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Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England Episode 11. His years were full of glory.

Last week we ended with the death of Atholfland Lady of the Mercians, leaving Edward her brother,

King of Wessex, as Lord of all Anglo-Saxons. Edward's position then is of a completely different

order to any previous claiming leadership of all the English. With the removal of Elfwin,

he was undisputed, no other Anglo-Saxon kings claimed competing royalty.

From this moment forward the line of Cherditch was the Royal House of England, now there's a thing.

Edward's final priority was the final submission of the Sudden Dane Law, completing the job

he and his sister had started, and in this he was to be successful, by the end of 918 Edward was

the master of all the lands south of the Humber, including in principle and largely in theory,

the Welsh. Because the two remaining Danish barrows of Nottingham and Lincoln could see the writing

on the wall, a new they had no prospect of resisting an overwhelming English army and again

submitted without a fight. However that focus had a price, the price was Northumbria.

While Edward concentrated on the south, Ragnall was back, joining a Viking invasion fleet

from Waterford in Ireland. Once again the target was the northeast of England and the kingdom of

the Scots, and once again Ragnall came out of the battle as the victor. From there Ragnall moved south,

and by 919 he'd stormed the city and installed himself as the new King of York.

While we might see both Danes and Norwegians as Vikings, that's may not well be the way they

saw it, and there was probably no love lost between them. A takeover of York by Ragnall

may have been as bad news to the Danes as the fall of York to the Danes had been to the Northumbrians.

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