This informative article describes England's first knowledge with the Vikings. How horrible it will need to have been for the poor monks to have their calm, God-fearing lives turned inverted before they even noticed that which was occurring, in a discomfort of demise and destruction. We can't help but compare it to 9/11, but on a significantly smaller scale.

The extended vessels suddenly seemed like from nowhere.

The monks, cradled properly, because they thought, in the love and peace of God, stopped what they were doing and peered curiously at these strange craft. They found fierce seeking guys disgorging from the boats, brute-men in send byrnies and helms, with swords and axes. They didn't stop, but scaled the cliffs with a terrible function and built right for the indegent, peace-loving monks.

Unarmed and very unused to martial ways, they ran in panic, this way and that, trying to save the important relics and items of the monastery. What chance had they? The Vikings were curved on an orgy of killing and looting. Viking axe

Their swords pierced the monks' tissue, while those bad war-axes separated brains from bodies and in some instances sliced through from the throat to the waist, creating half-men of people who had when been Lord fearing human beings.

Nothing was sacred 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 put hard, uncaring practical the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in both Latin and Old English, telling the stories of Matthew, Level, Luke and John.

Many monks were killed, while others were devote stores and resulted in the vessels as slaves. However the others were removed bare and chased to the shore where several drowned, whilst enduring the gross insults of the marauders. Some existed, however, returned to the monastery, and renewed it.