Requested by @maninthewoods who mentioned folklore about cows. Not sure how well this one fits the criteria, but it's a folktale, and there's a cow in it...

This is one of the many stories about St Cuthbert that we have up here.

After Cuthbert died on the Farne Islands, his burial place became a pilgrimage site; however, Viking raids made it unsafe, so a group of monks removed his coffin and took it away.

They travelled the countryside for a long while, looking for a safe place, and there are plenty of stories about their journey, but those will have to wait for another time.

One night, a monk had a dream, or perhaps it was a holy vision, that the saint's body would be safe at Dunholme. However, none of them knew where that place was or had ever heard of it.

Soon after, they encountered two milkmaids on the road. One was looking for her good dun cow, and the other said she had seen the cow away over at Dunholme. The monks followed the milkmaids until they came to a piece of land protected by a loop of the river and by steep crags. There was the dun cow peacefully grazing, and there they knew Cuthbert's body would be safe.

They buried his coffin and built a church over it. The church became a cathedral and a city grew up. Over the years the name Dunholme became Durham, and St Cuthbert's body still rests there, thanks to a wandering dun cow.

#folklore #FolkloreThursday #Northumberland #Durham #legends #OriginMyth #StCuthbert #EarlyMedieval

Interesting

Cuddy - the novel

#StCuthbert
#novels

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/articles/interviews/most-of-us-get-a-little-plot-and-headstone-if-we-re-lucky-cuddy-got-one-of-the-great-architectural-wonders-of-the-world-built-on-his-head/?utm_campaign=Fiction%20%26%20Nonfiction%2020th%20March&utm_content=Read%20more%20%C2%BB&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra

#ImageOfTheDay on Monday, #StCuthbert’s Day.

Fenwick Lawson’s sculpture of the saint in the ruins of #Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island. The original, in the grounds of Durham Heritage Centre on the Bailey, was created in 1984. This bronze was cast in 2000.

Slaying Xholakhad*

St Cuthbert's Mace was once used by the hero #Endri of Uir to slay the #GholGan advisor #Xholakhad.
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Ghol-Gan
#StCuthbert

https://i.imgur.com/htOYqGt.jpg

20 Pharast: St Cuthbert's Mace on the move

A legendary artifact from far from Golarion, the mace teleports every year on this day to somewhere in the Great Beyond to be found in time by a hero to aid in smiting a major evil. https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Saint_Cuthbert's_Mace #StCuthbert

https://i.imgur.com/5X9mEAU.png

Two bits of #Encouragment as I wait for the start of #VitaminB12 #injections

Lovely comment in #StCuthbert #Bellingham visitors book “What a gem! Came on recommendation and not disappointed”

And the miniature #daffodils are coming into bud. #Spring

More about the new memorial to #StCuthbert on #Lindisfarne. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/memorial-to-st-cuthbert-restored-to-lindisfarne-after-nearly-500-years?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Memorial to St Cuthbert restored to Lindisfarne after nearly 500 years #StCuthbert #Lindisfarne https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/memorial-to-st-cuthbert-restored-to-lindisfarne-after-nearly-500-years

@IoanSaid #Bellingham #StCuthbert #Northumberland

@craigincoquille @srseanm
I decided to study the life of our parish patron, St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne during #Advent. Found a couple of gems in epub format through #WorldCat and am reading them in G-Books. It's worth sorting through the goofy characters. Found the Yates Thompson illuminated #manuscript of Bede's prose biography of #StCuthbert in the #BritishLibrary. Gorgeous illuminations! #catholic #readinglist
https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6441

St. Cuthbert stained glass window at the church of St John the Evangelist in Otterburn, Northumberland.

#Otterburn #Northumberland #Anglican #StainedGlass #StCuthbert

St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Blyth, on a beautiful, sunny afternoon.
#Church #ParishChurch #StCuthbert #SaintCuthbert #Blyth #Northumberland