Sure enough,
half a century later, in 793,
the Anglo-Saxon chronicle reports:
Dire portents appeared over Northumbria.
Immense whirlwinds
and flashes of lightning
and fiery dragons were seen flying through the air.
A great famine followed.
And a little after that, on the June 8th,
the ravages of heathen men
miserably destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.
The heathen men were, of course, the Vikings.
If you look long enough and hard enough at almost any culture,
you're going to find something good to say about it.
And historians of the Vikings, understandably distressed at the rape and pillage stereotype,
have asked us lately
to think of things other than sail, land, burn and plunder to say about the Vikings.
They've said, "Look at their metalwork,
look at their ships,
look at the great poetic sagas."
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LRC歌词版本
[00:00.184]Sure enough,
[00:01.431]half a century later, in 793,
[00:04.182]the Anglo-Saxon chronicle reports:
[00:06.673]Dire portents appeared over Northumbria.
[00:10.176]Immense whirlwinds
[00:11.684]and flashes of lightning
[00:13.184]and fiery dragons were seen flying through the air.
[00:16.434]A great famine followed.
[00:18.927]And a little after that, on the June 8th,
[00:21.681]the ravages of heathen men
[00:23.183]miserably destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.
[00:29.923]The heathen men were, of course, the Vikings.
[00:43.690]If you look long enough and hard enough at almost any culture,
[00:47.184]you're going to find something good to say about it.
[00:49.896]And historians of the Vikings, understandably distressed at the rape and pillage stereotype,
[00:55.649]have asked us lately
[00:57.150]to think of things other than sail, land, burn and plunder to say about the Vikings.
[01:02.409]They've said, "Look at their metalwork,
[01:04.159]look at their ships,
[01:04.906]look at the great poetic sagas."
Sure enough,
half a century later, in 793,
the Anglo-Saxon chronicle reports:
Dire portents appeared over Northumbria.
Immense whirlwinds
and flashes of lightning
and fiery dragons were seen flying through the air.
A great famine followed.
And a little after that, on the June 8th,
the ravages of heathen men
miserably destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.
The heathen men were, of course, the Vikings.
If you look long enough and hard enough at almost any culture,
you're going to find something good to say about it.
And historians of the Vikings, understandably distressed at the rape and pillage stereotype,
have asked us lately
to think of things other than sail, land, burn and plunder to say about the Vikings.
They've said, "Look at their metalwork,
look at their ships,
look at the great poetic sagas."
🎵
LRC歌词版本
[00:00.184]Sure enough,
[00:01.431]half a century later, in 793,
[00:04.182]the Anglo-Saxon chronicle reports:
[00:06.673]Dire portents appeared over Northumbria.
[00:10.176]Immense whirlwinds
[00:11.684]and flashes of lightning
[00:13.184]and fiery dragons were seen flying through the air.
[00:16.434]A great famine followed.
[00:18.927]And a little after that, on the June 8th,
[00:21.681]the ravages of heathen men
[00:23.183]miserably destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.
[00:29.923]The heathen men were, of course, the Vikings.
[00:43.690]If you look long enough and hard enough at almost any culture,
[00:47.184]you're going to find something good to say about it.
[00:49.896]And historians of the Vikings, understandably distressed at the rape and pillage stereotype,
[00:55.649]have asked us lately
[00:57.150]to think of things other than sail, land, burn and plunder to say about the Vikings.
[01:02.409]They've said, "Look at their metalwork,
[01:04.159]look at their ships,
[01:04.906]look at the great poetic sagas."