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“Etheld had won. For the first time, the great army was decisively defeated by the English. The defeat was catastrophic for Halfdan. He had imagined a short campaign and a quick victory. Instead, hundreds of his warriors laid dead.”

“So, after a long 4-month campaign and seven bloody battles, he offered to negotiate peace with the Vikings. Like Edmund and Burgd before him, he paid Delt to Haftdan to secure his departure from Wessix.”