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Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.
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Battle of Englefield
Part of the Viking invasions of England (870)
The Battle of Englefield was a West Saxon victory against a Danish Viking army on about 31 December 870 at Englefield, near Reading in Berkshire. It was the first of a series of battles that took place following an invasion of Wessex by the Danish army in December 870.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Vikings
Norse seafarers, merchants and raiders
Vikings were a seafaring people originally from Scandinavia, who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe. They voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Greenland, and Vinland. In…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ealdorman
Term in Anglo-Saxon England for a man of high status
Ealdorman was an office in the government of Anglo-Saxon England. During the 11th century, it evolved into the title of earl.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Æthelwulf of Berkshire
Saxon ealdorman (before 825 – 871)
Æthelwulf of Berkshire was a Saxon ealdorman. In 860 he and other men of Berkshire fought off a band of pirates near Winchester, Hampshire. Later he mustered a force of 1400 men against an army of Danes, won the 31 December 870 Battle of Englefield on behalf of the then kingdom…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Reading, Berkshire
Town and borough in Berkshire, England
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Kingdom of East Anglia
Anglo-Saxon kingdom in southeast Britain
The Kingdom of the East Angles, informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens; the area…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Danes
Ethnic group native to Denmark
Danes, or Danish people, are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
December 31
Day of the year
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