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Vol 4 Ep 20 - The Picts

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Celtic Languages and the Romans

The people of the british iles painted their faces and bodies with dyes. The romans came across these painted people and called them the picte. Picte has the same etymological root as the word picture, which is derived from the latin word for painting. That could have been the celtic way to describe themselves as painted ones. So categorizing the picts is probably a very ambiguous project.

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