Bevan Jones

Interesting that Declaration of Arbroath refers to the Picts as being completely wiped out: "...to its home in the west where it still lives today. The Britons it first drove out, the Picts it utterly destroyed..." the winners in Alba seem to have been the Dal Riata crew, the Expulsion of the Deisi remnants, Somerled's descendants in the highlands and isles, and the Norman newcomers that David the Saint brought in. Do we have any proto-Pictish or Pictish family names / genetics that are known of today, or did they just completely disappear....? I believ the last Pict took the secret of the Honey Mead with him. Damn!

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