Alternatively, students could use accounts of these attacks as stimulus to imagine what it was like for the monks and people living in Lindisfarne when the Vikings invaded. They could role-play ...

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 ...

When did the Viking Age begin and end, and why is it so difficult to define? Explore when and how the era of Scandinavian ...

With fast and mobile longships, the Vikings were experts at launching surprise attacks from the sea ... wealthy monastery in the British island of Lindisfarne in A.D. 793. The Vikings frequently ...

When the Vikings first attacked Lindisfarne in Northumberland in 793 AD, it was to start a major upheaval that brought bloodshed, a new language and eventually the creation of England. The ...

Alternatively, students could use accounts of these attacks as stimulus to imagine what it was like for the monks and people living in Lindisfarne when the Vikings invaded. They could role-play ...