Just want to say that since 2023 I've been trying to understand who were the Picts and what differentiate them from Britons (I research british history just for hobby), and none of the videos or websites I saw gave such a direct but detailed explanation of who they were like your video. Great channel, and thank you very much 👏👏
Picts have always fascinated me. It probably helps that that fascination can also be found in the writings of my favorite fantasy author, Robert E. Howard. Subscribed.
There is an old Irish myth which says that after the fall of the tower of babel we migrated over here from scythia and that we brought the language from there with us.
The Picts were just Britons on the wrong sde of the Roman customs barriers. They liked a bit of Body Art and a decent pint. Two of my kids are tattooists and two are publicans - so nothing much has changed. Where is the mystery?
we've been rifled through so many times it's hard to tell where a nord begins and a bret ends, also in the past 500 years the influx of english to the southern regions further muddies the water. if you're from scotland just be proud of who you are, we all likely got some chedder blood in us as well some english by now
A good summary, but it's a shame you use so much AI art in your videos. They have serious misrepresentations of the Picts, like what their houses and villages looked like, or having them wear metal armour when they famously never did.
@@JustAnotherHistoryChannel even then, there's plenty of actual landscape photos out there! There's plenty of historic societies publishing free open source material, just to educate the public. Worth investigating!
@@JustAnotherHistoryChannel glad to see youre willing to switch back. seeing/heari g AI generated anything in an educational video is an immediate "no" for a lot of people. it will always help your reputability to use real photos and voiceover.
There’s nothing left of them culturally or historically. It’s probably a Roman political term that just means ‘not under Roman rule’. As alluded to in this video the idea of Picts as a people probably stems from 19th century ideas about ethnicity and race
Nah mate, Half if not most of the people born that are not from different countries are from Anglo-saxon descent, and the language your speaking is from the Anglo-saxons, and Scots came from the Anglo-saxons sooo
Who were the Picts? As one of the last Pictush scientists, I answer: They were most likely the descendents of Insular Celts right-through. Saying they were just Britons is incorrect, not only considering their look, but also considering their language, which is of course not Brythonic. And not Irish. Picts just were Picts. That's the right answer.
As an example, at 8:11 it would be nice to include a time period stamp which I wish you included on many maps. Your videos are great about history though. I used to hate history classes and as I've got older it's fasinating. TY
This is a great documentary! Regarding the Pictish language being theorised as a Pre-Indo European language (34:03 timestamp), what is the distinction between that possibly being a Pre-Proto-Indo-European language? I'm curious as to the timeline, as it seems that the name of Pre-Indo/Pre-Proto strongly relates to the timeline of language being developed.
@@philthycat1408 my dad always told me to hold in a pee until we'd crossed the border, "you dinny pish on our own streets when there's a country sized toilet a few mile south."
Yous are that keen to be vulgar you don't even realise you are talking like damn clowns. I've no doubt yer da pished himself in sight of the English. We were a better, stronger people when we aspired to more than being extras in a Mel Gibson movie. God Save the King.
This is the best UA-cam offering on The Picts. It is, however, nearly spoiled by the (otherwise impeccable) narrator's gross mispronunciation of moRAY (for MURRay) and dalriADA (for dalRIada). Worth correcting.
And the most likely theory about Picts is multicultural. The Pictland had 3 languages and cultures - 1. Western Pictish, shich was mainly Gaelic 2. Eastern Pictish, which was mainly Brythonic 3. Northern Pictish, which was non-IE This theory is actually mathcing all the places and holes. It literally can explain everything, and, of course, it is most likely the true one.
Great video. Small note: 34:34 In terms of language families, Scots isn't Celtic but Germanic. I think you meant to say Scottish Gaelic which is Celtic.
The scythian story could have been an adaptation of an oral history referring to the indo-european migration into the isles. The indo-european peoples are said to have migrated out of the region associated with the scythians during antiquity.
Because they were Scythians. Modern academia has been absolutely rabid to deny European peoples their past, even though mountains of evidence always prove them wrong.
They are as indigenous to Scotland as can be there ate traces in Northern Eastern Scotland of almost continual habitation since at least 10,000bc thus was the Stronghold of the Picts the CE at Rhynie. Tap o noth this was also where the Romans fought them at Mons Graupius and also the place the last invasion by Vikings on Pictland at Cruden Bay death of the Danes bay.
So good I have saved this vid to my History play list , I'm sertón that I'll learn more by re watching it. As I live in Edinburgh we have usually been on the Picts southern boarder , specifically during the Roman occupation Cramond was Rome's frontier Fort for a few decades . Although I am aware that the significance of the reclined "Standing" stones unique to Fyfe is not understood so difficult to make any Polemic statements about them the fact that you don't mention the prevalence of the often three stone arrangement ( l _ l ) of two verticals separated by a recumbent rock is my only complaint. As a Tourist interested in history visiting the east coast south of Aberdeen I expected to hear about the endless Viking harassment of the coastal population. Instead I had my preferred view of History reinforced the Norsemen and the Locals where at the verry least centauries old trading partners if not genetically co evolved through generations of regular crossings. (What regular means in this context I could not say). The "Historic" point is that far from being the victims of Viking raids these waters where "Muster Points" from which raids likely left to raid south and gathered at after them. As my Ammeter interest in ancient history is mainly through its pointers to pre history; I admit to extrapolating scant evidence for "Regular" long distance, probably information exchange based maritime "Old World" voyages'. I think arguments can be made for 20,000 BP so who knows how much further.
