Studies on the Language and Style of Columba the Younger (Columbanus)

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The Irish monk who, in the last quarter of the sixth century, landed in Gaul with a number of companions and founded there in quick succession three monasteries in Annegray, Luxeuil and Fontaines, was then banished from Gaul and reached Northern Italy via Switzerland where he founded in Bobbio his last and most celebrated monastery, is best known by a name which he himself never used: Columbanus. In the five letters of his which have been preserved, he calls himself Columba, 'Dove', and a number of word-plays on the meaning of this name prove that this in fact is what he was called. Abbreviations 1 Bibliography 3 Note on Bible Quotations 21 Introduction 23 PART I. TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION Introduction 33 Critical Remarks 39 1. Castalitatis 39 2. Contupictam 57 3. Calcalenteris 70 4. Lumina Ingenii 78 5. Scynthenium 81 6. Bubum 88 7. Mihi Nex(u)isse; Irrogas/Irogus 97 8. Chilosum Os 99 9. Heluini/Heulini Litoris 105 io. Licet Mercedem; Credunt Bonis Secretis 110 11. Non a Sola Minax Unda; Octo Molibus 117 12. Lusus Currus 127 13. Trisulcus Arcuato Vulnere Scorpius; Epicroca; Iudicare; Copes, Oliginosis Celotes Palearibus 130 14. Ionas - Peristera - Columba 141 15. Regis... Iussio Agens 160 16. Ascematus Est 161 COLUMBA'S KNOWLEDGE OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE Introduction 167 Chapter I: Literary Traditions in Columba 172 1. The Turbulent Sea 172 2. The Equitatio Super Undas 190 3. The Remaining Profane Quotations in the Prose 198 Chapter II: Carmina 209 1. Carmen de Mundi Transitu 212 2. Versus ad Hunaldum; ad Sethum 223 3. Carmen Navale 239 4. Versus Fidolio Fratri Suo 242 Final Remarks 250 Indices 254