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Traditional accounts ascribe different reasons for this battle. The most famous is the story about the copying of a book belonging to Saint
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However, these later versions have been disputed by modern scholarship on several grounds, particularly as early mentions of the battle do not refer to the book incident. It may have been a dynastic battle between the Cinel
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in 563. The sentence stipulated he was to win as many souls to
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