One of the Vikings' first raids was on a wealthy monastery in the British island of Lindisfarne in A.D. 793. The Vikings frequently attacked monasteries, which were poorly guarded and filled with ...

Fans of Vikings witnessed the relationship between Ragnar Lothbrok and Athelstan from the very first season. A deep ...

For the most part, the raids were totally independent ... the church centers and monasteries like Lindisfarne [a monastery in Northern England that Vikings pillaged in A.D. 793] constituted ...

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

The first Viking raid recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ... Their target was a monastery called Lindisfarne, and they decided to launch a surprise attack.It's likely that the first thing ...

Holy Island, or Lindisfarne, is a tidal island off the Northumberland coast, and is a key historical site. The island was also a target for Viking raids in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.