I've been interested and tried to find out as much about the picts as possible, thanks for this video. Is it true they held meetings with the Christians standing at either side of a burn/stream or narrow river for the safety of each side like depicted at 8.53?
I dont know if you forgotten that the Irish Clan called Scotti clan came to alba and settled and integrated with the Picts thats why the Romans called it Scotti-land meaning the land of the Irish and the Romans never conquered Scotland and thats why we are a celtic nation not British the Romans named England and Wales Britain/Britannia the English who call themselves British also mean its English it was the forced union it wasn't a handshake union of partners it was forced as many Scots was given land and titles by the English to fight other Scots to stop or religion or wearing of Tartan and the genocide of the Highland and the killing of the rebellious Jacobites Scots or language was stolen from us it was banned the Scots Gaelic and many other Scottish cultures but the English was good at that given money and land and titles to these traitors Scots cause the English couldn't beat us or anyone they used wealth which they stolen and today as suppose to better together campaign we vote we get what the English want they vote tory we vote Snp and they call us daft cause they fear the Scottish people its time for a free Scotland and finish off England iron grip on our power the only country in the world to become poor for finding oil and gas we pump fresh water to England we pump electricity to England we put billions into the bank of England which a scot founded and get buttons back and typical Westminster think they subsidise Scotland which is garbage if Scotland leaves we be far richer than Norway and up there with Saudi Arabia countries we Scotland gave the modern world its know all a small nation with a big heart
@@The_Prophet... there was never an irish clan called scotti. the scotti was a name given to the gauls of the frankish regions of europe. they were always at war with the romans there so they fled to england. when the romans invaded england they then fled to and settled in scotland. that's why it's written and pronounced "gallic" in scotland..
We have one in the home town of Alloa, in, Scotland. As a child it fascinated, me! My father told me what it was. My father’s knowledge on Scottish history was amazing. I was well taught.
I am from Alloa. I've always loved local history and am starting to research the Dark Ages. I'm convinced there is something under Gubber Hill, it looks like it's had a defensive ditch around it. There are so many little hints of things in this area around the Forth. Murray Cook is doing a talk on his finds from excavating the pictish hill fort on Dumyat next week in Bridge of Allan
I love how they fought off Romans...my mom when I was a kid would read to me out of ancient history books. She was so adamant to remind me that our family, her family came from Scotland. The architecture and art is very interesting to me.
Indigenous European as well as Scandinavian culture is really being ignored, neglected, and erased it seems. Why would we not teach more about such things in schools?
The Picts were the direct descendants of the people who built the first stone circles, and those people were probably there since the end of the last ice age 12,800 years ago.
100%, a few of the first male lineages there (branches of I2) were also the central figures of the great Neolithic tombs across the isles, mostly I2-M284, which survives today PRIMARILY in Scotland. It's also my own paternal line. 😁 Watch out for those Fergusons, Gillespies, Hunters, Hendersons, McLeans, McEvoys Thompsons etc. 😆😅
@@jamyDodger During the last ice age which began around 14,000 years ago the human race bottleknecked (there couldn't have been more than 50,000 humans left after the ice caps retreated 12,800 years ago. As the ice sheets retreated towards the Earths poles different tribes followed the retreating ice sheets, one tribe headed north until they came to what is known today as Scotland (as they were advancing north parts of their tribe would have settled in various lands along their journey before they reached Scotland. The ones that reached Scotland and settled their were hunter gatherers and are known today as neolithic Scots. Their direct descendands 10,000 years later were the Picts. Also my theory is that the Vikings are direct descendants of those Neolithic Scots and i think this because they couldn't be descended from anyone else. Those early neolithic Scots would have continued to follow the retreating ice sheets until they reached the Nordic countries and settled there too.
@@jamyDodger If you're found to be 96% from the British isles then there is a 100% chance you're from the neolithic people of Britian. Although if you are 4% north African that can mean either of 2 possibilities...4% N African probably means your bloodline originated in N Africa because the further back in time you go the more the DNA has been diluted since the neolithic times. Or there was some interracial marriage at some point in your bloodlines history with your DNA being diluted. Are you from the UK? Knowing were your family come from in the past and were they are from now and for how long gives clues of your bloodlines.
AND the latest research suggests that the stone circle ‘people’ came from Shetland/Orkney - I think 🤔- one of those islands has a stone circle that they have now predated to any on the mainland
@@Diana-ie4oq That's the Ness of Brogdar, it has 2 stone circles, the stones of Stennis and the ring of Brogdar, they are each on seperate land masses connect by a natural lannd causway. The land causway has an ancient temple complex which is still being escavated to this day. The 2 stone circles and the temple complex were built 5,600 years ago. One stone circle (the stones of stennis) represents the realm of the living and the other (the ring of brogdar) represents the realm of the dead or spirits. Buriels have been found in the ring of Brogdar wereas Stennis has no buriels. They believe the temple complex was used as part of the ritual buriels were bodies were transported from Stennis circle, through the temple complex and onto the final resting place in the ring of Brogdar. All of this happened even before paganism was a thing with humans.
They were strongedt in Aberdeenshire the Cruthnie was their name before folk thought that was gailic they were the CE the bases were at Dunnottar, Dunucairn, Fitdee, Tap o noth they fought the romans at Mons graupius known locally as Bennachie, the Double disc and z rod is a Tribal vfamily crest, they spoke p-celtic and a mix of Brythonic, Arthur ans Merlin were Pictish, the beastie is the water horse spirit,animals and trees and water were sometimes sacred. They are still here and never left since Bridei or Nechtan there were 7 kingdoms of Cruthnie.
@Grant-gk5mw there were many Pictish Kings within the group even within each sub group like the CE and Cait. These seats of power were moved vi's marriage war and time sometimes Fortriu was the power othertimes others. There was no overarching King till Kenneth, Bridei is a famous Pictish name even carved in stone. The account of Bridei the 3rd is my favourite.
Thank you my friend. This is my ancestral heritage and I have a broad oral knowledge of my people. Doing my genetics I helped fill a massive hole in history tae the point they upgraded my position for free due to me having rare genetics. SOAR ALBA! SIOL NAN GAIDHAEL! 🏴
@@UntoldHistoryYT Some things are incorrect but this happens as most of my ancestors kept these traditions and heritage a secret I have people with PhDs and University degrees from America scream at me because they had no idea about or what I was talking about yet I am a Native to these still makes me chuckle. I would happily tell but my channel hasn’t grown and no one is showing interest so I’ll keep it a secret for the time being; also I am expecting a child so I am busy to sit down and craft something of beauty to venerate my bloodline… 😂🏴🫡
Pictures in this video that show the Picts wearing kilts is historically wrong. Kilts were not invented until the medieval time and the images presented on carved Pictish stones do not show anybody wearing kilts.
@@bretthess6376 You are mistaken. Do a search for Pictish clothes and Fashon. You will see that the men worn trousers, not kilts. Even wikiepedia says that kilts were invented around the 16th century.
If anyone who is of Scottish origin or descent asks me what happened to the Picts, I tell them to look in the mirror. The Picts became the Scots! The reason they are so "mysterious" is that all we know about them was written by their eight ours, such as the Scots and Northern English. None of the histories and tales they wrote have survived!
No matter there dress code or any other facts that might not be correct they fought and died for us so we owe our picts the same respect and honour as anybody else whos died for the cause of the land we call home. Onwards the brave 🏴
This is so fascinating! I’ve been teaching myself to speak and read Irish over the past couple years, and I recently added Scottish Gaelic so I’m learning both, and I feel like I’m really getting in touch with my ancestry. I know that my maternal grandmother came from Belfast, Ireland, and my paternal grandmother was a McCormick (which kind of McCormick/McCormack/MacCormick I do not know!), so maybe she was Scotch-Irish but I’m not sure. I love the Pictish art, stones, and jewelry displayed here, and the matrilineal society is so unusual and intriguing for the time period and area. Terrific video!
The movie Centurion, I found very informative concerning the Picts. The movie was set in the Roman period when they passed Hadrian wall and engaged the Picts. Roman records reported that an entire legion was lost to the Picts during this time. 🎉
its because they were large fierce warriors who understood the unforgiving land. They never referred to themselves as 'Picts' it was a Roman term meaning painted ones/tatooed. Romans were terrified of them and were beaten with guerrilla style warfare.
I read/heard somewhere that the blue paint/dye they used to cover their bodies may have had antiseptic properties meaning any wounds inflicted in battle would have less chance of infection. Not sure if this is true or not, but if it is it shows great understanding of the nature around them
I would say the Picts are a good example of early Bell Beaker tribes and Neolithic Farmers merging and developing together. Lots of early type IE art some what similar to Germanic tribes and Scythians, with a blend of Neolithic and Bell Beaker architecture.