The most unique cultural feature of the Picts, IMHO, is their propensity for gathering together in caves and grooving with multiple species of small furry animals.
I love the Picts! I found them through reading Bran Mak Morn, a character from the same creator as Conan the Barbarian, Robert E Howard from Texas, where I'm also from. Then I came to find out Bran Mak Morn is loosely based on one of these Bridei kings...and then come to find out my name (Brady) might actually connect etymologically to the name Bridei?? And my mother's side is Scottish...maybe some atavism or genetic memory kickin' in? Haha. I was also obsessed with the Loch Ness monster as a kid, reading every book and watching every documentary I could find...but only recently found the St Columbo story with the River Ness beast episode and then him going to meet another king Bridei (Brady) to convert him. I found claims that this St Columbo story mirrors or even pays homage to some of the St Patrick myths, where Patty is slaying lake monsters hundred years+ earlier. There is some church propaganda intentions potentially with this in the story of Colombo but I was interested in what story did the Columbo story "replace"? It seems that many of the Patrick-slaying-lake-monster myths are reworking over older pagan ones but that's where it gets reaaaally hairy trying to find originals. Found old texts that off hand say "the locals say this is what the legend used to be before patrick" and I can't find it in the usual Fenian publication stuff so....? Help! Lol. The Pictish beast has to be one of my favorite mysteries, especially since compared to all the other easily recognizable animals, it makes one wonder just what were they going for? sources: Other_Dragons_or_Dragon_Others_A_Cultural_View_of_the_Loch_Ness_Monster "Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg" [ O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle] ""A very strange Story hath been invented"" [The Great Folly, superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, especialy of that to St. Patrick's Purgatory: together with an account of the loss that the publick sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially represented, p. 2]
SUBSCRIBED! Genuinely impressive material. Need to rewatch at least once, probably _far_ more, when I've time free to seek [google] additional info about technical terms concerned with the genetic [alleles] and linguistic aspects [P Celtic/Q Celtic]. But that's what's so impressive! I cannot recall the last time I watched a history vid on YT where I had to pause the film whilst I looked up a word I didn't know, or seek help to understand a new concept. Over the last few months I've been disappointed to find history vids labelled 'deep dives' that have essentially been nothing more than highlights taken from the relevant Wikipedia page.
Thank you so much! I'm very glad you enjoyed the video - there is so much more depth to go into concerning the Picts, especially with the linguistic studies, that this video only really starts to scratch the surface. I hope you enjoy reading into the subject further!
Matrilineal kingship was the exception not the rule, so for those who refer to it constantly as matrilineal are rather than bilineal are ignoring the evidence within the kings lists.
Most likely Pictland was a Brythonic speaking elite over a Gaelic speaking population. This parallels the later English speaking elite over a Gaelic speaking population. It also explains things such how could Gaelic, a very challenging language to learn, appears to have spread quickly throughout rural Scotland after the Pictish elite lost power. I can imagine someone using AI to generate Pictish creoles created by Gaelic speakers and try matching the creoles to the Pictish oghams.
