Nothing was sacred to these savage men. They dug up altars, trampled on expensive relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They put rough, uncaring practical the lovely Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in both Latin and Old British, telling the stories of Matthew, Level, Luke and John. Many monks were killed, while the others were put in organizations and resulted in the vessels as slaves. 

Yet the others were removed nude and chased to the shore wherever many drowned, even while putting up with the gross insults of the marauders. Some existed, however, went back to the monastery, and rebuilt it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells us that before the attack on viking axes  Lindisfarne, in that same year, awful portents were seen. Immense sensations of lightening, fiery dragons flying in the air and following these came a good famine in the land.

"Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 needed Master Offa's girl Eadburh. And in his times there came for the first time 3 ships; and then your reeve rode there and desired to compel them to visit the king's city, while he didn't understand what they were; and they killed him. These were the very first vessels of the Danish men which wanted out the land of the English race." Therefore wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.

Re-live the grand Viking times upon your trip to the Lofotr Viking Memorial of Norway. Positioned on the area of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, that interesting memorial is housed in the greatest Viking longhouse however active in the 21st century. Measuring about 83 yards extended, that extraordinary framework used to be the house of the most effective chieftains in the upper region of Norway. Lofotr is often referred to as an income museum, which characteristics dog displays and reconstructions of the wonderful Viking days.