Modern scholarship increasingly identifies Brunanburh with Bromborough on the Wirral, Cheshire. Place-name evidence: Brunanburh > Brunburgh > Bromborough is linguistically plausible. The Wirral was a known Norse settlement area (Thingwall, Irby, Noctorum all bear Scandinavian names), making it a logical landing place for a Dublin Norse army. This entry captures the specifically Wirral geographical tradition.
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