Lindisfarne Viking Raid: video workshets, differentiated.

Drawing richly on contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts (inc. Alcuin of York), the video explores the attack, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 793, the 789 Wessex attack, significance of Lindisfarne and St. Cuthbert, buildings and geography at the time. Theft, murder, enslavement, desecration. Slavery in Europe at the time. Simeon of Durham, Alcuin’s account and explanation and advice for future monkish behaviour. Subsequent raids and the Great Heathen Army.

13 questions for the 10-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

Links to the video on all sheets, or search YouTube for “The True Story of the First Viking Attack on England”