In 868, after spending a year in Northumbria, the Great Heathen Army moved south into Mercia and seized Nottingham. King Burgred of Mercia called on his West Saxon allies — Alfred\'s brother King Aethelred and Alfred himself — for help. The combined army besieged Nottingham but could not take it. A truce was made allowing the Danes to remain. The failure to expel the Danes from the Midlands was a fundamental strategic error that allowed the Danelaw to form. The episode is recorded in detail in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Danish: Great Heathen Army entrenched in Nottingham. English: combined Mercian and West Saxon army
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