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In the writings of a monk of St. Gall. he tells us how two graduates of the Irish School accompanied merchants on a trading mission to France. Mingling with the merchants at a fair, they stood calling their wares like other traders. What they called out was “we have wisdom to sell”. For, says the monk of St Gall. "They knew that if men get anything for nothing they think little of it."


The incident came to the ears of Charlemagne, who sought out the merchant monks and mass asked them the price of their wisdom. "Proper places and noble souls and such things as we cannot travel without, food and the wearwith to be clothed", they told him. Charlemagne installed them at his own court where a school was presently established in which "rich and poor sup together".

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