Picts were Brythonic Celts they were the same as what the Romans Called Silurae and they were also in the West of what is Now Wales Devon and Cornwall, they spoke the same Language as the British, the name Picton is virtually only found in West Wales today, they were called Picts by the Romans and they were not only in what is now Scotland they were in Rheged and Ystrad Clwyd as well ( Cumbria and North of England, the name came from the Romans who said the Pictones of Western France were the Same as the Britons of Western Britain and and in what the Britons Called Alban , which is common in ancient Cymric as men of the Mountains, that is in all of Britain. Scots seem to forget that they come from Ireland, the area above what Became Hadrians Wall was full of Brythonic Celts, where do you think the name Stuart and Bruce come from, they were Celts whose Lands were of Ancient Families not only in Alba but also in what is now Wales and England the Bruces were from the Ancient Kings of what became Glamorgan and Powys, they are from the same line as the Tudors, Brewys is their Brythonic name, Bruce is an anglicised form of that name the Bruces were Brythonic Celts Kings of Eddynt and Rheged who were forced from their Lands by the Scots Invasions with Vikings and Saxons from Ireland in the late 8th Century, they travelled to their Brothers in Dinefwr and were Taken across on ships with Hundreds of othere to Brittany, same the Stuarts a Family of the Ystarth kings of Dinefwr and Ceredigion very ancient, they to travelled to Brittany but went to the Cymric areas of Normandy and the Pas De Calais ( Gallois) Caen Calais Ypres etc. The Bruces changed their name to De Breos (De Breoc) and the Ystarth to Stuart they travelled these Families travelled back to Britain with the Normans at 1066, in that Invasion, they were to claim back lands lost earlier, the Bruces in Alba ( Scotland ) Stuarts in Wales and Scotland, later a Man called William Wallace will also bring his Cymric Heritage to the fore, he was also from the Family of Tudors and was a Cousin of the other Brythonic Cymric Families Tudors and Cameron who are also Bruces and Stuarts. The Norman Invasion of Engand landed at Hastings, but there was another Invasion at Pembroke with the Breton and Gallois Knights returning to claim their Lands, De Breos De Clare De Bohun De Spenser and others involved they gathered a Army across Southern Wales including archers from Llantrisant and Pentyrch , forcing the Saxons away from the Marches and further, in the end these Ex Britons were to become the English landed Gentry with the Bruces Tudors Stuarts . Picts were Cymric, they were viciously attacked by the Scots Irish Vikings with the Saxons attacking the South to what became the Border and in to the Brythonic Kingdoms of Elfet Elfed Rheged Ystrad Clwyd and Derwenydd ( Derwent) . Pictish areas have Brythonic place names Aberdeen Caledonia etc, Lanark Glasgow Edin Fal( Kirk) Perth Alloa and hundreds more in Scotland even Orkney Maes howe. Picts were not Norse or Gaels they were Cymric Brythonic Celts their Kings were known to the Britons and are revered in our British History. Diolch yn fawr i chi, Prynhawn da.
Picts are celts? Seems a similary since ancient times greeks and phoenicians discribe they like be a same as galic but more from north , and vikings like gots from beowulf history know each others ??
Long story short: indigineous inhabitans from Iron Age Britain (and probably before that) spread over Scotland in tribes which sometimes were connected and sometimes not. They evolved in the oldest known Scottish kingdoms. Done!
Bede, the historian of immigrant invaders who established themselves in Northumberland, who originally lived in NE Europe until the 6th Century AD, declared it was the indigenous people of the area invaded who were (Scythian!!) foreigners! This is the same argument used by Zionist immigrants moving from NE Europe and America into Palestine! Somehow the local brown people couldn't possibly be indigenous to the area they had lived in for generations, whereas the pale, European-featured, immigrants of NE Europe were obviously the true indigenous people from 2,000 years before! What became of the peoples (Picts?) behind Hadrian's wall who existed from Tyneside up to Edinburgh until the Romans withdrew from Britain - did they simply run away or were they all slaughtered by the Northumbrians?
Bede was telling tales he had heard hundreds of years after the events took place. He often confused the names of places and seemingly changed the tales to fit his own ideas and religious beliefs. He was obviously biased, yet his writings are still quoted by many scholars. Is it because of the dearth of other sources or religious bias, or something else? I wonder if he was just telling stories to attempt to explain things or making up his own 'facts' .
The dearth of sources. The only other historian of Early Medieval Britain before the reign of Alfred the Great was Gildas, who died about a hundred years before Bede was born. In fact, much of what Bede has to say is a quotation of Gildas, who was one of Bede's main sources! Imagine living in world where the turnover for new historical literature was almost two hundred years. Yeah, the Dark Ages were real, and it was caused by the fall of Rome in the West.
@@just_addd_water_to_your_ramen I know, right? Most of what we know from before the 1700s comes from Christian sources. In fact, the standards for scholarship in a monastary were far higher than in the courts of most pagan kings.
the idea if the picts coming from Sythia is beyond stupid and debunked for generations. that you even brought it up shows serious problems with your videos.
@@ianschmitt4991 Are you his boyfriend? What argument did he make, other than pretending his feelings are the Goalpost Same thing you did Nice Jewish handle btw Do you exist to be a Psychic Parasite?
@@Uncanny_Mountain who are you even referring to? The original commenter or the video maker. It's not my feelings or anyone else's feelings that the guy who made the video very much tries to put the picts in some odd contemporary sociological category as opposed to them being another in the many branches of indo European descendants. The video maker does that on the first 15 minutes. The only thing I did was point out the guy who left the original comment didn't say he's got a better version of this video. Take your psych meds and figure out what surnames are then circle back to crying out as you verbally strike people lol
Hadrian's Wall was as much about keeping the army busy than a customs barrier whilst providing a bit of employment for the locals. Due to a lack of activity since opening 19 years previously, the Romans moved up another 100 miles and built another cross country wall, the Antonine. The resources to be had up there weren't worth the effort, though.
I always envision the Romans saying this as the native Scots/Picts/Celts come running down the hill, naked bodies painted blue, hair bleached with urine, playing bagpipes. These are my people, both genetically and spiritually.
I wouldn't say necessarily Swedish though. Isn't it more likely that it was Norwegian or Danish? Since all three are quite similar in written form. Those who went viking in the British Isles were mostly Danish and Norwegian. Some Swedish, sure, but mostly the others.
