VIK: Aye, that too. Come on. 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 ...

And, of course, the church centers and monasteries like Lindisfarne [a monastery ... we should look at the Vikings in a broader sense, as a kind of a human myth come true that we can draw on ...

must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on its capture.

One of the Vikings' first raids was on a wealthy monastery in the British island of Lindisfarne in A.D. 793 ... "The Vikings ...

Their target was a monastery called Lindisfarne ... prepared for visitors like these… because these were Viking warriors.And they had come to kill the monks and steal the monastery's treasure.