Pictland Sentence Examples

The English Christians overcame the Celtic divines of Iona, and in 710 even in Pictland they came into the customs of western Christianity.

Kenneth MacAlpine, though son of a Scottish father, was probably, though not certainly, a Pict on the mother's side, and in Pictland.

The consequence was that what had been Pictland came to be styled Scotland.

These seven earls appear to represent the old rulers of the seven provinces of Pictland, and asserted ancient claims to elect a king.

There are good reasons for supposing that the relics were origin ally in the collection of Acca, bishop of Hexham, who took them into Pictland when he was driven from Hexham (c. 732), and founded a see, not, according to tradition, in Galloway, but on the site of St Andrews.

The north and Iona on the other hand refused to give in until Adamnan induced the north of Ireland to yield in 697, while Iona held out until 716, although by this time the monastery had lost its influence in Pictland.