Danes attack Lindisfarne (8-6-793)

Her wæron reðe forebecna cumene ofer Norðhymbra land, 7 þæt folc earmlic bregdon,
þæt wæron ormete þodenas 7 ligrescas, 7 fyrenne dracan wæron gesewene on þam lifte fleogende.
Þam tacnum sona fyligde mycel hunger,
7 litel æfter þam, þæs ilcan geares on .vi. Idus Ianuarii,
earmlice hæþenra manna hergunc adilegode Godes cyrican in Lindisfarnaee þurh hreaflac 7 mansliht.
("In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of the Northumbrians, and the wretched people shook;
there were excessive whirlwinds, lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky.
These signs were followed by great famine,
and a little after those, that same year on 6th ides of January,
the ravaging of wretched heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne [by plunder and slaughter].")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne
Crystal reminds us that these Danish terrorists later settled down in large areas of northern and eastern England (the Danelaw), and that their language eventually had a profound influence on Anglo-Saxon and thus on modern English, contributing many basic lexical items and even some grammatical morphology. A recent book even claimed that English should be reclassified as North Germanic:
https://www.academia.edu/10360982/English_The_Language_of_the_Vikings
though very few specialists agreed.