Eardulf of Lindisfarne

Eardulf of Lindisfarne († 899) was 854-899 an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Lindisfarne.

Life

Eardulf appeared in history starting in the year 854 with his ordination as bishop. He cared not only about Lindisfarne, but also to the pastoral care in remote communities.

Eardulf wanted to bring in the year 882 with Abbot Eadred and some monks relics to Ireland in safety. According to legend, a storm came on, the on board flushed water turned to blood, and a copy of the Lindisfarne Gospels went overboard. Contrary winds drove the boat back to shore, which was understood as a signal sent by Cuthbert heavenly sign. Three days later, the Lindisfarne Gospels were recovered intact on the basis of a vision.

Abt Geve took the refugees in the year 882 for four months in Crec monastery. After the Christian Dane Guthfrith had become I. King of Jorvik, the situation eased, and Eardulf and his monks settled in Cuncacestre ( Chester -le- Street) and built there and the new bishop's seat of the Bishops of Lindisfarne. Guthfrith I. transferred the bishopric of the area between the Wear and Tyne and recognized a 37 -day sanctuary.

Some time later, as the legend goes, Scots plundered the monastery of Lindisfarne. St. Cuthbert is said to have the effect that the whole enemy army fell into a crevasse.

In the year 899 Eardulf died at an old age after 46 years in office.

Swell

• Symeon of Durham, History of the Church of Durham
• Symeon of Durham, Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum
• Powicke and EB Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed London: Royal Historical Society in 1961