<P> In the last decade of the 8th century AD , Norse raiders sacked a series of Christian monasteries located in what is now the United Kingdom , beginning in 793 , with a raid on the coastal monastery of Lindisfarne on the east coast of England . The following year they sacked the nearby Monkwearmouth - Jarrow Abbey , and in 795 they attacked again , raiding Iona Abbey on Scotland 's west coast . </P>
<P> In the last decade of the 8th century AD , Norse raiders sacked a series of Christian monasteries located in what is now the United Kingdom , beginning in 793 , with a raid on the coastal monastery of Lindisfarne on the east coast of England . The following year they sacked the nearby Monkwearmouth - Jarrow Abbey , and in 795 they attacked again , raiding Iona Abbey on Scotland 's west coast . </P>
when did the vikings first reach the shores of britain
when did the vikings first reach the shores of britain
793
793