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 installed hard, uncaring practical the lovely Lindisfarne Gospels, prepared in both Latin and Old English, telling the stories of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Many monks were killed, while the others were devote stores and generated the vessels as slaves. 

Yet others were removed nude and chased to the shore wherever several drowned, whilst enduring the raw insults of the marauders. Some lived, but, went back to the monastery, and renewed it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle shows people that before the assault on Lindisfarne, in that same year, Viking axe terrible portents were seen. Immense sensations of lightening, fiery dragons traveling in the air and subsequent these came a great famine in the land.

"Here Beorhtric AD 786-802 took King Offa's daughter Eadburh. And in his times there got for the first time 3 ships; and then a reeve rode there and wished to compel them to go to the king's city, when he did not understand what they certainly were; and they killed him. These were the first boats of the Danish guys which sought out the area of the British race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.

Re-live the mighty Viking times upon your trip to the Lofotr Viking Memorial of Norway. Based on the area of Borg in the Lofoten archipelago, that fascinating museum is housed in the biggest Viking longhouse however present in the 21st century. Testing about 83 yards extended, this extraordinary structure was previously the home of the very most powerful chieftains in the northern region of Norway. Lofotr is frequently described as an income museum, which features dog indicates and reconstructions of the wonderful Viking days.