In the 8th century what is now Scotland was a battleground for 4 nations ie 4 ethnicities
1. The Picts in the north east
2. The Scotti, an Irish people who had come over in the previous centuries to tye north west
3. The Britons, related to the Welsh, in Ault Clythe in the south west.
4. The Anglo Saxons in the south east.
And not a decent cuisine among the lot of them!..................