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On the Life of St. Columba

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Whitley Stokes

translated by Whitley Stokes

Electronic edition compiled by Ruth Murphy

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Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project

2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 9080 words

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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Betha Choluim Chille. On the life of Saint Columba, Three Middle-Irish Homilies.. Whitley Stokes (ed), First edition [35 pp.] (One hundred copies privately printed)Calcutta (1877)

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Created: Translation by Whitley Stokes. (1876)

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Language: [EN] The translation is in English.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.

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