On 8 June 793, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, ‘the raiding party of the heathen miserably devastated God’s church in Lindisfarne (Holy Island) by looting and slaughter’. Thus, began our centuries-old love/ hate relationship with the ‘Vikings’.
THE FURY OF THE NORTHMEN | HERITAGE
by Dr Avril Lumley Prior
The Fury of the Northmen William Scott Bell, 'The Vikings Descent on the Coast' (1856)
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