I will never forget seeing the Pictish Sueno's Stones in Forres for the first time! I felt like I had gone back in time to those days when they were first built in the 9th and 10th Century!

I don't care what anyone says, you should always remember where you've come from. Try to understand the struggles your ancestors overcame to bring you to this moment, here and now. D.M.

We also climbed up to this Pictish fortress and spent a few hours there. I prepared a light snack and I also meditated and thought about how the Picts have managed to live there. We also did the Bennachie. The views were breathtaking and I hope that the Picts remain a mysterious culture and looking forward to going back to Scotland. Thanks for that great video from Germany

This is my 7th or 8th time of watching this EXCELLENT presentation. (My interest in the Picts is that my ancestors lived in Banchory, Deeside, Aberdeenshire for centuries before coming to the USA 385 years ago... a place solidly in Pictland.) MR. ALAN SHORT is an EXCELLENT organizer, interpreter, presenter and speaker. He is a master. His two-minute summary at the end is a hallmark of good pedagogy. The closed-caption "subtitles" are very helpful to those of us who are not familiar with Scottish names. Thumbs-up, subscribed, and now headed off to watch all the other programs by Mr. Short. Thank you, Sir, from Scottish genes now residing in the USA !

Recent discoveries of the Tap o Noth has found it to have over 800 dwellings, and was probably one of the largest communities in Europe at the time.

This is a fantastic series - so well researched, up-to-date scholarship, clearly presented. A great resource, thank you!

Superb documentary, thank you. I am a Scot but I am also a Pict. I forgot, thank you Alan.

Superb presentation...Alan. I'm of Scottish descent hailing from my father's side... ...surname, Law. This extraordinary work of yours avails a broad glimpse of the Land and Culture that for perhaps 2000 years or more of where my blood lived in this region... Astonishing... .. Beautiful...and a bit Surreal.. Much thanks to you...fine gentleman and good sir, Mr. Short. You are amazing !!! I do believe it's time to subscribe 🐸

Smashing informative film, Alan. Thank you so much for making it, along with the others in the series.

When I was educated in Scotland in the sixties, they didn't have much to say about the Picts. Obviously they are more fashionable now. If the height of their culture was light relief carving on stones, it would suggest they weren't very advanced. The fact they were able to give the Roman's a bloody nose says something about the people

Thank you for charing your knowledge! My 3x grandfather by the name John Alexander Robertson married to Ann (born Potter) emigrated to Norway in the midt of the 18. century and I am more than average interessted in the history of the land. Best wishes from Norway, K.

This was a great documentary. Extremely informative. I loved it!!! Thank you.

Excellent film, I found it really engaging and perfectly paced.

Amazing documentary. Thank you for sharing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Maybe not to the point, but I kinda like Robert E. Howard's portrayal of the Picts in his Conan the Barbarian books. I like to think that I may have ancestors like that among my antecedents. The mystery is what makes the Picts attractive to thinkers and dreamers of today.

Excellent. Here is a man who has a genuinely realistic grasp of the history of our great Nation.

Excellent, thanks for providing!

I've become rather obsessed with the Pictish history as fairly recent genetic evidence points to a possible "Pict" male relocating to the present day Scottish lowlands and becoming the progenitor of the Armstrongs, of which I am one! Never forget the past and always honor your ancestors!

The Pictish Clans were still in existence even in the 1200's and 1300's and even later. I am descended from Thomas Dickson (Dicson) and the De Keiths (Earl Marischal of Scottland) who were from Pictish clans.

brilliant use of piano music in this film

Very much enjoyed your programme. Thank you.

Their art is amazing! :)

Fascinating. Superb documentary. Thank you.

Great video. My Aunt traced my surname back to a Pictish village that was nestled in the hills of Cargill in Perthshire.

Sober, smart, fascinating. Well done!

Great narration and lots of fascinating info

Thank you for this great documentary

Well done Alan - informative and enjoyable. Thanks

Thank you for this Alan!

Very nice video. Thank you!

Very clear clean and precise. Very professional. Thankyou I didn't get the presenters name but he is extremely easy to follow because he makes the viewer comfortable.

This was a great documentary. Thanks for making this it must have taken you quite some time. I'm from Kirkcaldy in Fife and would love to find out if I had Pictish DNA in my blood

Most fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

Excellent presentation and research. Fascinating.

Thankyou for this. Going back in time before the romans, how populous was Scotland? Was intrigued to read that most of the landscape that is so bare now, was once wooded, and people were settled along rivers and the coast in large part.

Excellent video. You deserve more likes.

Great presentation, thank you.

Thank you. Great presentation

Thank you so much to this it has opened my eyes to a new [ for me ] wider history of Britain

I offer a thank you, To the narrator of this video, Na dooniawosl, Learned Man, In search of heritage, I have come to regard my self as part of the Siol Alpine, The 5 clan's out of Clan Mac Alpine, I am now told there are 7 clans, And in fact we are descendents of the picts, So this means that when I go to a football match I can paint my face blue, I can handle that, But I will disregard the comments that we were sheep stealers and cattle thieves.

