Set aside battle of Brude with Norse by sending winds against Viking fleet.
No thought that he was making it impossible for them to ever make a lasting peace. In another century the beaches of Iona would be bathed in blood as the Norse raiders, fearing the great power of the Ionan abbey and wanting its wealth, slaughtered over sixty of the brethren on the beaches. The Norse priestesses knew enough to sense the power being twisted on Iona, and made the island a constant focus of their people’s raids bringing them more Viking wrath than they would normally have received.
Brother Mark offered to recreate Finnian’s psalter. I am sorry for striking him and have sought penitence before the Lord God. The beautiful psalter has been a curse upon me since first I read its pages. For those precious
