Lindisfarne (also known as "Holy Island") is a tidal island located off the east coast of the United Kingdom. It's known for a Christian monastery founded in the 7th century that suffered a Viking ...

Cut off at high tide, linked at low, Lindisfarne remains isolated yet also connected – both an island and not an island. And somehow that long, low horizon stretching far out into the North Sea ...

That great kingdom was called Northumbria ... but its holiest site was an island stuck out in the North Sea. Lindisfarne, 12 miles south of Berwick, can be seen from trains that run on the East ...