Guthfrid

Role: priest, abbot · First appears: Book V · Chap. I

Life events

c. 684 · Guthfrid became abbot and presided over the brethren of Lindisfarne.(Book V · Chap. I · 📍 Lindisfarne)
- “who also, afterwards, as abbot, presided over the brethren of the same church of Lindisfarne, in which he was educated.”
c. 684 · Ethelwald calmed the tempest, allowing Guthfrid and the brethren to reach shore safely.(Book V · Chap. I · 📍 the isle of Farne)
- With: Ethelwald (hermit of Farne)
- “and as he finished his prayer, he calmed the swelling water, in such sort that the fierceness of the storm ceased on all sides, and fair winds attended us over a smooth sea to the very shore.”

with Ethelwald (hermit of Farne) (Guthfrid visited Ethelwald and sought to speak with him.) “I came,” says he, “to the island of Farne, with two others of the brethren, desiring to speak with the most reverend father, Ethelwald.”
with Ethelwald (hermit of Farne) (Ethelwald prayed for the safety of Guthfrid and the other brethren during the storm.) “When he beheld us in distress and despair, he bowed his knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in prayer for our life and safety; and as he finished his prayer, he calmed the swelling water”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.