Bede Life
670s - 735
The Ecclesiastical History
731
Raiding of Lindisfarne
793
Wearmouth Jarrow raided
794
Vikings overwinter
Kent 851
Great Army in East Anglia
865
Great army in Northumbria
867
Battle of Reading
871
Æthelred and Alfred against Vikings encamped within fortified walls (royal seat?)
Vikings take Repton
874
Bergred flees
Chippenham
878
Battle of Edington
878
Guðrun loses support of other viking leaders
875
esp. Ivar and Ubba
Danish fleet lost in storm
876-7
120 ships lost at Swanage
Anglo-Saxon chronicle
first finished in 890 but some continue to 1100
Asser’s Life of Alfred
893
Life of St. Guthlac
early 8th c.