"That," said the ferryman, "is what we call a Pictish castle. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference
The south-west corner, Galloway, was called Pictish, and was peopled by Gaelic-speaking tribes. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Scotland] Reference
Gabriele - Would we even know a 'Pictish' name when we saw one?. From Wordnik.com. [Brittonic names in ‘Anglo-Saxon’ genealogies, and vice versa] Reference
But the Pictish women thus seized had their revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
"I have decided to take Pictish, mother," he replied. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Pictish inhabitants scattered, the Mackays to Durness. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Gaelic; superseded Pictish; in Sutherland full of Norse words. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Columba, on the little isle of Iona, just off the Pictish coast. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Pictish clergy driven from coasts by Norse; subdued by Thorfinn. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Attention will have to be paid to the Pictish family of Moldan of. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
The pre-Celtic tribesmen of Ireland, like their Pictish kinsmen in. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
To this tide the Pictish and Columban Churches, and the Province of. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
It was in the reign of Constantine I, son of the great Pictish king. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
The only buildings or structures existing in Cat in Pictish and early. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Pictish tongue as closely allied to Scottish Gaelic; others regard it as. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference
Then he wandered north to Aquilonia and became a scout on the Pictish frontier. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
Pictish clergy driven from north-east by Norse; land and people on arrival of Norse. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Pictish province stretched across to the Minch; defeat of Picts of M. at Stracathro. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Pictish province of Fidach including Ross; northern limit of Roman penetration; no brochs. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Can any of our wise men re-discover the lost Pictish art of making good beer from that plant?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
He lived on the borders of the Pictish territory, where many people went to him for instructions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Pictish clergy; subdued by Thorfinn; bishopric founded; claimed by Henry, son of earl Harold and Afreka. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Norse influence; last Pictish province subdued by Scots; wars between kings of Alban and the Norsemen in. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
But as time went on the Pictish Maormor pressed the Norse Jarl more and more outwards and eastwards in Cat. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
His Fair, like those of other Pictish Saints elsewhere in Cat, is still celebrated, and is held at Dornoch. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Pictish monarch, Columba is not that omnipotent person which he finds himself to be in Dalriada and in Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Force and fraud were then dextrously applied to secure his ascent from the Dalriadan to the Pictish throne a few years later. From Wordnik.com. ['The Invention of Scotland: History and Myth'] Reference
Much of the west of the land of Cat was scarcely inhabited at all in Pictish or Viking days, because as is clearly the case in the. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
The nine centuries, above referred to, of Roman invasion, intestine war, and ecclesiastical rivalry between the Pictish, Columban and. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
By way of introduction to Norse times, we may attempt to state very shortly some of the leading events in Caledonia in Roman, Pictish, and. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
Romano-British pottery; there is a down with Pictish tumuli, and at long intervals one of the old farm-houses which it is impossible not to grudge to its possessor. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
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