Hadrian's Wall was as much about keeping the army busy than a customs barrier whilst providing a bit of employment for the locals. Due to a lack of activity since opening 19 years previously, the Romans moved up another 100 miles and built another cross country wall, the Antonine. The resources to be had up there weren't worth the effort, though.
I always envision the Romans saying this as the native Scots/Picts/Celts come running down the hill, naked bodies painted blue, hair bleached with urine, playing bagpipes. These are my people, both genetically and spiritually.
A good summary, but it's a shame you use so much AI art in your videos. They have serious misrepresentations of the Picts, like what their houses and villages looked like, or having them wear metal armour when they famously never did.
@@JustAnotherHistoryChannel even then, there's plenty of actual landscape photos out there! There's plenty of historic societies publishing free open source material, just to educate the public. Worth investigating!
@@JustAnotherHistoryChannel glad to see youre willing to switch back. seeing/heari g AI generated anything in an educational video is an immediate "no" for a lot of people. it will always help your reputability to use real photos and voiceover.
The Picts were just Britons on the wrong sde of the Roman customs barriers. They liked a bit of Body Art and a decent pint. Two of my kids are tattooists and two are publicans - so nothing much has changed. Where is the mystery?
Just want to say that since 2023 I've been trying to understand who were the Picts and what differentiate them from Britons (I research british history just for hobby), and none of the videos or websites I saw gave such a direct but detailed explanation of who they were like your video. Great channel, and thank you very much 👏👏
I wouldn't say necessarily Swedish though. Isn't it more likely that it was Norwegian or Danish? Since all three are quite similar in written form. Those who went viking in the British Isles were mostly Danish and Norwegian. Some Swedish, sure, but mostly the others.
@@Elora445Yes! Ever read the Oera Linde or Bock Saga? The info they provide gives context for why! Some of the writers relayed their knowledge on their neighbors and ethnic cousins. Mentioned a decent amount of migrations and changes in power. Blew my mind to learn that the Odin people are familiar with was an ambitious man named Wodin the eldest of 3 brothers! Darn good reading material for those hungry to learn the Northern expanse.
@@DooDoo-f4v Ehm, Odin as a character is the Nordic variant of the god, while Wodin is the Germanic one. So they are related, but not necessarily the same. Most likely it was Germanic people who took the god with them when moving into the Nordics and eventually it developed into Odin. Or the Nordic people traded with them and was inspired by their gods, made their own versions of them. See also: Greeks and Romans.
This is the most in-depth information I've found so far about who the "Picts" might have been. I wondered too about the Scythian history because of their art being so similar, and that the Scythian people apparently tattooed themselves too. I think it would have been pronounced as SKY-THEE-AN though, because of the C having been pronounced that way, maybe not in all languages in the area but certainly some. Unless that name is also a modern name for ancient people.
There is an old Irish myth which says that after the fall of the tower of babel we migrated over here from scythia and that we brought the language from there with us.
29:11 he did not actually write "tricks them out" 😭 this has to be some sort of translation, right? I can't believe "getting tricked out" has been around since the 7th century ☠️
Who were the Picts? As one of the last Pictush scientists, I answer: They were most likely the descendents of Insular Celts right-through. Saying they were just Britons is incorrect, not only considering their look, but also considering their language, which is of course not Brythonic. And not Irish. Picts just were Picts. That's the right answer.
Picts have always fascinated me. It probably helps that that fascination can also be found in the writings of my favorite fantasy author, Robert E. Howard. Subscribed.
Pictish had an influence of non-IE language, seems like it wasn't similar to Basque, but to Finnish and Hebrew. Yes, the last one is actually is 100% true, I was even able to find many semitic words in Pictish, even a semitic ending "-lv" (which can be found in oghams).
And the most likely theory about Picts is multicultural. The Pictland had 3 languages and cultures - 1. Western Pictish, shich was mainly Gaelic 2. Eastern Pictish, which was mainly Brythonic 3. Northern Pictish, which was non-IE This theory is actually mathcing all the places and holes. It literally can explain everything, and, of course, it is most likely the true one.
we've been rifled through so many times it's hard to tell where a nord begins and a bret ends, also in the past 500 years the influx of english to the southern regions further muddies the water. if you're from scotland just be proud of who you are, we all likely got some chedder blood in us as well some english by now
There’s nothing left of them culturally or historically. It’s probably a Roman political term that just means ‘not under Roman rule’. As alluded to in this video the idea of Picts as a people probably stems from 19th century ideas about ethnicity and race
Nah mate, Half if not most of the people born that are not from different countries are from Anglo-saxon descent, and the language your speaking is from the Anglo-saxons, and Scots came from the Anglo-saxons sooo
This is a great documentary! Regarding the Pictish language being theorised as a Pre-Indo European language (34:03 timestamp), what is the distinction between that possibly being a Pre-Proto-Indo-European language? I'm curious as to the timeline, as it seems that the name of Pre-Indo/Pre-Proto strongly relates to the timeline of language being developed.
