The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction by John Blair

Author:John Blair [Blair, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192854032
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1984-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

Viking Attack

Whether such internal strengths on their own would have brought ultimate supremacy will never be known. Under the year 789 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle contains an ominous entry: the first breath of a storm that was to sweep away all rivals to the house of Wessex, and with them some of the best achievements of English civilization:

In this year Beorhtric [king of Wessex] took to wife Eadburh, daughter of King Offa. And in his days came first three ships of Norwegians from Horthaland: and then the reeve rode thither and tried to compel them to go to the royal manor, for he did not know what they were: and then they slew him. These were the first ships of the Danes to come to England.

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