A geography treatise by Dicuil reports a conversation with an English monk, Fidelis, who had sailed on the canal from the Nile to the Red Sea during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the first half of the 8th century

The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

Dicuil is our only source for detailed information of the surveys carried out under Theodosius II ; his quotations, generally exact, are of service for the textual criticism of the authors mentioned ; of great interest, too, are the few reports which he got from the travellers of his time ; as, for instance, from the monk Fidelis who ( 762?

Other late classical writers and post-classical writers such as Orosius ( 384-420 A. D ) and the Irish monk Dicuil ( late 8th and early 9th century ), describe Thule as being North and West of both Ireland and Britain.

Two years later appeared his Recherches geographiques et critiques on the De Mensura Orbis Terrae of Dicuil.

Another theory is that the two sources were conflated and that Ari Thorgilsson, the author of Íslendingabók, based his history on the writings of Dicuil.

Based on similarities of style, it is thought Dicuil may be the same person as Hibernicus exul.

According to Dicuil, Irish monks ( papar ) lived in Faroe before Vikings came from Norway.

According to Dicuil, those monks left the islands before 825 after Viking raids.

" Around A. D. 825, Dicuil wrote a book, Liber de Mensura Orbis Terrae, ( Measure / description of the sphere of the earth ) in which he states:

But this version does not correspond with the above mentioned writings of Dicuil.

This is also hinted at in the works of Dicuil.

Dicuil described Thule as being beyond islands that seem to be the Faroes, strongly suggesting Iceland.

During the Middle Ages the name was used first of all to denote Iceland, such as by Dicuil, by the Anglo-Saxon monk Venerable Bede in De ratione temporum, by the Landnámabók, by the anonymous Historia Norwegie and by the German cleric Adam of Bremen in his Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church, where they cite ancient writers ' use of Thule but also new knowledge since the end of antiquity.

This does not correspond with the writings of Dicuil.

However, the version from Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar does correspond with the writings of Dicuil.

An earlier source that could possibly refer to the Papar is the work of Dicuil, an early 9th century ( 825 AD ) Irish monk, which discussed the wandering of " holy men " to the lands of the north.

However, it is not known whether Dicuil is speaking about Iceland, as Gaelic hermits also settled in other islands of the north such as Orkney and Shetland.

Dicuil, Irish monk and geographer, born in the second half of the 8th century.

It has been published in Esposito & Dicuil 1906 / 07.

Dicuil draws also upon Pliny the Elder, Gaius Julius Solinus, Paulus Orosius, Isidore of Seville, and other authors, and adds the results of his own investigations.

* J. J. Tierney, Dicuil: Liber de Mensura Orbis Terrae, ( Dublin 1967 ).

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