Maximus Otter, Missing library of Iona

I must admit that this is the first time I've heard of a library at Iona, missing or otherwise.

Hector Boece @ Boyce @ Boethius doesn't sound like a very reliable source to me:

"Boece wrote and published Historia Gentis Scotorum (History of the Scottish People). By modern standards it is overly patriotic and has many inaccuracies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Boece

"The first Viking raid on Scotland occured at Iona, as well as Skye and the other outer isles, in 794 and the island was attacked several times in the following years. It was during these raids that the chronicle of Iona was lost although a copy of Adomnan's Life of Columba survived on the Continent."

http://www.scotlandspast.org/vikings.cfm

"...many other beautiful examples of what has been called 'the work of angels' were looted and taken home by Vikings..."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/conquestlj/loot_03.shtml?site=history_vikings

"...In 794, the Vikings sacked Iona in Scotland carrying off treasures from the Island..."

http://members.aol.com/skyelander/intro15.html

"St Colum Cille's great monastery at Iona was burned in 802."

http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/pre_norman_history/vikings.html

Unfortunately I can't nip down to Iona to research it, as I live about 75 miles north of there as the crow flies...

If such a library ever existed, the evidence would seem to suggest that it was either looted and/or burned by Nordic Viking's ancestors!

maximus otter
 
A library in Scotland? Musta been a big one, those folks aren't skimpy on using the letters. Why, for whisky, they used "uisge beatha". I am an expert on this matter, knowing lots of these kind of words, like Bruichladdich, Allt-a-bhainne, Glenglassaugh, Drumguish, Bunnahabhain, Cu Dhub, Auchroisk......the list goes on....:D
 
... Susquehanna, Poughkeepsie, Schenectady, Baraboo, Truth or Consequences...

Enjoy your "OOSH-kuh BAY-huh"!

Sláinte mhath!

maximus otter
 
If ye'd've paid yer Danegeld, ye'd probably still have yer books!!!!

I sense a new Dan Brown thriller with Otter and a faen haws bint somehow intricately entwined in the plot..... :D


Interesting conjecture regarding the recondite rune repository. Thanks for all the links..:thumbup:


j
 
Alexandria had a very large library that was a huge loss when destroyed !!
 
Originally posted by java
...a faen haws bint...

maximus otter said:
Originally posted by java
...a faen haws bint...


:confused:

maximus otter
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Sorry, me lad. Ah got ta ramblin' on an then ma arse fell aff.:o

At's weegie fer a fine colleen; a besom; a comely lass, laddie.

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