In AD84 there was a ferocious battle between what the Romans called the Caledonians at Mons Graupius. This was probably somewhere north of Dundee. The Roman legions stood back and left most of the fighting to their Germanic auxiliaries. According to the Romans, they won. But of course we only have their account of it. Whether the Caledonians were the Picts is uncertain.
The Romans named the Scots as " Caledonians " in which should have stood that name You have Eng-land , Ire-land and Scot-land so is how being named a Caledonian would have sounded much better i reckon . Why not bring about the name change , instead of Scotland its now Caledonia sounds better i reckon .
Apparently my ancient 34th great grandfather united the Celts and and the Picts- according to genealogists and Scottish history. I appreciate your video and all the informative history. Excellent! Learned a lot.
A fascinating and well produced video. Thanks very much. I live in Burghead , Morayshire once the northern capital of the Pictish kingdom in Scotland. Locals here today are called Brochers coming from the Broch of the Picts.
The Pict history seems to be equivalent to the Germanic tribes in that the history has been somewhat lost into the realms of myth and oddly there seems to be an overlap of history with the old indigenous tribes of Europe and their beliefs and the next migration of Europeans such as the biblical tribes of Israel. From a biblical perspective the first group supposedly from the decendants of Japheth which is considered the first Europeans and the later migration group supposedly from the decendants of Jacob, from where so many place names, symbols, coats of arms and traditions originate from which is supported by linguistics and DNA but it almost seems as if history was written over. The British royal family still follow the tradition of coronation with a stone believed to have been the stone used as a pillow by Jacob. The tribe of Dan seems to have played a big role in European and UK history especially with the Welsh who not only call themselves the Cumry but their ancient language they still speak which was apparently even used to decider ancient scrolls as their alphabet is almost identical to the language of cerrain discovered scrolls, explaining their red flag and dragon which were symbols of the tribe of Dan. I also learnt that these original tribes that founded Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Western parts of England may have been wiped out by a meteor in 600 AD. However the history of the Picts and or Scottish and the reason why kings came from the mothers side etc is explained in other vids which connects the country's mythology and 1 such channel was by Robert Sepehr who sparked my curiosity into such topics. The more one looks into this the deeper it seems to get. 1 thing that seems clear to me is that our current history books are not telling the truth about many things abd it's a mission to piece it all together. It seems the end of the world has already occurred and we merely repeating history and being controlled through religions and certain societies and that we've had many resets and the last one was not that long ago.
I wonder if the matrilineal structure explains why the gravestones in Aberdeen's St. Nicholas graveyard show women by their maiden name, often identified as "wife of," showing they were a convention of retaining a woman's family name, not a lack of marriage.
In Scotland at least, I'm aware that baby girls are given their mother's maiden name as their middle name, thus identifying ** and preserving** the matrilineage.
This is also something that was done in France - women were/are recorded by their maiden name (but go by their married name) and I think it had more to do with mortality than matriachy (in France). Many people had official standard first names - there were many, many people with the same first name so a man could have had three wives called Marie and nobody would know they were different women unless they kept their maiden name (I'm guessing this might be the reason, having gone through loads and loads of registrations from the past (starting in early 1600's)). In today's Belgium, a married woman keeps her maiden name, but the children take on the father's name. From what I understood from my russian lessons many years ago, in Russia a woman has her own first name followed by her mother's name with the suffix -ovna added. Men have their own first name followed by their father's name with the suffix -ovitch added. So, for instance a girl called Anastasia whose mother was Polina, would be called Anastasia Polinovna and a boy named Ilya whose father was Andrey would be called Ilya Andreyovitch. Is there not something similar in Scandinavian countries? my point here is that women keeping their maiden name or 'inheriting' their mother's name doesn't necessarily mean matriachy, but might have more to do with high mortality of mothers in the past - if there is a family of six or seven surviving children, from three or four different mothers, then they would want to know who their mother is particularly when it comes to getting married. They could marry a cousin through a step-mother, but preferably not through their own mother, for instance.
Fact no. 1 comes before you mention your first fact: the kilt these tattooed people are shown in within the first minute where invented about 1.000 years after the picts vanished.
It's amazing that so many buildings are found basically intact that were built so long ago. Meanwhile buildings built these days are horrible and won't stand the test of time.
@@lifeliver9000there’s absolutely 100% no evidence of any human group of people occupying Australia prior to the Aboriginal people. Only theories, with no basis of fact, and anything found around the world older than the homosapian human skeleton of an Aboriginal Australian male buried around 40,000 years ago, is always a “pre- human ancestor” non homosapian (pretty much a monkey that aint human at all)
@@Drew-p7p you know the world being round was a conspiracy theory aye? Labelling and attacking, I know is rife in closed minded historians. But doesn’t make it right
The beastie is a dolphin, they must have seen them as we do in the Moray Firth and marvelled at them as we still do. Im not the only Highlander that believes this.🏴
@@UntoldHistoryYT I see them just about every time I take my boat out, they like to swimming alongside and on the bow wave, impressively large creatures close up, bloody tasty to eat too. The last bit was a joke, they're not tasty at all.😃🏴
They became strong from eating the haggis, which were plentiful then. The Haggis Wildlife Foundation has documented the different varieties of these creatures, from small to large. Some good photographs. Pity they are now either extinct or extremely rare now. My Victorian born grandparents used to make haggis fur hats and scarves when I was young. I wish I had kept mine even though fur isn't popular now. It was necessary in the cold. Saved many lives.
@@angr3819 Yes in summer (which is my favourite day of the year) they flock to the sea to cool down and get rid of fleas. Having two legs shorter than the others for running round hills they made easy prey swimming in circles for the porpoise, dolphin and Orca to devour. All our winter clothes were made from their fur as well as dire wolf.🏴
Inheritance through the maternal line is more natural. A childs father was not necessarily known but the mother was (or almost always known). I remember reading somewhere that the early celts also inherited through the maternal line.
Just a thought on why the family lines were traced through the women ... if monogomy wasn't a big thing, as it later became, the only way to know for sure your lineage was through the mother. And perhaps monogamy became so important (for the woman that is) when male dominated cultures came in, in order for men to secure their lineage and dominance. Just a thought.
I appreciate that you said that their culture and their race as a political entity disappeared, not their them as a race on the whole. Everyone always talks about races disappearing as though dna can just be wiped out or something. Which is scientifically impossible. Therefore the Picts, or whatever they called themselves, are still here, just not assembled in functioning communities anymore. But their race, their dna, their ancestry has not disappeared at all. Mixed in, sure, but not obliterated as the colonialist/empirical historical narratives would have you believe.
It used to be taught in Scotland that they did indeed vanish, it was presumed they were wiped out by the invading Scots tribe who went on to form and name the country Scotland. We now realise that it was not the Picts that disappeared but the religion they followed. They didn't disappear as a political entity either, the first Scots Kings were all Picts, our last Royal line the Stewarts could still directly trace their ancestry to them. The Picts were all druids you see and their artifacts reflected such, when the Irish introduced Christianity the making of such artifacts slowly stopped, this led historians to believe the people slowly died away when in reality no such thing happened, they just changed their religions and culture. The video gets a few things correct but is quite wrong on the demise of my people. The Picts and the Scots ( a seperate tribe inhabiting the west coast and Islands ) made a pact to join forces to force out the Vikings to the North, which they did, and followed this with a 'royal' marriage between the two ruling houses. A marriage that produced 2 Pict Princes, both of whom were sent to live in a Scots court in Northern Ireland where they were raised in the Christian religion. When of an age the eldest Kenneth MacAlpine returned to his people as King, uniting the two tribes under one banner and one religion, naming the country Scotland. I like to think they tossed a coin over its name, as we dont really know why they went for Scotland over Pictland, as the Picts controlled more land and people at the time. We were never wiped out, which still shows conclusively in our DNA. Almost the entire English speaking world is considered Anglo/Saxon, we are Pict/Celt.
@@Codex7777 Wrong, wrong, wrong! The Romans conquered most of what is now England and Wales by A.D. 87. They also made numerous incursions into what is now Scotland but retreated. Don't believe me? Read all about it at Wikipedia's 'Roman Conquest of Britain'.
The "beast" ... it's the mythology surrounding the Loch Ness Monster. Prehistoric water creatures survived for a long time in the Scottish Lochs. EQUALS: Scottish women are just as brave and intelligent as Scottish men. Therefore if proven to be so inclined, they were also listened to and respected as leaders of their clans.
Proud Pictish/celt here!!! Macneil of Barra island/Macdonald of Isle of Skye clan💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻. Barra in the outer hebrides has one of the oldest pictish stones, and they eventually succumbed to the viking invasion. So i am proud to be of Celtic/norse descent.
