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Definition of Pictish

Pictish
Pictish Pict"ish, a. Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. ``The Pictish peer.' --Byron.

Meaning of Pictish from wikipedia

- details of their culture can be gleaned from early medieval texts and Pictish stones. The name Picti appears in written records as an exonym from the...
- Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from late antiquity to the Early Middle...
- A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. A few have ogham inscriptions. Located in Scotland...
- The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of...
- The list of kings of the Picts is based on the Pictish Chronicle king lists. These are late do****ents and do not record the dates when the kings reigned...
- first millennium BC, was diverging into separate dialects or languages. Pictish is linked, likely as a sister language or a descendant branch. Evidence...
- Northumbria for a time. In the 730s the Pictish king Óengus I led campaigns against Dál Riata and brought it under Pictish overlordship by 741. There is disagreement...
- northern Britain, however, most scholars today accept the fact that the Pictish language was closely related to Common Brittonic. Following the end of...
- September 1981) is a Scottish musician who performs under the pseudonym The Pictish Trail. After graduation from the University of St Andrews, Lynch ran Fence...
- mother), is said to have been a Pictish princess, the sister of Constantine I and Óengus II. According to the Pictish tradition, a female representative...