CATALONIA, A REGION APART

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Òmnium Cultural

We are a twenty thousand people from everywhere in CATALONIA, women and men fighting for our catalan language and culture.

ÒMNIUM CULTURAL is an historical association in defending this legitimate national catalan objective.

TOWARD A EUROPE OF PEOPLES AND NATIONS

Although the travel brochures may not have nade it clear to you, you are on Catalan soil.
You are in Catalonia, a country inhabited by a people different from the others in the Iberia Peninsula.The catalans, together more 10 milion people (Catalonia extends from Salses in French state to Guardamar in spanish state and also includes the Balearic Islands) have their own language and culture.

This has come about not by chance but by collective effort. Catalonia has been forged over more than a thousand years of history and this relations, in art, in fiestas,... wich have nothing to do with bullfights and flamenco. All these features are alive, despite the centralised, mited concessions wich Catalans institutions have won back.

As civilised pearson in favour of individual rights we ask you to make a small effort to know and understand the country wich welcomes you and to realise that is a distinct nation. Through this you try.

In this way, while you are on holidays, together with the catalans, you will contribute to a united Europe in wich all peoples and historical nations participate equally on the basis of solidarity and justice for all. We thank you for your acceptance of the catalan people.

Catalonia in figures:

Area: 69,031 km2 (13.0 % of the Spanish state and 0.75 % of the French state) 22th-23th place between 28 European States.
Population: 10,094,127 inhabitants (26.3 % of the Spanish State and 0.56 % of the French State) 12th-13th place between 28 European States.
Density: 156.1 inhabitants/Km2. 9th-10th place between 28 European States.
Area of catalan language: 95.7 % of the land.

Welcome to Catalonia!

Catalonia has always been, currently is, and always will be part of Spain. Deal with it.

And Flamenco and bullfighting are very minority through all Spain. You're either a manipulator or just a dummy.

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"The Picts were some of the first settlers in Scotland, "myths"(real history) tell of their descent from the Celtic goddess Brighid, their lineage passed down from the female line. Kenneth I - the first King of Scotland - was descended from this line, his mother being one of the Pictish Queens.

Brighid was a Celtic Goddess, from the Tuatha de Danaan, which legend says were an ancient fairy race of Ireland." They mention the imposter queen elizabeth II being descended from the Picts but this is a lie.Take it from me https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/a...land-1-4086044

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"A New History of the Picts" by Stuart McHardy sets out to shed new light on the story of the Picts. The Picts are usually portrayed as residing in one of the most mysterious corners of the early history of what is now known as Scotland: arriving and departing in uncertain circumstances and leaving little but a marvellous collection of carved stones to show they were ever here at all.

McHardy's thesis is a radical one, yet at the same time a very straightforward one. For him the Picts were the descendents of the indigenous peoples who occupied most of Scotland north of the Clyde-Forth line (apart from much of Argyll). The people who carved the Pictish symbol stones were simply the descendents of the people who had built the iron age brochs, who in turn were descendents of those who left their mark on the landscape in the bronze age and neolithic eras.

At the other end of the chronology he argues that the Picts were not somehow displaced or defeated by the Scots of what is now Argyll. Rather he believes that the Picts and Scots had an increasingly close coexistence over the centuries, to the point where they shared generations of kings to jointly form a nation that became known as "Alba". On this reading, the Picts are usually assumed to have disappeared simply because the English later chose to translate Alba as "Scotland", and so its inhabitants became known as "Scots". McHardy argues that it is possible to trace a continuity of tribal society from prehistory through the Picts and the Scots to the way of life of the highland clans which was only finally extinguished in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

Anyone seeking to tell the early story of Scotland suffers from a series of problems. Primary references are few and very far between, and most were written centuries later and/or in England and Ireland. The source material has been trawled through time and again, and differences of interpretation tend to depend on fine difference of the reading of the primary sources, or differences in the degree to which an individual author is prepared to take folklore or common sense into account in painting his or her picture. At times Stuart McHardy appears to be working some of the well known references quite hard: but the story he tells is compelling one which gets over "the problem of the Picts" in a very satisfying way that builds the people who carved the Pictish symbol stones back into the mainstream of our ancestry