I grew up in North Wales, but Dad from Wick, mother's side from Glasgow. I few years back on a boat in France I bumped into my identical twin...it was like looking in a mirror the dude was Swedish 😂😂
@0:45 you already have this VERY wrong. The Picts didn't 'emerge' in the iron age. That's just when the Romans first became aware of them. DNA now shows they are the indigenous people of the North sea coast, back to the days of Doggerland in the neolithic. Secondly, contrary to popular belief, the 'Picti' explanation for their name is Chinese whispers. A mis-hearing of 'Pecht' which means 'the people' in ancient Brythonic tongues. The oxford based academics studiously ignore new facts that make them wrong. These same academics then spread their errors via the likes of wikipedia. The ancient stonework of Brodgar, Mae's how and Newgrange all share the same 'pictish' symbols carved into the stones. It is THAT tradition. THOSE people and that culture the Romans found still strong in north east Scotland, heard their name wrong, then Oxford academics who claimed didn't exist before then, and discounted the unbroken archeological records of their origins. So I ask you . . . are you English? If you don't know who they are or what they are called, then maybe you shouldn't be making a video about them.
I agree with you to a point. For all of know history the main stream way of thinking had been exactly how you describe academia here. However atleast someone is trying to educate people on parts of our history. It is very frustrating that history is continuously written by a over educated idiots who prefer common misconceptions over what the facts show. As the saying goes "DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER" 😂😂
Fair point @@ericwethington but I'd rather have NO discussion than hear these proven falsehoods of the last century repeated as if it were fact. Most of this has only come to light in the last twenty years, and before then it was dismissed and ridiculed by the same academics who were in a position to push their version of our history. The Pecht were always there, and still are, but according to their still repeated official account of hundreds of years, the "Picts" appeared shortly before the Romans and disappeared shortly after. Brodgar, Benachie and Newgrange prove them wrong, as does the latest DNA evidence. I'm not trying to shoot the messanger Eric. I only shoot the message. It offends me deeply, and was a politically motivated slur from its inception.
Hey easy guys. He is sharing what he found if you have new info etc share it don’t attack people cause they don’t know what you know.we aren’t 18yr old woke cancel culture we have maintained open minds and share knowledge
@@lifeliver9000The problem with this topic is that people are just sharing what they found, and the gatekeepers don't WANT this to be found. This is an OLD narrative, and many long gone legends of archeology, along with currently tenured professors' careers were built on it. To admit that Pictish history went back thousands of years further they claimed, and did not end as they claimed, would be a major academic climb down, so they haven't seen fit to give any wide publicity or make any admissions about their own debunking. Simply compare the neolithic carvings with known Pictish art, or look into the DNA studies from the region. That's an ACTUAL line of enquiry to follow, rather than mindlessly repeating the establishment narrative, which we have conclusive evidence is false, simply for views. This is not in any way an attack lifeliver9000, it's a challenge. Are they really here to further knowledge, or are they content to promote ignorance for clicks, because that's what this is. Understandably ignorant, but it doesn't seem to me like any particular effort has went in to avoiding that.
An interesting fact about the Pict is that they can be traced back in time to the Nac Mac Feegle Clan. There appears to have been some inter breeding with big jobs at one time. Speaking Ogham further cements the link to the high mountains.
They must have been fierce and feared by enemies. Incredible for farmers having such military prowess. Thanks for your research and excellent narrative. Though a little bit repetitive, fascinating nonetheless.
The last battle between the Vikings and the Pictish Scots was at the Battle of Largs 2nd of October 1263... in which Haakon Haakonsson King of Norway attempted to reassert Norwegian Sovereignty of the westen seaboard of Scotland...
They became strong from eating the haggis, which were plentiful then. The Haggis Wildlife Foundation has documented the different varieties of these creatures, from small to large. Some good photographs. Pity they are now either extinct or extremely rare now. My Victorian born grandparents used to make haggis fur hats and scarves when I was young. I wish I had kept mine even though fur isn't popular now. It was necessary in the cold. Saved many lives.
Picts didny wear kilts that was a much more modern piece of and clothing ogham is not pronounce of ogham it's pronounced oham.. And being Scottish myself I love the ancient monoliths, stones and circles especially in and around Kilmartin Glen
My ancestors (Picts) used to fight the Romans completely naked. Imagine a big dude running at you completely naked with a sword or axe or something and weird frightening horn blasts coming from somewhere. They kicked the Romans out and Emperor Hadrian built a wall from one coast across the land to the other coast and garrisoned tens of thousands of soldiers there to keep the Picts from coming any further south. The Might of Rome could not break them.
You show an image of tattooed men at 0:22 wearing tartan fabrics and kilts. Those were first seen in the 1600s. Many hundreds of years later than the Picts. Why such a mistake before the first minute is up? You are better than this. PICTS didn't wear kilts.
Blue wode was made from the belladonna berry & animal fat. The Picts would spike their hair with bull blood & tie severed animal head's around their waists to run into battle. They'd also use a black tar like substance around the eyes that would stiffen & prevent them from blinking! Picture that scene. You're an exhausted roman soldier who has been travelling for weeks, living on rations, dehydrated, with blisters on their feet. Having to do battle with the unknown, and all of a sudden, you capture the sight of a clan of wild looking men, screaming, with staring,dark eyes, spiked red hair, with blue swirls all over their bodies and dead animal heads tied around their waists, running down the hill towards you & the rest of your regiment ! The roman soldiers would turn & run in terror! They built two walls bordering England and Scotland to keep us away! Makes me so proud of my Scottish heritage! Scots Wha-hey! 😅
@TalorcMacAllan-jh9me All the original British are still in England. No matter how much they tell us, we are Anglo-Saxon. We know we are the original British.
LOL @ describing matrilineal as the deviant one... Everybody knows from what womb a child came, the father is anybody's guess (unless you can do DNA-testing), so the patrilineal one is "strange".
I had come to understand that the people of North Spain's roots are pictish ,triangle shaped skulls ( top view ) black hair ,possibly black eyes (don't remember exactly). The technique of the stone carvings ,are probably older than Stonehenge ,it would be interesting to make comparisons to other ancient cultures . Eg Gobekli Tepe in Turkey .A lot of migration going on in ancient times ,no real borders ,visas or passports.
There are THREE classes of Pictish stones, not two. The first are undressed stones bearing Pictish symbols. The second are dressed stones bearing Pictish symbols. The third are dressed stones bearing Christian symbols or a mix of Christian symbols. Admittedly this classifiaction is not universally accepted by scholars but it is a good starting point.
Believe me, I'm no expert. However, I spent January and February freezing to death near Inverness, and immersed myself in the local Pictish remains and artefacts to take my mind off the frostbite. I also bought some books from the very lovely Inverness Museum, which is where I got this information about the classification.@@UntoldHistoryYT
Nice video 😊 besides the movie " Centurion" you can appreciate an interesting characterization of Picts on the movie " King Arthur" although they speak Gaelic 😅 Greetings from Galicia!
The Picts actually began using Ogham after Monks from St. Patrick's Church converted them to Christianity in the 6th and 7th Century AD. Ogham was used by Irish Monks of the Apostelistic Church of St. Patrick so any Ogham found in Pictavia would have been from this source. The Picts seemingly died out through merger with Scottii of the Kingdom of Dal Riata, when Angus II, King of Pictavia died leaving only a Daughter, who married Aedh of Dal Riata. He became King of both Dal Riata and Pictavia at the Death of Angus II of Pictavia, which merged the two Kingdoms and formed the Kingdom of Alba, which became Scotland in 1309 when Robert The Bruce became King of a unified Kingdom of Alba, Stirling, Strathclyde, and Ayrshire which formed the Kingdom of Scotland, named after the Gaelic Tribe of Scottii which had originally been the Ruling Tribe in the Kingdom of Dal Riata, consisting of what is now Ulster, the Ionian Islands, Hebridean Islands and the Western Highlands. Picts used Woad Tattoos to identify a Warrior in Battle, usually a symbol of their Clann, example, Merthyn Ambrosias, Shamen of the Picts who used a stylised Crescent Moon and Star as his Woad Tattoo, which is where the idea of the symbol meaning a Wizard comes from, as shown in the Disney film with Mickey Mouse wearing a blue robe with Crescent Moons and Stars all over it in the film Fantasia.
@tomcat4765...ogham did not originate in ireland. it was only called ogham ireland after the gaulish god ogmios. the pictish writings were developed between the 4th and 6th century. based on latin as is the irish writings. st ninian(believed to be a roman centurian turned monk brought christianity to scotland about a 150 years before any of the mythical irish monks. scotti is what the romans called the gaulish tribes in the frankish regions of europe. bearing in mind the picts ars believed to be a gaulish tribe...the pictones.
I'm thinking that too, it makes complete sense too, Goats would likely have faired better than sheep in the rougher climates in northern scotland, they would have probably come to represent steadfastness, bravery, and headstrong perseverance or the like...
