Chronicle

" And be it known that according to the Chronicles of Scotland, there
never was such difficulty as that which would set down in writing their Kings
of the direct line, who entirely failed in the time of three kings successively;
each the son of the other, and for that, this chronicle would to.uch upon the
origin of the kings and the succession of those who have reigned in Scotland.
In the life of Saint Brandane it is found that in the country of Athens in
Greece there was a noble chevalier who had one son whose name was Gaidel,
who had for his wife the daughter of Pharao, king of Egypt, whose name was
Scota, by whom he had fair offspring. Gaidel was chivalrous; he gathered
the youth of his country, put to sea in a vessel with his wife Scota and his
children, sought a dwelling on chance, with desire to conquer it, arrived in
Spain, where on a high mountain, on the coast of the Hibernian Sea, he built a
strong castle and called it Brigance. He lived with his people on rapine upon
the peasants of the country. His fishermen were driven one day by a deep
tempest on the sea, and on their return announced that they had seen, by the
floating of flowers, thistles, and other signs, that there was land near, beyond
the sea.

Gaidel with his sons, who had the surname Scoti, from their mother Scota,
put to sea in three vessels, sailed over the sea, found a large isle, landed on
it, found the land grassy and pleasant, with woods and rivers, but not well-
peopled. And as is imagined and supposed shortyly before Burgune, the son
of Belin, king of Britain, had assigned that island to some people come out of
Spain, whom he found in Orkney as he came from Denmarc, as is before
specified.

Gaidel repaired to his castle of Brigance, proposing to return to the
discovered island; but he was attacked by a grievous sickness, of which he
must die; he desired his sons to go to that island and to inhabit it, as a
country without great defence and easy to conquer. Eberus, the eldest son of
Gaidel and Scota, the daughter of Pharao, departed with his brothers for the
said Isle, which he seized, and they slew, or subjected to their obedience,
those whom they found there, and then called the Isle Hibernia, from the
eldest brother, Eberus, or from the sea Eberico, thus named by the
Spanyards. But the surname Scoti remained with the other brothers, and
their issue a long time in that Isle which among us is called Irrelande.
In which Isle afterwards arrived Symond Bret, the youngest son of the
king of Spain, who brought with him a stone, on which the kings of Spain
were wont to be crowned, which his father gave him as a token that he was
made king of it, as the one whom he most loved of his children.

This Symond became king of the country of Ireland, by a daughter,
descended of the Scoty, who placed the foresaid stone in the most sovereign
beautiful place of the country, called to this day the Royal Place. After which
came one of the sons of one of the kings of Ireland, descended of Scota, who
was called Fergus, son of Ferthair, to the most remote coutnry beyond Britain,
towards the north ..... "