The Picts - The Warrior People Who Scared Even the Romans

[@Aprlmoore]

When we visited Stirling, the archivist there said that the standing stone in the field north of the Wallace monument marked the place where the Picts and Gaels were united in marriage, to seal their alliance. I have no reason to doubt this. You could see that farmers had been plowing around this stone for centuries..

[@3ch1dna07]

You are likely correct. I'm quite certain that some stones have stories about their significance handed down via word of mouth. So only those born and raised where a stone is prominently displayed would know the specific use for that stone. Just a thought.

[@violetmoonofthenorth]

Love to hear history about my ancestors. Interesting video ⚔️

[@ChrisShortyAllen]

As if.

[@moonshiner3400]

@@ChrisShortyAllenMany people with border Scot ancestors derive from the picts. The border Scot’s were a mixture of Anglo Saxon and pict ancestors. It’s really not that impossible even I have pict ancestors.

[@catsinq5726]

I had a friend that used to say the Romans built Hadrian's wall instead of attempting to conquer Scotland because of the camber toss. "Yup general, we got up there but ... um ... those guys are throwing trees at each other. For fun. And we think maybe we've conquered enough of this island. I mean, I know we're supposed to be expanding the empire and all, but ... TREES."

[@kraigthorne3549]

Romans were ALWAYS about the MONEY and Ireland and Scotland had NONE of it and that is why the Roman Army never invaded to conquer and only sent punitive raids.

[@scrubber1986]

aye the caber toss is impressive watching pro's do it at highland games.

[@maryannproffitt44]

You got that right. Don’t mess with them or thier descendants. If you know what’s good for you. Who called them barbarians? Thier enemies who wanted to take thier land.

[@CelticAugur]

Always love learning of my ancestors, amazing video.

[@onlyonewhyphy]

You're descended from Picts?!

[@jaket8947]

​@@onlyonewhyphyLots of folks are.

[@robertchiarizia9463]

@@jaket8947Like Me

[@robertchiarizia9463]

@@onlyonewhyphyLots of us are. We are bred into present day people just like the Norse, Scots, Irish, Gaels, Welsh, and English. If your kin come from Northern and Eastern Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 then you are probably Pict as well.

[@onlyonewhyphy]

@@robertchiarizia9463 south west Scotland.

[@itanchiro5524]

What an interesting group of people!

[@clownofthetimes6727]

The Picts are just northern Celts who did not get conquered by the Romans. The Romans called all Britons who they had not been romanised Picti. There is no mystery, just some misunderstanding with the name.

[@jasonladd6400]

The Picts had mastery of forest covered hills and glens that made it very hard for the Romans to conquer in any meaningful way. They were vulnerable to hit and run guerrilla tactics just like the English during the wars of Independence. The Picts were certainly fierce and indomitable but no match for the legions in open battle but could easily escape into the wilds so no complete victory was ever achievable

[@Azog150]

There's also the fact that the Picts had no towns or cities. The Roman's standard procedure when conquering somewhere was to go straight for the centres of power, and then use that as their base of operations. So the fact the Picts had no real centres of power left the Roman's confused and unsure what to do (and probaby left them thinking the Picts were even more primitive than the Britons they had conquered further south). That + hit and run guerrilla tactics made them think it wasn't worth it.

[@ronaldwinfield307]

I loved your illustrations.

[@leroilapue15]

Created by AI

[@KingEdwardtheTurbulentNeill26]

The Picts were also in the outer Hebrides as evidence of a Pictish art stone on the isle of Barra before the Gaels and Vikings came

[@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours]

Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan

[@KingsguardRP]

If you read G.R.R Martin's song of ice and fire (game of thrones)...the Picts are represented by the white walkers.

[@aguspuig6615]

wouldnt hte Picts be the wildlings?

[@Oberbaumbruecke]

Nope, the White Walkers are supernatural.

[@dylansearcy3966]

The white walkers are based on draugr of Norse mythology

[@jonskinz79]

​@@aguspuig6615you are correct

[@enjoyyourself7455]

I've always thought the Wildlings & Children represented the Picts & Gaels respectively and that the White Walkers, seemingly nomadic invaders from the frozen far north who appeared impervious to cold, who lived only for war and would go berserk in battle, represented the Vikings

[@yourwealthcenter8894]

What source did you use to cite Columba interactions with the picts?

[@PaulaakaPaben]

Picts, Celts, Scottish Kings , I am Descended from them all!

[@JACK_TheAllSeeingEye]

Me too...at least 4 royal dynasties: - Dal Riatans...High Kings of Ireland - Picts...dynasty of Nechtan - Coel Hen Brittonic dynasty of northern England 4th cent (ol king Cole was a merry old soul) - Ui Imair...Clan Iver...dynastic descendants of Iver Ragnarsson...Iver The Boneless (he wasnt)...King of Dublin..England..Scotland..The Hebrides...etc. The Ui Imair once held 12 separate Kingdoms. I am The Lord Erinvine.

