[truth_seeker]

Would the local people have been "Picts" or not?

[blam]

"Would the local people have been "Picts" or not?"

Scotland: A Concise History
(The Land And The People)

[sionnsar]

Would the local people have been "Picts" or not?

Possibly. At the time at least most of Scotland was inhabited by the Picts. Later the Orkneys (and other places) were invaded by the Vikings; also a group of Irish (the Scotti) moved on in to western Scotland, becoming the Highlanders and Islanders.