Original sentence: Racist fantasists such as John Pinkerton, and others , would try to portray the Scots as the descendants of the Goths or the Scythians, but their ideas were rejected by the majority of scholars who worked in the field.The Reformation and the perception of Gaelic-speaking (their language now called Erse rather than Scots, a name transferred to the Northern English language of Scotland now known as the Scots language) as idle, warlike and crude changed attitudes, but even a Protestant humanist scholar like George Buchanan could write of the Picts and the Scots as being like the Irish
Edited sentence: Racist fantasists such as John Pinkerton, and others , would try to portray the Scots as the descendants of the Goths or the Scythians with the origins of their language being Pictish, but their ideas were rejected by the majority of scholars who worked in the field.The Reformation and the perception of Gaelic-speaking (their language now called Erse rather than Scots, a name transferred to the Northern English language of Scotland now known as the Scots language) as idle, warlike and crude changed attitudes, but even a Protestant humanist scholar like George Buchanan, himself a Gael, could write of the Picts and the Scots as being like the Irish