[But while his true home looks likely to be the subject of debate for many years to come, what is known about the man is that he spent time abroad making a bit of a name for himself.] He got a reputation as a very learned man, ... He left Scotland for Toledo about 1210 where he learned Arabic and immersed himself in the intellectual currents of what had only recently been Muslim Spain.

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In that work he appears as the host of a very wizardly dinner party and he is also shown cleaving the Eildon Hills.

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At some time late in life, he may have returned to the British Isles.

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