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ADAMNAN, or ADOMNAN (c. 624-704)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 174 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADAMNAN, or ADOMNAN (c. 624-704)  , Irish See also:saint and historian, was See also:born at Raphoe, See also:Donegal, See also:Ireland, about the See also:year 624 . In 679 he was elected See also:abbot of Hy or See also:Iona, being ninth in See also:succession from the founder, St See also:Columba . While on a See also:mission to the See also:court of See also:King Aldfrith of See also:Northumberland in 686, he was led to adopt the See also:Roman rules with regard to the See also:time for celebrating See also:Easter and the See also:tonsure, and on his return to Iona he tried without success to enforce the See also:change upon the monks . He died on the 23rd of See also:September 704 . See also:Adamnan wrote a See also:Life of St Columba, which, though abounding in fabulous See also:matter, is of See also:great See also:interest and value . The best See also:editions are those published by W . See also:Reeves (1857, new edit . See also:Edinburgh, 1874) and by J . T . See also:Fowler (See also:Oxford, 1894) . Adamnan's other well-known See also:work, De Locis See also:Sanctis (edited by P . Geyer, Itinera Hierosolymitana saeculi, iii.-viii., &c., 1898; vol .

39 of Bienna Corpus Script . Ecc . Latin) was based, according to See also:

Bede, on See also:information received from See also:Arculf, a See also:French See also:bishop, who, on his return from the See also:Holy See also:Land, was wrecked on the See also:west See also:coast of See also:Britain, and was entertained for a time at Iona . This was first published at See also:Ingolstadt in 1619 by J . Gretser, who also defended See also:Baronius' See also:acceptance of Arculf's narrative against See also:Casaubon . An See also:English See also:translation by G . J . R . See also:Macpherson, Arculfus' See also:Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, was published by the See also:Pilgrim's See also:Text Society (See also:London, 1889) . For full bibliography see U . See also:Chevalier, Repert. See also:des See also:sources historiques (1903), p . 40 .

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