Origins of Scotland
Legend says that a Greek prince called
Gaythelos married the
Egyptian Pharaoh's daughter named Scota They were expelled from
Egypt and instead of heading back to Greece headed north
into Spain with their followers
From there they sent out ships to explore
the oceans and retuned
with news of a beautifull land across the ocean (Ireland). His son
Hiber
invaded the land and named it Scotia after his mother. From Ireland
they
crossed into Albion and settled in the west initialy in peace with
Picts.
The Picts however became uneasy about
the large number of people
from Scotia (Scots) settling in their land that they decreed that
no
foreigner should remain in their settlements and cast them out. Upon
hearing that a tribe of Scots in another land were being mistreated
and
were leaderless. A noble named Fergus gathered a great company
of men and set forth to Albion.
There he gathered together those Scots
already there in Argyll
and became King Fergus I. The Scots and the Pict lived in their
separate lands in relative peace for 500 years until legend has
it that a dispute over a hunting dog between representatives
meeting at the border of the two lands escalated into war
between the two.
Wars
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/ Declaration of Arbroath
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