picts
I've been looking for information on the border name trotter say the name is northern English and Scottish where does it originate
Cool.
Lol the z rod double disk is a Matrilineal crest we wrote in ancient ogham script. You know nothing.
Where did the pic come from?
i love this, I think it arrived just before the shovel, the picts in Scotland seem to have disapered when they heard of the shovel, yours Mr Trowel
scotland
What is Eric's tartan?
it seems gallic entered scotland from the frankish regions of europe. the galls/gauls were always at war with the romans there so they fled to england but when the romans invaded england the then fled to and settled in scotland. hence "gallic"
I expected to hear about Kenneth McAlpine.
its not too far fetched to think that he may have had something to do with them dissapearing all the sudden
@@jeremymcnatt6319 yeah, supposedly he had a bunch of Pict nobles murdered to gain control of the Pictavian crown and formed the Kingdom of Alba.
@@jeremymcnatt6319 😂😂😂😂😂 Mythology at its finest Alpin is PCeltic not QCeltic
@@twinbulls1980 Kenny mac alpin = Kenny son of Alpin - so he murdered his own people to gain his own throne 😂
Alpin is not Irish its byrthonic (modern Welsh). Pictish dna or Pechts as they were probably known did not die out, the dna of North East Scotland is markedly different from the rest of Scotland
@@johnmaclagan2263 while we dont entirely know and you may be right, it's still interesting and a debate for sure.
None of us were there. How do we know he didnt speak both? He obviously had some connection to Nechtan Morbet and the other Kings, it's not impossible.
Two separate incidents of londinium being levelled by the Picts.
This was amazing, I descend from the old Pictish king Nechtan Uerb I believe. I wish there was more info left behind.
How do you know your a descendant?
@@celticscribe7887 DNA tests and tracing my lineage back.
Richard Covenantor Mcnatt brought my kin to America. He was a descendant of the McNaughts, John (Legendary Founder of Galloway Branch) McNachtan and so on.
MacNeachdainn - Son of Nechtan.
My last name has changed because of pronunciation over the years.
@@jeremymcnatt6319 good point but there were dozens of kings named nechtan
@@celticscribe7887 soooo Nechtan Morbet is my working theory, theres writings of a Nechtans everywhere but this one seems to be the original.
And I doubt it was Nechtan Der-llei
Although it is possible.
Theres not enough information, I'm still digging
@@jeremymcnatt6319 sounds great, keep up the good work. Family history and ancestry is important
The Picts are a confederation of tribes. The Painted Peoples were tattooed.
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Good overview, did u know that Ireland was called Scotia ie The Land of the Scots and the people were called the Scotti ie Scots this is what the Romans and Greeks called today's Ireland there was no Ireland untill about the 6th century it was called Scotia and later Hibernia, the Scotii are not irish they were a tribe that litched up on today's Ireland in the 1st century also the Picts invaded today's Ireland in the 2nd century and took many slaves back to today's Scotland ❤
CE. what time is CE
Common Era=when Christianity joined the other, more well established, religions.
@@mfv2024 so. AD??
Alba go Braugh
That animal has to be a horse. That would be my best guess.
Search : The Black Celts, an ancient civilization in Ireland and Britain 800-500 BC
please, you do not have to believe everything you hear or read on the notorious press. there is an awful lot of utter nonsense out there, also misunderstud stories from our past, anything that does not fit in with the norm should be dismissed as false, trust your instincts, the are usually right. yours Mr justice
@@mkeibergin3775 Hi there. Well the norm.... ? Which one, or Whos. The Whole World has been Lied to, Borders have been changed. People have been, and are still called names by others, they themselves don't identify with. The Truth is Overwhelming, but it also sets you free. Once you recover.
Shite.
few mispronunciation's
There was Vikings before the Viking age! 🗡😉
Pict- picture……your welcome
Alba is pronounced Al ah pah or Al ah buh.
The 'b' has a 'p' sound. It is "ah-lu-pa'...
@@joshellingson1062 it depends on which part of the country youre from. where i am we say Ah la pa, but the lowlanders often use al uh ba
@@joshellingson1062 That's how I heard it many years ago.
From archaeological and genetics we know now that Scotland was formed of three groups. The hunter gatherer people, the first farmers and Indo Europeans. The Hunter Gatherers were few in number and lived on the coasts, the farmers arrived about 5500 years ago via Europe from the Middle East and built the stone circles. About 2500 - 3000 years Indo European groups began to arrive.
The Farmers seem to have called themselves KRITAN which changed with the changes in Celtic over time to become Brtan or Pretan. In Ireland where the Celtic Q-Kw-Gw sound did not change to B-P the name continued to become CRITAN and eventually Cruithne. These Cruithne people were associated with the West of Ireland and are sometimes known as the "Black Irish" because of there different darker appearance. They also tended to be shorter.
The picture seems to be one of a stone age and early bronze age people adopting culture and eventually language from Indo-European (early Celtic Proto Celtic) language. The language was much altered and continued to use a lot of the grammar of the Pre Indo European language. Which is why Gaelic and Welsh grammar resembles Semtic middle Eastern Languages more than Gaulish and other Indo European languages. Pronunciation probably was affected as well.
There also seems to have been a later Iron Age Celtic immigration of associated with the Milesians in Ireland. These people coming from Northern Spain and the Atlantic coast of France. Making the Tuath De Danna the first farmers the Fir Bolgs being the early bronze age Proto Celtic immigrants. The Irish myths give a general sequence that fits generally with the genetic and archaeological evidence. A process of settlement and addition of new groups of immigrants bringing new technology and culture. Each new group mixing and changing the population. Different admixtures producing different regional cultures.
