Picts and Gaels United As Kenneth MacAlpine triumphed in Pictland, he faced a new challenge. A Viking fleet of 140 ships intent on destruction attacked Dal Riata.

The Picts must have anticipated that Kenneth and the Gaels would have adopted Pictish ways, and become Picts. In fact, the reverse happened. As Kenneth rewarded kinsmen from Dalriada, giving them ...

PICTS? Who the hell were they? Good question. Nobody knows. And that is weird. How come we know about every other ancient people? Goths, Vikings, Gaels, Anglo-Saxons, Romans, Egyptians, Greeks ...

The 'everyday world' of the Picts is being illuminated by a 'golden spell' in archaeological discovery, with Dunnicaer sea stack near Dunnottar Castle (left) holding vital new evidence about the ...

Picts and Gaels United As Kenneth MacAlpine triumphed in Pictland, he faced a new challenge. A Viking fleet of 140 ships intent on destruction attacked Dal Riata.

The Picts, Gaels and many Britons were freed from Northumbrian overlordship. Gaelic poets as far away as Ireland celebrated the battle's outcome.