Nel also known as Nuil or Niul was a mythical figure from the Lebor Gabála Érenn and was an ancestor of the people of Ireland. He was the son of Fénius Farsaid,[1] who was a legendary king of Scythia, who left Babylon after the destruction of Babel. Nel returned to Babylon as part of an effort to study the confusion of languages. He was a scholar of languages and was invited by Pharaoh Cingris to Egypt to take his daughter Scota’s hand in marriage.[2] Also Nel was the father of Goídel Glas who was credited with creating the Goidelic languages.[3]
References
edit- ^ genealogical chart Mary Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia
- ^ Lebor Gabála Érenn Irish Text Society (1870-1950) p. 39
- ^ Macalister 1939, Vol. 2, p. 13 (¶107), Vol. 1 p. 149 "It is Gaedel Glas who fashioned the Gaelic language out of the seventy-two..."; Macalister
Sources
- Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation (1892), by John O'Hart, - Volume: 1 archive
.org /details /irishpedigreesor _01ohar - Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation (1892), by John O'Hart, - Volume: 2 archive
.org /details /irishpedigreesor02ohar - Lebor gabala Erenn Volume 1, Irish Text society 1870-1956
- Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart, 1870–1950 (1939), Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland (snippet), vol. 2, Dublin: Irish Texts Society by the Educational Co. of Ireland
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