St Davids was sacked again in 999 in one of its most devastating Norse attacks. Bishop Morgeneu had been killed in 988; his successor faced another Norse assault eleven years later. The cathedral was stripped of its portable wealth and the monastic buildings damaged. The repeated Norse targeting of St Davids reflects both its wealth and its vulnerability to seaborne raiders using the south-west Welsh coast.
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