After the Great Army returned from Nottingham in 868, the Danes consolidated control over Northumbria by placing a puppet English king, Ecgberht, on the Northumbrian throne. The Danish occupation of York entered its administrative phase. The Norse name Jorvik would come to define the city and surrounding territory throughout the Viking Age.
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