Brunanburh was the largest battle fought in Britain between the Roman period and the Norman Conquest. Athelstan and his brother Edmund defeated a vast coalition of Norse-Irish, Scots, and Strathclyde Welsh. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle devoted an entire poem to the victory. The exact location remains disputed — the Wirral (Bromborough), somewhere in Yorkshire, and several other sites have been proposed. The battle confirmed England as a unified kingdom.
Five kings and seven earls killed on the Norse-Scots side; heavy English losses also
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