The Picts and their Language

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Picts who lived in what is now northern and eastern Scotland in the Early Medieval period spoke the Pictish language. But for centuries, the origins of Pictish have been hotly debated.

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Dr. Cat Jarman finds out all about the Picts and their language, and what insights are emerging from the latest research, with Dr. Guto Rhys.

This episode was edited by Anisha Deva and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:33.1	Hello and welcome to today's episode of Gone Medieval from History Hit.
1:37.6	I'm Dr. Kat Jarman. The early medieval, northerly people known to us as the
1:42.8	Picts spoke what we refer to as the Pictish language, but for over 400 years the origins,
1:49.2	affinities and features of this language have been hotly debated. The questions about its
1:54.8	origins have been especially important because of how this relates to ownership of the Scottish
1:59.7	past. Did it belong to immigrant Irish, Conquering Germanic peoples or native Britons?
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