There, Alfred blockaded them, and with a relief fleet having been scattered by a storm, the Danes were forced to submit.

Alfred had been on his way to relieve his son at Thorney when he heard that the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes were besieging Exeter and an unnamed stronghold on the North Devon shore.

The Danes realised that they were outmanoeuvred.

When that occurred, the Danes rushed back to their boats, which being lighter, with shallower drafts, were freed before Alfred's ships.

The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.

:" Being in great difficulty they fled to a neighbouring city ( ad civitatem, quæ iuxta erat, confugerunt ) and began to promise and offer to their gods -- But inasmuch as the city was not strong and there were few to offer resistance, they sent messengers to the Danes and asked for friendship and alliance.

They were sometimes regarded as the work of Danes or Picts.

At a second he was so tired in his arms that he dropped them and the Danes then lost the advantage and were moving closer to defeat.

He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, ' Dannebrog ' fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.

The Danes were all but defeated when a lamb-skin banner depicting a white cross falls from the sky and miraculously leads to a Danish victory.

The Danes were forced to cede both the duchy of Schleswig and the duchy of Holstein to Austria and Prussia.

The monk and chronicler Widukind of Corvey in his Res gestae Saxonicae reports that the Danes were subjects of Henry the Fowler.

The Swedes were not happy with the Danes ' frequent wars on Schleswig, Holstein, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania, which were a disturbance to Swedish exports ( notably iron ) to the European continent.

At the start of Louis's reign, the many tribes – Danes, Obotrites, Slovenes, Bretons, Basques – which inhabited his frontierlands were still in awe of the Frankish emperor's power and dared not stir up any trouble.

Soon, Ceadrag too had turned against the Franks and allied with the Danes, who were to become the greatest menace of the Franks in a short time.

In the meantime, the British and the Danes were beginning to make incursions into the Indian Ocean.

Because of this cooperation the Danes were routed by the Slaves and the Swedes.

But before the Law of the Normans was the Law of the Danes, The Danelaw had a similar boundary to that of Mercia but had a population of Free Peasantry which were known to have resisted the Norman occupation.

The other inhabitants of the peninsula, according to ninth century records, were the Norwegians on the west coast of Norway, the Danes in what is now southern and western Sweden and southeastern Norway, the Svear in the region around Mälaren as well as a large portion of the present day eastern seacoast of Sweden and the Geats in Västergötland and Östergötland.

The Stockholm Bloodbath precipitated a lengthy hostility towards Danes in Sweden, and thenceforth the two nations were at almost continuous hostility with each other ( each with the objective of conquest or revenge upon the other ).

By 801, a strong central authority appears to have been established in Jutland, and the Danes were beginning to look beyond their own territory for land, trade and plunder.

King Alfred, after his temporary success against the Danes at Wilton in 871, founded a new convent on the site of the royal palace and united to it the older foundation.

During the reign of Gorm, most Danes still worshipped the Norse gods, but during the reign of Gorm's son, Harold Bluetooth, Denmark officially converted to Christianity.

* The Christianized Vikings ( Danes ) land on the Cornish coast, and form an alliance with the Cornish to fight against the ' heathen ' West Saxons.

**" Havelok " plays around 580 to 600 AD in Denmark and England, one or two generations after mythical King Arthur ( and his people's struggle with the Saxons ) and shows early relations between the Danes and Saxons ( now well-established in England with their own kingdoms ) and the already Christianized Welsh in England.

In 840 AD, he fought at Carhampton against 35 ship companies of Danes, whose raids had increased considerably.

The Danes were first documented in written sources around 500 AD, including in the writings of Jordanes and Procopius.

With the Christianization of the Danes c. 960 AD, it is clear that there existed a kingship in Scandinavia which controlled roughly the current Danish territory.

St Felix of Burgundy founded an abbey near Soham around 630 AD but it was destroyed by the Danes in 870 AD.

Thornaby is said to have come into existence about 800 AD when the land was given by Halfdene ( Halfdan Ragnarsson ), King of the Danes, to Thormod, one of his noblemen, hence " Thormods-by "-Thormod's farmstead.

Around 1000 AD there was a mint at Ilchester, which was moved to South Cadbury following attacks by the Danes, and prior to the Siege of Ilchester in 1088.

It started off as a Saxon village, and steadily grew to become one of Hampshire's largest villages, despite being burnt to the ground by Danes in 1001 AD.

Danes assaulted Great Britain and Ireland beginning about AD 800 and were gradually followed by a succession of Danish settlers.

In 912 AD and 914 AD Edward the Edler camped at Maldon to organise defences in the desperate fight against the Danes.

In 917 AD the Saxons were defeated at Colchester and besieged at Maldon, but eventually the Danes were defeated.

In 991 AD there was a major battle between the pillaging Danes led by Olaf Trygvassen who had already attacked Ipswich, and Earl Bryhtnoth's men who were defending Maldon on the instruction of the Saxon King Ethelred the Unready.

Since they controlled an important trade route, the Daugava River ( Livonian: Väina ), their culture was highly developed through trade with the Gotlanders, Russians and Finns, and, from the end of the first millennium AD onwards, with the Germans, Swedes and Danes.

In 840, 994, and 998 AD Strood was pillaged by the Danes.

Ivar and the Danes succeeded in holding York against a vain attempt to relieve the city in AD 867.

In the year 797 AD, the Danes carried out one of their earliest raids in Ireland when they plundered the monastery on Church Island.

The oldest known settlement was the Saxon manor of Congehurst, which was burnt by the Danes in 893 AD.

In AD 835 the Danes overran Sheppey and made it their base camp.

First founded between AD 988 and 1070, there is a possibility that a church on this site was one of the Lundenwic strand settlement churches, like St Martin's in the Fields, the first St Mary le Strand, St Clement Danes and St Brides.

* Cerball mac Dúnlainge 842-888 Leading his army, he is recorded as having slaughtered 1, 200 Danes at Carn-Brammin ( Bramblestown ), in Co. Kilkenny in 845 AD.

* King Olaf ’ s Kinsman ( 1898 ) A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut ( set circa 1000 AD )

The Danes laid waste to the area in around AD 870, and the saint ’ s remains were later transferred to Peterborough.