Lindisfaras
The Lindisfaras or Lindesfaras (Old English: Lindisfaran) were an
Northumbria, remained under Mercian control until the Viking invasion of the ninth century.[1][2] According to D. P. Kirby, the Heathfeld Land of Yorkshire mentioned as part of the Lindisfaras' 7000 hides listed in the Tribal Hidage, was Hatfield Chase.[3]
Lindisfarne in Northumbria derived its name, according to one place-name authority, from the Lindisfaras, so having the meaning "island [of the] travellers from Lindsey",[4] indicating that the island was settled from Lindsey, or possibly that its inhabitants travelled there.[5]
See also
- Diocese of Lindsey
References
- ^ Bede, Ecclesiastical History, IV, 21, p. 240.
- ^ Simon Keynes, "Wulfhere", in: The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Michael Lapidge et al. (eds.), 2001.
- ^ D. P. Kirby, The Earliest English Kings; 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2001
- ^ A. D. Mills, Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names; 2nd ed. Oxford: OUP, 1997, p. 221
- ^ Ekwall, E., The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names; 4th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960, pp. 298-99 (earliest OE form quoted is "Lindisfarena ea" (island of the Lindsey people), in OE Bede, ca. 890)