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{{Short description|Late 7th c. Frankish bishop, traveler in the Levant}}
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'''Arculf''' was a [[Franks|Frankish]] churchman who toured the [[Holy Land]] around 670. [[Bede]] claimed he was a bishop from [[Gaul]] ({{lang|la|Galliarum episcopus}}). According to Bede's ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'' (V, 15), Arculf was shipwrecked on the shore of [[Iona]] on his return from his pilgrimage. He was hospitably received by [[Adomnán]], the [[Abbot of Iona|abbot of the island monastery]] from 679 to 704, to whom he gave a detailed narrative of his travels. Adomnán, with aid from some further sources, was able to produce ''[[De Locis Sanctis]]'' ("on the sacred places"), a descriptive work in three books dealing with [[Jerusalem]], [[Bethlehem]], [[List of Christian holy places in the Holy Land|other sites in the Holy Land]], and briefly with [[Alexandria]] and [[Constantinople]]. Many details about Arculf's journeys can be inferred from this text.

==Further reading==
* Meehan, D (ed.) ''Adomnan's 'De Locis Sanctis''' (Dublin, 1958).
* Woods, D. ‘Arculf's Luggage: The Sources for Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis’, ''Ériu'' 52 (2002), 25-52.
*{{cite book | author =Adomnán|authorlink= Adomnán | title = Pilgrimage of Arculfus in the Holy Land (about the year A.D. 670) | url= https://archive.org/details/libraryofpalesti03paleuoft|publisher = [[Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society]] | year = 1895}}

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