I don't know, but there is an indication in the Preface of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
"Then it happened that the Picts came from the south, from Scythia... and landed at first in northern Ireland, and there asked the Scots if they might live there. But they would not let them...And then the Scots said We can give you good advice. We know another island to the east from here where you can live if you wish... Then the Picts went and took possession of the northern part of this land; and the Britons had the southern part. And the Picts obtained wives from the Scots, on condition that they always chose their royal family from the female side...
The ASC then goes on to tell how, much later, "the Scots went from Ireland into Britain and conquered some part of that land; and their war-leader was called Reoda, from which they are named Dal Riada."
So it's not entirely fanciful and you can make what you will of it...
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