The pictish invasion of Britain?

Question

What, specifically, is the Farthes south the picts made it into Britain? Anyone know? I know that they INVADED, I know that the Saxons who arrived in the South East Fought battles with the picts at least twice before turning on their British Employers which would IMPLY that the battles could not have been too far north. AND I know that the picts "joined forces" with the saxons when the saxons finally turned hostile to the romano-brits. This is all the Info I can find in my copies of Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Its not very definitive and every map I've ever seen shows the picts isolated WAY up north. Does anyone know of any specific references to places in the central or southern part of the Island they may have fought, or any names of kingdoms or rulers they battles with as opposed to Bede's and Gildas' uselessly simplified "the picts attacked BRITAIN from the north"?

Answer 1

I am not sure if these websites can help, but one of them has a map. According to the map, they appear to not have gotten any farther south than about Edinburgh. It appears they never made it to Hadrian's Wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kings_of_the_Picts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts
http://www.holyrood.org.uk/picts/
http://netmedia.co.uk/history/week-7/index.html

Answer 2

I don't know a thing about Picts except they pasted themselves up blue with woad, that and Kipling's "A Pict Song".

Answer 3

Try using the retrieval string "Britain barbarian conspiracy" and look at the hits you get. See also that Ammianus fellow for good information as well.

Answer 4

Hell,anybody would know that. It's all people are talking about in bars. Don't you go out? You have to circulate more,friend.