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Scots is more or less a dialect of English that is sometimes considered to be a separate but closely related language (it's really all semantics). Scots is not the same as Scottish English, which is roughly the standard English language spoken with a Scottish accent and a few Scottish words thrown in. English has been spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland for about as long as Scottish Gaelic has been spoken in the Highlands and on the western coast. The Scots invaded Scotland at roughly the same time as the English invaded England. The Britons (now the Welsh) lived throughout what is now England, and the Picts lived through most of Scotland. The Scots, during the Roman era, lived in Ireland and formed a kingdom called Dál Riata, and the Dalriatians (Scots) later lost their Irish possessions and focused on conquering Caledonia instead. Eventually the kingdoms of Pictland and Scotland merged, forming the Scotland we know today.

Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx Gaelic all share a common ancestor, sometimes called Old Irish; together these languages are called the Goidelic languages and together with the Brythonic languages (Welsh, Cornish, and Breton) make up the Insular Celtic languages. The Continental Celtic languages (Gaulish, Lepantian, Celtiberian, and Gallacian) are all extinct. The Celtic languages, possibly through an intermediate ancestor including the Italic languages as its descendants, is a branch of the Indo-European language family.

Now if you took some obscure passage from the middle of it instead of just the opening page, it might have been trickier, especially if you hadn't mentioned the book you pulled it from in the same message.

Now I think the e-book I got the quote from has the error of having the name Beowulf in the first chapter, probably as a conjectural correction of the name Beo which belongs to the son of Scyld. Beowulf the Geat doesn't show up until after the mead hall is broken into by the dragon a few times. First encounter with Beowulf is a couple chapters away where he lands and meets the coast guard.