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A New History of the Picts by Stuart McHardy, 2009-08-01 The Picts and Their Symbols by W. A. Cummins, 1999-11 A Wee Guide to the Picts (WEE Guides) by Duncan Jones, 1998-12 Picts, Gaels and Scots (Historic Scotland) by Sally Foster, 2004-09-01 Critical dissertations on the origin, antiquities, language, government, manners, and religion, of the ancient Caledonians, their posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots. by John Macpherson, 2010-05-27 The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson, 2010-09-01 Age of the Picts by W. A. Cummins, 2009-07-01 Critical Dissertations on the Origin Antiquities Language Government Manners and Religion of the Ancient Caledonians Their Posterity the Picts and the ... the Portfolio of Pryse Lockhart Gordon. V. 1 by Pryse Lockhart. Gordon, 2009-04-27 The Picts and the Scots at War by Nick Aitchison, 2003 The Picts and the Scots by Lloyd Laing, 2002-04-25 Strongholds of the Picts: The fortifications of Dark Age Scotland (Fortress) by Angus Konstam, 2010-02-16 Place and Memory: Excavations at the Pict's Knowe, Holywood and Holm Farm, Dumfries and Galloway, 1994-8 by Julian Thomas, 2008-11-01 Perceptions of the Picts: From Eumenius to John Buchan by Anna Ritchie, 1994-05 In Search of the Picts: A Celtic Dark Age People (Fiction - General) by Elizabeth Sutherland, 1994-11-07

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81. Picts And Pictish Language An Article By Cyril Babaev
    The British Isles are known as the site where quite a lot of ancient The history of the picts. After coming to Britain in 1000 BC, the picts could not,  
    http://indoeuro.bizland.com/archive/article7.html

82. The Pictish Kings
    A list of the Kings of the ancient people of Scotland known as The picts to As one would expect, the information available as to the history of the  
    http://halfmoon.tripod.com/pict2.html
    
    Extractions: Search: Lycos Tripod Star Wars Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next As one would expect, the information available as to the history of the kings of Pictland or Alba is as full of mystery, legends, hearsay as the origins of the people themselves. The fact is that most of what is known about the kings of this ancient race comes from lists and chronicles generally written by other peoples, some of whom were enemies of the Picts. The only historical writing which may have been a Pictish version of events is the document known as " The Pictish Chronicle ". As the only possibly Pictish-written historical record, it is a sad reminder of the incredible lack of Pictish records, for the Chronicle is nothing more than a list of kings. Thus, historians try to use other documents of the time to attempt to reconstruct and verify some claims from the Chronicle. There are Irish documents and legends, the writings of Bede in 731 A.D. and other missionaries tales, Roman reports, Greek maps, etc. In the beginning of time, there was a

83. Books At Random House Of Canada | The Basque History Of The World By Mark Kurlan
    —Miguel de Unamuno quoting Ampère, history OF FRENCH LITERATURE BEFORE THE TWELFTH A brief attempt to tie the Basques to the picts, ancient occupants of  
    http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676973662&view=excerpt

84. A Child's History Of England (2)
    CHAPTER II — ancient ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS As if the picts and Scotswere not bad enough on land, the Saxons attacked the islanders by sea;  
    http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54ch/chap2.html
    
    Extractions: I will tell you, shortly, what is most interesting in the early Saxon times, as they are described in these songs and stories of the Bards. EGBERT, not considering himself safe in England, in consequence of his having claimed the crown of Wessex (for he thought his rival might take him prisoner and put him to death), sought refuge at the court of CHARLEMAGNE, King of France. On the death of BEORTRIC, so unhappily poisoned by mistake, EGBERT came back to Britain; succeeded to the throne of Wessex; conquered some of the other monarchs of the seven kingdoms; added their territories to his own; and, for the first time, called the country over which he ruled, ENGLAND. Table of Contents Next Rendered into HTML on Tue Dec 10 20:52:02 2002, by Steve Thomas for The University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection

85. Photographs Of Scotland - Fraser Gallery - Absolutearts.com
    On Easter Day of 685 history records that King Bridei of the picts destroyed Infrared film seems to be able to record these ancient landscapes in a way  
    http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/1999/11/25/26224.html
    
