hi to both of you, as I am currently reading the Fury of the Northmen(saints,shrines and sea-raiders in the viking age), some gleanings. Apparently the celtic hermit monks from the monastic houses of the north, Iona, Lindisfarne etc, would in springtime sail further north to their island retreats on Orkney, Shetland etc, for the summer, then would sail back on the autumnal westerlys, though this was curtailed from about 800ad because of the viking raids.
Old Norse for holy men was papa or papay, and should be found in the placename where these monks landed. Is that true? Cairnpapple than might have been one of the places they would have taken up temporary residence and preached. They seemed a viscious bunch these vikings and would probably have laid waste to the islands, they were also slave traders so presumably those islanders that were.nt killed would have been transported elsewhere..
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