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Scone Palace


The Heart of Scotland's History

Scone Palace is a place that breathes history like nowhere else in Scotland. Today, in the 21st century, it is the home of the Earls of Mansfield, and a major attraction to visitors from all over the world. Fifteen hundred years ago, it was the capital of the Pictish kingdom and the centre of the ancient Celtic church. In the intervening centuries, it has been the seat of parliaments and the crowning place of Kings. It has housed the Stone of Destiny and been immortalised in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Poised above the River Tay, the Palace overlooks the routes north to the Highlands and east through Strathmore to the coast. The Grampian mountains form a distant backdrop, and across the river stands the city of Perth. Two thousand years ago, the Romans camped here, at the very limit of their empire. They never defeated the warlike Picts, who later came to rule Scone, but the followers of St Columba had more success. By the early 7th century, a group of early Christians, the Culdees(chaldeans=celts) or servants of God, had established themselves here.http://www.scone-palace.net

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THE PICTS

The Picts are the "mystery people" of the British Isles. They were something of a curiosity even to their contemporaries. The difference in their culture from those of the other races of the British Isles was observed by Gildas; and Bede mentioned that the succession to the Pictish kingship was through the female-line unlike all the other nations of the world whose succession was through the male-line. The Picts have been the subject of much speculation. Their identity has been debated by historians, however, it is generally now agreed upon by modern scholars that the Picts were the Iron Age descendants of the Bronze Age Britons. That is, the Picts were the late survival into the historical period of the indigenous prehistoric non-Indo-European inhabitants of the British Isles, that is, the British megalith-builders. For, early Pictish culture appears to directly be a continuation of the old customs, institutions, and socio-political order of the megalith-builders of Bronze Age Britain. The Picts possessed a distinctive culture, seen particularly in their exotic pottery, their artwork [such as their carved symbols on stone], their jewelry, etc. Their language, presumed to have been non-Indo-European, which the Romans said was akin to the Basque tongue, included an alphabet or system-of-writing that has not yet been deciphered, which was forgotten upon their extinction or rather their absorption by later British races.

The Picts, so-called by the Romans, called the "Cruithni" by the Irish Gaels, from the Q-Celtic dialect, which may be translated into the P-Celtic dialect as "Pretani", gave the British Isles their name, "Pretannia", whence the Latin "Britannia". That is, they may have? The greatest confusion in the early history of the British Isles has been the wrongful acceptance that the name Pretani or Pritani [the Picts] is the same as Brittani or Brittones [the Brigantes], who were an entirely different people, that is, the celticized descendants of either the Albanese or the Irish "Fir-De". It has long been recognized that Pretani is the Gallo-Britannic equivalent of the Old Gaelic name Cruthin, or Cruithni, representing the still older Q-Celtic name Qretani. The Gaelic equivalent enables us to identify the Cruithni with the Pretani, that is, with the people who are commonly now called the Picts. The name "Pict" ["Pictii"] is itself however found for the first time in written records in a Latin document that refers to events in Britain in Year AD 297, which thus would be the oldest surviving written mention of the Picts by that name.

The territory of the Picts, reduced to the islands and coasts of the Irish Sea, became a separate British kingdom, whose capital city was Aberffraw, on the Isle of Anglesey, off the north-west fringe of Wales, Caernarvonshire, which was the Iron Age successor-state of the old British Bronze Age kingdom, which is sometimes called the Kingdom of Aberffraw, or the Welsh Iron Age kingdom, or the Pictish "Old Kingdom", whose culture, called the Pict "A" culture, was a continuation of the proto-Pict "C" culture of the British Bronze Age. Its first king, that is, the first king of the Picts was Cruach (Croich), the son of the sister of Britain’s last Bronze Age King, Ogmios, and "a foreign prince" [perhaps the Greek epic hero Hercules, whose image is found in Pictish artwork]. Cruach established himself as Ogmios’ successor, and put together the old British government-in-exile, which became a kingdom, while trying to retake the island from the Albanese invaders. He held sway over Western Wales, South-West Scotland, Eastern Ireland, and Western France. Cruach was later deified as the sun-god in the pagan druidic pantheon. Irish legend says that the druids instituted the worship of Cruach as the founding-deity of the Pictish Nation in all Pictish territories.

