The first few months of 793 was a worrying time for the north of England. Great portents of impending disaster were seen across the heavens. On Lindisfarne the monks had to suspend their evening ...

EVIL portents in the year 793 preceded a seaborne raid of Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of the medieval Kingdom of Northumbria. It would mark the start of the Viking era in England. Today marks ...

The attack on Lindisfarne in 793 came from a viking settlement in the North, possibly originating in Norway. It was not the first time that raiders had attacked England. But it was this attack on ...

Hopes excavation unearths remains predating priory ruins on island famous for St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels Archaeologists are to launch a search on Holy Island in Northumberland for the ...

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the English coast in Northumbria, a monk by the name of Eadfrith sits down and sharpens his quill. He dips it into ...