AN ANCIENT prayer book found in a bog has been hailed as one of Ireland’s most significant discoveries in decades, and perhaps centuries.
“This Irish equivalent to the Dead Sea Scrolls is being hailed by … experts as the greatest find ever from a European bog,” it said.
HT: Fr Josiah Trenham
Initial impressions placed the composition date of the manuscript at about AD800, a time of Viking raids in Ireland.
Someone over at Free Republic chimed:
“It’s mine. Amazon said they lost the order and credited my account. Now I gotta wait for the paperback.”