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d, from his life as written by his chaplain, Asser. One or two further incidents of the Athelney period are from the later ch

ng of Rolf Ganger, who wintered in England in 875 A.D. the year before his descent on Normandy; or else independent rovers who, like Rolf, had been driven from Norway by the high-handed methods of Hara

o of the story as leader of the newly-formed fleet. The details of the burnin

trict where the last campaign took place. The story, therefore, follows the identifications given by the late Bishop Clifford in "The Transactions of the Some

alls and earthworks of Combwich fort; and a lingering tradition yet records the extermination of a Danish force in the neighbourhood. Athelney needs but the cessation of today's drainage to revert in a very few years to what it was in Alfred's time--an island

sworn at Exeter and Wareham. His position as King of East Anglia has gained him an ill reputation in the pages of the later chronicles; but neither Asser nor the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle-

e town being known only as "The Bridge" since the time when the Romans first fortified this one crossing place of the Parret; and the name of the castle before which Hubba fell varies from Cynuit through Kynwith to Kynwich, whose equivalent the Combwich of today is. Guthrum's name is giv

ul. He has been identified with a brother, Athelstan of East Anglia, who is known to have retire