Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1920 — Picts and Scots. [ARTICLE]

Picts and Scots.

Tn his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the learned Rev. z Dr. E. Cobham Brewer, writes upon Picts and Scots: “Pict is not the Latin picti (painted people). As Picts and Scots are always mentioned together, there is no reason why one name should be Latin and the other Gaelic. Scot is the Gaelic ’sgod ( a dweller in woods and forests), and Pict it the Gaelic pict-Ist (freebooters), the two being equivalent to foresters and freebooters.” *