Norse raiders struck the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow in 794, one year after the Lindisfarne attack. Symeon of Durham records the pagans doing great harm at Wearmouth. The monasteries founded by Benedict Biscop, home of the Venerable Bede, represented the foremost centre of English learning and their repeated attacks were an incalculable cultural loss.
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