Viking Raid on Lindisfarne

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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1228 years ago, on June 8 793, Vikings attacked a monastic settlement on the island of Lindisfarne. This raid had such an impact across Europe that despite there being no archaeological evidence for it, only literary sources, it is still remembered today. In this episode, Cat speaks to Dr David Petts from Durham University. They discuss why the Vikings chose to raid Lindisfarne, the community that they would have found there, and how the attack impacted upon Northumbrian Christendom and the wider world.

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1:30.0	Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit. I'm Dr. Kat Jarman, and today we're
1:43.9	going to be talking about an event that took place on this very day exactly 1,228 years
1:49.7	ago. On the 8th of June, 793, a devastating attack on the Church of St. Cuthbert on Lindisfun.
1:56.7	It's a shock waste through Europe, and so the story goes, kick-started what we now call
2:01.4	the Viking Age. But why there? What was so special about Lindisfun to make the heathen
2:07.4	raiders from the North attack it? And why is this, technically not the first recorded
2:12.1	Viking attack on England at all, been given so much attention? While this Viking raid
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