The Viking attack on Lindisfarne on 8 June 793 was the event that announced the Viking Age to the Christian world. Alcuin wrote that never before had such terror appeared in Britain. The monastery of Cuthbert, the holiest site in Northumbria, was ransacked. The raid was remembered as a cataclysm and is the conventional starting point of the Viking Age in Britain.
Monks killed, drowned, or enslaved; church treasures and livestock taken
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