c9

Updated: May 5, 2025

Whatever the sins of Coldingham may have been, the community at a later date atoned for them, for in the C9, when the Danes invaded Northumbria, and killed the men of this monastery, among others, the nuns are said to have mutilated their faces in order to escape the marauders.

Constance Stoney - Early Double Monasteries: A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914