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According to the early Irish Chronicle '' Lebor Gabála Érenn '' she was the daughter of an unnamed Pharaoh , but see below. She married Nel , son of Fenius Farsaid , a Babylonian who travelled to Scythia after the collapse of the Tower Of Babel . Nel was a scholar of languages, and was invited by the pharaoh to Egypt and given Scota's hand in marriage. They had a son, Goídel Glas , the eponymous ancestor of the Gaels, who created the Irish Language by combining the best features of the 72 languages then in existence. Goídel (or his son Sru ) was expelled from Egypt shortly after the Exodus of the Israelites by a pharaoh 17th Century Irish chronicler Geoffrey Keating names Intuir. After much travelling his descendants settled in Hispania (or Iberia - modern Spain and Portugal ), where Míl Espáine was born, and it was the Sons Of Míl , Eber Finn and Eremon , who established the Gaelic presence in Ireland. THEORIES AS TO PARENTAGE Other sources say that Scota was the daughter of Pharaoh Neferhotep I of Egypt and his wife Senebsen , and was the wife of Míl and the mother of Eber and Eremon. Míl had given Neferhotep military aid against ancient Ethiopia and was given Scota in marriage as a reward for his services. Writing in 1571, Edmund Campion named the pharaoh Amenophis ; Keating named him Cincris or Forann. SOURCES
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