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large fleet, and landed in Lincolnshire ; but was soon after- 
wards attacked by jEthelstan and bis brother Eadmund, and 
utterly routed at Brunanburh, (now Burnham.) Five kings 
and seven princes were killed in the battle, and Anlaf and 
Constantine compelled to take to their ships. 
A.D. 940, the same Anlaf returned with a large fleet, 
landed in Yorkshire and took possession of York. Thence 
he marched southward, intending to subdue the whole king- 
dom. At Leicester he was met by King Eadmund, and 
after a battle in which both sides suffered great loss, a treaty 
of peace was concluded between them, in which it was 
agreed that Anlaf and Eadmund should divide the kingdom, 
Anlaf retaining the north and Eadmund the south, that the 
Watling Street should be the boundary of their respective 
dominions, and that the survivor should have the whole of 
England. 
A.D. 941, Anlaf, who had recently obtained the royal 
dignity, wasted Tiningham and burned the church of St. 
Bal there there; but, visited immediately by the judgment 
of Almighty God, came to a miserable end. This was a 
different person from the subject of the foregoing notices, 
for Simeon, of Durham, after mentioning the peace between 
Eadmund and Anlaf, (which he dates A.D. 939,) says 
Olilaf wasted Tiningham and perished, and then adds " but 
Onlaf, the son of Sitric, reigned over the Northum- 
brians." 
A.D. 941, Eadmund invaded North umbria, and expelled 
Anlaf, the son of Sitric, and his nephew Regnald, the son 
of Guthfrith, and took upon himself the government of the 
whole kingdom. Yet he seems to have been soon after 
reconciled to them, for A.D. 943, he stood as godfather to 
both, to Anlaf at his baptism, presenting him at the same 
time with royal gifts ; and to Regnald at his confirmation, 
adopting him as his son. 
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