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" But they fell upon him and his retinue and put them all 

 " to death." * 



The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle further relates that in 833 



" King Ecgbright fought against the crews of thirty-five ships at 

 " Carrum [CharmouthJ and after great slaugliter the Danes held the 

 " field." " In 835 tliey landed in Cornwall and joined the Welsh 

 " [or British] forces ; but Ecgbright fought against them at Hen- 

 " gestesdun [Kingston Down] and put them all to flight." f "In 

 " 836 Ecgbright died, and his son ^thelwulf succeeded to the kingdom 

 " of the West Saxons. In the following year the Ealdorman Wulf heard 

 " fought at Southampton against tlie crews of thirty-three ships, and 

 " after great slaughter gained the day. And in the same year the 

 " Ealdorman ^thelhelm, with the Dorset men, fought against a 

 " Danish army at Portland, and for a good while had the better of it ; 

 " but the Danes held the field, and slew the Ealdorman." { 



" In 840 King ^thelwvilf fought at Charmouth against the crews 

 " of thirty-five ships, and was defeated." § 



" In 845 the Ealdorman Eanulf with the men of Somerset and Bishop 

 " Ealhstan, and the Ealdorman Osric with the men of Dorset fought at 

 " the mouth of the Parrot (in the Bristol Channel) against a Danish 

 " Army, and defeated them." || 



" In 851 the Ealdorman Ceorl, with the men of Devon, defeated the 

 " Danes at Wieganbeorli " [perhaps Wembury on the coast.] 



It should be noted that " in the same year came three 

 " hundred and fifty ships of Danes to the mouth of the 

 " Thames." And this was part of the fleet of Rorik, a 

 nephew of the Danish Harald Klak Avho, in 826, had received 

 baptism. H 



We may suppose, then, that some of the Danes coming to 

 this country were no longer pagans. And we may suppose, 



* The King's Vill or town at this time, 787, was probably Wareham, 

 though .^thelstan's concession to Middleton is stated to have beeu 

 given. Anno DCCCXLIII. [more likely 939] "in villa regali quae 

 dicitur Dorcacastri." 



t See also Fl. Wig. % See also Fl. Wig. 

 § See also Fl. Wig. 1 1 See also Fl. Wig. 



TJ Lappenberg, II., 22. 



