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The Irish referred to them as Cruithni, meaning "the people of the designs". What they called themselves has gone unrecorded. The Picts were descendants of the Iron Age people of northern Scotland, believed to have originated in Iberia as hunter-gatherers. </p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-3"><img src="images/index/scots/scots.jpg" alt="Map" width="230" height="213" /></div><div class="col-lg-9"><a href="scots.html" aria-label="The Scots"><h3>The Scots</h3></a><p> The Scots were a Gaelic or Goidelic Celtic people from the north east of Ireland who spoke a Q-Celtic language, descendants of the Bronze Age cairn builders of Kilmartin Glen. he Gaelic peoples of Ireland believed themselves to be descendants of the Milesians, the sons of Míl Espáine (Soldier of Hispania), as recorded in the Lebor Gabála Érenn, which details the Milesian invasion of Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula. </p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-3"><img src="images/index/scots/map.jpg" alt="Map" width="230" height="274" /></div><div class="col-lg-9"><a href="britons.html" aria-label="The Britons"><h3>The Britons</h3></a><p> Another Celtic race, known as the Brythonic Celts, controlled the southwest from Clyde to the Solway and into Cumbria. 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