Nothing was sacred to these savage men. They made up altars, trampled on priceless relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They laid hard, uncaring on the job the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in equally Latin and Old English, showing the reports of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Many monks were killed, while the others were devote chains and led to the ships as slaves.
However others were stripped bare and chased to the shore where many drowned, even while suffering the raw insults of the marauders. Some existed, however, went back to the monastery, and rebuilt viking axes it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells people that before the strike on Lindisfarne, in that same year, bad portents were seen. Immense sensations of lightening, fiery dragons traveling in the air and following these came a great famine in the land.
"Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 took King Offa's daughter Eadburh. And in his times there came for the first time 3 ships; and then a reeve rode there and wanted to compel them to visit the king's community, while he didn't understand what they were; and they killed him. Those were the initial vessels of the Danish guys which sought out the land of the British race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
Re-live the mighty Viking times upon your visit to the Lofotr Viking Memorial of Norway. Positioned on the area of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, that intriguing memorial is situated in the largest Viking longhouse however present in the 21st century. Calculating about 83 yards long, this outstanding structure was previously the home of the very most powerful chieftains in the northern place of Norway. Lofotr is often called a full time income museum, which characteristics animal exhibits and reconstructions of the glorious Viking days.
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