Who Made the Scottish People... The Picts
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- The Scottish nation are an mix of many peoples. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey looks at some of the peoples who made Scotland: The Scots, the Britons, the Angles, the Vikings and in this episode... the Picts
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
As an Irishman,I find the genealology of Scotland fascinating. Thanks for putting us in the PICTure!!!
Ah, I see what you did
You sound more like a Yank.
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Thats why we always got pict oan!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours When I researched my Clan's history (Farquharson, which if you know a lot about Culloden, you'll know we held the centre.) I learned that we decended from these lads that aren't talked about much. And speaking of my clan, we could've been the kings of Scotland if the Dunkeld dynasty didn't usurp MacBethad MacFindlaech. (The real Macbeth.)
As an English born man, with Scottish ancestry on my mother’s side, I absolutely love this channel and content it provides. Learn to love and not hate people. No matter what your told.
Hold on, are we including Fifers?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Yes my Great Grandmother was a Fifer & I have an extensive family history in Fife.
Agreed
Tell the SNP lol 😆
I'd rather be a lifer than a fife'r lol,
😂😃 I'm joking I loved visiting my partners family in Fife. Great time, great memories
Im Irish but live in Scotland. Love the country and your videos of learning the history. Fantastic.
Lucky you I’m 16%scottish Irish English Norwegian n cherokee Indian. My ancestor was Bruce the king man in waiting. He lived in caelaverock castle
Brilliant! A Scottish person talking about Scottish history. That’s novel.
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@@ScotlandHistoryTours
Im Irish. The better Irish history channels are American. Hard pill to swallow. Thanks.
@@dogstar5572 Well, there are 38,597,428 self reported Irish descendants living in the US as of 2020.
Painting yourself in woad before a battle is good - one of the properties of woad is that it helps blood to congeal. Very useful if you have just been stabbed with a gladius! Woad is also anti-viral and has been used in medicine for centuries, especially Chinese medicine.
Tastes great too😉
Also a sun screen? :-)
Not enough people know this
@@margaretnicol3423 Sun screen very important in Norther Scotland!
@@willmosse3684 Of course! You need it for the fabulous beaches. Sun tan or weather beaten - either one! :-)
Terrific Bruce, I heard that Pictish Children took their Mothers maiden name rather than their Fathers name 50 years ago before people were interested through spoken history, your story is right on the mark. you always know your Mother.
Nechtan Mac Derlei being the prime example. Derlei was the mother of the "philosopher King " of the Picts known to Bede. So far though also the only known one
The Jews do the same they inherit their religion from their mother.
@@June-s3o Never Knew that
In Scotland our middle name is generally our mothers maiden suname.
The Picts are my favorite!!
I'm an Aussie with Scottish ancestry from Glasgow on my mother's side. This channel is so cool, I have learned so much.
I'm delighted
Too many of us got sent to Oz.
Good to see you guys hold your ancestry dearly!
This channel is so fantastic. Great storytelling and delivery, and feels well-researched and balanced, never sensationalist - all whilst retaining a bit of humour. Brilliant. If only we all had had history teachers like this back in school.
Thanks John
As an American with a significant amount of Scottish ancestry, I love this channel. I watch it all the time (my great grandmother still spoke Gaelic)
Guid lad
@@ScotlandHistoryTours, Math am fear! (pardon the Irish idiom)
@jeffbosworth8116
Sadly, the _United States of America_ ceased to exist in late 1913 to be replaced by a Corporation operating under the name of _United States_ with no _America_ in the new appellation.
Only those currently of or over the age of 110 ten years can call themselves American.
The rest are the descendants of the 97 million slaves, ergo slaves, themselves, sold by Wilson and *both* parties to a cabal of zionist bankers!
All *legal* and above board, incidently, with the Corporation paying taxes to the English Crown!
Prehistory is so cool because it's so mysterious.
