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Great Heathen Army
Guthrum moves from Wareham to Exeter before Alfred contains the Danish army and forces its withdrawal.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Exeter in Denmark. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Guthrum moves from Wareham to Exeter before Alfred contains the Danish army and forces its withdrawal.
Guthrum's army moves from Wareham to Exeter, where Alfred later contains the Danish force.
Guthrum moved to Exeter and accepted another settlement after a Danish fleet was damaged by storms.
Alfred contains Guthrum's army at Exeter while a Viking reinforcement fleet is damaged by storms.
Exeter is attacked and destroyed during Sweyn Forkbeard's campaign.
Provenance
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