Re: Aethelflaed, Alfred's daughter


"Grethe" <grethe.ladyhawk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>> There's a major part of this saga missing that puts it in rather
>>>> different political light, Æthelflaed's and Edward's cousin Æthelwold
>>>> (son of Æthelred I) led the Viking attack from the Danelaw.
>>>> On Alfred's death in 899 Æthelwold had apparently tried to grab the
>>>> crown, Edward the Elder had confronted him in Dorset and Æthewold had
>>>> escaped to the Danelaw, enticing the descendants of the "Great Army"
>>>> both from Northumbria and East Anglia to support his claim
>>>> In 904 there was a battle somewhere in Cambridgeshire (possibly Devils
>>>> Dyke) between the two sides, Æthelwold described by the Annals of St
>>>> Neots as "king of the Danes and king of the pagans was killed, as was
>>>> Eohric king of the East Anglian Danelaw, despite this Edward was
>>>> defeated and forced to make peace with Northumbria and East Anglia the
>>>> following year.
>>>> Many of Alfred the Great's nephews seem to been with the Vikings
>>>> attacking Edward and Æthelflaed from the Danelaw, most of Mercia btw
>>>> had been grabbed by Alfred in his carve up of the country with Guthrom,
>>>> none of the Danelaw had belonged to Wessex, so Alfred lost nothing but
>>>> gained a lot of territory.
>>>>
>>>> Athelstan appears to have been a northern outsider where the west
>>>> Saxon line was concerned, a son by Edward's first wife, he was allied
>>>> with Eric Bloodaxe in controlling the Danelaw.
>>>>
>>>> Jamie
>>> Thank you very much, Jamie. This is for keeps.
>>> Do you have any book recommendations about
>>> the West-Saxons and Anglo-Saxons?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Grethe
>>>
>>
>> A copy of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" is a must, Michael Swanton
>> paperback is not too expensive.
>>
>> "An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England", Peter Hunter Blair
>> (Introduction by Simon Keynes)
>> ISBN-10: 0521537770 paperback (Cambridge University Press) £19..99
>>
>> "The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great", David Pratt, might be
>> good, publishing soon (Dec 05) from Cambridge University Press, £55.
>> http://www.cambridge.org/emea/default.asp
>>
>> Jamie
>
> Thanks! I'll buy the Anglo Saxon Chronicle.
>
> I've just ordered "An introduction to Anglo-Saxon England"
> by Peter Hunter Blair on the library. They had it in Copenhagen!
>
> No sign of the third about Alfred anywhere here in Dk, but I'll start
> with the two first ones. I'm sure that's enough for me for now! `:)
>
> It was a great help.
> Cheers
> Grethe
>>

I couldn't find it on their web site either Grethe, but I have it in a
catalogue they send me, presumably it is not published yet.

I have this on my Christmas list instead.
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521813352

Northumbria, 500-1100
Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom
David Rollason
University of Durham
ISBN- 0521813352

Jamie


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