@@Elora445Yes! Ever read the Oera Linde or Bock Saga? The info they provide gives context for why! Some of the writers relayed their knowledge on their neighbors and ethnic cousins. Mentioned a decent amount of migrations and changes in power. Blew my mind to learn that the Odin people are familiar with was an ambitious man named Wodin the eldest of 3 brothers! Darn good reading material for those hungry to learn the Northern expanse.
@@DooDoo-f4v Ehm, Odin as a character is the Nordic variant of the god, while Wodin is the Germanic one. So they are related, but not necessarily the same. Most likely it was Germanic people who took the god with them when moving into the Nordics and eventually it developed into Odin. Or the Nordic people traded with them and was inspired by their gods, made their own versions of them. See also: Greeks and Romans.
This is the most in-depth information I've found so far about who the "Picts" might have been. I wondered too about the Scythian history because of their art being so similar, and that the Scythian people apparently tattooed themselves too. I think it would have been pronounced as SKY-THEE-AN though, because of the C having been pronounced that way, maybe not in all languages in the area but certainly some. Unless that name is also a modern name for ancient people.
29:11 he did not actually write "tricks them out" 😭 this has to be some sort of translation, right? I can't believe "getting tricked out" has been around since the 7th century ☠️
Pictish had an influence of non-IE language, seems like it wasn't similar to Basque, but to Finnish and Hebrew. Yes, the last one is actually is 100% true, I was even able to find many semitic words in Pictish, even a semitic ending "-lv" (which can be found in oghams).
A Greggs was recently discovered in Dundee that dates to the time of the Picts.
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Picts or didn't happen
No pict, no proof
Well played.
Sorry, don't get it. Please clarify.
@@sandrapicton8961 It's a pun - the phrase is usually "pics (pictures) or it didn't happen. Hope this helps.
Post Picts or gtfo
Just want to say that since 2023 I've been trying to understand who were the Picts and what differentiate them from Britons (I research british history just for hobby), and none of the videos or websites I saw gave such a direct but detailed explanation of who they were like your video. Great channel, and thank you very much 👏👏
Not much is known about them. We don't even know what they called themselves. Which brings the question what is a Scott
Criminally underrated channel
The quality IS SO GOOD. The aesthetic and editing are amazing.
This is such an incredibly well produced video damn
What i find interesting is the thumbnail looks nothing like what any contemporary images of the picts looked like
Wow what a wonderful video! Ive always wanted to know about the Picts. I love that the romans seemed scared of them. Haha
Picts have always fascinated me. It probably helps that that fascination can also be found in the writings of my favorite fantasy author, Robert E. Howard.
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There is an old Irish myth which says that after the fall of the tower of babel we migrated over here from scythia and that we brought the language from there with us.
Love the longer format!
Wow the level of detail and thorougnhness of etymological chronology is phenomenal! Great job on that part, especially!
Happy to have discovered this channel, YT should have had these in my suggestions long ago. Gladly subscribed.
This is just an incredible style you have for your videos. Keep going, so pleasing to the eye and enjoyable to watch
Massive congratulations to you for the success with these newer videos
The Picts were just Britons on the wrong sde of the Roman customs barriers. They liked a bit of Body Art and a decent pint. Two of my kids are tattooists and two are publicans - so nothing much has changed. Where is the mystery?
Nothing changes 😂
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As an American, what's a Publican?
@@alexhatfield4448 You need a decent pint.
we've been rifled through so many times it's hard to tell where a nord begins and a bret ends, also in the past 500 years the influx of english to the southern regions further muddies the water. if you're from scotland just be proud of who you are, we all likely got some chedder blood in us as well some english by now
A good summary, but it's a shame you use so much AI art in your videos. They have serious misrepresentations of the Picts, like what their houses and villages looked like, or having them wear metal armour when they famously never did.
Oh wow that's a real shame really takes away from it
You're quite right, I'm intending to limit it to only landscape shots in future.
@@JustAnotherHistoryChannel even then, there's plenty of actual landscape photos out there! There's plenty of historic societies publishing free open source material, just to educate the public. Worth investigating!
@@BrianTyrrell-jq6uf Yes definitely! I just wanted to try out some new pictures on this one, I certainly prefer actual the landscape photos
@@JustAnotherHistoryChannel glad to see youre willing to switch back. seeing/heari g AI generated anything in an educational video is an immediate "no" for a lot of people. it will always help your reputability to use real photos and voiceover.
wonderfully informative video with lovely art & animation
The Picts are still here
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Absolutely they are still here .
Not true
@@GAMER123GAMING Sure is 🏴😃🏴
Are the Angles and Saxons gone ?
There’s nothing left of them culturally or historically. It’s probably a Roman political term that just means ‘not under Roman rule’. As alluded to in this video the idea of Picts as a people probably stems from 19th century ideas about ethnicity and race
Nah mate, Half if not most of the people born that are not from different countries are from Anglo-saxon descent, and the language your speaking is from the Anglo-saxons, and Scots came from the Anglo-saxons sooo
Who were the Picts?
