Nothing was sacred to these savage men. They dug up altars, trampled on important relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They put rough, uncaring hands on the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in equally Latin and Previous British, telling the experiences of Matthew, Tag, Luke and John. Several monks were killed, while others were place in chains and resulted in the ships as slaves.
Yet others were removed nude and chased to the shore wherever many drowned, all the while enduring the raw insults of the marauders. Some lived, but, went back to the monastery, and rebuilt it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells people that before the strike on Lindisfarne, in 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 Viking axe .
“Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 took Master Offa’s child Eadburh. And in his times there came for the first time 3 ships; and then the reeve rode there and wanted to compel them to visit the king’s community, while he didn’t know what these were; and they killed him. Those were the very first boats of the Danish men which sought out the area of the British race.” Therefore wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
Re-live the great Viking days upon your stop by at the Lofotr Viking Museum of Norway. Located on the island of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, that fascinating museum is housed in the greatest Viking longhouse still present in the 21st century. Calculating about 83 yards long, this impressive framework was once your house of the very most powerful chieftains in the upper location of Norway. Lofotr is usually referred to as a full time income museum, which features pet demonstrates and reconstructions of the glorious Viking days.