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Title: The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Howorth, Henry H. (Henry Hoyle), Sir, 1842-1923
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Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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not the least likely to have been commemoratedon monuments by the Danish landowners of Yorkshire in thetenth and eleventh century, who were separated completely intradition from the older men, not only by their belonging toanother race but by the hundred years of restored paganism. All this was apparently unknown to Dr. Sophus Miiller, adeservedly high authority on Danish antiquities, but with nospecial or direct knowledge of our archceology and, what isalso much more important, ignorant also of our history. Ina work entitled Dyre or?iamentike7i i IVorden, published atCopenhagen in 1880, he dates our crosses not earlier than theyear 1000, on the astonishing ground that their decorationbelongs to the late Carlovingian period, with which it has infact no connection whatever, in style or otherwise. Nothingcan be plainer than that none of the crosses of the type we arediscussing have anything to do with the ninth, tenth, or eleventhcenturies. Thus by a process of exhaustion we are obliged
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The Figure of the Saviour on the Rushworth and BewcastleCrosses, showing the same Treatment. (Io/. I ( (., facing p. 310. APPENDIX IV 311 to treat the close of the eighth century as the terminus ad que7nof our journey. Let us therefore turn to the earliest period of NorthumbrianChristian history, and especially to that which intervened betweenthe advent of the Celtic monks under Aidan in the seventh centuryand year 800. Here we have a different story to tell. All thereasons which I have quoted as conclusively proving the impossi-bility of these crosses having been erected later than the year 800,converge upon the probability, or rather certainty, that they wereerected before the year 800. The runic letters on them belongto that period, the language on them is exactly of that period,the known names on them are all of persons who lived at thatperiod, and the poetry which occurs on the finest of them was,as we have seen, composed by a Northumbrian poet who livedin that period; nor do I k

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