Æthelberht of Northumbria was killed by his nobles in 779, another in the series of regicides that destroyed Northumbrian stability in the late eighth century. Alcuin used the Northumbrian king-killings as evidence of divine punishment and moral decay, connecting them to the subsequent Viking raids beginning in 793.
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