Project Gutenberg EBook - Asser's Life of King Alfred; Text: Stevenson's edition...

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Project Gutenberg EBook - Asser's Life of King Alfred; Text: Stevenson's edition; trans: Albert S. Cook 1906; Athenæum Press, Boston. 32. The Danes at Thetford - In the year of our Lord’s incarnation870, which was the twenty-second of King Alfred’s life, the above-mentioned army of heathen passed through Mercia into East Anglia, and wintered at Thetford. 33. The Danes triumph - That same year Edmund, King of the East Angles, fought most fiercely against that army; but, lamentable to say, the heathen triumphed, for he and most of his men were there slain, while the enemy held the battle-field,and reduced all that region to subjection.

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