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Dicuilus (or the more vernacular version of the name Dícuil) was a monk and geographer, born during the second half of the 8th century. Noble and Evans identify him as a Gael and suggest that he had probably spent time in the Hebrides.[1]

  1. ^ Noble, Gordon & Evans, Nicholas (2022), Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North, Birlinn, Edinburgh, pp. 273 & 274, ISBN 978-1-78027-778-3

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Dicuil

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Triangular number

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formulas were described by the Irish monk Dicuil in about 816 in his Computus. An English translation of Dicuil's account is available. The triangular number...

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Arithmetic progression

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Faroe Islands

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points to earlier human habitation, Færeyinga Saga and the writings of Dicuil place initial Norse settlement in the early 9th century. As with the subsequent...

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Settlement of Iceland

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Thule

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crossed the sea to Thule, where they settled beside the Geats. The Irish monk Dicuil in his "Liber De Mensura Orbis Terrae" (written circa 825) after quoting...

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Suez Canal

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Saint Patrick

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Carolingian Renaissance

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similar groups of scholars many of whom were of Irish origin. The Irish monk Dicuil attended the former court, and the more famous Irishman John Scotus Eriugena...

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Battle Ballads

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"Battle Ballad"     3:50 10. "Causa Latronum Normannorum" Joensen, Rieckmann quotes from De mensura Orbis terrae by Dicuil   5:37 Total length: 41:35...

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List of Irish historians

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History of Normandy

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History of the Faroe Islands

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written by the Irish monk Dicuil c.825 in his work Liber de Mensura Orbis Terrae (description of the sphere of the earth). Dicuil had met a "man worthy of...

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List of explorers

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Portuguese 16th Madagascar, Somalia Pero Dias Portuguese 15th African coast Dicuil Irish 8th England, Scotland Karl von Ditmar Baltic German 19th Kamchatka...

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Norse settlement in the Faroe Islands

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arguably around the late 8th century. Accounts from Irish priests such as Dicuil claim monks were there hundreds of years beforehand. The history of Viking...

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Marianus Scotus

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Columbanus

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John Scotus Eriugena

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Names of the British Isles

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nominatos suspicantur eo, quod bruti sint). In the 9th century, the Irish monk Dicuil mentioned the British Isles together with Gallia Comata: "Gallia Comata...

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Irish diaspora

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History of Iceland

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