A great slaughter was made at London and Rochester and at a place called Quentovic in 842. The Chronicle records great slaughter in London in 842. The raid penetrated deep into the Thames estuary and struck the most important trading centres of the southeast. This was one of the most damaging Viking raids on southern England before the Great Heathen Army.
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