During Alfred's months at Athelney in the Somerset marshes (January–May 878), he maintained active resistance against Danish forces in the surrounding area. Asser records that he fought with a small band from Athelney. These guerrilla operations kept West Saxon resistance alive and maintained Alfred's contact with the Somerset, Wiltshire, and Hampshire thegns who would answer his summons to Egbert's Stone.
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