    Extractions: Almost 1,400 years ago, on the 20th of May of the year 685, a naked man, his muscular body and face covered in blue elaborate tattoos, urged his small Highland pony forward and studied the scene visible on the valley below him. He was close enough not only to count silently the tents and fires of the huge army assembled below, but he could also hear the guttural sounds of the Teutonic language spoken by the hated Anglian invader who had occupied the southern part of his ancestral land for almost 30 years. The mounted naked warrior looked behind him and examined his own smaller army, made up of both men and women tattooed in designs and symbols like the ones on his scarred body. His name was Bridei and he was the King of the Northern Picts, the most ancient of all Britannic races, who predated the Celtic immigrants from Ireland and the Teutonic invader from Angle land. On that Easter day he could hear the Latin chants of the Christian priests who accompanied the Anglian king, and he knew that his own Pictish army was not only outnumbered five to one, but also that so far the Angles had been invincible against the once Roman Britons in the south. He raised his hand and for an instant, the future of the land called Albion by the Picts, Caledonia by the Romans and known as Scotland today, hung in the air. He brought his hand down, unsheathed his sword and charged down the hill.

86. WIHTRED, OF KENT - LoveToKnow Article On WIHTRED, OF KENT
    Because of this relationship the other picts styled the Atecotts, The FiveEmpires, a Sketch of ancient history (1840); A Sketch of the history of  
    http://49.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WI/WIHTRED_OF_KENT.htm
    
    Extractions: WIGWAMWIHTRED council expends the " residue " grant in providing bursaries for science pupils, and in subsidizing agricultural classes at Kilmarnock and Edinburgh University, and the cookery classes and science department of the high schools. Among ancient castles in Wigtownshire may be mentioned the cliff towers, possibly of Norse origin, of Carghidown and Castle Feather near Burrow Head; the ruins of Baldoon, south of Wigtown, associated with events which suggested to Sir Walter Scott the romance of The Bride of Lammermoor; Corsewall near the northern extremity of the Rinns; the Norse stronghold of Cruggleton, south of Garliestown, which belonged in the I3th century to de Quincy, earl of Winchester, who had married a daughter of Alan, " king " of Galloway, and to Alexander Comyn, 2nd earl of Buchan (d. 1289), his son-in-law; Dunskey, south of Portpatrick, built in the i6th century, occupying the site of an older fortress; the fragments of Long Castle at Dowalton Loch, the ancient seat of the MacDonells; Myrton, the seat of the MacCullochs, in Mochrum parish; and the ruined tower of Sorbie, the ancient keep of the Hannays. See Sir Herbert Maxwell, History of Dumfries and Gallouay (Edinburgh, 1896); Sir Andrew Agnew, The Agnews of Lochnaiv (Edinburgh, 1893); The Galloway Herd-Book (Dumfries, 1880); Proceedings of the Soc. of Ant. of Scotland, passim; Gordon Fraser, Wigtown and Whithorn (Wigtown, 1877).

87. Charles Dickens : A Child's History Of England : Chapter II - Ancient England Un
    Chapter II ancient England Under the Early Saxons As if the picts and Scotswere not bad enough on land, the Saxons attacked the islanders by sea;  
    http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.1/bookid.2059/sec.2/
    
    Extractions: Members :: Annotate Show Tools Preferences :: Tools Printer-friendly A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens Table of Contents Chapter II - Ancient England Under the Early Saxons The Romans had scarcely gone away from Britain, when the Britons began to wish they had never left it. For, the Romans being gone, and the Britons being much reduced in numbers by their long wars, the Picts and Scots came pouring in, over the broken and unguarded wall of Severus , in swarms. They plundered the richest towns, and killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and more slaughter, that the unfortunate Britons lived a life of terror. As if the Picts and Scots were not bad enough on land, the Saxons attacked the islanders by sea; and, as if something more were still wanting to make them miserable, they quarrelled bitterly among themselves as to what prayers they ought to say, and how they ought to say them. The priests, being very angry with one another on these questions, cursed one another in the heartiest manner; and (uncommonly like the old Druids) cursed all the people whom they could not persuade. So, altogether, the Britons were very badly off, you may believe. They were in such distress, in short, that they sent a letter to Rome entreating help - which they called the Groans of the Britons; and in which they said, 'The barbarians chase us into the sea, the sea throws us back upon the barbarians, and we have only the hard choice left us of perishing by the sword, or perishing by the waves.' But, the Romans could not help them, even if they were so inclined; for they had enough to do to defend themselves against their own enemies, who were then very fierce and strong. At last, the Britons, unable to bear their hard condition any longer, resolved to make peace with the Saxons, and to invite the Saxons to come into their country, and help them to keep out the Picts and Scots.

