Pictish

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: In the series which suggests itself the fairies come first as the oldest and lowest people: then comes that which I venture to call Pictish, possessed of a higher civilization and of warlike instincts (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Preface)

  "In the series which suggests itself the fairies come first as the oldest and lowest people: then comes that which I venture to call Pictish, possessed of a higher civilization and of warlike instincts."

• attestation: In the series which suggests itself the fairies come first as the oldest and lowest people: then comes that which I venture to call Pictish (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Preface)

  "and it involves a variety of questions bearing on the fortunes here of other races. In the series which suggests itself the fairies come first as the oldest and lowest people: then comes that which I venture to call Pictish"

• comparison: The call ' Wryd, Wryd,' would seem to indicate that the name was not originally Gwryd, but Wryd, to be identified possibly with the Pictish name Uoret in an inscription at St (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "The call ' Wryd, Wryd,' would seem to indicate that the name was not originally Gwryd, but Wryd, to be identified possibly with the Pictish name Uoret in an inscription at St."

• attribution: The mochteym must have been a Pictish king or mdrraaer called Morgan (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "The mochteym must have been a Pictish king or mdrraaer called Morgan."

• attestation: It may have been in the Pictish district of Galloway, or else somewhere beyond the Forth (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "It may have been in the Pictish district of Galloway, or else somewhere beyond the Forth."

• attestation: Even without any amalgamation, however, the little people, if employed as nurses to their Pictish lords' children, could not help leaving their impress in time on the language of the ruling nationalit (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Even without any amalgamation, however, the little people, if employed as nurses to their Pictish lords' children, could not help leaving their impress in time on the language of the ruling nationality."