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 | | In the year of his succession a large Danish force landed in East Anglia, and in the year 868 ^thelred and his brother Alfred went to help Burgred, or Burhred, of Mercia, against this host, but the Mercians soon made peace with their foes. |
 | | The year after his accession the Danish invasions, long unintermitted under Edgar the Peaceful, recommenced; though as yet their object was plunder only, not conquest, and the attacks were repeated in 981, 982 and 988. |
 | | The Danish attacks were repeated in 997, 998, 999, and in ioooy95thelred availed himself of the temporary absence of the Danes in Normandy to invade Cumberland, at that time a Viking stronghold. |
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