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Battle of Assandun

Index Battle of Assandun

The Battle of Assandun (or Essendune) was fought between Danish and English armies on 18 October 1016. [1]

17 relations: Ashdon, Ashingdon, Óttarr svarti, Cnut the Great, Danes (Germanic tribe), Denmark, Eadnoth the Younger, Edmund Ironside, Essex, History of Anglo-Saxon England, Kingdom of England, Knýtlinga saga, Skald, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Stigand, Ulfcytel Snillingr, Wessex.

Ashdon

Ashdon, is a village and civil parish in Essex, England.

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Ashingdon

Ashingdon is a village and civil parish in Essex, England.

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Óttarr svarti

Óttarr svarti (Óttarr the Black) was an 11th-century Icelandic skald.

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Cnut the Great

Cnut the GreatBolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century (Leiden, 2009) (Cnut se Micela, Knútr inn ríki. Retrieved 21 January 2016. – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute—whose father was Sweyn Forkbeard (which gave him the patronym Sweynsson, Sveinsson)—was King of Denmark, England and Norway; together often referred to as the North Sea Empire.

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Danes (Germanic tribe)

The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Eadnoth the Younger

Eadnoth the Younger or Eadnoth I was a medieval monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Ramsey and Bishop of Dorchester.

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Edmund Ironside

Edmund Ironside (c.990 – 30 November 1016), also known as Edmund II, was King of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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History of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England (French: Royaume d'Angleterre; Danish: Kongeriget England; German: Königreich England) was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century—when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms—until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Knýtlinga saga

Knýtlinga saga (The Saga of Cnut's Descendants) is an Icelandic kings' saga written in the 1250s, which deals with the kings who ruled Denmark since the early 10th century.

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Skald

The term skald, or skáld (Old Norse:, later;, meaning "poet"), is generally used for poets who composed at the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age and Middle Ages.

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) is the oldest Anglican mission organisation, and the leading publisher of Christian books in the United Kingdom.

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Stigand

Stigand (died 1072) was an Anglo-Saxon churchman in pre-Norman Conquest England who became Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Ulfcytel Snillingr

Ulfcytel (died 1016) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman.

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Wessex

Wessex (Westseaxna rīce, the "kingdom of the West Saxons") was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519 until England was unified by Æthelstan in the early 10th century.

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Redirects here:

Battle of Ashingdon, Battle of Ashingdon (1016), Battle of assandun, Danish conquest of England, The Battle of Assingdon.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Assandun

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