At the Battle of Edington, an army of the kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by the Dane Guthrum sometime between...
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defeat to Odda, Ealdorman of Devon, Alfred managed to muster his forces and reclaim Wessex following the Battle of Edington in May 878. Guthrum would...
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Alfred the Great (redirect from Alfred of England)
years fighting Viking invasions. He won a decisive victory in the Battle of Edington in 878 and made an agreement with the Vikings, dividing England between...
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Guthrum (redirect from Guthrum of East Anglia)
the Battle of Edington in 878. The Danes retreated to their stronghold, where Alfred laid siege and eventually Guthrum surrendered. Under the terms of his...
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culminating in the English victory over the Vikings at the Battle of Edington. The battle appears in The Marsh King, a children's historical novel by...
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Danelaw (redirect from History of the Danelaw)
the king of Wessex, and Guthrum, the Danish warlord, written following Guthrum's defeat at the Battle of Edington in 878. In 886, the Treaty of Alfred and...
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but he scored a decisive victory over them seven years later at the Battle of Edington. Æthelred's reign was important numismatically. Wessex and Mercia...
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King Alfred's Tower (redirect from The Folly of King Alfred the Great)
of 'Egbert's Stone', where it was said that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the important Battle of Edington (historically...
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Wessex (redirect from Kingdom of Wessex)
flee to the Somerset Levels, but were eventually defeated at the Battle of Edington. During his reign Alfred issued a new law code, gathered scholars...
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Great Heathen Army (category Kingdom of East Anglia)
only the kingdom of Wessex had not been conquered. In May of 878 Alfred the Great defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Edington, and a treaty was agreed...
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Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington, the Norse Great Heathen Army moved from England to pillage the Duchy of Saxony. The army of Louis met the Norsemen...
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Alfred", in which Asser describes how after Guthrum's defeat at the Battle of Edington, followed by his surrender some days later, he agreed to a peace treaty...
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Edward the Elder (redirect from Edward I the Elder of England)
the Danish Vikings until his decisive victory at the Battle of Edington in 878. After the battle, the Vikings still ruled Northumbria, East Anglia and...
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Æthelflæd (redirect from Lady of the Mercians)
victory at the Battle of Edington. Soon afterwards the English-controlled western half of Mercia came under the rule of Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians,...
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Æthelwold ætheling (redirect from Aethelwold of Wessex)
carried on the war against the Vikings and won a crucial victory at the Battle of Edington in 878. After Alfred's death in 899, Æthelwold disputed the throne...
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Athelney (redirect from Isle of Athelney)
fortress hiding place of King Alfred the Great, from where he went on to defeat the Great Heathen Army at the Battle of Edington in May 878. The area is...
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Viking activity in the British Isles (redirect from Viking invasion of 789)
armies of the Viking monarch of East Anglia, Guthrum, at the Battle of Edington (May 878). Sometime after the Battle of Edington, a treaty was agreed that...
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just because of one battle, Alfred's victory over the Great Army at Edington in 878, but also because of another, more distant battle, "God's revenge" on...
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Edington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east-northeast of Westbury. The village lies under the north slope of...
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Aragorn (redirect from Aragorn son of Arathorn)
the Battle of Edington. Alfred's history parallels Aragorn's gathering of the Dead, the Oathbreakers, at the Stone of Erech. The fragmentation of the...
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at the Battle of Edington. He then pursued the Danes to their stronghold at Chippenham and starved them into submission. One of the terms of the surrender...
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Great defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington and the signing of the Treaty of Wedmore. Players assume control of various factions including Vikings...
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Æthelstan (redirect from Athelstan I of England)
back under Alfred the Great, and achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Edington. Alfred and the Viking leader Guthrum agreed on a division that gave...
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English mythology (redirect from Mythology of England)
defeating the Great Heathen Army at the Battle of Edington. Angul (13th century): Legendary founder and king of the Angles. King Arthur (late 5th and early...
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Heathen Army at the Battle of Edington in 878. A treaty followed whereby Alfred ceded an enlarged East Anglia to the Danes. After Edington, Alfred reorganised...
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decisive victory at the Battle of Edington in 878. Most of what we know about the historical Alfred comes from his biography Life of King Alfred, written...
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Wiltshire, and Hampshire, which defeated the Viking army in the Battle of Edington. The Vikings retreated to their stronghold, and Alfred laid siege...
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Uffington White Horse (redirect from White Horse of Uffington)
Alfred the Great to celebrate his victory at the Battle of Edington.[citation needed] Although the notion of it being a post-Roman creation remained popular...
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eventually defeated by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington in 878. This was followed closely by the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, under which England...
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