She validates Thorslev's assertion that Byronic heroes are "invariably solitaries" (Clancy, 29). There were also seventy cells for solitaries. Some of the solitaries lived alone, sometimes two or more lived together. They are referred to as solitaries rather than hermits. Gould's first book of poems, "Icelandic Solitaries", was published in 1978. The solitaries had a special predilection for Scriptural sites. The British congregation still has three professed Brothers, all of whom currently live as solitaries. These first monks were hermits, solitaries who battled temptation alone in the wilderness. Two Egyptian solitaries told John Moschus a story which is also recorded by Theodorus Lector.