Is Scotland named after an Egyptian pricess?

i was just about to type - "are you nuts?" and then again... you truly learn something new every day!

"FACT: One of the more unusual theories on the origin of the term 'Scot' is that it is derived from the name of Scota, an Egyptian princess who brought the Stone of Destiny across to Scotland.

OPINION: If the Scots were named after an Egyptian princess it totally makes sense that they all wear dresses."

http://stephanmacleod.blogspot.com/2007/03/fact-bo...

"Very striking how similar the line is to clogging. But then again, the world is a lot smaller than we know.

For example, most people dont know that the medieval lute came from the ud. Hell, most people dont know what an ud is. Or that Scotland was named after an Egyptian princess."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W0CUVtJqBc

"Yes, there is. Between Gandalf being a druid, elves being a topic in history, tarot cards coming from Atlantis and Scotland being named after an Egyptian princess, wow!"

http://mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=54918&page...

"Irish myths and tales do talk about a group of people who came to Ireland, including an "Egyptian princess", a daughter of the Pharaoh. Sometimes those tales have that group come to Ireland via Greece, Denmark and then what today is England and Scotland. Some add Spain to the route of that Egyptian group, which sometimes is called Tuatha Dé Danann.

What Anglo-Israelist preachers do not want to mention is that the original story talks about an Egyptian princess, a daughter of the Pharaoh. And, that the time when that "princess" left Egypt was hundreds of years earlier than what those preachers want people to believe."

http://www.biblepages.web.surftown.se/ey15b.htm

it still remains a mystery...

It is a very interesting piece of legend. although it's doubtful Scota really was Egyptian, there is a strange grain of truth in some of the old Irish mythic geneaologies. Central Europe, where the celts are supposed to have originated is not mentioned at all.

We get 'Spain' a lot,however--and recent DNA have shown the Irish (and other celts too)are better genetically matched to the 'basques of Spain (NOT the modern Spanish, note)than to the European celts. there is every chance that this area is where the PRE-celtic people of Britain/Ireland migrated from over 5000 years ago.

According to legend this is true. Though it was more the people callingthemselves Scotti that weredescended from her, rather than the country itself. Scotland only became called that after the union of the country by the Gaels.

Scota, in Irish mythology, Scottish mythology and pseudohistory, was an Egyptian princess to whom the Gaels traced their ancestry, explaining the name Scoti and later to the Irish invaders of Argyll and Caledonia which became known as Scotland.

According to the early Irish chronicle, she was the daughter of Pharaoh Neferhotep I of Egypt. She married Nel, son of Fenius Farsaid, a Babylonian who travelled to Scythia after the collapse of the Tower of Babel. Nel was a scholar of languages, and was invited by the pharaoh to Egypt and given Scota's hand in marriage. They had a son, Goídel Glas, the eponymous ancestor of the Gaels, who created the Gaelic language by combining the best features of the 72 languages then in existence.

Goídel (or his son Sru) was expelled from Egypt shortly after the Exodus of the Israelites by a pharaoh whom 17th century Irish chronicler Geoffrey Keating names Intuir. After much travelling his descendants settled in Hispania (or Iberia - modern Spain and Portugal), where Míl Espáine was born, and it was the sons of Míl, Eber Finn and Eremon, who established the Gaelic presence in Ireland.

According to The Story of the Irish Race, Scota married Niul, but he was the grandson of Gaodhal Glas. Then another Scota, who was coincidentally also a daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh, married Miled (or Milesius). This second Scota left Iberia with her eight sons and their families, after Miled died, and headed for Ireland. Many of the sons died en route, due to a storm, and Queen Scota died during the battle between the Milesians and the De Danann.

Other sources say that Scota was the daughter of Pharaoh Neferhotep I of Egypt and his wife Senebsen, and was the wife of Míl and the mother of Eber and Eremon. Míl had given Neferhotep military aid against ancient Ethiopia and was given Scota in marriage as a reward for his services.

Many other sources say that Niul son of Fenius Farsaid, married Scota the daughter of the Pharaoh Cinqueris. They had a son Goidel Glas. Milesius a decendant of Goidel Glas married Scota Tephi, a daughter of the Pharaoh Nectonibus or Nectanebus.