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unusual facts about Ceolwulf II of Mercia


Ceolwulf II of Mercia

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle offers the following account of Ceolwulf:This year went the army i.e. the Great Heathen Army from Lindsey to Repton, and there took up their winter-quarters, drove the king i.e. of Mercia, Burgred, over sea, when he had reigned about two and twenty winters, and subdued all that land.



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