Historians’ accounts of the first major Viking attack, in 793, on a monastery on Lindisfarne off the northeast coast of England, have informed the Viking story. “The church of St. Cuthbert is ...

With fast and mobile longships, the Vikings were experts at launching surprise attacks from the ... raids was on a wealthy monastery in the British island of Lindisfarne in A.D. 793.

Fitzhugh: Well, the attacks were very diverse ... the church centers and monasteries like Lindisfarne [a monastery in Northern England that Vikings pillaged in A.D. 793] constituted the major ...

Wife carrying originated in the UK over 12 centuries ago, on 8 June 793AD, when Viking raiders rampaged into Lindisfarne, destroying the monastery and most likely carrying off any unwilling local ...

a small band of Vikings sailed down theeastern coast of England. Their target was a monastery called Lindisfarne, and they decided to launch a surprise attack.It's likely that the first thing the ...

a small band of Vikings sailed down theeastern coast of England. Their target was a monastery called Lindisfarne, and they decided to launch a surprise attack.It's likely that the first thing the ...