@@philthycat1408 my dad always told me to hold in a pee until we'd crossed the border, "you dinny pish on our own streets when there's a country sized toilet a few mile south."
Yous are that keen to be vulgar you don't even realise you are talking like damn clowns. I've no doubt yer da pished himself in sight of the English. We were a better, stronger people when we aspired to more than being extras in a Mel Gibson movie. God Save the King.
Wallace, Wallace! On a serious note, it's interesting that Alba formed whilst the Vikings defeated both the Picts and Dal Riata. Alba also sounds very similar to Albion if you ask me too!
This is the best RU-vid offering on The Picts. It is, however, nearly spoiled by the (otherwise impeccable) narrator's gross mispronunciation of moRAY (for MURRay) and dalriADA (for dalRIada). Worth correcting.
Great video. Small note: 34:34 In terms of language families, Scots isn't Celtic but Germanic. I think you meant to say Scottish Gaelic which is Celtic.
Bede, the historian of immigrant invaders who established themselves in Northumberland, who originally lived in NE Europe until the 6th Century AD, declared it was the indigenous people of the area invaded who were (Scythian!!) foreigners! This is the same argument used by Zionist immigrants moving from NE Europe and America into Palestine! Somehow the local brown people couldn't possibly be indigenous to the area they had lived in for generations, whereas the pale, European-featured, immigrants of NE Europe were obviously the true indigenous people from 2,000 years before! What became of the peoples (Picts?) behind Hadrian's wall who existed from Tyneside up to Edinburgh until the Romans withdrew from Britain - did they simply run away or were they all slaughtered by the Northumbrians?
Picts were Brythonic Celts they were the same as what the Romans Called Silurae and they were also in the West of what is Now Wales Devon and Cornwall, they spoke the same Language as the British, the name Picton is virtually only found in West Wales today, they were called Picts by the Romans and they were not only in what is now Scotland they were in Rheged and Ystrad Clwyd as well ( Cumbria and North of England, the name came from the Romans who said the Pictones of Western France were the Same as the Britons of Western Britain and and in what the Britons Called Alban , which is common in ancient Cymric as men of the Mountains, that is in all of Britain. Scots seem to forget that they come from Ireland, the area above what Became Hadrians Wall was full of Brythonic Celts, where do you think the name Stuart and Bruce come from, they were Celts whose Lands were of Ancient Families not only in Alba but also in what is now Wales and England the Bruces were from the Ancient Kings of what became Glamorgan and Powys, they are from the same line as the Tudors, Brewys is their Brythonic name, Bruce is an anglicised form of that name the Bruces were Brythonic Celts Kings of Eddynt and Rheged who were forced from their Lands by the Scots Invasions with Vikings and Saxons from Ireland in the late 8th Century, they travelled to their Brothers in Dinefwr and were Taken across on ships with Hundreds of othere to Brittany, same the Stuarts a Family of the Ystarth kings of Dinefwr and Ceredigion very ancient, they to travelled to Brittany but went to the Cymric areas of Normandy and the Pas De Calais ( Gallois) Caen Calais Ypres etc. The Bruces changed their name to De Breos (De Breoc) and the Ystarth to Stuart they travelled these Families travelled back to Britain with the Normans at 1066, in that Invasion, they were to claim back lands lost earlier, the Bruces in Alba ( Scotland ) Stuarts in Wales and Scotland, later a Man called William Wallace will also bring his Cymric Heritage to the fore, he was also from the Family of Tudors and was a Cousin of the other Brythonic Cymric Families Tudors and Cameron who are also Bruces and Stuarts. The Norman Invasion of Engand landed at Hastings, but there was another Invasion at Pembroke with the Breton and Gallois Knights returning to claim their Lands, De Breos De Clare De Bohun De Spenser and others involved they gathered a Army across Southern Wales including archers from Llantrisant and Pentyrch , forcing the Saxons away from the Marches and further, in the end these Ex Britons were to become the English landed Gentry with the Bruces Tudors Stuarts . Picts were Cymric, they were viciously attacked by the Scots Irish Vikings with the Saxons attacking the South to what became the Border and in to the Brythonic Kingdoms of Elfet Elfed Rheged Ystrad Clwyd and Derwenydd ( Derwent) . Pictish areas have Brythonic place names Aberdeen Caledonia etc, Lanark Glasgow Edin Fal( Kirk) Perth Alloa and hundreds more in Scotland even Orkney Maes howe. Picts were not Norse or Gaels they were Cymric Brythonic Celts their Kings were known to the Britons and are revered in our British History. Diolch yn fawr i chi, Prynhawn da.
