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Their attacks were brutal. The ferocious Vikings looted
and burned down villages. The Danes, who were pagans
at the time, slaughtered monks and ripping the jewels
from Christian churches. The most notorious scene was
at the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. The massacre is still
known today as the ‘raid of Lindisfarne’.