Irish legend has them settling the Iberian Peninsula, then taking over Ireland, banishing the Tuatha de Danann, translated tribe of Dan.
I'm having the OS search the depths of the hard drive for an ancient file... ah, there it is: This is a dead link (server name changed to www.campbellsville.edu).ZephaniahExactly, who the Scythians were is uncertain. Zephaniah never uses the term to refer to the invaders from the north. Actually if you read Zephaniah you find very little direct information about this agent force of Yahweh which will strike the rebellious peoples of the Ancient Near East. As Simon De Vries says "One of the most vexing historical problems pertaining to this period is Herodotus' statement that the Scythians, wild and merciless marauders from the Asian interior, were sweeping over Western Asia as far South as Egypt ca. the year 626. Both the Medes and the Assyrians were having trouble with then in this period, and later (ca. 612) they played a role in Assyria's downfall. If they actually did approach Egypt, they must have passed through Palestine and Philistia, striking terror into the hearts of peoples living in their path. There is nothing to confirm Herodotus' statement, however, except an apparent preoccupation with an unnamed menace in the book of Zephaniah. and in Jeremiah's early prophecies (ch. 4-6)."(IOV, 498) The identification of the unnamed foe with the Scythians begs the question which they are used to answer. There are other identifications of the foe from the north proposed by other writers. Some actually date the book to the Maccabean period and see the enemy from the north as Antiochus IV. Others see Babylon as the foe from the North. Whether the Scythians are even mentioned usually depends on whether the commentator relies on Herodotus' tradition. To go further into the identification of the foe from the north means to examine the date of the book.
by Robert Street