Kingmaker by M J Porter

Author:M J Porter [Porter, M J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Entries

AD940-946

A.D. 940. This year Anlaf (Olaf Gothfrithsson) stormed Tamworth; and much slaughter was made on either hand; but the Danes had the victory, and led away with them much plunder. There was Wulfrun taken, in the spoiling of the town. This year King Edmund beset King Anlaf (Olaf Gothfrithsson) and Archbishop Wulfstan in Leicester; and he might have conquered them, were it not that they burst out of the town in the night. After this Anlaf (Olaf Gothfrithsson) obtained the friendship of King Edmund, and King Edmund then received King Anlaf (Olaf Gothfrithsson) in baptism; and he made him royal presents. And the same year, after some interval, he received King Reynold (Ragnall Gothfrithsson) at episcopal hands. This year also died King Olaf.

A.D. 944. This year King Edmund reduced all the land of the Northumbrians to his dominion, and expelled two kings, Olaf the son of Sihtric, and Ragnall the son of Gothfrith.

A.D. 945. This year King Edmund overran all Cumberland (Strathclyde); and let it all to Malcolm (Mael Coluim) king of the Scots, on the condition that he became his ally, both by sea and land.

A.D. 946. This year King Edmund died, on St. Augustine's mass day. That was widely known, how he ended his days: that Leof stabbed him at Pucklechurch. And Æthelflæd of Damerham, daughter of Ealdorman Ælggar, was then his queen. And he reigned six years and a half: and then succeeded to the kingdom Eadred Ætheling his brother.

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