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Kells

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Kells [kɛlz]
n
(Placename) a town in the Republic of Ireland, in Co. Meath: The Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the Gospels, was produced at the monastery here in the 8th century. Pop.: 2187 (1991)


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It is absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells.
It was tough, the course is a big challenge, said the Kells native.
Their topics include the fates of men in Beowulf, architectural metaphor and christological imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells, military men in AElfric's Lives of Saints, echoes of Old English alliterative collocations in Middle English alliterative proverbs, and a neglected historiographical model for the style of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica.
 
 
 
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