Prince Bishop Poetry

By Norma Alison Smith

Lore and legend, folklore and tales, interwoven with beasts and ghostly castles. Vistas of a landscape visited by the holy pilgrims of Saint Cuthbert. Pagan and Christianity playing a merry tune in the words.

Pastimes that shape our future, resonating through the centuries in song, stories and poetry.

Well-placed fear of the lonely moors - for who lives on these bleak landscapes?

Beasts such as the Picktree brag, half-man, half-horse, with sightings still noted to this day around Lambton Castle.

Chester-le-Street is one of the resting places of Saint Cuthbert's coffin. Steeped in legend, visitors come from all over the globe to follow the saint's last journey from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral.

The storytellers of the land of the Prince Bishops work their trade in books and papers for the delight of all. I hope you enjoy my book, please read on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Norma Alison Smith
• Release date: Jan 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201752323

Norma Alison Smith

Alison Smith is a 63-year-old retired civil servant, born in Durham, England, in June 1958. She lives in Washington, Tyne and Wear, is educated to degree level BA (Honours) Manchester Metropolitan University and is the Director of Misterly Ltd.

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Prince Bishop Poetry

Norma Alison Smith

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Copyright © Norma Alison Smith 2022

All rights reserved.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be hired out, lent or resold, or otherwise circulated without the author’s/publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher.

The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

Contents

Chapter 1

666

Brown-Clothed Man of the Moors

The Wear

The Lantern Man and the Lord

The Forges Beamish

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