Talk:Lindisfarne

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What about the vikings?????

Ermm - what about them????? What what about them????? (Hmmm, 5 ?s, sounds serious ...) It has, I think, said this for some time: ... when Viking raids in 793 sacked the monastery, decimated the community, and forced the monks to flee - is that not enough, or is there something wrong with it, or what? Do tell! All enlightenment gratefully received :) Nevilley 11:22 Jan 22, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Decimated

I wonder what is meant in the article where it says the Vikings decimated the community? It's such a sloppy and misused word that I can't help wondering if it would be better to replace it with something more meaningful. Even if the original author meant they killed 1 in 10, many people are unlikely to understand this and if, as I suspect, they meant that many more than this were killed, then some other word is correct. So either way I think, with the greatest respect to the origianl author, that it's a word that can't be meaningfully used here. What do we know of what the deaths actually were, I wonder? Nevilley 08:14, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Very little, unfortunately. The major contemporary accounts are found in Alcuin's letters, which are not eyewitness accounts and make no mention of numbers of dead. I would also dispute the notion that the raid caused widespread consternation in Europe: there is little certain evidence that this was so, and indeed few contemporary references to the event. This seems to be a common opinion of modern historians, but is based on assumption as far as I have been able to discover. --Cursitor 01:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sheds

The boats used to construct the sheds are not cobles. The sheds are constructed from larger fishing boats. The coble is a beach boat and would make a poor shed. You need a boat with a substantial draft so the interior of the sheds is reasonable large. Also cobles are of light weight clinker construction, not very good for building a strong shed.

Yes, that's right. The boats aren't called cobles, I believe the correct term for them is keel boats. 86.145.146.155 14:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Present day advert?

"The monks have long vanished, but their spirit lingers in this aphrodisiac whose exact recipe remains a secret of the family still producing it. Lindisfarne mead is produced at St Aidan's Winery, and sold throughout the UK and elsewhere."

This reads a little like an advert WP:ADVERT, or something culled from promotional material. As for aphrodisiac qualities, humm.. well drink enough of it and I suspect all inhibitions fall away. EasyTarget 10:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)