Brewer's: Scotia

Now applied poetically to Scotland, but at one time Ireland was so called. Hence Claudius says -

When Scots came thundering from the Irish shores, And ocean trembled, struck with hostile oars.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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