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Page 114
... Whithorn it has been shown that he was reliant upon an abstract of a recent Anglo - Latin Life of Nynia.3 Both are problematic , however . Firstly , the assertion that the Picts gave Iona to Columba as a result of his successful mission ...
... Whithorn it has been shown that he was reliant upon an abstract of a recent Anglo - Latin Life of Nynia.3 Both are problematic , however . Firstly , the assertion that the Picts gave Iona to Columba as a result of his successful mission ...
Page 117
... Whithorn during early excavations , which has been dated to c.450 . The exact meaning is controversial , but it has a Latin inscrip- tion which might be translated as : ' We , Latinus aged thirty - five and his daughter aged four ...
... Whithorn during early excavations , which has been dated to c.450 . The exact meaning is controversial , but it has a Latin inscrip- tion which might be translated as : ' We , Latinus aged thirty - five and his daughter aged four ...
Page 125
... Whithorn is the source of this legend , for ' anyone based at Whithorn itself or Galloway generally will have been entirely aware that Uinniau , and not Nyniau , was the name of the saint ' . 52 Instead , noting the parallels between ...
... Whithorn is the source of this legend , for ' anyone based at Whithorn itself or Galloway generally will have been entirely aware that Uinniau , and not Nyniau , was the name of the saint ' . 52 Instead , noting the parallels between ...
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