The long vessels suddenly seemed as if from nowhere.
The monks, cradled safely, while they believed, in the love and peace of God, stopped what these were doing and peered curiously at these strange craft. Then they found intense looking guys disgorging from the boats, brute-men in mail byrnies and helms, with swords and axes. They didn't end, but scaled the cliffs with a terrible function and made right for the poor, peace-loving monks. Viking axe
Unarmed and quite untouched to martial methods, they went in panic, in this manner and that, trying to truly save the valuable relics and treasures of the monastery. What chance had they? The Vikings were bent on an orgy of killing and looting.
Their swords pierced the monks' tissue, while those awful war-axes separated brains from bodies and in some cases sliced through from the neck to the waist, creating half-men of those who had once been Lord fearing individual beings.
Nothing was sacred to these savage men. They dug up altars, trampled on precious relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They installed rough, uncaring hands on the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in equally Latin and Previous English, telling the stories of Matthew, Tag, Luke and John.
Many monks were killed, while others were place in stores and resulted in the vessels as slaves. However others were removed bare and chased to the shore wherever many drowned, all the while suffering the primitive insults of these marauders. Some existed, but, went back to the monastery, and renewed it.
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells us that before the attack on Lindisfarne, for the reason that same year, terrible portents were seen. Immense flashes of lightening, fiery dragons traveling in the air and subsequent these came a great famine in the land.
"Here Beorhtric [AD 786-802] took Master Offa's daughter Eadburh. And in his times there came for the first time 3 vessels; and then your reeve rode there and wanted to compel them to go to the king's area, when he didn't know what these were; and they killed him. These were the very first vessels of the Danish guys which wanted out the area of the English race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
In later posts, we'll see how Alfred, the sole English king to be nicknamed "The Great," struggled the Vikings to a standstill at the Challenge of Ethandun. The country was split then, the southwestern portion being held by the Saxons. The Northeastern half, including London, used by the Danes.
Re-live the grand Viking times upon your visit to the Lofotr Viking Museum of Norway. Positioned on the area of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, that interesting memorial is situated in the largest Viking longhouse however present in the 21st century. Calculating about 83 meters extended, this impressive structure was previously the house of the very effective chieftains in the upper region of Norway. Lofotr is frequently described as a living memorial, which characteristics pet demonstrates and reconstructions of the fantastic Viking days.
