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- Niul after the death of his father, Phoeniusa Farsaidh (Fenius Farsa), returned to Scythia, continued some time at AEothena teaching the languages and other laudable sciences, until upon report of his great learning he was invited into Egypt by Pharoah, the King; who gave him the land of Campus Cyrunt, near the Red Sea to inhabit, and his daughter Scota in marriage; from whom their posterity are ever since called 'Scots'; but according to some annalists, the name 'Scots' is derived from the word 'Scythia'.
It was this Niul that employed Gaodhal (Gael), son of Ethor to compose, or rather refine and adorn the language, called Bearla Tobbai, which was common to all Niul's posterity, and afterwards called 'Goadhilg' (or Gaelic), from the said Gaodhal who composed or refined it; and for his sake also Niul called his own eldest son "Gaodhal".
"Antiquaries assert that the name of Gaodhal is from the compound word formed by 'gaoith' and 'dil', which means 'a lover of learning'; for 'gaoith' is the same as wisdom or learning, and 'dil' is the same as loving or fond." - Halliday's Vol. of Keating's Irish History, Page 230. [1]
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