Battle of Brunanburgh

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in the war against the Danes. Result: Significant victory for the English.

The site of Brunanburgh, one of the major victories of the Anglo-Saxons in a war against the Danes remembered for generations as “the Great War,” is not known. Æthelstan faced a reprisal by Olaf Guthfrithson, the Danish king of Dublin, whose father he had expelled from York. Olaf combined forces with King Constantine II of Scotland, whom Æthelstan had also recently subdued. Near-contemporary accounts suggest that Æthelstan hesitated...

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