After Athelstan's death in 939, Olaf Guthfrithson seized York and raided deep into Mercia. Yorkshire reverted to Viking control. The cycle of English-Viking contests for York continued through the reigns of multiple Olaf's and Eric Bloodaxe. Yorkshire was the prize in the central contest of mid-tenth century English politics.
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