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Pictish Chronicle

The Pictish Chronicle are a group of documents which originated starting in the 900s and describe the legendary kings and mythical history of the Picts, a group which lived in what is now northern Scotland. The documents begin many thousands of years before history was recorded in Pictland and end after the Picts had been enveloped by Scotland. Modern scholars believe the Pictish Chronicle is a blend of genuine historical data roughly contemporary to the documents' creation, along with exaggerated royal propaganda and pseudo-historical or mythical origin stories.