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Guthrum appears in a number of video games that are set during the Viking Age. He is the leader of the East Engle faction in the 2018 strategy video game Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia . He is an ally of the Norse drengr Eivor in the 2020 video game Assassin's Creed: Valhalla , as well as a playable character in the game's Discovery Tour ...
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Mar 11, 2024 · Guthrum (died 890) was a leader of a major Danish invasion of Anglo-Saxon England who waged war against the West Saxon king Alfred the Great (reigned 871–899) and later made himself king of East Anglia (reigned 880–890). Guthrum went to England in the great Danish invasion of 865, and in mid-January 878 he attacked Alfred’s kingdom of Wessex.
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Oct 6, 2022 · Guthrum. (King of Denmark from 879 to 890) Guthrum was a Viking king from Scandinavia, best known for his conflicts with Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex, England. The exact time of his birth is still debated, but it is believed to be sometime around 835 CE. There is also very limited information about his parents.
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The Viking who fought with Alfred the Great. Guthrum, as recorded by the ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicles’, appeared at the head of the Great Summer Army, who joined up with the Great Heathen Host in East Anglia in 871, the year of Alfred the Great’s accession to the throne of Wessex and known as the Year of Battles. Guthrum’s army ranged over ...
Viking leader, king in East Anglia, and major opponent of King Alfred. Guthrum probably first appeared in England as leader of the ‘great summer army’ which joined the forces commanded by Halfdan at Reading in 871. When the army split up in 875, Guthrum returned with his contingent to Wessex. In 878 he nearly succeeded in capturing Alfred ...
The converted Guthrum took the baptismal name of Athelstan. Under the terms of the Treaty of Wedmore, the converted Guthrum was required to leave Wessex and return to East Anglia. Consequently, in 879 the Viking army left Chippenham and made its way to Cirencester (in the kingdom of Mercia) and remained there for a year.
The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum is a 9th-century peace agreement between Alfred of Wessex and Guthrum, the Viking ruler of East Anglia.It sets out the boundaries between Alfred and Guthrum's territories as well as agreements on peaceful trade, and the weregild value of its people.