History in general is mysterious. We only know what the conquerors left us to see
I wonder if prehistoric people knew of a prehistory (to them) that we have no clue about.
@@jamp12008 That's heavy!
@@larsord9139 ancient history and civilisations fascinates me to the point I stay up too late watching stuff about it on UA-cam. Have a nice Christmas pal 👍🤝🍻
@@jamp12008 they had stories of the little dark people
Well Bruce you may not give me what I think I wanted, but you do give me what I didn't know I needed. So, I always want to hear a story or a thousand stories about the people, places, and events in Scottish History. I'm listening and learning.
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You are an amazing story teller and teacher. You have a gift
From haggis hounds to Pictish prehistory in same week. That's impressive for any story teller. Another fine story Bruce.
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I love hearing anything about OUR NATIONAL HISTORY, worryingly I heard nothing about it when I was apparently educated at school. We were told plenty about Saxons, Tudors, Vikings and Romans yet our own historical events and people etc.. never appeared. I’m saddened by this fact. Hopefully Bruce will reach some of our young students through this channel and allow us to have an identity.
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@@mmattmockus6963 I went to school in Inverness in the 1970s and 80s and was barely taught anything about Scottish History and even as recent as then, learning Gaelic was not a common thing in our schools, due to the fallout from the Highland Clearances and Jacobite rebellions (this last bit was what my Gran had told me growing up, as the 'stigma' for speaking Gaelic had been strongly enforced during her school years) and only some of the Western Isles folks still spoke it openly.
@mmattmockus6963
This is a classic ploy of colonisers...deny a nation it's own history, language, achievements, etc, superimposing the coloniser's own history, language, avievements, etc in their place and that way the risk of rebellion from the nation colonised or taking any form of responsibility for the atrocities/Genocide committed can be vastly reduced.
England was excoriate in a UN study, in recent years, for the still ongoing abuse of the Scottish nation.
This channel and this man are absolute living legends
Any life will have some serious regrets attached to it. As I approach my declining years I have 2. That I was only able to visit Scotland once. And that these videos weren't around before I went!
From a grad student in Celtic Studies, well-done, Sir! The Picts are a tantalising yet mysterious cultural complex nested within the broader cultural complex of the Insular Celts. That hill-fort site is breathtaking -- as I'm sure you can personally attest. 😁
Yes indeed
Oh that scenery. Trying to make us want to visit Scotland, Bruce? It's working...
That's the point
My Scott's Granda would tell us kids 'stop goin like Picts!' when we would fight.😂
What? You would climb over walls and kill Roman Legionaries?
@@nowthenzen we tied our male cousins to chairs and lit a bonfire to watch them squirm. We all got a scutching for that one.😂
That's hilarious 😂
@@southpawcrochetwithkatie9043 oh dear!
@@southpawcrochetwithkatie9043 i'm in hysterics!! lol
As an Irishman, your attempt at our accent is a damn sight better than what I've heard from some of your famous countrymen in films!
😂 I know my limitations
@ScotlandHistoryTours
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Wait, have you seen Liam Neeson as Rob Roy ? Sorry, heard.
To be sshiyoor lol
Try Sean Connery in the landing craft section of “The Longest Day”
Secondary comment or, rather, just a wee suggestion...
Scottish inventors and contributers to many fields.
There's no shortage and a wealth of candidates for jaw-dropping facts. 👍
There's quite a few videos on those guys on here
You are FANTASTIC!! A true scholar & more.
I love your programmes not only do we learn we have a laugh aswell. Your a legend. Thanks.
Very welcome
I do believe that it's their enduring mystique that fuels our fascination! You did a fantastic job with this video, and I absolutely love the drone footage! Thank you very much for doing what you do!! As always, I love your comedy, too!
Thank you very much!