Fact number #16: Ancient cultures never really disappear. Instead, they are driven out of their lands and re-educated about their identity while their depictions in writings are hidden from the public and their depictions on art are changed to fit the narrative. In order to find out what we are told is lost, we need only to discover the books of the times in question.
Thanks for the video! I like the picture of the Picts wearing kilts, which weren't created until the 15-16th centuries. Nice image, but like showing Jesus riding a dinosaur.
13:09 Many of these images have little or nothing to do with the Picts. This one, for instance, is a painting of the surrender of Vercingetorix (a Gaulish chieftain) to Julius Caesar.
because modern Scots descend from Gaels, Picts, Britons, and various germanic/nordic peoples. Also many Scots are descendants of Picts, but its just hard to tell the difference between pictish and brythonic dna or pictish and gaelic dna.
@@robbieh2458 I'm no expert, but why does time make a difference? Unless all pictish genes are recessive, some would persist no matter how long wouldn't they?
@@overkoppsbaiter0714 /// but its just hard to tell the difference between pictish and brythonic dna or pictish and gaelic dna./// Why? If you have a distinctive genetic racial marker, then it's either there, or it's not.
The last viking battle vs thr picts or cruthnie was at Cruden bay ie death of the danes bay its where the golf course is today in Aberdeenshire. The danes then attacked the English boy that got an arrow in the eye by Willie the conqueror wi the bowl cut hair 😂
@UntoldHistoryYT Slains Castle is worth a visit but not much else to see I have been there many times born and bred in Aberdeenshire with my family roots traceable back to the 11th century here chances are we have been here longer but records stop then most people travelled way less the further back you go.
...also the language of our nation isn't pronounced ''Gaylick''...but Galic...like garlic without the r...I hope this helps...as it riles me up the wrong way to hear it pronounced otherwise... However...if you are talking about Ireland...''Gaylik'' will do...😁
@@neilthornton3544millASIANsons one thing the Brothonics never did was surrender to Rome an ended there fedual systems Wales Scotland England really don't no what happen to Eire
I’ve been studying Irish and Scottish Gaelic on my own over several months/years, and dialects and different pronunciations are a fun thing to observe. In some ways Gaelic is so similar to Irish, and in other ways completely different, but MOST times it’s pronounced differently! 😂 People on the internet will almost come to blows over the pronunciation of a woman’s name! 😊
And also the original kilts were dull Brønsted-Lowry and beige the colours were invented by a couple of con men from England who sold the Scot’s on clan Colors and the bagpipes were an Irish instrument originally from Egypt the Scot’s put the drones on them but the first fully functional bagpipes as we know them were invented by an English man but he could not figure out how to play them and threw them away in a farmers cow midden a canny wee Scot came along pulled them out of the cow dung and the Scot’s have been try to blow the shit out off them ever since 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Granted this is pure speculation, but, I hear certain things like the use of Ogham, the style of symbols & their level of education & expertise ... It just makes me wonder if the Picts were in some way, shape or form related to or may have actually been Scottish Druids?!
I don't think they were all Druids but if they were a Celtic people they probably had Druids, just under a different pronunciation. I read once Pict might just be the northern dialect of insular Celtic (the Celtic language of England aka Brittonic or Brythonic, languages) for Brit. Pronounced Pict in the north (Scotland), Brit in the south (Britain) and Bret in Brittany (France) but 🤷♂️
Are you also fascinated by the ancient Picts of Scotland? Let us know your favorite part about their culture in the comments below! ❤
I thought the word aber came from Viking language, I’m sure I’ve see the use of aber in Wales and some parts of England
I've been interested and tried to find out as much about the picts as possible, thanks for this video. Is it true they held meetings with the Christians standing at either side of a burn/stream or narrow river for the safety of each side like depicted at 8.53?
I dont know if you forgotten that the Irish Clan called Scotti clan came to alba and settled and integrated with the Picts thats why the Romans called it Scotti-land meaning the land of the Irish and the Romans never conquered Scotland and thats why we are a celtic nation not British the Romans named England and Wales Britain/Britannia the English who call themselves British also mean its English it was the forced union it wasn't a handshake union of partners it was forced as many Scots was given land and titles by the English to fight other Scots to stop or religion or wearing of Tartan and the genocide of the Highland and the killing of the rebellious Jacobites Scots or language was stolen from us it was banned the Scots Gaelic and many other Scottish cultures but the English was good at that given money and land and titles to these traitors Scots cause the English couldn't beat us or anyone they used wealth which they stolen and today as suppose to better together campaign we vote we get what the English want they vote tory we vote Snp and they call us daft cause they fear the Scottish people its time for a free Scotland and finish off England iron grip on our power the only country in the world to become poor for finding oil and gas we pump fresh water to England we pump electricity to England we put billions into the bank of England which a scot founded and get buttons back and typical Westminster think they subsidise Scotland which is garbage if Scotland leaves we be far richer than Norway and up there with Saudi Arabia countries we Scotland gave the modern world its know all a small nation with a big heart
@@The_Prophet... there was never an irish clan called scotti. the scotti was a name given to the gauls of the frankish regions of europe. they were always at war with the romans there so they fled to england. when the romans invaded england they then fled to and settled in scotland. that's why it's written and pronounced "gallic" in scotland..
@@loadapish That is the language we speak in Scotland what did you expect Rab C Nisbet ffs....
We have one in the home town of Alloa, in, Scotland. As a child it fascinated, me! My father told me what it was. My father’s knowledge on Scottish history was amazing. I was well taught.
Alloa these days isn't that interesting
@@hazelhoggan7190 Alloa is finished. The SNP sold every businesses to China. The Green deal has collapsed Scotland.
I am from Alloa. I've always loved local history and am starting to research the Dark Ages. I'm convinced there is something under Gubber Hill, it looks like it's had a defensive ditch around it. There are so many little hints of things in this area around the Forth. Murray Cook is doing a talk on his finds from excavating the pictish hill fort on Dumyat next week in Bridge of Allan
@evelynwilson1566 History everywhere in Clackmannanshire. 🏴❤️👍🏻
Keep your culture and traditions alive. So much is being lost these days.
Thanks to the SNP. They make out they are for Scotland, but are destroying the country and its culture.
Apparently that thought is considered racist! Unless you are not white, in which case … yes yeees 😂😅😅
Agreed. May we speak for our fellow Scottish kinfolk to keep them alive
The Picts didn't vanish , we are still here amongst you .
Agreed. Incredible people.
We are definitely here McNaughton descendant and I've heared they came from the picts
100 💯 percent agree with you ❤
My paternal Victorian born grandfather.
@jamesscant6625
Yes, we are absolutely still here 😉
I love how they fought off Romans...my mom when I was a kid would read to me out of ancient history books. She was so adamant to remind me that our family, her family came from Scotland. The architecture and art is very interesting to me.
So yer ma is scottish aye? What's her surname madam?
we kicked their asses
Every new thing I hear about my ancestors the more proud I become.
Indigenous European as well as Scandinavian culture is really being ignored, neglected, and erased it seems. Why would we not teach more about such things in schools?
@@tablescissors didn't you know??? it's considered racist for a pale skinned person to be prideful of their roots. lol
The Picts were the direct descendants of the people who built the first stone circles, and those people were probably there since the end of the last ice age 12,800 years ago.
100%, a few of the first male lineages there (branches of I2) were also the central figures of the great Neolithic tombs across the isles, mostly I2-M284, which survives today PRIMARILY in Scotland. It's also my own paternal line. 😁
Watch out for those Fergusons, Gillespies, Hunters, Hendersons, McLeans, McEvoys Thompsons etc. 😆😅
@@jamyDodger During the last ice age which began around 14,000 years ago the human race bottleknecked (there couldn't have been more than 50,000 humans left after the ice caps retreated 12,800 years ago. As the ice sheets retreated towards the Earths poles different tribes followed the retreating ice sheets, one tribe headed north until they came to what is known today as Scotland (as they were advancing north parts of their tribe would have settled in various lands along their journey before they reached Scotland. The ones that reached Scotland and settled their were hunter gatherers and are known today as neolithic Scots. Their direct descendands 10,000 years later were the Picts. Also my theory is that the Vikings are direct descendants of those Neolithic Scots and i think this because they couldn't be descended from anyone else. Those early neolithic Scots would have continued to follow the retreating ice sheets until they reached the Nordic countries and settled there too.
@@jamyDodger If you're found to be 96% from the British isles then there is a 100% chance you're from the neolithic people of Britian. Although if you are 4% north African that can mean either of 2 possibilities...4% N African probably means your bloodline originated in N Africa because the further back in time you go the more the DNA has been diluted since the neolithic times. Or there was some interracial marriage at some point in your bloodlines history with your DNA being diluted. Are you from the UK? Knowing were your family come from in the past and were they are from now and for how long gives clues of your bloodlines.
