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This would have been a quite feasible passage in fair weather, sailing northwards from Brittany or the Isles of Scilly via Land’s End and skirting the Saltee Islands to the south-eastern Irish coast. While it would be nice to think that Ireland was renowned for its sanctity at this early date, the epithet insula sacra may be an error prompted by
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