• Pictish kinglists

    From Hans Vogels@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 11 23:42:24 2023
    Is the any recent literature on the credibility of the Pictish kinglists?
    I saw mentionings of books and papers that focus on individual persons that might or might not be linked to historical persons, but not on a more scholarly work.

    The last year or so I came across several papers on Academia that seriously reconstruct a parallel history that is difficult to accept for anyone thinking reasonable, for instance https://www.academia.edu/62735981/The_Legendary_Kings_of_the_Picts_a_
    Reconsideration?email_work_card=view-paper

    There are websites on Wikipedia on the subject but not with a disclaimer "beware fiction".

    One site:
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/ https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/pict1.html https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/part2.html

    was interesting reading but when one searches for more on the names
    Heather Rose Jones and Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
    one ends up with (women sience-fiction and) fantasy and heraldry that take you to a different spectrum.

    As the internet is a playground for anyone with or without knowledge I wonder if there is a scholarly work that deals with the subject in-depth.

    Hans Vogels

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  • From Peter Stewart@21:1/5 to Hans Vogels on Thu Jan 12 22:04:15 2023
    On 12-Jan-23 6:42 PM, Hans Vogels wrote:
    Is the any recent literature on the credibility of the Pictish kinglists?
    I saw mentionings of books and papers that focus on individual persons that might or might not be linked to historical persons, but not on a more scholarly work.

    The last year or so I came across several papers on Academia that seriously reconstruct a parallel history that is difficult to accept for anyone thinking reasonable, for instance https://www.academia.edu/62735981/The_Legendary_Kings_of_the_Picts_a_
    Reconsideration?email_work_card=view-paper

    There are websites on Wikipedia on the subject but not with a disclaimer "beware fiction".

    One site:
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/ https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/pict1.html https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/part2.html

    was interesting reading but when one searches for more on the names
    Heather Rose Jones and Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
    one ends up with (women sience-fiction and) fantasy and heraldry that take you to a different spectrum.

    As the internet is a playground for anyone with or without knowledge I wonder if there is a scholarly work that deals with the subject in-depth.

    You may find this from 2008 to be useful:

    https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/12600759/Royal_succession_and_kingship_among_the_Picts.pdf

    Peter Stewart


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  • From pj.evans88@gmail.com@21:1/5 to hansvog...@gmail.com on Thu Jan 12 08:33:53 2023
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:42:26 PM UTC-8, hansvog...@gmail.com wrote:
    Is the any recent literature on the credibility of the Pictish kinglists?
    I saw mentionings of books and papers that focus on individual persons that might or might not be linked to historical persons, but not on a more scholarly work.

    The last year or so I came across several papers on Academia that seriously reconstruct a parallel history that is difficult to accept for anyone thinking reasonable, for instance https://www.academia.edu/62735981/The_Legendary_Kings_of_the_Picts_a_
    Reconsideration?email_work_card=view-paper

    There are websites on Wikipedia on the subject but not with a disclaimer "beware fiction".

    One site:
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/ https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/pict1.html https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/part2.html

    was interesting reading but when one searches for more on the names
    Heather Rose Jones and Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
    one ends up with (women sience-fiction and) fantasy and heraldry that take you to a different spectrum.

    As the internet is a playground for anyone with or without knowledge I wonder if there is a scholarly work that deals with the subject in-depth.

    Hans Vogels

    Heather Rose Jones has a PhD in linguistics and studied medieval Welsh. She's good on names, but she isn't a historian of the Picts.

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  • From Hans Vogels@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 12 11:51:11 2023
    Op donderdag 12 januari 2023 om 12:04:18 UTC+1 schreef pss...@optusnet.com.au:
    On 12-Jan-23 6:42 PM, Hans Vogels wrote:
    Is the any recent literature on the credibility of the Pictish kinglists? I saw mentionings of books and papers that focus on individual persons that might or might not be linked to historical persons, but not on a more scholarly work.

