Most of what we know about the Viking raiders comes from the tales of the survivors of these raids rather than the Vikings themselves. The survivors tell of ships shaped like dragons, of brutal ...

On 8th June (or January - scholars are divided), a small raiding party landed on the shores of Lindisfarne, a small island off of the Northumbrian coast. Viking raids had been on the rise across ...

Vikings did not wear much armour. Some chieftains wore mail coats, made of thousands of metal rings but most relied on a round wooden shield for protection since these were very expensive.

The dates most typically given for the start and end of the Viking Age are 8 June AD 793 and 25 September 1066 – bookended by the raid on Lindisfarne and the Norman Conquest. These dates mark nearly ...

The Appleby Archaeology Group will hear about the early monastic archaeology of Lindisfarne at their next meeting.

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaAn attack on a small religious community on the holy island of Lindisfarne in AD 793 heralded the start of the Viking Age of conquest and expansion but before this, we ...