Rath Melsigi

[1] Other monasteries for Saxon monks include: Many Anglo Saxons and Franks were educated at Irish monasteries, such as Mellifont Abbey, including King Alfred of England, Oswald of England & Dagobert II of France.

In the plague of 664, Bede tells, the monks of Rath Melsigi were almost all carried off by the disease.

Ecgberht vowed that if he recovered, he would become a peregrinus and lead a life of penitential prayer and fasting.

[4] and occupied a prominent position in a political and religious culture that spanned northern Britain and the Irish Sea.

While one hypothesis posits that the book may have been written at Iona, a second suggests that, given similarities to manuscripts at Echternach associated with Willibrord, who spent twelve years at Rath Melsigi, "the script developed at Rath Melsigi was employed in the creation of our manuscript at Durrow, probably in the eighth century.