Lindisfarne island to raid the monestery
they killed them and ate there heads and pooed on there hands
The first ISLAND the vikings attacked was Lindisfarne
June 8, 793 AD. Danish raiders sacked the monastery Lindisfarne.
The first recorded Viking raid occurred in the year 793 against the great monastery of Lindisfarne off the northeast coast of England.
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793 AD
Lindisfarne island to raid the monestery
They came from the sea in a whirlwind of violence. In AD793, the Christian monastery of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast was ransacked by pagans. They plundered and raped; they showed no mercy. These were the Vikings and they came to dominate Europe for the next 200 years.
they killed them and ate there heads and pooed on there hands
The first ISLAND the vikings attacked was Lindisfarne
June 8, 793 AD. Danish raiders sacked the monastery Lindisfarne.
The first recorded Viking raid occurred in the year 793 against the great monastery of Lindisfarne off the northeast coast of England.
They invaded in 796AD also they invaded lindisfarme because the monastery was porly defended and it was rich in silver and gold.
Cutheard of Lindisfarne died in 915.
because it was there. :) and because it was a repository of a significant amount of easily-transportable wealth, and not very well defended because attacking a house of God was unthinkable to the people who built it.
Lindisfarne Association was created in 1972.