VIK: This is Lindisfarne. It's an island off the north-east coast of England. We Vikings came here in the 8th century. It was one of the first pieces of English land that we arrived at when we ...

Fans of Vikings witnessed the relationship between Ragnar Lothbrok and Athelstan from the very first season. A deep ...

Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, was one of the first landing sites of the Vikings. Monasteries were places where monks lived and worshipped. Most people respected the monks and gave them ...

And, of course, the church centers and monasteries like Lindisfarne [a monastery in Northern England that Vikings pillaged in A.D. 793] constituted the major sources of wealth at that time.

The Appleby Archaeology Group will hear about the early monastic archaeology of Lindisfarne at their next meeting.