“This, however, only shews that the Pict was not exactly and absolutely Irish.”

“But how do you know it was not a Pict with some kind of a hook that rips instead of slicing?”

“No wonder the Pict had fallen victim to his own sort of subtlety.”

“The non-English parts of the UK have ten million Gaels, Celts, Picts, Irish, Scots and Vikings.”

“I think it is Tacitus who records that at the time he visited Britain the Picts of Galloway were anthropophagists.”

“The distinctive blue dye used by the Picts to tattoo themselves came from the woad plant, which grows wild in the North of Britain.”