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...f it seem good to the king, my counsel would be that he should send to the Picts of Scotland to seek of them horsemen and sergeants to have with him a... ...ce where the battle is perilous we can call them to our aid. Through these Picts and their kindred we shall hear the talk of the outland men. They wil... ...us and our foes.” “Do,” replied the king, “at thy pleasure. Bring of these Picts as many as you wish. Grant them as guerdon what you deem befits. Do a... ...d cities, and gathered together the treasure, he sent such messages to the Picts as he desired, so that they came according to his will. V ortigern re... ... than his. V ortigern rejoiced greatly at these words. He made much of his Picts, and honoured them more sweetly than ever before. On a day when they ... ...ellous pride. His joy was the less because the realm was ha rassed by the Picts, who would avenge their kindred, whom he had slain with the sword. Mo... ... to my rich profit, for by His aid and yours, I look to destroy these same Picts and Scots. For from that land come and return these thieves who so ha... ...t was strengthened by a mighty company. Now in no long time afterwards the Picts entered the king’s realm, with a great host, burning, wasting, and pi... ...tle was grim and lasting, for many were discomfited to death that day. The Picts, doubting nothing but that they would gain the victory as they had do...

...nd lay in a blessed swound For days and days together In their dwellings underground. There rose a king in Scotland, A fell man to his foes, He smote ... ... In graves that were like children’s Among the curiosities of human nature, this legend claims a high place. It is needless to remind the reader that ... ...edible. Is it possible the chronicler’s error was merely nominal? that what he told, and what the people proved themselves so ready to receive, about ...

... Till murdred by the friends of Gratian; Then gan the Hunnes and Picts inuade this land, During the raigne of Maximinian; Who dyin... ...us teares, Who hauing oft in battell vanquished Those spoilefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings, Long time in peace his Realme establi... ...hem closely into Armorick did beare: For dread of whom, and for those Picts annoyes, He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, From w...

...ortifica tion the two in bed made harassing descents (like those accursed Picts and Scots who beleaguer the early his torical studies of most young ...

...and the Scots (which was then the name for the people of Ireland), and the Picts, a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions in... ...ding from Newcastle to beyond Carlisle, for the purpose of keeping out the Picts and Scots; Hadrian had strengthened it; Severus, finding it much in w... ...one, and the Britons being much reduced in numbers by their long wars, the Picts and Scots came pour ing in, over the broken and unguarded wall of Se... ... slaughter, that the unfortunate Britons lived a life of terror. As if the Picts and Scots were not bad enough on land, the Saxons attacked the island... ...ite the Sax ons to come into their country, and help them to keep out the Picts and Scots. It was a British Prince named Vortigern who took this res... ...he Saxons, though—do the same to this day. Hengist and Horsa drove out the Picts and Scots; and Vortigern, being grateful to them for that service, m...

... wall, Which mote the feebled Britons strongly flancke Against the Picts, that swarmed ouer all, Which yet thereof Gualseuer they doe c...

...he 11th, he had given an extended criticism of that chieftain, whom he de- picts as very dark and artful; and while admitting that his assumption of t...

...roceeded to Britain, and there encouraged his converts to meet the heathen Picts at Maes Garmon, in Flintshire, where the exulting shout of the white-...

.... After we passed this mighty nothing, called a wall, some- thing like the Picts’ walls so famous in Northumberland, built by the Romans, we began to ...

...nd stone. Its inhabitants consist of four different people; the Scots, the Picts, the Saxons and the ancient Britons. 8. Three considerable islands be... ...d Britain, called Eubonia or Man; and another di- rectly north, beyond the Picts, named Orkney; and hence it was anciently a proverbial expression, in... ...tins. 12. After an interval of not less than eight hundred years, came the Picts, and occupied the Orkney Islands: whence they laid waste many regions... ...ly and in- cessantly attacked, both by the Scots from the west, and by the Picts from the north. A long interval after this, the Ro- mans obtained the... ... a wall and a rampart to be made be- tween the Britons, the Scots, and the Picts, extending across the island from sea to sea, in length one hundred a... ...age Gwal.* Moreover, he ordered it to be made between the Britons, and the Picts and Scots; for the Scots from the west, and the Picts from the north,... ...harassed by the incursions of the barbarous nations, viz. Of the Scots and Picts, earnestly solic- ited the aid of the Romans. T o give effect to thei... ...ead, not only from the inroads of the Scots 17 History of the Britons and Picts, but also from the Romans, and their apprehen- sions of Ambrosius.* I... ... arrived with forty ships. In these they sailed round the coun- try of the Picts, laid waste the Orkneys, and took possession 1 V .R. Who had come wi...

...t was built long ago, across North Britain, to keep out the Painted People—Picts, you call them. Father had fought in the great Pict W ar that lasted ... ...l die,” said Maximus. “‘Very like,” said my Father. “But we shall have the Picts and their friends breaking through before long. You cannot move all t... ...liding back and forth like beads. Thirty feet high is the Wall, and on the Picts’ side, the North, is a ditch, strewn with blades of old swords and sp... ...unum on the cold eastern beach! On one side heather, woods and ruins where Picts hide, and on the other, a vast town—long like a snake, and wicked lik... ...under it into Valentia; but the far end had been blocked up because of the Picts, and on the plaster a man had scratched, “Finish!” It was like marchi... ... under it. He is a bowman himself. He knows!’ ‘I suppose you were fighting Picts all the time,’ said Dan. ‘Picts seldom fight. I never saw a fighting ... ...‘Picts seldom fight. I never saw a fighting Pict for half a year. The tame Picts told us they had all gone North.’ ‘What is a tame Pict?’ said Dan. ‘A... ... his neck for an instant. ‘He had been on the Wall two years, and knew the Picts well. He taught me first how to take Heather.’ ‘What’s that?’ said Da... ...ld surely be killed, if you were not smothered first in the bogs. Only the Picts know their way about those black and hidden bogs. Old Allo, the one-e...

...e traced by fancy into the bosoms of thousands and millions of ascendants: Picts who rallied round Macbeth and the old (and highly preferable) system ...