Viking history

A Thors hammer jewel England The bishop Highbald of Lindisfarne whom ruled from 780 died on 24 June 803.( F.M Powicke set the date to the 25 May 802). Highbald survived the raid and he wrote letters to Alcuin of York, who was a scholar at the court of Charlemagne; where he complained about the raid on Lindisfarne on 8 January 793 in which his church was looted and many of his monks were captured to be sold as slaves or were drowned at the sea. Viking tools and weapons

Vikings looting and plundering a local monastery England Early in the 8th century vikings would go east, but in 789 three ships from Hordaland , Norway raided Isle of Portland on the Dorset coast, they were approached on the coast by a royal reeve from Dorchester, whose job it was to identify all foreign merchants entering the kingdom, but they killed him. And in 792 Offa of Mercia began to make arrangements for the defense of Kent from viking attacks and the next year 793, the monastery Lindisfarne (Holy Island) on the Northumbrian coast of England was plundered on the 8th June. T he assault made the alarm bells ring all over the christian world, where people never expected a naval attack over the ocean, and the coasts lay totally unprotected. Vikings acted quickly they looted the monastery, killed some monks and took the rest as thralls. The Lindisfarne attack has made a prominent place in the history books as the beginning of the epoch of the vikings. " Never befo...

150 A comb found in Vimose, Denmark, features runes on a bone comb, which was the man's name Harja. The name is thus the oldest Norse name.Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered a small knife inscribed with the country’s oldest runic inscription, hirila, meaning ‘Little Sword’ 400 Oldest runestone in Øverby,SE Norway. 500 Radiocarbon dating reveals that the first walls of Dannevirke was build around 480-500 and some older walls were from around 400. In September 2021 a treasurehunter found a 1 kilo gold treasure of coins and jewels buried outside Jelling. 512 The Greek Procopios a secretary at the Byzantine general Belisarius told that emperor Anastasius Dicorus gave permission to Heruli to settle in Illyria, because the Longobards had driven them out from the area between Donau and Dniester. Here they killed their king Onchon and sent some of their people back to Thule to recruit a new king among their fellow tribesmen. They had free passage through the land of the ...