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Goídel Glas
According to an Irish and Scottish medieval tradition, Goídel Glas (Latinised as Gathelus) is the creator of the Goidelic languages and the eponymous ancestor of the Gaels.
The tradition can be traced to the 11th-century Lebor Gabála Érenn. A Scottish variant is due to John of Fordun (d. 1384).
==Lebor Gabála Érenn==
The narrative in the Lebor Gabála Érenn is a (fictional?) account of the origin of the Gaels as the descendants of the Scythian prince Fénius Farsaid, one of seventy-two chieftains who built the Tower of Babel. Goídel Glas was the son of Nel (son of Fénius) and Scota (daughter of a Pharaoh of Egypt).〔, ¶140〕 Goídel Glas is credited with the creation of Gaelic (proto-Irish language) from the original seventy-two languages that arose at the time of the confusion of tongues.〔, Vol. 2, p.13, ¶107 "It is Gaedel Glas who fashioned the Gaelic language out of the seventy-two.."; Macalister (p.5) adds "Kg(Keating) ascribes it to a different Gaedel, s.(son of) Ethor, unknown to LG"〕 His descendants, the Gaels, undergo a series of trials and tribulations that are clearly modelled on those of the Israelites in the Old Testament. They flourish in Egypt at the time of Moses and leave during the Exodus; they wander the world for 440 years before eventually settling in the Iberian Peninsula. There, Goídel's descendant Breogán founds a city called Brigantia, and builds a tower from the top of which his son Íth glimpses Ireland. ''Brigantia'' possibly refers to Bragança, in Portugal, or perhaps Corunna, in Galicia, (then known as ''Brigantium''),〔''Encyclopaedia Britannica'', "A Coruña".〕 whilst Breogán's tower might have been based on the Tower of Hercules, which was built at Corunna by the Romans.〔Harry Mountain, (''The Celtic Encyclopaedia'', p. 380 )〕
An interesting anecdote in the LGE tells how Gaidel Glas, son of Nel (Keating: Niul), was cured of a serpent's sting when Moses made fervent prayer and touched his rod upon the lad's wound.〔, Volume II, pp. 59–61 (¶143–145)〕 An inserted verse in an earlier passage says of Gaidel: "green were his arms and his vesture".〔, p.93 Poem No. XIII〕 O'Clery's redaction of the Lebor Gabála adds that the snake bite left a green ring on the boy, from which he earned his nickname of Gaidel Glas (meaning "Green").〔, LG, Vol. 1, p.197 "§128 Aaron went to Moses after that, and tells him the hearty welcome that Nel, son of Fenius, gave them, .. (had a son, and ) a venomous serpent wound itself around him so that death was near him.. Moses made vehement and diligent prayer to God, when the boy reached him, and he struck the famous rod on the serpent till he cleft it in two. The boy was sound at once. There was a green ring on him in the place where the serpent had coiled about him, from that out to his death, so that thus Glas (Green " ) stuck to him as an extra name."〕 Keating also repeats this quoting a glossarial verse, although he prefaces it with an alternate derivation of the nickname from the word for lock ((アイルランド語:glas))〔: "Some seanchas state that Moses fastened (bracelet ) with a lock.." etc.; the passage also seems to suggest the nickname also has to do with the word ''fleascach'', glossed here as 'bracelet-bearer' denoting an authority figure, even though 'fleasc' normally means a staff or rod.〕〔Macalister's 5-volume edition of LGE, 1938–, see: Vol. 1, p. xxvii; Vol. 2, pp.4–5 (commentary, p. 35(¶119), pp. 59, 61 (¶143–145); p.123 (verse XVIII to ¶144), p.134(=notest to ¶119), p.157; Vol. 3, p. 198〕
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