In 844, a Nordic fleet assaulted the city of Seville and plundered it for seven days; fifteen years later, one of Ragnar Lodbrok’s sons tried to do the same with Santiago de Compostela
They opened the way in 793 AD. C. with the assault on the Lindisfarne monastery, in the north of England. That episode in which, according to the chronicles, Christianity trembled at their arrival: “They defiled the holy places with impious feet, destroyed the altars…
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