To clear up confusion: Picts, Gauls, Celtiberians, Galatians and Gaels are all Celtic peoples.

Outstanding!

good stuff,thanks so much for your effort..subbed hope you upload more.

Picts were not the indigenous people of Scotland. There were people in Scotland before the Picts, and whether they were invaded by the Picts or assimilated into the Celtic Pictish culture and kingdoms we will never know. Archeologists and DNA researchers have clearly uncovered “pre”-Celtic civilations in Scotland. My own personal y-DNA, for example, is I-M223, and it has been found in Scotland before 4,000 years ago (2,000 BC) when the Bell Beaker Folk started to arrive in the UK. This, of course, is all well before written history, but written history is but a fraction of time in world history.

Very well done!

Great effort on a very mysterious people. My ancestry on my father's line goes back to Aberdeen - so maybe I am a bit of a Pict myself.

Well presented thank you very insightful. :)

My family is from the Taexili pict tribal area in Aberdeen. I am Taexili tribe, Norse, and Irish.

This is the best so far...

Thank you for this.

Great clip . Helped me on personal research. 👍

Thank you for your research and video on the Picts history. They have been conveniently left out of history and something needs to be done to bring their history forward. There are some ancient writings that state the Picts were originally from Egypt and in fact related to Egyptian royalty. Most of the ancient writings are not in English and there are holes in the "paper" here and there but that aside, we need to do some translations.Thank you again.

I was glued to this documentary fascinating and brilliantly filmed

great video enjoyed

hello I have found three place names in Scotland that have an Estonian meaning Laide (shallow sea), PoolWe (semi-water), Ullapool (Above). Continental Europe has many old place names with Estonian origins.

I found the Onkney's to be the most interesting in historical site's

Really appreciate the music, beautiful.

One of the best ..Tk you

Thanks for this excellently narrated and filmed video. More "captioning" would be beneficial for those proper names.

Though not Scottish - Dutch actually - I've always found the history of the British isles very intresting. It seems there has been such a rich amalgamate of peoples, cultures, languages and mythology from early inhabitants to all sorts of invading people. One could almost assert that Britain is the most European country in the world, yet with such a specific flavor that a new and very vibrant identity has come out of that. It really saddens me to see how there seems to be an almost obsessive craving for identity based on the past and past glory which we bow can see all too clear in English nationalism that drives Brexit, Scottish nationalism that may drive a new push to independence and Lord knows what the Welsh, Ulstermen and maybe even Yorkshiremen and Northumbrians may pursue. Yet at the very same time I have to admit that I reluctantly have observed how Dutc culture has changed due to a great influence of American films, music, commerce and so on and at present is under pressure to adapt to so many immigrants. I have no problem with immigration as such, but the scale and tempo of change is beyond comfortable. And then looking at a self conscious nation like Scotland becomes very appealing. But I guess no Scot will be welcoming a vast influx of identity-ridden Dutch (wink). In an unpredictable and increasingly volatile world, everyone needs something to cling on to however. Hope Scotland will stay true to its nature and remain open to change at the same time, as we all need to be since nothing is forever. Slainthe math from the Netherlands.

Love this. Thanks ❤

Excellent presentation !

Very interesting .

Gavin Menzies book "1421 THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED AMERICA' One of the interesting facts is they found the copper mines at the north end of the Mississippi River. The copper was taken to England and their tin was used to make the best quality bronze

I am Welsh. But my ancestors are Scottish on my Maternal side. Came down to Welsh Valleys for mining work.

striking resemblances between the pictish and scythian symbology

Thank you. 🕊💜🕊

Picts never died out , they intermarried into the Kingdom of Alba

Surprised you didn't explain more the difference between the Christianity parcticed and the one that came from Northumbria, as, at that time everything revolves around belief... less fashionable now, however most base to culture back then. However the rest was very very informative, thank you.

How does one dna test for Pictish lineage? I ve watched the game of thrones and learned about the chains across the harbors. It sparked my light research into the Viking stones and the Dunnard castle king foot stone as well as the seven brothers fish wolf boar ….symbols. Very curious about historical movements of cultures.

Several species of small furry animals, gathered together in a cave, grooving with a Pict.

Picts were the Sardinian exiles when Rome defeated Carthage about 230 BCE. The Sardinian Nurages were the mining and metal specialists of the Phoenician trading network. Look at where the brochs are and where the old mines were. They were coming to the British Isles for a long long time before the Roman invasion of their island. The bull cult was primary in Nuragia; look at the bull carving from Burghead fort. 🤔

I ask myself why does Pictish art (animals especially) resemble the tattoos found on a mummy half way across the globe on a princess, above the Altai? I am guessing from looking at them that the animals are ancient maps, showing trade routes, centers, and land and water features. If they are tattooed on, you won't get lost. (If they are maps.) This mapping system would have been brought by an ancient culture. The circles joined like a handle are also seen in another culture. As well the ponies maybe of the Steppes are also interesting.

9:53 Who were the inhabitants before the Picts? They must've been a developed people to build stonework, right?

they must have been a fearsome people, Hadrian built a wall to defend against them the breadth of the isle. Think about that for a moment.