The Pictish "Old Kingdom", which produced the Pictish "A" culture, flourished the first half of the Old Iron Age. The successors of Cruach, its first king, all descendants in the female-line through his sister, according to the matrilineal principle, while his male-line descendants held no special status. The succession to the British Bronze Age sacral-kingship continued as before through the female-line during the British Iron Age, however, since the male-line of Britain's Bronze Age Royal House had become extinct, the women of the royal blood, that is, the vestal-virgins, who always stayed at home, now took as their consorts during the Iron Age the tribal chiefs/kings of the various tribes of the British Isles and Gaul or sometimes of another country, and their off-spring became the sacral-kings, who were elected from among the sons of the vestal-virgins by a "college" of druids, the succession therefore passing from one family or house to another yet through a single female-stem, such that the sacral-kings no longer came from a single male-line dynasty though they all continued to share a common female-line ancestry through their mothers descending in a straight line of successive female-links from the Pictish mother-goddess, "Cailleach-Mheur", identified by the Greeks with Cleito, and by the Romans with Britannia, the mother-goddess of the British Isles. The fathers of the sacral-kings were almost always unrelated to one another, yet this did not disturb the royal line since it was their mothers who represented the royal line. The male-line ancestry of the sacral-kings was practically ignored anyway to maintain the fiction that the sacral-king was begotten of a god [Poseidon] born of a mortal-woman [Cleito]. This system of succession was regulated by custom, whereas, the succession passed from sister’s son to sister’s son, that is, from uncle to maternal nephew, or among uterine brothers [in order of birth], or among maternal cousins.

The most conspicuous Pictish archaeological monuments are their citadels. The royal citadel of the Pictish Old Kingdom was built at Aberffraw on the Isle of Anglesey off Caernarvonshire [Gwynedd], Wales, on the south side. The port-city of Gwygyr, now Cemais, on the north-west of the Isle of Anglesey was one of the "three privileged ports" [most important ports] of Britain, according to The "Triads". It occupied a position of strategic importance in the shipping-lanes of the Irish Sea connecting major trade routes between Wales and Ireland, or Wales and Scotland, or Wales and France. The name of the Pictish citadel or hill-fort "Tre’r Ceiri" in Caernarvonshire translates as "town of giants". This shows that the Picts were still called “giants” by the Welsh in medieval times. The elaborate chambered tomb of Bryn-Celli-Dhu on the Isle of Anglesey was the royal necropolis of the old Pictish kings of Aberffraw. It is one of the finest examples of a “passage grave” in the British Isles. A grandiose Iron Age temple was built out of stone off Anglesey on the near-by isle called "Holy Isle" about 1250/1000BC on the model of the earlier Bronze Age temple at Glastonbury described by Greek writers yet on a smaller scale and was not as imposing as the earlier temple, which had been destroyed by invading Indo-Europeans, circa 1500BC. It was the center of druidism for more than a thousand years, until its destruction by the Romans in AD60. It was possibly the circular temple of Apollo referred to by the classic Hecataeus. Hecataeus wrote (500BC) that there was an island [Britain] in the ocean opposite Gaul as big as Sicily where the cult of the sun-god Apollo was pre-eminent, and where there was a magnificent grove and a celebrated temple, round in form, in which there were priests daily offering prayers and chanting praises and many musicians playing their instruments accompanying choirs singing hymns and vestal-virgins attending an "eternal-flame". Hecataeus wrote that Apollo visited the island [Britain] once every nineteen years, during which period the stars, completing their revolutions, returned to their former places in the sky. On this account, the classic wrote, the Greeks called the cycle of nineteen years as the "Great Year". Hecataeus misidentified the Britons with the Hyperboreans, but the name "Hyperboreans" appears to have been used rather vaguely by ancient writers. The Pictish kingdom in Wales expanded across the Irish Sea, which was not a divider but was a link to other Pictish settlements, as the Aegean Sea was to the Classical Greeks, and around the Irish Sea arose a maritime society which flourished during the Iron Age before the Roman invasion. The Pictish achievement was that overlordship of such a far-flung collection of scattered settlements could be a reality, however, a common culture and language, the highly organized socio-political, religious, and economic systems of the Pictish bureaucratic-state, and a common allegiance to one crown, was what actually held Pictish society together. Meanwhile, the Albanese occupied England, Eastern Wales, and South-East Scotland, and founded their own kingdoms

The Picts, the British aborigines, driven by the norse into isolated pockets where they made a stand against the invaders, survived the norse invasion in scattered remnants throughout the British Isles. The native Britons, the Picts, moved their capital from Aberffraw, Wales, across the Irish Sea, to Tara, Ireland, due to the advances of the invading norse in Britain, thus, essentially founding a new kingdom, that is, the Kingdom of Tara, circa 750BC. Tara, Co. Meath, appears to have been one of three citadels in Ireland which were occupied at various times by the Pictish kings during the Middle Iron Age, and the others were Croghan, Co. Connaught, and Mach, Co. Ulster. The Picts still occupied considerable territories on the British mainland, it was just their capital-city or the royal residence which was moved to safety across the Irish Sea to Ireland to a more secure and defensible site.

