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In the Days of Athelney Seven years did the monks of Lindisfarne wanderover Old Northumbria with the body of St. Cuthbert.In the wildest tracts of that wide land of fell andforest there was no spot the saint in life had everseen to which they did not bring him in his shrine;and further still they bore him than he had evertravelled. Evil was the day that brought about that long andstrange wayfaring with the holy dead. For afterHalfdene had sacked and burned the priory of Tyne-mouth, he and his Danish sea-wolves swept north-ward, harrying the unprotected coast. But swiftlyas they sped, dismay and fear flew faster; and beforethe dragon-prows dashed into the bay at Lindisfarne,the little brotherhood, carrying in tears the shrineof their beloved saint, had escaped along the ridgeof sand left bare between isle and mainland at ebbof the tide, and gathering their churls and tenants, 177 M A Childs Book of Warriors with the flocks and herds of the abbey, had fled forrefuge to the high moorland

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