Remembering the forgotten hermit who saved his King
Near Edinburgh, 900 years ago, the King of Scotland washed up on a lonely island. This is the legend of Inchcolm.
There’s an ancient story about a Scottish king and the remote hermit who saved his life. Surviving only as scraps of tales and half-forgotten fables, it dates from the early days of Catholicism’s adoption by this scattered population in the fledgling nation of Scotland – and it reveals an awkward irony about the name of the island today.
The legend, whic…
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