[@franktoreeide1385]

How abut Viking. Scotland was called Norway before.

[@johnlennon8653]

Direct descendant of the House of Stewart , on my grandmother’s side.

[@RyanG0899]

​@@franktoreeide1385No it wasn't

[@thassarian136]

@@JACK_TheAllSeeingEyedal riatans were never high kings of Ireland idk where you got that from

[@williswameyo5737]

They later united and intermarried with the Scoti, a Gaelic celt speaking group from Ireland, they formed the Kingdom of Scotland or Alba

[@john.powell645]

One of Scotlands first king was Irish Fergus mòr (kingdom of dal riatta/riata) confirmed in the 1700's when a Scottish monarch went to Ireland (believe a prince) and in a speech said "we sent a fergus to Ireland and now scotland has sent us a james and he has been accepted" something along those lines

[@brucecollins641]

@williswameyo5737......lol, you do know the scoti nonsense is what it is..a tale. it's gallic in scotland. there is no such tribe as the scoti tribe. the galls/gauls were always at war with the romans in the frankish regions of europe so they fled to england. when the romans invaded england they then fled upto and settled in scotland.

[@brucecollins641]

@@john.powell645 fergus was an pictish king king of scotland , nothing to do with the mythical tale of dalriada.

[@john.powell645]

@@brucecollins641 and no Saxon tribes settled in Scotland the only group of people we share with England is the jutes who settled along the south eastern border or evolved in that area stop lying

[@brucecollins641]

@@john.powell645 type in.....scoti-wikipedia...read the etymology of the word scoti. then type in......scota-wikipedia......then.......who was queen scotia princess scotia and other facts guidebook to life.......then type in......book of invasions mythical history ireland calling......the first peoples of ireland are thought to have come from scotland(certainly ulster).

[@christianchauhan23]

❤🤍💙 all your videos mate👍

[@adheerdhanasir7992]

Thank you for making history understandable and accessible to everyone 🤝🏾🤝🏾🫶🏾

[@DalePetrie-q9l]

You are exactly right valhalla8888 !

[@thomasd9237]

👍 very cool 👍

[@williswameyo5737]

Their language is of Brythonic origin, they share in common with the language of Welsh, Breton and Cornish and other Briton languages

[@TineBeo]

?

[@aliwarden5887]

And they used ogham too

[@onlyonewhyphy]

2:26 - "The Scots of Ireland"?? As a Scot, from Scotland, I'm confused by this 😂

[@brucecollins641]

@onlyonewhyphy.......there were no scots from ireland. a mythical tale written by irish monks to give ireland some ancient lineage in ireland. infact the scots title came much later. most likely from the scandinavian word skat. it's gallic in scotland aslo, no the mythical fabricated gaelic. type in......a brief history of ireland and scotland | irish origenes | use your dna to rediscover your irish origin..........although it would be galls/gauls..

[@Valhalla88888]

The Scots dominated todays Ireland and the Romans and Greeks called todays Ireland as Scotia ie Scotland and the people called the Scotti ie Scots there was no country called Ireland untill about the 6th century then todays Ireland was called Hibernia❤

[@Corc-Duibhne]

Ireland was called Éire by its inhabitants, and Hibernia in Latin, both long before the 6th century. The word Scotia was an alternative Latin name for Ireland and also for Scotland in the medieval period. In that era it referred to country of the Gaels. The word Scoti or Scot originally referred to the Gaelic people, who originated in Ireland, and later spread into Scotland. The word Scot would later become associated solely with Scotland, but the Gaels never disappeared from Ireland and are ancestors of the modern Irish population, as well as Scottish and Manx.

[@danielriley7380]

Don’t heart your own comment when it’s erroneous. Scots regarding Ireland was a language in the north, not the people.

[@brucecollins641]

@@Corc-Duibhne the scoti is a mythical tale written by medieval irish monks to create an ancient lineage for ireland. it's gallic in scotland coming from the frankish regions of europe. you can type in......scoti-wikipedia.....read the etymology of the word......then .......scota-wikipedia.......then......who was queen scotia princess scota and other facts guidebook to life.......then .....book of invasions mythical history ireland calling........scotland was named scotia by the greek explorer ptlomey in 200 ad.....ireland as hiber..........look at the early maps. scotland was an inhabited land long before ireland. so, before you mis-educate the world on scotlands history....you should first educate it on your own. so, from where/when/ and how did the mythical gaels enter ireland?..

[@brucecollins641]

@@Corc-Duibhne the word scoti is not that old and refers to the people of scotland. also..it's gallic in scotland....no the mythical gaelic. there is plenty evidence..

