Posted on 03/01/2006 10:34:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv
St Columba landed there in 563 AD with 13 followers and established a monastery. This isolated island, off the south-western tip of Mull, was soon to become the intellectual powerhouse of the medieval world... Pre-Columba the island was sometimes referred to as Innis nam Druidneach, the Isle of Druids. Old stories record St Columba and his followers fighting off the local Druid elders when they landed to take possession of the island... some histories have King Fergus II joining forces with Alaric the Goth to fight the Roman Empire during its decline and fall. This version of history reports that when Rome fell in 410 AD Fergus II was not only there, but carried off books from the plundered libraries of that once great city. These books would have been marvellous: illuminated religious manuscripts, books from the ancient Greek philosophers and ancient Persians. This treasure trove of knowledge and wisdom was said to have been brought back by Fergus and taken to Iona for safekeeping in the Druidic library.
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Those books are in hands of the illuminati now.
They use them to get their monitors on the right height.
Seriously though private collectors may have some of these books.
They all got stoned (too much Mull) and forgot where they put them.
Mel
I would think that the Vikings destroyed or stole most anything of interest on Iona during one of their many raids.
Would be great if some of the books were still around. Stuck in some attic or barely used library.
My husband has pages from the Book of Kells for his wallpaper on the computer. Elaborate and beautiful. If another such find were possible, I could see it shaking up history buffs just a bit.
Can you imagine what the overdue fines must be by now?
To raise money for the dig, we'll sell t-shirts that say, "Iona piece of the library".
[half-hearted rimshot]
That one went over my head.
I thought that the IRA Mastermind,
Angus MacHerford, studied under
Cow Tse Tong back in the 50's.
Scotland Yard kept Angus under surveillance through the Keogh...
"Iona piece of the library"
Would make a nice T shirt!
:') Thanks. My view on this project though is a little bleak; the Druids did use a writing system (actually, about two dozen or more variants on the same one, which was Ogham; please don't believe for a second that it antedates Roman occupation, although if you look around you will see it claimed that Ogham originated in the 4th c AD) but if they were using something perishable, it probably has perished. All such written pages probably went into the fire on a cold night after their contents were found to be either trivial or blasphemous. :') Oh well.
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