After establishing a base at York, the Great Heathen Army moved south and seized Nottingham. Burgred of Mercia appealed to his brother-in-law Aethelred of Wessex (accompanied by his younger brother Alfred), who marched north with a West Saxon army. Combined Mercian and West Saxon forces besieged Nottingham but could not take it. Peace was made and the Danes withdrew to York — a strategic failure that left Mercia vulnerable.
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