The Vikings

"From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord!”
Thus western Christians prayed during more than 250 years of Viking terror. The long night of violence began late in the eighth century, when Scandinavians fell upon the holy English isle of Lindisfarne, where they pillaged its church and “poured out the blood of saints around the altar."

Thereafter, wave after wave of blond seafarers drove their longships down from the north, seeking land, pl... >Voir plus