The missing library of Iona

[Laisrean]

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=313532006


This version of history sees fifth-century Druids escaping persecution from Imperial Rome and finding sanctuary on the outer wilds of civilisation. There, it is said, they founded a library – which if true would be extraordinary, as the Druids were not known as a people who wrote down their teachings.

The impact that finding this library would have on our interpretation of history would be explosive. But as revelatory as this would be, it gets even better.

Another story attached to the island suggests that as well as housing the written records of the Druids it was also home to books from the greatest library in Europe.

Click on the link to read the rest. You know you want to... :cheers:

[Little Billy]

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=313532006



Click on the link to read the rest. You know you want to... :cheers:

*groan*

I did. "This version of history" isn't history, it's unfounded speculation. Citing "Old stories" without sourcing them isn't exactly meeting the burden of proof that genuine historical chronicalling requires.

Also, the druids kept no written records...hence, no library.

Just saying.

[Mòrag Elasaid Ní Dhòmhnaill]

I think it was a very interesting article. I also don't think that it was out to prove that such a library existed, only the possibility of it. However, since we do know that the monks did have a scriptorium on Iona, and the books disappeared, there is clearly a missing library, whether Druidic as the article spectulates or the verifiable monastic library.

[Little Billy]

I think it was a very interesting article. I also don't think that it was out to prove that such a library existed, only the possibility of it. However, since we do know that the monks did have a scriptorium on Iona, and the books disappeared, there is clearly a missing library, whether Druidic as the article spectulates or the verifiable monastic library.


Well, all I can say is, expect frauds to be churning out books "from Iona" for the next 20 years or so.