88. Bede's World: Online Book Shop
    picts and ancient Britons An Exploration of Pictish Origins Pictish SourcebookDocuments of Medieval Legend and Dark Age history (Documentary  
    http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/shopcafe-shop-category.php?categoryId=28

89. Irish History Timeline
    A TIMELINE OF IRISH history. By Tim Lambert. ancient IRELAND 367 AD The Irishjoin with the Scots and picts to raid Roman Britain  
    http://www.localhistories.org/irishtime.html
    
    Extractions: A TIMELINE OF IRISH HISTORY By Tim Lambert ANCIENT IRELAND C. 7,500 B.C. The first humans arrive in Ireland. They live by hunting, fishing and gathering plants. C. 4,000 B.C. The first farmers arrive in Ireland C. 2,000 B.C Bronze is introduced into Ireland C. 750 B.C. The Celts arrive in Ireland. They bring iron tools and weapons. C. 500 B.C. A Greek writer mentions a place he calls 'Holy Island'. This is the first time Ireland is mentioned in writing. C. 150 A.D. Ptolemy writes the first detailed description of Ireland 367 A.D. The Irish join with the Scots and Picts to raid Roman Britain C. 400 The first Christians in Ireland According to tradition, St Patrick arrives in Ireland C. 454 St Brigid is born St Patrick dies C. 480 St Ita is born St Brendan is born St Brigid dies St Columbanus is born St Ita dies St Brendan dies C. 600 St Aidan is born St Columbanus dies St Aidan dies The Vikings begin raiding Ireland The Vikings found Dublin The Vikings found Limerick Brian Boru becomes king of Munster Brian Boru becomes High King of Ireland The battle of Clontarf. The Irish defeat the Vikings but Brian Boru is killed.

90. Forgotten History Of The Western People
    at some of Cooper s source materials, and other sources of ancient history . Another tribe of Scythians, called the picts, arrived in Ireland and  
    http://www.write-on.co.uk/history/forgotten_history.htm
    
    Extractions: if(top == self) self.location.href="index.htm" New Book Available Now This book is an attempt to revive the study of history, as it used to be, before it became corrupted by the assumption that early humans were descended from ape-like creatures over a long period of time. Before the time of Darwin and Huxley, most history books started off with a brief statement about creation and the flood, and how the three sons of Noah went to different parts of the world, Shem to Asia, Ham to Africa and Japheth to Europe. Then they would continue the history from that point onwards. A considerable amount of information was available, from non-Biblical sources, and much of it is still available today, although it sometimes requires the retrieval of obscure material from second-hand bookshops and library archives. My source material has included the Babylonian history, from the fragments that remain of the works of Berosus, and the Greek mythology which is a highly embellished version of early history. After that, I have focused on the history of Britain and Ireland, because this is the part of the world where I live, and it is always easier to research one's own locality. There has recently been a revival of creationism, as new evidence is continually emerging that contradicts the theory of evolution. I will not go into all this here, but many resources are available, and some of them are referenced from my

91. Part 2 Of The History Of Ireland (BOOK I-II)
    WHOSOEVER proposes to trace and follow up the ancient history and origin of the country against the violent attacks of the Scots and of the picts; yet,  
    http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text002.html
    
    Extractions: Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition The History of Ireland (BOOK I-II) (Author: Geoffrey Keating) p.3 WHOSOEVER proposes to trace and follow up the ancient history and origin of an country ought to determine on setting down plainly the method which reveals most clearly the truth of the state of the country, and the condition of the people who inhabit it: and forasmuch as I have undertaken to investigate the groundwork of Irish historical knowledge, I have thought at the outset of deploring some part of her affliction and of her unequal contest; especially the unfairness which continues to be practised on her inhabitants, alike the old foreigners who are in possession more than four hundred years from the Norman invasion down, as well as the native Irish who have had possession during almost three thousand years. For there is no historian of all those who have written on Ireland from that epoch that has not continuously sought to cast reproach and blame both on the old foreign settlers and on the native Irish. Whereof the testimony given by Cambrensis, Spenser

92. Scotland Royalty - Scottish Genealogy Of The Kings & Queens Royal Family Trees
    From ancient times these picts as they were known, which means Painted Men were a This family line is the most ancient in Scotland s royal history,  
    http://www.scotlandroyalty.org/
    
    Extractions: Enter as much information as you know about your ancestor and click search: First Name: Last Name: Location: Any Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Dist. of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Canada England Germany All Non-U.S.

