And in the winter King Edmund fought with them; but the Danes gained the victory, and slew the king; whereupon they overran all that land, and destroyed all the monasteries to which they came | |
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They made such havoc there, that a monastery, which was before full rich, was now reduced to nothing | The names of the leaders who slew the king were Hingwar and Hubba |
"This year the army rode over Mercia into East-Anglia, and there fixed their winter-quarters at Thetford.
27At the same time came they to Medhamsted, burning and breaking, and slaying abbot and monks, and all that they there found | Donovan, author; Sir Thomas D |
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