Twelfth Night attack at Chippenham
878 · Event
Guthrum breaks the mid-winter truce and falls on the royal hall at Chippenham during the Christmas feast — and Wessex, the last English kingdom, collapses in a night. Its king escapes into the Somerset marshes with a handful of men; for four months, England is one fugitive and his campfires.
On these timelines: Alfred and the Vikings, England, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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