Maiden Stone in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.

The Picts

Could there be a more mysterious people? You the Picts.
They called you barbarians and savages and more.
How could a people as " backwards " as you have defeated conquest?
Mighty Rome with all its legions had conquered much of the known world,
Yet failed to break you.
I want to know about your Stone Circles, What magic do they hold?
Tell me about your strange and magnificant drawings.
Is it true that i will never know these secrets?
If only you could talk of your struggle against the Vikings.....
Your Union with the Scots..
The history is huge and the mystery is endless.
I know that you lived, and built,
You drew and sculpted as artists,
Only you hold the secrets behind the Stones.
You fought the mightiest army the world had ever known and triumphed.
You fought but did not die.
The Pict faded into obscurity but your legand still lives,
As mysterious and brilliant as ever.

Ceitêach MacAndreas

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