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 photos: david lindley lindisfarne is a tidal island just off the northumbrian coast: connected to the mainland by a causeway it is cut off twice a day by the tides, as described in a famous poem by sir walter scott for with the flow and ebb, its style varies from continent to isle; dry shood o'er sands, twice every day, the pilgrims to the shrine find way; twice every day the waves efface of staves and sandelled feet the trace. this shot illustrates what i suppose to be a refuge point for those people caught when the tide covers the road and cuts the island off. locally the island is not usually known by its anglo-saxon name of 'lindisfarne', but rather 'holy island' - after various bloody attacks upon the island's monastery by vikings in 793ad the monks observed: 'lindisfarne - baptised in the blood of so many good men - truly a holy island', and the alternative name stuck. | |
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