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See also: saint and historian, was See also: born at Raphoe, See also: Donegal, See also: Ireland, about the See also: year 624
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In 679 he was elected See also: abbot of Hy or
See also: Iona, being ninth in succession from the founder, St See also: Columba
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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 tonsure, and on his return to Iona he tried without success to enforce the change upon the monks
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He died on the 23rd of See also: September 704
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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
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The best See also: editions are those published by W
.
See also: Reeves (1857, new edit
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See also: Edinburgh, 1874) and by J
.
T
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See also: Fowler (See also: Oxford, 1894)
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Adamnan's other well-known See also: work, De Locis See also: Sanctis (edited by P
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Geyer, Itinera Hierosolymitana saeculi, iii.-viii., &c., 1898; vol
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39 of Bienna Corpus Script . Ecc . Latin) was based, according to See also: Bede, on information received from See also: Arculf, a French See also: bishop, who, on his return from the See also: Holy See also: Land, was wrecked on the west See also: coast of Britain, and was entertained for a time at Iona
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This was first published at See also: Ingolstadt in 1619 by J
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Gretser, who also defended See also: Baronius' acceptance of Arculf's narrative against Casaubon
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An See also: English See also: translation by G
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J
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R
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Macpherson, Arculfus' Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, was published by the See also: Pilgrim's Text Society (See also: London, 1889)
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For full bibliography see U
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Chevalier, Repert. See also: des See also: sources historiques (1903), p
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