This book of twenty longer Celtic poems, though it follows the other two volumes of shorter poems in terms of its conception and writing, in one sense partly precedes the other two in that it starts with the exile of Columcille and the start of his mission as Columba to Alba which we now know as Scotland. The poems trace the mission of Aidan to Northumbria and some of the contemporary and later figures in that region's subsequent history which connect...
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