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See also:DICUIL (fl. 825) , Irish monastic See also:scholar, grammarian and geographer. He was the author of the De mensura orbis terrae, finished in 825, which contains the earliest clear See also:notice of a See also:European See also:discovery of and See also:settlement in See also:Iceland and the most definite Western reference to the old See also:freshwater See also:canal between the See also:Nile and the Red See also:Sea, finally blocked up in 767. In 795 (See also:February 1–August 1) Irish hermits had visited Iceland; on their return they reported the marvel of the perpetual See also:day at midsummer in " See also:Thule," where there was then " no darkness to hinder one from doing what one would." These eremites also navigated the sea See also:north of Iceland on their first arrival, and found it See also:ice-See also:free for one day's See also:sail, after which they came to the ice-See also:wall. See also:Relics of this, and perhaps of other Irish religious settlements, were found by the permanent Scandinavian colonists of Iceland in the 9th See also:century. Of the old See also:Egyptian freshwater canal Dicuil learnt from one " See also:brother Fidelis," probably another Irish See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk, who, on his way to See also:Jerusalem, sailed along the " Nile " into the Red Sea—passing on his way the " Barns of See also:Joseph " or Pyramids of Giza, which are well described. Dicuil's knowledge of the islands north and See also:west of See also:Britain is evidently intimate; his references to Irish exploration and colonization, and to (more See also:recent) Scandinavian devastation of the same, as far as the Faeroes, are noteworthy, like his notice of the See also:elephant sent by Harlin al-Rashid (in 8oi) to See also:Charles the See also:Great, the most curious See also:item in a See also:political and See also:diplomatic intercourse of high importance. Dicuil's See also:reading was wide; he quotes from, or refers to, See also:thirty See also:Greek and Latin writers, including the classical See also:Homer, Hecataeus, See also:Herodotus, See also:Thucydides, See also:Virgil, See also:Pliny and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Juba, the sub-classical See also:Solinus, the patristic St Isidore and See also:Orosius, and his contemporary the Irish poet See also:Sedulius;—in particular, he professes to utilize the alleged surveys of the See also:Roman See also:world executed by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:Julius See also:Caesar, See also:Augustus and See also:Theodosius (whether Theodosius the Great or Theodosius II. is uncertain). He probably did not know Greek; his references to Greek authors do not imply this. Though certainly Irish by See also:birth, it has been conjectured (from his references to Sedulius and the See also:caliph's elephant) that he was in later See also:life in an Irish monastery in the Frankish See also:empire. Letronne in clines to identify him with Dicuil or Dichull, See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of Pahlacht, See also:born about 76o.
There are seven See also:chief See also:MSS. of the De mensura (Dicuil's See also:tract on See also:grammar is lost); of these the earliest and best are (I) See also:Paris, See also:National Library, See also:Lat. 4806; (2) See also:Dresden, Regius D. 182; both are of the loth century. Three See also:editions exist : (i) C. A. Walckenaer's, Paris, 1807; (2) A. Letrenne's, Paris, 1814, best as to commentary; (3) G. Parthey's, See also:Berlin, 187o, best as to See also:text. See also C. R. Beazley, See also:Dawn of See also:Modern See also:Geography (See also:London, 1897), i. 317-327, 522-523, 529 T. See also:Wright, Biographia Britannica literaria, Anglo-Saxon See also:Period (London, 1842), pp. 372-376. (C. R.
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