Cuthbert

St. Cuthbert’s beads. Joints of the articulated stems of encrinites, used for rosaries. St. Cuthbert was a Scotch monk of the sixth century, and may be termed the St. Patrick of Great Britain. He is said to sit at night on a rock in Holy Island, and to use the opposite rock as his anvil while he forges the enʹtrochites (enʹ-tro-kites). (See Bead.)

“On a rock of Lindisfarn

St. Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame

The sea-born beads that bear his name.”

Scott: Marmion.

St. Cuthbert’s Stone. A granite rock in Cumberland.

St. Cuthbert’s Well. A spring of water close by St. Cuthbert’s Stone.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Cuthbert

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