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* Lindisfarne Gospels, created on Lindisfarne, Northumberland
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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.
At some point in the early 700s the famous illuminated manuscript known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated Latin copy of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, was made probably at Lindisfarne and the artist was possibly Eadfrith, who later became Bishop of Lindisfarne.
The Lindisfarne Gospels now reside in the British Library in London, somewhat to the annoyance of some Northumbrians.
The Lindisfarne Gospels have also featured on television among the top few Treasures of Britain.
* Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne ( 698 – 721 ) and presumed author of the Lindisfarne Gospels
Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels, c 700.
Northumbria played an important role in the formation of Insular art, a unique style combining Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Pictish, Byzantine and other elements, producing works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels, St Cuthbert Gospel, the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, and later the Book of Kells, which was probably created at Iona.
After the Synod of Whitby in 664 Roman church practices officially replaced the Celtic ones but the influence of the Celtic style continued, the most famous examples of this being the Lindisfarne Gospels.
* Brown ( 2003 ), Brown, Michelle P., The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe, 2003, British Library, ISBN 978-0-7123-4807-2
The area has a strong religious past, as can be seen in works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels.
The Lindisfarne Gospels ( 715-720 AD ) are an early example ( Brown 2004 ).
Carpet page from Lindisfarne Gospels, showing knotwork detail.
These knots are most known for their adaptation for use in the ornamentation of Christian monuments and manuscripts, such as the 8th-century St. Teilo Gospels, the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew.
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 are presumed to be the work of a monk named Eadfrith, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 and died in 721.
Lindisfarne and created
The Durham Gospels ( Durham Cathedral Library ) are suspected as being created slightly earlier than the Lindisfarne Gospels, and while they have the bird interlace, the birds lack the naturalness and realness of Eadfrith ’ s birds in the Lindisfarne Gospels ( Backhouse 1981, 67 ).
It was probably created between 650 and 700, in either Durrow or Northumbria in Northern England, where Lindisfarne or Durham would be the likely candidates, or on the island of Iona in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.
The mixing of Irish, Pictish and Anglo-Saxon styles created the Insular style of art, represented by the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells.
The Angle settlers created Bernicia and Deira from which came Northumbria and a Golden Age in cultural, scholarly and monastic activity, centred around Lindisfarne and aided by Irish monks.
However, under King Penda of Mercia, himself a pagan, Christian missionaries from Lindisfarne were allowed to preach in the kingdom ( around 653 ) and following Penda's death, the rulers of Mercia became Christian and a Diocese of Mercia was created in 656.
Incipit of the Gospel of Matthew from the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illuminated manuscript said to have been created by Eadfrith
Lindisfarne and on
* Carmichael, Alexander ( 1992 ) Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations ( with illustrative notes on wards, rites, and customs dying and obsolete / orally collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland ) Hudson, NY, Lindisfarne Press, ISBN 0-940262-50-9
In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age.
These signs were followed by great famine, and on 8 January the ravaging of heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.
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.
A Dundee firm built lime kilns on Lindisfarne in the 1860s, and lime was burnt on the island until at least the end of the 19th century.
The lime kilns on Lindisfarne are among the few being actively preserved in Northumberland.
Lindisfarne also has the small Lindisfarne Castle, based on a Tudor fort, which was refurbished in the Arts and Crafts style by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the editor of Country Life, Edward Hudson.
In 1972, poet William Irwin Thompson named his Lindisfarne Association after the monastery on the island.
Lindisfarne ( particularly the castle ) is the setting of the Roman Polanski film Cul-de-Sac ( 1966 ) with Donald Pleasence and Lionel Stander, shot entirely on location there.
* Lindisfarne is where the main character of Harry goes to on pilgrimage in the book " Kingdom by the Sea " by Robert Westall.
* Wells Tower's short story, " Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned ," is centred around a Viking raid on Lindisfarne.
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 ).
Singer-songwriter James Blake included a two-part suite about Lindisfarne on his self-titled debut album ( 2011 ).
* Lindisfarne Guide on VisitNorthumberland. com – Includes Video of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne
* An illustrated walk on Lindisfarne
* A Report on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne
In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Vikings destroyed the abbey on Lindisfarne, a centre of learning famous across the continent.
More than any other single event, the attack on Lindisfarne cast a shadow on the perception of the Vikings for the next twelve centuries.
Lindisfarne and Northumberland
Lindisfarne had a large lime burning industry, and the kilns are among the most complex in Northumberland.
Lindisfarne, also known as “ Holy Island ,” is located off the coast of Northumberland in northern England ( Chilvers 2004 ).
* Lindisfarne, Northumberland
The Reserves are scattered through England, from Lindisfarne in Northumberland to The Lizard in Cornwall.
* Lindisfarne, Northumberland, home of a medieval monastery
Islandshire was an area of Northumberland, England, comprising Lindisfarne or Holy Island, plus five parishes on the mainland.
It was anciently an exclave of County Durham after being purchased for the Bishopric of Lindisfarne between 900 and 915, but became part of the jurisdiction of Northumberland in 1844 under the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844.
* Lindisfarne, island linked to Northumberland, England
* Lindisfarne Castle, on Lindisfarne, Northumberland
* Lindisfarne in Northumberland, England
More recently, they reached Lindisfarne in Northumberland in September 1995, and the Shetland Islands in 1987.
In 1968, they were joined by Alan Hull and became Lindisfarne after the island of that name off the coast of Northumberland.
Much of the estate was put up for sale and the house became a private school, Lindisfarne College ( which took its name from the island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland although it had no connection with the island ).
The film was shot in 1965 on location on the island of Lindisfarne ( also known as Holy Island ) off the coast of Northumberland, England.
At one time the suburb was known as Beltana from 1892, but, because of confusion with Bellerive, it was renamed Lindisfarne in 1903 after Lindisfarne a tidal Island ( Holy Island ) in Northumberland, England.
St Cuthbert's Way is a long-distance trail between the Scottish Borders town of Melrose and Lindisfarne ( Holy Island ) off the coast of Northumberland, England.
Lindisfarne Castle is a 16th-century castle located on Holy Island, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, much altered by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1901.
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