Alongside the East Anglian submissions, the Danes of Northampton and Huntingdon submitted to Edward in 917. The Chronicle records jarls Thurferth and the earls submitted at Northampton. Combined with Towcester, Tempsford, and Bedford, this meant that virtually all the Danish boroughs east of Watling Street and south of the Humber had acknowledged English overlordship in a single campaign season — the most productive year of the reconquest.
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