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These sailor-clerics, who settled on the southeast of the island, were spoken of by later Norwegians as "papar." After their departure they were probably driven away by Norwegian pagans these Icelandic apostles "left behind them Irish books, bells, and croziers, wherefrom one could understand they were Irishmen." But St. Brendan, the voyager, is the most wonderful of the mariner monks of Ireland.
The Christmas Day feast included delicacies brought fifteen thousand miles for this glad occasion: GUCCHI mushrooms from Kashmir, canned RASAGULLA and mango pulp, PAPAR biscuits, and an oil of the Indian KEORA flower which flavored our ice cream. The evening found us grouped around a huge sparkling Christmas tree, the near-by fireplace crackling with logs of aromatic cypress. Gift-time!
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