During a fall when I’ve been too busy for blogging, I got a great medieval surprise in my snail mailbox. For the first time I can remember the Jarrow Lecture has been published in the year it was given! Kudos to Barbara Yorke! She gave a very interesting and thought provoking lecture. So thought provoking [...]
Archive for the ‘Lindisfarne’ Category
9 Feb
FB: Din-Guaïroï /Bebbanburg/Bamburgh
You knew I couldn’t wait too long to do Bamburgh. Thanks to Bernard Cromwell it may be the best known Anglo-Saxon fortress site in England today anyway.
Din-Guaïroï
Din Guaïroï is the name given to Bamburgh in the Historia Brittonum, which then later tells us that it was renamed Bebbanburgh for Æthelfrith’s queen. The [...]
6 Dec
LKM: Cumbria-Galloway (Solway Firth)
Post-Roman Cumbria and Galloway
The region of Cumbria and Galloway was the active zone for the ‘Men of the North’, famous in British poetry. Many of the ‘Men of the North’ appear to have been located in old Roman ruins along Hadrian’s Wall. All of the ‘Men of the North’, including the dynasty of Rheged, are [...]
9 Nov
LKM: Bernicia/Bryneich
Bernicia or Bryneich?
We know that the name of the kingdom was British and their name for it was Bryneich. No one has put forth a compelling translation for Bryneich. It appears to have been the southern part of Votandini (Gododdin) territory under the Romans, although it may have been independent then just without its [...]
23 Jun
Audrey, Cuthbert and the Durham Stole
[I haven't been able to post much lately, but life seems to be getting straightened out so I hope on a regular basis back soon. It may be August before I'm back to the frequency I had last spring though. Hang in there with me...]
Today is the feast of St Æthelthryth so I can’t let [...]
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