Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE DANES.
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the North first appeared, I and made a visitation
which became a sort of precedent for a long series
of outrage, blood-shedding, and sacrilegious desecration.1
Nothing was spared at Lindisfarne. The
monks were put to death, cast into the sea, or
carried off into a barbarian slavery worse than death.
As the priest Alcuin wrote to the king and chief>
of Northumbria : " Either this is the beginning of
a greater O trouble or the sins of v the inhabitants hare