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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne is well known for mead.

Lindisfarne mead is produced at St Aidan's Winery, and sold throughout the UK and elsewhere.

Tourism grew steadily throughout the twentieth century, and Lindisfarne is now a popular place with visitors.

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.

The island is semi-fictionalised into " Lindisfarne Island " and the castle is " Rob Roy ".

* 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.

* Lindisfarne is where the main character of Harry goes to on pilgrimage in the book " Kingdom by the Sea " by Robert Westall.

* A thinly disguised version of Lindisfarne is the setting for the Lyndesfarne Bridge quartet of modern fantasy novels by Trevor Hopkins.

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

* The sack of Lindisfarne monastery by a fleet of opportunistic Vikings is a pivotal event in Charles Barnitz ' historical fantasy / adventure, The Deepest Sea ( 1996 )

* Wells Tower's short story, " Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned ," is centred around a Viking raid on Lindisfarne.

* Freddie Frobisher, the flatulent hermit of Lindisfarne, is featured in Blackadder the second, episode Beer.

For instance, the carriage of the remains of St Cuthbert from Lindisfarne to Durham is the subject of " The Road from Lindisfarne ", the third movement of the Durham Concerto ( 2007 ) by Jon Lord.

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Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

After a time he settled on one of the Farne Islands, south of Lindisfarne, and gave himself more and more to austerities.

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 ).

Several possible locations have been mooted, including Durham Cathedral, Lindisfarne itself or one of the museums in Newcastle upon Tyne or Sunderland.

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.

Others, probably influenced by the electric folk pioneered by Fairport Convention from 1969, moved towards more traditional material, a category including Dando Shaft, Amazing Blondel, and Jack the Lad, an offshoot of northern progressive folk group Lindisfarne, who were one of the most successful UK bands of the early 1970s.

Especially in Northumbria, the Insular art style shared across the British Isles produced much of the finest work being produced in Europe until the Viking raids and invasions largely suppressed the movement ; the Book of Lindisfarne is one example certainly produced in 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.

Ackworth is noted in the porch of a church in Durham as been one of the places where the body of Saint Cuthbert was taken by monks from Lindisfarne as they journeyed around the country with his body from 875 to 882.

* Reverend Canon Kate Tristram, one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England, former warden of Marygate House, an ecumenical retreat house on Lindisfarne ( 1978 – 2009 ), and author of ' The Story of Holy Island ' ( 1949 – 1952 )

The name is an ' affectionate ' or hypocoristic form, and could refer either to one of the many early Irish holy men with the common name of Colmán ( eg Colmán of Lindisfarne ), or to St. Columba ( Old Irish Colm Cille ).

The Annals of Ulster documents the Viking invasions one year after the common starting event of the Viking Period, the raiding of Lindisfarne in 793, as mentioned by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

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.

Lindisfarne is centred around a bay of the same name that is one of many such sheltered anchorages on the Derwent River.

The naming of the township was for one of the seven monks who followed the body of St. Cuthbert from Lindisfarne to Durham.

He is a fan of Lindisfarne, and in fact played guitar for them on one occasion when Simon Cowe was unavailable.

The Breton Gospel is similar to the form of Carolingian minuscule developed at Tours – one of the classicising centres of the Carolingian Renaissance, and although the form of the large illuminated letters that form the beginning of each Gospel are comparable to those found in Carolingian manuscripts, the decoration thereof is far more similar to insular manuscripts such as the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels, suggesting a continuum of cultural tradition.

He was chosen as one of the 12 monks selected from Lindisfarne to found the new daughter monastery at Melrose.

Bernicia had two episcopal sees, one at Hexham and the other at Lindisfarne.

To Egbert of Lindisfarne was dedicated the Latin poem De abbatibus by a monk in one of the dependent houses of Lindisfarne.

The Tucks hosted regular informal gatherings by local and visiting SF fans at Lindisfarne for the next 20 years, with regular visitor A. Bertram Chandler commemorating the locale by naming one of the spaceship bases in his novels after it.