[@MECX3490]

The land of my fathers is a mere shadow of its former glory and pride!! Not sure when the switch happened but apparently the “Fighting PICS/SCOTS” are no longer ALLOWED to stand up to dictators!! It’s just sad…

[@JAaurora2419]

What gym do all these portrayed bodybuilder Picts go to … they would have been skinny but very fit , wily an very violent guys no doubt .. not lumbering roid rage blinder

[@kevinburke9940]

Artistic license

[@ThegoldenFang20]

Love those vdisos

[@jacobn516]

The basket sword is a claymore? I'm so confused about that bc I always thought a larger 2-handed sword is a claymore.

[@ride-time]

2:00 The Picts look like metal heads 🤣

[@adventussaxonum448]

These chaps are the reason Vortigern invited the Saxons ( probably Jutes) to Britain. Well done.👍

[@GerryPowell-r6s]

You can still to this day find The Pict living in parts of Glasgow.

[@garrycowan4394]

We are definitely still the same

[@jamesteachout5241]

Alba Gu Brath 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸♥️

[@Kingswayfire]

Agricola marched North and kicked our buts. It was not sustainable due to our most reliable alias The weather and the Midge We'll take it as a win lol.

[@Tangerine10.]

Only according to the writings of his son in law Tacitus which could be a little one-sided

[@miiceremememeti8424]

✍️ 3:20

[@PGHEngineer]

The Romans were not afraid of the Picts, the Picts were simply able to retreat to the mountains and couldnt readily be defeated. Since Scotland didnt have anythibg of obvious value to the Romans, it was easier to simply keep them out. Generally, the walls did that job for hundreds of years. Wales had key metal ores and England had good quality farmland, so they did not escape Roman attention so readily.

[@njd2342]

The Picts annoyed Margaret Thatcher too when they invaded Wembley and lay waste to British Rail.

[@walkaboutgla]

Nothing to study we're still here. There is no British. We were here before everyone else even Rome. We invented England an europe. But our language is still here. Pics are not English that's an insult

[@omaramat4813]

The peoples of Brule and Bran Mak Morn! From R.E.Howard

[@ironsoul941]

Aren't you assuming the Caledonians at Mons Grapius were Picts? That's debated idea though. The Picts may have risen to power after that. They may not have been the same tribes that fought the Romans then. Although the Picts certainly fought the Romans later on.

[@lesterjohnston8888]

Did not Wear kilts they were mainly in the scud the picts ruled Shetland orkney east Scotland then pictland, Cumbria and Lancashire

[@ConradAinger]

The Picts were neither more nor less formidable than other Northern barbarians. The Picts very likely participated in the battle of Mons Graupius. Where, incidentally, most of the fighting was done by Rome's Germanic auxiliaries, the Tungri and Batavi.

[@ronaldwinfield307]

The Caledonians who fought the Romans at Mons Graupius were ancestors of the Picts. The Pictish confederation was 1st mentioned in 297 AD.

[@LS-jv9hp]

I can't believe people actually believe the Battle of Mons Graupius even happened. 15-30,000 Calodonian men. I doubt there was even 80,000 Calodonians total then so getting 30k men is a heavy achievement, especially considering that the Scots struggled to muster that 1,050 years later with a population of 300k. If what tacticus (the only claim that it even took place because even after nearly 2,000 years with the battlefield still not been even found even though 10,000-20,000 men died there reportedly)

[@kennethrollo7891]

The vikings didn't conquer the northeast of scotland but found most of England and Ireland a pushover , just saying , they maybe deserve more credit than people seem to reluctantly give them.

[@ConradAinger]

@kennethrollo7891 A pushover? They were initially successful, but were ultimately defeated.

[@41corsair]

Research Brian Boru then say Ireland was a pushover.

[@briansheets3996]

In the title picture, the Pict on the left looks like a jacked Rob Zombie.

[@roisinoconnell3296]

You only focus on Scotland but the Picts were not only in Scotland but also living and ruling in Ireland before the Vikings where there are many ruins and relics of their life and their infamous stone carvings.

[@Valhalla88888]

The Picts are from Scandinavia when there was a land bridge in Northern Europe it was called Doggerland ❤

[@leeyaferguson9019]

COOL 😎

[@hanneskonigwinqvist4396]

What I wonder is... How did they all get into body building? :O

[@andrewsmith-cm9qw]

They all look like they holidayed in the Mediterranean

[@trevincollins6998]

Why were they shirtless, Scotland isnt a real warm place?

[@-RONNIE]

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[@williswameyo5737]

The painted people, being deep into painted tattoos🎉

[@rener44]

Angus McBride

[@MCorpReview]

Aren’t they just celts who like body paint?

[@dylansearcy3966]

The Scots of Ireland?

