Fénius Farsaid

Feinius Farsaidh, also Fenius Farsaid, Phoeniusa, Phenius, Féinius and farsa, is a legendary figure from the Lebor Gabála Érenn ( "The Book of the Conquest of Ireland " ) in Celtic mythology of Ireland.

Mythology

Feinius Farsaidh to have been a mythical king of Scythia. According to one version of the Lebor Gabála Érenn he travels with his son nel to the Tower of Babel, because he wants to study the resulting there new languages. In another version, he has been involved at the Tower and fled because of the confusion of languages ​​according to Scythia. Nel is considered to be the husband of Pharaoh's daughter Scota, her son is Goidel glass.

After Auraicept na nÉces ( "Guide to the learned poet " ) is a group of 72 ( mythological figure ) scholars who accompany him together with Goídel glass to the Tower of Babel. Feinius sends the scholars to operate with the scattered peoples of language studies. Ten years he waits at the Tower until all are back. Then he wrote the work in Berla tóbaide ( " The selected language " ), where he combines the best of all languages ​​and this creation is called after Goídel glass Goidelic. From this the Irish ( Gaeilge ), Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ), and Manx developed ( Gaelg ). He also invents the Hebrew, Greek and Latin font and finally the Beithe - luis - nuin ( the Ogham ) as the last and best of all fonts created by him.