And now it would be the most masculine group of men, these Norse soldiers with their weapons of war, battle axes, swords and knives, armor and their cool helmets without the horns and they jump on the boat and they go find some awesome resources. This first occurred in June of 793 in Lindensfarn, which is an island off northeast England which was occupied by monks and monks offer two awesome characteristics for plunderers. They have a lot of stuff, a lot of religious artifacts and silver and gold and awesome stuff and they also don't fight back and that's what Vikings did. They would take advantage of vulnerable populations. They landed on Lindensfarn and they wreaked havoc. They killed, they murdered, they stole and when they brought the bounty back to those Scandinavian countries people were like, oh my goodness that's awesome. I want to do that as well and that's what Vikings started to do.