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Why did you change the wording of the letter written in Ogam from "Kildare-Michaelmas-Lorcan" (on page 118), to later be read out loud by Deidre to the abbot as "Armagh, Michaelmas, Lorcan" (page 192)? Why the change from Kildare to Armagh?
Philip Freeman Dear Angie,

"Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" ("My fault, my great fault") as Sister Deirdre would have said in Latin. It should be "Kildare " in both cases. I proofread the text a dozen times but I missed my mistake. Thank you for pointing it out. I'll get it fixed for the paperback edition.

Best wishes, Philip
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I'm enjoying Saint Brigid's Bones so far (on p. 84). One thing bumped me out of the story, however, because it felt anachronistic: on p. 72 Dierdre describes her dream of being freezing cold and Dari sarcastically says "Obviously Brigid wants us to go to the North Pole". Was the North Pole a concept that was known in this period?
Philip Freeman A great question. Yes, any educated person in the ancient or medieval world knew about the North Pole. From the time of the early Greeks, everyone knew the earth was a sphere and that it was colder the farther north you went. The idea that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat is a modern myth.
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