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Meanwhile, the Picts had settled in the north and east of Scotland. Even in the dark ages after the Roman invasion 2000 years ago, the Picts produced beautiful stone inscriptions depicting people and landscape, There is not much that remains of their culture apart from these richly decorated, but indecipherable, carvings. Even their original name is a mystery, they were named “Pictii” (the painted ones) by the Romans. Their language is lost, but was probably brythonic and related to the Welsh and the tribes in the east of England such as Boudicca's Iceni. By the time of Bede 1300 years ago, pictish was identified as a language distinct from gaelic and welsh, leading to the intriguing possibility that it was influenced by contacts with invaders from across the North Sea. In the end, the Picts were to lose their identity through these invasions, and were subsumed into the wider population around 1000 years ago.