The sack of Lindisfarne on 8 June 793 shocked Christendom. Alcuin of York wrote that "never before has such terror appeared in Britain." The monastery — the spiritual heart of Northumbrian Christianity and home of St Cuthbert's relics — was desecrated. This event is conventionally used to mark the beginning of the Viking Age in Britain.
Many monks killed, some drowned, others enslaved
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