![]() ![]() Then, according to custom, his Norse master, not wishing to return to his homeland, sold him to another, who sold him to a third, who in turn sold him to a fourth. ![]() But her fate may have been very similar to that which befell Findan later on: ![]() We have to assume that he never found his sister. His father then gave his son Findan some money and ordered him to buy his sister back and return her to her father.įindan is not successful, as he is very soon captured by 'pagans' himselfĪnd from then on the narrative follows his trials and tribulations. This involved capture by Norsemen but, before Findan himself is captured, his sister suffers the same fate:įoreigners called Norsemen had captured Findan's sister, along with other women during raids on that Scottish island called Ireland. It concentrates on his youth and the dramatic events that led to his life of religious exile on the continent. This is the Life of St Findan, a Leinster monk who, like so many other Irishmen, spent most of his adult life on the continent, at the monastery of Rheinau (in present-day Switzerland), where he died in about 878. The abduction of Irish women to be sold as slaves is confirmed by a contemporary source of a somewhat different type. ![]()
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