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BigSweetie B
BigSweetie May 4, 2005 00:32:24
Replying to follow that cow

there's also another question though - were there any Picts in Orkney when the Vikings settled?

some of the sagas say that Orkney was deserted when the Vikings arrived, which would certainly account for the complete lack of Pictish placenames. I really don't buy the annihilation theory, and to be honest I'm not sure about the integration theory either. but if the natives left before the Vikings arrived (or soon after) then we wouldn't expect to see Pictish names in Orkney. Pictish artefacts found in Norse settlements could of course be plunder or traded goods from other sites

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Andy

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follow that cow May 4, 2005 02:06:17
Replying to BigSweetie

or perhaps they thought of themselves as the same people ... this is an interesting link .... http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/archive/1999/pr415.hti ....

remember that the earls of Orkney were powerful enough to be summoned to pay tribute before Caesar Claudius at Colchester.

or plague and disease may have weakened the inhabitants...

best get to bed.

FTC