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Iona. On pyhää, joo. Ja dreich. 😂

#Iona #rain #StColumba #NoHillWalking #InsteadBoughtWhiskyAndCheese

@mrundkvist I didn't - interesting! adding the English-language page here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakwkylla
#Kakwkylla #StColumba #StGertrude
@StefanieBll

“Nor is heaven as is alleged.
Nor is hell as is asserted…”

Scaring off the Loch Ness Monster is quite an achievement, but my favourite St Columba story is the one where he buries St Oran alive, twice

—from CARMINA GADELICA, via the National Library of Scotland

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https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/75758828?mode=transcription

#Scottish #literature #history #Saints #legends #StColumba

“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed.”

The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ (“Life of St Columba”, c.7th/8th century). St Columba sends it packing

(The story is too long for the ALT text but the whole transcript can be found via the link)

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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columba-e.asp

#Scottish #literature #history #medieval #Saints #StColumba #monster #lochnessmonster

Columba has a fair claim to being Scotland’s first patron saint. What were (possibly) his relics were (perhaps) carried as the Breacbennach battle standard at the forefront of the Scottish army at Bannockburn

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https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2015/05/27/glenmorangie-research-project-monymusk-reliquary/

#Scottish #history #medieval #Saints #StColumba #Bannockburn

Where’s Brude? Where’s Brude?
So many souls to be saved!

—Edwin Morgan, “Columba’s Song”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

Today, 9 June, is the feast day of St Columba (c.521–597), who led the Irish monastic missions to Dál Riata & the kingdoms of the Picts

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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #saints #StColumba

1,428 years ago today. St Columba died in the monastery he had built on the island of Iona on 9 June 597. It would subsequently become one of the most important in Europe. More about St Columba: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/c/stcolumba.html More about Iona Abbey today: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/iona/abbey/index.html

#Scotland #StColumba

In a speech at the High Court of King Diarmaid in 6th Century Ireland, St. Columba aka Colmcille advocated for the right to copy books ~1500 years before the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Ray Corrigan, 2007 http://oro.open.ac.uk/10332/1/GIKII_Colmcille_final.pdf).

Diarmaid ruled against him; Colmcille's subsequent rebellion led to 3000 deaths in the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_C%C3%BAl_Dreimhne

More in @mmasnick's #TechDirt article: https://www.techdirt.com/2009/08/20/the-very-first-copyright-trial-in-6th-century-ireland-sounds-really-familiar/

#OpenAccess #StColumba #Colmcille #IrishHistory #Copyright

St Columba's footprints, found on a rocky outcrop overlooking the shore at the southern end of the Kintyre peninsula near Southend. One footprint is ancient: but it is said that the other and the (wrong) date were added in 1856. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/southend/footprintscaves/index.html

#Scotland #StColumbasFootprints #StColumba #Kintyre #Argyll #Southend #UndiscoveredScotland

Dhuisg carmasg agus connspuinn eadar Calum-cille agus Odhran…

Scaring off the #LochNessMonster is quite an achievement, but my favourite St Columba story is the one where he buries St Oran alive, twice

—from Alexander Carmichael’s CARMINA GADELICA, online via the National Library of Scotland

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#Scottish #literature #poetry #saints #StColumba #Gaelic

https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/75758828?mode=transcription

“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed.”

The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ (“Life of St Columba”, c.7th/8th century)

#Scottish #literature #poetry #saints #StColumba #LochNessMonster

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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columba-e.asp

Where’s Brude? Where’s Brude?
So many souls to be saved!

—Edwin Morgan, “Columba’s Song”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet Press 2020

Today, 9 June, is the feast day of St Columba (c.521–597), who led the Irish monastic missions to Dál Riata & the kingdoms of the Picts

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#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #saints #StColumba

1,427 years ago today. St Columba died in the monastery he had built on the island of Iona on 9 June 597. It would subsequently become one of the most important in Europe. More about St Columba: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/c/stcolumba.html More about Iona Abbey today: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/iona/abbey/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #IonaAbbey #Iona #Abbey #Mull #StColumba #IsleOfIona #UndiscoveredScotland

St Columba's footprints, found on a rocky outcrop overlooking the shore at the southern end of the Kintyre peninsula near Southend. One footprint is ancient: but it is said that the other and the (wrong) date were added in 1856. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/southend/footprintscaves/index.html

#Scotland #StColumbasFootprints #StColumba #Kintyre #Argyll #Southend #UndiscoveredScotland

1,426 years ago today. St Columba died in the monastery he had built on the island of Iona on 9 June 597. It would subsequently become one of the most important in Europe. More about St Columba: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/c/stcolumba.html More about Iona Abbey today: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/iona/abbey/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #IonaAbbey #Iona #Abbey #Mull #StColumba #IsleOfIona #UndiscoveredScotland

A VIRTUAL TOUR OF SCOTLAND

While on Iona we visit Iona Abbey. The building you see today was restored from a ruin in the years from 1902. It has origins that date back to the founding of a Benedictine monastery here in about 1200 on a site not far from a monastery founded by St Columba over six centuries earlier. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/iona/abbey/index.html

Where to next? Vote via the poll attached as a reply.

#Scotland #IonaAbbey #Abbey #IsleOfIona #Iona #StColumba #UndiscoveredScotland