ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT The events recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 909 and 910 resulted in a great English victory over a Scandinavian enemy at Tettenhall, Staffordshire that has long been regarded as a major turning point in the history of Anglo-Saxon England. Since the late 11th and 12th centuries, it has largely been assumed that these annals refer to the Northumbrian Danes based at York. Their defeat in 910 is seen as marking the beginning of a new phase of successful English military campaigning leading to the ‘reconquest’ of the Danelaw-a progressive series of conicts and capitulations in the Scandinavian-ruled territories of eastern England culminating in the so-called ‘submission’ of the northern kings and rulers to Edward the Elder at Bakewell in 920.
