Entry for January 31, 2007
Yakki dha Greetings! i hope to make this blog a repository for gunk upon the Picts and kindred for our greater illumination. And to ease off on the pope as Yahoo deleted my ahh other page, which had loyalist links. So here is a link to the new pictish page. Here faithfully replicated: "Who were the Picts?
What was their religion?
What was their language and culture?
What happened?
The story of the Picts is not an easy subject to put together, but from the ancient sources we find that those the Romans called the picts inhabited Modern Scotland, Ulster, Drogheda Loth Ireland and Dublin in Eire. They had three lands in Scotland - The Northern Picts above the Grampion mountains, The Southern Picts from the Grampions to Fife and then the Picts of Galloway 'the Niduari picts' noted for speaking brythonic british (like welsh and Cornish and Breton) and making heather ale. We know their religions was Druid as the Niduari were betrayed by their great Druid to Ulster for the chance of having his own heather ale brewery!
There warriors were noted for seven things: being naked, being painted with intricate designs, having women warriors who battled feroushly, having castles which wre fortefied brewerys!, and for the nobility and land owners being the only ones expected to fight invaders such as the Roman 9th Legion, Angles and Vikings. At this they were exceptionally good, and beat Constantine the Great (who later became Caeser of Rome).
They were also noted for being useful with huge long swords (the claymore tradition) and beheading Romans, Angles and Viking alike). The Tuatha de Dannan were sailers probably from Pictland who settled in Ulster.
In time the ascent of Irish Gallic as Scots Gallic and the spread of Celtic Church christianity, largly run by the druids and promoted by Saint Ninian (himself a Pict) took its toll (along with the Viking slaughter of the noble houses on the battle field).
Kenneth MacAlpine/Elfin was the king of the Picts though a pictish princess (matarilinar kingship of the Picts) and king of the Gallic Scoti ('raiders' the Scots) and united the nations under one kingdom, The New Kingdom of Alba. There Pict and Scot was united. He also claimed right to rule as a son of the Elves, which was a good move with them all."
