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To: Bigg Red; ElkGroveDan

As far as I understand it, very little of substance is actually known about the Picts and their culture. They built in wood, which has rotted. They left behind very little writing and no histories. We have a few names (none of them female incidentally). Practically all we do know about the Picts was recorded by the Romans and the Gaels, who hated them. “Pict” itself is the Roman term for them. We don’t even know what they called themselves. There’s talk of woad and tattoos, of wicker shields and long spears and (curiously) crossbows, but really the evidence for all that is surprisingly scant. We do know that all references to Pictavia (Pictland) and the Picts stop very suddenly in the middle of the tenth century, probably as a result of culteral subversion and conquest by the Irish.


20 posted on 05/13/2013 7:39:46 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

Okay. Thanks for the info.


21 posted on 05/13/2013 10:43:33 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: Vanders9; SunkenCiv

The term Pict disappears around the time of the founding of the Kingdom of Alba. Since we don’t know what the Picts called themselves, they may not have thought this was any significant change.


24 posted on 05/14/2013 3:32:03 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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