Event: Battle, Flight, InvasionAnonymi 2242.battle with Anglo-Saxon forces

Scholarly Info
Description [F(Lat.): When (Anonymi 2242) came] the East Angles (Anonymi 2248) immediately fled but [the people of] Cambridgeshire (Anonymi 2250) stood firm. The Danes gained control of the place of slaughter.
Year 1010
Primary Source Info
Original Text C: ... þa Denan ahton wælstowe geweald.
Date from Source 1010 CDEF(OE and Lat.)

Notes:

*Florence correctly states the date as 5 May, as shown by the obit of Oswig 10 in an Ely calendar published by Bruce Dickins in Leeds Studies in English 6, pp. 14-24.

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