[NYer]

Some Additional information ..

Saint Cuthbert's Gospel

St Cuthbert

The 7th Century St Cuthbert’s Bible is the oldest European book.

The manuscript, a copy of the Gospel of St John, was produced in the north of England in the late seventh-century and was buried alongside St Cuthbert, an early English Christian leader, on the island of Lindisfarne off the coast of Northumberland around 698AD.

The coffin was moved off the island to escape Viking raiders and taken to Durham, where the book was found when the coffin was opened at the cathedral in 1104.

[americanophile]

ping

[Houghton M.]

Strange: don’t hear ‘bout no Vikings burying no precious books to keep them from the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllll
Christian raiders.

‘nother one o’ those religions of peace, them Thorlovers, I suppose.

[Houghton M.]

And, “dissolved the monasteries,” sounds so regular and “move-alongp-now-nothing-to-see-here” ordinary. How about calling a spade a spade: “When Henry VIII in a bloody power grab stole all the property he could lay his hands on to found his own Church”???

[Houghton M.]

“Stole it and sold it to his thug-friends in order to increase his stash” like someone we know today tends to do (stealing GM from its stock-holders and giving it to the union-thugs).

[ken21]

bump.

[stuartcr]

Bernard Cornwell mentions St. Cuthbert in a number of his novels.