The Chronicle records Olaf Guthfrithson was killed in 941 while raiding in Bernicia — he died at or near Tyninghame on the East Lothian coast. His death during a raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne ended the most dangerous Norse threat to English control of the north. The Dublin Norse succession dispute that followed allowed Edmund to move quickly to recover the Five Boroughs in 942.
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