As one of the last Pictush scientists, I answer:
They were most likely the descendents of Insular Celts right-through. Saying they were just Britons is incorrect, not only considering their look, but also considering their language, which is of course not Brythonic. And not Irish. Picts just were Picts. That's the right answer.
This was a hidden gem 💎 way to go!
As an example, at 8:11 it would be nice to include a time period stamp which I wish you included on many maps. Your videos are great about history though. I used to hate history classes and as I've got older it's fasinating. TY
Very nicely put together and interesting and informative.
This is a great documentary! Regarding the Pictish language being theorised as a Pre-Indo European language (34:03 timestamp), what is the distinction between that possibly being a Pre-Proto-Indo-European language? I'm curious as to the timeline, as it seems that the name of Pre-Indo/Pre-Proto strongly relates to the timeline of language being developed.
Was suggested this and it's so well produced I just had to subscribe so I can dive into your other documentaries
Until that wall was built ‘we’ had to pish against trees.
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@@philthycat1408 my dad always told me to hold in a pee until we'd crossed the border, "you dinny pish on our own streets when there's a country sized toilet a few mile south."
Yous are that keen to be vulgar you don't even realise you are talking like damn clowns. I've no doubt yer da pished himself in sight of the English. We were a better, stronger people when we aspired to more than being extras in a Mel Gibson movie. God Save the King.
Very interesting! Thanks
Great stuff!
This is the best UA-cam offering on The Picts. It is, however, nearly spoiled by the (otherwise impeccable) narrator's gross mispronunciation of moRAY (for MURRay) and dalriADA (for dalRIada). Worth correcting.
A very nicely made documentary! I particularly liked the slightly animated titles and texts. What editor/tools do you use?
Thank you! I primarily use adobe Premiere Pro, and I use After Effects for some of the text illustrations
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You really need to put dates, this is a history channel!
And the most likely theory about Picts is multicultural. The Pictland had 3 languages and cultures -
1. Western Pictish, shich was mainly Gaelic
2. Eastern Pictish, which was mainly Brythonic
3. Northern Pictish, which was non-IE
This theory is actually mathcing all the places and holes. It literally can explain everything, and, of course, it is most likely the true one.
Great video. Small note: 34:34 In terms of language families, Scots isn't Celtic but Germanic. I think you meant to say Scottish Gaelic which is Celtic.
The scythian story could have been an adaptation of an oral history referring to the indo-european migration into the isles. The indo-european peoples are said to have migrated out of the region associated with the scythians during antiquity.
Which was associated* the migration would have taken place much earlier
Because they were Scythians.
Modern academia has been absolutely rabid to deny European peoples their past, even though mountains of evidence always prove them wrong.
@@gratefulguy4130no they weren’t. Bede just saw the Picts and likened them to Scythians, but they were not in fact Scythians.
They're the Hyksos of Egypt, invaders from the Pontic Steppe around 2000BC
Chaldeans
As opposed to Iberian Celts, ie Hebrews and Gaels
They are as indigenous to Scotland as can be there ate traces in Northern Eastern Scotland of almost continual habitation since at least 10,000bc thus was the Stronghold of the Picts the CE at Rhynie. Tap o noth this was also where the Romans fought them at Mons Graupius and also the place the last invasion by Vikings on Pictland at Cruden Bay death of the Danes bay.
Excellent.
Thank you.
Super interesting!
So good I have saved this vid to my History play list , I'm sertón that I'll learn more by re watching it.
As I live in Edinburgh we have usually been on the Picts southern boarder , specifically during the Roman occupation Cramond was Rome's frontier Fort for a few decades .
Although I am aware that the significance of the reclined "Standing" stones unique to Fyfe is not understood so difficult to make any Polemic statements about them the fact that you don't mention the prevalence of the often three stone arrangement ( l _ l ) of two verticals separated by a recumbent rock is my only complaint.
As a Tourist interested in history visiting the east coast south of Aberdeen I expected to hear about the endless Viking harassment of the coastal population. Instead I had my preferred view of History reinforced the Norsemen and the Locals where at the verry least centauries old trading partners if not genetically co evolved through generations of regular crossings. (What regular means in this context I could not say). The "Historic" point is that far from being the victims of Viking raids these waters where "Muster Points" from which raids likely left to raid south and gathered at after them.
As my Ammeter interest in ancient history is mainly through its pointers to pre history; I admit to extrapolating scant evidence for "Regular" long distance, probably information exchange based maritime "Old World" voyages'. I think arguments can be made for 20,000 BP so who knows how much further.
Wonderful documentary on my ancestors. Always fun learning about my Pict forefathers.
great vid and well researched. One tiny thing - i used to pronounce ogham in the same way as you but I think it's actually oh-am.
Thank you for sharing this very informative
The Beast could possibly a stylized dragon🤔
Very good this.
