Well the Britons and Picts were also Celtic-speaking people, and they may have displaced the actual indigenous pophttps://twitter.com/TR_Macbeth/status/768708376708526080 …
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Or the indigenous pop was assimilated into the Britons and the Picts.
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But Celtic is a language group, and is not necessary defined by descent as well.
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But by that time in Scotland, it tended to be based on royal descent, tbh. Usurpers existed, such as Macbeth, but he was cousin of prev king
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And all of the rulers at that time were coming from the same family.
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And "Celtic" culture is pretty wide. Not necessarily a good term to use. But not on the wane by Lulach. Went on pretty strong actually.
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I mean, how do we even define Celtic culture? Gaelic speaking? Separate from England?
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Scottish independence, both cultural and political, were strong ideals in the thirteenth century.
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As was the cultural relationship with Ireland, at least in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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Don't use the rule of a king to define the culture of a nation.
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