Medievalists.net » Picts http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Picts and the Martyrs or Did Vikings Kill the Native Population of Orkney and Shetland? http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/09/the-picts-and-the-martyrs-or-did-vikings-kill-the-native-population-of-orkney-and-shetland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/09/the-picts-and-the-martyrs-or-did-vikings-kill-the-native-population-of-orkney-and-shetland/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:41:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58807 I suspect that the Norse invaders of Orkney and Shetland didn't just overwhelm', or 'submerge' the native population: I think they killed them.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/09/the-picts-and-the-martyrs-or-did-vikings-kill-the-native-population-of-orkney-and-shetland/feed/ 0 Picts offer historians a picture of non-Roman Briton culture http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/12/picts-offer-historians-picture-non-roman-briton-culture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/12/picts-offer-historians-picture-non-roman-briton-culture/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:38:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56098 History has never been too kind to a group of early British Isle inhabitants referred to as the Picts, but the often mischaracterized, always mysterious people may serve as a historical laboratory to explore how the island's culture might have developed without Roman intervention, according to a Penn State historian.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/12/picts-offer-historians-picture-non-roman-briton-culture/feed/ 0 The Viking Language of the Highlands and Islands: Reconstructing the Norn Language from Old Norse http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/viking-language-highlands-islands-reconstructing-norn-language-old-norse/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/viking-language-highlands-islands-reconstructing-norn-language-old-norse/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:57:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54214 The Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland were at one time colonized by Vikings and belonged firmly within the field of Scandinavian cultural influence. During this time the people of these archipelagos spoke a unique language known as Norn which evolved from the Old Norse language.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/viking-language-highlands-islands-reconstructing-norn-language-old-norse/feed/ 0 Europe and the beginning of Scottish sovereignty http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/06/europe-beginning-scottish-sovereignty/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/06/europe-beginning-scottish-sovereignty/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2014 03:35:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52368 Scotland’s story may have been distinctive, but its experience was not.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/06/europe-beginning-scottish-sovereignty/feed/ 0 Britain and the beginning of Scotland http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/10/britain-beginning-scotland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/10/britain-beginning-scotland/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2014 03:52:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51773 In this lecture Professor Dauvit Broun explores recent rethinking on Scottish origins by discussing the role of Britain as an 'idea', connections with England, the emergence of Scotland as a country in the 13th century, and the beginnings of the Scottish kingdom itself.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/10/britain-beginning-scotland/feed/ 0 War or Peace? The Relations Between the Picts and the Norse in Orkney http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/18/war-peace-relations-picts-norse-orkney/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/18/war-peace-relations-picts-norse-orkney/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:38:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51210 This article will focus mainly on the earliest period of Norse settlement, before the Norse earldom was established.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/18/war-peace-relations-picts-norse-orkney/feed/ 0 Britain and the Beginning of Scotland http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/14/britain-and-the-beginning-of-scotland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/14/britain-and-the-beginning-of-scotland/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:20:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51103 Until recently it was generally held that Scotland first began to take shape with a union of Picts and Scots under Cinaed mac Ailpín, who died in 858.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/14/britain-and-the-beginning-of-scotland/feed/ 0 St. Ninian of Whithorn http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/09/st-ninian-of-whithorn/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/09/st-ninian-of-whithorn/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:40:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45632 My interest here is in finding usable information regarding the centuries before Bede and in the way in which new data, especially the outstanding recent archaeological discoveries at Whithom in Wigtownshire (which is certainly the site of Candida Casal. might support and add to his picture of St. Ninian and the importance of his church at Candida Casa.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/09/st-ninian-of-whithorn/feed/ 0 The Enigma of the Picts http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/08/the-enigma-of-the-picts/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/08/the-enigma-of-the-picts/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:11:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45597 Yet superficially the subject does not seem so problematical. The task in hand is that of identifying the general political, linguistic and cultural personality of the people, or peoples, who lived to the north of the Forth- Clyde line from the first century B.C. (around when the first historical details were collected) to the ninth century A.D. (when the Pictish kingdom disappeared).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/08/the-enigma-of-the-picts/feed/ 0 What can written sources, sculpture and archaeology tell us about Pictish identity and how this might have changed between the sixth and ninth centuries? http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/what-can-written-sources-sculpture-and-archaeology-tell-us-about-pictish-identity-and-how-this-might-have-changed-between-the-sixth-and-ninth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/what-can-written-sources-sculpture-and-archaeology-tell-us-about-pictish-identity-and-how-this-might-have-changed-between-the-sixth-and-ninth-centuries/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:38:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37231 Arguably one of the biggest changes in how the Picts portrayed themselves is understood through their use of sculpture. The earliest is thought to date to around the fifth century (Historic Scotland, 2012) lending itself to the Class I typology.

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