In 672 AD, after the death of Oswui, the Picts rose against their overlords, expelling Drust, their Northumbrian puppet king. The new King of Northumbria, Ecgfrith, wasted no time in wreaking ...

St Andrews is widely thought to be Scotland's oldest town - with a history that goes back to the Roman era and a number of myths and legends associated with it ...

In the early 840s Kenneth mac Alpin succeeded to the Gaelic kingdom of Dalriada and a couple of years later he became the Pictish king. Although not the first to take this route to the Pictish ...

In A.D. 565, according to this account, Columba was on his way to visit a Pictish king when he stopped along the shore of Loch Ness. Seeing a large beast about to attack a man who was swimming in ...

Therefore, this raises the strong possibility that Tristan, or “Drystan” to the Welsh, was actually a historical Pictish king or prince of the era. There was a historical Drest who was the son ...

Pictish occupation of a fort on a well-known hill in Aberdeenshire has been confirmed by archaeologists. The Mither Tap, a summit on Bennachie, near Inverurie, has the remains of an ancient fort ...