I am of Irish and Scottish decent, and I'm wondering if

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I can't speak with any certainty for Scotland but tattooing is very new to Ireland, it's only been around here for a hundred years or so.

St Isidore of Seville wrote
>"The Scots derive their name in their own language from their painted bodies, because these are marked with various designs by being pricked with iron needles with ink on them"
Scots being what the Irish were called at the time, but Isidore seems to have got it wrong. The Irish referred to themselves as both Gael and Féni. "Gael" means "wild one" and "Féni" means "free man", nothing to do with tattoos.

Moreover there aren't any artistic depictions of pre-modern Irish people with tattoos, either by the Irish themselves or by foreign observers.

>>3163259
All I know is that you'll look like an asshole if you get them

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>>3163295
He meant the word Pict, pict comes from Latin meaning Painted, as does the word Britain.

>>3163321
no.

>>3163455
>He meant the word Pict
St Isidore mentions the Picts seperately, so I don't think he got them mixed up

>>3163295
I don't get it, what do you think he got wrong by referring to them as Scoti?

>>3164074
>>3163295
To clarify, I understand that it isn't actually what they called themselves, but he mentions confirms that they used woad.