Less accepted were Albina, leader of a group of women who killed their husbands and escaped to Britain in a bid for agency, and
Scota, a daughter of a Pharaoh who arrived first in Ireland.
In his De natione Anglica et
Scota iuristarum Universitatis Patavinae (Padua: Fratres Gallina, 1892), p.
Already globalCOAL has introduced a Standard Coal Trading Agreement (
SCOTA) as a step towards standardising coal trade.
Now, 20 years later, Leather and Lace is a nonprofit renamed the Sisters of
Scota Women's Motorcycle Club.
A few mythical women and literary characters (
Scota, Scathach of Skye, Marion Braidfute) were included because of their impact on Scottish lore.
Runners-up include Kmart pharmacy managers Antoinette
Scota, Broomal, Pa.; Tammy Thompson, Kansas City; Sharon Beckwith, Gonzales, La.; Marienne Wiegmann, Clinton Township, Mich.; and Kathleen Sanders, The Dalles, Ore.
Egyptologist Lorraine Evans reckons the dark features and melodic sing-song voices of many Kerry folk can be traced back to the arrival of warrior Princess
Scota, a Pharoah's daughter who arrived in Kerry around 1,500 BC.
Alexander was sixteen when he took his place on the hallowed coronation stone at Scone -- according to legend, it was the stone on which Jacob slept at Bethel when he dreamed of angels going up and down between heaven and earth -- and the King's lineage was ceremoniously recited all the way back to Kenneth MacAlpine and beyond him to
Scota, the daughter of Pharaoh.
Gathelus's war-band sojourned a number of years in ancient Egypt (where Gathelus - the founder Gael - married the Pharaoh's equally eponymous daughter
Scota) before beginning their long voyage to the west, and Boece attempted to identify Egyptian as well as classical elements in the culture of the Scottish Gaels.(49) These efforts had been well received at the court of James V in the 1530s, and would long appeal to many Scots, but they had ceased to represent a serious option by the later sixteenth century.
They claim descent from
Scota, legendary queen of the Scots.
"Because of my British Airways background I was asked to become involved in teaching it to oil and gas industry and I ended up going, as a British Airways employee, to
SCOTA (the Scottish offshore Training Association) in Altens where the Petrofac Survival Centre is now.