    The last year or so I came across several papers on Academia that seriously reconstruct a parallel history that is difficult to accept for anyone thinking reasonable, for instance https://www.academia.edu/62735981/The_Legendary_Kings_of_the_Picts_a_
    Reconsideration?email_work_card=view-paper

    There are websites on Wikipedia on the subject but not with a disclaimer "beware fiction".

    One site:
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/ https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/pict1.html https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/part2.html

    was interesting reading but when one searches for more on the names Heather Rose Jones and Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
    one ends up with (women sience-fiction and) fantasy and heraldry that take you to a different spectrum.

    As the internet is a playground for anyone with or without knowledge I wonder if there is a scholarly work that deals with the subject in-depth.
    You may find this from 2008 to be useful:

    https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/12600759/Royal_succession_and_kingship_among_the_Picts.pdf

    Peter Stewart


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    Thank you Peter,

    This is a indeed a worthwhile paper.
    Given the complexity of even trying to interpretate and reconstruct the 'historical period'
    everything on the (here casually mentioned) prehistoric period looks to me highly speculative.

    With regards,
    Hans Vogels

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  • From Hans Vogels@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 12 12:09:29 2023
    Op donderdag 12 januari 2023 om 17:33:55 UTC+1 schreef pj.ev...@gmail.com:
    On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:42:26 PM UTC-8, hansvog...@gmail.com wrote:
    Is the any recent literature on the credibility of the Pictish kinglists? I saw mentionings of books and papers that focus on individual persons that might or might not be linked to historical persons, but not on a more scholarly work.

    The last year or so I came across several papers on Academia that seriously reconstruct a parallel history that is difficult to accept for anyone thinking reasonable, for instance https://www.academia.edu/62735981/The_Legendary_Kings_of_the_Picts_a_
    Reconsideration?email_work_card=view-paper

    There are websites on Wikipedia on the subject but not with a disclaimer "beware fiction".

    One site:
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/ https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/pict1.html https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/part2.html

    was interesting reading but when one searches for more on the names Heather Rose Jones and Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
    one ends up with (women sience-fiction and) fantasy and heraldry that take you to a different spectrum.

    As the internet is a playground for anyone with or without knowledge I wonder if there is a scholarly work that deals with the subject in-depth.

    Hans Vogels
    Heather Rose Jones has a PhD in linguistics and studied medieval Welsh. She's good on names, but she isn't a historian of the Picts.

    Hello PJ,

    It looks like she is quite succesful in her other profession.

    With regards,
    Hans Vogels

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  • From Peter Stewart@21:1/5 to Hans Vogels on Fri Jan 13 09:01:26 2023
    On 13-Jan-23 6:51 AM, Hans Vogels wrote:
    Op donderdag 12 januari 2023 om 12:04:18 UTC+1 schreef pss...@optusnet.com.au:
    On 12-Jan-23 6:42 PM, Hans Vogels wrote:
    Is the any recent literature on the credibility of the Pictish kinglists? >>> I saw mentionings of books and papers that focus on individual persons that might or might not be linked to historical persons, but not on a more scholarly work.

    The last year or so I came across several papers on Academia that seriously reconstruct a parallel history that is difficult to accept for anyone thinking reasonable, for instance https://www.academia.edu/62735981/The_Legendary_Kings_of_the_Picts_a_
    Reconsideration?email_work_card=view-paper

    There are websites on Wikipedia on the subject but not with a disclaimer "beware fiction".

    One site:
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/pict1.html
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/part2.html

    was interesting reading but when one searches for more on the names
    Heather Rose Jones and Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
    one ends up with (women sience-fiction and) fantasy and heraldry that take you to a different spectrum.

    As the internet is a playground for anyone with or without knowledge I wonder if there is a scholarly work that deals with the subject in-depth.
    You may find this from 2008 to be useful:

    https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/12600759/Royal_succession_and_kingship_among_the_Picts.pdf

    Peter Stewart


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    Thank you Peter,

    This is a indeed a worthwhile paper.
    Given the complexity of even trying to interpretate and reconstruct the 'historical period'
    everything on the (here casually mentioned) prehistoric period looks to me highly speculative.

