The monks, cradled properly, because they thought, in the enjoy and peace of God, ended what they certainly were performing and peered curiously at these weird craft. Then they saw fierce looking guys disgorging from the vessels, 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 straight for the poor, peace-loving monks.
Unarmed and rather untouched to martial methods, they went in stress, in this way and that, seeking to save lots of the valuable relics and gifts of the monastery. What opportunity had they? The Vikings were curved on an orgy of killing and looting.
Their swords pierced the monks' tissue, while those bad war-axes parted minds from bodies and sometimes sliced through from the neck to the waist, creating half-men of those that had after been Lord fearing individual beings.
Nothing was sacred to these savage men. They finished up altars, trampled on important relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They laid rough, uncaring practical the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in both Latin and Old English, showing the stories of Matthew, Level, Luke and John.
Several monks were killed, while others were place in organizations and generated the vessels as slaves. Yet others were removed naked and chased to the shore wherever many drowned, whilst suffering the primitive insults of the marauders. Some lived, nevertheless, returned to the monastery, and rebuilt it. viking shields
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle shows people that prior to the strike on Lindisfarne, because same year, horrible portents were seen. Immense flashes of lightening, fiery dragons traveling in the air and following these came a great famine in the land.
"Here Beorhtric [AD 786-802] needed King Offa's daughter Eadburh. And in his days there got for initially 3 boats; and then a reeve rode there and wanted to compel them to go to the king's city, because he didn't know very well what they certainly were; and they killed him. These were the very first vessels of the Danish men which wanted out the land of the British race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
In later articles, we'll observe how Alfred, the only real English king to be nicknamed "The Great," fought the Vikings to a standstill at the Fight of Ethandun. The united states was separate then, the southwestern part being presented by the Saxons. The Northeastern half, including London, held by the Danes.
