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Why Did the Lindisfarne Raid Begin the Viking Age? - The Written Memory of the Lindisfarne Attack | Sleepy Facts About History
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On a tidal island off the Northumbrian coast, a wealthy monastery built of silver, illuminated manuscripts, and sacred bones sat entirely undefended. When raiders arrived from the sea in 793, they shattered a long-held assumption that sanctity alone was protection. This episode examines the historical reality of the attack on Lindisfarne, what the surviving sources actually tell us about the men who came across the water, and the limits of what we can know about that day.
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