Ancient language mystery deepens (Scotland)

BBC ^ | August 10, 2010 | Victoria Gill

[SunkenCiv]

Is that the same farmer who was outstanding in his field?

[backwoods-engineer]

It's either Old High Galifreyan¹ or Old Solar².

¹ Doctor Who

² C.S. Lewis' space trilogy

[SunkenCiv]

I Pict a fine time to forget to ping you.

[WoofDog123]

a lot of the extant pictish carved stones have no discernible story, but they do have a lot of commonly found elements - discs, combs, cannot remember other items. There is some debate on what language family pictish belonged to, though q-celtic seems to be favored. IIRC the pictish king name Drost is believed to be a form of Tristan, which would support the celtic-language theory with its consonant mutation (t-d or d-t, I cannot remember now, though I did study welsh some time ago).

[WoofDog123]

good haggis is excellent, and if it is given to you without you knowing what it is, you would never even know. McSweens seems to be the best in scotland nationally.

[RaceBannon]

Think of your late 20’s, that’s when it came out! :)

[ElkGroveDan]

I know what it is. My quote was from it too.

[ElkGroveDan]

And I was about eight years old when it came out.

[RebelTex]

I never date any women over 30...

...if they’re over 30, they’ve already heard all my pict-up lines.

badaboom, badabing.

[gleeaikin]

I think you are wrong about “we rode for a month”. I think “they went out at the time of the full moon” as that was the best time to go places before electric lights.

[Renfield]

I read somewhere, recently, that Julius Caesar wrote that the Pictish language was closely related to the language of the Basques.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

From top to bottom

From the temple of the heavens

Warriors embark on a journey by night

Making war with neighboring tribe

Telling the story of a great battle to an elder of the temple or an elder of some significance

[SunkenCiv]

Let me know if you find it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks WoofDog123.

[catfish1957]

Considering the Scottish climate I just can’t picture the women parading nude over the countryside.

[SunkenCiv]