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74 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Thus the Phcenician Barat author of our Newton Stone inscription is revealed as the historical original of the traditional Part-olon, the first “king of the Scots,’ who arrived from the Mediterranean via Spain about 400 B.c. and introduced civilization into Ireland, and whose clan colonized and civilized North Britain, as cited in the heading.

The detailed account of King Part-olon’s arrival in Ireland, as preserved in the traditional histories of the Irish-Scots,the historicity of which is thus established—now becomes of great historical interest and importance ; and especially the record of his relations with the North of Britain and Don Valley. At the outset it is to be noted that in the Latin versions of the Ancient British Chronicles by the Romish monks Nennius (or Ninian) and Geoffrey, the name ‘‘ Partolon,”’ as it occurs in the Irish-Scot vernacular histories, is latinized into “ Partholomus”’ in order to adapt it to the New Testament apostolic name of Bartholomus or Bartholomew. The account of Part-olon’s arrival in Ireland is thus recorded by Nennius in his history of the Britons written about 800 A.D, :—

“Long after this (the arrival of the Picts) the Scott? arrived in Erinn from the coast of Spain. The first that came was Partholomus, with a thousand followers, men and women. But, a plague coming suddenly upon them, they all perished in one week.”

The statement here that he arrived from Spain is of great significance, as further evidence of his being an Aryan Pheenician, coming, like Brut, by way presumably of the famous Phoenician seaport of Gades (the modern Cadiz) or ‘“‘ House of the Gads (or Phcenicians) "—Gad being, as we shall see, an especial variant of “‘ Catti’’ used by the Pheenicians, and coined upon the tribal title of Ahat or Xat, i.e. “‘ Scot,” ; and he is called in the Chronicles a “‘ Scot.”’ He is also reported by Geoffrey to have come from Spain ; see later.

The traditional place of his landing in Ireland is stated in the Ogam “ Book of Ballymote ’? to have been Scene in the Bay of Kenmare in Kerry county, and that place and

1N.A.B., 53. ? Dates to about the tenth century A.D. in its present recension.