Lindisfarena

Old English

Alternate spellings

• Lindesfarona, Lindesfearona, Lindisfarna

Etymology

Genitive plural of an unattested nominative/accusative *Lindisfaran.

Proper noun

Lindisfarena m

1. Lindisfarne (an island off the coast of England)
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Þæt iċ bē ðām hālgan fæder Cūðbyrhte wrāt oððe on þysse bēċ oððe on ōðre, þā dǣda his līfes, sume iċ ǣrest nom of þām ġewrītum ðe iċ āwriten ġemette mid þām brōðrum þǣre ċyriċean æt Lindesfearona ēa sumu ðā þe iċ sylf onġitan mihte þurh swīðe ġetrēowa manna ġesæġene iċ tōycte.

     That which I wrote about the holy father Cuthbert, either in this book or another, about his life's deeds, some I took first from what I found among the brethren of the church at Lindisfarne, and I have added on the particulars which I could glean through conversations with very trustworthy people.

Usage notes

• Often used with the noun ēa (“river”)

Descendants

• English: Lindisfarne

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Lindisfaran”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.