[@19ate4]

The civilized world is confused about everything about us

[@brucecollins641]

@dylansearcy3966......the scots of scotland....you should scrape away the irish veneer and you will find the real truth..

[@Anju_Zelda]

click bait ...no source material the only source material is written by a roman, called them the painted people and they still argue over if its tattoo's or paint. they had no written record.

[@BrianMcAvoy13]

That doesn't make it "click bait". It means they used the only source material we have available to us. You can call anything written about other cultures as clickbait if your criteria is simply "if they didn't write it, then it's not true." Almost everything would be discounted at that point.

[@Anju_Zelda]

@@BrianMcAvoy13 do you proof read your statements google source material understand what it means.

[@lordrichardson4447]

That doesn’t make it click bait at all. This is how much of history is remembered throughout the ages.. it is what it is.. that’s why we should take ALL history with a grain of salt… but it’s not click bait

[@john.powell645]

Picts are not british they are pre union please correct this

[@adventussaxonum448]

They were Britons, in that they lived in Britain. Nothing to do with the Union of the Crowns, or the Acts of Union.

[@matthewdiment2325]

sadley they were over run by the scots from irland and lost there language to the scots also they are the true people of northern britain not the scot invaders

[@nathanlafontaine3258]

Well, with a name like “Picts” you kinda HAVE to be fearsome if you want to receive any respect l. 😏

[@cristhianramirez6939]

The romans trounced pretty easily, dont be so proud

[@orinburnham4388]

the swathy picts.

[@martavious650]

Come on man what’s up with the British accent?

[@user-mg3xr9tz7m]

What the ones that got defeated on all known battles against rome? Rome only stopped because there was no obvious economic gain. These kind of bull documentaries do everyone a deservice… like the bull about boudica being a great warrior etc

[@ibrahimsuleiman8473]

Wait the Scot of Ireland???

[@arbiter01]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Funny!

[@kennethquinnies6023]

I think the Picts were lucky they were on a far fringe of the roman empire, if they would have been say on the other side of the alps, their " fierceness " would have done them jack, they would have been absorbed or exterminated.

[@AngelRiverar-yz7kz]

👍🏼🔮🌈✨️💫✨️

[@woodlandlady7011]

The Pics were believed to be simple farmers. And the Romans never made it up to Scotland. There is also very little information on the Pics for there is no evidence of their way of life. So, the question is, where are your facts for stating so much about an unknown people?

[@robertmitchell2178]

Their Coats of Many Colors. Tribes of Israel?

[@tinkerbellbetty]

Ireland was juoned to England we were one people. Doggerland

[@Zoooots]

Doggerland was where the North Sea is now the other side of Great Britain !

[@hippy282]

Yep the old build a wall to keep the enemy out. The Trump approach!😂

[@southernboss-jm2kg]

Whatever

[@TheSteveRobinson]

It worked for a couple of hundred years.

[@adammac4960]

I do believe they are over exaggerated a bit. The romans did conquer Scotland/ Caledonia but they only conquered what was worth conquering and even then it wasn’t much. That’s why they withdrew because it was too expensive to garrison the region manning the Antonine wall and the coastal settlements that I believe might have reached as far as Aberdeen. Yeah the Picts give them a hard time but so did the Germanic and Slavic tribes and the eastern empires like Parthia. If Rome wanted to subdue to the Picts they were perfectly capable. They held Iberia which was a much more difficult region to take with its terrain which is a lot more challenging then Scotland.

[@ravinraven6913]

not saying the pics weren't interesting. But scaring the Romans wasn't very hard. If you had a legion or 5 show up on your door step. You probably scared the Romans. The Romans were even scared by a bunch of slaves with very little equipment. So scared they sent...2..3..4? Legions that all got their bum handed to them. But not everyone scared them enough to build a wall or two. That should be the main focus on the title. Otherwise the Picts were just like any other Roman enemy at the end of the empire.

[@Cobalt1520]

Yeah, sure, they were so scared they conquered pratically all Europe and all Mediterranean shores. The wall was built because honestly it was not worth it to invade Northern England, nothing really valuable there that would justify the sacrifice, so they built a wall to keep the picts in the North.

[@JesusLovesTheLittlePiggies]

Hmm, yeah, I believe it. My ancestors from that area... those who were off just the boat... were mostly scary giants. It's unfortunate that the ancient languages/religions from those Islands were wiped out/erased.

[@MetroCop2077]

I am sure u could find ancient stones and runes in northern forests !

[@StephenMacInnis]

Gaidhlig or Gaelic is still spoken on cape breton today

[@godyoursavior4854]

You said Scots of Ireland..... No now I give you thumbs down and no more watching lies

[@julianmcgee5741]

If you you read ggf bla bla's song of ice and fire you'll be bored to desth by an endless series of insipid dialogues.