Ethelred's soldiers killed many Viking families in the Danelaw ... chose Earl Harold of Wessex as the next king. The Normans took over all of England, including the Danelaw.

On 22 March 871, West Saxon forces met the incoming Viking invasion ... The real Heahmund lived in the 9th century in Wessex, and was first ordained Bishop of Salisbury before becoming the ...

The Viking invasions eventually smashed the state system of the English. Wessex survived and, in the reign of King Alfred (d. AD 899) a campaign began to bring the whole of England under the rule ...

Ethelred's soldiers killed many Viking families in the Danelaw ... chose Earl Harold of Wessex as the next king. The Normans took over all of England, including the Danelaw.