The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records a Viking raid on Gwent in 914 in which the Norse raiders captured Bishop Cameleac of Archenfield. Aethelflaed, the Lady of the Mercians, paid the enormous ransom of forty pounds of silver to secure his release. The raid demonstrates that south-east Wales was not immune to Viking activity even though the Norse mainly targeted the west coast. The Bristol Channel was a major Norse highway and Gwent's Severn coastline was permanently vulnerable.
Bishop Cameleac captured
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