The 794 Norse raid on Jarrow — Bede monastery — was partially repulsed and the raiders suffered losses, providing an early example of successful English monastic self-defence that later chroniclers held up as an encouraging exception.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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