Nothing was holy to these savage men. They made up altars, trampled on expensive relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They laid hard, uncaring hands on the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels, published in equally Latin and Old British, showing the experiences of Matthew, Tag, Luke and John. Many monks were killed, while the others were place in restaurants and led to the ships as slaves. 

However the others were removed nude and chased to the shore where several drowned, even while enduring the gross insults of these marauders. Some existed, but, went back to the monastery, and rebuilt it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle shows us that before the attack on Lindisfarne, in that same year, horrible portents were seen. Immense flashes of lightening, fiery dragons flying in the air and following these got a good famine in the land Viking axe .

"Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 needed Master Offa's child Eadburh. And in his days there came for initially 3 ships; and then a reeve rode there and desired to compel them to attend the king's community, when he didn't know very well what they certainly were; and they killed him. Those were the initial boats of the Danish guys which wanted out the area 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. Situated on the island of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, this fascinating museum is stored in the largest Viking longhouse however active in the 21st century. Testing about 83 yards extended, this extraordinary design was previously the house of the very most powerful chieftains in the upper location of Norway. Lofotr is usually called an income museum, which functions pet reveals and reconstructions of the glorious Viking days.