Entries for the tag ‘Aidan of Lindisfarne (?-651)’
Irish missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria, founder of Lindisfarne Priory. 
- 8 June 0793: Alcuin of York, a leading figure in the Carolingian Renaissance, reflects in a poem on the devastation this day of Lindisfarne by Vikings
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