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These are ruins of the Benedictine monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria, England, where the Vikings invaded.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND MONK: a religious man who has taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and lives in a monastery MONASTERIES: places where holy men, called monks,

lived and spent their time worshipping God SHRINES: boxes holding the bones of saints

14 THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS: VIKINGS