Does the language spoken by the Highlanders/Britons in the movie bear any resemblance to any Gaelic tongue that you are familiar with? Is it recognizable in any way? Can you pick out enough words from it that you would find it convincing as an Old Gaelic tongue? I was only able to pick out a couple, such as "Hrall" (thrall) meaning slave, and "mac" meaning son.
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The language you hear spoken in the movie is modern Scottish Gaelic. I distinguished at least three regional Western Isles accents (Skye, Lewis, and something else I couldn't identify), plus at least one Irish accent, in the spoken Gaelic I heard. I was able to understand about 2/3 of what I heard, including large chunks of the sections that did not have subtitles.
It was not supposed to resemble an old Gaelic tongue. The movie's director says that he deliberately used Scottish Gaelic as "a stand-in for Pictish", since it's a bit early (140 A.D.) for the Gaelic-speaking settlements on the west coast of Scotland to have become well established.
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