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We have 2 pages of Dicuil Blog Entries.
1.) Geographic exploration
Over one day ago | Tue Oct 21 0:55:00 PDT 2008
Dicuil (born in the 8th century) - Irish monk and geographer, author of ?De mensura Orbis terrae?. The Papar - Irish monks who lived in Iceland, 8th-9th centuries, before the Vikings. Ahmad ibn Fadlan - 10th century Iraqi explorer. ...
From Bill
2.) Seven Coptic Monks in Ireland
Over one day ago | Fri Oct 17 8:42:00 PDT 2008
Professor Stokes tells us5 about the Irish monk Dicuil, who around 825 wrote his Liber de Mensure orbis terre describing the pyramids as well as an ancient precursor of the Suez Canal. It would seem that Egypt was often visited by ...
From Pishoy D.
3.) iceland
Over one day ago | Fri Oct 10 6:31:00 PDT 2008
the earliest account of settlers on iceland was written in the year 825 adby the irish monk dicuil. he recorded first-hand accounts of irish people who lived on the island of thule, which became known as iceland. ...
From gpatchett
4.) literatures & arts
Over one day ago | Sat May 24 10:15:00 PDT 2008
dicuil, ? the geographer,? wrote learned works on geography and astronomy. most famous of all, however, was john scotus erigena, professor at paris, famous philosopher and greek scholar, whose theological speculations were discussed by ...
From indo
5.) Orthodox Europe :: Ireland
Over one day ago | Mon Jul 30 22:10:00 PDT 2007
According to Dicuil, an Irish scholar at the court of Charlemagne, Irish settlers had been living in the Faeroe Islands for several centuries by the year 800. We may safely assume that this would have included missionary activity, ...
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6.) Norse-Gaels The Norse-Gaels were a people who dominated much of ...
Over one day ago | Sat Jun 14 18:52:00 PDT 2008
The Norse-Gaels were a people who dominated much of the Irish Sea region and western Scotland for a large part of the Middle Ages, whose aristocracy were mainly of Scandinavian origin, but as a whole exhibited a great deal of Gaelic and ...
From Raciti Designs
7.) norse-gaels the norse-gaels were a people who dominated much of ...
Over one day ago | Sat Jun 14 18:52:00 PDT 2008
it is recorded in the landnamabok that there were papar or culdees in iceland before the norse, and this appears to tie in with comments of dicuil. however, whether or not this is true, the settlement of iceland and the faroe islands by ...
From Raciti Designs
8.) koinonia @ 2006-02-22t20:49:00
Over one day ago | Thu Feb 23 4:40:00 PST 2006
a page from the irish philokalia one day st columban asked st dicuil: 'what makes you always smiling'. the answer was: 'because no man can take god from me'. when in 825 the danes descended on iona, abbot blathmac said: 'those of you ...
From Koinonia
9.) Espaço Cinzento: Terra de gelo
Over one day ago | Thu May 22 0:00:00 PDT 2008
"The first written evidence of this comes from the Irish monk Dicuil, who wrote in 852 of a land where there was no daylight in winter, but on summer nights 'whatever task a man wishes to perform, even picking lice from his shirt, ...
From Nuno Guronsan
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Over one day ago | Tue Oct 18 8:49:00 PDT 2005
However, the earliest reference to them comes from about the year 825, when the Irish monk Dicuil, then living in France, wrote a book called De mensura orbis terrae. Here, speaking of the islands north of Scotland and the location of ...
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