In 793 AD, the first recorded Viking raids, where 'on the Ides of June the harrying of the heathen destroyed God's church on Lindisfarne, bringing ruin and slaughter' (The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).
the vikings first raided the monastery of lindersfarne.
The first vikings to raid England were norwegian vikings. However the first sea-raid ever from Scandinavia to western Europe was that of Hugleik from Götaland in nowadays Sweden, who raided the coast of Frisia in the Frankish kingdom already in the sixth century.
The Vikings lived in a harsh climate, and at first they were able to survive on fishing, farming and trading alone, but when their population increased, the Vikings raided other lands in order to gain land and possessions.
The first ISLAND the vikings attacked was Lindisfarne
The Vikings lived in a harsh climate, and at first they were able to survive on fishing, farming and trading alone, but when their population increased, the Vikings raided other lands in order to gain land and possessions.
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If all Viking raids into territories outside of Scandinavia are taken into account, completeley exluding the the Swedish Viking's ventures to the east, the Vikings raided current day France three times for every time they raided the British isles. The consequences were dire, because no-one could stand up to them. They took what they wanted, being neither good nor bad, and as a consequence we had our first European Union 1000 years ago. Not ruled by Vikings, but ensured by Vikings.
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Great Britan in 1840
The people who were raided during odysseus' first stop on his return from war were the cicones.