biography
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| Danish king of East Anglia, and opponent of King Alfred the Great. He led a major Viking invasion of Anglo-Saxon England in 871 (the ‘Great Summer Army’), seized East Anglia, and conquered Northumbria and Mercia. He attacked Wessex early in 878 and drove Alfred into hiding in Somerset. By May of that year Alfred had recovered sufficiently to defeat the Danes at the crucial Battle of Edington in Wiltshire. In the ensuing treaty, Guthorm agreed to leave Wessex and accept baptism as a Christian, and he and his army settled down peacefully in East Anglia. |
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