AND the latest research suggests that the stone circle ‘people’ came from Shetland/Orkney - I think 🤔- one of those islands has a stone circle that they have now predated to any on the mainland
@@Diana-ie4oq That's the Ness of Brogdar, it has 2 stone circles, the stones of Stennis and the ring of Brogdar, they are each on seperate land masses connect by a natural lannd causway. The land causway has an ancient temple complex which is still being escavated to this day. The 2 stone circles and the temple complex were built 5,600 years ago. One stone circle (the stones of stennis) represents the realm of the living and the other (the ring of brogdar) represents the realm of the dead or spirits. Buriels have been found in the ring of Brogdar wereas Stennis has no buriels. They believe the temple complex was used as part of the ritual buriels were bodies were transported from Stennis circle, through the temple complex and onto the final resting place in the ring of Brogdar. All of this happened even before paganism was a thing with humans.
I really like this video! What a beautiful culture!! Thankyou for the video
Thanks so much! 🙏 Really glad you enjoyed it!
They were strongedt in Aberdeenshire the Cruthnie was their name before folk thought that was gailic they were the CE the bases were at Dunnottar, Dunucairn, Fitdee, Tap o noth they fought the romans at Mons graupius known locally as Bennachie, the Double disc and z rod is a Tribal vfamily crest, they spoke p-celtic and a mix of Brythonic, Arthur ans Merlin were Pictish, the beastie is the water horse spirit,animals and trees and water were sometimes sacred.
They are still here and never left since Bridei or Nechtan there were 7 kingdoms of Cruthnie.
Very interesting - thank you for sharing!
Was a Pictish kings seat not in Dundee? King Bridei I think his name was. Fought off Vikings at Carnoustie apparently.
@Grant-gk5mw there were many Pictish Kings within the group even within each sub group like the CE and Cait. These seats of power were moved vi's marriage war and time sometimes Fortriu was the power othertimes others. There was no overarching King till Kenneth, Bridei is a famous Pictish name even carved in stone. The account of Bridei the 3rd is my favourite.
Where is/was Fitdee ? New one on me l
And a partridge in a pear tree! Could you repeat that please? We didn’t quite catch that.😄 (jk)
Our customs, traditions and language are still here in Scotland.
Unfortunately not the Pictish language which is sad as we don't have much materials to help reconstruct it due to the lack of records 😕
And in northern NSW Australia
And in California, and Arizona!
Thanks!
Thank you, Stephanie! 😊
Thank you my friend. This is my ancestral heritage and I have a broad oral knowledge of my people. Doing my genetics I helped fill a massive hole in history tae the point they upgraded my position for free due to me having rare genetics. SOAR ALBA! SIOL NAN GAIDHAEL! 🏴
Thank you for watching! 🙂
Do tell!
@@UntoldHistoryYT Some things are incorrect but this happens as most of my ancestors kept these traditions and heritage a secret I have people with PhDs and University degrees from America scream at me because they had no idea about or what I was talking about yet I am a Native to these still makes me chuckle.
I would happily tell but my channel hasn’t grown and no one is showing interest so I’ll keep it a secret for the time being; also I am expecting a child so I am busy to sit down and craft something of beauty to venerate my bloodline…
😂🏴🫡
The Picts did not speak Gaelic. At least not as a first language.
I am the product of our ancestors diaspora. I was deeply moved when I returned to the Highlands in 2022.❤❤❤
Very interesting. You have opened up a new world for me to explore! Thank you.
You are most welcome! Super glad you enjoyed it. 👍
Pictures in this video that show the Picts wearing kilts is historically wrong. Kilts were not invented until the medieval time and the images presented on carved Pictish stones do not show anybody wearing kilts.
Incorrect. Kilts and similar garments are very ancient.
@@bretthess6376 You are mistaken. Do a search for Pictish clothes and Fashon. You will see that the men worn trousers, not kilts. Even wikiepedia says that kilts were invented around the 16th century.
You are correct, molecatcher. . . Even the kilts worn in Braveheart are Too early.
@@davecordes6121
The Picts were more advanced than what Roman his-tory records. It's not that hard to weave a tartan. 😮
I read in the 19 century this era
If anyone who is of Scottish origin or descent asks me what happened to the Picts, I tell them to look in the mirror. The Picts became the Scots!
The reason they are so "mysterious" is that all we know about them was written by their eight ours, such as the Scots and Northern English. None of the histories and tales they wrote have survived!
My surname is a Picts word which is common in Aberdeen.
They didn't write
Very cool! What's the name, if you don't mind sharing?
Reminds me of being in the Riviera of Mexico as a native told me the Mayans were gone, never realizing he was Mayan.
Picts assimilated into Welch culture as well as Scottish. at least there has been talk of this among the Welch.
No matter there dress code or any other facts that might not be correct they fought and died for us so we owe our picts the same respect and honour as anybody else whos died for the cause of the land we call home. Onwards the brave 🏴
Excellent piece,very
informative!
Thank you, Christopher! Glad you liked it. 😀
This is so fascinating! I’ve been teaching myself to speak and read Irish over the past couple years, and I recently added Scottish Gaelic so I’m learning both, and I feel like I’m really getting in touch with my ancestry.
I know that my maternal grandmother came from Belfast, Ireland, and my paternal grandmother was a McCormick (which kind of McCormick/McCormack/MacCormick I do not know!), so maybe she was Scotch-Irish but I’m not sure. I love the Pictish art, stones, and jewelry displayed here, and the matrilineal society is so unusual and intriguing for the time period and area. Terrific video!
The movie Centurion, I found very informative concerning the Picts.
The movie was set in the Roman period when they passed Hadrian wall and engaged the Picts. Roman records reported that an entire legion was lost to the Picts during this time. 🎉
Thanks for sharing. Will have to check it out! 🍿
Great movie 👍
its because they were large fierce warriors who understood the unforgiving land. They never referred to themselves as 'Picts' it was a Roman term meaning painted ones/tatooed. Romans were terrified of them and were beaten with guerrilla style warfare.
The 13th legion.
I've read about the legion being lost to the picts but had no idea of the movie. Thanks
i remember working in civil engineering years ago and we dug up a pictish stone with a carving of a man on it central scotland, interesting stuff!
I read/heard somewhere that the blue paint/dye they used to cover their bodies may have had antiseptic properties meaning any wounds inflicted in battle would have less chance of infection. Not sure if this is true or not, but if it is it shows great understanding of the nature around them
did anyone ever think of connecting the Picts with the indigenous population of america who also painted their bodies
Utzi the iceman also had tattoos
I would say the Picts are a good example of early Bell Beaker tribes and Neolithic Farmers merging and developing together. Lots of early type IE art some what similar to Germanic tribes and Scythians, with a blend of Neolithic and Bell Beaker architecture.
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In AD84 there was a ferocious battle between what the Romans called the Caledonians at Mons Graupius. This was probably somewhere north of Dundee.
The Roman legions stood back and left most of the fighting to their Germanic auxiliaries.
According to the Romans, they won. But of course we only have their account of it.
Whether the Caledonians were the Picts is uncertain.
The Romans named the Scots as " Caledonians " in which should have stood that name
You have Eng-land , Ire-land and Scot-land so is how being named a Caledonian would have sounded much better
i reckon . Why not bring about the name change , instead of Scotland its now Caledonia sounds better i reckon .
@@fishingstevie8830Alba
Apparently my ancient 34th great grandfather united the Celts and and the Picts- according to genealogists and Scottish history. I appreciate your video and all the informative history. Excellent! Learned a lot.
Great video; beautifully edited!
Thank you - much appreciated! 🙏
A fascinating and well produced video. Thanks very much.
I live in Burghead , Morayshire once the northern capital of the Pictish kingdom in Scotland.
Locals here today are called Brochers coming from the Broch of the Picts.
The Pict history seems to be equivalent to the Germanic tribes in that the history has been somewhat lost into the realms of myth and oddly there seems to be an overlap of history with the old indigenous tribes of Europe and their beliefs and the next migration of Europeans such as the biblical tribes of Israel.
From a biblical perspective the first group supposedly from the decendants of Japheth which is considered the first Europeans and the later migration group supposedly from the decendants of Jacob, from where so many place names, symbols, coats of arms and traditions originate from which is supported by linguistics and DNA but it almost seems as if history was written over. The British royal family still follow the tradition of coronation with a stone believed to have been the stone used as a pillow by Jacob. The tribe of Dan seems to have played a big role in European and UK history especially with the Welsh who not only call themselves the Cumry but their ancient language they still speak which was apparently even used to decider ancient scrolls as their alphabet is almost identical to the language of cerrain discovered scrolls, explaining their red flag and dragon which were symbols of the tribe of Dan.
I also learnt that these original tribes that founded Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Western parts of England may have been wiped out by a meteor in 600 AD.
