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According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Æthelthryth founded the monastery at Ely in 673 ; the monastery was later destroyed in the Danish invasion of 870.
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According to the Primary Chronicle: upon his expeditions he carried with him neither wagons nor kettles, and boiled no meat, but cut off small strips of horseflesh, game or beef, and ate it after roasting it on the coals.
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According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.
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