Looting! Raiding! marauding! Yeah, it's a kick of a way to make a living, not to mention liven up a monotonous farming exist-ence, but look at what it did to the poor, misunderstood Vikings. Some overwrought scribe writes in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that their A.D. 793 raid on Lindis-farne monastery in northeast England (considered the start of the Viking age) "miserably afflicted the inhabitants" with "fiery dragons ... flying in the air" as "the heathen" engaged in "rapine and slaughter"猘nd the world forgets that the Vikings spurred urban development in northern Europe.
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