3. AI⅛ed Key: He is the King Of WeSSeX in Br itain in the turn Of 8th CentUry Who defeated the Danes. He WaS ConSidered the first national hero in Britain. 4. EdmUnd Key: He is Son Of the King Ethelred in Britain Who fought heroically against the Danes. 5. VikingS Key: They...
The invaders – Saxons and Angles and Jutes – were unified after three or four centuries by the kingdom of Wessex, which was tough enough to take on and eventually break and absorb the invading Norsemen (Vikings). The new English kingdom then weakened itself with squabbles within the ruli...
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0924Edward the Elder of Wessex and Mercia dies and is succeeded by his son Athelstan, 29, who will reign until 940, continuing his father's conquest of the Danelaw north of the Thames-Lea line from the Vikings who have been in Britain since 787 on July - 17. 0924On this day in his...