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Eadfrith and Ethelwald
Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne, was credited with writing the manuscript, Ethelwald, Bishop of the Lindisfarne islanders was credited with binding it, Billifrith, an anchorite, was credited with ornamenting the manuscript, and finally Aldred includes himself as the person who glossed it in Anglo-Saxon English.
Some scholars have argued that Eadfrith and Ethelwald did not produce the manuscript but commissioned someone else to do so.

Eadfrith and both
With both Edwin and his son Osfrith killed, and his other son Eadfrith captured by Penda ( and later killed ), the kingdom was divided between its constituent kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira.

Eadfrith and at
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.
Of his two grown sons by Cwenburh of Mercia, Osfrith died at Hatfield, and Eadfrith was captured by Penda and killed some time afterwards.
The bishopric of Lindisfarne was held by Cuthbert at Aldfrith's accession ; Cuthbert was succeeded by the Irish-educated Eadberht, who would later be Abbot of Iona and bring the Easter controversy to an end, and then by Eadfrith, creator of the Lindisfarne Gospels.
The relics of Saint Cuthbert, and those of Eadfrith along with them, eventually found a new home at Chester-le-Street, where they remained for a century.

Eadfrith and Lindisfarne
He was buried here, his remains later translated to Durham Cathedral ( along with the relics of Saint Eadfrith of Lindisfarne ).
* Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne ( 698 – 721 ) and presumed author of the Lindisfarne Gospels
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.
As Alan Thacker notes, the Lindisfarne Gospels are " undoubtedly the work of a single hand ," and Eadfrith remains regarded as " the scribe and painter of the Lindisfarne Gospels ".
The birds that appear in the manuscript may also have been from Eadfrith ’ s own observations of wildlife in Lindisfarne ( Backhouse 2004 ).
The Gospels of Saint Chad ( Lichfield Cathedral, Chapter Library ) employ a very similar style to the Lindisfarne Gospels, and it is even speculated that the artist was attempting to emulate Eadfrith ’ s work ( Backhouse 1981, 66 ).
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 ).
The Lindisfarne Gospels are believed to the be the work of Eadfrith of Lindisfarne, bishop of Lindisfarne from 698.
The Lindisfarne Gospels, an early example of Hiberno-Saxon visual art, is attributed to Eadfrith, the bishop of Lindisfarne from 698 to 721.
Incipit of the Gospel of Matthew from the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illuminated manuscript said to have been created by Eadfrith

Eadfrith and where
Eadfrith also oversaw the restoration of the hermitage on Farne where Cuthbert had often lived.

Eadfrith and manuscript
Scholars think that the manuscript was written sometime between Cuthbert ’ s death in 687 and Eadfrith ’ s death in 721 ( BBC Tyne 2012 ).
Eadfrith was a highly trained calligrapher and he used insular majuscule script in the manuscript ( Thacker 2004 ).

Eadfrith and was
However, it is also possible that Eadfrith produced them prior to 698, in order to commemorate the elevation of Cuthbert's relics in that year, which is also thought to have been the occasion for which the St Cuthbert Gospel ( also British Library ) was produced.
Aldhelm was the first Anglo-Saxon, so far as we know, to write in Latin verse, and his letter to Acircius ( Aldfrith or Eadfrith, king of Northumbria ) is a treatise on Latin prosody for the use of his countrymen.
According to Bede, Edwin married Cwenburh ( Quenberga ), daughter of " Cearl, king of the Mercians " while he was in exile, and with her had two sons, Osfrith and Eadfrith.
More evidence could be seen for a dynastic rivalry between Cearl and Penda in Penda's later execution ( according to Bede ) of Eadfrith, a captured son of Edwin who was Cearl's grandson through Cwenburh.
Eadfrith of Lindisfarne ( died 721 ), also known as Saint Eadfrith, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, probably from 698 onwards.
By the twelfth century it was believed that Eadfrith succeeded Eadberht and nothing in the surviving records contradicts this belief.
A colophon added to the Lindisfarne Gospels in the tenth century states that Eadfrith was the scribe and artist responsible for the work.
For this reason, many historians who accept that the work was authored by Eadfrith in person date it to the period before he became bishop.
At Durham Eadfrith, along with his predecessor Eadberht and successor Æthelwold, was commemorated on 4 June.

Eadfrith and .
It may have been to appease Oswald that Penda had Eadfrith, a captured son of Edwin ( and thus a dynastic rival of Oswald ), killed, although it is also possible that Penda had his own motives for the killing.
Smith, Nicholson and Co. ( silversmiths ) made the binding with the intention of recreating motifs in Eadfrith ’ s work ( Backhouse 1981, 90 ).
The carpet pages ( pages of pure decoration ) exemplify Eadfrith ’ s use of geometrical ornamentation.
Eadfrith ( d.
Although Penda's reason is unknown, the killing of Eadfrith is often seen as the result of pressure from the Northumbrian king Oswald, to whom Eadfrith would have represented a threat ; it is, however, also possible that Penda may have decided that Eadfrith's lineage made him unsuitable for use as a puppet against Oswald, since he would represent a threat to Penda's own position through his descent from Cearl.

Ethelwald and at
Ethelwald, according to Bede, practically forced on Cedd a gift of land: a wild place at Lastingham, near Pickering in the North York Moors, close to one of the still-usable Roman roads.

Ethelwald and monastery
Caelin suggested to Ethelwald the foundation of a monastery, in which he could one day be buried, and where prayers for his soul would continue.

Ethelwald and was
Caelin, the brother of Cedd and Chad, was chaplain to Ethelwald, a nephew of Oswiu, who had been appointed to administer the coastal area of Deira.

Ethelwald and .
Bede summarises Oswiu's reign in this way: Oswald being translated to the heavenly kingdom, his brother Oswy, a young man of about thirty years of age, succeeded him on the throne of his earthly kingdom, and held it twenty-eight years with much trouble, being harassed by the pagan king, Penda, and by the pagan nation of the Mercians, that had slain his brother, as also by his son Alfred Ealhfrith of Deira | Ealhfrith, and by his cousin-german Ethelwald Œthelwald of Deira, the son of his brother who reigned before him.

were and both
Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were going to town, and they were both excited.
They were in a fight, outweighed in both numbers and money.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.
He understood that both sides were at fault, and he reached the height of saying so explicitly in his Second Inaugural.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.
but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.
but the years that immediately followed were to be extraordinarily trying, both for Wright and his Montenegrin lady.
Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.
both were obviously on the way to the Mercer home.
There were times that he worked with both lyricists simultaneously.
The reporters were questioning the Interior man and the French officer, both of whom remained noncommittal as to what action, if any, would be taken in my regard.

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