From Fr Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints:
THE Scots from Ireland and North Britain, not content to plant the faith in the isles of Orkney, in the Hebrides or Western islands, and in other neighboring places, travelled also into remote kingdoms, to carry thither the light of the gospel. Thence came St. Mansuetus, the first bishop of Toul in Lorraine, St. Rumold, patron of Mechlin, St. Colman, M., &c. Several Scottish monasteries were founded in Germany by eminent monks who came from that country, as at Vienna in Austria, at Strasburg, Eichstade, Nuremberg, Constance, Wurtzburg, Erfurth, two at Cologne, and two at Ratisbon.* Out of these only three remain at present in the hands of Scottish Benedictin monks, those at Erfurth and Wurtzburg, and that of St. James at Ratisbon. In the seventh century St. Vincent, count of Haynault, invited many holy monks from Ireland and Scotland, then seminaries of saints, into the Nether lands. Among these St. Wasnulf was the most renowned. He was a Scottish priest and preacher, (not a bishop, as some moderns pretend,) and finished his course about the year 651, at Conde, where his body still reposes in a collegiate church endowed with twenty-four canonries. In his apostolical labors he illustrated that country with miracles, says Baldericus, or rather the anonymous author of Chron. Camer.1. 2, c. 42. See Molanus, in Nat. Sanct. Belgii, 1 Oct.; Mirus, and the Bollandists, t. 1, Oct. p. 304.
From Fr John O'Hanlon's Lives of the Irish Saints:
Nearly all the ancient writers, who have treated regarding St. Wasnulf, agree that his origin must be traced to the Scotish nation. This is also the statement of Molanus. That Wasnulph was art Irishman by birth is admitted by most writers: and to make this statement more emphatic, the Belgian Martyrologies state, that he came to their country from the seagirt isle of Scotia. Nevertheless, it seems probable enough, that our saint bore a different Celtic name in Ireland, from the one subsequently given him on the Continent, and by which at present he is generally known. According to some accounts, he desired as a pilgrim to leave his natal soil, so that he might serve God in some country unknown to his relatives. The title of bishop, bestowed-on him by several writers, he does not appear to have acquired, either in Ireland or elsewhere. Neither is it clear that he had been ordained priest, before he engaged himself for a foreign missionary career.

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