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Lindisfarne

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Lin·dis·farne  (lnds-färn)

Lindisfarne [ˈlɪndɪsˌfɑːn]
n
(Placename) another name for Holy Island


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What they sought to create was an island of calm amid the tumult of the times, a Lindisfarne where they and their children could mature in their faith and in their religious practice.
The Norsemen's (Vikings') and Danes' incursions on English territory had been escalating since the first terrifying raid on the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumberland in the year 793.
: Prostitutes, Philippines, Spain," in Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies, Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne, eds.
 
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