Perigrinatio - “The word itself is almost untranslatable, but its essence is caught in the ninth-century story of three Irishmen drifting over the sea from Ireland for seven days, in coracles without oars, coming ashore in Cornwall and then being brought to the court of King Alfred. When he asked them where they had come from and where they were going they answered that they, ‘stole away because we wanted for the love of God to be on pilgrimage, we cared not where.’”
