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“You were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by gravitational pull. We know, for example, that the very first piece of English literature was forged in the fire of your influence; that in the so-called Dark Ages you built and ran Whitby Abbey, the foundation at the centre of what became Northumbria’s Golden Age. There you hosted and facilitated the meeting of kings, princes, and bishops that changed Britain, the Synod of Whitby. But we have no account of you beyond a five-page sketch in a 1,300-year-old history, most of which recits the standard hagiographic miracles and visions of time. We have no gossipy Life, no scholarly monograph, no racy romance cycle. There isn’t even a grave.”
― Nicola Griffith, She is Here