One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

The band members were five friends from Creggan and the Bogside, who originally drew inspiration from such artists as the Beatles, Small Faces and Lindisfarne.

Pickard has worked throughout his career with many musicians including Alan Hull ( of Lindisfarne ), Peter Kirtley and Liane Carroll, Ben Murray and -- Rosie Doonan and the folk band Tarras among others.

Lady Eleanor, a song first released in 1970 by the British folk-rock band Lindisfarne is based on this story.

The band included Charlie Harcourt, later of Lindisfarne and Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys.

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The more popularly accepted date for the Viking raid on Lindisfarne is 8 June ; Michael Swanton, editor of Routledge's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, writes " vi id Ianr, presumably an error for vi id Iun ( June 8 ) which is the date given by the Annals of Lindisfarne ( p. 505 ), when better sailing weather would favour coastal raids.

* St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( c. 634 – 687 ), Anglo-Saxon saint, bishop, monk and hermit

In 684, Cuthbert was elected Bishop of Hexham, at a synod at Twyford ( believed to be present-day Alnmouth ), but was reluctant to leave his retirement and take up his charge ; it was only after a visit from a large group, including king Ecgfrith, that he agreed to return and take up the duties of bishop, but instead as Bishop of Lindisfarne, swapping with Eata, who went to Hexham instead.

The school's houses are named after important locations in the life of the Saint: Dunblane ( Yellow ), Elgin ( Green ), Iona ( Purple ), Kelso ( Blue ), Lindisfarne ( White ) and Melrose ( Red ).

* Brown ( 2003 ), Brown, Michelle P., The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe, 2003, British Library, ISBN 978-0-7123-4807-2

Æthelstan presenting a book to Cuthbert of Lindisfarne | St Cuthbert ( 934 ), chief saint of the English far north ; the earliest surviving royal Anglo-Saxon portrait ( Corpus Christi MS 183, fol.

The design of the Lindisfarne Gospels has also been related to the Tara Brooch ( National Museum of Ireland, Dublin ), displaying animal interlace, curvilinear patterns, and borders of bird interlace, but unfortunately the origin and place of the brooch is unknown ( Backhouse 1981, 66 ).

An early rendition of the name of the town was Kilcudbrit, derived from the Scottish Gaelic " Cille Chuithbeirt " ( Chapel of Cuthbert ), the Anglo-Saxon saint whose mortal remains were kept here for seven years between exhumation at Lindisfarne and re-interment at Chester-le-Street.

Near this high-status residence lay the island of Lindisfarne ( formerly known, in Welsh, as Ynys Metcaut ), which became the seat of the Bernician bishops.

From the early 8th century come the Durham Gospels, the Echternach Gospels, the Lindisfarne Gospels ( see illustration at right ), and the Lichfield Gospels.

* Lindisfarne ( 2004 ), ISBN 978-0-7524-3227-4

After the Romans left there is no record of who lived there ( apart from some wounded soldiers from wars who had to live there ), until 883 when a group of monks, driven out of Lindisfarne seven years earlier, stopped there to build a wooden shrine and church to St Cuthbert, whose body they had borne with them.

Other bones taken by the party were those remains of St Aidan ( d. 651 ), the founder of the community, that had not been sent to Melrose, and the head of the king and saint Oswald of Northumbria, who had converted the kingdom and encouraged the founding of Lindisfarne.

* Brown ( 2003 ), Brown, Michelle P., The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe, 2003, British Library, ISBN 978-0-7123-4807-2

* Lindisfarne ( song ), a song by English dubstep producer James Blake, released as a double A-side single with " Unluck "

* Reverend Canon Kate Tristram, one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England, former warden of Marygate House, an ecumenical retreat house on Lindisfarne ( 1978 – 2009 ), and author of ' The Story of Holy Island ' ( 1949 – 1952 )

The Normans rebuilt the Anglian monasteries of Lindisfarne, Hexham and Tynemouth, and founded Norman abbeys at Newminster ( 1139 ), Alnwick ( 1147 ), Brinkburn ( 1180 ), Hulne, and Blanchland.

Tourism grew steadily throughout the twentieth century, and Lindisfarne is now a popular place with visitors.

According to Aldred ’ s colophon, the Lindisfarne Gospels were made in honour of God and Saint Cuthbert, a Bishop of the Lindisfarne monastery who was becoming “ Northern England ’ s most popular Saint ”.

Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.

The Lindisfarne Gospels now reside in the British Library in London, somewhat to the annoyance of some Northumbrians.

* The monastery and monks of Lindisfarne are an important part of British author / broadcastor Melvyn Bragg's epic, historically based novel " Credo " published in 1996.

The Lindisfarne Gospels ( London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D. IV ) is an Illuminated manuscript gospel book produced around the year 700 AD in a monastery off the coast of Northumberland at Lindisfarne, which is now on display in the British Library in London.

The Lindisfarne Gospels is called Insular or Hiberno-Saxon art, a general term that refers to manuscripts produced in the British Isles between 500-900 AD ( Backhouse 2004 ).

* Turning the Pages Leaf through the Lindisfarne Gospels online using the British Library's Turning the Pages software ( requires Shockwave plugin )

* The Lindisfarne Gospels, a free online seminar from the British Library.

* Lindisfarne Gospels: information, zoomable image British Library website

Rimbaud ( so named as a tribute to poet Arthur Rimbaud, the ' Penny ' being a pun on the phrase " arfer ( half a ) penny ", referring to the long discontinued British Ha ' penny coin ) was expelled from two public schools, Brentwood School and Lindisfarne College, and went on to study philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, before quickly realising that, in his own words, ' Oxford wasn't about learning, but about a peculiarly unpleasant form of class indoctrination '.

The text is a very good and careful copy of the single Gospel of John from what has been called the " Italo-Northumbrian " family of texts, other well-known examples of which are several manuscripts from Wearmouth-Jarrow, including the Codex Amiatinus, and in the British Library the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Gospel Book MS Royal 1.

It may also have held the Lindisfarne Gospels, now also in the British Library, and other books from Lindisfarne that were, and in several cases still are, at Durham Cathedral.

Milner followed the medieval note in relating the book to Cuthbert, and compared its script to that of the Lindisfarne Gospels, by then in the British Museum, examining the two side by side.

* 2003, British Library, Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels *

Especially in Northumbria, the Insular art style shared across the British Isles produced much of the finest work being produced in Europe until the Viking raids and invasions largely suppressed the movement ; the Book of Lindisfarne is one example certainly produced in Northumbria.

Lindisfarne were a British folk / rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne established in 1970 ( originally called Brethren ) and fronted by singer / songwriter Alan Hull.