The arrival of the Great Heathen Army (micel here) in East Anglia in 865 marked the beginning of the Danish conquest of England. The army was the largest Scandinavian force to have invaded Britain. Rather than fight, King Edmund of East Anglia provided horses and supplies in exchange for peace — a fateful decision that gave the Danes a mobile cavalry force to conquer Northumbria and then return. The landing point was probably on the Norfolk coast.
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