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ST ADAMNAN

St Adamnan was an Irish clergyman and historian. He was born in Ireland about 624 and died about 703 or 704. He was elected abbot of lona in 679. He is best known from his Life of St Columba, valuable as throwing light on the early ecclesiastical history of Scotland.
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LONA

In Polynesian mythology Lona is the goddess of the moon. She fell in love with a mortal man, Ai Kanaka, and married him carrying him on her wings to the White Kingdom she ruled where they lived happily until his death.
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DUNKELD

Dunkeld is a town beside the River Tay, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. From 850, when Kenneth I removed the remains of St Columba from lona to a church which he had built here, Dunkeld became the metropolitan see of Scotland, until it was supplanted by St Andrews. *Dunkerton
Dunkerton is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, USA.
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