Picts and Scots

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• Picts — This article is about the Celtic tribes. For the graphic file format, see PICT. The Aberlemno Serpent Stone, Class I Pictish stone, showing (top to bottom) the serpent, the double disc and Z rod and the mirror and comb …   Wikipedia

• Scots Dumpy — The Scots Dumpy is a breed of chicken from Scotland. The moniker dumpy , meaning short and stout, refers the breed s thick set appearance and extremely short legs. Through history they have been known under a host of names such as: Bakies,… …   Wikipedia

• Life and Benvie —    LIFF and BENVIE, a parish, chiefly in the county of Forfar, but partly in the county of Perth; containing, with the villages of Benvie, Dargie, Invergowrie, Liff, Muirhead, and part of Lochee, and the hamlet of Backmuir, 3980 inhabitants, of… …   A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

• Chronology of the Late Antique and Early Medieval World —  ♣ 305 With the retirement of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, the Roman Empire falls again into civil war, which leads to the eventual triumph of Constantine the Great.  ♣ 313 The emperors Constantine and Licinius issue the Edict of Milan,… …   Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe

• Hengist and Horsa — (mid fifth century)    Brothers who, according to the history of Bede and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, led a band of Anglo Saxon mercenaries to England at the request of a British ruler. Rather than aiding the native Britons, they conquered them… …   Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe

• PICTS —    a race of people now believed to be of Celtic origin, that from 296 to 844 inhabited the NE. of Caledonia from the Forth to the Pentland Firth, and were divided into northern and southern by the Grampians, while the W. of the country, or… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• SCOTS, THE —    a tribe of Celts from Ireland who settled in the W. of North Britain, and who, having gained the ascendency of the Picts in the E., gave to the whole country the name of Scotland …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Irish-Scots — Ethnic group group=Irish Scots poptime= approx 800,000 1,000,000 popplace= Scotland langs= English, Scots, Irish, Scottish Gaelic rels=Majority adheres mainly to the Roman Catholic. related=Scottish, Irish; Welsh, Ulster ScotsMention is made of… …   Wikipedia

• Óengus I of the Picts — Infobox Monarch name =Óengus son of Fergus title =King of the Picts caption =The figure of the Old Testament King David shown killing a lion on the St Andrews Sarcophagus is thought to represent King Óengus. The figure is dressed as a Roman… …   Wikipedia

• Óengus II of the Picts — Óengus mac Fergusa (variants Onuist, Hungus or Angus) was king of the Picts (or of Fortriu), in modern Scotland, from about 820 until 834. Tradition associates him with the cult of Saint Andrew and the Flag of Scotland.Óengus succeeded his… …   Wikipedia

• Caustantín of the Picts — Caustantín, called Caustantín mac Fergusa (English: Constantine son of Fergus) (before 775 ndash;820) was king of the Picts (or of Fortriu), in modern Scotland, from 789 until 820. He was until the Victorian era sometimes counted as Constantine I …   Wikipedia