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Woods, David, “Arculf’s luggage: the sources for Adomnán’s De locis sanctis”, Ériu 52 (2002): 25–52.

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“Arculf’s luggage: the sources for Adomnán’s De locis sanctis”
Periodical
Ériu 52 (2002)
Mac Cana, Proinsias, Rolf Baumgarten, and Liam Breatnach (eds), Ériu 52 (2002), Royal Irish Academy.
Volume
52
Pages
25–52
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Adomnán's information concerning the situation and foundation of Constantinople derives from a Latin translation of an anonymous Byzantine life of Constantine I. His information concerning seventh-century Palestine derives from a poor translation of a collection of miracle-stories. He discovered excerpts from these texts in a florilegium attributed to a source whose name he misread as Arculf. Arnulf, as he should be called, had collected these texts in support of a collection of relics obtained at Constantinople. He lost the relics in a storm in the English Channel, but made land with these texts.
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AdomnánAdomnán
(fl. c.628–704)
Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.
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