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   Akins of that Ilk  wrote in   
   news:490542ee-1666-4a3b-b19d-af00160eb2b3@g10g2000vbv.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Feb 22, 5:20 pm, "Allan"  wrote:   
   >> "Akins of that Ilk"  wrote in   
   >> messagenews:7   
   > 5885982-0bb2-4fee-8c00-bbf541e06bd3@t8g2000vbd.googlegroups.com...   
   >> On Feb 21, 6:13 pm, "Allan"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > "Akins of that Ilk"  wrote in   
   >> > messagenews:a6732345-4b8b-498b-878e-920b44a1d4b1   
   @e8g2000vbz.googlegr   
   >> > oup   
   > s.com...   
   >> > At one time Ireland was referred to (in Latin) as "Scotia" after   
   >> > the Gaels or Scotti. When the Scotti emigrated to the northern   
   >> > third of Britain, that part of Britain came to be known as "Scotia   
   >> > Minor" and   
   >> >the Picts having   
   >> >retained more of their own native culture to a greater extent than   
   >> >the other tribes of Britons who the Romans sought to "civilize".   
   >>   
   >> ******************************   
   >>   
   >> Absolute bunkum again. Get a grip. Many of the descendents of British   
   >> tri   
   > bes   
   >> still speak their native language two millenia after the Roman   
   >> occupation and possibly more than a whole millenium since Picts spoke   
   >> Pictish in any significant numbers. They are called the Welsh! There   
   >> is no evidence that the Pictish language outlasted the Cumbric   
   >> language of southern Scotland   
   > and   
   >> northern England. It certainly didn't outlast Cornish either.   
   >>   
   >> If the Pictish culture was so long lasting then what caused you to   
   >> airbru   
   > sh   
   >> them out of the ancestry of modern Scots?   
   >>   
   >> Allan   
   >   
   > I haven't - at all. I simply classify Picts as non-Romanised Britons,   
   > because that is what they werew. The Romans didn'   
   > t start calling them "Picti" until 297 A.D. which was rather late   
   > during their occupation of Britain. The reason they called the   
   > northern Briton tribes "Picts" was because they preserved their native   
   > custom of tattooing themselves with woad - which was once a far more   
   > widespread practice engaged in by "all Britons" according to Julius   
   > Caesar back when he first invaded Britain in 43 AD.   
      
   Caesar was assassinated in 44BC! Cave Idus Martias and all that.   
      
    By 297 the custom   
   > had evidently long ago died off among the tribes of spouthern Britons,   
   > but was still a widespread practice in the north of Britain in the   
   > late 3rd century AD.   
   >   
      
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