| The Romans didn't interact with Scots either - or at least the names changed. The Romans fought natives in the area and built the walls to keep out what they generally called the Caledonii, although that's the name they gave them, not the names the natives called themselves. There's a map by Ptolemy with various tribal names [0] Many years after the decline of the Roman Empire in Britain, four tribal kingdoms dominated the area we call Scotland today: the Picts (mainly the east), the Gaels/Celts (Dál Riata; the western isles and coast), the Britons of Strathclyde (the south west), and the Anglo-Saxons of Bernicia (later Northumbria; the south east). The Celts and Picts merged under Kenneth I MacAlpin as the Kingdom of Alba in the 800s, [1] which became known as Scotia in Latin, which is where we get the name Scotland from, long after the end of Roman Britain. The Scots took Northumbria north of the River Tweed during the 900s, and took over Strathclyde between 1018-1054. There continued to be disputes over the border for quite some time - see the two wars of Scottish independence, and the "Debatable Lands" [3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_during_the_Roman_Empi... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Alba [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_Scottish_Independence [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debatable_Lands |