Brilliant video! I've been a history lover all my life. As I am of English, Irish and Scottish descent these stories are dear to my heart. Your explanation of the five cultures/peoples who made Scotland filled in gaps in my understanding that more famous historians did not. Your style is clear and accessible (with sprinklings of humor) and still credible. Thank you for taking the time to make and share these videos.
Glad you like them!
Have this video saved in my folders for when I homeschool my little Florida raised Scottish boy thank you!
Tell him he's a descendent of the race that kicked the Roman Empire's arse, not once, but twice! 🤭
We lost the third and last battle, but we sacked Rome on two occasions.
Saor Alba! 🏴
ALBA... Outstanding video. Thank you.
Subbed! Love the channel, you seem like a great guy! My granny was from Inverness. All the best from 🇨🇦!
Your an intelligent man Bruce thanks for your history lessons 👍
As a Scots-American, so thankful to find your channel, brother!
thanks so much for the wealth of knowledge , part of our family came from Orkneys , my grandfather always talked about the picts and the Norwegians, and the Westford knight is down the road from us greetings from Massachusetts
Helooooooo 😎
My fiance is a very patriotic and passionate scot.
He brought me to live with him on the West coast 🥰🏴
He's often tried to explain the history of the Picts & Gaels to me but the story has never fully stuck 😂
I've loved listening to this and hopefully learning a little more.
Thank you ❤
How have you gone this long without being noticed by someone, for example- the history channel? You're absolutely f@#$ing brilliant sir!
Ah thanks
Very interesting. Thank you for putting in the work to provide these histories.
My pleasure
Thank you, Bruce. Another excellent video. History is always written by the victors, so Scottish history is going to take a lot of unravelling. I really like the idea of a matriarchal lineage. If I think of my Mac Donald grandmother, she was the kind of person who would have stood up in Edinburgh Cathedral and started a civil war.
😂Aye there's a few of them
The building of Hadrian s wall might explain the story
My great gran had the Gaelic. She could make shopkeepers open their closed doors on a Sunday!
My granny, long since deceased, threw a pound of sausages (link, although I'd have gone for square, due to it's adhesive quality) in Churchill's face, when he visited Glesga, back in the day.
Your humor is the best of Scotland...keep telling the story
You are an amazing narrator/teacher. Thanks for another great video.
I thank you
Excellent history and fun facts love it
Absolutely LOVE the Glasgow skewing! 😂😂🍀💚
Very interesting, Ty. I’ve been to Scotland 4 times, always fascinating!!!
Love this, Bruce! I can't get enough of the Picts. ♥️Thank you!! Also, thank you for making me laugh. That's such good medicine.
You are so welcome
This is the most nuanced breakdown I have heard on the Picts! Great job man - well researched - expert delivery.
Ah thanks
I'm in the USA. I truly enjoy your videos. At my age, I may not retain much (lol) but I really like learning about Scotland in the way you present it...
😂 I'll be honest Jeanie I'm at that age too
Loving the channel, your story telling is first class and the videos are well researched.
Great video and amazing drone footage of the scenery too. Thanks Bruce.
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Thanks 👍
What an awesome episode.
Welsh person here of Manx and Scottish ancestry on my fathers side. According to a DNA test I did I have ancient Pict DNA 🧬❤
Loved the dance @ 5:06 🙌 😅
You've still got moves, Bruce!🙃🤣
I only knew of the Pictsies of discworld. These sound just as interesting!
That’s was great. Nice way to tell the story up in the glen. May I suggest George and Isabel Henderson’s book, “ The Art of the Picts” for the stunning stone carvings.And “ The Work of Angels”, to see the metal work of the Pict. Thank you for your shows.
I'll check it out!
Tapadh leat! I really enjoy your channel. I’m American, but wouldn’t exist without my Scottish ancestors. I really appreciate you and your knowledge of Scotland.
Awesome! Thank you!
Love love love your channel! I obsessed with my Scottish heritage and cherish it very much. I enjoy these videos so much! Thank you thank you!
