2. The Saxon church had been built by the followers of St. Cuthbert (634-687), who had carried the mummified body of the saint looking for a place safe from the Danish invadors. In 995, they found this site on a hill in the loope of the river Wear, called Dunholme - today Durham. Here they built the church, completed in 1017, and erected a shrine for St. Cuthbert, which was later preserved also in the new cathedral. (Stranks, C.J., This Sumptuous Church, the Story of Durham Cathedral, London 1973, 6ff.) Snape, M.G., ‘Documentary Evidence for the Building of Durham Cathedral and its Monastic Buildings’, Mediaeval Art & Architecture at Durham Cathedral, British Archaeological Ass. Conf. Transactions, 1980, 20ff.