Scota
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thumb|right|"Queen Scota unfurls the sacred banner", illustration from an 1867 book of Irish history
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Early sources
- Scota and the Stone of Scone
- Later sources
- Scota's Grave
- See also
- References
thumb|right|"Queen Scota unfurls the sacred banner", illustration from an 1867 book of Irish history
In medieval Irish and Scottish legend, Scota is the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and ancestor of the Gaels. She is said to be the origin of their Latin name Scoti, but historians say she (and her alleged ancestors and spouses) was purely mythological and was created to explain the name and to fit the Gaels into a historical narrative.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scota” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.