Elpin
Recruit
I really love Brytenwalda but there are a couple of niggles I have with the Pictish territory:
Moncrieffe Hill (Monib Crobh) and Scone (Caislen Credi) should probably swap places on the map - the hill is to the south of Perth overlooking both rivers Tay and Earn, while Scone is north east of Perth.
The other issue is Bertha.
The “historical” Bertha wasn’t a settlement but rather the site of Roman camp where the river Almond merges with the Tay, a couple of km from Perth. Except the Romans probably called it Tamia after the then local name for the river Tay. The site was dubbed Bertha by medieval historians who having no clue as to the actual Roman name was, basically used an unusual 13th century spelling for the city of Perth as a kind of placeholder.
The Pictish and Gaelic kings knew the Roman site as Rathinveramon (Fort at the mouth of the Almond) used for ceremonial purposes through to early medieaval times. It is generally accepted that the name Perth comes from the pictish for copse or wood “pert”, suggesting the settlement site is much older than its first appearance in royal charters in the 12th century.
So basically either Bertha is a Roman ruin or a Pictish settlement but please change the name
Moncrieffe Hill (Monib Crobh) and Scone (Caislen Credi) should probably swap places on the map - the hill is to the south of Perth overlooking both rivers Tay and Earn, while Scone is north east of Perth.
The other issue is Bertha.
The “historical” Bertha wasn’t a settlement but rather the site of Roman camp where the river Almond merges with the Tay, a couple of km from Perth. Except the Romans probably called it Tamia after the then local name for the river Tay. The site was dubbed Bertha by medieval historians who having no clue as to the actual Roman name was, basically used an unusual 13th century spelling for the city of Perth as a kind of placeholder.
The Pictish and Gaelic kings knew the Roman site as Rathinveramon (Fort at the mouth of the Almond) used for ceremonial purposes through to early medieaval times. It is generally accepted that the name Perth comes from the pictish for copse or wood “pert”, suggesting the settlement site is much older than its first appearance in royal charters in the 12th century.
So basically either Bertha is a Roman ruin or a Pictish settlement but please change the name