Picts were indigenous, not migrants to British Isles

[guy]

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A new DNA study now shows Picts were an indigenous peoples, not an immigrant tribe in the British Isles.

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Since Medieval times, some writers have claimed the Picts were migrants with "exotic origins".

But the first extensive analysis of Pictish genomes has found the Picts belonged to regions of the British Isles. 

The researchers said the DNA results also suggested present-day people from western Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Northumbria have genetic links to mainland Picts.

The research team said the Picts were one of the most mysterious of Britain's ancient peoples, but added it was myth they originated from Thrace north of the Aegean Sea, or Scythia in eastern Europe, as suggested by medieval writers.

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-65423713
 

There have been previous thread on the Picts:

 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2023 by guy

[caldrail]

Odd. I was always of the opinion that Picts were natives of the region, I had no idea it was disputed. 

[guy]

2 hours ago, caldrail said:

Odd. I was always of the opinion that Picts were natives of the region, I had no idea it was disputed. 

 

According to the Venerable Bede, writing in AD 731, the Picts originated in Scythia:

 

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After they had got possession of the greater part of the island, beginning from the south, it is related that the Pictish race from Scythia sailed out into the ocean in a few warships and were carried by the wind beyond the furthest bounds of Britain, reaching Ireland and landing on its northern shores. There they found the Irish race and asked permission to settle among them but their request was refused. Now Ireland is the largest island of all next to Britain, and lies to the west of it. But though it is shorter than Britain to the north, yet in the south it extends far beyond the limits of that island and as far as the level of North Spain, though a great expanse of sea divides them. The Picts then came to this island, as we have said, by sea and asked for the grant of a place to settle in. The Irish answered that the island would not hold them both; ‘but’, said they, ‘we can give you some good advice as to what to do. We know of another island not far from our own, in an easterly direction. If you will go there, you can make a settlement for yourselves; but if any one resists you, make use of our help.’ And so the Picts went to Britain and proceeded to occupy the northern parts of the island, because the Britons had seized the southern regions.

 

http://irishhistorian.com/IrishHistoryLinks/Historical_Documents/Bede.html

Edited April 30, 2023 by guy