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Question 26

When did Viking raids on Britain and continental Europe begin, and which raid is commonly taught as an early example?

  1. In the eleventh century, with the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne.
  2. In the late eighth century, with the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne.Correct answer
  3. In the late eighth century, with the landing of a Norman army in Sussex.
  4. In the eleventh century, with the founding of a Norse settlement in Greenland.

Explanation

Raiding began in the closing decades of the eighth century, and the attack on an island monastery off the north-east coast of Britain is the case teaching accounts reach for first, because churchmen at the time wrote about it in horror. Putting the start in the eleventh century is the standard error, because by then Scandinavian activity had already run for two hundred years and had turned towards settlement and outright conquest.

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