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To: afraidfortherepublic
But they are ruins because one dark in the eighth century Lindisfarne's rock and walls were scaled by Vikings holding their swords in their mouths.

Not all of the ruins would be from the Viking raid of AD 793. The monastery was re-established about 300 years later but abandoned when King Henry VIII closed the monasteries in the 1530's.

3 posted on 12/19/2012 3:10:39 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Nice tag. Mrs Mugwump went there, and loved the place.


6 posted on 12/19/2012 3:26:24 PM PST by Mugwump
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