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Borsje, Jacqueline, “The monster in the river Ness in Vita sancti Columbae: a study of a miracle”, Peritia 8 (1994): 27–34.

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Borsje (Jacqueline)

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“The monster in the river Ness in Vita sancti Columbae: a study of a miracle”

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Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 8 (1994)

Peritia 8 (1994).

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27–34

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This paper gives an example of a historical-critical study of Adomnán’s Vita Sancti Columbae, ii 27, which reconstructs the episode of the encounter with a monster as a natural, historical event. However, the episode is presented as a miracle:—it therefore treats of the extraordinary and supernatural. Hence a literary approach is also offered, one which attempts to find the miracle’s message by comparing it with its possible source.

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