Ah, you're so kind
The most concise description of the Pictish people: fighty types!
Pictish place names have a great similarly to Welsh - this makes sense because both languages are descended from the common
linguistic language of common Brythonic.
In the Welsh tradition it was the Scotti from Ireland who came to main land Prydain Britannia and it was the Scotti who asked for Welsh Brythonic Celtic wives. In fact if you look at the region of Pictland it is covered in Welsh Brythonic Celtic names and river names making the Picts Brythonic Celts. a Welsh archaeologist put this forward as it was pretty obvious from the local names which most others ignore because they do not know.
@@johnhopkins4012 Rwy'n cytuno 🏴👍
Johnh If this is true then yes it is obvious that should be shared and explored more It's no small point of fact
Johnh though this would just indicate that the Picts wifes had the influence and the wifes heritage was preserved So that part can be clear But what of the Picts original location and language
@@dannyregal Another theory is that Pictish was Brythonic - but without the Latin influence; though Welsh ,Cornish and Breton are also Brythonic, they were exposed to centuries of it - unlike Pictish.
Scottish okie here thankful to you for these videos. Helps me understand the culture so much more
More videos on the People who Made Scotland at ua-cam.com/video/i5NsDZTcqzw/v-deo.html
Question Bruce how ingrained in Scottish society has the Freemasons become ? Because Scotland 🏴 was the only Country in Europe after the Catholic Church hunted them for their lands money and title and Supported Robert de Bruce on the Battlefield
Wee spellcheck needed for the name of the hill fella
I’m pumped watching this, some amount of walking up hills in this one
That's quite a climb! Thanks for the story, Bruce.
😆😆😆😆Is one of the those videos where I collapse into fits laughing, you're the best lad!!!
I have learned so much about Scottish History from watching you videos than anything I ever read or documentaries I ever watch thank you.
Wonderful, insightful and informative videos! Your passion for history is contagious!
Jesus, I choked multiple times on my tea. Brilliant subtle humor. 😂
Paint has many different meanings and uses, for one example painting yourself before going into battle helps you to be identified by your fellow Warriors so you are not mistaken for the enemy. And there are also ceremonial reasons resons to paint yourself as well.
As per usual Bruce another fantastic video on a people that we know next to nothing about. No written record's no official language left behind. They are an enigma in themselves. Great job on this epoch in history 👏
I'd like to have a time machine and see that hill when it was full of houses (and take photos, obviously 😁) Thanks Bruce!, the drone video is amazing
You and me both!
I like all your videos. You are telling very interesting things without claiming to have the entire truth.
Been waiting for this one. You didn't disappoint and pointed me back to videos I missed, I'll now catch up with them, and look into Stuart McHardy too. Thank you.
fantastic video !!! im taking celtic civilisation this term at glasgow uni and we learned a lot of this in class !! suberb !
I appreciate all the uphill trekking to fill this video. Your stories are both informative and entertaining. I am a loyal subscriber and trying to buy you a couple coffees. Cheers
This is a great depiction of the picts you picked...quite picturesque. Respict
thank you, Bruce, for another tidbit of Scottish History. you make it seem so interesting to learn. thank you.
Beautiful landscapes Bruce.
Glad you like them!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours thanks.
Good vid on a tough subject. I have done some reading on the Picts and there is little agreement amongst the experts and very little certainty. Trying to tell Pictish history is like try to catch Salmon with a hammer.
I once watched someone equipped with a hammer at Ochiltree salmon ladder...never got one,got a guid soaking instead.
I THINK he was being funny.
@@howler6490 lol
Never tried salmon or a hammer, as the means of catching. 😂
Killed a pigeon with a pkt of cigarettes, though, going back half a century ago.
Chucked the fags, it turned to fly away and the pkt broke it's neck.
My pals (we were on our way to. Xmas dinner at one guy's parents) fell about laughing, but I felt guilty, as I had no intention of eating a filthy city pigeon, whereas, had it been a wood pigeon, I'd have had no qualms.
