Origin Of The Picts

[Nglund]

Can it be concluded that the Picts were linguistically, and ethnically, Brythonic, and therefore, British?

[Osweo]

Yes.











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[Graham]

The term Picti comes from the Romans, who noticed the locals still painted and tatooed their bodies with elaborate, evocative designs. Once upon a time this had been common in all the people of of the British Isles and beyond.

The terms Caledonnii, Maeatae also comes from the Romans, for the people living north of the Forth/ Clyde line.

Who Knows what the Caledonian/ Pictish tribes called themselves?

By the time the Romans abandoned Britannia, the people they had called Picts were a long- estabolished and distinctive presence occupying the north and east.

South of the Pictish territory were lands dominated by the by the Britons. Among them Gododdin, descendents of the Votadini with their stronghold around Din Eidyn (Edinburgh). A seperate group, Alt Clut based in Dumbarton, Strathclyde.

To the west where the Gaels/Scots. Dunnad was believed to be the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata.

The Picts could have spoke a Brythonic language, the term Aber's found alot up the north east and some of the place names sound Brythonic.