The Anglo-Viking Coinages
Rory Naismith
‘In us is fulfilled what once the prophet foretold: “from north evil breaks forth, and a terrible glory will come from Lord”’ (in nobis impletum est quod olim per prophetam praedictum est: ‘ab aquilone inardescunt mala et Domino formidolosa laudatio veniet’) (Alcuin, Epistola 19 to abbot of Wearmouth Jarrow, ed. Dümmler 1895, 55, trans. Allott 1974, 40). In view great Northumbrian scholar Alcuin (d. 804), Viking raids which struck England at end eighth century were an unforeseen affliction, hinting fulfilment divine prophecy testing times for English. The raid on monastery Lindisfarne 8 June 793 prompted Alcuin's letter was among first many. Vikings returned Northumbria following year, attacked Portland in Dorset some point during reign Beorhtric (786–802). Ireland Frankish Empire also fell prey much same time.
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