Hobthrush -

- or St Cuthbert's Island off Holy Island (a print on my wall....)

The monastery on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne was founded by St Aidan in the 7th century. St Cuthbert was a monk on the island and later became abbot. He was buried in the Abbey.

The island was vulnerable to Viking raids, and suffered their first in 793. In 875 the monks abandoned the abbey, driven off by repeated Viking attacks. They took Cuthbert's bones with them.

Lindisfarne is a tidal island - and many cross the sands at low-tide to make a pilgrimage to this day.

The tide did now its flood-mark gain,
And girdled in the saint's domain;
For, with the flow and ebb, its style
Varies from continent to isle;
Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day,
The pilgrims to the shrine find way;
Twice every day, the waves efface
Of staves and sandalled feet the trace.

Sir Walter Scott "The Holy Island"