The Raid on Brimcliff occurred in 877 AD when a Viking raiding party led by Eivor Wolf-Kissed attacked the Anglo-Saxon Roman Catholic monastery at Brimcliff on the southern coast of Sussex. Eivor rode to the coast from Wareham and summoned his longship from the rocky shore beneath the cliff at Brimcliff, sounding his war horn and summoning his raiders to assault Brimcliff. They proceeded to charge through the cliffside's tunnel defenses and then into the monastery, where they hacked down the many guards. Eivor located the Roman Catholic priest and Order of the Ancients member Beneseck of Bath in the courtyard, but he missed him with his arrow, and Beneseck attempted to escape, only to be cut down by one of Eivor's raiders. After Eivor finished Beneseck off with his hidden blade, he accompanied the others in looting the rest of the monastery. After the Vikings finished pillaging the monastery, looting its treasures, and setting fire to its buildings, they withdrew, leaving Brimcliff to its grim fate.
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