The Pictish "Late Kingdom", that is, the Scottish Iron Age Kingdom, called the Kingdom of Scone after its capital-city, which produced the Pictish "C" culture, flourished the last half of the Late Iron Age. The first King of Scone was Credne, the last King of Tara [I]. His mother had been a Pictish princess; and his father, Cinge, the governor of Scotland for the King of Thule, was a cadet of the royal clan of the Atecotti, that is, the Creones, who descended in the male-line from Creon, an Atlantean prince, the first King of the Atecotti, who descended in the male-line from Atlas, the first King of Atlantis, according to myth. The epithet of Credne, "of the Brazier", refers to a pan of hot coals in which he used to burn incense while officiating in the temple as a druid-priest before his election as king. It was the custom in those days that younger sons and daughters of royalty enter religious orders. The kings of Scone descended according to the matrilineal principle from Credne’s sister, while Credne’s three sons, Cait, Ce, and Circ, founded their own kingdoms in Scotland, that is, Caithness, Ce, and Circinn, and were the ancestors of three great branches of the Cruithni, that is, the descendants of Credne. Credne is the eponymous ancestor of the Cruithni, which is the Irish name for the Picts, meaning “Credne’s People”, so-called because Credne is remembered in Irish tradition as the leader of the migration of the majority of the Irish Picts from Ireland to Scotland during the Gaelic Conquest of Ireland, whence their name.

The Kingdom of Albany, appears in the New Iron Age as the successor-state of the Late Iron Age Kingdom of Scone. The kings of Scone reigned in Scotland during the Late Iron Age as the successors of the earlier Kings of Tara [its first series of kings], who had reigned in Ireland during the Middle Iron Age as the successors of the still earlier Kings of Aberffraw, who had reigned in Wales during the Old Iron Age as the successors of the ancient Bronze Age British sacral-kings of the Megalithic Culture [noted for its huge stonework, e.g. "Stonehenge"], who sat at Avebury, England, during the Bronze Age. The Pictish kings when they first appear in written history [after the Romans, who wrote, came] had already been pagan sacral-kings from the dateless past. Indeed, the Pictish kings who established themselves in Scotland in the Late Iron Age had already been pagan sacral-kings from the dateless past, and were the greatest royalty of the Ancient Britons.

The Kingdom of Albany was founded by Calgac[us] (Calgaich) [identified with Gilgidi in the regnal-list], its first king, a Caledonian prince, whose mother was a Pictish princess, who was elected high-king by the druids at a huge assembly at Scone in AD75 attended by perhaps the country’s entire population. Calgacus was enthroned in an ancient ceremony officiated by the druids in a chambered cairn on Moot Hill at Scone while seated upon the "Scone of Scone". Calgacus, of whom the Roman historian Tacitus wrote saying that he was a great warrior descended from "an ancient line of kings", united the tribes of Scotland to form a defense against the threat of the Roman advance. He fought several battles against the Romans but was ultimately defeated and probably killed in the Battle of Mons Graupius in AD83. The successors of Calgac[us], the first [New Iron Age] King of Albany, descended in the female-line from his sisters, whose mother was a female-line descendant of the sister of Credne, the first [Late Iron Age] King of Scone, whose mother was a female-line descendant of the sister of Tarvos, the first [Middle Iron Age] King of Tara, whose mother was a female-line descendant of the sister of Cruach, the first [Old Iron Age] King of Aberffraw, whose mother was the sister of Ogmios, the last Bronze Age King of Britain, whose mother was a female-line descendant of Andate, the sister-wife of Ampher, who was Britain’s first [Bronze Age] king, according to Plato, the Greek classic, who wrote that Ampher and his sister-wife Andate were the son and daughter of the sea-god Poseidon [equivalent to the Roman deity Neptune] and the mortal-woman Cleito [equivalent to the Roman deity Britannia, the island-goddess of Britain].