Your funny comment dredged up that surreal memory from my past.
Thanks, I guess. 😂😂😂
Thanks for sharing Your passion and adventures Brother. Love Your videos! From Toronto Ontario Canada 😀 👍 ❤️ 🏴🇨🇦🌎💯💯💯💯
Come to one of my live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here. www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
Great video Bruce thanks a huge topic with many stories. Picts and Scots mergers through the Breadalbane District and Tay valley. 👏🏼 the Heart of Caledonia 🏴
Caledonians brittonic celts
Scots goidelics celts
Bruce, My family blood line goes back to King MacAedain King of Picts. That line goes down to King Robert II King of Scotland and King William the Lion of Bellemont Scotland. Another line goes to Robert the Bruce and yet another to Henry III King of England. I am very much enjoying the knowledge that you are passing on to us mere mortals..........Regards, Rick
Another Good Story, Bruce! An interesting and difficult topic that you handled with aplomb.
Love it , great story on the Pictish people and I think your quite right about non-homgenious . That is true of every area of the world !! Nice work Bruce !!
Except one people and place technically
"Bruce is your hoodie available in brown?"
"It can be, let me careen up this muddy track"
Aye, just managed to avoid it. I wisnae going for a second take I'll tall you that
thank you i really,really enjoy scotlands history,im from the states my great grandparents were from aberdeen
I’m an American from Yorkshire and Scotts Irish heritage. I found out I have DNA from Robert the Bruce! I love to hear you “ tell a story”! Your lovely and I can’t get enough! I listen as I cook! Thank you for being you!❤️
Your something else my son
I can’t believe you haven’t been considered for next in line to the throne!
You’re brilliant and an engaging storyteller. Keep on keeping on.
I watched a BBC programme recently where new archaeological discoveries in Pictish dwellings in the North pointed to a sophisticated civilisation with many objects that indicate their inclusion in much more international trade and far flung cultural exchanges than had previously been thought.
Great, thought provoking video, and I loved the Nedius Plebious Glesgae diatribe no doubt from a compemporary edition of Abainn Bhaile-mòr.
We were networking, going back thousands of years, the seas being the obvious routes, across most of the planet.
Absolutely fantastic
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If you look where the Picts dwelled was on the east coast of Scotland which would indicate the shores of the east coast of Scotland are where they landed from countries from
That's a nonsense theory otherwise disproven by the fact they were indigenous as can be there are crannog structures formed at almost similar times in both Eastern and western Scotland botn in pictish times it was 7 tribes the real joke us the Catholic monks in 509ad writing that the Scots were Irish 😅😅😅😅😅itz proven the migration was Scotland to Ireland circa 11000bc Ireland history was invented 500ad the Picts were descendant of the peoples in the sane area that can be traced back as far as ore history
@@StuartAnderson-xl4bo proven where? Proof?
@alastairbell7084 modern historical peer reviewed archaeological papers look it up you have Google
The wee NED laugh tho🤣🤣🤣 “Bunch a painted dobbers” 🤣🤣🤣 Your channel makes this all super fun to listen to, I wish things were taught in such an interesting way in school. There’s a lot of old stones and things around my town and the surrounding estates but no one ever talks about them as history was always about things that would pass an exam and that bored me to tears. Great job making your videos all so engaging!
Glad you enjoyed it
Another great video as always Bruce, love learning about the Picts! Was also wondering if you have any videos out about John Muir, or anything in the works? Would be great to hear more about his story and how he became such an influential figure on natural conservation in the states
Not yet. He is on a long list though
Grand, will keep an eye out for it!
Thank you for sharing I never heard of the pics I knew about others
Great video as always Bruce. I always thought my surname was Celtic recently however I’ve been told it’s Pictish Scottish. Whatever, it’s Scottish and that’s what matters to me.
It could be Irish.
