Æthelred I of Northumbria, who had been restored to the throne, was killed at Corbridge in 796 in a conspiracy by his own nobles. This was one of a series of Northumbrian royal murders that shocked Alcuin and the Carolingian court. Alcuin wrote letter after letter urging the Northumbrians to stop killing their kings, attributing the Viking raids partly to their sins.
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