The Kingdom of Albany, usually called "Pictavia" to distinguish it from Albania, Albanacht, or Albion, flourished throughout the New Iron Age, the Roman Era, and the Early Middle Ages. The Kingdom of Albany was composed of seven local or provincial kingdoms whose kings all acknowledged the kings of Scone as high-king, who reigned nationally as the King of Albany. The seven provincial kingdoms were: (1) Fortrenn [Fortriu], corresponding roughly to Strathearn [= "Strath-Eireann", which is another name for Ireland] and Mentieth; (2) Athfotla [Foltlaid], now Athole; (3) Fidach, corresponding roughly to Moray, Ross, and Banff; (4) Fib [Fiobh], now Fife; (5) Cait, now Caithness, and included Sutherland too; (6) Ce, corresponding roughly to Marr and Buchan; and (7) Circinn [Cirech], corresponding roughly to Angus and Mearns. In addition to these seven provincial kingdoms there were also client-states such as the Irish, Scottish, and Norse settlements in the country. The succession to the seven provincial kingdoms was according to the patrilineal principle, while the succession to the high-kingship at Scone [the national monarchy] was according to the matrilineal principle, which was a non-Indo-European system and evidence that the Pictish monarchy pre-dated the Indo-Europeans in Britain.

The Picts, after their long struggle with the Romans, came into conflict with the English. The Scots eventually founded the Kingdom of Scotland The last King of Albany, or the Picts,Drust X was the last representative of the Iron Age Pictish Monarchy, which was itself the successor of the Bronze Age British sacral-kingship, that is, the original monarchy of Britain, not counting the Stone Age tribal British chieftainship, which undoubtedly surpasses in antiquity all of the world’s dynasties. The female-line of Cleito ["Mother Eve"], which was well over three thousand years old by then, snapped Year 848 as the matrilineal principle was eclipsed by the patrilineal principle with the end of the Pictish Monarchy. There was a major suppression of Pictish culture, language, and heritage, at this time in a conscious effort by the Scots to eradicate Pictish nationalism. The Picts themselves did not cease to exist as individuals, however, after AD 848 they were forced to adopt Scottish culture which resulted in the loss of their identity, and after only about two or three generations the Picts were completely absorbed by the Scots and had come to be regarded as a mysterious people of the past.

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DNA from ancient remains seems to have solved the puzzle of one of Europe's most enigmatic people: the Basques.

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The word Catalan derives from the territory of Catalonia. The main theory suggests that Catalunya (Latin Gathia Launia) derives from the name Gothia or Gauthia (which means "Land of the Goths"), since the origins of the Catalan counts, lords and people were found in the March of Gothia and from there it was close to Gothland > Gothlandia > Gothalania > Catalonia. If you are wondering how many people speak Catalan, You will be actually surprised - almost 38% do. In total, about 7.3 million (all over the world) people speak Catalan and 9.8 million people understand the language. Catalan became official "Catalonia's own language" in 1979 with Statute of Autonomy.
Catalan language was excluded from official use under Franco dictatorship. For example it was forbidden to use it at school or while publishing texts. It is spoken by people in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, parts of Aragon region in Spain, some parts of South-East France, the city of Alghero in Sardinia and in Andorra (where it is the the only official tongue).

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Mainly, there are two dialects in Catalan: Western and Eastern that can be divided into 6 other ones: Northern Catalan, Central Catalan, Balearic, Northwestern Catalan, Valencian and Algherese. Some sources say that there are even 12 Catalan subdialects.

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"First king of the Scots? Actually he was a Pict"

"IN 843AD, the kingdom of Scotland was created when Kenneth MacAlpine led an army of Scots to victory over the Picts. There have even been calls for a field near Stirling where the battle is said to have been fought - which attracts scores of tourists from America and elsewhere - to be officially recognised by the Scottish Parliament as the "birthplace of the nation". But a forthcoming book by St Andrews University historian Alex Woolf will claim that all the evidence suggests MacAlpine was actually a Pict himself and stories about him as a great Scottish war leader were made up in later centuries.

The expert in early Scottish history said contemporary sources referred to MacAlpine as "king of the Picts" and gave the same title to the four kings who succeeded him. He also said both Kenneth and Alpine were Pictish rather than Scottish names. The first reference to a Scottish Kenneth MacAlpine fighting against the Picts comes about 400 years after he was alive and the supposed battle of 843AD is believed to be a much later invention. Mr Woolf, whose book From Pictland to Alba: Scotland 789 to 1070 is due out next year, admitted there was little contemporary evidence about MacAlpine, but what there was supported his theory.

"The myth of Kenneth MacAlpine conquering the Picts and killing the King of the Picts - it’s about 1210, 1220 that that’s first talked about," he said. "There’s actually no hint at all that he was a Scot. Historians who work on this still tend to say that [he was a Scot] but add lots of caveats. "The contemporary evidence does not make this at all clear. There’s nothing at all that says ‘King of the Scots’ and there’s no reference to a conquest of the Picts by the Scots. "If you look at contemporary sources people called him King of the Picts and there are four other Pictish kings after him. So he’s the fifth last of the Pictish kings rather than the first Scottish king." The 19th-century historian Charles Roger claimed a standing stone at Airthrey near Stirling marked the site of the 843AD battle, saying it was "believed that it was reared to commemorate the total defeat of the Picts by the Scots, under Kenneth MacAlpine, and which led to the destruction of the Pictish kingdom".