@@johnpatrick5307 yes it could, but usually the Irish form of the name is spelt FindlEy. I’m told this is because of the different forms of Gaelic between Ireland and Scotland. Interesting!
@@peterfindlay2756
Irishorigenes has 25 Findlays in Dublin, so that can't be true.
@@johnpatrick5307 Well I'm no expert I only repeated what I had been told. As far as I know I do have Scottish ancestors, but no Irish
@@peterfindlay2756
44% of Scottish DNA is Irish.
You might have more recent Irish immigrants too.
Thanks
Love you Janice
Absolutely love your content...
When are you going to do a piece on
THE NAC MAC FEEGLE?
you know the blue skinned pictsies..
Gets my vote!!
I'm sure Rob will grant an interview if you have a couple of bottles of Sheep Liniment on hand. 😁
A fantastic Programme you have Bruce .. Love it !😎😎
Thank you kindly
The way you described the Picts as a unified nonhomogeneous group of people sounds a lot like modern countries today. Governments change, but people are people and always will be for good and bad.
I suppose so
From what I had learned about the pictish folk,you were brave to even try to explain their story...a bloody guid try Bruce...
Great Show
Fascinating! Of course, history is recorded by those who have writing. We own much to the Celtic monks who did write down early myths and oral histories with their own slant! Thank you for making this video and sharing!
We also have contemporary writers, throughout Europe and throughout history, detailing our achievements and idiosyncracities.
I love his history lessons on Scotland.
I learn something every time Bruce. Interested in Cruithne as I thought that was a people not a person and the first named "Scot" was Calgacos. As you say depends who's writing the story but has given me some reading to do. Have you covered Calgacos in any previous videos?
I've touched on Calgacus in other places
Wonderful as always. Can't wait to travel Again
I was told that the Romans conquered the entire known world, but built a wall (Hadrian's Wall) to avoid dealing with the Picts.
No far wrong
Good work Bruce, good wee Pictish account in Wi) lian Oxenham's "Welsh Origins of Scottish Placenames" & the Picts being Welsh spoken👍
Really enjoyed watching this. Thank you. I’m going to throw something else into the mix. Myself and some friends, all from the north Angus area had DNA tests. One thing we all had in common, apart from Celtic (or Scottish / Irish / Welsh) is Finnish! Could the Sami have been the first settlers in Scotland as the ice caps retreated and the archipelago of the Dogger bank land (not yet submerged by the retreating ice caps) have been the land bridge?
I heard someone else saying something like that
interesting! thinking smallish size and 'difference'. But I never heard of the Sami travelling?
This actually makes alot of sense
Just Finnish, no Scandinavian!
I would've maybe thought, that the Finnish part came through Vikings!
@@aa-zz6328 The vikings, who were Germanic came much later from the south. The Finns (or rather Siberians), would probably have been the first people into Scandinavia, as the ice age retreated and even today, the Sapmi are dominant in northern Scandinavia.
Absolutely love these videos, Bruce. You're like the Scottish LeVar Burton, always telling captivating and educational stories. I very much appreciate your work and humor. Slàinte mhath mo charaid.
Dammit! Now I have to find out who LeVar Burton is
@@ScotlandHistoryTours lol, I grew up with him on a program he hosted called Reading Rainbow. Each episode revolved around a particular story, and he would visit places related to said story. The show would also focus on history and culture as well. It's a pretty fair comparison lol
You're the best Bruce. As a northerner, originally a Pictland and Tap o Noth variety, I appreciate you're historical scholarship about Pictland followed by your warring Celtic look, Ha Ha.
Wow! Scholarship's a bit much. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I'm a bawbag wi a smartphone and a tripod... but I do know a boy wi a drone
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Tha thu sgoinneil. You're my favourite Historian and I love your humour. I'm a huge fan and plan to buy a shirt or two soon. Chan eil thu "Bawbag". Slainte Bruce!