The attack on Lindisfarne in 793 came from a viking settlement in the North, possibly originating in Norway. It was not the ...

Lindisfarne is a tidal island famous for a Christian monastery constructed in the 7th century. In 793 the Vikings sacked the monastery in an attack that stunned medieval Christians.

Athelstan is an eager monk when Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) comes to Lindisfarne in the first-ever raid on England. Everyone there is shocked at the brutality, and some of the monks are taken ...

In 1069, the Lindisfarne Gospels spent a short time back at Lindisfarne to escape the devastating raid on the North mounted by the new Norman king, William the Conqueror. The book was then ...

Alcuin was a scholar and monk living in Germany, who, when he heard the news of the raid on Lindisfarne, wrote long letters to the Northumbrian king and to the Bishop of Lindisfarne.

From that first raid on Lindisfarne, Ragnar changes everything for his people. The Vikings continue raiding the west long after Ragnar is gone. The first raid changes it all and pushes the Vikings ...

Looking at the timeline of those events in the real world, that would mean he had a roughly 73-year Viking career. The Vikings, historically, made those victorious raids in 793, 845 and 858 before ...

Famously, the Viking period is usually marked by the raid on Lindisfarne, a small island off the northeastern coast of England, in 793. But evidence shows that decades before this violent encounter, ...

The earliest set of prayer beads known in Britain, made from the delicate bones of salmon vertebrae and recently found around the neck of a man buried more than 1,100 years ago at Lindisfarne, an ...

The artifact represents a rare glimpse into the turbulent past of Lindisfarne, the site of an ancient wooden monastery targeted by a massive Viking raid in Britain in 793 A.D.—the first of many ...

After his death, a host of miracles were attributed to his intercession, which ensured St. Cuthbert’s continuing popularity and made his tomb in Lindisfarne’s monastery church a goal for pilgrims.