Edmund besieged Olaf at Leicester in 940 but was persuaded to negotiate by Archbishops Oda and Wulfstan. The resulting Treaty of Leicester restored the old Danelaw boundary along Watling Street, giving Olaf the Five Boroughs of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Stamford, and Lincoln. This was the most dramatic reversal of the English reconquest. The Chronicle poem on the Five Boroughs later frames this period as English-settled Danes under Norse oppression.
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