Byrtferth of Ramsey’s Historia Regum (History of the Kings) c.1000 Cited in “Such an Inroad from the Sea”

In the same year, of a truth, the pagans from the northern region came with a naval armament to Britain, like stinging hornets, and overran the country in all directions, like fierce wolves, plundering, tearing, and killing not only sheep and oxen, but priests and Levites, and choirs of monks and nuns ...