I'm sick of reading here on Mudcat about the Scots being an Irish tribe. This is an old story that has been passed on, ad infunitum until it has become, "The Truth." Excavations by the University of Strathclyde Archaeological Department in the west of Scotland where the Irish tribe (the Scotti) was supposed to have settled, have produced no evidence to support this story. It's about as true as the legend that the Scots are the lost tribe of Israel.