The Chronicle records Danish raiders going up the Dart to Totnes in 997. The ability of Viking ships to penetrate deep inland via river estuaries — the Dart, Tamar, Exe — made coastal Devon exceptionally vulnerable. Even Alfred's burh at Lydford, which was sacked, could not protect the surrounding countryside from mobile river-borne raiders.
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