The Mercian Register records that many of the York Danes had given pledges to come under Aethelflaed rule just before her death on 12 June 918. This remarkable passage suggests that Aethelflaed prestige had reached the point where even the Northumbrian Danes were prepared to accept her authority. Had she not died suddenly at Tamworth, the political outcome of the reconquest might have been very different. Her death prompted Edward to seize direct control of Mercia.
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