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TheBattle of Tettenhall (sometimes called theBattle ofWednesfield orWōdnesfeld) took place, according to the chroniclerÆthelweard, nearTettenhall on 5 August 910. The allied forces ofMercia andWessex met an army ofNorthumbrianVikings in Mercia.

After successful raids by DanishVikings, significant parts of northeastern England, formerlyNorthumbria, were under their control. Danish attacks into central England had been resisted and effectively reduced byAlfred the Great, to the point where his son,King Edward of Wessex, could launch offensive attacks against the foreigners. Edward was allied with the Mercians under his sisterÆthelflæd, and their combined forces were formidable. The allies launched a five-week campaign against Northumbrian Danes in 909.

The Vikings quickly sought retaliation for the Northern excursion. In 910, King Edward was in Kent waiting for a fleet he had summoned, and the Vikings, believing that most of the king's troops were on board ship, launched an invasion of Mercia. They raided as far as the Avon near Bristol, and then harried along the Severn until they reached the Bridgnorth area. They now moved east, followed by a joint Mercian and West Saxon army, which caught up with the Vikings near Tettenhall. The raiders were annihilated and three kings were killed:Ingwær,Eowils and Halfdan.^[1]

With the Northern Danes subdued, the forces of Wessex and Mercia could be focused against the Vikings who had settled further south, and there was no further incursion from the north for a generation.

• Anglo-Saxon Monarchs – Edward the Elder
• Anglo-Saxons Online
• Sean Miller, "Edward the Elder", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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