Powys forces conduct raids across the Wye into Mercian territory around Hereford, testing English border defenses in the period before Mercian power was broken by Wessex. The raids exploit Mercian distraction with internal politics and represent one of many cross-border actions that characterised the fluid Powys-Mercia frontier in the ninth century.
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