So good I have saved this vid to my History play list , I'm sertón that I'll learn more by re watching it. As I live in Edinburgh we have usually been on the Picts southern boarder , specifically during the Roman occupation Cramond was Rome's frontier Fort for a few decades . Although I am aware that the significance of the reclined "Standing" stones unique to Fyfe is not understood so difficult to make any Polemic statements about them the fact that you don't mention the prevalence of the often three stone arrangement ( l _ l ) of two verticals separated by a recumbent rock is my only complaint. As a Tourist interested in history visiting the east coast south of Aberdeen I expected to hear about the endless Viking harassment of the coastal population. Instead I had my preferred view of History reinforced the Norsemen and the Locals where at the verry least centauries old trading partners if not genetically co evolved through generations of regular crossings. (What regular means in this context I could not say). The "Historic" point is that far from being the victims of Viking raids these waters where "Muster Points" from which raids likely left to raid south and gathered at after them. As my Ammeter interest in ancient history is mainly through its pointers to pre history; I admit to extrapolating scant evidence for "Regular" long distance, probably information exchange based maritime "Old World" voyages'. I think arguments can be made for 20,000 BP so who knows how much further.
The most unique cultural feature of the Picts, IMHO, is their propensity for gathering together in caves and grooving with multiple species of small furry animals.
As an example, at 8:11 it would be nice to include a time period stamp which I wish you included on many maps. Your videos are great about history though. I used to hate history classes and as I've got older it's fasinating. TY
How about that the picts came from early Anatolia, many of the carvings are so similar. The Göbekli Tepe looks so much like these ancient huge stone structures.
Spending so much time in the idea that Picts were not homogeneous (a construct), but instead all sorts of diverse is ridiculous. Any evidence they had different religions or politics or races up there?
Picts are celts? Seems a similary since ancient times greeks and phoenicians discribe they like be a same as galic but more from north , and vikings like gots from beowulf history know each others ??
2:52 Perhaps you'll address this as I get further into the video but the Picts absolutely are a defined ethnic (or at least cultural and political) group by the establishment of the Kingdom of Alba when they unified with the Scots
I haven't found much information available about these people, and I watch everything I can find on YT about them. I was glad to see the silver pendant that was found, but I'll bet there is more that's not been found yet. I love their artwork, and some of my ancestors were from "northern Scotland" according to my DNA, almost half is from there. I don't know where exactly, but I would love to know more about who they were, in their own history. I just don't know where to look.
The scythian story could have been an adaptation of an oral history referring to the indo-european migration into the isles. The indo-european peoples are said to have migrated out of the region associated with the scythians during antiquity.
Because they were Scythians. Modern academia has been absolutely rabid to deny European peoples their past, even though mountains of evidence always prove them wrong.
They are as indigenous to Scotland as can be there ate traces in Northern Eastern Scotland of almost continual habitation since at least 10,000bc thus was the Stronghold of the Picts the CE at Rhynie. Tap o noth this was also where the Romans fought them at Mons Graupius and also the place the last invasion by Vikings on Pictland at Cruden Bay death of the Danes bay.
Long story short: indigineous inhabitans from Iron Age Britain (and probably before that) spread over Scotland in tribes which sometimes were connected and sometimes not. They evolved in the oldest known Scottish kingdoms. Done!
Most likely Pictland was a Brythonic speaking elite over a Gaelic speaking population. This parallels the later English speaking elite over a Gaelic speaking population. It also explains things such how could Gaelic, a very challenging language to learn, appears to have spread quickly throughout rural Scotland after the Pictish elite lost power. I can imagine someone using AI to generate Pictish creoles created by Gaelic speakers and try matching the creoles to the Pictish oghams.
berecyntians, bryges (phrygian tribe), brygantes, britons ... picts as called by romans but actually nobody knows how they call themselves one must admit that there are some strong cultural similarities with scythians, ethereal tattoos, balbal stones, kurgans, lactose tolerance / milk drinkers picts might be of scythian / eastern eurasian / proto-siberian descent as scholars claims ..
Matrilineal kingship was the exception not the rule, so for those who refer to it constantly as matrilineal are rather than bilineal are ignoring the evidence within the kings lists.
