After escaping Wareham, Guthrum seized Exeter. Alfred blockaded him there also. The Danish relief fleet of 120 ships was wrecked in a storm near Swanage. Guthrum was forced to withdraw into Mercia, where the Danish army divided Mercian land among themselves. Wessex had survived, barely, through Alfred blockade strategy.
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