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CUTBERD (saint). Cuthbert, c. A.D. 635-687, became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 685. His name is connected with the famous Lindisfarne Gospels, Cotton Nero D.4, fol.8, in Latin glosses of the eighth century, written at Lindisfarne and placed as an offering to the saint. Bede tells how Cuthbert entertained angels without knowing who they were in Vita metrica Sancti Cuthberti, episcopi Lindisfarnensis VIII (PL 94: 580).

John, the student from Strother in the north, asks the miller for hospitality in St. Cutberd's name, RvT 4127. [John3]

Cutberd is a variant of Cudbert and appears in final rhyming position. ME Cudbert is a development of OE Cudbeorht.


B. McKeehan, "The Book of the Nativity of St. Cuthbert." PMLA 48 (1933): 981-999; Two Lives of Saint Cuthbert: A Life by an Anonymous Monk of Lindisfarne and Bede's Prose Life, ed. B. Colgrave.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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