Prior Aldwyn beamed at Kenrick and Thurgot.
“You are truly welcome to this holy place, brothers. As you can see, it was once a great monastery. It was here that the saintly Bede came as a boy of seven and stayed until his death more than fifty years later. He wrote his Historia here,” he said this in an awed tone and shared his confidence with them, “You know, it was reading his Ecclesiastical History of the English People that inspired me to come here, to lead a life of poverty and to revive the fortunes of the abbey.”
HistoriaEcclesiastical History of the English People “It’s not much more than a ruin,” Kenrick grumbled.
“Ay, Master Mason, but there’s stone aplenty for you to work with. The Vikings attacked the monastery second only after Lindisfarne then they came back and destroyed
