Norse and Aztecs · TURNING POINT ·
Viking raid on Lindisfarne (793)
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793 — Raiders from the sea attacked the monastery on Holy Island, killing or carrying off monks and taking its treasures. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle dates the raid to January, which historians correct to 8 June. Alcuin wrote that nobody had thought such a voyage possible.
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- Turning point
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- Viking expansion and the longship (chapter 2 of Norse and Aztecs)
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- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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