papili

Updated: May 11, 2025

From the eighth century, these formidable sea-rovers frequented the groups of the Orkney, the Hebrides, the Shetland, and Faröe Islands, where they met with the Irish monks, who had settled themselves there nearly a century earlier, to instruct the idolatrous population. There again the Northmen found the Irish monks under the name of Papis, in the cantons of Papeya and Papili.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part I. The Exploration of the World