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Lindisfarne, England: see Holy Island Holy Island or Lindisfarne (lĭn`dĭsfärn), off the coast of Northumberland, NE England. ..... Click the link for more information. . Lindisfarneor Holy IslandHistoric small island 2 mi (3 km) from the English Northumbrian coast. It became a religious centre in 635, when St. Aidan established a monastery and church there. It was abandoned in 875 because of the threat of Danish raids, but the monastery was refounded in 1082 and survived until the dissolution of the monasteries (1536–40) under Henry VIII. The manuscript of the Lindisfarne Gospels (c. 696–698) is one of the finest surviving illuminated manuscripts of the period. Lindisfarne's present-day parish church may occupy the site of St. Aidan's original monastery. Lindisfarne object of first major Viking raid in Britain (792). [Br. Hist.: Grun, 86] See : Battle How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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What they sought to create was an island of calm amid the tumult of the times, a Lindisfarne where they and their children could mature in their faith and in their religious practice. The Norsemen's (Vikings') and Danes' incursions on English territory had been escalating since the first terrifying raid on the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumberland in the year 793. : Prostitutes, Philippines, Spain," in Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies, Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne, eds. |
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