01-25-2009, 02:17 PM
But is it not possible that, even though everything we think we know about St. Gurthiern is fiction or borrowed, that there may have been an individual--perhaps not even named Gurthiern--around whom this myth and rumor coalesced? :? After all, someone founded that abbey.
That's the frustrating thing about doing history in the Dark Ages, we don't even know what we don't know. And it may be as dangerous to assume we know nothing as to assume any particular detail we "know" is true. :wink:
That's the frustrating thing about doing history in the Dark Ages, we don't even know what we don't know. And it may be as dangerous to assume we know nothing as to assume any particular detail we "know" is true. :wink:
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
Ron Andrea
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