Jarrow

I'm determined to be able to understand the Crimean War enough to explain it to what, just to my daughter perhaps.

And now, beloved listener and friend or supporter or newcomer, we're going to read a little bit from the guide to St Paul's Church, Jarrow and his monastic buildings.

I'm obsessed with this part of England, and forever trying to teach myself more and more.

And I've read this a few times already.

Well, I checked before and it's out of copyright, so let's go.

The interior of the church.

So for you to enjoy this, you can either sort of sit back, shut your eyes and just meditate, or you can look it up and look at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.

If you want to enjoy it fully, then Google St Paul's Church Jarrow, then turn to photographs of the interior of the church and in particular the chancel.

He loved fighting and his handsome wife and the battle songs he made.

But the Saxons had no cause to love him, and when his ship ran aground near Jarrow, they bound him and cast him into a pit of snakes and watched him slowly die.

The Viking had no fear of death.

He sang as he lay there of his life and his deeds, of the great banquets he had given to the wolves and the vultures and the fierce battles he had won, spreading the terrors of his name from the Orkneys to the Mediterranean.

His place of meditation was a sea-girt rock by Lindisfarne, lonely and picturesque, and still called after his name.

A curious fossil with the mark of a cross is plentiful there and goes by the name of St. Cuthbert's beads.

Other famous teachers were Wilfred of York, who founded the churches of Hexham and Ripon, Boisil, who founded Melrose, and Biskup, who founded Jarrow.

But perhaps the most celebrated of all was Bede, the venerable Bede who lived at Jarrow and wrote forty-five learned books on all subjects, including music, astronomy, and medicine.

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THE BOY WHO WON A PRIZE you know what sort of stories bede was fond of telling of course in latin if you should be asked with whom english prose began i think it would be safe to say with bede who wrote the life of st cuthbert and the ecclesiastical history but that is not why you should say that bede began english prose but because at his death he was busy finishing a book written in english and called translation of the gospel of st john when his last day came the good old man called all his scholars about him there is still a chapter wanting said the youth who always took down all of bede's dictation and it is hard for thee to question thyself longer it is easily done answered bede take thy pen and write quickly all day long they wrote when twilight came the boy cried out there is still one sentence unwritten dear master write it quickly answered the master it is finished now said the boy thou sayest truth came the answer all is finished now singing the praise of god his scholars and the boy scribe about him he died alas that this english book that he bravely finished has been lost Bede was born about 673, and lived most of his life in the monastery at Jarrow in Northumbria, in the north of England.

With Bede's death, the home of English prose literature was changed from the north to the south, from Northumbria to Wessex, where there lived a noble boy called Alfred.

Asser, the man who was his secretary after the boy grew up, has written a life of Alfred.

There is still a chapter wanting, said the youth who always took down all of Bede's dictation, and it is hard for thee to question thyself longer.

it is easily done answered bede take thy pen and write quickly all day long they wrote when twilight came the boy cried out there is still one sentence unwritten dear master write it quickly answered the master it is finished now said the boy thou sayest truth came the answer all is finished now singing the praise of god his scholars and the boy scribe about him he died alas that this english book that he bravely finished has been lost Bede was born about 673, and lived most of his life in the monastery at Jarrow in Northumbria, in the north of England.

With Bede's death, the home of English prose literature was changed from the north to the south, from Northumbria to Wessex, where there lived a noble boy called Alfred.

Asser, the man who was his secretary after the boy grew up, has written a life of Alfred.

There is still a chapter wanting, said the youth who always took down all of Bede's dictation, and it is hard for thee to question thyself longer.

it is easily done answered bede take thy pen and write quickly all day long they wrote when twilight came the boy cried out there is still one sentence unwritten dear master write it quickly answered the master it is finished now said the boy thou sayest truth came the answer all is finished now singing the praise of god his scholars and the boy scribe about him he died alas that this english book that he bravely finished has been lost Bede was born about 673, and lived most of his life in the monastery at Jarrow in Northumbria, in the north of England.

With Bede's death, the home of English prose literature was changed from the north to the south, from Northumbria to Wessex, where there lived a noble boy called Alfred.

Asser, the man who was his secretary after the boy grew up, has written a life of Alfred.

He loved fighting and his handsome wife and the battle-songs he made.

But the Saxons had no cause to love him, and when his ship ran aground near Jarrow they bound him and cast him into a pit of snakes, and watched him slowly die.

The Viking had no fear of death.

He sang as he lay there of his life and his deeds.

His place of meditation was a sea-girt rock by Lindisfarne, lonely and picturesque, and still called after his name.

A curious fossil with the mark of a cross is plentiful there and goes by the name of St. Cuthbert's beads.

Other famous teachers were Wilfred of York, who founded the churches of Hexham and Ripon, Boisil, who founded Melrose, and Biskup, who founded Jarrow.

But perhaps the most celebrated of all was Bede, the venerable Bede who lived at Jarrow and wrote forty-five learned books on all subjects, including music, astronomy, and medicine.