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Excerpt from Interpolations in Bede's Ecclesiastical History and Other Ancient Annals Affecting the Early, 1883
Bede's birthplace and the monastery in which he spent most of his life situated near the Firth of Forth - First chapter of the His tory relating to the emigration of Scots from Ireland fabricated - Twelfth chapter, mentioning Scots, genuine - Its Contents Only one Roman wall, that of Antonino, known to Bede - Ao count of Ethelfrid's battle with IE lan, king of the Scots, an in terpolation - Laurentius' Letters to the Scots also an interpola tion - Notice of Honorius' dealings with the Scots another - The Scots, among whom Oswald and his brothers spent their youth, the people to the north of the Firth of Forth - Passage about Scots in Ireland an interpolation - Columba, his connection with Ireland an interpolation - Notices of several priests living in Ireland also interpolations - Hermite in Iceland - The Scottish bishops and the Easter controversy - Bede's Scotia the country north of the Firth of Forth - Fursey's life an interpolation Not known to the Irish annalists - Probably an Icelandic saint - Account of Beort's expedition an interpolation - An Irish Scotsman of the name of Adamnan unknown to the other annalists - Several pages of the Ecclesiastical History copied by Roger of Wendover, only with the exception of a paragraph containing the word Hibernia - Adamnan the abbot of Hii vvork on the Holy Places mentioned only in the Ecclesiastical History and by Wendover - No mention made of his' Life of Columba by any early writer - Unreliable character of notices of his visit to Ireland contained in Irish records - Not mentioned by Clyn, an Irish annalist of the fourteenth century - Egbert's life in Ireland and his whole biography, including the conversion of the monks of Hii, interpolations - Notice of a pestilence in Ire land another interpolation - Letter to N aiten, king of the Picts, also an interpolation pages 1-57. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
