The worst of the Viking raids on Iona — sixty-eight monks were killed in what the annals call the "martyrdom of Iona". The massacre prompted the relocation of the monastic community to Kells in Ireland. The Book of Kells — now in Trinity College Dublin — was probably begun at Iona and completed at Kells after the community fled. The 806 massacre was thus indirectly responsible for one of the world's great illuminated manuscripts.
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