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Lindisfarne and island
Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England.
The island of Lindisfarne appears under the Old Welsh name Medcaut in the ninth-century Historia Brittonum.
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.
In the mediæval days when monks inhabited the island, it was thought that if the soul was in God's keeping, the body must be fortified with Lindisfarne Mead.
Large parts of the island, and all of the adjacent intertidal area, are protected as Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve to help safeguard the internationally important wintering bird populations.
In 1972, poet William Irwin Thompson named his Lindisfarne Association after the monastery on the island.
The island is semi-fictionalised into " Lindisfarne Island " and the castle is " Rob Roy ".
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 ).
Oswald gave the island of Lindisfarne to Aidan as his episcopal see, and Aidan achieved great success in spreading the Christian faith ; Bede mentions that Oswald acted as Aidan's interpreter when the latter was preaching, since Aidan did not know English well and Oswald had learned Irish during his exile.
It was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that the Northmen raided the important island monastery of Lindisfarne ( note that the generally accepted date is actually 8 June, not January ):
While there are few records, the Vikings are thought to have led their first raids in Scotland on the holy island of Iona in 794, the year following the raid on the other holy island of Lindisfarne, Northumbria.
In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne.
She sent him to study under Cudda, formerly one of her husband's retainers, but by that time in about 648 a monk on the island of Lindisfarne.
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.
After a few weeks of illness he died on the island on 20 March 687, and his body was carried back to Lindisfarne and buried there the same day.
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.
After years at sea, Godric reportedly went to the island of Lindisfarne and there encountered Saint Cuthbert ; this will not have been a physical encounter as Cuthbert had long been dead and was by then interred at Durham Cathedral.
Columba and his followers established monasteries at Bangor, on the northeastern coast of Ireland, at Iona, an island north-west of Scotland, and at Lindisfarne, which was founded by Aidan, an Irish monk from Iona, at the request of King Oswald of Northumbria.
In 1968, they were joined by Alan Hull and became Lindisfarne after the island of that name off the coast of Northumberland.
When Saint Aidan came at the request of Oswald to preach to the Northumbrians he chose the island of Lindisfarne as the site of his church and monastery, and made it the head of the diocese which he founded in 635.
Lindisfarne and Northumberland
The lime kilns on Lindisfarne are among the few being actively preserved in Northumberland.
Lindisfarne had a large lime burning industry, and the kilns are among the most complex in Northumberland.
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.
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 Gospels, created on Lindisfarne, Northumberland
* 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.
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.
Lindisfarne and England
Iona also radiated out towards the Europe of the Dark Ages, not to mention Pagan England at Lindisfarne.
* 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
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.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Viking raiders struck England in 793 and raided Lindisfarne, the monastery that held Saint Cuthbert ’ s relics.
* 793: The first written account of a Viking raid carried out on the abbey of Lindisfarne in northern England.
* Saint Aidan founds Lindisfarne in Northumbria, England.
* June 8 – Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria, their first major viking attack in England.
Knox sailed secretly to Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast of England at the end of July, to meet James Croft and Sir Henry Percy at Berwick upon Tweed.
Video clip of European Barn Swallow in Lindisfarne, England
Monks from Iona under St. Aidan founded the See of Lindisfarne in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 635, whence Celtic practice heavily influenced northern England.
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 ”.
* 635-First Christian missionaries ( Nestorian monks, including Alopen, from Asia Minor and Persia arrive in China ; Aidan of Lindisfarne begins evangelizing in the heart of Northumbria ( England )
Fourth, it may have been produced in the north of England, perhaps at Lindisfarne, then brought to Iona and from there to Kells.
In 794 Jarrow became the second target in England of the Vikings, who had plundered Lindisfarne in 793.
In 793 a Viking raid on Christian monastery at Lindisfarne in north-east England caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the age of Viking raids.
Video clip of European Barn Swallow in Lindisfarne, England
She was a frequent visitor to Lindisfarne Castle in northern England, where a cello now rests in the Music Room in commemoration of her time spent there.
The book takes its name from Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, North East England, in whose tomb it was placed, probably a few years after his death in 687.
In 793 Lindisfarne was devastated by the first serious Viking raid in England, but Cuthbert's shrine seems to have escaped damage.
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