L'Anse aux Meadows

massive raid on a monk monastery and town pillaging and raid it for all of its riches. Lindisfarne was a monk town with monastery and in the year 793 CE the town was raided by vikings, the Vikings did a quick raid where they stole a lot of the valuable resources. Lindisfarne was an english town that had been raided for its loot by vikings it was a very significant raid as it was one of the first raids and it was big raid. The source is reliable because the ruins are still around so you can tell if it is real and from any journals written about the event you can use them to get more information of the event and other raids and how they would raid them. You can also use the information for how many times they had raided. L’Anse aux Meadows in newfoundland. L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is a town founded by the Vikings when they traveled to modern day Canada and founded the city. The town was created by vikings when they settled modern day Canada, the town was settled around the year 1000. The Viking town is also very significant because it is proof that the vikings had been and settled north america before any other european. The Viking town was later reconstructed and is now a tourist destination is still has some viking remains of the town but the rest of it was reconstructed. A little while after the town had been founded the vikings abandoned due to the natives hostility towards the Vikings and the numbers of natives the Vikings could not fight off the natives. The…

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