[34] The name given by the Irish Annalists to the Picts is Cruithne, said by some to mean “variegated.”
[35] The only important exception is Ritson, whose arguments, like those of his opponent Pinkerton, consist mostly of virulent language and vehement assertion.
[36] In Amm. Mar.
[37] It is a curious fact that these latter are, among the peasantry of Scotland, the distinctive characteristics of the Picts or Pechts, who, however, it is not unlikely, may be popularly confounded with the Brownies, especially as, in Perthshire at any rate, they are said always to have done their work while others were asleep.
[38] Skene’s Highlanders, vol. i. p. 2.
[39] L. O. Pike, The English and their Origin, ch. i.
[40] Biographia Britannica Literaria, vol. i.
[41] Gildas, 1.
[42] Id., 19.
[43] Gildas, 14.