HIST 3P30 Lecture 4: HIST 3P30- Jan 29th 2016
9 Apr 2016
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The wind is tough tonight tossing the white hair of the ocean; i do not fear fierce vikings, coursing the irish sea. The horrors of the northmen (long poem) early raids and the onset of the viking age. Lindisfarne 793- earliest viking raid corroborated by a letter of alcuin (793) to the northumbrian king- in the reader on the north shorelines. 793 common date for this arguments about these start of the viking age are made more complicated by virtue of Anglo-saxon chronicle 787 or 789 story about possible early raid in england. 825 raid on iona- monk blathmac captured/killed by vikings (see next weeks readings) patterns of sporadic raids along british isles that grow in intensity going through 830s. Friday, january 29, y archeological evidence for raiding? reliant on lit text for info- historians skeptical potential for exaggeration/invention arch. evidence of raiding being looked for to prove this a lot of stuff found in the last 20 years.
