The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 310
eninsula it occupies. The Nor-mans called it Duresme, and changes made the word Durham.Its celebrity began about 995, when the monks of the HolyIsland, Lindisfarne, were fleeing from the Danes and seekinga secure place for themselves and the remains of their greatpatron, St. Cuthbert. He had been,… … DURHAM. 221 that had caused him to be canonized. His body was laid nearthe altar of the church on the island, and legends, of the earlymediaeval sort, describe the manner in which it was afterwardscarried thence and enshrined at Durham. In 10G9, Williamthe Conqueror came with terrible destruction,…
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