Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII.504.

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v, stanzas 39 and 40.

Holy of holies.

The ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

More commonly known as Derwent Isle, this island’s alternate name can be traced to
the era when, prior to the sixteenth-century dissolution of the monasteries, it was
owned by the monks of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire.

Both the venerable Bede and local tradition hold that the seventh-century anchorite
St. Herbert chose this island on Derwentwater as the site for his hermitage.