I wholeheartedly disagree with much of what this video presents. The Picts appear in the archeological record as far back as 5,000 BC and even earlier. At the time of the great Tsunami that hit the UK in roughly 8,000 BC there were two peoples who were well established on the British Isles before they were permanently separated from the continent. They were the Picts in present day Scotland and the pre Beaker people in present day England, Ireland and Wales. They were also the people who constructed monuments such as at Newgrange and Stonehenge long before the Egyptians laid the first cornerstones of the pyramids. The Celts did not even appear in the British Isles until the Iron Age thus making them late comers by at least 3,000 years. Just because these people did not leave a written record of their society and presence certainly does not mean that they were not there in pre history and just because the Romans and Bede did not chronicle these facts. There is 10,000+ years of human occupation and history on the British Isles before the Celts and Romans even showed up. The Picts were merely assimilated into the growing Celtic culture that was rapidly growing in Ireland, Cornwall, Wales and Argyle.

picts are my favorit ancient culture, together with the huns and the goths.

I'm just going to enjoy your video and not read the comments. Thanks for showing.

My grandmas name on my dads side comes from the picts. This is prrtty cool to learn about my.ancestors

Nice. Maybe some simillarity between Picts and Slovenian only we had luck to survive by name and language.

Interesting, seems to have kicked of a debate , thanks

If anyone is curious, there is a short clip at the third installment of the series Blood of the Vikings " ". Historian Brian Smith, I believe is his name, has an interesting theory of the fate of the Picts. There is a copy on KZfaq if anyone cares to take a look. It's Part Three "the Sea Road" I think. You don't have to watch the whole thing. Dr. Smith gives his theory at the around the ten minute mark. Fascinating.

that was awesome. an interesting note is that dal riata was referred to as curthin in the ulaid in ireland. so the irish ulaid were referred to as picts. so if they were referred to picts then it was picts conquering picts and or rather intermarriage of a dal riada into the pictish line that got the kingdom in mac alpine… also old irish or gaelic is illegible, its possible those stones were old gaelic as we can't read old gaelic… anyway, great video. also the irish didn't even wipe out the dal naradi of ireland who were picts the vikings help them getting the upper hand…this doesn't add up. the pict internal strife you speak of was of those picts loyal to columba church… they got backed up by vikings and dal riada, against roman rite

One mistake I found here Urquhart is Pict Surname since the word is not Scottish,Irish,German though the saxans or Viking it would be a pict Surname.

at 2:06 you see the hill behind him...looks like a very ancient sphinxt

Great upload great info thankyou

It is frustrating that no dates are given for the events regarding the early Picts.

My family comes from Barra in the outer Hebrides Our DNA revealed NORSE lineage and showed no IRISH as once thought

Interesting how the indigenous people had roundhouses, and either adopted, or had thrust upon them square houses.

I remember reading about the Picts when I was young ( a long time ago) and back then, the Picts were considered a completely different language group, since so little was known about them. I remember my brother saying they must have become a substrate of Scottish. I wonder when that point of view changed.

To my knowledge 'Picti' meant nothing more then 'the painted', so I do not get the continued referral of the roman term to the use of pictland... as romans were long gone by that point. It looks to me that you are trying to find a word for a people that never called themselves pict...in other words, you do not even know their actual name as a people, thus stick to a roman terminology (which is most definitely wrong) Alas they did not leave behind written texts, but plenty of symbols, maybe one of those reveal their true name?(probably would be fairly commonly found)

I believe i have a Pictish name according to thoughts , my surname is Pitkeathly .

Magdalene (Maglemose) culture that dates back to 9000 years before Christ. This culture was spread from the British Isles to the Carpathians and southern Scandinavia To southern Europe.

My great grandmother was a Ewing, the gentleman talking looks like my uncle.

the picts were like all the rest of us, part of an inflow of indo europeans that migrated into britain from europe thousands of yrs ago. from the area the scythians lived in. these people found europe filled with mediteranian farmer communities and by inches destroyed or asimilated them..

Ulster and most of Ireland were of the Cruithne before the "Erinn" tribes and worse the "Gaels" ran their Roman influence over the island of Ireland. CU Chulainn was the most memorable reb branch knight of Ulster who was indeed of indeginious Ulster Pict blood

Why can't the producer interview Meggen Gondek away from everybody else so we can hear her clearly? It's bad interviewing and happens so many times. Don't they think about background noise and how it distracts from the interview? I want to visit some of these sites. I don't imagine the Picts were defeated in one big battle because the victors would have made sure it was known and recorded.

Are most parts of Scotland cloudy for most of the year like Seattle, where I'm at?

We fought the best and we beat them all.

On your maps Pictland doesn't extend as far south as the Antonine wall site. Is that where the confederation of the Maeatae was situated. It doesn't seem likely that the latter were directly north of Hadrian's wall in which area the Romans dominated with outlying forts and roads and paid subsidies under treaty to the tribes there. So, in order to plunder Britannia, the Picts used their skill as sailors, bypassing intervening terrain. They were 'transmarini' , from across the sea