The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler

Volume 4 The the Medieval World, Episode 20, The Picked. Oh, you know, you know, you know,

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uh... Oh, The story of the Picts is a mysterious story and one that exists strictly in the

first millennium and one that exists in the modern country of Scotland.

Originally I stated that the Pictish people were Celtic in origin,

although I must admit that this could be a little bit misleading,

as there is a school of thought to say that Pictish people

occupied the British Isles

before a Celtic wave of migration. Let me attempt to try and set the record

straight. The Pictish people are referred to in medieval chronicles as people who occupied the far north of Scotland

and spoke a Celtic language. The Pictish people are among several distinct ethnic groups of the British Isles who spoke a Celtic language.

This means that there had to be a significant wave of Celtic migration to the British Isles

before the arrival of the Romans and that whoever was occupying the lands of the British Isles before this Celtic migration

are likely to have mixed with the migrants and produced those peoples that the Roman discovered.

So logically, we know that Celtic cultures are highly likely to be in Pictish ancestry.

And the real argument will be that we don't know to what

extent Celtic cultures affected the bloodlines of the peoples who we recognize

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