The Battle of Brunanburh was the greatest English victory of the tenth century, immortalised in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's finest poem. The location is debated — candidates include Burnswark in Dumfriesshire, Bromborough in Wirral, and sites in Yorkshire including near Pontefract. Yorkshire's Danelaw would have been a logical staging area for the coalition. The battle confirmed Athelstan as ruler of all Britain and set the template for English kingship.
Five kings and seven Danish earls killed; enormous coalition losses
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