Like the Abbey at Lindisfarne, the Abbey at Whitby was sacked by Viking raiders and rebuilt. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed. So this life of man appears for a short space but of what went before or what is to follow we are ignorant. The present life man, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter amid your officers and ministers, with a good fire in the midst whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry but after a short space of fair weather he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he has emerged. Biographical Information on The Venerable Bede.
Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
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