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  2. Great Heathen Army - Wikipedia

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    The Great Heathen Army was much larger and aimed to conquer and occupy the four kingdoms of East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex. The name Great Heathen Army is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The force was led by three of the five sons of the semi-legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, including Halfdan Ragnarsson, Ivar the Boneless and Ubba.

  3. Ivar the Boneless - Wikipedia

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    The Great Heathen Army remained in York for over a year, gathering its strength for further assaults. [11] Ivar and Ubba are identified as the commanders of the Danes when they returned to East Anglia in 869, and as the executioners of the East Anglian king, Edmund the Martyr, for refusing their demand that he renounce Christ. [12]

  4. Battle of York (867) - Wikipedia

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    In 865 the Great Heathen Army landed in East Anglia and started the invasion that would lead to the creation of the Danelaw. [5] Led by Ubba and Ivar (who may be the same historical figure as Ímar) the Vikings first took York on 1 November 866. [3] [6] Ivar's apparent motive was to avenge the death of his father, Ragnar Lodbrok. [7]

  5. Halfdan Ragnarsson - Wikipedia

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    Halfdan was one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army which invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia in 865. [2] [3] According to the Norse sagas this invasion was organised by the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok (Halfdan being one of them), to wreak revenge against Ælla of Northumbria. Ælla had supposedly had Ragnar executed in 865 by ...

  6. Guthrum - Wikipedia

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    Guthrum [a] (Old English: Guðrum, c. 835 – c. 890) was King of East Anglia in the late 9th century. Originally a native of Denmark, he was one of the leaders of the "Great Summer Army" that arrived in Reading during April 871 to join forces with the Great Heathen Army, whose intentions were to conquer the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England.

  7. Ubba - Wikipedia

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    Ubba's name as it appears on folio 48v of British Library Harley 2278 (Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund): "Vbba " [1]. Ubba (Old Norse: Ubbi; died 878) was a 9th-century Viking and one of the commanders of the Great Heathen Army that invaded Anglo-Saxon England in the 860s.

  8. Battle of Lüneburg Heath - Wikipedia

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    Following defeat by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington, [1] the Norse Great Heathen Army moved from England to pillage the Duchy of Saxony. [2] The army of Louis met the Norsemen at Lüneburg Heath. The Saxons were routed in a snowstorm, with the army being destroyed or captured. [citation needed]

  9. Battle of Edington - Wikipedia

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    In 865–866 it escalated further with the arrival of what the Saxons called the Great Heathen Army. [4] The annals do not report the size of the army, but modern estimates suggest between five hundred and a thousand men. [5] It was said to have been under the leadership of the brothers Ivar the Boneless, Ubba, and Halfdan Ragnarsson. [5]