‘Fir Bolg and Fir Gaillian Arrived a long period afterwards. The Fir Domnan then arrived, And landed in Irrus westward. 8. ‘After them the Tuatha De arrived Concealed in their dark clouds I ate my food with them, Though at such a remote period. 9. ‘Then came the sons of Milead From Spain southward. I lived and ate with them, Though fierce were their battles. 10. ‘A continuity of life Still remained with me, For in my time Christianity was here established By the king of heaven of the clouds.’ The history of these successive colonies is elaborated with many details in the fictitious history of Ireland during the mythic period, but it is unnecessary for our purpose to enter into these details except in so far as they bear upon the legendary history of the people of Scotland.[106] Another form of the ethnic legend is one common to the early history of all countries during the mythic period. In it the race is personified in an _eponymus_ who is the supposed ancestor and founder of it, and their supposed settlement in the country in which they are first found is prefigured in a marriage with a female whose name has an obvious relation to it, and thus an ethnic family is produced, the sons of which usually represent the territorial divisions of the country. This family has therefore a territorial as well as an ethnic meaning, and the filiation does not always imply affinity of race, but may indicate no more than the joint occupation of the country by the different tribes personified in the members of the ethnic family. We have an instance of this form of the legend in the well-known fable contained in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s fabulous history, where Brutus, the _eponymus_ of the Britons, appears as the first colonist in the island, and has three sons, Locrinus, Camber, and Albanactus, representing the Lloegry of England, the Cymry of Wales, and the people of Alban or Scotland, as well as in the older form of the legend, where Brutus and Albanus are brothers. In the Irish form Gathelus or _Gaidelglas_, the _eponymus_ of the Gael, marries Scota the daughter of Pharaoh, by which the settlement of the Gael in Scotia or Ireland is prefigured, and his period is brought back so as to connect his history and that of his race with the Biblical narrative. His descendant Milesius, son of Bile, son of Breogan, is also said to have married Scota, daughter of Pharaoh, and actually settles the race in Ireland. We find, however, this feature of the legend, which represents the territorial divisions of the country by the sons of the supposed colonist, running through the whole of the first form of the legend. Thus Partholan, the first colonist after the