93. Pictish, Celtic And Viking Stone Art From Ancient Images
    Offers art of the picts, Scots, Norse, Gaels, and other early civilisations. Reproduced onto calico cotton from handcarved sandstone replicas.  
    http://www.ancientstoneart.co.uk/
    
    Extractions: Ancient art of the Picts, Scots, Irish, Norse, and other early civilisations Unique handmade rubbings of ancient carved images transferred onto natural cotton using coloured beeswax crayons. Beautiful hand-crafted items as sold in shops and museums throughout Scotland. Now available to buy here BUY ONLINE - OVER 100 IMAGES TO CHOOSE FROM Just over a thousand years ago the Picts, an early Celtic people, disappeared as a distinctive nation, but they left behind, as a silent witness to their existence, a remarkable series of sculptured stones that is without parallel in Europe. The art of the Picts Scots Gaels Norse , as well as other ancient civilisations, is represented here in images found mainly, but not only, in Scotland: Rock Art of the Scottish Neolithic period (3000 - 2000 BC) from around Kilmartin, Argyll, featuring cup and ring marks and spirals carved in stone. The art of the Picts, who occupied most of Scotland in the early medieval period, leaving behind an exquisite collection of stone-carved abstract and naturalistic designs. The simpler images date mainly from the 7th century AD, while the more complex ones, using Christian imagery, and merging influences from Irish and Northumbrian art to produce the magnificent cross-slabs, date from the 8th and 9th centuries.

94. Pictish Nation ®
    Dedicated to the picts, the preScottish people of Caledonia, and Pictish culture.Covers the known history and legends about the picts as well as  
    http://members.tripod.com/~Halfmoon/
    
    Extractions: Search: Lycos Tripod Free Games Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next Welcome to the world's first web site dedicated to the Picts! On the web since 1994! In here I want to make some things available to potential Pictophiles and all others who come to visit. First of all, I want to create the world's first page dedicated to that ancient race (known as the Picts) whom once inhabited present day Scotland. I will try to link all Pictish pages on the web here. If you know of one I've missed, please email me with its URL and I will add it. Furthermore, for really serious Pictophiles, I recommend joining the Pictish Arts Society , which is truly the world's finest organization dedicated to preserving and expanding interest in Pictish culture. As such I enthusiastically recommend you join them! To read some books about the Picts visit the link at the bottom of the page. Finally, those of you who saw the TBS Special on June 28, 1998 "Tattoos: Women of the Ink", Let's get those letters flowing to the National Geographic and maybe they'll take a look at them too! If you liked the TBS piece, write to them and tell them you'd like them to do a program on the Picts! Their address is: Turner Original Productions, One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30348. I will also try to create links to artists who work in a Pictish genre and also WHERE you can find them. Since I believe that we about to see an explosion of interest in the art and history of these ancient people, I look forward to the page and its links changing all the time. Visit often!

95. Mac Alpin's Treason
    The ancient story of how King MacAlpin destroyed Pictish culture and established his The ancient Names of Scotland A List of Books About the picts  
    http://members.tripod.com/~Halfmoon/pict4
    
    Extractions: Search: Lycos Tripod Dukes of Hazzard Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next The Gael warrior king whose bloody sword enthroned a Scottish line of kings which eventually created modern Scotland is perhaps one of the most mysterious figures of ancient history. His is a life surrounded by treacherous myths, dark stories and unproved allegations of shameful deeds and sinful accomplishments. That the first true Scottish king of the various peoples of Scotland is smeared with the stain of treason and backstabbing is as much a product from lack of knowledge as it is from the terrible bits and pieces from a story of treason which has survived for over a thousand years. There is very little fact upon which to base a story; indeed there is a lot of falsified or embellished documents from later Scottish Churchmen and Church historians, eager to create a Church approved version of how the Gael line of kings (and its Church) came to conquer Alba, completely erase Pictish culture and destroy the Pictish Church. That the Scots' aim was to free Dalriada from Pictish domination and establish Scottish rule over the Picts is clearly evident by the actions of Kenneth MacAlpin's father, known as Alpin, who in 834 AD, as the Picts faced the new Viking threat in the north, rebelled against his Pictish King of Scots and Picts. This ruler of both Pictland and Dalriada was Oengus II, and according to the

96. Celts, Basques And Picts
    The chief among these alsorans were the Celts, Basques ,and picts. Like mostancient invasions, the wandering Celts never amounted to more than a few  
    http://www.hyw.com/books/history/Celts__B.htm
    
