According to Scottish lore the Scots descend from a Scythian tribe called Milesians who worked as royal mercenaries for the Egyptian pharaoh. The pharaoh was so impressed he let the chieftain marry his daughter Scotia. They wound up being ousted from Egypt after some war and traveled north to Scotland and named it after the Egyptian princess.
I believe they were the 4th group to conquer the British isles after the fomorians, fir bolg and tuatha de danaan but I could be butchering the story.
This was at least one story I read, ancient history is very interesting.
Thought milesians were basque
According to the story they migrated first to the Iberian peninsula from Egypt and built a tower there where they could see Scotland and then went there. There might be some fanciful embelishment since I don't think Scotland is visible from there but that's the story.
Interesting
A history I have always wondered about was Russian. They have had that land but couldn't see Alaska and weren't there before natives?
(post is archived)