This article explains England's first knowledge with the Vikings. How horrible it must have been for poor people monks to own their calm, God-fearing lives made inverted before they actually recognized the thing that was occurring, in an anguish of demise and destruction. We can't support but compare it to 9/11, but on a significantly smaller scale.

The long boats instantly seemed as though from nowhere.

The monks, cradled properly, because they believed, in the enjoy and peace of Lord, ended what they certainly were performing and peered curiously at these odd craft. Chances are they found fierce seeking guys disgorging from the boats, brute-men in send byrnies and helms, with swords and axes. They didn't end, but scaled the cliffs with an awful function and produced straight for the indegent, peace-loving monks.

Unarmed and very unused to martial ways, they ran in worry, in this manner and that, trying to truly save the precious relics and treasures of the monastery. What opportunity had they? The Vikings were bent on an orgy of eliminating and looting.

Their swords pierced the monks' flesh, while those bad war-axes separated brains from figures and sometimes chopped through from the neck to the middle, making half-men of those who had once been Lord fearing human beings.

Nothing was sacred to these savage men. They dug up altars, trampled on priceless relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They put hard, uncaring on the job the lovely Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in equally Latin and Previous English, telling the reports of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Many monks were killed, while the others were place in chains and resulted in the boats as slaves. Yet others were removed naked and chased to the shore wherever many drowned, whilst suffering the gross insults of the marauders. Some existed, but, went back to the monastery, and renewed it. viking axes

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle shows us that before the strike on Lindisfarne, in that same year, terrible portents were seen. Immense flashes of lightening, fiery dragons soaring in the air and subsequent these got a great famine in the land.

"Here Beorhtric [AD 786-802] took King Offa's daughter Eadburh. And in his days there came for the first time 3 ships; and then the reeve rode there and wished to compel them to go to the king's community, when he didn't know very well what they certainly were; and they killed him. These were the very first ships of the Danish men which wanted out the area of the English race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.