However the history of the Picts and or Scottish and the reason why kings came from the mothers side etc is explained in other vids which connects the country's mythology and 1 such channel was by Robert Sepehr who sparked my curiosity into such topics.
The more one looks into this the deeper it seems to get.
1 thing that seems clear to me is that our current history books are not telling the truth about many things abd it's a mission to piece it all together.
It seems the end of the world has already occurred and we merely repeating history and being controlled through religions and certain societies and that we've had many resets and the last one was not that long ago.
The kilt and the name make the garment a specific item and style of clothing..people were wrapped in cloth long before it became known as a kilt.
I wonder if the matrilineal structure explains why the gravestones in Aberdeen's St. Nicholas graveyard show women by their maiden name, often identified as "wife of," showing they were a convention of retaining a woman's family name, not a lack of marriage.
Super interesting - thank you for sharing. It very well could be the case!
In Scotland at least, I'm aware that baby girls are given their mother's maiden name as their middle name, thus identifying ** and preserving** the matrilineage.
This is also something that was done in France - women were/are recorded by their maiden name (but go by their married name) and I think it had more to do with mortality than matriachy (in France). Many people had official standard first names - there were many, many people with the same first name so a man could have had three wives called Marie and nobody would know they were different women unless they kept their maiden name (I'm guessing this might be the reason, having gone through loads and loads of registrations from the past (starting in early 1600's)). In today's Belgium, a married woman keeps her maiden name, but the children take on the father's name.
From what I understood from my russian lessons many years ago, in Russia a woman has her own first name followed by her mother's name with the suffix -ovna added. Men have their own first name followed by their father's name with the suffix -ovitch added. So, for instance a girl called Anastasia whose mother was Polina, would be called Anastasia Polinovna and a boy named Ilya whose father was Andrey would be called Ilya Andreyovitch. Is there not something similar in Scandinavian countries? my point here is that women keeping their maiden name or 'inheriting' their mother's name doesn't necessarily mean matriachy, but might have more to do with high mortality of mothers in the past - if there is a family of six or seven surviving children, from three or four different mothers, then they would want to know who their mother is particularly when it comes to getting married. They could marry a cousin through a step-mother, but preferably not through their own mother, for instance.
@@lindasue8719 Not just baby girks---boys too. I thinnk yhis tradition is dying out.
Yes Indigenous People in the Americas used to use a material system. Clan Mothers still exist.
Fact no. 1 comes before you mention your first fact: the kilt these tattooed people are shown in within the first minute where invented about 1.000 years after the picts vanished.
It's amazing that so many buildings are found basically intact that were built so long ago. Meanwhile buildings built these days are horrible and won't stand the test of time.
The warrior of all warriors , my brothers ❤🏴
The picts are the original people like the aboriginals of australia.
Nah heaps of human species before. Even before aboriginals in Aussie. Humans go back a long way
Of course we all go back to apes ..numpty ..but as the KNOWN INDIGENOUS people..the picts have no predecessors ..ipso facto ..aboriginals.
@@lifeliver9000there’s absolutely 100% no evidence of any human group of people occupying Australia prior to the Aboriginal people. Only theories, with no basis of fact, and anything found around the world older than the homosapian human skeleton of an Aboriginal Australian male buried around 40,000 years ago, is always a “pre- human ancestor” non homosapian (pretty much a monkey that aint human at all)
@@Drew-p7p you know the world being round was a conspiracy theory aye? Labelling and attacking, I know is rife in closed minded historians. But doesn’t make it right
@@lifeliver9000Level Earth Observer 😊
Very interesting and informative vid !! Thanks, I appreciate it 👍
The beastie is a dolphin, they must have seen them as we do in the Moray Firth and marvelled at them as we still do. Im not the only Highlander that believes this.🏴
Wouldn't rule it out… thanks for sharing this! 🐬 How often do you see them out of interest?
@@UntoldHistoryYT I see them just about every time I take my boat out, they like to swimming alongside and on the bow wave, impressively large creatures close up, bloody tasty to eat too. The last bit was a joke, they're not tasty at all.😃🏴
They became strong from eating the haggis, which were plentiful then. The Haggis Wildlife Foundation has documented the different varieties of these creatures, from small to large. Some good photographs. Pity they are now either extinct or extremely rare now.
My Victorian born grandparents used to make haggis fur hats and scarves when I was young. I wish I had kept mine even though fur isn't popular now. It was necessary in the cold. Saved many lives.
@@angr3819 Yes in summer (which is my favourite day of the year) they flock to the sea to cool down and get rid of fleas. Having two legs shorter than the others for running round hills they made easy prey swimming in circles for the porpoise, dolphin and Orca to devour. All our winter clothes were made from their fur as well as dire wolf.🏴
Ah this actually makes sense
Inheritance through the maternal line is more natural. A childs father was not necessarily known but the mother was (or almost always known). I remember reading somewhere that the early celts also inherited through the maternal line.
Maybe this was purposely changed... 🤔
??. by certain power's...
Alot like still goes on.. .. 😮
Just a thought on why the family lines were traced through the women ... if monogomy wasn't a big thing, as it later became, the only way to know for sure your lineage was through the mother. And perhaps monogamy became so important (for the woman that is) when male dominated cultures came in, in order for men to secure their lineage and dominance. Just a thought.
Makes sense and certainly possible. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
😁@@UntoldHistoryYT
Some Pacific island cultures still use this ideal of ancestry recording.
And the Aztecs Maya did it too
Being a Jew comes thru the mother.
went to see one of tallest stones in moray last year, could feel the spirit of our history all around it
Fascinating 😊
Glad you enjoyed the video! 😁
I appreciate that you said that their culture and their race as a political entity disappeared, not their them as a race on the whole. Everyone always talks about races disappearing as though dna can just be wiped out or something. Which is scientifically impossible. Therefore the Picts, or whatever they called themselves, are still here, just not assembled in functioning communities anymore. But their race, their dna, their ancestry has not disappeared at all. Mixed in, sure, but not obliterated as the colonialist/empirical historical narratives would have you believe.
It used to be taught in Scotland that they did indeed vanish, it was presumed they were wiped out by the invading Scots tribe who went on to form and name the country Scotland. We now realise that it was not the Picts that disappeared but the religion they followed. They didn't disappear as a political entity either, the first Scots Kings were all Picts, our last Royal line the Stewarts could still directly trace their ancestry to them.
The Picts were all druids you see and their artifacts reflected such, when the Irish introduced Christianity the making of such artifacts slowly stopped, this led historians to believe the people slowly died away when in reality no such thing happened, they just changed their religions and culture.
The video gets a few things correct but is quite wrong on the demise of my people. The Picts and the Scots ( a seperate tribe inhabiting the west coast and Islands ) made a pact to join forces to force out the Vikings to the North, which they did, and followed this with a 'royal' marriage between the two ruling houses. A marriage that produced 2 Pict Princes, both of whom were sent to live in a Scots court in Northern Ireland where they were raised in the Christian religion. When of an age the eldest Kenneth MacAlpine returned to his people as King, uniting the two tribes under one banner and one religion, naming the country Scotland.
I like to think they tossed a coin over its name, as we dont really know why they went for Scotland over Pictland, as the Picts controlled more land and people at the time. We were never wiped out, which still shows conclusively in our DNA. Almost the entire English speaking world is considered Anglo/Saxon, we are Pict/Celt.
Julius Ceasar never led his Roman legions against the Picts because he never made it that far north into what is now present day Scotland.
Or Ireland
Or Wales, or 95%+ of England...
@@Codex7777 Wrong, wrong, wrong! The Romans conquered most of what is now England and Wales by A.D. 87. They also made numerous incursions into what is now Scotland but retreated. Don't believe me? Read all about it at Wikipedia's 'Roman Conquest of Britain'.
Wrong! Picts wuz blakk!
No, homey, duh Picts wuz blue !!!!!
The "beast" ... it's the mythology surrounding the Loch Ness Monster. Prehistoric water creatures survived for a long time in the Scottish Lochs.
EQUALS: Scottish women are just as brave and intelligent as Scottish men. Therefore if proven to be so inclined, they were also listened to and respected as leaders of their clans.
Must be why Scottish men look for strong women ❤
We know where the Picts came from and where they went to from DNA evidence.
They aren't as mysterious as they used to be.
Take a shot every time the narrator says "...matrilineal succession..." 😂
😂😂😂
Proud Pictish/celt here!!! Macneil of Barra island/Macdonald of Isle of Skye clan💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻. Barra in the outer hebrides has one of the oldest pictish stones, and they eventually succumbed to the viking invasion. So i am proud to be of Celtic/norse descent.
I grew up in North Wales, but Dad from Wick, mother's side from Glasgow. I few years back on a boat in France I bumped into my identical twin...it was like looking in a mirror the dude was Swedish 😂😂
That is one place I have always wanted to visit.