The most unique cultural feature of the Picts, IMHO, is their propensity for gathering together in caves and grooving with multiple species of small furry animals.
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It’s not nice to call women that
I love the Picts! I found them through reading Bran Mak Morn, a character from the same creator as Conan the Barbarian, Robert E Howard from Texas, where I'm also from.
Then I came to find out Bran Mak Morn is loosely based on one of these Bridei kings...and then come to find out my name (Brady) might actually connect etymologically to the name Bridei?? And my mother's side is Scottish...maybe some atavism or genetic memory kickin' in? Haha. I was also obsessed with the Loch Ness monster as a kid, reading every book and watching every documentary I could find...but only recently found the St Columbo story with the River Ness beast episode and then him going to meet another king Bridei (Brady) to convert him.
I found claims that this St Columbo story mirrors or even pays homage to some of the St Patrick myths, where Patty is slaying lake monsters hundred years+ earlier. There is some church propaganda intentions potentially with this in the story of Colombo but I was interested in what story did the Columbo story "replace"? It seems that many of the Patrick-slaying-lake-monster myths are reworking over older pagan ones but that's where it gets reaaaally hairy trying to find originals. Found old texts that off hand say "the locals say this is what the legend used to be before patrick" and I can't find it in the usual Fenian publication stuff so....? Help! Lol.
The Pictish beast has to be one of my favorite mysteries, especially since compared to all the other easily recognizable animals, it makes one wonder just what were they going for?
sources:
Other_Dragons_or_Dragon_Others_A_Cultural_View_of_the_Loch_Ness_Monster
"Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the worm of Lough Derg" [ O'Donovan's account from a local of the origin of Lough Derg's name in a story from the Fenian Cycle]
""A very strange Story hath been invented"" [The Great Folly, superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, especialy of that to St. Patrick's Purgatory: together with an account of the loss that the publick sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially represented, p. 2]
SUBSCRIBED! Genuinely impressive material. Need to rewatch at least once, probably _far_ more, when I've time free to seek [google] additional info about technical terms concerned with the genetic [alleles] and linguistic aspects [P Celtic/Q Celtic]. But that's what's so impressive! I cannot recall the last time I watched a history vid on YT where I had to pause the film whilst I looked up a word I didn't know, or seek help to understand a new concept. Over the last few months I've been disappointed to find history vids labelled 'deep dives' that have essentially been nothing more than highlights taken from the relevant Wikipedia page.
Thank you so much! I'm very glad you enjoyed the video - there is so much more depth to go into concerning the Picts, especially with the linguistic studies, that this video only really starts to scratch the surface. I hope you enjoy reading into the subject further!
An excellent Pict(ure) portrait. :)
I wish this had captions! It's interesting but I'm having a really hard time following with the bad auto generated caption.
Matrilineal kingship was the exception not the rule, so for those who refer to it constantly as matrilineal are rather than bilineal are ignoring the evidence within the kings lists.
Burghead is located further East, you have it where Nairn is
Most likely Pictland was a Brythonic speaking elite over a Gaelic speaking population. This parallels the later English speaking elite over a Gaelic speaking population. It also explains things such how could Gaelic, a very challenging language to learn, appears to have spread quickly throughout rural Scotland after the Pictish elite lost power. I can imagine someone using AI to generate Pictish creoles created by Gaelic speakers and try matching the creoles to the Pictish oghams.
@5:13 *...This was probably a limited time offer, but it can't hurt to contact the embassy and see if they still have any spare wives hanging around.*
This looks great and is clear and easy to read. You repeat yourself several times over, is this ai?
21:46 You could have a timestamp. Most important to visual people to remember stupid things like dates in history.
Hall of Names says the Kendrick family are descendants of the Picts. Can someone look into this, please. Thank you.
Pity about their pronunciation of Moray - it should be as Murray, not Mo-ray.
I thought the same about Bran likely having been pronounced Bryan. If you roll the "r" as some still do, it could sound like Bran.
Great video, although not a fan of AI generated images.
Keep up the good work.
I wonder if those four henchmen of the monarchs are still in his jungle hideout
Picts were Brythonic Celts they were the same as what the Romans Called Silurae and they were also in the West of what is Now Wales Devon and Cornwall, they spoke the same Language as the British, the name Picton is virtually only found in West Wales today, they were called Picts by the Romans and they were not only in what is now Scotland they were in Rheged and Ystrad Clwyd as well ( Cumbria and North of England, the name came from the Romans who said the Pictones of Western France were the Same as the Britons of Western Britain and and in what the Britons Called Alban , which is common in ancient Cymric as men of the Mountains, that is in all of Britain.
