In 793, Norse raiders stormed the holy island of Lindisfarne - burning, killing, and looting. It wasn’t the first raid on England, but it marked the brutal birth of the Viking Age. Trump Vents ...

While ruthless, Viking attacks were more about survival than ... And, of course, the church centers and monasteries like Lindisfarne constituted the major sources of wealth at that time.

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 ...

The Road to Lindisfarne: An attack on a small religious community on the Holy island of Lindisfarne in AD 793 heralded the start of the Viking Age of conquest and ...

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 ...

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 ...