@0:45 you already have this VERY wrong. The Picts didn't 'emerge' in the iron age. That's just when the Romans first became aware of them. DNA now shows they are the indigenous people of the North sea coast, back to the days of Doggerland in the neolithic. Secondly, contrary to popular belief, the 'Picti' explanation for their name is Chinese whispers. A mis-hearing of 'Pecht' which means 'the people' in ancient Brythonic tongues. The oxford based academics studiously ignore new facts that make them wrong. These same academics then spread their errors via the likes of wikipedia. The ancient stonework of Brodgar, Mae's how and Newgrange all share the same 'pictish' symbols carved into the stones. It is THAT tradition. THOSE people and that culture the Romans found still strong in north east Scotland, heard their name wrong, then Oxford academics who claimed didn't exist before then, and discounted the unbroken archeological records of their origins. So I ask you . . . are you English?
If you don't know who they are or what they are called, then maybe you shouldn't be making a video about them.
I agree with you to a point. For all of know history the main stream way of thinking had been exactly how you describe academia here. However atleast someone is trying to educate people on parts of our history. It is very frustrating that history is continuously written by a over educated idiots who prefer common misconceptions over what the facts show. As the saying goes "DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER" 😂😂
Fair point @@ericwethington but I'd rather have NO discussion than hear these proven falsehoods of the last century repeated as if it were fact. Most of this has only come to light in the last twenty years, and before then it was dismissed and ridiculed by the same academics who were in a position to push their version of our history. The Pecht were always there, and still are, but according to their still repeated official account of hundreds of years, the "Picts" appeared shortly before the Romans and disappeared shortly after. Brodgar, Benachie and Newgrange prove them wrong, as does the latest DNA evidence. I'm not trying to shoot the messanger Eric. I only shoot the message. It offends me deeply, and was a politically motivated slur from its inception.
Hey easy guys. He is sharing what he found if you have new info etc share it don’t attack people cause they don’t know what you know.we aren’t 18yr old woke cancel culture we have maintained open minds and share knowledge
@@lifeliver9000The problem with this topic is that people are just sharing what they found, and the gatekeepers don't WANT this to be found. This is an OLD narrative, and many long gone legends of archeology, along with currently tenured professors' careers were built on it. To admit that Pictish history went back thousands of years further they claimed, and did not end as they claimed, would be a major academic climb down, so they haven't seen fit to give any wide publicity or make any admissions about their own debunking. Simply compare the neolithic carvings with known Pictish art, or look into the DNA studies from the region. That's an ACTUAL line of enquiry to follow, rather than mindlessly repeating the establishment narrative, which we have conclusive evidence is false, simply for views. This is not in any way an attack lifeliver9000, it's a challenge. Are they really here to further knowledge, or are they content to promote ignorance for clicks, because that's what this is. Understandably ignorant, but it doesn't seem to me like any particular effort has went in to avoiding that.
The Picts were Britons like the rest of us. They just avoided (or missed out on) Romanization.
Rubbish. Who built the Brochs? These fortresses are only found in Scotland.
To me it’s more than obvious the links between the Picts and people such as the Scythians, Māori and the people of Gobekli Tepe.
How? They are all very different from each other!
How? Massive leaps in logic. Or rather lack of logic.
That's a bit of a stretch. Bloody hell...
I did see two different standing stones which reminded me of Gobekli Tepe.
The Picts and the Māori linked?
We're the picts as low down scotland as fife? I'm from Fife. And I've never heard anything about picts in fife. Always up north.
Fife - look up Weymss Caves 😊
Place names beginning with Pit are Pictish , so think Pittenweem erika.
As a Scot it looks like i Pict a good video.
Well said
Wonderful, informative video - thanks!
Thank you - super glad you enjoyed it! 😊
My take away is that the Picts were Celts, or another subset of Celtic civilisation. I had thought they were something else before.
I have read Pict and Brit might just be regional dialects for the same thing. Pronounced Pict in the north and Brit in the south but 🤷♂️.
An interesting fact about the Pict is that they can be traced back in time to the Nac Mac Feegle Clan. There appears to have been some inter breeding with big jobs at one time. Speaking Ogham further cements the link to the high mountains.
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I lived in pitcaple as a child, between insch and Inverurie. Seems strange to not see pitmachie on the list
There probably is more places starting with Pit in Perthshire there is a place called Pitkeathly which is my surname.
They must have been fierce and feared by enemies. Incredible for farmers having such military prowess. Thanks for your research and excellent narrative. Though a little bit repetitive, fascinating nonetheless.
The last battle between the Vikings and the Pictish Scots was at the Battle of Largs 2nd of October 1263...
in which Haakon Haakonsson King of Norway attempted to reassert Norwegian Sovereignty of the westen seaboard of Scotland...
Aye... And he goit his arse kicked🏴✊
@@williammacdiarmid6395 Aye...well and truly...so much so that he never came back😁
Skottar er morsom, hilsen noreg
greetings from Scotland 🏴👍
They became strong from eating the haggis, which were plentiful then. The Haggis Wildlife Foundation has documented the different varieties of these creatures, from small to large. Some good photographs. Pity they are now either extinct or extremely rare now.
My Victorian born grandparents used to make haggis fur hats and scarves when I was young. I wish I had kept mine even though fur isn't popular now. It was necessary in the cold. Saved many lives.
Well I doubt they wore tartan like that..
Hahaha
Thank you for this video great information on my family ancestry, Kenneth MacAlpin is my 33 rd. great grandfather.
Wow - that's incredible! 😲 How did you learn about your ancestry?
@@UntoldHistoryYT from wikitree
@@UntoldHistoryYT I would like to give you a link to the information but when I give you a reply with it, it gets deleted.
Same. Kenneth MacAlpin is an ancestor of mine also.
@DeRhamme, not sure why that is… must be an automatic thing from YT. Very interesting though! 👍
Picts didny wear kilts that was a much more modern piece of and clothing ogham is not pronounce of ogham it's pronounced oham.. And being Scottish myself I love the ancient monoliths, stones and circles especially in and around Kilmartin Glen
My ancestors (Picts) used to fight the Romans completely naked. Imagine a big dude running at you completely naked with a sword or axe or something and weird frightening horn blasts coming from somewhere. They kicked the Romans out and Emperor Hadrian built a wall from one coast across the land to the other coast and garrisoned tens of thousands of soldiers there to keep the Picts from coming any further south. The Might of Rome could not break them.
Aye.. and the poor Picts didn’t have the intelligence to get over that wall.. some warriors
@ Not that they couldn’t, just that they didn’t want to
You show an image of tattooed men at 0:22 wearing tartan fabrics and kilts. Those were first seen in the 1600s. Many hundreds of years later than the Picts. Why such a mistake before the first minute is up? You are better than this. PICTS didn't wear kilts.
It’s apart of Scottish history regardless. Just enjoy the video. Good lord
Blue wode was made from the belladonna berry & animal fat. The Picts would spike their hair with bull blood & tie severed animal head's around their waists to run into battle. They'd also use a black tar like substance around the eyes that would stiffen & prevent them from blinking! Picture that scene. You're an exhausted roman soldier who has been travelling for weeks, living on rations, dehydrated, with blisters on their feet. Having to do battle with the unknown, and all of a sudden, you capture the sight of a clan of wild looking men, screaming, with staring,dark eyes, spiked red hair, with blue swirls all over their bodies and dead animal heads tied around their waists, running down the hill towards you & the rest of your regiment ! The roman soldiers would turn & run in terror! They built two walls bordering England and Scotland to keep us away! Makes me so proud of my Scottish heritage! Scots Wha-hey! 😅
Several species of small fury animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict. ✌
One of Rogers' extended sonic experiments that is way ahead of its time!.
My people! The best people in the world. Alba gu brath!🏴❤️✊.
Second to Geordies.
@@nixonsmateruby1 scots second to geordies? Nah geordies are Scottish after birth we threw over the border that's evolved into modern day new Castle
We're actual shite mate
That's not pictish, that's colonial Irish spoken by Dai Riata colonists. The picts are different people altogether.
@TalorcMacAllan-jh9me All the original British are still in England. No matter how much they tell us, we are Anglo-Saxon. We know we are the original British.
A hard land creates a hard people.
LOL @ describing matrilineal as the deviant one...
Everybody knows from what womb a child came, the father is anybody's guess (unless you can do DNA-testing), so the patrilineal one is "strange".
That's what I always say! Great point!
I had come to understand that the people of North Spain's roots are pictish ,triangle shaped skulls ( top view ) black hair ,possibly black eyes (don't remember exactly). The technique of the stone carvings ,are probably older than Stonehenge ,it would be interesting to make comparisons to other ancient cultures . Eg Gobekli Tepe in Turkey .A lot of migration going on in ancient times ,no real borders ,visas or passports.
