Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the Holme.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the Holme.
While it is believed that there was considerable loss of life, actual numbers of Danes who were killed in the St Brice’s Day Massacre are unknown.
Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the ‘Viking’ period of British history.
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