Picti and Pixies and Dwarves… Oh, My!

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Camelot Chat! I’m your hostess, Shannon Watson; and today, we will be talking about the mysterious Picts of ancient Scotland… and the fairy-tale characters that evolved from Pictish legend. This episode is therefore playfully entitled, Picti and Pixies and Dwarves… Oh, My!

The Picts were a group of natives who inhabited early Scotland, both before the Romans conquered most of southern Britannia, and after 410 AD, when the Briton landholders kicked out the remaining Roman administration. After that, Rome never returned to Britain…