the reason they.(VANISHED.)is quite simple the picts handed down power through the female side of the family and kenneth mac alpins mother was princess of picts and his father was king of dalriada scots so in time kenneth became king of both peoples so that in effect they amalgamated and the scots today are a mixture of both these people .
Bridei II of the Picts died in 642.
The picts (the painted people) were celts.
Picts are citizens of Scotland.
Taran of the Picts died in 696.
Gartnait III of the Picts died in 637.
Alpín II of the Picts died in 780.
Gartnait IV of the Picts died in 663.
Bridei V of the Picts died in 763.
Bridei VII of the Picts died in 845.
Drest VII of the Picts died in 729.
Talorc III of the Picts died in 653.
Drest VI of the Picts died in 678.