"In this year [793] dire portents appeared over Northumbria and sorely frightened the people. They consisted of immense whirlwinds and flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine immediately followed those signs, and a little after that in the same year, on 8 June, the ravages of heathen men miserably destroyed God's church on Lindisfarne, with plunder and slaughter."
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Revised Translation, eds. Dorothy Whitelock and David C. Douglas and Susie I. Tucker (1961), p. 36
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