Event: Capture, Defence, Journey, Plundering, Property-giving/selling, RaidingLothen 1-Yrling 1.raiding Kent and Essex

Scholarly Info
Description Lothen 1 and Yrling 1 came to Sandwich with 25 ships and captured an indescribable amount of plunder in men and gold and silver, so that nobody knew how much it was altogether; and then they went round Thanet and meant to do the same there, but the local people firmly resisted them, and prevented them both from coming ashore and from obtaining water, and drove them out completely from those parts. So they went off to Essex, which they ravaged, and there they captured people and whatever they could find, and then they went east to Baldwin 4’s country, and sold whatever they had got from their raid, and thence they went east to the country from which they had come.
Year 1048
Primary Source Info

Persons associated with this Event:

Locations associated with this Event: