15 Fascinating Facts About The Picts - Scotland’s Lost History

Are you also fascinated by the ancient Picts of Scotland? Let us know your favorite part about their culture in the comments below! ❤

Keep your culture and traditions alive. So much is being lost these days.

The Picts didn't vanish , we are still here amongst you .

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.

Our customs, traditions and language are still here in Scotland.

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.

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.

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! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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.

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!

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.

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!

My people! The best people in the world. Alba gu brath!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️✊.

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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. 🎉

I really like this video! What a beautiful culture!! Thankyou for the video

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.

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 original homeland of the Picts was in Jutland, where the woad plants they needed for their tattoos or Pict-ures grew in abundance. This is according to Herodotus btw. They migrated to France where they founded 12 small kingdoms. When Troy fell and the survivors from Ilia migrated to the islands they named Britian after their leader Brutus, something occurred to demolish the Pictish kingdoms in France, and a group of survivors sailed to Britain to appeal for sanctuary. The Brits had just conquered Ireland and they gave the Picts the northern part of Britain on three conditions - they merge with the Danaan women of Ireland, they forever exist in a Matriarchy ruled by the Danaan, and they eradicate the remaining giants who lived to the north. That's how Scotland came to be created and the Picts came to live there when this was never their original homeland. Relatedly, the Saxons and Anglos also came from the area around Jutland, with the Anglos claiming they had been led to the British islands by their god Ingve, so the migration of all of these "Germanic" tribes to the west may have been organized by someone very powerful.