A Viking Ruin
- DIGITAL ART,MIXED MEDIA
- 10 by 12 inches
- unframed
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£25.00
- The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish born Saint Aidan.
He had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald around AD 635.
In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records:
Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race. . . .
The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar, and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets.
In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of Northumbria.
There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky.
These signs were followed by great famine, and on January 8th the ravaging of heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.
