The Great Heathen Army established its winter camp at Thetford, the main East Anglian royal centre. From Thetford the Danes launched operations against King Edmund. Edmund attempted to resist but his army was destroyed. The capture and execution of a reigning Christian king - later Saint Edmund - was the most dramatic single act of the Viking conquest of the Midlands.
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