Uploaded April 2016 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
~The Rolandspoem~
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Glittertind - Rolandskvadet (Viking/Folk Metal)
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![Ensiferum - Vandraren [Nordman Cover]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M-E4D9_Lfm8/mqdefault.jpg "Ensiferum - Vandraren [Nordman Cover]
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![Corvus Corax - Sverker [Viking raid at Lindisfarne - 793]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NDc46nZdLQU/mqdefault.jpg "Corvus Corax - Sverker [Viking raid at Lindisfarne - 793]
In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age. The D and E versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle record:
In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of the Northumbrians, and the people shook; there were excessive whirlwinds, lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed by great famine, and a little after those, that same year on 6th ides of January, the ravaging of wretched heathen people destroyed Gods church at Lindisfarne.
Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race. . . .The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar, and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets.")
