Were the Picts Weirdos, or Just… Special?

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Camelot Chat! I’m your hostess, Shannon Watson; and today, we will be discussing whether the Picts were “Weirdos, or Just… Special?”

The Picts had a quantity of weird practices. Or at least, practices that appear strange in retrospect and to the modern eye.

Some of these customs were, frankly, pretty neat, like the straight-out-of-a-faerie-tale-looking Pictish brochs: high, stone round towers of which Rapunzel would have been proud. The Pictish broch was the skyscraper of its Dark Age day. Brochs are scattered throughout the Scottish landscape, and the Arthurian villain, Meleagant, built just such a tower in which to imprison Lancelot, whom he had ambushed in a most un-chivalric manner…