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Source: Origin of Scoti From Ireland and the settlement of Dál Riada.

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Titre	Origin of Scoti From Ireland and the settlement of Dál Riada.

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King EOCHAID Buide Eugene MacAedain I, King of Dal Riata DR01

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Geoffrey Keating, in his History of Ireland, distinguishes between the Gaels and the Saxons, and says that, as to all the tribes of Gaels in Alba, ". . . it was from the Gaels in Ireland their nobles sprang." "Buchanan agrees with the above, in the thirty-fourth page of the second book of the History of Alba, where he says: 'Because both the inhabitants of Ireland and the colonists they sent to Alba were originally called Scots, in order that by some difference they might be distinguished from one another, people from the first called the one race Irish Scots, and the other Albanian Scots.' From these words of Buchanan two things are to be inferred; the first is that it was from Ireland the Scots went to occupy Alba; and the second is that the Irish were ordinarily called Scots from the beginning." (book I, section XLIX) [John O'Mahony's translation, which is slightly different, will be found at page 381 of volume 1 of the edition published in the year 2000 bythe Irish Genealogical Foundation.] "This Niall [Niall of the Nine Hostages, Irish Kings # 126] went into Alba with a large host to strengthen and to establish the Dal Riada and the Scotic race in Alba, and who were at this time gaining supremacy over the Cruithnigh, who are called Picti; and he was the first to give the name Scotia to Alba, being requested to do so by the Dal Riada and the Scotic race, on the condition that she should be called Scotia Minor or Lesser Scotia, while Ireland should be called Scotia Major or Greater Scotia; and it was through veneration for Scota daughter of Pharaoh Nectonibus, who was was wife of Galamh called Milidh of Spain, from whom themselves sprang, the Dal Riada chose the name Scotia for Alba, instead of calling her Hibernia. ... [Compare O'Mahony's translation, volume 1, page 373, of the Irish Genealogical Foundation's publication.] [Several sources attribute the naming of Scotland to Nial of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland; for example: "Nial Naoighiallach, youngest and only son of Eochaidh by the second wife, as aforesaid, succeeded Criomthainn and was the 126th monarch of Ireland. Was a stout, wise and warlike prince and fortunate in all his conquests and achievements and therefore called great; He was also called Niall Naoighiallach, i.e., Nial of the Nine Hostages, from the hostages taken from the nine several counties by him subdued and made tributary . ... He was the first that gave the name of Scotia Minor to Scotland and ordainedit to be called so ever after, till then (and still by the Irish) called Albion." Irish mythology - the legendary descent of the Irish Clans—The Lebor Gabala Erren (The Book of the Taking of Ireland, Book of Leinster, 1150 A.D.), from Irish History on the Webb (Univeristy of Texas). See also The Milesian Legends on the superior website, McLaughlin of Donegal.

Geoffrey Keating, in his History of Ireland, distinguishes between the Gaels and the Saxons, and says that, as to all the tribes of Gaels in Alba, ". . . it was from the Gaels in Ireland their nobles sprang."

"Buchanan agrees with the above, in the thirty-fourth page of the second book of the History of Alba, where he says: 'Because both the inhabitants of Ireland and the colonists they sent to Alba were originally called Scots, in order that by some difference they might be distinguished from one another, people from the first called the one race Irish Scots, and the other Albanian Scots.' From these words of Buchanan two things are to be inferred; the first is that it was from Ireland the Scots went to occupy Alba; and the second is that the Irish were ordinarily called Scots from the beginning." (book I, section XLIX) [John O'Mahony's translation, which is slightly different, will be found at page 381 of volume 1 of the edition published in the year 2000 bythe Irish Genealogical Foundation.]

"This Niall [Niall of the Nine Hostages*, Irish Kings # 126] went into Alba with a large host to strengthen and to establish the Dal Riada and the Scotic race in Alba, and who were at this time gaining supremacy over the Cruithnigh, who are called Picti; and he was the first to give the name Scotia to Alba, being requested to do so by the Dal Riada and the Scotic race, on the condition that she should be called Scotia Minor or Lesser Scotia, while Ireland should be called Scotia Major or Greater Scotia; and it was through veneration for Scota daughter of Pharaoh Nectonibus, who was was wife of Galamh called Milidh of Spain, from whom themselves sprang, the Dal Riada chose the name Scotia for Alba, instead of calling her Hibernia. ... [Compare O'Mahony's translation, volume 1, page 373, of the Irish Genealogical Foundation's publication.]

[*Several sources attribute the naming of Scotland to Nial of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland; for example:

"Nial Naoighiallach, youngest and only son of Eochaidh by the second wife, as aforesaid, succeeded Criomthainn and was the 126th monarch of Ireland. Was a stout, wise and warlike prince and fortunate in all his conquests and achievements and therefore called great; He was also called Niall Naoighiallach, i.e., Nial of the Nine Hostages, from the hostages taken from the nine several counties by him subdued and made tributary . ... He was the first that gave the name of Scotia Minor to Scotland and ordainedit to be called so ever after, till then (and still by the Irish) called Albion." Irish mythology - the legendary descent of the Irish Clans—The Lebor Gabala Erren (The Book of the Taking of Ireland, Book of Leinster, 1150 A.D.), from Irish History on the Webb (Univeristy of Texas). See also The Milesian Legends on the superior website, McLaughlin of Donegal.