Nothing was holy 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 practical the lovely Lindisfarne Gospels, published in equally Latin and Old English, showing the reports of Matthew, Tag, Luke and John. Many monks were killed, while others were place in restaurants and generated the vessels as slaves. 

Yet the others were stripped bare and chased to the shore where several drowned, even while putting up with the elementary insults of the marauders. Some existed, nevertheless, went back to the monastery, and rebuilt it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells us that before the attack on Lindisfarne, in that same year, awful portents were seen. Immense sensations of lightening, fiery dragons flying in the air and subsequent these came a good famine in the land Viking axe .

"Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 took King Offa's child Eadburh. And in his times there came for the first time 3 boats; and then your reeve rode there and wanted to compel them to go to the king's town, when he did not know very well what these were; and they killed him. These were the very first boats of the Danish men which sought out the land of the British race." Therefore wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.

Re-live the grand Viking times upon your visit to the Lofotr Viking Memorial of Norway. Found on the area of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, that amazing memorial is located in the largest Viking longhouse however current in the 21st century. Testing about 83 meters extended, this impressive design was previously the home of the most effective chieftains in the upper location of Norway. Lofotr is usually referred to as an income museum, which characteristics dog exhibits and reconstructions of the wonderful Viking days.