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Welcome, welcome to our 7930th member JacobCig.

Anyway to your member name, do I detect a hint of the old Aztec Nicotiana rustica about the pseudonym.

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And 793 the Angel number and sun sign in numerology

And in another blinding flash of connectivity!! Both the Parker Chronicle and Peterborough Chronicle annals of AD 793 record the Old English name, Lindisfarena the Holy Island of Lindisfarne off the coast of Northumbria in Britain as well as the Viking invasion of the island and mainland Northumbria in that very same year, not a pleasant or harmonious affair. A litany of despair, allegedly a prayer said by every medieval Anglo Saxon church and monastery at the time of the viking raids was, A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine, ‘From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord,’ although the authenticity is doubted by a number of scholars.

The closest documented phrase is a single sentence, appearing in an antiphony for churches dedicated to St. Vaast or St. Medard: Summa pia gratia nostra conservando corpora et cutodita, de gente fera Normannica nos libera, quae nostra vastat, Deus, regna, 'Our supreme and holy Grace, protecting us and ours, deliver us, God, from the savage race of Northmen which lays waste our realms’.

However, my view is the simpler version would have been more effective in terms of communicating with the longsuffering peasants of the time, as opposed to churchmen, nuns and nobles.

Simeon of Durham also recorded the grim events in a manner more in keeping with the shorter version:

‘And they came to the church of Lindisfarne, laid everything waste with grievous plundering, trampled the holy places with polluted feet, dug up the altars and seized all the treasures of the holy church. They killed some of the brothers; some they took away with them in fetters; many they drove out, naked and loaded with insults; and some they drowned in the sea.’

Thus the year 793 also represents the start date for Viking history taught in British schools despite the occasional earlier scouting visits..

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Carved Gravestone Found at Lindisfarne
This stone was thought to commemorate the Vikings' 793 attack upon Lindisfarne.
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