Like a Duck to Water: Representations of Aquatic Animals in Early Anglo-Saxon Literature and Art

Aquatic animals & fish

In the second book of his Life of Columba abbot Adomnan of Iona relates some details regarding the second and third voyages of the monk Cormac in search of ‘a desert place in the ocean’.

Miracle Stories and the Primary Purpose of Adomnán’s Vita Columbae

Iona Abbey

Adomnán, the author of the VC, was Columba’s ninth successor to the abbacy at Iona. 1 A great deal about his career, concerns and life can be found in contemporary literary evidence.

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