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Very interesting. Let’s face it though - the Scythian origin story was never going to be anything more than myth. The Picts were Bell Beakers, the same as all North-West Europeans. It’s not only those 8 medieval samples that show it. If the Picts were Scythians, then Scythian DNA would show up in modern Scotts. It doesn’t.
It seems quite likely that the Picts were the northern end of a language-cultural-ethnicity continuum running from the North of Scotland to the South of England. Once Rome conquered the southern 2/3 of Britain, they built their wall(s), and they referred to the people in their imperial province of Britain as Britons, and came up with another name - Pict - for the Britons to the north of the Empire’s northern limit. It was quite possibly the Roman Empire that created an ethnic distinction between people who previously would have been a continuous series of Brythonic tribes north-to-south. It’s also interesting that the word Briton (Pritani in Brythonic Celtic) means Painted People also. The Roman word for the people to the North of the Empire has the same meaning, but in Latin instead of Brythonic.
It is also possible, however, that the Picts could have spoken a pre-Celtic Bell Beaker derived language? When the Celtic language/s entered Britain probably in the Iron Age, Celtic came to dominate, but perhaps in the far north the pre-existing language survived? I can’t remember where, but I saw something reported from some genetics/linguistics paper somewhere that seemed to suggest that as a possibility. If that were the case, then that probably would mean an ethnic split between a Britonic south and Pictish far north even before the Romans split the island. That has a certain romantic appeal. But if I had to bet, I would bet it was the Romans what done it…
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Very deep, man. I read a fictional history novel called the Bard, thar explained the Scottish/Irish (Gaelic) origin, with Mil and Armegin and in that order and if one look at the migration of the Proto Indo Europeans/Celtic people you see a pattern there. Perhaps traces of the Scythians and even the Cimmerians in Britain and Iberia and even the America's. A bit fringey but, it maybe a good look at, though, I was wondering, with all my rambling, if you can look at the journeys of St. Brandon, the Bless and Henry Sinclair and and alleged voyages the the connections to America, especially withe with the socalled Durhare and what was known as a Great Ireland. Just a suggestion, and thanks for the history and of part my culture. Slania😊✌️
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