Nothing was holy to these savage men. They dug up altars, trampled on important relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They laid hard, uncaring practical the lovely Lindisfarne Gospels, published in both Latin and Old British, showing the experiences of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Many monks were killed, while others were devote organizations and led to the ships as slaves.

However others were removed naked and chased to the shore wherever several drowned, whilst enduring the elementary insults of Viking axes.those marauders. Some lived, however, returned to the monastery, and rebuilt it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle shows people that prior to the attack on Lindisfarne, for the reason that same year, terrible portents were seen. Immense flashes of lightening, fiery dragons traveling in the air and following these got a great famine in the land.

"Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 took King Offa's girl Eadburh. And in his days there came for the very first time 3 boats; and then the reeve rode there and desired to compel them to go to the king's town, because he didn't know very well what these were; and they killed him. These were the very first boats of the Danish men which sought out the area of the British race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.

Re-live the grand Viking days upon your stop by at the Lofotr Viking Memorial of Norway. Situated on the area of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, this exciting memorial is housed in the greatest Viking longhouse still active in the 21st century. Calculating about 83 yards extended, this extraordinary framework was previously the house of the very strong chieftains in the upper location of Norway. Lofotr is usually described as a living memorial, which features animal demonstrates and reconstructions of the glorious Viking days.