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 |
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Primary Source Info
Original Text |
C: ... þa Denan ahton wælstowe geweald. |
Date from Source |
1010 CDEF(OE and Lat.) |
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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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