Pictish matriliny reconsidered

1998/12/01 by Alex Woolf · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Medieval Literature and History #Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies #Historical and Archaeological Studies #Kinship #History #Genealogy #Ancient history #Ecological succession #Middle Ages #Sociology #Anthropology

paper · doi:10.3366/inr.1998.49.2.147

openalex publication_date 1998/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01

Abstract

This article examines the evidence for Pictish kingship being transmitted through the female line.

Citations

• The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists
• The guarantor list of Cáin Adomnáin, 697

Cited by

• Dén Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts
• Pictish language [wikipedia]