The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells of Vikings...

Source: Cotton Tiberius B. IV f.26v 

The third paragraph (dccxciii) describes the first Viking raid on Lindisfarne, Northumberland, and the omens that preceded it 

In present day English: 

‘Here were dreadful forewarnings come over the land of Northumbria, and woefully terrified the people: these were amazing sheets of lightning and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. A great famine soon followed these signs, and shortly after in the same year, on the sixth day before the ides of January, the woeful inroads of heathen men destroyed god’s church in Lindisfarne island by fierce robbery and slaughter. And Sicga died on the eighth day before the calends of March.' 

Title of Work: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, D-text 

Shelfmark: Cotton Tiberius B. IV f.26v 

Place and date of production: 11th-century copy, probably made in Worcester. 

Credit: From the British Library archive