After destroying the Northumbrian kingdom and killing two kings at York in 867, the Great Heathen Army moved south into Mercia and fortified Nottingham. King Burgred of Mercia appealed to Wessex — the future King Alfred, then a teenage prince, came north with his brother King Aethelred. But the combined force could not dislodge the Danes from their fortified position. A humiliating peace was made. The Danes overwintered and returned to York. It was their first demonstration that Mercia was vulnerable.
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