The Viking Age: Norse Expansion, Settlement and Power, 793–1066 | Calm Bedtime History
On 8 June 793, raiders struck the monastery on Lindisfarne, a small island off the coast of Northumbria. The news travelled across the sea to Alcuin, a scholar at Charlemagne’s court, and began a chronicle that would reach from English monasteries to the rivers of the east and the shores of Newfoundland.
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