Who were the Picts?

[Gooding]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...ts-886098.html http://www.scotland.com/blog/the-picts http://dna-explained.com/category/picts/
The question is, do the Picts still exist today as the Scots, much like the French exist as modern day descendants of the Gauls?

[XenophobicPrussian]

The last leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party(the one who quit after the Scotland referendum, before the woman) looks very Pictish. That or he looks like one of the King Edward kicked out of England, fled to Scotland Jews.

[Vladimir Putin]

The last leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party(the one who quit after the Scotland referendum, before the woman) looks very Pictish. That or he looks like one of the King Edward kicked out of England, fled to Scotland Jews.

lol wut? Jew!

Alex Salmond is just an ugly fat bugger

[de Burgh II]

Quite sure the Scots have Pictish ancestry; they're the progenitors of Caledonia after all.

[Gooding]

Quite sure the Scots have Pictish ancestry; they're the progenitors of Caledonia after all.

Well said indeed, Armstrong!

[de Burgh II]

Well said indeed, Armstrong!

You can't get more Scottish than this.

[Gooding]

You can't get more Scottish than this.

As the Romans discovered when they tried to engage the Caledonii.

[Bezprym]

Modern people may have ancestry, and definitely do have, but awareness of it may not be on higher level. For example, the Obodrites, who were fighting with Germans, do not exist anymore as the Obodrites, and I doubt that people know their ancestry of hudreds of years before. Also, modern countries were created most often by conquering other tribes who lived on particular area. One tribe was dominant, conquered others, and a nation emerged - these people still knew who they are, but with every next generation people started to forget.

So yes, Scots may have Pictish ancestry, what wouldn't be a surprise.

[Grace O'Malley]

The Picts were the name of the people in Scotland before the Gaels came. The Irish were called Gaels and the Scots were called Picts. They haven't disappeared only the name was changed. The Picts and Gaels amalgamated and Gaelic became the dominant Celtic language.

http://www.ancestraljourneys.org/cel...ighlands.shtml

The also spoke a Celtic language related to Brythonic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictish_language

[Neon Knight]

I don't know why anybody thinks they know what the Picts looked like or thinks that they would have looked any different to other British Islanders.