Thank you so very much, everyone! I think I may have enough information to get started, with your kind assistance. You have been very helpful. Do any of you on this list think that there might have been a Latin type of "accented dialect" that these monks would have used? I am aware that they would have sung many of the ancient chants in their day to day lives. Someone asked me about this and I became very curious about the answer. I will make use of the web to seek out any differences that there were in Britain, if the information is out there. Yours, Susan (an Orkney tourist hopeful)