Scots descended from an Egyptian princess?

[bindeweede]

Well, Mohammed al-Fayed seems to think so. And apparently the modest chap would be quite happy to be the President of an independent Scotland.

And the president’s home will no doubt be the 65,000-acre Highland estate, Balnagown, that he owns and runs in Sutherland.

But the last paragraph of the article sums it up quite nicely.

It is certainly a great yarn and one that Al-Fayed has taken very much to heart. Sadly, historians’ reactions to the idea that Scotland was born of Pharaoh’s daughter tend to vary between dismissing it as either “rubbish” or “complete rubbish”.

http://heritage.caledonianmercury.co...pharaoh/001497

[panama]

The Scotichronicon is the scottish equivalent of Geoffrey of Monmouth's tales. There is a heady mix of myth, legend, outright fabrication and real history making for a lot of good stories. Out of such things are national identities made.


(for the Southrons the equivalent story...and the reason that Bower made the Scota story up to be one up on the English by claiming an earlier foundation...is this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_of_Troy)

[Croydon Bob]

The Scots ARE descended from an Egyptian princess. The Merovingians from Jesus, There's a tribe of native americans who speak Welsh. The Chinese are descended from a race of evil humans who lived underground and sank Atlantis. England was founded by one of the Illuminati's Council of Five who was called "Ing". We're all descended from Adam. The moon is made of cheese.