Eirik Bloodaxe was killed at Stainmore in the Pennines in 954, almost certainly betrayed and ambushed by Maccus, son of Anlaf, possibly in collusion with the English. Symeon of Durham and the saga tradition record his sons and the Mercian thegn Maccus died with him. His death ended Norse kingship in York permanently. Eadred took direct control of Northumbria, which remained English territory from 954 onwards. It was the final act of the reconquest that Alfred had begun.
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