Lincoln was one of the most important of the Danish Five Boroughs, serving as the northern anchor of the Danelaw in the East Midlands. The Danes found an already-impressive Roman city with massive walls and infrastructure. Lincoln's Scandinavian character was so strong that the Danelaw legal district here was sometimes called 'Lindsey' after the pre-Viking kingdom. Place-names around Lincoln show dense Scandinavian settlement. The town only returned to English control under Edward the Elder around 920.
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