<P> The kings before Brutus come from a document purporting to trace the travels of Noah and his offspring in Europe, and once attributed to the Chaldean historian Berossus, but now considered to have been a fabrication by the 15th - century Italian monk Annio da Viterbo, who first published it . Renaissance historians like John Bale and Raphael Holinshed took the list of kings of "Celtica" given by pseudo-Berossus and made them into kings of Britain as well as Gaul . John Milton records these traditions in his History of Britain, although he gives them little credence . </P> <P> Des grantz geanz ("Of the Great Giants") a 14th - century AD Anglo - Norman poem contains a variant story regarding the oldest recorded name Albion for Britain and also contains a slightly different legendary king list . The poem states that a colony of exiled Greek royals led by a Queen called Albina first founded Britain but before their settlement "no one dwelt there". Albina subsequently gave her name first to Britain, which was later renamed Britain after Brutus . The poem also attempts by euhemerism to rationalise the legends of giants, Albina is described thus as being "very tall", but is presented as being a human queen, a descendant of a Greek king, not a mythological creature . </P> <P> The Albina myth is also found in some later manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) attached as a prologue . </P> <P> Scota, in Scottish mythology, and pseudohistory, is the name given to the mythological daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh to whom the Gaels and Scots traced their ancestry . Scota first appeared in literature from the 11th or 12th century and most modern scholars interpret the legends surrounding her to have emerged to rival Geoffrey of Monmouth's claims that the descendants of Brutus (through Albanactus) founded Scotland . However some early Irish sources also refer to the Scota legends and not all scholars regard the legends as fabrications or as political constructions . In the Scottish origin myths, Albanactus had little place and Scottish chroniclers (e.g. John of Fordun and Walter Bower) claimed that Scota was the eponymous founder of Scotland and the Scots long before Albanactus, during the time of Moses . </P>

Legendary king of britain ruled for 60 years