793 Jun 8
Vikings raid Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne, UKIn 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age. During the attack many of the monks were killed, or captured and enslaved. These preliminary raids, unsettling as they were, were not followed up. The main body of the raiders passed north around Scotland. The 9th-century invasions came not from Norway, but from the Danes from around the entrance to the Baltic.
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