When I was young, a teacher of mine from Scotland told a story of the two last remaining members of a Pictish tribe, an old man and a young one. Their enemies demanded to know the methods by which this tribe made whiskey. The old man declared he would tell them but that he would be too ashamed to have the young man see this. After the invaders killed the young man and then demanded the secret. the old man declared, "You might have gotten the young man to tell you, but I never will!" and threw himself off a cliff.

Gildas wrote that the Picts originated from Orkney, it was Bede who started claiming they were originally Scythians and he probably was politically motivated. He had some odd ideas.
While it is hard to say if the Pictish culture started in Orkney, it is not that far fetched and we know there were Picts on the islands, and Gildas lived far closer to when the Picts started.
That the Picts were ended in a single campaign by one king is one of those things that sounds very convenient but it doesn't really work with the archaeology.

I do believe we have a lot more digging to do to find the answer to that.

The Men of Moray fell under the norman yoke in the 11th century at the same time the last british kingdom strathclyde disappeared in Scotland.

My ancestors come from the northeast on both sides.
Personally I think the Scots, and Picts, were two fairly similar Celtic peoples.
I think my ancient ancestors thought that the Scots were either politically or economically more advanced.
I think Pictish matriarchs married into Scots nobility willingly and brought the two nations together.
It's clear that the Picts CHOSE to abandon their language, and culture for Scotish Gaelic culture and language.
Other peoples have done, and to this day do the same,  for political, and economic reasons.

Several miles of land has been lost at the Esk river coastline near Montrose the bay there didnt exist in 1800.

Interesting Pict information.. ~

Ai slop that isn't factually correct,  and uses the wrong pictures when referring to locations. At least attempt to say the words of locations correctly ffs.

Look at the truth of the Macbeth story to find when the Picts were attacked by the same Normans that battled at Hastings. ..Hastings 1066….Lumphannan 1057

The annals of Ulster and Adaman are likewise rewritten by the monks (but many ‘ druids’ infiltrated the monastery as Celtic Christianity and pagan beliefs were not that difficult to incorporate.
As for the fires.. there was a comet that passed through the Northeast Scotland in 562AD which passed through to Bolivia and caused many of the ‘mysterious!?’ Vitrified forts

The idea that the Picts were somehow 'wiped out' is nonsense.   What people fail to understand is that the Scots and the Picts were of the same Scandinavian heritage.  Yes, despite what you've been told, the Scots are not Irish.  that confusion comes from the uncontested fact that were Gaels.  

Confused?  I'm sure you are!  So here's the story...

Following the  great Storegga tsunami of 6200BCE, the coastal and island communities of Caledonia had been completely wiped out.   Scandinavian settlers began crossing the newly-carved out North Sea and settling the devastated land, establishing colonies of Guthlandic-speaking people.  These are the people who, centuries later were dubbed "Pictii" when the Romans encountered them.  They had become the new natives of Caledonia.

The Scots, just as the Pictii before them, were also Scandinavian adventurers however, they were denied the chance to settle on any of the islands and coastlines that were already settled.   Eventually, they found themselves on Rathlinn Island, just off the coast of Northern Ireland.  From there, they managed to colonise the land they named Ulster- after Ulsted in Denmark.  They eventually established the kingdom of Dalriada- land of the Lords of Ada- an ancient Greek goddess commemorated by their people.  They adopted the Gaelic as a consequence of living among and trading with the native Irish.   When the Romans abandoned Caledonia, the Scots extended their kingdom into Argyll, securing the fort of Dunadd- Hill of Ada.

In time, the Scots and the Picts would come to recognise their common Scandinavian heritage and in 843AD the two kingdoms merged, adopting the Scottish name as a consequence of their true origins... the island of Gotland, Sweden.  The language of Scots was perpetuated and maintained by the Picts and was the original language of Gotland.

Don't believe me?  Consider these facts...

Those same Scandinavian adventurers had settled as far west as Canada and as far south as the Canary islands.  they were not likely to miss an opportunity to colonise Norther Ireland!  The Scots (Southern Goths or S'Goths) settled Rathlin island, from where comes the very Scottish name Guthrie (Goth Righ- Goth kings)- a man of early Scandinavian DNA.  

When the Romans departed Southern Scotland around 500CE, the Dalriadans were led by King Harald Harðráði (pronounced Harald Harthrothe… Arthur) whose symbol was the golden boar- Gullinbursti.  The lineage of the MacArthurs (sons of Arthur) bequeathed the lands of Lochawe through marriage to Gillespic Arkambald (Giles Campbell).  The Campbells bear the symbol of the head of the Golden Boar to this day.

As late as 1250, Scottish festive traditions held that a Boar's head would be on the table for the Winter Solstice, among other traditional Scandinavian festive practices, like having Yule logs on fires and bringing greenery indoors.

Common Scandinavian names in Scotland:

MacLeod (sons of Leod), meaning "ugly".  
MacAulay- Sons of Olaf.
MacAskill: Askill being the guards.
McKendrick: Sons of Enrick, the lord of the county.
MacIvor. Sons of the archer.
Gunn:  Norse for War.
MacNeil: DNA proves Norse heritage.
Guthrie: Goth Righ- Guthlandic kings- also with Scandinavian DNA.
Campbell: From the old Swedish name "Arkambald".
Edinburgh:  From the Swedish Ebyærgh (Idun's hill), thus *Idunbyærgh*.

Brochs are identical to Swedish round castles.  

The term Celtic refers to the Baltic Kells (colonies).  The Book of Kells documenting the various colonies.

I'm wondering what those four figures in the middle at 15:20 are up to.

@19:31 it a forced assimilation , like when Christianity forced at sword point the conversion of the pagans .
The Picts lost their identity , we lost our Gods .

AI voice is creepy and the premise that eliminating the Pictish nobility would suddenly end the occupation of the settlement is absolutely ridiculous.

Perhaps (and probably) Burghead was the main fortress of the Picts but their lands were inland , where they could grow crops and farm. For sure there was a a palace at Rhynie and elsewhere. The largest stone circle between Mortlach and Aberlour at ‘the Hatton’ was the largest in northeast Scotland (Cole’s 1610) and this in itself requires investigation. Kingdoms rarely appear for no good reason! We do know that Robert the Bruce had a great fear of these peoples and thrived to genocide the area from Buchan to Inverness in the thirteen hundreds so is   No King of mine and the ignorance of Bannocknurn needs to be sent home to  France where they all belonged

You might want to use pictures taken in Scotland, and not the Mediterranean.. then your nonsense might be slightly less unbelievable.. 🙄

No serious historian believes in this myth you talk about, that Picts were wiped out in a single night ( 2.02 ).  Or that Scotland was created then because Kenneth MacAlpine, had the Pictish nobility massacred on that night. You spend a large amount of the video, trying disprove a theory that nobody believed in anyway!

No we didn't vanish, we're still here. And we never called ourselves pict, only our enemies used it, enemies that were slaughtered over and over, romans, angles, saxons, Vikings, English.

Picts or it didn't happen

Destruction of the nobility isn't destruction of the people .  None of the DNA results are the least little bit surprising.

AI slop, mostly wrong