because it was there.
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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.
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 began to raid because that was how they where raised and they thought it was normal. It was part of there culture.
During the Viking invasion of Lindisfarne in 793 AD, it is estimated that around 60 monks were killed. The raid, which targeted the Lindisfarne Priory, marked one of the first recorded Viking attacks on a Christian monastery in England. The event shocked the Christian world and is often cited as the beginning of the Viking Age.
793 AD
The first ISLAND the vikings attacked was Lindisfarne
June 8, 793 AD. Danish raiders sacked the monastery Lindisfarne.
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.
The first recorded Viking raid occurred in the year 793 against the great monastery of Lindisfarne off the northeast coast of England.
In AD 793, the island of Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast of England, was famously raided by Vikings. This event marked the beginning of the Viking Age. The raid on Lindisfarne, a monastic site, was particularly shocking due to its brutality and the sacred nature of the target. The Vikings looted the monastery, killed many of its inhabitants, and desecrated religious relics. This attack is often seen as a pivotal moment that signaled the start of a series of Viking invasions across Europe.
They began to raid because that was how they where raised and they thought it was normal. It was part of there culture.
In 793 in Lindisfarne, Northumbria, England.
During the Viking invasion of Lindisfarne in 793 AD, it is estimated that around 60 monks were killed. The raid, which targeted the Lindisfarne Priory, marked one of the first recorded Viking attacks on a Christian monastery in England. The event shocked the Christian world and is often cited as the beginning of the Viking Age.
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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).
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