Your Last Day as a Viking Raider (793 AD)

You are about eighteen. You haven't slept in days. And your ship is heading for an island where nobody expects you. A second-person journey through the Viking raid on Lindisfarne, usually dated to June 8, 793, told with what the sources say, what archaeology adds, and, every time, what we simply don't know. The narrator is a reconstruction, not a real person: the raiders left no account. SOURCES (the film leans on the accounts written by the victims' side, plus modern research) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entry for 793 (also the entry for 794 on the raid further south). Alcuin of York, letters to King Æthelred of Northumbria and to the Lindisfarne community (793). Symeon of Durham, Historia Dunelmensis Ecclesiae / Historia Regum (written about three centuries later). English Heritage, Lindisfarne Priory. DigVentures / Durham University, Lindisfarne excavations. Viking Ship Museum Roskilde and National Museum of Denmark, replica ship sailing trials and ship construction. British Library, Lindisfarne Gospels. Illustrations and narration are AI-generated, made for Mortal Days from our own script. Clothes, ships and buildings are an informed reconstruction, not a record. Tell us who we should spend a day with next, in the comments. #history #vikings #lindisfarne