Unarmed and really unused to martial ways, they went in worry, in this manner and that, trying to save the valuable relics and pieces of the monastery. What opportunity had they? The Vikings were curved on an orgy of eliminating and looting.
Their swords pierced the monks' tissue, while those horrible war-axes separated brains from figures and in some cases sliced through from the throat to the middle, creating half-men of those that had after been Lord fearing human beings.
Nothing was holy to these savage men. They finished up altars, trampled on expensive relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They put rough, uncaring on the job the wonderful Lindisfarne Gospels, published in both Latin and Previous English, showing the experiences of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Many monks were killed, while others were put in organizations and resulted in the boats as slaves. Yet others were stripped nude and chased to the shore where many drowned, all the while putting up with the primitive insults of the marauders. Some lived, however, went back to the monastery, and renewed it.
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells people that prior to the strike on Lindisfarne, because same year, horrible portents were seen. Immense sensations of lightening, fiery dragons flying in the air and following these got a good famine in the land.
"Here Beorhtric [AD 786-802] took Master Offa's child Eadburh. And in his times there got for initially 3 boats; and then a reeve rode there and wanted to compel them to attend the king's area, because he did not know very well what they certainly were; and they killed him. These were the first boats of the Danish guys which wanted out the area of the English race." So wrote the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
The Vikings were a fantastic persons, but life was very hard for them. Every year, many Vikings died from influenza, or starved to demise due to food spoilage or inadequate food shops to last through the long, harsh winters.
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