The Picts seem to have been an admixture with more Pre Indo European culture and First Farmer influenced Brythonic Celtic language.
I really find this stuff so amusing, the hunter gatherers, what the hell were they gathering, like today, were they gathering information about their neighbors for future reference, were they gathering firewood as well to sell to their neighbors, when they were hunting did they have rows about who had the first rights to whatever they killed, Was I an Indo European, what would Angela Merkel think of that. Scotland formed of three groups, yes Celtic, Rangers, and billy Connolly
So when did the queen scotia come to the land from Egypt
@mikekushner9436...she never......queen scotia is a made up tale. she never existed.
What did they call themselves? Bob, Tony, Shaun, Mary, Eileen, Susan.....
Nechtan Uerb, Nechtan Morbet amongst a few.
Possibly pechts
Pechti and cruthnie both mean the folk or the people Picti was a derogatory term by Romans as Pechti sounded like picti or painted and they were tattooed not painted in woad lol
‘s math a rinn thu
A centurion would not be s young trooper
Please stop using BCE & CE when talking about British history. These silly woke terms were only created to appease non Europeans who apparently get offended by these terms.
But this video you have made is not about them. It is about Scotland, the United Kingdom and Europe.
Much more of this politically correct nonsense and you may well lose a few British subscribers who actually care about the erosion of our cultural norms.
These peoples spoke Brythonic Cymraeg or 'Welsh' They were the Caledoniaid ..the 'hard ones' and represented the last free Brythonic tribes on the British mainland..We know they spoke old Brythonic because theirplace names are not' Gwydelic' sounding but Brythonic sounding eg Aberdeen ( the mouth of the river Deen ) to Aberystwyth ( the mouth of the river Ystwyth.) Brythonic was once spoken everywhere in Britain and is the official lanuage of Britain today All culture was learnt and memorised in rhyme form. so it wasn't necessary to write it down ..This is where the bardic traditions of Prydain originated.with Taliesyn and Aneuryn from the North of England..They used the old Brythonic 'Coelbren 'script that was used by all druids.(their priests.)It has also as now allowed all Cymric peoples to be able to read the Egyptian Hyroglyphs.Crazy shit no?
Odd how you've probably never heard of our language because you never mentioned it once.?
if you have a mind to it, you can follow our progress from southern europe, up through france to cornwall and then to wales, the isle of man, ireland and, eventually scotland. the origin of our language is difficult to pinpoint, as we speak a version of gaelic, mixed with scots, english, doric and brythonic, although the brythonic was spoken more in the lowlands. At some point in our history, the brythonic tongue was replaced with a hybrid of gaelic and norse* resulting in more of a patois than an actual language, and that eventually became Scots. most of us speak english now, but the remnants of the old tongue are still there, even though most people dont even realise it.
* see Orcadian for evidence.
They were not "welsh" in any way shape or form. No more than the Gauls or Celtiberians were "welsh".
"Welsh" describes a modern population from a defined modern area who have had just as much time to evolve their language and culture as everyone else. They may have been Brythonic but "Welsh" is something else entirely.
Oh and the people of Rheged (cumbria) and Dumnonia (cornwall) are documented later than the Picts so they were not "the last survivors" either
@@cecircinn2908 all the Brythonic languages were spoken across the entirety of England, Scotland and Wales. The Goidelic Irish didnt arrive in Scotland until the 6th century.
None of this makes them "Welsh" which is a modern language and cultural identity. No more than Dutch is the same as German both of which were about as different as the Brythonic tongues.
Also the fact that Bede knew Cumbric (it was a vassal of Northumbria) and Welsh and Strathclydian Irish but still suggested Pictish as a seperate tongue suggests it was not Brythonic at all. ( It probably was) but this has always cast doubt on its origins. It most definately was not "Welsh" in any case...
@@tussk. theres no evidence the lowland scots have ever spoken any variety of Gaelic. They were part of the twin kingdoms of Northumbria and spoke the Northumbrian dialect of Anglo-Saxon (which is very different to the Wessex version that predominates)
The Anglo Saxons arrived at the same time as the Irish arrived in Strathclyde (actually prob slightly earlier but its marginal). Both have an equal claim to be native tongues.
The Norse element is clear but its almost certainly not from Scots Gaelic, the vikings raides widely and most of the female genetic component of the East and Shetlands/Orkneys (and Iceland) is Irish from women they took in Ireland itself.
@@martynnotman3467 if you read what i actually wrote, you'll see that I said that the lowlanders spoke brythonic, but that the original language of the land was replaced with a mix of english, doric, gaelic. norse and brythonic, which eventually became scots. the people of the lowlands and highlands werent seperate cultural groups, and they mixed and traded freely. the lowlanders spoke some gaelic, just as the highlanders spoke some brythonic. thats how language works and how it evolves. I am a native gaelic speaker and we still find elements of all of those languages in our everyday.
ST Patrick
@@cecircinn2908 St Patrick has nothing to do with the Picts. St Patrick has everything to do with my trip to Ireland. I made the note for me. Not the video. But I am curious why you would leave your comment. Something happened when you saw my comment. I am curious as to what that was.
@@cecircinn2908 Than you for the clarity and for not being an internet troll. ha ha. :)
If you are going to be an authority on these subjects, be concise. There is confusing ambiguity in much of your explanation, easily fixed with an additional word or two. You are telling people what you know, with gaps, not educating, to many confusing statements to even mention. Ask a trained Presenter for proof.
What was Scotland called before the Scotti moved in, was it Alba?