"Pictish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pope Celestine to convert the Irish Scots, and who (according to another story) was cast on shore on the north- east coast of Scotland, founded the church of Fordun, in Kincardineshire, and became a great saint among the Pictish folk. ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley
... "On Recent Remains of Totemism in Scotland." He defined Totemism as a form of idolatry; a totem was either a living creature or a representation of one, mostly an animal, very seldom a man. It was considered, from reference to Pictish and other devices, that a dragon was a favorite representative among such people of Britain as had not ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... wars of the Spanish Succession by giving an heir to the Crown of Spain. Scandalous chronicles aver that Marie was chosen as Queen of Spain for the levity of her character, and that the Crown was expected, as in the Pictish monarchy, to descend on the female side; the father of the prince might be anybody. What was needed was simply a son of the Queen of Spain. She had, while Queen, no son, as far as is ascertained, but she had a favourite, ...
— Historical Mysteries • Andrew Lang
... not the Roman mission which finally succeeded in converting the North and the Midlands. That success was due to the Scottish and Pictish Church. At the end of the sixth century, Columba, an Irish missionary, crossed over to the solitary rock of Iona, where he established an abbey on the Irish model, and quickly evangelised the northern Picts. From Iona, some generations later, went forth the devoted missionaries who finally converted ...
— Early Britain - Anglo-Saxon Britain • Grant Allen
... sceptr'd Pictish shade Stalk'd round his ashes lowly laid,^7 I mark'd a martial race, pourtray'd In colours strong: Bold, ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... may not have been so: the conquering Scots may have looted the cairns, and borne the Pictish cairn-dwellers into captivity. ...
— The Clyde Mystery - a Study in Forgeries and Folklore • Andrew Lang |
