On this day in 793, Vikings land at Lindisfarne, England and slaughter the inhabitants of the monastery there. The bloodbath signals the beginning of nearly 300 years of Norsemen raids and conquest. “Never before has such terror appeared in Britain,” writes one chronicler.

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1. This reminds me of Conquests of The Longbow. The artwork is a dead ringer for Kenn Nishiuye.

2. And that’s how they got infected with Christianity. Serves them right for killing defenceless monks.

3. Well, those bloody English came back 1,000 years later and terrorized Copenhagen. They even took Norway from us!

4. mister love will lead the way

5. It’s time to talk about reparations. We’ll accept payment in Scandinavian women. In return you can have our women.

6. Well, that Chronicler obviously wasn’t that aware of what the Romans got up to.

7. “Never before has such terror appeared in Britain”

   Clearly someone hasn’t heard of Mrs Browns Boys.

8. Man these guys sound like real jerks.

9. History written by the losers can be quite hard on the winners.

10. Crazy times back then, fucking hell

11. The Saxons murdered Britons the northmen murdered Saxons go figure.

12. Wtf apologize.

    That was pretty rude

13. And not a cell phone in sight… just people living in the moment

14. [Ah, those were the times](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/aylts5/not_a_cellphone_in_sight)

15. The vikings redistributed wealth hoarded by a weird death cult that even used a torture device as their holy symbol.

16. Reparations please

17. Time travel and live some time there sounds interesting

18. It rather marks the beginning of Scandinavian raids to the west, while they had started earlier to the east. The [Salme ship event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salme_ships) took place 50–100 years earlier than Lindisfarne, possibly being related to the story of the legendary King [Ingvar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar) of Sweden, who fell in battle in Estonia. It is also the biggest Viking ship burial ever found *by far* as it contained 2 ships and the remains of 41 warriors killed in battle.

19. Never forget, that on this day in 793 AD, a group of Vikings selflessly rescued the treasures of Lindisfarne from a great fire, after the monks mysteriously and spontaneously died.

20. The vikings were the biggest pussies in Europe who for some reason have a fearsome reputation. That’s why their portrayal in Hollywood is beyond comical. Beyond killing defenceless monks and raping children they got defeated so badly at the Battle of Stamford Bridge that their whole civilisation ended.

21. Feels like S1E1 from Vikings