Alot like now😅
.. Except for the European, UK etc who can't go anywhere without a Passport 🤔🙄
There are THREE classes of Pictish stones, not two. The first are undressed stones bearing Pictish symbols. The second are dressed stones bearing Pictish symbols. The third are dressed stones bearing Christian symbols or a mix of Christian symbols. Admittedly this classifiaction is not universally accepted by scholars but it is a good starting point.
Thank you for sharing!
Believe me, I'm no expert. However, I spent January and February freezing to death near Inverness, and immersed myself in the local Pictish remains and artefacts to take my mind off the frostbite. I also bought some books from the very lovely Inverness Museum, which is where I got this information about the classification.@@UntoldHistoryYT
Good to know and thanks again. What a time of year to go! 🥶 I've heard the wind can be rather brutal also…
Great content. Amusing to me that “fact number [n]…” is sometimes followed by “may have.” A fact or supposition? 😊
A great dePiction!
Thanks for watching!
Nice video 😊 besides the movie " Centurion" you can appreciate an interesting characterization of Picts on the movie " King Arthur" although they speak Gaelic 😅
Greetings from Galicia!
Glad you enjoyed the video! 😊 Thank you for the movie recommendations! 🍿
The Picts actually began using Ogham after Monks from St. Patrick's Church converted them to Christianity in the 6th and 7th Century AD. Ogham was used by Irish Monks of the Apostelistic Church of St. Patrick so any Ogham found in Pictavia would have been from this source. The Picts seemingly died out through merger with Scottii of the Kingdom of Dal Riata, when Angus II, King of Pictavia died leaving only a Daughter, who married Aedh of Dal Riata. He became King of both Dal Riata and Pictavia at the Death of Angus II of Pictavia, which merged the two Kingdoms and formed the Kingdom of Alba, which became Scotland in 1309 when Robert The Bruce became King of a unified Kingdom of Alba, Stirling, Strathclyde, and Ayrshire which formed the Kingdom of Scotland, named after the Gaelic Tribe of Scottii which had originally been the Ruling Tribe in the Kingdom of Dal Riata, consisting of what is now Ulster, the Ionian Islands, Hebridean Islands and the Western Highlands. Picts used Woad Tattoos to identify a Warrior in Battle, usually a symbol of their Clann, example, Merthyn Ambrosias, Shamen of the Picts who used a stylised Crescent Moon and Star as his Woad Tattoo, which is where the idea of the symbol meaning a Wizard comes from, as shown in the Disney film with Mickey Mouse wearing a blue robe with Crescent Moons and Stars all over it in the film Fantasia.
Great info - thanks so much for sharing. 🙏
@tomcat4765...ogham did not originate in ireland. it was only called ogham ireland after the gaulish god ogmios. the pictish writings were developed between the 4th and 6th century. based on latin as is the irish writings. st ninian(believed to be a roman centurian turned monk brought christianity to scotland about a 150 years before any of the mythical irish monks. scotti is what the romans called the gaulish tribes in the frankish regions of europe. bearing in mind the picts ars believed to be a gaulish tribe...the pictones.
The Picts must’ve come from the Nordic nations, they were known for the most intricate and skilled silver jewellery and metal forging.
Negative. Completely different lineages. Their art has some roots in common.
That mystery animal might just be a goat
I'm thinking that too, it makes complete sense too, Goats would likely have faired better than sheep in the rougher climates in northern scotland, they would have probably come to represent steadfastness, bravery, and headstrong perseverance or the like...
At time 13:09, the man on the horse is Vercingetorix, a Gaulish high king from Brittany. NOT a Pict. From my ancestors, the Gauls.
So it sounds like not much is actually known about the origins of the Picts. And much of their history is also a bit fuzzy.
Fact number #16: Ancient cultures never really disappear. Instead, they are driven out of their lands and re-educated about their identity while their depictions in writings are hidden from the public and their depictions on art are changed to fit the narrative. In order to find out what we are told is lost, we need only to discover the books of the times in question.
My clan is Pictish and I'm curious as to how that's worked out..🤔
Genetic lineages, mtDNA / yDNA, haplogroups.
Here is the true history of the Picts, we haven't a clue who they were what they thought nor anything about them, fact now was that so hard.
Thanks for the video! I like the picture of the Picts wearing kilts, which weren't created until the 15-16th centuries. Nice image, but like showing Jesus riding a dinosaur.
Thanks for watching! 😄
13:09 Many of these images have little or nothing to do with the Picts. This one, for instance, is a painting of the surrender of Vercingetorix (a Gaulish chieftain) to Julius Caesar.
Ogham is pronounced as Ohm.
Thank you, Peggy. Always appreciate constructive feedback!
For a first time seeing the beast, my first reaction was stylised wolf, legs are there but one front and one rear are a bit fancy is all.
If the Picts merged with the Scots, why is there so little Pict DNA in the modern Scottish population?
because modern Scots descend from Gaels, Picts, Britons, and various germanic/nordic peoples. Also many Scots are descendants of Picts, but its just hard to tell the difference between pictish and brythonic dna or pictish and gaelic dna.
To be fair it's pretty high for it being 1000 years ago... Britain is a melting pot
@@robbieh2458 I'm no expert, but why does time make a difference? Unless all pictish genes are recessive, some would persist no matter how long wouldn't they?
@@overkoppsbaiter0714 /// but its just hard to tell the difference between pictish and brythonic dna or pictish and gaelic dna.///
Why? If you have a distinctive genetic racial marker, then it's either there, or it's not.
@@Martyntd5 if you mix genes 50 times they'll be less evident?
as far as we know the kilt and tartans were not used in scotland whilst there were still pict communities
The last viking battle vs thr picts or cruthnie was at Cruden bay ie death of the danes bay its where the golf course is today in Aberdeenshire. The danes then attacked the English boy that got an arrow in the eye by Willie the conqueror wi the bowl cut hair 😂
Have you been to Cruden Bay? Is it worth the visit?
@UntoldHistoryYT Slains Castle is worth a visit but not much else to see I have been there many times born and bred in Aberdeenshire with my family roots traceable back to the 11th century here chances are we have been here longer but records stop then most people travelled way less the further back you go.
The picts were the master of stone builders there land was from Shetland, orkney east Scotland, Cumbria and Lancashire and the picts are my ancestors
What do you call a Pictish dentist?
A tooth-pict!! 🤣👍
Such a good video!
Thank you very much, Rachel! So glad you enjoyed it. 🙏❤️
Fathers come and go. The only stability in a family are the mothers.
No.
Nonsense
Fascinating thank you
...also the language of our nation isn't pronounced ''Gaylick''...but Galic...like garlic without the r...I hope this helps...as it riles me up the wrong way to hear it pronounced otherwise...
However...if you are talking about Ireland...''Gaylik'' will do...😁
Garlic is not native to Britain but a colonial language like english.aberdeen is a native British placename which is why it looks so Welsh.
@@neilthornton3544⁉Garlic⁉
@@neilthornton3544millASIANsons one thing the Brothonics never did was surrender to Rome an ended there fedual systems Wales Scotland England really don't no what happen to Eire
I’ve been studying Irish and Scottish Gaelic on my own over several months/years, and dialects and different pronunciations are a fun thing to observe. In some ways Gaelic is so similar to Irish, and in other ways completely different, but MOST times it’s pronounced differently! 😂
People on the internet will almost come to blows over the pronunciation of a woman’s name! 😊
And their fine metalwork and precious metalsmithing mastery
Someone should have done a bit more research on what the Picts wore. The type of kilt that they show here was not invented until the 1700s
And also the original kilts were dull Brønsted-Lowry and beige the colours were invented by a couple of con men from England who sold the Scot’s on clan Colors and the bagpipes were an Irish instrument originally from Egypt the Scot’s put the drones on them but the first fully functional bagpipes as we know them were invented by an English man but he could not figure out how to play them and threw them away in a farmers cow midden a canny wee Scot came along pulled them out of the cow dung and the Scot’s have been try to blow the shit out off them ever since 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Granted this is pure speculation, but, I hear certain things like the use of Ogham, the style of symbols & their level of education & expertise ... It just makes me wonder if the Picts were in some way, shape or form related to or may have actually been Scottish Druids?!
I don't think they were all Druids but if they were a Celtic people they probably had Druids, just under a different pronunciation. I read once Pict might just be the northern dialect of insular Celtic (the Celtic language of England aka Brittonic or Brythonic, languages) for Brit. Pronounced Pict in the north (Scotland), Brit in the south (Britain) and Bret in Brittany (France) but 🤷♂️
It's not Gayle-ik it's Ghaa-lik.
Roman uniform included a short tunic with small metal sqquares attached to protect their vitals. Perhaps leading to the tartan squares pattern.