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Of all the skirmishes, raids, wars and conflicts of Britain's early Middle Ages, one alone is consistently cited as the most important of the age.

In fact, it dwarfs all of the others in its sheer scale, its scope and its perceived importance at the time.

Still referred to simply as the Great War in the decades that followed.

For centuries to come, Brunnenbur was seen as the very moment in which Englishness was born.

In the year 937, upon that bloody field, somewhere in the north of England,

a mighty coalition of Norsemen, Scots and Britons did battle against the full force of the newly forged

kingdom of England, led by its triumphant king, an emperor in all but name, Athelstan, the grandson

of Alfred the Great and successor to his legacy of a unified Anglerland. Magnates and commoners alike from all corners of the realm marched side by side that day

for the first time in history. Kentishmen from the southern shores, Danish-infused

East Anglians from the marshy lowlands of the East.

Proud Mercians from the Midlands.

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