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The Picts: Rome's Unconquered Rivals — Ancient Scotland | Sleep Story
Drift off to the complete history of the Picts — the ancient people who defined northern Britain and famously resisted Roman conquest. So formidable were the Picts that the Romans built not one but two walls across Britain to keep them contained — Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall.
Covered: Who were the Picts and where did they come from, Pictish symbol stones and undeciphered language, the Roman invasions of Scotland (Agricola, Mons Graupius), Hadrian's Wall and its purpose, the Pictish kingdoms, Pictish Christianity and St. Columba, the Dal Riata and the emergence of Scotland, the Viking…
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