Pictish in a sentence

The absence of surviving written material in Pictish—if the ambiguous "Pictish inscriptions" in the Ogham script are discounted—does not indicate a pre-literate society.

There was also a merger of the Gaelic and Pictish crowns, although historians debate whether it was a Pictish takeover of Dál Riata, or the other way around.

Youngs, no. 111, with a plate showing the decoration much better; Laing, 310 The Aberlemno Kirkyard Stone, Class II Pictish stone Pictish art appears on stones, metalwork and small objects of stone and bone.

The Crescent V-rod is another Pictish symbol which appears commonly on stones.

The stone to which I have referred in previous letters is black basalt and carved, probably by Pictish craftsmen.

Dr Andrew Newton in his Pictish guise, surrounded by reproduction objects of the period.

The Pictish ring found in Moray is now with the National Museum of Scotland’s Post-excavation Service for analysis.

The event will consist of a tour of the McManus, before people head to the museum’s collections unit, in the city’s Barrack Street, to see the bones of the mystery Pictish man.

Broun's Pictish Kings offers an alternative reconstruction, and one which has attracted considerable support, e.g. Clancy, "Iona in the kingdom of the Picts: a note", Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp 57–67.

By a certain point, probably during the 11th century, all the inhabitants of Alba had become fully Gaelicised Scots, and Pictish identity was forgotten.

Form from a Pictish stone dated to the Middle Ages, but reflecting the custom surviving from the ancient Picts.

Goidelic language and culture would eventually become dominant in the Pictish area and far northern Brythonic area.

However, though the Pictish language did not disappear suddenly, a process of Gaelicisation (which may have begun generations earlier) was clearly underway during the reigns of Caustantín and his successors.

Hunter (2000) pp. 44, 49 The island of Pabbay is the site of the Pabbay Stone, the only extant Pictish symbol stone in the Outer Hebrides.

It appears that these are associated with Pictish kings, which argues for a considerable degree of royal patronage and control of the church.

It is possible that the Pictish "cat" sound forms part of this Norse name.

Kings and kingdoms seeAlso Approximate location of Pictish kingdoms, based on the information given here The early history of Pictland is unclear.

Lusitanian and Alteuropäisch populations in the West of the Iberian Peninsula Transactions of the Philological Society vol. 97 (2003) * Pictish was for a long time thought to be a pre-Celtic, non-Indo-European language of Scotland.

North of Dál Riata, the Inner and Outer Hebrides were nominally under Pictish control, although the historical record is sparse.

North of the Forth, the Pictish language is considered to be related; it is possible it was a Brittonic language, but it may have been a sister language.