[zeugma]

Let's see who will get this reference...

Several species of small furry animals grooving with a Pict.

Hint: I cannot read while this 'song' is on. I have to put whatever I'm reading down until it is over. For some reason it scrambles my brain. :-)

[Doctor Stochastic]

They were known among themselves as the Catuvallani (the people of the cat), the Damnoni, the Epidii (the people of the horse), the Veniconea, the Novantae, the Caerini (the sheep folk), the Smertae (the smeared people) and many other names which have disappeared in the mists of time.

Those are mostly Latin names. I don't think the Picts ever called themselves by those names.

They probably intermarried with the Jutes and faded away.

[Jaded]

Mark for reading after coffee during daylight.

[stands2reason]

Either the leadership was passed directly to members of only one maternal line, or it went to the sister's son of the reigning chief.

The sister's son as heir makes sense in cultures without monogamy. The men couldn't be sure any child was theirs, but they knew for sure their nephews were related to them...

[Truth666]

For people looking for alternatives to the "global village" :
Archbishop calls for return to small farms

[Truth666]

For people looking for alternatives to the "global village" :
Archbishop calls for return to small farms

[Hegemony Cricket]

bump for later read

[rightofrush]

My take on the Picts has been that tey were a celtic people, perhaps the first to visit the the British Isles. There culture was absorbed by the Scots, an Irish tribe the settled in Argyle. Their easy assimlation suggests a linguistic kinship.<

[SunkenCiv]

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[bert]

——They were known among themselves as the Catuvallani (the people of the cat), the Damnoni, the Epidii (the people of the horse), the Veniconea, the Novantae, the Caerini (the sheep folk), the Smertae (the smeared people) ——

Hmmm... the names given appear to be greek in origin

I suspect there weren’t really very many picts and they were simply gradually invaded, intermingled and just absorbed into the superior culture.