    If you have access to JSTOR (or a library holding it) this book may be
    of further interest:

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r28q5

    Peter Stewart

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  • From Hans Vogels@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 14 09:19:03 2023
    Op donderdag 12 januari 2023 om 23:01:27 UTC+1 schreef pss...@optusnet.com.au:
    On 13-Jan-23 6:51 AM, Hans Vogels wrote:
    Op donderdag 12 januari 2023 om 12:04:18 UTC+1 schreef pss...@optusnet.com.au:
    On 12-Jan-23 6:42 PM, Hans Vogels wrote:
    Is the any recent literature on the credibility of the Pictish kinglists?
    I saw mentionings of books and papers that focus on individual persons that might or might not be linked to historical persons, but not on a more scholarly work.

    The last year or so I came across several papers on Academia that seriously reconstruct a parallel history that is difficult to accept for anyone thinking reasonable, for instance https://www.academia.edu/62735981/The_Legendary_Kings_of_the_Picts_a_
    Reconsideration?email_work_card=view-paper

    There are websites on Wikipedia on the subject but not with a disclaimer "beware fiction".

    One site:
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/pict1.html
    https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/part2.html

    was interesting reading but when one searches for more on the names
    Heather Rose Jones and Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn
    one ends up with (women sience-fiction and) fantasy and heraldry that take you to a different spectrum.

    As the internet is a playground for anyone with or without knowledge I wonder if there is a scholarly work that deals with the subject in-depth.
    You may find this from 2008 to be useful:

    https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/12600759/Royal_succession_and_kingship_among_the_Picts.pdf

    Peter Stewart


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    Thank you Peter,

    This is a indeed a worthwhile paper.
    Given the complexity of even trying to interpretate and reconstruct the 'historical period'
    everything on the (here casually mentioned) prehistoric period looks to me highly speculative.
    If you have access to JSTOR (or a library holding it) this book may be
    of further interest:

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r28q5

    Peter Stewart

    Hi Peter,

    Even better, I have it on the bookshelf myself.
    I mentioned it here in 2011: https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/JgJfDHXs1Co/m/7lzLH8TDzx0J

    I browsed through it but it dealt with a new generic history of Scotland.
    It left the pseudo-history aside.

    But meanwhile I noticed that James E Fraser wrote in 2011 a paper titled: From ancient Scythia to The Problem of the Picts.
    The paper probably deals with the fantasy part that precedes the Pictish Kinglists.
    It's not on Academia and I asked James Fraser if he cared to upload it to Academia.

    With regards,
    Hans Vogels

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  • From taf@21:1/5 to hansvog...@gmail.com on Sat Jan 14 19:05:30 2023
    On Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 9:19:05 AM UTC-8, hansvog...@gmail.com wrote:
    But meanwhile I noticed that James E Fraser wrote in 2011 a paper titled: From ancient Scythia to The Problem of the Picts.
    The paper probably deals with the fantasy part that precedes the Pictish Kinglists.
    It's not on Academia and I asked James Fraser if he cared to upload it to Academia.

    I can see the first 11 pages of it on Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=6d55DwAAQBAJ
    It seems to be an extended introduction to the book in which it is found, Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Middle Age. Ten pages I can see are simply historiography, an account of the various scholars who have addressed the origin
    of the Picts over the past centuries, and not about the actual history itself. He does touch, briefly, on the legendary history but not to analyze it, only as a representation of early Pictish historiography. Beginning half way down the penultimate page
    I can view, he begins a discussion of Pictish self-identification as 'Picts'. Based on what I can see, the article does not seem like what you want. The article that follows it, which I cannot view, may be of more interest - Nicholas Evans, "Ideology,
    Literacy and Matriliny: Approaches to Medieval Texts on the Pictish Past", pp. 45-66.

    taf

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