Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery Ealdwin still chips away at the stone. I say, “Seeing everything from a Christian point of view may have skewed my understanding of the Vikings.” “How is that possible that truth can only be known from a Christian point of view?” “I’ve heard that said.” From this place byContinue reading “#70.6, Thursday, July 10, 2025”
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#70.5, Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Art Note: This is a rough rendition of the military procession on the verso of the so called “Domesday stone,” now in the Lindisfarne museum. This blogger chose to draw it, rather than print out a copy, in order to gain a better personal understanding of the artwork . Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne MonasteryContinue reading “#70.5, Wednesday, July 9, 2025”
#70.4, Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery On this terrible day Brother Ealdwin and I have been burying the dead left in the wake of the Viking raid. There are more empty cells where monks lived, than are the number of bodies we buried. Apparently, more monks than just Brother Ealdwin escaped death, but theyContinue reading “#70.4, Tuesday, July 8, 2025”
#70.3, Thursday, July 3, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery Brother Ealdwin and I take the donkey cart to the shore to collect the bodies there for burial. The one accidental kindness left by the attackers was to trade the slave who I was, for a brother, who I am now, to be with this man throughContinue reading “#70.3, Thursday, July 3, 2025”
#70.2, Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery Brother Ealdwin finds me digging graves in this field. He has with him some garments for wrapping the bodies. And he tells me he walked the width of the island from one shore to the other shore and found two more bodies by the water. One is BrotherContinue reading “#70.2, Wednesday, July 2, 2025”
#70.1, Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery The Viking raid on Lindisfarne was swift and brutal. I was a slave waiting with the ships and saw nothing of it but their return to the beach with the loot. Brother Ealdwin, watched from a slit in the tower door and saw it happen. The VikingContinue reading “#70.1, Tuesday, July 1, 2025”
#69.12, Thursday, June 26, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery This one monk who saw the desecration has survived as he escaped into the tower to ring the warning. But it all happened so quickly there was no warning. Now, I see it will be our task to bury the dead. I tell him, “I was aContinue reading “#69.12, Thursday, June 26, 2025”
#69.11, Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery The monk with an unlit lantern was shorn just this morning as any monk would prepare for a normal day. I think I had a glimpse of him, looking down from the tower when I was outside. But when I turned around now, he was startled by the sightContinue reading “#69.11, Wednesday, June 25, 2025”
#69.10, Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery The raiders were in this holy place at Lindisfarne an hour ago when I was still their slave. They came here to find an unguarded stash of wealth, knowing nothing of the Christian nature of a place for worship. Unable to find the “Jewels and the gold” insideContinue reading “#69.10, Tuesday, June 24, 2025”
#69.9, Thursday, June 19, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery I’m reaching the priory of the Lindisfarne Monastery, the gathering room used as a sanctuary and probably also the scriptorium. I find the marauders stopped here outside the walls. The stains on the earth mark their feet and axes soaked in the blood of innocent monks. Here theyContinue reading “#69.9, Thursday, June 19, 2025”
Lazarus Ink 