The first monastery at Lindisfarne was started by a monk called ... from God because there were still too many pagans living in England. His letter was more like an advert for the Christian ...
Over 1,000 years ago, on June 8th 793 AD, a small band of Vikings sailed down the eastern coast of England. Their target was a monastery, called Lindisfarne, and they decided to launch a surprise ...
For centuries—indeed, ever since Viking raiders savagely attacked England's Lindisfarne monastery in A.D. 793—the Vikings have seemed to many to have been little more than blue-eyed barbarians ...
Historic finds are not uncommon on Lindisfarne, which was home to a monastery founded in 635 by Irish monk St Aidan. The famous Lindisfarne Gospels were produced on the island and, in 793 ...
The gospels date back to Anglo-Saxon times and remain in almost perfect condition The 1,300-year-old Lindisfarne Gospels have returned to north-east England for the first time in almost a decade.