 | 1862 - 466 pages
...Chronicle states, sub AD 870, "This year the army " (ie the heathen army or that of the Danes) "rode across Mercia into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford, and the same winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory and slew the king, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Henry Boynton Smith - 1864 - 474 pages
...pestilence among the cattle; and in 870 this same terrible army, horsed by the East Angles, " rode across Mercia into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford ; and the same winter King Edmund (the Martyr) fought against them, and the Danes got the victory and slew... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Henry Boynton Smith - 1864 - 420 pages
...pestilence among the cattle ; and in 870 this same terrible army, horsed by the East Angles, " rode across Mercia into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford ; and the same winter King Edmund (the martyr) fought against them, and the Danes got the victory and slew... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1877 - 324 pages
...Surius.] THE Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says, under date 870, "This year the army (of Danes) rode across Mercia, into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford. And the same winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king,... | |
 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1877 - 370 pages
...Surius.] THE Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says, under date 870, "This year the army (of Danes) rode across Mercia, into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford. And the same winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king,... | |
 | Walter Rye - 1880 - 340 pages
...over the north of the Humber to the city of York in Northumbria. "870. This year the army rode across Mercia into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford; and the same winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king,... | |
 | Frances Egerton Arnold-Forster - 1899 - 590 pages
...meagre contemporary statement of the English Chronicle : f " This year the [Danish] army rode across Mercia into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford : the same winter king Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - 1902 - 648 pages
...East Angles, and were there horsed ; and the East- Angles made peace with them. A. 870. This year the army rode over Mercia into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford : and the same winter king ^Edmund fought against them, and the Danes gained the victory, and slew the king,... | |
 | 1907 - 554 pages
...after having defended his kingdom for twenty-two years. There he shortly 1 " Here the army rode across Mercia into East Anglia and took up their winter quarters at Thetford. And the same winter King Eadmund fought against them and the Danes got the victory and slew the King, subdued... | |
 | Maurice Walter Keatinge - 1910 - 252 pages
...This year the army again went to York, and sat there one year. A. 870. This year the army rode across Mercia into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford, and the same winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory and slew the King and... | |
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This year the army (of Danes) rode across Mercia, into East Anglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford. And the same winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king, and subdued all the land, and destroyed... 
