Celtic Tribesmen of Britain as Described By Julius Caesar

Most of the inland inhabitants do not cultivate grains, but live on milk and flesh, and are clad with skins. All the Britons, indeed, dye themselves with woad, which occasions a bluish color, and thereby have a more terrible appearance in fight. They wear their hair long, and have every part of their body shaved except their head and upper lip.

[GenerationX]

They inspired Mel Gibson's painted appearance in Braveheart.

[digit]

This is prior to the English existing .The Welsh and Cornish (True Britons) painted their bodies in woade and not just the Scots and by the way the Southern Scots and as far up as the Grampian were Britons too speaking Brythonic rather than Gaelic like the town of Dunbarton (Fortress of the Britons) .The pics are a relation to the old Britons and had very similar language.

[TheFatController]

The Britons didn't paint themselves, that was the Picts.

[sumathi]

Celtic is actually kel tic . Kel means south and tic means direction. Two Tamil words which means southern people. People who came from south.

[dinomite]

Not the British, the Scottish did that. Don’t post information you don’t know about, and the English thought that was barbaric. The ancient English sucked