Lindisfarne monastery viking raid 793CE
In 793CE the vikings (Nordic people) made history by raiding the Lindisfarne monastery on Holy island of the coast of Northumbria in northeast England. The monks weren't prepared for such a raid, before the vikings raided they lived a long life of peace since the Irish hermit st Aidan founded the monastery in 635CE. The monks were powerless against the vikings brutal ways and weapons. The vikings raiding ships were thought to have made their way over from western Norway. They devastated everything with pitiless looting. They trampled the monks sacred possessions. They killed several monks, several they bound with opprobrium and threw out naked and some were drowned out in the sea.
Here are a few points of view from the monks being attacked from the Anglos Saxon chronicles
"AD 793. This year came dreadful fore warnings over the land of Northumbrians, terrifying people most woefully: these were immense sheets of light rushing through the air, and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons flying across the firmament. These tremendous tokens were soon followed by a great famine: and not long after, on the sixth day before the ides of January in the same year, the harrowing inroads of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the church of god in Holy-island, by rapine and slaughter" entry for the year 793 in the Anglo Saxon chronicle
" Either this is the begging of greater tribulation, or else the sins of the inhabitants have called it upon them. Truly it has not happened by chance, but it is a sign that it was well merited by someone. But now, you who are left, stand manfully, fight bravely, and defend the camp of god. "
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