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[edit] St. Columbas Bay
Someone should include a bit about St. Colombas Bay (spelling, sorry, dislexic or something) and the legend of St. Columbas tears.
[edit] Monastery Of Sound
Can anyone confirm this event? Finavon 19:07, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Centre of Learning
I've heard Iona was a "centre of learning", I've head that learning and religion were highly corelated in antiquity. Can anyone add to the article regarding general learning and instruction, impact on the professional communities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.168.116.148 (talk) 13:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Map?
This article could really use a map to show exactly where Iona is Thefuguestate 11:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Columba Choose to leave?
Columba was exiled from Ireland as a result of the Battle of Cul Dreimhne, in order to save soul equal to the number that were killed in the battle - thought to be around 3000. Velkyal 10:03, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Name of island
Dear Deacon - you have removed "Possibly Norse for 'island of the den of the brown bear' ", which is a statement made by Haswell-Smith. He has been caught out recently claiming that 'Uist' is derived form the Old Norse for 'west'. which Talk:Old Norse are not happy with. Here is what he says: "In very early times called I [ee], IO, HIA, or IOUA - possibly from the Norse Hioe [ee-e] meaning island of the den of the brown bear. Later named ICOLMKILL (G. I Chaluim cille - island of Calum's monastery.... IOUA became corrupted to IONA in the 18th century through a typo... ." Any further information gratefully received. Ben MacDui (Talk) 07:54, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Sorry, missed this, am unable to devote time to wiki atm. However, I will answer you're query. The name for Iona was simply Í (pronounced EE). Don't know what your Latin is like, but if you know any you'll know how hard it is to decline Í in that language. Well, that's exactly what medieval writers had to do. It gave Bede problems, however Adomnan came up with Ioua as the solution. Us in the writing of the period are almost identical to Ns (this is how St Uinniau became St Niniau/Ninian in Latin texts), hence Iona and hence why we know that the name Iona cannot possibly be Norse. The modern English name is fairly neologistic ... just taken from the Latin (the medieval Scottish English was the same as the Gaelic). Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 02:59, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
- BTW, don't ask me where Í comes from, I dunno; but we'd have to have Norse expansion before the days of Columba for it to be of Norse origin. ;) As for Haswell-Smith, to speak generously, the topic is clearly not one he chose to research properly. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 03:06, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, missed this, am unable to devote time to wiki atm. However, I will answer you're query. The name for Iona was simply Í (pronounced EE). Don't know what your Latin is like, but if you know any you'll know how hard it is to decline Í in that language. Well, that's exactly what medieval writers had to do. It gave Bede problems, however Adomnan came up with Ioua as the solution. Us in the writing of the period are almost identical to Ns (this is how St Uinniau became St Niniau/Ninian in Latin texts), hence Iona and hence why we know that the name Iona cannot possibly be Norse. The modern English name is fairly neologistic ... just taken from the Latin (the medieval Scottish English was the same as the Gaelic). Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 02:59, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
