In 851 a fleet of 350 Viking ships — the largest recorded to this point — stormed London and Canterbury and defeated Mercian king Beorhtwulf. This massive raid demonstrated a new scale of Viking ambition: not hit-and-run piracy but systematic urban plunder. The sack of London, then a major trading city, had profound economic consequences for Mercia.
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