It looks like Aelswith is going to die from the poison. The raids themselves, while being mostly minor, did create tension between the English court and Normandy. But the year 865 brings intrusion on a different scale. King Alfred was forced to flee and hide in the marshes of Athelney. It’s also not clear if the Scots are still trying to take Bebbenburg. Aethelhelm seems to have the life of luxury again. The first warning of trouble with the Danes was when some small Danish raiding parties attacked Hampshire and Thanet. But this isn’t about that. He was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his wife Ealhswith.When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin Æthelwold, who had a strong claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred. The monks of Ely, writing of the battle in their Liber Eliensis, notes that Byrhtnoth “was neither shaken by the small number of his men, nor fearful of the multitude of the enemy”. It’s a relatively happy ending for them all. They split southern and central England between them. There’s a peace to come. However, Uhtred does have another child now to look after. The last we saw of her, she was giving birth to Cnut’s child. Then in the spring of 871 Alfred became king of Wessex. However, it’s not all happiness. An army was gathered to oppose the raiders, but its appointed leaders, Fraena, Godwine and Frithegist clearly had no stomach for the fight and in the Chronicle’s words, “were the first to set the example of flight”. He has taken Edward’s first child, Aethelstan, to Cookham to look after him. The Danes crossed and with their superior numbers began to overwhelm the Essex men. Edward the Elder (c. 874 – 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death. The next year Olaf and Swein, with a force of ninety four ships, attacked London, but Ethelred had gathered his forces on London Bridge and drove the raiders off. As the tide ebbed, the Danes began to stream over the causeway, but it was so narrow that only a few could cross at a time and these were easily cut down by besiegers. Instead of leaving us with major cliffhangers, the storylines from the season have wrapped and it’s easy to picture what could happen in the future. Edward can rule from Winchesters, while Aethelflaed is Lady of Mercia—although sometimes she styles herself as Queen of Mercia. At one point, he is prepared to set Winchester on fire in order to get Wessex back. He was the youngest son of King Aethelwulf of Wessex. Surprisingly Byrhtnoth agreed to this, a move that even his admirers reckoned as “ofermode” or over courage. The attackers had also learned the advantage of cavalry which enabled them to travel great distances quickly as well as being able to break shield walls. At the end of 870 they captured Reading. However, in the same year, a much larger Danish force, led, according to some sources, by the Norwegian subking, Olaf Tryggvason, and others by Sweyn Forkbeard himself, arrived off Folkestone and sailed around the south east coast to the River Blackwater and occupied Northey Island situated near Maldon where on the 10th of August 991AD he was confronted by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex and his troops. However the Danes then won two battles, at Basing and at an unidentified location. This led to much hostility between the Normans and the English, so much so that Pope John XV convened a meeting in 991AD between the two sides at Rouen where a treaty of mutual support was ratified, but with little change in the actual situation.
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