And, of course, the Irish got the script from the Romans via the early missionaries (Patrick, Ciaran etc.), and Irish and English missionaries went on to teach it to the Germans, and it became the Carolingian script too. Much easier to read than the later monkish script.

Certainly after Whitby the monastery would have been brought under Roman discipline; that was the whole point of St. Wilfrid's mission. I would expect that die- hard Celtic monks would have withdrawn rather than accept the change of discipline; and taken any books they had with them. So I think the monks were at least Romanized when they wrote the Gospels. But in any case, there was a great deal of exchange between Celtic and Saxon art styles, and whether Irish or Saxon, the monks would have been steeped in this.

Incidentally, the name Lindisfarne itself seems to reflect the post- Whitby period, as it appears to refer to the attachment of the monastery to Lincold (Lindum).