Ancient Irish annals seem to indicate that the monastery was raided by Vikings, who carried off one abbot and starved him to death, and a Norse saga may support the legend that a Skellig Michael hermit converted a future king of Norway to Christianity.
Codex, manuscript book, especially of Scripture, early literature, or ancient mythological or historical annals.
As Themistocles entered the stadium, the massed spectators, momentarily forgetting the athletes, in unison cheered the man who, against the Persians at Salamis, had won perhaps the most important victory in the annals of ancient Greece.
The discovery by philologists of how to read Old Irish (written prior to 900) and the subsequent translations of ancient Gaelic manuscripts (e.g., The Annals of the Four Masters) made possible the reading of Ireland's ancient literature.
Omnia, quae nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova fuere [All, which we consider now as most ancient, was new once] Tacitus, Annals, Book XI, 24 As with everything else in science, biological research involves the continuous updating of physiological phenomena, sometimes subverting the certainty 'written in stone'.
ANNALS OF AGRICULTURE about saving ancient fruits in Umbria.
The New Yorker, September 5, 2005 P. 102 ANNALS OF AGRICULTURE about saving ancient fruits in Umbria.
Twelve-thirty on a beautiful summer day, and the chicken committee of the City Chicken Project is meeting at the Garden of Happiness, in… Correction appended.A cold drizzle was falling over St . Petersburglast March, and the gray morning light filtered through the grimy windows of the ceremonial rooms… ANNALS OF AGRICULTURE about saving ancient fruits in Umbria.
They'd seen that big hit about ancient-Greek guys making a last stand against… ANNALS OF CRIME about swindler Oscar Hartzell.
