Goídel Glas

The narrative in the Lebor Gabála Érenn is a legendary account of the origin of the Gaels as the descendants of the Scythian prince Fénius Farsaid, one of seventy-two chieftains who built the Tower of Babel.

They flourish in Egypt at the time of Moses and leave during the Exodus; they wander the world for 440 years before eventually settling in the Iberian Peninsula.

There, Goídel's descendant Breogán founds a city called Brigantia, and builds a tower from the top of which his son Íth glimpses Ireland.

It describes an unnamed Scythian nobleman, driven from his kingdom and living with a great household in Egypt at the time of the Crossing of the Red Sea.

They settled and lived there for around two thousand years, multiplying into a great nation, before travelling to Ireland, then Dál Riata.

In the Iberian Peninsula they settle in the land's northwest corner, at a place called Brigancia (the city of A Coruña, that the Romans knew as Brigantium).

Scota (left) with Goídel Glas (right) voyaging from Egypt, as depicted in a 15th-century manuscript of the Scotichronicon of Walter Bower ; in this version Scota and Goídel Glas (Latinized as Gaythelos) are wife and husband.