The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

CHAP. Ill] OF SCOTLAND 43
chronicle, at Forteviot, in the very heart of the territory of the
southern Picts.
The origin of the fable of the subjugation and even exter-
mination of the whole Pictish nation, is probably to be found
in the circumstance, that the southern Picts were known by the
peculiar name of Piccardach or Picts proper, a name \\hich
never occurs after the date of the conquest, while the northern
Picts have the appellation of Cruithne, under which name they
appear as late as the }'ear 865, and thus those events which
originally belonged to the Piccardach or Picts proper onl}-, were
afterwards, when both names had long ceased to be used,
naturally extended to the whole Pictish nation.