Posted on 10/31/2025 5:34:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"Here Beorhtric [king of Wessex, AD 786-802] took King Offa's daughter Eadburh. And in his days there came for the first time 3 ships; and then the reeve rode there and wanted to compel them to go to the king's town, because he did not know what they were; and they killed him. Those were the first ships of the Danish men which sought out the land of the English race."Anglo-Saxon ChronicleThis is the entry for AD 789, written by the chronicler a hundred years later. Almost two centuries later still, Æthelweard, a descendant of King Alfred's brother Æthelred and ealdorman of Wessex, wrote his own Chronicle, a Latin translation of a lost version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that elaborates on the momentous event. "Suddenly there arrived on the coast a fleet of Danes, not large, but of three ships only" (III). Assuming the strangers to be traders, the king's reeve, accompanied by several men, sought to escort them to the royal manor at Dorchester (on the southwestern coast of England). But they were killed on the spot.
For AD 793, there is another, more ominous entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle."Here terrible portents came about over the land of Northumbria, and miserably frightened the people: these were immense flashes of lightening, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine immediately followed these signs; and a little after that in the same year on 8 June the raiding of heathen men miserably devastated God's church in Lindisfarne island by looting and slaughter."The next year, there was an attack on the Northumbrian monastery at Jarrow, where Bede had composed his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, and the year after that, on St. Columba's monastery on the island of Iona in the west.
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The Viking Raid on Lindisfarne: The devastating Viking attack on the church of St Cuthbert in 793 sent a shockwave through Europe. But a Christian community at Lindisfarne survived, and recorded the event on the famous 'Domesday stone'.Domesday stone
ealdorman = Alderman?.............
They attacked monasteries because they knew there would be no weapons or protection of any kind in them.................
Lindisfarne
She was great in Terminator 2
277 years later, in 1066, the Viking Age ended with the death of Harold Hardrada at the battle of Stamford Bridge.
Jarl, Earl.
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This subject reminded me of a series of books by Bernard Cornwell, the Saxon Stories. I hadn’t thought of them in Ages, but I loved them.
Thanx for the memory. :)
I thought you were referring to the band.
Fog On The Tyne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm_KZSYSiGc
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Yes, like wine, lots of wine..................
But also gold, jewels, silver and of course skilled people to take as slaves because any monastery is cared for by a broad community of people who is able to support a group that is spending a great deal of time in study and prayer.
We are watching The Vikings on Netflix. Shows how depraved humans are. The British were no better.
Heh, whoops. I blew that.
Humans tend to be motivated by YOLO and in youth a big part of that is the old whoop-dee-doo. It’s not depravity, it’s the wiring harness.
What I meant by depraved is the fighting and killing and torturing.
Depravity is still part of the wiring. The weak get forced by the stronger to victimize the weaker out of the need for self-preservation.
Right. And it is on Netflix it is called “The Last Kingdom”. One of the best series of its kind I’ve ever seen.
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