Posted on 05/24/2014 11:48:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Beaker People antedate the Picts. It’s weird, the British Isles were a big destination for mass migrations, and in historical times, for invasion, right up until the late 17th c (subsequent attempts have failed).
Or maybe the streetwalkers.
That history is pretty sparsely understood though, am I correct in that?
I plan someday to read about the Picts. Those people made the most beautiful artworks in stone and metal, just lovely.
They left almost nothing in writing, which is a common problem among known vanished cultures, including those which are known to have been literate (like the Etruscans).
http://www.lib.umt.edu/lang/celtich.htm#Pictish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts
Making the Picts mysterious, which is perhaps why I find them interesting.
Although I do wish always for some big find, like a ‘Pict’etta Stone.
It’s not unlikely that there was quite a lot written about them in monasteries later burned by those happy-go-lucky Viking raiders.
Uh uh. Match-happy monks, grr.
Oops, make that vault-burning Vikings, grr.
:’D
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