this year marked the beginning of the Viking Age.
this year marked the beginning of the Viking Age.
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1776 AD means the year 1776 after christ was born, this year is 2011 AD. Forty years before Jesus was born it was 40 BC. BC: Before Christ AD: After Death
They came from the sea in a whirlwind of violence. In AD793, the Christian monastery of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast was ransacked by pagans. They plundered and raped; they showed no mercy. These were the Vikings and they came to dominate Europe for the next 200 years.
The Anglo-Saxons thought that an invasion from the sea was impossible because the sea around Britain is very rough. There had not been an invasion from the sea since the Anglo-Saxon one, and the Anglo-Saxons had probably forgot that altogether, meaning they thought the sea couldn't be crossed.
BC = Before Christ AD = Anno Domini (after the birth of Christ)
813 years