Page 81 - BV4

Dan) and the Goths. According to the British Pictish warriors depicted on a Orkney grave-
historian Bede, the Celtic Picts had arrived in stone are "strangely Assyrian in their stance." It
Ireland (Scotia) after journeying from Scythia was, of course, from Assyria that the ancestors
in longboats, and were from there directed by of the British People commenced their west-
the inhabitants (Scots) to Scotland (Alban). ward trek.
The Scots promised to aid them if they met
with any opposition from the inhabitants. The Scots, Picts and Saxons Joined in Common
Scots also provided them with wives. The Cause
famed art of the Celtic Picts -- which has en-
dured on their stone monuments -- supports Scots came from Ireland in A.D. 258 and set-
Bede's testimony that they came from Scythia, tled in Argyll on the western coast of Scotland.
for it shows characteristics peculiar to It is also a fact that the "English" were in Scot-
Scythian art. This is further backed up by the land before the Scots arrived! In A.D. 364
Declaration of Arbroath, which states that the Scots, Picts and Saxons joined forces to attack
united peoples -- now called Scots -- came the hated Romans -- reaching as far south as
from Scythia in their wanderings. Before the London before finally being repulsed by supe-
Picts, Scotland was colonised by the Iberians rior Roman arms. A regular flow of Scots emi-
who, many historians believe, erected the mag- grated to Scotland from Ireland. In the sixth
nificent megalithic structures still found there century A.D. Scotland was divided into eight
today. kingdoms:

They Dwelt Beyond the North Wind 1/. Galloway in the south-west -- populated by
a mixture of Scots and Picts.
Ancient historians named the divisions of the 2/. Strathclyde, extending from Loch Lomond
Celts as the Hyperborei, who dwelt beyond the through Dunbarton, and embracing the counties
north wind; the Cimbri, settled at the "Old of Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Pee-
Oceans utmost bounds," Jutland, Friesland Is- bleshire, Dumfriesshire, Westmorland and
lands, etc.; the Scythae, which included the Cumberland to the river Derwent -- peopled by
Goths and Danes; the Dacii, who dwelt around ancient Britons.
the sources of the Danube; the Teutons, called 3/. Bernicia (an English Kingdom) stretched
Germans by Tacitus and others; the Acquitani, from the Humber in the south to Haddington in
occupying the territory between Garonne and the north -- ruled by a confederation of Angles
the Pyrenees. It is believed that the Scottish and Danes.
Gael is descended from the latter two. 4/. Fortrenn (the ancient Kingdom of Fife) --
peopled by the Picts.
These Celtic tribes are described by ancient 5/. Moray, a thaneship embracing Inverness,
historians as having animal emblems displayed Ross and Cromarty -- populated by Picts and
on their shields. The Celtic Picts also had ani- Norsemen.
mals on their monuments and tattoed upon their 6/. Alban, occupying the mountainous re-
bodies. Excavation of Scythian tombs in Russia regions regions east of Drumalban and the
and China have produced frozen and desert- Spey and the Lowland areas of Buchan and the
dried corpses with tattoed animal symbols still Mearns -- a Pictish Kingdom.
discernable on their skins. Fitzroy Maclean in 7/. Dalriada, covering Argyll was the King-
his A Concise History of Scotland mentions dom of the Scots.
the fact that the Celtic Picts came from Scythia 8/. Innisgall, covering the Western Isles and
and also, significantly, notes that the three
81