Scotland
Medieval period
The Kingdom of the Picts (based in Fortriu by the 6th century) was the state which eventually became known
as "Alba" or "Scotland". The development of "Pictland", according to the historical model developed by Peter
Heather, was a natural response to Roman imperialism. Another view places emphasis on the Battle of
Dunnichen, and the reign of Bridei m. Beli (671693), with another period of consolidation in the reign of
engus mac Fergusa (732761). The Kingdom of the Picts as it was in the early 8th century, when Bede was
writing, was largely the same as the kingdom of the Scots in the reign of Alexander (11071124). However,
by the tenth century, the Pictish kingdom was dominated by what we can recognise as Gaelic culture, and had
developed an Irish conquest myth around the ancestor of the contemporary royal dynasty, Cined mac Ailpn
(Kenneth MacAlpin).
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