Angelina of Glastonbury: the Headman's Axe

Down the road Poseidon exchanged his Axe for a Trident. The origin of Frisian Laws arises from the Frisian Lord Fosite. He moved within the stormy seas to the holy area of Frisia. There he threw his guitar on the shore and a spring gushed up. The place was named 'Axenshow,' or 'Axtemple.' The Frisians lay across the spring and the Lord Fosite shown them the Law.

The monks, cradled properly, as they believed, in the enjoy and peace of Lord, stopped what they were performing and peered curiously at these odd craft. Then they saw intense seeking guys disgorging from the vessels, brute-men in mail byrnies and helms, with swords and axes. They didn't end, but scaled the cliffs with an awful purpose and produced straight for poor people, peace-loving monks.

Unarmed and very untouched to martial ways, they ran in panic, in this manner and that, seeking to save lots of the important relics and gifts of the monastery. What opportunity had they? The Vikings were curved on an orgy of eliminating and looting. Their swords pierced the monks' skin, while those awful war-axes parted minds from figures and in some instances sliced through from the neck to the middle, making half-men of those who had once been Lord fearing human beings Viking axe .

Nothing was holy to these savage men. They dug up altars, trampled on expensive relics, desecrated the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the founder of the monastery in 635. They laid rough, uncaring practical the beautiful Lindisfarne Gospels, written in both Latin and Old British, telling the stories of Matthew, Tag, Luke and John. Many monks were killed, while the others were devote chains and resulted in the boats as slaves. 

However the others were removed naked and chased to the shore where many drowned, whilst putting up with the elementary insults of those marauders. Some lived, but, went back to the monastery, and renewed it. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle shows people that ahead of the strike on Lindisfarne, for the reason that same year, horrible portents were seen. Immense flashes of lightening, fiery dragons traveling in the air and following these got a great famine in the land.