In 914 a large Norse fleet from Brittany raided the Severn estuary and landed on the south coast of Gwent. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that they captured Bishop Cameleac of Archenfield. Aethelflaed the Lady of the Mercians paid a ransom of forty pounds of silver to secure his release. The raid demonstrated that even the south-east coast of Wales was not immune to Norse seaborne attack through the Bristol Channel.
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