Nothing was sacred to these savage men. They finished up altars, trampled on expensive relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They put hard, uncaring on the job the wonderful Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in both Latin and Previous English, showing the experiences of Matthew, Tag, Luke and John. Many monks were killed, while others were put in organizations and resulted in the boats as slaves. 

Yet others were stripped naked and chased to the shore wherever many drowned, even while enduring the crude insults of these marauders. Some lived, but, went back to the monastery, and renewed it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle shows people that ahead of the strike on Lindisfarne, because same year, terrible portents were seen. Immense sensations of lightening, fiery dragons soaring in the air and following these got a good famine in the land Viking axes .

"Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 needed Master Offa's daughter Eadburh. And in his times there came for initially 3 ships; and then your reeve rode there and desired to compel them to go to the king's town, because he didn't understand what they were; and they killed him. These were the first vessels of the Danish guys which sought out the land of the British race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.

Re-live the great Viking times upon your visit to the Lofotr Viking Museum of Norway. Located on the island of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, that intriguing museum is stored in the biggest Viking longhouse still present in the 21st century. Calculating about 83 yards long, that extraordinary design was once the home of the very most powerful chieftains in the upper location of Norway. Lofotr is frequently referred to as an income memorial, which functions pet demonstrates and reconstructions of the glorious Viking days.