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Lindisfarne is an island off the coast of Northumbria where an abbey was established in the seventh century. The Lindisfarne Gospels, a beautiful example of manuscript illumination, were produced there, and St. Cuthbert's body reposed there until the Viking attacks prompted the monks to move it and themselves off the island. They eventually settled in Durham.
Abbeys and monasteries were favored targets of the Vikings. They often housed valuable treasures that Christians revered for their holy associations and that Vikings valued for the precious metals and fabrics of which they were made. Since their residents did not use weapons and rarely were any good at defending themselves, they were also very easy pickings.
For more about Vikings, visit our subject index for Viking & Scandinavian history.
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