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The Danes and Camped at Bridge North had been campaigning for years.

Many had come here with Hastin and the Apple Door Fleet.

They were veterans of the Continental Campaigns, and for years now they had been fighting

tooth and nail with the Anglo-Saxons.

But despite all the time they had spent here, despite their massive numbers, their surprise

marches, their end runs, their seizure of territory, despite the fact that they had made

allies with and campaigned alongside the kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia.

Despite all of that, they had practically nothing to show for their efforts.

And in 896, what remained of the once great raiding army was stuck at Bridge North, trying

to determine what to do next.

Summer was fast approaching.

They were in campaigning season now.

But the gods were not with them.

And their Northumbrian and East Anglia and allies were now returning home back to their

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