In this period, the word "Scot" was not the word used by vast majority of Scots to describe themselves, except to foreigners, among whom it was the most common word. The Scots called themselves "Albanach" or simply "Gaidel". Both "Scot" and "Gaidel" were ethnic terms that connected them to the majority of the inhabitants of Ireland. As the author of "De Situ Albanie" notes at the beginning of the thirteenth century: "The name Arregathel means margin of the Scots or Irish, because all Scots and Irish are generally called 'Gattheli'."