He added: "It is beyond doubt that the battle which finally overthrew the Picts was fought in this vicinity." But Mr Woolf said the battle was "completely made up". "I don’t think there’s even a late medieval account that puts it there. The one place we know Kenneth MacAlpine is connected to is Forteviot where he died," he said. In 730, the Venerable Bede’s history of Britain spoke of four peoples - the Gaels, Picts, Welsh and English. But in 1140, Henry of Huntingdon expressed surprise that the Picts and their language had "disappeared". It is thought this prompted the idea that they suffered a crushing defeat in battle and were wiped out.

But historians now believe that a process of integration between the Gaelic-speaking Scots and Picts, who spoke a language similar to Welsh, took place over several centuries. Mr Woolf said: "I’m coming round to the view that the disappearance of the Picts has been exaggerated. It looks to me that there was a much more peaceful fusion. "Henry [of Huntingdon] says ‘Isn’t it odd the Picts have disappeared and even their language has disappeared’. But if you look around that period, the Scottish king lists all go back right the way through all the Pictish kings. They were clearly thinking in terms of continuity. "However in the late 12th century, they become more interested in Gaelic Irish roots and stick them on instead. Had you asked someone in 1200 the question in the right way, you probably would have got them thinking they were still Picts."

He said that the country became known as Scotland because this is what it was called by the English. They had originally used Scotland - an English word - to refer to Ireland. "It seems to be an English perception that something [in Scotland] had changed, maybe in the 12th century. It’s what the English say and that seems to be bought into by the Scots themselves by the end of the 12th century," he said. "It seems that the educated and elite classes started to adopt English customs and began to see the people of Alba as Scots."

Mr Woolf believes that the Picts did not disappear but gradually adopted Gaelic words and by the 12th century were speaking a version of Pictish - which was like Welsh but without the Latin influences - "with a massive interference from Gaelic". This reached the point where the English "cannot distinguish between them [the Picts and Scots]", accounting for Henry of Huntingdon’s belief they had disappeared and subsequent theories they were destroyed in battle. Professor Ted Cowan, of Glasgow University’s Scottish history department, said: "When medieval minds were looking at the disappearance of a people, they thought it must be to do with military conquest. "Whereas we’d probably say now that we’re talking much more about assimilation.

The Picts and the Scots probably had peaceful relations and marital relations for several centuries before Kenneth MacAlpine’s time. "The later traditions are definitely manufactured because they’ve got to tell a story." Prof Cowan said Mr Woolf’s theory sounded "ingenuous" but also "speculative" saying little was known about Kenneth MacAlpine. However he agreed it was "probably right that Kenneth and Alpine are Pictish names".

Robbie the Pict, who changed his name from Brian Robertson, said he had campaigned to raise awareness of the Picts for years and welcomed the new research. "Robbie the Pict was the name given to me and I adopted it because nobody would let me lose it. I started a Pictish High Commission and staged concerts at Pictish battle sites to make people conscious of the very existence of our forefathers," he said. "The Picts got a rough deal in history. There does seem to have been unfair treatment. Their name, history and traditions have been usurped by the Scots(but meaning the norse..mind you)."

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/c...-pict-1-556942



Robbie the Pict, formerly known as Brian Robertson (1948-) is a Scottish campaigner and former Scottish Parliamentary candidate for the Highlands and Islands.

Robertson gained exposure as the leader of the Micronation of the Pictish Free State, established in 1977 as a means of promoting awareness of the Pictish culture. He was also a leading figure in the ultimately successful campaign to abolish the toll on the Skye Bridge during which he argued that the legal paperwork for the tolls was incomplete, and that consequently the tolls themselves were illegal. The toll was finally abolished in 2004 after the government bought the bridge from its private owners.

The Pictish Free State was a micronation initiative started by Robbie the Pict in 1977. Apparently created to further knowledge of Pictish culture, Robertson started the project with one acre of his own land on the Isle of Skye. Since then the Pictish Free State has grown to over 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) through supporters donations. Robbie, under 'Pictish High Commission' auspices, has in the past been in conflict with HM Government over his use of Pictish diplomatic registration plates and non-compliance with UK laws

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

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