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When an attempt was made by a Viking-Celtic alliance to break free 10 years later, Æthelstan and his half-brother Edmund defeated them decisively at the Battle of Brunanburh.
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Using plenty of examples from the AS Chronicle including the Battle of Brunanburh, Smith remarked that just like the Chronicle, other prose sources, such as charters and writs, were also making the turn to verse with increasingly elaborate introductions and prayers.
Archive 2007-08-01 Carolingian 2007
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Using plenty of examples from the AS Chronicle including the Battle of Brunanburh, Smith remarked that just like the Chronicle, other prose sources, such as charters and writs, were also making the turn to verse with increasingly elaborate introductions and prayers.
Textile Carolingian 2007
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The dry annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are occasionally lighted up with a gleam of true eloquence, as in the description of the battle of Brunanburh, which breaks forth into a pean of victory.
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Brunanburh and Maldon, produced the only important extant pieces of
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Chronicle, of which _Brunanburh_ is the most important, and two dramatic lyrics, _Widsith_ and _Deor_, in which there are many allusions to the mythical and heroic cycles.
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Yorkshire had lately been a separate Danish kingdom, but it passed under the direct rule of Wessex in 926, and it was either in that year that Athelstan came, or in 937, when he defeated the Scots and other northern rebels at Brunanburh.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians, and this was the chief point at issue in the famous battle at Brunanburh, 937.
The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries Oscar Ludvig Olson
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The song on the battle of Brunanburh, won by the Anglo-Saxons over the
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The Winchester chronicle contains the poems on the battle of Brunanburh (_supra_, p. 46), the accession of Edgar, &c.; the
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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