Vikings raid the abbey at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne" id="mwIQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lindisfarne">Lindisfarne</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbria" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northumbria">Northumbria</a>, commonly accepted as the beginning of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_activity_in_the_British_Isles" id="mwIw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Norse activity in the British Isles">Norse activity in the British Isles</a>.<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_8#cite_note-3" id="mwJA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJQ">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt22" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDeirdre_O'SullivanRobert_Young1995">Deirdre O'Sullivan; Robert Young (1995). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ONMWAQAAIAAJ" id="mwBdE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBdI">Book of Lindisfarne: Holy Island</i></a>. B.T. Batsford. p.<span id="mwBdM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>38. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBdQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBdU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-7134-7307-0" id="mwBdY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7134-7307-0"><bdi id="mwBdc">978-0-7134-7307-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt22" class="Z3988" id="mwBdg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Book+of+Lindisfarne%3A+Holy+Island&amp;rft.pages=38&amp;rft.pub=B.T.+Batsford&amp;rft.date=1995&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-7134-7307-0&amp;rft.au=Deirdre+O%27Sullivan&amp;rft.au=Robert+Young&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DONMWAQAAIAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+8"></span></span>