Scots seem to forget that they come from Ireland, the area above what Became Hadrians Wall was full of Brythonic Celts, where do you think the name Stuart and Bruce come from, they were Celts whose Lands were of Ancient Families not only in Alba but also in what is now Wales and England the Bruces were from the Ancient Kings of what became Glamorgan and Powys, they are from the same line as the Tudors, Brewys is their Brythonic name, Bruce is an anglicised form of that name the Bruces were Brythonic Celts Kings of Eddynt and Rheged who were forced from their Lands by the Scots Invasions with Vikings and Saxons from Ireland in the late 8th Century, they travelled to their Brothers in Dinefwr and were Taken across on ships with Hundreds of othere to Brittany, same the Stuarts a Family of the Ystarth kings of Dinefwr and Ceredigion very ancient, they to travelled to Brittany but went to the Cymric areas of Normandy and the Pas De Calais ( Gallois) Caen Calais Ypres etc.
The Bruces changed their name to De Breos (De Breoc) and the Ystarth to Stuart they travelled these Families travelled back to Britain with the Normans at 1066, in that Invasion, they were to claim back lands lost earlier, the Bruces in Alba ( Scotland ) Stuarts in Wales and Scotland, later a Man called William Wallace will also bring his Cymric Heritage to the fore, he was also from the Family of Tudors and was a Cousin of the other Brythonic Cymric Families Tudors and Cameron who are also Bruces and Stuarts.
The Norman Invasion of Engand landed at Hastings, but there was another Invasion at Pembroke with the Breton and Gallois Knights returning to claim their Lands, De Breos De Clare De Bohun De Spenser and others involved they gathered a Army across Southern Wales including archers from Llantrisant and Pentyrch , forcing the Saxons away from the Marches and further, in the end these Ex Britons were to become the English landed Gentry with the Bruces Tudors Stuarts .
Picts were Cymric, they were viciously attacked by the Scots Irish Vikings with the Saxons attacking the South to what became the Border and in to the Brythonic Kingdoms of Elfet Elfed Rheged Ystrad Clwyd and Derwenydd ( Derwent) .
Pictish areas have Brythonic place names Aberdeen Caledonia etc, Lanark Glasgow Edin Fal( Kirk) Perth Alloa and hundreds more in Scotland even Orkney Maes howe.
Picts were not Norse or Gaels they were Cymric Brythonic Celts their Kings were known to the Britons and are revered in our British History.
Diolch yn fawr i chi, Prynhawn da.
Picts are celts? Seems a similary since ancient times greeks and phoenicians discribe they like be a same as galic but more from north , and vikings like gots from beowulf history know each others ??
Long story short: indigineous inhabitans from Iron Age Britain (and probably before that) spread over Scotland in tribes which sometimes were connected and sometimes not. They evolved in the oldest known Scottish kingdoms. Done!
So what tribe ruled Ireland?
👍, redheaded family members
Weren't those the ones who got de-picted? 😁
Cousins of their Irish relatives.. The shovals? ⛏️🤔
Picts are probably from the Semi people as there are a lot of Hunter and gathering similarities
Uh, Proto-Celtic would have existed, what, ~3,000 years ago? And certainly not on the British isles.
Bede, the historian of immigrant invaders who established themselves in Northumberland, who originally lived in NE Europe until the 6th Century AD, declared it was the indigenous people of the area invaded who were (Scythian!!) foreigners! This is the same argument used by Zionist immigrants moving from NE Europe and America into Palestine! Somehow the local brown people couldn't possibly be indigenous to the area they had lived in for generations, whereas the pale, European-featured, immigrants of NE Europe were obviously the true indigenous people from 2,000 years before!
What became of the peoples (Picts?) behind Hadrian's wall who existed from Tyneside up to Edinburgh until the Romans withdrew from Britain - did they simply run away or were they all slaughtered by the Northumbrians?
Who were the Picts? ...& who picked them?
Bede was telling tales he had heard hundreds of years after the events took place. He often confused the names of places and seemingly changed the tales to fit his own ideas and religious beliefs. He was obviously biased, yet his writings are still quoted by many scholars. Is it because of the dearth of other sources or religious bias, or something else? I wonder if he was just telling stories to attempt to explain things or making up his own 'facts' .
The dearth of sources. The only other historian of Early Medieval Britain before the reign of Alfred the Great was Gildas, who died about a hundred years before Bede was born. In fact, much of what Bede has to say is a quotation of Gildas, who was one of Bede's main sources! Imagine living in world where the turnover for new historical literature was almost two hundred years. Yeah, the Dark Ages were real, and it was caused by the fall of Rome in the West.
Stop trying to blame religious people for things
@@just_addd_water_to_your_ramen I know, right? Most of what we know from before the 1700s comes from Christian sources.
In fact, the standards for scholarship in a monastary were far higher than in the courts of most pagan kings.
"only my feelings can be facts"
Ironically called Divine infallibility fallacy
You're a hack pretending to be God
the Sythia story is beyond debunked.
Long live the McGregors
There was no briton at this ti.e
No wonder you tattooed people look so handsome.
They could’ve easily proved their existence if they had actually had cameras 😅😅😅
Brilliant grathics😂
Quick nitpick: Moray is pronounced Murray, like Bill Murray
Ahh the Beautiful Albion 💚
The Scots are just colonial Irish. Hypocrisy
it wasn't only a time of few sources, but also of few sauces. makes people very irate to have to eat plain, dry, things
Bro, the Tartarians had Tartar sauce, bro!
