Vikings
In AD 789, three strange ships arrived at Portland on the southern coast of England. The “Reeve” or representative of the King of Wessex rode out to meet these visitors. He took with him only a small group of men under the impression that the strangers were traders. The strangers slew them. According to Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, "the ravages of heathen men miserably destroyed God's church on Lindisfarne with plunder and slaughter" in June of the year 793. The Christian monastery communities of Jarrow and Iona, lying on Britain's exposed northern coasts, were looted immediately afterwards. In 795 raids were recorded near Dublin and in 799 on the coast of southwest France. As far as we know this was all the work of Vikings, otherwise known as Northmen or Norsemen, from Scandinavia in northern Europe. This was also the beginning of the period of history known to us as the Viking Age, dating around AD 800 - 1050, when Scandinavian people from the modern countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden influenced much of northern Europe and beyond. Vikings traveled further out in the globe than any European had ever gone before. They exploited the riches of the East and explored the uncharted waters of the North Atlantic. T
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