Societies of the British Isles

The political make up of the british isles was ever changing during the first millennium, and it can be difficult to distinguish societies. These societies did not have a modern structure with borders and identities like modern nations we know to day. However, through language and culture, you can describe roughly what was going on. So let's have a quick tour of seventh century scotland. In the far north, the picts living in a land often referred to as picked land,. The lands of the picts could be broken down further into smaller societies, but it doesn't serve us well at this stage to try and further describe it. To the west was the kingdom of dariada