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Picts
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philologists, archaeoligists and historians, differing among themslves at many points, would probably all agree that the historical Picts were a heterogeneous people and that the antecedents of Pictland should not be sought in a single race or culture.
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― The Problem of the Picts
― The Problem of the Picts
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These great Nordic incursions were to result in the marginalization of the once semi-autonomous Pictish, English and North British Princedoms that had preceded the arrival of the Norsemen on British soil. And, as they disappeared beneath the onslaught of the Viking Hosts, the ancient bardic traditions, which had once been succoured by these previously distinct ethnic groups, gradually became intertwined with one another as a result of widespread migration, inter-marriage and cross fertilization;
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― The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrel Tradition
― The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrel Tradition
