Between the famous raid on Lindisfarne in 793 and the arrival of the Great Heathen Army in 865, Northumbria's coast suffered continuous Norse raiding. Tynemouth, with its clifftop monastery, was among the targets. These raids drove monastic communities inland and disrupted the great cultural tradition of Northumbrian learning that had produced Bede and the Lindisfarne Gospels.
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