Hörthaland in Norway, so that in the last case the word "Danish" refers to all Scandinavian people.

The first monastery to be raided was in 793 at Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described the Vikings as "heathen men". Monasteries and minster churches were popular targets as they were wealthy and had valuable, portable objects. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 840 says that Æthelwulf of Wessex