I do not know how many people on this forum have heard of the old Gaelic myths of how the Gaels originally went through Scythia, the Middle East, Egypt, North Africa, through Spain, and sailed from Galicia to Ireland, and then later the Scotti tribe moved from Northern Ireland to Scotland. However, according to one myth, the Scots descended from Egyptians. From this
article "The queen's name was Scota from where comes the name Scotland. The
Greek king was Gaythelos hence Gaelic, and their son was known as
Hiber which gives us Hibernia." The article goes on to say "According to Bower(Walter Bower, a Scottish chornicler), the Scottish people were not an amalgam of Picts,
Scots and other European peoples, but were in fact Egyptians, who could
trace their ancestry directly back to a pharaoh's daughter and her
husband, a Greek king." Is there any bit of truth to the myths at all, even the bit about the Gaels traveling from Galicia to Ireland?