Speaking of the picts, there's a wonderful song, I think Joe Hickerson recorded it, called "Woad." Woad, of course, was the blue body paint used by the Picts. A typical fragment of the song is

"Romans crossed the English Channel / All dressed up in tin and flannel / Half a pint of Woad per man'll / Clothe us more than these. / Tailors, you can save your stitches / For making beds for bugs in britches / We have Woad to clothe us, which is / Not a nest for fleas!"

I couldn't find it by a search of the DT, alas. I do have it in a notebook somewhere and will post it someday.... If I haven't got it up here by June 10, somebody send me a (reasonably polite) reminder. -Rita F