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Sexhelm of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne for six months, but the year is unknown.

Sexhelm was probably the Sexhelm mentioned in Walter Scott's Marmion:

Was by the prelate Sexhelm made

A place of burial for such dead

As, having died in mortal sin,

Might not be laid the church within.

Citations

1. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214

References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

External links

• Seaxhelm 3 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• Canto II of Walter Scott's Marmion

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