Danish raiders attacked Southampton in 840 and Ealdorman Wulfheard fought them. The Chronicle suggests this was an English defeat or at best a draw. Southampton attacks were part of the systematic Danish probing of Wessex coastal defences in the 830s and 840s that preceded the more organised invasion forces of the 850s.
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