The Danish seizure of York in 866-867 was accompanied by raids along the Yorkshire coast. Whitby (Streoneshalh), the monastery associated with the Synod of 664 and the great abbess Hilda, was attacked by Norse raiders entering via the Esk estuary. The monastery had already declined but Viking raids of the late 860s effectively ended monastic life there for over a century.
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