851 ADEF(OE)G, <853> B, 853 C: in the same year as heathen men (Anonymi 855) overwintered for the first time
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Participant:
Anonymi 6
(Great army of pagans with 350 ships, fl. 851) : Three hundred and fifty ships (Anonymi 6) came to the mouth of the Thames and broke into Canterbury [F(Lat. substitutes: came to the city of Canterbury and destroyed it] [ABCG: and the burh of London]. They put to flight Beorhtwulf 2 with his fierd (Anonymi 7). Anonymi 6 then went south across the Thames to Surrey.
Participant:
Beorhtwulf 2
(King of the Mercians, 840-852)