nobleman, driven from his kingdom and living with a great household in Egypt at the time of the Crossing of the Red Sea. He did not pursue the fleeing Israelites, and the Egyptians, fearful of his power now that so many of their troops had been killed, banished him. He travelled with his household across North Africa, then sailed to Iberia. They settled and lived there for around two thousand years, multiplying into a great nation, before travelling to Ireland, then Dál Riata. John of Fordun A Scottish version of the tale of Goídel Glas and Scota was recorded by John of Fordun. This is apparently not based on the main Irish Lebor Gabála account. Fordun refers to multiple sources, and his version is taken to be an attempt to synthesise these multiple accounts into a single history. In Fordun's version, Gaythelos, as he calls Goídel Glas, is the son of "a certain king of the countries of Greece, Neolus, or Heolaus, by name", who was exiled to Egypt and took service with the Pharaoh, marrying Pharaoh's daughter Scota. Various accounts of how Gaythelos came to be expelled from Egypt—by a revolt following the death of Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, pursuing Moses, or in terror from the Plagues of Egypt, or after an invasion by Ethiopians—are given, but the upshot is that Gaythelos and Scota are exiled together with Greek and Egyptian nobles, and they settle in Hispania after wandering for many years. 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). Gaythelos was considered the founder of the Portuguese city of Porto by some old authors. According to them, he landed in the Iberian Peninsula in a harbor that he named "Portus Gaythelos" (later named by the Romans Portus Cale after the Callaici people), the town later giving its name to Portugal. See also Mythological Cycle Shem (Eponymous ancestor of Semites) Ham (Eponymonous ancestor of Hamites) Japheth (Eponymous ancestor of Japhetites) Lech, Czech, and Rus (Eponymous ancestors of Lechites, Czechs, and Rus' people) Angul (Eponymous ancestor of Angles) Asena (Eponymous ancestors of Turkic peoples) Romulus and Remus (Eponymous ancestors of Rome) Dan (Eponymous ancestor of Denmark) Nór (Eponymous ancestor of Norway) Ríg (Eponymous ancestor to Iceland) Table of Nations Footnotes References Broun, Dauvit, The Irish Identity of