Bede also travelled to the monastery of Lindisfarne, and at some point visited the otherwise unknown monastery of a monk named, a visit that is mentioned in a letter to that monk.

Iona also radiated out towards the Europe of the Dark Ages, not to mention Pagan England at Lindisfarne.

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.

Lindisfarne was mainly a fishing community for many years, with farming and the production of lime also of some importance.

The Lindisfarne Gospels have also featured on television among the top few Treasures of Britain.

* Lindisfarne is referred to as The Holy Isle in Nancy Farmer's book " The Sea of Trolls ," which also references the Norse invasion of Lindisfarne.

St Cuthbert, Lindisfarne, and the Viking raid, are also focal points of Westall's " The Wind Eye ".

The start of the Viking Age, with the sack of Lindisfarne, also coincided with Charlemagne's Saxon Wars, or Christian wars with pagans in Saxony.

Columba's founding Iona within the bounds of Dál Riata ensured that the kingdom would be of great importance in the spread of Christianity in northern Britain, not only to Pictland, but also to Northumbria, via Lindisfarne, to Mercia, and beyond.

Edwin had been baptised by Paulinus of York, an Italian who had come with the Gregorian mission from Rome, but his successor Oswald also invited Irish monks from Iona to found the monastery at Lindisfarne where Cuthbert was to spend much of his life.

The birds that appear in the manuscript may also have been from Eadfrith ’ s own observations of wildlife in Lindisfarne ( Backhouse 2004 ).

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 ).

The Book of Durrow ( Trinity College, Dublin ) is also thought of as an earlier insular manuscript, as the style of the manuscript is simpler and less developed than that of the Lindisfarne Gospels ( Backhouse 1981, 75 ).

A manuscript so richly decorated reveals that the Lindisfarne Gospels not only had a practical ceremonial use, but also attempted to symbolize the Word of God in missionary expeditions ( Backhouse 1981, 33 ).

This may have been due to his more thoroughly Christian upbringing, but the influence of Bishop Aidan of Lindisfarne, by then a major figure in Bernicia, could also have been significant.

Lutyens also refurbished Lindisfarne Castle for its wealthy owner.

During the next 50 years Celtic missionaries evangelized the kingdom of Northumbria with an episcopal see at Lindisfarne and missionaries then proceeded to some of the other kingdoms to evangelize those also.

In the context of the cult of Cuthbert, the lavishly illuminated Lindisfarne Gospels were made at Lindisfarne, probably shortly after the St Cuthbert Gospel, with covers involving metalwork, perhaps entirely made in it, which are also now lost.

Although it seems clear from the style of the script that the text was written at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, it is possible that the binding was then added at Lindisfarne ; the form of the plant scrolls can be compared to those on the portable altar also found in Cuthbert's coffin, presumed to have been made there, though also to other works of the period, such as the shaft of an Anglo-Saxon cross from Penrith and the Vespasian Psalter.

Edwin had been baptised by Paulinus of York, an Italian who had come with the Gregorian mission from Rome, but his successor Oswald also invited Irish monks from Iona to found the monastery at Lindisfarne where Cuthbert was to spend much of his life.

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 Holy Island of Lindisfarne is well known for mead.

* Lindisfarne is known as Holy Island and The New Beginning in " Brother in the Land " by Robert Swindells, 1984.

Some monasteries kept up the old traditions of mead-making as a by-product of beekeeping, especially in areas where grapes could not be grown, a well known example being at Lindisfarne, where mead continues to be made to this day, albeit not in the monastery itself.

Crinoid columnals extracted from limestone quarried on Lindisfarne, or found washed up along the foreshore, which were threaded into necklaces or rosaries, became known as St Cuthbert's beads.

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.

There is a significant amount of information known about Cuthbert thanks to two accounts of Cuthbert ’ s life that were written shortly after his death, the first by an anonymous monk from Lindisfarne, and the second by Bede, a famous monk, historian, and theologian.

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.

It was the site of the first church in the area, built of wood around the year 670 by missionaries from Lindisfarne, later rebuilt in stone, and now known as Stoke Minster.

Also active at Lindisfarne in the late 7th century was the scribe known as the " Durham-Echternach calligrapher ", who produced the Durham Gospels and the Echternach Gospels.

Little is known of Offa, who is presumed to have been killed after being taken from Lindisfarne in 750 on the orders of King Eadberht of Northumbria.

Its earliest known developed form, one that continues to the present-day, is arguably the decorative surface pattern work exemplified by the Lindisfarne Gospels and the exterior carving of Anglo-Saxon churches and monuments.

It is known for the creation of the Lindisfarne Gospels and remains a site of pilgrimage.

The film was shot in 1965 on location on the island of Lindisfarne ( also known as Holy Island ) off the coast of Northumberland, England.

The known anglo-saxon works like Beowulf or Lindisfarne Gospel ( Book of Lindisfarne ).

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.

In addition there is also a large recreation park which includes playing fields — home to the Lindisfarne Blues competing in the Southern Tasmanian Football League now known as the SFL and the Lindisfarne Cricket Club competing in the Tasmanian Grade Cricket part of the Tasmanian Cricket Association, tennis courts — home to the Lindisfarne Tennis Club, Beltana RSL Bowls Club links and a ANZAC memorial park, all situated on a bluff overlooking the Derwent River and Mount Wellington.

Finan of Lindisfarne ( died 17 February 661 ), also known as Saint Finan, was an Irish monk, trained at Iona in Scotland, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne from 651 until 661.

In around 635 AD, the Irish missionary Aidan founded the Lindisfarne monastery on “ a small outcrop of land ” on Lindisfarne.

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 ”.

The Lindisfarne Gospels are impeccably designed, and as Backhouse points out vellum would have been too expensive for ‘ practice runs ’ for the pages, and so “ preliminary designs ” may have been done on a wax tablet ( a device that is hollowed out wood or bone with a layer of wax ).

In The Illuminated Manuscript Backhouse states that, “ The Lindisfarne Gospels is one of the first and greatest masterpieces of medieval European book painting ” ( Backhouse 1979, 10 ).

The Lindisfarne Gospels are not an example of “ isolated genius ... in an otherwise dark age ” ( Backhouse 1981, 62 ).

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“ The Lindisfarne Gospels Tour .” Accessed 13 March 2012.

“ Lindisfarne Gospels ” The Oxford Dictionary of Art.

Other artists Scott worked with while at Trident included America, Harry Nilsson, Lou Reed, Rick Wakeman, The Rolling Stones, Al Kooper, and Lindisfarne, as well as the Clio winning Coca Cola ad “ I ’ d Like To Buy The World A Coke ”.