Typical eggheads. Too educated to read simple pictograms.
Some hardy Scotsman needs to thump them upside the head and tell them to simply follow the story.
My border ancestors would laugh their kilts off at these numbskulls.
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).