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  The Third Lost Tale of Mercia:

  AYDITH THE AETHELING

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  “This year there was great commotion in England in consequence of an invasion by the Danes, who spread terror and devastation wheresoever they went, plundering and burning and desolating the country with such rapidity, that they advanced in one march as far as the town of Alton ...”

  —Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Entry for Year 1001 A.D.

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  LUNDENBURG

  1001 A.D.