Halfdan Ragnarsson led the northern division of the Great Army back to Northumbria and ravaged across the Tyne and Wear regions and harried the Picts. The Chronicle records him as the first Danish king to share out Northumbria and set his men to ploughing. This partition created the Norse-English mixed culture that would characterise Northumbria for a century.
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