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... probably more than once crossed the Forth and passed the Ochils . But there is no record that they conquered the district between Kinross and Muckross , as its Celtic natives called , in their apt way of naming places , the head and ...
... probably more than once crossed the Forth and passed the Ochils . But there is no record that they conquered the district between Kinross and Muckross , as its Celtic natives called , in their apt way of naming places , the head and ...
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... probably of a later date - of any dedication to St Ninian in Fife , is strong negative evidence that its natives were not amongst the southern Picts , whom the British apostle of Galloway converted in the beginning of the fifth century ...
... probably of a later date - of any dedication to St Ninian in Fife , is strong negative evidence that its natives were not amongst the southern Picts , whom the British apostle of Galloway converted in the beginning of the fifth century ...
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... probably the truest - form of the legend makes Serf contemporary with Adamnan , by whose advice he undertook the conversion of Fife . This would correspond with the date of Brude , the son of Derili , one of many Pictish kings of that ...
... probably the truest - form of the legend makes Serf contemporary with Adamnan , by whose advice he undertook the conversion of Fife . This would correspond with the date of Brude , the son of Derili , one of many Pictish kings of that ...
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... probably due to its author having been himself an Irish Celt . His name of Serf , in Latin Servanus , may indicate no more than that he was a ser- vant of God like the Culdees , whose name has a similar meaning . But while there is so ...
... probably due to its author having been himself an Irish Celt . His name of Serf , in Latin Servanus , may indicate no more than that he was a ser- vant of God like the Culdees , whose name has a similar meaning . But while there is so ...
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... probably connected with the new organisation of the Celtic Church in the plan of Diocesan Episcopacy which took the place of the purely monastic system . In the reign of Kenneth Macalpine , some relics of Columba were transferred from ...
... probably connected with the new organisation of the Celtic Church in the plan of Diocesan Episcopacy which took the place of the purely monastic system . In the reign of Kenneth Macalpine , some relics of Columba were transferred from ...
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