* 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.

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

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.

Then they left the more remote west side of the country and returned to the east, finding a resting-place at Craike near Easington, County Durham, close to the coast, well south of Lindisfarne, but also sufficiently far north of the new Viking kingdom being established at York.

An earlier monastery was founded by, then later dedicated to, Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne shortly before his death in 651, at Old Melrose, then in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, on a site about two miles ( 3 km ) east of Melrose Abbey.

Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England.

The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald ca.

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.

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 ).

A hundred years earlier pagan Vikings had begun their raids on Britain — they first attacked Lindisfarne on the coast of Northumbria, killing the monks and devastating the Abbey.

It is situated a short distance inland from the North Sea coast, and lies on the road to Lindisfarne.

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.

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

The first recorded Viking attack in Britain was in 793 at Lindisfarne monastery as given by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

He was buried here, his remains later translated to Durham Cathedral ( along with the relics of Saint Eadfrith of Lindisfarne ).

Eadberht of Lindisfarne, the next bishop ( and Saint ) was buried in the place from which Cuthbert's body was exhumed earlier the same year when the priory was abandoned in the late ninth century.

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.

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

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.

The final episode of second series of the TV series Cold Feet was filmed in Lindisfarne Castle.

If a marriage agreement was made in 1059, however, it was not kept, and this may explain the Scots invasion of Northumbria in 1061 when Lindisfarne was plundered.

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.