. A short history of England and the British Empire. the Mercianking, but to no purpose: the men of Mercia submitted, andsix years later the Mercian kingdom ceased to exist. Nextthe Danes stormed into East Anglia where the glorious Edmundwas king. He was seized and suffered martyrdom; Mercia andsoon he was adored as one of the most powerful East Anslia-saints of the English church; but his kingdom passed to theDanes. In 870, after five years of hostile operations, thenorthern pirates found themselves in control of all the regionfrom the river Thames northward almost as far as the Firth ofForth
. A short history of England and the British Empire. the Mercianking, but to no purpose: the men of Mercia submitted, andsix years later the Mercian kingdom ceased to exist. Nextthe Danes stormed into East Anglia where the glorious Edmundwas king. He was seized and suffered martyrdom; Mercia andsoon he was adored as one of the most powerful East Anslia-saints of the English church; but his kingdom passed to theDanes. In 870, after five years of hostile operations, thenorthern pirates found themselves in control of all the regionfrom the river Thames northward almost as far as the Firth ofForth. Wessex was now the only surviving Anglo-Saxon statein Britain. 25. The Viking Attack on Wessex: Alfred the those days the throne of Wessex belonged to Egbert king ofthe family of Egbert, a prince who represented a Wessex- 802-younger line of the ancient dynasty and became king in 802. 28 THE OLD ENGLISH MONARCHY SCANDINAVIAN SETTLEMENTSBRITAIN AND NORMANDY The Danelaw ES3Norse Settlements!Danish of Miles O 25 50 100. THE VIKING ATTACK ON WESSEX 29 While still a youth he had been driven from the land by hisreigning kinsman, and a part of his exile was spent at thecourt of Charlemagne, where he learned the Frankish methodsof government and developed ambitions to rule conqueredlands. Egbert proved a ruler of unusual abilities; but noneof his immediate successors showed any marked talents eitheras rulers or leaders in warfare. During the decade 860-870,when the Anglian kingdoms were yielding to the onslaughtof the Danish hordes, three of Egberts grandsons ruled succes-sively in Wessex. Their reigns were brief and unimportantsave for continued and unsuccessful wars against the vikings. After they had seized East Anglia and had slain King Ed-mund, the Danes moved their forces across the Thames andcarried the war into the neighborhood of Winchester, the veryheart of the West Saxon kingdom. In the early months of871, a series of battles was fought, the
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