Early Progress of Christianity in Buchan, Being Two Papers Read Before the ...
Early Progress of Christianity in Buchan, Being Two Papers Read Before the ...
George Ogilvie
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Drostan — or again, of the story of the missions of S. Fergus to various parts of the country, and of his labours in particular in that district on the lower Ugie, which still bears his -name. To these points, which I mentioned in my former paper, I need not again recur, but I may add one or two particulars in regard to the traditionary founder of Rathen — who is commemorated in the Aber- deen Calendar on Dec. 2, under the name of Ethernanus, and described as a Bishop who led a hermitical life ...in that parish. His proper name was probably Ernan, which, in the local dialect has become Eddran. Some authors make Ernan or Ethernan a nephew of S. Columba. It is known that the Saint had relatives of that name — ^both an uncle and a nephew — but neither of them are ever styled bishops. The name in fact was then very common. Dr. Reeves, in the notes to his edition of Adamnan*s life of S. Columba, says there are twenty-six in the Irish Calendar — ^and some of them, like our Buchan Saint, appear under various guises, such as Martian and Marnoch — said to be ab- Digitized by Google 55.
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