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(1908) [MARC] [MARC] Author: William Gershom Collingwood With: Frederick York Powell
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re-founded it. Halfdan’s colony was mainly confined to
Yorkshire.

One interesting episode of the period tends to confirm
this conclusion. On Halfdan’s raid into Bernicia
(875) Eardwulf, abbot of Lindisfarne, fled before the
storm, carrying with him the relics of St. Cuthbert,
and wandered from refuge to refuge for nine years ;
so Symeon says, though probably the period was much
shorter. His journeyings throw some light on the
state of the country at the time, and they can be
partly traced from the traditions given by Symeon and
Reginald of Durham, and from early dedications of
churches near which there is some presumption that
the relics rested in their wandering. The guide of
the party was abbot Eadred "Lulisc," of Caer-Luel or
Carlisle, whose monastery must have been destroyed
about the same time. The earlier part of the
route has been traced by Monsignor Eyre, and the
later by the late Rev. T. Lees, from ancient dedications
to St. Cuthbert, which, taken for what they are
worth, suggest that the fugitives went at first inland to
Elsdon, then by the Reed and Tyne to Haydon
Bridge and up the South Tyne Valley, south by the
Maiden Way, and so through the fells, by Lorton and
Embleton, to the Cumberland coast. At Derwent
Mouth (Workington) they determined to embark for
Ireland, but were driven back by a storm and thrown
upon the coast of Galloway, where they found a refuge
at Whithorn, which (see further on p. 225) may have
already been occupied by the Viking colony of Gallgael.
In this storm the MS. Gospels of bishop Eadfrith


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