Battle of Ringmere
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Norse sagas recorded a battle at Hringmaraheior; Old English Hringmere-hūō Ringmere heath. [1]
The sack of Thetford occurred in 1004. Sigvat records the victory of King Ethelred, allied with Saint Olaf,[2] over the Danes under Sweyn Forkbeard during the latters campaigns in England.
The Battle site was located in lands under the control of Ulfketel, Thane of East Anglia, near Wretham.[2] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Ulfketel/Ulfcytel and the "councillors in East Anglia" attempted to buy a truce with Swein, but that the Danes broke the truce and marched to Thetford where a part of the East Anglian fyrd engaged them. The Danes managed to escape.
The Battle of Ringmere was fought in 1010. John of Worcester records that the Danes defeated the Saxons. Over a three month period the Danes wasted East Anglia was burning Thetford and Cambridge.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b W. H. Stevenson; (Apr., 1896), Notes on Old-English Historical Geography, The English Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 42 pp. 301-304
- ^ a b Sturlason, Snorre (2004). Heimskringla Or the Lives of the Norse Kings. Kessinger Publishing, 225. ISBN 0766186938.; Edited with notes by Erling Monsen
