The Great Heathen Army, also known as the Viking Great Army, was a coalition of Scandinavian warriors who invaded England in AD 865. Since the late 8th...
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The Great Heathen Army is the twelfth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth. It was released on 5 August 2022, through Metal Blade...
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attempt to keep the Great Heathen Army led by Ivar the Boneless out of the adjoining Kingdom of Mercia. The Danes arrived in his homeland at the end of 870...
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Halfdan Ragnarsson (redirect from Healfdene (Great Army))
Albann; died 877) was a Viking leader and a commander of the Great Heathen Army which invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England, starting in 865. One of...
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Amon Amarth (redirect from The Great Heathen Army (Amon Amarth album))
Jomsviking, Berserker, and The Great Heathen Army, followed in 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022 respectively. The band emerged from the previous grindcore (or...
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dominated the Irish Sea region as the Kingdom of Dublin. This would also make him the ancestor of the Crovan Dynasty. In 865 the Great Heathen Army, led by...
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brother, Ivar the Boneless, devised a strategy in which the Great Heathen Army occupied and sacked York, to provoke Ælla into engaging on the Vikings' terms...
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The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, Tale of Ragnar's Sons, and Heimskringla all tell of the Great Heathen Army that invaded England at around 866, led by the...
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Danelaw (redirect from History of the Danelaw)
the invasion of the Great Heathen Army into England in 865, but the term was not used to describe a geographic area until the 11th century. With the increase...
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Battle of Edington (redirect from The Battle of Edington)
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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Battle of York (867) (category Battles involving the Vikings)
The Battle of York was fought between the Vikings of the Great Heathen Army and the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria on 21 March 867 in the city of...
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Guthrum (redirect from Guthrum the Old)
the Great Heathen Army, whose intentions were to conquer the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England. The combined armies were successful in conquering the kingdoms...
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novels The Saxon Stories, The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman. The series covers the years 866–878 where the arrival of the Great Heathen Army in England...
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Æthelred I of Wessex (redirect from Æthelred, King of the West Saxons)
Edward the Elder, and Æthelwold unsuccessfully disputed the throne with him. Æthelred's accession coincided with the arrival of the Viking Great Heathen Army...
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Mercia (redirect from Kingdom of the Iclingas)
royal estate. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was from Repton in 873–874 that the Great Heathen Army deposed the King of Mercia. Slightly earlier...
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Edmund's death was mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which relates that he was killed in 869 after the Great Heathen Army advanced into East Anglia....
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He first appears following the death of kings Ælla and Osberht in battle against the Vikings of the Great Heathen Army at York on 21 March 867. Symeon...
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Battle of Strangford Lough (category Battles involving the Vikings)
"dark heathens". The Annals of Ulster describe "Albann", a figure usually identified with Halfdan Ragnarsson, a leader of the Great Heathen Army, as king...
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Hvitserk (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Nordisk familjebok)
source that mentions Halfdan Ragnarsson, one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army that invaded the Kingdom of East Anglia in 867, or vice versa, which...
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advisor at the court of King Ecbert. He is murdered by Hvitserk when the Great Heathen Army sacks Ecbert's villa. A composite character of the historical...
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(Old English: Healfdene)—one of the leaders of the Viking Great Army (known to the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army)—surrendered his lands to a second...
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Amon Amarth discography (redirect from Thor Arise)
Ring". YouTube. 2 June 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022. "Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army". YouTube. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022. "Amon Amarth - Find...
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Horik II (section End of the reign)
varying success. The Great Heathen Army arrived to East Anglia in 865 and conquered York in Northumbria two years later, starting the Viking conquest and...
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Ubba (redirect from Hubba the Dane)
9th-century Viking and one of the commanders of the Great Heathen Army that invaded Anglo-Saxon England in the 860s. The Great Army appears to have been a coalition...
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the album's opening track "Great Heathen Army" on May 19, and finally "Clear the Way (December 13th, 1862)" on June 13. The cover artwork for the disc...
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against the Great Heathen Army and their collaborators. The Northumbrians expelled Ecgberht I of Northumbria and Wulfhere of York. After the death of...
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Wessex (redirect from The Kingdom of Wessex)
became known as the Great Heathen Army overwhelmed the kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia. Then in 871, the Great Summer Army arrived from Scandinavia...
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Scandinavian York (category States and territories disestablished in the 950s)
(Great Heathen Army). They landed in East Anglia where the locals, under Edmund of East Anglia, "made peace" with them in return for horses. The army,...
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described the combined force as the "Great Heathen Army". In 871, the Vikings' campaign was reinforced when the Great Summer Army arrived from Scandinavia....
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The village is best known for once being the fortress hiding place of King Alfred the Great, from where he went on to defeat the Great Heathen Army at...
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