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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