#Ce -- situated in modern Marr & Buchan |
#Ce -- situated in modern Marr and Buchan |
#Fib -- situated in modern Fife? & Kinross? #Fidach -- situated in modern Moray? & Ross |
#Fib -- situated in the modern Fife? and Kinross? (Fife is still known as the Kingdom of Fife) #Fidach -- situated in modern Moray? and Ross |
Modern scholars believe that there were seven ancient Pictish Kingdoms and that their names were
However there is good archaelogical evidence and some written evidence that Orkney was also a Pictish kingdom.
From the 6th century AD onwards they came under increasing pressure from the invasion of the Dalradian Scots in the west and the Vikings in the east, until in 834 AD they were finally conquered by the Scots under Kenneth Mac Alpin.
For more on the Picts see the website Coed Celyddon [1]