My father's side is from Britain and I wonder if some of my ancestors were Picts. I'd love to find out because that would be tits if they were!
Conan h@ted picts...he butc#ered them in comics
'The early middle ages AREN'T known' ... Just sayin'
Proud to be of Pictish decent 🔹
lmao done making gaming videos?
They sound like a bunch of dicts
the idea if the picts coming from Sythia is beyond stupid and debunked for generations. that you even brought it up shows serious problems with your videos.
Nah, there are sadly a lot of people, who still believe such myths.
He didn’t say it was a myth that held prominent belief but it is well worth mentioning as it does come from a real source.
@@ethanpeeler3147 yes but I said that. And I was voicing my opinion why it is important to include it
@@t_time5053 I was responding to the other guy. Whatever reason my comments didn’t tag him.
Picts or it didn’t happen.
It's a pity you have spent the first 15minutes trying insert an agenda and hosing down of actual facts.
Yeah? Where’s your factual video then?
@@feels-road9529they didn't claim to have one genius
@@ianschmitt4991 You’re missing the point there big hoss.
@@ianschmitt4991
Are you his boyfriend? What argument did he make, other than pretending his feelings are the Goalpost
Same thing you did
Nice Jewish handle btw
Do you exist to be a Psychic Parasite?
@@Uncanny_Mountain who are you even referring to? The original commenter or the video maker. It's not my feelings or anyone else's feelings that the guy who made the video very much tries to put the picts in some odd contemporary sociological category as opposed to them being another in the many branches of indo European descendants. The video maker does that on the first 15 minutes.
The only thing I did was point out the guy who left the original comment didn't say he's got a better version of this video. Take your psych meds and figure out what surnames are then circle back to crying out as you verbally strike people lol
You called
I didn't lie about shit! Slander!
Romans cross into Scotland one time:
“Ah fuck no, put a wall up! Big wall! Make it two!!”
And the Picts just got in a boat and sailed around the walls to go raiding...
And we just kept doing it until the union.
Hadrian's Wall was as much about keeping the army busy than a customs barrier whilst providing a bit of employment for the locals.
Due to a lack of activity since opening 19 years previously, the Romans moved up another 100 miles and built another cross country wall, the Antonine.
The resources to be had up there weren't worth the effort, though.
I always envision the Romans saying this as the native Scots/Picts/Celts come running down the hill, naked bodies painted blue, hair bleached with urine, playing bagpipes.
These are my people, both genetically and spiritually.
@@karencreighton7939Genetically! How do you know? Celtic is a language, not a racial type.
But who were up there before the Picts?
Thank you, finally a detailed and easy to understand narrative of the Picts.
This was an excellent video, thank for your work you did a great job
I had a Swedish girl friend and when she went to Scotland she was very surprised to find Swedish place names all over the Highlands.
I wouldn't say necessarily Swedish though. Isn't it more likely that it was Norwegian or Danish? Since all three are quite similar in written form. Those who went viking in the British Isles were mostly Danish and Norwegian. Some Swedish, sure, but mostly the others.
@@Elora445Yes! Ever read the Oera Linde or Bock Saga? The info they provide gives context for why! Some of the writers relayed their knowledge on their neighbors and ethnic cousins. Mentioned a decent amount of migrations and changes in power. Blew my mind to learn that the Odin people are familiar with was an ambitious man named Wodin the eldest of 3 brothers! Darn good reading material for those hungry to learn the Northern expanse.
@@DooDoo-f4v
Ehm, Odin as a character is the Nordic variant of the god, while Wodin is the Germanic one. So they are related, but not necessarily the same. Most likely it was Germanic people who took the god with them when moving into the Nordics and eventually it developed into Odin. Or the Nordic people traded with them and was inspired by their gods, made their own versions of them. See also: Greeks and Romans.
Really incredibly well researched work! Best Pictish documentary on UA-cam. By far.
And a lovely easy-listening voice!
Great stuff as always!
Hey I know you !
@@m3cht1tan53 👋👋
This is the most in-depth information I've found so far about who the "Picts" might have been. I wondered too about the Scythian history because of their art being so similar, and that the Scythian people apparently tattooed themselves too. I think it would have been pronounced as SKY-THEE-AN though, because of the C having been pronounced that way, maybe not in all languages in the area but certainly some. Unless that name is also a modern name for ancient people.
29:11 he did not actually write "tricks them out" 😭 this has to be some sort of translation, right? I can't believe "getting tricked out" has been around since the 7th century ☠️
Pictish had an influence of non-IE language, seems like it wasn't similar to Basque, but to Finnish and Hebrew. Yes, the last one is actually is 100% true, I was even able to find many semitic words in Pictish, even a semitic ending "-lv" (which can be found in oghams).
Semitic never reach Europe
I love this channel. Great content… and stoked for a 40+ minute episode