Edmund Burt - Burt's Letters From The North Of Scotland

The Picts are depicted in various Victorian paintings as ''noble savages'' but this is a mistake. What is known is not very much but the main points to learn are the facts given to us by a premier historian known as Venerable Bede. The Picts were seafarers who painted themselves in blue woad as a battle tactic to intimidate their opponents. They wore clothes because on the Aberlemno stone they are depicted as fighting against the Angle-Saxons, and they are fully clothed. They used advanced weaponry. They painted their giant standing stones that litter the countryside of Scotland. Highland dancing is previously Pictish. The Picts had many mythical animals and a rich history of storytelling. They used Ogham on many of their stones and were a form of animism for many years before finally converting to Christianity, where their stones started to change to symbols from the Bible and crosses.