Nothing was holy to these savage men. They made up altars, trampled on precious relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They installed hard, uncaring practical the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in both Latin and Old English, telling the experiences of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Several monks were killed, while others were put in organizations and led to the boats as slaves. 

Yet the others were removed bare and chased to the shore where many drowned, whilst putting up with the raw insults of those marauders. Some existed, nevertheless, went back to the monastery, and rebuilt it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells us that ahead of 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 came a good famine in the land Viking axe .

"Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 needed King Offa's daughter Eadburh. And in his times there came for initially 3 ships; and then a reeve rode there and wished to compel them to go to the king's area, when he didn't know very well what they certainly were; and they killed him. These were the first ships of the Danish guys which sought out the land of the English race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.

Re-live the great Viking times upon your visit to the Lofotr Viking Museum of Norway. Positioned on the area of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, this fascinating memorial is stored in the biggest Viking longhouse still present in the 21st century. Testing about 83 meters extended, that extraordinary structure was previously the house of the most strong chieftains in the northern place of Norway. Lofotr is usually described as an income museum, which features animal indicates and reconstructions of the fantastic Viking days.