Category: England

Echo webnews site of Liverpool, England features a short item titled “Missing German diplomat lived on Merseyside beach for 30 years.” Byline: “Frederick Kreuger appeared in Wallasey in the 1870s and became a beloved local figure despite avoiding human contact.” Here is a classic recluse story. Kreuger appears without a history, avoids social sontact,takes frequnt walks, lives in several beach-front huts which, when opened after his pasing, are “filled with books and papers, including Mozart and Wagner scores, classical volumes written in Ancient Greek and Latin, and works written by Kreuger himself.”

URL: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/missing-german-diplomat-lived-merseyside-33091041

Current Archaeology offers an article titled “In search of Guthlac, Crowland’s early medieval hermit,” byline “Excavations in Crowland, Lincolnshire, are exploring the remains of a structure that might be linked to an Anglo-Saxon anchorite.”

While Crowland has been traditionally assumed to be Guthlac’s home, a nearby site at the suggestively-named Anchor Church Field is now the subject of archaeological attention, turning up remarkable ceramics and bone, plus evidence of a large structure.

URL: https://the-past.com/news/in-search-of-guthlac-crowlands-early-medieval-hermit/

Archaelogists have identified a cave church in Derbyshire, England, with the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon king Eardwulf of Northumbria. Eardwulf was dethroned and exiled, and lived the rest of his life reclusively, known as the hermit (or anchorite) Hardulph, who was to be canonized as a saint. For a time the cave was the presumed dwelling of an ornamental hermit on the expansive grounds of a wealthy eighteenth-century estate owner. Hardulph is thought to have attracted disciples by his eremitic example.

URL: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/anglo-saxon-cave-house-scli-intl-gbr/index.html?ofs=fbia

Brief article in The Spectator titled “How to Be a Hermit,” is a summary of Lady Juliana of Norwich, famous medieval English anchorite and mystic, author of Revelations of Divine Love.

URL: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-be-a-hermit