Vis Adamnain - The Vision of Adamnan

Experimenting with interesting stories of a historical + spooky/supernatural tone for our All Hallows season! Hundreds of years before Dante penned his Le Divina Commedia, off the northwestern coast of Scotland, lie the island of Iona. It was there, in Early Medieval Christendom, would a Monk imagine a woeful underworld, where the penitent and the unrepentant would be tasked to toil through an ethereal triptych of hounds, serpents, and flame. Survived by the fragments of one Lebor na hUidre, the oldest extant work of Irish heritage, it is also one of the first to use a rich visual language to express the culture of Western Christianity and a civilization it was forging, one abbey at a time. Sources: Lebor na hUidre (reissue English translation) Scans of original copy An Irish precursor of Dante - CS Bowell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremy-bentham/support