BattlefieldsDanish Defeat at Winganhelmstun 917
Early Medieval

Danish Defeat at Winganhelmstun 917

917
Cambridgeshire, England
Also known as: Winganhelmstun 917 · Edward the Elder East Anglian Campaign
Era
Early Medieval
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
Cambridgeshire, England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
East Anglian Danes
Forces
East Anglian Danish army
VS
Victor
Edward the Elder (Wessex)
Forces
West Saxon and Mercian forces
Outcome
Danish raiding force defeated and scattered
The Battle

History & Significance

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 917, as Edward the Elder was campaigning in East Anglia, a Danish force was defeated at a place the Chronicle calls Winganhelmstun — a site not positively identified but placed in East Anglia. This was one of several engagements during the decisive year of Edward\'s East Anglian reconquest, after which the East Anglian Danes submitted and took Edward as lord.

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