    Extractions: Celts, Basques and Picts While the Roman and German influence essentially defined Medieval culture, there were other ethnic groups around who had some impact, and left some reminders of their presence. The chief among these also-rans were the Celts, Basques ,and Picts. The latter two groups belonged to the original human inhabitants of Europe, people who, several millenia B.C. had established themselves and their cultures throughout Europe. These included the Ligurians (in what is now Germany and France), Iberians (in Spain), Picts (in Britain), the Sikels (in Sicily), and the proto-Latins (in Italy). Up in Scandinavia were the Germans. In what is now eastern Europe were Slavs and Celts. The Germans who later stayed behind became the Vikings and the modern Scandinavians. In the Balkans were more Ligurian peoples. In Greece you had Greeks. Further east you had Etruscans (who later migrated to Italy), Semites, Persians and Dravidians until you ran into the people who looked Chinese The ethnic composition of Europe was quite different during the Medieval period, and even more so during the 1st and 2nd Centuries BC, when the Romans were putting their empire together. In the beginning, there were the Ligurians, Iberians and related peoples in Europe. These peoples developed from the neolithic (cavemen) types that settled in Europe after the last ice age ended some 10,000 years ago. The Celts gradually

97. MSN Encarta - Related Items - Europe
    history of Europe – (a) ancient history of Europe – (c) 4th9th centuries,301-900 history of Europe – (d) 10th-11th centuries, 901-1100  
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98. A Brief History Of The Picts
    A Brief history of the picts He then took the Stone of Destiny, an ancientartifact used in the inauguration of Scottish Kings, from Dunadd.,  
    http://www.pictavia.org/history/history.html
    
    Extractions: An Abbreviated Timeline of Medieval Pictish History, with more to come... Apparent king of the Orkney's sent ambassadors to Claudius during his conquest of Britain. Tribes of native people were thought to be war-like, fought naked in battle, fought between themselves, and were basically barbaric in their culture. Agricola leading four Roman legions wages battle with the 'Caledonians" in the battle at Mons Graupius (~Aberdeenshire). The barbarians, led by 'Calgicus', was referred to by the historian Tacitus as "a man of high courage and lineage" Tacitus (Agricola's son in law) wrote that the Caledonians had "reddish hair and large limbs" Construction of the Hadrian Wall (along the River Fife), the dividing line between modern day Scotland and England, to defend against the unconquered barbarians to the north. A tribute to the tribal bands who, faced with the Roman challenge, became organized into a successful defense Only four Roman writers mention the Picts by name (Picti or Pretanii). The first reference by Eumenius in 297 AD, in a description of travels by Constantius in and to the north coast of Scotland, described 'a nation, still savage and accustomed only to the hitherto semi-naked Picts and Hibernians as their enemies, yielded to Roman arms and standards without difficulty.' This is in reference to the original conflicts between the Picts and Agricola.

99. Scotland's Past - The Picts & Scots
    Scotland s Past for all the latest news in Scottish history and archaeology. history Books on the picts and Scots  
    http://www.scotlandspast.org/pictscot.cfm
    
    Extractions: The Picts are first mentioned by the Roman writer Eumenius in 297 when he described the northern people of the British Isles as Picti . The name Picti means 'painted ones' and may have been a nickname given to the people of Scotland by the Roman garrisons. Of course this does not mean that the Picts came into existence at that date, it just happens to be the first time they are mentioned in recorded history. In fact, the Picts were the direct descendents of the indigenous Bronze and Iron Age peoples of a large part of the area that became Scotland. It is likely that separate tribal groupings mentioned by Roman writers, such as the Maeatae and Caledonii , came together to form Pictland. Although much has been discovered concerning the Picts in recent decades there is much that is still unknown. They left little in the way of written records, except for a few late king-lists in Latin. The Picts are most famous for their carved stones which employed a variety of symbols, the meaning of which is still obscure. Many of these symbols are used throughout this website. Very little is known regarding Pictish settlement although more evidence is coming to light through excavations every year. Souterrains are a form of underground chamber which were used from before the time of the historical Picts but there is evidence that the sites continued to be used into the historical period.

100. British History Resources
     Britannia s comprehensive guide to the history of England, Wales and Scotland . Kings of the picts Legendary Kings of the picts Kings of South Gyrwe  
     http://www.britannia.com/history/resodex2.html

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