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- Guthrum [a] (Old English: Guðrum, c. 835 – c. 890) was King of East Anglia in the late 9th century. Originally a native of Denmark, he was one of the leaders of the "Great Summer Army" that arrived in Reading during April 871 to join forces with the Great Heathen Army, whose intentions were to conquer the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England.
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Guthrum (Old English: Guðrum, c. 835 – c. 890) was King of East Anglia in the late 9th century. Originally a native of Denmark, he was one of the leaders of the "Great Summer Army" that arrived in Reading during April 871 to join forces with the Great Heathen Army , whose intentions were to conquer the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England .
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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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. Background.
Guthrum (d. 890). Viking leader, king in East Anglia , and major opponent of King Alfred . Guthrum probably first appeared in England as the leader of the ‘great summer army’ which joined the forces commanded by Halfdan at Reading in 871.
Guthrum. Egil Skallagrimsson. Thorfinn Skullsplitter. 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.
The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum. This is the peace that King Alfred and King Guthrum, and the witan of all the English nation, and all the people that are in East Anglia, have all ordained and with oaths confirmed, for themselves and for their descendants, as well for born as for unborn, who reck of God’s mercy or of ours. 1.
Guthrum, the Viking King. Who was the Viking king Guthrum? Guthrum was a Viking king, and leader of the Great Heathen Army. He was defeated by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington in 878. What happened to Guthrum? After the Battle of Edington, the Viking King Guthrum surrendered to King Alfred .
