Ulfcytel of East Anglia, who had previously won respect fighting the Danes at Thetford in 1004, met Thorkell's great army at Ringmere. The Cambridgeshire contingent fled and the battle became a rout. The Chronicle records that no shire would help another — symptomatic of the collapse of coordinated resistance under Aethelred. East Anglia was ravaged for three months afterward.
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