- Goídel Glas
In Irish and Scottish Medieval myth, Goídel Glas (
Latin ised as Gathelus) is the creator of theGoidelic languages and theeponym ous ancestor of theGaels .Ireland
cotland
A Scottish version of the tale of Goídel Glas and
Scota was recorded byJohn of Fordun . This is apparently not based on the main Irish "Lebor Gabála" account. Fordun refers to multiple sources, and his version is taken to be an attempt to synthesise these multiple accounts into a single history.In Fordun's version, Gaythelos, as he calls Goídel Glas, is the son of "a certain king of the countries of Greece, Neolus, or Heolaus, by name", who was exiled to Egypt and took service with the Pharaoh, marrying Pharaoh's daughter Scota. Various accounts of how Gaythelos came to be expelled from Egypt—by a revolt following the death of Pharaoh and his army in the
Red Sea , pursuingMoses , or in terror from thePlagues of Egypt , or after an invasion by Ethiopians—are given, but the upshot is that Gaythelos and Scota are exiled together with Greek and Egyptian nobles, and they settle inHispania after wandering for many years. In Spain they settle in the land's northwest corner, at a place called Brigancia (the city ofA Coruña , that the Romans known as "Brigantium").References
* Broun, Dauvit, "The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries." Boydell, Woodbridge, 1999. ISBN 0-85115-375-5
* Ferguson, William, "The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An historic quest." Edinburgh U.p>, Edinburgh, 1998. ISBN 0-7486-1071-5
*John of Fordun , "Chronicle of the Scottish Nation", ed.William Forbes Skene , tr. Felix J.H. Skene, 2 vols. Reprinted, Llanerch Press, Lampeter, 1993. ISBN 1-897853-05-X
* MacKillop, James, "The Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology." Oxford U.P., Oxford, 1998. ISBN 0-19-860967-1
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